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Welcome to The Boot Inn, a traditional Freehouse pub bar, restaurant and, seasonally, The Riverside Garden Grill.
Situated in a rural and tranquil setting, just outside Stockbridge, we offer you a traditional Free House bar serving a selection of cask ales and carefully chosen wines. Our restaurant offers an extensive menu ranging from bar snacks to specialities that change with the seasons, and supplemented by an idyllic beer garden running down to the world renowned River Test.
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The Garden Kitchen is currently closed; however patrons are welcome to personally take drinks and baguettes/salads down from the main pub to enjoy at the riverside tables. Please note that on these occasions there will be no garden service and it would be hugely appreciated if used crockery, etc., could be returned to the main pub after use.
Please always refer to this website or call 01794 388310 for up to date news in regard to the full re-opening of our Riverside Kitchen. This will continue to be dependent on weather and staffing. Many thanks for your cooperation and understanding.
Weather permitting we intend to have the garden Bar & Grill up and running for Easter Weekend….We will keep you updated!
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The Boot Inn meat comes from Stockbridge's famous and award-winning John Robinson & Sons. Our soups and pies are delicious and homemade each day and our bread is freshly prepared and baked on the premises.
When available, the Boot Inn fish is delivered fresh on a daily basis and responsibly sourced from quality South Coast suppliers.Read more about us
Our Menu
We strongly believe in using our high-quality local suppliers wherever possible and closely follow the seasons. The Boot Inn restaurant and bar menus reflect this ethos with freshly made dishes ranging from our succulent roast sirloin of beef, grouse from a famous Scottish Highland Estate. Test trout to Moules Mariniere and always imaginative and delicious vegetarian choices.View our Restaurant Menu
Reserve a Table
The Boot Inn warmly welcomes walk-in diners to our bar and restaurant however, our restaurant is extremely popular with the locals so we recommend that you reserve your table in advance.
To reserve your table please call us on 01794 388 310.
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At The Boot Inn, we can help to organise guest fishing on the River Test as well as local lake fishing. Simply contact us at The Boot Inn on 01794 388310 for assistance.
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Veterans Day
It sounds like something JRR Tolkien might have penned as a day of destiny, the end of a quest, an hour set aside for magical powers and the alignment of planets foretelling the future or – as it does – immortalizing the past.
The First World War was fought in ways no other previous war had been. The generals watched from safety across the continent, basing their decisions on reports and assumptions rather than physically being at the battle's edge. The use of radios made communication swifter. Chemical warfare, although used even BCE (Before Common Era) by the poisoning of wells, foodstuffs, et cetera, now was used in the air itself. Mustard gas killed the soldiers immediately exposed to it, and kept killing them, years after exposure – after the armistice – after peace had been reached. The use of airplanes expanded the battlefront from two to three dimensions. Europe, certainly not a stranger to massive armies and military invasions, still seemed to be scarred by the trenches and bombing of WWI as it had never been before. An entire generation of young men were slaughtered, and geneticists have theorized that this culling of the human race changed us dramatically in the following century.
Is it any wonder that the demise of this monstrous new creature was marked by such an epic point in time? The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
In the century since the first Armistice Day, the monster of war has mutated further, adding radiation to its arsenal, computers to its communications, and more and more young men and women to its feast. There are no longer recognizable battle fronts; terrorism can happen anywhere, across the world or in your child's school. Where Rommel based his military strategies on the Roman Legions he studied in school, tomorrow's generals may base their strategies on computerized role-playing programs they played as children. Even the artillery can be utilized hundreds of miles from the targets.
There are things we as humans are willing to die for: our children, our way of life, our spiritual beliefs. This fact can neither be condemned nor praised. It just is.
Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae's marvelous poem In Flanders Fields is often criticized for its last stanza:
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Does 'quarrel' have to mean war? I don't think so. McCrae was a doctor. He died in 1918 from influenza he contracted while working and living in tents during the freezing winters of the First World War. He was willing to die for this quarrel with his foe; he was willing to live in horrible conditions to heal those who also were willing to die for 'this quarrel'. I believe McCrae meant for us to take up the torch so that before we die we, too, might have 'lived, felt dawn, saw sunset's glow, loved and were loved…'
As you look at your watch tomorrow, at 11:00 on November 11th, please take time to consider the things we as humans are willing to live for. They should be the same: our children, our way of life, and our spiritual beliefs. And live.
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This fun and interactive event is free to attend and will include a 2-mile run walk and fitness activities for families, participant gifts and raffle prizes from our sponsors. Spend your day with your loved ones and the stars of the GTC.
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Please join the Georgia Track Club for our inaugural Pro Track and Field Viewing Party at Cypress Street Pint and Plate on Saturday February 7th from 6 - 8 PM. All TVs will be tuned to the first stop on the yearly pro indoor track circuit: the New Balance Boston Indoor Grand Prix. We will have food specials for all GTC fans, and will be joined by GTC's roster of Olympic athletes to offer commentary and insight to the behinds the scenes stories of the athletes competing. Be sure to get your Autographs Cards from the GTC athletes and look out for GTC giveaways. Cypress Pint and Plate is located at 6th Street and Cypress Street in the heart of midtown ...
USA National Championship
Next up for the Georgia Track Club are the USA Track and Field Outdoor National Championships in Sacramento, California from June 26–29. GTC athletes competing are Reese Hoffa, Christian Taylor, Justin Gaymon, Kristi Castlin, Chaunte Lowe, Monica Hargrove, and DeeDee Trotter.
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This was the 3rd stop on the IAAF's prestigious Diamond League Circuit, and the GTC was well represented with Christian Taylor, Reese Hoffa, and Chaunte Lowe competing. I traveled to Eugene specifically to support our GTC athletes. Resse Hoffa started things off for the GTC Friday night with an impressive win over a top field in the shot put. Chaunte Lowe and Christian Taylor competed on Saturday, with Christian placing 2nd in the triple jump. Aries Merritt was also in attendance, but did not compete because of injury.
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135 Kids. 6 Olympians. 1 day of teaching and fun. Based in Atlanta, the Future Olympian Sports Clinics offers affordable Sports Clinics for young athletes (7-21) and bootcamps ...
