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This week I would like to make a comment concerning the ongoing culture war by considering a well known incident in the life of Jesus. I will translate it from Mark's Gospel account (Mark 12:13-17) because the other Gospel writers (Matt. 22:15-22 and Luke 20:20-26) probably used Mark as their source material:
And they sent away certain ones of the Pharisees and Herodians in order to ensnare Him [Jesus] by [His] word. And after they came, they said to [Jesus], "Teacher, we know that you are true, and in you is no bias concerning anyone; for you do not look into the face of people, but you teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay the poll tax [i.e., a tribute imposed by Augustus in 6 C.E.] to Caesar or not? Should we pay it or shouldn't we pay it?" But having seen their hypocrisy, Jesus said to them, "Why do you test Me? Bring to Me a denarius so that I might look at it." They brought [Him one]. And [Jesus] said to them, "Whose image and inscription is this?" They said to Him, "Caesar's." Jesus said to them, "Pay the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God." And they they were exceedingly astonished by Him.
Brother, nothing is new under the sun, is it? The same political manipulations and trickery used two thousand years ago live on today without mitigation. Duplicity is one of humankind's best weapons against its self. Our advanced technology definitely has afforded us the ability to refine duplicity into a high art and science, but we are still as nasty as ever.
Some nineteenth century American scholar/statesman--I don't remember his name--once said something to the effect that politics makes strange bedfellows. It's true. Here we see two opposing forces in first century Palestine--the Herodians, who represent the economic and political arm, and the Pharisees, who are the religious arm--in cahoots to blacken Jesus' eye of reputation in order to turn the people against Jesus. They attempt to liquor Jesus up with Jim Beam's oldest and most potent recipe affectionately dubbed, "Vanity." They hope that in His inebriated condition He would slip up and either answer "no" and get the Romans down on Him for fomenting sedition, or answer "yes" and incite the Jewish zealots against Him. What they don't understand is only the will of God intoxicates Jesus--as it should all of us.
What we need to see in understanding Jesus' response is what coinage represented in the minds of people in those days. Whoever struck a coin was in effect saying, "this is my realm, my rules, my things!" Whoever's money you exchanged with others marked you as an ally of the minter of the money. For this reason, the Jews only used faceless coins minted by either Herod, Herod Antipas, or, until the reign of Vespasian, the Romans in deference to Jewish sensibilities (see A. Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. Hendrickson (2000): p.740). In this way the Jews maintained their allegiance to the Jewish nation and therefore God.
Don't miss what they were doing in the incident under discussion. In order to win their culture war against Rome and Jesus--because Jesus, by standing outside of the war, was undermining the causes of both sides of the conflict--the Jews willingly contradicted their own sacred beliefs and traditions; they resorted to using their enemy's methods to achieve their own purposes; they showed their true alliance was with the sword which they hoped someday to wield, but for the time being remained in the hand of Caesar. The Herodians had long ago bought into the so-called truth of might makes right; but the religious Jews were not far behind them; they would later fully capitulate to this so-called truth when they would confess before Pilate, "We have no King except Caesar!!" (end of John 19:15)
Jesus' answer to all those hypocrites might be restated as, "Let Caesar do his gig, you play God's gig." Jesus wasn't into culture wars because the present world order--if we can be so gracious as to call it an order--will do whatever suits it, and what suits it will always oppose the perfect order and love of God's kingdom Jesus has brought to us. This doesn't at all mean Jesus condones or doesn't care about all the evil persisting in the present age--He does, and so should we. But such evil will never be beaten by its own methods because the evil feeds on its methods. The present world system will only be vanquished by the methods of God's kingdom, which are love and forgiveness.
As members of Christ's kingdom juxtaposed on this grim, dark, and evil world system, we should not be trying to fight a culture war because eventually we will be drawn in to use the same tactics and methods of our opponents--that's how wars always work. Inevitably, as did those Jewish leaders of two thousand years ago, we will attempt to make our point by investing our enemy's money against them, as if to say I represent one side of the coin and you represent the other side. In reality, though, the coin is one sided.
For example, we cannot hope to show the truth of God's kingdom by repudiating abortion while at the same time war mongering and supporting the death penalty and harboring bitterness against other people, as evidenced by a relentless spewing of vitriol against everyone who doesn't see it our way. In the end, everyone is killing everyone else. Instead, we must stand for the sanctity of all life by investing ourselves in a crumbling society by trying to lift people from the desperation, despair, and false allegiances leading them to their murderous decisions and outcomes. We do this by living according to the sacrificial and humble nature of God's love, which by its very definition means we won't be liked by the present world--indeed, they will try to snuff us out. But we should not be deterred because God's love is the Truth; and we know this because our King, Jesus the Christ, is alive. I mean, really folks, what are we afraid of?
Our fear is palpable because we insist on fighting a culture war. As long as we keep fighting culture wars, all that our opponents will see is our fear. And our fear will defeat us because fear is contrary to the only force that can bring life, beauty, and peace. As John writes in his first epistle, "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear holds punishment, the one who fears has not been perfected in love." (I John 4:18)
The people of the present world system are afraid, so the methods they employ are fear based. When we use their methods we show them we are afraid, too. There is only one side to the coinage of the present world system, and it is fear. We need to bring to this fearful world a new coin--a rare, precious, and beautiful coin--that has been minted in a kingdom they do not know, yet long for without knowing it. We need to dazzle them with the resplendent and bright coin of God's holy love by loving them as Christ has loved us. Only in the light of the stark contrast of our fearless love will they perhaps come to see their fear and all that fear leads them to do to escape it, only to keep dragging them farther down into its hopeless misery and despair.
Jesus said, "I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you have tribulation. But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The One Sided Coin
This week I would like to make a comment concerning the ongoing culture war by considering a well known incident in the life of Jesus. I will translate it from Mark's Gospel account (Mark 12:13-17) because the other Gospel writers (Matt. 22:15-22 and Luke 20:20-26) probably used Mark as their source material:
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
A few years ago, I was sitting at my wife's desk waiting to take her out for lunch. She was a therapist at an elementary school, and was away somewhere on the campus dealing with whatever she dealt with. I watched the children passing by her open door on their way to the cafeteria. Each child or group of children streaming by became framed for a moment by the doorway as snapshots of the human race. It was all of us coursing before my eyes that noon: the flamboyant, the timid, the tough, the haughty, the humble, the weak, the contemplative, the playful, the scared, the invincible, the popular, the marginalized, the swindler, the wheeler and dealer, the politician, the bully, the picked-on, the predator, and the prey. There we are, I thought.
Then I sat up a little because a small boy--maybe eight or nine years old--drifted through my view, wearing out in the open what all the others were concealing. There were elements of despair and worry in his face; yet none of these quite described what I witnessed in that little shaver. In fact, those descriptors--even though accurate at one level--are too easily spoken--too glib. If they were all one saw in that little guy at that moment, then one would completely miss the profound impression I'm trying to convey. No, he was lost; but lost in the deepest sense.
