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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Jan. 28, 2008) Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced a settlement with Southwestern Furniture of Wisconsin, LLC, doing business as Ashley Furniture Homestore, resolving consumer complaints of very late and/or defective deliveries and allegations of deceptive advertising.
The settlement requires Ashley Furniture Homestore to pay the Attorney General's Office $400,000. The money will be used to pay for consumer fraud education, attorneys' fees and investigation costs. The settlement also requires Ashley Furniture Homestore to change its business practices with regard to advertising and delivery and cancellation of orders.
The settlement provides consumers with a right to cancel late orders and a right to a prompt repair or replacement of defective furniture. In addition, Ashley Furniture will pay restitution of $2,000 to consumers who were charged a restocking fee, and the company will replace or provide refunds of up to $8,000 to consumers who received defective furniture.
In 2004 and 2005, the Attorney General's Office received numerous complaints about furniture deliveries that were extremely late and/or the furniture delivered was defective. The complaint filed by the Attorney General alleged that Ashley Furniture used disclaimer language in its sales order slips along with a 30 percent restocking fee to prevent customers from canceling their orders even though the delivery had been delayed months after the estimated date. Additionally, the complaint alleged that the company failed to adequately disclose minimum purchase requirements to qualify for zero interest financing.
"This is a great result for Arizona consumers," Goddard said. "This settlement changes how Ashley Furniture Homestore does business in Arizona. Consumers now have a remedy for late and defectively delivered furniture, and Ashley Furniture Homestores will make better disclosures in its advertisements."
In 2005, after the initial contact by the Attorney General's Office, Ashley Furniture Homestore began taking corrective action to resolve the consumer complaints. The settlement, in the form of a consent judgment, does not constitute an admission of wrongdoing by Ashley Furniture Homestore. The settlement also includes several additional provisions:
- If an advertisement offers zero financing, it must include a statement that says a minimum purchase applies and print ads must clearly disclose the minimum purchase amount.
- At the time of purchase, Ashley Furniture Homestore will put estimated delivery times in writing, and store representatives cannot modify or make statements inconsistent with the written estimate.
- Ashley Furniture Homestore will not provide an estimated delivery date unless there is a reasonable basis for making that estimate.
- Ashley Furniture Homestore will not require consumers to accept delivery of any merchandise that is damaged or defective at the time of delivery unless the merchandise was sold "as is" and is designated "as is" on the sales invoice.
- Ashley Furniture Homestore will provide a written cancellation and refund policy to customers. This policy will allow consumers to cancel an order and request a refund within 30 days if the company fails to deliver furniture after 30 days of the written estimated delivery date.
- Ashley Furniture Homestore will provide a written policy regarding damaged or defective furniture. The policy will require consumers to notify Ashley Furniture within three days after delivery that the furniture was damaged. The company then has 30 days to either replace or repair the merchandise. If Ashley Furniture cannot replace or repair the merchandise, then the company will offer the customer a full refund.
Assistant Attorney General Robert Zumoff handled this case.
If you believe you have been a victim of fraud, please contact the Attorney General's Office in Phoenix at 602.542.5763, in Tucson at 520.628.6504 or outside the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas at 1.800.352.8431. To file a complaint in person, the Attorney General's Office has 36 satellite offices throughout Arizona with volunteers available to help. Locations and hours are posted on the Attorney General's Web site at www.azag.gov. An online complaint form is also posted on the Attorney General's Web site.


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Michael Frazier II scored 17 points, one of six Florida players in double figures, and the seventh-ranked Gators routed Marquette 82-49 Thursday night in the SEC-Big East Challenge.
GAINESVILLE —� Michael Frazier II scored 17 points, one of six Florida players in double figures, and the seventh-ranked Gators routed Marquette 82-49 Thursday night in the SEC-Big East Challenge.
Florida took control midway through the first half, building a double-digit lead thanks to Frazier's hot hand and solid defense, and never let up.
The Gators kept things rolling after the break, opening up a 23-point lead on Will Yeguete's layup.
And get this: the Gators (6-0) stayed unbeaten without much help from Kenny Boynton. The team's leading scorer missed his first six shots and was scoreless until hitting a jumper with 16:34 remaining.
Boynton finished with six points on 2-of-11 shooting. Yeguete (11 points), Casey Prather (11), Mike Rosario (11), Pat Young (10) and Erik Murphy (10) all scored in double digits.
Vander Blue led Marquette (5-2) with 20 points, the team's only player in double figures.
Frazier and Young were even more impressive than Florida's balanced scoring effort.
Frazier made 5 of 8 shots from 3-point range, getting on such a role in the first half that teammates started looking for the 6-foot-4 freshman guard.
Young, meanwhile, came off the bench for the first time this season. Coach Billy Donovan benched Young because of his attitude in practice.
Young responded as well as Donovan could have wanted. He played with energy and effort all night, dominating the boards and doing all the little things. He had two monster blocks, a couple of nifty passes, went after loose balls and had a leaping steal near midcourt that turned into points.
Florida held Marquette to 41 percent shooting. The Golden Eagles finished 3 of 12 from 3-point range and turned the ball over 14 times.
Marquette had won three in a row and was looking to avenge last season's loss to the Gators in the NCAA tournament. Florida won 68-58 in the round of 16 in Phoenix.
Marquette lost Jae Crowder and Darius-Johnson Odom off that team, but the Golden Eagles showed little drop-off while playing Butler tight in the Maui Invitational and beating Mississippi State and USC.
But they were overmatched in Gainesville.
Florida opened a 23-13 lead midway through the first half, pushed it to 38-20 on consecutive 3s from Frazier and could have cruised in the second half.
Instead, the Gators poured it on. Frazier's fifth 3-pointer made it 70-39 with 6:14 remaining.
About the only concerns for the Gators were a couple of minor injuries.
Murphy went to the locker room with what appeared to be a hip injury, and Scottie Wilbekin went down with a right leg injury

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2003 Hummer H2
It all started as a military vehicle in the late 1970s. Since then, AM General has built more than 175,000 HMWWV, Humvee, or Hummer H1 vehicles.
Now comes the Hummer H2. It Is built at a brand-new factory in Indiana that's a duplicate of other General Motors plants. In effect, it is a GM plant. GM now owns all marketing rights to the Hummer brand, and contracts with AM General to build the new Hummer H2 using the GM worldwide production system.
The Hummer 2 is actually longer and taller than the original H1, but doesn't look it. The H2 represents an impressive production achievement: In just 16 months from the go signal, the Hummer H2 was designed, engineered and tested, and the new factory was built. It's a serious off-road SUV built on GM's superb T800 truck platform, which is shared with the Chevy Suburban and Tahoe SUVs and the Chevy Silverado pickups, plus the Cadillac Escalade, Chevy Avalanche, GMC Sierra and Yukons, and other vehicles.
