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text: Posted July 1, 2013 We are on the same page. No doubt. I am terrified at the thought of losing Smitty, especially at this point without knowing what Gettis, Ginn or Hixon are going to bring to the table. That said. I just try and hope for the best. And I did say even if they had to do it by committee. Meaning 2, 3 or 4 players filling that role on a play by play nature. Just to Clarify.. Injury or no Injury. Replacing Smith will be an act of God. I am one of the few that think a couple more good seasons and he will be a shoe in for HOF. You call it Homer... I call it positive attitude...... We realistically did it when he went down with a broken leg a couple years back. Ginn is pretty much a bust at the receiver position (I am excited about him on special teams), Hixon can not stay hurt and there is a good chance that Gettis will not make the team. I would rather rely on Lafell and Olsen any day of the week than those three. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites

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Pound Weakens to Two-Month Low as Inflation Slows; Gilts Advance
The pound fell to a two-month low against the dollar after a government report showed U.K. inflation slowed more in October than economists forecast, damping bets the central bank will raise interest rates.
Sterling weakened for a third day versus the euro before the Bank of England led by Governor Mark Carney publishes new economic forecasts in its quarterly Inflation Report tomorrow. Policy makers have pledged to keep interest rates at a record low as long as inflation expectations remain anchored to their 2 percent goal. Short-sterling futures contracts advanced, a sign investors were paring bets on higher interbank borrowing costs. U.K. government bonds rose.
"Interest-rate expectations are going to be pared back after the inflation data," said David Bloom, global head of currency strategy at HSBC Holdings Plc in London. "This has put sterling on the back foot. Mr. Carney must be smiling. He hasn't had anything going his way for a long time."
The pound dropped 0.3 percent to $1.5943 at 4:19 p.m. London time after falling to $1.5855, the lowest level since Sept. 13. Sterling slipped 0.7 percent to 84.39 pence per euro, extending its three-day decline to 1.2 percent.
The U.K. currency will weaken toward $1.55 by year-end, HSBC's Bloom said. Sterling will end 2013 at $1.59, according to the median estimate of analysts in a Bloomberg News survey.
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"The price action is technically significant," Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. analysts led by global head of currency strategy Marc Chandler in New York, wrote in a note to clients.
The pound may decline toward its 200-day moving average at $1.5496, after falling below the mid-October low of $1.5894, the strategists said.
Annual consumer-price inflation slowed to 2.2 percent in October from 2.7 percent in the previous month, the Office for National Statistics said in London. That's less than the 2.5 percent pace predicted by economists in a Bloomberg survey. A separate report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors showed a gauge of house prices climbed to the highest since June 2002.
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I did not make these videos, just using them for demonstration purposes. If I ever get a machine that can edit video and images again, I will replace all the queued youtube clips with screen shots.
well that's just, like, your opinion, man
Author's note: This started out as a response to Boyz n da Pahokee's 'Monster Saturday' Hype Video, but it quickly expanded into something that might have a bit more value. Given the democratization of video production thanks to cheap HD handi-cams, somewhat usable OS-baked-in edit software and free distribution channels like YouTube and Vimeo, web video has exploded lately. This season has seen an up-tick of user-generated media, so I hope this will be useful for the rest of the season.
Hello all, I am professor MGauxBleu. You may remember me from such ironic-kitsch, sadly-relevant and oft front-paged photoshop collages such as Never Forget:
If my computer hadn't exploded, I would have added Van Slyke and Vlad the Transferor to this by now...
Or sadly-derivative DB Hope poster featuring a pseudo-defensive Kelvin Grady:
I am here to transmit some of my film school learnings to the MGoMasses. I am going to make some suggestion for all you future hype video editors. Believe it or not, the moving picture has its own language. This primarily affects editing, which really is the most important aspect of putting a video/movie/film together. If you were shooting your own footage, then the same rules would apply as you plan your shot composition as well as editing. If you are just grabbing other footage, apply these rules to your initial selection of said footage. Follow these rules and people will be psychologically sucked into your video, regardless of what else is going on [though your content will still determine the final impact]. Breaking these rules is what makes "lo-budget" seem crappy.Trust me, your audience will have no idea why they feel the way the do, but the effect is real. We say cinematic language for two reasons: 1) we like to think about "reading a film" just to sound pretentious and 2) because these rules and their use really mimic grammar usage.
Note about the videos: I did not make this video, just citing mgvideo's latest offering. I have tried to queue each video to the right time, but keyframes are a bitch. Just watch the shot I am referencing then pause when the shot changes. No need to watch that whole video a bunch of times.
