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Although there is great interest in multi-modal applications on mobile devices, there are actually very few deployments, and as such there is little shared knowledge in the community about best practices for designing and documenting multi-modal applications. The goal of this workshop is to produce a design for a sample multi-modal application, and experiment with different methods for documenting multi-modal designs. More broadly, as in past years, the workshop provides a great opportunity to network with practitioners from varied specialties, including voice, interactive, digital, and related areas.
As in past workshops, we will be publishing the output of the discussions on www.avixd.org and this year, also on www.ixda.org.
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Judy Ann Santos' biggest fear as a parent is to see her children experience poverty.
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The publisher is working with Evercore Partners Inc. as an adviser for a sale, Times Co. said Wednesday in a statement. The company intends to focus its strategy and investment on the Times brand, it said.
Times Co., controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, is coping with a difficult advertising market as spending on national campaigns continues to shrink industrywide. The publisher has sold other assets unrelated to the Times brand, getting rid of regional newspapers and About.com within the past 13 months.
The company held $955 million in cash and short-term investments at the end of last year, largely as a result of its asset sales. In addition to the Boston Globe, the company still owns the International Herald Tribune, considered the European edition of the New York Times.
Times Co. shares pared earlier losses in New York trading after Bloomberg News first reported on the sale. The shares were down 0.4 percent to $9.03 at the close.
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The Times newspaper now makes more money from readers than advertisers, helped by its online subscription program, which now has more than 640,000 paying customers. The Times made $781 million in circulation sales last year, leaving out an extra week, an 11 percent increase over the previous year. That compares with a 7.4 percent decline in ad revenue to $700 million for the same period.
The Boston Globe, by contrast, still relies primarily on ad dollars. The Globe, which also owns regional newspaper Worcester Telegram & Gazette, reported a 7.8 percent drop in ad revenue last year minus the extra week to $183 million. That compares with a 1.7 percent decline in circulation sales to $155.1 million in the same period. The newspaper's online subscription program has about 28,000 paying subscribers, 8 percent more than it did at the end of September.
Times Co. tried to sell the Globe as recently as 2009 to bidders including an investor group led by Stephen Taylor, a member of the family that sold the Globe to Times Co. in 1993 for $1.1 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge of the previous sale process.
While at least one bid reached about $33 million in cash, wildly fluctuating estimates on the Boston Globe's pension liability — ranging from $110 million to $240 million — scuttled any deal, the person said. Bidders, who would assume the full pension liability, were unclear on the total value of the pension. Goldman Sachs advised Times Co. on those discussions.
Times Co. is now seeking to divorce pension liability from the sales price, according to another person with knowledge of the process. That means a current buyer wouldn't have to assume the costs of the pension and would therefore be expected to offer a higher cash bid. Had those same conditions applied in 2009, prospective buyers could have offered more than $100 million in cash, according to the person with knowledge of the previous deal process.
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Acronym | CNES |
Owner | France |
Established | 19 December 1961 |
Headquarters | Paris, Île-de-France |
Administrator | Jean-Yves Le Gall |
Budget | €2.334 billion (2017)[1] |
Website | www.cnes.fr |
The Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) (English: National Centre for Space Studies) is the French government space agency (administratively, a "public administration with industrial and commercial purpose"). Its headquarters are located in central Paris and it is under the supervision of the French Ministries of Defence and Research.
It operates from the Toulouse Space Center and Guiana Space Centre, but also has payloads launched from space centres operated by other countries. The president of CNES is Jean-Yves Le Gall.[2] CNES is member of Institute of Space, its Applications and Technologies. CNES benefits from the second largest national budget allocated to space (2.334 billion € in 2017).[3]
CNES was established under President Charles de Gaulle in 1961.
CNES was responsible for the training of French astronauts, until the last active CNES astronauts transferred to the European Space Agency in 2001.
As of January 2015[update], CNES is working with Germany and a few other governments to start a modest research effort with the hope to propose a LOX/methane reusable launch vehicle by mid-2015. If built, flight testing would likely not start before approximately 2026. The design objective is to reduce both the cost and duration of reusable vehicle refurbishment, and is partially motivated by the pressure of lower-cost competitive options with newer technological capabilities not found in the Ariane 6.[4][5]
Summary of major events[edit]
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- 1961 CNES founded. Hammaguir missile range built in Algeria.
- 1962 Diamant Launch Vehicle introduced.
- 1962 First Berenice rocket launched.
- 1963 Cats launched into space via Véronique rockets.[citation needed]
- 1965 First French satellite put in orbit.[6]
- 1967 Hammaguir range closed.[citation needed]
- 1968 Toulouse Space Center completed.
- 1969 French Guiana Space Centre completed.
- 1973 Évry Space Centre completed.
- 2014 E-CORCE launches
CNES concentrates on five areas:[7]
- Access to space
- Civil applications of space
- Sustainable development
- Science and technology research
- Security and defence
Access to space[edit]
France was the third space power (see Diamant) to achieve access to space(after the USSR and USA), sharing technologies with Europe to develop the Ariane launcher family. Commercial competition in space is fierce, so launch services must be tailored to space operators' needs. The new versions of Ariane 5 can launch large satellites or perform dual launches while the Vega and Soyuz-2 are small and medium-lift launchers.
Sustainable development[edit]
CNES and its partners in Europe—through the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative (GMES)—and around the world have put in place satellites dedicated to observing the land, oceans and atmosphere, as well as to hazard and crisis management.
The best-known are the SPOT satellites flying the Vegetation instrument, the Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 oceanography satellites, the Argos system, Envisat and—in the near future— Pleiades satellites.
Civil applications[edit]
CNES is taking part in the Galileo navigation programme alongside the European Union and the European Space Agency (ESA), and—in a wider international context—in the Cospas-Sarsat search-and-rescue system.
Security and defense[edit]
In addition to Spot and the future Pleiades satellites, CNES is working for the defence community as prime contractor for the Helios satellites.