But this isn't just a gussied-up Suburban. The H2 boasts unique Hummer engineering and attributes and offers truly impressive off-road capabilities. And unlike the H1, it provides occupants with a luxurious interior that's comfortable and convenient. Its size and design makes suitable for everyday use.
Model Lineup
Only one model, the Hummer H2 or Hummer 2, is available initially. It's available in a small but interesting palette of colors, from black to yellow, with a substantial option list.
Factory options are limited to sunroof, air suspension, towing package, Warn electric winch, leather upholstery, and a handful of others. However, the Hummer accessory catalog boasts more than 40 items, ranging from light bars to grille bars to tubular step plates to bike racks and cargo boxes for 300 pounds. Of course, there's Hummer apparel, and there's even a folding Hummer bicycle.
The Adventure package of air suspension, a first aid kit, tool kit and Maglite flashlight, luggage rack, 6-disc CD changer and carpeted floor mats, is $2215. The Lux package includes leather heated front seats, chrome appearance package, tubular assist steps, 6-dsic CD changer, and carpeted floor mats for $2575. Individual options include a third-row seat at $500, air suspension by itself for $1025, a front brush guard at $525, the chrome package for $700, the combination first aid, tool and flashlight kit at $215, heated leather seats alone for $1400, and $995 for the industry's largest SUV sunroof.
You can count on a future filled with pickup models, convertible models, two-seaters with huge beds, GM's convert-a-bed technology (used on the Chevy Avalanche and Cadillac Escalade EXT). We may see rear-wheel steering, along with versions powered by hybrid gas-electric engines and diesels.
There is no mistaking the Hummer 2 for anything but a Hummer. GM designers took as many functional cues from the big Hummer as they could reasonably get away with on a 122.8-inch wheelbase heavy-duty pickup truck chassis, even to the fake air intake boxes at the trailing edge of the hood. The chrome seven-slot grille is its signature, along with square corners, roof rack, flat glass, flat panel architecture, huge tires, and grab handles everywhere.
The front end is made up of a number of components including a grille, bumper, tow hooks, and a lower bash plate with a huge "H2" stamped into its plastic surface. It looks, from some angles, like a grown-up Tonka truck. The rear end is subdued compared to the rest of the truck, with a Hummer-stamped rear bumper cover and lots of square corners.
Odd, but the H2 changes personality a bit, depending on which color it's painted. Duck hunters may be disappointed that military camouflage is not an option.
You can plug in the optional Warn winch at either end because the H2 comes with hitch receivers and wiring looms on both front and rear bumpers to help launching boats and watercraft or for pulling yourself out or farther in to the wilderness.
H2 is 81.5 inches wide, 1.5 inches over the limit for clearance lights, so it comes with five lights on the roof fore and aft to comply with federal law. It's shorter overall than the Suburban, with very short front and rear overhangs that pay enormous dividends in off-road capability and performance.
Big, square, chromed mirrors somehow don't make very much noise, which we appreciated. They also have heat, reverse-down, and a power folding feature that protects the mirrors off road and narrows the truck's profile considerably for traversing narrow spaces.
Interior Features
Hummer's H2 offers little cargo space due to its low roofline and the huge spare tire and wheel bolted into the back seat area. Neither the roof nor the tailgate was deemed strong enough to hold the 98-pound wheel and tire unit, so it's inside, chewing up space, but covered up nicely. Maximum cargo space is listed as 86.6 cubic feet with all the rear seats folded down, short of some of its competitors, such as the new Range Rover, Ford Expedition, Lincoln Navigator, Mercedes-Benz G500, and the big Toyota Land Cruiser and Lexus LX470.
Some interior parts are taken from the Pontiac Aztek SUV, notably the air vents in the dashboard. Other interior components are taken from GM's pickup truck and SUV parts bins. But the important thing is that it hangs together as a complete, rather bold interior design with lots of metallic flavorings here and there, black-on-white gauges shared with the high-end GMC SUVs, and very decent seats. The rear-view mirror self-dims automatically. Glass is all Solar Ray glass which cuts heat and UV transmission.
Seats are thick, comfortable and supportive and keep you centered when driving off-road at odd angles. The shifter is a bit of design overkill, with a big, round, shiny handle that's meant to bring macho indoors but takes up too much space doing it.
Overall, the interior works pretty well. The small vertical side glass makes you want to hunch over to see out, but if you like intimate interiors, this might be the one for you.
We were astonished at the high level of speech articulation across the truck from left to right and front to back. It was easy to have a relatively long-distance conversation from the back seat of the Hummer at 75 miles an hour, and there was enough seat adjustment and rear-seat leg room that I could have sat behind myself, which is terrific since I'm almost 6-foot, 4-inches tall. Compared to this, the big Hummer is both short-coupled and loud inside.
It takes a healthy step up to get into the Hummer unless you use one of the two available step-plate options. And there is an unusually high liftover height at the rear floor. You don't get 10 inches of ground clearance without paying for it, and the truck ends up not very friendly to those of moderate stature. But you do get six 12-volt power points, fore (3), aft (2), and in the rear bumper (1).
Driving Impressions
First things first: this is NOT a noisy, smelly diesel. The Hummer 2's best single feature is the 6.0-liter V8 gasoline engine. It makes 316 horsepower in this chassis and 360 foot-pounds of torque, more than enough to get from 0 to 60 mph in about 10 seconds, and more than enough to comfortably tow 7000 pounds or carry 2200 pounds of cargo.
The powertrain is excellent. The engine drives through GM's 4L65-E electronically controlled four-speed overdrive transmission, the Borg-Warner 44-84 transfer case with a 40/60 front/rear torque bias, and steep 4.10:1 axle ratios. The tank range is given at 350 miles, based on a 32-gallon fuel tank and about 11 miles per gallon under ideal conditions. Fuel economy is not the H2's strong suit. But power and torque are plentiful, the engine is well muffled and quiet, and if you need to put oil in it, the H2's hood opens from the rear.
The body-on-frame Hummer 2 uses torsion-bar front suspension and a fully independent five-link rear suspension taken from the latest generation of GM's midsize sport utilities. It uses conventional coil springs and shock absorbers. However, there is an optional air suspension system that lowers the truck 0.7 inches, self-levels and can make difficult off-roading somewhat more comfortable. The relatively quick steering is helped out by one of the smallest turning circles in the segment at 43.5 feet. The Hummer 2 feels more nimble than it should at 6400 pounds, but it's not quick enough in its reactions to scare anybody. The tires are the Hummer 2's first form of suspension, and they combine well with the iron and steel bits to provide a plush ride on road, but a lot of control and stability off road.
Brakes on a serious SUV require more than just enough power to stop a fully loaded 6400-pound five-door family vehicle from 70 mph or more. Brakes on a serious SUV also demand the extra good pedal feel and system feel that make challenging off-road conditions easier on the nerves. Even when soaking wet, these brakes performed flawlessly, with lots of pedal feedback.