My suggestion: Pick shots of Michigan players moving from left to right, or framed screen left. For drives, Michigan moving left-to-right. Opposite for the opposition. This is a quick rule because then the networks will do your job for you—they will instictually compose shots that look good and follow the rules.
Evil Jesus
It is composition, not his strange outlook on contraception, that make Jesus so foreboding in this shot.
DRob is heroic, even in warm-ups.
My suggestion: This is pretty much the same rule as above, but I wanted to emphasize motion through the frame differently. Bonus: A sack will seem extra crushing coming from the left, especially the top.
Aside: if your audience is based in right-to-left reading—Yiddish, for example—or top-to-bottom—Japanese—adjust the above two rules accordingly. Again, things that mimic reading eye motion feel easy and natural; the opposite direction feels difficult and creates tension. Gravity, being universal, means that downward motion = good/easy, upward = bad/hard/tense.
Aside 2: I don't recommend it, but if you super careful, you can "flop" a shot, flip it so that something that is on the right side is switched to the left. Short shots are probably fine, and this isn't up for an academy award, so take my caution with a grain of salt. However, since I am anal and aesthetically sensitive, I would never ever everflop an iconic shot. If people have seen it a million times they will know when it doesn't look right. It will create unease, which likely was the opposite of what you wanted.
Obvious TRob HUGE PLAY
Literally running down hill.
Think Tay scores here?
Nope. A very "tough" play where he guts out every yard.
Add this rule to 2 above to get cut-on-action. Edits tend to be less visible if the audience has something in motion to follow from shot A into shot B. In narrative, this often means that you transition from outside a space inside by cutting at the mid-point of the entrance, showing a little motion in each shot. But this action needs to match graphically to be fully effective.
My suggestion: Perhaps ignore this initially. It is less obvious and harder to convey in text than the other points, but logically, it fits here in the order I am presenting. If you master everything else, watch your cut with this in mind and see if it "feels right" or not. If not, something might be strange about how your eye transitions between shots.
My (very light) suggestion: Michigan in road whites when possible, opponents in home darks.
Time to molest the boys!
Consistency: Once you have established one of the above, or even other conventions, try to stick with it. If both teams have similar colors, then flip-flopping their home and roads will make it harder to follow along. As mentioned above, your shots will likely be so brief that your audience will spend too long trying to figure who they are watching without getting enough time to figure out what you are trying to convey. The obvious X factor in football hype vids are the helmets. Most of the time helmets will be unique by team, but also each team will always be wearing the same ones.
My suggestion: If you feel like you have some momentum early in your piece, stick with it. Your vid will build and your audience will stay engaged. If you happen to be an Oregon fan, good fucking luck. Twenty-five million uniform combinations are not your friends, though, you can take solace in the fact that your team will always be the worst looking one in the video. I guess that counts for consistency...
Break the rules: If you had all the resources in the world, you could follow this to a T. However, that isn't going to happen. So, do what you have to. That ridiculous one-handed Woodson pick in East Lansing is iconic and will work no matter how many rules it may seem to break. Additionally, if I were cutting a hype video for OSU week, I would probably keep UM in home darks and and have OSU in white. We want to be hard in that game and the dark will keep the edge on. Further, OSU's red unis say a lot—blood, violence, even some regal tones. These are not things I want establishing about OSU. Additionally, Brandon Graham, Woodley, guys like that are dangerous, murderous battering rams of death in my videos. They would always be in dark blue if I could help it.
There are some other basic things I could cover here, and some slightly more advanced stuff, but I think that this is enough for now. One "tip" that I have not included is: HAVE A DAMN POINT. This is not a tip, it is a must. Every video should have a story line. ESPN's actual game coverage is master of this, even if it is annoying. For ND and OSU the storyline is obvious: HATE. For MSU, I would focus on the fact that they are clown shoes. Other teams may have less historic stories, so you may focus on one element of the game. For instance, god forbid Denard go down at some point, you could cut a video of the likely starter to emphasize that the game rests on said player. If John Clay is averaging 225 YPG coming in, I would focus on him being a beast and us destroying ball carriers to setup that as the most important question of the day: Monster world crushing running back or our run defense, who will come out on top?
If you are thinking of trying your hand at a hype video, watch the 96 tiny vignettes that the networks put together before and during the game. The canned pre-game ones tend to focus on what ever ESPN has been hyping all week/season [Tebow]. In game ones tend to be game recaps. Even if they aren't showing every big play of the game, the will tend to represent the essence. If it is a whooping, expect the team coverage to be one-sided. It will be a little more even if it is a dog fight.
I did not make these videos, just using them for demonstration purposes. If I ever get a machine that can edit video and images again, I will replace all the queued youtube clips with screen shots.
Except the part about how hype videos should try to show Michigan players in the away whites as much as possible. That's just plain stupid.