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security—a joint initiative involving the EU, ESA and national space agencies—pools space resources to monitor the environment and protect populations, but it also encompasses satellite support for armed forces and for European organisations on humanitarian or peacekeeping missions.
Ongoing missions[edit]
France's contribution to the International Space Station is giving French scientists the opportunity to perform original experiments in microgravity. The CNES is studying formation flying, a technique whereby several satellites fly components of a much heavier and complex instrument in a tightly controlled configuration.
CNES is collaborating with other space agencies in a number of projects. Orbital telescopes such as INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, XMM-Newton and COROT, and space probes like Mars Express, Venus Express, Cassini-Huygens and Rosetta, operated by the European space agency are revolutionizing our knowledge of the Universe and our Solar System. Recent satellites such as Demeter (earthquakes). Joint missions with NASA result in PARASOL and CALIPSO (radiation budget) satellites. Megha-Tropiques Mission is a planned collaborative mission with the Indian Space Agency (ISRO) designed to study the water cycle and radiation dynamics, and assist observation from other satellite platforms. CNES plays a major role in the construction and operation of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite.
UFO Archive[edit]
Wikinews has related news: French agency CNES to release UFO archives on the Internet |
In December 2006, CNES announced that it would publish its UFO archive online by late January or mid-February. Most of the 6,000 reports have been filed by the public and airline professionals. Jacques Arnould, an official for the French Space Agency, said that the data had accumulated over a 30-year period and that they were often reported to the Gendarmerie.
In the last two decades of the 20th century, France was the only country whose government paid UFO investigators, employed by CNES's UFO section GEPAN, later known as SEPRA and now as GEIPAN.
Wikinews has related news: French Space Agency CNES releases UFO files |
On March 22, 2007, CNES released its UFO files to the public through its website. The 100,000 pages of witness testimony, photographs, film footage and audiotapes are an accumulation of over 1,600 sightings since 1954 and will include all future UFO reports obtained by the agency, through its GEIPAN unit.
Tracking stations[edit]
The CNES has several tracking stations. Partial list:[8][9]
- Kourou in French Guyana
- Issus Aussaguel, 20 km away from Toulouse
- Kerguelen Island, French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Hartebeesthoek, South Africa
- Kiruna, Sweden for the SPOT program
- ^ Le 2ème budget au monde, Activité institutionnelle du CNES, retrieved 2017-01-30
- ^ "Jean-Yves Le Gall". CNES. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- ^ https://cnes.fr/fr/web/CNES-fr/11507-le-2eme-budget-au-monde.php
- ^ de Selding, Peter B. (5 January 2015). "CNES proposal". de Selding is a journalist for Space News. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
- ^ de Selding, Peter B. (5 January 2015). "With Eye on SpaceX, CNES Begins Work on Reusable Rocket Stage". SpaceNews. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
- ^ http://www.univ-perp.fr/fuseurop/diaman_e.htm
- ^ "About CNES". CNES.
- ^ "Les stations de contrôle". Retrieved 2008-06-22.
- ^ "Cnes - Fin de vie de SPOT 1". Retrieved 2008-06-22.
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External links[edit]
- CNES — Homepage (French)
- CNES — Homepage (English)
- CNES — UFO Data


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"Beautiful and sincere novel"
I was looking for a good work of fiction to listen to and feel refreshed, and Leaving Cheyenne was perfect. The narration is spot on, and the story is introspective, charming, and honest. This is one of those novels that you hate to hear end, and I found it hard to stop listening.
"Live life"
I really liked this book. It really reminded me of my father and made me not want to waste any time on people who don't really care about you.
English major. Love to read
"Excellent, simple story"
I too was looking for a comfortable book and this hit the spot. McMurtry's characters are so well developed, I felt bereft when the book ended - as if I had known them for years. The story is very simple but not without its own wisdom. Loved it.
I am 51 years old just an average guy who works in a factory,never read much until I found audio books, WOW !!!!
"Larry McMurtry makes the little things in life fun"
Yes enjoyed the charicters
The story line
Yes i have and it is as good as all the ones I've listened to in the past
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I loved the Narration. Very griping emotions..
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"Good book!"
I thought it started out a little slow but after a while you get to know your characters and you don't want to put it down. By the end it had me and the story was fun and interesting.
I would very much recommend this book for an easy, entertaining story.
The three different narrators did a great job especially the last one who had the whole Texas drawl and lingo down. He must be from there for sure,
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Great read. Who new, a western! Memorable characters with a simple and yet complicated story...
"Classic McMurtry"
It made me sad and blue, and longing for Texas.
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After much contemplation, I am 99% sure that I am going back to school. Online. Because I don't have the physical availability to go back to a traditional "on-campus" university with a full-time job and family. I have a bachelors degree in Public Relations from the University of South Carolina. Which works great, since I am currently a PR and Marketing Director. But. I've felt a stirring in my heart for some time now to move forward with a completely different calling. After much prayer and discussion with my husband, I am diving in.
I'm going to be getting my masters degree in Ministry or Divinity. !!!
I found an online program (accredited, of course) that would earn me a "Masters of Ministry" degree from Anderson University in SC. This is what I was originally planning on doing, and after talking about it with Trevor, he is actually going to do it, too! His current job involves a LOT of down time, so he'd be able to actually go back to school at work (pretty ideal), and if he gets the job he's recently applied for as a firefighter (more on that later), he would be working 24 hours on and 48 hours off, so that would allow for his schooling to fit in perfectly, as well.
So, while I was planning on moving forward with that, full steam ahead, I researched more and now, I am contemplating just going all-in and getting my "Masters of Divinity." I found another online program through Liberty University (if you know anything about either of these programs, let me know!) That is the standard degree for pastors and ministers. If I'm going to do it, I might as well really do it, right? I have a meeting with our pastor tentatively scheduled for next Friday so I can get his feedback, and I am waiting until after then to make my final decision on which way to go.
