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"Around 90 countries are represented within the student body at Lynn. I felt Lynn was a perfect match because I would have the opportunity to continue to be exposed to the various cultures from around the world." — Dr. Richard Bruno
Prior to working at Lynn, Dr. Bruno's career was spent in the medical profession as a physician. He joined the U.S. Foreign Service and worked as an embassy doctor in Nigeria, Germany, South Africa and Saudi Arabia. When he wasn't serving overseas, he was on assignment in Washington, D.C., or providing medical support for diplomats at United States embassies in the Caribbean and Central and South America.
During his 21 years in the Foreign Service, he learned firsthand how medicine is practiced around the world, worked closely with the doctors from the CIA, and provided medical care to officials of the FBI, Agency for International Development, the Secret Service and United States Customs. Dr. Bruno also traveled internationally as physician to several secretaries of state, including George Shultz, Warren Christopher and Colin Powell. A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., he had been to Haiti on several Doctors Without Borders medical missions before joining Lynn four years ago.
At Lynn, Dr. Bruno was an assistant professor in the College of Liberal Education. Described as socially outgoing and determined, he always wanted to convey to every student the message that "you can do it!"
Catherine Wharton, who worked with Dr. Bruno in the Institute for Achievement and Learning, remembers how he took control of the situation when her son became critically ill during a university trip: "He made me feel as though I didn't have to worry about anything."
In a recent interview his middle daughter, Kelly, said, "If there was anyone you would want with you [in an earthquake], it would be my dad."
Dr. Cynthia Patterson, vice president for academic affairs, shared her thoughts about Dr. Bruno: "With compassion, care and a deep commitment to helping others, Dr. Bruno became one of Lynn's most respected and effective professors. Able to impart his love of learning to his students, Dr. Bruno challenged each and every student to discover his potential and pursue his goals and personal aspirations. Beyond his considerable contributions to students' academic achievements, Dr. Bruno's greatest contributions to the Lynn community lie in his leadership as an advocate for human dignity, social justice and international cooperation. The consummate global citizen, Dr. Bruno committed his life professionally and personally to the service of others and to promoting a more just, equitable and peaceful world."
Dr. Bruno embraced life with vigor and was always willing to pursue a new adventure or simply enjoy the company of friends. Most of all, he loved being a dad. He was deeply devoted to each of his three daughters—Lauren, Kelly and Annamarie—and everyone on campus knew that the simple mention of their names made him exude unbridled joy and pride. He was 59 years old.


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Perkins Memorial Garden
Landon's two-and-a-half acre Perkins Memorial azalea garden is a campus treasure that comes to life in late April and early May. For more than half a century the Perkins Garden has welcomed spring with a magnificent display of color as more than 15,000 azaleas reach their peak. A lovely collection of delicate wildflowers adds additional color and sweet perfume to the scene.
The garden is dedicated to the memory of two Landon students, George and Randy Perkins, and was built by their parents, Milo and Theron Perkins. You can read more about the Perkins Garden's history.
The Perkins Garden is open to the public during the annual Azalea Garden Festival, usually the first weekend in May. The garden traditionally hosts the Commencement reception.
In addition, the garden is the site of many art classes where boys consider the style of Georgia O'Keefe and other great artists, and gain experience with pastels and other techniques.
The Perkins House, located in the garden, houses the Development, Alumni and Azalea Festival offices.
The Perkins Garden is a private garden only open to the public during Landon's annual Azalea Garden Festival weekend at the beginning of May. It is not available for events or specialty photography.
To make a donation and to help preserve and enhance the garden, please fill out the form below.
Friends of the Perkins Garden helps with the preservation, development, perpetuation and financial stability of the garden, which has evolved with the addition of new and wonderful plantings. To help with the care and maintenance of this peaceful, inspiring memorial garden, please consider becoming a Friend of the Perkins Garden. The annual membership of $45 helps finance the maintenance of the garden. Donations for memorial plantings and benches are also welcome.

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A Hillsboro employee is suing the city, two top employees and a former interim police chief, alleging that she was the victim of gender discrimination.
Plaintiff Cynthia Young Bolek, the Hillsboro Police Department's support services division manager, is also accusing the defendants – the city, City Manager Michael Brown, Assistant City Manager Steve Greagor and former interim Police Chief Ron Louie – of retaliating against her for reporting workplace violations, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court.
Additionally, Bolek alleges that the city violated the federal Family and Medical Leave Act by attempting to demote her after she suffered a cardiac arrest and missed time from work, according to the complaint.
Bolek is seeking damages to be determined at trial. One of her attorneys, Portland lawyer Andrew Altschul, declined to comment when reached by phone Monday.
According to the lawsuit, Bolek raised objections in recent years over what she saw as the police department's unequal treatment of male and female officers. Bolek questioned why female officers seemed to be punished more harshly than their male counterparts, the complaint says.
An attorney with the city called Bolek "disloyal" for complaining about such things, the lawsuit says.
The complaint references a meeting Louie had with Bolek and the police department's command staff last May, during which he reportedly yelled, cursed and threatened to demote Bolek and reassign some of her duties. The lawsuit alleges that Louie's outburst was retaliation for Bolek's taking medical leave and complaining about gender discrimination.
Bolek was on leave from December of 2012 to February of 2013, when she was medically cleared to work 30 hours per week from home and one partial day in the office, the complaint says. She had planned to return to the office full-time in June 2013, but the confrontation with Louie caused her "to suffer significant physical setbacks in her health" and "delayed her return to full-time work and required her to use additional leave time that she may need in the future."
The lawsuit accuses Greagor, a former cop who oversaw the police department as assistant city manager, of being "openly hostile to plaintiff," detailing an incident from last September.
"[Greagor] personally made a phony attempt to try to find a reason to oust or discipline [Bolek] by falsely questioning the accuracy of her time, a bizarre inquiry toward any salary exempt employee, and wrongly suggesting that she was violating city policy by working at home," the complaint says. "When he realized those complaints would go nowhere, he made several inappropriate comments about her gender including suggesting that her being a strong woman negatively impacts the workplace."
Greagor is currently on paid administrative leave while being investigated by the Washington County Sheriff's Office for allegedly contacting a minor on a dating website, authorities have said. Detectives aren't sure whether Greagor knew the teen was underage, officials said.
Bolek herself was named as a defendant last year in a complaint filed by Benjamin P. Romero, a Hillsboro Police department program specialist who alleged that Bolek and the city refused to allow him to return to work after he underwent brain surgery in February 2012. A separate complaint filed by Romero with the state Bureau of Labor and Industries was dropped with "no substantial evidence," a bureau spokesman told The Oregonian last year.
Bolek's lawsuit alleges that "City management tried to take advantage of the fact that plaintiff was named individually" in the BOLI complaint. The complaint says former Police Chief Carey Sullivan, acting on advice from city attorneys, made the decision not to reinstate Romero. But the city investigated whether Bolek acted improperly, the lawsuit says, and even though she was eventually cleared, Bolek felt targeted by the investigation.
City spokesman Patrick Preston said the city has not yet received the lawsuit and declined to comment.
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Charlize Theron honoured for humanitarian work
The Monster star was presented with the Crystal Award for her work to eradicate AIDS with her foundation the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project during the ceremony in Davos, Switzerland.
Speaking at the event, Theron says, "This is a great honour. There is a pretty hefty brain trust in this room right now, I feel like I'm getting smarter by osmosis. In all sincerity, I feel incredibly honoured to receive the Crystal Award tonight.