It was quite evident that he had found himself up against a high, blank, and impenetrable wall. He knew something lay on the other side, and he knew he needed to get there in order to survive. But he had looked up and looked to his right and looked to his left, and all he saw was featureless gray. He no longer thought of going back. The little lad had come to a point where there were no answers. It was as if his tender mind simply shrugged its shoulders and told him, "I don't know." The boy was lost.
When my wife returned, she saw my eyes had welled with tears. After I explained what I had seen, she said, "Oh, yes, he is one of my students, He lost his lunch box."
We don't often have such an open window to our selves as I had that day in my wife's school. I wouldn't see that little light again until sometime later when it reappeared in a woman.
I was waiting for my girls--as I am wont to do--outside a department store when I spied a solitary, middle aged woman walking away from the store. All she was carrying was her purse; the scene was quite ordinary. What caused me pause, though, was the manner by which she held her purse. Her bag had nothing to distinguish it. As I recall, it was plain and perhaps a bit worn; I don't even remember its color, except that it was monotone. Yet she carried the purse as if she were carrying her self. She was clearly lost in the same deep sense as the little chap back at school was lost.
Everyday, millions and millions of people tote around their purses, backpacks, and bags. If a robber were to snatch a bag from one of these people, you know he or she would get mad--and rightly so; the person might even go after the thief. But after it was all over, the victim would simply go out and buy new stuff. This was not the impression that lone woman left me with. If someone were to suddenly lift her purse, I'm convinced she would end up standing there where it happened in exactly the same state as that little boy had found himself. She would be paralyzed by a hopelessness she couldn't understand. She wouldn't see her self as a victim--only as one without recourse or options or explanation. To take something from someone else is wrong; to take that poor woman's purse would be an inscrutable cruelty that would leave her devastated. And the bleak sadness in this is she wouldn't be able to articulate her devastation because she is lost.
Two people afforded me two glimpses into all of us. We are all lost just as I have described here. We are a race in denial. We are experts at hiding our selves from our selves. We are all like those with iTunes(R) blaring in their ears in order to drown out themselves in those unwelcome silences. We are a people without hope until we are willing to quiet the white-noise and finally meet our selves. We cannot really help each other, either; unless we are willing to look beyond the smoke and mirrors--clever and intimidating as they often are--and see each other as God sees us: the little guy without his lunch pail, the lonely woman clutching her purse. And when we do that, let us turn back to God; the only one who holds the answers, who finds the lost, who leads the way out, and who genuinely loves us.
"When Jesus saw the crowds, he was filled with compassion concerning them, because they were distressed and sunk powerless like sheep without a shepherd. Then [Jesus] said to His disciples, "The harvest is great, but the workers are few. Therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest so that He might cast out workers for His harvest (Matt. 9:36-38)."
And on another occasion:
"After He heard this [i.e., about the execution and burial of John the Baptist], Jesus departed from there by boat to a deserted place by himself. And after the crowds learned this, they followed after Him on foot from the towns. And after He came out, Jesus saw the populous crowd and was filled with compassion for them, and He healed their sick (Matt. 14:13-14)."
Oh, and by the way, my wife made sure her bewildered little charge had lunch that day.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Ol' Dad's Advice
My wife and I recently returned home from our annual anniversary getaway weekend. In the mail that had accumulated in our absence was a contest promotional from a regional business. It was one of those scratch and play deals, where if you match three icons, you win. Well, I scratched away and sure enough I matched three $25000 icons. The sheet claimed I was a certain winner, although there was an asterisk following this proclamation. But even after reading the fine print, it seemed I had really won. After fifty-plus years my ship appeared to have finally come in; perhaps lady luck was giving a wink to this old luckless Kokko. It was Sunday, so I put the document aside to pursue on Monday.
As the day wore on, though, I kept thinking about how I was going to spend the twenty-five grand--well, actually the twelve grand after taxes. Then I recalled a piece of sage advice that was part of a trilogy of wisdom nuggets my Dad had passed on to me the day I left home for the last time. He said, "There's no such thing as a free lunch." I related this to my wife, who then went on the internet to see if anyone had posted anything about the company or its promotion. Sure enough, the business had played this game before in another city. A winner in that contest was awarded a fifty dollar gift certificate, which she later learned was really only worth five dollars. When she complained they told her the contest had ended and all prizes were non-negotiable. My Dad's wisdom and my wife's cool objectivity rescued us from a lot of wasted time and the embarrassment of looking like rubes.
Perhaps you are curious about the remaining two pearls of wisdom my Dad had left me all those many years ago. Some people--mostly my mother--have been a bit put off by the colorful manner by which my father packaged his little gems. But even this shows how wise my father is; after all, one will probably forget, "You don't get anything for nothing," but will almost certainly remember, "There's no such thing as a free lunch!"
According to my mother's sensibilities, my Dad's other two pieces of advice to his parting son are not fitting for any child with any breeding. By today's standards--if you can call them that--they pretty much read PG.
Dad had actually introduced me to the first when I was in high school, years before my famous send off. We had gone to a small shopping mall near our home, that day. As we entered the mall we passed by a sixties-something woman, who was holding a shopping bag and a purse, and standing by the front doors, apparently waiting for someone. Coincidental with this my Dad blurted (I don't remember what we had been talking about) out loud, "Yeah, you don't want to be a closet drunk." Well, as it happened, a short while later we passed through the same set of doors and the same woman still waiting for whoever, when my Dad offered, quite for all to hear, what would become the first of his famous canon of wisdom: "Well, just remember to save your money and buy good bourbon!" The poor woman was noticeably appalled that a father would teach his young son (I looked like I was ten in high school) such horrid things. But I have never forgotten what he taught me that day, and I bet you won't forget it, either.
What was the third piece of the trilogy, you ask? Well, he told me, "And, son, always pay your poker debts." It's perhaps not as poetic as Shakespeare's "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be," but it sure hits you right in the gut--don't you think?
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Did God Create Some Humans to be Damned? Part 7
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China's artist/activist Ai Weiwei works on exhibit in D.C. museums
WASHINGTON — If your concept of Chinese art is delicately painted screens and fragile porcelain cups, prepare for your world to be upended on a visit to Washington, D.C.
This month, Ai Weiwei, the prolific Chinese artist and political activist, will have two shows on display, and a huge 40-piece retrospective of his work is coming in October.
Starting Saturday at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler museum is an exhibit of his "Fragments" sculpture, while down Independence Avenue outdoors at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is "Zodiac Heads." Both exhibits leave in 2013.
In "Fragments" a delicate network of ancient ironwood beams are connected by pegs chunked into place by mallets, making the very heavy wood almost dance.
Much of the wood came from south China, where "a great deal of development (is) taking place but also a great deal of urban change taking place, hence perhaps the abundance of this kind of wood," says Carol Huh, assistant curator of Contemporary Asian Art at the Sackler.
The wood is from Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) temples and homes that were destroyed with the rapid urbanization of China in the last 20 years. Many of the beams still retain their hand-carved decorated carvings.
She says that Ai Weiwei collected the wood from antique dealers who were selling them in markets. "He's taken something from a temple structure, that then became fragments of wood to be sold in the market, and transformed it to an art object to be shown in the museum."
