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My hooligans are all away this week….two at sleepaway camp and one at Grandma Camp in Oklahoma. That means I've had the week to do what I want, when I want. The hubs and I have eaten out every night, watched "Bad Moms" (so inappropriate, but so hilarious), and been able to actually converse one on one in the evenings while walking the dog. You know, rather than constantly reminding kids to skate/bike/skip on the right side of the street. It's been very pleasant. I've also had time to concoct a few beverages that may or may not contain alcohol…it's up to you! This week, mine do.
This one I didn't actually create…Pimm's Lemonade is a specialty at the Napoleon House in New Orleans, and I just tweaked it a bit. I first served this to my cooking club back in February when I taught a class on Mardi Gras menus. It's perfect for summer, though (who am I kidding…I love it anytime!). The Pimm's liqueur may be a little hard to find. My amazing husband stopped at a big liquor store in "the city" on his way home from work. It's also pricey…around $25 per bottle, but that makes at least a couple of pitchers of deliciousness. Here's how to make a single serving; it can easily be doubled, tripled, or made for a pitcher.
Pimm's Lemonade
- 1-1/2 ounces of Pimm's (3 Tablespoons)
- about 1/2 cup lemonade
- about 1/4 cup seltzer water (I use lemon seltzer)
- Tall thin spear of cucumber
Pour the Pimm's over a tall glass of ice, add lemonade to fill 3/4 of the way, then top off with seltzer. Use the cucumber spear as a swizzle stick, or give it a quick stir to combine.
This Blackberry-Amaretto Refresher is a stroke of genius, y'all. My kids love the Izze sparkling sodas (and they're really pretty healthy for them), so we usually have a big variety pack on hand. I was making a blueberry pie with amaretto in it and thought how fabulous blackberry and amaretto are together, as well. When I realized there were a few blackberry sodas in the pack, I just had to try it. It is the bomb, I tell you. To make yourself one, just pour a blackberry Izze over ice and add a shot of amaretto. See…I told you it was genius. It pairs well with popcorn for dinner, if you're wondering.
Those other two drinks are really, really good, but this Lavender Limeade takes the cake for me. Lime and lavender, on their own, are two of my favorite summer flavors, so I decided to combine them. I used some lavender syrup from Le Monin, but you can make your own following this post from last summer. It's very easy to do. Like the Pimm's Lemonade, this could easily be made as a pitcher of drinks. And I bet your friends would thank you!
Lavender Limeade
- 8 oz lime seltzer water
- 2 tablespoons lavender syrup
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
Pour the seltzer over ice, add the lavender syrup and lime juice, and stir! Garnish with fresh lavender, if you'd like.
I accompanied the limeade with a baguette slathered with gorgonzola and a plateful of fresh figs, some of my favorite things! You could easily make this a cocktail by adding a shot of vodka or rum. Vodka would make a sort of lavender Moscow Mule, and rum would be a bit like a lavender mojito (minus the mint, but you could add that, as well!).
We're finally getting a few days over 80 here in the Pacific Northwest, so I'm sure I'll find lots of reasons to make all of these drinks as summer winds down in the next few weeks. I hope you will, as well!


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There was plenty of anticipation ahead of Killarney Vale's visit to Hylton Moore Oval with the Bombers confident of ending the Panthers' unbeaten start to the season.
However, it was the Panthers who stamped their authority over their Central Coast rivals, winning by 80 points and restricting the Bombers to a solitary point for the match. The final score was 11.15 (81) to 0.1 (1).
At No 1 Sportsground, an early Courtney Knight onslaught set Newcastle City on the way to a 17.11 (113) to 9.8 (62) win against Cardiff.
Newcastle City remain in second position while Cardiff is in fourth with a tough draw still ahead of them.
In battle of the cellar dwellers, Warners Bay withstood a Singleton comeback to record a 9.11 (65) to 6.7 (43) victory at Rose Point Park.
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From January to April 2009, samples of suspended particles (TSP) and particulate matters (PM10 and PM2.5) were collected from a well-characterized urban area that is highly impacted by vehicular traffic. The metal concentrations in these samples were determined using ICP-OES (inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy). Ca, Mg, Fe and Al were the most abundant metals present in TSP and PM10, with concentrations higher than 427 ng m-3. In PM2.5, the most abundant metals were Fe and Ca (307 and 60 ng m-3, respectively), while the concentrations of Mg, Zn and Cu were approximately 20 ng m-3. For PM10 and PM2.5, high correlations were obtained for Ca, Mg and Al, while the correlation of Ca and Mg with Fe was poor, thereby indicating that Ca, Mg and Al probably originate mainly from the resuspension of dust, while Fe may also be originated from an additional source, such as brake wear. Anthropogenic elements (Zn and Cu) had low correlation factors, suggesting different emission sources. The presence of Cu may be linked to the abrasion of brakes, and Zn may be attributed to tire wear. In fine particles, Ca, Mn, Fe, Zn and Cu were present in higher ratios than in crustal material. Because these particles are mainly observed due to the combustion processes, they may be present in gasoline, oil and lubricants. Fe was correlated with Mn, while correlation factors between Ca and Mg were relatively lower.
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If you are just interested in the South Asia history and culture, or you are a scholar researching on the geo-politico-social aspect of South Asia, here is a very useful link for you. The Digital South Asia Library has a collection of rare resources difficult to find elsewhere in digital format. There are collections on documents concerning India and South Asia region as well as old maps of the region.
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Romance is a big theme in Hollywood movies, which makes it difficult to select a list of the 10 most famous movie kisses. There have been many famous kisses throughout the history of film. The list that follows displays ten of the most famous kisses. These kisses are sweet, passionate and heated. They are everything a kiss should be.
"Gone With the Wind" This movie will always be remembered for its epic kiss. In fact, many consider it to be the most famous movie kiss of all time. The famous kiss happens before Gable's character is about to head off to war. He asks Leigh's character for a kiss and she gives him a kiss that he will never forget. To make it even more memorable, the sky in the background was orange with fire.
"Titanic" "Titanic" is one of the most famous movies of all time. Not only that, but "Titanic" also had one of the most famous kisses in movie history on the bow of the ship. To make the moment even more magical, there was a sunset in the background.