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The Drake Relays is one of the oldest and most iconic track and field meets in the world. With a new title sponsor in Hy Vee, it is now also the biggest payday in the USA for track and field, with marque event winners walking away with a $25,000 check. The Georgia Track Club was well represented at the meet, and performed extremely well. Dr. Josh Glass was contracted as the sports medicine provider for all the professional athletes in attendance, which worked out well for me to treat our athletes. Chaunte Lowe started the meet with a unique high jump competition in the produce section of the newest Hy Vee grocery store in the area. It proved a good ...


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True Inspiration, October 2012
Ryan Barnhart spent three years commuting two hours each day to a real estate firm in Los Angeles—an experience he describes as "utter, miserable hell." Then, in 2010, he received Outside's May issue, with our story on the 50 best companies in America. "I applied to all 50," says Barnhart, now 34. "I didn't care what the job was." In July 2010, he signed on with G5, a tech company in Bend, Oregon. Today, 25 pounds lighter, Barnhart bikes two traffic-free miles to work and has time to hit the trails with his fiancee in the evenings. He bought a 1,600-square-foot house for as much as it cost him to rent his L.A. apartment, and, he says, "a dozen L.A. friends inquire weekly about openings at G5."
When she was in 10th grade, St. Louis native Stephanie Russo picked up a copy of our September 2003 Best Colleges roundup, read a story on Arizona's tiny Prescott College, and decided that's where she would be going to school. "We were longtime subscribers," says Russo, who grew up climbing in the Midwest. "The magazine was always full of good tips like how to fit boots and what gear to buy. I went to Outside for everything else, so why wouldn't I take its advice on a college?" We're glad to say it worked out fine: Russo, now 25, majored in agricultural ecology and works as a constituent liaison for congressman Martin Heinrich in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In 2008, Missoula, Montana, fly-fishing guide Dave Micus saw a photo in Outside that he found so awful, he was compelled to write us. "That guy is throwing a horrendous backcast," he emailed in reference to the image, which ran in a story about Caribbean adventures. "His loop is big enough to drive a truck through." A few days later, he received the box we'd sent him with our reply. "All I expected was a cheesy hat, but I found an $800 Orvis Helios rod," recalls Micus, 57. He soon sent us a photo of himself with his new rod in front of his 1968 VW bus and a note that read: "Now I have a rod that's worth more than my car!" Alas, the rod is no more: In 2009, Micus moved to Saudi Arabia to work for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Before leaving he traded it in for a nine-weight saltwater rig to fish on the Red Sea. We forgive you, Dave.


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On June 18, 2012, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Williams v. Illinois. The issue in this case was whether a defendant's Confrontation Clause rights were violated when an expert witness for the prosecution testified at trial about the results of a DNA test in which the expert witness had not been involved, and which had been performed by an out-of-state analyst who was not present at the trial. The Supreme Court of Illinois found no violation of the Confrontation Clause.
By a vote of 5-4, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the state supreme court's judgment. Justice Alito, joined by the Chief Justice and Justices Kennedy and Breyer, agreed that admission of the expert testimony about the DNA test results did not violate the Confrontation Clause, because they considered the testimony either not hearsay or not offered for the truth of the matter asserted. Justice Thomas concurred in the judgment, agreeing that there was no Confrontation Clause violation--but only because he deemed the statements at issue not to be "testimonial." Justice Breyer filed a separate concurring opinion. Justice Kagan filed a dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices Scalia, Ginsburg and Sotomayor.
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Lakes are large bodies of fresh water that can be found in various locations across both the real world and the Pokémon world. They are often home to a vast variety of Pokémon, with many Water-types living in the water, and Pokémon of various other types, such as Normal, living in tall grass at the water's edge. There is a total of 27 known lakes in the Pokémon world, with many of them being located in the water-rich regions of Johto and Sinnoh.
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Lakes are fairly rare in the Pokémon world, being far less common than forests, caves, and water routes. Their only appearances in the core series games have been in Johto and Sinnoh, being absent from Kanto, Hoenn, Unova, and Kalos, though smaller bodies of fresh water, such as rivers and ponds, have appeared in every region so far. They are usually pretty simple to navigate, not containing many obstacles, but often require the use of field moves, such as Surf, to fully explore. In HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Lake of Rage is shown to flood whenever it rains, meaning that on Wednesdays, when it doesn't rain, the player may travel on foot to certain areas that would have required Surf. The bed of Lake Valor can also briefly be explored on foot in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum after Team Galactic detonate the Galactic Bomb and cause the lake to dry up.
Symbolically, lakes are often presented as significant, mysterious areas, and tend to have myths or legends tied to them. This is most prominently displayed in Sinnoh, in which all four lakes are home to a legendary Pokémon and are linked to the Sinnoh myths. Lake Verity, Lake Valor, and Lake Acuity are home to the three lake guardians, Mesprit, Azelf, and Uxie, respectively, and are therefore targeted by Team Galactic and must be visited as part of the game's plot. Sinnoh's secret fourth lake, Sendoff Spring, is home to Turnback Cave, which, in Diamond and Pearl, houses Giratina, a member of the creation trio. In Platinum, the cave contains a portal to the Distortion World instead. The anime and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series both present lakes in a similar manner, with the Lake of Life, Remoraid Lake, Fogbound Lake, and Mystic Lake all being important or mystical locations.
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Do you hear this sound often, all the time, or periodically? Does the sound bother you and your family? Do you live in Boise or Eagle, ID? If you answer yes to these questions, you may have tinnitus (tin-NY-tus). Dr. Vore at Eagle Hearing is your hearing specialist for Boise and Eagle patients.
Ringing of the ears is a symptom associated with many forms of hearing loss. It can also be a symptom of other health problems. Roughly 25 million Americans have experienced ringing in the ears. Some cases are so severe that it interferes with their daily act
Many patients find listening to music very helpful. Focusing on music might help you forget about the ringing in your ears for a period of time. It can also help to mask the sound. Other people like to listen to recorded nature sounds, animals, or the ocean for instance.
Avoid anything that can make the ringing in your ears worse, such as smoking, alcohol, lack of sleep and loud environments. If you are regularly exposed to loud noise at home or at work, wear ear plugs or special earmuffs to protect your hearing and keep the rining in your ears from getting worse.
If it is hard for you to hear over the ringing, ask other people to face you when they talk so you can see their faces. Viewing their expressions may help you understand them better. Ask people to speak louder and more clearly.