"I don't take for granted the opportunities that are awarded to me as an entertainer. I feel a certain sense of responsibility to do something meaningful with these opportunities as an artist in the spotlight."


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TUPELO – Traci Sutton and Kristi Hillhouse picked the coldest night of December to visit Toys R Us, and they weren't there to shop.
On Sunday night, the toy retailer held a special party for Northeast Mississippi military personnel and their families.
The women's husbands, Spc. Bill Sutton and Sgt. Chuck Hillhouse, recently returned to Camp Shelby from training in California with the rest of the 150th Combat Engineers in Okolona. They'll be on leave beginning Wednesday.
"We'll have a merry Christmas and a cruddy New Year," Hillhouse said. "He'll have to go back."
Jennie Oglesby, event coordinator for Toys R Us, said the two-hour party was meant as a thank you.
"It's in appreciation for all they're doing and all they've done," Oglesby said.
Barnhills in Tupelo provided cupcakes, cookies and punch, and kids were invited to sign up for drawings that included bicycles, Barbie dolls and other toys.
Geoffrey, the Toys R Us "spokesgiraffe," posed for pictures with kids.
Jeffrey Sones, with First Battalion/185th Aviation in Tupelo, said he appreciated the event. He brought along his wife, Teresa, and their five kids, Sarah, Justin, Rebekah, Jacob and Joseph. The sixth Sones in due in July.
Many of his friends have been called to duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Sones said it's good to know the community is keeping those men and women in mind.
"I'm lucky to be home, and I feel for the people over there who can't be home," he said.
Staff Sgt. Andy Cook of Houston, and his wife, Kimberly, left their daughter with a sitter so they could buy her Christmas presents.
"We're one of the few units that haven't been called up," said Cook, also with First Battalion/185th Aviation. "I'm not complaining. I'll step up when I'm called, but I'm glad to be home."
James Wooley and his wife, Brenda, are members of the Family Support Group for the Ripley National Guard. They helped spread word to military wives about Sunday's event. Brenda has a brother and son in the military.
"We've had so much support from the business community for the families," Brenda Wooley said. "That's been wonderful."
Hillhouse brought her daughters, Amanda and Carli, to play with some of the games Toys R Us made available for kids.
Sutton's son was at the Mall at Barnes Crossing shopping for his girlfriend.
The two women, as well as other wives of the 150th, have learned to rely on each other while their husbands are away.
"It's amazing the bonds you make when they leave," Hillhouse said, pointing to Sutton. "She's the baby-sitter and I repair things.
"We help each other out," Sutton said. "You have to."
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Patrick and Dewhurst Go From Allies to Opponents
A year before state Sen. Dan Patrick announced he would challenge Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the 2014 primary, the Houston Republican and radio host was vigorously defending Dewhurst's record on the airwaves and on his Facebook page.
In the last months of Dewhurst's unsuccessful 2012 U.S. Senate bid against Ted Cruz, Patrick, the founder of the Texas Legislature's Tea Party Caucus, repeatedly vouched for the lieutenant governor's conservative credentials as he desperately tried to buoy support among grassroots Republicans who had flocked to Cruz.
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Erie Times-News Breakout Wrestler of the Week: Charlie Lenox, McDowell
Charlie Lenox, McDowell
Charlie Lenox has reacted well to a change in weight. Lenox, who wrestled most of the season at 113 pounds, moved to 106 pounds recently, and he has been almost unbeatable since.
Last weekend at the Northwest Region tournament in Altoona, he dominated the competition on his way to the 106-pound title. He recorded consecutive pins over Williamsport's Braden Bower (1 minute, 57 seconds), Central Mountain's Geo Barzona (3:39) and DuBois' Brock Adams (2:47) to reach the finals.
In the championship match, he faced rival Carmine Ciotti of Strong Vincent and emerged with a 3-0 victory. He also beat Ciotti 6-4 in overtime in the District 10 final Feb. 15.
Lenox (32-7) is making his second consecutive trip to the PIAA beginning today in Hershey.
Charlie Lenox, McDowell (26 percent, 132 votes)
Jake Gromacki, Cathedral Prep (15 percent, 76 votes)
Deane Twitchell, General McLane (13 percent, 64 votes)
Sam Breese, Lakeview (8 percent, 43 votes)
Jarrette Carter, Fort LeBoeuf (8 percent, 40 votes)
Levi Stoyer, Reynolds (4 percent, 21 votes)
Ehrin Lee, Titusville (4 percent, 20 votes)
Ryan Morris, Corry (4 percent, 18 votes)
D.J. Fehlman, Warren (3 percent, 17 votes)
Michael Lineman, Greenville (3 percent, 16 votes)
Dakota Geer, Franklin (3 percent, 15 votes)
Tyler Vath, Saegertown (2 percent, 11 votes)
Trent Zdarko, Oil City (2 percent, 11 votes)
Kyle Lukowich, Conneaut (2 percent, 9 votes)
Faris Messai, Jamestown (2 percent, 8 votes)
Carmine Ciotti, Strong Vincent (1 percent, 8 votes)
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H.E. Irina Bokova
Director General
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75352 Paris 07 SP
Dear Madam Director General:
We are writing to share our concern on recent highly politicized and one-sided resolutions passed by UNESCO's Executive Board which are of significance to Israel and of concern to the Jewish community worldwide.
First, on the issue of archeological excavations in Jerusalem, we were alarmed by the bias of the resolution and the call for the establishment of a specially appointed "experts" body to be "stationed in East Jerusalem to report on all aspects covering the architectural, educational, cultural and demographical situation there." This resolution provides a one-sided perspective of excavations in Jerusalem, warning only Israel of potential infractions. As they have in the past, these UNESCO resolutions fail to mention Palestinian work on the Al Aqsa mosque compound, which has destroyed important archeological artifacts and locations. The establishment of a monitor of Israeli archeological projects flowing from this biased approach represents an inappropriate expansion of UNESCO's involvement that undermines its credibility.
The resolutions regarding Jewish holy sites in Bethlehem and Hebron reflect a similar bias and dismiss the deep biblical, religious and historic connection of the Tomb of the Patriarchs/Maarat Hamachpelah in Hebron and of Rachel's Tomb/ Kever Rachel in Bethlehem to the Jewish people from biblical times up through the ages. Israel's decision to designate these holy places as Jewish heritage sites reflects the age old significance of these sites to the Jewish people. It does nothing to deny the connection Muslims have to these sites and the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs, nor does it impact Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. In contrast, the one-sided UNESCO resolution provides only a Palestinian perspective of these sites, with absolute disregard for the Jewish religious connection – codified in the Resolution's exclusive use of the Arabic and English names for these sites, while failing to list the Hebrew names as well.
It is greatly troubling that an organization established to protect historical and heritage sites around the world is addressing these issues from a purely Palestinian and Muslim perspective, while ignoring the Jewish connection to these heritage sites, and Israeli efforts to protect historical artifacts. We look to bodies like UNESCO to uphold the principle that affirming one people's connection to their history need not by its nature diminish the history or faith tradition of another. Especially in light of this, we further wonder why the Executive Board felt it necessary to comment on the Gaza blockade, as well as to express continued concern about Israel's security barrier and the Golan.
Heights, and question how such purely political statements are in any way relevant to UNESCO's mission.
