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Greenpeace recognizes Ocean's for our commitment as a national brand to source ocean friendly tuna and for leading in sustainability in the tuna category.
As Ocean Brands we want to strive to be good stewards of our oceans for future generations so that fish stocks continue to thrive and remain resilient to our fishing pressures. We want to ensure all consumers have access to sustainably caught tuna at an affordable price for families in the future.
Read more about Ocean's commitment or view Greenpeace Canada's 2017 Canned Tuna Sustainability Ranking.


text: Ok, so a little lighter of a subject, with one caveat: It can't be a signifigant other. No wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, children, best friends, or parents. That would be too easy. If I allowed this, I woulld go with my wife, gush about her, and this would be simple. Nope let's look at this from a different perspective. Most, if not all of us, would pick a person. Too easy kids. I'm fortunate enough that I can say it's my job. Specifically, I'm a psychotherapist, one who works with marriages and families. Ever since my delusional dream of being a professional baskteball player died at 19(I'm 6'1, white, and not very fast, nuff said), I knew what I wanted to do. Maybe not specifically work with marriages and families, but I knew I wanted to be a therapist. My friends came to me for advice. A lot. I had no formal training, and here I am, a senior in high school, a freshman in college, and friends are looking to me, desperate for answers and such. More often then not, I'm sure that I failed. But people kept coming back, so I kept providing them with advice. Before I realized it, I was getting my college and post-graduate degrees in psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Clinical Psychology. It was in school(so Im cheating a little ) that I met my wife. Double bonus. I've learned how to listen. I've learned how to ask people questions that allow them to come to their own conclusions about things. I used to feel such a burden giving advice to people, especially my friends, who still come to me. But rather then doing so, much of the time, I ask questions that allow them to come to their own conclusions. Is it always a success? Heck no. But I have a business partner with whom I work, and the successes have been more then the failures, I'm glad to say. Seeing people work out what they once thought was impossible for themselves because I asked them some questions(ok, perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but still) and they figured out what worked for them, and to get paid for it, well, it's more then I could have ever hoped for. I have a great partner, two other co-workers who are amazing, and I've picked, for the most part, a select group of clientele(couples and families) that I love to work with. There's little else I could ask for to fill my day. Except time with my wife, of course. How about you? What do you enjoy more then anything else in your life?

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The nominations for the 2011-2012 Ovation Awards were announced Tuesday evening. Leading the way were Center Theatre Group with 29 nominations, followed by the Celebration Theatre and Musical Theatre West, with 16 nominations each.
Productions that received the most nominations included the Celebration's staging of the musical "The Color Purple" with 13 nominations; Danai Gurira's new play "The Convert," at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, with 11; David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People," at the Geffen Playhouse, with eight; and the revival of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," at the Mark Taper Forum, also with eight.
The satirical show "Forbidden Broadway: Greatest Hits, Volume 2," at Musical Theatre West, received nine nominations.
The Ovation Awards honors stage productions in the L.A. area and is organized by the L.A. Stage Alliance. This year's awards cover the season from Sept. 1, 2011, through Aug. 28, 2012. The awards ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 12 at the Los Angeles Theatre in downtown.
Among the notable acting nominations are Jane Kaczmarek and Marylouise Burke in "Good People"; Stephen Spinella and Jonathan Cake in Jordi Galcerán's "The Grönholm Method" at the Falcon Theatre; and Alan Mandell, Barry McGovern and Hugo Armstrong in "Waiting for Godot."


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Welcome to My website
Dr. Tedder is a native of South Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Wofford College. While performing his Pre-Med studies at Wofford, he lettered in both intercollegiate Football and Basketball. He secured a spot on the Academic All-American team as well. He then attained his M.D. Degree at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Tedder performed his surgical internship at Cornell University and completed his Orthopaedic Residency at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York CityRead More