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Most people with ringing of the ears have some degree of hearing loss. Hearing aids create a dual benefit of enhancing hearing and masking or covering up the tinnitus. The majority of patients with tinnitus receive partial or complete relief from their tinnitus with the use of hearing aids.
Tinnitus maskers are small electronic devices that look like hearing aids and are tuned to generate sound that masks or covers up the tinnitus. Like hearing aids, they may provide relief from the tinnitus, but will not enhance hearing and may interfere with understanding speech.
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Some hearing loss and ringing of the ears patients develop anxiety and other strong emotional responses to their tinnitus. Certain medicines may provide relief from these emotional reactions and provide some relief from the tinnitus.
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Obama To Sign Bill Speeding Up Air Tanker Deals
DENVER (AP) — A bill to speed up the contracting of the next generation of air tankers is about to become law.
President Barack Obama plans to sign the bill Wednesday at the White House.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet had urged the president sign the measure quickly.
The U.S. House and Senate passed it last week. It will allow the Forest Service to buy as many as seven large air tankers outright.
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'Nutcracker' Extravaganza Returns to the P.S. 89 Stage
Sugar Plum Fairies from P.S. 276 perform in Manhattan Youth's production of "The Nutcracker." Photo: Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib
Twenty-six dance pieces, nearly 300 performers. That was the seventh annual "Nutcracker" extravaganza, staged Saturday at P.S. 89 by Manhattan Youth's after-school dance programs. The show has grown so large, with more kids and classes than ever, that it took two different shows in an afternoon to accommodate all the Chinese tea cups, waltzing flowers, Sugar Plum Fairies, toy soldiers and mice. For the first time there were even ushers and assigned seats for the two packed houses.
Manhattan Youth's "The Nutcracker," with costumes by Constance Tarbox; choreography by Yun Chun Chua, Aatifa Drayton, Junie Kenworthy, Natasha Barwick, Karen Ng, Frida Persson and Bella Takkunen; lighting and tech by Matthew Michaels and Jamie Watkins.
Fitting two dress rehearsals into one day with two cohorts of kids had been untried and something of a concern, said Susan Kay, who adapts and directs the production each year. "I was nervous because there were a lot of unknowns," she said.
But in the end everything went smoothly. "When it's all up there, it's like, whoo! Ok!"
In past productions, Kay has taken liberties with the Nutcracker story and slipped contemporary messages about homelessness, self-acceptance and cultural tolerance into the show. Not this time.
"There was no message," she said, "other than making sure the kids have a good time."


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It's NBA Playoff time and for many sports investors the "zig-zag" theory goes into effect. Don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking this technical approach. In some situations, opening up your wallet for a team coming off a straight up loss can be a profitable venture. That's because blemishes in the post season carry much more weight considering each series is a best-of-seven. The key to being successful using the "zig'zag" approach is knowing when to pounce on a team coming off a loss and when to leave them alone.
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Since 1990, NBA playoff teams coming off a playoff loss of 20 points or more are a profitable 81-48 ATS for 62.7 percent!
Easy enough? I think so! If you would have invested $1,000 on every playoff team coming off a blowout playoff loss of 20 points or more since '90, you would have made $28,200 in net profit after the vig! That's not monopoly money folks those are real dead presidents!
As you know, every system has areas within it that make it even more powerful. The same holds true with this Blowout Bounce Back angle of mine. Here's how I made it even more profitable:
If our "play on" blowout side is priced as a road underdog of +3.5 or more and both teams are rested, this awesome technical situation improves to a blistering 43-18 ATS for 70.4 percent! The simple fact that we are investing on a road team in this set allows us to retain good value with the pointspread. If our "play on" side was at home off that blowout loss, there's a good chance that the linemaker would inflate the number because of the location.
Believe it or not, in round one of the NBA Playoffs, this tightener is really active. Dating back to 1990, round one team's in this set are a tremendous 26-10 ATS! That means this technical situation is only 17-8 ATS from the second round through the NBA Finals.
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I've had a lot of people ask me about this, so let me just say it straight out: I had a great time in Hawaii. We stayed the whole time in Honolulu, at my uncle and aunt's home. This is the second time Clare and I have done this, but we've been planning for it—the last time we were there, about three years ago, we spent a lot of time driving around the island with my cousin and her boyfriend, and as we sat on the plane coming home, Clare and I said, "Well, we better start saving now, because it looks like Meghann and Charlie are going to get married. And if they're going to get married, they're going to get married in Hawaii." And lo, our prophecy came to pass, and at a wonderful lawn ceremony, Meghann and Charlie made vows, kissed, and then we all watched as her brother sang a song her father had written for his dance with her, and we all cried. It was the perfect Hawaiian experience, in my opinion, complete with the mysterious case of the missing ukelele, which, as far as I know, has yet to be found.
So, it can take a while to come to understand that Hawaii is a beautiful but absolutely normal place, with perhaps even more of it's share of tragedy than other places. Hawaii is far away, as I mentioned, and people move to Hawaii like the move to New York, with big dreams and little money, and they soon discover that it is expensive, and unlike New York, you can't drive out. Wherever you are, the Pacific is less than an hour away, ready to swallow you up. There's just so much room and opportunity. And if you go driving along, you can see the poverty of the islands. And if you spend any time with your back to the glory of Waikiki and your face toward the laundry rooms and kitchens of the hotels, you'll begin to feel the slick underbelly and history of Hawaii—you'll see T-shirts that say, "American by force" and "Howlie go home." Howlie, of course, is a word that comes from the Hawaiian word 'haole', which means stranger or foreigner, like mzungu in Swahili. It's a state, but the colonial conquesting past of America is a little more real there, even if the natural beauty is almost unparalleled. So, on one drive, you can look to your left and see the pacific crashing on the beach,and to your right, the walls that cover up the poor.
So, Oahu is an island like Manhattan, I guess you could say—the glory of its present is evident everywhere you look, but the glories of the past are now hidden, just as the pain of the past and the pain of the present are often hidden. I'll never forget reading Between the World and Me and thinking about Ta-Nehisi Coates' thoughts when he saw September 11th—he thought that New York City was the place where thousands of his ancestors had been trawled from ships, severed from their families, whipped, and sold down into bondage in the south. So history is all around us here, too, as murky and dark as any other place, and for those of you have come to New York from somewhere else, you probably also remember the way New York bent your mind when you first encountered it, how you first felt its crushing density and the buzz of its streets. And maybe, as you continued to live here, you became aware of the sorrow and the love that has built this city, and indeed that has built all of human life, everywhere human beings have built and cooked and sang and killed.
