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SEVEN DAYS

OCTOBER 22-29, 2008 VOL.14 NO.10

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Vermont Film Commission Unveils New Website Palace 9 Caters to Aria Heads with the Met in HD VT Philharmonic and Guest Singers Find the Passion in Opera Local Writer Pens Prep-School Novel

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Attack of the Rural Robots VERMONT 3.0

CREATIVE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION MANAGER DESIGNERS

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Minding the Gap VERMONT 3.0 Are schools preparing students for Vermont’s 21st-century tech jobs? BY KEN PICARD

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Techno Tally VERMONT 3.0 A Montpelier software developer racks up “yes” votes overseas BY BRIAN WALLSTIN

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Earth Worth TRAVEL Ecotourism consultant Megan Epler Wood slows global swarming

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Quanta Leap FOOD A Burlington lab is building a state-of-the-art food pathogen detector BY SUZANNE PODHAIZER

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Shop Talk FOOD A Viginia economist challenges Bill McKibben BY MIKE IVES

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Fair Game Open season on Vermont politics BY SHAY TOTTEN

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News Quirks

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Drawn and Paneled Novel graphics from the Center for Cartoon Studies BY JOSEPH LAMBERT

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Soundbites Music news and views BY DAN BOLLES

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Mistress Maeve Your guide to love & lust

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CD reviews Seth Eames, Two Moons Pullin’ Down on Me; Pale Young Gentleman, Black Forest (Tra La La) BY DAN BOLLES

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TICK TICK LOVE The folks at Tick Tick are some of the most unpretentious, approachable people I have ever encountered in the indie-rock world [“Poster Children� October 15]. I have been to several shows they have organized, and it is always a good time. Thanks, and please keep up the good work! Patrick Clark

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BREEDER’S CHOICE This is in response to the critics of Burton’s new line of snowboards [Local Matters, October 8]. Here’s a plan: If you don’t like these snowboards, don’t buy one of them. If you don’t want your kids to have one, don’t let them have one. Sorry to be the one to inform you, but the world doesn’t revolve around you because you’ve reproduced. There are lots of people who might want one of these boards, and it’s unfair to place limits on their choices simply because you have children (and, I guess, a large stick up your ass). Tom Gould

COURSE CORRECTION I want to add and clarify a few details regarding Alison Novak’s thoughtful article about my Masters’ thesis project this week [State of the Arts, October 15]. First, I want to give credit to the artisans whose work appeared in the accompanying photo. Toby Fulwiler of Fairfield turned the bowl from American elm wood; Susanne Grosjean of Maine knitted the mittens from hand-spun wool dyed with black walnut hulls and goldenrod; and Mary Sanipass of Maine wove the basket from black ash wood (known as brown ash in Maine). Regarding black ash, it’s the separated growth rings, not the bark, that basket makers use. Also, experienced people can harvest paper birch bark at different times of the year without killing the tree; it’s their method more than the season that matters. However, winter bark and summer bark differ in

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END GAMES Your excellent article on Project Censored [October 15] notes how “the threat of terrorism is being used to silence people and expand power.� A three-part BBC series called “The Power of Nightmares� gives a brilliant summary of how govern-

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Champlain College Opens New Emergent Media Lab If you think the biggest social message in video games is to sit around on the couch, eating Doritos and “pwning n00bz,� you need to check out Champlain College’s Emergent Media Lab at the Champlain Mill in Winooski. The staff and students there will eject those notions. There may be no restart button in real life, but the Champlain Emergent Media Center is resetting the idea of what video games can be. The Emergent Media Center, headed by program director Ann Demarle, was founded two years ago and is already a leader in developing games focused on solving some of the most serious medical and social afflictions around the world — with an injection of fun. Students in Champlain’s popular and respected e-gaming major may seem like they’re just doodling on the computer or wasting time on the Wii at the Center’s lab in the Champlain Mill, but they are hard at work. See photos and read more online . . . Posted October 18 by James Kleimann, Champlain ’09

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ids and video games have gone hand in hand since the dawn of Pong, but most kids’ play schedules still include a healthy dose of the great outdoors. Several years ago, Peter Bingham, a pediatric neurologist at Fletcher Allen Health Care, came up with a way for children restricted to indoor recreation to improve their health — through video games. Bingham realized that one particular population of children was especially in need of such reinforcement: cystic fibrosis patients. A genetic disease, cystic fibrosis affects the exocrine glands, causing an overproduction of mucus throughout the body. This leads to digestive problems and, most seriously, to mucus-filled lungs, often requiring a transplant. The life of an afflicted child is fraught with doctor visits, nebulizers and daily chest poundings to loosen the phlegm from the lungs. Breathing exercises are encouraged, but they can be tiresome and easily forgotten, especially by a child who is still relatively active and healthy. With these kids in mind, Bingham conceived a target-tracking game that could be controlled by a spirometer, which measures the volume of air breathed in and out. With a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Program, Bingham took his idea to Champlain College’s Emergent Media Center, a training ground for software developers and designers. The project interested the center’s director, Ann DeMarle, and her team of students as an example of biofeedback, or electronically tracking the body’s real-time responses to help subjects learn to control their physiological processes. Just as the controller and platform-based games on Nintendo Wii Fit can act as a personal trainer, the team hypothesized, a game designed along the same lines could build and reinforce lung strength in patients. Two teams of students — each composed of a designer, programmer, developer and producer — met with a respiratory therapist, who mapped the breathing regimens that would be of greatest benefit to players. The young game makers then set about building programs around the inhalation and exhalation sequences. Next, Bingham and the students interviewed young CF patients about their favorite video games and brainstormed from the responses. Recruiting testers was,

sadly, easy. “There’s always one or two in the hospital, bored and playing video games,� Bingham said, “so they’re the perfect ones to test-drive it with.� The students conceptualized games based on their subjects’ whims. They developed two, both aimed at patients between the ages of 8 and 12. After that age, said Alison Seffels, a sophomore game design major at Champlain College, “they don’t want to do their breathing exercises because the effects aren’t immediate. So we’re trying to get them in the habit when they’re younger.� In patient interviews, racing games tested as popular across genders. So one team began developing Ludicross, a fast-paced race among a unique cast of animals, including a lynx and a platypus. “We incorporate the breathing with power-ups, which require a certain sequence of breathing,� said Michael Lahens, senior game

follow the player’s character home to win points for him or her that can be used to purchase electronic prizes. With additional funding, this aspect of Creep Frontier could be expanded as a way to unite the players through the Internet. Bingham hinted that a local company is helping develop a tool for competitive play on the Web, but he is not yet willing to disclose the name of the business. Lahens — whose brother is a University of Pennsylvania grad student in Bioinformatics — stresses the importance of finding ways for young players to interact, even if they’re virtual. And sometimes they need to be. “One of the things that I found interesting about cystic fibrosis,� he said, “is patients develop their own strains of super-bacteria, so there’s a rule that those patients can’t be within 5 feet of other CF patients.� The Emergent Media Center is

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looking for funds to promote further work on this unique online community. Meanwhile, Bingham sees the project’s goals as going beyond physical healing. “When you get a new system awareness about something as basic as breathing, you get a new signal,� he noted — referring to a new connection in the brain. “It’s a paradox, but in getting to know oneself better with electronics, there’s something spiritual.� > Representatives from Champlain College’s Electronic Game and Interactive Development Department will speak at Vermont 3.0: Creative/ Tech Career Jam on Saturday, October 25. A panel discussion entitled “So You Wanna Get Into Games?� will take place at 11 a.m. in Champlain College’s Hauke Conference Room.

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Even if the race does tighten, what are the chances of the Vermont Left uniting to unseat Douglas? Slim to none. — just as they did in 2002 and have done the vast majority of the time.� Today, Democrats hold a 23-to-7 advantage in the Senate, and have 93 seats out of 150 in the House. Republicans hold 49 seats, Progressives seven, and there is one Independent. That configuration is not likely to shift much on November 4, which means a staunchly Democratic legislature will be seated in January. But, either Symington or Pollina will have to be within two or three percentage points of Douglas to make upending a popular vote credible with voters. Even if the race does tighten, what are the chances of the Vermont Left uniting to unseat Douglas? Slim to none. That’s because the Ps and Ds are, once again, unable to get past their mutual animosity and work together. It’s time for that to end, said Kristina Althoff, executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party. “I think it’s important to remember that Progressives and Democrats agree on a lot more issues than we disagree,� Althoff said. “I think we have an opportunity to govern together more effectively, and that will make us both stronger.� The Progressives see it somewhat differently, especially when it comes to the gubernatorial race. Pollina (who first

ran as a Prog) reached out to Dems for 10 months, but was rebuffed. Morgan Daybell, the Progs’ executive director, said there was “a real opportunity� for both parties to unite around Pollina. Instead, the Dems decided to put up “a weak campaigner� in Symington. “It shows that, in some ways, we are perceived as the bigger threat,� Daybell said. “Without us in the mix, [Democrats] can go to voters and say, ‘Vote for us, we are not Republican,’ and do well in Vermont. Where we run, the discussion becomes Catamount versus universal health care and shutting down Yankee versus relicensing for only 10 years.� In legislative races, Democrats and Progressives are, indeed, taking on each other as much as they are the Republicans. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Burlington, the birthplace of the Democratic-Progressive family feud. Reps. Chris Pearson and Dave Zuckerman are fending off challenges from Democrats Kesha Ram and Phillip Ortego. Ram is a former University of Vermont student president, and Dems hope she can snag one of the two seats in a district that encompasses UVM and off-campus student housing. Several Democrats have endorsed both Zuckerman, who was appointed by Symington to chair the House Agriculture Committee, and Pearson, who are running as “your team in Montpelier.� “For people who believe in small ‘p’ progressive politics and issues such as universal health care, renewable energy and workers’ rights, we have been effective leaders that have pushed the entire chamber — both Republicans and Democrats — on those issues,� Zuckerman said. The Dems’ focus on his district is unfortunate, Zuckerman says, because he and other Progs have sat down with Dems to map out where to run House candidates so the parties could better spend their limited resources. Ram said she has not encountered two-party animosity during her door-todoor campaigning. “It doesn’t come up as much as you would think,� Ram said. “For many people, it’s not about party politics. People just want two representatives who are strong leaders in the community.� For their part, the Progressives have opted not to challenge the Democrats in a neighboring Burlington district represented by Democratic Reps. Rachel Weston and Jason Lorber. Likewise, Democrats are not running a candidate to fill the Brattleboro House seat vacated by Independent Rep. Darryl Pillsbury. Prog Mollie Burke is running unopposed.

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The parties are working together on one race: Burlington City Councilor Tim Ashe, a Progressive, earned a spot on the Democratic ballot for a Chittenden Senate seat, and has been campaigning with the other five Dems running for office, Althoff said. Progs and Dems are also vying for seats outside Burlington. In Enosburg Falls, Progressive Cindy Weed is part of a threeway race with Republican Peter Perley and Democrat Dennis Williams to fill an open seat. Incumbent Prog Rep. Dexter Randall in Troy is facing a challenge from Democrat Patricia Sears and Republican Mark Higley. Progs and Dems agree on one thing: Both parties loathe GOP flyers (and TV ads in Rutland City) highlighting legislative voting records as tallied by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce. As luck would have it, the chamber gives Progs and Dems Fs on key votes, while GOP candidates get As and Bs. Interestingly, one so-called “bad� vote would have made the owners of Vermont Yankee pony

Symington plans to launch an ad this week taking her to task for deleting her emails. The ad, paid for by First Class Education for Vermont, will air on WCAX and Comcast. In it, the group claims, “House Speaker Gaye Symington and her friends are destroying public records on education policy. She says the law doesn’t apply to her.� The group’s founder, Curt Hier, is suing Symington to keep her from trashing her emails related to education funding. His suit was filed after an open-records request in September revealed that all Legislators’ emails are automatically deleted from the main server every 90 days. It’s up to each individual lawmaker to save them. He also learned that the legislature’s lawyers believe such emails are not even public records. Despite that legal advice, Symington made education funding-related correspondence to and from Vermonters available to Hier. To date, he has apparently not bothered to review the records, according to Alexandra MacLean,

will get their wish this week. The weekly WCAX-TV show “Late Night Saturday� invited the three leading candidates to take part in a lighthearted debate. Symington declined and instead attended a fundraiser. All work and no play for her, I suppose. Which is too bad, because the LNS “debate� — which will air Saturday, October 25, at 11:30 p.m. — was designed to let the candidates relax a little. “All questions were geared for fun so that we could all get a taste of the human side of the candidate, and they did not disappoint,� said the show’s host, Tim Kavanagh. “I got the candidates to sing their own political song, take a question from our own Sarah Palin and milk a cow on stage.� At the show’s opening, Kavanagh gave Douglas and Pollina 30 seconds to appeal to voters. And, they had to make their pitches simultaneously. Kavanagh also posed 20 questions to the candidates. Here’s one of them: Which do you feel has a bigger social impact on the citizens of our state, groundbreakings or ribbon

More ads are expected from the Douglas and Symington campaigns — and from their supporters. Will they get rough? You betcha. up more money to decommission the nuclear power plant — a move that doesn’t seem so foolhardy given the plummeting stock value of the decommissioning fund. Tayt Brooks, the Vermont GOP’s executive director, defended the flyers. “I think it’s important when people are held accountable on their voting record,� Brooks said. “I think they have to look in the mirror, instead of pointing the finger.� I guess it depends on which finger they’re pointing. Truth in Advertising — The airwaves will be a bit more crowded these closing weeks before the election. And because Vermont isn’t a battleground state in the presidential race, we’re free of a lot of the candidates’ national advertising. Still, we get our share. No fear — it’ll be over before you know it. Independent Anthony Pollina will launch his first TV ad of the campaign season this week on WCAX-TV. The ads will air through Election Day. “Nothing slick and no attacks, just me, talking to Vermonters,� Pollina said. “Most Vermonters already know who I am. I don’t need to blanket the airwaves.� More ads are expected from the Douglas and Symington campaigns — and from their supporters. Will they get rough? You betcha. One group critical of

Symington’s legislative aide. And, it’s not likely he will. “What Gaye’s offered is redacted constituent letters,� Hier told “Fair Game.� “That’s not what I want. I’m not interested in the people of Jericho. I want to know about the lobbyists, whose communication does not need to be privileged.� MacLean said Symington’s office prints out all emails and responds to them via letter. In fact, she has a stack of letters dating back to 2005. Note to Hier: You might want to take a minute to read that correspondence. It may just have the lobbying info you’re after. Symington claims Hier’s request for the emails is politically motivated, an assertion he rejects. “We’re no more and no less political than [Vermont State Employees Association] VSEA,� Hier said. Earlier this year, VSEA sought, and received, thousands of emails from the Douglas administration dating back through last year. The union’s objective was to find out the details on Douglas’ plan to cut 400 jobs from the state’s payroll. If nothing else, in the upcoming session, you can bet there will be some “clarification� about how lawmakers should store and save their emails. Mano a Mano — Anyone who thinks Pollina and Douglas going at it one-on-one would be better than the three-way debates we’ve been subjected to

cuttings? Kavanagh also asked the candidates to show off their best ceremonial pose. I think shovels come in handy during election time — much more so than scissors. Savage Stays — Speaking of coming in handy, one of Rep. Peter Welch’s top congressional aides is staying put. As “Fair Game� noted earlier this year, The Hill voted Andrew Savage as one of the 50 best-looking people working in Congress. But something tells me Welch isn’t keeping him around for his good looks. Savage was supposed to take over this week as deputy director of the anti-global warming group 1Sky.org. But last week he announced he was staying put as the congressman’s aide. Why? He was offered a promotion. Savage will give up his communications duties to take on the roles of deputy chief of staff and legislative director. More policy, less press. Savage has worked alongside Welch since 2003, when the Windsor Democrat was president pro tem of the Vermont Senate, and he served as Welch’s spokesman during the hardfought 2006 congressional campaign against Republican Martha Rainville. Why mess with success, right? > To reach Shay Totten, email shay@sevendaysvt.com.

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urlington College film program grad Mark Covino of Essex is working on a documentary about an unconventional Connecticut hip-hop duo called H.u.s.hh — one of them born without limbs. But unless you’re deep in the local film scene, you probably don’t know about his movie Against All Odds. That will change soon, hopes Vermont Film Commission Executive Director Joe Bookchin. This Saturday, October 25, marks the official debut of the Commission’s new website, which offers local filmmakers a place to post short videos. The trailer for Against All Odds is already up on the site’s “Media� page. A state film commission’s traditional role is to lure Hollywood productions within our borders — not an easy task when other locations offer the “New England look� for less. (Take “Dawson’s Creek,� set in rural Massachusetts but filmed in North Carolina.) The VFC’s new website puts the state’s best foot forward with a front-page slide show of ethereally pretty Vermont scenes. Inside, an interactive state map and a photo gallery of likely locations aim to make producers’ planning easier. Though a new site has been in the works since before Bookchin took his post in September 2007, he and webmaster David Watkins have been developing the current one for the past year, working with the state’s Department of Tourism and Marketing and Pur-

sue VT. Bookchin says they were “going for a completely new look, very visual — streamlined and elegant.â€? The site is also more “oriented toward in-state filmmakersâ€? than before, says Bookchin. Local cinĂŠastes can now create their own profiles, link to their web pages, and post updates on their projects. There’s a downloadable form they can use to prequalify

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ists and grips, while another page has links to databases of music by local artists. Currently in beta testing, the site is scheduled to go live at the Vermont 3.0 Creative/Tech Career Jam at Champlain Col-

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for state contracts, and a forum where they can trade tips and chat about upcoming casting calls and other regional film news. In short, the raw materials of a community. “We want to make this a clearinghouse for filmmakers,� says Bookchin, who talked to local creators such as the Upper Valley Producers’ Group about what they’d like to see on the site. Ideally, Vermont film professionals will not just network there but also showcase their skills, offering plenty of encouragement for producers from elsewhere to “buy [or hire] local.� A “Production Resources� link offers lists of potential makeup art-

lege (see insert guide this issue and www.vermont3.com for more info). “We’re already planning the next phase of the website,� says Bookchin, noting that video uploads are currently limited to a length of 10 minutes. He sums up the goals of the new resource: “Filmmakers in Vermont want to stay in Vermont. They want to make a living here. We want to grow our crew base here. We want to make Vermont a destination for filmmakers. I frankly think it will have an economic impact.� > For more information, visit www.vermontfilm.com.

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in South Burlington, will the Met on HD compete with Vermont’s scant local opera performances (see page 19A)? Clook doesn’t think so. “I have a feeling they won’t hurt any live productions,� she says of the series, which includes 10 operas through the 2008-2009 season, with an encore screening of each two weeks later. One thing’s for sure: The Palace will be attracting more white-haired theatergoers. “There’s certainly a lot of interest among older people,� says Clook. “[Theater owner] Harold Blank ini-

tiated it. He thought it was a way to broaden our audience.� No word on whether Vermont opera fans are dressing up for the shows. You could be the first. > The next Metropolitan Opera HD production is John Adams’ Doctor Atomic, on Saturday, November 8, at 1 p.m.; encore show is Wednesday, November 19, at 7 p.m. Tickets for the first screening are $24; encore shows $20. For the complete schedule, or to order advance tickets, visit www.palace9.com.

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pera is the last holdout in a world of artificially amplified singing performances. And the Barre Opera House could well be the most acoustically intimate concert hall in Vermont. The combination of these two particulars made for a truly enjoyable evening last Saturday with the Vermont Philharmonic — the resident orchestra of the Barre Opera House — and its guests: four young opera singers who hailed from New York, Florida, Colorado and Stockholm, Sweden. The program of arias and overtures was entitled “The Expression and Passion of Italian Opera.� That’s a bit like saying “the wetness of water,� but it doesn’t hurt to be reminded of why this music never gets old. The arias, chosen by the singers, came mostly from Italy’s bel canto era of the early 19th century, when voice technique reigned supreme. Only a couple of selections were obvious crowd pleasers. One was “O mio babbino caro� (“Oh, my dear papa�) for soprano from Giacomo Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi — a much later composition from 1918, but who would miss a chance to perform the soaring melody that became synonymous with Tuscan hillside romance in the film A Room with a View? Another was Gaetano Donizetti’s dolorous tenor aria “Una furtiva lagrima� (“A furtive tear�) from L’Elisir d’Amore. (A young Luciano Pavarotti’s dramatic rendition of it is worth a viewing on YouTube.) Lesser-known choices included a soprano solo and a duet from a rarely performed opera by Pietro Mascagni, L’Amico Fritz. Tenor Russell Andrade and so-

pranos Alexandra BĂźchel, Margaret Higginson and Clarissa Lyons are all recent winners of an orchestral performance award given by the Bel Canto Institute in Florence, Italy. Their appearance was the result of collaboration between the Institute’s founder, Jane Bakken Klaviter, and the Philharmonic’s music director and principal conductor, Louis Kosma. The two met through their work at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where Kosma plays double bass and Bakken Klaviter is an assistant conductor and prompter. Kosma was pleased to give the singers the opportunity to be backed by an orchestra. “The kids — I call them ‘kids,’ but they’re in their twenties and thirties — they’ve all performed with piano accompaniment,â€? he said before the concert. “It’s much harder for young singers to find orchestral accompaniment.â€? Kosma had the audience’s interests in mind, too: “Vocal music is really loved by people in central Vermont, I’ve noticed.â€? He has conducted the Philharmonic for the last nine years. The audience, though somewhat scant and white-haired, was indeed warmly appreciative. It’s hard not to wish a twentysomething in a floorlength strapless red gown the best as she steps in front of a full orchestra and turns to face the audience sans mike. In fact, Lyons’ voice had a pleasingly warm timbre, though she tended to give short shrift to the last note in each phrase. Andrade had a liquid, clear-as-a-bell tenor quality that needed only more support on the high notes. BĂźchel was the technique maven, showing great control in the rapid runs

of “Regnava nel silenzioâ€? (“Silence reignedâ€?) from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. But the highlight was Higginson, a natural communicator whose technique never dominated her ability to convey the emotion of her arias. Her rendition of “Mercè, dilette amicheâ€? (“Thank you, young friendsâ€?) from Giuseppe Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliani ended the concert on a jubilant note. Jubilation was, in fact, the order of the evening: The Philharmonic is celebrating its 50th season. A huge white cake was rolled out before the concert and gobbled up by audience members and performers at intermission. And the concert opened with the premiere of a lively overture commissioned by the Philharmonic for its anniversary: Toccata for Orchestra, “City Lights, Country Sun,â€? by Cuban-born Vermont composer Jorge MartĂ­n. The Vermont Philharmonic is a true community effort: Its 62 members are unpaid and travel from around the state to attend limited practices (for this performance, only five). It was, Kosma admitted, “a big learning experienceâ€? for the group to accompany soloists. Yet it managed to turn in fine performances on its four orchestral pieces, including a beautiful decrescendo ending to Puccini’s elegy “Crisantemiâ€? (“Chrysanthemumsâ€?). Fortunately, no such fade-out seems in store for this orchestra, still vibrant at 50. > For a full schedule of concerts and other info about Vermont Philharmonic, visit www. vermontphilharmonic.org.

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struggles with drugs, alcohol and the deaths of multiple friends. Mattson, 24, drew closely from his own life to create Sam in this coming-of-age tale. Like his character, he moved to Vermont from California when he was in third grade, and graduated from Choate. Initially, writing was a form of therapy for Mattson, and he preferred to keep it to himself. “Partially, I was embarrassed that it’s not the most masculine of talents,� he says. But after he received an offer to publish Into the Den from

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across the country face a shortage of road salt and skyrocketing prices this winter. The Associated Press reported that because of last year’s above-average snowfalls in the Northeast and Midwest, the United States used 20.3 million tons of road salt, a near record, leaving salt storage barns virtually empty. Besides increased demand, Dick Hanneman, president of the Salt Institute, blamed higher fuel costs for prices triple those of last year.

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Dear Cecil, At a forum last August at his megachurch in California, preacher Rick Warren asked presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama when human life begins. McCain replied, “At conception,� a response that went over well with the pro-life audience. Obama said, “Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade,� which many thought was evasive or flip and which I think sounded lame, even though my own views are closer to Obama’s than McCain’s. No doubt Obama punted because he thought he’d get into even more trouble if he answered frankly, but you, Cecil, are under no such constraints. So tell us: When does human life begin? Frank Caplice, Chicago Little problem, Frank. That wasn’t what Rick Warren asked. The thrust of his question — he phrased it slightly differently for each candidate — was, “At what point is a baby entitled to human rights?� But a lot of people think once they’ve answered your question, they’ve answered Warren’s. So here’s my take on the subject, which shows why I’ll never be running for public office: 1. Human life begins at conception. 2. Big deal. Let’s review the leading theories on when human life starts, many drawn from Roe v. Wade: At birth. The belief of the Stoics, Roe tells us, and some religions today. At conception. This idea harks back at least to the Pythagoreans but didn’t become the standard view among abortion opponents till the late 19th century. An important turning point, for Roman Catholics anyway, was a pair of declarations by Pope Pius IX: (1) in 1854 he said Catholics were obliged to believe that Mary, mother of Jesus, had been free of sin since conception; and (2) in 1869 he decreed abortion was punishable by excommunication. Before this the Catholic church had waffled on when human life began (more on this below), but once conception had been established as a watershed, opinion hardened. At the 40th day (for males) or 80th day (for females) after conception. This odd notion was formulated by Aristotle and embraced by Thomas Aquinas, and generally speaking was Catholic belief, though not dogma, till the time of Pius IX. The idea is that while basic existence begins at conception, the fetus isn’t animated — or in Catholic terminology, ensouled — until several weeks out, at which point it becomes human. The matter was debated for centuries, although without much practical impact on church policy; abortion was always prohibited for the same reason

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degree in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and joined Advanced Animations in 1987. A tour of the rambling, connected buildings starts with a quick peek into the big conference room where the staff recently met with executives from Universal Studios. The studio’s theme parks have been some of Advanced Animations’ best customers: The company has worked on “dark rides” for Men in Black, E.T. and Jurassic Park, among others. We stroll down the hall to the sculpting studio, where a work in progress — an owl made of oil-based clay — sits perched on an eye-level pedestal, waiting for finishing strokes from one of the company’s sculptors. Then it’s on to the computer-aided design area, where artists and engineers use programs such as Auto-CAD, Solid Works and Maya to do mechanical and amorphic-shape modeling. Crean pulls out a set of mechanical plans made on Solid Works and explains that this is the same software used by auto manufacturers to design moving parts. Through the next door is the machine shop, a massive, hangar-like area with industrial-sized equipment. “We designed these in the computer,” Crean says, picking up a stack of water-cut metal components, “and then sent the CAD files out to a vendor, who makes perfect parts.” Most Advanced Animation products are made and assembled on-site, however — owing, Crean says, to the dearth of local manufacturers who can work according to the

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GETTING AHEAD There’s nothing more uplifting in a down economy than discovering a Vermont company that exports animatronic figures to Tokyo Disneyland. “Discover” is the operative word, since Stockbridge’s Advanced Animations does next to nothing to promote itself — at least in Vermont. Located in an old rule-andlevel factory, it represents the spirit of creative self-sufficiency that has always thrived here. But Yankee ingenuity looks different now than it did a few decades ago. Instead of woolen blankets and tombstones, Vermont workers are manufacturing ideas, experiences and solutions. Technology has become the state’s economic lubricant. It lets entrepreneurs live here and at the same time compete with creative minds all over the world. This scenario has worked for Vermont companies such as Dealer.com, Seventh Generation, Burton and NRG Systems, to name a few internationally

company’s specifications. But all that inhouse talent makes Advanced Animations more self-sufficient. “Watch your eyes,” Crean warns a few times, as we walk through the welding department. A welder sits at a low table working on an animatronic dolphin in the early stages of development. At this point, it looks like a resin-colored torpedo. The dolphin is destined for the upcoming annual trade show in Orlando put on by the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions. “It’s a mouthful,” Crean jokes, “and it’s something to behold.” Advanced Animations generally has a display at the show, but this year the company’s owner, Peggy Toth, decided to add a twist by making the dolphin

THE VERMONT 3.0 ISSUE renowned businesses that will be exhibiting at the “creative/tech jam” this Saturday at Champlain College. Ditto slightly more obscure, but wildly successful local businesses such as MicroStrain, MBF Bioscience and Chroma. The complete list of more than 100 Vermont 3.0 exhibitors and panelists occupies the center 12 pages of this week’s issue. In the stories surrounding the program, Seven Days gets beyond the exhibition booths. Kirk Kardashian finds lots of ’bots at Advanced Animations in Stockbridge. Brian Wallstin explains how a Montpelier software developer outperformed the feds with an online voting system for American ex-pats. Suzanne Podhaizer interviews a promising young inventor who is using light to make our food safer. Breathing exercises made fun for kids with cystic fibrosis? Alice Levitt gets inside Champlain’s latest video game project.

By “fudging it,” Ring means striking a compromise between mechanical demands and aesthetics, a task some artists find challenging. Artists who judge their work by its verisimilitude — its closeness to life — would have a tough time here, since animating an object almost always creates imperfections. A modern-day Leonardo DaVinci might thrive at Advanced Animations, whereas a Michelangelo, Ring speculates, might “have gotten really frustrated with us, saying, ‘Well, that doesn’t look right.’” Ring, 46, grew up in Pennsylvania and has a Bachelor’s degree in illustration from Utah State University. He arrived at Advanced Animations in 1990 after freelancing in Burlington for a few months as a technical illustrator. His side

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impressive thing here is an 8-foot-tall Terminator wielding a Gatling gun. Crean powers it up, and it starts to move fluidly and speak in a faux Arnold Schwarzenegger voice: “I am a T-70 cyborg,” it barks. “I’ve been teleported here from Universal Studios, where I’m featured in the famous T2 3D Battle Across Time attraction. I’m a product of Advanced Animations, built for active duty, 24/7, 365, with no problemos. Right, baby? Hasta la vista, problemos!” “This is just a spare one we built out of extra parts,” Crean says after turning the T-70 off. “Pretty cool, isn’t it?” This robot is no clunky machine: It moves in real time with the words it’s speaking. That choreography is Ron Systo’s job, and it came naturally to him after a childhood spent doing puppetry. Systo, 45, is a systems engineer from Rutland who’s been at Advanced Animations for 20 years. Tall, with rimless glasses and a goatee, Systo has to make sure all the pieces work together to create a semblance of life and emotions. Systo’s office has enough space for a mad scientist to indulge his curiosities. He’s watched over by “Dr. Nose-it-all,” a robotic otolaryngologist that’s part of the “Healthworks” exhibit Advanced Animations is making for a museum in Tupelo, Mississippi. Systo uses his laptop to move switches and sliders that synchronize the pneumatic valves with the words from the voice actor, then saves the data to an SD card and plugs it into the control box beneath the robot. What in the world are these state-ofthe-art gadgets doing in Stockbridge? It’s pure happenstance, says Crean. The

The 8-foot-tall Terminator wielding a Gatling gun starts to move fluidly and speak in a faux Arnold Schwarzenegger voice. electric-powered. Pneumatically powered robots, which Advanced Animations also builds, can’t be operated without an air compressor and a building set up with the requisite hoses. The dolphin, by contrast, can be plugged into any wall outlet — a cheaper option for clients, but a bit more complicated for the designer. In this case, Toth is stepping into the shoes of a typical client by requesting a unique creation. Tom Ring, the art director, must translate that vision into reality, and it’s not always easy. “The client sometimes expects the product to do something,” he explains, “and I have to tell them, ‘We can’t really do that in this world, so we’re going to have to fudge it.’”

interest, which he says has been crucial to his success here, is mechanical movement. For the dolphin project, Ring watched dolphins swimming on the Internet and used Maya to create an animation profile for his coworkers to assess. Since nearly everything made here is a prototype — an original creation — a lot of unforeseen problems can crop up at the last minute. The dolphin, for instance, might move perfectly — but only without its skin, which can add 200 pounds and bog down the electric motors. “It doesn’t seem like art,” Ring says, “but in the end, the artist has to figure out how to make sure that it looks right and still works at the same time.” Back on the tour, Crean leads us into a sort of robot storage room. The most

company’s two founders, Bob Marquis and Dan Long, sold it to Warner Communications and retired to Stockbridge. When the megacorp experienced financial difficulties, the founders bought Advanced Animations back and relocated it near their new homes. After going public for a while, it’s now owned by Toth, who works in the Detroit office and manages the touring shows. Asked how the rural location affects the company’s ability to attract business, Crean

concludes it neither helps nor hurts. “In terms of clients,” he says, “we have been passed over for a competitor who’s much closer to the client. But for every client that might not want to travel, there are some that love the idea of coming to Vermont.” Being in Stockbridge didn’t stop the company from making a life-sized animatronic Holstein for the Billy Graham Library and Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The bovine, named Bessie, tells visitors to get “mooving” — in a Southern accent. It’s the first thing they see when they walk in. The company’s greatest challenge, Crean admits, is finding good local employees — preferably with 3D CAD and mold-making skills. And Crean is currently looking for a “MacGyver-type person” to go on the road with the “Grossology” tour three times a year. How did he land his job at Advanced Animations? Crean used a time-tested technique. “I just basically found out they were here and knocked on the door.” Now you know. 

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the class, technologies such as software applications may already have become outdated. Moreover, it’s not uncommon for today’s college professors to be teaching technologies that didn’t exist when they were in school. Keeping up amounts to a full-time job. But educator Brent Sargent doesn’t think it has to be that way. The dean of Vermont Technical College’s Williston campus claims it’s unnecessary for schools to invest in the newest “cutting-edge bells and whistles� in each field. He says that Vermont’s high-tech employers are looking for a healthy mix of the educational fundamentals of their industry — say, strong math and science skills — with a strong emphasis on interpersonal skills that will be in high demand in the coming decades. “What we hear is that it’s less about the technical skills than the affective skills,� Sargent adds. “The ability to work in a team framework, writing skills and presentation skills.� VTC works closely with Vermont businesses that want to hire locally — for example, NRG Systems of Hinesburg hires summer interns with VTC as a way of recruiting talent. VTC has a 98 percent placement rate for its graduates in their chosen field; at least 80 percent of them stay in Vermont after college. Marian Lawlor has spent 18 years doing educational outreach for IBM, Vermont’s largest private employer. While she doesn’t specifically recruit for Big Blue or manage its employees, she is very

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“Education has to change,” she says. “It’s still good to listen to a lecture and sit down with a book. But it’s also good to do an interactive experience.” Gerry Ghazi sees the shortcomings of higher ed in Vermont from a different angle. He’s president of the nonprofit organization Vermont HITEC — or Healthcare and Information Technology Education Center — a team that is reinventing the model of education for the tech sector by focusing on the needs of the employer, then “reverseengineering” curricula to fill those needs. As Ghazi explains, HITEC approaches a business, such as Burlington-based Dealer.com, and identifies its growth need (in the case of Dealer.com, to increase the number of account managers sevenfold). HITEC then places an instructor in the growth-sector job for two months. During that time, the instructor masters the job, figures out ways to improve it, and

In the time it takes for a college professor to write a curriculum, submit it for approval and teach the class, technologies such as software applications may already have become outdated. goals was to clue teachers in to the growing importance of right-brain skills in the job market — skills that manifest themselves as artistry, inventiveness and abilities to think outside the box and see the big picture. According to Lawlor, educators at both the K-12 and college levels need to break down the usual “silos” that exist in education and teach students how to apply their skills in practical settings. She cites one project IBM is doing with the University of Vermont called SEED, or “Senior Experience in Engineering Design.” Now in its second year, SEED enlists teams of UVM students to solve real-world engineering dilemmas at IBM. “That’s the kind of experience students need today,” she adds, “because it’s where you bring together all of that knowledge that you’ve accumulated over the years and actually apply it. And it’s only when you apply knowledge that you internalize it.” Champlain College’s new Emergent Media Center in Winooski may be the closest thing to the “real world” that exists in Vermont academia. When students “apply” to the program, the process resembles what you’d experience at an actual software development company: They submit a cover letter and resume, go through a rigorous job interview, then present their portfolio or write computer code on the spot. And they’re asked to draw a duck. It’s not always a duck. Sometimes students are asked to write a poem using wacky or incongruous words. Why? Not because a

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degree in computer gaming or 3-D digital design requires the ability to draw or rhyme. It’s to see if students are quick on their feet, according to EMC Director Ann DeMarle. “If you apply for a job at Microsoft or [video gaming company] EA, they’ll ask you weird questions like, ‘OK, describe all the shoes you’ve seen in the last 10 seconds,’” DeMarle says. “Really, they’re not looking for a right answer. They’re trying to see how you think and approach problems. And that’s what technology today is all about: identifying problems and finding solutions.” In a sense, the Emergent Media Center is doing both of these things, too. It’s bridging the gap between higher education and industry by giving students real-world problems to solve using the latest computer technologies. And the EMC does this not in a classroom or computer lab that simulates the real world, but with real clients, real budgets, real deadlines and real paychecks.

Heather Kelley is a gaming industry professional from Montréal. EMC hired her to work with a group of students on a game targeting boys and young men in developing countries. The three-year project, funded by the United Nations and the Population Media Center of Shelburne, aims to produce a cellphone-based game to teach young males about ending violence against women. Stop the violence, the theory goes, and you also begin to ease poverty. “I was impressed, actually, that these students have as much knowhow about being on a team,” says Kelley, who’s been in the industry for 12 years. “They’ve had a chance to actually produce products, with actual clients and deadlines and deliverables that are part of the job. . . There was nothing like this when I was at school.” Similarly, adjunct professor Ken Howell is working with another group of EMC students on a game called the Real Time Incident Preparedness Simulation. This project, funded by Massachusetts General Hospital, is designed to teach first responders how to handle different disaster scenarios. Unlike other simulators, however, this one uses real-time weather data and geographically accurate locales from Google Maps. A firefighter in, say, Idaho can train on a scenario using real conditions, streets and even individual structures found in his or her zip code. Director DeMarle sees the Emergent Media Center as just one example of how colleges can break from the traditional “sage on the stage” model, where a professor lectures to 500 students at a time, then quizzes them for answers.

designs an educational curriculum to train others to do it. Meanwhile, HITEC looks across the workforce spectrum, from GED-holders to people with PhDs, to fill those slots. According to Ghazi, HITEC never launches an educational program without the promise of jobs at the end. “Imagine if a college, as part of the application process, said to you that there will be a guaranteed job for you upon graduation?” Ghazi asks. Thus far, the model has led to the creation of more than 400 jobs in Vermont. In addition to training a large portion of the Dealer.com workforce, Vermont HITEC helped Fletcher Allen Health Care hire and train 20 medical transcriptionists, jobs that otherwise would have been outsourced to India. That time the process, which usually takes two years, wrapped up in eight months. “If I could push any agenda forward, it would be the blending of businesses and colleges, so that education becomes seamless,” Ghazi adds, “and you can’t tell if you’re being educated in a college or a business.” Needless to say, some people may bristle at the idea that the goal of higher education is to “feed the workforce pipeline,” rather than to create thoughtful and well-rounded citizens. But others, like DeMarle, believe that colleges can — and must — do both. “Imagine a world where business is about creating a better world. Why is that not possible?” she asks. “If we are teaching students to be the next-generation employees, they’re also the next-generation leaders. I think economics can solve our problems.” >

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TECH JAM EXHIBITORS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (H-3) Burlington, www.vbsr.org

Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility is a fast-growing business association hosting some of the best companies in Vermont. From NRG and Light-Works, to Vermont Soy and the Vermont Energy Investment Corp., VBSR brings together businesses that believe in multiple bottom lines: economic, social and environmental. VBSR connects Vermont college students to the state’s flourishing socially responsible business culture through the VBSR Intern Program. The Intern Program creates paid, educational internships that benefit both the college student and the business. Internships include opportunities in graphics and technology, sustainable environment, engineering, renewable energy and more.

E-GAMING/MUSIC SoundToys (G-5)

Burlington, www.soundtoys.com Downtown Burlington’s SoundToys is a boutique software company that designs and sells creative audio tools to professional musicians, producers, engineers and sound designers worldwide. As a development partner with Apple and Avid/Digidesign, SoundToys creates effects “plug-ins” that work with products such as Pro Tools, Logic Audio, Live, Cubase, Final Cut, Nuendo and GarageBand. Since SoundToys was founded in 2003, its effects plug-ins have become a standard in high-end audio production and have enhanced countless hit albums, movies and video games. Some users include Beck, Hank Shockly/Public Enemy, Paul Simon, GrandMixer DXT, Broken Social Scene, Peter Gabriel, Black Eyed Peas, Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails, Lucas Film/SkyWalker Sound, Electronic Arts, Warner Brothers, Sony Music, Guitar Hero and many more.

EDUCATION Burlington College (I-3) Burlington, www.burlington.edu

Burlington College is an independent, progressive, liberal arts college, offering two-year Associate’s and four-year Bachelor’s degrees, as well as several professional certificate programs. The founders’ intention was to create an undergraduate institution firmly rooted in concern for, and interaction with, the greater Burlington community. Burlington College continues to offer rich and diverse opportunities for its students to participate in arts-related events, the natural environment, and civic and humanitarian projects.

Coaching Center of Vermont (G-4) Winooski, www.coachingcenterofvermont.com

Today’s workforce demands more than a paycheck for a job well done. This generation of professionals wants passion, meaning and the opportunity to measure potential in development and earnings. The Coaching Center of Vermont helps you customize a plan to ensure success in this uncertain marketplace. A collective of diverse coaches, each unique in expertise, coaching style and philosophy, offers a variety of effectual programs for creative career seekers.

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Champlain College, founded in 1878, offers a no-nonsense, practical approach to delivering cutting-edge undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificates in business and technology fields. A pioneer

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Community College of Vermont (G-3) Waterbury, www.ccv.edu

The state’s second-largest and most affordable college, CCV serves students from high-school age to senior citizens at 12 locations statewide as well as online. CCV offers more than 1000 daytime, evening and online courses and 17 Associate’s degrees to more than 10,000 students each year. CCV offers the option of taking a single course or enrolling full-time. Degree-program offerings of special interest include computer assisted drafting & design, computer systems management, graphic design, multimedia communications and network administration, as well as some related certificate options. As an open-admissions college, CCV has a simple, free admissions process that begins with an online application. Classes begin in September, January and May, and students can register for classes approximately two months beforehand.

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Lyndon State College is committed to experiential learning, with nationally competitive programs that include music business & industry, animation & illustration, meteorology, television studies, ski resort management and more. Lyndon is now an SAT-optional college.

Marlboro College Graduate Center (F-3) Marlboro, gradcenter.marlboro.edu

Marlboro College Graduate Center is nationally recognized for its innovative programs and high-quality education. It was the first institution in the country to offer graduate programs combining onsite and online class work. Major publications including Newsweek magazine and The Atlantic have cited Marlboro College Graduate Center for being a leader in the world of online education. With its mission of serving working adults, Marlboro offers graduate programs in teaching with technology, software development, management, information technologies and a new MBA in managing for sustainability. A Bachelor’s program in managing information systems is also available.

St. Michael’s College (E-4) Colchester, www.smcvt.edu

St. Michael’s College is a residential, Catholic, liberal arts college for students who want to make the world a better place. Each of the 29 majors is grounded in a liberal-studies core, and the faculty is committed first and foremost to teaching. St. Mike’s is one of only 20 Catholic colleges nationwide allowed to host a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus. It makes the grade in The Princeton Review’s Best 366 Colleges guidebook. But learning at St. Mike’s goes beyond the classroom. The strong sense of community fostered on the Colchester campus encourages students to get involved, take risks and think differently. A unique passion for social-justice issues reflects the heritage of the Edmundite priests who founded St. Michael’s in 1904. Plus, an all-access season pass to Smugglers’ Notch ski resort is provided to

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In 1977, Jake Burton Carpenter founded Burton Snowboards in his Vermont barn. Since then, Burton has fueled the growth of snowboarding worldwide through groundbreaking product lines, grassroots efforts to get the sport accepted at resorts and a team of top snowboarders. In 1996, Burton began growing its family of brands to include board sports equipment and apparel brands. Privately held and owned by Jake, Burton’s headquarters are in Burlington, Vermont, with international offices in Innsbruck, Austria, and Tokyo, Japan.