"The Notebook" Everyone loves a passionate kiss in the rain and this famous movie kiss delivers just that. The kiss is heated and intense. You can feel the chemistry between the characters, Noah and Allie, which really draws the audience in.
"The Princess Bride" If you are looking for a pure kiss that has passion, this is the film to watch. This movie is a classic fairytale that is charming, as well as funny. The kiss took place between Buttercup and Westley. It is a sweet moment that has earned its spot on the list of the ten most famous movie kisses.
"Bridget Jones's Diary" This movie is a modern-day romance. It's about a woman trying to get her life back together after her boss broke her heart. The famous movie kiss happens towards the end of the film between characters Bridget and Mark Darcy. The sweet moment is enhanced by the snowy scene around them.
"Pride and Prejudice" This film does a great job of building up the suspense before its famous movie kiss ever takes place. When the moment finally happens, it's a passionate kiss that audiences won't soon forget. The movie stars Keira Knightley.
"Singing in the Rain" This classic movie is a popular choice among many movie lovers. Along with that, it features one of the ten most famous movie kisses. The kiss happens between characters Don and Kathy in a doorway. It is a sweet kiss that happens while it is raining. Afterwards, Don, played by Gene Kelly, is elated. As a result, he begins to sing and dance in the rain.
"Spiderman" "Spiderman" stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. This wildly popular film has one of the most recognizable movie kisses ever. The kiss takes place in the rain when Spiderman is hanging upside down. Kirsten Dunst's character raises part of his mask up and kisses him.
"Notorious" This was an Alfred Hitchcock film. You might be able to recall this famous kiss just from the length of it alone. It is an extremely long kiss that is full of desire.
"Lady and the Tramp" Although it is an animated movie, it has still managed to take the final spot on the list of the ten famous movie kisses. The movie is about a cocker spaniel, Lady, that falls in love with a mutt that lives on the streets. The kiss happens while they were eating the same spaghetti noodle. It's a beautiful and touching moment.


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Remember your first GPS system? If you went out of range, it took about 15-20 seconds of recalculating to get back on course. By the time you received the new directions, you were often past the point of no return. Then you had to stop and let the system catch up. When feedback was delayed, you often ended up lost, or at least frustrated.
The same is true when it comes to hiring.
To improve quality of hire, the feedback loops in your recruiting, sourcing and hiring processes need to be in real time, not weeks or months after the fact.
If you can't measure quality of hire until 6-12 months after the person is hired, you're doomed before you even begin. You'll either hire the wrong people, create havoc among your hiring managers or discover too late that your latest solution is no better than what you started with.
Hiring better people needs to be the major objective of a company's talent acquisition efforts; the objective is not to be more efficient at what's currently being done.
The solution for measuring and monitoring the quality of your hires starts by applying the same criteria to applicants that hiring managers use to rank their best people after they've been hired. Here are the characteristics of a great hire:
As long as you
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This idea is captured in the Performance-based Hiring Job Fit Index graphic. To measure a job applicant's pre-hire quality of hire, rank the candidate on a 1-5 scale for each of the factors. There are seven factors in total: The five lightly shaded factors measure a candidate's ability to do the work and the two darker shaded factors assess the person's motivation to do it. High scores in both sections are required.
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Metrics Needed to Track and Maximize Pre-Hire Quality of Hire
A data feedback system will ensure that your systems and processes are on track for achieving the best pre-hire quality of hire. Here are the metrics to track:
Candidates interviewed per hire. If a hiring manager needs to see more than four candidates to make a hiring decision, you have a major problem somewhere in your hiring process. Most often the problem is that the recruiter and hiring manager are
not clear on the real job needs.
Sourcing mix of passive, referred and active candidates. For high-demand and management positions, recruiters need to expend extra effort finding passive candidates and getting candidate referrals. Together, these two groups should represent at least 50 percent of the candidates that recruiters present to hiring managers. When this percentage is less, managers typically want to see more candidates than necessary.
Posting, e-mail and voicemail response rates. You'll get a sense of how effective your recruiting messages are by tracking the response rates. The goal is steady improvement, so track this daily or weekly. To get above a 20-percent response rate, your e-mails and job postings need to highlight the employee value proposition and emphasize the work itself, not the skills needed to do the work.
Quality of your talent pools for critical positions. Before any search, have your recruiters pick the 20 best resumes of people already in your company database. If your managers decline to see any of them, you need to initiate some major talent branding programs to improve the quality of potential applicants in your talent pool. This will result in reduced time-to-fill by creating a just-in-time hiring process.
Passive candidates who express interest on the first call. You'll find out if your recruiters are any good at recruiting passive candidates by tracking the percentage of passive and referred candidates contacted who agree to an exploratory discussion. Anyone can get the names of great people. Only great recruiters can persuade them to be interested in an exploratory discussion. Shoot for 80 percent or better on this metric.
Passive candidate yield from the top of the funnel to the bottom. Keeping passive candidates engaged from the first contact to acceptance of an offer drives improvement in quality of hire. For this metric you should track the number of passive candidates seen by your hiring manager, how many are extended offers and how many accept.
Passive and active candidate offer acceptance rates. It's easy to get active candidates to accept your offers within your compensation range, so this should be more than 90 percent. But if your passive and referred candidates aren't accepting offers at least 50 percent of the time within your salary bands, you either have a compensation problem or your jobs aren't true career moves.
Sourcing channel effectiveness. Track the source of all your candidates, either by their Job Fit Index scores or some other measure of quality. This will give you a big clue as to where you should be spending your recruiting resources.
Assessment variance. I suggest the hiring team members share their evidence as they rank the seven factors for each candidate in the Performance-based Hiring Job Fit Index on a 1-5 scale. If the variance on any factor is more than plus or minus a half point, get more data before deciding whether or not to move forward with the candidate. Wide variances indicate a process that's out of control.
When trying to recruit great talent, if you don't know what you're looking for before you start looking, you'll never know when you find it. Nor will you be able to assess each candidate properly.
Obtaining some measure of pre-hire candidate quality is an essential first step in setting up a talent acquisition process and tracking system. With real-time feedback you'll then know when you're off course and what you need to do to get back on track. When the data is weeks or months old, it's too late to recover.
Tracking and using data this way needs to be part of any HR leader's skill set, in order to convert HR into a strategic asset by ensuring that your company is hiring the best person possible for every position.
