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Revision as of 21:02, 8 November 2013
This wiki page contains a guide on how to set up hdup, "The little, spiffy, backup tool". (Don't be discouraged by the fact that on its website it says "Unmaintained!". It is a mature program, and that warning means only that its author, Miek Gieben, develops and uses a similar program (rdup), which is a bit more difficult to use.) Although
hdup is a command line program, it's easy to set up, so do not be afraid.
- archives are tar.bz2 (or tar.gz)
- incremental backups (monthly-weekly-daily scheme)
- backups over ssh
- encrypted backups (mcrypt, gpg)
Other backup programs
See the general wiki article about backup programs.
Installing and setting hdup up
- hdup is in the AUR.
- We need to edit the configuration file /etc/hdup/hdup.conf. There's one supplied, so you can just edit that one; or you can use the minimal one listed here:
[global] # to which dir the archives will be written archive dir = /vol/backup # chown the archives to this user user = <yourusername> [my-comp] # what to backup, separate with ,. # For directories add closing slash, like /home/ dir = /home/,/var/abs/local/ # do not include theses directories exclude = lost\+found/, /proc/, /dev/, /sys/
- You need to modify at least the following options:
- archive dir: that's where the backups will be written to
- user: created archives will be chowned to this user; you can just use your username. This is needed since hdup needs to be run as root.
- dir: that's the list of directories whose contents you want to back up).
The rest of the comments about the config file can be skipped on the first reading. They describe various other options you can use if the hdup.conf file:
- You can have more than one profile (the one used above is named my-comp). This means that you can have a couple of independent backup schemes. For instance, you might want to have another one for your webpages:
[my-webpages] dir = /var/www/
- To have a simple means of excluding some directories, use the nobackup option. It specifies the filename, which if it exists in a directory, then that directory is excluded from backing up.
nobackup = .nobackup
This can be used for example to exclude backing up of opera cache, by creating and empty .nobackup file in the cache directory:
touch ~/.opera/cache4/.nobackup
- You can specify the compression algorithm used:
compression = bzip compression level = 6
- hdup refuses to restore backups to / by default, since it can be dangerous. To override this, use
# allow restoring to / force = yes
Running hdup
Let's first explain the monthly-weekly-daily scheme of backups. The 'monthly' archives contain all the data you specify to backup. The 'weekly' archives contain only those files, which have changed from the last 'monthly' backup. Finally, 'daily' contain only those which have changed from the last 'weekly' backup.
Of course, 'monthly', 'weekly' and 'daily' are just names, you do not need to perform backups in these intervals. But you cannot perform a 'weekly', unless you have at least one 'monthly', etc.
So, how does hdup implement this scheme?
As root, you can run hdup with the command like
hdup monthly my-comp
This creates a directory 'my-comp' in the directory you specified in the config file (/vol/backup), and inside it two other directories: 'etc' and (current date) '2008-02-23'. The 'etc' one contains some hdup's files, and the '2008-02-23' one will have a big .tar.bz2 archive in it. That's your backup.
After some time after 'monthly' backup, you decide you want to backup again. Now you can run hdup as
hdup weekly my-comp
and hdup will archive only what has changed from the 'monthly', and the archive will be put into another dir named after current date in /vol/backup/my-comp.
It should be clear now how the backing up works. Note that if hdup cannot find a 'monthly' and you ask it to do a 'weekly', it will complain. See the tips section.
Restoring backups
To restore, you need to have all 'parent' archives (ie. if you want to restore a weekly backup, you also need to have its 'monthly' available). The command for restoring is
hdup restore my-comp 2008-01-31 /somedir
With this, hdup will try to restore things as they've been up to the date specified, and it will unpack to the directory /somedir. You can force it to unpack right away to / (see 'force' option above), but be very careful with this!
Note that the backups are just .tar.bz2 archives, so if you need a particular file from a particular date, just use any archive manager (or tar and bzip2) to open the archive and copy the needed file over.
More goodies: encryption and ssh
If you've got here, let me remind you that man hdup and man hdup.conf are your friends!
- For gpg encryption, you want to add something like
algorithm = gpg key = <your gpg key identifier>
either to [global] (then it's going to be used for all profiles), or just to a profile part. The archives will then be encrypted with your public key (so you can only decrypt them with your secret key). Note that you can decrypt them manually with
gpg -d <archive file>
in case you need it.
- For mcrypt encryption
algorithm = rijndael-192 key = <path to the key file>
If you want to use another algorithm choose one from
mcrypt -list
Backing up over SSH
To backup your local machine (say, laptop) to remote machine (your server) you need to install hdup to both machines.
On the remote machine you need to have following settings in [global]
archive dir = /backup/path/on/remote allow remote = yes
And make a same host entry to the remote hdup.conf than you have in the local hdup.conf.
So if you have
[my-comp] dir = /home/ exclude = lost\+found ...
Add to the remote hdup.conf
Nothing else is needed, just the [host] entry
Now you can backup your laptop to your server using following command
hdup monthly my-comp @email@example.com
- You can of course burn the archives to cd/dvd with any burning software you like. The only thing to remember here is that the 'parent' archive is needed when you're doing a 'child' backup (like you need 'monthly' for 'weekly'). However, if you're tight on space, this can be achieved by mounting the cd/dvd with 'parent' backup, and soft linking its directory into /vol/backup, so that hdup can find it there.
On Debian Etch, I had to add the -P option when running hdup. This solved the following error:
/bin/tar: /opt/backup/debian/etc/filelist: file name read contains null


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Guess what? More ornaments. I just have two to share today. These were both designs that are meant to be personalized. The sweet little angel makes me wish I had a little girl to stitch for and the trike makes me giddy that I have a boy so I suppose it all worked out.
I will probably have to come up with one for Peter just to even things out. What do you think...a ninja or a yu-gi-oh monster?? Hmmm...tough call. I'm joking of course - I can respect the things he is into right now but they are not going to make it onto the family Christmas tree. Sorry Peter!

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Incoming: 256 Mb/s
Outgoing: 425 Mb/s
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Rendering performance using GPU of up to 4 1080p HD at 30 fps/120 fps on local client
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Archival Performance:
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Desktop Client: Live: 256 streams
Playback/Video Retrieval Sessions: 32
Sync Playback: 9 streams
256 live streams limit excludes 1 stream used per camera if SMART VMD is enabled
Maximum live streams per camera is 15 with SMART VMD enabled
Mobile App: 16 streams of 1080p HD at 5 fps each
Note: During archival operations, maximum no of playback streams recommended from desktop client and web client is 16 streams.
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Maximum 128 streams supported
Support for configuring 1 preferred stream for continuous recording and 1 preferred stream for live video / motion based recording per camera
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|22 x DVD-RW
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Peak BTU Rating = 2800 BTU/hr
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|Relative Humidity
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Without GPU Rendering Capability:
Up to 9 HD Cameras (1 selected panel only, Throttle Frame Rate setting enabled)
With GPU Rendering Capability:
Minimum: Intel Core i5-4460 or equivalent 4th generation, Intel Core Processors for client systems
Recommended: Intel Core i7-4790 or equivalent 4th generation, Intel Core Processors for client systems
Without GPU Rendering Capability:
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6750 2.66 GHz or Quad Core Intel Xeon E5405 2.0 GHz
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With GPU Rendering Capability:
In-built Processor Graphics (GPU): Intel HD Graphics 4600 or equivalent
Without GPU Rendering Capability:
512 MB or higher Display Card (optional)
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Without GPU Rendering Capability: 4 GB
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Package: kernel-patch-viewos (0.20141201-1)
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View-OS - Kernel patch for better UMView performances
View-OS is a novel approach to the process/kernel interface. The semantics of each system call can be assigned process by process giving the user the right to decide which view of the system each process has to join. Each process can "see" a different file system structure, networking resources, processor, devices. Moreover some of the resources can be provided by the user him/herself, thus these resource can be private to the single process and are not known a priori by the system. Groups of processes can share the same view but this is just an optimization to share management methods.