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The University of Vermont’s Summer University has offerings for high-school students, college students and part-time, working professionals. By choosing from more than 400 courses and programs, a student can pick up a semester’s worth of credits in just three months, pursue professional development in week-long intensives, or focus on one challenging course at a time. Students can take classes on campus, study online, or tour the world beyond UVM in travel-study programs led by distinguished UVM faculty. The university’s core strengths in science, health, the arts and environmental coursework make Summer University the premier option in each area of study. There’s another benefit: Better utilization of campus resources in summer helps UVM reduce its per-capita footprint over time. UVM is offering tuition savings in celebration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of its summer sessions.

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Vermont Healthcare Information Technology Education Center exists to create employment opportunities for underemployed and unemployed Vermont and New Hampshire workers in the fields of health care, information technology and advanced manufacturing by providing the tuition-free education and training that leads directly to guaranteed jobs. Through the use of its innovative ITAR model in workforce development, this nonprofit has educated and placed 400 unemployed and underemployed workers in new local jobs. The model encompasses every aspect of workforce development, including recruitment, selection, curriculum development, education, training, and employment and mentoring. Opportunities exist to expand Vermont HITEC’s model on both the state and national level. HITEC is currently working with Fletcher Allen Health Care of Burlington and Hypertherm of Hanover, New Hampshire, to expand its ITAR model to create workforce development institutes within these organizations. HITEC has also partnered with the River Valley Community College of Claremont New Hampshire to take the ITAR statewide throughout the state. Through its Vermont Information Technology Partnership program, HITEC provides local college and high-school students internship opportunities to complete IT project work in industry prior to graduation.

Vermont Student Assistance Corp. (D-1, D-2) Winooski, www.vsac.org

VSAC was created in 1965 as a public nonprofit to help Vermonters who want to finance college or other training after high school. The agency provides grants, loans, scholarships, career and education planning and general information about how you or others in your family can get the education you want, whether you’re in high school planning for college, returning to college, or post-grad with an interest in changing careers.

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Vermont Technical College, located in Randolph Center and Williston, offers more than 20 Bachelor’s and Associate’s degree programs in today’s most sought-after fields, including: business technology and management, architectural & building engineering technology, computer engineering and information technology, construction management, nursing, dental hygiene, respiratory therapy, civil and environmental engineering technology, sustainable design and technology, landscape development & ornamental horticulture, veterinary technology and more.

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FreshTracks Capital, L.P., operates two early-stage venture capital funds with $25 million of capital under management. Based in Shelburne, FreshTracks makes equity investments in highgrowth companies that demonstrate a compelling and defensible competitive advantage. Following an initial investment, FreshTracks Capital works closely with its portfolio companies through active board membership, strategic and financial advice and team-building expertise. The focus is on early-stage, technology-driven businesses in the clean technology, information technology, advanced manufacturing, consumer products and media sectors. Portfolio companies include NativeEnergy, EatingWell, Vermont Teddy Bear, ISIS, Draker Labs and NEHP.

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Gallagher, Flynn & Company, LLP, is Vermont’s largest independent CPA and business consulting firm. In addition to a complete array of traditional accounting and tax services, the firm also provides a wide range of business consulting services focused in areas including information technology, human resources, mergers and acquisitions, and financial planning & investment advisory. The firm’s Human Resource Services Division is committed to providing clients with services and advice that will contribute significantly to their success. Its work focuses primarily on recruiting, compensation consulting, organizational development and general, human-resource management support.

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The Community and Economic Development Office is a department of the City of Burlington. Its staffers work with the community to foster economic vitality; preserve and enhance neighborhoods, quality of life and the environment; and promote equity and opportunity for all residents of Burlington. Working in partnership with citizens, the public and private sectors and other city departments, CEDO is the energy behind myriad Queen City projects, from refugee craft fairs to the revitalization of the Burlington Waterfront. Its activities are funded through federal and state grants and the City of Burlington Housing Trust Fund. CEDO supports economic growth in practical and concrete ways: through targeted tax incentives; business loans; a business-calling program; an awardwinning Doing Business in Burlington guide; a downtown program; hands-on help with business planning, licenses and permitting; and help with lowering energy bills, finding office space, and accessing a high-speed telecommunications network.

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GBIC (B-6)

South Burlington, www.allscripts.com

Burlington, www.vermont.org/gbic

Allscripts uses innovation technology to bring health to health care. Our worldclass software, services, information and connectivity solutions are consistently ranked No. 1 in their classes, and our focus on clients first has made us one of Fortune magazine’s “Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in America” two years in a row.

The Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation is Vermont’s certified nonprofit economic development corporation for Chittenden County. Since its founding in 1954, GBIC has served as a catalyst for economic opportunity in Chittenden County, assisting in the creation and retention of sustainable jobs and economic opportunities for thousands of Vermonters. The primary economic market focus of GBIC is the region’s value-added industry sectors and its economy-driving businesses. GBIC is dedicated to the creation and retention of “good jobs in a clean environment” for working Vermonters and their families.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont (I-2) Berlin, www.bcbsvt.com

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont is the state’s only Vermont-based health insurer, offering high-quality health coverage to Vermonters, regardless of age, occupation or health status. BCBSVT is widely recognized as a good corporate citizen and strives to improve the relationships between BCBSVT, its

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PANEL DISCUSSIONS

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ow does a graphic designer transition to web development? Is it really possible to build “socially responsible” video games? Do you have to be a cop to catch criminals on the Internet? Ask the experts participating in Vermont 3.0’s panel discussions. Many of the careers featured at Vermont 3.0 require some explanation, and nobody is better

TRACK #1:

ARTS & COMMUNICATION

Track#1:

ARTS & COMMUNICATION SCIENCE

HAUKE CONFERENCE CENTER, CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE Moderator: Cathy Resmer, Online Editor, Seven Days

...WRITE FOR THE WEB? [10 A.M.] Steve Benen

Political Blogger, Washington Monthly Steve Benen is a contributing writer to the Washington Monthly. His background includes publishing The Carpetbagger Report, and writing for a variety of publications, including Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect, the Huffington Post and The Guardian. He has also appeared on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Air America Radio’s “Sam Seder Show” and XM Radio’s “POTUS ’08.”

Penelope Wall

Web Producer, EatingWell Media Group Penelope Wall is a web producer for EatingWell Media Group in Charlotte. With a degree from Middlebury College, Penelope started her career as a copywriter for April Cornell, a designer and manufacturer of apparel and home linens. There she became interested in writing for the web, since much of her time was spent writing for April Cornell’s e-commerce website and email marketing campaigns. Penelope was a web content manager at Champlain College before joining EatingWell in 2007. At EatingWell, Penelope works with other producers to translate magazine and book material into web content.

Marybeth Redmond* Professor, St. Michael’s College

Marybeth Redmond teaches converged journalism classes at St. Michael’s College, where her students learn to report and write across print, broadcast and online media platforms. Her goal is to expand student abilities in the area of multimedia storytelling, encouraging them to experiment with evolving forms. She has reported and anchored in New York and Midwestern TV markets for six years. From 1999 to 2003, she worked as mediarelations director and spokesperson for the global nonprofit Maryknoll Missioners. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame and received her Master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

... GET INTO GAMES? [11 A.M.] Chris Hancock Owner, Tertl Studos

Chris Hancock is the owner and founder of Tertl Studos, LLC, an educational software developer of tools and games that incorporate mathematics, computation and creativity. Chris is an experienced leader in all phases of the development cycle, including basic educational research, concept development and piloting, curriculum development, teacher professional development and publication. Prior to starting Tertl, he was a senior scientist for TERC, an education research and development nonprofit organization. He has an AB in mathematics and a

Master’s in education from Harvard University and a PhD in media arts and sciences from MIT.

Amanda Crispel*

Professor, Champlain College Amanda Crispel has 19 years of experience in the electronic entertainment industry, specializing in projects for children and families. She’s been on development teams at Mattel, Leap Frog, Lego, Brøderbund Software, The Learning Co., Animated Speech Corporation, Digital Chocolate and Plan B Enterprises. Several of her software titles have earned consumer software awards for excellence, including the Family PC Recommended award for her first title, Math Workshop. Other projects include designs for the web, mobile phones, console platforms, and traditional board and card games. Crispel joined the faculty at Champlain College in 2005, where she teaches courses in game design and is the program director of game design and game art and animation degrees.

Heather Kelley

Computer and Video Game Designer Heather Kelley is creative director on the U.N.F.P.A. Electronic Game to End Gender Violence that is under development at Champlain College’s Emergent Media Center. As “moboid,” her online alias, she creates game-based artwork. Last spring, she was the Kraus Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Heather’s 12-year career in the games industry has included AAA next-gen console games, interactive smart toys, handheld games and web communities for girls. She is co-founder of the Kokoromi experimental game collective, with which she produces and curates the annual Gamma game event. Her game concept Lapis won the 2006 MIGS Game Design Challenge on sex in games. For seven years, Heather served as co-chair of the IGDA’s Women in Game Development Special Interest Group.

...BUILD WEBSITES? [NOON Sponsored by: Competitive Computing (C2)

Dave Gibson*

Owner, Propeller Media Works Dave Gibson is founding partner and interactive strategist at Propeller Media Works, an interactive marketing agency specializing in web design, application development and online marketing. Dave started Propeller as a one-man band in 1997 and today oversees a crew of 15. No longer the designer, and never the programmer, Dave manages the agency and provides strategic planning for both Propeller and key clients. Dave is currently focused on online marketing tactics and strategy — especially social marketing (read: Facebook addiction).

Frank Canovatchel* Professor, Champlain College

Frank Canovatchel is an associate professor of web development

at Champlain College and a web business consultant to several Vermont companies. After attaining his Master’s degree from Fordham University, Frank worked as a financial analyst on Wall Street where he developed financial models using the first IBM AT and XT computers, then began a career teaching economics, computer applications and web programming. His expertise in web programming includes systems analysis, XML, PHP and database development. His expertise in economics includes technology’s impact on market efficiency and the financial impact of technology innovation on the costs of production.

Gahlord Dewald* Director of Web Strategy, Union Street Media

Gahlord Dewald is director of web Strategy for Union Street Media, a Burlington web design firm specializing in search-enabled real estate web design, e-commerce development and other business, education and nonprofit sites. He has recently completed his first year of full-time employment after working solo for eight years. His skills and experience run the gamut from graphic design and animation to standards-based web coding. Currently he works to help clients use their websites as data resources for marketing and making business decisions. He also plays the ukulele.

... BE AN INTERNET MARKETER? [1 P.M.] Sponsored by: Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation & Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce

Elaine Young*

Professor, Champlain College Elaine Young is an associate professor of marketing and e-business management at Champlain College where she teaches classes in Internet marketing, nonprofit and social marketing, Internet strategy, online visibility and social networking and marketing management. This year she’s teaching a class called “Technology as a Disruptive Force.” She’s also team-teaching a new class entitled “Social Interaction in the Digital Age,” which combines technological tools such as email, instant messaging, social networking and blogging with interpersonal and small-group communication theories to make sense out of online communication.

Paul Skarvinko

Manager of Marketing and Analytics, EpikOne Paul Skarvinko became EpikOne’s first employee shortly after graduating from Champlain College. As a Google Certified AdWords Individual, he has helped EpikOne become a Google AdWords Certified company and is responsible for overseeing EpikOne’s paid search projects. Armed with expert knowledge in Google AdWords and Google Analytics, he assists organizations of all sizes become successful paidsearch advertisers and has been instrumental in shifting client focus from “clicks” to “conversions.” He also works on developing and analyzing

Track #2:

Hauke Conference Center

Alumni Auditorium

10:00 ...WRITE FOR THE WEB?

... BE THE “CTO?”

11:00 ... GET INTO GAMES?

... GREEN UP OUR ENERGY FUTURE?

12:00 ... BUILD WEBSITES? 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00

... BE AN INTERNET MARKETER? ... MAKE MUSIC ONLINE? ... SHOOT VIDEO — AND GET PAID FOR IT?

... SOLVE CYBER CRIMES? ... WORK IN BIOTECH? ... DEVELOP SOFTWARE? ... BUILD ROBOTS?

Greg Brand*

President, Bluehouse Group Greg Brand is president of Bluehouse Group, an agency specializing in website design, Internet marketing and web application development. While energized by the ever-expanding options for marketing in a Web 2.0 world, Greg is also an advocate for fundamentals like clean and uncluttered design, clear messaging and website usability. He is a founding member of the Vermont Software Developers’ Alliance, and serves as co-chair on the organization’s board of directors.

... MAKE MUSIC, ONLINE? [2 P.M.]

Tony Gallucci Owner, WBKM.org

Tony Gallucci is the business side of WBKM.org, Burlington’s allonline radio station. A New York native who moved to Vermont in 1987, he acquired his legal and business experience in the New York real estate market, then spent seven years drafting and negotiating complex contracts for IBM’s corporate counsel in Essex Junction. He also has worked for five years as a network administrator in the public schools. Tony brings his skills in technology, communication and business — along with his love of music and a finely tuned ear — to his new venture.

Elizabeth Norris*

Professor, Lyndon State College Dr. Elizabeth Norris joined the faculty of Lyndon State College in August 2002 where she serves as the coordinator of fine and performing arts. In that position, Beth pioneered an innovative B.S. degree program in music business and industry. Although she is a classically trained musician and not a practically trained electronics specialist, Beth is involved in exploring pedagogies that bring students into an online environment. She has a knack for

... SHOOT VIDEO — AND GET PAID FOR IT? [3 P.M.] Allan Nicholls*

Eva Sollberger*

Videographer, Seven Days Eva Sollberger produces editorial and advertising video for the Seven Days website. Her weekly “Stuck in Vermont” profiles local artists and

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Nate Herzog

IS Director, JDK Design Nate Herzog is the director of information services at JDK Design, where he has provided innovative technical solutions to design and creative challenges since joining the company in October 2004. Prior to that, he worked as a support specialist, system administrator and technical writer in the IS/IT department at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His BA is in English literature.

Ali Rafieymehr*

Dean, Division of Information Technology, Champlain College

oddballs. Prior to joining Seven Days, she worked in the film industry for more than 10 years, producing visual effects on big-budget pictures, staffing the San Francisco International and Sundance film festivals, projecting 35mm films at art houses and, more recently, producing the local cable-access show “The Deadbeat Club.”

Professor, Burlington College After five years on Broadway, where he had starring roles in Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, Allan Nicholls started a career in film and television. He worked with Robert Altman for nearly 33 years, serving the late film director as an actor, writer, producer, assistant director, secondunit director and music supervisor. Nicholls was an associate producer at “Saturday Night Live” for three seasons. From 2004 to 2007, he worked as a senior video producer at JDK Design. He is currently director of film production at Burlington College.

... BE THE “CTO?”

Tim Keefe is a Microsoft-certified Network Services professional with many years of experience designing, installing, configuring and supporting computer systems and networks. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from University of Vermont and a Microsoft-Certified Systems Administrator Certification from Microsoft Corporation.

Ken Bogdanowicz* Ken Bogdanowicz has been designing audio-effects gear for the pro audio and music industry since 1984. He started out designing high-end studio effects for Eventide and was a principal designer of the H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer, the world’s first intelligent pitch-shifting device. The product quickly became a studio standard and is now considered a classic. He went on to found SoundToys in 1996 to bring creative sound processing to the world of computer-based recording. SoundToys plug-ins are used worldwide in music production, and audio post production for the film, television and gaming industries.

Moderator: Kirk Kardashian, Writer, Seven Days

Tim Keefe*

discovering talented faculty who are masters with studio work and digital sound manipulation.

Owner, SoundToys

SCIENCE

ALUMNI AUDITORIUM, CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE

Senior Technology Consultant, Gallagher, Flynn & Company

... BE YOUR OWN BOSS?

online marketing strategies for the company’s e-commerce clients.

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Nathan Beaman Owner, Urban Rhino

Nathan Beaman is a director of photography and the owner of Urban Rhino, a Burlington-based media production company. He’s a member of the motion picture union, I.A.T.S.E., and serves as its executive representative for the state of Vermont. Nathan’s cinematography has been featured by both Panasonic and Redrock. He holds 11 Apple Pro Application certifications, including one for Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer. Nathan currently writes on a freelance basis for industry magazines such as Videomaker, Digital Content Producer and SXSW World, and is the founder of FinalCutUser.com, a popular filmindustry-based blog.

* Tech Jam exhibitor.

Ali Rafieymehr recently became the dean of the division of information technology and sciences at Champlain College. He has served on the faculties at Western New England and Saint Anselm Colleges, and chaired the Department of CS and IT at the former. He also worked in the computer industry for more than 20 years at organizations such as Harvard Business School, Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Corporation and Avici Systems. He was awarded a fellowship by Digital Equipment Corporation to complete his doctorate in computer science at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, where he taught for eight years.

... GREEN UP OUR ENERGY FUTURE? [11 A.M.] Sponsored by: NRG Systems

Evan Osler*

Sales Account Manager, NRG Systems As a sales account manager at NRG Systems, Evan Osler is responsible for sales of NRG products to wind farm developers across the United States. Prior to his current job, he worked as a wind energy analyst and GIS specialist at Vermont Environmental Research Associates, a

local wind-energy-consulting firm. Evan graduated cum laude from Middlebury College in 2003 with a BA in Geography. (For more info about NRG Systems, see feature story in the October 22 issue of Seven Days)

Joan Richmond-Hall* Professor, Vermont Technical College

Joan Richmond-Hall is an associate professor at Vermont Technical College. She received her Bachelor’s degree at Smith College and her PhD in biochemistry from Boston University. She did nearly 20 years of biomedical research focused on HIV, vaccine development and immune response to pathogens before moving to Vermont in 2001. She teaches chemistry and environmental science at Vermont Tech and is program director of the college’s new sustainable design and technology Bachelor’s degree program. Joan is also working on a feasibility study for a manure and food scrap methane digester that could power Vermont Tech’s campus.

Scott Johnstone* Executive Director, VEIC

Scott Johnstone is executive director of Vermont Energy Investment Corporation. VEIC’s work focuses on efficiency and renewable strategies that will result in less carbon being released to our atmosphere. Prior to working in the energy sector, Scott worked on transportation, natural resources and environmental issues in both the public and private sectors, including stints as Vermont Secretary of Natural Resources for Governor Howard Dean and director of Burlington Public Works.

... SOLVE CYBER CRIMES? [NOON] Gary Kessler*

Professor, Champlain College Gary C. Kessler is an associate professor of computer & digital forensics and director of the Center for Digital Investigation at Champlain College. He is also a consultant to the Vermont Internet Crimes Against Children and Internet Crimes task forces and a director of GKS Digital Services, a consultancy specializing in computer and network forensics, computer and network security, and Internet and TCP/IP protocols and applications. Gary is an associate editor of the Journal of Digital Forensic Practice and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law. He holds a BA in mathematics, an MS in computer science, and is pursuing a PhD in computing technology in education. Gary is a member of the High Tech Crime Consortium, High Technology Crime Investigation Association and

International Society of Forensics Computer Examiners.

Kris Carlson

Sergeant, Burlington Police Department, Internet Crimes Against Children Sergeant Kris Carlson is a patrol supervisor for the Burlington Police Department and has been a member of the Vermont Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (VT-ICAC) since 2000. Sergeant Carlson has been trained in and conducts investigations into computer-facilitated child sexual exploitation, computer-forensic examinations and Internet undercover operations. As commander of VT-ICAC, he is responsible for running the daily operations of the task force, managing personnel and budget as well as continuing work in investigations and undercover operations as needed.

Frederick Lane

Author and Expert Witness Frederick Lane is an attorney, expert witness, lecturer and author who has appeared on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the BBC and MSNBC. His fourth book, The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right’s Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court, was published by Beacon Press in June 2008, and he is finishing work on People in Glass Houses: The Right to Privacy in the Age of Electronic Voyeurism (Beacon 2009).

... WORK IN BIOTECH [1 P.M.] Guest Moderator: Kerry Swift Sponsored by: Community and Economic Development Office of Burlington

Nick Heintz

Professor, UVM Medical School Dr. Nicholas Heintz is a professor of pathology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. His primary interest is basic cancer research, with an emphasis on understanding how changes in gene expression and cell signaling promote the uncontrolled proliferation of human cancer cells. For three decades Dr. Heintz has trained undergraduate and graduate students for careers in the life sciences. He has consulted on scientific issues for a number of companies and supports efforts to increase business opportunities in this sector in Vermont.

Kerry Swift

Assistant Director, UVM Office of Technology Transfer Kerry Swift is a technology licensing officer at UVM’s Office of Technology Transfer. She has been working in university technology transfer for 10 years at UVM and, previously, at MIT. She has licensed technologies to start-ups and established companies in diverse areas such as biotechnology, drug delivery, medical devices, optics, lasers and chemical processing. At UVM,

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qualified to answer your questions than the people who are fully immersed in them. Each of the 13 panels at Vermont 3.0 — detailed below — brings you face to face with the owner of a Vermont company, a worker and an educator in the field. In a 45-minute session, you can find out what Vermont CEOs want, how many local jobs are available, what the day-to-day work is like, and, if education is required, where to get it in Vermont.

Kerry also negotiates and establishes contracts for industrial-sponsored research and the transfer of materials in and out of the university. Kerry is a scientist by training and received a BS in biochemistry at UNH and a MS in molecular microbiology from Tufts University.

Brian Manning*

Application Scientist, Chroma Technology Corp. Brian Manning is an application/ technical support scientist at Chroma Technology Corp., an employee-owned manufacturer of optical filters used in biomedical microscopy and other photonic applications. Brian came from an academic background, including a PhD in anatomy and neurobiology from UVM in 2002. He brought this academic training and knowledge with him to Chroma in 2006. He now spends a considerable amount of time assisting other scientists worldwide with their experimental designs, and providing technical and sales support for Chroma’s products.

Mike Battig*

Professor, St. Michael’s College Mike Battig, associate professor of computer science at St. Michael’s College, has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering both as a practitioner and an educator. He received a PhD in computer science at Mississippi

instrumentation, wireless sensing and energy harvesting. Steve is founder and CEO of MicroStrain, Inc., a Vermont manufacturer of micro-displacement sensors, inertial sensing systems and wireless data logging nodes for recording and transmitting strain, vibration, temperature and orientation data.

SO YOU WANNA...

BE YOUR OWN BOSS? 4 P.M. ALUMNI AUDITORIUM, CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE This panel will focus on entrepreneurship and raising equity capital using Draker Laboratories as a case study.

Lee Bouyea

Managing Director, FreshTracks Capital

David Bradbury

President, Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies

Mark Taylor

Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, North Country Angels

A.J. Rossman

Jack Glaser

CEO and Founder, Draker Labs

Jack Glaser founded MicroBrightField, Inc., in 1987 to develop microscope imaging software for neuroscience research. The company, now known as MBF Bioscience, has offices worldwide, and its products are used in more than 1,000 labs in universities, colleges, pharmaceutical and biotech companies. A 1984 graduate of the University of Vermont, Jack also established MBF Labs in 2004, a company for performing outsource research. In 2007, he was named the Vermont Small Business Person of the Year by the United States Small Business Administration, in recognition of outstanding leadership related to his company’s staying power, employee growth, increase in sales, innovative ingenuity and contributions to the community.

Director, Merritt & Merritt & Moulton

CEO, MBF Bioscience

... DEVELOP SOFTWARE? [2 P.M.] Sponsored by: Vermont Software Developers’ Alliance

Ellery Crane*

Web Developer, Bear Code Ellery Crane is a web developer and project manager at Bear Code software developers in Montpelier. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2006 with degrees in computer science and political science and spent his senior year studying abroad in Japan. Ellery has published multiple papers in the evolutionary computation branch of computer science, and continues to do research in his spare time. His experience as a newcomer to both academia and the web-design industry affords him unique insight into the choices facing programmers just starting their careers. (For more info about Bear Code, see feature story in the October 22 issue of Seven Days)

R.W. Eli Moulton, III

Panel sponsored by FreshTracks Capital State University and has authored or co-authored several papers in software engineering and computer science education. Before coming to St. Michael’s, Dr. Battig taught for two years at Norwich University and six years at Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi. Prior to working in higher education, he worked for eight years in software development with the JCPenney Co.

Burr Warne

CEO, President and Founder, GlobalClassroom Burr Warne is the CEO and president of Global Classroom, Inc., the company he founded in 2006 to connect educators and subject-matter experts with students worldwide using the Internet. Global Classroom has delivered 70 online courses and 900 educational podcasts to more than 10,000 students and 500 school districts nationwide. In 1995, he founded Epic Learning, opening 100 learning centers at Kinko’s stores. He holds two patents, and received the 21st Century Revolutionaries’“Growing with Technology Award” in 2000.

... BUILD ROBOTS? [3 P.M.] Sponsored by: MicroStrain

Steve Arms*

Owner, MicroStrain, Inc. Steve Arms received his Master’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Vermont in 1983. He has been awarded 30 U.S. patents and has over 10 pending. He has contributed to 18 journal publications and 44 abstracts/presentations in the areas of advanced

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PANEL SPONSORS GBIC

Josh Bongard*

Professor, University of Vermont Josh Bongard received his undergraduate degree in computer science from McMaster University in 1997, a Master’s in evolutionary and adaptive systems from the University of Sussex in England in 1999 and a PhD from the University of Zurich in Switzerland in 2003. After a three-year postdoctoral posting in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, he joined the computer science department at the University of Vermont in 2006.

Michael Ridge

Sculptor & Mold Technician, Advanced Animations After graduating from Syracuse University in 2000 with a BFA in sculpture, Michael Ridge worked for two years as a mold technician for the Art Asylum, a Brooklyn, N.Y.based toy prototyping company. There he played an integral role in the creation of collectible action figures, including a line of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon figures. Michael is currently employed as a sculptor and mold technician at Advanced Animations in Stockbridge, which produces animatronic characters for theme parks, casinos and museum exhibits. His credits include Universal Studios CA’s “Revenge of the Mummy” roller coaster, the touring museum exhibit “Animal Grossology,” and recently, characters for Disney Tokyo’s “Treasures on Parade.” (For more about Advanced Animations, see feature story in the October 22 issue of Seven Days)

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TECH JAM EXHIBITORS « more exhibitors, p.5 Bluehouse Group (A-9) Richmond, www.bluehousegroup.com

GOVERNMENT Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce (B-6) Burlington, www.vermont.org

The Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce is the largest nonprofit business membership organization in Vermont and has been active for more than 90 years. The Burlington region has long attracted residents and companies alike. Vermont’s booming economy, commercial activity, rich cultural scene, and ideal physical location between Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains makes the Chamber’s mission an easy one: to promote and support a healthy environment that makes the Burlington region and Vermont the ideal place to live, work and do business.

State of Vermont Recruitment Division (A-1 & A-2) Montpelier, www.vermontpersonnel.org

No single Vermont employer offers so many opportunities: A career with the State of Vermont puts you on a professional path filled with tremendous opportunities for growth — not to mention a host of work-life benefits that are hard to match. Since the State of Vermont offers a variety of career fields, employees can advance within a certain field or can make a career change, while remaining under the umbrella of a single employer. This allows for change without sacrificing benefits and service time. The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Vermont Army National Guard (I-4) Jericho, www.vtguard.com

The Vermont Army National Guard is an elite group of warriors which dedicates a portion of its time to serving the nation. Each state has its own Guard, as required by the Constitution. Paid job training, education and education benefits, adventure, money and service to country are just some of the reasons individuals join. Nearly 400 years ago, the Guard mobilized for the first time to help neighbors in times of need, and this is still our main role: helping the community during natural disasters and civil emergencies. The National Guard also supports the nation’s strategy during peacetime, contingencies and war.

Vermont Film Commission (D-4) Montpelier, www.vermontfilm.com

The Vermont Film Commission is a one-stop shop for filmmakers who are planning to shoot in our state. The commission’s knowledgeable staff maintains an extensive database of locations and film personnel to help producers and directors find the production crews and settings they need to make movies here. The commission also assists with technical and logistical challenges such traffic and crowd control, and acts as a gobetween with Vermont’s state and local police, securing permits, navigating state agencies, and acting as a liaison with the state’s cities and towns.

GRAPHIC DESIGN/ WEB DEVELOPMENT Bear Code (E-3)

Montpelier, www.bear-code.com Bear Code is a software development co-op with offices in Montpelier and Moscow. The core expertise of the company, which describes itself as “technologically agnostic,” is building Web 2.0 websites and applications. Bear Code has built application-driven sites for Springraise, uZooka, SuperArray, Seven Days, Skedwool, YouDiligence, Blue Cross Blue Shield VT, Boeing, Ford, GlobalNI, NECI and Overseas Vote Foundation.

Bluehouse Group is a web design and software development firm providing dynamic websites and web-enabled database applications to a diverse array of clients. From e-commerce sites to websites for nonprofit organizations, the company has done web work for an eclectic mix of Vermont clients, including Burlington City Arts, Pompanoosuc Mills, Von Bargen’s Jewelry, Vermont League of Cities and Towns and Jon Fishman’s band, Pork Tornado. The company offices are in Richmond.

Dealer.com (E-1) Burlington, www.dealer.com

Founded 10 years ago in Burlington, Dealer.com has created thousands of automotive websites and solutions for car dealerships of all sizes across North America. Its suite of web solutions has grown to include leading CRM and inventory-management tools, regional automotive website portals and new vehicle data systems. The company has expanded, too. Dealer.com recently added an office in Manhattan Beach, California, and moved its Burlington operation to a new, state-of-the-art facility that offers employees an in-house gym and organic café. By meeting ever-growing industry demand for results-driven, consumerfriendly web solutions, Dealer.com has become one of the most sought-after automotive web-solutions providers in the world.

GREEN TECHNOLOGY/ HARDWARE PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT Brighter Planet (E-2)

Middlebury, www.brighterplanet.com Born out of a Middlebury College classroom, Brighter Planet is a Vermont startup committed to helping people take smarter steps toward a healthier environment. The company has developed numerous products, including eco-friendly credit and debit cards, to help individuals and businesses reduce their impact on the climate. Brighter Planet works with a wide range of partners, including Bank of America, NativeEnergy and the Center for New American Dream.

Earth Turbines (B-3) Williston, www.earthturbines.com

Earth Turbines is a new manufacturing company formed to bring innovative technology to the world of home wind power. The company is perfecting its product and preparing to unveil a home wind system to the regional North American market in 2009. The goal, through rigorous field-testing, is to create the best grid-connected turbine system and become a leader in the emerging residential wind market. Earth Turbines currently employs seven people and is led by David Blittersdorf, founder of NRG Systems. He has more than 22 years of experience in the wind-energy industry.

Systems (B-2) Propeller Media Works (B-10) NRG Hinesburg, www.nrgsystems.com Burlington, www.propellermediaworks.com

Propeller Media Works is an interactive strategy and production team specializing in web design, Internet marketing and custom application development. Since 1997, the company’s team of experienced strategists, designers and developers has created hundreds of successful web projects for client-partners that run from rock stars and resorts to b2b and b2c. In Vermont the list includes Vermont Public Radio, Stowe Mountain Resort, Trapp Family Lodge, Vermont Ski Areas Association, Seventh Generation, Burton Snowboards, NRG Systems and others. Burlington-based Propeller is a member of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility.

Tag New Media (C-3) Burlington, www.tagnewmedia.com

Tag New Media is a boutique interactive agency. Since 1996, the company has been planning, designing and developing interactive solutions for brand-driven companies and organizations throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Tag New Media’s award-winning work is recognized for its strategic approach, thoughtful organization, killer creative and ultimate ease of use. Clients include Shelburne Museum, GE Healthcare, Institute for Sustainable Communities, Communispace and Filene’s Basement. The Burlington company recently developed a web presence for PieMatrix and a sales solution for GE Healthcare’s imaging business.

Union Street Media (B-8) Burlington, www.unionstreetmedia.com

Websites that work are visually appealing, usable and marketable. Since 1999, hundreds of realtors, businesses and nonprofit organizations have called upon Union Street Media to make their websites work. Located in the old Adams School building on South Union Street in Burlington, the company has 16 full-time employees, an amazing office and one kick-ass coffee machine.

NRG Systems’ wind measurement equipment can be found on every continent in more than 125 countries, serving electric utilities, wind farm developers, research institutes and government agencies. The Hinesburg company, founded in 1982, has been nationally recognized for its LEED gold-certified manufacturing facility and its employee best practices. NRG Systems was named one of the nation’s top small workplaces by the Wall Street Journal in 2007.

Seventh Generation (H-5) Burlington, www.seventhgeneration.com

Seventh Generation is committed to becoming the world’s most trusted brand of authentic, safe and environmentally responsible products for a healthy home. For 20 years, the Burlington-based company has been a leader of cultural change in consumer behavior and business ethics and strives to be the lead educator on healthy living for future generations. As a workplace, Seventh Generation provides an opportunity not only for material growth, but spiritual growth as well, and it is a place where people are energized and fulfilled as members of an intentional community. Seventh Generation is a workplace community where respect, a balanced lifestyle, and honest, open communication are fostered.

Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (G-2) Burlington, www.veic.org

Founded in 1986, the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation is a nonprofit organization with approximately 150 employees. Our mission is to reduce the economic, social and environmental costs of energy consumption through the promotion of cost-effective energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. VEIC provides services within the state for Efficiency Vermont as well as for states and municipalities throughout New England, North America and beyond.

Chroma Technology Corp. (D-3) Rockingham, www.chroma.com

Chroma Technology Corp. is an employee-owned company that specializes in the design and manufacture of precision optical filters and coatings primarily for biomedical research. Since 1991, Chroma’s engineers and applications scientists have developed relationships with researchers worldwide, learning about their specific optics applications and filter requirements in order to provide the greatest accuracy in color separation, optical quality and signal purity. Chroma has been selected as Vermont Exporter of the Year, one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work in Vermont and among the 5x5x5 Fastest Growing Companies in Vermont. The company is a member of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center and Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility.

Concepts NREC (J-3)

White River Junction, www.conceptsnrec.com Concepts NREC is an internationally recognized mechanical engineering company specializing in turbomachinery services and products such as design and development, design/analysis software development, research and development and education. Headquartered in Vermont, with a product center in Massachusetts, the company is known for cutting-edge, innovative, engineering solutions while providing challenging work and career growth opportunities for its staff members. Fortune 100 companies, government agencies and academic organizations seek out Concepts NREC for state-of-the-art solutions to their engineering problems. The company has won awards from NASA and the Small Business Association.

Logic Supply (J-5)

South Burlington, www.logicsupply.com Logic Supply provides special-purpose computer hardware and engineering services for a niche market: companies and end-users requiring small, efficient computers and related components. Logic Supply serves Fortune 500 companies, corporate, and government and education customers with innovative system solutions tailored to fit specific project requirements. Based in South Burlington, Logic Supply’s team of 25-plus individuals includes hardware and software engineers, computer technicians, designers and technical sales associates

the years, the population growth of Chittenden County has led to the expanded coverage of local news and information. Burlingtonfreepress.com is the numberone news and information website in Vermont, reaching nearly 300,000 unique visitors every month. The Burlington Free Press is also a consultative media company that provides advertisers with the means to deliver their message to the right audience in the most effective way. From online to print to magazines, The Burlington Free Press encompasses an array of products beyond the core newspaper, including burlingtonfreepress.com, careerbuilder. com, cars.com, 4Info, Buyers’ Digest and BScene.

Fox 44 (D-5)

Colchester, www.fox44.net New to the Chittenden County market, FOX44 Local News is the only local newscast that airs in high definition. You can catch the team on both ABC22 at 7 p.m. and FOX44 at 10 p.m. A brand new addition, “FOX44 Local News This Morning,” runs from 7 to 9 a.m. The national FOX44 network owes its number-one standing to its edgy programming, such as “The Simpsons,”“House” and “Family Guy.” News, weather, sports, and a complete list of FOX44’s programs can be found on WWW.FOX44.NET.

Northeast Sports Network (D-6) Lyndonville, www.neksports.net

The Northeast Sports Network provides coverage of high school and college athletics for all of Vermont and New Hampshire. With 20 years of broadcast experience, CEO and founder Eric Berry — formerly the head basketball coach at Lyndon State College — and his team are using cutting-edge technology to new find new ways to bring local sporting events and information to the public.

RETN (J-1)

South Burlington, www.retn.org RETN Channel 16 — Regional Educational Technology Network — provides 24-hour access to learning and the arts on Comcast and Burlington Telecom in the Champlain Valley, and online at www. retn.org. RETN provides local access to world views often overlooked by network television, including “Democracy NOW!,” native-language news from Germany and France, and Al Jazeera in English. And RETN’s website provides 24-hour videoon-demand access to select, locally produced educational programming. RETN also produces and trains people to produce media for learning, offers student internships and provides easy access to equipment to community members.

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Seven Days Jobs (C-1)

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Vermont’s only alternative newsweekly is also the area’s best source of listings for good local jobs. Five years ago, Seven Days expanded from one to two sections to accommodate its outsized employment section, which runs up to 21 pages a week. Several years later, the paper partnered with a local software company to create online functionality. Classifieds are posted daily — and are fully searchable — on the Seven Days website, which also hosts the Vermont 3.0 site.

Burlington, www.999thebuzz.com

The Rock Alternative, 99.9 The BUZZ is a 100,000-watt modern-rock station with a signal that services the Burlington, Vermont, Plattsburgh, New York and Montreal radio markets. In addition to spinning such core artists as Linkin Park, Green Day, Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the BUZZ is all about breaking new music with features like “Fresh Meat,” “Early Warning” and the “Homebrew” show. Pete Powers gets you up with “The Morning BUZZ;” Matt Grasso helps you procrastinate at work and delivers the “BUZZ Back Lunch;” Mays gives you the “BUZZ On” everything hip in the afternoons and Johnny Utah jeopardizes our FCC license weeknights with “Menage à Trois” and “Control Freak.”

Burlington Free Press (J-2) Burlington, www.burlingtonfreepress.com

The mission of The Burlington Free Press is to provide Vermonters must-have news and information on demand across many print and digital channels, ever mindful of the paper’s journalistic responsibilities. Since 1827, The Burlington Free Press has grown to be Vermont’s most trusted and most read daily newspaper. Over

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Vermont Public Radio (A-7) Norwich, www.vpr.net

Listener-supported Vermont Public Radio has been serving the people of Vermont and the surrounding region since 1977. As Vermont’s only statewide public radio network, VPR is a trusted and independent source for news, music, conversation and much more. For more information about VPR and VPR Classical, program schedules, a list of frequencies and streaming audio, visit www.vpr.net.

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Williston, www.microstrain.com

Colchester, www.competitive.com

Competitive Computing, also known as C2, is a leading Vermont information technology solutions company that specializes in helping businesses, government organizations and educational institutes leverage advanced technology solutions that drive competitive edge. C2 offers a full range of IT solutions including enterprise infrastructure, application solutions, strategic technology planning, and managed support and hosting services. C2 clients include recognized brands such as Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Simon Pearce, Crane & Co., Hershey Foods, Orvis, the State of Vermont, The University of Vermont and St. Michael’s College. C2’s growing, local team is nationally recognized with extensive experience in collaboration portals, contentmanaged websites, multi-channel commerce, email and messaging systems, server virtualization, anywhere access, and storage solutions. C2 is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and holds top-tier partnerships with other industry-leading technology vendors such as Citrix, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard and VMware.

CSL Software Solutions (F-4) Burlington, www.csl-us.com

CSL specializes in software solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotech and animal-health industries. Worldwide, more than 20 major pharma companies rely on the company to communicate mission-critical sales and activity information to their sales and marketing colleagues. CSL has U.S. offices in Burlington and Boston.

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The Vermont Software Developers’ Alliance is a trade association dedicated to fostering a healthy software industry in the state of Vermont. Since many technical interest groups already exist, VtSDA focuses more on common business interests. It supports and promotes a thriving software community in which members can share ideas, expertise and strategies for success. That includes working with local colleges and universities to develop tech-smart curricula. At last count, the 4-yearold vtSDA had 65 members.

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Founded by two former IDX employees, 3-year-old Pragmatic Technologies, Inc. is an informationtechnology consultancy based in Burlington. Specializing in assisting customers through the full life cycle of software development, the company’s services include development, mentoring, training and project management. In an effort to deliver solutions that move businesses forward, Pragmatic specializes in enterprise application development, auxiliary projects to augment core products, and the development of marketable products. And, in an effort to reward its employees, it has developed a unique, “create your own work environment” corporate culture where 50 percent of the profits go directly to the employees.

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Founded in 1987, MicroStrain is a privately held company with 36 employees. Annual revenues for 2008 are estimated to reach $10 million — of which approximately 20 percent will be international product sales. MicroStrain is a leading manufacturer of wireless sensor networks, inclinometers and orientation sensors and miniature displacement transducers. MicroStrain’s products are used in a wide variety of applications in the automotive, aerospace, industrial, manufacturing, semiconductor, environmental monitoring, oil and gas, power generation, civil structures and defense markets. Its sensors are used to test structural designs, to control manufacturing processes and to extend the operating life of machines and structures.

Burlington, www.be-pragmatic.com

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PIEmatrix is an online collaboration platform for processes and projects. The company helps organizations reduce risk, enhance efficiencies and lower costs.

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The nation’s largest IT staffing company, TEKsystems® provides technology staffing and services to help businesses deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise. Now with more than 100 offices in the U.S., Canada and Europe, it has become a billion-dollar services company by blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage talent to precise specifications, resulting in successful technology executions.

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Since 1991, downtown Burlington’s Technical Connection has placed computer and engineering professionals in contract and full-time jobs throughout northern New England and upstate New York. Networking is second nature in a company with 40 local employees, many of whom have longstanding relationships in the regional IT and technical communities. A number of local businesses retain Technical Connection for recruitment purposes, and it’s common for contract employees to segue to full-time work at those client companies.

MyWebGrocer provides leading-edge e-commerce and e-marketing solutions to more than 80 retail grocery chains via website design, specialty modules for websites, hosting, sophisticated email solutions and consulting services. These offerings can be used on a stand-alone basis or as an integral part of a seamless Internet solution. MyWebGrocer also manages the website, Amazon.com storefront and fulfillment technology for Netgrocer.com, a large, Internet-based grocery provider focused on non-perishable products shipped nationally and internationally. Eight-year-old MyWebGrocer employs 40 people in Colchester and is continually growing. The company’s founder and CEO, Rich Tarrant Jr. — son of IDX founder Rich Tarrant — has an impressive record as an entrepreneur in the retail, real estate and health-care industries, and is a graduate of the UVM..

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Founded in 2003, JobsInVT.com is one of the fastestgrowing local job boards. The company specializes in connecting local employers with qualified local candidates who want to work in Vermont at a lower cost than other recruiting methods. JobsInVT.com is one of the only job boards that does not allow multilevel marketing schemes, jobs that require up-front investments, or other opportunities that are not legitimate. Job seekers can be assured that all the jobs found on JobsInVT.com are high quality and Vermont-based.

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Empower Mobility LLC is a software engineering company with more than 15 years of experience providing software-development services and products for the mobile computing platform. The Essex-based company specializes in custom solutions, and has extensive experience with both Palm and Windows CE operating systems. By “taking you from paper to PDA,” Empower Mobility enables businesses to migrate their employees from a paper-based system to handheld computers and a mobile solution, with little or no training.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS Burlington Telecom (C-4) Burlington, www.burlingtontelecom.net

Burlington Telecom operates a state-of-the-art fiberoptic telecommunication network serving the businesses and residents of Burlington with high-quality voice, Internet and cable-television services. The company is unique in Vermont because it is city-owned, but a growing number of municipalities around the country is following its lead by creating similar local telecommunications networks.

FairPoint Communications (G-6) www.fairpoint.com

North Carolina-based FairPoint Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of communications services to rural communities. The company offers a wide array of services to residential and business customers, including local and long distance voice, data, Internet and broadband. Recently the northern New England operations of Verizon’s wireline business were merged into FairPoint. The company aims to help northern New England grow. Utilizing economic development experts, FairPoint will help the citizens of the region leverage their high-speed Internet connections to better compete in the global marketplace.