"Hype" vids should probably be hypey, so going to Good v Evil may not be constructive. However, as long as the colors stay consistant, or the shots long enough, eveything should be fine.
I am anal and aesthetically sensitive
Yes, you are.
I think diaries like this are what keep me coming back to MGoBlog multiple times a day.
I'd really like to see what kind of hype vids would come out if the creators followed your rules. I think part of the reason people love that "Sometimes When You're On" vid from the last two years is because it has a point, like the OP says. The clips aren't chronological, but they almost seem like they are, so the video sort of tells a story about a hapless, ragtag team of misfits transforming into something great (or maybe competent is the better word here). People definitely responded to that, I think.
Many posbangs to you, MGB.
Also, what the hell is that cookie monster video? Did I miss something this week?
nice points here, I learned a lot from your expertise, keep it coming. That said, you could learn from one of your own lessons and stay focused on your point, which was teaching film editing basics, not bashing catholics. Cheap shots aren't appreciated on the field, and they're not appreciated here. Stay classy MGauxBleu.
It was more a commentary on the use of those images in that specific video. It is classic good guys v. bad guys. I was trying to point out the subtext of this piece. The tone of the commentary was meant to reflect the tone of the piece.
I gotcha, thanks for the clarification. I hope your series continues.


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After a pretty successful 2010, local agricultural producers are beginning to implement their strategies for the new year, and as usual, everything revolves around the weather. Ashley Batey has more in this week's From The Ground Up.
"The end of the year, we were anticipating a little more moisture, and we haven't gotten that, and that's put us for a little set back beginning 2011."
Ranchers who count on winter pastures to feed their cattle have come up short so far.
"We were planning on planting some winter pasture, did as a matter of fact, and it's been sitting out there ever since, hardly got any of it to germinate."
"Grain prices keep creeping up, and so we're having to rethink some of those strategies without the rye grass to help us out with that."
"It looks like if it doesn't rain, and significantly rain in the real near future, we're looking at heavily culling cows."
There will have to be a definite change in our weather pattern to encourage ranchers to increase the size of their beef cattle herds.
"I think we're going to be a little shorter on numbers of livestock, number of cattle, and the recent price gains that we've had should hold pretty steady through the early part of the year anyway."
Hoping that cattle prices don't get too high is uncharted territory for most ranchers.
"There is a real connection between the retail price of our beef and the demand for it."
"And that is so true. Not only the consumer here in the United States, but at some point we're going to drive the consumer away in the rest of the world."
"I would really like to see some stability in the prices of everything. If we could plan a little better as to what our costs are going to be and what our income's going to be, I think that we could possibly do a better job as a producer."
As is true every year, weather holds the key to a successful 2011 for agriculture. I'm Ashley Batey, looking at Brazos valley agriculture, From The Ground Up.


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Nitshill (Scots: Nitshull, Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc nan Cnòthan)[1] is a district on the south side of Glasgow. It is north of South Nitshill, south of Crookston, and southwest of Silverburn and Pollok. Nitshill was originally a coal mining village. The Nitshill Colliery was the scene of one of Scotland's worst mining disasters—on 15 March 1851 in which 61 men and boys died.
The village fell within the county of Renfrewshire until about the 1920s, when it was incorporated into the City of Glasgow. The change in local government were mainly related to education and community services such as roads, water, sewerage and housing.
The village grew to accommodate people relocated during the Glasgow slum clearances in the 1950s and 1960s. The village became a low socio-economic area on the main Glasgow-Kilmarnock road and rail networks. However, there has been a move towards improving the district with the building of The Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, which houses the Nitshill Open Museum. This is a new purpose-built museum storage facility and visitor centre.
The poet and folk singer Jock Purdon was born and grew up in Nitshill.
Nitshill railway station is on the Glasgow South Western Line.
Househill Mansion[edit]
Househill Mansion was built in the early 19th century to replace an earlier house on the lands of Househill belonging to the Dunlop family. It became the home of John Cochrane and his wife Catherine Cranston, proprietor of Miss Cranston's Tearooms including the Willow Tearooms designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In 1904 she commissioned Mackintosh to re-create the interior of her home, including redecoration of rooms, provision of new fire-surrounds and design of furniture. One end of the music room was semicircular in plan, and he extended the shape into the room with a horizontal rail at picture rail height about two feet (600 mm) clear of the curved wall which continued round into the room space to complete the circle. This horizontal circle was supported on a curved screen of narrow vertical slats for much of its length in the room, and on fittings against the wall which incorporated benches and window seats in his typical style. The centre of the circle was marked by a similarly slatted light fitting hanging from the ceiling. Catherine Cranston sold the house in 1920 after her husband died. The house was demolished around 1930 after being badly fire damaged.