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A dragonfly is an ancient insect that has lived on earth for hundreds of millions years. A dragonfly is also a popular tattoos idea for women as they normally look lovely as well as carry rich symbolic meanings. The dragonfly is a symbol of dream and signifies constant change in the perception of self realization… Continue Reading>
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I'm thinking of the changes that the earth is going through. Dead animals, diseases, floods…
I saw my good friend George yesterday. A friend who is a teacher and a healer. And he told me a line which stayed in my mind. Our generation hasn't got an example on how to react and go. We are all improvising. Improvising for a new life, a new state of being.
He said, it's easy to open a restaurant, it's easy to become a policeman, people have done it before.
How about coming into a new age where nothing materialistic matters anymore? How do you do it? How do you react in this new age? I am improvising. Everybody is improvising. Old recipes do not work anymore.
Take me for example. I was always different. I never wanted what others wanted... And, before therapy, I thought there must be something wrong with me. But I don't doupt anymore... I don't have a car, I don't even know how to drive one. I never had any major possessions like a house of my own. My bank account had just enough money to get me through a month or it was empty. What do I have to lose? Nothing. I was always searching for an answer, always reading books, always investing in myself and the ways to be a better person.
I don't believe in god anymore, I believe I am the breath of god. I am not scared anymore, I just trust. Being here, right now, is part of my travels. It's the breathing of the divine. It's like the waves in the sea. I am here and I'm everywhere.
I'm part of the generation that improvises. I'm part of the new world. I don't know my exact destination, but I'm trying to be as conscious as I can in my choices. I mean it's a choice to see the glass half full. It's a choice to laugh at the cat when it does something that you don't like instead of being angry with it. It's a choice to look at a flock of birds in the sky while waiting for the bus.
I really don't know much about the future. I really don't want to be scared. My teacher Jonah says it will take courage to live. From what I understand there's going to be some kind of ridicule for all of us who are spiritual and different. We have to stand forth. We have to have faith in ourselves and our improvising. And we might make a better world. Love, peace and happiness.


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Daily Incidents for August 31, 2006/
One Arrested After FightEarly this morning around 1:30am, officers in District 1 responded to a radio call for a fight at 126 State Street. On arrival officers observed that the fight had already broken up but remained on scene to prevent any further problems. Officers then observed the suspect yelling at the victim, who then ran towards the victim punching him repeatedly in the head and face. Josener Dorisca, 24, of Brockton was arrested and charged with Assault and Battery. Vandalism at 389 Neponset Avenue While on patrol this morning around 1:57am, officers in District 11 observed a storefront glass vandalized at 389 Neponset Avenue. Officers found the store front door glass shattered by unknown object. Officers entered the premise and searched for possible suspects. The owners were contact and with the help of officers were able to clean up the glass and secure the premise. Refusing to Stop for Police Around 2:15am, officers in District 3 observed a motor vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. Officers attempted to affect a traffic stop, but the suspect refused to stop for police. Officers observed the suspects car attempt to make a left turn on to Crowell Street. The speed of the suspect's motor vehicle was such that, he was unable to negotiate the turn and came to a stop on the sidewalk at the corner of Norfolk and Crowell Streets. Further investigation by officers revealed the suspect's license to operate was suspended. Marquis McWilliams, 24, of Dorchester was arrested and charged with Operating After Suspension, and Failure to Stop for a Police Officer Assault and Battery Behind Blanchard's Liquor This morning around 2:34am, officers in District 14 responded to a radio call for a fight behind Blanchard's Liquor Store. On arrival officers spoke with EMS who stated that the victim was involved in a fight and sustained facial and head injuries. People in the area stated they observed four suspects over the victim and then observed them fleeing the area. The victim was transported to Beth Israel Hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries. Confirmed Shooting At 1502 River Street About 10:23am, officers in District 18 responded to a radio call for a person shot at 1502 River Street. On arrival officers observed a victim suffering from apparent gunshot wound. The victim was transported to Brigham and Women's Hospital. At this time the victim's condition is unknown.