Further down the National Mall, Weiwei's "Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals" is on display outside at the Hirshhorn Museum.
Bronze sculptures of the heads of 12 Chinese Zodiac animals — rooster, snake, horse, ram, monkey, dog pig, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit and dragon — are set on 10-foot-tall stalks, cast to evoke lotus roots, surround the museum's fountain.
The sculptures are based on the original set for the Qianlong emperor (1735-1796) by Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian Jesuit missionary. Originally, the fountain was installed in the Yuan Ming Yuan, or Old Summer Palace, outside Beijing and spouted water as the sun passed over each animal.
In 1860, the Summer Palace was invaded by British and French forces during the second Opium War. Five of the sculptures were destroyed and the other seven scattered. The rat and the rabbit originals came up for auction in 2009 but the sale became controversial, and, in the end, the sculptures were retained by the owner in France.
For his "Circle of Animals," Ai Weiwei created out of his imagination the dragon, the ram, the snake, the dog, and the rooster since they were destroyed in 1860.
"The rest are based on the original Qing dynasty carvings. The dragon and the tiger — there is a huge amount of dynamism — he (Weiwei) was thinking of water, as if they were rising out of the water," says Mika Yoshitake, assistant curator at the Hirshhorn. "You can see it in the tufts of the tiger as well as the feathery parts of the dragon."
The museum has aligned them with the compass — the first animal of the Zodiac, the rat, is north, the rooster west, the horse the south, the rabbit, the east.
"Fragments" has already garnered one review from the public. A trio of museum visitors, including a young boy, paused for a second at the installation. His unsolicited comment? "That's cool!"
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No one should be surprised that the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, which began its inaugural season Friday night with an appearance by the Martha Graham Dance Company, is a high-end venue. It's in Beverly Hills.
A pop-up Salvatore Ferragamo store is its first attraction, just in case you find that your shoes suddenly feel out of fashion for the promenade from the entrance in the historic post office and past impressive donated contemporary art to the new Bram Goldsmith Theater. The catering (far finer and more reasonable than Patina at the Music Center) and the inviting indoor-outdoor lobby are quality all the way.
Nothing is modest here. The proportions of the 500-seat Goldsmith are grand, with seats wide enough to be love seats for ultra-skinny Beverly Hills models. Legroom is more than ample. The rake is steep. The stage is wide and deep. This is not an intimate space, that's for sure, but the first impression is that you couldn't really ask for a better theater in which to look at dance.
As for listening in a multipurpose venue meant to also serve theater, music and opera, that will have to wait. The Graham company, unfortunately, used prerecorded music, so nothing much could be learned of the acoustics other than that the display of luxury stopped short of the sound system.
Opening with an 88-year-old dance company, which has remarkably managed to survive considerable crises since Graham's death at age 96 in 1991, was an oddity.
The rationale was that Graham has a notable connection to Los Angeles, if not quite to Beverly Hills. Born in Pennsylvania, she moved to L.A. in her teens and studied at the pioneering Denishawn School on the edge of downtown. An exhibit about Graham in the Wallis lobby began by noting that, thanks to the school's founders, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, modern dance was born in L.A.
But if that's the case, then we can thank Graham for making sure that L.A. would not remain the seat of dance. As the evening's program meant to reveal, Graham revolutionized dance once she set out on her own in New York in 1924 and broke away from the Denishawn exoticism by devoting herself to the expression of intense inner essence through wrenching outward movement.
Janet Eilber, the company's artistic director and a former Graham dancer, began by using slides and film to help narrate Graham's roots and development. There were excerpts and short dances by St. Denis ("The Incense") and Shawn ("Gnossienne"). We saw a bit of Graham dancing Denishawn in the Greenwich Village Follies 1923-1925 — her first fame was in adding a dollop of high culture for the masses.
As the early music movement learned the hard way, recapturing history requires imagination, not attempts at slavish reproduction. Too many things have changed. For one thing, the bodies of today's dancers are sculpted differently than those of a century ago. And then there was the sound. In re-creating "Gnossienne," which had its premiere in 1919 in L.A., solo dancer Tadej Brdnik was undone by an unrealistically loud and distorted recording blasting an elephantine performance of Satie's fragile piano miniature.
Can Graham's breakthrough 1930 solo, "Lamentation," her body contorted in tight burka-like costume as a study in the cathartic power of shape and movement, survive in the environment of an overly loud recording of Kodaly's Piano Piece, Opus 3, No. 2? No, but Katherine Crockett made a noble attempt.
It was a huge jump over the years from the "Lamentation" solo to two late full company works, the stunning 1981 "Ritual to the Sun" from "Acts of Light" and Graham's astonishing, playful last work, "Maple Leaf Rag," from 1990. Both here looked great, especially "Ritual" in Beverly Emmons' stunning lighting.
The modernity of the work, furthermore, made the recorded music (Nielsen's "Helios" Overture in the former, Joplin rags in the latter) feel less anachronistic, if hardly ideal. These late works, playful and wisely self-aware, are dances of rejuvenation, still fresh and alive, needing not restoration but simply care and joy.
The revelation of the evening, though, was in the powerfully successful reconstruction of three sections from "Chronicle," a 1936 feminist response to war for 12 women. Graham's first real masterpiece, the dance begins with a solo lament with Blakeley White-McGuire convincingly conveying Graham's physical contractions. It concludes with the dozen women, in stirring, defiant formations.
Impressively, the extraordinary performance was not, like the other, earlier reconstructions, dutiful. A lot of creative imagination clearly went into what amounts to restoring about half of the original work, which was described in a review of the 1936 New York premiere as nearly an hour of overlong, tortuous dancing. For the middle section, "Steps in the Street," the company no longer uses Wallingford Riegger's original score but his more famous (and perhaps more effective) "New Dance."
Eilber introduced "Chronicle" by reading a thrilling letter Graham wrote to Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, refusing an invitation to take part in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, protesting the Nazi persecution of artists.
But maybe Graham should have gone to Berlin after all and treated the Germans to her American Valkyrie spirit. She would surely have given German director Leni Riefenstahl something startlingly different to shoot for her Nazi propaganda films.
The Wallis has wrinkles to yet work out, and only time will tell about the acoustics, but it has, at least, with "Chronicle," opened with an important statement.


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Points up to Hawts post and nods "that i agree with - btb panthers that actually play as they should btb. I want this kind of panther girl roleplayers too!
We have established in this thread that panther girls play panther girls because thats the role they chose and enjoy - not slave. So if you want btb panthers that dont run away after a month or two of roleplay, because they long to get back to what they wanted to play in sl in the first place hence destroying your immersion in Gor and ruining and wasting your rp time.
Then perhaps you should come up with other ways of interacting with said btb panthers than cap games that will end their game for good? You said yourself, thats how they END. Respect the players choices in role - unless agreed - sort of like the perma death thing is it not? It DID happen in the books that people interacted with free panthers, one could elaborate on that instead of always rushing to the end game. Its not like Gor is lacking slaves in generel as far as i know.
