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Liz Bell AGRICULTURAL workers from Vanuatu are getting a helping hand to navigate the often confusing rights, obligations and entitlements that come with being seasonal workers. Seasonal workers are an essential workforce for Australian farms, doing the labour that is crucial to getting fruit and vegetables from farms to consumers. Local community volunteers, through an association with the Uniting Church, are stepping in to ensure the workers have the information they need to ensure the relationship between seasonal workers and the Australian community continues to benefit all involved. Thro...

Virginia Tech image  The national champion Hokie soil judging team practiced soil textures in preparation for the virtual national contest. From left to right: Tessa Naughton-Rockwell, Michael Russell, Alex Greehan, Bernie Frantz, Kathlynn Lewis, and Clare Tallamy. Virginia Tech image  The Roanoke Times, File 2017  Virginia Tech students analyze soil samples. FILE, The Roanoke Times  John Galbraith An intense 50 minutes of people competing in a dirt pit with knives scraping and soil flying. A team that has been racking up national championships and other titles (ahem, Virginia Tech footba...

The 1.5-million-ton behemoth was on the loose. The massive blue-tinged iceberg was headed straight for an offshore drilling platform in the Kara Sea off Western Siberia. Two smoke-billowing Russian tugs, the Almaz and Kigoriak, arrived on the scene bearing an eight-inch-thick, quarter-mile-long tow rope. Almaz took one end, Kigoriak the other, and moving in painstaking synchrony, the tugs formed a lasso around the floe. They dragged it slightly off course, where the Arctic currents took over. The tugs’ efforts prevented a disastrous and costly collision. But nudging an iceberg is one...