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Table of Contents
This page describes how to run the examples from Richard Monson-Haefel's book Enterprise JavaBeans, 2nd Edition (Chapter 4) in JBoss.
You can download the examples (zip file) from O'Reilly's site. I will assume you have unzipped this file and you work in the chapter4/EJB11 directory.
These examples need to be slightly modified to run with JBoss. You can download the modified version here, but I recommend you to follow these instructions which tell exactly what has to be modified.
JBoss libraries will be needed to compile and run the examples, so you have to set the environment variable JBOSS_HOME to your JBoss installation. For example:
The beans are almost ok for JBoss, the only difference is about the reference made by TravelAgentBean to CabinBean: a bean must lookup in the java:comp/env namespace. Edit com/titan/travelagent/TravelAgentBean.java, and replace
Object obj = jndiContext.lookup("ejb/CabinHome");with
Object obj = jndiContext.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/CabinHome");
This ejb-reference from TravelAgentBean (in travelagent.jar) to CabinBean (in cabin.jar) is an external reference (different ejb-jar file). You must then provide the full jndi name for CabinBean in a jboss.xml for TravelAgentBean: create and edit com/titan/travelagent/jboss.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?> <jboss> <enterprise-beans> <session> <ejb-name>TravelAgentBean</ejb-name> <ejb-ref> <ejb-ref-name>ejb/CabinHome</ejb-ref-name> <jndi-name>CabinBean</jndi-name> </ejb-ref> </session> </enterprise-beans> </jboss>
You don't jave to change anything in ejb-jar.xml. You can now use the following script jbossMakeIt.sh to compile and deploy:
The clients from the examples perform a lookup on the java:comp/env namespace, which is not currently supported by JBoss for the clients. You have to make the following edits: (CabinBean is the jndi name under which the Cabin Bean is deployed, see the jndi howto) In com/titan/cabin/Client_1.java replace
Object obj = jndiContext.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/CabinHome");by
Object obj = jndiContext.lookup("CabinBean");In com/titan/cabin/Client_2.java replace
Object obj = jndiContext.lookup("ejb/CabinHome");by
Object obj = jndiContext.lookup("CabinBean");In com/titan/travelagent/Client_1.java replace
Object obj = jndiContext.lookup("ejb/TravelAgentHome");by
Object obj = jndiContext.lookup("TravelAgentBean");You can now use jBossMakeClients.sh to compile:
We don't use Sun's RI runclient tool, so RunIt.sh won't work. Instead, we provide the following script: jBossRunClient.sh. This file includes all the jBoss libraries needed in the classpath.
java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory java.naming.provider.url=localhost java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming;You can now run the clients. The script take the name of the client as an argument, try
NOTES: the clients will only run once, since they use the EJBHome.create() method: at second run, a DuplicateKeyException will occur. I recommend you to turn off debug logging for these examples. Edit $JBOSS_HOME/conf/jboss.conf, in the ConsoleLogging section, set the first ARG to "Error".


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The 31-year-old Spaniard, the champion in 2005 and 2006, said he had no idea what Raikkonen was doing when he hit his rear wheel on the first corner at the Japanese Grand Prix, sending him out with a puncture just seconds into the race.
And Alonso said the title fight was very much between him and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, who won at Suzuka to draw just four points behind with five races left.
"I think one time I will retire, maybe next time Vettel will retire, you never know. That's motorsport," said Alonso.
"It's five races to go. It will be like a mini-championship because we start with the same points and we need to score one point more (than him) in five races. So we will try to do it."
He added: "We have five races and they will be like five finals, five championships - a big fight every time now."
Alonso also criticised Lotus's Raikkonen, who is third in the standings, for the collision on the first bend.
"I had no space on the right, I had Button I think on my left, I had Kimi... and I don't understand why Kimi didn't lift off or anything because there was not any room," he said.
"I don't know what Kimi's idea was for the first corner, but that is the way it is and this time it was bad luck for us."
Alonso has led the championship since the European Grand Prix at Valencia in June, but he has seen his advantage diminish in recent races.
He said Ferrari had not introduced any successful updates on their car for the last six races and were suffering for lack of competitive pace, although his team-mate Felipe Massa finished second.
"Felipe did a perfect race, driving well, but there are cars which are a lot faster making one mistake after another and that has helped Felipe today," he said.


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Experiences As Presents
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It is a custom in business to provide presents throughout unique events. Offering presents is a nice approach of expressing how much we are happy for the individuals who have played a role in the growth of our company. Usual present receivers consist of company consumers, executives, and the entire staff.
Typically, substantial customers, particularly the ones who acquired great deals of money for the company, are presented actually costly thank-you presents. The typical presents to give are such luxury pieces as watches, high-grade golf sets, expensive wines, or expensive pens that resemble more like precious jewelry than writing materials. More economical ones are provided to the company employees and managers. Nevertheles, time has actually made services or experiences as contemporary presents to these significant people. The following are unforgettable experiences that you can offer when scenarios where presents are a must emerge:
1. Lessons. A couple of lessons for the outside fan is one thing. This might involve refresher course in diving or golf lessons, or in arts and crafts. You may pay for the number of hours as well as the modules that they need to accomplish.
2. Pampering. You might likewise promote health. Spa and beauty salon certificates are typical gifts. Your staff members will seriously feel relaxed along with the ability of proceeding with the disputes that the task might need. They might take pleasure in hairstyles, massage, body scrub, even manicure and pedicure.
3. Individual Assistant. Any active person will value this. You could simply ask some firms who may help you discover for one. A company director could be provided at the majority of 2 assistants. This individual may coordinate celebrations and journeys or do shopping for him. It might even be the most convenient things such as setting up documents.
4. Personal Trainers. Individual fitness instructors can either be in-house in addition to in the workplace. But he or she should be complex, in reality, experienced in all aspects. She or he is responsible for the general health of the recipient.
If you simply learn how to search your community, you can get fantastic tips for distinct presents. Even if they are business paid, the most substantial thing is you've expressed thanks in the greatest way. Ideally, the receiver will feel that they are valued, and they, on the other hand, would work harder. In the long run, the benefits would far outweigh the expenditures that the business bore for the presents.