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he U.S. prides itself on exporting democracy, but it’s not so great at getting ballots into the hands of its own citizens overseas. Two years ago, in the 2006 elections, Americans in foreign countries requested one million absentee ballots, but only one third of them — representing 5.5 percent of all eligible overseas voters — were actually counted, according to the federal Election Assistance Administration. Two-thirds of the uncounted ballots never reached the voters who requested them; another 10 percent arrived too late. The digital revolution hasn’t helped, at least where the Department of Defense is concerned. Since 2004, the DOD has spent nearly $1.7 million on an electronic system that is supposed to make it easier for military personnel stationed around the world to vote. In the last two federal elections, a grand total of 25 people used the online system to cast their ballots. In an October 14 letter to the DOD,

Bear Code is one of the exhibiting businesses at Vermont 3.0: Creative/Tech Career Jam on Saturday, October 25, at Champlain College in Burlington. One of the company’s project managers, Ellery Crane, participates in a panel discussion entitled “So You Wanna Develop Software?� at 2 p.m. in Alumni Auditorium.

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“I needed someone who would build a structure that could be the basis of our longterm development,� she says. “Our site is application intensive. It delivers things. It does stuff. It doesn’t just sit around.� Dzieduszycka-Suinat and the Bear Code crew sealed their partnership over dinner at Hen of the Wood in Waterbury. In June 2007, Daemmon Hughes joined the company and was put in charge of the project. His job was to build an application that reduced the hassles that have frustrated overseas voters for years. “Before, the process was you’d have to figure out how to contact your election official and request the form,� Hughes explains. “They would mail it to you, and you’d fill it out and send it back. But, especially for military, someone might request the form and the next week be deployed somewhere

“wizard,� the word for a tool that guides users through a process by asking questions or presenting options. They can access a help desk and a directory of state and local election officials, and download candidate lists for any voting district in the country. Once users get to the correct ballot and voter declaration form, they download the paperwork in PDF format so it can be printed, filled out and snail-mailed — still the only acceptable method of transmission. Another click leads to the “Express Your Vote� program, sponsored by FedEx, which creates shipping labels and arranges for the ballot to be picked up and delivered to the U.S. at a discount. Dzieduszycka-Suinat says Bear Code “made happen everything we had hoped for — in fact, more.� A former Marine, Byran O’Leary, agrees. In the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes, he recommends Bear Code’s system to servicemen and -women over the DOD’s, saying, “This is your best recourse if you haven’t gotten a ballot yet.� Howe is clearly excited about the tool’s potential to become the standard for overseas voting. But he’s just as pleased that his company has succeeded where others have failed. “That’s why people come to us,� he says. “Most of the time, we’re building something that doesn’t exist. This thing didn’t exist.� >

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ne September day three years ago, Drew Lepple picked up Seven Days at a gas station. The thirtysomething carpenter was considering a career change, but hadn’t yet chosen a field. Lepple, a Hinesburg resident with a degree in Natural Resources from Colorado State University, saw an employment ad for NRG Systems. He’d heard it was hard to score a job at the Hinesburg-based windmeasurement equipment manufacturer. But a few months earlier, Lepple had noticed NRG was constructing a shiny new ecoheadquarters just off Route 116. That seems like a pretty cool place to work, he thought. DREW LEPPLE

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NRG is one of the businesses recruiting at Vermont 3.0: Creative/Tech Career Jam on Saturday, October 25, at Champlain College. The Hinesburg company is sponsoring a panel discussion, “So You Wanna Green Up Your Energy Future?,” at 11 a.m. in Alumni Auditorium. NRG employee Evan Osler is one of the speakers.

One year and three interviews later, Lepple is a “towers and electronics technician” in charge of building the windassessment towers and instruments that NRG ships to prospective utilities, manufacturers and wind-energy developers in more than 120 countries. He still likes his daily tasks and the notion of working for a corporation with a social conscience. But, truth be told, Lepple seems equally wooed by the perks. “It’s like a country club over here!” Lepple says on a recent Friday morning after a crêpe breakfast in NRG’s cozy cafeteria. In addition to tasty meals prepared by a former chef at EatingWell magazine, NRG offers health insurance, an on-site workout room, an indoor swimming pool and more than $1000 per employee — per year — towards green investments such as hybrid cars, wood-pellet stoves and scooters. Last year, these and other enviro-bennies inspired awards from both Vermont Business Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. “When it comes to benefits and office environment,” said the Journal, which named the Vermont company one of its “15 Top Small Workplaces,” “NRG Systems, Inc. blows away most of the competition.” Jan Blittersdorf became CEO of NRG Systems in 2004 when her husband, David,

left to start the residential-wind-turbine manufacturing firm Earth Turbines. But shortly after her company’s founding in 1982, she created its first benefits package. A former nurse, she started with health care. Then Blittersdorf added “variable pay” — a.k.a. “profit sharing” — paid sabbaticals for longtime employees, and yearly credits for purchases of energy-efficient appliances, hybrids and rides on mass-transit systems. Such incentives, she says, help employees “go one step further in their own lives” toward environmental sustainability. From a marketing standpoint, of course, they’re ambassadors of the brand. On a recent Friday, Blittersdorf gazes at the Green Mountains from a homey secondfloor office. In a nearby manufacturing space, healthy-looking engineers assemble widgets next to a giant, south-facing window. Over by the ground-floor fireplace, a handyman is stocking a fridge with complimentary juice — an energy-efficient substitute for soda machines. Outside, there are plenty of Priuses in the parking lot, beside an employee-run vegetable garden, a pond with cattails, a deck and a barbecue grill. “All summer, we cook burgers, chicken and stuff,” Drew Lepple boasts. “It’s all organized. People sign up to bring rolls.” An average nine-to-fiver might think NRG’s corporate culture was a slice of paradise — or Scandinavia — but to Blittersdorf, it’s a logical extension of company philosophy. Ditto for this 4600-square-foot, solarpowered palace. The LEED-certified building came online in 2004, just before NRG’s sales growth rate increased from 30 to 50 percent. (More than half of NRG’s staffers started within the last two years, and not because of attrition.) To accommodate that surge, the Blittersdorfs commissioned a slightly smaller facility next door, which David’s Earth Turbines startup occupied before moving to Williston last week. Explosive growth, while good for NRG’s bottom line, makes it tough to sustain a tight-knit corporate environment. To compensate, Blittersdorf hired the former EatingWell chef in March 2007 to prepare healthful, locally sourced meals. In addition to saving the time it would take to drive into downtown Hinesburg for sandwiches, she says, an in-house salad bar fosters interdepartmental camaraderie. Shared lunches, staff meetings and other team-building events, she claims, help NRG workers avoid typical office conflicts. The lunch initiative, as it turns out, relates to a broader push to keep employees local. Blittersdorf says NRG has always tried to hire Vermonters, particularly Chittenden County residents. About 20 of the company’s hundred-plus employees now hail from Hinesburg. Earlier this year, NRG doubled its property holdings by purchasing 10 acres across Route 116. The plan, according to a company spokesperson, is to build “smart growth” housing that will be sold to employees and other local residents. A modern version of the company town? Drew Lepple and his colleague Laura Goodfellow, who lives in New Haven, say they wouldn’t be interested in company housing. It’s also worth noting that only 30 percent of NRG’s employees take advantage of the annual $1000 “Clean NRG” benefit. That said, both employees laud NRG’s efforts to maintain a family-like workplace. “You’re happy to come to work every day, and you’re more productive while you’re here,” attests Goodfellow, a sales account manager who came from a Fortune 500 company in Illinois. Life at NRG, she adds, “carries over to your personal life.”

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Indeed, despite those 100-some employees, the company’s primary Hinesburg headquarters still feels like a giant house. Jan Blittersdorf suggests it’s not uncommon for employees to organize, via company email, hiking trips up Mount Mansfield. It’s a welcome tradition, to her mind, because it means workers are getting to know each other in casual settings. Things haven’t always been so cushy at NRG. Early hiring mistakes caused problems on the “back end,� Blittersdorf recalls, forcing her to reconfigure the company’s hiring process, and she still struggles to hire qualified engineers. What’s more, NRG supervisors have trouble re-training experienced workers who are too “entrenched� in the operating systems of other local employers — think

According to Blittersdorf, NRG Systems’ biggest challenge isn’t finding new workers; it’s introducing them to a successful business model without stifling creativity or free expression. Recent hires don’t immediately grasp NRG’s “culture� or “story,� she explains: “How do you figure out how to bring them into this culture and support them, but also let them bring in who they are and create their own story?� That question comes up whenever Vermont politicians, eager to brand themselves as wind-power-friendly, ask to visit NRG headquarters. Jan Blittersdorf and her husband David — a co-founder of the Montpelier-based trade association Renewable Energy Vermont — are unabashed alternative-energy advocates. But,

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while Jan did allow Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gaye Symington to stage a recent press conference down the hall from her office, she won’t permit politicos to shoot on-site campaign advertisements. “People ask me sometimes, ‘Do we hire people based on what they think?’ and my answer is clearly no,� Blittersdorf says. “I don’t really care what someone’s political views are when they arrive here, and I think you really limit yourself if you try to gather a group of people together who all think the same.� >

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32A | october 22-29, 2008 | » sevendaysvt.com

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ith November around the corner, Vermont’s snowbirds and globetrotters probably already have their tickets booked for their next tropical travels. But just how green are their getaway spots? Are resources being used, or abused? Are local guides being paid, or flayed? And what will the travelers’ footprints mean for the future of their destination’s environment and economy? As the Burlington-based founder of The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) and a pioneer of ecotourism, consultant Megan Epler Wood helps answer such questions and more. She’s been a Vermonter for nearly 20 years, first living in Bennington, where she founded TIES in 1990, and then relocating to the Queen City in 2000. Her company, EplerWood International, advises government, private businesses and other entities on how they can develop sustainable tourism and ecotourism. Last month, Condé Nast Traveler named Epler Wood one of 10 “Trail Blazers” in its “World Savers” issue. Recently, Seven Days sat down with Epler Wood in her Hill Section home office to talk tourism.

I’m not one of those people who just rush around; I tend to focus on certain countries, so I think it’s something like 35 where I’ve actually worked.

SEVEN DAYS: What led you to found the International Ecotourism Society? MEGAN EPLER WOOD: I was an independent filmmaker doing documentaries on environmental topics, and I pitched [National Audubon and Turner Broadcasting] the idea of tourism as a tool for conservation and sustainability. There was really almost no word for it at the time. That [film] came out in 1991 . . . we shot it in Kenya, Montana and Belize. Through that process — I’m just this assiduous researcher, and I was very excited to have this contract — I contacted hundreds of people, I was so excited. As a result, I started to realize there really was an emerging trend here that needed more organization. SD: How does tourism affect development pressure? MEW: It is an industry without smokestacks. Time and again, governmental leaders in developing countries allow tourism to develop without the land-use regulations necessary to protect local landscapes. Generally, even the most sophisticated countries in the tropics have simplistic development regulations. SD: How has [TIES] grown in the past 18 years? MEW: A lot! There was no field, no profession, no academic study of any real relevant nature at that point. And now there are all of those. We brought in dozens of universities from all around the world. Also big NGOs like the Nature Conservancy and Conservation International. George Washington University had a big tourism program . . . they jumped on board right away, too. We began to build outreach to all of the private businesses that were

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working in adventure travel. They’d be getting to these places, from wild rivers to jungles to deserts to the savanna, and thinking, “We can’t just be here without helping to save this place.” SD: Now you’re an ecotourism consultant. Why is there a growing demand for such people? MEW: Our world has an evergrowing number of destinations that want to be on the “radar” for travelers who are interested in unique geographic, cultural and ecological amenities. Ecotourism consultants help these destinations to create attractions that bring in commerce from travelers who genuinely appreciate what they have to offer and are willing to pay a fair price for services. Just in the past two weeks, I’ve dealt with a request for a consultant who can help design tours for mountain climbers in a highland coffee region of Indonesia,

a planner who can link tourism on the coast to local organic food producers in northern Montenegro, and an architectural designer who can help conceptualize the appropriate lodge or boardwalk design for a bird-watching location in Rwanda.

MEW: I always used to say Ecuador . . . in the ’90s I did a lot of projects there. I’ve always found it to be a very inspiring country. I think the people are unusually oriented toward conservation, and I love the mix. It’s a true Latin American country.

SD: What is it like to travel to all these far-flung places from Burlington? MEW: It’s pretty good — better than Bennington! SD: How many places have you been to? MEW: I’m not one of those people who just rush around; I tend to focus on certain countries, so I think it’s something like 35 where I’ve actually worked. I’m a partner in NativeEnergy now, which has made me much more conscious of my carbon impact.

SD: What’s an example of bad ecotourism? MEW: Say there is a protected area. Slowly but surely, some local hoteliers or operators will just start bringing people in without any planning, and they can start trampling everything over, scaring away all the wildlife, putting themselves in danger — or putting people on boats without any life vests, and boats can sink, and the animals can be threatened, and the local people can be excluded from the process and get very resentful and angry.

SD: Do you have a favorite place that you’ve worked in?

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SD: What about the flip side? MEW: I’ve always liked Belize. I think it’s a nice example where the protected-area system and all the entrepreneurs and the government itself have really worked hard to partner to try and protect the area, benefit local people.

SD: How can travelers know if they’re going to a reputable country? MEW: There’s a long-term effort to try and set up standards for sustainability, and the United Nations Foundation is launching the sustainable-tourism criteria . . . but we have to wait and see what that implementation process will be.

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SD: Are there areas overlooked or underestimated by travelers that you would recommend? MEW: Well, yeah, I think parts of Central America — you can get off the beaten path — like Honduras or Nicaragua.

SD: Do you do any work domestically? MEW: Very little. I did a really interesting job on the border of Tijuana in this town called Imperial Beach. The city council wanted to put together an ecotourism plan; it was a great project, because they had a huge amount of wetlands in the area.

SD: Is there any need in Vermont for the kind of work that you do? MEW: We’re so well organized here, I don’t feel like a consultant like me has that much to offer Vermont — there’s so much talent already. >

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Sick of Trying Theater review: Well

C Story Elisabeth Crean Well, directed by Jim Gaylord, produced by Vermont Stage Company. FlynnSpace, Burlington. October 22 November 2, WednesdaysSaturdays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays & Sundays at 2 p.m. $24-$32.50.

hronic illness is a devastating experience: physically painful, emotionally isolating, poorly understood and even actively ignored by those who are healthy. And as Lisa Kron’s play Well shows, family relationships can suffer greatly. The Hallmark-card image of relatives caring selflessly for ill loved ones often turns out to be a myth. When illness drags on for years or decades, even dedicated caregivers sometimes wonder, as Kron does, “Why can’t you make yourself well?” Well confronts a provocative topic in ways not ordinarily addressed in society, let alone on stage. For this, it received generous praise from critics (and two Tony nominations) during its brief Broadway run in 2006. Audiences, however, came in smaller numbers, perhaps because the play’s achievement doesn’t always match its ambition. Kron puts the sausagemaking side of theater on display, self-consciously incorporating the playwriting process with “Lisa Kron” as a lead character. She ends up with a bit of a theatrical hot mess as she tries to stuff three large and untidy subjects into one script. Kron tackles illness versus wellness, the tangled emotional web between mother and daughter, and meta-issues of modern stagecraft. In posing so many questions, she sometimes yields unsatisfying or trite answers. Scenes amuse, monologues touch heartstrings, and insights occasionally land with force. But byproducts of unfulfilled promise still litter the stage when the evening’s one long act ends. The playwright does create one perfectly formed character — her mother, Ann Kron — that makes the whole effort worthwhile. In the current production at Burlington’s Vermont Stage Company, Dale Soules brings Ann movingly to life, mostly from a reclined position in a La-Z-Boy. Speaking in a soft, raspy voice and wearing a dowdy teal house-dress, Soules shows how Ann’s resilient spirit quietly defies the confines of her body. To paraphrase David Copperfield, Ann turns out to be the hero of her own life. Summarizing the play’s plot is difficult. At the outset, “Lisa Kron,” who directs events as they unfold, describes the exercise as “a multi-character theatrical exploration of issues of health and illness both in the individual and in the community.” (The phrase is so pretentious and ungainly that she has to read it from note cards she keeps in her jacket.) Furthermore, Lisa insists, “The play is not about my mother and me.” Of course, the play is entirely about Lisa and Ann, who has been sick for as long as Lisa can remember. Ann’s disabling illness is never exactly specified. Lisa diagnoses it somewhat dismissively: “These days her condition would probably be labeled chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia or one of those, but whatever it is . . .” She doesn’t finish the sentence. As Ann later points out, citing Susan Sontag, “Whenever the cause of an illness is mysterious, it’s assumed to come from psychological problems or moral weakness.” A quartet of other actors performs scenes from the Krons’ past. The

flashbacks center on Lisa’s time in a hospital allergy unit, when she was treated as a young adult for an illness similar to her mother’s condition, and on Ann’s work to integrate their Lansing, Michigan, neighborhood when Lisa was a child. The actors reflect Lisa’s memory of events, re-enacting them with huge comic exaggeration, as the “exploration”’s script prescribes. In the hospital, for example, the other patients seem like raging drama queens, while Lisa is curiously calm. Ann watches warily from a corner of the stage in her recliner, trying to be supportive of her daughter. But she eventually throws the bullshit flag on Lisa, in a modest, Midwestern way. “It’s just that I’ve noticed a number of little inaccuracies as you’ve been going along,” Ann remarks as the final allergy unit scene plays out. “It’s almost like you’re trying to make it seem like you weren’t really sick in the hospital.” The actors, drawn to Ann’s honesty,

Lisa Kron is neurotic, uncomfortable on stage and in her own skin, coming slowly undone as her “theatrical exploration” does. Lisa Barnes shows us Lisa Kron’s initial bright-eyed enthusiasm draining away, with facial features that begin to droop and shoulders that sag. Barnes is playing a performer who fundamentally can’t connect — with her mother, fellow actors or the audience. It feels like Barnes doesn’t connect. So is that nailing the role, or somehow missing a deeper mark? Hard to say. Soules, as Ann, develops a riveting portrait of quiet dignity. She shows Ann’s physical limitations as Ann lives them: unmistakable, but not what she wants you to focus on. She walks with a constricted gait, slightly bent over, with her hands resting on stiff hips. Ann’s passion comes from muted, matter-of-fact reflections, which Soules unspools in a flat Midwestern accent. Soules holds the audience

their struggle underneath the loopy behavioral extremes scripted in the “exploration.” Caswell also works beautifully as the actress who drops character and connects with Ann, showing a filial compassion that Lisa never manages. Jenny C. Fulton’s scenic and costume design buoyantly support the script. Actors carry set pieces on and off the neutral, canvas-swathed stage. Only Ann’s corner — with La-Z-Boy, pill-stocked end table and large pine storage unit — remains fixed. Fulton uses color vividly: bright oranges and greens for the late-’60s neighborhood scenes; white, cream and pale aqua for the hospital. Lisa wears a chic black jersey knit ensemble; Ann’s frumpy head-to-toe teal matches the blanket on her rose velour recliner. Perhaps playwright Kron felt she had to malign herself as a character to make her mom stand out as a heroine? The truth is usually much more subtle, and frustrating, in the ongoing dance

Well confronts a provocative topic in ways not ordinarily addressed in society, let alone on stage.

break character to interact with her. They ultimately rebel against what they perceive as Lisa’s exploitation of her mother’s story. Does the play feel messy because the playwright has deliberately created it that way? Yes. Are some questions unresolved because, hey, that’s real life, especially in the painful world of ongoing illness and tricky family relationships? Yes. But the play undermines itself because the central character of “Lisa Kron” remains deeply unappealing, unable to transform herself or even achieve much insight. The playwright Lisa Kron has written a love letter to her mother but hate mail to herself. This sets one lead actress up to hit it out of the park — as Dale Soules does portraying Ann Kron — and the other, frankly, to struggle.

absolutely rapt during Ann’s extended monologue about her work fighting segregation. “There’s so much I would like to do if I had the energy. You can’t imagine,” she says. Ann doesn’t indulge in self-pity; her only regret is that her illness prevents her from making a bigger difference in the world. The other cast members take on their over-the-top, multiple-role assignments energetically. Jason P. Lorber excels as the wacky clinic doctor (bulging eyes and unctuous bedside manner) and an über-dorky neighbor (geeky walk to match his outfit). Edgar L. Davis shines as a mustachioed, beer-swilling neighbor and his eager-beaver, music-loving son. Chris Caswell and Winnie Looby create touching portraits of allergy clinic patients. We see the pain of

between the chronically ill and their loved ones. The most insightful speech about this dance goes to allergy unit patient Kay, on the day she’s getting discharged to the care of her sister: “I’m SO ANGRY, LISA. I know she thinks if she were me, she’d be better, but do you know what the problem is with being sick? It’s that you’re sick. People who are healthy think they know how you could get better . . . They imagine that sick people have all the resources they do and that they’re just not trying hard enough . . . I think, you suffer for just one day the way I do . . . Then you tell me how to get better.” Kay pleads passionately for a kind of integration that can never happen: for a healthy person to understand what it’s like to walk in a chronically ill person’s shoes. m

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“Rock Solid,” the eighth annual stone show. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Through November 8.

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“Repose on a Barre Main St. Cobblestone” by Giuliano Cecchinelli

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fter eight consecutive years, the “Rock Solid” exhibition can be considered an enduring tradition at Barre’s Studio Place Arts. The show reflects on the wondrous world of stone — a ubiquitous material in Vermont — and pays particular tribute to the town’s history of granite sculpting. Sending stone-themed art to Barre is like bringing the proverbial coals to Newcastle, but the event nonetheless reminds viewers that rock art is alive and well in the Green Mountain State. Giuliano Cecchinelli’s “Repose on a Barre Main St. Cobblestone,” dating from 1968, provides a tangible link to a distinguished stone-working heritage. The 22-inch-tall abstraction stands atop a raw granite cobblestone like a graceful spirit rising from the town’s central thoroughfare. Cecchinelli was born and trained in Carrera, Italy, but his sensitivity to tight-grained Barre Gray, which is quite a bit harder than the famed Italian marble, makes his piece seem as light and pliable as pale Play-Doh. Vermont has three official state stones — granite, marble and slate — and the most brittle of the trio, slate, dominates the work of Kerry O. Furlani.

<exhibitions> With 11 pieces, the Rutland artist figures prominently in “Rock Solid.” Her aesthetic of simplified, curvy lines works well across media; several of her large, chiseled slate tiles are paired with charcoal drawings of the same biomorphic abstraction. Furlani’s proportions are perfectly matched, even when she alters scale. For example, “The Lines Between Us,” in charcoal, measures 21 by 30 inches, while the slate version is 17 by 23 inches. Furlani’s slate pieces are gentle relief carvings, and her drawings achieve a similar effect by lightly blending the charcoal lines. Like a Parthenon horse head from the Elgin Marbles, Joan A. Gaboriault’s 22-inchhigh marble “Horse” presents a steed’s head posed in a staunch S curve. The artist’s modeling of the equine bust is beautifully proportioned, and the gray veins of Vermont marble are vertically aligned to enhance the form’s sense of thrusting movement. Nick Santoro’s “St. John Petroglyph,” a relief carving on Danby marble, appropriates a symbol carved in the Virgin Islands by the Arawak Indians. The 30-by-18-inch slab presents a horizontally oriented, bifurcated and serpentine design; its rhythmic staccato chisel marks resemble the crosshatching of a pen-and-ink drawing. The textural contrast between the smoothness of the abstract serpent and the crosshatching is very pleasing. The slab itself looks ancient, with coarsely worked sides and an irregular, roughly rectangular shape. Stone’s mass, color and plethora of forms inspire two-dimensional artists, too, and their insights into the medium are in evidence at “Rock Solid.” Leslie D. Bartlett, from Gloucester, Massachusetts, contributed a dynamic, 5-by-7-foot photographic print on satin; the tall, vertical triptych is entitled “Caribbean Blue (Rockport, MA Quarry).” Bartlett focused on the multihued striations of a sheer wall of stone. Colors range from distinct reds to subtle greens to a deep indigo waterline running along the bottom of the quarry. The exhibition also features half a dozen highly realistic pastels by Rene Schall, one of Vermont’s premier artists in that medium. Her well-organized compositions portraying smooth stones of various colors range up to 30 by 40 inches. There’s nothing aesthetically rocky about “Rock Solid” — the show has no rough spots. Considering the typical high caliber of SPA shows, it is no surprise that this one is also topnotch. And, after eight years of these weighty exhibitions, the gallery’s floor doesn’t seem to be feeling the strain. MARC AWODEY

CALL TO ARTISTS

SEEKING LOCAL ARTISTS to exhibit artwork in a nonprofit business office in South Burlington. Office space is shared with four organizations, high visibility. Art can be for sale or exhibit. Info: Kay, 863-3491. SHOW! SHOW! SHOW! Clothing boutique on Church St., a participant in the monthly Art Walk, seeks emerging artists to showcase their art. Send images to onelove1515@hotmail.com. FLETCHER ALLEN RFP is seeking proposals for large-scale, 2- or 3-D artwork. Deadline: November 17, 2008. Info: BurlingtonCityArts. com, jdyer@ci.burlington.vt.us. GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE is inviting artists to submit photography for possible solo exhibitions at the William Feick Arts Center. The center is accepting submissions for consideration by our jurying committee for exhibits in 2010. Info: www. greenmtn.edu/feick, 287-8398. ART’S ALIVE is seeking submissions for its Winter Art Auction in December. Intake will be Saturday, November 1, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Union Station, 1 Main St., Burlington. One 2-D submission per artist. Go to www.artsalivevt.com to download submission packet. Info: 864-1557. THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY is seeking donations of 2- and 3-D artworks for an art sale and silent auction to benefit the nonprofit on November 7, at Alderson, Inc., in The Soda Plant, Burlington. Info, 434-4865 or Rebekahinvt@cs.com. Please use ART in the subject line. THE GALLERY AT WREN in Bethlehem, N.H., is seeking applications from artists for exhibits in the 2009 season. Download an application at www.wrencommunity.org or email wren@wrencommunity. org. Deadline: October 31.

TALKS & EVENTS

DAN BURKHOLDER: “Colors of Loss: An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans After Katrina,” 19 large-format color photographs of interior spaces. Through December 20 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College. Talk: Thursday, October 23, 12:30-2 p.m. Info, 635-1469. “THE CONTEMPORARY PORTRAIT IN AMERICAN SOCIETY”: Richard Saunders, Museum of Art director, discusses one aspect of his current book project, The American Face: Portraiture and Identity in American Culture. Thursday, October 23, 4:30-6 p.m., Middlebury College. Info, 443-5007. ‘BEST BUDDIES’: Participants in a SMC program that matches students with intellectually disabled youth or adults show their artworks in a one-day exhibit. Thursday, October 23, 7-10 p.m., International Commons, St. Michael’s College, Colchester. Info, 654-2674. ‘FOLLOWING THE CREATIVE THREAD’: Vermont artist Carol MacDonald and Chaplain Charles Purinton discuss the role of art and healing through shared experiences and MacDonald’s artwork past and present. Friday, October 24, 7-9 p.m. at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington.

NVAA HOLIDAY SHOW: This weekend exhibit shows original paintings, prints, mixed media and photography in the atrium in front of JC Penney. Saturday, October 25, 9 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.; Sunday, October 26, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., University Mall, South Burlington. Info, 527-2236. JANET VAN FLEET: The central Vermont artist explores issues of art as advocacy in a talk called “Art and Politics,” with examples from her current show in the gallery. Talk: Saturday, October 25, 4-5:50 p.m., The Lazy Pear Gallery, Montpelier. Info, 223-7680. B. AMORE: “Heads, Hands & Hearts,” sculpture on and off the wall by the Vermont artist. Through October 26 at Gallery in-the-Field in Brandon. Talk: Poetry readings and an open mike close the show. Sunday, October 26, 3-5 p.m. Info, 247-0125.

RECEPTIONS

DARYL V. STORRS: “Transition and Evolution,” prints and pastel images by the Huntington artist. Through November 15 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans’ Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Reception: Friday, October 24, 5-7 p.m. Info, 535-5008. KAT CLEAR: “Whoopsie Girls,” figurative metal sculptures referencing retro pin-ups, at DesignHaus in Burlington. Reception: Friday, October 24, 5-9 p.m. SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY: “World Leaders,” color photographs by Vermont’s senior senator of leaders from the Dalai Lama to Yuri Andropov to Bono. Through November 5 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Reception: Saturday, October 25, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Info, 728-9878.

ONGOING :: burlington area AL SALZMAN: “Crucifixions: An AntiSeptych,” seven paintings influenced by pre-Renaissance works and detailing global inhumanity in the modern world. Through October 31 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107. ANN CLAYTON BARLOW: “From Here to There: Reflections on Contemporary Landscapes,” silver gelatin prints of environments that evoke contemplation. Through December 13 at Firehouse Center Community Darkroom in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. ANNE STREET BAILEY: Paintings, landscapes and botanicals, Gates 1 & 2; JOSEPH B. ROQUE: Abstract paintings, Skyway; and GRAZIELLA WEBER GRASSI: Acrylic paintings, Escalator. Through December 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

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‘ARCHITECTURAL IMPROVISATION: A HISTORY OF VERMONT’S DESIGN/ BUILD MOVEMENT 1964-1977’: Guest-curated by Norwich University architecture professor Danny Sagan, this exhibit of photographs, drawings and other artifacts illustrates the radical, Vermont-based movement characterized by organic forms and improvisation. Through December 19 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. ‘ART IN THE BARN’: More than 35 members of the Essex Art League present original art, prints and cards for sale on Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., and Sundays, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., through October at The Barn at Lang Farm in Essex Junction. Info, 862-3014. ‘ASKEW’: Contemporary portraits by Paul Humphrey, Jennifer Koch, Tarrah Krajnak and Lance Richbourg. Through November 9 at 215 College Artists’ Cooperative in Burlington. Info, 863-3662. AUTUMNAL ART: Fall and/or Vermont images by staff and customers of the art-supply store. Through October 31 at Artists’ Mediums in Williston. Info, 879-1236. ‘BUDDHA IN PARADISE: TIBETAN ART FROM THE RUBIN MUSEUM’: Thangka paintings and sculptures that explore the multiple conceptualizations of paradise. Through December 19 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. CAROL MACDONALD: “Cast On, Bind Off,” a solo exhibit of prints that examine the tradition of knitting by the Barbara Smail Award winner. Through November 1 at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington. Info, 865-7165. DAVE MCLEOD: “From the Bosphorus to Beijing and Points Between,” photographs of people and places by the owner of Tradewinds Imports. Through October 28 at Uncommon Grounds in Burlington. Info, 865-6227.

DAVID HEALD: “Architecture of Silence: Cistercian Abbeys of France,” acclaimed photographs of the medieval abbeys by the chief photographer of New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Through November 7 at Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, in Colchester. Info, 654-2749. DELIA ROBINSON: “The Illustrated Nose,” paintings and black-and-white illustrations created for Vermont author Marc Estrin’s Annotated Nose. Through January 3 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Info, 652-4500. ELIZABETH ALLEN: “Recent Paintings,” works on canvas exploring Lake Champlain landscapes. October 24 through December 2 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-3848. ELLEN MONTGOMERY: “Thailand as Inspiration,” a retrospective of photography and acrylic paintings made during the artist’s year in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Through October 24 at Center for Cultural Pluralism, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-7990. ESSEX ART LEAGUE: “Autumn Glow,” works of the season by members of the local arts association. Through October 31 at Phoenix Books in Essex. Info, 862-3014. ESSEX ART LEAGUE GROUP SHOW: An exhibit of works in multiple media by members of the arts organization. Through October 31 at Essex Town Offices. Info, 862-3014. FALL/WINTER AT THE MALTEX: A group show on all four floors presents paintings, photographs and steel sculpture by nine local artists. Through February 28 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. JOSHUA GIVENS & AMY JELEN: New works in oil and acrylic paint and stained glass. Through October 31 at Viva Espresso in Burlington. Info, 922-4586.

FOUR ON THE WALL The assemblage art of Jennifer Koch, Tarrah Krajnak’s digital photography, mixed-media paintings by Lance Richbourg and drawings from the “Sleeping Beauties” series by the late folk artist Paul Humphrey appear at 215 College Artist’s Cooperative Gallery this month. The show is aptly called “Askew,” and expressive faces and portraiture are common themes within the four diverse bodies of work. Pictured: “Specimen #60” by Koch.

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“FALL” BY JOSEPH LAMBERT JOSEPH LAMBERT grew up in Newton, Kansas. After spending time in New York and Denver, he attended the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, where he lives with his wife. He graduated from CCS in May 2008. Joseph designed the cover of Seven Days’ student guide, What’s Good, and Vermont Public Radio’s 2008 Artist Series Mug. He is an editor and designer of the self-published Sundays Anthology. Joseph’s comic “Turtle, Keep It Steady” was published in Houghton Mifflin’s The Best American Comics 2008, for which he also designed the endpapers. Look for more of Joseph’s work at www. submarinesubmarine. com.

This is the second of a five-part series by Joseph Lambert, who kicks off a new collaboration between Seven Days and the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. After that, the page will appear monthly and feature the work of current cartoon students. “Drawn and Paneled” gives Seven Days readers a glimpse into the world’s only cartoon school, right here in Vermont, and into the minds of students whose creativity is, well, channeled into panels. These pages will be archived at www.sevendaysvt.com. For more info, visit CCS online at www. cartoonstudies.org.

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KATHARINE KUHARIC: “Unsolicited,â€? paintings, drawings and collages by the hyper-realist artist and art prof at Hamilton College. Through November 17 at McCarthy Arts Center Gallery, St. Michael’s College, in Colchester. Info, 654-2536. LEAD PAINT AWARENESS: This exhibit in conjunction with Lead Poisoning Prevention Week provides information about lead poisoning, paint hazards, examples of what lead paint looks like and how to avoid it. Through October 29 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166. MARY CASSATT: FRIENDS AND FAMILY: More than 60 paintings by the great American Impressionist, on loan from private collections and other museums, explore the family theme. Through October 26 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346. ‘MIXED MEDIA’: Artists Amy Wild, Maggie Sherman, William Ramage, Jane Horner, Jess Graham, Roger Coleman, June Campbell, Mary Ellen Manock and Homer Wells present work in monoprint, performance/video, assemblage, sculpture, paintings and more. Through October 31 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 651-9692. NEIL E. CALLAHAN: “Rock ’n Roll Retrospective,â€? photographs of musicians in concert, including Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and Neil Young. Through October 31 at Penny Cluse CafĂŠ in Burlington. Info, 651-8834. NORTHERN VERMONT ARTIST ASSOCIATION: Members of the 78-year-old group display two works each in multiple media. Through October 31 at Union Station in Burlington. Info, 310-6489. OTTO: “October-October,â€? artwork in various media representing events in the artist’s life over the past year. Through October 31 at Muddy Waters in Burlington. Info, 659-4829. ‘OPEN MINDS, OPEN EYES, OPEN HEARTS’: Large-scale, papier-mâchĂŠ relief wall sculptures and woodcut prints about the war in Iraq, by Bread and Puppet founder Peter Schumann; a collection of posters about Palestinians’ struggle for justice, by Rajie Cook; and Emily Anderson’s mixed-media installation “When the Personal Is Political: Stages for My Father.â€? Also, “Dog Shows,â€? selected videos of past Flynndog exhibitions, will screen continuously in the gallery’s Brick Room. Through October 30 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, 363-4746. ‘PUPPETS, MASKS AND OTHER TRANSFORMATIONS’: Works by Frank Gonzalez and his students. Through October 31 at Mezzanine Gallery, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Info, 865-7211. RACHEL TROOPER: The “21st-century folk artistâ€? incorporates stenciling, wood burning and rubber stamps into her whimsical paintings. Through November 19 at Opportunities Credit Union in Burlington. Info, 865-3404. STEVE BUDINGTON: “The Pioneers,â€? paintings and drawings by the UVM art prof of anatomically altered figures, imagining what would happen to the physical body if it evolved at the rate of cultural novelty. October 27 through November 14 at Colburn Gallery in Burlington. Info, 656-2014. ‘STOOKS, STACKS, AND SHEAVES’: Agricultural landscapes in America, 1850 to the present, that explore the artistic, cultural and literary responses to changing representations of the genre; from the museum’s permanent collection, the university’s special collections and private lenders. Through December 19 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. ‘THE DIALOGUE PROJECT: BRIDGING GENERATIONS OF LGBTQ VERMONTERS’: The R.U.1.2? Community Center’s interpretive art, oral history and queer archive exhibition in celebration of LGBTQ History Month and Coming Out Day. Through October 31 at Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Info, 860-7812.

TIMOTHY GRANNIS: “Expansion & Delirium,� gold and gemstone jewelry by the master goldsmith; and JAYNE SHOUP: “All Seasons,� color play with pastels. Through October 31 at Grannis Gallery in Burlington. Info, 660-2032. WARREN KIMBLE’S AMERICA: A retrospective of the internationally known Vermont folk artist, including his new series, “Widows of War�; and ‘ART IN THE ROUND: SHELBURNE MUSEUM’S DENTZEL CAROUSEL’: Recently restored hand-carved figures, as well as panels and vintage organ, from a 1902 carousel; and ‘GROWING GREEN’: An exploration of the creative uses of plants in contemporary design; and ‘PURSE-ONALITY: HANDBAGS WITH ATTITUDE’: Hip, funny and stylish handbags; and ‘DESIGN REWIND: THE ORIGINS OF INNOVATION’: Contemporary furniture and accessories compared with 18th- and 19th-century predecessors; and ‘LONGOLAND: IT MIGHT BE CONTAGIOUS’: Soft creatures by plush artist Joshua Longo; and ‘QUILTS IN BLOOM’: Stunning textile art from contemporary quilters; and Beach Lodge and Beach Gallery, re-opened with new exhibitions of big game trophies, Adirondack camp furniture and photographs of the American West. Through October 26 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346. WILLA MAMET: Handmade, computer-free black-and-white photographs; JOELLEN MULVANEY: “Ugh-ly Beauty,� oil paintings on linen; K. LENORE SINER: “Light, Line, Color,� paintings; and JOY SPONTAK: “Reimagining Memory,� mixed media. Through October 31 at Artpath Gallery in Burlington. Info, 563-2273. ‘ZOMBIES!’: A group show in multiple media. Through October 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438.

:: central ALDEN PELLETT: “Something in the Air,� Vermont images by the outdoor/ action photographer that have appeared in Vermont Life magazine over the past 20 years. Through October 31 at Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier. Info, 828-3241. AXEL STOHLBERG: Abstract paintings of Vermont barns. Through November 1 at Red Hen Bakery in Montpelier. Info, 244-7801. BETH PEARSON & JANET VAN FLEET: “Works on Paper,� abstract monoprints embellished with oil and gouache; and “Rolling Boil,� sculptures that appear to be toys but reference political issues such as torture and military spending. Through November 16 at The Lazy Pear Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 223-7680. BRIAN ZIEGLER: “Skeletal Aspirations,� new drawings. Through October 31 at Fort Can Gallery & Studios in Montpelier. Info, 279-0988. BRIAN ZIEGLER: Collage-drawings. Through November 26 at Montpelier City Hall. Info, 229-9416.

THE NINE “The Willendorf Diptych: Artemisia Gentileschi� (pictured) is a mysteriously titled 7-by-7foot graphite drawing on canvas by William Ramage, and it’s one of the most dramatic pieces in an exhibition called simply “Mixed Media,� on view through October 31 at Burlington’s VCAM Studio. But the studio’s ample walls hold even more than Ramage’s large-scale works; eight other local artists contribute monoprints, assemblage, sculpture, paintings and video. PHOTO BY MARC AWODEY

BUD CARY: “40 Years of Abstract Paintings,� mixed-media works by the late artist (1921-2001). Through October 31 at Restaurant Phoebe in Montpelier. Info, 279-6349. JOSH MELROD: “Major Works, 20072008,� etchings, lithographs and miscellaneous prints by the artist and fiction writer. Through October 31 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901. KATE EMLEN: Paintings depicting forests and other environments familiar to Vermonters, with an impressionistic style. Through October 31 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. KATHRYN LOVINSKY: “Pietra,� acrylics featuring Italian architecture. Through October 31 at The Shoe Horn in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454. MELANIE PHELPS: “Circle Paintings,� works in acrylic. Through October 31 at Vermont Chocolatiers in Northfield. Info, 485-5181. ‘MONTPELIER’S TREASURES: THE LEGACY OF THOMAS WATERMAN WOOD’: From the vaults of the permanent collection comes this exhibit of 107 paintings by the gallery’s namesake and Vermont’s best-known artist of the 19th century, as well as works by his contemporaries and pieces from the Vermont WPA collection. Through December 21 at T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-8743.

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NANCY H. TAPLIN: Recent paintings by the Vermont artist that explore the theme of separation. Through November 28 at Governor’s Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. PETER ARTHUR WEYRAUCH: Fine-art black-and-white landscape photography. Through November 30 at Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-5422. ‘ROCK SOLID’: The eighth annual stone show includes sculptures, assemblage and works that portray the qualities of stone, Main Floor Gallery; and ‘CREATING IMPRESSIONS’: Works by members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts NH/VT, Second Floor Gallery; and ‘WORKS BY CHARLES RYERSON AND MARIEL PITTI,’ Third Floor Gallery. Through November 8 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069. ROSAMUND PURCELL: “Taking Chances,” photography, sculpture and collage. Through November 16 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670. SARAH O. GREEN: “Under the Influence . . . of My Grandmother,” original quilts, potholders, aprons and other domestic textile works. Through November 2 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-0141. WILLA MAMET PHOTOGRAPHY: “Night Bodies,” a solo exhibit of black-and-white 35mm photographs of nighttime nudes, in collaboration with model Marisa Peck. Through November 10 at AfterImage Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 229-4924.

:: champlain valley ‘ARTISTS AND ANCESTORS’: Masterworks of Chinese classical painting, exploring landscape and flora, and ancient bronze vessels and bells used to venerate ancestors; and PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: Two installations concurrent with the fall-term course History of Photography. Through December 7 at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Info, 443-6433. BETHANY FARRELL: “Hatch,” mixed-media paintings using bird and insect imagery to explore human emotions and ideas. Through November 23 at Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh. Info, 877-6316. CAROL NORTON & HEATHER STEARNS: “Autumn Textures,” watercolors and pottery, respectively. Through November 4 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032. DEANNA SHAPIRO: “Of Moons & Wings, Abodes & Things,” new mixed-media paintings. Through October 31 at Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury. Info, 388-4095. ESSEX ART LEAGUE GROUP SHOW: Works by Caroline Brown, Kathy Berry Bergeron, Lucia Chu, Suzanne Clark, Dianna Dunn, Margaret Maffin, Donna Owens, Hattie Saville, Ken Tefft and Libby Davidson. Through October 31 at Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. Info, 862-3014. JANET FREDERICKS: Works on paper by the Lincoln artist, in an ongoing series about water, along with ongoing exhibits by gallery owners Kit Donnelly and Karla Van Vliet, and other regional artists. Through November 1 at The Gallery at 85 North Street in Bristol. Info, 349-7551. JEROME MILKS: “Dramatic Light in the Champlain Valley,” large-format photographs of landscape and nature images. Through November 15 at Bristol Bakery and Café in Bristol. Info, 453-3280. JOAN CURTIS: “Sunken Treasure,” new work by the Vermont artist. Through November 8 at The Brick Box Gallery, Paramount Theatre, in Rutland. Info, 775-0750. KATHLEEN DOMENICUCCI & ALTHEA BILODEAU: “The Flavors of Fall,” oil paintings and fiber arts, respectively, capturing the essence of the season. Through October 31 at Brandon Artists’ Guild in Brandon. Info, 247-4956.