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A real carhop: Woman wards off car thief
Woman chose between her purse and her car
Woman chose between her purse and her car
Woman chose between her purse and her car
A Wisconsin woman went from pumping gas one minute to fighting off car thieves the next.
Melissa Smith said when thieves tried to steal her car at the BP gas station near Milwaukee's Third Ward on Tuesday, she fought back and jumped on the hood.
"I had the thought in my head. 'Do I go after my purse or do I stop my car?' And the price tag of my car flashed through my head," Smith said.
At first she didn't see the Cadillac pull up and the car thief crouch down and get behind the wheel of her car.
"(I) didn't see him til I saw him get into my car. Someone was in my car. And my, 'Oh, hell this isn't happening to me today' moment," she said.
"Did he look at you?" WISN 12 News reporter Terry Sater asked.
"He looked at me, and he laughed at me, which really irritated me," Smith said.
With the thief behind the wheel and Smith on the hood, you can see in the video that the thief slams on the brakes twice. Smith wasn't budging.
"He was laughing while I was on my car, and he was trying to throw me off, so zero remorse," she said.
She admitted she didn't think about the danger of jumping on the hood until afterwards. The thief eventually gave up, jumped out of her car and took off.
"Which isn't the smartest and safest thing. But it was my, I went with my instinct. Yeah," Smith said.


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Christmas Markets Packingby Paul Motter | 12.10.12
What to take on a European Christmas Markets River Cruise on the Rhine or Danube Rivers
My quickly assembled clothes the day of my river cruise
This is my "first impression" article to relate the "surprises" I have already encountered on the first day of my first "Christmas Markets River Cruise."
For those who are not already familiar with these cruises, these are the end-of-season river cruises that meander along the Rhine and Danube to visit the traditional Christmas street markets and fairs found in the Germanic/Slavic nations of Germany, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, etc.
These sail in late November through December every winter in fairly northerly climates, and although five years ago I was just beginning to hear about them, they are now all the rage.
There are a few different cruises that go to climates as cold as or even colder than these, and you definitely need to be prepared, so let's look at the proper clothing.
I have cruised in Alaska many times, and that is not nearly as cold as this, because although they are at similar latitudes, Alaska cruises sail in the summer. However, a Great Lakes cruise this time of year would definitely be colder than this. See, both Alaska and this region of Europe share a common weather pattern dominated by warmer ocean air, rather than the cold arctic air straight from to North Pole you get in Buffalo, NY, or Siberia, Russia. The only visitor from the North Pole you get on this cruise is St. Nick.
I have cruised to Spitsbergen in the Arctic Circle which is about as far north as any cruise ship ever goes. That was in June but it was still the coldest experience in my lifetime. Several people on that boat recall one shore excursion where we all got so cold that just taking a warm shower felt like pins and needles hitting our skin.
But I am from Phoenix, so I am not used to temperatures hovering around zero-degrees centigrade ( 32-degrees Fahrenheit, the freezing point for water), so in packing for this trip I included what I hoped would get me through the cruise comfortably, but mindful that I might have to buy more. Unlike Spitsbergen, I knew I would have plenty of opportunities to go shopping on the first day on this cruise.
We all know layering is the key to keeping warm; trapping warm air next to your body to insulate it from the cold - similar to a diver's wet suit. But my first day in Hungary the only special layering I did was to put a t-shirt and a long-sleeve t-shirt under a medium jacket. So, I was fine from the neck to my waist, but I soon realized I would need a hat, gloves and something to wear under my jeans.
Fortunately, (at least this one time) even parts of Europe that used to be as isolated as Budapest are now so Americanized that many stores are now open on Sunday, even in the mornings. I knew I would be fine as long as I waited until at least 10:00 a.m.
First I found a souvenir stand that catered to tourists like me with cheap hats and gloves. My new knit cap has a Velcro chin strap. Perfect. I also got some gloves which are part leather and partly knitted even though I know gloves that are air tight are better in really cold weather. For best quality clothes that are both wind and water tight are the best choice. But, I am only here for a week. But I just couldn't resist the coolest pair of long underwear ever; black with red piping, which I found at H&M, a "hip" new clothing chain in most of the major urban cities now.
See the photo albums for this cruise: Christmas Markets and Aboard the Viking Njord.
Have you tried Christmas Cruise? Tell us here: Cruise Forum
Now You Know, Too
River cruising is more popular than ever. This is a band new boat I am now upon, and the cruise line, Viking River, just announced they have an astounding 18 more of these boats on order to be delivered in 2013 and 2014. That is amazing; no regular cruise line ever has more than two ships under construction at any given time.
However, keep in mind that one cruise ship may hold as many passengers as 18 of these river boats, but those ships don't have 18 separate engines, navigation systems and other things you have to put aboard each of these river boats. Still, having 18 boats on order displays an extraordinary amount of confidence in their product.
I also have to say that this is just a beautiful boat. I have been taking river cruises since the 1980s, including on this very itinerary in 1996, and this boat is the most beautiful I have ever seen. My stateroom is gorgeous. I actually believe that this bathroom is what the NCL designers were hoping to achieve when they built the staterooms on Norwegian Epic that have been so commonly criticized.
The glass wall between the shower and the bedroom is transparent (!).
When I first walked into the bathroom and realized I could still see my bed I did a double take, thinking I was looking into a mirror or something. But I had just been on the Celebrity Reflection last week, and on that ship we saw the first shower at sea that is cantilevered over the side of the ship, so it looks and (almost) feels like you are showering in broad, open daylight. I recalled how that shower has a switch to make the glass translucent, but not see-through. These river boat shower walls have the same trick - a button where you can transform them from fully transparent to fully private (translucent).
See the photo albums for this cruise: Christmas Markets and Aboard the Viking Njord.Shower with transsparent glass: Shower with translucent glass switched on:
This is the first river boat I have sailed upon where my stateroom also has a full, standard balcony. It also has plenty of room with a King-size bed, a mini-bar, eight drawers and a full side-by-side closet.
The 40-inch TV is mounted directly across from the bed (where I want it) and it seems huge, even bigger than the standard cruise ship TV (32-inches). There is free satellite television and free wireless Internet throughout the ship. Wine is included with dinner and every port of call has an included tour (or more than one) and also optional additional tours in some of the ports.
I forgot the best thing - the tray of Christmas cookies waiting for me when I arrived. This part of Europe has some cookies I have never seen at home; marzipan, poppy seed and something like a soft fruitcake covered in chocolate frosting. I could have eaten a dozen of those�. Umm, maybe I did.