I am unsure of my end goal. I know I want as much knowledge as possible, though, and I know I want to be involved in women's or family ministry in some way, shape or form. Please pray for Trevor and I as we enter this brand new phase of life! We need all the help we can get!


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Magic Kingdom, Sydney
Coordinates: 33°53′57″S 150°58′11″E / 33.8991°S 150.9697°E Magic Kingdom was a small amusement park located in Lansvale, New South Wales, Australia. It is now closed.
History and operation[edit]
The park operated in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The park was closed not long after Wonderland Sydney opened.
The park was promoted on television with commercials featuring the song "Magic" by the band Pilot.
Some of the rides were sourced from Luna Park after Luna Park closed in 1979 following the Ghost Train tragedy.[1]
Magic Kingdom was popular at its peak but due to size and location (it could only be accessed by a road which went through an industrial area and residential area) the park struggled to remain viable.
The land was sold to developers and is in the process of being redeveloped (as of May 2014).
The park was small, covering about 36 acres (150,000 m2). Features included:
- Over 15 rides
- Slides (Two open water slides (95 metres long) plus a giant dry slide) [2]
- Radio-controlled cars
- Picnic area with barbecue facilities [3]
- Big Shoe
- Petrol-powered mini-boats on a lake [4]
- In the 1990s' bungy jumping was available at the park.[5]
- ^ "Aussie Heritage - Luna Park". 2007-01-30. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ Cockington, James (28 November 1986), "SUMMER NO SWEAT", Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ "Children's parties", The Sun-Herald, pp. Tempo, page 129, 7 April 1991
- ^ "Abandoned Parks - Funk.net.au". Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ Corbett, Bryce (21 December 1996), "Nathan's leap of faith", The Daily Telegraph (Australia), p. 13
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whatever that bolted thing is just right of Cinema gully.dead easy. not sure if it is dry this time of year? cool easy hike and you might even see the train.


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Lake Bell, wearing a sexy see-through bathing suit graces the cover of the September 2011 issue of Maxim magazine.
The 32-year-old actress is featured in a sexy summertime swimsuit spread and also chatted with the men's publication about topics such as her "ultimate party" and new movie "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy". Below are some of the highlights from the interview, for the full story you can pick up the Bell covered Maxim when it hits newsstands on August 16.
On what her ultimate party would be: "I would make Guns n' Roses get together for a reunion show in my backyard. I mean…. where's Axl? Is he, like, gardening somewhere? I miss him so much."
On channeling 90's supermodel style for her shoot:"I've never done Maxim before, so I wanted to create this fantasy, sort of Cindy Crawford thing, really powerful and sexy."
On the awkwardnes of filming her new movie "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy": "It was so embarrassing. We filmed the orgy scene at the end of the shoot, so by that point we were all, like, best buddies.Then all of a sudden we have to be in pasties and nide cock socks. I would be lying if I said there wasn't any alcohol involved."


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- For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim "be seen and not heard." In Skillful Listeners, Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world:Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. Von Glahn situates "nature composing" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their literary sisters, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth of archival and original source material, Von Glahn skillfully employs literary and gender studies, ecocriticism and ecomusicology, and the larger world of contemporary musicological thought to tell the stories of nine women composers who seek to understand nature through music.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Mohican Hiking Day
The Fresno Running Club (me, Reg, Gabe, Wendy) showed up to run Mohican this morning. Joining us were Mike. The two other runners were Rob Powell and Don Baun. When asked if they were going to run the Red-Green section with us, they smiled knowingly and said they would run along the river.
We all got into a fight as we walked to the trail head...about who would break trail. Wendy took point as I stomped into snow and postholed about up to my thigh and actually fell before we hit the trail..
The snow was deep. About one foot deep. It was tough going up the hill. When we got up the hill, a snowmobile had come through and packed down the trail, which made it okay to run on the trail.
Mikey and I stopped at Bridle Staging, where we could use the facilities. Mikey took longer than me, which led to my advantage in picture taking:
The snowmobiler abandoned us on this section of trail, and now our run had become just a hike in the woods. The snow was deep enough where every footstep brought you down 4-5 inches into the snow. Mikey and I truncated our run after the first water crossing (which was frozen BTW, the driest I have ever come through this section!)
Having cut off this about 3 mile loop section on the red, we were now AHEAD of Regis, Wendy, and Gabe. We knew this because there were no footsteps in the snow and now I was breaking trail!!
In fact, we stopped for our food at AS Rock Point and kept waiting for the trio. So we kept going, in the complete walking mode-or actually the stomping through snow mode.
On our way to the water crossing past Rock Point, I got impatient with the snow which was now about half-way up my calves. Mike agreed with me when I said "let's go off piste, cross the river, and pick up the trail on the other side". Heck, we'd already cut the course, what was a little more? We followed a deer path down the rather steep hillside. At one point it was easier to sit and slide down the hill.
As we got to the bottom, we heard Reg talking (natch) and they spotted us in the hollow below. They continued on the trail as we walked through a deer bedding spot where they were bedding spots for at least 15 deer. We got back on the trail right past this, and headed up hill.
and Gabe (his quads look much better in the group photo!) finally caught up with us here. We stayed together for a bit as we marched uphill. The snow was still deep.
The trio got away from us again. As we passed South Park, and rehyrdated,Mike mentioned taking the Forest road instead of the trail. I heartily agreed, as the snow was wearing on me. So we trotted (and walked) the road back to the Fire Tower, and then back down to the Covered Bridge. We ran into Rob, running UP the hill, just doing some hill repeats for his mileage.
Mikey and I chilled (or rather heated) in his van as we waited for the Dynamic Trio to finish (since they had the key to my SUV). It took the Tough Trio 5.40 hours for a run where they would normally finish in 3 hours. It usually takes me 5 hours for this 21-22 section, so Mike and I were smart to take our short cuts! We were out on the trails around 5 hours, for about 14 miles. We *actually ran* about 3 miles out of 14.
