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Image Handling Ability & SpeedAllyCAD is known for its lightning speed in handling multiple large images as well as its compatibility with geo-referenced data. We currently support the JPG, BMP, SID (MrSID), ECW (ERMapper), PNG & TIF image formats among others. Easily rotate, clip, and adjust the brightness and contrast of your images with the built-in image controls and the Image Manager.
Full DWG and other CompatibilityAllyCAD allows you to work with DWG files easily and with no loss of data. The data structure has been completely re-designed for DWG compatibility and includes XRefs, drawing space and layouts, multiple viewports and various line, text, dimension and table styles. AllyCAD can also read DGN, CEX, UCX, DRG and SHP files.
Handling reality mesh dataImport and rendering of reality mesh data allowing high resolution 3D models from photos or point clouds
Import a Google Earth SnapshotA new utility can capture and georeference the active view from Google Earth. The resultant image can then be imported into the correct position in a survey drawing. This is useful for preplanning for development surveys, preliminary designs, etc.
New Block EditorThe Block Editor allows you to edit the CAD-entities in the block definitions in your drawing. It will display the selected block in a separate drawing window. Once you have finished editing the block you may simply close the window or use the Save option.
3D NavigationNavigation in AllyCADs 3D Render View (zoom in/out, pan and rotate) has been made very quick and easy to use.
Layout NavigationSelect and display a layout from a displayed list which makes it a lot easier to find a specific layout when there are many drawing layouts.
Expand Detail Function with Layer MagnificationThe 'Expand Detail' function from AllyCAD 3 has been implemented. Dimension linear scale and layer magnification values are adjusted for the expanded details.
Advanced Hatch Perimeter TrackingHatches and solid fills are so much easier with vastly improved auto perimeter tracking including island detection and multiple perimeters.
Shape File export includes Arcs, Circles, Inserts & XRefsArcView Shape file export now includes arcs and circles (exported as exploded lines) as well the contents of any inserted blocks or XRefs in the drawing.
Monitor XRefs for changes from original sourceXRefs loaded in the current drawing are monitored for changes to the original source drawings. Should such a change occur you are given the option of reloading the XRef in order to display up-to-date reference information
Import shape files with Lat-Long coordinatesArcView Shape files in geographical coordinates can now be converted to survey coordinates during import. Importing also has an option to create an Access MDB file (requires the relevant ADO database driver) containing the data associated with the Shape file. The data link can be manipulated to produce labels based on the contents of the database table.
Sheetfile Editor for production drawingsUsing the new powerful sheetfile concept, unique to AllyCAD, you can generate production drawings with detailed title blocks, north signs, grids, scale bars and much more so that your plotting requires minimal, if any, CAD editing. The sheetfiles can be created or edited using normal CAD functions in a vastly improved Sheetfile Editor. AllyCAD works seamlessly with older sheetfiles as well.
Visual Snaps with GrabAll modeVisual snaps allow you to see where a snap will be applied as you move the cursor. The screen will be dynamically updated to indicate where the nearest snap point is and in GrabAll snap mode, it will also indicate what type of snap point is nearest.
Print / Publish the Drawing Space / Multiple LayoutsThe 'Publish Layout' function allows you to save one or more layouts to disk as separate drawings, and has now been extended so that you can print multiple layouts in one operation.
Supports Northern & Southern CoordinatesAllyCAD supports both Northern and Southern hemisphere survey coordinates to ensure that you maintain data integrity with astounding accuracy.
Dynamic DimensioningDynamic dimension preview shows you exactly what the dimension will look like before it becomes part of the drawing. You can also have different dimension styles per drawing.
Annotative ScalingAllyCAD once again allows you to specify text, dimensions, arrows and block inserts as "mm on paper" regardless of scale. When you add a viewport to a layout, AllyCAD will automatically configure the viewport so that annotative objects in the viewport are drawn at the same size in 'mm on paper'.
Faster RedrawsWe have optimized our redraw routine to make the redraws really fast which further improves your productivity.
Convert single-line text to multi-line textThe new 'SText to MText' function allows you to indicate one or more single-line text entities, which are then joined together into one multi-line text entity.
Output Bar information displayThe Output Bar displays information such as the measurements and properties of entities when you measure or query an entity or polygon area. The Output Bar will be displayed automatically when results need to be presented to the user. Output can also be printed or written to file.
Comprehensive Purge FunctionThis function removes unused objects from the drawing thereby reducing it's size. You can select which entities you wish to remove.
Batch PrintBatch printing allows you print the drawing, the layouts or both from all AllyCAD drawings in a selected folder. Print orientation is automatically selected according to the drawing and/or layout settings.
Export to PDFDrawings can be exported in Adobe PDF format. The exported file will contain the drawing and any layouts, each as a separate page. The drawing layers are also present in the PDF file and can be switched on/off as desired.
PlottingNew plotting function uses the powerful sheet file system, but generates layouts with viewports. Your production drawings will therefore automatically update as you change your design.
Property BarAll entities can now be easily edited in the same place through the Properties Bar. One can quickly select a set of entities and then edit properties common to them.
Load Bitonal TIF imagesBitonal TIF images are special 2-colour images whose background can be drawn transparent.
Style ImporterThe Style Importer allows you to import styles from external drawings. This is much quicker than trying to recreate the styles from scratch for every new drawing.
Pick & Apply SettingsThe 'Apply Settings' function lets you indicate one entity, whose settings (layer, colour, linestyle etc) can then be 'painted' onto multiple entities. Which settings are applied can be modified in the 'Apply Settings' CAD bar.
Flyout ToolbarsFlyout toolbars contain multiple nested toolbars without sacrificing screen space. The nested toolbars are displayed only when activated and are otherwise not visible.
Text StylesText styles allow you to apply multiple text attributes to one or more text items by simply editing the associated text style or applying a different text style.
Multiple arrows with one text item or blockThe 'MLeader' entity consists of one or more leader lines attached to a note. This allows the note (which can be a text label or a block) to point to multiple items of interest in your drawing. Each leader line can have multiple vertices, and can be smoothed. MLeader Styles can be used to standardise the appearance of your MLeaders.
Auto Updating LayoutsAllyCAD now has layouts that contain viewports into the drawing space and will also automatically generate all your final plans as dynamically updating layouts which will reflect all drafting changes instantly. If your drawing changes, so do your layouts, so that your design and your production drawings are always in sync.
SPECIALISED **INDUSTRY TOOLKITS **The AllyCAD specialised toolkits have been designed to speed up essential but time-consuming tasks relevant to the various CAD disciplines:
Multiple Views & ViewportsYou may now split the drawing window into multiple views, each with its own view direction (including isometric views). You can even draw from one view to another. In addition you may create named viewports so you can identify key parts of the drawing and switch between the views easily.
Table EditorThe Table function makes it a lot faster to draw tables with definable column widths, text styles and colours. Table styles can be defined to simplify table formatting.
Tolerance EditorAnnotate your drawing with tolerances through the simple interface of the Tolerance Editor which also allows you to include finishing symbols.
Embedded Drawings (Xrefs)Multiple drawings may now be embedded in the working drawing allowing multiple designers to work on different aspects of a project while allowing the rest of the project team to see the latest changes. The XRefs layers, linestyles, text styles, dimension styles and blocks will be merged into the current drawing
Geometry LinesGeometry lines are a superset of construction lines and are now enhanced to give better visual feedback when you are busy drawing, making them more intuitive and easier to use. They allow you to position lines and arcs tangential to each other, and to define the basic layout of the drawing elements. You can then fill in with solid lines to create the objects. In short, geometry lines allow you to focus on your design.