So - this is just my first day. Expect to hear more about the boat and the Christmas markets in the next few days. And don't forget that long johns are not just for farm boys anymore, you will need them, along with hats and gloves, if you plan to take a Christmas Market River Cruise.
See the photo albums for this cruise: Christmas Markets and Aboard the Viking Njord.
Have you tried Christmas Cruise? Tell us here: Cruise Forum


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The Teach LA website now includes a new feature called the Talent Recruitment System to help districts find potential teacher and leader candidates and to help potential candidates find vacancies. The Talent Recruitment System matches teacher and leader candidates with districts/school vacancies. This system allows Human Resource personnel to post job vacancies to the Teach Louisiana website, as well as view applicant matches in their inbox. Teachers and leaders are now able to create employment profiles and browse vacancies more easily. To view job vacancies and/or for viewing step-by-step instructions on creating an employment profile, click on the Jobs tab at the top of the home page. Click here to register as a Teach LA account holder and then you will be able to create your Employment Profile.
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Delta Rae Demonstrate Their Live 'Fire' – Video Premiere
Durham, N.C. six-piece Delta Rae don't pledge allegiance to any single genre with their music, meshing pop, folk, Americana and country, fashioning multiple sounds into their own unique and potent blend. However, this live performance video of their song 'Fire,' which was shot at famed Los Angeles venue the Troubadour this past June 19, effectively demonstrates the sextet's twangier side.
It's easy to see why a tried-and-true country fan would like this particular tune, and that's why Taste of Country is partnering with the group to premiere this live video exclusively.
In the clip, the female-fronted band comes absolutely alive on stage, as if that's each member's most natural and preferred state, both as individuals and as a collective. It's an intense couple of moments, but you will feel like you are front and center at a Delta Rae gig while watching, really taking the whole thing in live and in the flesh.
Watch closely during the last few seconds of the performance, when you can see heaving chests of the ladies of the Delta Rae. Clearly, Delta Rae don't give anything less than 110 percent during their live performances.
The band dropped their album 'Carry the Fire' earlier this summer. If you like what you see and hear, grab the album at this location. Now, go enjoy the live video of 'Fire.'
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Avery Point honors veterans with their own spot to gather
Groton — To thank veterans for their service year-round, the University of Connecticut opened its new Veterans Center Monday at the Avery Point campus.
"To me this is a small thing we can do for all of you, for all you've done for this country," Michael Alfultis, the campus director and a retired Coast Guard captain, said at the grand opening.
Several of the student veterans in attendance said the ribbon cutting was the perfect way to celebrate Veterans Day, since veterans now have a place on campus to meet and share stories with others who truly understand what they are going through.
Joseph Coney and David Kurokawa said the transition from the military to college can be difficult, and at times, overwhelming. Both men served in the Army, deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and earned the rank of staff sergeant.
"We really want to facilitate the same brotherhood and camaraderie that we had in the military," Coney said.
"It's one thing to go to the student union and see other people from your classes, but you don't necessarily have the same connection. … It's easier, always, for a veteran to talk to another veteran," added Kurokawa.
About 11 percent of the 628 undergraduates at Avery Point are veterans, which is a higher percentage than at the main campus in Storrs. At the center, veterans can learn about accessing their benefits, study and socialize with other veterans.
Alfultis said he would like to eventually start a tutoring program where veterans from the community tutor student veterans, since some of the students may be reluctant to ask for help from the younger undergraduates who tutor at the Academic Center. He said he would also like to invite state and federal veterans service representatives to the center to answer questions about benefits.
Coney, Kurokawa, and two Navy veterans, Jay Jennett and Jack Srimakut, will manage the center through a work-study program run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The center is in two rooms on the second floor of the library, which were previously empty and renovated over the summer. One room will be used for studying while the other will serve as a lounge.
"When I first got here we didn't have a veterans' spot, so I felt kind of alone. I didn't know anyone," Srimakut said. "This is where you can get to know your peers, people who went through what we went through. It's good to have this."
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, former Congressman Rob Simmons and Jennett spoke at the opening. Jennett, who served 20 years in the submarine force, thanked the administrators on behalf of the veterans for giving them such a nice space.
Simmons, a retired Army colonel, spoke about how he and other Vietnam veterans were treated poorly on college campuses after the war.
"The academic community and the military community never should have had that separation. It never should have taken place," Simmons said. "… So it gives me a particular pride and satisfaction to come here to UConn Avery Point today, to see that you've created a space that welcomes our veterans."
Courtney, D-2nd District, said all of the local Veterans Day ceremonies are wonderful but Avery Point's is special because "something really tangible is being conveyed to the veterans in this area."
"It sends a very powerful message we have to do more than honor and take a moment to reflect, but also to really follow through in terms of real tangible help and assistance," he said.
In a separate ceremony in Hartford, state officials gathered as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed two bills to improve the services for the state's veterans.
Local and regional school boards can now award high school diplomas to Vietnam-era veterans who left high school before graduating for military service, and municipalities have the option of expanding the municipal tax exemption for veterans rated 100 percent disabled by the VA.
Malloy said Veterans Day is an opportunity to "express our admiration, respect and appreciation for the men and women who served our country in uniform" and these new laws "demonstrate our unwavering support for this select group of Americans."
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Estonian desserts: Kaeraküpsised, my favourite oat cookies in the world
Here's my favourite oat cookie recipe that I've adapted over the years from the Finno-Ugric cookbook (Soome-ugri kokaraamat, 1995) that I've mentioned before. These cookies only contain the bare minimum of ingredients (no flour or baking powder in sight). They're crisp on the edges but with melt-in-your-mouth centres. And they are incredibly tasty as well. I love yellow raisins in my oat cookies as opposed to dark ones, but I think Buderim's candied ginger nibbles would work well, too. Or dark chocolate chips, if you're feeling naughty..
Pille's melt-in-your-mouth oat cookies
(Suussulavad kaeraküpsised)
Yields about 40-45 cookies
500 grams old-fashioned porridge oats
4 large eggs
150 grams sugar
170 grams butter, melted & cooled
1 tsp vanilla extract
100 grams small seedless yellow raisins
Whisk eggs with sugar until pale and frothy, season with vanilla extract, then stir in melted butter, oats and raisins. Stir until combined. The mixture should be on the soft side.
Take scant tablespoonfuls of the mixture and transfer them onto a lined baking sheet. (You don't want to make your cookies too large, as egg is the only thing holding them together, and they'd collapse if they're too large).
Bake in a pre-heated 180 C oven for about 10-11 minutes, until cookies are baked and golden brown on edges.
Transfer gently to a metal rack to cool. Keep in a airtight container for a few days.
Other cookie recipes @ Nami-nami:
Crumbly pistachio cookies (March 2006)
Estonian Christmas cookies (December 2005)
Hazelnut butter cookies (November 2005)
Lemon & pistachio shortbread cookies (March 2007)
Mayonnaise cookies (August 2005)
Peanut butter cookies (November 2005)
Two years ago today I wrote about the expensive and beautiful flowering tea. Last year I posted some pictures about three fabulous breakfasts I had on the Greek island of Santorini and asked you to nominate your favourite :)
15 comments:
- Clivia said...
Mmmm, they look lovely! I always bake more in the summer, lots of coffee in the sun then...
By the way I am coming to Estonia again this summer - drop me a line and maybe we can arrange to meet up somewhere! (I cannot find an e-mail address for you.)