If all this could happen with cooperation from both sides then i can't see why the panther role can't be a completely valid btb role? You can call that tweaking of the role to fit what we think is fun, but are all the roles in Sl Gor not tweaked to rp and SL in the first place? None of them were meant for roleplay at all. The second you deviate the tiniest little bit from the canon then i can argue you are tweaking to suit your fun. Which i happen to think is valid enough, as long as we stay within what is believeable in the spirit of what was written by Norman. I dont think we dissagree on that really.
We still have a choice to live and let live though letting all roleplayers walk away from a scene with the feeling they had a good time. Mind you i am not implying that "having a good time" means winning a fight. But you can make an opponent loose and still respect the players wishes for their character in some way. IM's do work wonders in that sometimes.
I think i hear you support btb, is that not just another certification? One i happen to agree on too - but its still just that. Panters - all of them - ended up being showed to GE in buckets instead of seperating those in ge/btb like the rest of the community. Hence theres roleplayers left hanging with nowhere to go where they can get the rp they actually want in the role they prefer. Theres some left who do prefer the non pew pew panther game - believe it or not.
Sure you can do as Allison and just play by yourself - no band only a lone panther and that might work out nicely, but if you are going to do it realistically you will be spending an awful lot of time by yourself in the woods. I am sorry - i am not that interesting - i get bored with myself fairly quickly. I did it mind you...many times. But when you skin an animal for the tenth time with noone else nearby to interact it gets a bit meeeeh...why am i typing this; its great rp, but it was in my head before i typed too...i dont really need my thoughts texted...
I believe Violetta is trying to make the seperation for the panther players that the rest of you did years back with the btb/ge? If she succeeds i will cheer for her! Even if i am warrior princess... o.0


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Virtualize disaster recovery
Virtualization can save you money, time and effort, and make the often daunting task of designing and implementing a DR plan easier. But there are related challenges and costs.
By Eric Siebert
Designing and implementing a disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure is often complicated, expensive and challenging. Virtualization technologies -- for both storage and servers -- can help reduce the expense with unique approaches that differ from traditional DR methods and can provide increased flexibility and responsiveness. Server virtualization encapsulates an entire server into a single file, which makes transporting it to other locations much easier. Storage virtualization presents multiple storage devices as a single storage resource, which helps hide some of the back-end complexities of the storage devices and network. Either of these virtualization technologies will ease the implementation of a DR plan; used together, they can provide a very effective DR strategy.
For most companies, the type of DR environment they devise is typically determined by balancing the amount of money they have to spend on one-time and ongoing costs, with the required recovery time to ensure that any downtime is limited and doesn't significantly impact their business. Traditional DR scenarios usually called for maintaining a lot of physical servers at an offsite location and then using tape backups/restores or storage replication to transfer data between sites. With virtualization, there are more options for DR and the hardware requirements for the recovery site are greatly reduced. Even if your production data center hasn't been virtualized, you can still leverage virtualization at your remote location and convert your physical servers into virtual machines (VMs).
A variety of virtualization approaches
We'll look at some of the methods involving both server and storage virtualization that can be used as a foundation for a DR strategy. Our focus is on products and processes related to VMware Inc.'s vSphere, but many are very similar for other hypervisors like Citrix Systems Inc.'s XenServer and Microsoft Corp.'s Hyper-V. Depending on the virtualization methods used, recovery times can vary from seconds to hours to days and, accordingly, the cost and infrastructure to implement these methods will also vary. The approach you choose may be determined by whether you want a cold, warm or hot recovery site. Cold sites have no network connectivity with the main site, and limited or no hardware. Warm sites have network connectivity, and server and storage hardware, but typically lack real-time synchronization. Hot sites are almost mirror copies of critical production systems and use real-time synchronization for minimal disruption of services. The cost and recovery times differ greatly from cold to hot, but all of these types of sites can benefit greatly from using virtualization technology in their design and implementation.
|The importance of proper quiescing
Whatever data protection method you use -- storage replication, backups or virtual machine (VM) replication -- it's very important that you properly quiesce your VMs to ensure data integrity. Quiescing is the process of pausing the operating system and applications, and forcing all pending data in memory to be written to disk. There are two ways to quiesce. The first way is done at the operating system level and it tells the OS to write all pending data in memory to disk; however, because the OS isn't aware of what applications are doing, this could cause corrupt or incomplete application data. The second method is done at the application level where applications like Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server are notified so that they can complete any pending transactions before writing the pending data to disk. The latter is called "application consistent" quiescing, and it ensures that all application data is properly backed up without any loss of data.
Without any quiescing, a VM is considered to be in a "crash consistent" state, meaning the backup that's made is of a VM that's been powered off with any held-in memory data not accounted for. Microsoft Corp. VM's have a special Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) driver built into the OS to quiesce the operating system, but it often won't provide application quiescing. To achieve application consistent backups, you may have to install a special driver inside the guest OS. When choosing any backup or replication application make sure it includes the proper quiescing for the critical application data you're trying to protect.
Virtual machine replication
Virtual machine replication works at the server virtualization layer and relies on replication software that can copy all changes made to a virtual machine disk file (VMDK) to another host. It requires a warm or hot DR site with dedicated network connectivity linking the production and recovery sites. A snapshot is taken of the VM at the virtualization layer, which deflects writes to the virtual disk to a separate delta file. The virtual disk is then mounted by the replication software and any updates since the last replication cycle are copied to another identical virtual disk on a virtual host at the disaster recovery site. VMware vSphere's new vStorage APIs enhance this process because of the new Changed Block Tracking (CBT) feature. CBT provides much quicker incremental backups and replications because the VMkernel tracks which disk blocks have changed since the last replication. This allows shorter intervals between replication operations, resulting in nearly continuous data protection (CDP). A big advantage of this method is that any type of storage can be used on both the source and target virtual hosts. When it's necessary to cut over to the DR site due to an outage at the main site, you can power on the replicated VM at the DR site and begin using it; changed blocks are then tracked on the remote site VM so they can be replicated to the main site for failback. Applications that support this method include:
- Double-Take Software Inc.'s Double-Take Availability can replicate both physical servers and VMs to a virtual host at a DR site. Replication can occur either inside the guest OS or at the virtual host level.
- PHD Virtual Technologies' esXpress combines disk-to-disk backup with replication; it can do a simple full-VM copy to another site or incremental block-level updates.
- Veeam Software's Veeam Backup & Replication combines disk-to-disk (D2D) backup and replication in one product. It has built-in data deduplication and uses CBT to achieve near CDP; changed blocks are injected into the target VMDK during each replication cycle.
- VizionCore Inc.'s vReplicator is a dedicated replication product for virtual machines (vRanger Pro is their backup product). It supports CBT and Active Block Mapping (ABM) to detect white space in a VM so it can be ignored.