These resolutions have served to raise our concern that UNESCO is approaching issues related to Israel and Jewish heritage sites in the region in a highly and inappropriately political manner.
The sad irony is that, perhaps with the hope of bringing Israeli Palestinian peace closer, these UNESCO resolutions only exacerbate mistrust and play into the hands of those whose rejection of the Jewish and Israeli narrative makes peace even more elusive.
Madam Secretary, given the urgency of these issues, I welcome the opportunity to discuss them with you and will reach out to see when we can speak on the phone.
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A look at development stories from around Metro Detroit
Development team including Earvin "Magic" Johnson maps out plans for former state fairgrounds property
Former Michigan State University and Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, former Detroit Deputy Fire Commissioner Marvin Beatty and Joel Ferguson have submitted redevelopment plans for the mostly vacant, 162-acre former state fairgrounds property to the state Land Bank Fast Track Authority. The trio's plans, which are now subject to state and local boards' approval, call for 500,000 square feet of retail and housing at the site, located at Woodward Avenue and 8 Mile Road.
Birmingham retail is back (mostly), as the city celebrates haute couture
John Heiney, executive director of Birmingham Principal Shopping District, said that after "a mixed year," the city's third installment of Fashion's Night Out had more retail participants than last year. Overall, retail occupancy levels in the city are now at pre-recession levels.
Redeveloping the Detroit riverfront is key to revitalizing the city as a whole, gala goers insist
At a fundraiser for the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy Sept. 5, the common theme was that if the riverfront is an agreeable place that is accessible to all, Detroit can move toward its full potential as a major American city. The Conservancy is now in the final phase of developing the 3-1/2 mile eastern portion of the RiverWalk from Joe Louis Arena to Gabriel Richard Park.
Linkner says time to invest in Detroit is now; Bloomberg News reports Lehman Brothers is getting 10 cents on the dollar for Detroit area property, paints grim outlook for office market
While Detroit Venture Partners CEO Josh Linkner pens a contributing piece for Forbes that says the time to invest in Detroit real estate is now, Bloomberg News notes that Lehman Brothers is taking huge losses in Detroit, where the office real estate market appears dismal, according to the report.


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Alternative term for a male cheerleader, to help secure masculinity in those dared to try out by upperclassmen
Whoa! That new yell leader is grabbing my girls ass more than I do!
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Although nationally known for their spirit, the Texas Aggies have no cheerleaders. This is because they have no school cheers. Instead, there are a variety of school yells. it is basically an excuse for a bunch of guys to run around in tight pants and "yell".
Cheerleaders: "Bring it on!"
Yell leaders: "BRING IT ON!!"
Yell leaders: "BRING IT ON!!"
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ELIZABETH — Movies, television shows and documentaries have been filmed in New Jersey -- from Cape May to the Palisades -- since the birth of the industry. And, plenty have been shot in Union County.
In this still, Roy Scheider and his criminal partners escape through the streets of Elizabeth in a scene from 1977's "Sorcerer." The film included local residents used as extras and municipal emergency vehicles responding to Scheider's car crash.
It is reported that director William Friedkin went through 12 vehicles and takes before being satisfied with the stunt.
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ELVIS PRESLEY is set to break another record this Sunday by scoring his third number one in as many weeks.
The re-release of A Fool Such As I is outselling closest rival The Chemical Brothers by three to one.
It would become the 1001st number one in chart history and give Presley his 21st chart-topper.
Presley is currently holding the top spot with the 1000th number one, One Night. The week before he topped the chart with Jailhouse Rock.
And Presley fans have been out in force since Monday buying up copies of One Night, which was originally released on April 24, in 1959.
Each of the King's 18 chart-toppers is being re-released to mark what would have been his 70th year.


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SAN DIEGO -- Christine Nairn scored in the second minute of overtime to help Penn State beat Florida State 2-1 in an NCAA Division I women's College Cup semifinal Friday night.
The Nittany Lions (21-3-2) advanced to the championship game Sunday against North Carolina, who beat Stanford 1-0 in the second semifinal Friday.
Penn State reached the final after losing in three previous semifinal games.
In overtime, Nairn took a long pass from Maddy Evans and beat goalkeeper Kelsey Wys from 6 yards.
Maya Hayes was instrumental in getting the ball to Evans, who rifled a shot from the left wing that Wys stopped. However, the ball bounced away and Nairn was there to tap it home.
"I guess I was in the right place at the right time," Nairn said about her 17th goal of the season. "Maddy and Maya did all the hard work. I just tapped it in."
Florida State (20-4) forced overtime when Tiffany McCarty headed a feed from Kristin Grubka past goalkeeper Erin McNulty with 42 seconds left in regulation. McCarty also has 17 goals.
"Over the last 25 games we have faced all sorts of adversity and it has left them with this belief that it doesn't matter what bad befalls them," Penn State coach Erica Walsh said. "You just see their shoulders go back, they take a second and pause and reflect and then Christine Nairn stepped up and led the charge.
"When the overtime started I looked over and I saw Christine looking at her teammates' eyes giving them poise, composure and all the confidence in the world to go out and win the game."
Penn State opened the scoring in the 57th minute on Hayes' 16th goal of the season.
"They did a better job than we did in the middle of the field," Florida State coach Mark Krikorian said. "They won more first ball and won more second balls. But we did pick up the pace in the second half and put a lot of pressure on them, but didn't finish enough of our plays."
Nairn helped set up the goal, leading a rush up the middle and feeding a pass to Mallory Weber on the left wing. Weber came in and fired a left-foot shot at Wys, who made the initial save, but dropped the ball. Hayes was right there to knock it into the far right corner with her left foot.
North Carolina's Kealia Ohai scored at 5:53 of the second overtime of the second semifinal Friday night to lift the Tar Heels to a 1-0 victory against top-seeded Stanford.
The Tar Heels (14-5-3), making their 26th appearance in the College Cup semis in 31 years, will go for their record 21st women's soccer title.
The loss by defending national champion Stanford (21-2-1) was the first for goalie Emily Oliver.
On the winning goal, Crystal Dunn eluded the Cardinal's Alina Garciamendez with some fancy footwork in Stanford territory after taking a midfield pass from Katie Bowen. Dunn slid a perfect pass to Ohai, who was open on the right side and beat Oliver with a shot off the far left post and into the net.
"Certainly the final strike, the great serve in and the final composed finish were absolutely outstanding," North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance said. "That was probably the best chance of the game. To win the game on the game's best chance is an excellent way to win.
"It wasn't a ball bouncing around in the box or some kind of fluke," he added. "It was an engineered attack with a great final pass and composed finish."
Dunn and Ohai played together on the U.S. under-20 World Cup championship team.
"Playing together on the U-20 for a while definitely helped us," Ohai said. "And obviously playing together on the UNC team, we know each other's tendencies. We know where each other is going to be. And if I'm dribbling down the sideline, I have faith that if I pass it to her, she's going to score, and vice versa."
Oliver, who finished with 10 saves, had made a number of outstanding stops as North Carolina outshot Stanford 20-4 -- including 6-0 in the two overtime sessions.
"Katie Bowen played a good ball in and it got a little ahead of me," Dunn said. "But I managed to get a foot on the ball and I collided with the Stanford player (Garciamendez) and the ball trickled back into my direction. I remember Kealia making a good outside run and it created a lot of space for her, and I just played the through ball into her feet and she finished with a beautiful shot."
Adelaide Gay had five saves and improved her record to 12-3-1 for the Tar Heels, who are 24-2 in national semifinal games.