Ole ObjectsThe new OLE function allows you to embed other objects such as documents, spreadsheets and illustrations in your drawing. To edit these objects simply double click to activate the host application for the object.
Advanced Selection FilterA new and very powerful Advanced Selection Filter has been added in addition to the legacy selection filter, which also has been greatly streamlined for ease of use.
Multiline Text EditorAdd a text paragraph with multiple lines of text by defining a box that will contain the text. You can apply formatting to parts of the text using controls similar to standard word processing systems.
Enhanced Symbols (Blocks)An extensive symbols library (blocks) is supplied. The new Block Manager allows you to visually browse symbol files and drawings for blocks.
Explode & Repeatedly Explode FunctionThe explode function breaks a compound entity (object) into its component entities (what it is made up of), while the repeatedly explode function will explode a compound entity to its base entities so that they can be edited.
3D Capabilities (Objects, Surfaces & Rendering)We have added full 3D with hidden line removal, rendering with light sources and shading, and perspective views. You can define your own lighting and view your design in multiple named viewports or in different perspective views and work on any view (top/side/iso) at the same time.
Draw text aligned to an existing entityThe 'Draw Text' functions now allow you to align the rotation and position of the text you are drawing to existing text or lines in the drawing, this avoiding the hassle of manually aligning/rotating the text after adding it to the drawing.
Set The Transparency of EntitiesAll entities now have a 'Transparency' property, which can range from 0 (fully opaque) to 90 (90% transparent). Entities can also have 'By Block' or 'By Layer' transparency. Transparency can be used to 'see through' solid objects so that entities 'behind' the object are visible.
Xref & Locked Layer FadingXRef fading value (0% to 90%) can now be specified in System Settings. Specifying an XRef fade value of 50 will cause all XRefs to be drawn such that the colours in the XRef are at half intensity. This makes it easier to identify which parts of your drawing belong to XRefs. Locked layer fading works in the same way, allowing you to reduce the brightness at which locked layers are drawn, to more easily identify which entities in your drawing are on locked layers (and therefore not editable).
Drawings From TemplatesYou can create template drawings with your preferred settings, styles and title blocks and then use them as a starting point when creating a new drawing.
Graphical EditingAllyCAD gives you easy graphical editing of all selected entities by either selection handles or nodes. This includes hatches, elliptical arcs and splines.
Database LinkageLink drawing entities to external database records containing attributes. You can therefore store your data in an external database and display up to date data on your drawings without editing the drawings.
New CAD EntitiesIn addition to the 3D entities we have also added the following new CAD entities:
Add On ToolsAllyCAD offers the following tools and editors that work outside of the program:
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The California Department of Insurance has purchased Apple iPads for 31 senior staff members and Gov. Jerry Brown is not happy about.
The tablets cost the department about $1,000 each and were paid for using fees generated by the department.
But the governor's office is still not pleased with the decision. California lawmakers are in the midst of trying to close a $15.7 billion budget gap. And the Senate finance committee is facing a June 15 deadline to do something about it.
"I have (an iPad) on my desk that I purchased with my own money at Target for $600," Brown's Spokesman Gil Duran told Matier and Ross, who first reported the story. "They are useful toys, but spending state money on them in these economic times is a bad message to send."
The iPads cost more than a typical Apple tablet because they were business models that come with enhanced security.
The governor has also made part of his platform to cut costs where he can, including taking cell phones away from state employees and limiting the use of state-owned vehicles.
The department purchased the second generation iPads as part of a pilot program to "increase efficiency" and as part of the program's commitment to go green.
Gov. Jerry Brown Upset With Calif. Employees Getting iPads
The California Department of Insurance has purchased Apple iPads for 31 senior staff members and Gov. Jerry Brown is not happy about.

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Currently approved anti-HIV drug combinations are remarkably effective at reducing the amount of HIV in many patients to undetectable blood levels. For most, the clinical benefits add up to a healthier, longer life. Yet two studies in this week's New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate that, as good as these drugs are at suppressing HIV, other approaches likely will be needed to knock out the last vestiges of the virus.
"These findings are not unexpected," comments Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which provided major support for both studies. "The data add to other recent findings indicating that it may be impossible to eradicate HIV from the body with currently approved antiretroviral therapy. What all these studies underscore is the pressing need to develop more effective, less toxic medications that can be used over the long term to suppress HIV, as well as novel strategies to then purge residual virus from the body and boost the immune system. In this regard, many important leads are being pursued by investigators in government, academia and industry."
The era of highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, began about three years ago when the first protease inhibitors were incorporated into multi-drug HIV treatment regimens that included older anti-HIV drugs such as AZT. Hopes that the drugs could "cure" AIDS were raised when some patients experienced dramatic drops in the level of HIV in their plasma. More sophisticated studies, however, subsequently turned up evidence that some virus survived the therapy by hiding in certain cells and tissues.
The NEJM studies were conducted by separate groups of investigators from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York, led by Linqui Zhang, Ph.D., and David Ho, M.D., and from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, led by Manohar Furtado, Ph.D., and Steven Wolinsky, M.D. Both groups focused attention on the reservoir of HIV found within circulating blood cells of patients who had successfully suppressed HIV in their plasma with HAART. The patients were taking various combinations of three to four anti-HIV drugs, including protease inhibitors. With strict adherence to HAART, all had kept HIV below detectable levels for approximately two to three years.
Although evidence has been accumulating that HAART may not wipe out all traces of the virus, it has been unclear what feeds the low-level residual infection. One unanswered question, for example, was whether HAART completely stops viral replication. If not, evidence of viral replication could mean a small but unending source of replicating HIV exists to replenish the reservoir.
To look for evidence of ongoing viral replication, Dr. Zhang and his colleagues studied four sequential cell samples taken from each of eight patients. They examined latently infected cells for changes in the genetic makeup of HIV from sample to sample, which could indicate ongoing replication of HIV. The cells from six patients showed few if any such changes. Over time, however, significant variations in the genetic makeup of HIV's coat protein appeared in cells taken from the other two patients. The changes, the researchers note in their paper, are "likely due to ongoing residual replication, albeit at an exceedingly low level." Studies of various tissue samples and body fluids from one of the two patients confirmed residual HIV replication in cells taken from his lymph nodes, tonsils and gastrointestinal tract.
The Northwestern University group examined at least five sequential blood samples taken from each of five men who also had used HAART to keep HIV below measurable levels for 20 months or more. To investigate the characteristics of the HIV reservoir in these men, they measured changes in the concentrations of HIV DNA and viral RNA in cells over time. They observed that after an initial rapid decline, the levels stabilized, indicating that viral replication persisted. This plateau, they say, suggests that the rate at which cells become infected with newly made virus is approximately equal to the rate at which older infected cells die. "Unless this quasi-steady state eventually disappears with longer periods of therapy or can be overcome by the use of more potent therapies or alternative approaches that block the potential spread of virus within tissues, HIV-1 may never be eradicated," they write.
"...it is sobering to realize," note Dr. Zhang and his colleagues, "that the so-called highly active antiretroviral therapy is actually not always active enough. As we strive to eradicate HIV-1 infection or induce a remission, we must focus on the possibility of further intensifying antiretroviral treatment, even though current therapies are already toxic, costly and complex."
One bright spot in this picture, says Carl Dieffenbach, Ph.D., associate director of the Basic Sciences Program in NIAID's Division of AIDS, is that the technologies developed by these investigators provide "new tools, so that if we ever have a patient in whom it appears the virus has been eradicated, we'll be able to verify that." This ability will become increasingly important, he says, as new and improved drugs shrink the latent reservoir of HIV even further.