Sorrow and love—I think that's what Mary felt as she opened her jar of perfume and poured the whole pound of it over Jesus' feet. I want you to think about how much you earn for a days' worth of work, and multiply that by 300, if Judas' reckoning is right. 300 hundred days worth of work, poured on the feet of Jesus, and Mary wipes the feet with her hair, and the whole house is heavy with its smell. In anointing Jesus, Mary in a way anoints the whole household, all who were gathered. It is a sign of love, of course—what else could lead you to take decades' worth of savings and dump it out, all at once, on one person? Sorrow could. Sorrow at the death of someone you love. And when we feel the meeting of sorrow and love, we will do almost anything, pay almost any price, because these are passions that engulf us, take us to places we don't even know we want to go.
You can hear this all over our radio stations, in our theaters, in the literature we treasure. And in our Hymn of the Day you'll hear good old Isaac Watts, one the great hymnists, point to Jesus and say, "See, from his head, his hands, his feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down./ Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown?"
Mr. Watts postulates a good question: we see the meeting of sorrow and love everyday, if we pay attention. You'll see people kissing just outside the divorce lawyer's office. But the miracle of the crucifixion is that we see the sorrow and love of God meeting us. Mary anoints Jesus for his burial, but she does not know that he will rise from death, the perfume she poured perhaps still lingering about his feet. And perhaps she doesn't quite yet understand the sorrow and love that pour from God's own heart into this world.
Paul's passage from Philippians should be read fiercely and passionately. There's a word in the Greek that's translated as rubbish, but it really means—well, it's far too impolite a word to say in the pulpit, although preachers have though it from time to time. But look closely and sorrow and love are all over this passage—"I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Jesus Christ my Lord." Paul, you'll note, had no problems saying that under the law he was blameless, as zealous for the right as anyone can claim. But, despite the excellence of his life—"I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may be able to obtain the resurrection from the dead."
There love of Christ is of surpassing value. I love this word, 'surpass'. It means that it goes farther, it extends wider, deeper, broader. All of our cities and our histories, all our sorrow and our loves, knowing Christ Jesus surpasses them all. No wonder Mary knelt down and untied her hair and poured perfume on the feet of Jesus. His love and his sorrow are worth any amount of money—indeed, to share in his love and his sorrow, all other things count as rubbish.
All our nation's islands, from Long Island to Oahu, are testaments to greed and sacrifice and love and perseverance. But the history of our people, marked as it is by the mad scramble of human desires clashing against one another, is also the history of God's own love and sorrow, meeting us in the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ. God loved us so much that God freely chose to endure the sorrow of death as one of us, so that God could love us into resurrected life. God sees what we can see of this world, and yet God can see the sorrow of the world more deeply, God can feel the sorrow of this world more keenly, than any of the suffering people that flicker upon the Earth. And so God's love meets this sorrow, in this man Jesus, who we anoint for burial, and who opens his heart of compassion, to crown us with eternal love and life. And so when Paul says that he wants to know this love of God, he is talking of a love that surpasses all the loves of our lives, all our passion—he is talking about the passion of God.
Jesus is where the sorrow of the world and love of God meet. The cross is the still point in the swirl of our existence, the resurrection the word that orders the tumulting void of our lives. Groups of people—Republicans, Democrats, business, labor, church people and non-church people—even now mark this world with their missions and desires, hoping that whatever they build will be good and last. But none of what we make is worth the surpassing value of being know by Christ Jesus, who calls us away from our fever dreams into the stillness of the cross, and the song of resurrection. Amen.


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Azul Systems is coming to Europe. The company, which sells what it calls network attached processing -- think NAS - was set up in the dog days of 2002 by CEO Stephen DeWitt, and succeeded in acquiring funding despite the economic climate of the time.
Among the promises for its hardware, which has just started shipping, are at least 50 percent consolidation of data centre servers. It works on the premise that a large and growing percentage of enterprise applications run inside Java VMs or using .Net frameworks - in other words, inside a virtual machine that neither knows nor cares about the underlying hardware or OS.
The problem it's addressing is that those boxes are expensive to buy and maintain, and that they're not designed to do what is now being asked of them. "There's now a significant disconnect between systems' architectures and the way people build applications", said DeWitt. "Java-based applications are highly multi-threaded but today's CPUs are all about minimising single thread latency. Yet Intel will maybe have an eight-core chip by the end of the decade."
DeWitt said: "We believe its critical to transform how CPU power is delivered. Look at the IBM/360 mainframe: ever since then we either cluster small servers or build big iron. We cut through those two axes of computing. How was it done in networking and storage? Everyone shares a common fabric. NFS allowed us to take storage out of the server and treat it as a unified storage fabric that is easily scalable.
"The same thing can apply to processing. Existing servers, unmodified, can mount shared processor resources - no-one has done that before."
Customers acquired so far include Wall Street banks, telcos, big web properties, reservations specialist Pegasus, and outsourcer and data centre management company EDS.
What Azul is selling is a box, purpose-built for accelerating JVMs -- and sometime later, .Net machines too. It's built using simple, proprietary 64-bit processors that don't need to run x86 or other large-vendor code, so they're optimised for virtual machine work, such as multi-threading and garbage collection. All the chips are multi-core and can be strung together in boxes that offer up to 384 cores in a single 11U rack. And because they can achieve much higher throughput than an x86 or SPARC box, according to DeWitt, it means that power consumption is reduced. There are also fewer pieces of hardware to maintain - all of which lowers costs, ROI, Capex and Opex, said DeWitt.
"It costs $89k for a 96-way server to $500k for 384-way. On TCO - management cost, power, space, moves adds and changes - all represent extraordinary savings."
The way it works is to replace a server's JVM with Azul's own. "It's 100 per cent certified as Java-compliant", said DeWitt. This means, he said, that there are no religious issues, that no-one has to re-write their code -- the mistake made by Transmeta, the only other vendor that in recent times tried -- but failed -- to attract mainstream buyers to a new processor architecture.
The big plus, according to DeWitt, is that, like NAS, it's scalable. "When you need more computing power for your enterprise applications, you plug in another box, and the Azul JVM discovers it automatically and uses it as required", said DeWitt.