Hummer 2 marks the first use by GM and AM General of a new Borg-Warner transfer case, two-stage traction control and special-conditions strategy. With this system, you get pushbutton range shifting for high and low ranges, with or without rear differential locking, and a drive system that allows any one wheel with traction to propel the truck by using ABS circuitry to stop and start the rotation of the tires. The TC2 or second traction control strategy allows all four tires to spin freely at high rpm, a strategy needed on some loose or slick surfaces.
Huge LT315/70R17 BF Goodrich All-Terrain tires were easy to steer on highway and off. The truck carries an onboard compressor and hose fittings to enable deflating and reinflating tires as road and surface conditions dictate, using the air suspension's compressor. As big as they are, with that much contact patch on the road, the tires were surprisingly quiet at highway cruising speeds.
With only about 40,000 of these to sell, we think the 150 Hummer dealers in their distinctive Quonset hut dealerships will be swamped. This Hummer 2 will do 95 percent of what the original Hummer can do at far less than half the price, far more comfortably, stylishly and nimbly.
This thing will drive straight up a 16-inch vertical face, drive over a 16-inch diameter log, and traverse watery places to a depth of 20 inches or more. It'll easily drive up a wet 60-degree hill, if necessary at a 40-degree angle. We've never driven a big production SUV that was this good off-road. At this price, it's the SUV bargain of the year, whether you're trying to get through 10 inches of snow, a rutted soccer field parking lot, or a rocky canyon. Just don't expect to win any fuel-economy contests.
|Model Line Overview
|Model lineup:
|Hummer H2 ($48,065)
|316-hp 6.0-liter ohv 16-valve V-8
|4-speed automatic overdrive
|Safety equipment (standard):
|ABS, traction control, front airbags
|Safety equipment (optional):
|Basic warranty:
|4 years/50,000 miles
|Assembled in:
|Mishawaka, Indiana
|Specifications As Tested
|Model tested (MSPR):
|Hummer H2 5-door SUV
|Standard equipment:
|power windows, power mirrors, power locks, 8-way power seats, AM/FM/CD 9-speaker Bose system, OnStar, driver information system
|Options as tested (MSPR):
|sunroof ($995), brush guard ($525), CD changer ($350)
|Destination charge:
|Gas guzzler tax:
|Price as tested (MSPR):
|four-wheel drive
|6.0-liter ohv 16-valve V8
|Horsepower (lb.-ft @ rpm):
|316 @ 5200
|Torque (lb.-ft @ rpm):
|360 @ 4000
|4-speed automatic overdrive
|EPA fuel economy, city/hwy:
|13/13 mpg
|122.8 in.
|189.8/81.2/79.2 in.
|Track, f/r:
|69.4/69.4 in.
|Turning circle:
|43.5 ft.
|Seating Capacity:
|Head/hip/leg room, f:
|40.5/62.9/41.3 in.
|Head/hip/leg room, m:
|39.7/62.0/38.6 in.
|Head/hip/leg room, r:
|38.8/30.3/27.3 in.
|Cargo volume:
|86.6 cu. ft.
|Towing capacity:
|7000 Lbs.
|Suspension, f:
|Suspension, r:
|Ground clearance:
|10.0 in.
|Curb weigth:
|6400 lbs.
|LT315/70R17 BF Goodrich T/A
|Brakes, f/r:
|disc/disc with ABS
|Fuel capacity:
|32 gal.
|Unless otherwise indicated, specifications refer to test vehicle. All prices are manufacturer's suggested retail prices (MSPR) effective as of June 30, 2002.Prices do not include manufacturer's destination and delivery charges. N/A: Information not available or not applicable. Manufacturer Info Sources: 1-800-REAL4WD - www.hummer.com


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Gaiscioch Family Vault Credits
Family Vault Credits or FVC is the currency of the Gaiscioch Family. It can be used to request supplies for crafting, crafted goods, and some select drops found throughout the world. In addition it can at times be used to gain access to special events and opportunities sometimes given to our family by our partner development studios and hardware manufacturers. All members earn Family Vault Credits by participating in events and by filling work orders on the marketplace. Additionally you can earn additional Family Vault Credits by participating in promotional and charity events.
How Family Vault Credits Are Calculated:
Family Honor Point + Contribution = Family Vault Credit
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On Saturday, Lionel Messi scored another beauty—a dribble through the defender's legs, finished with a left-footed strike into the far corner. It was the 91st and final goal of his calendar year, an all-time record. A crack Youtuber has put together a compilation of every single one, so let Messi lull you with 10 minutes of hypnotic, non-stop scoring. Savor it, since it'll be a long time before we see anything like this again.
Meanwhile, Polk Panther at Heading For The Exits has infographic'd Messi's 2012 scores. (Click to embiggen.) That's an awful lot of goals.


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Through this outreach, which is in partnership with Liberty Church, there will be a Bible study for residents of the Bailey Holt-House, which serves serves more than 1800 men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses in neighborhoods throughout New York City. Please contact Jae Mobley if you are interested in learning more about this opportunity.
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Predict Response to Chemotherapy?
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I was diagnosed with Stage IIIC ovarian cancer in Nov. 2005. I had a hysterectomy and tumor debulking at that time. I have most recently been on IV Taxol and Carboplatin chemotherapy, and have responded best to this combination. What is the best predictable factor that will indicate how one person will respond to a specific chemo regime better than others? In the laparoscopy, Dr. Walker was going to send tissue for chemosensitivity assays, but no tumor or malignancy was present.
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
Your question about how best to predict a cancer's response to chemotherapy is very important. There are a variety of methods available to test an individual's tumor cells in the lab for response to different chemotherapy drugs. All of these methods require harvest of tumor cells, either in a solid biopsy specimen or in fluid. These tests appear to have a good chance of telling us which drugs are NOT useful. Stated another way, when the lab tests say that the cancer cells in the biopsy specimen were resistant to a certain chemotherapy, there is a good correlation to how the tumor will react in the body when treated with the same drug. Unfortunately, the reverse is not true. It is much more difficult for these tests to tell us what drugs will actually cause the tumor to shrink in the body. In addition, tumors are composed of many different types of cells. Some cells may be sensitive to one chemotherapy and resistant to another, while other cells from the same tumor may have different sensitivities.


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Study: State's poor health care affects all income levels
WASHINGTON — High-income people who live in states that generally do poorly in health care are worse off than low-income people in states with high health care scores, according to a Commonwealth Fund study released today.
"In the United States, income is not a guarantee of good healthcare or good health," said David Blumenthal, president of The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that works to increase access to health care. "Where you live plays a very big part in your experience.