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Hillsboro Historic Locations
The following historic locations are located in Hillsboro, Texas. Please select a historic place in Hillsboro to view detailed information including address information, historical signifiance, and much more.
Texas Historic Places
|Farmers National Bank
68 W. Elm St.
Hillsboro, TX
Financial Institution
|Gebhardt Bakery
119 E. Franklin St.
Hillsboro, TX
Processing, Business
|Grimes Garage
110 N. Waco St.
Hillsboro, TX
Road-Related, Business
|Grimes House
Country Club Rd. and Corporation St.
Hillsboro, TX
Single Dwelling
|Hill County Courthouse
Courthouse Sq.
Hillsboro, TX
|Hill County Jail
N. Waco St.
Hillsboro, TX
Correctional Facility
|Hillsboro Cotton Mills
220 N. Houston St.
Hillsboro, TX
Manufacturing Facility, Warehouse
|Hillsboro Residential Historic District
Roughly bounded by Country Club Rd., Thompson, Corsicana, Pleasant, Franklin, and Elm Sts.
Hillsboro, TX
Single Dwelling
|McKenzie Site
Address Restricted
Hillsboro, TX
|Missouri-Kansas-Texas Company Railroad Station
Covington St.
Hillsboro, TX
|Old Rock Saloon
58 W. Elm St.
Hillsboro, TX
|Sturgis National Bank
S. Waco and W. Elm Sts.
Hillsboro, TX
Financial Institution
|Tarlton Building
110 E. Franklin St.
Hillsboro, TX
Restaurant, Specialty Store, Business
|U.S. Post Office
118 S. Waco St.
Hillsboro, TX
Post Office
|Western Union Building
107 S. Covington St.
Hillsboro, TX
Communications Facility, Business
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Sanjay Khan churns out fresh mytho, historical for DD
MUMBAI: Sanjay Khan's Numero Uno International Limited (NUIL), is launching two mega serials under its banner during the next week on DD National.
Maharathi Karna, a portrayal of the Mahabharata from the viewpoint of Karna, throws light on the life of this unsung hero adding a new perspective to this epic tale. The other serial, 1857 - Kranti, tells the story of Indias first war of independence. Both serials, directed by Khan himself, will be telecast on Doordarshan National. Maharathi Karna will be telecast every Wednesday and Thursday starting January 1, 2003 between 9 and 9.30 pm and 1857 - Kranti is to be telecast from December 29, 2002 onwards every Sunday between 11 and noon.
Khan, whose last offering Mahabharat on Zee TV last October was touted as the most expensive serial till date, has plans to go regional in the near future. According to an official release, the production house is toying with the idea of more acquisitions in languages other than Hindi and in-house productions for private channels. NUIL has also started operations in London to focus on international business opportunities where it plans to co produce with acclaimed production houses such as Hallmark Entertainment and Yorkshire Television, UK.
Formed in 1991-92, Numero Uno is responsible for historical and mythological programmes like The Sword of Tipu Sultan, The Great Maratha and Jai Hanuman. Since 1999, the company has started n-house marketing activities and acquisition and marketing of programmes other than its own, on Doordarshan and Sun TV.


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Author Interview & Contest
"Publishing a book is a little bit like standing in a spotlight, waiting to see if the performance will receive applause or a barrage of rotten fruit. But I feel lucky to be standing here at all, even if I do get pelted with oranges."
– Lisa Manchev
There's another fantastic contest going on over at Reviewer X. Author Lisa Manchev talks about her upcoming book Eyes Like Stars and her road to publication in this week's Pub Story. Did I mention, she's giving a copy away!
Breathe slowly. Walk, do not run on over to ReviewerX and enjoy!