Storage replication
Storage replication works at the storage subsystem layer and is mostly transparent to virtual hosts and VMs. This approach relies on storage hardware or software that can do synchronous or asynchronous replication from one storage device to another. Because it happens at the storage layer, the virtualization layer is unaware of the process and all virtual machine data is copied to the disaster recovery site where it will be ready to be used by the virtual hosts if needed. Storage replication requires significant network bandwidth between the main site and recovery site because of the large amounts of data that must be transferred quickly. Many vendors employ technologies such as data deduplication and compression to reduce the amount of data sent over the network. Storage replication is commonly used to achieve near-CDP or CDP to allow for very fast recoveries. VMware's vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) product was designed to work with this method; it relies on storage replication to copy data between the two sites and SRM handles the cutover to the DR site by bringing up the virtual machines at the DR site in case of a disruption at the main site (see "About VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager," see below). Most storage arrays either have replication built-in or available as a software add-on; a sampling of products that support this method include the following:
- EMC Corp. has a wide variety of products that support replication, including its entry-level Celerra Replicator and MirrorView products, and higher-end RecoverPoint (journal-based) and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) products.
- FalconStor Software offers Network Storage Server (NSS), a storage virtualization product that supports replication, as well as Continuous Data Protector, a high-end CDP product.
- Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. builds replication into its StorageWorks EVA and XP disk arrays, and offers add-on products such as Business Copy, Cluster Extension and Continuous Access software for both the EVA and XP product lines.
- Hitachi Data Systems has both a journal-based replication product called Universal Replicator and a high-end CDP product, TrueCopy Remote Replication.
- NetApp Inc. provides an affordable replication option with MetroCluster, and SnapMirror is the high-end flagship replication product.
|About VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
VMware Inc. developed its vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) product to help automate and simplify the recovery process to a disaster recovery (DR) site. SRM by itself isn't a complete solution for disaster recovery and relies on a supported third-party array replication application to handle the replication of virtual machine (VM) data to a DR site. To certify that storage arrays are supported and integrated with vCenter SRM, VMware works with many storage vendors, including 3PAR, Compellent Technologies, Dell Inc., EMC Inc., FalconStor Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi Data Systems, IBM Corp., NetApp Inc., Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle Corp.) and Xiotech Corp. vCenter SRM allows you to create recovery plans using vCenter Server, extend recovery plans with custom scripts, perform nondisruptive testing, automate execution of recovery plans with a single command and reconfigure VM networking at the DR site. vCenter SRM provides a nice front-end application that both integrates storage replication with virtualization and automates DR failover in VMware environments.
Disk and tape backups
While tape backups are used less frequently today for disaster recovery, they're still useful for storing data offsite in a secure location. The most effective way to back up a VM is to back up the single large virtual disk file (image level) at the virtualization layer, rather than the traditional method of using an agent inside the guest operating system (file level). Image-level backups are very useful for disaster recovery as they provide a bare-metal restore capability for virtual machines. Instead of having to restore physical servers one by one, you can restore them all to a single virtual host. While using tape for DR is slower than other alternatives, it's still a low-cost way to restore multiple virtual machines. A disk-to-disk recovery is much faster than tape, and is very similar to VM replication as a virtual machine's virtual disk is mounted and then copied to another disk storage device. But, unlike replication, this approach is usually run on a scheduled basis and can be done incrementally or as a full backup. The disk target that's used can then be backed up to tape or copied to a DR site and used to quickly restore virtual machines as needed. Some apps that support this method include:
- EMC's Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware supports backups of both physical servers and virtual machines by operating at the guest OS or VM layer, and can also globally dedupe backup data. It can also do physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-physical (V2P) recovery for maximum flexibility.
- PHD Virtual Technologies' esXpress also does both backup and replication, providing data protection and business continuity.
- Symantec Corp.'s NetBackup has very good virtualization integration and supports both disk-to-disk and disk-to-tape backups. It supports both physical and virtual servers, and can perform both image- and file-level virtual machine backups.
- Veeam Backup & Replication provides disk-to-disk backup and takes advantage of many of the new features in vSphere.
- VizionCore vRanger Pro is VizionCore's dedicated disk-to-disk backup product for virtual machines, and it supports many of the same features as their vReplicator app.
- VMware Data Recovery is included with some vSphere editions. While not as feature-rich as other products, it does provide dedupe as well as good integration with vSphere.
Simple and built-in methods
There are some very low-cost and simple alternatives for virtual DR, as well as some built-in tools in vSphere. At the most basic level, you can use scripts to take a snapshot of a VM's disk to deflect writes to it and then copy the data using FTP/SCP to another disk target such as a CIFS or NFS share. The disk target could be as basic as a removable hard disk that can be transported off-site or a device at a DR site that you copy to over a network connection. Once the virtual disk files are at the DR site, you load them on a virtual host and you'll be up and running. VMware vCenter Converter is another tool that can be used to copy a physical server or a virtual machine to either a disk target or a virtual host; it's not very sophisticated, but it can be scripted and scheduled to make copies of servers. vSphere has some built-in high-availability (HA) and fault-tolerance technology, as well as VMware VMotion. Those features currently all require a local-area network (LAN) and aren't suitable for long-distance wide-area network (WAN) use. VMware has announced its intention to enhance the features to function over slower WAN networks.
|DR apps for Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix Systems XenServer
Many of the same disaster recovery (DR) principles for VMware implementation also apply to Microsoft Corp.'s Hyper-V and Citrix Systems Inc.'s XenServer. There are also some applications designed specifically for Hyper-V and XenServer that can be used to implement a DR solution for those environments.
Watch out for virtualizations gotchas
Using virtualization technology as part of your DR plan has some great benefits, but there are also related challenges and costs. It's often assumed that server virtualization will save lots of money on server hardware. Lower operational costs will save money in the long run, but you'll have some additional up-front costs in addition to new physical servers. For example, using two or three physical servers with virtualization at your DR site in place of eight to 10 physical servers at your main site will obviously reduce hardware costs. But you'll have to consider the cost of virtualization software, management and data protection applications.
If you're already using virtualization at your main site, using it at your disaster recovery site is an easy decision. If not, expect a learning curve in understanding how to properly implement, configure and manage it. Also, virtual machines usually require management and backup applications designed specifically for virtualization that may not work with physical servers. So, you might need separate tools for virtual and physical environments, which increases costs and management complexity. Some apps, like Microsoft System Center, can manage both environments via a single interface; similarly, Symantec's NetBackup can back up both environments.
There are some clear advantages to using server virtualization at a DR site. Disaster recovery rack space is often expensive and with fewer racks your ongoing costs will be lower. Fewer physical servers also mean fewer network port requirements and less gear to maintain. You can also replicate VMs running on hosts with shared storage at your main site to hosts with direct-attached storage (DAS) at your DR site, which can result in more savings. Server virtualization allows physical hardware independence, so you can use any type of server hardware at your DR site without having to worry about operating system and application compatibility.