Victoria coal pit disaster[edit]
On 15 March 1851 an explosion at the Victoria coal pit killed 61 of the 63 men and boys in the mine at the time. Two survivors were rescued 45 hours after the explosion.[2]
- Robert Macleod, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Country Life Books 1968
External links[edit]
- Glasgow Museums Resource Centre & Nitshill Open Museum
- TheGlasgowStory: Househill (Hous'hill)
- TheGlasgowStory: Furniture from Hous'hill
- ^ List of railway station names in English, Scots and Gaelic – NewsNetScotland
- ^ Nitshill 15 March 1851 scottishmining.co.uk, accessed 10 February 2010


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Windows Forms Programming in C#by Chris Sells
Pub. Date: 08/22/2003
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Praise for Windows Forms Programming in C#
"Chris may have a strong affinity for semi-colons, but anybody who's programming Windows Forms needs to read this book."
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Praise for Windows Forms Programming in C#
"Chris may have a strong affinity for semi-colons, but anybody who's programming Windows Forms needs to read this book."
—Brian Randell, Visual Basic Guru and DevelopMentor Instructor
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—Fritz Onion, DevelopMentor instructor and author of Essential ASP.NET
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"I think this book does a great job of hitting a huge number of features—sometimes I forget how much there is to WinForms!" —Chris Anderson, Software Architect, Microsoft Windows Forms team
Programming Windows Forms in C# is the ultimate guide to using the Microsoft .NET forms package. Readers learn how to build smart client applications that take full advantage of both the rich user interface features of the Microsoft Windows operating system and the deployment features of HTML-based applications. Author Chris Sells draws upon his WinForms research and programming experience to provide what the Windows Forms documentation could not: a clear picture of exactly how C# programmers will want to use WinForms.
Well-written and easy to navigate, this book presents the building blocks of WinForms and the best practices for creating stand-alone client applications and front ends to databases and Web services. Readers gain an understanding of the rationale behind aspects of WinForms' design and will find out how to avoid or solve common problems. Figures illustrate WinForms' user interface features and code samples are used throughout the book to demonstrate best practices. All code has been tested with Visual Studio .NET 1.1 and is available at www.sellsbrothers.com, where readers will also find updates to the book.
This book focuses on the topics readers need to understand in order to build real-world applications. These topics include:
Form layout
- Multiple top-level windows
- Non-rectangular windows
- Accessing data from the middle tier, filesystems, XML, databases, and Web services
- Classes outside the System.WinForms namespace, including System.Drawing and System.Security
- Custom drawing
- Hosting and building controls
- Design-time integration
- Data binding
- Multithreaded user interfaces
- Deploying WinForms over the Web
- Moving from MFC
- Delegates and events
- Serialization basics
Programming Windows Forms in C# is the tutorial for experienced Windows programmers who are serious about mastering Windows Forms.
Product Details
- 9780321116208
- Publisher:
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- Publication date:
- 08/22/2003
- Series:
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- Edition description:
- Older Edition
- Pages:
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- Product dimensions:
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Table of Contents
1. Hello, Windows Forms.
WinForms from Scratch.
Windows Forms in Visual Studio .NET.
Arranging Controls.
Application Settings.
Drawing and Printing.
Data Binding.
Multithreaded User Interfaces.
Moving from MFC.
Where Are We?
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So, over the weekend I assembled the HamCan, and got some pretty wonky performance. I'm going to go through it all again and see if I can figure out why the receive performance is so bizarre, (loose connection? poor adjustment?) but it got me thinking that part of the issue is that typical PCB construction doesn't really offer much advantage for prototyping. The boards are small. They don't allow much room for experimentation, substitution and even debugging. My early experiments with so-called "ugly construction" like what I used for the FM transmitter I built last month worked much better. The technique is not optimized for mass production, but for individual experimentation and easy substitution and testing. That seems to be a very good thing.
So, my intention is to start an "Ugly Weekender": one of Wes Hayward's classic QRP designs. I've got a box set aside where I can start putting out the components I need (I should have most of them already, some of the variable caps might require a bit of substitution or creativity). But rather than just diving in, I think I am going to try to plan out the layout of each of the two/three boards it will cover, and consider modeling portions of the design in LTSpice. I'll try to cover each step of this construction with videos and additional files that might be of use for someone considering a similar homebrew project. I'm in no hurry to get this done: it's a project which is designed to maximize my own learning and enjoyment, so be patient (and encouraging, it really does help).
In the mean time, here are a couple of YouTube videos that serve as inspiration for this project.