The two studies received additional support from two other components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH): the National Center for Research Resources, and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
NIAID is a component of the NIH. NIAID conducts and supports research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as HIV disease and other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, asthma and allergies. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- L Zhang, et al. Quantifying residual HIV-1 replication in patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy. The New England Journal of Medicine 340(21):1605-13 (1999).
- M Furtado, et al. Persistence of HIV-1 transcription in peripheral-blood mononuclear cells in patients receiving potent antiretroviral therapy. The New England Journal of Medicine 340(21):1614-22 (1999).
- R Pomerantz. Residual HIV-1 disease in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy. The New England Journal of Medicine 340(21):1672-74.
Press releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at www.niaid.nih.gov.


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The Triangulum Galaxy (or M33) was the next closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way beyond the Andromeda Galaxy.
In 2364, the USS Enterprise-D was hurled 2,700,000 light years, through two galaxies, to the Triangulum Galaxy by the Traveler during warp field tests; after reversing engines, the ship emerged in the vicinity of a giant protostar in the process of formation.
Calculations indicated that a return trip to the Milky Way from Triangulum, using maximum warp speed, would take over three hundred years. A subspace radio message, sent from the Triangulum Galaxy to Starfleet Command, was estimated to have a travel time of fifty-one years set to arrive in the year 2415. (TNG: "Where No One Has Gone Before")
An image of the Triangulum Galaxy, taken from Earth, was on display in astrometrics aboard the USS Voyager in the years 2375 and 2376. (VOY: "Night")
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Sears Tower Arrests: US Government Creates Another Al-Qaeda CellEntrapment method used again to frighten Americans into submission - By Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Jun. 23, 2006
Leftists Panic After Seeing 'White Men With LARGE GUNS' Defending Their Own Neighborhoods
Antifa 'Invades The Suburbs' in Yucaipa, CA... It Does Not End Well For Them
Medical Examiner: George Floyd Was On Fentanyl, Died From A Heart Attack And Used Meth
'Have You Lost Your Minds?' CBS Outlet Targets MIDDLE SCHOOLERS Over Un-PC George Floyd Joke, Contacts Police
'Looter' Goes Viral Bragging About All The Merch He Stole, Internet Identifies Him, Police Respond
Hot on the heels of a rash of staged terror alerts in both Britain and Canada, the announcement that seven men were arrested for planning to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and other prominent buildings is already taking the shape of another US government manufactured Al-Qaeda punch and judy show.
As is usually the case, the alleged ringleader Nassir Batiste's family and friends are aghast that he could have any terrorist connections and uniformly deny the plausibility of and Al-Qaeda connection, describing him as a simple construction worker and a "nice guy." Here are some excerpts from a CNN piece which you can view below.
ARIANE WEBSTER, SUSPECT'S GRANDMOTHER: I'm -- truly down in my heart I believe that's a stone lie. I been knowing Nassir (ph) better than five years. I never know him to get in any trouble. I never know him to have any problem with anybody. I always know him, he taught my son how to do karate. I have a son that is 18 years old. When he first met my son, my son was only about ...
ANDREWS (reporter) : So you don't think he's a terrorist, as the government's alleging?
WEBSTER: No, I don't. I really don't believe that.
MASTER G.H.G. ATHEA, SUSPECT'S FRIEND: Someone along the line offered to him some funds to do whatever he wanted to do if that's what he wanted to do. As far as some subversive work. And said they would give him whatever he needed.
ANDREWS: So somebody had approached him to give him money to blow up buildings?
ATHEA: To do whatever he wanted to do. But that was far from his mind. So he had no desire to interact with these men to accept anything they had to offer.
ANDREWS: So bottom line here, is your friend a terrorist?
ATHEA: No, he's not. Absolutely not.
The key comment here is from the suspects friend. It clearly looks as if the "someone" who tried to bend his ear and convince him to join Al-Qaeda was acting on behalf of the US government and running an entrapment sting.
Entrapment is the primary method used to expose supposed Al-Qaeda cells, the evidence of which they were dangerous terrorists later dissolves into thin air in every single instance. It was used in the Canadian scare earlier this month and also recently in the Toledo arrests.
Attorney General Gonzales said that "the individual they thought was a member of al-Qaida was present at their meetings and in actuality he was working with the South Florida Joint Terrorism Task Force."
This is classic entrapment and the artificial manufacture of an Al-Qaeda boogeyman to wave in front of the American people.
Batiste was most likely told that he was part of an anti-terror drill to test the security of Chicago landmarks and that he had to recruit a mock group of followers. Either that or he was a hand-picked idiot who had severe mental deficiencies and couldn't spot and obvious set-up.
One of the repeating elements to emerge from every major terror sting or forged terror alert is the use of retarded individuals as patsies, informants and go-betweens. The terror raid in Forest Gate three weeks ago in which an innocent man was shot by the police was conducted on the whim of information provided by a man with an IQ of just 69.
Similarly, it was reported today that the informant who sparked interest in alleged Ottawa terrorist Mohamed Harkat was "certifiably insane."
The group used by the FBI to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993 were also clinically retarded. It's easier to frame people who lack any credibility and don't have any means to eloquently defend themselves.
Don't be surprised to learn of a connection to a retarded individual over the next few days.
We shouldn't be lapse in our understanding that the Sears Tower is indeed the target of deranged terrorist masters who want to destroy America. Internet speculation that the landmark would be attacked on April 19, 2004 was rubbished by many and yet a derailing of the plot was quietly announced that very day yet given no play in the establishment media.
In March 2004, Silverstein Properties bought the tower in an $800 million deal. Larry Silverstein's penchant for large insurance pay outs, coupled with the strange coincidence of buildings only owned by him collapsing on 9/11, makes for a dangerous combination.
The Sears Tower is indeed under threat - not from government created patsies, but the elite itself.


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May 8, 2014
Vallerye Mosquera, a second-year student participating in the Immigration Clinic, won asylum for her client before the San Francisco Immigration Court on April 25. Vallerye's client was in removal proceedings and faced deportation if her asylum case was unsuccessful.
Upon reflection of the experience, Vallerye commented, "My client was such an integral part of the process. She invested not only her time but also immense emotional energy into the case." She stated that after the decision granting her client asylum, "My client was the absolute happiest person I have ever seen. She told me that 'all the doors and all the windows to the world' had suddenly opened in her life. I will never forget that image of joy across her face."
Vallerye's client fled her native country to escape a lifetime of horrific violence by members of her own family. Despite her accounts of violence, immigration law requires that the violence meet the specific requirements of asylum that often make it incredibly difficult to prove that victims of violence qualify for asylum.
After months of research and preparation, Vallerye was able to establish that her client suffered past persecution on account of her membership as a female member of her family. Furthermore, Vallerye was able to establish that her client's failure to timely file her application was excused based on her mental state when she entered the United States several years ago.
Vallerye participated in the Immigration Clinic in the summer and both semesters of the 2013-2014 academic year. Her two-semester commitment allowed her to begin working with her asylum client this past November. She worked over both the winter and spring breaks to ensure that she and her client were prepared.
The representation required a long process of factual and legal investigation. Supervising attorney Blake Nordahl commented that "the client's past trauma made recalling and sharing facts difficult. Mosquera used the skills she gained in the Immigration Clinic to help her build rapport and trust with her client."