Virtual DR options
There are many options that you can choose from when using virtualization. The route you decide upon will likely be dictated by the amount of bandwidth available between your main and DR sites. The benefits of using virtualization as part of your disaster recovery setup include:
- Fewer physical servers needed at a DR site reduces one-time and ongoing costs, and results in less idle hardware
- Lower-cost VM-level replication is storage independent and doesn't require expensive storage arrays
- Hardware independence allows for more hardware options without compatibility issues
- Encapsulation turns a VM into a single portable file for easier transport and deployment
- Snapshots provide an effective method for backup of virtual machines
- Automated failover and easier testing
- Easier server deployment; scripting can be used to help automate many configuration and operational tasks
Virtualization can provide some clear advantages for disaster recovery; help save money, time and effort; and make the often daunting task of designing and implementing a DR plan easier.
BIO: Eric Siebert is an IT industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience who now focuses on server administration and virtualization. He's the author of VMware VI3 Implementation and Administration (Prentice Hall, 2009).
Related Resources
- Expert Tips to Address 3 Virtualization-Related Storage Issues –SearchStorage.com
- The Best Storage for Virtual Environments –SearchStorage.com
- eGuide: Storage Challenges in Virtualized Server Environments –SearchStorage.com
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Charamel: Garrett Chicago Mix Popcorn
I have no idea if real Chicagoans eat Garrett popcorn or if it's simply a tourist thing (Chicagoans, please let me know), but the best thing about Garrett is that there are at least two at O'Hare (and they make the popcorn fresh on site).
3 comments:
- James said...
Living there for 13 years, I didn't have Garrett's often--maybe 4 times in total. I've noticed that most Chicagoans don't really go there. I have it when I go visit, so I have to believe it's a tourist thing. Being in SF now, I do miss the food from Chicago, especially the pizza, italian beef, good burgers/hot dogs/steaks, and Greek food. Food-wise, SF just doesn't compare to the top 3--NY, LA, Chicago.
- October 22, 2010 at 9:33 AM
- Diana said...
I only went to Garrett's once while I was going to school out in Chicago, but it was certainly a memorable occasion! I scarfed down the entire bag of caramel over the course of the afternoon. Never made it back before I graduated, but I would go again if I was in town visiting.
- October 22, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- sku said...
It is really good. Really greasy and really good. I bought one at the airport to take home for the family, then ate it all and had to go back and buy another.
- October 23, 2010 at 7:50 AM


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Ball State edges No. 25 Toledo on late touchdown
TOLEDO, Ohio — There are times when you can read the meaning of a game on the faces of the participants. Tuesday night, Ball State's football players wore grins so wide you could see the joy in their eyes, minutes after a postgame huddle and celebration with Cardinals fans who made the trip to the Glass Bowl.
Such was the aftermath of what they'd just accomplished.
"We came here to do just that," defensive tackle Brandon Newman said. "We're so happy that we got the (win) we needed to."
Ball State coach Pete Lembo, his back still soaked from a Gatorade bath, added, "This is as special as anything else we've done, and it's neat that we still have two games left and hopefully now three."
His Cardinals had marched into the home of the 25th-ranked Toledo Rockets and survived a back-and-forth contest to secure a 34-27 upset win for arguably the biggest conference victory in Lembo's two-year tenure. The outcome was not finally secured until Toledo quarterback Terrance Owens' last pass hit the turf, less than a minute after Ball State running back Jahwan Edwards sailed around the left side for the game-winning, 15-yard touchdown run.
The victory was the first for Ball State (7-3, 4-2 Mid-American Conference) against a ranked opponent since 2001 and its seventh win of the year, which should secure the team's first bowl berth since 2008.
Edwards might not have had the chance for the final score were it not for a curious decision by Toledo's coaching staff with six minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. The Rockets (8-2, 5-1) faced a fourth and 1 on the Ball State 16-yard line with the score tied at 27. Instead of following conventional wisdom and kicking a field goal for the lead, they chose to go for the first down.
Running back David Fluellen, who gashed the Cardinals for 200 yards on 34 carries, tiptoed to the hole and couldn't get past the line of scrimmage.
"To be at that point in time, the yard line, the score, it was really disrespectful for them to go for it." Newman said. "Our pride was in check as well as anything else.
"We had to put our backs against the wall and show that our defense isn't one to be tested like that."
After the game, Fluellen described the play by saying: "The hole was there, and I had one guy to beat. My job was to get the first down no matter what and I didn't do that."
The Cardinals got the ball and promptly marched 86 yards in 4 minutes, 25 seconds, running on seven of the 11 plays. Although Edwards had the game-winner after Ball State got into field goal range, his most crucial run came earlier in the drive.
Ball State faced third and 9 on its 36 after an incompletion, and the coaching staff took a gamble. They noticed the Rockets were dropping most of their defenders into coverage on third down, and with the belief punting was not a terrible outcome, they called a draw play to Edwards.
"I was real surprised," Edwards said, noting Toledo called a timeout right before they were going to run the play. "That was a great call by (offensive coordinator Rich) Skrosky. We was going to run it before the time out. They called a timeout. We came out and there was one linebacker. We had them spread out and then just a great job by the offensive line."
Edwards tore through the line for 19 yards and a quick pass from quarterback Keith Wenning to Ryan Connor on the next play moved the Cardinals into field goal range.
All that came as the cap to a game fraught with momentum shifts and big plays.
Ball State raced to a 14-0 lead, but the fourth quarter alone featured one tie and two lead changes.
Ball State's defense was torn apart in the first half, allowing 350 yards, but snapped back with two stops to open the second half and the crucial fourth-and-1 stop. Wenning also was intercepted three times, which went against Lembo's prediction a week before that a team couldn't commit three turnovers in the Glass Bowl and expect to come out a winner.
But the Cardinals got one boost from Toledo, which committed 10 penalties for 111 yards.
"It's not the best way to win a football game," Lembo said. "We felt like to have a chance, we'd need to come in and play a very clean game. We certainly didn't do that with the turnovers. I do think our guys did a great job of keeping their poise tonight."
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Six months after Abilities United announced the closure of its Betty Wright Aquatic Center, the organization's board of directors voted to redevelop all of its aging facilities, a spokesperson has told the Weekly.
The board of directors voted at its March meeting to begin the planning necessary for the large-scale redevelopment of the organization's facilities for persons with disabilities, including the warm-water aquatics center, which closed in October 2013. Abilities United facilities include three 1960s-era buildings at its main site at 3864 Middlefield Road, including the aquatics center, and a 1980s administrative facility at 525 East Charleston Road in Palo Alto.
Karen Moore, board president, said a complete redevelopment has been in the back of everyone's mind since the board began to consider the organization's future and direction during a 2011 retreat.
"The pool just made it (a) reality," she said.
A broader redevelopment plan "just seemed totally logical," Moore said. "We know it has to happen. We would hate to be in a situation where we put all of our eggs in one basket. It just gave us an opportunity to look at this in totality. We don't want to be in a situation in the future where we have to cease services."
The Middlefield Road facilities house Milestones Preschool, child-development services, early intervention, adult day activities, after-school socialization programs and computer education. Employment services, independent-living skills and respite services are located in the administrative building.
Abilities United is forming a redevelopment task force to focus on the master planning, Moore said. Capital-campaign planning is still in the early stages.