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Water Reuse: Regulations and Future Market Trends
Recorded on Wednesday, April 10, 2013:
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Eastern US Time;
4:00 - 5:30 pm GMT
The rate of water re-use is expected to increase. Growth is projected in industrial applications and municipal markets, including both centralized and decentralized systems. As water re-use becomes more widely practiced, this will increase the market for a range of treatment technologies, including advanced biological treatment, macro filtration, ultraviolet disinfection, membrane filtration, and potentially advanced oxidation. These treatment technologies have the potential to create opportunities for real-time, on-line monitoring and sensor equipment that provide water quality guarantees. Important questions this webinar will address include:
- How will water be re-used?
- What regulations will govern water re-use?
- What technology and market opportunities will this create?
- What are the differences between the following types of water re-use: direct potable, non-potable, and unplanned re-use?
- What does Title 22 approval mean? How do you get approved? What standards must be attained?
- NSF issued standards for certification of water re-use systems. What are NSF/ANSI Standards 350 and 351
In many ways, regulations struggle to keep up with what is technically possible and theoretically needed. In the absence of water re-use regulations, the California Title 22 Code has become the de-facto standard for water re-use. The whole area of water re-use is becoming more complex, with purple pipes, yellow water, grey water, and black water entering the mix.
Our team of leading global experts in this field will explore the issue and shed light on this large area of change that will have a profound effect on water management in the next decade.
These points will also be explored and discussed:
- Why direct potable water re-use is the most economically viable option for water re-use and how any degree of safety and assurance required can be guaranteed
- Why re-use water is the most economically viable and energy efficient source of water in regards to the marginal
- Why water re-use will not create a market for new technologies, but expand the market for existing technologies
- How decentralized systems will facilitate re-use
Andreas Kolch, Member,O2 Environmental Technology Assesment Group
Kati Bell, Principal Engineer, CDM Smith
Tom Bruursema, General Manager of Environmental
and Sustainability Services, NSF International
Cathy Chang, PE, DEnv, Water Quality Program Manager,
Water Replenishment District of Southern California
George Tchobanoglous, Professor, UC Davis
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Our club meetings are held at on the first Monday evening of every month.
The format is a social gathering where you can chat, plan rides and share great cycling stories! We often have guest speakers on subjects within the world of cycling. All members are notified by email of upcoming meetings.
We look forward to seeing you there.
We are trialling different venues, so please check out the events page to check on details.


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Simply put copies of all the photos you'd like to resize into a directory, navigate to that directory within Terminal, and run the command:
sips -Z PIXELS *.EXTENSIONWhere PIXELS is the maximum number of pixels you'd like the width or height to be, and EXTENSION is the file type you're working with (e.g. jpg, png, gif).
For example, if you'd like to shrink a large batch of JPEG images down to 620px in width/height, you would run the following command in Terminal (assuming the present working directory contains the files):
sips -Z 620 *.jpgThat's it. The tool quickly resizes all the images in the directory down. Be aware that this overwrites the original files, so you'll want to make sure you're only doing this to copies of photos, not the originals themselves.
To save time, there's way way to easily open up Terminal in the directory containing the photos you'd like to resize. It's a right click option that you'll need to enable: go to System Preferences->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts->Services->Files and Folders and making sure New Terminal at Folder is checked.
Do this, and you'll see an option for "New Terminal at Folder" when you right click the folder containing your images:
sips can do much more than the simple batch resizing outlined in this post. Check out the command's manual for all the different functions and options you can use to edit photo files from the comfort of command line (e.g. cropping, editing the color profile, padding, flipping, rotating, etc…).
(via Lifehacker via MacLife)
Read more at http://www.petapixel.com/2012/11/21/how-to-quickly-resize-multiple-photos-on-a-mac-using-a-terminal-command/#GbTRg1CVd0l0lRSq.99


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Charity Concert
A concert by Griffith Clawson, a 14-year-old Newport Coast resident, will begin at 5 p.m. at the Port Restaurant and Bar, 440 Heliotrope Ave, Corona del Mar. The concert is to benefit Orangewood Children's Foundation. Tickets will be sold at the door for $20.
Sailing Club
The Oasis Sailing Club meets at 1:30 p.m. at the Newport Beach Central Library. New members are welcome. For more information, visit oasissailing.scyaweb.org.
Computer Friends of Oasis
The Oasis Senior Center's Computer Friends, a club that helps seniors learn computer basics, meets at 1 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at the Newport Beach Public Library, 1000 Avocado Ave. The fee is $2. For more information, call (949) 646-9169.
Artist Workshops
Pierside Gallery, 327 Marine Ave., Newport Beach, offers Artist Workshops for adults and young students on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The two-hour sessions are taught by Disney artist Margie Tabor Zuliani and are $45 each. For more information, call (949) 675-5225.