As an example, Blumenthal said low-income seniors who live in Connecticut and Wisconsin are less likely to receive medications considered high-risk than are high-income seniors in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.
To compile health scores, investigators looked at everything from how many people in a state had health insurance versus those who had none or did not have enough coverage. They also considered how many people used the emergency room for care rather than a doctor's office or how well a state's health care system protected its citizens from dangerous medications.
While the northern and western states generally did well in the report, the South, Southeast and Southwest "performed badly," Blumenthal said. He compared access to health care in those areas as similar to developing countries in Southeast Asia.
The organization compared states based on access and affordability, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and healthy lives. They found that:
• In Massachusetts, which has had a requirement for people to buy insurance comparable to the Affordable Care Act since 2006, about 12% of people are uninsured, while in Texas, 55% of people have no insurance.
• In some states, 32% of low-income adults older than 50 received preventive care, such as cancer screenings and vaccines. In Idaho, Oklahoma and California only 26% received such care. In Massachusetts, 42% did.
• In eight states, at least 40% of Medicare beneficiaries were prescribed medications considered dangerous for seniors. That was more than double the rate than for states with higher marks.
• In New York, low-income children with asthma were hospitalized eight times more often than low-income kids in Oregon.
But states that performed well in some areas didn't do as well in others. For example, Colorado performed in the top quartile for avoiding the hospital and healthy lives, but in the lowest 25% for access and affordability.
"We see potential for real gains if we aim high," said Cathy Schoen, senior vice president of The Commonwealth Fund. "This is putting everyone at risk, not just the low-income population."
Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Louisiana, none of which opted for a state-based exchange or expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, all performed in the bottom quarter in all areas of the health scorecard.
"The lack of Medicaid will only exacerbate the disparities our scorecard highlights," Blumenthal said.
Nearly 40% of the U.S. population falls below 200% of the poverty level, and in some states, including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and New Mexico, half the population falls below that level. For a family of four, that's $47,100 a year. For the report, those who made more than 400% of the poverty level, or $94,200 for a family of four, were considered well off.
REPORT: State health study
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Cantor Rabbi Lenny Mandel
Joining Congregation B'nai Israel as Hazan for The High Holidays in 1996, Lenny Mandel didn't only bring his rich and engaging voice, he also brought his strong sense of spirituality, kindness, warmth and joy. Cantor Rabbi Mandel, studied at Yeshiva University's Cantorial School-The Belz School of Jewish Music, and with various renowned Hazanim. Although Lenny is an ordained Rabbi, he has continued leading CBI in prayer as our full time Cantor since July 1996.
Cantor Rabbi Mandel does not only lead our congregants in prayer. He uses his theatrical background (he is a member of both acting unions and has performed all over the world): writing and directing our Purim Shpiel, the graduating class play, musical spoofs for various Synagogue functions, and adapting musical themes for our bi-monthly, casual erev Shabbat programs. His Yom HaShoah presentations, Fiddler on the Roof & Beatles' Shabbat services filled our sanctuary to the brim.He organized the first adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah program here. 23 congregants aged 34-76, studied with him, and led the complete erev Shabbat and complete Shabbat morning services, before each was called to the Torah.


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The Chair is selected by Consultative Advisory Group (CAG) and approved by the Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB). The Chair shall act in the public interest, and report to the PIOB.
The role of the CAG Chair is especially important since the chair must achieve results while maintaining harmony in CAG discussions and following due process. The CAG Chair fulfills three interrelated roles:
CAG Spokesperson and Representative
The CAG Chair acts as the primary representative of the worldwide user group of the IAASB's output, as comprised in the CAG. In this way the CAG Chair enables, encourages, and promotes a deeper understanding by IAASB of the public needs and expectations. In addition the Chair will:
- Actively promote the identity, objectives and activities of CAG in the media, public forums and other meetings with the PIOB, IFAC and IAASB stakeholders.
- Encourage and promote the convergence of national and international standards.
- Establish and develop effective relationships with identified key stakeholders.
- Represent the CAG in its annual report.
Leader of the CAG
The CAG Chair provides leadership to the CAG in the conduct of its activities. The Chair oversees the achievement of the CAG's goals and objectives and will:
- Provide leadership in the achievement of the objective of the CAG as set out in its terms of reference.
- Actively identify and evaluate the impact of emerging issues bearing on the profession in order to provide advice to the IAASB.
- Govern the CAG meetings and ensure they are conducted properly. This responsibility includes, among others:
- Approving the agenda;
- Ensuring that the minutes are properly considered by the membership of the CAG and where necessary amended prior to distribution;
- Encouraging and promoting open, candid discussions and debate;
- Ensuring Member Organizations' views are duly considered;
- Pro-actively leading debate on contentious matters being addressed by the CAG.
- Report, as appropriate, to the PIOB on IAASB progress and plans on a regular basis.
The CAG Chair is the key representative of the CAG and acts as the primary liaison with the PIOB, IFAC Board, and IAASB as well as identified key stakeholders, ensuring the views of all parties are appropriately represented and communicated. Thus the Chair will:
- Establish and develop effective relationships with key stakeholders, such as national standard setters, regulators, etc.
- Actively participate in meetings of the IAASB.
- Facilitate communication and liaison channels between the CAG and the PIOB, the IFAC Board and IAASB, ensuring that the views of the CAG are communicated to each body and that the views of each body are effectively communicated.
Criteria for CAG Chair
The following would represent criteria for selection of a CAG Chair:
- Integrity, objectivity and discipline.
- Commitment to the IAASB mission and the public interest.
- Effective leadership and strategic skills.
- Effective facilitation and communication skills and ability to listen and consider the views of others.
- Strong understanding of current and emerging issues.
- Effective public-speaking skills.
- Strong, established bonds with key constituents and stakeholders.
- Effective networking and relationship building skills.
- Effective negotiating skills.
- Consultative and judicious decision-making.


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A cultural cavalcade in the Linnaeus Garden
Try your hand at origami, learn about kimonos and witness a Japanese tea ceremony in Linnaeus' orangery. Listen to classical music and enjoy a choir singing. Visit Carl Linnaeus' home. As darkness falls, the garden will be Illuminated by candles. Enjoy a magical stroll among the flowers of autumn.
The Culture Night in the Botanical Garden
The Botanical Garden provides an ambient setting for moving meditation, Japanese martial arts, classical music, and a traditional fire show. Watch ceremonial archery on the lawn of the Baroque Garden. Explore the Tropical Greenhouse and hear the frogs sing. If you are lucky, the giant water lily will show you its flower.
Meadow raking in the cultural reserve
Come and volunteer att Linnaeus' Hammarby! It is time to harvest the last vegetables and to prepare the forest meadows for winter by raking them and collecting and burning branches. Work side by side with experts on agrarian history and learn about 18th century farming. All helpers will be rewarded with hot dogs and soft drinks.