- 10:30 am, July 04, 2007
- K & S said...
they look and sound lovely! I love oatmeal cookies with cranberries in them :)
- 11:04 am, July 04, 2007
- ksklein said...
i´ll have to try them.
- 12:42 pm, July 04, 2007
- Paz said...
I love oat meal cookies. Your recipe sounds divine and the photo looks enticing. I want some now! ;-)
- 2:38 pm, July 04, 2007
- Village Vegan said...
Oh, I LOVE oat cookies. I've been meaning to make them for a long time, and I think this post is going to push me in the right direction!
- 6:22 pm, July 04, 2007
- Lydia said...
I love oatmeal-raisin cookies, and these look easy and delicious. I'm bookmarking!
- 9:33 pm, July 04, 2007
- Alanna said...
Ahh yes, so simple. All of a sudden 'everyday' oatmeal cookies seem too fussy!
- 10:59 pm, July 04, 2007
- Amrita said...
- 2:12 pm, July 05, 2007
- katiez said...
They're absolutely perfect... except I would probably have to satisfy my chocolate craving as well and substitute some dark chocolate chunks for the raisens... no one could tell!
- 6:42 pm, July 05, 2007
Tegin selle retsepti jägi ja väga head tulid, just parajad krõbedad! Kuna brittidemaal "vanaaegseid" kaerahelbeid ei müüda, siis kasutasin tavalisi scottish porridge oats ja polnd ka häda midagi.
- 6:59 pm, July 05, 2007
- joey said...
Your oat cookies sound great Pille! I love the way they look :) And that "teaser" below has got me drooling!!!
- 7:49 pm, July 05, 2007
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Pelli you make these sound devine, the photo looks great and when I read the recipe, I must try them as soon as I make the ones I'm testing for Cook's Illustrated.
- 11:25 pm, July 05, 2007
- Easy Cookie Recipe said...
Now that is an easy cookie recipe. I like easy. Sometimes when we bake we tend to get a little carried away with ingredients. I have to admit, if I were to bake those cookies they would have chocolate chips.
- 6:23 pm, July 06, 2007
- Pille said...
Clivia - thanks! I'll try to be around on the 28th to meet you!
K & S - dried cranberries would be really nice indeed - thanks for the tip!!
Ksklein - I think so, too ;)
Paz - you're soooo far away, so I cannot send any:( But you can always try the recipe:)
Village Vegan - sounds like a good plan!
Lydia - thanks, and I hope you'll try and like them!
Alanna - exactly! Try these :)
Amrita - thank you!
Katie - that'd be an acceptable substitute, I think.
Ülle- tore, et välja tulid. Eks siin sobivadki mõlemad tüüpi kaerahelbed. Ma ise kasutan enamasti röstitud suuri kaerahelbeid.
Joey - thank you! And re: the teaser - soon. Probably today :)
Tanna - good look with testing the other recipe, and mine!
Easy Cookie Recipe - I like easy, too! Oats themselves are so rustic, so oat cookies should be simple, too ;)
- 12:02 pm, July 11, 2007
- Sarah said...
They came out great! will definitely make them again (but will soak the raisins first since I used very dry ones).
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Daniel Kushner is the winner of the MOO Award in the US – and a very worthy winner he is too! A designer and musician, Daniel is the CEO and founder of MONO - a premium luggage brand for touring musicians. He invented their signature product, the Hybrid Guitar Case, and has been branching out ever since.
A former design consultant for big brands and multinational companies at IDEO, Daniel found this part of his background the most useful transferable skill when starting up MONO. He says "Business owners are often too emotionally engaged in their company to make objective decisions. I've developed a practice of viewing my company's challenges through the lens of the consultant – objectively."
Here are Daniel's top five tips for being your own consultant.
1. Understand that challenges and difficulties are normal
My mindset used to be always trying to get to an ideal state of business where the challenges stopped because we were so well organized. I realized early on that it wouldn't ever happen. Challenges are a daily occurrence, so you have to change your attitude, and welcome them – like in a batting cage; you're always saying, "What's next?" I have to hit it out the park over and over again. There is no even keel – you need to enjoy multiple challenges because challenges are what business is.
2. View your setbacks as "design challenges"
As a design consultant I've been raised to solve problems using the design process. When I was given another company's problem to solve while at IDEO, it was fun to think outside the box. But when it's your own company, challenges feel different – they feel like huge problems. The stress can be crippling, until you remind yourself that its no different than how it was before, and you simply have to apply the design process as in past experiences – as you would if you were being paid by someone else to do it.
3. Take a deep breath
Your first reaction may not be the right one, so just ruminate for a while before you act. As an entrepreneur, you may pride yourself on your good first instincts, but there's no need to be reactionary. Take a deep breath, and take a moment – an hour, a day, a week – however long you need to understand the problem, and work out how you'd like to respond to it.
4. Don't be scared to choose a path
It may seem like the exact opposite advice to "take a deep breath" but save that for something really momentous – which means, don't be so scared to make regular decisions that you end up spending days, weeks or even months letting them keep you awake at night. There will be many, many forks in the road as your business grows – and if there aren't, then something is wrong! When you face decision after decision on a daily basis, you'll learn that it's often better to be fast and efficient than to be right 100% of the time.
You need to get comfortable with the idea that success means moving forward all the time, and moving forward means a never-ending flow of decisions. So go forth and be confident – make decisions quickly because even if you're not right, no one wrong decision will bring about your downfall. If you're right, great, and if you're wrong, you'll learn what you need to learn to avoid the mistake next time (and there will be a next time.)
5. Assess your choices regularly
Look back at what seemed like difficult decisions at the time, and remember how profound they seemed – and how much easier it would be for you to make the same decision now. We left a really big distributor in the US not long after we started and it was a really difficult decision to make – one that I put off for ages They were big and established and getting in with them had been a big coup, But after a year we weren't happy - we wanted to pull out but we were terrified. In retrospect I see I could have quit two months sooner and saved myself the anguish, because ultimately it wasn't that big a deal – but at the time, it seemed ominous, make or break and momentous. Its only later, after years of making several hundred decisions a week, that you can see it for what it is - Just one in a series of many. And eventually, you develop the strength to know which are the best decisions to make, but you only develop that through making some wrong ones, fast, and eventually you'll recognise patterns and know that its all going to be fine.
Daniel Kushner is the founder and CEO of MONO, a leading luggage brand for touring musicians. You can read about Daniel's winning MOO Award entry here.
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I know I come from more than these 4 names. But I'm grand daughter of Jame F. McGee and Doris M.Martin they have 8 children my mom is one. And grand daughter of Henry E. Blanton and Mary J.Lockyer they had 5 children. I know the most about my mom's side of the family, ironically its the surname I have that I know the least about, mostly I believe because my grand father Henry E. Blanton was in the air force and they moved around a lot but I believe his family orginated in SC, he's buried in New York I believe.
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I am the grand daughter of Henry Elijah BLANTON and Mary Jesse LOCKYER and the great grand daughter of James Henry BLANTON and Elizabeth Jane (I don't know her maiden name and hope those names are correct)I don't know very much about the BLANTON side of my family which is odd since it is my last name. My grandfather Henry Elijah BLANTON was in the Air Force and traveled a lot I can only assume that my BLANTON side of my family is from South Carolina/Georgia area since I don't there is family is that area cousins and such. My grandfather died before I was born and I never got to ask my grandma about that side of the family. If anyone has any information I'd really love to hear from you.