Stanford was making its fifth straight trip to the College Cup and had reached the finals the past three years, beating Duke last season for its first title.


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The Future of Cloud is Hybrid Over Distance
Multi-site Hybrid Clouds, the next stake in Ground in the evolution of Cloud Computing
1. Executive Summary
In the evolution of cloud computing, hybrid cloud has made its mark; by changing the way businesses consume cloud resources, to fill gaps in the workload functionality of their dedicated technology. As the computing industry has advanced, the need to be able to connect multi-site hybrid clouds over distance has become more prominent. With distance comes lack of control over geography, increased latency, and concerns about connection reliability. Imagine the possibilities if an organization could use multi-site hybrid clouds seamlessly, without concern for these inefficiencies.
Last year, Brocade, EMC, and VMware collaborated to test and validate a solution that offers IT Operations the capability to dynamically migrate applications live across data centers, separated by a latency of up to 10 ms round trip (~550 miles), without business interruption. Once Rackspace caught wind of this initiative, we saw an opportunity to advance our vision to converge cutting-edge technology, to connect clouds, and to enable Enterprise-class customers to experience Fanatical Support® anywhere for their multi-site hybrid cloud solutions.
In this Proof of Concept test, Rackspace has explored the use of multi-site hybrid clouds over distance. We've continued the advancement of this technology in "the wild" by synchronously replicating data between data centers within a metro area, in order to move a live virtual machine between clouds.
2. Introduction
Over the past several years, cloud computing has moved from the early stages of exploration and discovery to become a major factor in nearly every IT project. Either it is the platform being used for new application development and deployment, or it is being evaluated as a potential solution for improvements to existing applications. Enterprises have been slower to adopt cloud than smaller businesses, since they have huge piles of "legacy" applications that were built around traditional IT architectures, which involve capital purchases, long development cycles, and many times are over-provisioned to ensure they stay available and functional during peak loads. Add to those challenges concerns about new technologies, an immature security model, lack of industry standards, and new development techniques and approaches with steep learning curves, and it's easy to understand the slow pace of cloud adoption in the enterprise.
Now that the cloud computing revolution is in full swing, some perspective is coming to light on what works best in the cloud, and how cloud can fit into existing IT deployment models. One overarching trend that has gained considerable momentum and focus is the use of hybrid clouds. Broadly, hybrid cloud can be defined as using cloud from an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud provider WITH other platforms to deliver an application or workload to users. The promise of hybrid clouds has been a goal for many enterprises. The cost benefits of capacity on-demand of the cloud, the ease to spin up and down resources, and to pay for that capacity on an hourly or monthly basis is hard to ignore. Tie this with the fact that several virtualization technology vendors have built in support for moving live, virtual machines across a network, and this live motion represents a relatively easy way to transition applications and workloads between sites, promising even greater flexibility.
What many enterprises have found as they have explored hybrid cloud architectures more deeply, however, is that as distance between geographic sites grows the number of suitable use cases for a hybrid deployment shrink. So while many enterprises desire to move to a hybrid model, few have successfully done so.
The focus of this whitepaper is to explore the multi-site hybrid cloud model, seeking to uncover the use cases that will work, and what solutions are available to help meet the problems of data movement, latency, integration and management inherent in a distributed application architecture.
3. The Multi-site Hybrid Cloud Model
A multi-site model for hybrid cloud involves attaching existing IT infrastructure, typically in a corporate owned data center, to a public cloud (IaaS) provider, either over a public internet connection (usually a VPN tunnel) or over a private leased line (usually a Metro Ethernet or Point-to-Point connection). The advantage of this approach is that core data used by the application can be maintained in place, as well as any legacy equipment that hosts parts of the application, such as an ERP system, a mainframe, or a large enterprise database, since many hosting providers don't support many of these platforms or applications (particularly the ones offering mature public clouds). The tradeoffs with this model include lack of control over geography, which can result in latency as distance between sites grows, time and expense to provision network connections, and reliability of the connection between sites (especially when using public transit).
Figure 1: A Multi-Site Hybrid Cloud
There are several obstacles that exist for Enterprises transitioning to a multi-site hybrid cloud model. One of these barriers is that infrastructure architecture is highly dependent on application architecture. The models that work in a localized hybrid cloud may not work effectively across distance, due to the volume of data being passed, the frequency of updates, and the sensitivity of the application to delays in transactions. Live motion of a virtual machine is one such use case that works well in a Local Area Network (LAN), where bandwidth is plentiful and latency is negligible. But when attempting this over distance, latency becomes a limiting factor very quickly, since traditional means of motioning a virtual machine involve a copy of the machine configuration, followed by a movement of the data store. This data copy is what takes time, and if is the data is unavailable for too long a duration; the active virtual machine fails during motion.
Replicating the data in a synchronous fashion between the two sites allows a live motion to skip the data copy step – all that is transferred is the machine configuration and memory. The result is a very fast and reliable movement of an active virtual machine, since both sites are viewing the same data.
4. Hybrid for the Metro Area – A Leading Use Case for Multi-Site Hybrid Clouds
Live motioning of virtual machines can serve a variety of use cases, including:
• Proactive disaster avoidance becomes possible because machines can be moved quickly from the primary to secondary site.
• Maintenance without downtime can also be accommodated, either for a single application or even an entire data center, by migrating easily to a remote metro area site.
Other use cases also apply, even when not utilizing live motion of virtual machines, such as:
• Zero downtime disaster recovery (zero RPO) is possible when applications are actively deployed and load balanced between multiple sites, and because data is synchronized, fail back complexity can be reduced or eliminated.
• Synchronous data replication over a metro area connection by itself can unlock the ability to outsource large development and test environments by lowering the time and bandwidth required to copy test data back and forth.
• Low latency connections in a metro area can also facilitate highly scalable applications, where capacity can spike 10 times or more during peak times, by allowing additional capacity to be added at remote sites in the metro area, similar to a hybrid cloud within a single facility. This can be particularly beneficial from the financial standpoint, since the primary site can be sized to accommodate average loads, and burst load infrastructure can be consumed on a utility basis. Having data replicated at both sites as well as a contiguous layer 2 network between sites further reduces complexity of building burstable applications.
This architecture has been designed and tested previously by EMC, VMWare, and Brocade, using EMC VPLEX, VMWare vSphere servers using vMotion, and Brocade VDX fiber channel over IP (FCIP) to Ethernet switches in a lab environment. Given this solution stack, Metro vMotion can move a live virtual machine over a distance of up to 10 milliseconds, given a minimum bandwidth of 250 Mbps/migration, and a contiguous layer 2 network between the two sites.
Wanting to take this test farther, Rackspace has worked with EMC, Brocade, and Masergy to recreate this same solution "in the wild."
5. Hybrid Metro Proof of Concept
For the Hybrid Metro Proof of Concept, we created two environments for testing. The primary site (representing a customer data center environment) was in a colocation facility in Dallas, TX. The secondary site was located at the Rackspace Data Center, also in Dallas, TX. These sites are approximately 20 miles apart. Masergy Communications set up a Layer 2, 1Gbps connection between the sites, using MPLS over Metro Ethernet. Network Latency for the Metro area connection averaged 1-2 ms, well within the threshold of 10 ms for synchronous data replication. In each site, we installed the following equipment: EMC VNX5300 storage array with 2TB storage
• Brocade 7800 Extension Switch (FCIP switch)
• Two Dell R710 servers running VMWare ESXi 5.0.0
• Masergy Intelligent Bridge (MIB)
Figure 2: Architecture for Hybrid Metro POC
"The New Business Continuity: Moving Applications Across Data Centers Without Interruption" published by VMWare, 2011.