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About us : Stone Hill
4 Star Self Catering, Pet and Child Friendly Accommodation in Magaliesburg
The destination of choice!
Are you in need of a warm and relaxed getaway in the country?
Stone Hill welcomes you and your socialised, house trained pets. Our cottages are secluded and have fully fenced gardens to keep your pets happy and safe.
Only an hour from Johannesburg or Pretoria, nestled in the hills of the Magaliesberg, in a private country setting, and with stunning views, is STONE HILL.
Perched high above the distant village of Magaliesburg, we offer 10 top class, 4 Star Graded, fully equipped luxurious self-catering timber cottages, accommodating from 2 to 6 guests each. All have open plan lounges with log fireplaces, fully fitted kitchens, bedrooms and full bathrooms. Each one has an inside fireplace and electric blankets to keep you cosy in winter and big whirling fans to keep you cool in summer. Each cottage has an LCD TV with DSTV and a DVD Player, all to ensure that you feel very comfortable and pampered at any time of the year.
We are also Wi-Fi enabled!
The cottages are individually fenced for pets and each has a large patio and braai area. All the cottages are separate and private and are at least 30 metres from each other.
As Stone Hill is close to all the local wedding venues, we also offer one beautifully renovated and appointed private garden suite.
The sparkling pool is central and within easy reach of each of the cottages and the view down the valley is breathtaking.Dogs are welcome in the pool area but not allowed in the pool.
Our venueâ€â"¢s 75 hectares has a 5 km walking/mountain bike trail which is well maintained and kept short, where your pets can run, sniff and play off leash, as well as a small riverine area where dogs can paddle, coming back home muddy but happy!
The trail supports indigenous small game and birdlife and there are concrete benches for the weary to sit and catch their breath! Please remember to pack water bowls and drinks for the walk and make sure your dogs are protected against ticks!
Hill facilities are designed and equipped to give you the feeling of
home from home and to entice you to return again and again!


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Hi Everyone!
It's challenge time over a Creatalicious Challenges again and this month we are celebrating love! "Love is in the air..... Just yesterday we had Valentine's Day and I dare you to create a beautiful piece about LOVE! That includes weddings, hearts, cupids and everything that makes you think about this warm feeling."
Here's another angle-
I'm also entering this card into the following challenges -
Addicted to Stamps and More - Time for Bingo! I chose Digi, Free (colouring, of course :) and Love
365 Cards Day 45 - let's see a "Love" theme with lots of overlapping elements - (overlapped banner flags and layers)
Milk Coffee Challenge - Make it Cute!
Moving Along With The Times - Love is in the air
Paper Crafting Journey - love
Crafting by Designs - here's my heart - make a project with hearts but not a Valentine