‘LAKE CHAMPLAIN THROUGH THE LENS’: The annual juried Lake Champlain Maritime Museum photography exhibit presents images of, on and around the lake by Vermont photographers both amateur and professional. Through October 29 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Info, 475-2022. NEW ENGLAND SCULPTORS ASSOCIATION: A collaborative exhibit with members featuring work by more than 15 artists, including CSSC instructors B. Amore and Christopher Gowell. Weekends or by appointment. Through November 16 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland. Info, 438-2097. PHYLLIS DEMONG: “Abstractions from the Earth,” recent paintings and collages. Through November 8 at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Info, 388-1436. ‘SCULPTFEST08’: The annual outdoor sculpture exhibit features 10 site-specific works on the grounds of the historic marble industry. Through October 26 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland. Info, 438-2097. ‘THE GOLDEN CAGE’: “Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers,” photographs by Caleb Kenna with interviews by Chris Urban. Through December 18 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-2040. ‘TOMBS, TEMPLES, PLACES AND TEA: CERAMICS IN ASIA AND BEYOND’: An exhibit that explores the practical and social uses of ceramics; ‘ROBERT F. REIFF GALLERY OF ASIAN ART’: Bronze and stone sculptures, jades and ceramics from the 6th to the 12th centuries; ‘EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ART’: An installation featuring highlights of the museum’s collection of Western art, from the Renaissance through the 19th century; and ‘ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART’: A revised installation with recent acquisitions in Egyptian and Mesopotamian art as well as Greek, Roman and medieval European objects from the permanent collection. Through December 7 at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Info, 443-5007.

:: northern 12TH ANNUAL SMALL PICTURE EXHIBITION: More than 245 paintings in a small format, and multiple 2-D media, by 125 artists from around New England. Through December 28 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. ANN YOUNG: Recent paintings and sculpture. Through October 31 at Maple Ridge Gallery in Newark. Info, 467-8400. ‘AUTUMN IN VERMONT’: Landscape and nature-oriented works by Carolyn Walton, Mark Boedges, Meryl Lebowitz and Peter A. Miller. Through October 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653. BONNIE ACKER: “Autumn Passage,” new landscape paintings by the Burlington artist. Through November 30 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818. BRENDA GARAND: Wall-hung sculptures in mixed media. Through November 8 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. CAROLE ROSALYND DRURY: “Druids in the Woods of the North East Kingdom,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Through November 27 at Greensboro Free Library in Greensboro. Info, 533-2359. CASPIAN ARTWORKS GROUP EXHIBIT: An ongoing selection of blown glass by Rich and Tove Arentzen, Nathan Maez, Lucas Lonegren, Amy and David Basis and Jordan Gulickson, as well as art and craft works in varied media by other Vermont artists. Through October 31 at Caspian Artworks in Greensboro. Info, 533-9900. COOPERATIVE GALLERY SHOW: Artwork by the 24 gallery members includes all styles of painting, collage, 3-D works and notecards. Through October 31 at Jacob Walker Art Gallery in Morristown. Info, 244-6648.

JOHNSON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: Sixteen artists contribute 3-D works to a walkable sculpture exhibit around town. Map of sites at participating locations and at www.townofjohnson. com. Through October 26 at various locations in Johnson. Info, 730-3114. ‘MADE IN CHINA’: Contemporary Chinese art exploring the culture and philosophy of the country. Through November 22 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. NEW ENGLAND PLEIN AIR PAINTERS: Twenty-one regional painters show their works, with a particular emphasis on Vermont scenes. Through October 26 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. OCTOBER FEATURED ARTISTS: This month’s highlighted artists are painters Natalie LaRocque-Bouchard and Robert Eldridge, fiber artist Jan Brosky and mixed-media artist Jaffa Paddon. Through October 31 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403. ‘THE ALLURE OF ROCKS I’: In an exhibit shared by two galleries, Michelle Colling shows photography and Dianne Shullenberger shows works in colored pencil and fiber. Local schoolchildren also contribute pieces throughout the month. Through November 9 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211. ‘THE ALLURE OF ROCKS II’: Renditions of rocks by local photographers, along with works by local schoolchildren. Through November 9 at Dianne Shullenberger Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-4993. TOM BLOCK: “Human Rights Painting Project,” portraits that represent people with the belief that individuals can make a difference, by the longtime member of Amnesty International. Through December 20 at Martinetti Gallery in Johnson. Info, 635-1469.

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ith just three weeks to go until Election Day, the McCain campaign has launched a nationwide talent search to find angry audience members for their increasingly hatefilled rallies, McCain aides confirmed today. “People assume that when we hold a rally, angry white people just magically appear, but that’s not the case,” said McCain aide Hardin Carley. “The fact is, a lot of planning goes into this.” In order to stock their rallies with the requisite number of irate white voters, the McCain camp has reached out to Hollywood, retaining the services of casting agent Tracy Klugian, who found the angry crowds for the 2000 film Gladiator. “They were really clear about my assignment,” said Mr. Klugian. “They were like, ‘We want the same kind of crowds you had for Gladiator, only more bloodthirsty.’” Toby DeBreaux, a self-described angry white man from Dayton, Ohio, was one of a thousand hopefuls who showed up at Mr. Klugian’s open

casting call in New York City over the weekend. With full-throated outbursts like “Liar!,” “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!,” Mr. DeBreaux seemed to impress the Hollywood talent scout.

It was like watching Cindy McCain off her meds. Tracy Klugian

“He really seemed crazy-angry,” said Mr. Klugian. “It was like watching Cindy McCain off her meds.” Elsewhere, in a sign that the world financial crisis may be deepening, leaders of the G7 nations asked President Bush for cab fare back to the airport.

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Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each 9-box square contains all of the numbers one to nine.

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ARIES

(March 21-April 19): Our government spends an obscene fortune on its armed forces — almost as much as do all the other nations of the world combined. In fact, we are by far the most weaponized empire in the history of the world, with 761 military bases in over 100 countries. If our military costs were cut down to a more reasonable size — say the same as China’s — we’d have a trillion-dollar bonus to deal with the financial infection that erupted here and sent toxic ripples throughout the world. Keeping that in mind as a metaphor, Aries, make this your hypothesis: By reducing the hostility, combativeness, and judgmental ire that you personally generate, you’ll be far more likely to navigate your way toward prosperity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The days lead-

ing up to the national election feature a rare opposition between Saturn and Uranus. Since Saturn symbolizes the past and Uranus the future, we might expect there to be a showdown between what has been and what will be, not only on a collective level but also in our personal realms. In what areas of your life do you think that will materialize, Taurus? Identify those hotspots, then get to work coordinating synergistic interactions between the seemingly contrary forces.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Write the num-

ber 10 followed by 11 zeroes. Our Milky Way Galaxy has that many stars. Write a 10 followed by 12 zeroes. That’s the size of America’s national debt in dollars. Now promise me that for the next month, you will avoid absorbing any scary, overwhelming data like the kind I just threw at you. Worrying about the big financial picture would not only be fruitless, it would also distract you from your main tasks, which are as follows: Regard the crisis as an excellent opportunity to shed materialistic obsessions1:02 and live hum1x4-7road 5/26/05 PM more Page 1 bly and creatively. Sublimate your buy-ological urges into biological urges. Stretch yourself to get into closer touch with your spiritual core.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): As the stock markets came crashing down, a different kind of global devastation received scant notice. The World Conservation Congress revealed that 25 percent of the planet’s mammal species and one out of eight birds are close to extinction. We’re not just talking about exotic animals in remote hideaways, but rabbits and deer and cardinals and turtledoves. As you meditate on how to reinvent yourself in the wake of the financial chaos, Cancerian, please hold a vigil in your heart for the endangered creatures. The two crises are related, after all. The greed to turn everything into a means of generating money has led humans to both despoil nature and risk the crazy gambles that have savaged the economy. The more you understand that, the better your intuition will be as you make personal decisions affecting your future relationship with money.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): TV’s “The Daily Show�

did a mock biography of your fellow Leo, Barack Obama, poking fun at the adoration he inspires in millions of people around the world. Every time he speaks, said the narrator, “an angel has an orgasm.� According to my analysis, you now have a scaled-down version of that power. You may not incite the same intensity of pleasure in the heavenly hosts, but you could definitely unleash eruptions of raw enthusiasm in numerous humans. I suggest that like Obama, you channel it in service to a cause beyond your own selfish interests.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When the planet Uranus comes into play, as it is now, it’s a good time to initiate experiments that will expedite the arrival of future blessings. Pushing beyond comforting habits, you thrive by going in quest of bracing truths, unfashionable beauty and wild justice. The symbolic nature of Saturn is different. It invites you to creatively limit and discipline yourself so that fate isn’t forced to limit and discipline you in unpleasant ways. It so happens, Virgo, that Uranus and Saturn are now poised in opposition to each other. Will they work at cross-purposes, spawning a sticky mess? Or is there a way for you to get them to

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I cannot tell if

the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.� So wrote Jane Kenyon, translating Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. At this juncture in history, that’s a feeling many of us have. Part of the time we’re on the verge of freaking out, half-expecting some new calamity to befall the world. Other times we’re awash in wonder and awe, catching glimpses of the miraculous flow that’s hidden just below the surface of everyday chaos; we’re tantalizingly close to understanding that everything is proceeding exactly as it should. In the coming weeks, this excruciating poignancy will peak, especially for you. Regard it as a gift — as a difficult blessing that has the potential to free you of your illusions.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What do you do when you’re squeezed between the demands of authority and the healthy need to rebel? How do you respond when the past and future are at odds? What resources do you draw on when the person you have always been starts to evolve into an interesting new form that you don’t recognize? You’ve come to a fork in the road, Scorpio, when you will be asked to deal with these questions on a larger scale than before. My advice? Study your past so thoroughly that you’ll be able to keep it from repeating itself, and open your mind to possibilities you’ve rarely considered.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The world is poised at the threshold of a great choice: Should we stick with what has worked for us, even though it’s not working any more? Or should we experiment with possibilities that may work for us in the future, even though they don’t have a track record? You, Sagittarius, can and should be a leader in this epic adventure. The best way to do that is to summon your dormant courage as you apply the big questions

I just posed to the specific circumstances of your personal life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The

planet Saturn symbolizes the preservative and conservative tendencies of evolution. It teaches us to learn from the past and keeps us from rushing into the frontier before we’re ready. Uranus, on the other hand, represents future shocks, both the disturbing and benevolent kinds. It disturbs our sleep in order to wake us up and energizes us to reinvent ourselves on the fly. What happens when these two planets slip into an intimate dynamic, as they are now? Will one of them prevail over the other in a great battle? Or will they coordinate their efforts artfully in a riveting, gorgeous dance? Amazingly enough, the outcome depends in part on you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): No faking

allowed, Aquarius. I mean it. You must do no pretending, tell no dirty lies, and never act as if you know things you don’t truly know. Instead, say exactly what you mean; be more real than you have ever dared to be; be nothing more and nothing less than who you actually are. Why is this authenticity crusade so important right now? Because in the coming weeks, you’ll be setting your life’s tone for months to come. You will be planting more seeds than you can imagine.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Uranus symbol-

izes your instinct for freedom, your drive to express your dormant genius, and your attunement with your intuition. Saturn represents structure and responsibility; when it’s prominent, it’s time to get back to basics and cut down on distractions and excesses. So what should you do when these two planets are in exact opposition, as they are now? Here’s one hint: We’re all being squeezed between a mandate to head toward the frontier and the pressure to play it safe. To keep from being paralyzed, some of us may have to choose one way over the other. In my opinion, you Pisceans are likely to profit by choosing the Uranian path.

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impersonations. There aren’t a lot of yuks, so you end up occupying yourself with thoughts about how much Richard Dreyfuss seems to embody Dick Cheney, what a dead-on Condoleezza Rice Thandie Newton does, how it’s too bad Jeffrey Wright doesn’t look more like Colin Powell, and why Toby Jones didn’t pack on a few pounds to play Karl Rove, since the latter didn’t slim down until the second term. All in all, not the sort of thought-provoking stuff one expects from an Oliver Stone film. Astonishingly, the director offers something approaching an apology for the madness of the Bush administration. Sure, Dubya is a self-deluded Jesus freak. Sure, he allowed advisors to make a trumped-up case for a war he’d already made up his mind to start. All of this needs to be understood in context, though, Stone implies. First, Bush as portrayed here truly believes God spoke to him and told him to run for President (making his rise to high office miraculous in more ways than one). Once elected, he operates with a sense

of divine right, finding it not so much unnecessary to second-guess his instincts as blasphemous. And then there’s this whole Oedipal thing between Bush 41 (James Cromwell) and Bush 43, which the filmmaker sees as equally key to the latter’s character and destiny. The black sheep of the family, he gets his act together and rises to power to impress his perpetually dismissive father. Once in the White House, he hyper-focuses on destroying Saddam as payback for threats the ruler made against the senior Bush during the first Gulf War. Again and again, the director paints his subject as an underestimated son of privilege who simply wants to win his old man’s approval. Given the mess Bush and his buddies have made of things, one might have expected a whiff of outrage from Stone, but the film is curiously lacking when it comes to anything resembling attitude. The director fumbles for a tone but never quite settles on one. Because W. is part standard biopic, part black comedy, part political satire, part Greek tragedy and part character study, it becomes, in the end, none of these but rather a disappointingly straightforward highlight reel of recent history that edits out as much as it includes. There’s not a word in the script, for example, about Halliburton, Abu Ghraib, the record-breaking deficits that continue to break records, or the Valerie Plame scandal — much less about the stolen 2000 election. The filmmaker seems to have been so preoccupied with his attempts to get inside the president’s head and play director’s-chair shrink that he all but forgot he had an audience to entertain. Unless you’ve lived in a cave or been in a coma for the past eight years, you’re likely to come away from this light-on-laughs rehash of current events feeling like this story of a lame duck is the lamest movie of Stone’s career. RICK KISONAK

up periodically as Max joins forces with the dead girl’s sister (Mila Kunis from “That ’70s Show,” not so plausible as a spike-heeled professional killer) and follows a trail of corpses with winged tattoos to a mysterious drug called Valkyr. The drug is produced by Aesir Pharmaceuticals, the company for which Payne’s wife worked, and a club called Ragna Rock is also involved. The Valkyries, as a minor character helpfully points out, are mythological winged warrior women who bore the souls of the fiercest Vikings off to Valhalla. In short, the movie keeps Norse mythology nerds distracted. (The Aesir are a divine dynasty; Ragnarok is the apocalypse.) Meanwhile, director John Moore and his cinematographer keep their vision of New York dark and perpetually precipitating. This noir city with echoes of Blade Runner is the background for lots and lots of shooting. In their time, the Max Payne games were lauded for their imitation of John Woo’s action cinema; the “bullet time” effect allowed players to slow down the shoot-outs so they could dodge attacks, Matrix-style. Here, all it means

is that crucial moments in the bloodbath are stretched out for our delectation, but Moore doesn’t give us anything cool to see while time creeps by. After Timur Bekmambetov’s crystal-clear, surreal slowed-down action sequences in Wanted, Moore’s just seem muddy. Watching Wahlberg isn’t much fun, either. “I know pain. I know fear. I know death,” he monotones in the beginning, and the character continues in that vein: a walking pity party who only comes alive when he’s firing his gun. Various other more or less notable players — Beau Bridges, Chris O’Donnell, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, even Nelly Furtado — show up but fail to make an impact. The only one who leaves us wanting more is Amaury Nolasco, as an Army sergeant seen giving a taped testimonial to the benefits of the Valkyr drug. (Big Pharma, always a convenient culprit, originally developed it to make U.S. soldiers feel invincible.) The Norse were a warrior culture par excellence, and when Nolasco smugly says he hasn’t experienced any side effects with his enhanced aggression, he evokes the dark side of the superhero mythos. But the story is about Max Payne, who’s considerably less interesting. In the end, the mythological allusions fold in on themselves and turn out to be just set dressing for a goth melodrama version of Death Wish — one that doesn’t end so much as just stops. Here’s hoping a sequel called Max Payne 2: Living on Borrowed Bullet Time isn’t in the works. MARGOT HARRISON

W. HH

W APPROVAL RATING Stone sees Bush’s tragic saga as the story of a blacksheep son trying to earn his dismissive father’s respect.

hat is it with the director of JFK and Nixon? There’s something perverse in the way Oliver Stone approaches the telling of tragic presidential stories: The more tragic they are, the less he gives them the Oliver Stone treatment. If you don’t believe me, go see W. There’s little other reason to. Given the scope of the global havoc its subject has wreaked, the scale of his administration’s corruption and failures, and the extent of the all-out lunacy involved, Stone’s latest could have been this generation’s Dr. Strangelove. Instead, it’s more like a cable TV biopic. And, for the most part, George W. Bush is portrayed sympathetically. Scripted by Stone pal Stanley Weiser (Wall Street), the film unfolds on dual narrative tracks. One follows Bush from his hard-partying days as a Yale frat boy through a series of failed careers to his marriage and transformation into a born-again Christian. Josh Brolin delivers a performance that — oddly, given his youth — becomes more convincing as his character ages. It’s the best thing about the picture. The second track starts shortly after 9/11 and stops short of the 2004 campaign. It offers a by-now-familiar step-by-step account of the run-up to the Iraq invasion. If you’ve seen No End in Sight or any of half a dozen other docs on the subject, read any of the tell-all tomes by former aides, or just picked up the occasional newspaper, you won’t learn anything new. Nor will you witness any of the visually audacious flourishes that have become the filmmaker’s trademark. More than anything, the movie plays like a 129-minute “Saturday Night Live” sketch full of

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TROUBLE THE WATER: New Orleans Ninth Ward resident Kimberly Rivers Roberts used her new camcorder to record the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and the footage became part of this documentary about the disaster. With Scott Roberts. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, who directed, answer questions at a Thursday screening at the Palace 9 and a Friday screening at the Savoy. (93 min, NR. Palace, Savoy) VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: The Palace 9 Cinema screens Vermont premieres from Thursday through Sunday, including Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla, Toronto Film Festival fave Wendy and Lucy, documentary American Swing and others from around the world. Vermont-made films show concurrently at Burlington’s Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center. For more info, see www. vtiff.org or www.palace9.com.

BURN AFTER READING★★★1/2 No Country for Old Men directors Joel and Ethan Coen lighten up big time with this comedy about a pair of chuckleheaded health club workers who get their hands on the manuscript of an ousted CIA official’s memoir and attempt to exploit their find for personal gain. Starring George Clooney, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand. (95 min, R. Big Picture, Palace, Roxy, Stowe) CITY OF EMBER★★★ Gil (Monster House) Kenan directs this sci-fi fantasy about a glittering underground society illuminated by means of a giant generator and growing steadily darker as the machine runs out of juice. Starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan and Mary Kay Place. (95 min, PG. Essex, Majestic) EAGLE EYE★★ Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan are paired for this thriller in which two strangers find themselves tracked and terrorized by a mysterious psycho. Also starring Rosario Dawson and Billy Bob Thornton. D.J. Caruso directs. (118 min, PG-13. Bijou, Majestic, Palace, Welden) FROZEN RIVER★★★ Courtney Hunt makes her feature directorial debut with this drama in which two women are forced by hard times to form a perilous partnership smuggling illegal immigrants across the Canadian border. Melissa Leo and Misty Upham star. (96 min, R. Roxy) GHOST TOWN★★★★ David (Stir of Echoes) Koepp directs this comedy in which a man expires for seven minutes and finds when he returns to life that he can see and talk to the dead wherever he goes. Starring Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni and Greg Kinnear. (103 min, PG-13. Big Picture) IGOR★★ John Cusack, Steve Buscemi and John Cleese lend their voices to this computer-generated saga of a hunchbacked lab assistant who dreams of someday becoming a scientist instead of just working for one. Directed by Tony Leondis. (86 min, PG. Big Picture, Palace)

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1:15 & 3:35 (Fri-Sun), 6:40 (all week), 9 (Fri & Sat). *Saw V 1:30 & 5:25 (FriSun), 6:50 (all week), 9 (Fri & Sat). Beverly Hills Chihuahua 1:20 & 3:30 (Fri-Sun), 6:30 (all week), 8:15 (Fri & Sat). Max Payne 7 (all week), 9 (Fri & Sat). Kung Fu Panda 1:25 & 3:40 (Sat & Sun). Times subject to change. See http:// users.adelphia.net/~silverscreen.

1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 9:45. The Secret Life of Bees 1:10, 4, 7, 9:30. Body of Lies 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25. Quarantine 1:25, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 12:50, 2:50, 4:50, 6:50, 9. Eagle Eye 3:30, 8:40. The Express 3:40, 8:50. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist 1:35, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10. Nights in Rodanthe 1:05, 6:20. City of Ember 1:20, 6:30. friday 24 — thursday 30 *High School Musical 3: Senior Year

1, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 6:20, 7:10, 8:50, 9:35. *Saw V 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50. *Pride and Glory 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30. Max Payne 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40. W. 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20. The Secret Life of Bees 1:40, 4:15, 7, 9:25. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 1:30, 3:45, 6:25, 8:40. Body of Lies 3:40, 6:40. Sex Drive 4. Eagle Eye 8:45. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist 1:50, 6:30. City of Ember 1:20. Quarantine 9:45.

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Essex Shoppes & Cinema, Rt. 15 & 289, Essex, 879-6543. wednesday 22 — thursday 23 *High School Musical 3: Senior Year midnight (Thu only). Beverly Hills Chihuahua 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Body of Lies 1, 4, 7, 9:40. City of Ember 12:15, 5, 7:20. Max Payne 12:10, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 9:50. Quarantine 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:20, 9:35. The Express 2:20, 9:25. The Secret Life of Bees 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10. W. 12:45, 3:45,

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ou’re strolling through the supermarket produce department, cellphone in hand. Pausing at a display of greens, you use your phone to shine a tiny laser beam on a promising bag of verdant spinach. A moment later, a text message pops up on the cellphone, proclaiming the vegetable is clean. Reassured that it’s free of both Salmonella and E. coli, you drop it in your cart and move on to the tomatoes. Sound futuristic? It is. But Ken Puzey, owner of Burlington’s QuantaSpec, Inc., is determined to make it happen. Asked what his business does, he tries to put it simply: “QuantaSpec develops applications using infrared light to detect bad things. To elaborate: ‘Bad things’ means

aren’t cognizant of how big a problem this is.” Puzey himself was once hospitalized for food poisoning, and “it wasn’t pretty,” he says. With a $93,000 grant from the FDA, Puzey has patents pending for infrared technology that can speedily detect the pathogens that cause food-borne illness. And so far, he claims, he’s been able to do it with 100 percent accuracy. In January, QuantaSpec will learn if it can expect a $750,000 follow-up grant from the FDA, which would allow Puzey to create prototypes of his bad bacteria detectors. Meanwhile, QuantaSpec has other projects under way: Puzey recently received funding from the Vermont Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to investigate a new way to diagnose breast cancer. The U.S. Army Medical Research Command is paying him to develop a method of identifying malarial

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chemical agents, toxins, pathogenic organisms, explosives.” He pauses for an instant. “Those are all bad things, right? Although explosives have their uses.” “Bad things” in food are making people nervous these days — a tomato scare dragged on for months this past summer and, in Vermont, more than a ton of E. coli-tainted local ground beef was recalled just last week. Puzey rattles off the stats: “Food-borne pathogens caused an estimated 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations and 5200 deaths this year. I’d be willing to bet that most Americans

infections in the field and determining which patients are suffering from drugresistant strains. But in essence, it all goes back to light. And bad things. QuantaSpec, located in a one-room, ground-floor office on South Champlain Street, employs seven part-timers and two full-timers, including Puzey. Papers strewn around suggest a business in high-energy mode. High-tech gadgets are everywhere, including a special theft-proof box to hold the explosives — devising ways to detect

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them necessitates having some around — and a “very powerful” laser designed for the Air Force that Puzey isn’t at liberty to talk about. Tall and thin, with an easy smile and a tendency to lean in close as he eagerly explains complex concepts, Puzey holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering — from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Colorado at Boulder, respectively. He

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seeking applications for infrared light — and looking for projects that might attract grant funding — he began delving into the world of food poisoning. He found a colleague in Catherine Donnelly of the University of Vermont’s Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences. She “was mostly interested in food-borne microorganisms,� he relates. Indeed, Donnelly, co-director of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese, is recognized as an international expert on Listeria monocytogenes. Today, tests for food-borne pathogens are conducted on samples that must be painstakingly prepared by technicians, who use chemicals to detect the presence of harmful microorganisms. The QuantaSpec re-

based on the chemistry of the sample,� he says. “By looking at what wavelengths of light are absorbed or not absorbed, we get detailed information on the chemistry of what we’re looking at.� Having created a model of the wavelengths of light a particular combo of chemicals — say, those that compose Salmonella bacteria — absorbs or reflects, Puzey can seek that same pattern in his samples. Industrial-strength cleaners and food additives don’t get in the way: Infrared rays are “unaffected by sanitizers, preservatives or the food matrix,� Puzey declares. “Food matrix� is the sci-fisounding term for the bacteria’s organic host: In this case, it’s animal or vegetable. QuantaSpec’s test can pick the bad guys out of a complex soup of microorganisms. When

guess is that I have a stronger math background, being an engineer,� says Puzey. “Most people who do this work are biologists.� Math comes in handy when he processes his data: “All of our intellectual property revolves around how you interpret the spectra,� Puzey explains. To safeguard his work, he doesn’t share his algorithms with anybody, even his own staffers. The secrets are between him and his computer. Puzey’s findings could have far-ranging applications in the food industry, and not just for shoppers. He also hopes to design devices for food processors so they can analyze raw materials as they enter the plant and finished ones as they leave. For example, there’s still plenty of debate about the safety of raw milk. On-farm testing could

How has Ken Puzey’s work with microbes affected his day-to-day life? “I would never eat a hot dog straight from the package,� he vows. Burgers? Puzey orders them “medium-well instead of rare.�

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search team began with a simple question, says Puzey: “What’s the current state of the art, and what are the problems with the current state of the art?� In answering the second question, Puzey and company realized that time and money are two of the biggies. In addition to the hours spent prepping samples, the actual tests are “pretty slow,� he says. “It takes 24 to 72 hours to get a test result.� Unfortunately, many foods at risk for contamination have short shelf lives — think ground beef or salad greens — which makes it impractical to put them to the test. The chemicals used, or “reagents,� aren’t cheap, either — about $20 for each pathogen one seeks to detect, says Puzey. And “for each food, you probably want to test for multiple pathogens.� Using infrared light is more efficient and cheaper, shrinking the time it takes to get results from days to “less than a minute,� Puzey boasts. Even better, he says, “We can test for all pathogens simultaneously, or at least all the pathogens that are in our library of things we know how to identify.� Several firms are competing to develop such technology, and Puzey isn’t going to divulge his secrets. But he does explain the basics of how light detection works: “Microorganisms are just a cocktail of chemicals. Basically, you shine infrared light on the sample, and different wavelengths of light are absorbed

one bacterium is benign and another will put you in the hospital, the devil is in the details — not just the difference between E. coli and Listeria, but between the deadly Listeria monocytogenes and its relative, the harmless Listeria innocua. “Everyone who’s been doing research using infrared light has always done it with pure cultures,� says Puzey, explaining how he’s distinguished himself from his competition. “If you want to apply this to food safety . . . You need to be able to pick out pathogenic bacteria hiding in that flora. Is there a wolf in with the sheep? Since no one had ever done it, they didn’t think that could be done.� While Puzey is aware of “at least half a dozen� companies attempting similar research, he’s convinced his results are superior. “Based on the literature, no one has ever been able to tell apart two subspecies of organisms as accurately as we have,� he claims. “We get 100 percent accuracy. Before, the record was 80 percent.� UVM Professor and Analytical Chemist Giuseppe Petrucci calls Puzey “one of the most inventive scientists I’ve ever met.� He worked with Puzey on the brainstorming phase of the project, and believes his work shows “phenomenal promise.� “He’s really working at the forefront of detection technology to solve these very important problems,� Petrucci notes. Why has Puzey succeeded where others have failed? “My

eliminate the risk altogether. Who’s going to analyze all the data gathered by cellphonewielding consumers in the produce aisle? “It could be run through the Internet,� Puzey says. “They’d send us the spectral data, and we’d send back the interpretation.� Puzey doesn’t plan to charge manufacturing plants a lot for his services — mainly, he talks about eradicating food-borne illnesses and saving lives. But if his prototypes become foodindustry standards, he stands to make a tidy profit. How has his work with microbes affected his day-to-day life? “I would never eat a hot dog straight from the package,� he vows. Burgers? Puzey orders them “medium-well instead of rare. With steak, the contamination is only going to be on the surface. With ground beef, the surface can be anywhere inside.� He still eats raw vegetables and fruit, but points out, “I think many people don’t realize that there are bacterial contamination risks with those.� Not everyone is so paranoid in the produce section. But given recent food-safety scares, many of us have fretted about the microscopic hitchhikers on our tomatoes or alfalfa sprouts — fears our ignorance only exacerbates. Someday, if Puzey and the FDA have their way, we may be able to prevent food-borne illness by shining a light into a romaine’s heart of darkness. Until then, we’ll have to take our chances. >

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Elixir Eliminated WHITE RIVER JUNCTION RESTO CLOSES

Last month, when Budget Travel magazine named White River Junction one of the “10 Coolest Small Towns� in the country, the writer most likely had no idea that Elixir Restaurant & Lounge, one of the hip businesses mentioned in the write-up, was on the verge of closing.

After a celebration last Saturday, the eatery — known for its creative martinis and tapas-sized servings of Kobe-beef sliders and butter-braised “Lobstah!� — closed its doors. Owner Mike Davidson says he just couldn’t keep up with the restaurant and his other businesses, a “real-estate investment business� and a contracting company, which kept him too busy to do the work the hot spot required. “Anyone that’s in the restaurant business knows you’ve gotta be there, and I couldn’t be there,� Davidson says. He admits the economy was another factor — the restaurant was losing “some money� — but is convinced a hands-on operator could turn things around. “I could have made up for [lower revenues] with private parties if I could have gotten on the phone [with people at Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center],� Davidson claims. “The restaurant was very successful . . . it’s the last 20 percent of business that makes or breaks you.� Luckily, he dishes, other folks feel the same way. “I have two different parties looking at it, both of whom own restaurants now,� says Davidson. More than 50 customers have sent emails asking, in essence, “How could you close this?� he adds. He hopes to strike a deal that will save the restaurant: “I’m not being very greedy about it. People want it to stay.�

New at Norma’s MARK TIMMS RETURNS

When Chef Mark Timms left the Vermont National Country Club six months ago, he said he was bound for a job at a fancy resort restaurant in Georgia. But instead, he headed to a Pennsylvania spa called The Lodge at Woodloch to be the executive chef — and a patient of sorts. “I pretty much lied about where I was going,� Timms admits sheepishly. “I went away . . . to get myself mentally organized and cleaned up, in a way, both physically and mentally. In Vermont I was heading towards alcohol. I wasn’t an alcoholic, but I was getting out of control.� At the Lodge, he professes, “I learned a lot about how to eat healthily and how to handle myself more professionally and more honestly.� Now he’s back in Vermont as executive chef at the Topnotch Resort and Spa eatery Norma’s Restaurant, and, he says, he’s got his act together. “I’m jazzed and I’m healthy,� Timms enthuses. “I have a different philosophy now.� So does his cooking. Come December, Timms will roll out a new, bistro-style menu, with a selection of healthier “super-food� spa items for weightconscious diners. Fans of his experiments with molecular gastronomy, such as foie gras “lollipops,� may see some bold options on the bar menu. And, Timms says, he’s in it for the long haul. “I have to be here until I retire,� he explains. “My wife is not going to move again. I need to, in my own mind, settle down — and in Norma’s, I think I’ve found the golden pot at the end of the rainbow.�

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Dinky Donuts headed south . . . to Middlebury. The tiny company has moved from Burlington into its very own shop on Route 7, just down the road from the A&W Drive-In. Now, in addition to maple caramel, Boston cream and honey-glazed donuts — plus innovative seasonal flavors — owners Alex and Nick Cavalli will be baking pastries and pouring fresh-squeezed OJ and coffee. “We’re doing apple strudel and Danish to spice things up. Everything is made from scratch every morning,�

says Nick. Looking for a savory bite? The couple is also whipping up bialys — chewy Jewish rolls that are like bagels without the holes — and housecured salmon. So far, things are going over well: “We already have a number of regular customers,� Nick says. They can look forward to the upcoming pumpkin donut.

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Highgate high jinks . . . it sounds like something out of a crime novel. One selling point of the venerable, now-defunct Highgate Manor Inn was that legendary mobster Al Capone was once a patron. But the young couple that last owned and operated the Inn, Benjamin Osmanson of Texas and Jillian Protzman of Essex, may have been up to a bit of book cooking of their own. After being tracked for two years by cops and the FBI, the pair was arrested for running a money-laundering operation that produced $26 million in fraudulent loans. In early October, they were indicted in federal court for setting up phony mortgages in the names of family and friends and skimming more than a million dollars off the top. Capone’s Bar, styled after a speakeasy, boasted a dark ambiance, stone walls and archaic “jail cellsâ€? for storing the liquor. Maybe that dĂŠcor doesn’t seem so quaint anymore to the former owners, who each face decades in federal prison. In case you missed it . . . Last week a blaze ravaged the All Fired Up Tavern in Barre and the historic building that housed it — formerly the Barre railroad station — was torn down. Nobody was hurt, and the fire department deemed the conflagration an accident. Asked if the restaurant will be rebuilt or relocated, co-owner Ann Fiore is uncertain. “Right at the moment, we don’t know. I’m going to let everything settle down for a while,â€? she says. “What I’m doing now is working with the insurance companies.â€? Business was booming before the disaster, Fiore laments. “Oh, yeah, we were doing really well. Everybody was so upset by [the fire].â€? — SUZANNE PODHAIZER

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SD: Environmentalists like Bill McKibben say the cost of some products doesn’t reflect their true environmental cost — RR: And I think that’s true, by the way — SD: But a lot of people would say the idea of “true environmental cost� is diametrically opposed to your idea about true cost. RR: It’s a good observation. Rather than saying the true cost, it would have been better for me to say the full cost. Right now, if you buy local produce instead of produce that comes from across the country or across the ocean, the cost is pretty clear: It’s a little more expensive, usually. Sometimes the quality is higher, so you say, “Well, I think it’s a bargain after all.� Sometimes it’s not, so you say, “Well, it’s worth it, ’cause it’s local.� I don’t know if people think through how those costs would add up if you tried to buy more locally than just food . . . I think it’s a question of magnitudes. There’s no doubt that when you make economic decisions based just on price, you’re not getting the full picture, which is the environmental critique. But I think it’s also true that when you purchase one item or

category of items, such as food, locally, you don’t think about what the full cost would be if you did that more aggressively across a wider range of products. SD: You’ve said self-sufficiency is the “road to poverty.� Does that relate to this discussion? RR: Absolutely. That’s a quote from my first book, The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism . . . I think the word selfsufficiency has an emotionally attractive ring to it: We don’t want to depend on others; we want to be self-sufficient; we certainly want our children at some point to grow up and become self-sufficient, rather than depending on us as parents. So self-sufficiency is generally seen as a goal, but in economic activity and in trade generally, no one really has selfsufficiency as a goal. SD: To be fair, Bill McKibben and Vermonters who advocate for self-sufficiency aren’t advocating for full self-sufficiency, but for what they view as a healthy balance of sustainable systems and economies of scale. RR: As an individual, I might decide — as, say, the Amish have — that I want to make a set of decisions that are very dif-

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vinced that buying local is of economic benefit to local residents. RR: It’s not uncommon for government agencies to do the bidding of special interests. We don’t like to think of it that way, but I’m not surprised that the department of agriculture in Vermont is very responsive to Vermont farmers. SD: So you’re saying the “special interests” are the small organic farmers? RR: Yeah, and I think you could say the same thing about California farmers . . . I would suspect that the small farmers of Vermont spend a disproportionate [amount of ] time [lobbying], so I’d expect them to have a disproportionate impact. SD: What about compared to the impact of, say, large agricultural interests? RR: Large farmers have even more impact on the political process . . . Our agricultural policy in the United States, writ large, is designed to make farmers rich at my expense and yours, and I expect there’s some of that going on in Vermont, although it might not be pleasant to say so. SD: It seems you and Bill McKibben disagree on what prosperity is. In his book Deep Economy, McKibben suggests that an economic paradigm rooted in growth isn’t healthy. You’re saying that we’re better off than we were 100 years ago. RR: I think this’ll be an interesting part of the conversation. I know that Bill McKibben is skeptical about the connection between growth and happiness, and I don’t make any grand claims for growth or material well-being producing happiness, either . . . For me, there are many benefits yet to come from economic growth, but I’m not tied to growth per se. I think there’s probably a little more agreement there between the two of us than might first meet the eye. SD: Global warming, degradation of topsoil, loss of genetic diversity — these are signs, McKibben might point out, that our old notions of prosperity aren’t as rosy as we thought. RR: There are a lot of consequences of growth that we as consumers or investors or entrepreneurs do not anticipate. Many of them are negative . . . but I think there’s a long list of positives . . .There’s a certain

viewpoint, which says, “It’s all empty, you’re just trying to get ahead of your neighbor” . . . I reject that kind of calculation: I don’t think that’s what material prosperity is about . . . I think most measures of nonmaterial well-being are dramatically higher than they were 100 years ago, including many environmental measures, the obvious examples being the skies of Pittsburgh and the forests of the Northeast — SD: What about the skies in Beijing? RR: Well, [the Chinese are] in a different place in the economic growth pattern. The question is whether their environmental degradation . . . will have spillover effects that we will be punished by. It’s an interesting question, and I don’t know the answer. The legitimate question is whether global warming could reach a point where the quality of life would be so severely compromised [that] we all agree it would be a mistake to keep growing. We haven’t reached that point yet, clearly. We may be irrevocably on the path to it, as many people have argued — and that, I think, is a different claim than the ones I’ve been answering so far. SD: McKibben would argue that, last year, a NASA scientist found the atmosphere can’t sustain levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide above 350 parts per million. We’re currently over that threshold. RR: I’m not convinced that that estimate is reliable, but perhaps it is. I’m not an authority on it . . .

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reportedly be ready by the end of the year. Rock and roll. In the meantime, bassist Noah Crowther will be spending some time with a crew of old pals from California. Called Giant Acapulco, the group had been apart for seven years before reuniting earlier this summer to record some new tunes. This Saturday, they take the stage at Burlington’s Radio Bean.

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PERFECT 10 Burlington is often viewed — especially by outsiders — as a jamband haven. And rightly so, in many respects. It’s hard not to think of Burlington music and think of Phish — Hey, did you hear they’re getting . . . oh, forget it. But as notoriously prominent as wigglerock is and likely always will be in the Queen City, it is arguably our hardcore and heavy-music scene that is the town’s musical lifeblood. (Total aside: Is “Lifeblood� a hardcore band name yet? If not, you can have that one free of charge.) From the hallowed halls of 242 Main to teen centers and studio spaces across the state, hardcore reigns. And as long as we have teenagers and a modicum of angst, that will probably always be true. (How about “Modicum of Angst�?) Vermont’s hardcore and punk scenes are almost always thriving, and have given birth to countless local musicians who’ve gone on to play a wide variety of music. Seriously, raise your hand if you weren’t in a high school punk band. Anyone? Thought so. Anyway, this Sunday, the Boys & Girls Club of Burlington celebrates the tenth installment of its Hardcore and Metal Showcase series at Higher Ground’s Showcase Lounge. The semi-regular event has been wildly popular amongst the Doc Martens set and does an admirable job of pairing local acts with some excellent regional and national talent. This time around should be no different as locals Blinded By Rage and Forever They Said join Portland, ME’s, Absence of the Sun, Upstate NY’s Heal These Wounds, Bay Staters Beautiful Gorgeous and Albany’s Surrounded By Teeth — Best. Band. Name. Ever.

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Jazz heads should swing by Richmond’s On the Rise Bakery this Friday as noted local trombonist (tromboner? . . . sorry) Dan Silverman hosts the second installment of his monthly open jazz jam. The session is a bit different than other jazz nights around the state. In addition to welcoming established hepcats, less-experienced players are strongly encouraged to show up and hone their chops in a supportive and open-minded setting. For more info, you can contact Silverman directly at silverslide@comcast.net. If you happen to be checking out the Vermont Film Festival at Burlington’s Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center this Saturday, be sure to stick around between films and catch sets from local altwhatever collective Cannon Fodder. I like them. I’m betting you will, too. If you like peace and you like songs and you also like the spirit of healthy competition, march on over to Montpelier’s Langdon Street CafĂŠ this Thursday for the Third Annual Peace Song Writing Competition, sponsored by ORCA Media. The evening will pit peacenik tunesmiths against each other in a no-holds-barred musical mĂŞlĂŠe to decide, once and for all, who is the peace-lovingest musician around. Contestants will be judged by a panel of former winners and local celebs in categories such as originality, contemporary relevance, something called “sing-along-abilityâ€? and, of course, the amount of peace each song inspires throughout the world as measured by LSC’s famed “peace-o-meter.â€? OK, I made up that last part. Still, it should be a fun time in the capital city. Finally, I wanted to pass along something that has helped me feel a lot better about an awful situation. As many of you are aware, local drummer Bryan Kapschull (The Leaners) drowned off Grand Isle this past PHOTO COURTESY OF August. Two weeks ago, a memorial celebration and dedication were held at the Magic Hat Brewery, where he and I worked together for four years. During the alternately cheery and teary proceedings, it was announced that a scholarship to the Vermont Rock Music Camp has FOREVER THEY SAID been established in his honor and will provide the opportunity for one student to attend next year’s camp, tuition-free. As a voracious music fan and an immensely talented drummer, it is as fitting a tribute to his memory as there could be. For information on the camp and The Bryan Kapschull Memorial Scholarship, visit www. rockmusiccamp.com. >

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CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Bluegrass Sessions, 7:30 p.m., Free.

BEE’S KNEES: Folk By Association (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

:: regional MONOPOLE: Open Mike, 9 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Beyond Guitar Hero, 8 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LOUNGE: Jah Red (Latin soul), 7:30 p.m., Free. Lotus Entertainment Presents DJ Russell (mash-up), 10 p.m., Free. 242 MAIN: Antillectual, One Win Choice, Young Denver, Take Warning, Fighting Polygon Team (indie-rock), 7 p.m., $7. AA. BACKSTAGE PUB: Blues Night with Dennis Wilmott & The Blues Reunion, 7 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Battle for Burlington: Drunken Go Nuts! (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. FRANNY O’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. GREEN ROOM: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free. HALVORSON’S UPSTREET CAFÉ: Friends of Joe with Paul Asbell & Larry McCrorey (blues), 7 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Made In Iron: A Tribute to Iron Maiden, KuFui (psychedelicrock, metal), 9 p.m., $8/10. AA. HOOTERS: Hooters Karaoke Extravaganza, 7:30 p.m., Free. LEUNIG’S: Ellen Powell & Geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. LINCOLN INN TAVERN: WCLX Blues Night with Shellhouse, 7 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Kyle the Rider, Villanelles, Animals All (indierock), 9 p.m., $5. NECTAR’S: Top Hat Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Free. Japhy Ryder, That Toga Band (prog-rock), 9:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. NIGHTCRAWLERS: Karaoke with Steve LeClair, 7 p.m., Free. PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Joshua Davis (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Squeeze Rock (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Jazz Sessions (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Shane Hardiman Group (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Anthony Santor Trio (jazz), 11 p.m., $3. RASPUTIN’S: Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: The General Lee (rock), 8 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. RUBEN JAMES: DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free. SECOND FLOOR: Wildout! (DJ), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

:: central CHARLIE O’S: Prodigal String Band (punk-grass), 10 p.m., Free. LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Peace Songwriting Contest (singersongwriters), 8 p.m., Donations. STONECUTTERS BREWHOUSE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

:: champlain valley ON THE RISE BAKERY: Gabe Jarrett & Friends (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Jam Man (DJ), 10 p.m., Free.

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:: regional OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Open Mike with Mike Pederson, 9 p.m., Free. Naked Thursdays with 95 TripleX (DJ), 10 p.m., Free. Tag Team DJs (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. TABU CAFÉ AND NIGHTCLUB: Karaoke Night with Sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.