6. Hybrid Metro Testing
The Proof of Concept consisted of 2 phases – Setup and Testing.
The first step during setup was to configure synchronous data replication. Once the MPLS circuit was provisioned and connected, the VNX SAN arrays were initialized, and then set up to replicate. Replication over the WAN was handled via a Fiber Channel over IP (FCIP) connection.
Next, the Hypervisors and testing application were set up.
Two VMWare ESXi 5.0 hypervisors were installed on Dell R710 servers with 24gb of RAM and dual Quad Core Xeon processors at 2.27gHz. A single hypervisor was used to hold Windows® and Linux® Virtual Machines. The test application used was the DVD Store Version 2.1. This application is a complete e-commerce store simulation, including web server, application server, and database server layers as well as traffic/load generation and data capture.
Once the environment was configured, testing commenced, conducting the three tests described below.
Testing was conducted using the DVD Store application with four threads running against a single CentOS server running MySQL and Apache. During Test 1, replication was disabled between the two locations to allow for a simulation of a single site. During Test 1 we averaged 1,830 orders per minute through the DVD Store with a max response time of 209ms and an average response time of 130ms.
After Test 1 was complete, the link was re-established and the two arrays were allowed to equalize.
Figure 3: Test 1 Results Summary
Testing was conducted using the DVD Store test application with four threads running against a single CentOS server running MySQL and Apache. This test was conducted while synchronous replication was running between the two sites. During Test 2 we averaged 1,350 orders per minute, with a maximum response time of 215ms and average response time of 171ms. SAN Replication accounted for an average of 5794.7 kB/s from primary site to secondary site.
Figure 4: Test 2 Results Summary
Test 3 consisted of a live motion of the active DVD Store application from the primary site to the secondary site. Testing was conducted using the DVD Store test application with four threads running against a single CentOS server running MySQL and Apache. This test was conducted while synchronous replication was running between the two sites. Before the vMotion was conducted, the site averaged 2,188 orders per minute with a maximum response time of 251 ms and an average response time of 109 ms. Migration of the site commenced, which took approximately 40 seconds. During motion, the connection to the store remained working and the site continued to process orders at a rate of 2,078 orders per minute, with a maximum response time of 1195 ms and an average response time of 114 ms. After motion completed to the secondary site, orders were being processed at a rate of 2019 orders per minute, with a maximum response time of 231 ms and average response time of 118 ms. The DVD Store was then moved back from secondary to primary site. This motion also took approximately 40 seconds, again without interruption to the processing of orders.
Figure 5: Test 3 Results Summary
7. Testing Analysis
The Proof of Concept yielded several important findings. First, synchronous data replication enables live motion of a virtual machine. Moving a live web application in less than a minute without interrupting active sessions shows the flexibility and resiliency of stacking data replication with high quality, high bandwidth private metro Ethernet and leading virtualization technologies. While maximum response times climbed during migration, average times stayed virtually unchanged, and total application throughput was not noticeably impacted. The implication of this finding for Enterprise IT organizations is massive. The flexibility and mobility of production applications no longer needs to be limited to a single data center or site. This opens the doors for major rethinking of data center expansion strategies, disaster avoidance and recovery plans, and globally distributed applications.
Second, while the testing was completed successfully, the engineering effort involved in setting up this application and environment was significant. The possibility in the future for customers to deploy this technology stack through partnering with a service provider could significantly lower the barrier to entry into these capabilities. And by building even more integration and automation around technology bundles such as those used in this Proof of Concept, the potential value of such a solution becomes even more compelling.
Finally, this test was conducted over a Metro Ethernet connection with an average of 1.7 ms latency. This can be stretched to greater distances. The tested solution stack has been proven to perform at up to 10 ms latency. This drastically expands the geographic reach of a Metro area Hybrid Cloud. And with asynchronous data replication, or other architectures, global distribution could certainly be possible, depending on each application's specific needs and traffic patterns.
8. Hybrid Cloud Network Design – An MPLS Perspective
As noted above, the Proof of Concept design and testing allowed local Ethernet switching at Layer 2 within a controlled environment. The practical application into an enterprise environment also requires Layer 2 connectivity, but across greater distances. Metro-E and Point-to-Point type services can potentially support the move into an Enterprise environment, but doesn't necessarily create a seamless addition to an existing network architecture. As a high percentage of Enterprise networks have adopted MPLS as the core technology, Rackspace approached Masergy with ideas on how to design a hybrid cloud solution to fit within a framework to support existing MPLS customers. The list of challenges included:
• Hybrid cloud capabilities over a single GigE MPLS Circuit – Virtualized Transport Layer to provide:
- Multiple and Logically Separated Layer 2 Vans for support of VPLEX (VMWare vSphere Servers using vMotion) and Brocade VDX FCIP connectivity
- Additional VLAN for Secure/Public Access into Environment
• Network Embedded (Cloud-Based) analytics for testing, traffic reporting and performance monitoring on an application-by-application basis
• Strict Priority QoS Model
• Optimized Circuit and LSP design to push the geographic limits of test environment providing low latency, but just as importantly, near zero jitter and 100% in-sequence packet delivery.
Within its Native MPLS Design, Masergy was able to provide connectivity between the Rackspace Data Center and an additional test location. As part of its standard offering, Masergy is able to provide multiple VLANs and services to every location supporting Private (Layer 2 and Layer 3) and Public VPNs with no limitations. Furthermore, through the use of their Intelligent Network Analyst tool, the team was able to verify the data streams under all conditions with granular reporting capabilities.
Figure 6: Masergy Network Analyst Screenshot During POC Testing
Hybrid clouds and the associated services are the future, but the network cannot be an afterthought. As cloud adoption proliferates, it is clear that no "one-size-fits-all" model delivers the dynamic applications that businesses crave. There are a variety of approaches to executing a cloud strategy based on the unique needs of organizations. However, even the most ambitious and innovative cloud strategies rely on one simple element – network quality. Without a sound and inherently flexible network design, business applications can't deliver the performance necessary to fulfill objectives. Installing a rigid or one-off network solution makes it difficult to adapt to the changing needs of cloud-based applications, limiting the very flexibility that drives cloud adoption.
9. The Future of Multi-site Hybrid Cloud at Rackspace
Rackspace has developed a hybrid cloud solution called RackConnectTM, which integrates dedicated hosting or private cloud infrastructure with the Rackspace Cloud. This solution has proven to be a significant benefit for customers who want to leverage public cloud resources as a portion of their hosted infrastructure. Customers have lever- aged this solution to enable rapid scale up of applications for things like e-commerce solutions, marketing campaigns, Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, rich media applications such as games, and social media apps. As a collocated hybrid cloud, RackConnect offers low latency, high bandwidth connections, allowing very creative use of infrastructure for workloads such as batch video transcoding applications, desktop as a service, and more. In addition, full integration and automation have simplified the provisioning and management of this hybrid infrastructure, and enhanced the security of a RackConnect customer's cloud deployment, by managing network access holistically and programmatically, with an easy to use Graphical User Interface. Hybrid clouds have become a highly demanded solution for our customers, from SMBs and Enterprises alike.