Good time on our feet. A splendid day on the trails-weather in the 40's for our hike. Wonderful time spent with Mikey~!
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Hey Kim
Who is the guy in the shorts?? Looks like I will fit right in from AZ!! See you next Sat, looks like fun???
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German Study Abroad
German Exhange Program at Kassel
This Radford-Kassel exchange program (offered as spring and full-year programs) is centrally located in Germany in an industrial region with great train connections to other cities and regions of interest. Kassel is noted for its spectacular museums and for a world-renowned art exhibition Documenta. Students have the opportunity to pursue a full academic program for either a semester or a year. It is open to all majors.
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Students in our German program visit centers of German immigration in the region to learn about the important role that Germans played in the settlement of this country.


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01-24-2012 #2
this was not hard except from the trophy to collect 250,000 lifetime points on 1 sim
06-06-2012 #3
I rate this game as 3. Moderate.
Not because it was hard, but after a while I got really bored of the game and I didn't enjoyed it that much anymore as in the beginning.
I had 2 trophies glitched on me, which I managed to solve but it was really annoying.
1 trophy took me a countless amount of times to get and when I finally discovered a better way to get it, it glitched on me.. Seriously..
I was glad when I got the plat and I need to learn to play games more for the fun than for the trophies.
06-11-2012 #4
Moderate: The trophies are easy to get. They are just time consuming. Only the last trophy I needed, which was "Miracle Worker", glitched on me twice. Both times I had exactly 1,000 wishes and the trophy didn't unlock. I had to delete the Game Data, reinstall the game, and did the last 20 wishes I needed again in order for the trophy to unlock.
07-26-2012 #5
Consuming and glitches ruined it...
09-05-2012 #6
Moderate - Just for the sheer time consuming nature of the plat
10-29-2012 #7
Basicly this, not hard but takes much longer if you don't make your sims immortal.
Like people mention before the game should be very easy but can be super glitchly at times. So be warned, trophies work easier for some than others so hopefully the miracle worker doesn't glitch on you cause doing 1000 wishes twice is just
10-26-2013 #8
MOderate, Not Hard at all. Just boring as hell near the end.
04-17-2014 #9
Very time consuming for the most part. The really hard part of the plat is staying focused and keeping yourself playing even when it begins to get boring.
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Just bought a used Sennheiser HD414 Classic also known as the 50th Anniversary edition for 50 bucks.
This is not the original 2000ohm version or the 600ohm variant. The box and accompanying papers rate it at 52ohms.
I've read a few threads on the HD414, though these are few and far between. Most people say this 50th Anniversary model is not similar to the original version. Many also say that its the 'lousier' version. Oh well, for 50 bucks how can I complain . Some also complain that these cans are very bright. Well let's find out:
Note: Please understand these are my impressions - my POV, to my ears etc. and that these impressions are valid for the time being and only with the music listed below. I find that sometimes, especially with lower end cans, my impressions might change after more time is spent with them.
Firstly, these cans are incredibly comfortable. Light as air. The bare bones, almost austere structure helps I guess. No fancy razzmatazz 3D gravity defying spring loaded technology. Honest to goodness and simple. I like that. I've only had them on for a short while so a longer listening session would be more conclusive. But for now, things are looking good on the comfort front.
For the past 40 minutes or so, I've been listening to various pieces from Sonny Rollins' Way Out West, John Coltrane's Giant Steps, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, Bill Evans' Waltz for Debby, Gene Ammons' Boss Tenor, Charles Mingus' Mingus at Antibes and Wes Montgomery's Full House. I know the selection of music might not serve as a good reference for many people out there, but I have to listen to some of my old favourites before I hit the other records late. I do apologize.
I'm surprised but these cans aren't as bright as some people have made them out to be, to my ears at least. In comparison, the Grado SR60, which I recently listened to, was a fair bit brighter. Treble detail is surprisingly present in relatively decent amounts. It also doesn't suffer from the slightly shrill and forward treble region that the Grado SR60 puts out. Mind you, treble on the HD414 is slightly forward, but not as much as the SR60 and definitely not as much as the Sony MDR-7506.
Upside: Decent treble detail for the price, not very shrill and fatiguing as other cans in the price range
Downside: I don't hear every single nuance, inner detail and texture like I have with higher end cans. But again, for the price, absolutely no complaints.
The Grado also had a very accentuated mid-range which made instruments like trumpets and tenor saxes hitting the higher notes a tad painful. The HD414, does have a slightly grainy and forward mid-range but to these ears they are much more bearable. Actually I quite like the way the HD414 renders the mid-range, not the last word in neutrality and balance, but it does present this part of the sound spectrum in a pleasing manner that isn't boring. They can be produce pretty engaging mids actually, without being too in-your-face and fatiguing.
Upside: Good balance between engaging and polite, quite euphonic and enjoyable
Downside: A bit grainy at times, not the last word in resolution and neutrality, but decent nonetheless
Ok many said these were bass light. I don't find that to be true, at least not for Jazz. But I would have to admit that the bass region is where don't fare too well. The HD414 suffers from a serious lack of bass detail retrieval. Mingus' double bass lines become muddy and unclear. I can't discern the difference between the various notes being played, they kinda fuzz and mesh together. Again not as bass as the usual lower-end cans currently in production. But still a problem. Kinda reminded me of the Grado SR60 here. I found bass on the SR60 to also be a little fuzzy and unclear.
Upside: Well at least it doesn't go booom, booom, booooooommmmm
Downside: Fuzzy and unclear, lacks bass detail
Bottom Line:
Honestly this version of the HD414 sounds like a PX100 that has been tuned - bass quantity decreased and mid-range + treble brought slightly forward - to appease my sonic preferences (mostly), with a slightly 'bigger' sound. I did some brief comparisons between the two after borrowing my brother's old PX100, and found this to be largely true. For the price and comfort, and decent SQ, I kinda like these cans. Not too shabby for an impulse buy on the local forums.