"We have created a segmented VM that loads our VM onto a standard server. It discovers the compute pool, and moves the entire VM and application onto our machine in a one-off operation. This then runs on our hardware, and it runs fast because it's 64-bit. We can run at one-millisecond granularity on our multi-core processors which are designed to be shared by thousands of applications sharing a common pool.
"We took the ASIC approach. This means that, if more power is needed, we can use the silicon real estate to throw more CPU cores at the problem, which was only possible with 130nm geometry. It means lower power consumption - our 96-way is in a 5U form factor and uses only 700W. Even the 384-way uses only 2600W", DeWitt said. "Compare that to a standard rack of servers."
Pluses and minuses
Disadvantages of the multiple processor approach to adding computing power include the overhead created in trying to manage large numbers of threads, the question of added latency in moving processes around the data centre, and the thorny issue of software licensing.
On the issue of overhead, DeWitt said: "We have built a full command and control system. We are mainframe-like, which means we can set application schedules, maxs & mins for processing power as well as memory. It's all under control.
"We also have a big bucket of sharable 64-bit memory and our full management environment gives holistic view of how much power you have, how its shared out, and the ability to bill back to departments. We've put as much effort into management as any other aspect."
As for latency, DeWitt said, "We do introduce latency because we're a hop on the wire - but you only notice that when the system is not loaded, and people care more about what happens when the system is loaded. We eliminate the latency that occurs on every server - when it comes to processing, we don't have one revolving door, we have 384 of them with no queuing for garbage collection."
On licensing, DeWitt was less bullish. "This problem is getting worse by the day", he said. "But Microsoft's licensing along with all the others is changing. For instance, if you're running BEA on a Lintel box, we're cost-neutral. But every ISV's model is different, so the per-CPU licensing model will evolve rapidly. We have licensing deals with major vendors including IBM, Oracle, and SAP."
So, can Azul sail on where others have foundered? It's a big gamble, which DeWitt admits. But as the founder of Web server vendor Cobalt Systems, he got richer to the tune of $2 billion by selling Cobalt to Sun - it was one of the last big sales of the bubble. He argues that, if anyone knows how to sell appliances to the data centre, he must be numbered among them.
On the plus side, the system is about as compatible as it needs to be. When the platform from the enterprise perspective is the JVM, the underlying hardware becomes much less of an issue. Real world usage will be the ultimate test.
Can he beat IBM, Sun, Dell and HP? Tough one; it depends on their response - including the possibility that a deep-pocketed competitor might decide to take out the young pretender. DeWitt said he was alive to that eventuality. An alternative would be for IBM, Sun or HP to develop something similar, but it might be hard, given both their internal dynamics and existing customer bases, to market it convincingly.
Maybe the biggest question mark is timing. Is the enterprise ready for so radical an approach? Data centre managers didn't get where they are by taking risks. On the other hand, if Azul's small but growing list of enterprise customers are prepared to go on the record, then others will surely follow suit.
We might look back in two years and agree that Azul's truly is a disruptive technology.


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Anything's better with bacon, worshippers of the Church of Bacon claim. Who am I to argue? Ever since I was small, bacon has been a favorite. To this day, we split bacon fair and square at my house, with skirmishes erupting when I try to sneak some off my mother's plate. So what happens when bacon comes to Krispy Kreme?
I received an intriguing invitation. They were launching a new product, obviously, but what did the question, "Are you sweet or savory?" mean? My first guess was, "THEY'RE PUTTING BACON ON KRISPY KREMES!" My heart promptly skipped a beat, imagining how lovely the fusion would be. Sure, for the the health-conscious and the calorie counters, bacon and donuts may not exactly fit your personal budget calorie-wise, but it can't be beat when it comes to flavor.
Close, but not quite. Bacon was coming. But not on doughnuts. Instead, it now graces Krispy Kreme's newest line, the Baked Creations. Currently, this line carries two variants. There are Kruffins, hand-made muffins with a hole in the center that's stuffed with either fruits, nuts or chocolate.
Then, there are Pull Aparts, or hand-rolled sweet breads with holes in the center that's filled with either sweet stuff like Cinnamon and cream, and savory stuff like cheese, sausages and BACON! North Carolina-based Krispy Kremes Chef Rick Cavanaugh, who flew in just to launch the line, described Pull Aparts as Monkey Bread with breakfast-y fillings. Like BACON!
Can you just imagine how sad I was to discover that they ran out of BACON and Cheese when I got to the counter? I had to settle for the Cinnamon, after much prodding—initially, I wasn't in the mood for anything sweet, especially after being sorely disappointed about the BACON. It was a pleasant surprise, tearing into the Pull Aparts. The soft sweet bread was a treat to bite into, being all fluff on your tongue. It's not too sweet either, so the taste doesn't overwhelm the bread's texture.
Still, the BACON will not let itself be forgotten. I found myself going back to the Ayala branch to grab a Bacon and Cheese Pull Apart for breakfast. As I planned to eat at my desk, I got mine straight from the shelf. I was advised to reheat it in the microwave for a minute and was handed a small cup of Ranch Mayo.
Reheating for a minute was a mistake. Or maybe it had to do with our office microwave's wattage. Still, it smelled really good at 30 seconds, with the bacon getting all crackly so I stopped it then opened the microwave door. The delicious scent of bacon started wafting through the air, earning me complaints from my work colleagues. Torture for them, heaven for me as I happily grabbed a cup of coffee and started pulling my Pull Apart apart.
There. are. no. words. Sheer bacon goodness, fluffy soft bread with a hint of something sweet glazed on top. The ranch mayo adding a slight tang to the whole thing. Occasional bits of black pepper hitting your tastebuds for added bite. BACON! Glorious BACON! It has found its soulmate in the Pull Apart's bread.
Fellow bacon-lovers like me will probably be rushing to their nearest Krispy Kreme to grab one. Unfortunately, it's currently available at the Greenhills and Ayala stores only, however, there are plans for a wider release soon. Trust me, it's worth the wait.


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In 1973, following the death of his lover, Francis Bacon produced his most famous canvases "Black Triptych" depicting haunted imageries of the erratic and distorted George Dyer. Damien Hirst, in order to challenge conservatism, put a dead tiger shark in formaldehyde in 1991. The result led to a Turner Price and subsequently Hirst becoming the richest artist alive. Whether it was the bleak chronicle of the human condition or a blatant demonstration of death without God, Bacon and Hirst confirmed that contemporary art need not resolve in jovial beauty alone. Questions must be asked about how we confront the dark side of our existence.