Addendum: The original Ugly Weekender transmitter appeared in the August 1981 issue of QST in an article by Roger Hayward and Wes Hayward. The receiver appeared in the June 1992 issue in an article by Roger Hayward. Both are available to ARRL members through their excellent online archive of QST backissues.
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hi everyone my liteon drive was not reading certain back ups after the intial flash of lt2.0 so i plugged it on to my laptop using (xbox 360 usb pro, ck3 lite with internal pc molex, probe 3) so basically i think i plugged the cable the wrong way it would fit so i turned it around and then it fit but when i loaded up jungle flasher it didnt detect the drive...
anyway i am going to buy a new drive (http://www.360upgrades.co.uk/xbox-dv...50c-p-201.html) and was wondering if the dummy file i recieved when i flashed my xbox last week are the files i need..... because i had it flashed pre 13141 but after the update it went back to stock and i can not contact the guy who done it then for the files...
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The dummy.bin you got from the original drive is suffice. When you get your new drive, follow this tutorial and you will be up and running again in no time .Please do not request mods from BL4K3Y - Users have had difficulty having them returned (few months wait)
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ok thanks i was looking for that tutorial
just to double check the key i got from flashing my xbox after the xgd3 update is still gonna work right?
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5th November 11 #4I'm no expert but i am doing my best to help, so feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.
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ok lovely
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ok just one more thing.... when i receive my new liteon drive how am i going to update it to the 02510C? does jungle flasher do it automatically?
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and btw the part i just answerd was also already answerd by blakey8!!!
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eshhhh... sorry about that...
Thanks everyone you really have been a massive help
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Welcome to Mirror Online's live blog, covering all the lastest news and updates from the French Alps where a British family and French cyclist were murdered on a remote road near to Lake Annecy on Wednesday. We're just waiting for the press conference to get underway at the Palais de Justice in Annecy...
Prosecutor Eric Maillaud confirms that the victims ARE the family of Saad al-Hilli - his wife and two daughters. This, has been confirmed by the four-year-old daughter who was found in the vehicle, who has been speaking to investigators.
Regarding the older woman in the vehicle, Mr Maillaud says that the little girl was not very familiar with her. It is still not known if she is a mother-in-law, grandmother, aunt.
The identities of the two daughters are believed to be Zainab and Zeena. The mother, who has been named locally as Iqbal, has a longer, more complicated name on her passport. Mr Maillaud confirms they will be referred to as Mr and Mrs al-Hilli.
Mr Maillaud says that four-year-old Zeena will be reuinted with British family as soon as possible. She cannot add much to the investigation as she hid under her mother's skirt as soon as the attack began. The elder daughter, Zainab, is still in an artificially induced coma.
Mr Maillaud refers to the 'sighting' of a white Peugot 4x4 as "chinese whispers". He says the cyclist who discovered the massacre saw a GREEN or dark coloured 4x4 and a motorbike. He says the idea of a white 4x4 is the result of rumours and many people contacting the media with bits of 'information'.
As the cyclist did not hear gunfire, a question is asked as to whether or not a silencer was used. Mr Maillaud says the cyclist was pedalling very hard and concentrating and did not hear anything. He cannot add any further information than that.
Asked where the gun cartridges were found, Mr Maillaud says there were around 15 outside the vehicle and around 25 in total, including inside the BMW and inside the victims bodies. He says he does not yet know what calibre or weapon was used.
When asked if the killer was a professional, Mr Maillaud says "I don't like the use of the word execution" as it implies that it was a professional hit.
He confirms that it was not their first day in France and it was not their first day camping. The family knew the region in France and enjoyed it.
Mr Maillaud confirms that French authorities have had information from British police referring to a family conflict about money between Mr al-Hilli and his brother. He adds that Mr al-Hilli's brother has contacted British police after hearing through the British media that his brother had been killed. He denied to British police that there was any conflict between the two.
A judicial inquiry began this morning, with two magistrates appointed. A French investigator has landed at Heathrow to work with British authorities in the inquiry.
Mr al-Hilli's brother is not expected to fly out to Annecy but will be interviewed by police in Britain. He is expected to be interviewed as a witness. Mr Maillaud confirms that he has heard, second hand, from a police source about a conflict between two brothers about money. He says he does not know if it is an inheritance, particularly a £1 million inheritance.
The youngest daughter is still being cared for in the children's psychiatric department at the hospital. No members of the family have currently flown out to France to be with her.
Mr Maillaud refuses to comment on why the front seat of the BMW was empty. He will only say that it is part of the ongoing investigation.
It is not known if anything was stolen from the vehicle because police do not yet know what was inside the car to begin with.
Mr Maillaud confirms all the bodies where hit with at least THREE bullet per body with at least ONE bullet in the head per person.