Rackspace in conjunction with NASA also helped create an open source project called OpenStack®, which seeks to define an open standard for cloud management. This project has grown to include more than 160 corporations who are actively advancing the codebase, which is now in its fifth release. Rackspace has also launched a next generation cloud based on OpenStack. In addition, Rackspace offers a private cloud solution based on OpenStack, called Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition. Customers can now have a private cloud deployment based on OpenStack, built and supported by Rackspace, which can be hosted anywhere in the world, either at Rackspace, a collocation facility, or in their own data center.
Rackspace also is the home of Fanatical Support® – world class service for IT and cloud hosting.
So what do RackConnect, OpenStack, and Fanatical Support have to do with one another? The answer is that these offerings will converge to create the future of hybrid cloud. Enterprises are demanding more cloud-based solutions, but are still saddled with mountains of legacy applications and infrastructure which they rely on at the heart of their businesses. These are difficult to forklift into the cloud all at once, but CIOs are demanding that their IT departments do more in the cloud. This drives the case for building hybrid clouds that can span distances, connecting and integrating on-premise applications with hosted and cloud-based infrastructure. Extending RackConnect beyond the data centers of Rackspace to enable global hybrid clouds becomes a new frontier that will unlock the cloud for many enterprises. The availability and increasing maturity of OpenStack Clouds, at Rackspace, other cloud service providers, and as private clouds for Enterprises will create a single management interface for managing remote and local cloud infrastructure. These future capabilities, including remote and local network and cloud management and integration, high quality, easy to provision Wide Area Networks, create the foundation for extending Fanatical Support to anywhere a customer needs world class support and service for their IT infrastructure and applications. Hybrid Metro Area Clouds represent one potential use case to accelerate the adoption of hybrid clouds by enterprises.
10. What Do You Need to Solve?
Does a Metro Area Hybrid Cloud represent a potential solution for your IT dilemma today? Does it trigger other use cases for hybrid clouds between sites that could meet your future IT needs?
If so, Rackspace wants to hear from you. Please follow the link below to complete a brief survey about what your needs are for hybrid clouds. As we seek to create the next generation of hybrid clouds, built on Fanatical Support, your feedback is crucial to our development process.
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11. Appendix
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX) is the service leader in cloud computing and founder of OpenStack®, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers and partners across a portfolio of IT services, including Dedicated Cloud, Public Cloud and Hybrid Hosting. Rackspace has been recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and was featured on Fortune's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting." For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Masergy provides managed, secure global network services to enterprises that have complex needs across multiple locations. Masergy's integrated network and software solutions enable customers to seamlessly deploy and manage unified communications on a global basis.
Serving customers throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, Masergy leverages advanced transport technologies to deliver global Ethernet services across a native MPLS network. The company pioneered customer-control network services and the delivery of multiple services over a single network connection. Masergy clients include global enterprises in a wide range of industries, including the financial/banking, energy, professional services, healthcare, entertainment, broadcasting, high technology and global manufacturing sectors. For more information about Masergy visit www.masergy.com or the company's blog blog.masergy.com.
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I get to pick my niece's Quinceanera cake. ETA the cake we had!
Reply #41 has the picture of the cake.
My husband has 2 nieces that live in America and even in our city but we dont see them much. Anyways his oldest niece is turning 15 in May, and she and her mom stopped by last night to ask us to buy the cake. these cakes are big like wedding cakes. Anyways since we are paying for it we get to pick it and better yet my mother is going to be making it because she is the only person we can get to make it half regular cake half tres leche (3 milk). I am excited.
Which of these do you like?
nope. We couldnt find one so we didnt do that cake.
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An enthusiasm for wine and a love of classic cars may not at first appear to have much in common, but for me they embody many of the same qualities.
Next month, I'm travelling to Brescia in Northern Italy for the European Wine Bloggers Conference. I'm much looking forward to it, for the chance to meet new people who like talking about wine, and to try new wines from the area. However, I have to admit that I'm almost as excited to be going to Brescia because it's the home town of one of motor racing's greatest historic events, the Mille Miglia.
From the 1920s to the 1950s, Brescia was the starting point and the finish line for a race over one thousand miles of Italian roads – to Rome itself, and back. It attracted the most successful racing drivers of the day with epic performances from the likes of Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss, in the colours of the most famous car marques like Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Mercedes and Ferrari . This is the stuff of motoring history.
I've been excited about classic cars for about as long as I've been serious about wine, and I'm not alone. You only have to look at the iconic winemaker Randall Grahm and his love for his classic Citroen DS to see that. (By the way, I'd love to make a list of all the wine people who are into classic motoring – any suggestions welcome via the comments below.) So it set me thinking about the comparisons between the two. Why does a love for classic motor cars seem such a similar passion to the appreciation of wine at its best?
… the comparisons go a lot deeper when you look at why people are enthusiastic about the hiss of a particular carburettor, or the aroma of a beautifully crafted Barolo.
On a superficial level, wine and fancy cars inhabit a similar arena withinin our perception of what fine living is about – the glamour, the parties, the sweeping driveways of country houses – but that's more about money and ostentation than an appreciation or passion for the things themselves: the motoring equivalent of First Growth Bordeaux (although I'd rather admire the curves of a fine Maserati than just look at a bottle of Chateau Latour). No, I'm talking about hands-on enthusiasm that engages directly with the product: the comparisons go a lot deeper when you look at why people are enthusiastic about the hiss of a particular carburettor, or the aroma of a beautifully crafted Barolo.
Great classic cars differ from most modern cars because they are quirky and idiosyncratic. They don't all look the same – the antithesis of a brand. Italian, French and British engineering all developed in different ways and their cars are expressions of that tradition, and of the time and place in which they were built. Call it a sense of terroir if you like, but at their best these cars stand as distilled symbols of the age in which they were built and of the people whose sweat, ideas, and experience made them.
Wine at its best has the same expression of authenticity about it – it can be understood and appreciated by the world at large, but at its heart is the winemakers' respect for the traditions and experience that informed their choices in grape, in winemaking and in style.
Those that really appreciate classics, and own them, like me, are as comfortable behind the wheel as they are under the bonnet – driving the machine is what they were made for, but enthusiasts are just as likely to have their hands covered in grease as they discuss the finer points of a particular feature of the fuel system. In the same way, winemakers appreciate the finished product they create, but understand the need to get their hands dirty in the process. Great expressions of human endeavour are crafted not just made. A bit of the person goes into them too.
We embrace the inconsistency and the variation, as part of the essence of expression, and we share that, and argue about it, amongst friends.
And there's the camaraderie, the shared experience. Gather together a few classic car nuts, who are enthusiasts for a particular neglected make of car from the 60s, perhaps, and part of their enthusiasm for it is that they embrace its quirks and inconsistencies. Sure, the brakes didn't always work, and the lights don't really help you through a dark night's journey, but you've got to love the elegance and spirit of the thing. So too with wine. We embrace the inconsistency and the variation, as part of the essence of expression, and we share that, and argue about it, with friends.
Strip away everything else, though, and the elements that great cars and wine have in common are the power to thrill, and the ability to offer sheer sensuous pleasure.
So if I disappear for an hour or two during the Conference, you know where I'll be: strolling around the Mille Miglia Museum, hopefully with a glass in my hand.


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For your uptown breakfast needs, there's now bread and a toaster at Elliotborough Mini Bar.