School holiday fun - plant a Christmas bulb
Start a bulb and make it blossom at Christmas. Plant it in a pot, create and decorate a cone which will provide darkness that will encourage the bulb to blossom. Suitable for ages 6 to 15, the Tropical Greenhouse.
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Yuri, a plugin architecture allowing for different curves in fontlab sounds fantastic. I would love to explore a nurbs based drawing environment, for example. It would solve the licensing issues for this technology too :)
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Yuri, a plugin architecture allowing for different curves in fontlab sounds fantastic. I would love to explore a nurbs based drawing environment, for example. It would solve the licensing issues for this technology too :)
That's why we plan to implement it.
There are many possible ways to draw outline. I personally experimented with several types of splines, some "centerline" methods, Ikarus curves etc. Even in FLS you may find 5 different ways to build outline: 2 types of curved in "main" mode, Sketch mode (some type of spline, point-compatible with Ikarus outline), Primitives (which is "object" UI) and some strange method to use components as "blocks" to build outline with autojoin function (not really useful and never documented).
Only "main" mode actually survived and is used to draw, all others are more or less "experimental".
Oh, there are few more: in standard FLS distributive you may find 3 "Python tools" which are good examples of how this spiral-based technology may be integrated even into FLS5.
Two tools are Line and Curve (latter shows some rudimentary auto-curvature control) and third is called Drops. It creates random-size circles if no tablet is connected. With pressure-sensitive tablet size of the circles depend on pressure.
Actually it is very interesting challenge to integrate spiral-based editing tools into FLS using Python tool gateway :-)
Few words about our future approach to different editing methods: the biggest problem of current Fontlab tools is that all of them mix production with design. We plan to separate it and offer plugin architecture for editing content of glyphs.
Yes thats exactly the 'problem' with Fontlab. It's not really a designers tool as it is. An open modular approach sounds great.
Yuri, great of you to show up!
> at some point we cross the line from "what the
> tool can do" to "how good is Raph at font design."
Yes, but if you remove the latter (never fully, but much more
than with that "S") you'll have a better view of the latter.
So my advice was practical: make the "S" narrower, and people
will generally get a better idea of how good the spirals are.
* Will it be possible to write interactive editing plugins in Python and have them work cross-platform?
It is possible even now. Spiro data may be stored in glyph dictionary (Python-accessible storage for arbitrary data). Python tool API allows to redefine mouse events and window paint function, but that is currently very limited.
In future implemenation plugin API (both for Python and for general coding) will be greatly extended.
* To do the rasterizing, as you say, can my plugin generate a (crude) Bezier and hand it off to a FontLab-supplied API for the rest?
By rasterization I mean conversion to 8-bit grayscale bitmap. While conversion to Bezier is OK, it will be much faster if Spiro outline is converted to supersampled vector-only outline. Then it can be passed to system or Freetype rasterizer to get bitmap.
What I mean is that in furure plugin architecture we will define minumal set of plugin functions that are required for it to be included into FLS as "layer editor". That will include on-screen outline rendering, conversion to Bezier outline, rasterization to grayscale bitmap, serialization (it should store data in its own format and Bezier format for compatibility reasons) and UI integration. This plugin architecture is currently in early stage of development, so many more details will emerge as we move forward.
* I assume that the plug-in also gets some kind of API for marshalling and unmarshalling the plugin-specific format into the FontLab database file. Is this correct? For what I need, JSON would be ideal, but other choices would also work.
Future database format will be very different to what we have now. It will allow to store glyph layers in any format that is required by any of plugins.
.ik format: I think that computer power available at the time was an issue when Ikarus was developed. It is actually based on very simple math, which has many limitations. That is the reason why in sketch mode of FLS we are using some approximation of Ikarus curves with splines. That gives much more flexibility to outline (it can be solved with any position of points) while keeps it very close to .ik shape.
@Christian: Wow! your Ubuntu title font is an excellent contribution! I hope this becomes the new upstream version as Andy Fitz suggested in the comments of your blog! :)
sgh> x-height is a parameter in Aurulent Sans
@hrant> Could we see how [well] it works out?
Let's say "skagy" varying from a pretty small to a pretty large x-height.
Sorry about the delay in doing this, but I was traveling and then forgot about it. I've posted a sample that shows varying x-height in Aurulent Sans in that font's critique. The amount of time it took me was changing one line and hitting recompile. The tricky part was figuring out how to install several different versions of the same font. :)
The ability to change basic parameters globally over the entire font is quite nice, but it does require planning the scripts (somewhat) carefully. For instance, I can't push the x-height much over 600, because then the script that generates the question mark barfs. Of course, as Hrant pointed out, it's presumed that the parameters won't vary too much from the value in mind when the scripts are written.
I am not a type designer, however, I hand draw and build alot of identity pieces by hand and would love to have a PC version of this to try out. *hint hint*
I do have a stack of type ideas that might get due consideration if this is as intuitive as it sounds.
I'v tried to use the app on a mac os x 10.4. It is a great tool and I would very highly appreciate it, if you would work further on this application. Especially for the mac. It makes the best curves on earth!
- better UI (for example a toolset beneath the drawing window)
- export function in different formats (.ai, .eps, jpg)
- lineals would be also great
- a info window to see exactly where the points are lying
- function to underly a scanned image
once again thank you very much for this little app. I think it will have a great future.
p.s. maybe you could make it work as a plugin for illustrator? I would be more than willing to pay for it.
Wow, this is an impressive curve technology tool. Is there any chance that a ported Windows build is available?
If not, how far along is the port -- I might be able to get some interest in development on the project. The developers I know though would probably want to port everything C++ with the QT GUI framework, to make it fully cross-platform.
Does anyone know how to pan or zoom in Spiro? I managed to open some of the sample files in the Mac version but I cannot see the whole glyph shape. Thanks!
@lunyboy & @derya: A windows version is very unlikely; grab a GNU/Linux Live CD and test it out that way :-)
@Daniel: If your developer friends are interested, please mail me (email@example.com) as there are some other QT people I know interested in writing a new type design tool.
@Tim: You need to buy a bigger screen.
George Williams has extended FontForge to support Raph Levien's Spiro curves. I started a thread here on Typophile to discuss that, but it hasn't drawn much attention yet. Anybody have any thoughts to share?
Hi! Just wanted to bump this up. I've been using Spiro drawing in FontForge for months now and it has proven an invaluable addition to the tool set. While there are some shortcomings under predictable conditions, I wouldn't think of going back to drawing letterforms with Beziers alone.
Bumping up this thread again :)
Developement version of Inkscape supports Spiro as well now. It's implemented as a live path effect (that is, there is always a final bezier path in an SVG file) and can be applied to any bezier path or be drawn with a pen or pencil tool. It will be available in final Inkscape 0.47 release (due this autumn probably).