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Tobacco law changes in Milton: full text
Milton, MA – Below is the full text of the Board of Health's proposed changes to the town's tobacco regulations, presented to the public on Oct. 20. A story detailing the changes and the reactions of stakeholders is in the Nov. 12, 2014, edition of the Milton Times. Document source: Milton Board of Health.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 24 /PRNewswire/ — RightScale, Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing services, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in first-round venture financing from Benchmark Capital. RightScale will use the funds to accelerate customer growth and develop more tools that enable developers to create and automate reliable, scalable and high-performing web applications for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Benchmark Capital general partner Kevin Harvey will join the company's board of directors.
"RightScale's platform has very quickly become the defacto standard in cloud computing management and provisioning," said Kevin Harvey, general partner of Benchmark Capital. "The company has an outstanding team in place, a unique offering in a market that is evolving rapidly, and a loyal, paid customer base that has grown more than 500% over the last six months. By combining the platform, tools and expertise required to bridge the gap between today's IT infrastructure requirements and the promise of pay-as-you-go Internet resources, RightScale serves as an on-ramp to a new frontier in computing."
For many businesses, designing and deploying the complex software solutions required to tap into AWS creates an obstacle to quick adoption. RightScale's software-as-a-service platform, tools and support enable companies to create scalable web solutions on cloud computing services that are reliable, easy to manage and cost significantly less than traditional hardware server deployments.
The company's end-to-end cloud management platform features the RightScale Dashboard, pre-packaged open source components, and a design environment that provides developers an unprecedented degree of convenience and automation in deploying multi-server compute clusters. Developers can migrate their web applications to cloud computing services quickly using RightScale's pre-packaged server templates for web front-end load balancing, MySQL database replication and backup, and grid frameworks for compute-intensive batch processing. Based on patent-pending RightScript technology, RightScale's server templates provide an easy, open, and flexible design and deployment tool for managing virtual server networks in the cloud.
"We are excited to have Benchmark Capital's support as we enter our next phase of growth," said Michael Crandell, founder and chief executive officer of RightScale. "Kevin Harvey has an incredible track record for helping companies that offer open platforms with free and premium-user models to grow quickly and extend their market leadership. This investment will allow us to expand and open the RightScale platform to an even larger community of developers and partners who want to leverage the cost-savings and flexibility the cloud offers."
About Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital, a leading international venture capital firm, was founded in 1995 to help talented entrepreneurs with original ideas build successful technology companies. Benchmark's general partners take a team-oriented, labor-intensive approach to venture investing to deliver a superior level of service to the firm's portfolio companies. Benchmark's portfolio includes high-profile start-ups like Infinera, MySQL, OpenTable, Second Life, Tellme, Yelp, and Zillow, and franchise companies such as eBay, Juniper Networks and Red Hat. The firm manages nearly $2.8 billion in committed venture capital. For more information on Benchmark Capital, visit its website at http://www.benchmark.com.
About RightScale
Founded in 2007, RightScale, Inc. delivers the platform, tools and expertise that enable companies to create scalable web solutions on cloud computing services that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less. Funded by Benchmark Capital, RightScale is a private company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. To learn more about RightScale, or sign up for a free edition of its automated management system, visit http://www.RightScale.com.
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Carleen LeVasseur GMK Communications for Benchmark Capital 408.264.6767 email@example.com
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You know, sometimes I realize that when I tell people that I'm a math professor, they just figure that I'm a random sociopath who decided to be more socially acceptable than either a serial killer or a politician. I sometimes think that they might be right when I find myself thinking things like "Hey! Those students look bored, so I should give them something really tricky to torture their brains with." I only hurt them because I care.
I also have had a few students who have rubbed me the wrong way this quarter. Including multiple instances of people who tried to convince me that "Math is proof of intelligent design." I managed to keep my cool, but I really wanted to scream: "Yes, it was intelligently designed BY HUMANS!" Seriously, math doesn't require faith, it requires reason. I ended up getting a math degree BECAUSE I wasn't satisfied taking answers on faith, and I kept asking "but why does it work" in the face of answers like "look, just trust that this stuff works". *huff*huff*huff* It is pretty hard to offend me anymore, but I get irked by stupid creationists trying to hijack my discipline. And honestly, nobody is buying the "Intelligent Design isn't creationism" schtick. I have no problem with faith. Faith is just belief in something in absence of proof. Knowledge is belief in something with proof. And stupidity is belief in contradiction to proof. Don't like my characterizations? Good. If you got angry it may be that part of you is uncomfortable believing in something important without looking at all the sides. Either clean up your illogical beliefs, or stop bothering me with your bullshit.
Okay. I don't know if it's the changing of the seasons, S.A.D., watching the insane Tea-Party-Tantrum-government-shutdown, or dealing with students who feel like work should be optional, but I've been feeling misanthropic for the last few days. While I certainly wouldn't act on any of these fantasies, I have to admit they do help keep the smile on my face some days.
Pro-tip: never let them see the contempt shine from behind your eyes.
So, here are some of my favorite teaching fantasies.
- A student asks for help, and I ask to look at their work. Of course, they haven't even started the question. I can just pat them on the shoulder and say, "well, at least you're pretty" and walk away.
- When I call for questions in class and get blank looks, I want to pick a student at random, say "really?" and assign them the final exam on the spot.
- When as student sends me a message after missing class and asks if they needed to know anything, I would love to send them a links to unemployment websites.
- Bring a trained puma to class. Without making reference to the puma but holding onto its leash, I would like to ask each student as they entered the class if they had completed their assigned work yet.
- I want a cattle prod for when I catch students texting in class. Or a taser. Or access to their Junior High yearbook photos.
- Publicly kick out the most apathetic student in class. A week later, show up wearing a new leather jacket with that student's tattoos on it.
I love my job, but sometimes I have to work hard to keep my fangs in check.


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Both male bear cubs, Nano and Noah were likely taken from their mothers and kept in tiny cages as illegal pets. When they were rescued from being illegal pets in 2016, Nano was very stressed, shy, in pain and was too fearful with the outside world,
The two little cubs have had a very exciting few months! Both have moved into big dens filled with natural enrichment, and treats which keep them stimulated and healthy. This is one of the steps for the rescued bears to acclimatize themselves to living in the forest and to be given an opportunity to explore the environment and develop the skills they need to survive in the wild.
Once the door opened, Noah start peek out from the door!
Noah made his way over to an area with dried leaves and straight away started to stand on his hind legs and grab everything around him!
Then after twenty minutes, Nano paused and was alert before stepping towards the new enriched dens!
Noah is a good, natural leader. He creates a calming and energetic atmosphere around him. He will encourage Nano to be brave and play. He became cheeky whenever he saw Nano starting to pace near the door, then he would try to push Nano and start an epic play fight! Noah did not give up and would teach Nano to fight back!
Is lovely to see Nano relaxing which he deserves after all he suffered.
Well done Nano and Noah!