Charleston Restaurant Week
Organized by the Greater Charleston Restaurant Association, the group's biannual Charleston Restaurant Week begins Wednesday.
Set to run through Sept. 15, more than 100 restaurants are scheduled to participate, offering three courses for between $20 to $40, depending on the restaurant.
Because of the popularity of the prix-fixe promotion, reservations are highly recommended.
For a complete list of restaurants and available menus, go to charlestonrestaurantassociation.com.
The young corner saloon added morning hours about a month ago, so I swung by last week on my way to work. I may have staked out the shop a mite too soon: There's no tea yet, just quality pour-over coffee, but the bleary-eyed staffer said tea's a planned addition.
On the food side, there's a basket of $1 eggs and a toast bar with fixings. The $1.50 toast is a self-service set-up: Customers choose a slice of plain-Jane white, wheat or gluten-free bread, then garnish with butter, cream cheese, strawberry jam or peanut butter. Or with all of the above: Elliotborough isn't a highly regimented kind of place.
It's also not yet a very busy place; the staffer attributed his fatigue to the slow traffic that comes with locating in a newish neighborhood. Go keep him awake, folks; Elliotborough's open from 7-11 a.m.
Top this contest
If your ideal burger is dressed with sardines and kimchi, you're out of luck at Big Billy's Burger Joint. But if you can combine the North Charleston restaurant's existing patties and toppings to create the perfect sandwich, there may be $250 in it for you.
This month, Big Billy's started choosing a weekly winner in its "Build a Burger" contest, which runs through Sept. 6. The top finisher will receive a $250 prize and the priceless honor of having his or her creation added to the specials menu.
The dozens of ingredients available for burger construction include sliced mushrooms, ham, chow chow, queso and honey horseradish sauce. The second week's winner garnished his burger with roasted red pepper, fried pickles, caramelized red onions and mac-n-cheese.
To play, ask a Big Billy's server for an entry form.
Three new brunches
Three downtown restaurants are adding Sunday brunch to their schedules, bringing more biscuits and bloodys to an already busy morning.
Of the newcomers, Vendue Inn was first out of the gate with its "brunch basket" program, which premiered earlier this month. As the name implies, Vendue's Rooftop Bar brunch is a picnicky affair, in which guests can purchase a bottle of bubbly and a basket of snacks for $40. The baskets are sized for two, and designed around a culinary theme, such as The Pacific, Paris or Tuscany: Menu items include cured salmon, Boursin cheese and dried figs. Baskets are available from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
On Sunday, Republic Garden & Lounge will join the brunch crowd with its "light, healthy approach," writes spokeswoman Grace Newland. The menu features honey biscuits with salt butter, housemade pork belly rillettes, duck prosciutto and creme fraiche scrambled eggs. But there's coconut water in the ReHydrator cocktail, made with cucumber vodka, St. Germain and lemon. Brunch is served from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Finally, Warehouse is readying to roll out its brunch service on the same day. Although the menu hasn't yet been released, it's likely the eggs and cheeses on the bar menu will be reconfigured in morning-appropriate ways. But the specials aren't exclusively for early risers: Brunch starts at 11 a.m. and runs through 11 p.m.
Boba bubbles up
It's a reliably bad idea to go looking for an edible specialty of the last place you lived in your new hometown. Not only are the search results bound to be disheartening, but the whole endeavor's unfairly dismissive of local culinary culture. At least that was my stance until last weekend, when I really wanted a coconut bubble tea.
Bubble, or boba, tea originated in late-1980s Taiwan, possibly when a teahouse staffer impulsively poured her tapioca pudding into her iced tea. Whether the story's true, flavored tea with chewy tapioca balls is now slurped compulsively across East Asia and in North American cities with significant Asian populations. In Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley, an entire subculture has sprung up around boba shops.
In downtown Charleston, though, there's only one source for bubble tea: Chopsticks House, a quick-service Chinese restaurant that got into the boba biz about 18 months ago.
Compared to the baroque boba operations on the West Coast, Chopsticks is astoundingly minimalist: There are only 19 flavors available, and there's no chance to customize the cold, milk-based teas with fruit jellies, red bean paste, egg pudding or tapioca balls in various sizes.
More disappointing, at least for the newcomer who's made the elementary error of craving bubble tea out of context, is the beverage's construction. Rather than starting with freshly brewed tea, Chopsticks staffers put flavored powder and ice in the blender, and then add limp pearls to the watery smoothie.
Still, it's at least nominally boba, which is a great find at a Chinese restaurant that serves chicken wings and French fries for lunch. And Jeff Wragg, a College of Charleston physics professor who dines at Chopsticks at least four times a week, says plenty of customers are ordering it.
"Sometimes two or three people come in just for bubble tea," says Wragg, who was asked by a Chopsticks staffer to handle my questions on the restaurant's behalf. "It's more popular than I thought it was going to be."
Although Wragg's made seven trips to China, where he first encountered bubble tea at a cafe "in the middle of nowhere," he doesn't consider himself a fan of the drink.
"If I had to pick, blueberry would be interesting," he said, scanning the dry-erase board listing the offered varieties, "if you could just remove the tea flavor."
Dinner, show deal back
Tristan and Charleston Stage are again teaming up on a deal designed to make enjoying the city's culinary and performing arts a more affordable pastime.
The "Dinner and a Show" program returns Friday, offering a two-person food, wine and Dock Street Theater ticket package for $150.
In addition to a three-course meal and bottle of house wine, participants receive valet parking and a post-show dessert. The menu includes hay-smoked tonnarelli pasta, house-made mozzarella, beef rib loin with pickled ramps and Scottish salmon with ember-cooked carrots.
"Dinner and a Show" is only available Thursday-Saturday. First up on the theater's schedule is "9 to 5: The Musical." For the complete calendar and more information, go to www.charlestonstage.com.
Black Tap's new gadget
As Black Tap Coffee acknowledged in a recent tweet, the debut of a new coffee dripper is likely to leave non-obsessives cold.
But for folks with strong opinions about how to construct the perfect cup of pour-over coffee, the shop's switch to Kalita Wave, a piece of equipment pioneered in Japan, is cause for celebration. Already popular in hardcore coffee circles, the Wave's reputation skyrocketed in April after Erin McCarthy used the gadget to win the 2013 US Barista Championship.
Black Tap's Ross Jett says the victory helped secure the Wave a spot behind his cafe's counter.
"With the recent success of the Kalita Wave at the world Brewer's Cup, we decided to get one to try it out," Jett e-mails.
Pour-over coffee works exactly like it sounds: Water is poured over freshly ground beans in a cone. Its acolytes say pour-over, or hand-brewed, coffee is cleaner, fresher and more aromatic than the joe produced by a French press, espresso maker or automatic drip unit, like the one you might keep in your kitchen. Pour-over tends to get plenty of attention in summertime, because it's the recommended method for making iced coffee. But Black Tap Coffee, like many serious coffeehouses around the world, is exclusively pour-over year-round.
The simplicity of the process, though, means it's nearly impossible to conceal problems created by faulty equipment.
The Kalita Wave has drawn near-universal praise for its flat-bottomed design, which is supposed to create a more complex coffee.
"The consistency and fool-proof nature swayed us to make a permanent switch here at Black Tap," Jett explains.
Wine + Food tickets
Bocce and badminton are the newest additions to the Charleston Wine + Food Festival's annual Ticket Launch Party, scheduled for Sept. 18 at the Mixson Bath & Racquet Club. Tickets to the evening event, priced at $40, are now on sale.