Angela Su's new collection of drawings challenged our visual sensory on the pleasure of pain. Stemmed from masochist theory, the collection included drawings of torture machines, apparatus, human flesh and organs. All works are executed in monochromatic black ink and pastel on drafting film. Su's background in anatomical drawing gave her work a clinical feel. Subjects were presented in topographical perspective so to resemble pages in ancient text book. Some even contained an underlying layer of text. Behind the façade of academicism, Su's works drew on the idea of beauty and freedom of the soul. The title of the exhibition, BwO, referred to Body without Organs, an idea introduced by Gilles Deleuze to describe a virtual body without stable structures – the so-called fluid substratum. This BwO was permeated by unformed, unstable matters, by flows in all directions, by free intensities or nomadic singularities, by mad or transitory particles. In order to achieve this state of "dis-organization", Su used the concept of torture and pain to disrupt our organic sensory, to dismantle establishment. Her depictions of the body were without reserves. Images included plenty of gore and flesh and gross dissections. Su's notion of pleasure in pain stemmed from her stunning visual juxtaposition of torture objects and human organs. The contrast of imageries and connotations gave the works an elevated psychological intensity that challenged the audience's sense of beauty, aesthetic standards and hidden desire.
The complexity of Angela Su's work was testimony to the artist's in-depth knowledge in human anatomy. But everything else led to an elevated conceptual level. In sociological context, BwO referred to a society without organization, a system without system. Su's imaginary act of torture found echoes in Octave Mirbeau's novel "Torture Garden" where punishment through physical suffering was examined. But perhaps what was most relevant to Su's newest collections came from comparison with eastern philosophy, particular in Buddhism - the idea of desire was the root of suffering. By covering the eyes, ears and mouth, one was removed from worldly desires and argument. Through self torturing, the Buddhist monk starved himself in order to liberate the body to achieve nirvana. It was arguably one of the earliest concepts of masochistic revelation. The implications here were wide.
Angela Su's art always possessed this raw, dark power, an intense visceral energy that was transcending and compelling. Her images were raw and as emotionally charged as Bacon's while embodying the subversive nature of Hirst's. Their masochistic beauty forced us to rethink our own definition of aesthetic. While some might consider these images social taboos, they could not avoid the temptation to peep or scrutinize. Pleasure in pain alongside the beauty in gore or exhilaration in the haunted: that was what was inspiring to me, alongside the sheer bravery of confronting the dark side and the full force of the human psyche.
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The constitution was ratified and the officers of the Crichie Community Inn Steering Group were appointed on Monday 4th March last. On Wednesday 6th March the group was awarded £750 by the Shell Small Grants scheme, which together with funds already raised has enabled the group to arrange for a survey and valuation of the Crichie Inn to give it an idea of the scale of fundraising required to buy it as a community enterprise.
This notice will expire at the end of May 2013.
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World Cup: Ghana face Egypt in pick of African World Cup play-offs
Ghana face Egypt in the pick of the play-offs in Africa to decide which countries qualify for next year's World Cup.
Last Updated: 16/09/13 12:35pm
Egypt were the only non-seeded team to reach the play-offs with a 100 per cent record and they were the side that the highly-fancied west African giants wanted to avoid.
Africa champions Nigeria will face Ethiopia - the lowest ranked side in the draw - whilst the top seeds Ivory Coast tackle Senegal.
In the other two-legged ties, Tunisia meet Cameroon and African Cup of Nations finalists Burkina Faso are up against Algeria.
The first legs will be played between October 11-15 and the second legs a month later.
Ivory Coast v Senegal
Ethiopia v Nigeria
Tunisia v Cameroon
Ghana v Egypt
Burkina Faso v Algeria


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Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Administration
Course duration
- 2 Days
Course Outline
This Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 training class teaches attendees the fundamental principles of web server administration and how to administer Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.5.
This course is taught in the 8.5 version and your instructor will point out minor differences in class.
- No prior experience is presumed.
- Introduction and IIS 7.5 Architecture
- Integrated Pipeline Mode
- Extensibility and Modularity
- IIS Manager Extensibility
- Metabase (gone!)
- WAS and the Worker Process
- Installing IIS 7.5
- Clean Installation
- Upgrade Installation
- Adding Features to an Existing Installation
- Automated Installation and Configuration
- Server Core Command-Line Installation
- Hosting Service Recommendations
- Administration
- IIS Manager
- IIS Manager Extensibility
- Configuration Settings (walking tour)
- Using the Configuration Editor
- Command-Line Management
- Command-Line Management with PowerShell
- Overview of PowerShell
- Getting a list of the IIS 7.5 PowerShell cmdlets
- New cmdlets in IIS 7.5
- Hands-on work with some of the most useful cmdlets
- Fundamentals of Web Site Management
- Web Sites, Applications, and Virtual Directories
- Creating a New Web Site
- Configuring Logging
- Configuring Host Headers
- Administering Applications
- Administering Virtual Directories
- Configuring Compression
- Configuring MIME Settings
- Basic Administrative Tasks
- Web Application Administration
- FastCGI
- Web Application Pool Administration
- Understanding Web Application Pools
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- Understanding the w3wp.exe Process
- Application Pool Security
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- Application Pool Users
- Delegating Remote Administration
- Introducing the Main Characters
- IIS 7.5 Manager Remote Access
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- Securing IIS 7.5
- Types of Attacks
- Securing the Server
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- Using the Request Filter
- Rewriting URLs with the Rewrite module
- Authentication and Authorization
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How To Look Taller Without Heels
The grass green is always claimed to be greener on the other side of the field. Isn't it? But what about those gorgeous girls who are not able to climb, up the fence to glance upon the greenery on the other side? No, I do not mean to demoralize you. Beautiful comes in all shapes and sizes, and you, dear short girls come in the size "cuteâ€. There is nothing bad about being short and petite, the bad thing would e not to accept your body shape and crib about it.
Every shape is beautiful, and if you learn to work along your body shape, you can look good no matter what. Adding a few inches to your body is not possible after the age of 21, or maybe 22. But what we can do is to create the illusion of longer legs, by keeping in mind these few tips and tricks.