Here is an illustration by Andy Fitzsimon:
Thanks for the tip, Alexandre. Hopefully that new version of Inkscape will work on my Mac, since the last one I tried won't launch. Probably something messed up in my system.
Thanks, prokoudine, but that tip refers to Mac OSX 10.5 and up, while I'm running 10.4.11 (the old girl can't take more than that.)
Sorry about the threadjack, folks. Back on topic: Spiro sure is awesome, isn't it? Thanks Raph!
I downloaded the Carbon ppedit app, but nothing seems to happen when I click anywhere on the screen. I tried opening a plate file from the command line and while the terminal window looked like it was logging my mouse actions, nothing was showing up in the drawing area. Am I being a total idiot and missing something obvious, or is there some bug in the app? I'm running Leopard on an intel Mac.
I can't seem to get Spiro working with FontForge, either*...but is does work with Inkscape! I gotta say, this is seriously sweet. I'm doing my MFA thesis on type design for e-paper, and this is going to help a lot. Kudos!
*installed libspiro and everything, latest FontForge release, says it's not linked to Spiro. Whatever...using X11 apps with multiple windows in Mac OSX is a royal headache anyway.
@ exfish: I had that problem with an earlier release, but it was cured on the next month's build. Make a note of the issue (specifying your system specs and OS version along with the FF build version) on the fontforge-devel mailing list and George will fix it, or at least tell you what to do.
Hello Raph,
I'm little bit confused by FontForge's tutorial on Spiro's http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/editspiro.html.
I also compiled the ppedit. But there's no tutorials/docs.
Is the only way for me to understand these 6 operations is actually to read the code?
I've been using a somewhat different technique than what is described in the Fontforge/Spiro tutorial. It involves a lot of switching back and forth between Spiro and Bezier drawing modes. The knife tool behaves unpredictably and the alignment tools are disabled in Spiro mode. Since I build letters with a lot of cut-and-paste, that sort of behavior is a hindrance.
I suppose I should write my own tutorial once I figure out exactly what I'm doing.
Sorry to bump this old thread, but is there something new happening with Spiro? Has development stopped? It looked promising…
Raph, it's very wonderful and thank you a lot for sharing this Spiro to us! I use FontForge e Inkscape.
But, Raph, I still have a doubt, is Spiro compatible with Inkscape 0.48 from Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10? If so, how do I put Spiro to Inkscape and FontForge?
So you didn't teach how to download and put this pack to these programs.
Thank you!
Raph thanks for the wonderful Spiro curves, I'm using a lot lately.
There is one simple curve I can't represent very well using Spiros in Fontforge
I've tried using fontforge.spiroLeft and fontforge.spiroRight to enter and exit curve but it doesnt seem to draw a perfect circle. It seems more like logarithmic curve.
Is there a way of drawing this curve using Spiros? Thanks
I'm not a spiro expert by any means, but:
- Try putting an extra point in the middle.
- There's no such thing as a perfect circle, except the
actual circle equation; any other form of equation is
necessarily an approximation.
Stay tuned...
For a Windows version :)
Hi @raph Thanks for the detailed answer.
Let me ask you something, Did you build the Nodebox Cornu extension or were the Nodebox guys? It would be amazing to be able to use different kinds of Spiro points there.
I want to make an ppedit alike editor with a tight grid.
About ppedit, after saving I can't find the plate file in OS X 10.7
This is all very interesting, but not very new.
URW Ikarus, developed by Peter Karow, in 1973-74, used Hermite splines having the important property that all the control points lie on the outline itself.
You had a few more points on curve but the control was great.
But, today, designers prefer and have accepted the off-curve Bezier handles.
However, Ikarus plug-ins where very powerful.
For example, you could change "one" serif and have the program replace all the serifs throughout automatically.
Another plug-in would slant or "italicize" the glyphs and optically adjust the distortions based on the amount of angle, and so forth.
Very powerful plug-ins that made the type designers job simpler, saved time. But, in the end, the type designer had to fine-tune everything by eye.
Automation can only go so far.
It seems that everyone is looking for the "magic" tool. How can I draw an "S" really fast without too much difficulty.
How can I get the tool to create a font for me relatively quickly, so I can make and market more fonts quicker.
I'm sorry, but there are no shortcuts to good typography or good type design.
I'm sure the tools will continue to make improvements with time. That is the nature of technology.
But the ultimate tool is ones own knowledge, talent and craftsmanship that one brings to the table.
Everything else is just a tool to help us explore the possibilities. Just a tool.
> you could change "one" serif and have the program
> replace all the serifs throughout automatically.
Letraset FontStudio did this too, with Beziers.
> there are no shortcuts to good typography or good type design.
Yes there are. You just have to invent them and/or [know how to] use them.
I'm sorry, but there are no shortcuts to good typography or good type design.
You must be one of those people who can't figure out how to install Robofab.
@raph: Christoph Knoth at ATypI suggested adding one more point type, which would be an extremum point - it would function similar to the curve point, but force the tangent to be a multiple of 90 degrees.
This would be fantastic! One of the difficulties I've had in using Spiro for type design is the lack of control over extrema. This is particularly troublesome when converting an existing design into outlines or trying to match specified metrics.
@dimitre its in /tmp
"I deliberately simplified the UI so there wouldn't be huge numbers of point types representing the different constraints"
How huge is that number of point types anyway?
dberlow: How huge is that number of point types anyway?
There are essentially 4 types of Spiro points:
- corner points -- where the slopes and curvatures of the incoming and outgoing splines are unconstrained
- G4 curve points -- continuous up to the fourth derivative
- G2 curve points -- continuous up to the second derivative
- constraint points -- used to connect a curved line to a straight one
More information can be found at libspiro, the Fontforge documentation, or Raph's thesis (see in particular page 121 {137 in pdf numbering}).
I've been re-reading your thesis (wonderful, by the way!) to see how an extremum point would work. Following the table on page 121, I think the following might work for a point of fixed tangency:
\theta_l=\theta_r=fixed constant
These four conditions balance the four degrees of freedom a general Spiro segment has. Do these seem like the right conditions? I think it should be pretty straightforward to extend your solver to include this type of point.
Best wishes,
I discovered this thread when seeking information about one of the earliest computer-based type design tools.
It was mentioned in a standard type design textbook, so I'm sure many here have seen it. A single Archimedian spiral was seen as sufficiently general that it was the only tool the system offered, playing the same role as Bezier curves in today's digital type formats.
Quadibloc, according to yester lore, the AM Varityper worked with this spiral thingy -- their salesman told me this so it must be true ;-)
If I had salvaged one of its 8" font disks I would have tried to see what sort of format its fonts were stored in. Oh, and if I could attach an 8" disk drive to my system, of course.