Yesterday, I spent quite a fair bit of time auditioning lower-end cans to hold me over till God's answer to perfect sound arrives in a month or so. I was sorely disappointed at what's available in the market right now. Coming from the ESW10JPN, which aren't exactly high end, I was kinda spoilt. I'm just glad that I picked something decent for a helluva low price.
Now time to wait for my higher-end-voodoo to arrive so that I don't have to languish in the seedy underbelly that is lo-fi!
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Hi Lena,
I have taken a couple of Contiki Tours in the past, and from my experience usually a tour has one coach able to take 50 adventurers. However I did take the popular Winter Wanderer which had been double booked; this meant there were 99 friendly faces everywhere you went. You also may be lucky enough to meet other tour groups as they make their stops in the same cities.
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Awesome. Thanks Ian
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Camping trips are only 46 as the backseats are used for luggage storage.
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Sora no Otoshimono Final: Eternal My Master (Movie)
It's been reported in the December Issue of Kadokawa's Monthly Shonen Ace magazine, that a new a theatrical anime release of Sora no Otoshimono will be released in theaters next year. It will be replacing the third season that had already been green-lit.
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I... was so excited at the topic title that I kind of glossed over the first post. A movie's cool and all, but I do hope the third season hasn't been completely abandoned because I'd much prefer a full season to a movie.
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Sora no Otoshimono Final: Eternal My Master So now it's clear that that it will be an adaptation of chapter 45 with some anime original content. The question is whether they are trying from this make retcon for Gecko Ending of second season or forced finale for anime whole series. Unfortunately, the title itself suggests the second option. |
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"Final"...poor AIC just gave up
If only they had stayed faithful to the source material, they could have easily had material for two more seasons. But as it stands, it seems this is the best compromise given the circumstances. They shouldn't completely shelve the property after this though. Have Suu write up a full "Fumoffu"-type season to offset all the heavy drama currently in the manga, and both camps will be happy.
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The movie itself looks great, but that "Final" word kills my boner faster than that monk training Tomoki underwent in Forte. I do hope this is like a repeat of Friday the 13th IV: The Final Chapter and the anime continues after this.
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The global economy depends on marine transportation. But in addition to cargo, the world's 50,000-plus commercial ships carry tiny stowaways that can cause huge problems for the environment and economy. A new model created by Smithsonian scientists will facilitate accurate screening of vessels for dangerous species before they unload. The team's findings are published today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Ballast water taken up by ships in coastal waters teems with plankton and microbes. When discharged at the next port of call, these hitchhikers can wreak havoc on receiving ecosystems. Under current federal regulations, ships exchange their ballast water in the open ocean to flush out unwanted species. However, some survive the process, and not all ships travel across oceans. Environmental regulators have known about this problem for decades. But while regulators check ship records and can sometimes test salinity to verify compliance, unlike many pollutants, there are no federal requirements limiting the number of viable, potentially dangerous organisms.
That is about to change. The U.S. Coast Guard has proposed a new set of rules limiting the number of organisms allowed, in line with current International Maritime Organization standards. For larger zooplankton (length, width or height at least 50 microns, or one-half the thickness of a piece of paper), the number must be fewer than 10 viable organisms per cubic meter (264 gallons). On-board ballast water treatment technologies offer a promising solution, enabling ships to substantially cut the risk of delivering dangerous species. But while a few systems have entered the market, the challenge of testing the ballast waterand the technologyremains. A major stumbling block is simply understanding how such testing should occur and how much ballast water must be tested in order to count very sparse numbers of organisms.
To help regulators and engineers develop and test such treatment systems, and ultimately enforce these standards, a team of researchers developed a statistical model to see how to count small, scarce organisms in large volumes of water accurately. Led by Whitman Miller, research ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, the scientists took samples that exceeded the limit and ran them through various tests to see which violations would be spotted. Larger samples gave the best results: sampling only 0.1 cubic meter of water (26.4 gallons) made it difficult to detect concentrations even twice as high as the standard. By contrast, when they raised the volume to 7 cubic meters (1848 gallons), the test regularly picked up violations as low as 13 zooplankton per cubic meter.
Another innovation of the model is that it can pool sample results over time and possibly across ships, making it easier to determine if treatment systems function as advertised and thus whether ships are actually compliant or not. Since analyzing samples larger than 7 cubic meters is difficult for most cargo ships, by taking multiple 7-cubic-meter samples, regulators could effectively raise the volume without overburdening the ships.
"When trying to decide how to evaluate a treatment system, we need to balance scientific rigor with what is logistically feasible," said Miller. "Science can help inform regulatory efforts. However, in the end, it is necessary for regulators to determine the level of environmental protection that is acceptable in accordance with both scientific evidence and the needs and desires of society."
"The findings of this study will greatly assist the Coast Guard to develop and implement effective and economical procedures for approving treatment equipment and verifying compliance by ships in meeting discharge standards to minimize the risk of introducing potentially harmful organisms to U.S. aquatic ecosystems," said Richard Everett, an environmental scientist with the Coast Guard's Environmental Standards Division.
The Coast Guard proposal would require most ships arriving in U.S. waters to have ballast water-treatment systems that dramatically reduce the number of living organisms in their discharge. Under the proposed regulation, most existing ships would have until 2014 or 2016 to comply, but any ships built after Jan. 1, 2012, would need to comply immediately. The agency estimated in 2009 that the new regulation could cost as much as $168 million a year, largely for ships to install the new technologies necessary to comply. However, in terms of economic and environmental damage avoided, it could save anywhere from $165 to $585 million a year.
The Coast Guard is also considering implementing a second phase of regulations, which would be up to a thousand times more stringent than the International Maritime Organization standards, perhaps beginning in 2016, but subject to an assessment of practicability.