"We're trying to get as much expertise as we can to ensure being as logical and as thoughtful and creative as we can. We have wait lists for some services. Physically, we don't have the capacity for everyone who needs them," she said.
Abilities United, previously known as C.A.R., was formed in 1963 by 12 families. Its programs became an alternative to institutionalization for their developmentally disabled children. The nonprofit organization now serves more than 2,400 children and adults through cradle-to-grave services that include children's development, family support, adult independent-living services, job training and integration into the greater community.
The organization launched a separate fundraising campaign, United for the Future, in January 2013. The campaign aims to raise $2 million for programs and services to integrate clients and their families in the greater community. The campaign raised $1.2 million as of April 1, according to the organization. New programs will include Art for Inclusion, drowning prevention for at-risk youth, service scholarships, staff development and training and an updated, accessible playground. The campaign seeks to raise another $800,000 by January 2015.
"I see this campaign as a way to help provide quality facilities and needed services for people with disabilities far into the future. As a medical doctor and as an Abilities United board member, I have seen the benefits of Abilities United services to the community," Dr. Harry Hartzell said.
The impetus for the redevelopment, the shuttering of the Betty Wright Aquatic Center, was a painful episode for Abilities United, staff has said in the past. Unlike recreational pools, the therapy pool is heated at 93 degrees and was used for fitness classes and rehabilitation for people with paralysis from accidents or strokes as well as chronic orthopedic, neurological and developmental conditions.
Since the pool's closure, Abilities United has relocated aquatic services at interim locations, including facilities at DeAnza Cupertino Aquatics and Timpany Center in San Jose. Palo Alto's Channing House opened its facilities to Abilities United on March 31, and staff is negotiating with the Redwood City Parks and Recreation Department to provide a drowning-prevention program tailored to Latino families and children at Hoover Pool.
But the need for a permanent facility looms large, organization members said. As baby boomers age, the need for aquatics therapy will grow significantly.
Real estate professionals are also volunteering time to help with the aquatic center's redevelopment plan. A team of students and an adviser from the Stanford School of Engineering recently examined the potential for a modern, energy-efficient center. The group will present its report at Abilities United in April.
Information about Abilities United's fundraising campaigns, services and programs can be found at www.AbilitiesUnited.org.
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"This minimally invasive surgery is a new choice for patients who are more than 30 pounds overweight," said Horgan, director of the UC San Diego Bariatric Metabolic Institute. "By folding the stomach, we can reduce the volume by 70 percent. Patients can expect to lose up to 2 pounds per week following the procedure."
Horgan compares gastric plication, a way to fold the stomach into a new functional form, to the art of origami. Gastric plication is potentially reversible and is performed laparoscopically. During a one-hour procedure, one to five small incisions are made in the abdomen to reach the stomach to place the folds. Depending on the size of the patient's stomach, one or two folds are created with non-absorbable sutures.
Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery, UC San Diego Health System.
"After surgery, with a smaller stomach size, a patient feels fuller faster and is likely to have an actual decrease in appetite," said Horgan. "If, for some reason, we need to return the stomach to its original size, we can do so. Also, since the patient's anatomy is not rerouted, the patient does not have severe food restrictions."
Horgan said that, in addition to weight loss, many surgery patients see an associated benefit in reducing their blood pressure, diabetes and depression medications. These long-term results are a product of a combination of surgery, healthy eating and exercise.
Gastric plication offers a short hospitalization of one to two days with a return to normal activities in one week. Candidates must have a BMI of at least 27.
The UC San Diego Bariatric Metabolic Institute is dedicated to the science of developing and offering an array of surgical and non-surgical weight loss techniques that are customized to the patient's individual needs. A team of internationally recognized surgeons and specialists provide patients a comprehensive long-term plan to improve their health and lifestyle. Learn more at bmi.ucsd.edu.
This clinical trial surgery was performed by Horgan as well as Garth Jacobsen, MD, and Nikolai A. Bildzukewicz, MD, of UC San Diego Health System.
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The Raiders have reached agreement on a one-year contract with free agent cornerback Tracy Porter, ESPN reported Tuesday.
Porter, 26, played for the Denver Broncos in 2012 and 2013 after playing three seasons for the New Orleans Saints.
Best known for his 74-yard interception return for a touchdown against Peyton Manning in Super Bowl XLIV, Porter was a second-round draft pick out of Indiana. Raiders coach Dennis Allen was Porter's secondary coach with the Saints.
Porter fell out of the Broncos' rotation after issues with medication and regulating seizures limited his availability in October and November.
The first cornerback from outside the organization to sign with the Raiders during free agency, Porter joins Phillip Adams, Chimdi Chekwa and Brandian Ross on the roster.


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In many homes around the world, Good Friday isn't Good Friday without egg- and butter-rich Hot Cross Buns, fragrant with spices and topped with a cross to signify Christ's sacrifice.
I learned to make Hot Cross Buns many years ago when I took a class focused on dough made with yeast. I was a young mom at the time, I didn't have much experience working with yeast dough, and it seemed a little intimidating to me. I soon discovered the great pleasure of watching yeast come to life, foaming up in a cup as it bubbled and grew. I began to appreciate the feel of the soft, smooth dough as I kneaded it with my hands. I loved the sweet perfume of baking yeast dough wafting through my home. I became hooked on creating breads and buns with yeast dough.
There are a few things to keep in mind when working with yeast dough.
--Be sure the yeast is fresh enough to grow. This is why recipes instruct you to proof the yeast. By dissolving the yeast in warm water with a teaspoon of sugar, you will soon find out if it still has the power to grow.
--Hot liquid will kill yeast. Use a kitchen thermometer to check the temperature of the water. It should be between 105 and 115 degrees.
--You may not need all of the flour called for in the recipe. Measure all the flour into a separate bowl. Gradually add the flour to your mixing bowl. The humidity, the amount of moisture in the flour and the brand of flour you use can make an impact on how much you will need. When you turn the dough out onto your work surface, it will be sticky. I almost always have measured flour remaining in the bowl to use on my work surface.
A little research shows there are many different recipes for these sweet, soft Easter buns. This recipe for Hot Cross Buns is the one I made in my class so many years ago. They are lightly spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. Feel free to add more. Sometimes I've used a store-bought blend of baking spices that includes cinnamon, star anise, nutmeg, allspice, ginger and cloves. You can add any mix of your favorite baking spices to these Hot Cross Buns. Grated lemon or orange zest is also a nice addition.
Unseasoned mashed potatoes mixed into the dough contribute flavor and moist chewiness to Hot Cross Buns. The same dough, without baking spices and currants, can produce pull-apart dinner rolls.
But for Hot Cross Buns, little balls of currant-studded sweet dough bake snuggled together in a pan. Mark them with a cross, then pull them apart and start eating.
Hot Cross Buns
1/2 cup warm water (105 to 115 degrees)
2 (1/4-ounce) packages active dry yeast
1/2 cup warm milk
1/2 cup sugar plus 1 teaspoon
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup unseasoned mashed potatoes
1 cup dried currants or raisins
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Sprinkle yeast over 1/2 cup warm water. Add 1 teaspoon of the sugar. Use a small whisk to stir the mixture. Set aside and allow the yeast to bubble and grow. It will get foamy.