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29 SOMEWHERE IN MIDDLE AMERICA :: The word “orchestral� gets thrown around quite a bit in music-crit parlance, particularly with regard to the ever-nebulous “indie-folk� genre. While it’s an adequate term for describing the expansive sounds of artists such as Sufjan Stevens or Andrew Bird, it rarely ever refers to an actual orchestra. Enter “orchestral-folk� collective Midwest

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1/2 LOUNGE: Black: Dimensions in House with DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free. BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Steve, 9 p.m., Free. BANANA WINDS CAFÉ & PUB: Leno & Young (rock), 7:30 p.m., Free. CHAMPLAIN LANES FAMILY FUN CENTER: U Be the Star Karaoke with Michaellea Longe, 9 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: No Diggity: Return to the ‘90s (‘90s dance party), 9 p.m., Free. GREEN ROOM: DJ Francise (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: State Radio, Bongo Love (roots-rock), 7:30 p.m., $18/20/30. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Nikka Costa, Pictures & Sound (neo-soul), 8 p.m., $17/20. AA. JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Mansfield Project (rock), 9 p.m., Free. MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: Ian Kovac (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. NECTAR’S: Andy Schlatter (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Myra Flynn (neo-soul), 7 p.m., Free. Old Silver Band, Wagan (Americana), 9 p.m., $5. NIGHTCRAWLERS: Dan Parks & The Blame (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Latin Night with DJ Hector (salsa), 10 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Joshua Panda (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Seth Eames (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. The Eames Brothers (blues), 10 p.m., Free. RASPUTIN’S: Top Hat Danceteria (DJ), 10 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: Me & You with Brett Hughes and Marie Claire (cosmorural), 6 p.m., Free. Strength in Numbers (hip-pop), 9 p.m., $3. Nastee (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3. R� Rà IRISH PUB: Supersounds DJ, 10 p.m., Free. SECOND FLOOR: Voodoo with DJ Robbie J. (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $3/10.

:: central BLACK DOOR BAR & BISTRO: 2 Adam 12 (funk), 9:30 p.m., $3-5. CHARLIE O’S: Tim Brick & Gypsy Highway (rock), 10 p.m., Free. GUSTO’S: The Dukes (rock), 9 p.m., Free. LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Happy Heartbreak Hour with Miriam Bernardo (eclectic), 6 p.m., Donations. Rusty Belle (indie-folk), 9 p.m., Donations.

:: champlain valley CITY LIMITS: Johnny Devil Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Jazz Session with Dan Silverman, 7:30 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Dizzle (DJ), 10 p.m., Free.

:: northern BAYSIDE PAVILION: Live Music, 9 p.m., Free. BEE’S KNEES: Bread & Bones (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. JD’S PUB: Live Music, 9:30 p.m., $3. RUSTY NAIL: Lotus Entertainment Presents DJ ZJ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

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SHOOTERS SALOON: Ambush (rock), 9:30 p.m.

:: regional OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Twiddle (jam), 10 p.m., Free.

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:: burlington area 1/2 LOUNGE: Kip Meaker (blues), 7 p.m., Free. Stereophonix with DJ Tricky Pat (jazzy downtempo), 10 p.m., Free. AVENUE BISTRO: Jenni Johnson & Friends (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. BACKSTAGE PUB: Sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free. BANANA WINDS CAFÉ & PUB: Karaoke, 8 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (DJ), 10 p.m., $5. FRANNY O’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. GREEN ROOM: Will’s Goodbye Party (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: State Radio, Bongo Love (roots-rock), 7:30 p.m., $18/20/30. AA. JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LINCOLN INN TAVERN: The Hitmen (rock), 9 p.m., Free. MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: Paul & Tracie Cassarino, Jeff Wheel (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Tick Tick Presents A Stereo Warmup (eclectic DJs), 9 p.m., $5. NECTAR’S: Zach DuPont (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Jay Burwick (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Jesse Dee CD Release (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., $5. Lifted (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

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:: central BLACK DOOR BAR & BISTRO: The Cosmic Americans (Americana), 9:30 p.m., $3-5. CHARLIE O’S: Generous Thieves (rock), 10 p.m., Free. GUSTO’S: Push (rock), 9 p.m., Free. LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: 5th Annual LSC Masquerade Ball with The Superpowers (Afro-funk), 9 p.m., $5-10. POSITIVE PIE 2: In the Dark with Strength In Numbers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

:: champlain valley CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (DJ), 9 p.m., Free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: The Nerbak Brothers (rock), 7:30 p.m., Donations. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Hot Neon Magic (‘80s New Wave), 10 p.m., $3.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Open Mike with Elise & Jay, 7:30 p.m., Free. PIECASSO: Karaoke Championship with John Wilson & Danger Dave, 9:30 p.m., Free.

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anadian songwriter Bruce Innes has had quite a career. He performed hit singles such as “Mr. Monday” and the famed Vietnam protest song “One Tin Soldier” with his band The Original Caste in the late 1960s. He wrote and recorded with artists such as Ian Tyson, John Denver and Joni Mitchell. And those illustrious associations are but the tip of the iceberg. Innes’ credits also include work with iconic oddball Ray Stevens (“You could never write a song too silly for Ray,” he says); outlaw country badass Waylon Jennings (“a quiet guy”); and legendary comedic actor Leslie Nielsen (“Kind of a hound. All he did was chase women”). And, believe me, the list goes on. Seven Days recently caught up with Innes by phone from Milton in advance of his upcoming Vermont performances, which feature a blend of music and stories from his remarkable career. We chatted about music, protest songs and, Bruce Innes performs this Thursday, October 23, at the Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $15; and Friday at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $20.

of course, his good friend Hunter S. Thompson, who wrote about Innes in his landmark novel Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. SEVEN DAYS: Did you ever imagine that the lyrics to “One Tin Soldier” would be as relevant today as they were in the Vietnam era? BRUCE INNES: Really, we had no idea, to start with, that it was sort of an antiwar song. But when we released it, it was right in the middle of the war and it became sort of an anthem. It was a mixed blessing in lots of ways, because the country was really divided. There was a huge contingent of people in this country who thought it was antipatriotic. It was not like it is today. It really caused a lot of trouble. Lots of radio stations banned it. We had lots of letters saying things like, “Why don’t you go back to Canada, you son of a bitch?” That sort of thing. It was interesting. SD: Given that many of the people in charge of our current military conflicts are products of that generation, do you feel the lessons of the Vietnam era have been forgotten?

BI: I do, in lots of ways. Every time we read about another one of our young people being killed . . . we seem to be fighting in a place where we’re not wanted. It reminds me of the Vietnam War in lots of ways. You wonder if maybe we’re doing the same thing all over again. It’s hard to know. SD: It almost seems as though antiwar songs have become a sort of campy, nostalgic cliché. Do you still believe in the power of protest songs to affect change? BI: I don’t know if they ever have, actually. One thing I think it does do is to get people talking and thinking. I was thinking the other night about Crosby, Stills & Nash’s “Ohio,” about Kent State . . . That got a lot of people thinking. I think protest songs get people talking. I don’t know that they change a lot of people’s minds. I don’t know that I’ve ever changed anybody’s mind, quite frankly. SD: How did you come to know Hunter S. Thompson? BI: I was playing in the Gun Room at the Finlen Hotel in Butte, Montana, one summer and Hunter came up to do a story on the mines for the Wall Street Jour-

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Fear & Loathing in Milton nal. And so he was there for a month . . . and we quickly figured out that we were the only two sane people in the town of Butte . . . Although, it may have been the other way around. All the stuff he wrote about me in Fear and Loathing is only 50 per. . . 40, er, 30 percent true.

SD: I should hope so! Tell me something about Hunter that most people wouldn’t know. BI: He loved volleyball. He was a really good athlete. I think as his health BRUCE INNES deteriorated in later years that really contributed to him being depressed and maybe ending up the way it And I said, “What do you mean? ended up. An intruder?” And he said, “No, But he had a great sense of my typewriter. Nobody could humor. Absolutely great. One write anything with a piece of shit time I was at home in Canada like that.” and he called at 4 a.m. and woke I don’t think my parents ever my mother and father up. He recovered from that. > asked to speak to me and I went to the telephone and heard this For the full transcript of this interhuge explosion on the other end view, log on to Seven Days’ music of the line. It was a gunshot. And blog Solid State at 7d.blogs.com/ Hunter yells, “I got the bastard!” solidstate.

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SAT.25 << 13B RUSTY NAIL: Lotus Entertainment Presents DJ Russell (mash-up), 10 p.m., $5.

:: regional KRAZY HORSE SALOON: Bootleg (country), 10 p.m., Free. MONOPOLE: School Bus Yellow (rock), 10 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Zero Tolerance (rock), 10 p.m., Free. TABU CAFÉ AND NIGHTCLUB: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (DJ), 5 p.m., Free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Pete, 9 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Bonjour-Hi! (electronica), 9 p.m., $3/8. FRANNY O’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Jedi Mind Tricks, Outerspace, Reef the Lost Cause, King Magnetic with Adlib (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $18/20. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Boys & Girls Club of Burlington Presents Hardcore & Metal Showcase X, 6:30 p.m., $8/10. AA. LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Pine Street Jazz with Susan Squire, 6 p.m., Free.

NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. NIGHTCRAWLERS: Karaoke with Steve LeClair, 7 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Old Time Sessions, 1 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Matthew Palka (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. bigTALK (rock), 8 p.m., Free. State Champion (indie), 9 p.m., Free. Joshua Panda Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: Nastee Soul Sunday, 10 p.m., Free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Irish Session, 5 p.m., Free.

:: central LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Jazz Night with The Harvey, Moroz, Santor Trio, 8 p.m., Donations.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Open Irish Session, 3 p.m., Free. Red Hot Juba (cosmic Americana), 7:30 p.m., Donations. THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Jazz on Tap (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LOUNGE: Heal-In Sessions with Briandeye & Reverence (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. NECTAR’S: Genuine Junk Band, Stacked (eclectic), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Open Mike, 8 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: Funkwagon (funk), 9 p.m., Free.

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songwriter’s take on soul music is intimately rooted in the iconic sounds of Stax and Motown. But as his debut album, Bittersweet Batch, proves, he is not merely retracing the footsteps of giants. His energetic brand of “new” soul is as informed by modern torchbearers James Hunter and Amos Lee as it is Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. Dee celebrates the release of his new disc this Saturday at Nectar’s.

1/2 LOUNGE: Caroline O’Connor (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Adavance Music Singer-Songwriter Search, 7 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Amos Lee, Priscilla Ahn (singersongwriters), 7:30 p.m., $23/25. AA. LEUNIG’S: Lars Duggan (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Mad Mountain Scramblers (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: Hip-Hop Open Mike with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. NECTAR’S: Rock Tuesday with The Deep Dark Woods, Crowfeather (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. PARIMA ACOUSTIC LOUNGE: Island Night with DJ Skinny T (DJ), 9 p.m., Free. Poets’ Jam with Trevien Stanger, 9:30 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Gua Gua (psychotropical), 6 p.m., Free. Layah Jane (jazz-folk), 8:30 p.m., Free. Honky Tonk Sessions (country), 10 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: World Bashment with Demus & Super K (reggae), 9 p.m., Free.

:: central CHARLIE O’S: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Mystery Fun Night (eclectic), 8 p.m., Donations.

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MAIN STREET GRILL AND BAR: Tom & Jairo (trumpet & Spanish guitar), 7 p.m., Free. STONECUTTERS BREWHOUSE: Open Mike, 7 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Stone, Coane & Sacher (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. SECOND FLOOR: Superstar Karaoke with Robbie J, 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

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CHARLIE O’S: Mark Legrand (country), 10 p.m., Free. LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Midwest Dilemma, Kris Gruen (indie-folk), 8 p.m., Donations.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Blue Fox (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations. PIECASSO: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

WED.29 :: burlington area

1/2 LOUNGE: DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. CLUB METRONOME: Karaoke with DJ Precious, 9 p.m., $5. Family Night Open Jam, 10 p.m., Free (18+). JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LEUNIG’S: Will Patten Gypsy Jazz (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Celtic Music Party (Irish), 7 p.m., Free. MANHATTAN PIZZA AND PUB: Open Mike, 10 p.m., Free. NECTAR’S: An Evening with W.E.S.T. (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Silent Mind, Cherry Cassette (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

:: champlain valley CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. ON THE RISE BAKERY: Craft Night, 7:30 p.m., Free.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Layah Jane (jazz-folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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SEVEN DAYS | october 22-29, 2008 | music 17B

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SETH EAMES, TWO MOONS PULLIN’ DOWN ON ME

PALE YOUNG GENTLEMEN, BLACK FOREST (TRA LA LA)

(Self-released, CD)

The brothers Reisenauer return, fellow pale gents and gentle ladies, with Black Forest (Tra La La), the followup to their critically acclaimed 2006 self-titled debut. Pale Young Gentlemen remain a band of heady intellect principally focused on highly structured, theatrical arrangements, which the lavish baritone yarns of lead singer Michael Reisenauer gracefully complement. The record is tenacious. And it is refreshing to hear artists so secure in an imaginative approach. Tracks such as “Coal/Ivory� and “Kettle Drum (I Left a Note)� are cured, antiquated shanties. The plucky, curving, expertly crafted lullabies are the band’s forte. Reisenauer is a talented storyteller, comfortable in numerous melodic ranges, conversational lows and — as the record’s subtitle suggests — sing-along, chorus-backed highs. The record will no doubt be improperly lumped under indie rock’s sodden umbrella, and that is unfortunate. “The Crook of My Good Arm,� a ferociously lean, cello-led, 3-minute gallop is the only remotely rock-styled song on the album. But that does not detract from its excellence. It’s a lyrical high moment for Reisenauer as well: “Run, run for the child in your heart / that’s taken all the blame.� Black Forest’s delicately created charm and atmosphere make the recording a more than respectable achievement. Yet it has a rare and pivotal advantage: one of the best songs of the dwindling release year. “Marvelous Design� appears in the album’s introductory stages. But the brilliance of its impression lasts throughout the entire record. The song is so poignantly agile and addictive that it bolsters the release as a whole. A lustrous string-and-piano accompaniment merges with a chillingly beautiful chorale, ornamented with weighty, jazz-infused hooks. The track typifies the band’s fervent sincerity; it’s a ballad of melodic complexity that Reisenauer navigates brilliantly, his full impressive vocal range employed. Pale Young Gentlemen’s performance this Saturday, October 25, at Radio Bean will include a performance of this fantastic tune, along with numerous other selections from their catalogue — the shimmering, harmonious hues that are anything but pale.

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Seth Eames, half of Vermont’s favorite “mountain bluesâ€? sons The Eames Brothers, returns with Two Moons Pullin’ Down on Me, the followup to his 2006 solo debut, Train Goes By. Fans of his collaborations with brother Ralph will no doubt find plenty to like; the disc fairly roils with bluesy Delta grit. But Seth Eames’ talents run deeper than the swamps from which he draws his primary inspiration. With help from sonic provocateur Michael Chorney, he disturbs those murky, slow-moving waters and emerges with an album churning with dark mystery. A nimbly lilting acoustic guitar introduces album opener “I Been Down.â€? The tune — and the disc — possesses a comfortingly familiar, melancholic quality doubly enhanced by Eames’ hollow-bodied vocal delivery. Simultaneously ragged and rich in tone, he bends pronunciations in his lyrics as if each word is just another string on his guitar. The effect is chilling, particularly when he repeats the baleful refrain that gives the album its name: “Got them two moons, they’re pullin’ down on me.â€? Muddy Waters, meet Nick Drake. On the punchy “Bottle O Wine,â€? Eames deftly invokes boozy backwoods ennui. “If the river was whiskey and I was a stone / I’d sink to the bottom, feel right at home. / But the river ain’t whiskey and I’m just a man / tryin’ to do the best I can,â€? he laments. On the whole, Eames relies on fairly rudimentary wordsmithing. But coupled with his visceral delivery, that simplicity is effective and refreshing. Chorney’s influence on the album is subtle but potent. The Magic City honcho and frequent AnaĂŻs Mitchell collaborator recorded, mixed and mastered the album. He also chips in guitar, baritone sax, bass and keyboard tracks. His contributions to the disc’s fifth cut, “Everybody’s Got a Story,â€? are particularly notable, enhancing the tune’s sly ethereal qualities with feather-light dexterity. That the blues informs Seth Eames’ approach is undeniable. But to call Two Moons Pullin’ Down on Me an “acoustic bluesâ€? album is to tell but a small part of the story. Too often, “blues-inspiredâ€? artists gracelessly twist the genre’s timeworn idioms into milquetoast approximations — looking at you, John Mayer. But Eames weaves a vibrant musical tapestry rich in style, all the while preserving the integrity of his favored roots with dexterity and reverence. Catch Seth Eames this Friday, October 24, at Burlington’s Radio Bean. DAN BOLLES

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<calendar > green machines Can you drive from Vermont to California without stopping at a single gas pump? Freelance writer and onetime Vermont resident Greg Melville left South Burlington in September 2006 with his buddy Peter Igneri riding shotgun. Eight days later, they became the first people to drive crosscountry in a “french-fry car” — a beat-up 1985 Mercedes diesel station wagon powered by fry-o-lator oil collected from restaurant dumpsters along the way. Melville, who says, “To me it was as much economics as anything else,” documents the journey in Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-oil-powered Car, and a CrossCountry Search for a Greener Future. The narrative details oil-filtering and scavenging challenges, but also greenenergy research trips to places such as Google’s solar-powered headquarters. Melville’s stop at Shelburne’s Flying Pig was filmed for C-SPAN’s BookTV on the 15th; he returns to Vermont this week for two signings and talks. Greg Melville

Monday, October 27, 7 p.m. at Phoenix Books in Essex. Free. Info, 872-7111. ‘Your Fries Give Me Gas’

Tuesday, October 28, 7 p.m. at the McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, in Colchester. Free. Info, 654-2536. www.gregmelville.com

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Burlington Peace Vigil: Activists stand together in opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Top of Church Street, Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345. Digital TV Transition Town Meeting: No free TV? Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps joins U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for discussion of a February 2009 broadcast format change; Copps and a panel of area broadcast representatives address audience members’ questions. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 1-800-339-9834. Domestic Violence Awareness Walk: Survivors of partner abuse and their supporters step out after speeches by law enforcement personnel. Colchester Police Department, Colchester, 12 p.m. Free. Info, 6583131, ext. 1062. National ‘Save A Life’ Tour: This multimedia alcohol-awareness program discourages drinking and driving with a simulation experience that includes an actual casket. Johnson State College, Johnson, 12-6 p.m. Free. Info, 888-655-7263.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. Sand Mandala Creation: Tibetan monks painstakingly arrange millions of grains of colored sand in a circular representation of the universe, as part of a week-long residency. Marble Court, Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. $5. Info, 656-0750. Sand Mandala Scattering: Tibetan monks dismantle an elaborately colorful, symbolic image by casting its contents into a body of water. Marble Court, Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 5 p.m. $5. Info, 656-0750.

dance ‘Salsalina’ Practice: Work on your sensuous nightclub routines at this weekly Latin dance session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, nonmembers 6 p.m., members 7 p.m. $10. Info, 598-1077.

etc. Charity Bingo: Players seek matches on numbered cards, then say the magic word. Broadacres Bingo Hall, Colchester, 7 p.m. $10 for 12 cards. Info, 860-1510. German-English Exchange: Anglophones practice foreign-language conversation with native speakers of Deutsch, and vice versa. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. Italian Conversation Group: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869. ‘Matter of Balance’: Community educators from Rutland Regional Medical Center help perfectionists manage their fear of failure. Godnick Senior Center, Rutland, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 468-3093.

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Queen City Ghostwalk: Adventurous souls stretch their legs around Burlington’s downtown, hearing haunted history and spine-tingling tales. Meet on the back steps of Burlington City Hall. Burlington City Hall Park, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $13; call for reservations. Info, 351-1313, queencityghostwalk@gmail.com. Spanish Conversation Group: Habla español? Brown baggers eat lunch and devour new vocab. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 12-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: Fans of cocoa-covered confectionery see how it’s made. Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9591. Early Bird Breakfast: Hungry hunters chow down on a deer-season special featuring triple-stacked pancakes, eggs, coffee and a choice of meaty sides. Proceeds benefit a farmto-market nonprofit. L.A.C.E., Barre, 6 a.m. $7. Info, 476-4276. Middlebury Farmers’ Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 897-2121. South End Farmers’ Market: Residents of the Queen City’s southernmost neighborhood peruse seasonal produce at outdoor stalls. Flynndog, Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-8526.

kids Animal Feeding: Watch critters do dinner with help from the animal-care staff. ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m. $7-9.50. Info, 864-1848. Pajama Stories: Flannel-clad kids ages 2 to 8 curl up for cozy evening tales. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ‘Turning Voices Into Action’: Vermont high school students reflect upon their experiences in the public educational system, and policy makers in charge of meeting their needs listen in. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 781-710-2807.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘The Power of Forgiveness’: This award-winning documentary portrays various struggles for closure in the aftermath of violence, and probes humanity’s moral obligations. A postfilm discussion tackles philosophical questions about grief and healing. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. ‘The Red Shoes’: In this 1948 film featuring grand, colorful dance numbers, Moira Shearer stars as a young woman accepted into a prestigious ballet company. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

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St. Andrew’s Pipes and Drums: Got kilt? This Scottish-style marching band welcomes new members to play bagpipes or percussion. St. James Episcopal Church, Essex, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7335, jerdelyi@vhfa. org.

talks ‘Architecture as Catalyst’: UCLA architecture professor emeritus Tom Hines describes the significance of Rudolph Schindler’s 1922 King’s Road House in Los Angeles. Chaplin Hall, Norwich University, Northfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2620. Vermont’s Supreme Court: Vermont Law School Professor Cheryl Hanna considers whether the 2008 gubernatorial election will affect appointments to the state’s highest court. Marsh Lounge, Billings Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-4389. Violence Against Women: Burlington City Councilor and State Representative Kurt Wright and State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan consider how to prevent and punish public and domestic threats to women’s safety and health. Community Room, Burlington College, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616.

theater Comedy Night: Regional yuksters Kathleen Kanz, Lindsay Going, Roger Miller and Martha Tormey do a quadruple header. Black Door Bar & Bistro, Montpelier, 8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 223-7070. ‘Menopause — The Musical’: Four females channel various aspects of “the change” in a song-and-dance fest that starts with a shopping trip. See calendar spotlight. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $36-40. Info, 775-0903. ‘My Dear Boy’: WordStage Vermont combines prose, poetry and music written by, to and from gay men throughout history. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812. ‘Well’: Lisa Kron’s 2006 Broadway hit begins as an orderly autobiographical monologue about allergy cures — until the author’s mother takes over. See review, p.35A. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-28. Info, 863-5966.

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Burton Protest Rally: Peaceful-butpissed parents and community members voice their displeasure with the Queen-City-based snowboard giant’s “Love” and “Primo” lines. Meet at Red Rocks Park at 11:30 to walk to Burton’s Burlington store by noon. Burton Flagship Store, Burlington, 12 p.m. Free. Info, sdebrosse@verizon.net.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. Community Darkroom: Shutterbugs develop film and print pictures. Center for Photographic Studies, Barre, 6 p.m. $8 per hour. Info, 479-4127.

business Queen City BNI: Local members of Business Network International schmooze at a weekly breakfast meeting to help promote one another’s companies. Room 202, Vermont Technical College, Blair Park Campus, Williston, 8 a.m. First visit is free. Info, 985-9965.

dance Compagnie Heddy Maalem: In an opus set to Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” and film projections, dancers from Mali, Benin, Nigeria and Senegal furiously conjure the cacophony of urban Africa. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24-39. Info, 863-5966. Dance Workshop: Chicago-based choreographer Darrell Jones shows modern techniques to advanced beginners. Dance Studio, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

etc. Bridge Club: Partners shuffle cards and chat. Godnick Senior Center, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 287-5756. Charity Bingo: See WED.22, 7 p.m.

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.22, 2 p.m. Early Bird Breakfast: See WED.22, 6 a.m.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m. Morning Stories: Local tale tellers engage kids of all ages with a mix of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, songs and games. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124. Music With Peter: The under-5 set and their caretakers keep the beat. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Preschool Stories: Future readers aged 2 to 5 take in tales. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Westford Storytime: Kids ponder picture books and create crafts. Westford Library, Westford, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639. Winooski Playgroup: Babies up to age 2 socialize with each other and their caregivers at a session offering music, books and toys. Winooski Memorial Library, Winooski, 11 a.m. 12 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. Vermont International Film Festival: In this four-day ode to the silver screen, flicks from Vermont and around the world deal with everything from migrant workers in Addison County to teenage vampires in Sweden. Catch free screenings at the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington, or shows with $5-8.50 tickets at South Burlington’s Palace 9 Cinema. Various downtown locations, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. See www.vtiff.org for more info and a full schedule. Info, 660-2600, info@vtiff.org. ‘Woman on the Beach’: In this Korean comedy of manners, a creatively blocked director uses illicit romances to generate material for a new film. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘When You Remember Deir Yassin’: Burlington-based poet Robert Green shares original verse inspired by the Palestinian struggle for national liberation. Middle-Eastern buffet 6 p.m., reading 7 p.m. Flynndog, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $13 for buffet dinner; the reading is free. Info, 229-4011.

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French Conversation Group: Would-be Francophones exchange info during déjeuner. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 12-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Queen City Ghostwalk: See WED.22, 7-8 p.m. Ski & Skate Sale Drop-Off: Athletes part with gently used winter sports stuff, sans straight skis, for Saturday’s sale. Montpelier High School, Montpelier, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 225-8699. Vermont Chess Club: Pawn pushers strategize to better their games. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0198.

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THU.23 << 19B Billy Bragg: The hard-edged folkie belts out wildly funny to stridently socialist songs about politics, love and the common man. Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $36. Info, 603-448-0400. Bruce Innes: The acoustic guitarist and pianist who founded the Canadian pop group The Original Caste concertizes in an intimate setting. Vergennes Opera House, Vergennes, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 877-6737. Johnson State College Concert Band: Students and community members team up to toot their horns and beat their drums at a weekly practice session. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3498, steven. light@jsc.edu. Peace Songwriting Contest: Local musicians perform original, protestinspired ditties to rival ’60s anthems penned by Baez, Seeger and Dylan. Competing composers should download entry forms from www.orcamedia. net, and submit them by October 15. Langdon Street Café, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 224-9901.

Sally Pinkas: Dartmouth’s pianistin-residence shares a stage with violinist Jennifer Frautschi and French horn player Eric Ruske in a romantic concert of chamber works by Brahms and Schumann. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-18. Info, 603-646-2422. Taize Evensong Service: Musical prayers call for peace as part of a meditative, ecumenical program that follows the model of a French monastic community. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, 864-0471.

sport Zumba Fitness: Bodies get buff by keeping time with a trendy combo of aerobics and Latin dance. Olympiad Health and Racquet Club, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 310-6686.

talks ‘Stopping Rape’: Psychology Professor Nicola Gavey of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, explains the difference between recognizing and refusing unwanted sexual advances. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

<calendar > ‘Taste of Place’: Can your tongue recognize Vermont-grown goodies? UVM Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Food Sciences Amy Trubek gives a talk about the possible future of terroir. Room 103, Franklin Environmental Center, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 617-721-0673. ‘The Contemporary Portrait in American Society’: Richard Saunders, director of Middlebury’s Museum of Art, offers illustrated examples of how U.S. painting and sculpture subjects put their best face forward. Reading Room 229, Sarr Axinn Center, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5007.

theater ‘Menopause — The Musical’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Haunted Forest’: Good-natured thrills and chills await visitors to this volunteer-run, too-scary-for-tots take on outdoor theater. (A tamed-down matinee version enthralls kids 7 and under at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 25.) Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m. $8.50-$12.50. Info, 238-0923, jana@ thehauntedforest.org. ‘Well’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m.

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words ‘Booked for Lunch’: Northeast Kingdom-based author Reeve Lindbergh contemplates leaving middle age in readings from her new essay collection, Forward From Here. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 12 p.m. Free. Info, 856-7211. Peter Galbraith: The former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia speaks about the Iraq War’s effect on America and the incoming president, then signs copies of his book Unintended Consequences. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3999‎. Tom Slayton: The editor emeritus of Vermont Life magazine reads from Searching for Thoreau, his book tracing Thoreau’s New England woodland treks. Simpson Hall, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-648-3591, ext. 141.

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Burlington Peace Vigil: See WED.22, 5-5:30 p.m.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. Essex Fall Craft & Fine Art Show: Shoppers peruse painted glass, sheepskin slippers and various demonstrations at this gathering of more than 400 juried artisans. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 12-7 p.m. $7 admission good for all three days. Info, 808-878-4786.

dance Argentinean Tango: Shoulders back, chin up! With or without partners, dancers of all abilities strut to bandoneón riffs in a self-guided practice session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $5. Info, 598-1077. Ballroom Dance Social: Twirlers who have basic steps under their belts practice with partners. Champlain Club, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $10. Info, 598-6757. ‘Traitor’: Postmodern dance choreographers Lisa Gonzales and Darrell Jones offer a dynamic duet packed with the poignancy of human connection — and perceived betrayal. Dance Studio, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $5-20. Info, 443-6433.

etc. Charity Bingo: See WED.22, 7 p.m. Queen City Ghostwalk: See WED.22, 7-8 p.m. Ski & Skate Sale Drop-Off: See THU.23, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Tertulia Latina: Latino-americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.

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sound round Enduring folk figures are self-made, not born. Singer-songwriter Tom Paxton joined the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early ’60s and quickly became a staple of New York’s coffeehouse scene. Forty years and thousands of concerts later, the Chicago-born balladeer’s political convictions and generous attitude have inspired the admiration of three generations of fellow musicians. Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Ani DiFranco and scores of others have covered his durable hits. But Paxton’s concert-circuit songs are up-to-theminute: “Sarah Palin” offers a tongue-in-cheek ode to the Republican veep candidate, while “I’m Changing My Name to Fannie Mae” puts an everyman perspective on the financial crisis, with lyrics like “I’ll be waiting when they hand out / 700 million grand out.” Paxton packs political punches at an After Dark Music Series concert. Tom Paxton

Saturday, October 25, 7 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Middlebury. $25-28. Info, 388-0216. www.tompaxton.com www.afterdarkmusicseries.com

Chicken & Biscuit Dinner: A quintessential Vermont fall dish forms the focus of this gravy-laden fundraiser. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 6 p.m. One seating only; call for tickets. Info, 862-5010. Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.22, 2 p.m. Early Bird Breakfast: See WED.22, 6 a.m. Harvest Pot-Pie Dinner: Hungry? Sit down to a selection of savory pastries filled with beef, chicken or turkey, plus a salad, beverage and dessert. St. Ambrose Parish, Bristol, 5-7 p.m. $4-8. Info, 453-2488.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

Harvest Carnival: Children ages 2 to 12 from Burlington, Essex, Colchester and Winooski paint pumpkins, play games and bounce on inflatables at a community celebration staffed by 35 student volunteers. Tarrant Student Recreational Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $3 per child; free for accompanying adults. Info, 654-2663. ‘Kids’ Knight Out’: Ages 5-10 enjoy an evening of movies, crafts, swimming, food and more. Ross Sports Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5:30-9 p.m. $10-15. Info, 654-2500.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘Champlain: The Lake Between’: Filmmaker Caro Thompson premieres her new documentary about colonialera commerce and alliances among northeastern Native Americans and Europeans, including footage on Lake Champlain’s military forts. Vergennes Opera House, Vergennes, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-4800. ‘Frozen River’: In this Sundance grand jury prizewinner, financially struggling single moms near an upstate New York Mowhawk reservation get drawn into an international smuggling scheme. Cinematographer and Hanover native Reed Morano conducts a post-screening Q&A in person. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘High and Outside’: Legendary Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee speaks to moviegoers at a Vermont International Film Fest screening of this documentary about his political activism. Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 6:45 p.m. $5-8.50. Info, 660-2600, info@vtiff.org. ‘Shout It Out’: The silver-screen version of The Voices Project, a musical based on the lives of Vermont teens, continues a 50-town tour. Stowe High School, Stowe, 7 p.m. $7-10. Info, 592-3190. Vermont International Film Festival: See THU.23, noon - 11:30 p.m.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Bruce Innes: See THU.23, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 748-2600. Willy Porter: The acoustic guitarist who’s played stadium gigs with Paul Simon and Sting picks out original songs in a more intimate setting. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 656-4455.

talks ‘American Food in Punctuation’: As part of a student-organized symposium on food issues, American Flatbread founder and president George Schenk applies the theory of punctuated equilibrium to eats. Room 103, Franklin Environmental Center, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 617-721-0673. ‘Lake Champlain at 399’ Series: Historical interpreter Donald Thompson dishes about 17th-century French explorer Samuel de Champlain. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

theater ‘Menopause — The Musical’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Haunted Forest’: See THU.23, 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m. ‘Well’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m.

words 24-Hour Read-A-Thon: Kids and adults raise funds for literacy-related charities by turning pages on piles of books. Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, 6 p.m. - midnight. Pledges and donations; sign up in advance. Info, 472-5533.

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Also, see exhibitions in Section A. Essex Fall Craft & Fine Art Show: See FRI.24, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

dance Ballroom Dance Social: Singles and couples of all ages learn ballroom, swing and Latin dancing. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, 7-10 p.m. $12. Info, 862-2269, elabd@comcast.net. Family Dance: Cuckoo’s Nest makes music for dancers in clean shoes, and Rebecca Lay calls the steps. Tracy Hall, Norwich, family dance 5-6:30 p.m., potluck supper 6:30 p.m., contra dance 8 p.m. $5-8, free for kids younger than 16. Bring a potluck dish to share. Info, 785-4607. Galumpha: A trio of acrobatic dancers combines striking visual effects with rambunctiously inventive choreography. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $10-14. Info, 518-523-2512. Otter Creek Contra Dance: Heads! Caller Nancy Turner coordinates folks in soft-soled shoes to live tunes by Lucky Penny. Holley Hall, Bristol, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 453-4613. ‘Traitor’: See FRI.24, 8 p.m.

etc. Charity Bingo: See WED.22, 7 p.m. Digital Video Editing: Camera wielders who’ve taken an access orientation course learn how to create nonlinear narratives with Final Cut Pro software. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692. ‘Email Basics’: Would-be electronic communicators set up an Internetbased email account and learn how to manage it. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:45 a.m. $3, call to register. Info, 865-7217. Harvest Bazaar: Household plants, handcrafted items and baked goods set off a pre-Halloween costume corner for last-minute outfit ideas. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5010. Queen City Ghostwalk: See WED.22, 7-8 p.m. Redstone Haunted House: On this Halloween fright-walk fundraiser for an area food shelf, scare seekers age 16 and older tour a spook-infested structure built in 1899. Redstone Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. Donations of nonperishable food items. Info, 236-4275. Ski & Skate Sale: Need a backup pair? Winter athletes shop for sports equipment in anticipation of forthcoming snow and ice. Montpelier High School, Montpelier, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 225-8699. ‘The Phantom of the Opera House’ Costume Ball: Dancing, door prizes and “The Music of the Night” motivate masked partygoers at this gala fundraiser for Barre’s biggest arts venue. Barre Opera House, Barre, 6:30 p.m. $50. Info, 476-8188. Vermont 3.0 Creative/Tech Career Jam: Area businesses and schools showcase career opportunities on the cutting edge of cool, and a concurrent speaker series sums up local innovations. See www.vermont3.com for a full schedule. Champlain College, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5684.

food & drink Burlington Farmers’ Market: Sixty-three vendors sell everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to ethnic cuisine to pottery to artisan cheese. Burlington City Hall Park, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-889-8188. Capital City Farmers’ Market: More than 40 central Vermont vendors hawk fresh produce, baked goods, seedlings, crafts and more, accompanied by live music. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 685-4360.

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‘Choctoberfest’: Connoisseurs tickle their tastebuds at a gourmet chocolate-tasting seminar as part of a weekend devoted to factory tours and hot-chocolate-sipping sessions. Lake Champlain Chocolates, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807. Early Bird Breakfast: See WED.22, 6 a.m. German Dinner: Sauerbraten, spaetzle, red cabbage and chicken schnitzel make way for homemade apple desserts and chocolate cake. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Jericho, 4:30 p.m., 5:45 p.m., 7 p.m. $5-14; call for reservations. Info, 899-3932. Middlebury Farmers’ Market: See WED.22, 9 a.m. Northwest Farmers’ Market: Stock up on local, seasonal produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m. 2 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5821.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m. Bebop Playgroup: Adults indulge in coffee and bagels while kids up to age 3 meet their peers. Bebop Baby Shop, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 860-6842. Clown Jewel: Actor-teacher Peter Gould stretches young ones’ muscles and minds with physical comedy and interactive storytelling. Alumni Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 11 a.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2010. Halloween Costume Parade & Festival: Costumed trick-or-treaters try for goodies, then salute scary creatures in a street march from City Hall. Pumpkins in shop windows signal trick-or-treaters 10:30 a.m. - noon, parade and festival noon - 4 p.m. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7253. ‘Saturday Stories’: Librarians read from popular picture books. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. ‘Swimmy, Frederick and Inch by Inch’: Leo Leonni’s exquisitely crafted Caldecott Honor books come to life in this three-part puppetry production by Nova Scotia’s Mermaid Theatre. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 12 p.m. & 3 p.m. $9-18. Info, 457-3981.

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‘Sons of Lwala’: This documentary follows two recent Dartmouth grads who founded a community health clinic in their home village in Kenya six years after neighbors sold their livestock to send the pair to college. Film subjects Milton and Fred Ochieng’ conduct a post-screening Q&A. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘The Edge of Heaven’: Characters caught in interlocking narratives navigate the Turkish immigrant experience in Europe. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. Vermont International Film Festival: See THU.23, 12:30-11:45 p.m.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Manchester Chamber Orchestra: Guest cellist Nathaniel Rosen joins the integral ensemble of the Manchester music festival, under conductor Ariel Rudiakov. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $5-30. Info, 728-6464. ‘Save the Endangered Didgeridoo in the USA’: East Montpelier musician Pitz Quattrone conducts a workshop intro to an Australian Aboriginal wind instrument, then makes way for world-music folk settings by the Earthman Band and balladeer Amy Torchia. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 229-4952. Tom Paxton: The engaging, emotionally compelling folk musician whose songs have been covered by Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and Joan Baez sums up his 40-plus-year career. See calendar spotlight. United Methodist Church, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $25-28. Info, 388-0216. Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Violinist Augustin Hadelich solos in a concert whose program contains three works all composed within the last 75 years: Alberto Ginastera’s Ballet Suite, Shostakovich’s first violin concerto, and Joseph Schwantner’s 2008 opus “Chasing Light . . .” Flynn MainStage, Burlington, pre-concert talk 7 p.m., concert 8 p.m. $9-58. Info, 863-5966.

sport Onion Trail Race: Runners pace themselves through a final foliageseason 5- and 10k trail run, with prizes. Morse Farm, Montpelier, registration 8:30 a.m., race 9:30 a.m. $5. Info, 229-9409, thefolks@ onionriver.com.

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Double Feature Film Fest: Servings of green tea and dumplings divide screenings of 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama and Still Life, a documentary chronicling changes near China’s Three Gorges Dam. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 3:30-8:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, 253-8358. ‘No End in Sight’: In this 2007 documentary about the American decisions that led Iraq into lawlessness and civil strife, interviews with U.S. generals, bureaucrats, journalists and soldiers accompany battle footage. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

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‘A Family Halloween’: Costumed kids and their parents bite doughnuts on a string, carve pumpkins and hop on horse-drawn wagon rides. A friendly sheep leads costume parades at noon and 2 p.m. Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $3-11; free for kids in costumes. Info, 457-2355. Charity Bingo: See WED.22, 7 p.m. French-English Conversation Group: Speakers of Anglais swap syllables with native French speakers in a parlez session. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. ‘Haunted Happenings’: Festively attired families take in Halloween readings, a ghost-infested Land of Oz, a pumpkin-smashing “super collider” and “pumpkin croquet” along a 20-building trick-or-treat route. Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. $5. Info, 985-3346. Queen City Ghostwalk: See WED.22, 7-8 p.m. Redstone Haunted House: See SAT.25, 8-11 p.m.

Reeve Lindbergh: The Northeast Kingdom-based author contemplates leaving middle age in readings from her new essay collection, Forward From Here. South Burlington Community Library, South Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.

food & drink Indoor Gardening Workshop: Salad eaters hear how to harvest 12 ounces of greens daily through the winter. City Market, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. Dartmouth Double Feature: Johnny Depp stars as eccentric sci-fi movie man Ed Wood; then Jack Black revamps a video rental store’s stock in Be Kind Rewind. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘Mystic Vision, Sacred Art’: This 28-minute documentary introduces the Tibetan art of thangka — devotional paintings used in Buddhist ritual practice. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 3 p.m. $5. Info, 656-0750. ‘Shout It Out’: See FRI.24, Vergennes Opera House, Vergennes, 4 p.m. $7-10. Vermont International Film Festival: See THU.23, 12-10:50 p.m.

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‘The Haunted Forest’: See THU.23, 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m. ‘Well’: See WED.22, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Also, see clubdates in Section B. The Boston Camerata: Late medieval love music illuminates the legend of Tristan and Iseult, among other stories. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

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24-Hour Read-A-Thon: See FRI.24, 12:01 a.m. - 6 p.m. ‘Frost at Billings’ Celebration: A festival of song, stories and readings resonates with the life and work of poet Robert Frost. Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2355. ‘Tomboys, Sissies and William’s Doll’: The Rainbow Library comes out of the closet at this inclusive, diverse display of contemporary queer-positive children’s books many LGBTQ adults wish they’d heard of when they were kids. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

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Also, see exhibitions in Section A. Essex Fall Craft & Fine Art Show: See FRI.24, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Intercollegiate Quidditch World Cup: Caped teams from 14 colleges face off in a festival showcase for this once-fictional, broomstick-powered sport. See calendar spotlight. Middlebury College, Middlebury, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free. Info, worldcup@ collegequidditch.com.

theater ‘Menopause — The Musical’: See WED.22, Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 4 p.m. $40-44. Info, 863-5966. ‘Sound Off: Combat Stories Revealed’: Burlington-based theater artist Jen Berger shows her smallcast work-in-progress exploring the experiences of four recent U.S. vets in Iraq and Afghanistan. North End Studio, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 863-6713. ‘The Haunted Forest’: See THU.23, 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m. ‘Well’: See WED.22, 2 p.m.