It Was 1989 ("my thoughts were short, my hair was long") and the bosses' son returned from the US of A with two "laser printers", one from HP and the other one from a small but determined firm called "Apple", sporting an actual programming language ("PostScript", I recall). Soon after that, we abandoned AM -- just like pretty much the rest of the typesetting world.
I see that I missed a mention in this thread of the Purdy-McIntosh system; that might be what I was thinking of.


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Carlitos Guitars (rhythm) (1992-1994), Guitars (lead) (1994-present) - See also: ex-Casa de Fieras
Mohamed Violin (1992-present)
Frank Guitars (rhythm) (1996-present) - See also: Bürdel King, ex-Härem, ex-Los Siervos de Gandalf, ex-Mario el Violento
Patricia Tapia Vocals (female) (2007-present) - See also: Patricia Tapia KHY, Bürdel King (live), ex-Nexx
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Fernando Mainer Bass (2012-present) - See also: Jorge Salán, Tako, Jeff Scott Soto (live), ex-Ankhara, ex-Ars Amandi, ex-Mysteria
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Zeta Vocals (lead) (2012-present) - See also: ex-Al Otro Lado, ex-Dorian Gray
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Mary Beth Bowers has one mission: to tell consumers that all wheat bread isn't created equal.
"Unless it says whole wheat bread on the label, it's not authentic," the Wheat Commission member said. "They use all the wrong flours and then have to add all the good stuff back in – and in order to make it look like whole-wheat bread, they add caramel color to it."
Bowers said the wheat bread deception started in the '90s when white bread was the "in thing." In an effort to increase profits and to decrease production costs, factories began to take all the nutritious parts — the endosperm, bran, and germ — out of the bread, leaving it without b-vitamins and replacing them with chemicals. She said that, in order to make the bread white, factories had to put powdered bleach in the tubs of flour to make it whiter quicker – a move that Bowers said isn't necessary.
"If you just let it sit there for a while, the air will whiten the flour," she said. "The only difference is speed. They don't want to wait for it to whiten naturally, so they put chemicals in and hope people don't notice."
Bowers said the best flour to purchase is un-bleached, whole-wheat flour. It's the type that doesn't get tampered with, and produces the best results in baked goods.
"If you've got to go to the store and purchase flour, you want to get the one that is the most natural," she said. "You don't want to be giving any chemicals to your family. Anything that doesn't say whole wheat, isn't whole wheat. The plain old wheat bread just converts into sugar in your body. It has no other redeeming compounds. Remember, the vitamins and nutrients have been removed, so all your left with is a loaf of sugar."
If there is an opportunity to purchase the natural product, Bowers said that is the way to go – especially if you have your own grinder.
"They're not that hard to purchase, and they are a lifesaver if you're doing a lot of processing," she said. "There are ones on the market right now that are electric; it makes the grain pretty fine and it comes out in pretty much the same size."
Recently, though, she has found an exception. Wheat farmers are now growing a genetically modified version that is naturally white, called White Wheat Flour, which she said can be found at Carlsons' Grocery and other grocery stores in the county.
"It turns everything we know upside down," she said. "It has all the nutrients, but has the desired look – and it's a joy to bake with. It has a silky feel to it."
Looking forward, Bowers said she doesn't know what will come to the market, but she is sure of one thing: consumers need to be cautious in the grocery store aisle, checking to see that they are getting quality, chemical-free food to feed their families.
"You can't be healthy in a fortified lifestyle," she said. "The only way to do it is to go natural."
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The Lady Bisons closed out the home portion of the 2010 soccer season on a less than high note falling 3-0 to Jacksonville.
Jacksonville, 10-4, 6-1-1 in the conference; leads the Atlantic Sun. The Lady Bisons are 4-11-0, 0-7-0 in the A-Sun.
Arianne Heaton scored first for Jacksonville at 8:01 of the first half as she found the net in a scramble in front of the net.
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Travel back to the golden days of Hollywood through a tour of one of the motion picture studios of Los Angeles. While visiting the sets and props of their favorite films, clients also have the chance of running into a celebrity or two. Visitors should keep in mind that itineraries of the tours below may vary depending on which soundstages or back lots are currently in use.
Warner Bros. StudiosWarner Bros. Studios offers VIP and Deluxe studio tours that take guests to the sets of "The Last Samurai," "Million Dollar Baby," "Casablanca," "The West Wing" and "Gilmore Girls," among others. Watch out for stars too, as "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" are among the programs currently filming on the Warner Bros. Lot.
VIP tours run for two hours and 15 minutes and are $52 per person. Deluxe tours, which are five hours long and $250 per person, feature exclusive tours of craft shops where props are created, a visit to a working production set and dinner at the Commissary Fine Dining Room. Group tours with a minimum of 24 guests are also available by calling 818-977-1943. Visitors must be eight years and up to participate in the tours.www.warnerbros.com
Paramount PicturesParamount Pictures is the only large movie studio that still remains in Hollywood, and visitors who tour it will likely see the Hollywood sign from within the studio lot. On the regular two-hour studio tour, visitors will see the original bench used in "Forrest Gump," a New York set where "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was filmed and a studio cafe which is featured on "Glee" as the restaurant Breadsticks, among other highlights.
On the VIP studio tour, which is four-and-a-half hours long, visitors will have access to the studio's archive and production facilities, allowing them to see studio props from as far back as 100 years ago. Tours are available for ages 10 and up.
Studio tours are $48 per person, while VIP tours are $165 per person and include a complimentary lunch and a souvenir photo.www.paramountstudiotour.com
Universal Studios HollywoodWhile a tour of Universal Studios Hollywood is only available as a ride in the theme park, it certainly is a highlight for visitors. Visitors should not expect the traditional studio tour. Instead, the Studio Tour draws visitors into the world of cinema through special effects and staged action that will give guests the sense they are in a movie. During the ride, visitors sit onboard a studio tram, and encounter the plane crash from "The War of the Worlds," Wisteria Lane from "Desperate Housewives" and the infamous Bates Motel from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." The tour is narrated by Jimmy Fallon, who speaks via a video guide.
For those seeking a more authentic studio tour experience, Universal Studios also offers a VIP Studio Tour with purchase of a VIP Experience ticket to the park. This tour is more personalized, since it is capped at groups of 15. Visitors have the chance to stroll around the sets where movies such as "Back to the Future" and "Spartacus" were filmed, and they can also visit the sound stages of current television productions.
The most exclusive way to view the park is via a Private VIP experience, which can be personalized by calling 818-622-8477.
Regular admission to the park is $84 for adults. The VIP experience, which includes other benefits in the theme park such as priority seating on rides and attractions, is $299. www.universalstudioshollywood.com
Sony Pictures StudiosLocated in Culver City, Calif., Sony Pictures Studios was formerly the MGM Studios, where iconic movies such as "The Wizard of Oz" were filmed. On Sony's public tours, visitors will see sound stages where movies and television shows such as "Men in Black" and "Spiderman" were filmed and they will hear about the studio's significant history. The tour also includes a visit to the Studio Emporium shop and the lot's newest attraction, the infamous RV from the television show "Breaking Bad."