A good pair of comfortable platform heels never hurt anybody. But what if I told you that there were far better and comfortable ways of looking tall? Read below to know more.
Go High Waist
The first and foremost, and perhaps the most easiest of the tricks to give your otherwise petite body the allusion of being taller is to accept high-waist bottoms. High waist jeans and shorts are the perfect savior for those with short legs and long torso. Just buy one, and tuck your sheer blouse in it. If you are conscious of your butt, try tucking the blouse from the front while letting the backside of the shirt hanging out. Simple as that.
Show some legs
No, I did not mean this in a derogatory sense. All I meant to say was that short, petite girls should accept short skirts and cute dresses which end above the knees. Anything which ends on the knees or calves will accentuate the shortness of your legs all the more. And appealing legs draped in adorable skirts never looked bad.
Monochromatic V-neck dresses over turtle necks
Turtle necks are pretty cute, but what we fail to understand is that anything which clings around our necks hides the neck, shoulders and the sexy collarbones. And how can you expect yourself to look taller when your neck looks stubby? Avoid that, and go for deep plunging necklines which show your collarbones, after all they are meant for flaunting. Deep V-necks are the best bet for petite girls with heavy torso.
TIP: Go for monochromatic dresses which do not create a striking disparity between the torso and the bottom half. A top and bottom black pant blouse will look urbane-chic while adding on a few pretty inches. Dark neutrals like navy, browns, charcoal grey are the way to go.
Let the Vertical stripes elongate you
All of you must have surely heard that vertical stripes adds on to the overall length of your structure. Yes, this is entirely true. This is the oldest trick in the book for a reason. What vertical stripes and prints basically do is, that they create long lines which in turn allude to an elongated frame. Plus, they are so hot this season. Win, win!
Rock flared jeans
Flare jeans are definitely retro chic and of-so-comfortable. And if I tell you that they help in elongating your stubby legs? What's not to love? Go for denim jeans which are fitted till the knees and then flare out beautifully, wherein the hem ends at the shoe (read heels 😉 ).The flared out, volumised look gives the illusion of longer, dainty legs.
Crop those tops
Crop tops have been all the rage in the entire summers of 2014. Worry not; they are not leaving the fashion aisles for a few years to come. Crop tops seem to be tailor made to suit your diminutive figures. A crop top magnificently camouflages all the disproportions in your stature while making you look chic. Just bear in mind to wear them properly; a slight sneak peak looks stunning, we do not want to look downright offensive.
Declare goodbye to cigarette pants and Capri
The worst thing you girls can do to yourself is falling in love with cigarette pants or the Capri trend. Who wears Capri's these days, anyway? Especially for girls with troubled figures of longer torso, thick legs; stay away. They will do no good to you. On the contrary they will make your legs look all the more undersized and stumpy.
Short jackets are your hottest best friend
Come winters, and we all are ready to snuggle up in our warm, blanket overcoats. They sure are snuggly soft and cozy, but when it comes to alluding length, sorry, but you will have to swap them for something which is less long. Or putting it better, opt for jackets which end just below your natural waist line and hugs it snuggly, while exposing the lower half of your body. Anything too bulky will do no good for your short physique.
Say hello to maxi dresses, skirts and floor touching gowns
I have no idea about who created the myth that maxi dresses are meant only for tall girls. Rubbish! Maxi dress, skirts and floor touching gowns look equally beautiful on your gorgeous figures. Pair them with either chunky heels or sandals and flip-flops; they are effortlessly chic while seriously adding to the illusion of elongated stature.
Check your accessories
Accessories can play an important role too, when it comes to adorning your body shape. And by accessories I plainly mean your shoes and bags. No one has the capability to rock heels for the rest of their lives. A better option is to stock upon flat heels with pointed toes in metallic tones and a few nude shoes, which match your skin tone. Say no to chunky shoulder bags which can totally over power your already short stature. Try going for cross body bags and totes with small hand-held handles.
Small, petite figures are one of the most versatile shapes out there. Sure you can make a few alterations to the way you want to present yourself, but the best bet is to accept your body and embrace it with pride. Learn to dress for your shape and keep in mind our tricks and tips.
There is nothing more handsome than a self-assured and confident body type.
Do you guys have any other tricks in your box? Do let us know! J
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So…there has been a serious lack of posting going on lately, but I am not to blame for this! My computer crashed last week and I have been computerless since then. It has been a serious inconvenience not only just because it makes it almost impossible to blog- but also because most of my class work requires the use of a computer. Needless to say, I am anxiously awaiting the return of my computer- which is at the moment sitting at UNIL "migrating" information. I'm not entirely sure what that entails, but I do know that it has been doing this since last Wednesday. Well, enough about my computer. On to interesting stuff…
I'm working on a borrowed computer, so this will have to be fairly brief, but I would like to update everyone on some recent events.
Item #1:
So yesterday Chelsey, Amber and I hosted a Texas themed party on the roof of Triaudes (my residence). We had endless amounts of "Texas-y" foods and country music and of course country dancing! I must add here that I am not a proficient dancer, and the country dancing was demonstrated/taught by Chelsey and Amber. I am, on the other hand, fairly proficient in Texas cooking- so we had plenty to eat. For the 30-some-odd guests who attended, we provided chili and cornbread (with the rare and expensive cheddar cheese to sprinkle on top!), some tex-mex food (hard and soft tacos, pico, guacamole, and refried beans), sloppy joes!, lemonade, and sweet iced tea. We also had cake and muffins and various other desserts and drinks that were brought by our gracious guests. I must say that it was a lot of fun- and for a Texas party, there were quite a few languages being thrown around (French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian to name a few). It was a great big international success and hopefully our friends got to experience some Texas hospitality.
Unfortunately, I had forgotten that we had an apartment inspection this morning, so most of the night following the party (and much of the wee hours of the morning) were spent making the place spotless (for this I would like to thank Lionel for helping, even if he didn't contribute to the mess-making).
Item #2:
l'Art Brut
Otherwise known as Outsider Art in English. Last week our tandem class went on a "field trip" to the Collection de l'Art Brut here in Lausanne. It's basically a collection of all different forms of art done by non-traditional artists. The term non-traditional is used very loosely here, as is the term artist. Nontheless, it is an extremely interesting museum with all different kinds of paintings, sculptures, and mixed media work. We got in free, but I think normal admittance is fairly inexpensive. I would definitely recommend going to visit the museum to anyone visiting Lausanne. http://www.artbrut.ch/
And now I must bid you all farewell….I'm not sure when I'll be able to blog again- but I'm hoping that my computer is fixed this week (but then again, I said the same thing last week!)