Lou Adler is the CEO and founder of The Adler Group, a consulting and training firm based in Irvine, Calif., that helps companies upgrade their talent acquisition programs. Adler is the author of the Amazon top-10 best-seller,
Hire With Your Head
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TALLAHASSEE -- Seventeen-year-old Gary Lester of Port Orange is a student any college would want. Straight A's. National Honor Society. Junior Class president. Winner of a writing contest. President of the Atlantic High School chorus. Winner of a $2,500 Discover scholarship and contender for a grand prize.
But as matters stand, none of Florida's state universities or junior colleges could admit him. Because of severe dyslexia, he has failed Florida's increasingly controversial FCAT test. He would still graduate, but without a standard diploma. Without that, no college.
Lester would easily pass the FCAT if he were allowed to take it in the same way he learns his lessons and aces his regular exams: by listening to tapes or having someone read to him. When he hears a test question, the answer comes readily. But what his eyes see, his brain can scarcely convert into words.
"He can read a little bit, but not enough," says his mother, Ann Lester, a special education paraprofessional who works with severely disabled students at her son's school. Yet "there's nothing the child hasn't done, and he wants to be a doctor some day."
But first someone has to move a mountain. The mountain is the Florida Department of Education, whose rule demands that reading items on the FCAT "must be read by the student through visual or tactile means."
That means blind children must learn braille, even though it is cumbersome and outmoded in today's world of talking computers. To children with dyslexia and related learning disabilities, the message is even harsher: tough luck.
Rest in peace, common sense. The object of the FCAT, like any other test, should be to determine what students have learned and what they understand, not how they acquire and process raw information. The department has that backward. By its rules, Nelson Rockefeller -- governor of New York and vice president of the United States -- probably could not have earned a standard Florida diploma. He, too, was dyslexic, and needed special tutors. With their help, he graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth.
Federal law guarantees learning-disabled children the same accommodations in testing as in the classroom. Florida invokes an exception: Accommodations need not compromise the "validity" of the test. This is, of course, artful bureaucratese. It's like saying blind persons shouldn't be allowed guide dogs because they wouldn't learn to find their own way.
Cathy Mizereck, the department's lobbyist, argues that tough testing standards are essential lest schools slack off in their efforts to teach children who don't learn as easily as others. She has a point. It should not be too easy to label students "exceptional." The point would be more telling, however, if the FCAT scores of children with classified learning or emotional disabilities weren't excluded from their school's rating. It is not clear how holding the score against only the student induces the school to do a better job.
The department says the FCAT requirement can be waived but that it gets barely a dozen applications a year. Gary Lester hasn't applied for one, said his mother, "Because nobody seems to know how to help me get it."
I heard about Gary from Sylvia Smith, program director for the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, in Tallahassee, which is preparing to sue the state, for him and for others, if the problem can't be solved by more peaceful means.
There is hope. Gov. Jeb Bush has appointed an 11-member task force "to review and recommend reasonable testing accommodations for students with disabilities." Smith is one of the members. Jan Rouse, an assistant school superintendent in Pinellas County, is the chair. In announcing April 3 that he would do this, Bush made it clear that, among other things, he wants the panel to open the door to the colleges. In setting an October deadline for its report, and in asking the Board of Education to adopt "necessary rules" by Feb. 1, the governor seemed to be calling for a solution before next year's FCAT tests. That would come in time for Gary Lester, but too late for perhaps hundreds of students who were denied standard diplomas this year.
Advocates for learning-disabled children had a mixed reaction to the governor's decision because it pre-empted a possible legislative solution, endorsed by the Senate but opposed by Bush's staff and the department, two days before the end of the regular session. But for now, Smith and other advocates, including bill sponsor Rep. Loranne Ausley, D-Tallahassee, are willing to give the panel a chance. They're encouraged by the fact that the governor has, in effect, made himself responsible for a satisfactory recommendation before the election.
"We're very concerned about a myriad of impacts that FCAT is having," says Smith. "It's not just whether kids get accommodated in testing. It's whether or not this particular scheme is resulting in kids being excluded from general education just to help generate better scores. It's got to be fully revealed and corrected so that it's good public policy and not bad public policy."
The bad policy includes this: Some public schools have been advising learning-disabled children to transfer to private schools, which can grant standard diplomas regardless of the FCAT. Others are being coached to drop out entirely and take the GED exams as an avenue to college.
Those are not options where Gary Lester's parents are concerned
"I just will not stand for Graduation Day to come and him not get a regular diploma," Ann Lester said. "It's not going to be. . . . We're going to win it."


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A woman overcome by carbon monoxide in the garage of her Hollow Wood Lane home in Pemberwick Thursday afternoon was found unconscious by her son, Greenwich Fire Chief Peter Siecienski said.
Siecienski, who declined to identify the woman other than to say she was a senior citizen, said a car was running in the woman's garage when she was discovered. He said the investigation is ongoing, but warned people about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning.
He said there have been other instances when carbon monoxide detectors have gone off in homes since the power went out on Sunday. In those cases, the homes were checked and the residents decided to remain after low levels of the gas were detected.
"We are running into individuals who are looking for sources of heat, in some cases burning green wood or wood that has just come down or fallen, which is causing problems," he said. "We want to be focused, to be extremely careful on how we are handling our alternate heat sources. It is time to understand that carbon monoxide is a severe problem and a problem around the state."
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There are many users who make use of "Reset" option when they have the problem of freezing, poor call quality as well as the inability to access internet on Coolpad phone. Resetting will solve these issues and restores your phone to its original factory setting. But disadvantage of using this method is that it will erase entire data from Coolpad phone. Under such circumstance one should look for important files in backup copy. However, in your busy schedule you might forget to backup important photos, videos, music and other data from Coolpad Android phone. Hopefully, there is a way to get back deleted / lost files from Coolpad android phone.
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Author has written 1 story for Teen Titans.
My parents think i'm crazy.
I however know I'm insane.
gender: female
name: well, that would be telling, wouldn't it!
age: it's rude to ask a lady her age! Oh, wait, I'm only a teen. Ok, so I'm 14
nationality: I AM ENGLADIAN!
hair colour: well, blonde, DUH! oh, thats NATURAL blonde. i do not dye my hair blonde. clear? good.
eye colour: blue like the ocean!
size: either very tall, or very small, or somewhere in between.
current mental state: HEY! my therapist says that I'm just special!