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BoingBoing and Daring Fireball both have been making fun of Vertu recently. Vertu's a company which sells horrible crappy phones at incredible prices, often by encrusting them with diamonds. I first became aware of Vertu a while before this, through The Robb Report, a magazine for the ultra-rich.
I read it not because I'm in the market for a new yacht, but because a great writer on entrepreneurialism recommends subscribing to it so you can get used to the sheer incredible amount of money that you can charge very wealthy people for very simple things. In related news, I was just in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the holidays, where you can easily find a set of kitchen knives with inlaid turquoise for over $2,000 -- despite the fact that they cost the store $250 at the absolute most.
Vertu's products are utter crap, and only a stupid person, a person with terrible taste and no concern for money at all, or a person in a ridiculous hurry would ever buy them -- but I can't criticize their business model. Their business model is simple: charge the highest price possible. I wouldn't buy any of their products if I was richer than Warren Buffet, but I can still see that their business operates on a very sound fundamental principle.
At Daring Fireball, John Gruber invokes a Warhol quote as the best explanation of why Vertu's ridiculous:
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
He's absolutely right, but that's no reason not to charge people as much money as they're willing to pay. If you go to the store to buy something, and the money you're paying with is money you got in a silly manner, they don't tell you to come back when you have some less ridiculous money. They just give you what you're buying and tell you to have a nice day. And if some idiot wants to pay you $100 for a $1 Coke, even though they know about the $1 Coke, go ahead and let them. It's their choice.


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by Mike Slater, Laura Kyser, and Jo-Anne Chasnow
While countless citizens nationwide are working to engage their neighbors in democracy, many states have developed laws, rules or procedures that limit access to the ballot box. In some states, the new developments are restrictions on voter registration activities, while in others, they are voter ID requirements. Many states have chosen to implement the statewide database requirement of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in ways that make it harder for eligible applicants to register. Together, these new requirements disproportionately impact those citizens who have been historically marginalized in the political process.
by Shirley Tabata Ponomareff
Long lines and long waits were the big news for Election 2004. A number of factors are being examined as likely causes for the long lines. Whatever the causes, the long waits posed an unacceptable barrier to citizen participation. Voter mobilization and voter protection made huge contributions, and voter participation was high. Nevertheless, voters encountered serious problems with voter registration systems, provisional ballots, voting machines and inadequate polling place procedures. This story includes sidebars on the youth vote, election protection efforts, pre-election HAVA implementation survey and Election Day surveys.
by Kelly Ceballos
As part of its continuing effort to assist state and local election officials in their implementation concerns related to the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), the League of Women Voters has produced a second report, Helping America Vote: Safeguarding the Vote. This new report urges election officials to safeguard our votes in 2004 by providing a more secure foundation for two key components of election administration: voting systems and voter registration systems. As Election Day nears, there are real steps that our nation's election officials can take to protect our votes in November.
by Kelly Ceballos
Well in advance of November 2, the League of Women Voters has launched a nationwide voter education effort, 5 Things You Need to Know on Election Day, to familiarize voters with new election procedures and empower them to take action to personally ensure their vote is counted. To this end, the League has produced a quarter million 5 Things voter cards that are being distributed across the country. This year many voters will find some things different at their polling place, and these changes will make some of them feel like first-time voters. The League's 5 Things gives long-time and first-time voters the information they need to look out for themselves and their votes on Election Day.
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Crispin Porter + Bogusky, an advertising agency with headquarter operations in Boulder and Miami, on Wednesday made to changes to its executive management team.
The agency promoted Andrew Keller, previously the co-chief creative officer, to the role of CEO. Jeff Hicks, the current chief executive officer, will become the firm's vice chairman.
Concurrently, Managing Partner Jeff Steinhour was named president of Crispin Porter + Bogusky's and Rob Reilly, who served as co-chief creative officer along with Keller, now is the firm's worldwide chief creative officer.
When appointed creative officers in 2008, Keller and Reilly assumed the duties once tackled by founding partner Alex Bogusky, who left Crispin Porter + Bogusky at the beginning of the year and left the industry in July. Bogusky, of Boulder, remains involved in various social causes and business ventures including local firms such as Justin's and Green Garage.
The executive changes are not expected to affect the firm's operations, including the 500-person site in Boulder, said Katie Kempner, a company spokeswoman, who added those operations are "business as usual."


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Global efforts to boycott Israel are failing, and nothing proves that more than the vast sums of investment dollars that are poured into the Israeli hi-tech industry.
Fully 11 percent of all global hi-tech investments every year go to Israel. That's a huge figure considering Israel's minuscule size.
And then there's the regular multi-billion dollar acquisitions of Israeli start-ups and the fact that the world's leading technology corporations all maintain significant research and development centers in the Jewish state.
In short, the world loves buying Israeli. In fact, it loves buying Israeli so much that even a ridiculously simplistic smartphone app that does nothing but send a message reading "Yo" to recipients can garner $1 million in funding.
Yo was conceived as a simple internal notification app for Israeli start-up Mobli, the Israeli developer of a popular photo-sharing app. It was designed, developed and coded in a mere eight hours, and it shows.
Nevertheless, the app was a huge hit at Mobli, and CEO Moshe Hogeg gave its developer, Or Arbel, the green light to take Yo public by submitting it to the Apple App Store and Google Play.
It didn't take long before Yo was the number one iPhone app in Israel, and soon after it started climbing the global ranks. Arbel has since relocated to San Francisco, from where he will reportedly use his new investments to continue developing Yo.
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Why is this happening now? Is this being driven by the H-1B visa issue? Cost increases overseas? Patriotism?
Yes, some of these factors are driving this trend, but the biggest reason for the emergence of insourcing or reshoring is that for the delivery of some IT services, it just makes sense.
Trends tend to be cyclical and are spurred by changes in market conditions. The rise of reshoring is being fueled by certain changes in IT such as a bigger domestic talent pool outside tier-one cities, the use of videoconferencing to make distributed teams highly productive, and the overall maturation of the outsourcing market. GM might be aggressive in its reshoring approach, but its move will likely motivate other companies to look at their own outsourcing.
[ Time to question old hiring assumptions? Read H-1B Workers Not Best Or Brightest, Study Says. ]
Outsourcing strategies should be directly tied to business strategies, and as market factors change, so should outsourcing strategies. Common drivers of an outsourcing strategy include: cost, time to market, talent availability, customer support needs, global expansion and organizational readiness. Changing market factors such as increased offshore pricing, new delivery models (e.g. agile) and the rise of mid-size and specialty service providers all make it a good time for companies to adjust their own sourcing models. But that's easier said than done.
When it comes to sourcing models, there are many terms to digest: insourcing, reshoring, outsourcing, offshoring, onshoring, nearshoring, captives and so on. All are familiar in the IT industry but the most important term to consider is "rightsourcing," which sometimes gets omitted from sourcing strategies.
Rightsourcing implies the use of common sense to determine where certain services should be delivered. The right location of tasks and services is driven by quality, cost and availability of talent. Rightsourcing is directly tied to business goals and should be unique to each company -- meaning there is no cookie-cutter approach to determining what sourcing model will work best for your company. Insourcing might work for some tasks and outsourcing for others.