Vallerye submitted a brief in support of the application as well as statements from two expert witnesses and country condition reports. She located a country conditions expert, Lessie Jo Frazier of Indiana University at Bloomington, who provided a detailed, individualized assessment of the country conditions and the client's particular situation. The Clinic was also able to obtain the pro bono services of UC Davis professor Dr. Yvette Flores who provided a mental health evaluation.
At the immigration court hearing, Vallerye conducted direct examination and explained to the court her arguments in support of a grant of asylum. The Immigration Judge found the client credible and agreed with Vallerye's arguments and granted humanitarian asylum. Judge Webber commented that Vallerye's representation was excellent.
Fortunately, government counsel waived appeal and the decision is final. Vallerye is now in the process of helping her client obtain a work permit. In one year, her client will be able to file for lawful permanent residence.
"The most important outcome of this case is that my client will never again face her abusers in her native country," stated Vallerye. "She is safe, and that sense of security here in the United States, away from her abusers, is what this case was all about."
The Immigration Clinic represents low income non-citizens in affirmative applications before USCIS and in removal proceedings before the Immigration Court.
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Murnaghans Face Backlash After Sarah's Lung Transplant
Sarah Murnaghan's family addresses negative comments as Sarah recovers.
June 17, 2013 -- Sarah Murnaghan, the 10-year-old girl whose family successfully sued to make her more likely to get a pair of adult lungs, may have gotten a boost from public attention before her lung transplant last week, but now that it's over, some of that attention has turned negative.
On Friday, June 14, Sarah's mother, Janet Murnaghan, posted a list of "facts" about lung transplants to her Facebook page, explaining that she'd seen a lot of misinformation "out there" and wanted to clarify a few things.
Murnaghan then said her Facebook page was for supporters only, and she didn't want to be tagged in anything in which people might speak negatively about her in the comments section.
On Sunday night, the "Save Sarah Murnaghan" Facebook page moderator addressed even more negative comments. The Murnaghan family spokeswoman said she did not know who created the page.
"I CANT BELIEVE SOME OF THE NEG COMMENTS," the moderator wrote. "Rude !!! rude !! rude !!!...please don't make neg comments ... this page is to encourage!!"
Federal Judge Michael Baylson drew criticism from the medical and bioethics communities for his June 5 decision to grant a temporary restraining order against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to prevent her from enforcing the so-called Under 12 Rule for Sarah.
"I think we can all sympathize with the plight of a young girl, but maybe a 13-year-old girl waiting for an adult organ is the one who didn't get a transplant," said Dr. Sander Florman, who directs the Mount Sinai Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute in New York and hasn't treated Sarah. "I think it sets a very dangerous precedent to have a court deciding medical necessities and allocation even if the rules aren't right."
Read about who's worried about Sarah's ruling.
Some commenters on ABCNews.com called for Sebelius to be "tarred and feathered" for initially refusing to make an exception for Sarah, while others passionately argued that Sarah's new lungs would have better served an adult.
Join the conversation in our comments section! Do you think Sarah should have gotten a lung transplant from an adult donor?
The ruling -- and eventual transplant -- also prompted editorials in the Philly Post of Philadelphia Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and others in which writers argued that they hoped Sarah's court battle wouldn't encourage others to seek legal action to trump medical guidelines. The Philadelphia Magazine editorial was titled "Maybe Sarah Murnaghan Shouldn't Get a Lung Transplant."
Sarah's June 12 lung transplant from an adult donor was the 11th of its kind since 1987. The last transplant from a donor older than 18 to a child younger than 12 took place a few months ago, according to an OPTN spokeswoman. The one before that happened in 2006, when the Under 12 Rule was new.
Murnaghan updated her Facebook page to say that Sarah's recovery was difficult but she was slowly improving. Sarah was still "fully sedated and critical" Sunday night but made positive "baby steps" by Monday morning.
As Murnaghan addressed negative commenters on Facebook Friday night, she wrote that the Organ Transplantation and Procurement Network ultimately "agreed" with her family "and has changed their policy for ALL kids so that children like Sarah can get on the over-12 list if their doctors deem it appropriate medically."
OPTN actually voted to keep the Under 12 Rule but added a part that allows for occasional exceptions. These children have to be recommended by their doctors and then have their cases reviewed by a national board before they can actually be exempted from the Under 12 Rule.
Here's how the Under 12 Rule -- which is more like a series of rules -- actually works.
Lung transplant candidates older than 12 are assigned a lung allocation score, or LAS, based on a complex mathematical formula that includes the patient's age and size. For transplant patients younger than 12 -- of which there are 20 nationally compared with about 1,600 adults -- the LAS is not used. Instead, patients are broken into "priority 1" and "priority 2." It's this difference that has been called discriminatory in court.
"If you are under 12 it is the amount of time you have waited that matters," Murnaghan wrote in her clarification post. "So if you are dying and have been on the list one hour you will NOT get the lungs."
This is not 100 percent true. Although time on the list is considered, an OPTN spokeswoman told ABCNews.com that it's not the only thing that matters. Instead, lungs are allocated to the 20 children under 12 on the list by medical urgency, blood type and time on the list.
Children get priority for lungs donated from children younger than 12, but they have to wait for children between 12 and 17 to decline lungs donated from 12- to 17-year-olds before they get a chance at them. Lungs donated by anyone older than 18 are offered to all candidates older than 12, depending on their LAS. Only if all local matching candidates 12 and older decline the adult lungs can they be offered to children within 500 miles of the hospital where the lungs were harvested.


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After having recently left thousands dead from overthrowing the governments ruling Libya and the Ivory Coast, the United Nations is already plotting its next invasion to deal with the fallout. This time, Mali is in the UN's crosshairs.
Mali attracted UN attention when the northern part of the country was taken over by Islamists and nomadic rebels amid a military coup d'état that ousted the government in the South. The UN Security Council is currently considering two resolutions related to the country, a former colony of France. The first one calls for negotiations between armed rebels in the North and the supposed "interim" government operating in the capital. That measure is expected to be approved soon, according to officials involved in the negotiations.
The second resolution would purport to authorize international military intervention, a move being sought by the coalition of regimes making up the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the struggling "interim" government in Southern Mali. The French government is circulating a draft of the resolution this week.
Among the key points in the tentative UN plan is a request that ECOWAS draft a proposal for an international assault on Northern Mali to oust the rebels, who are reportedly committing wanton human rights abuses under the guise of imposing Islamic Sharia law. The scheme demands "detailed and actionable recommendations … for such an international military force, including means and modalities of the envisaged deployment."
On top of that, the draft resolution calls on UN member governments, regional authorities, and international organizations to "prepare to provide support, including through military training, provision of equipment and other forms of assistance in efforts to combat terrorist and affiliated extremist groups." Finally, if approved, the measure would express the Security Council's "readiness to respond positively to the request ... for an international military force."
In other words, if the resolution is adopted — unnamed diplomats cited by Reuters said it was likely to pass — the UN and assorted regional and national governments will soon be invading Mali. "We need more clarifications on models and formulas on how the international community can help," UN boss Ban Ki-Moon told reporters about what is needed before the international military plot can proceed.
Former Italian Prime Minister and European Commission chief Romano Prodi has already been appointed as the UN "special envoy" for the Sahel region, the vast area along the Southern Sahara where much of Mali is located. Military planners, meanwhile, are reportedly drawing up an attack plan to prop up the "interim" government purportedly ruling some parts of the nation.
The background story on Mali is quite complex, and often-contradictory reports make the truth even harder to discern. However, what appears clear at this point is that much of the crisis supposedly necessitating a global armed response was actually sparked by other recent international military interventions in the region.