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It took a while but the Feds finally came clean to having prior knowledge of deceased bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. They also had his mother on a terrorist watch list.
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By Duncan Geere, Wired UK
Mathematicians at the University of Sheffield have uncovered evidence of vast magnetic vortices spinning in the atmosphere off the Sun.
[partner id="wireduk" align="right"]Spinning vortices, which bear a resemblance to tornadoes on Earth, have been spotted previously in the atmosphere of the Sun, but these smaller twisters differ because they carry energy from the convection zone below the Sun's surface to the outer atmosphere. It's thought that as many as 11,000 of the vortices could be swirling across the surface of the star at any one time.
They're surrounded by a magnetic skeleton, and comprised of plasma — a fourth state of matter, alongside solid, liquid and gas, which is thought to account for 99 percent of the matter in the universe. The temperature of these tornadoes? A few millions of degrees kelvin.
Robertus Erdélyi, head of the Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre (SP2RC) of the University of Sheffield's School of Mathematics and Statistics, said in a press release: "One of the major problems in modern astrophysics is why the atmosphere of a star, like our own Sun, is considerably hotter than its surface. Imagine, that you climb a mountain, e.g. a munro in the Scottish highlands, and it becomes hotter as you go higher and higher. Many scientists are researching how to 'heat' the atmosphere above the surface of the Sun, or any other star."
He added: "It is understood that the energy originates from below the Sun's surface, but how this massive amount of energy travels up to the solar atmosphere surrounding it is a mystery. We believe we have found evidence in the form of rotating magnetic structures — solar tornadoes — that channel the necessary energy in the form of magnetic waves to heat the magnetised solar plasma."
Despite being smaller than the monster tornadoes snapped by the Solar Dynamic Observatory, the magnetic vortices still stretch more than 1,600 kilometres across — larger than Britain.
"Because of our collaborative research it looks an essential leap forward is made towards unveiling the secrets about a great and exciting problem in plasma-astrophysics and we are getting closer and closer to find a solution," Erdélyi said.
He added that he hopes that the process could be replicated here on Earth to energise plasma in tokamak, producing energy.
"If we understand how nature heats up magnetised plasmas, like in the tornadoes observed in the Sun, one day we may be able to use this process to develop the necessary technology and build devices on Earth that produce free, clean, green energy."
Source: Wired UK
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The Los Angeles crowd that showed up for Mitt Romney's fundraiser at the Century Plaza Hotel on Tuesday was about twice as big as his last fete, with about 600 donors helping the campaign reap an estimated $1.5 million.
That's according to Harry Sloan, chairman and CEO of Golden Eagle Acquisition Corp. and one of the GOP front runner's show biz fundraisers. Also at the event were Terry Semel, former chairman and co-CEO of Warner Bros., and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
"We're starting to pick up a lot more Hollywood support, and we will continue to pick up more too," said Sloan, who said that a showbiz-centric event is in the works for after Romney secures the nomination.
The $2,500-per-person event was dominated by donors from finance, legal and other professions, as well as political figures from the state. Former California governor Pete Wilson introduced Romney, and the candidate gave a shout out to composer and record producer David Foster, who also was there. Foster worked with Romney on the ceremonies for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Sloan said that the talk among donors was "let's wrap this up," as the longer-than-expected primary has shifted attention and resources from the general election. Polls show Romney's position improving against Rick Santorum, while Newt Gingrich is scaling back his campaign and Ron Paul has struggled in the amassing of delegates.
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With the recent media coverage of suicide within our community we wanted to share with you not only information about HopeLine and other local resources in our community for individuals to reach out to regarding suicide, depression and mental illness but also the warning signs and ways to get help for yourself or loved ones.
In 2012 and 2013, suicide was the leading cause of injury death in North Carolina. More than twice as many people died by suicide than by homicide in 2013. Below is a press release with the warning signs for suicide. Also included are resources that can be used during times of crisis. You will also find a reference sheet that shares statistics along with step by step information on helping those who may be considering suicide.
We hope you will share this information with your followers, and join HopeLine in saving lives within our community.
Warning Signs for Preventing Suicide
HopeLine wants you to know the signs and risk factors of suicide and how to get help before it's too late.
Suicide is an epidemic in our community and nation that has been on the rise since 2009. HopeLine wants our community to know not only about available resources they can turn to but also the warning signs for preventing suicide. 75% percent of individuals who commit suicide do show warning signs, and 90% have a diagnosable and treatable disorder.
Every 14 minutes someone in the U.S. dies by suicide, and it is estimated that for every individual lost to suicide there are another 100-200 suicide attempts. It is important that individuals know what to look for in their friends, family members, and co-workers so we can get them help before it is too late.
Signs and symptoms of suicide
– Depression: Unrelenting low mood, pessimism, hopelessness
– Anxiety, psychic pain and inner tension
– Problems sleeping
– Unexpected rage or anger
– Withdrawal
– Increased alcohol & drug use
– Recent impulsiveness & taking unnecessary risks
– Threatening suicide or expressing a strong wish to die
– Making a plan:
– Giving away prized possessions
– Sudden or impulsive purchase of a firearm
– Obtaining means to kill oneself
The emotional crises that usually precede suicide are often recognizable and treatable. Although most depressed people are not suicidal, most suicidal people are depressed. Serious depression can be manifested in obvious sadness, but often it is expressed as a loss of pleasure or withdrawal from activities that had once been enjoyable.
"It is important to talk about suicide especially when warning signs are recognized. Do not be afraid to directly ask if an individual is having suicidal thoughts. However, it is important to not argue someone out of suicide. Rather let the person know you care, that they are not alone and that depression can be treated. Avoid the temptation to say, 'You have too much to live for,' or 'Your suicide will hurt your family,'
Do not be afraid to seek professional help by calling HopeLine 919-231-4525 and talking to a trained crisis counselor. HopeLine operates a free and confidential crisis line and teen talk line to the local community. They specialize in providing suicide and crisis intervention, supportive and non-judgmental active listening, gentle and understanding discussion of crisis resolution, and referrals to appropriate community resources. HopeLine will work with you if you personally are considering suicide, or if you are worried about someone hurting themselves.