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by Tom Utescher
Getting a total of 11 points from Mount St. Joseph Academy grads Bridget Higgins ('12) and Elle Hagedorn ('09) and receiving some good defensive minutes from former Mountie Maddie Kohler ('12), Team Gold maintained its third-place standing in the NCAA women's summer basketball league last Thursday evening with a 54-44 victory over Team Kelly Green. With an 8-2 record and only two games remaining, the Gold are now certain to appear in the eight-team playoff bracket.
However, it took a 17-point turnaround in the last 17 minutes to produce Thursday's final outcome, as a Kelly Green squad featuring many ladies who play together for Holy Family University extended a 29-24 halftime lead by scoring the first two points of the second period.
St. Joseph's University sophomore forward Sarah Fairbanks logged eight of her team-high nine points after the intermission, and her Hawks teammate Natasha Cloud (a Cardinal O'Hara alumna who began her college career at the University of Maryland) was next on the list with eight points, with Higgins and Swarthmore's Madeline Ross adding seven apiece.
Forward Maureen Leahy and guard McKenzie Rule each deposited six points, and Hagedorn was one of two players with four points in the book. All three Mount alums on the team play the guard spot.
A rival that two of them faced in high school, Villa Joseph Marie's Caroline Heston, now plays for Holy Family, and her nine points for Kelly Green last Thursday tied her for game-high honors along with Gold's Fairbanks and her own Holy Family/Kelly colleague, Maggie Seratelli. The Kelly Green line-up also included guard Erin Martin, who plays for Indiana University of Pennsylvania and was a scholastic performer at Penn Charter and then Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. She scored five points against the Gold.
On the same night, two former Germantown Academy standouts came out on the short end in their NCAA League contests. Kiernan McCloskey, who just bid the Patriots farewell this June, scored a dozen points for Team Purple but they bowed to the Red franchise, 58-52.
Meanwhile, Monica Schacher (GA '11) and the all-Philadelphia U. Team Black had engaged a Maroon team made up mostly of athletes from University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, which plays in the same Division II college conference as Philly U. Team Maroon rallied from a modest shortfall at the half to win this one, 70-59, as Schacker finished with 11 points for the night.
Holy Family also belongs to the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference, as does Chestnut Hill College, which has no one participating in the NCAA League this summer.
In McCloskey's game, the teams were even at 12-12 a little more than halfway through the opening period, but Red pulled away to lead 26-19 at the intermission. McCloskey helped Purple stay in the hunt by netting all 12 of her points in the second half, frequently slashing to the basket after receiving passes just outside the paint.
Purple briefly enjoyed the upper hand, ahead 44-43 with seven minutes to go, but Red quickly recaptured the lead and finished out with a six point victory. One of two players who rang up 11 points for this largely Division III (University of Scranton) group was incoming freshman Sarah Payonk, post player for a Spring-Ford High School squad that defeated Mount St. Joe's both in the 2012-2013 regular season and in the District I championship game. Spring-Ford went on to capture the Class AAAA state title.
The Black team fueled by Philly U. battled back and forth with Maroon throughout the first half, and they led the USP posse at the break, 36-33. Maroon came charging out of the halftime huddle and out-pointed Black 17-5 in a span of just six minutes. The West Philly outfit kept on rolling to an 11-point triumph, despite a game-high 16-points from Team Black guard Najah Jacobs, a rising Philly U. junior out of Central High School.
A week earlier in NCAA summer action, Team Gold had almost fumbled away a game against the only winless team in the league (at the time), and again in the first half of last Thursday's encounter they seemed out of sync for long stretches. Two early three-pointers by Brittany Wood helped Kelly Green gain a 15-6 lead as Gold made a number of unsound passing and shooting decisions.
Higgins helped right the ship with a three-pointer from the right flank, and with six-and-a-half minutes remaining in the half, a trey by Ross pushed Gold ahead, 18-15. Kelly Green revived its offense, and with Martin providing the team's last five points on two lay-ups and a free throw, they were back in front for the halftime pause, 29-24.
Their lead grew to seven points as Heston went to the foul line to garner the first two points of the second half, but the rest of the way Kelly was outgunned by the Gold, 30-13. Gold's second-half scoring also began with a pair of free throws, made by Hagedorn, then two field goals by Fairbanks and one each by Higgins and Caitlin Vasey (C.B. East/Lebanon Valley College) fleshed out the rest of a 10-0 surge.
A follow-in by Kelly Green's Wood closed the gap to a single point at 34-33, but once Gold drew away with back-to-back three-pointers by Rule and Swarthmore's Jessica Jowdy, and Kelly never got as close again. Team Gold was up by 11 with five minutes remaining (50-39) and cruised home from there.
While the winners kept possession of third place by raising their record to 8-2, Hunter Green remained atop the league at 9-1, and White was still second at 8-1. Each team is slated for one bye during the regular season, and while White had its bye early in the schedule, Gold and Hunter Green have their nights off this Tuesday and Thursday, respectively.
Coming on at the right time, the USP-affiliated Maroon moved up into fourth place with a 6-4 record, while the 5-4 marks produced by McCloskey's Purple team, along with the Red and Sky Blue outfits, have those three tied for fifth place. Head-to-head, Red has beaten Purple and Purple has beaten Sky Blue, with the Red and Sky Blue teams set to clash this Thursday.
Team Black, with Schacker and her Philly U. peers, finished last week with a 3-5 mark, involving them in a three-way tussle (with Kelly Green and Navy Blue) for the last berth in the eight-team playoffs.


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|The finale of Julien's collection - amazing. The photographs don't do it justice.
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|Super ladylike at Mulberry, love those chic cropped leather jackets & gloves - & of course, the poodle!
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — In his three previous successful gubernatorial bids, incumbent Middlebury Republican James Douglas has been able to cite a litany of priority issues to tackle while in office, including property tax reform, improving health care access and fixing the state's roads and bridges.
This year, Douglas — and indeed other candidates for statewide office — are seemingly unified in rallying behind a single, dominant campaign issue: dealing with the sagging economy and its effect on the state budget.
Douglas is being challenged this year by Jericho Democrat Gaye Symington and Middlesex independent Anthony Pollina.
"The economy; that's the major concern on the minds of everybody," Douglas said during a recent interview at the Addison Independent. "It's the top priority our state is going to face during the next couple of years."
Thankfully, Douglas said, Vermont is contending with an economic slowdown that is less pronounced than other regions of the country.
"We have done well compared to other places, in terms of the national slowdown," Douglas added. "Our banks are strong; they didn't issue risky loans, to the extent that other states did. The foreclosure rate is low here. (Vermont banks) have cash to lend. Our financial system, locally, is in good shape."
Still, Douglas noted Vermont is not "immune to the impact of what is going on around the nation and the world."
Like Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie, Douglas noted the extent to which many elderly Vermonters are dependant on investment income that has been taking a hit in the stock market.
"One report I saw indicated we are number one in terms of the percentage of our income tax receipts that come from capital gains," Douglas said. "So when those gains disappear, as they are likely to for the next year or so, our general fund revenues are going to take a hit."
Editor's note: The following profile of gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina first appeared in the Addison Independent last spring and is reprinted here to provide more information for voters going to the polls next week.