MON.27 activism

Burlington Peace Vigil: See WED.22, 5-5:30 p.m.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. Community Darkroom: See THU.23, 6 p.m.

etc. Graduate Program Info Session: Potential grad students hear about five different degree programs in various disciplines. Hoehl Welcome Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2251. Queen City Ghostwalk: See WED.22, 7-8 p.m.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.22, 2 p.m.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m. Family Sing-Along: Parents and kids belt out fun, familiar favorites. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Monday Music: Local musician Mia Adams tells stories and sings kid-friendly faves. In the J.C. Penney seating area. University Mall, South Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘Interview with the Vampire’: In this screen adaptation of an Anne Rice novel, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt play classy-yet-conflicted bloodsuckers in 18th-century Louisiana and Paris. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, Johnson, 9 p.m. $5. Info, 635-1476.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. The Spaghetti Western Orchestra: Using a wagon train of instruments that includes coat hangers, corn flakes and nail clippers, this Australian ensemble pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Ennio Morricone’s film scores. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $29-35. Info, 863-5966.

talks Islam Series: Javed Chaudhri, a lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Community College of Vermont, describes the religion’s roots and development. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

words Greg Melville: The environmental activist and author reads from Greasy Rider, his chronicle of the first attempt to traverse the U.S. in a car powered by used french-fry oil. See calendar spotlight. Phoenix Books, Essex, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111. Presidential Book Discussion: Just in time for the election, followers of books and politics talk about The President’s House by Margaret Truman. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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TUE.28 activism

Burlington Peace Vigil: See WED.22, 5-5:30 p.m.

dance Dance Talk: Anthropologist Maysoun Freij shares her research on identity, power and representation among Arab-American artists in New York City; then artist-in-residence Leyya Tawil discusses contemporary choreography and shows some of “Radar,” her new work-in-progress. Dance Studio, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

etc. Charity Bingo: See WED.22, 7 p.m. Pause Café: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Borders Books & Music, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1346. Queen City Ghostwalk: See WED.22, 7-8 p.m.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.22, 2 p.m. Early Bird Breakfast: See WED.22, 6 a.m. Old North End Farmers’ Market: Local farmers sell the fruits of their fields, and their labor. 3-6:30 p.m. H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 324-3073.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m. Dark Knight & Supergirls Comics Club: Pencil- and pen-holders draw on their inner resources to produce paneled narratives. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ECHO Storytime: Young explorers discover the wonders of the natural world through books and imaginative play. ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. $7-9.50. Info, 864-1848.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Amateur Musicians’ Orchestra: Community players of all abilities and levels of experience practice pieces. South Burlington High School, South Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $6. Info, 985-4939. GuruGanesha Singh: The gifted guitarist performs Sikh devotional music in a yogic kirtan concert supported by singer Nirinjan Kaur and other instrumentalists. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. $22.50-$30. Info, 660-8060. Noontime Concert Series: Soprano Jessica Voyer, organist-pianist Susan Summerfield and other musicians offer early music works — and 20th-century compositions mimicking them. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, 12-1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0471. Shape Note Sing: Members of the UVM Traditional Music Club teach and sing melodies of fierce beauty to promote a lively, deep-rooted American vocal genre. Billings Hall, UVM, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 585-7309052, lgraves@uvm.edu.

<calendar > The Spaghetti Western Orchestra: See MON.27, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-26. Info, 603-646-2422.

sport Laughter Yoga: Chortlers channel the untapped healing power of yukking it up. Richmond Free Library, Richmond, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 349-5404. Zumba Fitness: See THU.23, 7-8 p.m.

talks Community Medical School: Bad blood? Dr. Barbara Grant, director of Fletcher Allen’s stem cell program, sums up the lab successes that led to working treatments for leukemia and lymphoma. Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, UVM, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free, call to register. Info, 847-2886. ‘McCain and Obama on Taxes & Trade’: Economics professors John Carvellas and Reza Ramazani critique the U.S. presidential candidates’ financial policies. Farrell Hall, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536. ‘Meet the Press’ Series: Rolling Stone editor and national affairs reporter Eric Bates recaps polls, predictions and punditry during end-of-campaign ruminations on the 2008 presidential election. Room 216, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5483, shalpern@middlebury.edu.

Progressive Education: Ruth Charney, a pioneer in “responsive classroom” strategies for blending social and academic growth in school settings, talks about how to help kids become better learners. Twilight Auditorium, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5013. Wellness Lecture: Homeopathy expert Judy Jarvis explains how herbal tinctures help aid health. Ellsworth Room, Library and Learning Center, Johnson State College, Johnson, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476. Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series: CUNY Economics Professor Emeritus William Tabb and UVM Plant and Soil Science Professor Emeritus Fred Magdoff take turns exploring the roots of the financial crisis in greater depth than mainstream news coverage can provide. Billings-Ira Allen Lecture Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 893-6088. ‘Your Fries Give Me Gas’: Journalist and author Greg Melville talks about the veggie-oil-powered car trip described in his new book, Greasy Rider. See calendar spotlight. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

words Jewish Literature: Graphic Narrative: UVM English professor Hilary Neroni offers an overview of Ben Katchor’s comic strip Julius Knipl, followed by a group discussion. South Burlington Community Library, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7076.

Polly Young-Eisendrath: The Montpelier-area psychologist and Jungian analyst shares kid-raising advice from her new book, The Self-Esteem Trap. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

WED.29 activism

Burlington Peace Vigil: See WED.22, 5-5:30 p.m.

dance ‘Salsalina’ Practice: See WED.22, 6 p.m.

etc. Charity Bingo: See WED.22, 7 p.m. ‘Matter of Balance’: See WED.22, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Queen City Ghostwalk: See WED.22, 7-8 p.m. Spanish Conversation Group: See WED.22, 12-1 p.m.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.22, 2 p.m. Early Bird Breakfast: See WED.22, 6 a.m. South End Farmers’ Market: See WED.22, 3:30 p.m.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.22, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

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scratching the Quidditch itch Readers of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series have long been captivated by the magical game of Quidditch, in which wizards fly around on broomsticks trying to catch an elusive golden prize. In 2005, Middlebury students devised a way to play the sport without getting airborne. The key switch? The golden snitch, a winged globe in the books, becomes a person clad in shiny togs. The sport’s real-world adaptation has spawned full-contact intramural matches at more than 180 colleges. Midd kids host the first big intercollegiate tourney this weekend: Fourteen teams from around the country — including Louisiana State and the University of Washington — compete for the Quidditch World Cup. The accompanying festival features local food vendors, bands, live owls, fire juggling and an “exploding potions” demo by chemistry professors. Better bring your cloak. Intercollegiate Quidditch World Cup

Sunday, October 26, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. at Middlebury College. Free. Info, worldcup@collegequidditch.com www.collegequidditch.com

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talks “BUY LOCAL OR BUY GLOBAL� DEBATE: Nationally prominent economist Russell Roberts and environmental author Bill McKibben argue the pros and cons of big- and small-scale purchasing power. Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 656-5799. LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE: Economist and author Stacy Mitchell describes the “big box swindle� wherein international corporations pass on hidden costs to communities, and advocates building local, small-scale economies. Twilight Auditorium, Middlebury College, Middlebury, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3198. ‘THE BACKYARD OF THE USA’: Independent journalist and Burlington College instructor Ben Dangl considers U.S. policy toward Latin America. Community Room, Burlington College, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616.

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Dear Mistress Maeve, I’ve been seeing a girl for five months. She’s fun, interesting and intelligent. The main problem is her cigarette vice. I dislike everything about smoking and always considered the habit to be a “deal breaker” for me; however, I find myself still dating her despite her lack of effort to quit. I have been very patient and have politely told her my concerns. She agreed and said she wanted to quit and decided on a timeline to do so. The timeline has come and gone by a few months; she has stopped wearing the nicotine patches and continues to smoke. I obviously don’t mind waiting a little longer, but I don’t know what to do or say at this point. It seems inappropriate to say, “Call me when you quit smoking.” Sincerely, Up in Smoke Dear Up in Smoke, Smoking is a funny thing — while it’s not a big deal for some people, it’s a deal breaker for others. While it wouldn’t be out of the question for you to say, “Call me when you quit smoking,” I’m glad you’re willing to be patient with her. After all, you were aware of her smoking habit when you began dating her, right? As noble as it would be for her to quit for you, she has to want to put out the cigarette for herself. It’s time to have another talk with her. Ask her to tell you honestly if she has the desire to quit. You may find that her “lack of effort” is really a lack of will. Or she may reiterate that she wants to quit and needs more time. If you decide to continue seeing her, you’ll have to make that decision based on the person she is today, not the non-smoker you hope she’ll become. She may try to quit many times and may fail at each attempt. To be a good boyfriend, you’ll have to be ready to support her through as many timelines as it takes to quit. Until then, set up respectful smoking ground rules — no smoking indoors, and conscientious teeth brushing.

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3. Pick two or three models that fit your criteria and research the reliability, safety and resale value of each. If you need help, email me at goodcarma@sevendaysvt.com and I’ll be glad to assist with that research. 4. Test-drive each of the vehicles you’ve identified. Take notes on what you liked, or didn’t, about each one. 5. Finally, decide which vehicle is right for you and negotiate the best deal possible. Check my blog, Good Carma, on Seven Days Auto Finder for more purchasing tips, along with video test-drives and other vehicle info. As always, email any questions you have to goodcar ma@sevendaysvt.com. 

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2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport Safe, reliable 4WD (plus good snow tires). Drive w/ confidence. Well maintained. 98K. A/C. Great interior loading space. Yakima roof racks. Asking $5000. Info: 802-453-4887. 2001 Saab 95 Very clean 2001 Saab 95, gently driven, well maintained. All options, heated leather seats, Harmon Kardon stereo, traction control, Nokia snow tires. $4200. Info: 802-244-1361.

Cars/Trucks 1992 CADILLAC SEVILLE Looking for a winter car? Here it is! Despite its age, this car has just 50K on it. Four new Nokia snow tires installed! $2988. Info: Lewis Motors Inc., 802-658-1130, jkimel@lewisautos. com, www.lewisautos.com. 1993 Saab 900 Elite Commemorative Series, 5-speed turbo, black w/ tan leather interior, 189K. 25 mpg. Studded snows, many new parts, some rust. $2700. Info: 802-425-4141. 1994 Chevy S-10 4x4 $2995 Just inspected! New water pump, cap & rotor, spark plugs, exhaust parts, oil & filter. Tires OK. 25 mpg, 92K original miles. Info: 802-860-1544. 1996 Honda Civic 5-spd. manual, silver, 2-dr. hatchback, CD, 149K. $3950. Call 802-728-9199 or 802-272-0157. Info: Wiggett’s Auto, Adam Wiggett. 1996 Honda Civic LX 5-spd. manual, blue, AC, cruise, CD. $4750. Call 802-728-9199 or 802272-0157. Info: Wiggett’s Auto, Adam Wiggett. 1997 Audi A6 Quattro Wagon Navy, auto., 188K, seat heaters, runs, needs work. $1800/OBO. Info: 802-578-9421, artruax@ gmail.com. 1997 Honda Civic HX Auto., black, coupe, CD, alloy wheels, $4500. 802-272-0157. Info: 802728-9199, www.wiggettsauto@ comcast.net. 1998 Subaru Forester Brand new head gaskets, oil seals, water pump, CV joints. Heated seats & mirrors. Excellent body & mechanics, runs perfectly. Ready for winter, inspected through June 2009. $2900. Info: 802-249-7266. 1998 Volvo V70 Wagon 150K, well maintained, 4 snow tires, Sirius Radio hook-up. Kelly Blue Book suggested retail, $5000. Asking $4500 OBO. Must sell. Info: 802-917-1227. 1999 Toyota Camry White LE for sale, 145K. Needs a new transmission & will need to be towed. Otherwise, in good condition. Must sell! $1800. Info: 802-922-8053. 2000 Acura Integra LS Auto., blue, A/C, CD, sunroof, alloy wheels, 115K, $5950. 802-2720157. Info: 802-728-9199, www. wiggettsauto.net. 2000 Dodge Stratus 80K. Just inspected. Brand new battery & oil change. Runs well. No rust; looks good. Asking $2000. Please call 802-598-8861. Info: Aram Bedrosian.

2001 Subaru Forester L Wgn A/T, A/C, CC, P/W, P/L, Cass. $6,750. Info: Greensboro Garage, 802-533-2221, www.greensborog arage.com. 2001 Toyota Camry Solara 88K, silver, 2-dr., 4-cyl., good mpg, lots of extras, well maintained & reliable with “Winter Force” snows. $6000 neg. Info: Jean Cass, 802-363-0691. 2002 low-mile truck & plow Chevy 1500 LS. Great condition, 1 owner, only 32K! Incl. 7 1/2 Fisher plow & bed extender! P/L, CC & tow package, too. Just $12,900. Info: EJ Barrette and Sons, Inc., 802868-3327, www.barretteford.com. 2003 Subaru Forester XS A/T, A/C, CD, CC, P/W, P/L, Cass. $10,900. Info: Greensboro Garage, 802-533-2221, http:www/greens borogarage.com. 2003 VW JETTA TDI Everyone wants a Volkswagen diesel these days, & we have one! This Jetta Turbo-Diesel has a 5-spd. manual & just 70K. $12,988. Info: Lewis Motors Inc., 802-658-1130, jkimel@lewisautos.com, www. lewisautos.com. 2004 Toyota Rav 4 AWD Manual, power W/L, A/C, CD, roof rack, 77K, silver. Comes with all-terrain tires and 2 sets Nokia Hakkapeliitta snow tires. $10,500. Days: 802-734-6257, eve.: 802434-3201. Info: Colleen Price. 2005 ACURA MDX TOURING Experience luxury and performance w/ this Touring Edition MDX. Just 31,700 miles. Still under factory warranty until next July or 50K. $23,888. Info: Lewis Motors Inc., 802-658-1130, jkimel@lewisau tos.com, www.lewisautos.com. 2005 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA This is a really nice gray-colored 5-spd w/ just 36,730 miles. Still under factory warranty. Loaded Package 2 model. $16,388. Info: Lewis Motors Inc., 802-658-1130, jkimel@lewisautos. com, www.lewisautos.com.

MP3 CD6 AUXin! Backup camera, fog lights, HID headlights, more! $24,900. Info: 802-734-7818. 2007 Toyota Prius Hybrid 4-dr. sedan, A/T, A/C, CD, CC, P/W, P/L. $22,400. Info: Greensboro Garage, 802-533-2221, www. greensborogarage.com. 2008 NISSAN VERSA Looking for great gas mileage? Check out this sporty little sedan. Only 17,741 miles & still under full factory warranty. $13,988. Info: Lewis Motors Inc., 802-658-1130, jkimel@lewisautos.com, www. lewisautos.com. 4 WINTER SNOW TIRES Cooper Discovers, 2005. Used, mounted, in great condition. 235/175/R15. $300. Info: Mark Daubenschmidt, 802-316-1419. Auto Auction 3 Saturdays ea. month. Open to the public. Info: 802-878-9200, THCAuction.com. Hakkapelita Studded Tires Nokian, 215/R15 in size. Great shape, awesome tire! Used only one season. $150. Info: 802-482-3719.

For Rent 1-3-BR Affordable Apts. 1-BR apts., $767/mo. 2-BR, $911/mo. 3-BR, $1045/mo. Incl. heat & HW! Weekly yoga classes, fitness center, movie room & monthly community events! To qualify: One person makes less than $29,640/ yr., 2 people <$33,900 combined, 3 people <$38,100 combined, 4 people <$42,360 combined. Info: Keen’s Crossing, 802-655-1810, www.keenscrossing.com. 2-& 3-BR apts in Essex, VT Newly renovated, screened porch, large yard, new appliances, windows & carpeting, near supermarket, bus stop, elementary school & daycare, tenant pays utils., new furnace, gas heat, well-insulated, parking for two vehicles, NS. Info: 802-985-1500.

LT1 V8 in Buick roadmaster Motor & street rod enthusiast wanted. LT1 Corvette motor & transmission, currently in a 1996 Buick Roadmaster. Runs great & looks good. $1200. Info: Nick Farnham, 802-793-8488.

3-BR, south side, dogs ok Sunny 3-BR ranch, fully insulated, freshly painted, fenced-in area for pets, walk everywhere/bus stop on corner. Large concrete pads in back for parking vans, trucks, camper. W/D/half basement. $1400/mo. Please have excellent refs. Info: Margaret Murray, 802223-5882, hurraymurray@yahoo. com.

Truck Toolbox, $115 Made for small truck. 5’ wide x 12” deep. Good condition. I have keys for lock! Cost over $200, selling for $115. Please call 802-860-1544. Info: 802-860-1544.

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2006 Subaru Legacy Outback Wagon. A/T, A/C, CC, CD, P/W, P/ L. $18,750. Info: Greensboro Garage, 802-533-2221, www.greensborogarage.com.

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2007 Suzuki SX-4 4-dr. hatchback, 5-spd., A/C, CD, P/W, P/ L, w/ selectable FWD or AWD. $12,800. Info: Greensboro Garage, 802-533-2221, www.greensborogarage.com.

Bristol Village 4-BR Apt. Quiet neighborhood, 2 full BAs, DR, LR, kitchen, mudroom, HDWD/ new carpet, W/D hookups, storage space in laundry room, DSL/cable TV, NS/cats. $1250/mo. incl. heat. Info: 802-989-9796.

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mowing. Cable & highspeed Internet to bldg. Garden space avail. Room for 4-5 vehicles for parking. Great neighborhood. Lots of space for dogs to run. 20 min. to Mt. Mansfield for skiing, 30 min. to Smuggs. W/D on site. $2800/ mo. Info: 802-888-1683, johnshouse@stowevt.net, www.rubinosculpture.com/rental.htm.

For Sale Williston Home for Sale 3-BR, 2-BA, FR, new natural gas furnace & gas fireplace, great neighborhood, terrific schools. $245,000. Info: 802-878-9267.

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Three Shelburne lots available with Adirondack views. All state and local permits are in place. Very private, bordered to the south by un-developable lot. Large grove of existing larch trees. Great views with a little clearing. Call for details. Lots starting at $289,000.

Newly created lot in an existing southern neighborhood in Shelburne. Town water and sewer at the street. Nicely screened from neighbors by existing and planned plantings. Close to all Shelburne services. Great lot for a small “green” home. $149,500.

2 bedroom and 2.5 bath Gables Condo in move-in condition. Eat-in kitchen, dining room with french doors to private back deck, living room with wood-burning fireplace. Attached one car garage. Association with pool. Price Reduced. $254,500

Beautiful and open 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home. Remodeled with incredible finishes throughout. Year-round sunroom faces large professionally landscaped yard. Dining area with gas fireplace and loft area with seasonal views of Lake Champlain. $449,000

Call Chris von Trapp Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9525 www.ChrisvonTrapp.com

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Ranch home on cul-de-sac with fully fenced backyard. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths plus hot tub room. One car attached garage plus carport. Living room with wood-burning fireplace and bay window. Finished rooms in lower level. $219,900

Well cared for Duplex with separate utilities and separate driveways and basements. Both units offer bedrooms upstairs in addition to a family, dining and living room downstairs. This could be the one that you are looking for. $209,900

Walk to downtown/waterfront. Spacious 2-BR w/ open floor plan, gas fireplace, granite counters, new appliances, pantry closet, hardwood and tile floors, Jacuzzi tub, covered parking and sprinkler system. Four more 2-BR units and a 1-BR available soon. Call for a showing. $224,900.

Call Geri Reilly Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-862-6677 www.buyvtrealestate.com

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Hillside ranch with finished lower level. This 3 bedroom home has new windows and doors, fresh paint, and new carpet and tile flooring. Easterly views of Camel’s Hump. Metal roof and vinyl siding for low maintenance.

WOW-3 bedroom, 1 ½ bath ranch home on 5 acres. Large kitchen, great dining room with built-in shelves, double windows and plenty of room. Sun porch/mudroom entry and some finished space in basement. ONLY

1 level living, 3 bedroom ranch home. Hardwood floors, new carpet, fresh paint & a new roof. Large kitchen with ample cabinet space opens to dining area with deck. Views of rolling hills on 1 pleasantly landscaped acre.

THE HINDS LOFTS located at 161 St. Paul Street in the heart of downtown Burlington. Come to our open house Saturdays and Sundays, 1-3 p.m.

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New Construction. Spacious 2 bedroom with master, 2.5 baths, separate den/office. This 1758 sq.ft. Mendon Style Cottage home has an expansive living area with den. Stainless Steel appliances, full basement and attached one car garage. Starting at $289,900.

Great new condos, $3000 cash back. Close to I89 Exit 19. Open floor plan with 2-3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, 1-car garage, full basement, deck overlooking pasture. Wood flooring and stainless steel appliance available. Prices starting at $194,900.

This new Lincoln Style duplex has 1655 sq.ft. of space + full basement. 2 Bedrooms 1.5 baths. Hardwood floors, granite counter tops in kitchen and stainless steel appliance. Detached one car garage. 38 Madison Dr.

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So. Burlington 2-BR, 1.5-BA. Open floor plan, newer carpet. Lg. master BR w/ spacious closets. 1-car detached garage, overhead storage. Private patio, great for grilling & entertaining. $199,999. Call Andrea, 802-558-2967.

All new except shell & foundation, 2500 sq.ft., 4-BR, 3-BA, OHW radiant heat, granite countertops & much more on 6.6 acres. Ideal for “in-law” apartment or rental unit. Owner/Broker. $367,500. 802-877-3675.

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Off Route 2, Moretown - New listing 2 miles from I89 & Waterbury. Immaculate, energy efficient home on 5 acres. 3-car garage, wildlife & views. 3+ BR, 2-BA, granite kitchen, sunroom, woodstove and more! $335,900. Info: 802-760-8570 or vtcape@yahoo.com.

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11:02:37 AM 2050 sq.ft. updated home. 22 10/7/08 useable FSBO-CCole-101508.indd acres on Route 14. Several outbuidings. Use as farm/primary/vacation. Less than $1950/mo. + option price. 25 minutes to Stowe, Montpelier, Jay Peak, St. J. Info: 802-472-6963.

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10:25:33 AM 2000+ sq.ft., 3-BR, 2-BA cape10/13/08 w/ FSBO-CDewyea-102208.indd screened-in porch located on .6 acres in great neighborhood. Walk to Shelburne Village, schools. 63 Maplewood Drive, off Marsett. $398,000. www.63maplewood.com. 347-239-0577.

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10/20/08 1:53:04 PM A beautiful 2-BR (925 sq.ft.) w/ HDWD floors, basement space, back porch, off-street parking, walk everywhere from here! Located at 115 N. Champlain St. Reduced to $143,000. Call 802-238-9803.

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10/20/08FSBO-MVarela-101508.indd Seller moving, must sell! (2) 1-BR units 1:55:39 PM and a 4-BR, plus 3-car garage. $39,00 income with $13k expenses. This will generate close to $1000 a month positive cash flow with 20% down. Priced at $260,000. Call 802-238-9803.

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9:24:11 AM 1 Meticulously renovated 3-BR,10/14/08 1.5-BA FSBO-SBedard-100808.indd duplex on cul-de-sac. Condo convenience, single-home privacy. 1400 sq.ft. 3-level w/ List your property here! attached garage. Gourmet kitchen, HDWD, 30 words + photo. jacuzzi bath, master w/ walk-in, private deck. $249,900. 802-578-2238, www. Contact Ashley 864-5684, arthurcourtcondo.com.

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BURLINGTON 1-BR, avail. Jan 1. 2/25/08 10:25:18 Heat incl. Onsite laundry, off- AM street parking. Pets neg. Close to everything. $850/mo. Info: 802655-6371. BURLINGTON 2-BR APT. Avail. Nov. 1. 2nd floor, nice location on bus route in South End. Corner of Lyman Ave. & Pine St. Off-street parking. $775/mo. + utils. Info: 802-862-1996. BURLINGTON 3-BR $1400 Newly renovated 1st-floor 3-BR apt. on North Ave. $1400/mo. + util. & dep. Off-street parking, gas heat, NS/NP. Available Nov. 1 w/ year lease. Refs. required. Info: Pierre Gingue, 802-343-0999. BURLINGTON 4-BR, EAST AVE. Parking. No pets. Avail. now. $1600/mo. Neville Companies, Inc., 802-660-3481 x1021. www. nevilleco.com. BURLINGTON APT. 94 Lafountain St. Please, no dogs. Incl. rubbish removal & off-street parking. $975. 373-2230. BURLINGTON CENT. LOCATION 3-BR apt., lg. kitchen, DW, HDWD, 3-season porch, mudroom, basement storage, W/D incl., gas heat. Incl. electric, trash & water. Ward St. Avail. Nov. 15. $1550/mo. + dep. Info: 802-863-0188. BURLINGTON CONDO FOR RENT 2-BR (1 lg., 1 small), off-street parking, walk to downtown & UVM. No pets. $925/mo. Info: 802-878-2655. BURLINGTON HEAT INCLUDED Pine St. 1st floor, sunny 2-BR, HDWD, porch, yard, W/D, DW, lg. basement storage, garage. NS/ dogs. $1250/mo. incl. heat, snow & garbage removal. Avail. 11/1. Info: 802-453-5388.

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COLCHESTER 1-BR apt. located on the lake. Pets neg. Very clean. Close commute to everything. Comes with dock and mooring rights. $1150/mo. Avail. Dec. 1. Info: 802-655-6371. COLCHESTER 2-BR HOME Recently renovated w/ new paint throughout, new flooring & BA, W/D hookups, convenient location. Avail. 11/1. $1200/mo. + utils. Info: 802-434-3631. COLCHESTER REMODELED HOME 2400 sq.ft. house, lg. lot, new kitchen/bathrooms, all appliances. High-efficiency gas furnace & HW heater. HDWD floors, screened-in porch. Two garages. NS/pets, refs. $1775/mo. Info: 802-233-1150.

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AC, etc.! Avail. now for 1 year. N. Ferrisburgh Near Lake No smokers or dogs, please. Info: $1,350/mo. 802-846-9568; www. Renovated 1000 sq.ft. living 802-578-5563, eric@catamount HickokandBoardman.com. Info: space. 2-BR or 1-BR + 1 office + outdoor.com, www.catamount Coldwell Banker Hickok & Board- 1-BA. Cherry floors. Eat-in kitchoutdoor.com/cabin.html. man, Kaitlyn Dorey, rentals@ en, maple counters. Panoramic hickokandboardman.com. Winooski Unique, lg. bright sunrise/sunset views. 5-minute 2-BR/6-room, 2-level apt. in hiswalk to lake. W/D. Stainless appliHuntington House for rent. 3toric house. HDWD, pressed tin BR, 2-BA, DR, FR, full basement, ances. Dog neg. $1250/mo. Info: ceilings, W/D, basement storage, http://tinyurl. 2-car garage, W/D hookups, beau- 802-734-5001, new heating system, porch, yard, tiful mountain views, deck. Pets com/806long. off-street parking. Short walk to neg. Credit check. First & dep. North Ferrisburgh Newly reUVM, St. Mike’s, hospital. Ref., $1275/mo. Info: 802-434-4652. modeled 2- and 3-BR apts. in dep. $1000/mo. + utils. No pets. huntington home for rent lg. farmhouse. Located in North Avail. Nov. 1. Info: Bill, 802-655Beautiful, in neighborhood w/ Ferrisburg on 8 acres w/ walking 0407. 300 acres common nature land. trails, outbuildings. Spacious sunShort- or long-term rental , semi- ny rooms w/ HDWD. New efficient Winooski 2-BR Heat/HW incl. Parking, W/D in bldg., full BA furnished or empty. Great views, kerosene monitor heaters. $925w/ tub/shower. Clean, no smok30 minutes to Burlington/ skiing. $975/mo. + utils. Info: Mark, 802ing, no pets. $945/mo. Info: Bill $1600/mo. Info: 802-310-6239, 425-3737 or 802-343-4820. Wheater, 802-233-1150. smacken@mac.com. Office, residence or both! Winooski 2-BR, Hickok St. EnHuntington: Views! New $$. Spacious 2-3-BR. $990+ $85 utilclosed porch, parking. No dogs. Sunrise Dr.: Green Mountains’ Maj- ity package incl. electricity, etc. Avail. Nov. 1. $875/mo. 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NS, dog allowed if well-behaved. Refs. req. Stor- boardman.com, www.Hickokand Burlington Apple Tree Point age. Avail. immed. $850/mo. incl. Boardman.com. home. Needs someone to share. utils. Info: 802-899-4437. S. Burlington: Dorset Pk. Quiet with beach, pool, tennis, Lg. 1-BR apts. Grant St. Lg. 1-BR, Cabot Ct.: NEW$$, 3900+ sq.ft. bike path. Owner gone through laundry, parking, heat incl. Avail. Colonial, 4-BR, 3-BA, huge kitchthe winter. NS/pets. $750/mo. Nov. 15. $1075/mo. Shelburne Rd. en w/ island, fireplace, finished Info: 561-629-4990. Lg. 1-BR, HDWD, fireplace, book- basement, 2-car garage, master Burlington Responsible indicases, laundry, parking. Avail. suite. Built 2004. NOW; flexible vidual to share 3-BR house w/ now. $925/mo. First, sec. Info: lease. $2000/mo. Info: Coldwell two sober individuals. W/D avail. Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kait802-434-5757. 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South Burlington Room Close to Burlington, hot tub, pool, offstreet parking, lg. house & yard, nice neighborhood, on bus line. Room avail. Nov. 1. $425/mo. + $125 util. Info: Ryan, 802-3992153.

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Auto Mechanics Garage for lease. 2-bay garage, 2 car lifts, office & storage areas, waste oil furnace for heat. Excellent location for auto service. $1500/mo. Huntington. Info: 802-434-4652. Burlington Office Space Large, 170+ sq.ft., bright office. Shared reception/meeting area, kitchen & 3/4 BA. Off-street parking. Heat, elec. & WiFi broadband incl. $600/mo. Info: 802-3101568. Commercial Space @ 53 Main Lg., flexible, space for lease on lower Main St. in downtown Burlington. Approx. 14,000 sq.ft. on 3 floors. Parking. Currently rented as an architectural antique store. $6000/mo. Info: Original Investments, LLC, 802-343-4728. Downtown Burlington Gateway Square office space. Threeroom professional office suite, 550 sq.ft., 2nd floor, corner of Main & Battery Streets. $1200/mo. incl. utils. Parking additional. Info: 802-862-0500.

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Creative Flash/HTML Website Design Affordable, beautiful, functional website design with the individual/small business in mind. Services: search-engine optimization for Google/Yahoo, custom graphic design, management of your website, one-on-one service. The most competitively priced website in Burlington! Info: 508873-7450, jesserosenfield.com.

Education Academic Tutor w/ Master’s Creative & inspiring teacher master’s in teaching (K-8) available to tutor in reading, writing, math, science, social studies and art. Avail. all year. Info: Barbara Walls, 207-745-4850, barbaram walls@gmail.com. HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA! Fast, affordable & accredited. FREE brochure. Call NOW! (AAN CAN) Info: 888-583-2101, www.continenta lacademy.com. Tutoring French and biology, ideal for high school and college students! Sally Olson, Middlebury College French degree. Leah Olson, University of Vermont biology degree. Info: Sally Olson, 802-558-2222, solson1030@ya hoo.com.

Financial/Legal ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS in 111 alternative newspapers like this one. Over 6 million circulation every week for $1200. No adult ads. Call Ashley at 802-8651020 ext. 37. (AAN CAN) Bookkeeping Services 30 years experience w/ reasonable rates offering bookkeeping services to all individuals & companies. We are proficient w/ QuickBooks & industry-specific accounting software, along w/ Excel. We offer all bookkeeping services from payroll, payroll reporting, A/R, A/P, bank reconciliation to monthly financials. We also offer workflow consulting & training. Large or small, I am sure we can help your company get ready for year end. Please call CP Bookkeeping Services, 578-2781 or 310-7851. Info: cpbookkeeping@hotmail. com, cpbookkeepingservices.fi nancial.officelive.com. BUSINESS HELP FOR YOU Independent contractor, no need to hire a full-time employee. Pay only for what you need. Virtual assistant service, bill paying/sending, correspondence, web research, accounting software installation or upgrading, bookkeeping help, business coach certified. One time or ongoing. Flexible hours & ideas! Info: BEYOND the BOOKS, 802-3726745, Angela@BEYONDtheBOOKS. biz, BEYONDtheBOOKS.biz.

A massage for MEN If you’re looking for a real relaxing massage, then contact me. Make some time for you. Rates are reasonable and I will travel. Info: motman@ ymail.com, www.massageplea sures.com. Bald Mountain Retreat, NEK Idyllic, secluded, inspiring, rustic, spectacular, delicious food, spirit, natural healing, naturopathic doctor, affordable. Lake Willoughby National Recreation Area. “Most people have never seen such beauty.� Info: 802-6594347, birch@baldm.com, www. baldm.com. Full body Massage for Men By athletic Chinese-American male. Rejuvenate both your body & mind. Special attention to head, feet & lower back. Info: Jay, 802233-5037. MASSAGE FOR MEN BY SERGIO House calls in the Burlington area. Come and rejuvenate. Call for an appointment. Shower avail. Info: 802-355-1664. Moonlight Massage Enjoy a sensual massage by candlelight w/ devotional Indian music in the comfort of your home or hotel. Massages performed au naturel with Aromatherapy/Reiki. Info: 802-355-5247, www.moonlight massage.com.

ODD JOBS YOU BETCHA Pressure washing, interior/exterior painting, fences and decks, doors, windows, baseboard casing, general carpentry & roofing, gutter repair and cleaning. Info: 802-373-2444. Weatherization Services Inadequate insulation and air infiltration got your house feeling “blue�? Our cost-effective weatherization services will increase winter comfort and reduce your heating bill. Call or email for a free consultation. Info: Conger Consulting and Design, Matt Conger, 802-738-9191, congercon sulting@gmail.com.

Moving/Hauling HAULING Man with a dump truck avail. for hauling junk, garbage, construction debris, green waste, etc. Free estimates. Info: Sean, 802-310-1627.

Pet A Safe Home While You Roam Housesitters, excellent refs., will stay in your home & care for your pets while you’re gone. Negotiable rates. All Vermont cities covered. Call for reservation. Info: Pampered Abode, 802-735-7339, www.pamperedabode.com.

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Psychic Counseling and channeling w/ Bernice Kelman of Underhill, VT. 30+ yrs. experience. Also energy healing, chakra balancing, Reiki, rebirthing, other lives, classes & more. Info: 802899-3542, kelman_b@yahoo. com.

Granite fence posts 1810 Beautiful granite fence posts from a Vermont sheep1circa 1810. 102208-ProfSvcs.indd 5-8 feet tall, some still have metal rings around for wire connect. $165-$150. Info: 802-249-7266.

Samadhi Cushions & Store Meditation cushions and benches handmade in Barnet, Vermont, since 1976. Our store is open Mon.-Sat. Info: 800-331-7751, www.samadhicushions.com.

Seasoned Firewood $275/cord NAD + H/K Stereo Equipment at plot, Hinesburg. Delivery pos- Harman/Kardon CD 91 and CD 291 !

sible. Info: 802-482-2172 or cassette tape decks: $20 ea./OBO. 802-233-5133. NAD 5425 CD player & 7250PE stereo receiver: $40/ea./OBO. Info: Bedroom dresser plus 84� w/ Truck Cap For Sale A.R.E. from 802-343-3395. a F150. 80� bed length. Black. 2 mirrors & armoire. Think it’s

Swedish massage and Reiki Come and experience the many physical, mental and emotional benefits of a 1-hour Swedish massage. Also offering Reiki for those interested in energetic bodywork. Sliding scale fee. Info: Ryan McArdle, 518-852-3225, thechakrasha man@hotmail.com.

Home/Garden ALL PRO CHIMNEY Any masonry needs provided. Chimney experts! Liners, sweeps & inspections. Fully insured. Winter is coming soon, now is the time to call 802-8816499. Info: ALL PRO CHIMNEY, Jeremiah McCaffrey. CHIMNEY REPAIR-PLUS New & repair masonry work. Quality work. 20+ years exp. Fully insured. Info: Chimney Repair-Plus, Jerry, 802-324-2943. Custom Paint Design Specializing in Venetian plaster, faux techniques and more. Affordable. Will work with you to work within your budget. FREE ESTIMATE. Info: 802-318-3524, www.special tyfauxpro.com. Fall/Winter services Fall planting and garden cleanups; deer and vole plant protection; fruit and ornamental tree pruning; tree and brush removal. Pruning your trees now while they are dormant will prevent the spread of insects and disease. Info: Vaughan Landscaping, Brian Vaughan, 802-482-4228,

GET A NEW COMPUTER Brandname laptops & desktops. Bad or no credit - no problem. Smallest weekly payments available. It’s yours now. (AAN CAN) Info: 800-803-8819.

Vegetable Oil Have used vegetable oil that can be used for diesel fuel. Come and take it. PM Have 10/20/08 12:54:44 a lot of it! Info: Global Markets, 802-863-9460.

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Antiques/ Collectibles Antique Marble Sink top 30� x 20�. Oval sink hole 12� x 14�. Brass mounting hardware still in good shape on bottom. $150 cash/ea. Please call 802-860-1544. Antique Panel Door 30 x 78, can be trimmed. Priced low: $35. Info: 802-860-1544. Batman Fans 3 Warner Bros. “Batman: The Animated Series� appreciating, limited-edition cel. s. Very cool, framed w/ certificate. Mr. Freeze: $1,200; Be A Clown: $1,200; Villains: $900. Pictures of cells can be emailed to you upon request. Info: 802-236-0493. GEMEINHARDT FLUTE M2 students, sterling-silver finish. Needs some work. $150. Info: 802-985-5306. ROSE PATTERN DISHES Taylor Smith & Taylor, service of 4. Extra pieces incl. gravy boat, salt & peppers & creamer. Very pretty set. Asking $75. 802-922-1940. Info: 802-497-0714.

Appliances/ Tools/Parts Fence Posts, $5 Pressure-treated, 6 feet high. Have cement bases. Good condition. Dig hole & throw them in. 6 avail., must buy all. $30 total. 802-860-1544.

$500/OBO. Info: 802-316-2666.

Wood for sale Two cords, 2 years, seasoned, dry. $250/cord, you pick up. Burlington area. Info: Dave Mitchell, 802-859-0901.

Electronics A NEW COMPUTER NOW! Brand name. Bad or no credit - no problem. Smallest weekly payments avail. Call NOW. (AAN CAN) Info: 800-816-2232. Canon 10D DSLR Camera Purchased new, has been used as a backup camera for about 3 years, very little use. Works and looks new. Incl. Sigma 18 - 200 F3.5 - 6.3 DC lens w/lens hood; Canon speedlight 420 EX flash, orig. packing w/manuals, etc.; 2 camera batteries; 4 CF cards: 1 - 1gig, 1 - 512 MG and 2 - 256MG. Info: Wayne LaBonte Photography, Wayne LaBonte Sr., 802-658-2771. Cheap Digital Cameras Olympus Camedia D-100 1.3MP, D-550 3MP, Sony DSC-PS1 2MP, and Kodak EasyShare C330 4MP - $10 each. Olympus Camedia D-560 3.2MP $20. Info: 802-343-3395. Denon DM-S205 Microphone Calibration-grade, comes w/ 1508 to 3808 receivers. Used to precisely balance speaker levels and fine tune delay and EQ settings. $65 new. Info: 802-343-3395.

VOX 15w Half stack Has overdrive, tremolo and reverb. Comes w/ everything. This amp has an amazing sound. Asking $140/OBO. Please email me for pictures. Info: 802-370-6984, coolmandrew@ gmail.com.

Entertainment/ Tickets Drivers w/ late-model vehicles possessing entertainment and MC qualities wanted to host shows with exotic dancers. Info: 802-658-1464. Solid gold, Dancers Exotic dancers. Adult entertainment for birthday, bachelor, bachelorette, deer camp or any time good friends get together. #1 for fun. New talent welcome. Info: 802658-1464.

Free Stuff Free Ferret 5-year-old named Gizmo. He will come w/ his 3-story level cage, hammock & food/ water dish. Very playful. Info: Barbara Champine, 802-922-3688. Is Your House Haunted? Let us check it out for free. The Vermont Spirit Detective Agency: “The Private Eye For Those Who’ve Died.� Info: Matthew Borden, 802-8811171, bigbigdeal3@aol.com.

burled walnut. $450. Go online to see photo, or call 802-879-6422.

Bookcase/China Cabinet Very nice piece, walnut veneer. $200. Has a matching bar/divider. See online or call 802-879-6422. Child’s hardwood desk $225 Small, looks like it would be great for a child. Dovetail jointed draws. Dimension are 46�w x 24�h x 18’d. Info: 802-860-1544. Divider/Bar Nice piece can be used as room divider or bar, walnut wood veneer. $150. Has a matching bookcase/china cabinet. 802-879-6422. KING SIZE BED & BOX SPRING Excellent condition. Asking $250/ OBO w/in reason. Call anytime! Must sell! Info: Jennifer Bessette, 802-734-1768, csanders1985@ya hoo.com. Landmark Model S Hot Tub 8’4� x 7’7� (6-person). Just over 5 years old. Invoice price $9885.70, selling for $2500 because porch of new home is too small. Info: spander@madriver.com. loveseat & vinyl chair Loveseat in fair condition; brown vinyl chair in good condition. 434-3007. Info: Catherine Laurita. Must GOs - Make an offer Green 3-cushion couch, XX-lg. bean bag, trunk, pool cue, queen quilt. Call 310-5146 for info and pics.

SEVEN DAYS | october 22-29, 2008 | classifieds 33B

8sevendaysvt.com [click on classifieds] Show and tell. View and post up to 6 photos per ad online. Queen Mattress Set Set incl. queen mattress, box spring, metal frame. Excellent condition! 3 years new, lightly used. Asking $125/OBO. Must be able to pick everything up. Info: 516-376-5999. Sofa & Loveseat Light brown fabric, excellent condition, incl. 7 large accent pillows. Cost $1700 new, asking $600. We’re redecorating & no longer need these. Info: 802-878-5576. twin bed Wood, w/ headboard, good condition, only $40. Info: 802-868-2408. Youth bedroom set Incl. twin bed w/ bookcase, headboard, desk, chair, dresser, mirror. Blonde wood. $225. 802-879-6422.

Pets Free Kittens 8-week-old kittens. 1 orange tiger male, 2 tricolored females, 2 dark tiger females. Info: 802-863-5307. taco weiner pups Parents are 6 lb. chihuahua and 11 lb. dachshund, brindle or black colors, socialized, healthy, very cute, wormed. $450 males; $475, females. Info: 802-868-2408.

Sports Equipment 1999 Ski-Doo MXZ $1900 Yellow snowmobile. Rotax w/ rave studded track, cover & helmet. Runs excellently. 4040 miles. South Hero, VT. $1900. Info: 860-836-9206. All new Snowshoes 30% off! Canoe Imports has snowshoes! Pre-season deals on Tubbs, MSR and Vermont-made TSL snowshoes. Many models are 30% off this month. Call 651-8760, open Tues.-Sat. 10-6. Info: Canoe Imports, 802-651-8760, canoeim ports@comcast.net, www.canoe imports.com. Burton Jacket & Pants Both men’s XL. Selling as I lost weight. I will email pics if you inquire. Info: 802-862-2478.

Want to Buy Antiques Furniture, postcards, pottery, cameras, toys, medical tools, lab glass, photographs, slide rules, license plates, silver. Anything unusual or unique. Cash paid. Info: Dave, 802-859-8966.

P e r c u s s i o n i s t/ G u i ta r i s t Wanted for duo for rehearsal and performance in and around Middlebury. Original music, singer songwriter Jack Scanlon. Info: 802-771-7200. Searching for singers A Burlington a cappella group is seeking singers. We’re looking for a midto high-range female, a low-range female, & a male bass. Some experience req. Come sing with us! Info: Ben Russell, 802-355-5253. Whatveva band Twenties or thirites guitarist for straight rock/psychedelic-style jams. Acoustic & electric. Also seeking solid timepiece for alt/funk/ hip-hop 8-piece band. Be the 9. JayFro. Info: The9, JayFro Tavias, 802-868-2058.

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Harmony singer needed We’re a 5-piece band working on originals. We need someone to complement our lead singer w/ harmony in the chorus parts. Info: Elton Hallock, 802-373-4543.

Rocky Horror Cast Needed Oct. 24, 11 p.m. Champlain College Presents RHPS. We need local volunteers to participate - all parts! Respond immediately. Be part of this wild tradition. Info: Champlain College, 845-313-7666.

Ludwig Drum set for sale Wooden bass drum, floor tom, 2 hanging toms, & metal snare drum. Incls. all hardware. Zildjian cymbals: High hat, crash, ride & China. $750/OBO. Info: 802-878-8525. Tascam Digital Recorder Record like a pro w/ this 2488! Full of effects & onboard CD burner. Would consider trade for other musical instruments. 802-860-1544. Tenor Saxophone! Conn w/ Yamaha mouthpiece & hardshell case. Don’t know a ton about saxes, but it is decent, fairly new & has a nice sound. $400. Info: Zoe Christiansen, 802-223-1342. Yamaha P200 Hard Road Case Excellent condition. $150. Call after 5 p.m. Info: 802-862-4164.