The autopsy will tell us which bullet was fatal. He reiterates that each victim had one bullet to the head.
Mr Maillaud says investigators are trying to work out in what order the victims died but he says he believes they will never know.
It has been assumed that the French cyclist was in the wrong place at the wrong time but investigators are not drawing a definitive conclusion, Mr Maillaud adds.


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In mid 2015, we launched the book of the "Story of Folding sled". This book documents the design process of Folding Sled, conducted from 2011-2015.
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In mid 2015, we launched the book of the "Story of Folding sled". This book documents the design process of Folding Sled, conducted from 2011-2015.
Max Frommeld & Arno Mathies were selected as one of the 10 finalists for for the design competition during Design Parade 10 at Villa Noailles. The competition will be followed by a 3 month long exhibition in the beautiful setting of Villa Noailles in Hyères.
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Maarno is presenting their second product using the principle of live hinges, Folding Sledge. It will be exhibited during Art Basel 2014 from the 16th of June to the 21st. More details can be found here: swissdesignawards
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No bed side manner! He is rude and just horrible!
Read the report the Dr wrote and was inaccurate to what was said. Wanted to speak, but he told me to stop and listen to him... Not sure he has any bedside amnnor that would make him relevant to what Im looking for
Place is horrible. Their admins should not be working in the medical fields. They are rude, heartless and dont care about anything.They give diabetics afternoon appoitments, requiring them to fast, then holding them in the waiting room for more than two hours. We told the admin my mom was going to pass out and she said "well, we'll get to her when its her turn" This stupid admin has no business working in the medical field. They dont know how a schedule works. They require you to be there no more than 30 min late or you will have to reschedule, but yet the doctor can be 2 hours late and now everyone fasting has to wait even longer to be seen. If possible to make a review and give you NO STARS I would because your a waste of office space.
Very through in taking patient history. Very satisfied.
Very knowledgeable doctor. Makes everything clear and to the point.
First of all Dr. Qureshi was excellent and I recommend him. All of the other medical staff do a great job too. The problem is with his office and the billing staff. They Ignored the copay information on my insurance card and would not call as the card instructed on the back. "If you want to see the doctor your copay is $70.00" Eventually with the insurance company's help I was assured i would be given a credit. I got a bill instead. When I returned to discuss the bill the account was all $0.00. No credit no dept. Humana insurance did all they could but there is no longer any computer record. The Doctors are excellent but there computers are crooked. Just my experience.
Excellent doctor with a great bedside manner.
The first visit was OK . The second had a different tone. My file was not up to date and this doctor had no idea of why I was there for, he was obviously reading the report on the spot! Questions were not welcome. The secretary was not helpful either not volunteering any info pertaining to follow up of my condition with other providers. This office is very slow in coordinating tests and appointments as well as communicating with others. Weeks even months seem to pass by with no relief in sight. A patient health should be of primary concern, this neurologist does not deliver. A sad thing to witness in our society more and more. Just go somewhere else.
Worst doctor ever! So heartless and uncaring. He has horrible horrible bedside manner and does not care about his patients at all. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!
Nightmare City, receptionist SCREAMS at you. Do NOT send your worst enemy here. Diagnosis never was correct, told several things, can not keep anything straight. . .
My family doctor had no answers for my constant migraines. Dr. Qureshi was friendly and attentive. The meds he gave me cut the migraines down to about 10% of their intensity and I have finally been able to live a normal life again.
I went there for dizziness and nausea, which I thought could be caused by a neck injury. My family doctor said I may have a pinched nerve in my neck that is responsible for my condition. Dr. Qureshi did all kinds of tests for my balance but never really examined my neck. A MRI was supposed to be done (I heard her saying that to the nurse, and she gave me a appointment card with that on it) but on my next visit I was told no MRI will be done. Instead the doctor told me I have migrenes which cause the nausea and dizziness. I tried to tell him that I don't have that, but he did not listen to me. He did not let me talk, kept cutting me off, and gave me a pain medication that said side effects are nausea and dizziness. I went back because the pills helped somewhat for the pain but my nausea and dizziness was worse, I could hardly leave the house. Now he put me on a antidepressant that can also be used for pain. It makes me very tired, to the point that I cannot function during the day. My neck injury was never checked out, and I did not get any help from this doctor.
WORST office ever the doctors don't care about you. The staff is worthless. they just sit and chit chat behind the lobby desk and talk about patients problems to where other patients can here it. Dr Qureshi is the worst. He is always late!! He doesn't know what he is doing. When you ask him a question about your symptoms and what you think might be causing it he smirks or will giggle in your face. Good luck trying to contact this worthless Doctor Office. You can call all day and not get a answer.