MIDDLEBURY — It's still early in the election year, but Middlesex Progressive Anthony Pollina has already grown weary of leaders in Montpelier saying what they "can't" do for Vermonters, either due to scant finances or the sheer complexity of the problems at hand.
So, Pollina has decided to run for governor to tell citizens what state government "can" do for them.
"Overall, I would say I share the same frustration that a lot of other Vermonters share with the current governor (Middlebury Republican James Douglas), who tends to be holding us back from dealing with the challenges we face," Pollina, 56, said during a March 28 interview with the Addison Independent. "The way I would categorize it is, the current governor spends too much time lecturing us about all the things he thinks we cannot do."
Pollina, during a far ranging interview, discussed his stand on a variety of campaign issues, including health care reform, boosting affordable housing and creating new jobs. He also addressed the perception, held by some in the Statehouse, that his candidacy could siphon votes from a Democrat challenger to Douglas. Vermont Democrats have yet to field a candidate for governor.
Pollina is no stranger to statewide races and controversy.
In 1984, he was the Democratic and Rainbow Coalition candidate for U.S. Congress.
He ran the first-ever Progressive Party campaign for governor in 2000, polling 10 percent of the vote. He followed that up in 2002 with a bid for lieutenant governor, garnering 25 percent of the vote in a very competitive race.
Editor's note: The following profile of gubernatorial candidate Gaye Symington first appeared in the Addison Independent last May and is reprinted here to provide more information for voters going to the polls next week.
MIDDLEBURY — Jericho Democrat Gaye Symington has a special fondness for the word "energy" when she talks about her campaign for governor these days.
The current Vermont House Speaker talks about the energy she would bring to the job as the state's chief executive, and how energy policy is of paramount importance at a time when gasoline is hovering around $4 per gallon.
Symington enters a race that includes incumbent Gov. James Douglas, a Middlebury Republican, and Progressive Anthony Pollina of Middlesex. Now in her second term as speaker, Symington when away from the Legislature is development director for the Intervale Foundation, a nonprofit organization that runs various agriculture-based ventures in Burlington.
It wasn't until recently that she decided to forego a re-election bid for her House seat in order to make her first run for governor. She said she looks forward to the challenge.
Symington said she first considered running for governor last fall, but a busy legislative session and other responsibilities forced her to delay her decision until this spring.
"As the legislative session moved on, more and more people came up to me and said, 'You are the person to do this; we really want you to consider doing this,'" Symington recalled. "It really wasn't until late-March that I realized I really have to allow myself to think this through in a complete way."
She formally announced her gubernatorial bid at the Statehouse earlier this month. Symington said she came to the realization she could bring a lot of energy and enthusiasm to charting a more prosperous course for Vermont.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
MIDDLEBURY — Democrat Tom Costello aims to topple incumbent Republican Brian Dubie in this year's race for lieutenant governor with a platform that calls for economic assistance for Vermont seniors, a vigorous debate about the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor and a focus on positive ways to attract business to the state.
The 63-year-old Brattleboro lawyer and veteran state representative is up against Dubie, who has served three terms as the state's lieutenant governor, after winning out against Nate Freeman of Northfield in of the two contested statewide primaries last month.
"Our present administration is not dealing specifically and effectively with these problems which are solvable," said Costello, who jumped into the race in June after learning that Dubie was running unopposed.
Costello was born and raised in Rutland, and graduated from Mount St. Joseph's High School in 1963. He attended St. Michael's College in Colchester, and after graduating enlisted as a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. He served in Vietnam, where he received a Bronze Star with a Combat V for valor and a Purple Heart.
After returning from Vietnam, Costello earned a degree from Boston University Law School in 1974, and moved back to Rutland, where he practiced law until 1980. During that time, Costello began his political career in 1976 as a Rutland City representative in the Vermont House. He served until 1980, when he moved to Brattleboro, where he later started his own law firm, Costello Law Offices.
Costello represented Brattleboro for an additional three terms in the legislature from 1994 to 2000. He was the chair of the judiciary committee from 1994 until 1998, and also served on a special legislative committee investigating Vermont State Police practices.
MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie is seeking to win another two-year term with a proposed agenda that includes working to increase renewable energy sources in the state, crafting more sustainable state budgets in view of declining revenues, and enacting tougher laws on sex offenders.
Dubie, 49, is seeking his fourth consecutive term as lieutenant governor. The Essex Junction Republican faces major party opposition this year from Democrat Tom Costello (see story, Page 1A).
In an extensive interview on Tuesday at the Addison Independent, Dubie discussed his priorities for the next biennium, offering more of what he says he has delivered to Vermonters. He touted a six-year record in which he says he pushed for the creation of more "green" and high-tech jobs in Vermont, diversification of the state's energy sources, a bolstering of aid and services for the elderly and needy in the face of surging fuel prices, and harsher penalties for those convicted of sexually assaulting children.
Dubie has condensed his accomplishments into a binder he titled "Lt. Governor's Logbook: A Record of Success." The latest edition includes 122 pages of text evoking Dubie's vision for the state and initiatives he has supported to attain that vision.
"(The Logbook) gets thicker every year," said Dubie, a Vermont Air National Guard veteran and current American Airlines pilot.
The Vermont lieutenant governor's primary duties include presiding over the state Senate and casting the deciding vote in the case of a tie. But Dubie said he has tried to take a more visible, active role during the past six years by:
The following seven questions, along with a requested word limit, were asked of each local candidate for the Vermont House.
The questions are not repeated in the context of each candidate's response, but are recalled by subject at the beginning of each answer.
Election Day is Nov. 4.
1) HEALTHCARE: The state's Catamount Health plan is up and running, are you satisfied that it is meeting its goals and, if not, what additional steps should the state take to expand health care coverage? (Maximum 150 words.)
2) ELECTRICITY: The expiration of Vermont's contracts with its two big electricity providers, Hydro-Quebec and Vermont Yankee, is looming. And there are concerns about re-licensing Yankee. What should Vermont do to meet its energy needs? (150 words.)
3) AGRICULTURE: What state-level supports and policies regarding family farms would you promote as a legislator? (150 words.)
4) PROPERTY TAXES: The idea of a property tax cap to limit the rise in school spending has been suggested, but such reductions in funds could diminish the quality of education in our schools over time. How do you solve that dilemma? (150 words.)
5) HEATING: Vermonters are worried about how they will pay to heat their homes and gas up their cars this winter. What can the Legislature and state government do to help? (150 words.)
6) ECONOMY: State government is cutting back as tax revenues fall short of expectations. What can state government do to improve the Vermont economy? (150 words.)
7) SINGLE ISSUE: Discuss an issue of importance to you that you would work to address if elected. (100 words.)
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SOCHI, Russia — First down, gold to go.
The U.S. men's hockey team finished its preliminary round undefeated Sunday following an easy 5-1 victory over Slovenia, showing no letdown from its emotional shootout win over Russia 24 hours earlier.
Phil Kessel bagged a hat trick while Ryan McDonagh and David Backes added the others as Team USA romped.
"It's pretty cool," said McDonagh, the New York Rangers defenseman. "I'm just glad we got the win here to get to the quarterfinals. I think down the road in my career it'll mean a lot."