In late March, elements of the U.S.-funded Malian military led by a U.S.-trained officer staged a coup against the ruling regime in the capital city of Bamako, quickly taking power after seizing the presidential palace and various organs of state power. Multiple government ministers were arrested and the president went into hiding. Looting, shootings, and chaos quickly ensued.
The Obama administration and governments around the world condemned the coup and threatened to cut off foreign aid and military support to Mali unless and until the previous government was restored to power. ECOWAS even warned that it would seal Mali's borders and freeze its assets if rebel leaders refused to hand over power. By April, those threats became reality.
Amid the chaos, an ongoing rebellion by members of the nomadic Tuareg people seeking an independent homeland dubbed "Azawad" in the North gained strength, taking advantage of the crisis to seize ever-larger swaths of territory. The mass influx of Libyan arms and fighters, which even the UN admits was caused by the bloody UN-approved "international intervention" in Libya, added fuel to the fire.
"This is not only a humanitarian crisis; it is a powder keg that the international community cannot afford to ignore," claimed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about Mali last month, making no mention of the Obama administration's crucial role in arming and training Islamic extremists — many affiliated with al-Qaeda — to advance "regime change" in nearby Libya. "What is happening inside Mali is augmented by the rising threat from violent extremism across the region."
Within weeks of the coup, the Tuareg fighters and Islamist militias had taken control of several major cities and towns including Timbuktu, with the Tuareg warriors declaring permanent independence from Mali. Islamic extremists under the banner of Ansar Dine, who apparently worked with Tuareg rebels to seize control over Northern Mali, now appear to be firmly entrenched in power throughout much of the region.
The Islamist group, which is allegedly linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is now fiendishly working to impose strict Sharia law throughout all of Mali and beyond. Some analysts said the Islamists had "hijacked" the Tuareg rebellion in the North, but the precise relationship between the two forces remains unclear.
When coup leaders in the South and advancing Tuareg rebels in the North refused to surrender to international demands, ECOWAS and Western governments began plotting military intervention. The Western establishment, meanwhile, refused to recognize the Tuareg declaration of independence for Azawad and is now demanding that the North surrender to the dubious regime in Bamako.
The supposed "interim government" in Mali's capital is said to be trying to organize elections. However, with much of the country under rebel control, it remains unclear how or when any voting might take place, if it ever will. The international military force will apparently be charged with forcing the North to capitulate under the guise of promoting "democracy."
Complicating matters even further is another recent UN "military intervention," the bloody Obama administration-backed campaign in the Ivory Coast that one Republican Senator blasted as a "reign of terror." In a nutshell, the UN partnered with ruthless Islamist militias to overthrow and arrest the leftist Christian leader of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, who according to the nation's highest court had won the disputed presidential election.
In his place, after slaughtering thousands of innocent Christians during the march to the capital, the UN and its Islamist allies installed a Muslim central banker named Alassane Ouattara, whose regime has now started shutting down critical newspapers and arresting political opponents. The situation is reportedly still deteriorating and is likely to get even worse.
The UN and Ouattara now claim that Gbagbo loyalists are collaborating with the Islamic extremists in Northern Mali to destabilize the Ivory Coast in a bid to restore the ousted government to power. The argument is that the "enemy of my enemy is my friend," according to analysts trying to explain the counterintuitive alleged alliance between pro-Gbagbo forces and fanatical Islamists.
Not coincidentally, the chairman of ECOWAS — among the chief proponents demanding an international invasion of Mali — is the new UN- and Obama-backed ruler of the Ivory Coast, Ouattara. Under UN guidance, ECOWAS will likely play a crucial role in the looming invasion of Mali.
Ironically, perhaps, the French government led the charge to invade the Ivory Coast and was one of the primary war-mongering powers demanding the international war on Libya. Now, the new Socialist French government, headed by Francois Hollande, is banging the war drums for an international invasion of Mali louder than any other Western power.
Some UN member governments expressed concern about intervening militarily to support an unelected regime in Mali that is widely perceived as illegitimate. "How can we organize elections when northern Mali is occupied by terrorist movements that don't apply democracy?" Hollande responded when asked whether elections to establish a legitimate government should be held before any international invasion.
The situation is particularly ironic as Hollande, despite blasting the "terrorist movements" in Mali, is simultaneously leading the charge for international military intervention on behalf of violent Jihadists and al-Qaeda-linked Islamic extremists in Syria. Many of those rebel fighters, partly under the guidance of the Western establishment-linked, Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Syrian National Council, openly proclaim their hatred of the West and admit wanting to impose Sharia law if and when the regime falls.
Some of the anti-government forces in Syria, as The New American highlighted recently, were actually French Islamists inspired to fight by a terrorist who recently murdered French troops and Jewish children in Toulouse. The irony — lunacy, critics would say — of invading Mali to fight militants with alleged links to "al-Qaeda" while supporting self-styled al-Qaeda fighters in Libya and Syria casts a strange shadow of suspicion over the entire UN military enterprise.
As history shows, armed UN intervention often leads to mass slaughter and complete chaos that is later used to justify more international military intervention — Libya and the Ivory Coast being just two recent examples among many. There is little reason to suspect that invading Mali would turn out any better.
Photo of child soldiers in Mali recruited by Islamists in case of UN military intervention: AP Images
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Installed by UN and Obama, Ivory Coast Regime Attacks Press and Opposition
UN Report: NATO's Libya War Armed al-Qaeda
U.S.-funded Jihadist "Holy War" in Syria Seeks Sharia Dictatorship
UN, Obama Fighting Alongside Al-Qaeda in Libya
Al-Qaeda & the West Back Syrian Rebels Against Assad
UN-backed Forces Slaughter Christians in Ivory Coast
UN And Muslim Militias Arrest Ivory Coast President
Obama Defends Military Intervention at UN, Calls for More
Christian Massacres: A Result of U.S. Foreign Policy
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Institutions accused of financial misconduct typically resort to a couple of favorite excuses.
One is the "everyone else was doing it" defense familiar to parents of misbehaving children. London-based Barclays, among others, used this one to explain why it manipulated a key benchmark interest rate.
Another is the "unforeseen events overtook us" line. Richard Fuld, the former CEO of Lehman Bros., made this one famous by contending that his recklessly leveraged investment bank fell victim to "uncontrollable market forces."
Now it's the turn of Standard & Poor's, the credit rating agency that slapped AAA ratings on bundles of toxic mortgages in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Charged with fraud by the Justice Department on Monday, S&P combined both the conformity and ignorance defenses.
"S&P, like everyone else, did not predict the speed and severity of the coming crisis," said the company, which has a core mission of assessing and anticipating risk.
It's all well and good that the Justice Department finally got around to charging S&P for putting sterling ratings on piles of junk. But, regardless of whether the government lawsuit succeeds, it does nothing to alter the fundamental conflict of interest afflicting the credit ratings industry and the investors who rely on its products.
The industry operated under, and still operates under, a flawed business model that crushes honesty and independent analysis. This model is called "issuer pays." It's the equivalent of movie studios hiring their own film reviewers. The rating agencies get paid directly by the institutions selling the securities being rated, which puts pressure on the agencies to give high ratings or risk losing business to competitors. The system turns the agencies into marketing arms of the Wall Street banks instead of the independent watchdogs they are supposed to be.
Inflated ratings on toxic bundles of loans, many of them subprime and no-doc mortgages, were a key contributor to the housing bubble and subsequent economic bust. Had the credit agencies been in a position to give accurate ratings without seeing their revenue tank, they could have thwarted much of the mischief from Wall Street bankers, mortgage brokers and others.