From the moment Dr. Qureshi walked in the room I felt like he was there to take care of my needs. He asked so many probing questions and never seemed rushed like one patient had commented. Maybe he was just rushed that particular day. Doctors are like everyone sometimes having too much to do in the time they have available. I got the impression he was a very kind, caring and intelligent Dr. I would reccommend him to anyone.
I arrived up 5 mins before my appointment. The nurse showed up on time, measured my blood pressure and walked me in the room indicating Dr. Qureshi would be right with me. Having waited for almost 30 mins, I stepped out of the room to ask the nurse whether the doctor was still coming. Surprised, she said that the doctor would be with me in a minute. No apology! I went to Dr. Qureshi's receptionist and asked whether he had scheduled the appointment correctly. Politely, he said yes and went to check with the doctor. Upon coming back, the receptionist gave me two options: i) wait another two minutes, or; ii) reschedule the appointment. I replied that if it were matter of two minutes I'd wait, but otherwise couldn't sit there indefinitely. The receptionist went to double check with the doctor and eventually asked me to reschedule because the doctor was busy with another patient. No apology on doctor's behalf! Very disappointed I left the clinic. Yes, it takes 2-3 days only to schedule an appointment with Dr. Qureshi, but whatever the reason for that, I wouldn't recommend the doctor to anyone who values time and decency.


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SBIR Phase II: Enabling large-scale manufacturing of organic electronic devices using photolithography
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Orthogonal, Inc
95 Brown Road, Ithaca, NY, 14850-1257
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John DeFranco
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AbstractThis Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop a photoresist system that is compatible with a much wider range of materials than traditional photoresists, allowing for the patterning of advanced semiconducting polymers and small molecules on existing photolithographic equipment. Through Phase I project, Orthogonal has improved its fluorinated photoresist system by making two new materials with lower manufacturing cost and enhanced performance. In this Phase II project, the patterning of the widely used conductive polymer poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonic acid) (PEDOT:PSS) and similar acidic materials will be studied. Multiple approaches will be taken to continuously improve the performance of the new photoresist materials. The scalability of one or both photoresist materials to large quantities will be investigated by addressing the major issues that may be challenging to the scale-up, including dealing with heat generation and finding a suitable initiator. The broader/commercial impacts of this project will be the potential to enable the large-scale manufacturing of organic electronic devices by leveraging the existing photolithographic infrastructure currently used in the industry. The availability of the new photoresist materials in large quantities and consistent quality will help meet the performance and volume demands of organic electronic industry, which is expected to grow rapidly once a scalable and high-yield manufacturing technique is available.
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After the first dozen or so similar themed complaint posts on blogs, message boards and the like, it really does seem to occur to me that there's a distinct subset of comic book fans who attend SDCC that have forgotten the important fact that San Diego Comic-Con is the LARGEST comic book convention in the United States.
In other words, while I perfectly understand the fact that people are not exactly thrilled that Comic-Con has also become the largest pop culture convention in the United States (or is there any even bigger one? There isn't, is there?)… come on people, this is still the largest celebration of comic books that there is!
It just doesn't make sense to me to get worked up about the Twilight fans or the people just there to meet non-comic related celebrities when you have what is, again, the largest celebration of comic books that we have in this country!
My buddy Alex was just saying the other day on Facebook that he picked up more cool new books in one day at Comic-Con than he has in the last three months and that dude is ALL about picking up cool comic books.
Finally, when we constantly talk about making comic books accessible to new readers, shouldn't we show the same excitement for making our comic book conventions accessible to new readers, even if 99% of them likely have no interest in comic books? If you can get ONE percent of the other attendees into comics, then isn't that awesome? And if you can't, then oh well, you're just stuck attending (wait for it) the largest celebration of comic books that we have in this country!
Nah, I'd rather complain about not feeling all special in my nerd ghetto anymore.
As a newcomer to comics, I've not yet been to SDCC, so take my comments with a grain of salt. But I agree with your assessment. SDCC is a massive event for every fan of comics, gaming, sci-fi or any combination thereof. If you want a more purely comic experience, I'd say you should probably go to a smaller con. Nothing wrong with that.
However, I would disagree a bit with your last argument that making SDCC such a broad fan experience increases the chances for new comic readers. Certainly, I think there will be some folks who go to the Twilight panel and pick up the Twilight book and like it. But I'd guess many of the people who bought the 125K tickets for SDCC in a few hours have preferences that are set in relative stone. In other words, they're standing in line for Twilight because they're all about Twilight. They probably won't attend a comic-centric panel. Although to say that never happens is not true, either, of course.