VERY special...
languages: english and (as far as my teachers are concerned) french. ah. oui, je parle francais tres bien, n'est pas?
if you speak french you would be cringing right now.
favorite stuff: timbits, billy talent, black, my oboe, my dog, bats (that only-flying-mamal kind, not the baseball supplies!), sketch books, haloween decorations, fries/chips (depending on where you are at the moment...), my lovely weirdo friends, I ADORE ACTING, the theatre, drama, anytime I get to perform, being called a drama queen, nay a drama obsesser queen, nooo THE ULTIMATE DRAMA GODDESS!... what do they put in sugar free gum? can't be healthy...can't be legal...
most hated stuff: people who talk with no expression, gossips, aritzia, hoodies paired with jeans, someone wearing the same thing as me, love songs, pmsing, homework, projects, anything to do with school, people who correct me, tabbaco companies, sexism, any photo that has me in it, being ignored, early morning band practises, the band nerd stereotype, any steroetype, scheduals, um, do you reeaallllyyy want the full list?


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Sam and Chris go into a very detailed step by step workflow of how to get Red footage into FCPX and work efficiently. R3D, RMD, Red Cine-X, and Proxies. They also discuss We Make Movies, the artist collective that Sam founded in LA.
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Sara and I had the pleasure of photographing Katie and Mike's wedding at Cedar Ridge Winery in Swisher, IA. Katie was the final member of the group of three Kates weddings we photographed, all of which were friends in high school and well… all had the same name. It was great to see lots of familiar faces in the crowd and catch up with a few of our past couples as they enjoyed the evening with awesome live music, food, and of course wine!
June 2012
Cedar Ridge Winery – Swisher, IA
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Coast Guard: 81 gallons of oil have leaked from pipeline near High Island
Updated 10:21 am, Tuesday, August 20, 2013
About 81 gallons of light crude oil have leaked from a pipeline near the area of High Island, according to information from the Coast Guard.
The leak occurred from a rusted clamp on a 3-inch pipeline that runs from the shore to a well about 1.5 miles off the coast, said Lt. Jason Ratcliff.
The incident was first noticed Friday, according to the General Land Office, when someone called to report an oil sheen on the water approximately 5-miles wide. A fisherman on Saturday also reported seeing a sheen on the water. The Coast Guard found the leak on Sunday.
Ratcliff said the Coast Guard is on scene now along with the owner of the pipeline - Allied Operating Texas, LLC. Divers have repaired the rusted clamp, but two more holes have been found along the length of the pipe. The pipeline has been shut down, but a small amount of oil continues to bubble to the surface.


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Blizzard Entertainment announced that it is now shipping its highly anticipated Diablo III action role-playing game for Windows and Mac.
For more information visit: www.diablo3.com
Unedited press release follows:
Diablo® III Now Live
It's a bad day for demons . . .
IRVINE, Calif. — Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that Diablo® III, the highly anticipated next chapter in its award-winning action–role-playing-game series, is now available in retail stores throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Gamers in the regions above as well as in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil are also able to purchase Diablo III digitally via the game's official website (http://www.diablo3.com).
In the wake of a Blizzard record of more than 2 million preorders*, and following more than 8,000 midnight launch events earlier today at retail stores worldwide, gamers across the planet are now storming Sanctuary in hot pursuit of the Lord of Terror.
"This launch is a culmination of many years of hard work by our development team, and many years of passionate, dedicated support from gamers around the world," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We're grateful for the enthusiasm of our players, and for the help of our beta testers in getting the game ready for release. Now that Diablo III is live, we hope everyone's ready to have a hellishly good time slaying demons and collecting loot in Sanctuary."
Diablo III is available for Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 and Macintosh® at a suggested price of $59.99 USD for both the retail DVD-ROM version and the digital version sold directly from Blizzard. A special alabaster-white Collector's Edition, sold exclusively in retail stores while supplies last at a suggested price of $99.99 USD, includes the game on DVD-ROM, a behind-the-scenes Blu-ray/DVD two-disc set, the Diablo III soundtrack CD, a 208-page Art of Diablo III book, and a 4 GB USB soulstone (including full versions of Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction®) and corresponding Diablo skull base, as well as exclusive in-game content for Diablo III, World of Warcraft®, and StarCraft® II: Wings of Liberty®. Diablo III has received a Mature rating from the ESRB.
Players in the Latin American countries listed above and in Russia will be able to purchase Diablo III at local retail locations starting June 7. Digital availability via http://www.diablo3.com for the Russian version of the game will also begin June 7. In addition to the English version, Diablo III is fully localized into Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, European Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Korean, and traditional Chinese.
Diablo III continues the epic Diablo storyline, with players taking on the role of one of five heroic characters — barbarian, witch doctor, wizard, monk, or demon hunter — and embarking on an epic quest to save the world of Sanctuary from the corrupting forces of the Burning Hells. As players adventure through rich and varied settings, they'll engage in pulse-pounding combat with hordes of monsters and challenging bosses, grow in experience and ability, acquire artifacts of incredible power, and meet key characters who'll join them in battle or aid them in other ways. The game features the intuitive interface, fast-paced action, and visceral gameplay that Diablo players have come to expect and enjoy.
Designed from the ground up to leverage the full functionality of the Battle.net® platform, Diablo III also provides gamers with industry-leading matchmaking and communication tools, allowing adventurers to seamlessly join forces for cooperative play. Battle.net also provides the infrastructure for the Diablo III auction house, a feature-rich marketplace that Sanctuary's heroes can use to trade their hard-earned treasures. To learn more about the auction house and the other features of Diablo III, please visit the official website at http://www.diablo3.com.
With multiple games in development, Blizzard Entertainment has numerous positions currently available — visit http://jobs.blizzard.com for more information and to learn how to apply.
* Includes units preordered as part of World of Warcraft Annual Pass promotion, as well as retail and digital preorders.
About Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft® and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® franchises, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry's most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard Entertainment's track record includes thirteen #1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards. The company's online-gaming service, Battle.net®, is one of the largest in the world, with millions of active players.