Instruction Bass Guitar Lessons For all levels/styles. Beginners welcome! Learn technique, theory, songs, ear-training and slap-bass in a fun, professional setting. Years of teaching/playing experience. Convenient Pine St. studio. Info: Bass Lessons with Aram, Aram Bedrosian, 802-598-8861, info@ arambedrosian.com, www.aram bedrosian.com. Guitar Instruction Berklee grad. w/25 years teaching experience offers lessons in guitar, music theory and ear training. Individualized, step-by-step approach. All ages/styles/levels. Info: Belford Guitar Studio, Rick Belford, 802-864-7195, rickbelf@ verizon.net, www.rickbelford. com. Guitar instruction All styles/ levels. Emphasis on developing strong technique, thorough musicianship, personal style. Paul Asbell (Unknown Blues Band, Kilimanjaro, UVM and Middlebury College Faculty). Info: 802-8627696, www.paulasbell.com. GUITAR LESSONS First-step beginners to advanced. 40+ years experienced guitarist. I’m a patient individual who can help you achieve your goals quickly. Info: Francis Furtak, 802-860-1544.

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Guitar School of Vermont “Not your usual music instruction.” Attention from multiple teachers, fundamentals, theory, technique, composition. Teaching Guitarist’s Growing Musicians. 802-655-5800, www.guitar schoolofvermont.com. Music Lessons Piano, guitar, voice, theory, composition, songwriting. All ages, levels, styles. 20 yrs. exp. Friendly, individualized lessons in S. Burlington. Info: 802-864-7740, eromail13@ gmail.com.

art Make (It) Work for Artists: 5 workshops, 1 per week starting Oct. 15 and ending Nov. 13. Cost: $25 /each workshop (workshop on 10/15 is free). Location: Kasini House, 64 North Street, Burlington. Info: Kasini House, 802-264-4839, www.kasinihouse. com/workshops.htm. “Make (It) Work” is Kasini House’s fall workshop series dedicated to the professional development of artists. It is about making art work as a career, business or profession - who is an artist, art products, bios & statements, the gallery system and selling your art. Space is limited and preregistration is required.

bodywork Cranial Work with Terri Lee: Oct. 25-26, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Cost: $265 /2-day workshop ($245 with $50 deposit paid by Oct. 3). Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul Street, Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 802658-7715, info@touchstonehealingarts.com, www.touchstonehealingarts.com. Ortho-Bionomy is a gentle, noninvasive bodywork modality that anyone can learn to assist others. Focus is on exploration and observation of movement in the cranial bones. Learn how to work the facial muscles and bones, and the bones and muscles of the cranium, from one of the country’s leading instructors.

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Build your own Timber Frame: Ongoing. Cost: $40 / hour. Location: Your project site or our workshop, Ripton. Info: House in the Woods Co., Michael Cummings, 802-388-0118, houseinthewoods @gmail.com, www.HouseInTheWoodsVermont. com. Want to build your own timber frame, but need help getting started and have questions about design, tools, joinery, enclosures and foundation systems? I offer one-on-one consulting, tutoring and design help for owner/builders who want to create healthy, energy-efficient, inspired structures. Twenty-five years building and design experience.

Ballroom Dancing: Mondays and Thursdays in Burlington and Sunday in Shelburne. Cost: $50 /4 weeks (per person). Location: The Champlain Club, 20 Crowley Street; Shelburne Town Hall, 5420 Shelburne Road, Burlington and Shelburne. Info: First Step Dance, Kevin Laddison, 802-598-6757, www.FirstStepDance.com. Level I classes for beginners, Level II and above for experienced dancers. We host dances (with lessons) on the second and fourth Friday of each month. No experience is necessary, just an interest in learning to dance. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance!

A TASTE of HONEY, Laura Brown: Oct. 28, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $20 /2-hour hands-on workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal Street, Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, 802-865-4372, www.purpleshutter.com. Join Laura of PSH as we explore the many wonders of bees’ creation. To demonstrate the wide range of both honey & beeswax usage, we’ll make a cosmetic honey cleansing scrub, beeswax votive candles, medieval honey confection & an all-natural wound salve. We’ll be using local Vermont beeswax & honey.

childbirth CVMC Birthing Ctr. Open House: First Wed. of every month, 5:30-7 p.m. Location: Central Vermont Medical Center, 130 Fisher Rd., Berlin. Info: Central Vermont Medical Center, 802-371-4613, www.centraltoyourwellbeing.org. It’s mom’s choice: birthing the way you told us you want it! Learn more about our full range of services, meet staff members and tour our new Garden Path Birthing Center. Friends and family welcome. Registration is required. PostNatal Yoga: Cost: $10 / class. Location: Central Vermont Medical Center, 130 Fisher Rd., Berlin. Info: Central Vermont Medical Center, 802-223-9940, www.centraltoyourwellbeing.org. Restore and nourish your whole postpartum body in postnatal yoga! Gentle poses, breathing exercises, restorative postures will help feed your whole self. Also, connect with other postpartum mamas and babes (precrawlers). Come when you are ready. Please call to preregister. Saturdays, 10:45-11:45 a.m. PreNatal Yoga: Saturdays at 9 a.m. Cost: $10 /1-hour class. Location: Central Vermont Medical Center, 130 Fisher Rd., Berlin. Info: Central Vermont Medical Center, Elizabeth Murphy, 802223-9940, www.centraltoyourwellbeing.org. Come and celebrate this sacred time! Gain confidence in your body’s wisdom! Ease back pain, nausea, hip discomfort and prepare your body for pregnancy, birth & beyond. Prenatal yoga instructor Elizabeth Murphy weaves her knowledge as a labor & delivery nurse, yogini and mother of two.

craft Dried Wreath Workshop: Oct. 26, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $32 Location: Gardens of Seven Gables, 546 Anderson Rd., Barre. Info: Gardens of Seven Gables, Joann, 802476-3350. Celebrate the harvest by creating your own dried flower wreath! I will teach basic techniques for drying flowers, as well as constructing a wreath. I provide all materials, you provide the “creativity.” Wreath size approx. 20-22 inches.

creativity WORKING WITH SYMBOLS: Oct. 29 - Nov. 19, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $60 Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-244-7909. Learn how to recognize, interpret and work with the images that form the basis of art, creativity and your dream life in this workshop created by students’ requests. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

Dance Studio Salsalina: Cost: $12 /class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802-598-1077, info@ salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style. One-on-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walkins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout!

drumming Burlington Taiko Classes: Location: Taiko Space (across from Outer Space Deli), 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Taiko, 802-999-4255, classes@ burlingtontaiko.org, www.burlingtontaiko.com. Beginning classes Tuesdays - Kids, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $47/6 weeks. Adults 5:30-6:20 p.m., $53/6 weeks. Session begins 10/28. Advanced Beginner/Ensemble class meets weekly on Mondays at 5:30-6:50 p.m., $48/6 weeks, beginning 10/27. Gift certificates are available! For a full schedule of classes or more info, go online or email.

fitness Biggest Loser Competition: Nov. 4 - Dec. 16, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday, Thursday. Cost: $120 /12x 1hr classes. Location: Sports and Fitness Edge-Williston, 115 Wellness Drive, Williston. Info: Sports amnd Fitness EdgeWilliston, Dave Meek, 802-8603343, davidm@sfedge.com, www. sfedge.com. Just like the TV show. Workout, track you food, regular weigh-ins.(No Eliminations) Prizes for the biggest loser each week and overall winner. Sign up before October 31st. No class on Thanksgiving. Are you ready to challenge yourself and reach your fitness goals?

gardening Int’l Gardening & Service Trip: Location: Communityminded gardeners, learners and adventurers wanted: travel with a small group to the Dominican Republic on a gardening-focused course that wraps together workshops in organic and biodynamic agriculture, cultural exchange, and service-learning projects working side-by-side with local farmers. Co-led by John Hayden, UVM Adjunct Faculty in Ecological Agriculture and farmer. , February 7 15, 2009. Info: www.livelearning. org. The LiveLearning Program runs small-scale community development projects and educational programs in Latin America. We develop longterm partnerships to help communities achieve their goals.

INTRODUCTION to SOAP MAKING: Oct. 26, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $35 /4-hour hands-on workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal Street, Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, 802865-4372, www.purpleshutter. com. Using natural ingredients & essential oils, we’ll make a batch of beautiful aromatic soap, as well as discuss recipes, ingredients, history & basic chemistry. You’ll need to bring a container & old towel to bring your new soap home. A guaranteed delightful afternoon with Alisa as you learn soap making. Wisdom of the Herbs School: Wild Edible Intensive 2009: Enhancing Local Food Security. Class meets for two terms, three Sundays each term, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Spring term: 5/24, 6/14 & 7/12, 2009. Summer Term: 8/9, 9/20 & 10/4, 2009. Tuition $480 both terms or $240 each term. $50 nonrefundable deposit each term. VSAC non-degree grants avail. Wisdom of the Herbs 2009, 8 weekends: May 16-17, June 6-7, June 27-28, July 18-19, Aug. 1516, Sept. 12-13, Oct. 10-11, Nov. 7-8. Tuition $1750. Nonrefundable deposit $250. Discounted tuition for early registration paid in full one month before class begins. VSAC non-degree grants available. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, South Woodbury. Info: Annie McCleary, director, 802-456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, www. WisdomOf TheHerbsSchool.com. Unique experiential programs embracing wild plants, holistic health and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Learn through herb walks and nature adventures, communion with nature, hands-on wild harvesting and preparation of wild edibles and herbal home remedies, with intention and gratitude.

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 5:30 p.m. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine Street, Burlington. Info: 802-951-8900, aikidovt.org. This traditional Japanese martial art emphasizes circular, flowing movements and pinning and throwing techniques. Visitors are always welcome. Gift certificates are available. MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CTR: Introductory class. Location: One minute off I-89 at Exit 17, Colchester. Info: 802-8938893. Day and evening classes for adults. Afternoon and Saturday classes for children. Group and private lessons. Kempo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Arnis and Wing Chun Kung Fu.

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burneartcenter.org. One-day introductory stained-glass workshop for beginners to learn the lead-came method of constructing stained glass. Learn to select glass colors, cut glass, assemble with lead came, solder, cement and finish a panel. Take home a completed lead-came panel. Members $108, nonmembers $120, materials $20.

« martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Monday-Friday, 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Road, Williston. Info: 802-6604072, www.bjjusa.com. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a complete martial-arts system; it enhances balance, flexibility, strength, cardiorespiratory fitness and builds personal courage and self-confidence. Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu offers Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and self-defense classes, Boxing, Muay-Thai Kickboxing and MMA for all levels. Head instructor is five-time Brazilian Champion in Rio de Janeiro, certified 6th Degree Black Belt under Carlson Gracie. Classes for men, women and children. First class is free.

massage Advanced Deep Tissue Training: Nov. 1-9, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Cost: $625 /2 consecutive weekends. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul Street, Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 802-658-7715, info@ t o u c h s t o n e h e a l i n g a r t s .c o m, www.touchstonehealingarts.com. This 4-day, 32-hour intensive will provide a solid foundation in the principles and techniques of Deep Tissue Massage. You will significantly refine your palpation skills, working deeply and safely into the body’s tissue layers, cultivating an efficient use of energy through proper biomechanics, client positioning and sophisticated hands-on methods.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-658-6795, www.burl ingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

metal/stained glass Stained Glass: Lead Came: Nov. 15, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. 1-day workshop. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Road, Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www.shel-

painting Acrylics: Dramatic Color: Oct. 25, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Cost: $75 /members, $85/nonmembers. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 54 Falls Road, Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-9853648, www.shelburneartcenter. org. Students will create bold and expressive paintings using intense color. Students will work from the observation of brightly colored objects under dramatic lighting. An expressive and intuitive approach to painting and color will be emphasized. Some previous drawing skills are helpful, but not required. Materials list. Level 2 Watercolor: Nov. 3 Dec. 8, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. 6-week class. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 54 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www. shelburneartcenter.org. This class is designed for students who have had prior experience with watercolor. This is an opportunity for students to create paintings from photographs they love or have collected over the years. Students will practice skies, trees, mountains, water, rocks and more. Members $195, non-members $220, materials list.

photography Photo Basics: Oct. 15-29, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wednesdays. Cost: $75 /3-week course. Location: DESIGNHAUS, 22 Church St., 2nd Floor, Burlington. Info: DESIGNHAUS, 802-310-5019, info@designhaus.org, designhaus.org. WEDNESDAYS! October 22nd, and 29th. Learn the relationship between aperture and shutter speed to obtain desired exposure! Instructor Peter Johnson demystifies F-stops and depth-of-field. This course is appropriate for both film AND digital SLR! Bring your Canon Rebel or Grandpa’s Nikon! This is the class for you!

pilates A unique Pilates Experience: New classes: Mixed Level Mat, 9 a.m., weekly on Mondays. Cardio Moves. A cardio dance and Pilates fusion class, 10 a.m., weekly on Mondays. Classes start 10/6. Location: The Pilates Den, Williston. Info: 802-318-6378, www.pilates den.com. Discover Pilates with Polestar-certified instructor Shannon Lashua. Years of experience combined with creativity promises fun, informative, stress-relieving sessions in a supportive environment. Private sessions and semiprivate sessions are offered on the equipment, as well as small group mat classes, all in the comfort of a sun-filled home studio. ABSOLUTE PILATES: Affordable, invigorating group mat classes and 1-on-1 sessions that rock your body, not your wallet. Location: Espire, 12 Gregory Drive, Suite 1, South Burlington. Info: 802-310-

2614, www.absolutepilatesvt. com. Tone, stretch and strengthen with certified classical Pilates & Polestar Pilates instructor Lynne Martens. Sculpt a great new body in fun group mat classes or private lessons on reformer, Wunda chair and tower unit in an attractive, welcoming locale. In the works: floor mat to standing movement to challenge stamina, coordination and balance. Visit our website for pricing, class times and specials. Natural Bodies Pilates: Join Pilates Mat and Reformer, Ballet Conditioning, or Integrative Movement classes - or combine all three in our Beginning Studio classes. Private sessions, class cards and per-class rates available. Free group introductions, and special rates on private introductions by appointment. Call today!. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 49 Heineberg Dr. (Hwy. 127, just north of the Burlington Beltline), Colchester. Info: Lucille Dyer, 802-863-3369, lucille@nat uralbodiespilates.com, Natural BodiesPilates.com. Relieve stress and improve your health while shaping your whole body. Receive expert instruction in a supportive environment and enjoy the use of a professionally equipped studio. Benefit from Lucille Dyer’s 20 years teaching experience to develop your awareness, strength and ease of movement. Classes are personalized, enlivening and fun! Pilates Space: A division of ALL Wellness, LLC. Many package/pricing options to suit your budget. Please call for pricing details. Location: Pilates Space, 208 Flynn Ave. (across from the antique shops, near Oakledge Park), Burlington. Info: 802-8639900, www.pilatesspace.net. We invite all bodies, all ages, and all abilities to experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors, and light-filled studio. We offer Pilates privates, semiprivates and group classes; physical therapy; holistic health counseling; craniosacral therapy and Anusara-inspired yoga. First mat class is free! Also, please join us for a free introduction to the reformer, the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 - just call to sign up.

pottery Wheel Throwing for Beginners: Tuesdays or Thursdays. 5-week classes. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Habor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www. shelburneartcenter.org. Learn the basics of throwing clay on the potter’s wheel while becoming familiar with the clay process from wheel to kiln. Two 5-week classes: Tuesdays, Nov. 4 - Dec. 2, 6-8:30 p.m., or Thursdays, Nov. 6 - Dec. 11 (no class Nov. 27), 9:30 a.m. - noon. Members $105, nonmembers $115, materials $60.

psychology Mother Goddess & Her Consort: Oct. 24, 4:30 p.m. Location: Fletcher Free Library, Burlington. Info: Stephanie, 802860-4921. Come to this slide presentation of ancient sites in Britain and their implications for the Old Religion and for modern times. Led by Chessie Stevenson, Jungian analyst. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by The Jung Society and the Jungian Center.

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Cloud Hands QiGong Meditation: Nov. 8-9. Cost: $150 /Saturday and Sunday Workshop (10 a.m. - 4 p.m.). Location: Elements of Healing, 62 Pearl St, Essex Junction. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 802-288-8160, elementsofhealing@verizon.net, elementsofhealing.net. The Cloud Hands is an internal energy development/Nui Gung exercise. It consists of 5 nonstrenuous movements with a quiet seated meditation. The set helps the body to maintain good health and increase vitality. The Tao Ahn Pain System has been handed down by Master Share K. Lew, a Taoist priest who studied at the Yellow Dragon Monastery.

Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE , 100 Church Street, Burlington. Info: 802864-7902, www.iptaichi.org. The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

reiki Reiki Daylong Classes: Two separate classes: Reiki Level 1: Sat., Nov. 1st & Sat., Dec 20th, 9:30 a.m. to 5pm, $175. Level 2, Sat., Nov. 22nd, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., $195.. Location: Rising Sun Healing Center, 35 King St., #7, Burlington. Info: Chris Hanna, 802-881-1866, chris@risingsunhealing.com, www.risingsunhealing.com. Learn this powerful hands-on healing art and be able to give Reiki engery to yourself and others by the end of the class. Plenty of in-class practice time. Reiki teacher Chris Hanna is a member of Vermont Reiki Assoc.

scuba SCUBA CERTIFICATION COURSE: Cost: $275 /course. Location: Waterfront Diving Center, 214 Battery St., Burlington. Info: Waterfront Diving Center, Jonathan Eddy, 802-865-2771, info@ waterfrontdiving.com, www.waterfrontdiving.com. Add a new dimension to your tropical vacation this winter. Explore the underwater world. SCUBA certification classes starting each month.

sewing Sewing Classes: Location: Threadneedle Fabrics, 4 Carmichael St., Essex Junction. Info: Threadneedle Fabrics, 802-8762000, www.threadneedlefabrics. com. Learn to Sew, Oct. 28-Dec. 2; Alterations, Oct. 18; Heirloom Sewing. Oct. 25 & Nov. 2; Sewing Workshop, Oct. 23-Nov. 20. See our website for more information.

spirituality 2008 Earth Spirit Conference: 10/31, 12-5 p.m.; 11/1, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.; 11/2, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Cost: $275 /weekend. Location: The Ponds at Bolton Valley Resort, 4302 Bolton Access Rd., Bolton. Info: 802-922-7507, info@ e a r t h s p ir i t c o n f e r e n c e s .c o m, www.earthspiritconferences.com. Wisdom for Changing Times: Join experts in Quantum Physics, Native American Spirituality, Crop Circle Research, Ancient Civilizations, Universal Laws & more as they bring illuminating, life-changing presentations to our gathering. This group of accomplished authors, filmmakers, researchers & scientists are voices of wisdom who can guide us through this time of change.

visual arts Monotype: Hand-Pulled Prints: Nov. 15, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. 1-day workshop. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 54 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www.shel burneartcenter.org. A monotype is a type of printmaking done by drawing or painting on a surface and then transferring the image onto a paper by pressing the two together. In this introductory workshop, students will learn various techniques using black, white and color inks. Members $85, nonmembers $95, materials $20.

weight loss Vtrim Weight-Loss Program: Oct. 21 - Mar. 24, 7-8 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $695 /6month program. (That’s just $29 a week.). Location: The University of Vermont, Burlington. Info: Vtrim - University of Vermont, 802-656-2085. The University of Vermont Weight Management Research Program is now offering Vtrim, its research-based weight loss program, to the community. Learn how to modify your eating and exercise behaviors and succeed at weight management. You can register for Vtrim classes today at http://uvm.edu/vtrim. Vtrim Weight-Loss Program: Nov. 10 - Apr. 20, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $695 /6month program. (That’s just $29 a week.). Location: Winooski YMCA, Winooski. Info: Vtrim - University of Vermont, 802-656-2085, uvm. edu/vtrim. Bring Vtrim home for the Holidays! Enroll in the University researched evidenced-based, 24-week behavioral weight-loss program. Led by a Vtrim certified facilitator, you can learn how to modify your eating and exercise behaviors and succeed at weight management. Register easily online. Don’t delay. Space is limited to 20!

well-being NUTRITION WISDOM: Nov. 1 Dec. 6, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., weekly on Saturday. Location: Rooted Wisdom Wellness Shop & School, 399 Center Rd. (1.85 mi. up from Exit 9 of I-89), Middlesex. Info: 802-229-6910. This course will give you a strong foundation in basics of healthy eating and nutritional therapy. We will share vital information, delicious foods and good cheer. Call or email for shop hours and directions.

yoga BRISTOL YOGA AND AYURVEDA: Daily Ashtanga yoga classes for all levels. Special monthly workshops on yoga, Ayurveda, diet and nutrition, breathing and medita-

tion. Private sessions for yoga or Ayurvedic consultations available by appointment. Cost: $14 /dropin, $110/10 classes or $100/ monthly pass. Location: Old High School, Bristol. Info: 802-4825547, www.bristolyoga.com. This classical form of yoga incorporates balance, strength and flexibility to steady the mind, strengthen the body and free the soul. Bristol Yoga is directed by Christine Hoar, who was blessed and authorized to teach by Sri K Pattabhi Jois of Mysore India, holder of the Ashtanga lineage. COPPER CRANE YOGA: Beginner Series, Pre-Natal Yoga, Kids Yoga, Yin Yoga series. Cost: $14 /dropin, $60/5-class card, $110/10class card, $200/20-class card. Location: Copper Crane Yoga, 179 Main St., Vergennes. Info: 802-877-3663, coppercraneyoga. com. Individual, group and custom yoga classes. Thai Yoga Bodywork and Zero Balancing sessions by appointment. Copper Crane provides wise and compassionate teaching to strengthen the body, uplift the heart and calm the mind. Be yourself here. Copper Crane is directed by Carolyn Conner, RYT, Advanced Certified Thai Yoga Bodywork practitioner. EVOLUTION YOGA: Mondays, 5:45 p.m. Class is sliding scale, $4-10. $5 Friday classes at 4:30 p.m. Cost: $14 /single class. $130/10 class card. $12/1-hr. class. $110/10 class card for 1 hr. classes. Community classes donation $5-$10. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn Street, Burlington. Check out our added location at Eastern View, 185 Tilley Drive, South Burlington. Info: 802-8649642, www.evolutionvt.com. Vinyasa, Anusara-Inspired, Kripalu and Iyengar classes for all levels, plus babies and kids yoga. Prepare for birth and strengthen post-partum with pre/post-natal yoga. Reducedprice community classes offered 3 times a week. YOGA VERMONT: Daily drop-in classes, plenty of choices, open to all levels. Cost: $14 /dropin, $110/10 classes, $120/month pass. Location: Chace Mill on Winooski River, and downtown at 113 Church St. (top floor of the Leunig’s building), Burlington. Info: 802-660-9718, www.yogavermont.com. Yoga for Six-Week Intro to Pranayama, Six-Week Intro to Kripalu, Six-Week Intro to Ashtanga, Monthly Restorative, Adaptive Yoga, Instructor Training and more listed on website. Gift certificates available. For the latest, check out our blog http://yo gavermont.typepad.com.

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BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD Public Hearing Notice – November 5, 2008 The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, November 5, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. in Contois Auditorium, City Hall to consider the following applications: 1. 09-311CA; 85 Crescent Rd. (RL, Ward 6) Sherrill N. Musty Combined preliminary & final plat review of 2-lot subdivision; no development included 2. 09-347VR; 85 Crescent Rd. (RL, Ward 6) Sherrill N. Musty Variance to establish 15 ft. front yard setback for proposed lot 3. 09-337AP; 73 Summit Ridge (RL, Ward 6) Susan Dorn / Charles Neimeth Appeal of administrative as-built approval granted to reduce the height and length of a previously permitted retaining wall Plans may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning office, (City Hall, First Floor, 149 Church Street, Burlington), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. David White, AICP, Director of Planning and Zoning Individuals who require special arrangements to participate are encouraged to contact the Department at least 72 hours in advance. For information call 865-7188 (865-7142 TTY). Charlotte Planning Commission Notice of Public Hearing Pursuant to Title 24 Chapter 117 V.S.A. and the Charlotte Land Use Regulations, the Charlotte Planning Commission will meet on Thursday November 6, 2008 at the Town Hall to hear the following application: 7:05 PM Final Plat Hearing for a 2 lot subdivision of land owned by John Freiden at 1020 Town Line Road. Application material can be viewed at the Planning and Zoning Office. Participation in the hearing is a prerequisite to the right to appeal any decision related to these applications. LEGAL NOTICE JERICHO UNDERHILL LIBRARY DISTRICT BUDGET HEARING Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 7:00 pm The purpose of the hearing is to discuss the proposed Fiscal Year 2010 Budget. The hearing will take place at the Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, 8 River Road, Jericho, VT.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CHARLOTTE TOWN PLAN Pursuant to 24 VSA Section 4384, the Charlotte Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Thursday November 20, 2008 at 8:00 PM at the Town Hall, 159 Ferry Road, for a proposed amendment to the Charlotte Town Plan. The purpose of the amendment is to revise the wildlife habitat map associated text, and to revise the trail inventory and vision maps. The Town Plan provides development policies for the Town, and also provides a basis for bylaws and other mechanisms which implement the policies. The proposed Town Plan affects all land within the Town. The Table of Contents for the proposed Town Plan contains the major topic headings: 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PLAN 2. GOALS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE TOWN 3. CHARLOTTE YESTERDAY: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TOWN 4. CHARLOTTE TODAY 5. CHARLOTTE TOMORROW 6. TIMETABLE 7. GLOSSARY The full text of the proposed amended plan is available for review at the Charlotte Town Office during regular business hours (8 AM-4 PM) and on the Town’s website: http://www.charlottevt.org. STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. 1241-06 CnC HSBC Bank, USA, NA, Plaintiff v. Daniel Leonard, Kathleen Leonard, John Delucco, Kathleen Delucco Fairview Farm Homeowner’s Association State Of Vermont, Department Of Taxes And Occupants residing at 9 Hawthorne Circle, Essex, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Fieldstone Mortgage Company to Daniel Leonard dated November 1, 2005 and recorded in Volume 671, Page 96-117 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:30 P.M. on October 29, 2008, at 9 Hawthorne Circle, Essex, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Daniel S. Leonard by Warranty Deed of Frank Kordzikowski and Wendy Kordzikowski dated August 1, 2005 of record at Book 660, Page 94 of the Town of Essex Land Records.

STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S0096-08 CnC Universal Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff v. Sara J. Mongeon, Robert Mongeon And Occupants residing at 88 River Street, Milton, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Universal Mortgage Corporation to Sara J. Mongeon dated July 13, 2007 and recorded in Volume 348, Page 399 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:00 P.M. on October 28, 2008, at 88 River Street, Milton, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Sarah J. Mongeon by Executor’s Deed of Sandra J.C. Griswold, Nancy E. Cloud and Susan J. Bainbridge, Co-Executrices of the Estate of Erlene S. Cleveland dated July 13, 2007 and recorded in Book ___ at Page ___ in the Land Records of the Town of Milton: Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Milton. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000. Universal Mortgage Corporation By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1118-07 CnC HSBC Bank USA, National Association for the Benefit of ACE Securities Corp. Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2006-NC3, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Plaintiff v. Todd Trombley, Betty Ann Trombley And Occupants residing at 79 Lakeside Avenue, Burlington, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by New Century Mortgage Corporation to Todd Trombley dated September 25, 2006 and recorded in Volume 975, Page 304 of the Land Records of the Town of Burlington, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 1:45 P.M. on October 28, 2008, at 79 Lakeside Avenue, Burlington, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

HSBC Bank, USA, NA

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Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex.

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Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Todd Trombley and Betty Ann Trombley by Warranty Deed of Denise M. Dalton dated June 14, 1996 and recorded in Volume 547 at Pages 107-108 of the City of Burlington Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Burlington. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000. HSBC Bank USA, National Association By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1148-07 CnC Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of Soundview Home Loan Trust 2005-OPT4, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-OPT4, Plaintiff v. Lisa M. Jackson, Gary M. Jackson,Option One Mortgage Corporation And Occupants residing at 17 Robin Road, Colchester, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Option One Mortgage Corporation to Lisa M. Jackson dated September 16, 2005 and recorded in Volume 538, Page 390 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:45 P.M. on October 28, 2008, at 17 Robin Road, Colchester, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Gary M. Jackson and Lisa M. Jackson by Warranty Deed of Clark J. Eaton and Victoria V. Clark dated September 16, 2005, of record in Volume ___ at Page ___ of the Colchester Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Colchester. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403

Development Proposals Sought for 1193 North Avenue, Burlington, VT The State of Vermont, Department of Buildings and General Services is seeking proposals to buy, lease, subdivide, convert to condominiums, or any combination thereof, the real property located at: 1193 North Avenue, Burlington, Vermont and commonly known as the former Thayer School building. A complete text of the RFP, including instructions on how to obtain a detailed informational packet, and how to submit proposals, is posted on-line at the following URL: http://bgs.vermont. gov/facilities/pms/propman/landsale or can be requested by calling Property Management at 802-828-3390. Interested parties must attend a mandatory site visit on October 27, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. and proposals are due by December 11, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1265-07 CnC

STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1334-07 CnC

U.S. Bank N.A. as Trustee, successor-in-interest to Wachovia Bank, N.A. as Trustee for JPM ALT 2005-S1, Plaintiff v. Ronald W. Ryan, NorthCountry Federal Credit Union, Thayer Bay Homeowners Association And Occupants residing at 47 Thayer Bay Circle, Colchester, Vermont, Defendants

U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp. 2005-OPT2 Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2005-OPT2, Plaintiff v. Keon A. Leclair, Tina M. Leclair, Option One Mortgage Corporation And Occupants residing at 11 Woodcrest Circle, Milton, Vermont, Defendants

NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by NorthCountry Federal Credit Union to Ronald W. Ryan dated June 18, 2005 and recorded in Volume 528, Page 211 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 1:00 P.M. on October 28, 2008, at 47 Thayer Bay Circle, Colchester, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Option One Mortgage Corporation to Keon A. Leclair dated August 30, 2005 and recorded in Volume 320, Page 477 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 11:30 A.M. on October 28, 2008, at 11 Woodcrest Circle, Milton, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Ronald W. Ryan by Quit Claim Deed of Brande L. Ryan dated May 10, 1991 and recorded July 31, 1991 in Volume 182 at Page 311 of the Town of Colchester Land Records.

To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Keon A. Leclair and Tina M. Leclair by Warranty Deed of Mark Critchlow and Patricia A. Critchlow (f/k/a Patricia A. Devarney) dated August 30, 2005 and recorded in Volume ___ at Pages ___ of the Land Records of the Town of Milton.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Colchester.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Milton.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

U.S. Bank N.A. as Trustee,

U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee

By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403

By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403

By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403

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Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Underhill. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

« legals STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1356-07 CnC US Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust 2006-3, Plaintiff v. Caryl M. Smith n/k/a Caryl M. Corbett, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for EquiFirst Corporation And Occupants residing at 424 VT Route 15, Underhill, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by EquiFirst Corporation to Caryl M. Smith n/k/a Caryl M. Corbett dated January 20, 2006 and recorded in Volume 150, Page 431 of the Land Records of the Town of Underhill, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 2:45 P.M. on October 28, 2008, at 424 VT Route 15, Underhill, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Caryl M. Smith (n/k/a Caryl M. Corbett) by Warranty Deed of Lisa J. Carroll, n/k/a Lisa S. Larabee, dated July 30, 2004 and recorded in Volume 138 at Pages 513-514 of the Town of Underhill Land Records.

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US Bank National Association, as Trustee By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1250-08 CnC TD Bank, N.A., Successor in Interest to Boston Federal Savings Bank Plaintiff, v. David W. Randall, Defendants. SUMMONS AND ORDER OF PUBLICATION TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: David W. Randall You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon MARIKATE E. KELLEY, ESQ., plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is 1233 Shelburne Road, Suite D-3, South Burlington, Vermont 05403, an answer to Plaintiff’s Complaint in the above-entitled action within 41 days after the date of the first publication of this Summons, which is October 15, 2008. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Your answer must also be filed with the Court. Unless otherwise provided in Rule 13(a), your answer must state as a counterclaim any related claim which you may have against plaintiff, or you will thereafter be barred from making such claim in any other action. YOUR ANSWER MUST STATE SUCH A COUNTERCLAIM WHETHER OR NOT THE RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE COMPLAINT IS FOR DAM-

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LATE OF BURLINGTON, VT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Ruth C. Wright late of Burlington. I have been appointed as personal representative of the above named estate. All creditors having claims against the estate must present their claims in writing within four months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy filed with the register of the Probate Court. The claim will be forever barred if it is not presented as described within the four month deadline. Dated: October 7, 2008 Signed: George D. Gifford Address: PO Box 451 Richmond, VT 05477 Name of Publication: Seven Days First Publication Date: 10/22/08 Second Publication Date: 10/29/08 Address of Probate Court: Probate Court, District of Chittenden PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402

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INSULIN PUMP SUPPORT GROUP Quarterly meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 22 from 6-8 p.m. at the Vermont Regional Diabetes Center at 3 Timber Lane in South Burlington. Topics include holiday foods, blind bolus blues and sensor updates. Minimed clinical pump trainer and a dietitian will be presenting. Refreshments will be served and participants will receive a free One Touch Ultra Link meter or Free Style Lite meter. For further information please call 802-847-1014. THE ADDISON COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS (TCF), a nonprofit self-help bereavement support group for families that have experienced the death of a child, will hold its regular meeting this Monday, October 6, at 7 p.m. at the Hospice Services Office located at the Marble Works (first building on the left as you enter across from the Addison Independent office) in Middlebury. MS SUPPORT GROUP A support group for people with multiple sclerosis and their caregivers. Sponsored by the Vermont Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Join others who have MS to discuss concerns, ask questions, share information and get support. Meets the first and third Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30 p.m. in Williston. For more information contact Michele at 862-4085 and leave a message. POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Champlain Valley (NAMI: CV) is offering a free PTSD Support Group for Women on Thursdays from 12:30-2 p.m. The group focuses on both support and education about PTSD. Meetings are held at the NAMI office at 14 Healey Avenue, Suite D, Plattsburgh. For more information or to register, call NAMI: CV at 561-2685. ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE BATTLING MULTIPLE MYELOMA? Support meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month from 5-6:30 p.m. at Hope Lodge on East Avenue, Burlington. For more information call Kay Cromie at 6559136 or email kgcromey@aol.com. SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED ONES WITH TERMINAL ILLNESS Group forming for family members and loved ones of people with terminal illness. The group will have a spiritual base. We will offer each other support by listening, as well as share creative ways to explore feelings of grief and loss through writing, prayer, etc. Please contact Holly, hollyh@pshift.com.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Tues., Thurs. & Sun., 6-7 p.m. in Barre. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St., Barre, VT (parking in back of church/please use back entrance). Meetings are FREE and anonymous. For more info please call 802-8632655. RIGHTS FOR CAREGIVERS support group – If you are a part-time caregiver for elders for an agency in Chittenden County, we need you to help everyone obtain better wages and more respect for the work we do. Contact Zoe at 802-861-6000 or zoe1944@yahoo.com. AL-ANON Family group 12-step. Thursdays, 12:20-1:20 p.m. Call AWARE at 802-472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick, VT. “WOMEN CHANGING” An educational support group on changing unhealthy patterns for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence. Tuesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. Ongoing. Join us any time! Childcare reimbursable. Ask about Survivors of Incest Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous. Call AWARE at 802472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick, VT. CIRCLE OF PARENTS support group meeting in Rutland Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. Meeting is free and confidential. For more info. call Heather at 802-498-0608 or 1-800-children. Meetings weekly in Winooski. For more info. call Tana at 802-8934878 or 1-800-children. Meetings Tuesday evenings in Barre. For more info. call Cindy at 802-2295724 or 1-800-children. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the first Tuesday of each month at Vermont Protection and Advocacy, 141 Main St., Suite 7, in conference room #2 from 6-8 p.m. Burlington evening support group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Comfort Inn and Suites, corner of Williston Rd. and Dorset St. from 6-8 p.m. Middlebury support group on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Call our helpline at 1-877856-1772.

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8sevendaysvt.com [click on classifieds] Show and tell. View and post up to 6 photos per ad online. FORMING A NEW GROUP focused on recovery/management of addictions, compulsions and their resulting imbalances on our lives. Alternative or supplement to traditional 12-step programs. Are you having trouble moderating alcohol? Work? Sex? Television? Food? Drugs? Computer games? Requires a commitment to improving your health and the ability to maintain a nonjudgmental atmosphere. Let’s discover how our struggles relate and help each other work on strategies to find balance. Contact Michelle at 802-399-6575 or recoveryourbalance@gmail.com. LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S RESOURCE CENTER MEN’S DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/cofacilitators. Open discussion format. Varied topics including: relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing. Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations. Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thursday, 7-9 p.m. More info: call Chris 434-4830. CHITTENDEN COUNTY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP will meet every second Tues, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Fanny Allen Hospital, lower level in the Board Room. ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS with debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Annonymous. Mondays, 7-8 p.m. First United Methodist Church, North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Contact Valerie at 760-9203. HIV SUPPORT GROUP This is a facilitated HIV/AIDS support group that aims to foster a greater sense of community, self-acceptance and personal growth. We are a group of survivors and, with all of our experience, will help you understand and enjoy what positive living has to offer. Friday @ 7 p.m. in the white building behind the Universal Unitarian Church. For more info call Alton @ 310-6094. LYME DISEASE Are you interested in forming a group? Please call Susan at 899-2713. CENTRAL VERMONT SUPPORT GROUP FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS COPING WITH BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES will meet at the Easter Seals office in Berlin the first Wednesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. New members welcome. Facilitated by Kristi Lenart, BA. For more information, call Kristi at 802-223-4744. SHOPLIFTERS SUPPORT GROUP Self-help support group now forming in the capital area for persons who would like to meet regularly for mutual support. This new group would meet biweekly at a time and place to be decided to discuss our issues, struggles and ways of staying out of trouble. We’ll likely use some of Terry Shulman’s work as a focus for some of our discussions. Please call Tina at 802-763-8800 or email at Tmarie267201968@ cs.com STARTING A WOMEN’S GROUP: Ages 45+, to meet weekly for lunch and other activities such as walking, book discussions, museum visits, matinees, etc. Email Katherine at MKR27609@aol.com. MAN-TO-MAN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER: Support group meets 5 p.m., 2nd Tuesday of each month in the board room of Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester. 1-800ACS-2345. SQUEAKY WHEELS, RUSTY HINGES: Focus groups meet at the Branon’s Pool in St. Albans for socialization, maintaining, wellbeing, improving performance of daily activities by managing aches through sharing experiences and workout in the warm water. Meeting is free, onehour pool pass, swimsuit, required. 802-527-7957.

MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE/DYSAUTONOMIA: Group forming for information sharing purposes. Please call 863-3153. MEN’S GROUP FORMING: Based on the work of David Deida, Core Energetics and other awareness practices. The intention of the group is to serve members into being the most extraordinary men that they can be. It is for men who are dying to penetrate every bit of the world with their courage, their presence, their unbridled passion and relentless love, and their deepest burning, bubbling, brilliant desire. The group will function as a means for men to support each other and serve the greater good. We will be working with spiritual practices, the mind and body, and taking on our lives with the utmost integrity, impeccability and openness. The group is not a new-age group, nor is it a group dedicated to therapy. Info, email zach@handelgroup. com or call 917-887-1276. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS): Open to anyone who has lost a loved one, friend, relative, neighbor, co-worker to suicide. The group provides a safe place where survivors can share their experiences and support each other. The Burlington support group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. at the The Comfort Inn & Suites, 5 Dorset St., South Burlington, VT. This is not a therapy group; this is a support group. There is no fee. Please contact Linda Livendale, 802-479-9450, ljlivendale@yahoo.com. DEBTORS ANON: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with money and debt? We can help. Tuesday, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Redstone Campus First Presbyterian Church, South Prospect St. Sat. 10-11:30 a.m. Contact Brenda, 802-4970522 or Cameron, 802-363-3747. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter Meeting. Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier. Wednesdays, 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info call Linda at 476-8345. BEREAVED PARENT SUPPORT GROUP: Every first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in Enosburg Falls, 10 Market Place, Main St. Parents, grandparents and adult siblings are welcomed. The hope is to begin a Compassionate Friends Chapter in the area. Info, please call Priscilla at 933-7749. CONCERNED UNITED BIRTHPARENTS: A group offering support if you have lost a child to adoption or are in reunion or have yet to begin your search. 802-849-2244. EATING DISORDERS PARENTAL SUPPORT GROUP for parents of children with or at risk of anorexia or bulimia. Meetings 7-9 p.m., third Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Community Church, Rt. 15, Essex Center. We focus on being a resource and providing reference points for old and new ED parents. More information, call Peter at 802-899-2554. HEPATITIS C SUPPORT GROUP: Second Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30. Community Health Center, second floor, 617 Riverside Ave., Burlington, 802-355-8936. AUTISM SUPPORT DAILY: Free support group for parents of children with autism. 600 Blair Park Road, Suite 240, Williston. 1st Monday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Call Lynn, 802-660-7240, or visit us at http://www.AutismSupportDaily. com for more info. OCD SUPPORT GROUP/THERAPY GROUP: Come share your experience, get support from those who have been there, learn about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how to reduce its symptoms. Therapist facilitated. Weekly meetings, 802-343-8114.

AUTISM: Free support group for parents and caregivers of children with ASD. Montpelier, 2nd Sunday of the month, 3-5 p.m. at the Family Center. Call Jessica, 249-7961, for childcare inquires. More info, www.aaware.org. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE and Dementia support group. Held the last Tuesday of every month at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington. Info, contact Stefanie Catella, 863-6384. FAMILY AND FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP: If someone in your family or one of your friends is in an abusive relationship, this new support group is designed especially for you. Info, call Women Helping Battered Women, 658-1996. HAIR PULLERS SUPPORT GROUP: The Vermont TTM Support Group is a new support group for adult pullers (18+) affected by trichotillomania (chronic hair pulling), as well as parents of pullers. This will be a supportive, safe, comfortable and confidential environment. Meets on the 4th Monday of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. First Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Info, 453-3688 or vermont_ttmoutreach@yahoo.com. DEPERSONALIZATION AND DEREALIZATION: If you suffer from either of these trance states, please call Todd, 864-4285. THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EAST CHAPTER of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at the Christ Church Presbyterian, 400 Redstone Campus, UVM. Info, 4825319. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause. DIABETES EDUCATION and Support Group of Chittenden County meets the third Thursday of every month at the Williston Federated Church, 6:30-8 p.m. We often have guest speakers. Info, 847-2278. WOMEN HELPING BATTERED WOMEN offers free, confidential educational support groups for women who have fled, are fleeing, or are still living in a world where intimate partner violence is present. WHBW offers a variety of groups to meet the diverse needs of women and children in this community. Info, 658-1996. VT PARENTS OF FOOD ALLERGY CHILDREN EMAIL SUPPORT TEAM: Info, contact MaryKay Hill, www. VTPFAC.com or call 802-373-0351. MIXED GENDER COMING OUT SUPPORT GROUP: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Co-facilitated by supportive peers and mentalhealth professionals and open to all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning adults age 23 and up. Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?.

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TRANS SOCIAL AND SUPPORT GROUP: First Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Looking for peer support among other transgendered folks? Need a safe space to relax and be yourself? Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?. TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter meeting, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 7-8 p.m. meeting. Info, call Fred or Bennye, 6553317, or Patricia, 658-6904. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516, or visit www.cvana.org. Held in Burlington, South Burlington and Colchester. For more information, call 860-8388 or toll-free, 1-866972-5266. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with sex or relationships? We can help. Sunday meetings, 7-8:30 p.m. Men call Sandy, 863-5708. Women call Valerie, 802-760-9203. SMOKING CESSATION GROUP: Willing to kick the habit? This free, five-week program helps quitters to follow through. Community Health Center of Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6309. DOES YOUR PARTNER/SPOUSE HAVE AD/HD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder)? Support group meets in Burlington to share experiences, challenges, laughs, resources. Want more information? Write addpartner@yahoo.com. WEDNESDAYS CIRCLE: A Transpersonal support group, every Wed., 6 p.m., Innerharmony Community Wellness Center, Rt. 100N, Rochester, VT. 767-6092. A sharing circle focusing on personal growth, transformation, spirituality and healing, led by Jim Dodds. DECLUTTER’S SUPPORT GROUP: Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each simplify. 453-3612. PARENTS TOGETHER: Support group will be meeting in Rutland on Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. All groups are free and confidential. Please call 1-800-CHILDREN for more information. SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Battered Women’s Services and Shelter of Washington County. Please call 1877-543-9498 for more info.