Also, very few new fans will gain exposure to comics at SDCC simply because I'd guess few new fans knew just how in demand those 125K tickets are and weren't able to get tickets. So, they'll never step foot inside the convention center to see all the crazy good new books, or meet the artists and writers or any of that. I'm not saying there's a solution to that problem, but the combination of the tickets going to hard core fans (many of whom aren't comic fans per se), and the fact that those fans' tastes are well-established, may limit SDCC's ability to expand to brand new or relatively new readers.
So? Maybe we're looking at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France, the Lucca Comics & Games Festival in Italy, or Comiket in Japan – all of which are bigger, better attended shows than SDCC and are far more comics-centric than SDCC – and asking why the hell America can't get it right?
Did that ever occur to you, Mr. Cronin?
I wonder how small a gathering it would be if it were only comics.
The primary reason I haven't gone to sdcc is 'cause I don't have that kind of money. I'd mostly go for the express purpose of trying to talk to creators that I think are neat. It's been something that I started doing more at cons recently. It used to be all about back-issues, but now I just like the whole nerd-gathering experience. Why people have to hate on other nerd genres is beyond me.
So, anonymous, what exactly is your point? That Europe has bigger, better comic conventions? OK. Totally not the point, but OK. Cool that you told us that, in case some of us didn't know. Brian's point stands. The wanting-to-be-picked-on weirdos in the US who are mad that "too many normal people" come to SDCC are shitty weirdos.
I think if the complaint is that the original primary goal/focus of the con was comics and that comics get ghettoized within that, it might be a valid complaint, to a degree. I've read things (I think) about Artist Alley getting too expensive for small press people, and in general the Hollywood focus has seemingly priced the Con out of the hands of many who'd like to go.
But your points are all valid and sensible.
What's good, I think, is that certain people in the comics field are looking at what SDCC has become and trying to do something that IS more focused on comics alone. I'll bring up, yet again, the Boston Con, which was a decent size — big enough to have a lot of cool comics guests but not so big that I was exhausted or waiting in lines forever or stuck in non-comics related stuff. If there are more smaller regional cons that attempt to fill in that "gap" and focus just on the comics, I think that's a good (unintended) consequence of SDCC hitting the big time.
Really, though, is there another field where fans and pros can interact for virtually no money? Musicians and actors might have meet and greets, and if you see an indie band you might get to hang with them after the show. Sports figures sell their autographs for a ton of money because they have no other way to cash in on their talents. But with comics, any cons I've been to, the admission is cheap, most people sign books for free, and you can chat with them for a while about all sorts of crap.
So…comics rule, is what I'm saying. Yeah.
Right on, Cronin.
And all the media attention SDCC gets, even if it's almost never about comics, is always still referred to as "comic com" and that's got to be good for comics.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever attended?
Disagree. It's like if the Cubs and White Sox met in the World Series and only a small handful of Chicago baseball fans were even able to get tickets to it.
And then, the NFL decides that they're going to hijack Wrigley Field and New Comiskey and play ten Super Bowls there while the World Series is moved over to a little league field.
And all the exposure and coverage is on the football games.
The only hope for those folks is that maybe the Bears play in the Super Bowl.
I agree with the sentiment, but the practical fact is: I haven't been able to get tickets to SDCC in years. It would be cool if SDCC was available to non-comic-readers, but when I haven't ever been able to get down there with my wife and kids (I live an hour away), it feels like somethings gone pretty wrong.
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SBIR Phase I:In Vitro 3D Lung Tissue Model for Drug Discovery and Toxicity Screening
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AbstractThis Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is the development of a lung tissue model based on a new cell culturing platform utilizing nanoparticle-based reagents and magnetic fields to levitate tissue samples and allow three-dimensional (3D) growth. This method naturally grows tissue at the air-liquid interface and is well suited for co-culturing, which are crucial for an accurate in vitro lung model. The application and market for this product will be drug discovery and toxicity screening. In the early stages of drug development, candidate compounds are screened for efficacy and toxicity in in vitro model systems. Currently, these tests are performed in high-throughput assays using two-dimensional (2D) tissue, but 2D culturing alters cellular responses and often leads to misleading results. Subsequent tests in animal models are costly, ethically contentious, and sometimes inaccurate since model organisms may not faithfully reproduce human responses. The broader impact of this proposal follows from the potential to use the tissue model for improved in vitro efficacy and toxicity assays to reduce the cost of drug development. The reduction of animal testing is also an important goal for ethical reasons. In addition, a lung tissue model that recapitulates natural tissue properties and responses can also find application in toxicity screening of environmental, cosmetic, and industrial factors. The current worldwide expenditure for animal toxicity testing is over $10 billion/yr, and replacement in vitro methods are already over $200 million/yr and growing rapidly. An improved lung model will have significant impact in these areas.
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