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Pfeiffer Beach Big Sur .. Hole In The Wall
I just got back from a week in Yosemite and Big Sur .. we were lucky enough to get a huge dumping of snow in Yosemite the day we arrived and later we moved on to the coast.. the following is an image from the iconic location of Pfeiffer Beach.. in the months of Jan and Feb the sun lines up with the hole in the wall and really makes this an unique scene….
In case you are interested in workshops.. we have the Columbia Gorge coming up this Spring and we only have a few spots left. If you are interested in seeing more on this workshop you can visit www.nwphototours.com
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Last Sunday, we drove down to Coyoacan to check out the Terra Madre Day event being coordinated by the Slow Food folks in Mexico City. (See Lesley's post for pics of the tasty food to be sampled!) On our way back, I insisted we stop at a crazy store that we passed en route, Galerias El Triunfo. We had walked by it many moons ago, which was the source of this gem of a photo. This time, my friend the golden calf had been replaced by Mr. Businesscow.
Apparently there are 26 of these stores around Mexico, 15 in DF alone. This is the only location I recall observing, though you'd think the others would be easy enough to spot if they have any beacons like this in their parking lots:
Once we actually entered the store, our visit became closely akin to our trip to Centro Artesenal Buenavista— i.e. we dropped any pretense of even thinking about buying something & instead focused on taking juvenile photographs. Galerias El Triunfo seems to be a combo of home decor, holiday decor, and restaurant supply store. I personally felt that its name (loosely translated as "Triumph Galleries") was overreaching a bit…. Perhaps something like "Galerias Shit-Show" would be a better fit?
To be fair, there were actually some products I would consider buying… but they were hidden in your classic "diamond in the rough" scenario. Check out a few of the highlights below, and just let me know if you need anything overnighted to arrive by Christmas.
If you too would like to get your photo taken with life-sized fake cattle, giraffes, or cacti, head on down to Tata Vasco #77 at the corner of Miguel Angel de Quevedo (the main street between San Angel & Coyoacan) in Colonia Santa Catarina. Better yet– go to one of the other locations & send me photos of the even WEIRDER crap you will probably find there. Happy shopping


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ALL 13 TV and 3 never-seen-on-TV OVA episodes!
4 DVDs
Approx. 400 min.
Oreimo 2 DVD Limited Edition Complete Box Set
Bonus Contents
■Textless Openings
■Textless Endings of ALL 16 episodes
■Preview Videos by SD Characters
■Special Short Movies by SD Characters
■"Gal-ge" ( Style Short Movies)
■Web Version Previews
Bonus Materials & Special Package
■16 Pin-up Postcards of "Ending Cards" of ALL 16 Episodes
■44-page Deluxe Booklet of Character Designs & Art Gallery,
and Creator Messages!!
■From Chiba to the World Poster (Featuring Kirino and Kuroneko)
■Deluxe Box with TOTALLY New and Exclusive Illustration
by Hiroyuki Oda (Character Design)
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Kyousuke brings Kirino home from America where she attended a special track & field camp.
Surrounded by her friends, Kirino gradually gets her life back to normal. In stark contrast to her friends is Kyousuke, who is unhappy with Kirino's attitude towards him. She has been ignoring him since she came home, as if their relationship had gone back to how it had been a year earlier.
But then Kirino does something for Kyousuke...
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Hidekyuki Kurata
Hiroyuki Oda
Kana Ishida,
Tetsuya Kawakami
Takahiro Ishimoto
Koji Okamoto (KUSANAGI)
Yasuko Suenaga
Nozomi Shitara (T2studio)
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Akeno Watanabe
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"Hilarious, fun and highly entertaining! "Oreimo" is an anime series that showcases otaku lifestyle with a twist and I have no doubt that fans wanting an upbeat, fun anime series will enjoy this DVD release. Especially for the swag that Aniplex has included with this limited edition box set. How cool is that? "Oreimo" is an awesome release that is highly recommended!"
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Oreimo is an adaptation of Tsukasa Fushimi's light novel series Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai. The popular comedic novel series-turned hit anime originally aired in 2010 in Japan. The story follows the daily life of an ordinary high school boy named Kyousuke Kousaka. Kyousuke's younger sister Kirino is a pretty fashion model, but also hides a dark secret of being an otaku of adult games. Kyousuke is the only person to whom Kirino reveals her hidden obsession and other issues. Since its debut, the popularity of Oreimo has grown on a global scale. Answering the fans request, the entire series of Oreimo will now be available in a very high quality DVD box set.
For the past seven years, Kyousuke's relationship with his younger sister Kirino has been nothing but cold. It has come to a point where the siblings only exchange greetings with each other. But one day, Kyousuke finds a moe anime DVD lying in the entrance hall of his house. As his interest piqued, Kyousuke looks for the owner, only to discover it belongs to his very own sister Kirino. Shocked as Kyousuke was, this was just the beginning to the surprises that lie ahead…
Living in the shadow of his prodigious younger sister, Kyousuke Kousaka had a normal lifestyle until he accidentally finds out that Kirino hides a dark and embarrassing secret. In addition to being smart, pretty, and popular; Kirino Kousaka is also an obsessive consumer of anime and eroge (adult computer games). After being assured that Kyousuke is committed to not mock her and keep this concealed from their parents, she starts to share a bit of her world with him. Kirino faces several problems as she tries to keep appearances and balance her exemplary school life with her hobbies. Her brother then becomes a crucial ally while dealing with all the difficulties that lie ahead.
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Book plane tickets through Google Flights
When you use Google Flights to book plane tickets, you can get the best fares for where and when you want to travel. You can:
- Book roundtrip, one-way and multi-city tickets
- Use an interactive calendar and price graph to find the best fares
- Filter your flight search by cabin class, airlines, and number of stops
Google Flights allows you to book flights from more than 300 airlines and online travel agencies with whom we have relationships. These relationships have no impact on the ranking of offers suggested to you. Google may be remunerated when users click on a specific flight booking option and are redirected to the company/agency's website.
Book your flights
- Go to Google Flights.
- Enter your departure city or airport and destination. Note: You can also find destinations by clicking on a popular destinations list or on a world map.
- At top, select your ticket type: one-way, roundtrip, or multi-city.
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- Click the calendar to select your flight dates. You'll see the lowest total price to fly for each day. Note: Flight prices are updated approximately once every 24 hours.