But they didn't. Not at S&P and not at other agencies. In one e-mail released by the Justice Department, an S&P analyst said "leadership was concerned of p*ssing off too many clients" if deals were downgraded "before this thing started blowing up." Another analyst's e-mail in March 2007 included a parody of the Talking Heads song Burning Down the House: "Subprime is boi-ling o-ver. Bringing down the house."
Funny stuff.
Amazingly, the issuer-pays system is still in place. When the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform measure was being considered, the Senate adopted a bipartisan amendment that would have replaced the system with one where credit ratings would be randomly assigned by a newly created federal authority. The issuer would still underwrite the cost but would lose its ability to reward or punish agencies based on their ratings.
Regrettably, this was watered down in the final version of the law, which called for a study and gave the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority, but not a mandate, to implement such a system. So far, it has not.
Other models include having the buyers of debt products pay for the ratings. This is the most honest approach. Generally, if someone wants a complex issue researched, he or she has to pay for the research to get it done, or risks getting a biased product. This approach has enough opposition, however, that the randomly assigned ratings might be the best bet.
What won't work is to leave the flawed system in place.


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Day 7: Dharamshala--------------------Dalhousie
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Jesus actually ordered the apostles to acquire swords.
A co-religionist friend of mine asked some years ago, "What is the [Catholic] Church's teaching on firearms…?
Does it recommend an assault rifle or a shotgun?"
He was kidding, of course, but not so funny are some recent attempts by liberal "Christians" to turn Jesus into Sarah Brady. Motivated by their unique brand of religiosity in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, they say that the Lord would never condone gun ownership. Why, didn't He state, "[A]ll that take the sword shall perish with the sword"?
Were I to steal a leaf out of the liberals' book, I'd now become conveniently literalistic and say that if anyone wants to consider sword control, I'm game. But let's address the matter seriously.
When the temple guards of the Sanhedrin came to the Garden of Gethsemane to arrest Jesus, the apostle Simon Peter leapt to the Lord's defense, drew his sword, and sliced off the ear of a slave accompanying the guards. This is where the quoted Bible passage comes into play. The gospel of Matthew (26:52) tells us that Jesus rebuked Peter, saying, "Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Quite a pacifist message, huh?
Yet there's something generally overlooked here. Peter only had a sword to draw because he had one on his person — and Jesus obviously took no issue with this. In fact, even during Jesus' rebuke, He never told Peter to throw his sword away. The command was simply to resheath it.
Why? Perhaps because Jesus had actually ordered the apostles to acquire swords. As Luke 23:36-38 tells us:
"But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip; and he that hath not, let him sell his coat, and buy a sword. For I say to you, that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me: 'And with the wicked was he reckoned.' For the things concerning me have an end." But they said: "Lord, behold here are two swords." And he said to them, "It is enough."
So what is the actual meaning of Jesus' words in Matthew? I won't say anything definitively, but I will note that the relevant line has often been interpreted to mean "He who lives by the sword shall die by it also." And, of course, there's as big a difference between legitimate self-defense and living by the gun as there is between respecting the state's legitimate role and living by government.
So what would Jesus shoot? Nothing, I'm sure. He wouldn't get married, either; His role wasn't exactly the same as ours. But I'm also sure that a clear understanding of Christianity shoots the liberal arguments right out of the sky.
(Hat tip: the readers who emailed me the Luke reference.)


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- Summa cum laude: 3.9 or higher with no grades lower than an A-
Institutional honors will be noted both on students' diplomas and transcripts.
Certificate and graduate programs are not eligible for institutional honors (listed above). The 7.2 titled "MAU Policies" to the Faculty Alliance Agenda from 14 November 2003.
Qualifying for honors
A cumulative "honors GPA" is calculated by combining all college work attempted at UAF, as well as, all college coursework attempted at any other institutions a student attended.
Graduating with honors is a tribute that recognizes academic achievement and represents a student's entire academic history. Below 100-level and 500-level coursework are removed from your UAF GPA calculation. Also, any excluded classes (including "D" and "F" grades, retaken courses, courses lost in Fresh Start, etc.) from UAF, and any other institution the student attended, are calculated back into a student's GPA in order to generate an honors GPA.
Transfer students Students who have coursework outside of UAF, and wish to be considered for honors, must additionally meet the following criteria:
- Have at least a 3.5 cumulative UAF GPA
- UAF resident credit of 48 semester hours for a bachelor's degree
- UAF resident credit of 24 semester hours for an associates degree
Note: your "honors GPA" does not appear on any official documentation
Associate and baccalaureate degree students, who graduated with honors in Summer, Fall, and students who have potential honors for Spring, will receive gold honors cords to wear at the May commencement ceremony.
In addition, the names of students receiving honors will appear in the Commencement Program, and are released to the media (with exception to students who have placed a directory hold on their account). Students may submit a written request to Graduation Services asking that their graduation information not be printed or released to the media.
Final grades will be verified prior to noting final graduation honors on the diploma or the official transcript (see Note to Spring Graduates/Potential Honors).
Note to spring graduates / potential honors
The May commencement ceremony occurs prior to the deadline for spring semester final grades.
When calculating honors for our Spring graduation candidates, who plan to walk in the commencement ceremony, Graduation Services assumes that students will receive "A's" in all of their in progress, incomplete (I), and deferred (DF) coursework; thus allowing each student to recognized for the highest level of honors he or she has the potential of attaining. We call these potential honors.
Your cumulative UAF GPA must be a 3.5 or higher for potential honors to be calculated.
These potential honors will be used to award gold honors cords at the commencement ceremony, and be listed in the official commencement program.
However, once final grades are posted, the final honors GPA will be calculated. Final grades will have an effect on a student's honors GPA (should the student receive anything other than "A's").
Please note: Upon receipt of final grades any remaining incomplete (I) grades will be calculated as F's in the final honors calculations. And, upon receipt of final grades, any remaining deferred (DF) grades will not be included in final honors calculations. – see "Grading System and Grade Point Average Computation"
Any change between potential honors and final honors will be reflected on the student's diploma and official transcripts.


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'We're so excited to get to play in front of the world's greatest festival audience.'
At a ceremony in London tonight, Edge presented the 'Best Festival' award by video to Michael and Emily Eavis of The Glastonbury Festival - and confirmed that U2 would play the festival this summer.
''It's more a way of life than a festival.' he said, describing the great time he had visiting the Festival last year, guesting on stage with Muse.
'We're all looking forward to coming back to pick up where I left off, U2 will be playing June 24th...we'll see you there.'
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25 March, 2011
U2 get the Elbow!Elbow will play the set before U2 at Glastonbury maybe it would be a good duet Bono and Guy??
06 March, 2011
Glastome thinks they should do the 7 straight songs from Actung like Zoo TV
05 March, 2011
wish I could be thereI agree with jon812, although I will not be at this festival, the raw,real U2 is the BEST! I would love to see 40 when I see them here in Denver. BTW guys (U2) please don't let Kanye West perform with you, he's a douche.
04 March, 2011
It would be epic!!soo maybe u could invite muse this time!! :) glatonbury 2011 would be epic!!
04 March, 2011
Strip It DownU2 at Glasto.. Brilliant. No Claw, No stupid, I'll go Crazy tonight Remixes. Just lets hear U2. Lets av a bit of Bullet and Exit....along with an opening of No Line and finsh pleses for GODS sake with 40. There are alot of people out there who hate U2 and think they are over Hyped....well their gonna be stuck in a field so lets show em how spine tingling it can be. Its now down to you boys.