AHOY BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS: Join our support group where the focus is on living, not on the disease. We are a team of dragon boaters. Learn all about this paddle sport and its healthgiving, life-affirming qualities. Any age. No athletic experience needed. Call Linda at 802-434-4423 or email: dragonheartvermont@ gmavt.net or go to: www.dragonheartvermont.org. NAKED IN VERMONT: The premier Nudist/Skinnydipper organization in Vermont offering information library, message board, chat room, Yahoo group, and more. (ALL FREE) Visit www.nakedinvermont.com. SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION New England: Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732. ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) monthly support group: For patients, caregivers and loved ones who are living or have lived with ALS. Third Thursday of the month, 1-3 p.m. Jim’s House, 1266 Creamery Rd., Williston. Info and directions, 802-862-8882 or vt@alsanne.org. HARD-OF-HEARING support group: I’m starting a support group for adults who have a hearing loss that affects the quality of their work/ family/social life. Let’s share personal experiences and knowledge of hearing-aid technology. Marlene, 999-8005. SKINNYDIPPERS UNITE! Visit Vermont Au Naturel. Join other naturists and like-minded people for support, discussions and more! www.vermontaunaturel.com. MENTAL ILLNESSES: The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill holds support meetings for the families and friends of the mentally ill at Howard Center, corner of Flynn and Pine. Second and fourth Tuesdays of every month at 7 p.m. Park in Pine St. lot and walk down ramp. 862-6683 for info. LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, Transgender, Queer and Questioning: Support groups for survivors of partner violence, sexual violence and bias/hate crimes. Free and confidential. SafeSpace, 863-0003 or 866-869-7341 (toll-free). FAMILY/FRIENDS OF THOSE suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: second Monday of the month, 4-5 p.m. The Arbors. 985-8600. “HELLENBACH” CANCER support: Every other Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Middlebury. Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living with cancer and their caretakers convene for support.

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DEBTORS SUPPORT GROUP: Mondays, 7-8 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 21 Buell St., Burlington. Tuesday 5:30-6:30 p.m., Christ Church Presbyterian, 400 Redstone Campus, Burlington. Saturdays, 1011:30 a.m., King Street Youth Center, 87 King St., Burlington. Info, call Brenda 893-7752 or Cameron, 363-3747. BURLINGTON MEN’S GROUP: Ongoing Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3742. Area men are invited to join this weekly group for varied discussions and drumming. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Daily meetings in various locations. Free. Info, 860-8382. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the first step of 12 and join a group in your area. AL-ANON: Ongoing Wednesdays, 8 p.m. First Congregational Church, N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Free. Info, 655-6512. Seven other locations also. Info, 860-8388. Do you have a friend or relative with an alcohol problem? Al-Anon can help. DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL violence: WomenSafe offers free, confidential support groups in Addison County for women who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Info, 388-4205. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS Anonymous: Sundays, 7 p.m. Free. Info, write to P.O. Box 5843, Burlington, VT 05402. Get help through this weekly 12-step program. ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVERS: Burlington, meets at Birchwood Terrace, 2nd & 4th Wed., at 1:30 p.m. Colchester, meets at FAHC, Fanny Allen Campus, 1st Thurs. of month at 3 and 7 p.m. Shelburne, meets at The Arbors, 2nd Tues. of month at 10 a.m. DEMENTIA & ALZHEIMER’S disease support group for the caregivers: Barre, meets at Rowan Ct., 4th Wed. of month at 3 p.m. Montpelier, 338 River St., 2nd Wed. of month at 7 p.m. PARKINSON’S DISEASE: meets 1st Tues. of each month at the Heineburg Sr. Ctr., Heineburg Ave., Burlington. Lunch is avail. by calling 863-3982 in advance. WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT group: FAHC. Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 5-6:30 p.m. Call Rose, 847-5714.

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Assistant Director for Annual Giving The OfďŹ ce of Institutional Advancement at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh announces the position of Assistant Director for Annual Giving. SUNY Plattsburgh is on the move with a 34% increase in applications for admissions over the past ďŹ ve years, a diverse campus and a high proportion of international students. Recently, three new bilateral agreements were formed with universities in China, Mexico and Canada which further reinforce SUNY Plattsburgh’s commitment to providing a global education. A branch campus was recently established to serve students in the Glens Falls area and the college will break ground on a new $37 million science complex and $20 million School of Business and Economics in the near future. The ďŹ rst two million-dollar gifts in the history of the development program were received recently. This fall, the college plans to launch the public phase of “Bright with Promise,â€? a comprehensive campaign with a goal of $15 million. SUNY Plattsburgh is a suburban campus located on the beautiful shores of Lake Champlain, and near Adirondack Park, one of the largest park systems in the nation, and is an hour from Montreal, Lake Placid, NY, and Burlington, VT. Responsibilities Include: Reporting to the Director of Development, this position implements

a strategic plan for telemarketing, direct mail, and special initiatives for annual gift fundraising to beneďŹ t SUNY Plattsburgh. Responsibilities include assisting in the implementation of a new automated phonathon system, planning and aggressively implementing campus phonathons; recruiting, training and supervising student callers; timely follow-up to questions and concerns generated from phonathon activities; and overall responsibility for administering all direct mail appeals for annual fund campaigns and programs. In addition, this position will be responsible for the personal solicitation of alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the college. This position will incorporate testing and analysis of direct mail and telemarketing campaigns; keep, analyze, and produce accurate records and reports and monitor effectiveness of programs to ensure growth in all annual giving initiatives. Responsibilities will also include attendance at campus and department events, as well as availability for some evening and weekend work. The successful candidate will possess the ability to articulate SUNY Plattsburgh’s vision and mission with clarity and enthusiasm.

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Significant company growth and challenging new projects offer opportunities and rewards to creative and experienced professionals Aero/Hydro Design Engineer Structural Design Engineer Mechanical Design Engineer Program Manager CAE Software Engineer CAM Software Engineer Cooling Product Manager Concepts NREC is one of the leading independent mechanical engineering companies in the world specializing in turbomachinery products and services. Sustained international growth in challenging projects offers talented candidates rewarding opportunities to advance their credentials. Descriptions, responsibilities, and qualifications for each full-time position are available at www.conceptsnrec.com. Concepts NREC provides a creative, high-tech, nonsmoking work environment at its three facilities located in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Utah. Salaries with benefits are highly competitive and include relocation assistance. Qualified candidates are invited to submit their credentials and employment objectives to jds@conceptsnrec.com.

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Advocate Work as part of a team to provide direct service to victims/survivors of physical, sexual and emotional violence through crisis calls and in-person meetings, including: safety planning, emotional support, community and court advocacy, assistance with the filing of Relief from Abuse Orders, outreach, and information and referral to other community services. Participate in ongoing volunteer and staff training. Position is full-time, varied hours and days may be required. Excellent benefit package. Letter of intent and qualifications by November 10, 2008. WomenSafe PO Box 67 Middlebury, VT 05753 kd@womensafe.net

The world’s #1 pet retailer has exciting job opportunities in our Williston location for: Store Management Cashiers Stocking Associates Pet Trainers Groomers Pet Bathers Tropical Fish, Reptile, Small Animal and Bird Specialists We offer great pay, benefits, training, a fun environment & growth opportunities! Appy online on our careers link at www.petsmart.com.

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Seventh Generation is a place for people to seek not only material growth, but spiritual growth as well and it is a place in which people are energized and fulfilled as members of an intentional community. Seventh Generation is a workplace community where respect, a balanced lifestyle, and honest, open communication are fostered.

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Home Provider Open your life to a person with a developmental disability. Share your home with a young, active, upbeat man who is seeking a supportive and accessible environment where he can become involved in all the cultural, social and vocational opportunities of Chittenden County. Generous tax-free stipend, comprehensive training package, assistance with necessary home modifications and ongoing supports are provided. Contact Al Frugoli for further information: afrugoli@ccs-vt.org, ext. 108

Community Inclusion Facilitators CCS is seeking dynamic and energetic people to provide one-on-one inclusion supports to a variety of individuals with developmental disabilities. Work with a team of professionals assisting individuals to reach goals and realize dreams. This is an excellent job for those first entering the field of human services or for those looking to continue their work with people. We are currently offering several fully benefited part-time positions. If you are interested in joining our diverse team and making an impact on the lives of others, please submit a letter of interest and resume to Karen Ciechanowicz, staff@ccs-vt.org. Champlain Community Services 512 Troy Avenue Colchester, VT 05446 802-655-0511

Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.

CASHIER Burlington Electric Department is seeking to fill a full-time position that is responsible for providing friendly and customized service to walk-in and drive-up customer transactions. This position is also responsible to provide backup for processing customer bills on a daily basis. The ideal candidate will possess a high school diploma or equivalent and two years of successful work experience in a customer-related environment. For a complete job description and City of Burlington Application visit our website at www.hrjobs.ci.burlington.vt.us or contact Human Resources at 802-865-7145. If interested send a resume, cover letter and a completed City of Burlington Application by October 31, 2008 to: Human Resource Department 131 Church Street Burlington, VT 05401. EOE

Are you professional & creative? Would you like to work in a small restaurant that makes great food & has fun doing it? Then join our team at Sonoma Station in Richmond. Call 802-434-5949 or send resume to chefmon@hotmail.com

Based in our Berlin office. At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont, we know that our employees are our most valuable resource. That’s why we offer each employee more than just competitive salary and benefits packages. We offer an exciting health & wellness program, a large selection of on-site professional development classes, and lots of opportunities for career advancement ... all in a friendly and positive work environment.

Submit your resume to hrapps@bcbsvt.com or apply online at www.bcbsvt.com

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Save lives. FulďŹ ll yours! Burlington, VT

Hope Lodge Manager Positions

Responsible for the operations of Hope Lodge during respective shifts. Provides highest quality of service, assistance and support to guests, their family members and caregivers. Ensures that a warm, safe, supportive environment is maintained and the needs of guests are met. Facilitates the admission of any guest arriving after regular ofďŹ ce hours. Preferred candidate will have Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Nursing, Public Health or related ďŹ eld, or equivalent combination of education and work experience. One to three years of experience in human services, social work or community outreach, preferably in a residential setting. Ability to remain composed under stress and to handle self in a professional manner at all times.

!DMINISTRATIVE Starksboro: Common Ground Center

is looking for good communicator and people-person to assist with all areas of work. QualiďŹ cations: friendly, skilled writer, self-starter, good follow-through, exible, cooperative team player. CGC is a 700-acre nonproďŹ t family and retreat center. Resume and writing sample to Jim@cgcvt.org by October 28, 2008.

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Must be available at the Lodge for all of the hours assigned (4 PM – 12 midnight, Sunday through Thursday). How to Apply: Please submit cover letter and resume online at http://www.cancer.org. Please contact nedivjobs@cancer.org with any questions.

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Spectrum Youth and Family Services are seeking dynamic, dependable people to join our Respite team. Respite staff provides assistance and support with basic living skills and treatment goals pertaining to mental health and substance abuse issues, as well as problem solving crisis situations. Experience working with adolescents is necessary as well as knowledge of mental health, substance abuse, trauma. This is a part-time position and the hours are variable. If you are not interested in overnight shifts, please do not apply. High school degree required and Bachelor’s degree preferred. Minimum of one year experience working with adolescents. Professional and personal maturity required. Please send a cover letter and resume to:

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ACCOUNTING CLERK The Burlington Housing Authority Finance & Administration Department seeks an Accounting Clerk to join our fast-paced office. The primary responsibility of this position is the complete accounts payable process, including the preparation and processing for payment of all invoices for BHA and all related managed companies, and the upkeep of the related subsidiary ledgers. This position will also be responsible for all accounting duties related to various properties, including budgeting and financial reporting. Additional duties include some general office coordination. The successful candidate must be detail-oriented, with a strong emphasis on accuracy and completeness, and must be able to work within time-sensitive parameters both independently and as a team. An Associate’s degree or equivalent in Accounting and at least two years of related experience preferred. BHA offers an excellent benefit package and the salary is commensurate with experience. Please send resume and cover letter to: Dawn Morgan Director of Finance & Administration Burlington Housing Authority 65 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 dmorgan@burlingtonhousing.org Please visit our website at www.burlingtonhousing.org for more information. BHA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

!IGGOHCNS )CN=B?H !B?@ 'HMNLO=NIL The Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf and the Vermont Foodbank are looking for a Chef Instructor to oversee a new culinary job training program called Community Kitchen. The program educates student trainees both in classroom culinary theory and hands-on practical skills. The Chef Instructor will be responsible for program development as well as managing and overseeing meal preparation and all activities associated with food production. In addition, the position will work with partnering organizations to facilitate case management, internships and job placement for each of the students. Successful applicants must have experience working with adult learners; experience with project management, planning and organizing and computer skills; and must demonstrate problemsolving and decision-making abilities. A degree in a culinary field or equivalent work experience is required. Familiarity with issues facing economically disadvantaged, low-income and multicultural/ ethnically diverse populations is needed. Competitive salary and excellent benefits offered. People from diverse cultural groups, especially encouraged to apply. EOE. Send letter of interest, resume and 3 references to: Attn: Community Kitchen Chef Instructor Hire Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf 228 N. Winooski Ave. Burlington, VT 05401 By October 30, 2008.

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October 26th & November 8th. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. at Bolton Valley ~ main base lodge

Over 200 positions to choose from including: Chefs (all levels) Housekeepers Bartenders Ski/Ride Instructors Events Coordinator Snow Reporter Hotel Front Desk Agents Nordic Instructors Terrain Park Staff Lift Mechanics

Lift Operators Snowmakers Waitstaff Dishwashers Lead Pizza Cook Parking Lot Attendants Guest Service/ Ticket Agents and more . . .

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Think Snow, Think Fun, Think Bolton Valley! www.boltonvalley.com ~ 802-434-3444

Lamoille County Mental Health Services is a designated provider of developmental and mental health services serving Lamoille County for more than 40 years.

Intensive Needs Service Coordinator Our growing developmental services program is seeking an experienced professional to provide service coordination to individuals with developmental disabilities who have high-risk behaviors. Primary responsibilities include coordination of supports and services for a population of individuals who are intensely challenging including those who have been adjudicated for sexual offenses. The service coordinator will be responsible for ensuring the respectful delivery of services based on high quality standards to ensure public safety. Qualified candidate must have demonstrated experience working with high-risk behaviors, preferably in developmental disability services. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.

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WINGS OVER BURLINGTON (Sorry it took us so long to get here!) We’re looking for motivated and outgoing DRIVERS, Cooks & Phone Staff to join us in our new venture at the Blue Mall in S. Burlington. Be part of the team and enjoy great pay and a fun environment! Call 802-863-WING (9464) for more info.

Email resume and cover letter to: janem@lamoille.org or mail to LCMH Human Resources 275 Brooklyn Street Morrisville, VT 05661

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• ECA position / St. Albans: 30 hours/week, 42 weeks/year • ECA position / Burlington: VT educator’s license required. 20 hours/week with opportunity for additional hours865-1020 of employment through Robin’s Nest Children’s Center. 52 weeks/year. To place an employment ad call Michelle Brown x 21 Successful applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills; skills in documentation and record-keeping; proďŹ ciency in MS Word, email and Internet; exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Must be energetic, positive, mature, professional, diplomatic, motivated, and have a can-do, extra-mile Online @ sevendaysvt.com attitude. A commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited ďŹ nancial resources is necessary. Clean driving record and access to reliable transportation required. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required tasks. People of color, and from diverse cultural groups, especially encouraged to apply. EOE. Please submit resume and cover letter with three work references. Please specify location and send applications by email to: pirish@cvoeo.org. No phone calls, please.

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Kind, compassionate individuals make excellent personal care attendants to elders. On-the-job training in this growing industry will teach you the skills you need to launch a new career, or supplement your current income. Apply in person: Shelburne Bay Senior Living 185 Pine Haven Shores Road Shelburne, VT 05482

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Alesia Clear, Otter Creek Associates 86 Lake Street Burlington, VT 05401 by fax: 802-860-5011 or email: alesia@ocamhs.com

We are looking for energetic, outgoing individuals to join our South Burlington team. We have a second-shift front desk position open for the right candidate. The shift available is full-time. Starting pay is $9/hour. Please have a resume available for review.

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Shared Home Provider Opportunities in Chittenden County Earn $20,500 annually tax-free while sharing your home with an engaging 73-year-old woman with mild developmental disabilities and physical challenges. Help her maximize independence while supporting ongoing medical needs. Best match is a female or couple without young children & first floor bedroom.

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Loving, 16-year-old girl in need of fun-loving, dependable caregivers. Private home is 25 minutes north of Burlington. Total assist with ADLs, g-tube feeds & respiratory management. Weekend days (2 weekends/mo.) $28.00/hr. Email: privdutynurse08@surfglobal.net or call 802-893-6368.

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Female roomate needed for a kindhearted, musical young man who needs moderate support. Best match would be a student or professional interested in psychology or social work who would move into client’s two-bedroom apartment in the Burlington area. Tax-free stipend, training, and generous supportive team environment included.

Contact Kay Bozich Owens: 802-488-6506 or Marisa Hamilton: 802-488-6571 To learn more about HowardCenter, to view a full listing of open positions, to learn more about benefits, and to apply online, visit www.howardcenter.org.HowardCenter is an equal opportunity employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefit package to qualified employees.

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Administer employee benefits and ensure compliance with all federal and state HR laws. Create and maintain employee personnel records, worker compensation files, databases and tracking systems to support HR functions. Maintain HR aspects of payroll system (ADP). Manage worker compensation processes and safety initiatives. Manage recruitment, screening and orientation of new employees. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field plus 2-4 years related experience or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills have been acquired. PHR certification desirable, but not required. Must be proficient in word processing, databases, spreadsheets, as well as electronic file management and payroll systems. ADP or comparable payroll system experience desired. 24 hours/week. Health plan and excellent benefits. Successful applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills; skills in documentation and record-keeping; exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Must be professional, diplomatic, motivated, and possess outstanding interpersonal/customer service skills and ability to work courteously and objectively with a wide variety of company personnel and outside contacts. Valid driver’s license, clean driving record and access to reliable transportation required. Must be able to travel occasionally, work in a team environment, and occasionally work a flexible schedule. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required tasks. Please submit resume and cover letter with three work references. Please send applications by email to: hr@cvoeo.org. No phone calls, please. People of color, and from diverse cultural groups, especially encouraged to apply. EOE.

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School Nurse - Brewster Pierce Memorial School is looking for a .30 FTE or 1.5 days week school nurse, exible schedule possible. Brewster Pierce Memorial School is a small rural school in Huntington VT with an enrollment of 130 students from PK to Grade 4. The school nurse can make a signiďŹ cant difference in the lives of students and staff. The candidate must be a Registered Nurse and be school nurse certiďŹ ed/certiďŹ able in the State of Vermont. BSN preferred. Only completed, online applications at schoolspring.com will be accepted. Online application must include: proďŹ le, letter, resume, transcripts, references, certiďŹ cations and questions, if asked. Hard copies of Vermont CertiďŹ cation with appropriate endorsements, three written letters of reference and transcripts will be required for veriďŹ cation at the interview level. Visit our website DW www.cesu.k12.vt.us for information about our schools. If you have questions, please call 434-2128. Minority applicants are encouraged to apply. EOE M/F

Exciting employment opportunities available at established agency with history of supporting strong, healthy families in an environment of teamwork, creativity and innovation. Lund Family Center is seeking motivated, flexible and dynamic individuals with a passion for working with children and families for the following positions with competitive salary and benefits. EOE/EE/AA

LPN: Full-time evening LPN needed to serve pregnant and parenting young women and their children within residential treatment setting. Hours are 2-10 pm, Monday through Friday. Applicants should have a desire to work on a multidisciplinary team that is fast-paced and challenging. Lund Family Center provides holistic approaches to healthy living and embraces strengths-based perspective. Residential Counselor: Full-time position of 2 weekend day shifts and 3 evening shifts during week to provide parenting and life skill support to pregnant and/or parenting women and their children in residential treatment setting. Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in relevant field needed; experience working with adolescents and flexibility a must. IP Residential Counselor: 27-hour/week part-time sleeping overnight position to provide parenting and life skill support to pregnant and/or parenting women and their children in transitional housing program. Bachelor’s degree in relevant field needed; experience working with adolescents and flexibility a must. Custodian: Full-time. Major responsibilities include performing a wide variety of cleaning duties in a residential treatment facility for pregnant and parenting women. Principal activities include, but are not limited to, scrubbing, mopping, waxing, vacuuming, shampooing, polishing, and disinfecting offices, public areas, meeting rooms, bathrooms, dining room, stairways and vacated bedrooms. Duties performed using hand held cleaning supplies/equipment and machinery. Experience in aspects of effective cleaning techniques and use of a variety of custodial machinery required.

Please send cover letter and resume to: Jamie Tourangeau, Human Resources PO Box 4009, Burlington, VT 05406-4009 Fax: 802-861-6460 No phone calls, please.

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TEMPORARY DRIVERS You will be employed and paid by a staffing agency while on temporary assignment to FedEx Home Delivery. It’s extra cash and a chance to work with an industry leader. You will be supplied with a truck and everything you need to pick up and deliver our customer’s packages. QUALIFICATIONS

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, 21 years or older , Clean driving record 10 am - 3 pm , No felony convictions , Drug screen and physical required at the Vermont Department of Labor , Customer Service skills , Residential delivery areas 63 Pearl St, Burlington, VT , State-of-the-art route-mapping helps you plan your deliveries 802-651-6837 6 Must have acceptable credit and be able to purchase a FedEx vehicle.

OR inquire in person at 322 Leroy Aug Road Apply in person Wednesday thru Saturday, 4th - 7th from 10am to 4pm. FedEx Home Delivery, 380inBoyer Circle, Williston, VT 05495 Williston. Visit fedex.com/us/careers/companies/ground.html Visit Women and minorities are encouraged to join the fedex.com. team.

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The Sports & Fitness Edge And Kids & Fitness Are Hiring! Are You: Enthusiastic! Hard-Working! Dedicated To Customers! Then this might be the job for you. We offer an exciting and fast-paced environment in an industry that is growing by the day. With locations all over Chittenden County, you have a chance to become part of an awesome family! The Sports & Fitness Edge, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. The following positions are currently available:

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www.sevendaysvt.com [click on classifieds] Physical Education Teacher No Prior ce Experien ! d e d Nee Start Work Now! $880/hr Collect survey research data using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing technology in support of our government and business clients. Survey topics include health, healthcare, housing, the environment and other timely topics. s %VENING AND WEEKEND SHIFT WORK AVAILABLE s 0AID TRAINING PROVIDED .O PRIOR COMPUTER EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED s 3ICKNESS ACCIDENT PRESCRIPTION VISION DENTAL BENElTS AVAILABLE 0LEASE APPLY IN PERSON AT OUR OFlCE LOCATED AT 126 College Street, 3rd FL, Burlington 800-639-2030 Minority candidates encouraged to apply. %/% - & $ 6

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Full-time, longterm substitute position available to teach physical education to grades K-3 at our Hiawatha Elementary School beginning 11/5/08 through 1/5/09. Qualified candidates must hold a valid VT Educator license with a Physical Education endorsement (3-08), and have experience working with primary grades. Position pays $214/day. Applications only accepted electronically through www.schoolspring.com (Job ID 24465). EOE.

Dynamic 9-lawyer Burlington law firm seeks smart, energetic and technologically proficient assistant to support three exacting lawyers with busy litigation practices. 3-5 years of law office experience, accurate typing and dictation required. Must be a self-starter, well-organized, eager to learn, have excellent oral and written communication skills and be proficient in a wide range of computer applications. Ability to prioritize a must and a sense of humor is a plus. Salary commensurate with experience and ability. Excellent benefit package. Flexible hours possible.

City of St. Albans, VT

Recreation Director The City of St. Albans, Vermont (pop. 7500), seeks an energetic manager for the position of Recreation Director. This position is responsible for developing creative recreation programming, managing the recreation budget, identifying new opportunities, and ensuring quality programming. Recreation facilities include a municipal pool, two large parks, gymnasium, community center, tennis and basketball courts, the Hard’ack Ski Hill, and Aldis Hill Forest. Previous experience in parks and recreation management preferred; strong public service ethic required. Salary commensurate with qualiďŹ cations. A full job description is available at www.stalbansvt.com. To apply, send cover letter and resume to: Dominic Cloud, City Manager at d.cloud@stalbansvt.com. Resume review will begin November 3, 2008.

Assistant Professor, Education The Education Department at Johnson State College seeks an Assistant Professor to provide leadership and expertise in our secondary licensure program. The position will require teaching secondary methods courses with an emphasis on providing quality field experiences for aspiring secondary teachers. This full-time position will begin in August of 2009. Other responsibilities include collaborating with local secondary schools; supervising student teachers; advising teacher licensure students; teaching other appropriate graduate and/or undergraduate courses; participating in the collegewide commitment to early and on-going student success; and assuming the duties of a full-time faculty member for both the department and college. The successful candidate for this position will possess an earned doctorate in education or a closely related field, high school teaching experience, and experience teaching at the college level or adult learners. The candidate also should possess skills in leadership, collaboration and problem solving. A commitment to diversity and inclusive practices is also expected. Johnson State College is a dynamic liberal arts college in northern Vermont. Its historic commitment to teacher education remains extremely strong. Licensure programs are available at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Undergraduate elementary and secondary education majors may take courses on-campus or enroll in the External Degree Program (EDP), which serves adult learners throughout Vermont. Applications will be reviewed beginning November 17, 2008, and interviews will begin early in 2009. Candidates should send a letter of intent outlining their qualifications, a statement of teaching philosophy, a curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, three letters of reference and a completed JSC application (available at www.jsc.edu) to jschumanresources@jsc.edu or to Johnson State College, Human Resources Office, Attn: Ken Brighton, Ph.D., Education Department Chair, 337 College Hill, Johnson, Vermont 05656-9898.

Johnson State College is an equal opportunity employer.

Apply in confidence to: Michael T. Russell P.O. Box 1124 Burlington, VT 05402-1124.

Science Teacher Essex High School

Looking to get your foot in the door at one of Vermont’s premier schools? If you are a licensed science teacher with experience or background in Biology or Physics, then we may have the job for you! We have two longterm substitute positions available to teach science to our high school students. One position will be available from early to midJanuary for approximately 6 weeks to teach both Biology and Conceptual Biology. This position is full-time and pays $214/day. The second position will be available from 2/17/09 through 4/17/09 to teach two sections of Physics. This position is half-time each day (for the first two blocks of the day) and pays $107 per half-day. Qualified candidates must hold (or be eligible to hold) a valid VT Educator license with a Science endorsement (2-13) and have background or experience teaching Biology or Physics. Applications only accepted electronically through www.schoolspring.com (Job ID 24492). EOE.

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGER National Wildlife Federation, America’s conservation organization passionate about protecting wildlife for our children’s future, is seeking a Regional Development Manager for our ofďŹ ce in Montpelier, Vermont. The Regional Development Manager will join a team of enthusiastic fundraising professionals, and play an integral role in supporting the implementation of a strong regional fundraising program. The successful candidates will be energetic, conďŹ dent and demonstrate success in relationship building, fundraising and volunteer leadership development and planning. QualiďŹ cations: • Bachelor’s degree • Four years experience in Development • Familiar with Donor tracking systems • Ability to multitask. • Some travel required NWF offers an excellent beneďŹ ts package. NWF is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. For more information and to apply online go to www.nwf.org/careergateway. National Wildlife Federation It starts with people‌like you.

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LAMOILLE AMBULANCE SERVICE, WILLISTON OPERATIONS

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EarthWalk Vermont seeks a dynamic and experienced educator to guide and teach children ages 7-12 in our long-term outdoor community and nature-based education program. Qualifications: outgoing, caring and loves children; at least 3 years of experience as a naturalist/ outdoor educator and/or wilderness skills instructor working with youth; excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Strong background in local ecology, primitive skills, earthcrafts, leading songs and storytelling preferred. The job is 20 hours per week: end of October through June of 2009. (Potential for year-round employment w/ summer camps.) Please email brief letter of interest and resume to: angella@earthwalkvermont.org or mail to: Angella Gibbons, Director EarthWalk Vermont P.O. Box 21 Plainfield, VT. 05667 No phone calls please.

Be one of the first to become a “Roadie” as we open our first restaurant in Vermont! Stop by the hiring trailer beginning October 16, 2008.

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St. Joseph Residential Care Home Burlington, VT Dining Aide – Full-time

Dining Services Aide to assist in the preparation and serving of meals in a polite, safe and sanitary manner. Wash dishes and maintain stock using sanitary and infection control guidelines. Assist with cleaning and maintaining a friendly approachable atmosphere for residents. Complies with state and federal health regulations for food handling.

Housekeeper – Part-time

Perform the day-to-day activities of the Housekeeping/Laundry Department in accordance with current federal, state and local standards to ensure that the facility is maintained in a clean, safe and comfortable manner for our residents and staff. Your duties for this position include cleaning, washing, sanitizing, deodorizing and disinfecting all areas and items in the facility. Apply in person at: 243 North Prospect St., Burlington, VT 05401 or via email at: danderson@vermontcatholic.org

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Interactive Media/Creative Technical Document Writer

MicroStrain’s products are used in many applications, including aerospace, automotive, civil engineering and medical fields – and they’re constantly evolving to take advantage of new technologies and to provide new capabilities. You’ll have the opportunity to work on digital sensing products, including wireless, energy harvesting and web-based reporting. We’re looking for a dynamic, creative person with the ability to author clean, concise technical documents but also to generate complementary interactive multimedia to support those documents and to post them to the web. The writer will support our product management team, developing and delivering high quality marketing collateral, training material and internal documentation, including user manuals, quick start guides, product datasheets, application notes, case histories, company newsletter, assembly procedures, web content, online help and FAQs. For more details go to www.microstrain.com. Send cover letter and resume to: humanres@microstrain.com.

COMMUNITY SKILLS WORKERS The Community Based Services program of NFI is looking for a full-time Community Skills Worker to join our talented team of mental health professionals. Responsibilities include doing one-on-one and group activities with children and adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral challenges both in the community and their homes. Candidates must be able to communicate effectively, to work flexible hours, and have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation. Bachelor’s degree and previous experience working with children with emotional/behavioral challenges preferred. Please submit a cover letter and resume to: Ali Wise 30 Airport Rd. S. Burlington, VT 05403 or email aliwise@nafi.com. WWW.NAFI.COM

Wake up and Smell the Opportunities! Green Mountain Coffee is currently seeking

Technical Support Specialist

The Technical Support Specialist is responsible for providing computer hardware, software and network infrastructure support to the GMCR Community through exceptional Help Desk Phone Coverage and Field Service. Successful candidates will have a minimum 2 years experience providing Technical Support of computer systems in a Windows Environment and be able to install, configure, use and teach standard PC applications such as Word, Excel and Outlook as well as Hardware and Peripherals such as PCs/laptops, printers and other hardware including wireless and mobile computing devices. For a more detailed job description or to apply online, please visit our website at: www.greenmountaincoffee.com.

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Place your ad where everyone is looking (right here!) Contact Michelle: 865-1020 x21 michelle@sevendaysvt.com

Submit letter of interest, resume and three references to: Human Resources Behavioral Interventionist Position Laraway School PO Box 621 Johnson, VT 05656 802-635-7273 (fax) info@laraway.org LYFS is an Equal Opportunity Employer

“The Trusted Leader in Home Health Care for more than sixty years.”

Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) Full-time w/Benefits

Come join the VNA that ranks in the top 25% for home health care agencies nationwide compared to over 8000 agencies for patient outcomes. We offer flexible scheduling, competitive salaries and excellent benefits.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, team-oriented individual to assist in providing occupational therapy in the home environment to our adult and geriatric population. Successful candidates will treat, educate and implement established plans of care for clients under the supervision of a licensed occupational therapist and in accordance with physician orders. Candidates will work with a team of therapists, nurses, medical social workers, nutritionists and home health-care aides to achieve the highest level of coordinated care. Candidate must be certified as an occupational therapy assistant in Vermont with prior clinical experience. The successful candidate will possess excellent interpersonal, leadership and organization skills. For more information please contact Tina Blongy at 802-770-1519 or visit www.ravnah.org.

“The Trusted Leader in Home Health Care for more than sixty years.”

Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) Full-time w/Benefits

Come join the VNA that ranks in the top 25% for home health-care agencies nationwide compared to over 8000 agencies for patient outcomes. We offer flexible scheduling, competitive salaries and excellent benefits. We’re looking for an enthusiastic, team-oriented individual to assist in providing physical therapy in the home environment to our adult and geriatric population. Successful candidates will treat, educate and implement established plans of care for clients under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist and in accordance with physician orders. Candidates will work with a team of therapists, nurses, medical social workers, nutritionists and home health-care aides to achieve the highest level of coordinated care. Candidates must be certified as a physical therapy assistant in Vermont with prior clinical experience. The successful candidate will possess excellent interpersonal, leadership and organization skills. For more information please contact Tina Blongy at 802-770-1519 or visit www.ravnah.org.

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Work with Innovative Technology at Logic Supply.

Do you want to earn a living… and save the world? Now Hiring: Software Developer, Computer Technician Technical Sales, Procurement Specialist, Shipping Clerk X Learn more: www.logicsupply.com/careers

All positions have competitive wages and benefits. Candidates must have exceptional attention to detail and be good communicators and team players. We want you to have the ability to work independently. Please email resumes to Erika at eglidden@oppsvt.org.

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Loan Processor

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Join Opportunities Credit Union, Vermont’s only Community Development Credit Union. We have served the local economy for 20 years. In today’s volatile market, Opportunities Credit Union is secure. We’re your neighborhood credit union with a full array of deposit and lending services from free online checking accounts to socially responsible investing. Join our growing team today as we bring affordable financing to those who need it most.

Full-time Consumer Loan Processor needed. Position is responsible for data entry of loan applications, sales of credit union products, and answering the main phone. 10/20/2008 9:14:01 AM

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Program Coordinator/Job Developer Vermont Works for Women, a nonprofit organization located in Winooski, VT, is looking for a workfocused case manager, inspired job coach, and business liaison for our new Transitional Jobs Program. This program provides job training, life-skills classes and supportive placement for women with employment barriers as they enter the workforce. Come join the committed, dynamic team at Vermont Works for Women. Full-time position with generous benefits package and competitive salary. Send cover letter, resume and list of references via email to nszweda@vtworksforwomen.org or fax 802-655-8922. For more info, visit www.vtworksforwomen.org.

Full-time, 1st shift positions available in MANUFACTURING.

Need to have experience working in assembly. Must be able to stand on your feet for long periods of time. Job requires the ability to work in a fastpaced environment and to lift up to 40 lbs. Must have your own transportation.

Please call our office at 802-864-8255, if interested.

Position open until filled. Vermont Works for Women is an EOE.

Seasonal Tax Reviewers Needed

Who’s Cooking? How about you at Libby’s Diner!

Gallagher, Flynn & Company, LLP is in need of tax reviewers for our Burlington, VT office. The ideal candidates will have significant previous tax-review experience. Strong computer skills are a must. This is a temporary seasonal position with no benefits. This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to work 30 – 60 hours per week from late January to mid-April.

Breakfast Chef

Strong, creative culinary background, high volume $12-14 starting hourly based on experience, some benefits.

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Interested candidates should fax, email or mail their resume in confidence (no phone calls, please) to:

Jennifer Jeffrey Gallagher, Flynn & Company, LLP PO Box 447, Burlington, VT 05402 Fax (802) 651-7289 Email: jjeffrey@gfc.com

Attention Caregivers and Licensed Nursing Assistants Rewarding Career Opportunity Available!

46 Highpoint Center (Exit 16 off I-89) Colchester, VT 05446 802-655-0343

Day and Evening shifts available. Part-time and full-time opportunities. To inquire, visit or call: Rachel Yeager The Arbors at Shelburne 687 Harbor Road Shelburne, VT 05482 802-985-8600 The Arbors, a Benchmark Assisted Living Community, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

fun, specialty food kiosk at the University Mall through the holidays. Great pay. Outgoing personality and good work ethic a must. Please mail application or resume to: Halladays Harvest Barn 6 Webb Terrace Bellows Falls, VT 05101 or halladay@sover.net.

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The Arbors at Shelburne has immediate openings for caregivers to work in our community dedicated to serving seniors with memory challenges. We proudly offer: Competitive Rates Outstanding Shift Differentials Excellent BeneďŹ ts Bonus Opportunities Tuition Reimbursement Associate-Driven Culture

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Child Youth and Family Services PROGRAM INTERVENTIONIST – FAMILY AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES

Fantastic entry-level position in the field of Mental Health! Provide social, behavioral and life-skill development in community settings with children with mental health disorders. Applicants must possess good therapeutic and rapport-building skills, be a team-oriented participant, and be a positive advocate for the children and families they serve. Training and ongoing supervision provided. Bachelor’s degree required. Transportation req. 37.5 hours/wk, afternoons & evenings. Competitive salary plus full benefits.

FAMILY CLINICIAN - FAMILY AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES

Seeking a full time master’s level clinician for our Family and Community-bBased Services Program serving both children with emotional/behavioral challenges and their families and transitional-aged youth seeking employment and independent living skills. Must be a strong advocate and comfortable with care coordination, working in the community, therapeutic interventions, family work, parenting education, vocational support and working with adolescents. Requires strong communication and organizational skills. Knowledge of resources a plus. Driver’s license and transportation required.

Mental Health & Substance Abuse COMMUNITY SUPPORT CLINICIAN

Two full-time positions available to support persons with psychiatric disabilities in Chittenden County. Work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing creative problem solving, advocacy, resource development, case management, counseling and crisis support. Direct services to clients, families and the community. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in human services field and experience with persons with serious and persistent mental disorders preferred. SUBSTANCE ABUSE CLINICIAN

The Chittenden Clinic, the methadone program in Chittenden County, is seeking a full-time substance abuse clinician who will provide individual and group counseling to patients who are opioid dependent. Position will require the candidate to establish and maintain clinic records and address treatment plans, progress in treatment and coordination of care. Candidate must have a master’s in counseling or social work and have or be working toward licensure in substance abuse treatment. SENIOR CLINICIAN – CHITTENDEN CENTER

Supervisory clinician needed for the Chittenden Clinic to work with patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment. Individual will provide clinical supervision to clinicians; clinical services to patients receiving methadone maintenance therapy; clinical evaluations; plus make referrals to appropriate services. Clinician will also develop and review individualized treatment plans and provide administrative tasks as appropriate. Master’s required in counseling/social work with min. 5 years experience. Licensure in mental health and experience in substance abuse preferred.

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SAFE RECOVERY CASE MANAGER

Provide services for people who use opiates or inject other drugs, including people who are currently using and people who are in early recovery. Help people meet basic survival needs; learn about treatment options; avoid HIV and Hepatitis C transmission and drug overdose; and navigate systems (legal, mental health, public benefits, drug treatment). Nonjudgmental and pro-client attitude required. Bachelor’s degree or high school diploma/GED and relevant education/experience required. CADC/LADC and advanced degrees welcome. Benefits eligible position.

Instructors Wanted The Essex Parks and Recreation Department is looking for instructors to teach preschool, afterschool, or evening classes in cooking, sports, science, gymnastics, dance and drama for youth and adult programs. If you have a skill or hobby you would like to teach or know someone who would like to teach, please call the Essex Parks and Recreation Department at 802-878-1342 or visit us online at www.essexparksandrec.org. E.O.E.

LABORATORY TECHNICIAN–CHITTENDEN CENTER

The Chittenden Clinic methadone program is seeking a male lab technician/case manager. Primary responsibilities include observing and collecting samples for drug testing, analyzing and reporting data, ordering supplies and other administrative duties as needed (approximately 80%). Case management responsibilities include acting as a referral source and helping individuals navigate public systems, including health care, housing, corrections (approximately 20%). Candidate must be a reliable, team player. Bachelor’s degree required. Hours are Monday through Friday 6:30 am-2:30 pm. PART-TIME NURSE–CHITTENDEN CENTER

The Chittenden Clinic, a Burlington methadone clinic, seeks a part-time nurse or LPN to join our team. This position is responsible for safely dispensing methadone and suboxone via a computer-based dispensing system to patients in a methadone treatment program, and conducting patient education of safe methadone practice, harm reduction and general health issues relevant to individuals with opiate addiction and/or other substance abuse problems.

Administrative Services ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN

Seeking to fill two positions immediately in the Environmental Services Program of the Facilities Department to perform routine and complex cleaning and maintenance of agency buildings. Positions requires minimum one-year experience in commercial cleaning. Valid Vermont driver’s license required for both positions.

Developmental Services Several direct service positions open offering a strong interdisciplinary approach working in a supportive environment with paid trainings. A great way to enjoy all Vermont has to offer while working in your community. Full- and part-time positions available earning $11.02 to $13.08 per hour, .58/milage reimbursement and benefits eligibility for positions of 20 hr per week. 47-year-old man whose passions include fishing, coffee outings and attending and watching sporting events needs 20 hours of support in his new apartment, 8:30am to 12:30, in the Winooski area. Seeking an energetic, positive individual to provide support for a 9 year-old girl. Enjoys singing, dancing, exploring nature and spending time with animals. Ideal candidates will have experience working with children on the autism spectrum. 10 hours per week after-school support.

To learn more about HowardCenter, view a full listing of open positions, more details on positions listed above and to apply online visit: www.howardcenter.org.

TO APPLY, SEND YOUR RESUME AND COVER LETTER TO Jobs@HowardCenter.org OR: Human Resources/Jobs, HowardCenter, 160 Flynn Ave; Burlington, VT 05401 HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package to qualified employees.

Become a Part of Our Exceptional Team! JOB OPPORTUNITY Adult Outpatient Division Substance Abuse Screener: Part-time (10-12 hrs/wk) clinical position providing substance abuse assessments and referrals to DWI offenders as part of Vermont’s Project CRASH program. Must be able to work independently, work with a wide range of individuals, and be highly organized. BA in Human Service field required, plus 2 years of related experience or equivalent. Must also have certification/license as an Alcohol & Drug Counselor. Flexible work hours. CRT Division Clinician: Full time position with full benefits providing clinical and case management services for individuals, groups, and families in support of recovery from the impact of symptoms of psychiatric disabilities. Supportive teamoriented work environment, guided by recovery values, and supportive of innovative practices and professional development. Master’s Degree in human service field, own transportation and good driving record required. Community Support Worker: This position entails the provision of outreach support services to adults coping with the impact of mental illness on their lives. We are seeking someone who has excellent communication skills; who has an ability to work with clients with patience, insight, and compassion; and who can work well with a team. Must have own transportation. 30 hours/week, weekend availability a plus, excellent benefits. Flexible contracted hours also available. Residential Care Provider: Full time positions with benefits are available for a new residential program. We are seeking individuals to assist in maintaining a living environment supportive of recovery. Applicants are sought who have an understanding of challenges associated with mental illness and who have a desire to be a helpful presence for others. Part time substitute hours also available. Youth and Family Division Intensive School Supports Program Interventionist: Provide direct intervention and training to foster the development of communication, social skills, adaptive behavior, daily living and academic or pre-academic skills to children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Emotional Behavioral Disorder. Bachelor’s degree in education or human services field. Valid Vermont driver’s license, registered vehicle and insurance that complies with Agency policy. 37.5 hours per week with benefits. For a complete list of Job Opportunities

visit www.csac-vt.org.

To apply you may choose to contact us by: • Email: apply@csac-vt.org • Mail: Send a resume and cover letter to: CSAC HR 89 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. • Phone: (802) 388-6751 Ext. 425. Equal Opportunity Employer

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