Team USA finished undefeated in group play for the second consecutive Olympics. It won silver in 2010 at Vancouver.


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The trouble isn't with physics; it's with mathematics. Equations don't describe reality; they approximate reality.
A case in point. We who took part in getting people to the moon and back knew of the mid-course corrections our mathematics required.
Our math required corrections because the differential equations we fed into the computers did not adequately describe how the earth's density varied from place to place (inside the earth), and so did not adequately describe the effect of earth gravity on the vehicle as it traveled to the moon. Radar measurements showed that a vehicle enroute to the moon was slowly getting farther away from where our computers said it should be, so we corrected the terms that described the vehicle's location.
One of our number pointed out that our ability to predict weather depends on our writing equations with enough terms to describe all that can happen after the butterfly in China moves its wings.
Enter the few people who so loved doing mathematical reasoning that they forgot that the equations merely approximated reality.We who did applied math teased those who did pure math with this toast: "Here's to pure mathematics; may it never be of use to anyone."
One dictionary defines cosmology as a combination of metaphysics and astronomy. Metaphysics is too much like religion for cosmology to be a science.
Is GUT good for humanity?
Considering 'The Principle Of Uncertainty',is such a theory even possible?
String theory is great!
Yes, it's never made a testable prediction, and yes it has never expanded the explanatory power of general relativity (GR) and quantum mechanics (QM). But, it investigates a hypothesis, that hypothesis being that GR and QM can be unified. And some physicists that agree that string theory hasn't done any of the heavy lifting that a unifying theory is supposed to do, still say that it is currently our best hope of doing it. If one day the idea of unification is given up on or one day a complete unification theory is developed that is totally counter to string theory, the physicists who discover the answer will be undoubtedly grateful for what string theory didn't discover. Smart people investigating things that turned out to be wrong are how I can understand why certain things turned out to be right.
If anyone has a better argument for unification, let them bring it forth. Alternately, if someone wants to argue that there can be no unification (my personal bias is in their camp) let them bring that forth.
Until then, why would we give up on something that the experts in the field seem committed to (unification) and to date is the only plausible theory working in that direction?
Why would we give up on something (unification) that the experts in the field seem committed to, and to date is the only plausible theory working in that direction?
One reason (the best reason) to give up on an unproductive investigation is a lack of money for the salaries and other expenses.
BTW, I don't know who's been paying the bills.
From a utilitarian standpoint, I could almost agree with you. But, when Maxwell and Einstein were working on electromagnetism and special relativity, the utility argument would have stood against both of them continuing (in fact in the case of Einstein, a good argument could have been made that he was wasting tax payer money). But when I look back on the history of science, a great deal of it's greatest discoveries weren't based on some kind of short-term utility. They were, in fact, based on just wanting to know why? And maybe that is a good utilitarian answer: Striving to find out why has a proven empirical value even though we may not realize it at the time. As for who is funding the particular endeavor of unification (or any other cutting edge science), I don't know, but I tend to think that, "thank goodness they are."
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ADDISON COUNTY — Like many Addison County residents, Peter Grant thought he would take advantage of the recent mid-March, warm-weather spell by taking a walk behind his Bristol property off Route 116.
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MIDDLEBURY — Barely one year after a tsunami devastated a portion of Japan's northeastern coast — causing one of the biggest nuclear disasters in history — Masahir Takada made his way to Middlebury, further cementing his relationship with Vermonters who reached out to Japan after the disaster.
VERGENNES — The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes last month for the second straight time chose reigning Vermont Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year Kaitlin Leroux-Eastman as the local organization's Youth of the Year.
On April 19 in Montpelier, Leroux-Eastman, a 16-year-old Vergennes Union High School junior with an extensive résumé of service to the youth club and the community, will represent the local organization in the state competition.
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BRISTOL — Rep. Dave Sharpe, Bristol-D, told the Bristol selectboard on Monday that the town might end up saving more than $100,000 on the South Street Bridge replacement project, slated for 2013.
He explained a section in the Transportation Bill passed by the Vermont House last week, which would require towns to pay only 5 percent of the total cost of a bridge replacement project — instead of the usual 10 percent — with the state picking up the balance.
MIDDLEBURY — On Saturday the Middlebury College women's lacrosse team faced arguably its toughest test to date, a home game after a day of travel back from Colorado against Bowdoin, which reached the 2011 NCAA Division III final four.
The Polar Bears entered the contest at just 4-2, but were also getting back their best player from injury, center midfielder Katie Stewart.
The Panthers, who last week were ranked No. 7 in NCAA Division III, still won by six, 16-10, to improve to 8-0 overall, 5-0 in NESCAC play.
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text: Wheat Quits Wandering July 26, 2013 09:12 PM Tweet © Lindsey Benne TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ben Potter AgWeb Social Media and Innovation Editor Email Stars align to put this row crop back in the spotlight For the past 30 years or so, the U.S. wheat yield trend line has kept a slow-but-steady average annual gain of less than 1⁄2 bu. per acre. Although research traditionally favors corn and soybean advancements at the expense of wheat that might be about to change. In 2012, an international team of scientists finished an initial sequencing of the wheat genome, allowing researchers to identify, categorize and record individual genes and gene-cluster locations. Although it's considered a "rough map" so far, it is loaded with thousands of new points of interest for future studies. We have to create genetic gains for wheat to be more competitive Revitalized interest in wheat research and breeding began before 2012, adds Allan Fritz, professor of wheat breeding at Kansas State University. "Private industry investment in wheat has increased dramatically over the last four years," he says. "In addition, there are some genetic tools available that have previously only been available in other crops." One of those tools is the ability to perform genomic selection, Fritz explains. This system is dependent on a large set of DNA markers, which hold genetic information about yield, quality, maturity, disease resistance or some other desired benefit. Scientists run these markers on early material to make predictions about a new variety's performance. They now also use double haploid (DH) breeding techniques that can significantly accelerate the development cycle. "This process takes about a year in wheat and is about 20 times less efficient than the corn DH system, but it's better than nothing," Fritz says. The ever-expanding research toolbox is a big appeal for more investment in wheat. The crop's potential has never appeared so high, says Jeff Koscelny, wheat commercial lead at Monsanto Company. "Overall, public and private enterprises alike realize there is a lot of value in wheat if we can make the genetic gains," he says. "We recognize we have to create those gains for wheat to be more competitive." Rollie Sears, senior science and technology fellow at Syngenta, says DH technology is cutting variety development time from 10 to 12 years to six or seven years. This has allowed Syngenta to set its sights on developing commercially available hybrid wheat varieties in the U.S. and Canada. "We're applying the same principles we used in developing hybrid barley for Europe to develop hybrid wheat varieties for North America," Sears says. "Hybrid wheat can offer growers yield stability and consistent performance across fields with varying soil types and qualities. Our goal is to release the hybrid wheat varieties to growers by the end of the decade." Wheat agribusinesses say they are digging in for the long haul. "We see wheat as a long-term investment," says David Nicholson, head of research and development at Bayer CropScience. "It will take time to deliver products that will have a significant impact." Koscelny concurs, noting that many companies have set their sights on an initiative by the National Association of Wheat Growers to boost wheat yields 20% by the year 2020. "We should be able to see significant gains in the latter part of this decade," he says, "but it will take time to ramp up those gains." You can e-mail Ben Potter at email@example.com. Back to news