03 March, 2011
Spartan Stadium after glasto!I hope their sure to be amazing show carries onto my show in michigan!
02 March, 2011
The best festival in the world and the bThis will be a great show. Hope the band have time to look around site as its much more than music-a unique experience. Hopefully ONE will be recruiting at the event. It will be my 26th Glastonbury Cannot wait!
28 February, 2011
GlastonburyHello there, I just got into Glasto web and found out that U2 will be there on Friday! Wow! What a great opportunity to see a live! I'm greatly appreciated to U2 that support our cause of freedom in Burma and sang a sound for it! Now I will very much looking forward to see a live at Glasto! Wonderful news! Honored to invite U2 and their fan to come and visit our stall called, The Little Burmese Teashop which campaign stall in Green Future Field near Green Peace and have a Free Burmese authentic green tea, explored about burma and join Free Burma campaign Respects Ko Aung
28 February, 2011
good newsso sad tickets are sold out :(
26 February, 2011
cobberJust come Down Under ASAP, Especially Sydney!
26 February, 2011
Awesome night's coming!YEAHHHHH! it will be sooo cooool!!!!!
26 February, 2011
nice concerts!nice concerts, so funny to know you're shows are full and with little help of equipment you can make a great show. You're the best artists there are! But I like to hear U2 play unplugged again, I listen many times to these unplugged songs, I play the acoustic guitar many times for over two years now and I can tell you it sounds very good! I already tried playing for an audience of my school and they loved it, it takes much concentration to do it all by yourself but I am gonna master all your songs.... Like to hear from you when you are local again :) greetings
25 February, 2011
Electric Co. Play Glastonbury at lastGreat this will be better than Wembley, more atmosphere and a better sound, will also be televised. I will be there singing along. May even hear some old songs. Without the claw the focus will be entirely on the band which is better!
the jay
25 February, 2011
cant wait!!!u2 will be right up for this after missing last year.i just hope they play a great setlist which includes-streets-bad-sunday bloody sunday and bullet the blue.also with coldplay playing u2 will know they have to be at there best to remain best band in the world.its a double for me as coldplay are my second fav band but u2 better elclipse them big time or am gona be very diisapointed.c'mon boys.....
24 February, 2011
U2 <3 Glastowwoooohoooo oooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
24 February, 2011
So happyU2 + GLASTO = rock and roll = a great night of great music...i hope the band will give us a special, beautiful and "hard" set list for a special, beautidul and "hard" night!
24 February, 2011
Glastonbury!So cool that U2 headline the Friday @Glasto, but so very gutted i can't go and dont have a ticket. The Tv will be turned up very LOUD for this performance.
24 February, 2011
great!!!!....play the full-on up-beat rock songs and it will be a night to remember for everyone. MOS needs to be pulled along with in a little while.
24 February, 2011
thats great news !!!its great for U2,because i know Bono was gutted they cudnt do it blessss him. Edge was brilliant with Muse it was great to see them together,coz im a Muse fan also,i just watched on tv because i have big back and sciatica probs, i stil,l have so i dont think i will make the festival,but i would love to be there with U2,i will still get chance though to watch on tv so it be great to see the lads there, and i love all of U2 especially my guitar hero THE EDGE xxxx
24 February, 2011
u2 in glastofantastic!but i have no tickets,they sold out on october,it's a pity.I coul come to Bristol by plane from Italy.In the last months i saw u2 5 times in Barca,Milan 1 and Milan 2, Turin and Rome. Will they makes other european concert after the 30 of July as the amercian leg is ended?London?Dublin?Paris?Berlin?Ihope so and maybe someone cancelled and i get ticket for this year.........LET ME IN THE SOUND AND ROCK ON Frank Buzz from Italy
24 February, 2011
FestivalsYeah that's a thought. What about playing other major festivals over the next year or two to remind people what a fantastic live act U2 are. All the best for Glastonbury. Give them something to remember.
24 February, 2011
Roskilde 2012?Great - starting playing festivals again. Roskilde Festival, Denmark in 2012? Then it will be 30 years since you played it last, so must be about time you came back. The dates of the festival are 5 -8 July 2012:-)
23 February, 2011
U2 @ GlastoI've been to 3 festivals and have always dream't of seeing U2 there. I remember seeing Paul McCartney in 04 and he did Helter Skelter. Brought me straight back to Rattle & Hum. My partner is from Glastonbury and we are going back for the festival from OZ with our 3 month old baby! That will be something to tell it when it's older!!
23 February, 2011
YES They CAN ! ! !Thats F* GOOD News ; ) And What About A Final U2360 EUROPEAN Leg next Autumn ? ? ?
23 February, 2011
The wait is finally over......The news we have been waiting for AT LAST!!! I can seriously start looking for the Glasto wellies now!! Can't wait to see you guys on that stage :-)
23 February, 2011
GlastonbU2yYesssss it was worth all the effort of getting the tickets! Can't wait to see the boys on the Pyramid stage. See you there, feel sorry for all the bands that have to follow...
23 February, 2011
MullendrumsZoo Camp 2011 will be in attendance ;D Can't wait, so happy i got a ticket, Last year was my first time at the festival and it was an amazing time.
23 February, 2011
EdgeGosh...i really like this guy...Edge, my guitar hero, can't wait to see u guys on April!
23 February, 2011
Yes, Yes and triple yes!!!I'm so excited for it to happen, It's goner be really special.
23 February, 2011
heyEdge, would you please send me 2u-tickets for this Fest. Thanks.
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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
We talk a lot about the importance of a blog. As Google's updates progress, the old adage "content is king" is becoming ever more true. It's not enough to simply have content though, that content needs to be unique to your site and valuable to the reader. In the rush to keep up with the content volume being demanded by industry best practices, it's too easy to forget the fundamental point of having a blog to begin with. I mean, of course if should help bolster your Business SEO, but the true point behind a blog is for people to read it!
Check out the comic I have with this post (all credit to XKCD.com). How many times have you seen something like this? Heck, how many times have you caught yourself saying something like this? It's an easy hole to fall into, but one that should be avoided at all costs. If you're writing a blog that you hope is read by humans and not just crawled by robots, then you need to (at least while you're writing) not think of it as "content generation", but as sharing. You're sharing your knowledge with an audience who is interested in learning more. If you share openly and have a voice, then hopefully that audience will grow. All the gimmicks in the world can't replace the act of weaving words into a shape that has inherent value to the reader.
Now listen, I'll be the first to admit you don't have to win the Pulitzer with every post. Some topics allow for more humor and heart than others. When you're writing about the newest Facebook advertising model update, you can only be so alluring, but don't give up on it. Some days it comes easy, other days it sticks a little. Some posts you'll be proud of, and others simply exist. The point is to never forget that you aren't just blogging for marketing and SEO.
You're blogging for humans.
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An attorney for Arvida/JMB Partners, the original owner of The Longboat Key Club and Resort's property, sent a letter to Planning, Zoning and Building Director Monica Simpson that contends Arvida still retains the rights to the remaining density within the Islandside gulf-planned development.
In a letter dated Wednesday, Dec. 3, Morgan Bentley of Sarasota-based Williams, Parker, Harrison, Dietz & Getzen, states the club is free to seek an amendment to the gulf-planned development to place dwelling units on the property for its project — but only with Arvida's consent.
Arvida said it's still investigating the issue and wanted to alert town staff of the ownership issue "and potential cloud on the property in advance of the hearing."