In addition to participatory sports, the kick-off will feature local chefs, artisans and bartenders offering up samples of their food and drink. Other cast members include local cookbook authors and Charleston Symphony Orchestra members, who will provide musical accompaniment.
To purchase tickets or learn more about the event's line-up, go to charlestonwineandfood.com.
Something fishy at Ted's
Salmon's been a staple of Ted's Butcherblock since Ted Dombrowski opened the downtown meat counter and cafe in 2005, selling at a rate of three to four sides a week, but customers have always gotten their flounder, halibut and scallop needs met elsewhere. Now Dombrowski's installed a seafood case that he hopes will help make Ted's Butcherblock a one-stop shop.
"On the peninsula, there aren't a lot of places for fresh seafood," he says. "We put on the case and took on the same concept as the butcher side: My whole No. 1 thing has been I need to carry the best quality I can find."
That means the seafood case, like the butcher case, won't be restricted to local products.
Still, there are plenty of fish from faraway places that won't show up at Ted's Butcherblock, including shrimp, catfish, tilapa and other products from Southeast Asia and South America.
Dombrowski, realizing the sustainability concerns pertaining to seafood are far more complex than the issues posed by domestic beef and pork, consulted the S.C. Aquarium's Sustainable Seafood Initiative before putting together his fish case.
Dombrowski ultimately settled on a lineup he describes as "basic," featuring grouper, mussels, shrimp and clams.
The case also will include a rotating fresh catch. "This week we had in some really beautiful rockfish. Next week it might be wreckfish."
Reach Hanna Raskin at 937-5560.


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Acme gives record stores another spin
Ken Chrisien is the first to admit that what he's done is "totally insane."
He's invested between $30,000 to $40,000, possibly more, to fulfill a dream he's had for seven years: to own his own record store. »Read Full Article(37)
Comedian Gaffigan savors New Year's in Milwaukee
Pasty comedian Jim Gaffigan has become such a New Year's tradition in Milwaukee that Point Brewery in Stevens Point bottles a special beer in his honor for the shows - aptly titled "Jim Gaffigan Pale Ale."
This will be the sixth year that Gaffigan, 46, performs at the Pabst Theater around New Year's. Beside the fact that tickets continue to sell well (he's playing three shows from Saturday through Monday this year) there's another important reason why he keeps coming back. »Read Full Article
Free and bargain ebooks for Kindle, Nook, ereader users
If someone gave you a Kindle, a Nook or another ereader for the holidays, or you're curious about reading ebooks on your new smartphone or tablet, here are a few sites to bookmark or follow via RSS to help you fill up your devices.
On Tap Today: Merry Christmas at the movies
If you're like my family, you get up on Christmas morning excited to open the gifts under the tree, to dig into a ham dinner, to spend quality time with loved ones...and then you need to get the heck out of the house. That's why I've spent many a Christmas night at the movies.
And of course, I'm not the only one. Christmas Day is one of the year's biggest holidays for new movie releases, and this year is no exception. »Read Full Blog Post


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Home Delivered Meals
Seniors who are homebound and unable to shop for or prepare meals may be eligible for a home delivered meal through Meals on Wheels or the Area Agency on Aging. The meal, which may be hot or frozen, is balanced to provide one-third of the daily recommended nutritional requirements. In some cases, two meals may be delivered daily, either frozen or a brown bag supplemental meal. Special dietary restrictions such as low cholesterol, diabetic and low salt are considered. Meals on Wheels programs are funded by a variety of sources. Some programs receive federal funding from Title III-C-2 of the Older Americans Act. Some local programs are entirely private funding. Most programs encourage contributions.
There are also other commercial sources that offer Meal Delivery. See Locate Assistance - Meal Delivery
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|Control: Intergov., Recreation & Cultural Affairs Cmte.
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|Assistant County Attorney Monica Maldonado read the forgoing item into the record. Mr. Chris Holley, Executive Director, Florida Association of Counties (FAOC), appeared before the Committee and noted the Association was scheduled to speak at joint meetings of Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties, which was interrupted by Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma. Mr. Holley noted his presence today was to follow up on that commitment; that Florida was a very large and diverse State and the Association appreciated the support received from Commissioner Heyman and other County Commission members over the years. He noted Commissioner Heyman's initiative on Article V was an example of one of the major issues. Mr. Holley addressed the following issues which he noted was the focus of the FAOC's efforts in Tallahassee this year: Property Taxes; Medicaid Reform; Affordable Housing; and Eminent Domain Power The issues involving property taxes ranged from capping ad valorem taxes to portability to save our home designations, Mr. Holly noted. He said the FAOC members appreciated Commissioner Sorenson's initiative in bringing to their attention the need for some compromise on this portability other then the need for long-term financing. Consequently, the Legislative Executive Committee of the FAOC had endorsed Miami-Dade County's proposal for a limited, one-time designation based on age. Mr. Holley noted another major issue facing counties was impact fees. He advised this was a major issue for the State because the State needed to provide proper infrastructure funding for Florida, was a billion dollar per year ticket item for Florida and one of the few sources of infrastructure funding for counties. Following discussions with the Impact Fee Task Force (IFTF), the FAOC had learned that certain special interest groups were advocating for stronger caps or stronger credit language stated Mr. Holley. He noted the FAOC was concerned about the proper infrastructure throughout Florida and had endorsed the recommendations of the IFTF which were administrative and required proper notification of ordinances to the building community and accountability of monies for specific capital projects. Mr. Holley noted the State recognized the need for infrastructure funding and had suggested some flexibility for Counties implementing infrastructure funding and for dock stamps or some type of transaction fee on real estate to fund infrastructure. Concerning Medicaid reform, Mr. Holley said the FAOC members were eager see if a Managed Care System and how reform would work in Florida because the future health of Florida was of great concern to its residents, noted Mr. Holley. He said the FAOC would monitor Medicaid reform closely by using trial projects. Mr. Holley noted the FAOC members supported using the Sadowski Trust Fund for affordable housing, however, because this fund was only partial, Miami-Dade County received approximately $10 million as opposed to an additional $25 million, if this fund were fully funded. He said the Association felt momentum building for additional funding for affordable housing in Florida, which was a major problem. Mr. Holley noted some caps were placed on the distribution of those monies to counties which caused concern to the FAOC members, and discussion had taken place regarding whether to increase the caps on funding distributions or to eliminate this funding completely. He noted the FAOC was advocating for full funding of affordable housing in Florida. Mr. Holley noted Eminent Domain powers for cities and counties in Florida was also a major concern. Concerning a comment made by Mr. Holley that the County would receive approximately $10 million for the Sadowski Trust Fund and if this fund was fully funded, the County would receive an additional $25 million for affordable housing, Commissioner Moss asked Mr. Holley to check the $25 million figure and report back to the Committee whether it was accurate.
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Emily & Alex: Naughty and Nice
Description: Emily & Alex: Naughty and Nice
Emily and Alex are twins. They have the same birthday. They have the same last name. But they can be as different as night and day.
Meet Emily and Alex, fraternal twins who love being different. Emily is clean, Alex is dirty; Emily likes dots, Alex likes stripes; Emily is noisy, Alex is quiet. Acclaimed artist Barroux makes his Blue Apple Books debut with two charming and witty books of opposites, featuring a pair of lovable twins who are double the trouble and double the fun.
Ages: 1-4 years
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