Ciao :)
First off, I would like to say that I must be experiencing some sort of delayed jet lag or something, because I cannot seem to get un-tired. Either that, or I just have not been sleeping enough…..so needless to say, I should be sleeping right now- but instead, I am blogging.
Now that I have gotten that off my chest, I will commence this blog of random, unrelated subjects.
First off: blue bathrooms. Have you heard of them? I had, but I thought they were merely a thing of fiction until I saw one the other day at the Lausanne Gare.
…and yes, I took pictures in the bathroom.
So, why are these bathrooms blue? Well, I'm so glad you asked! (not really…I was hoping you already knew)
It's because in the blue light, one's veins are not visible, making it practically impossible to donate blood in these restrooms. It also discourages any other sort of activity during which one might need to locate one's veins…(e.g., injecting oneself with illegal narcotics)
We also had a laugh because each bathroom stall had a lock on it that could be opened by inserting 1 CHF. I guess if you gotta go, you gotta go.
On to item #2, Tandem. Tomorrow, I meet with a random stranger, who claims to speak French, and who also claims to want to learn English. Seems pretty convenient, yes? The program is called Tandem (I believe this has already been mentioned) and not only did they match me up with a helpful stranger, but I can also receive college credits for meeting and conversing. Sounds easy? Well, that is to be determined. I meet with my stranger tomorrow…
Of course this wouldn't be my blog if I didn't mention food somewhere in here…so I saved the best for last: Spätzli! It's pronounced shpitz-ly (cute, right?) and it is as delicious as it sounds! It's basically just a fat little egg noodle…I bought a pretty large package (it said ACTION! which meant that it was on sale) and I and my roommates have been eating on it for the past couple of days. It takes about five minutes to heat up in a skillet with a little butter (I also added some of my CHEDDAR CHEESE at the suggestion of my roommate Isa). It is one of my new found favorites!
I have written a couple of times about how I have been having trouble finding some good cheese. It's all very confusing because there are so many different varieties, but to my untrained eye they all appear the same! In the US we have easy names and we use food coloring and dyes to color our cheese so that we can differentiate, but here it's "au natural," and the names don't make much sense to me.
I went grocery shopping with my [Swiss] roommate yesterday and gained some insight into the way the Swiss feel about cheese (I suppose it's a bit of a generalization to use my roommate to represent the whole of Switzerland, but I'm gonna go with it).
First of all, there are two large categories of cheese here: there is real cheese, and there is fake cheese. When my roommate first referred to some cheese I had bought as "fake," I thought I had made a terrible mistake. However, I realize now that "fake" simply means that the cheese has been reformed; in other words, it's not part of an original wheel or block of cheese. I assured her that much of our cheese in the US is "fake" according to her standards, so I was not bothered much by this.
"Real" cheese, as you may have guessed, is cheese that has been cut from a wheel or block. It normally has paper, or what I would call a "rind" around at least one edge. Most of the harder cheeses have paper, and the softer cheeses have a slightly lighter colored "rind" of more pungent, smelly cheese around the edges (like brie). This is REAL cheese. It is generally stronger smelling, with strange names, and holes, and sometimes spots of discoloration. To be honest, I'm pretty intimidated by it.
As I may have mentioned before, I have been longing for some cheddar cheese. I never thought I would miss it so much. After searching and searching with no success, I finally decided to ask my roommate. To my dismay, she had no idea what I was talking about, so I decided to see if I could find it in my French/English dictionary. It was there, and in fact, it was the exact same word in French. Puzzled, I went back to tell my roommate; making a joke I said, "well, it's the same word in French, but you probably just say 'sheddar' instead of 'cheddar'!" Laughing smugly to myself, I looked up to see the recognition on her face. Indeed, this was the case. Of course, I should have known.
This was slightly discouraging to me, because now I knew that I had not simply missed it because it was called something different in French. While shopping yesterday, I decided to look one more time. This store had a very large variety of cheeses, and a deli as well, to get even fresher cheese. After looking around a bit, I decided to ask the lady behind the counter as a last ditch effort. "Ah! Oui!" Her eyes brightened as she held up one finger. She disappeared behind the big glass counter. I peered over to see her rummaging behind the rest of the cheese. She reappeared a few seconds later with a large, unopened block of CHEDDAR CHEESE! I half expected her to blow the dust off the top or cut some mold off the edges, but I was so happy to see my long lost friend that I didn't really care. It was cheddar cheese. Not yellow. Not reformed, fake cheese. It was REAL cheddar cheese. I didn't even look at the price, I purchased 300g.
Yesterday I ate a grilled cheese sandwich with my new cheddar cheese, and today I shredded some of the cheddar cheese and made tacos! I'm so happy!


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Welcome to District Enrollment
"Registration is the Road - Enrollment is the Destination"
**Student Athletes**
New Enrollees - MUST COMPLETE and SUBMIT
a "Member School Athletic Transfer Waiver Request Form"
at the time of your registration.
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(click the Student Athlete link to the left)
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2. Read the eligibility, documentation, immunization and other grade specific requirements/information thoroughly. Call the Central Registration Office with questions. #717-244-4021 ext.4201
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Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra launches search for new director
The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra has formed a search committee to review applicants and make a recommendation to the board of directors for the position of music director beginning with the 2012-13 orchestra season.
During the 2010 season, applications will be accepted until Dec. 15.
The committee will narrow the field to the top 20 to 30 candidates in early February.
By March 30, the field will be narrowed to five candidates who will perform with the orchestra during the 2011-2012 season. The orchestra has already received several applications.
During the 2011-2012 season, each of the five candidates will spend time on Hilton Head Island and conduct the orchestra in one of the symphonic concerts.
Additional guest conductors will lead the orchestra for the remainder of the Master Series concerts and the final round of the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.
The new music director will be named at the end of March 2012 and will begin his or her position in July 2012.
There will be opportunities for audience members, subscribers and musicians to provide input and comments on each of the candidates following their performance with the orchestra.
Concertmaster Terry Moore will serve as the artistic adviser for the 2011-12 season. He will review all programs submitted by guest conductors and candidates and will develop an artistically balanced Master Series program.