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The CVS rewards card, the CVS Extra Care Card, can really help you save money if you use it right. This card allows customers to receive coupons and "Extra Care Bucks" to use on later purchases.
An Extra Care Buck is an award you earn. They are basically coupons and each buck is equivalent to a dollar. The coupons will print out on the bottom of your receipts when you purchase qualifying items. These Extra Care Bucks can be used to purchase goods in-store or online.
The first step is to sign up for the card. The Extra Care Card will allow you to get sale prices and earn rewards. You can sign up for a card at any CVS store, or online at cvs.com, though you will have to wait for your card to be mailed to you if you sign up online.
When you shop at CVS, be sure to give the cashier your card so that you can earn rewards for your purchases. If you forget your card, the cashier can look up your account information using your phone number.
There are three ways to earn Extra Care Bucks. The first is that you get 2 percent back for all your purchases. This excludes tobacco, alcohol, gift cards, money orders, lottery tickets, postage stamps, and special order health care items. The second way is that you get one buck for every two prescriptions you buy. For both of these methods, your Extra Care Bucks are awarded every three months. At the end of quarter, you will get your Extra bucks printed out on the bottom of your receipt.
The third way to earn Extra Care Bucks is by using the store ad. Each week there will different products you can earn Extra Care Bucks with if you purchase them. You will need to make the necessary requirements for the purchases. For example, if one of the deals is for Pepsi, it may say for every 2 bottles you buy you earn $1 in Extra Care Bucks, with a limit of $5 bucks. This means that if you want to earn all $5 in Extra Care Bucks, you will need to purchase 10 bottles of Pepsi.
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Mathematics has a unique capacity to infuriate people, so when a world-leading scientist announced his belief that advanced math is unnecessary for the modern scientist, the response from the nerdosphere was blistering.
In the last week or so, since an excerpt of Edward O. Wilson's new book, Letters To A Young Scientist, ran in the Wall Street Journal, the evolutionary biologist and ant expert has been criticized as "insulting," "misinformed," "sad," "misguided," "counterproductive," "frustrating," "flat-out wrong," and "a disgrace." He is "trading on fear" of math, and "uncritically accepting the idea that math is something inherently unpleasant."
"Don't listen to E.O. Wilson," one mathematician wrote of the Harvard professor emeritus. "He does not understand what mathematics is."
In the book, the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning Prof. Wilson shares what he calls a secret: that many top scientists today are mathematically merely "semiliterate," and this is not so bad, because they can work with mathematicians as needed.
The problem — he calls it, quaintly, a "bugbear" — is that math is hard, and it scares good conceptual thinkers away from science. The over-mathematization of science squeezes out the more imaginative minds who happen to lack computational chops, causing what he calls a "hemorrhage of brain power we need to stanch."
"During my decades of teaching biology at Harvard, I watched sadly as bright undergraduates turned away from the possibility of a scientific career, fearing that, without strong math skills, they would fail," he writes in the book. "This mistaken assumption has deprived science of an immeasurable amount of sorely needed talent."
"Fortunately, exceptional mathematical fluency is required in only a few disciplines, such as particle physics, astrophysics and information theory. Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition."
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Laureate Princeton economist and New York Times columnist agreed, and in a reply to Prof. Wilson, described a major paper he wrote in which he "picked up the little [math] I needed after I had already figured out the papers."
He coyly added that, for economists, the right amount of math to know is precisely the amount each one happens to know: "Anyone who knows less just doesn't have the tools, anyone who knows more is excessively teched up."
Others were less jovial.
"Without a firm foundation in mathematics, chaos can ensue," wrote Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, professors of psychology and computer science at New York University, in response to Prof. Wilson. "If a scientist does not understand how statistics works and instead relies on a software package, they run the risk of doing completely irrelevant computations and arriving at meaningless results."
Science and math have always been uneasy allies, neither fighting quite the same war. Science looks for answers in the world. Math looks for them on paper or, increasingly, on a computer. Science requires evidence. Math requires proof. As Richard Feynman, one of the 20th century's greatest physicists, put it, "Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test of its validity is not experiment."
Charles Darwin, famously, had no math and found it "repugnant," but he lived in an age when that view was open to a scientist. That age has passed. Today, Galileo's notion that the laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics has entranced even the social sciences, which now seek to burnish their credibility with dense equations.
"The annals of theoretical biology are clogged with mathematical models that either can be safely ignored or, when tested, fail." writes Prof. Wilson, a theoretical biologist.
To address this problem, he offers his "young scientist" what he calls Wilson's Principle No. 1: "It is far easier for scientists to acquire needed collaboration from mathematicians and statisticians than it is for mathematicians and statisticians to find scientists able to make use of their equations."
This is a version of Thomas Edison's line that "I can hire a mathematician but a mathematician cannot hire me," which seems to unfairly shove mathematicians to the sidelines of scientific insight, as if they were hired hands.
This tension is not new. Logic was mathematized to great effect in the 19th century, laying the basis for computer science. Economics followed, leading to the fiscal revolutions of the 20th century.
Physics has always been more or less number heavy, even as theory surpassed powers of observation, such that today we have concepts, like string theory, that emerge from math with no hope of a real life confirmation.
'The annals of theoretical biology are clogged with mathematical models that either can be safely ignored or, when tested, fail'
But by the time psychology was mathematized, in the mid 20th century, the worst problems started showing themselves, as researchers starting using computers to dredge data for any grain of significance, however illusory.
In the social sciences especially, mathematical crimes litter the record over the last few years, from faked data to conclusions not borne out by the data on which they were supposedly based, such as Diederik Stapel, a leading Dutch social psychologist who fabricated data for dozens of peer-reviewed articles, and was exposed in 2011.
"There is now enough evidence to say what many have long thought: that any claim coming from an observational study is most likely to be wrong in the sense that it will not replicate if tested rigorously," wrote S. Stanley Young and Alan Karr of the U.S. National Institute of Statistical Sciences in a recent critique of the trend.
Now, even philosophy wants in on the numerical action, as evidenced by the sexy (for philosophy) new field of experimental philosophy, or X-Phi, in which data is sought from participants in thought experiments.
Marc Hauser, a Harvard primate psychologist who lost his job in 2011 after he fabricated data and manipulated results, also ran the Moral Sense Test, an online survey in the philosophical field of "trolleyology," an ethical thought experiment about a runaway trolley and the various ways you could sacrifice one life for others, which would be right, and which would be wrong.