If a friend or loved one is threatening, talking about, or making plans for suicide, these are signs of an acute crisis, and it is important not to leave them alone. Remove from the vicinity any firearms, drugs or sharp objects that could be used for suicide. Take the person to an emergency room or walk-in clinic at a psychiatric hospital, or reach out to any of the Wake County resources listed below.
Wake Country Resources for emergency suicide attempts:
□ If a caller has a therapist, mental health provider, or a psychiatrist, this professional is technically the first responder- however, if they are not available in a time of need, do not wait to get them help.
□ WakeBrook – can be contacted on the phone or can be visited in person. This center is a central access point for evaluation and entry into various psychiatric hospitals. The address 107 Sunnybrook Rd, Raleigh and their phone number is 984-974-4830.
□ Alliance Behavioral Health Care – If a caller has no mental health provider or is uninsured or on Medicaid, and is interested in receiving mental health services in Wake County, call 919-250-3133 or toll-free 800-510-9132. This service is available 24-hours a day
□ CIT Officers – Crisis Intervention Trained. This is an accredited 40-hour training program to help law enforcement (and some EMS / paramedics) deal with individuals with mental health issues. If you call 911, request a CIT officer. If an individual is in immediate danger do not be afraid to call 911.
□ Mobile Crisis Team is a team of trained counselors who will go an individual's house and provide a face-to-face intervention and help develop a crisis plan for the person or help bring them to a crisis center or hospital if needed. Call 1-877-626-1772.
□ Holly Hill Hospital operates independently as a private hospital but often coordinates with Wake County Crisis and Assessment Services. They offer inpatient and 'partial-hospitalization' services for children, adolescents, adults and elderly adults. They can be contacted 24/7 at 919-250-7000.
□ HopeLine You many always reach out HopeLine if you are unsure of what steps to take or how to get help. We are available to support you and walk you through the steps of getting help for yourself or others. Call 919-231-4525 or 1-877-235-4525.


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How do you polish these shoes and keep the white stitching white?
I haven't tried yet, but I suppose you could mask the white stitching with tape before polishing. The stitching on the shoe is a bit darker than the stitching on the welt, so I'm guessing they saw some inadvertent polish during the construction process.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, (born September 15, 1977, Enugu,Nigeria), Nigerian author whose work drew extensively on the Biafran war in Nigeria during the late 1960s.
Early in life Adichie, the fifth of six children, moved with her parents to Nsukka, Nigeria. A voracious reader from a young age, she found Things Fall Apart by novelist and fellow Igbo Chinua Achebe transformative. After studying medicine for a time in Nsukka, in 1997 she left for the United States, where she studied communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University (B.A., 2001). Splitting her time between Nigeria and the United States, she received a master's degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins Universityand studied African history at Yale University.
In 1998 Adichie's play For Love of Biafra was published in Nigeria. She later dismissed it as "an awfully melodramatic play," but it was among the earliest works in which she explored the war in the late 1960s between Nigeria and its secessionist Biafra republic. She later wrote several short stories about that conflict, which would later become the subject of her highly successful novelHalf of a Yellow Sun (2006). As a student at Eastern Connecticut State University, she began writing her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). Set in Nigeria, it is the coming-of-age story of Kambili, a 15-year-old whose family is wealthy and well-respected but who is terrorized by her fanatically religious father.Purple Hibiscus garnered the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2005 for Best First Book (Africa) and that year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (overall). It was also short-listed for the 2004 Orange Prize (now the Women's Prize for Fiction).
Half of a Yellow Sun (2006; film 2013), Adichie's second novel, was the result of four years of research and writing. It was built primarily on the experiences of her parents during the Nigeria-Biafra war. The result was an epic novel that vividly depicted the savagery of the war (which resulted in the displacement and deaths of perhaps a million people) but did so by focusing on a small group of characters, mostly middle-class Africans. Half of a Yellow Sun became an international best seller and was awarded the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction in 2007.
In 2008 Adichie received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. The following year she released The Thing Around Your Neck, a critically acclaimed collection of short stories. Americanah (2013) centres on the romantic and existential struggles of a young Nigerian woman studying (and blogging about race) in the United States.


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Mass Effect 3
Infinite Reputation Glitch
In the portion when you`re about to land on planet Gellix to rescue the defected CERBERUS scientists, right AFTER the scene where you speak to Jacob about things and right BEFORE you speak to Dr. Brynn, there is one ex-cerberus official (Dr. Brown) mourning to her husband right beside the screen (you can`t miss it), talk to her and you`ll automatically receive a +2 reputation. Afterwards pause the game and then save your data. Load it once again and you will notice that you`ll be in the same moment before you saved, and Dr. Brown is in the exact same position. Talk to her again and gain another +2 reputation. Do this as much as you want until you fill your reputation meter.
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There are 42 Bronze Trophies, 6 Silver Trophies, 2 Gold Trophies, and 1 Platinum Trophy.