Pour warm milk into a large mixing bowl. Add yeast mixture. Stir in 1/2 cup sugar, eggs, salt, butter, mashed potatoes and currants. Add 1 cup of the flour along with the cinnamon and nutmeg. Beat with a wooden spoon. Gradually add more flour until dough begins to pull together into one mass. It will be a little sticky. Sprinkle some of the flour you have measured out onto your work surface. Place the dough on the floured surface. Turn the mixing bowl upside down over the dough to cover.
While dough is resting, grease two 9-inch round cake pans. Grease another large mixing bowl and set aside. Use your fingers for this job. Then, rub greasy fingers together to lightly coat your hands. This will make it easier to work with the dough.
Dust your slightly greasy hands with flour and knead the dough for 8 minutes, sprinkling the work surface with a little more flour as needed. Form the dough into a ball. Place in the prepared mixing bowl. Then, turn the ball of dough over so the greasy side is up. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise until double in size, about 1 1/2 hours.
Punch dough down and divide in two equal pieces. Form each half of dough into 16 balls. Place in the prepared cake pans, 16 balls in each. Cover lightly with a clean kitchen towel and allow to rise for 30 minutes, or until almost double in size. Brush with egg yolk glaze. Bake in preheated 375-degree oven for 20 minutes. Allow to cool slightly, then remove from pans. When the buns are cool, use glaze to make a cross on the top of each bun. Makes 32 Hot Cross Buns.
Egg Yolk Glaze
Whisk 1 egg yolk with 2 tablespoons cold water. Brush over buns just before baking.
Powdered Sugar Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons milk or half and half
1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon almond extract
Mix all ingredients until smooth. Add milk 1 tablespoon at a time. It should be on the thick side for making crosses on Hot Cross Buns. Place icing in a zip-top bag and snip a corner to easily mark the crosses.
Tips from the cook
--Active dry yeast is the most common form of yeast available. It has all the moisture removed so it can be kept for several months at room temperature or in the refrigerator and indefinitely in the freezer.
--If you plan to give Hot Cross Buns as a gift or will be transporting them, put dollops of icing in small bags, just enough for applying later without fear of muss or mess during transportation.


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Generous Winnipeg Couple Donate Christmas Tree to WAG
Thanks to the generosity of Frank and Sophie Czayka, the Winnipeg Art Gallery will be displaying a stunning silver spruce in their front foyer.
The tree, cut down to 20 feet to fit in the WAG's Eckhardt Hall, will be the focus of the activity at the Gallery's annual tree-trimming party from 2 to 5 on Sunday, December 2. The afternoon features a visit from Santa, live seasonal music, holiday games with the WAG elves, hot cocoa and cookies, and best of all—the chance for youngsters to create their own special ornaments for the tree. There is no charge for the event. Sophie and Frank Czayka will be attending the party to take one last look at their tree.
"We planted the tree 28 years ago when our daughter was born," says Sophie Czayka. "We love it but at 50 feet it was just getting too big. It blocked the sun on the garden and the view and the light from the living-room window. We had offered it to the city but it wasn't suitable for them so we were very happy when the WAG called about it."
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NEW YORK RANGERS POST-GAME NOTES (Regular Season Game 1, Away 1)
New York Rangers 2, Los Angeles Kings 3 (OT)
Ericsson Globe Arena – October 7, 2011
Team Notes:
-The Rangers were defeated by the Los Angeles Kings, 3-2, in overtime tonight at Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, in their season-opening match-up as part of the 2011 Compuware NHL Premiere.
-New York is now 35-36-14 all-time in 85 season-opening games, including a 25-27-9 record in 61 season openers away from Madison Square Garden. The Blueshirts have out-scored their opponents, 243-239, in season openers.
-The Rangers have now posted a record of 2-0-1 all-time in three regular season contests in Europe. New York participated in the inaugural NHL Premiere in Prague, Czech Republic to kick-off the 2008-09 season, having won back-to-back contests against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
-New York registered a 57% face-off winning percentage, having won 34 of 60 face-offs in the contest. Brad Richards led all skaters with an 82% face-off winning percentage (9-11), and Artem Anisimov won a team-high, 10 face-offs (10-20, 50%).
-Three players made their Rangers debut in the contest – Tim Erixon, Brad Richards and Mike Rupp. Erixon was also making his NHL debut.
Player Notes:
–Ryan Callahan notched the Rangers' first goal of the season with an even strength tally at 15:22 of the first period, while making his debut as the team's captain. He also led all skaters with a career-high, 11 shots on goal, was credited with three hits, and led all team forwards with 20:30 of ice time. Callahan's 11 shots were the most by a Ranger since Brendan Shanahan recorded 12 shots on goal on April 4, 2008 vs. the Islanders.
–Henrik Lundqvist stopped 27 of 30 shots, including 12 of 13 in the first period, to capture second star honors. He is now 4-1-1 with a 2.31 goals against average and .920 save percentage in six career season-opening games.
–Marian Gaborik tallied an even strength goal at 10:28 of the third period, and recorded five shots on goal in 17:09 of ice time. He has now registered three points (two goals, one assist) in three season-opening games as a Ranger.
-Brad Richards recorded an assist on Gaborik's third period goal while making his Rangers debut. He also won nine of 11 face-offs (82%) and registered three shots on goal in 18:00 of ice time. Richards has now tallied six goals and six assists for 12 points in 11 career season-opening games.
-Brandon Dubinsky tallied the primary assist on Gaborik's third period goal, and won seven of 13 face-off attempts (54%). He has now registered three goals and two assists for five points in five career season-opening games.
-Artem Anisimov recorded the primary assist on Callahan's first period goal and won a team-high, 10 face-offs in 18:22 of ice time. He has now registered three points (one goal, two assists) in four career regular season contests against Los Angeles.
–Ruslan Fedotenko tallied an assist on Callahan's first period goal, and logged 17:32 of ice time in the contest.
–Dan Girardi led all skaters with 30:18 of ice time and was credited with a team-high, two blocked shots. It is the fifth time in his career he has surpassed 30:00 of ice time. Last season, Girardi logged 30:00+ of ice time three times, including a career-high, 32:36, on April 3 at Philadelphia.
-Tim Erixon was credited with one hit and one blocked shot in 12:56 of ice time while making his NHL debut.
-Ryan McDonagh logged a career-high, 26:59 of ice time in the contest.
-Michael Del Zotto led the Rangers with four hits and logged 19:12 of ice time.
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-The Rangers return to action tomorrow, October 8, against the Anaheim Ducks at Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden (1:00 p.m. EST), in their second of two games at the 2011 Compuware NHL Premiere. The contest will be televised live on MSG Network and can be heard on 1050 ESPN Radio or at newyorkrangers.com.
-The Blueshirts are scheduled for a 10:45 a.m. (local time) optional morning skate tomorrow, October 8, at Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.