Right and wrong have traditionally been set apart by appealing to universal principles, or utilitarian benefit, or religious doctrine, or even to
evolutionary theory. But to do it based on survey results is something new and strange.
The problem for science is that the numbers are not the things, and an undue focus on mathematical structure can leave you arguing about the ideal, having lost touch with the real. Like strength and bravery, or language and love, science and math are complementary, but they have different goals.
Prof. Wilson's title – the book is out in Canada May 8 – is a play on Letters To A Young Poet, a collection of letters by the great German lyrical poet Rainer Maria Rilke to an actual young poet, a cadet at the military academy Rilke once attended. The young scientist, on the other hand, is in Prof. Wilson's imagination as an ideal reader, a composite student, for whom he weaves together personal anecdotes and sweeping observations about science as a human project.
The effect is not the same.
Rilke bared his soul, and shared the secrets of his craft, telling young Franz Xaver Kappus: "There is only one single way. Go into yourself."
Though similarly revealing personally, Prof. Wilson's advice to his young scientist is precisely the opposite, recalling his days collecting bugs with a sweep net in Alabama or Mozambique, or pulling back the bark on a log to reveal a strange society of insects.
He says to look out into the world with clear eyes, whether you fit his scientific archetypes of an explorer in virgin territory, or a questing knight in search of a Holy Grail insight, or a warrior for good against evil. This outward view is the way to divine the structure of the world, he advises, no matter how you feel about math.
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Happy first day of spring! Judging from all the snow on the ground (upstate, that is), it looks like Mother Nature is a little confused.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is back in Albany (he was in NYC last night) with no public schedule. Budget watch continues. If there's a deal today and bills are printed, voting can begin Saturday.
At 2:30 p.m., LG Bob Duffy announces a "high-tech international partnership" at the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. 257 Fuller Rd., Albany.
Veteran GOP political consultant John Haggerty, who was convicted of defrauding Mayor Bloomberg of some $1 million in the 2009 campaign, will be sentenced at 9:30 a.m., 100 Centre St., Manhattan.
At 11 a.m., GOP NYC mayoral candidate Joe Lhota holds a news conference to discuss support for his campaign among the four Republican members of City Council. City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Democratic NYC mayoral candidates speak during a forum sponsored by gay Democratic Party organizations and the Gay City News weekly newspaper; 6:30 p.m., Mason Hall, CUNY's Baruch College, 17 Lexington Ave., Manhattan.
For the first time ever, New York voters oppose by a clear margin, 46-39 percent, fracking in the Marcellus Shale, as concerns for the environment win out over the promise of economic benefits, a new Q poll found.
The town of Avon is the third upstate municipality to win a court challenge (filed by Lenape Resources) to its ban on natural gas drilling as two previous cases are about to be argued before a state appeals court.
According to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, lawmakers want to correct "inconsistencies" in the SAFE Act that bans possession of 10-round magazines but allows their use at gun ranges and shooting competition.
In a brief appearance with reporters, Cuomo said the gun control changes being discussed are merely "technical."
Cuomo and legislative leaders have a tentative deal to provide the money to parents who earn between $40,000 and $300,000 a year. Parents with children up to age 18 may be eligible, though the age range is still being negotiated by lawmakers.
There's not much for business groups to like in the budget deal that is taking shape down at the Capitol.
State officials have agreed to grant Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings' request for a $7.8 million spin-up the city needs to balance its 2013 budget. The cash is an advance on state payments in lieu of taxes for the Empire State Plaza.
With no hearings and little debate, Cuomo and legislative leaders are finalizing a surprise deal to extend a high-tax bracket for the state's top incomes first approved in 2011. This follows similar actions in D.C. and other states.
The NY Post recalls when Cuomo called the extension of a tax (in this case, the millionaire's tax) a new tax.
Catholic bishops and senior clergy met privately with Cuomo to voice opposition to his proposal to expand New York abortion law, but said afterwards they still found common ground with the unequivocally pro-choice governor.
One bishop said Cuomo urged him and his colleagues "not to judge his forthcoming bill" based on plans already offered by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer or more recently by some Senate Democrats. He said the governor did not elaborate.
NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the Democratic mayoral frontrunner, declared her support for installing an inspector general to monitor the NYPD — setting up a potential showdown with her frequent ally Mayor Bloomberg, who opposes the idea.
The biggest challenge for NYC mayoral contenders? Keeping the weight off on the campaign trail.
NYC GOP hopeful JOhn Catsimatidis' company, Big Apple Real Estate, was just hit with a lien for $113,421.31 by the London Terrace Towers Condominium for water charges relating to its 15,403 square foot Gristedes supermarket at 215 Ninth Ave., between 23rd and 24th streets.
Is Cuomo's go-to Western New York guy, developer Howard Zemsky, the man who will save Buffalo? An increasing number of people seem to think so.
DEC Commissioner Joe Martens says he's trying to make it easier for reporters to talk to his agency's employees – especially when they're just asking for description from the field rather than department policy.
Cuomo would beat New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie by mere single digits – 46-38 – among New York state voters in a 2016 presidential matchup, according to the Q poll.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants to see the federal wage — which hasn't gone up in four years — boosted to $10.10 over the next three years. That's higher than the $9 an hour President Obama has proposed.
The SUNY Board of Trustees voted, for the second time in several weeks, to close Long Island College Hospital, which was taken over by the university system two years ago, and which university officials say is losing $1 million a week.
A University of Wisconsin study ranks Dutchess as the ninth "healthiest" county out of 62 in New York state.
At its board meeting today, the Port Authority is expected to approve a 15-year deal with Legends Hospitality Management to operate the observation deck that, officials say, could generate as much as $875 million in revenue for the authority over the life of the contract.
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit by Greenwich Village residents that would have halted New York University's controversial expansion plan.
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner will host a panel discussion on gun violence tomorrow at the Landmark Theatre featuring actor and keynote speaker Khalil Kain and local community activists and law enforcement officials.
A little humor to start your day form NYC Councilman – and Queens BP candidate – Peter Vallone, who recalls his father's failed 1998 campaign for governor (against then-GOP Gov. George Pataki) thusly:
"I remember driving at like 2 o'clock in the morning through tremendous snowstorms, through places upstate that no one would have ever heard of."