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Modify a weapon. | A Personal Touch |
Reach level 15 in multiplayer or level 50 in single-player. | Almost There |
Obtain two non-customizable suits of armor. | Always Prepared |
Win a political stand-off. | Arbiter |
Promote a multiplayer character to the Galaxy at War or import an ME3 character. | Battle-Scarred |
Chase down an assassin. | Bringer of War |
Kill 100 enemies with melee attacks. | Bruiser |
Perform any combination of 50 biotic combos or tech bursts. | Combined Arms |
Attain the highest level of readiness in each theater of war. | Defender |
Return to active duty. | Driven |
Start a character in multiplayer or customize a character in single-player. | Enlisted |
Defeat an old adversary. | Executioner |
Complete three multiplayer matches or five N7 missions. | Explorer |
Kill a brute while it's charging you. | Eye of the Hurricane |
Discover an enemy's monstrous origin. | Fact Finder |
Evolve any of your powers to rank 6. | Focused |
Defeat a Harvester. | Giant Killer |
Upgrade any weapon to level 10. | Gunsmith |
Call down an orbital strike. | Hard Target |
Hijack an Atlas mech. | Hijacker |
Finish the game on Insanity without changing difficulty after leaving Earth. | Insanity |
Extract ancient technology. | Last Witness |
Mission accomplished. | Legend |
Stop a Cerberus kidnapping. | Liberator |
Complete Mass Effect 3 twice, or once with a Mass Effect 2 import. | Long Service Medal |
Dispatch 10 probes to retrieve people or resources in Reaper territory. | Lost and Found |
Kill 10 guardians with headshots from the front while their shields are raised. | Mail Slot |
Deliver most of the Galaxy at War assets to the final conflict. | Master and Commander |
Bring a veteran officer aboard. | Mobilizer |
Acquire all trophies. | N7 Elite |
Overload the shields of 100 enemies. | Overload Specialist |
Establish or rekindle a romantic relationship. | Paramour |
Sabotage a dreadnought. | Party Crasher |
Explore a lost city. | Pathfinder |
Make the final assault. | Patriot |
Reach level 20 in multiplayer or level 60 in single-player. | Peak Condition |
Evacuate a scientific facility. | Problem Solver |
Set 100 enemies on fire with powers. | Pyromaniac |
Kill 250 enemies. | Recruit |
Disable a group of fighter squadrons. | Saboteur |
Visit a store in the single-player campaign. | Shopaholic |
Lift 100 enemies off the ground with powers. | Sky High |
Kill 1,000 enemies. | Soldier |
Finish all multiplayer maps or all N7 missions in single-player. | Tour of Duty |
Complete one multiplayer match or two N7 missions. | Tourist |
Survive the swarm. | Tunnel Rat |
Escape a Reaper in the galaxy map. | Untouchable |
Finish all multiplayer maps on Gold or all single-player missions on Insanity. | Unwavering |
Kill 5,000 enemies. | Veteran |
Send a warning across the galaxy. | Well Connected |
Destroy an Atlas dropped from orbit. | World Shaker |
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Tagliatelle con Funghi e Prosciutto: Ribbon Noodles with Mushrooms and ProsciuttoLeftovers: Pattone: Refried Tagliatelle
- 4 servings Ribbon Noodles with Mushrooms and Prosciutto, cold
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 1/4 cup bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano, freshly grated
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- Pinch sugar, optional
Prepare the pasta dough according to the recipe. Roll it out to the thinnest setting on a pasta rolling machine, then cut the resultant sheet into ribbons 1/4-inch wide. Place the ribbons on a sheet tray dusted with semolina and set aside, covered with clean, damp kitchen towels, until ready to cook.
Bring 6 quarts of water to a boil and add 2 tablespoons salt.
In a 12 to 14-inch saute pan, heat oil until smoking. Add the onions and garlic and cook until light golden brown and wilted, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the mushrooms and saute over high heat 5 minutes, until golden brown. Season with chile flakes and salt and pepper, to taste.
Drop the tagliatelle into the boiling water and cook 1 minute. Drain the pasta, reserving the cooking liquid, and add to the pan with the mushrooms. Toss over high heat 1 minute to coat the pasta, adding a splash of the cooking water if necessary to keep the sauce from being too "tight". Add prosciutto and toss to mix. Serve immediately in 4 warmed pasta bowls, topped with Parmigiano-Reggiano.
Place the leftover pasta in a large bowl. Add the butter, eggs, bread crumbs, and cheese and mix in loosely by hand or with a wooden spoon. Take handfuls of the pasta mixture and form it into lightly compressed nests of 1-inch thickness and about 4 inches in diameter. You should have about 4 to 6 nests.
In a large, heavy-bottomed skillet, heat the olive oil over high heat until it is almost smoking. Carefully place the nests in the hot oil and cook until they are golden brown and the edge is crispy. Remove from the oil, season with salt and pepper and drain on a plate lined with paper towels. Sprinkle with sugar if desired and serve immediately.
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Former Lucas County Auditor Larry Kaczala, who died Tuesday after jumping from a parking garage at Toledo Hospital, died from multiple blunt-force trauma, an autopsy performed yesterday showed.
Deputy Coroner Dr. Maneesha Pandey said the injuries were primarily to Mr. Kaczala's head and chest.
Mr. Kaczala, 53, of Ottawa Hills was pronounced dead at the hospital after police said he jumped from the fifth level of the parking garage that connects the Conrad Jobst and Harris McIntosh towers about 11:35 a.m. Chief Mike Navarre said there were several people in the area "who heard or saw something out of the corner of their eye. They didn't see him leap, but something caught their attention and then they saw him lying there."
Dr. Pandey said the coroner's office will not make a further ruling until the investigation is complete and it receives the results of toxicology tests.


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Kirk's Crypt at Orion Music + More Will Be Bigger and Better This Year [VIDEO]
In case you'd need another reason to sign up for the Orion VIP trip package we're giving away, here's something I'd love to check out at the festival this year. Last year, each band member had his own "tent" with things that reflect that guy's hobbies or interests. James had cars and bikes, Lars had movies, Robert had skating stuff, and the whole band had their museum.
The part I really want to see…Kirk's Crypt! I'm a big horror movie fan, and Kirk has so much cool stuff, including posters, statues, masks…all kinds of things from film and TV to check out. It's going to be bigger and better this year, with some famous actors, people in costume, and more.
You only have a few more hours to sign up for the trip, and even if you don't win, look into making the journey to Detroit for this show. I'm trying to plot something for it now.
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