Club officials responded late Thursday evening by denying Arvida's claim.
In a prepared statement, Key Club Public Relations Manager Katherine Songster wrote:
"Longboat Key Club & Resort just learned that Arvida/JMB Partners has sent a letter that contends that Arvida/JMB Partners still retains rights to the remaining density available in the gulf-planned development. This issue was raised by the Islandside Property Owners Coalition in the recent hearings before the town's Planning & Zoning Board. The town's special counsel, Nancy Stroud, found the claims to be without merit, and that the remaining available density belongs to the town to assign, not Arvida/JMB. The club agrees with the Town's position on the matter."
Songster's press release notes the deed the club received from Arvida/JMB had restrictions against further development of the property, but those restrictions expired, at the very latest, on Dec. 31, 1995.
The club's release states the club will take "appropriate measures to defend its title to the club property against the claims of Arvida/JMB."
For more information about Arvida's claim and the Planning and Zoning Board's Islandside hearing Friday, Dec. 4, check www.yourobserver.com for live updates and pick up a copy of the Dec. 10 edition of The Longboat Observer.
Contact Kurt Schultheis at [email protected].


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DB field: set to varchar(255) - this should help others.
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PHP developers: GOOD job btw!


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Are you searching for a fixture to circulate air in room with lots of natural light, high ceilings, or a cozy atmosphere? Ceiling fans without lighting, and other ceiling fans with no light kits, will provide the needed circulation and cooling for your home. The low profile motor housing allows for purposeful usage while lamps and other fixtures brighten your room without strobe-like effects or awkward over-lighting. In most cases, Ceiling fans without lighting provides the best experience by effectively cooling your warm room and empowering the homeowner to use various lights to illuminate it.
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Ceiling fans without lighting accessories are ideal for open spaces with multiple light sources and high ceilings, such as commercial and residential garages, storage spaces, restaurants and bars. Â Ceiling fans with no light kits are also ideal for modern bedrooms or kitchens because they do not emit additional heat. Many of them are available in a variety of sizes, styles, and finishes like oil rubbed bronze, brushed nickel, white, and black. Ceiling fans with no light kits are manufactured by many companies like Hunter, Minka Aire, Casablanca, and Fanimation, to name a few.
Staying up-to-date with the best white, brushed nickel, and oil rubbed bronze finishes and styles can be difficult in the ever-changing technological times we live in. Modern ceiling fans without lights keep a contemporary design to be placed into your state-of-the-art home to circulate the cool air. A high-quality fan is very important when there are family, friends, and other guests trying to relax and watch a movie, or hold an interesting conversation. Hunter ceiling fans with no lights offer great choices to have installed into your bright living or bedroom to provide efficient air circulation.
Doing sufficient research to find the best product to purchase has always paid off. Check out low profile ceiling fans in order to find the perfect design and style with a light kit for your bedroom with a low ceiling. Many accessories like the ones from Hunter, cross many different categories and can work in many different areas and locations. Read the how to buy a ceiling fan article for a plethora of information and tips for purchasing the best fan.


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Morphik: Cool Cuffs With Original Lowbrow Art, Photography and Graffiti.
Morphik is an arts-focused design company founded with the vision that everyone should have the opportunity to experience and own art... and wear it.
above: artwork by Bob Dob on turquoise calf leather wristband and photo by Jerry Uelsmann on python textured leather bracelet
Designed as an art-to-wear accessory piece, Morphik's men's and women's cuffs -or bracelets- feature limited edition artwork by many of today's hottest lowbrow artists, graffiti artists and illustrators and would make a very special gift for any contemporary art lover. Reproduced in a square frame and clasp made of brushed stainless steel, the artwork has an acrylic face that is scratch resistant. The artwork can also be hung on the wall just like a favorite painting or photograph (as shown in the example below).
above: artwork by Ciou is shown mounted for display
above: the back of the stainless steel insert is etched with the artist's name
The stainless steel frame enclosing the artwork drops and locks magnetically into the leather wristband or cuff.
above: artwork by graffiti artist John "Crash" Mathos on Men's Black Calf leather wristband
above: artwork by Skount on Men's Cognac distressed leather wristband
The artworks are interchangeable and can be switched out by pushing through a small opening at the back of the bracelet. The combination of wristband and artwork presents a truly unique outlet for personal expression.
The same piece of artwork (DAIM's Cold Explosion) can take on different characteristics when you change the leather wristband:
The same wristband or cuff (distressed metallic gold) with different pieces of artwork by Kim Zu and Nathan Ota:
They have a huge selection of both artwork and leather cuffs for both men and women. You can choose from photography, illustration, paintings, graffiti and more. Below are a few examples from some of the artists:
Bob Dob:
Junko Mizuno:
Maggie Taylor:
DOES and John "Crash" Mathos:
Jerry Uelsmann:
Sayuka Bloodstone:
The leather wristbands are stitched and assembled in Los Angeles.
Men's Cuffs:
•available in six colors (Calf and Vintage leather),
•Size 7 1/4 - 9 inches or 18 1/2 - 23 cm.
• $170
Women's Cuffs:
•available in 24 beautiful colors (Calf, Vintage, Metallic and Python textured leather), •Size 6 1/4 - 7 1/2 inches or 16 - 19 cm
above: artwork by Maggie Taylor
Careful thought and care has been made to retain the artwork's original attributes. Printed on genuine Moab fine art paper and placed under a scratch resistant cover, the artwork is set securely inside a stainless steel frame. The image is made using a highest standard for inkjet printing performance. This original process results in archival prints that deliver amazing color and an acutely clear, photographic appearance. This metal frame contains strong magnets that allow it to lock securely.
Maintaining the idea that our art-inspired goods are objects of value and meaning, we have designed unique boxes to ensure care and safekeeping. The artwork comes in a specially made box with a black, finely textured outer covering. The artwork magnetically locks into a metal pedestal at the center where it is firmly held in place. At the top of the box is a closed window to display the piece. There are features on the back that allow the box to be hung on the wall. In form and function, the box is very similar to the frame of an artwork.
We have given great thought and time to the design of our boxes to provide care, safekeeping, and aesthetic value. The band comes in a specially made box with a black, finely textured outer covering. A display window is located at the top. Magnets are built inside to securely hold the band in place. The box can be placed on a dresser or table for display.
Each artwork comes with a booklet with information about the artist and work. Like an exhibition catalogue, the booklets contain the artist's biography along with descriptions about each of their artworks available at Morphik. The artists have provided their own descriptions, which include interesting background details about the creative process, inspiration, and ideas behind each image.
A guiding principal at Morphik is to make contemporary artists more accessible to a larger and more diverse audience. For this reason, support of the artist community is very important. Our artist network spans the globe including Japan, China, the United States, Brazil, Germany, and France. Each artist has his or her individual style. Working in genres such as painting, graffiti and photography, each artist creates an exciting and fresh visual language representing the diverse trends happening in contemporary art practice today.
Morphik works to generate sponsorship of arts organizations that bring awareness to the benefits and vitality the arts have to offer. By donating to the arts, we aim to build creative and supportive partnerships worldwide.
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Village of Mount Prospect, ILHome Menu
Blood Drive
- Date: 05/02/2019 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Location: Village Hall
50 S. Emerson St.
Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056
The Community Blood Drive takes place from 3 - 8 p.m. in the Village Hall Community Room (1st floor, 50 S. Emerson St.). Parking is available in the garage adjacent to Village Hall. Walk ins are welcome.