"I remember rooming in a room with Clyde Rabideau, who was the mayor of—what the hell was it—he was mayor of a small town upstate. He was running for lieutenant governor at the time."
"So we'd get these small, rinky-dink hotels and have to double up rooms because we're not made of money, obviously. He turned out to be a nice guy, luckily, but it was weird rooming with the mayor of some town I don't know of."


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THE recently-closed Vunidilo bridge in Wailoku is expected to be open to light traffic later today.
This was confirmed by Fiji Roads Authority yesterday.
Earlier this week, the authority closed the bridge after engineers identified serious corrosion in the bridge's supporting steel beams.
FRA acting chief executive Dale Nicholls said despite the development, only small vehicles and pedestrians would be able to use the bridge.
He said engineers were continuing with work to assess the possibility of the bridge accommodating heavy vehicles and buses.
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Another post in regards to my new project to add reviews to my website.
The most recent filk album I purchased was Mr. Smith Goes to the Hospital. This is a benefit album for recently injured filker Tom Smith, and is therefore a collection of Tom Smith covers donated by various friends and filkers (about thirty artists, and even more songs). It was a project thrown together very quickly and most of the tracks reflect that, but Tom writes really good songs, most of them hilariously funny, and some powerful. (But I cannot guarantee that these songs are work safe… you have been warned.) Normally I wouldn't be too interested in an album of Tom Smith covers, because Tom is such an excellent performer I usually just go direct to the source, but hey it's for a good cause. 🙂
Favorite track: Amy McNally's violin rendition of "Dervish"
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What is CIDR and VLSM? Are they similar, same, or different?Monday, November 23rd, 2015
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I've known of these two terms for years now but didn't put too much thought into them until I was reading through the Sybex Todd Lammle CCENT/CCNA book (Dec 2013 edition) recently (I've read through a little of the older editions as well). The book doesn't explain CIDR well and you may walk away thinking that CIDR is just a shorthand notation method for expressing a subnet mask, e.g., use the "slash notation" 220.127.116.11/8 instead of 126.96.36.199./255.0.0.0.
Below is a very high level basic overview of the terms.
CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) is basically a method used by ISPs to allocate public IP addresses that have been subnetted. For example, an ISP may be given 220.127.116.11/8 and decides to subnet that down to /28 to give smaller blocks to another downstream ISP or directly to a customer. For routing on the Internet, peers view this ISP as being responsible for 22.214.171.124/8 and anything subnetted from that, thus this keeps the routing tables from getting any larger than if CIDR wasn't used. CIDR uses shorthand "slash" notation for the subnets (220.127.116.11/8 instead of 184.108.40.206./255.0.0.0, for example).
You may use CIDR notation without actually having to use CIDR so this is where some people get confused and may think that CIDR itself is just the shorthand notation when in actuality there's a lot more to CIDR.
VLSM (Variable Length Subnet Masking) is normally used for internal (non-Internet routable) IP addresses (192.168.1.0, etc.). I'm not really sure when this would be useful in a new network design, but I can see it being useful if a network engineer inherited an inefficiently designed network and then implements VLSM to utilize the address spaces more efficiently without having to re-IP address the entire network.
Classful networking is when the default subnet masks are used. Some older routing protocols such as RIPv1 only understand classful (A, B, and C) networks because they don't send the subnet mask information in their routing updates (doing so is just not a part of the RIPv1 specification). So classful is not "subnet aware."
Classless networking is when subnetting is used, thus you are no longer limited to the standard classes and hence the word "classless" which basically means "class A, B, C, and any of their subnets." RIPv2 supports classless networking since it sends subnet mask information in its routing updates. So classless is "subnet aware."
This Cisco TechNote explains IPv4 subnetting, VLSM, and CIDR:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a00800a67f5.shtml. If you read this along with the VLSM section in the Lammle book, the two will help clarify the concept (the Lammle book doesn't explain VLSM very well either).


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In days of yore domestic cats did their own foraging. That was sort of the point. They were there to eat leftovers and supplement their diet with rodents. It was an archetype frequently replayed in popular culture. I refer to my own 1970s childhood. A cat was always pictured next to the skeleton of a fish bone recovered from a bin. Not even razor-sharp Officer Dibble could thwart Top Cat's raids on dustbins.
Somewhere the cat went from feline freegan to a beast that must eat wild-caught fish from a velvet cushion. Our cats are now so fat they need scientific dietary intervention from multinational pet food companies.
All of which can mask the primary issue: resource consumption. A 2008 study found the pet food industry to be using 2.48m metric tons of forage fish each year for wet cat food – ie the stuff in tins and pouches. Forage fish such as sardines, anchovies and herring are eaten by top ocean predators such as tuna. As if those top predators didn't have enough to worry about. Humanity still chops through 4.5m tons of tuna species a year. Meanwhile evidence suggests that once the main ocean predators are fished out, the ecosystem begins to atrophy. Goodnight Vienna.
They felt it apt because if social security was changed a significant proportion of the population would end up eating tinned cat food. Actually cat food probably shouldn't be the go-to emergency sustenance. Anything that relies on fish is extremely uncertain.
Cat food is so highly processed that the supply chain can be murkier than the Mediterranean. Mars Petcare claims it was the first company to make a commitment to sustainable cat food, and last year its Whiskas and Sheba brands introduced Marine Stewardship Council-certified ranges. This is an important step, as the stamp on the box tells you that these fish products can be traced to "sustainable" fisheries. All a vast improvement on the not-so-distant days when cat owners could buy a Bluefin Tuna Flavour variety of food in some territories; OK, it contained no actual bluefin, but the message wasn't exactly sound.
Attitudes and fisheries science are changing fast. On the surface it seems things are improving, but it often means you are beholden to the multinationals that can afford certification. This is a different issue from core sustainability, but campaigners say big brands are reliant on chemical additives and fillers. Resistance comes in the form of the Campaign for Real Petfood (crpf.org.uk). Look for small brands, too, that offer a source of protein to your pet while minimising their footprint. Pet foods that substitute meat and fish with pulses are a good starting point, as less fossil fuel is used to grow pulse crops. Good brands include Yarrah and Defu. The first rule is to shut your ears to the marketing and make sustainability your priority. The cat is out of the bag, as they say.


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