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How to Plan a Successful Wedding in Winter
Most people think that planning a winter wedding is considered as a gamble because of the cold weather. Contrary to the common belief, in my opinion, a winter wedding can be unique and memorable if you can hold the wedding successfully. Here I will give you some useful tips on planning a successful winter wedding.
Embrace the season instead of neglecting it
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Winter-themed wedding invitations
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Second, you can use some embellishments on the basic invitations cards.
Third, you can use a beautiful bow at the top of the invitation.
Remember that you need to talk to a postman to make sure your invitations are flat enough to mail. Besides, the embellishments and bows can be bought at craft stores.
Choose the right flowers for your winter wedding
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Try to keep all people warm
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If you still have some questions about wedding planning, you can read my other articles. It is hoped that we all can find the best way to plan the wedding.


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"When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, there heaven has begun right here on earth." – A.W. Tozer
Jesus, connects the act of Mary of Bethany (sitting at the feet of Jesus) as essential to the spread of the Gospel world-wide. Between her quiet devotion, and Martha's busy activity of service, Jesus said that Mary's choice was the best.
It's important to note that Martha was, in fact, a woman of faith. In the record of John 11:22-23 we read, "Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give to You."
Her faith in Jesus was not the issue. She had faith. And she demonstrated her honor for Him by great service of hospitality.
But, her faith and her service was not the part that Jesus connected to the heart of the Good News.
Jesus connected Mary's passionate love and devotion for Him as that which would remembered where ever the Good News was proclaimed.
She "delighted herself in Him."
If you (we) desire a transformed and transforming life that produces transforming good news in our sphere of influence, it is essential that we be like Mary, not a perfect woman without flaw, but a woman of singular devotion that delights ourselves in Him.
It is from that essential connection with Jesus that we take on his "favor and aroma." It is from that fundamental oneness with Him that our lives are transformed into sons and daughters that truly reflect and re-present Him.
We become effective and powerful on multiple, practical, daily levels of life as we, as the moon reflects the sun, become the kind of clay vessels that reflects the treasure that is within us.
He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above and beyond any and everything we could ever ask or even imagine according to the power that works within us that's been activated by our intimate devotion with Him.
And now abides, faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love which is rooted in our love relationship with Him before it becomes acts of love to those around us. Without the intimacy of relationship where we love Him with everything about ourselves, we stand zero chance of re-presenting His love.
What is required is the choice to separate oneself on a regular basis of intimate devotion until the choice morphs from duty to delight.


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Corn food lore is very rich in detail. This food, also known as maize, is a basic food crop across the Americas. Cultivated by hundreds of tribes, including the nomadic, it was considered to be like gold because it was a common trade item.
Known as one of the Three Sisters of the northeastern tribes, it was often planted in groups with squash and beans, the other sisters. In all cases it was (and still is) believed to be a special gift to the people from the Creator. In some instances it embodies the spirit of a particular deity.
As a result it also played a part in ceremonies. For example, sacred (blessed) corn pollen or cornmeal were used as ritual adornment and spiritual offerings.
Here are four Native American Corn Gods and Spirits:
First Mother also known as "Corn Mother" is one of the most popular of the corn gods, especially for the Penobscot and Abenaki tribes. Although legendary details vary, sacrifice is a common theme. She is said to have sacrificed her life to feed her children. Her body became a garden.
Selu, in Cherokee mythology, is believed to be the First Woman and goddess of the corn. Her name literally means maize or corn in the Cherokee language. She had twin sons. Once they had grown, they grew afraid of her power and decided to kill her. Despite that she taught them to harvest corn so that her spirit would be return each year as a reminder of her sacrifice.
Mandaamin unlike other corn spirits was most often portrayed as male. He too sacrificed himself to bring corn to the people. In some Potawatomi versions, however, he marries First Woman and becomes the father of humankind.
Little Giver. Not much is known about the legends of this corn spirit. She is often portrayed as a dwarf who gave corn to tribes. In both Seminole and Miccosukee mythology this deity is still honored for her generosity.
Corn has also long been a common clan symbol in many Native American cultures. Tribes with Corn Clans include the Muskogee Creek, the Navajo, the Mohave, and the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico. In some instances there are several corns, including the Blue Corn Clan and Yellow Corn Clan. And, during planting and harvesting customs, corn dances are performed to appease to and honor this important spirit.