Customizable group tours are also available, and include lunch on the lot and the opportunity to experience a taping of "Jeopardy!" or "Wheel of Fortune." Tickets for regular tours are $38 per person, and group tours can be arranged by calling 310-244-8687. Tours are available for children ages 12 and up. www.sonypicturesstudiostours.com
Walt Disney StudiosWhile the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., are not open to the public, die-hard Disney fans can visit the site by booking a vacation through Adventures by Disney. The five-night Southern California trip, "Disney Backstage, Hollywood & Disneyland," includes a tour of Walt Disney Studios and the Walt Disney Archives, as well as a Walt Disney Imagineering Tour. The itinerary takes visitors to Hollywood and includes a visit to the Jim Henson Company, where "The Muppets" was filmed. The trip wraps up with visits to both Disneyland and California Adventure. The tour package starts at $2,709 per adult and $2,579 per child. www.adventuresbydisney.com


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Palatine, IL – More than 130 people attended a public forum and town hall meeting about health care reform and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the Palatine Public Library on Wednesday, August 28th. The meeting was organized by Northwest Suburbs Organizing for Action (NWSOFA), a nonpartisan volunteer organization dedicated to advancing progressive policies.
Andrew Kurz, a former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin, pointed out that the United States spends 18% of its GDP on health care, which is more than twice as much as other developed countries, but tens of millions of people are not covered. "The U.S. has the worst infant mortality rate of any industrialized country," Kurz said. "Other industrialized countries have far lower drug costs," said Kurz. More than half of individual bankruptcies are a result of health care expenses."
"Many of the major benefits of the ACA are not yet in effect, but consumers have favored every benefit that is now in effect," said Kurz. The ACA provides for "insurance at normal costs for people with pre-existing conditions."
Kurz answered questions from the audience. Asked what the ACA does to reduce insurance costs, Kurz said "it's amazing how many billions of dollars health insurance companies have spent excluding people from coverage. If everyone is covered, none of that expense is necessary."
A Kaiser Health video titled "Health Reform Hits Main Street" was shown. The video pointed out that more than 30 million people are uninsured today. Under the ACA, people will have more options for obtaining health insurance. Medicaid coverage will be expanded, and working people will be able to buy insurance through health insurance exchanges established by federal and state governments.
Christine Johanson Ross, one of the organizers of the meeting and the leader of NWSOFA's health care action team, said, "We were thrilled by the turnout for this meeting. It shows that people in the northwest suburbs want to hear the facts, not just political spin."
NWSOFA will hold a panel discussion on health care reform and the ACA at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library on October 15th. For more information, go to nwsofa.org or call (224)241-2012.
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Northwest Suburbs Organizing for Action (NWSOFA) is the northwest suburban chapter of Organizing for Action, a nonpartisan volunteer organization dedicated to advancing the policies that the American people voted for in 2012. As a grassroots funded social advocacy group, OFA is committed to tipping the scales of power back to the American people instead of special interests in Washington. OFA is working to advance policies like job creation, strengthening the middle class, gun violence prevention, comprehensive immigration reform and measures combating climate change that the majority of the American people support. More information at nwsofa.org or by phone at (224)241-2012.


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Delegates have been moved by striking images of citizen actions in support of the 350 ppm target. Photo courtesy of 350.org.
I know many of you are busy preparing for this weekend's vigils, and I know you're all hearing a lot about the climate talks in Copenhagen.
But since we're all working on the same team, I wanted to give you an inside/outside sense of all that's happening in one of the more important weeks in the history of this ball of rock and water we call the earth.
From inside Copenhagen, our crew (which at exactly 350 mostly young souls is reportedly the largest accredited delegation to the talks!) reports the following:
- It's cold and gray and the sun sets at 3:30 pm, but exciting to be in a world where everyone is focused on the climate. Sometimes, amongst all the wonderful activists from every corner of the world, you can really sense how the planet might come together.
- As of Wednesday evening, the 350 target is still in the treaty's "negotiating text." Our movement's lobbying efforts—both in the UN and around the world—might end up bearing fruit. Few negotiators have managed to avoid our briefing papers on the science of 350, and many of them are showing their support in style with 350 ties and lapel pins. But the most persuasive lobbying tool has proven to be the photos—your photos—from the 350 events around the world. Amidst all the compromises and politicking, seeing 350 as a possible element of a global climate treaty is a refreshing acknowledgment of the reality of physics and chemistry—and a crucial reminder of the bottom line for this whole elaborate process.
- More and more countries and leaders are using the 350 figure publicly. Bolivia stepped up to the plate and made the 350 target a main point of their opening statement; then Al Gore gave a remarkable speech saying no matter what happens we have to keep working till we get to 350. Yesterday in the New York Times, Thomas Lovejoy, one of the planet's great biologists, put it bluntly: "350 ppm--that is the upper limit for dangerous interference with ecosystems." And it's sinking in. Countries on the front lines of climate change—like small Pacific islands and many drought-inflicted African countries—are taking stronger stances and refusing to accept the limp compromises currently on the negotiating table. There is a growing understanding that simply getting a deal in Copenhagen is not the point—that any deal that does not point us towards 350 is, in a very real sense, a failure.
And a few updates from outside Copenhagen, where people all over the world are getting ready for this weekend's vigils:
- In the Netherlands alone, 447 churches will be ringing their bells 350 times this Sunday (here in Denmark there will be a huge church service at the main cathedral, with the Archbishop of Canterbury in attendance and with the bell tolling 350 times). These are just a portion of the many "sounds of 350" events that people are registering for this weekend.
- We're hearing about really beautiful vigils planned almost everywhere: bicycle caravans converging on the US embassy in Hanoi; concerts in Bolivia and Caracas; a bridge of lights across the river in Portland, Oregon; women and girls gathering in Fiji to make "climate art" from recycled materials. And everywhere people will be shining light and hope into this troubled world: candles and high-efficiency LEDs in Cali and Wellington, Guadalajara and Sydney, on and on. In Hawai'i, surfers will paddle out into the ocean with candles on their boards, and the sacred mountains of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea framed in the background. And here in Copenhagen, we're working with our allies to help coordinate a candlelight vigil with Desmond Tutu and other prominent global leaders. In no uncertain terms—and in visually striking ways—we'll demand a real deal from our leaders. It's going to be beautiful.
Don't get too excited, or too despairing, at any of the news reports coming out from the conference—remember, this is one stop on a long journey towards a just and working planet.
You are the people leading that journey, and we're profoundly grateful for it.
Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org and a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. His most recent books are Deep Economy, Fight Global Warming Now, and The Bill McKibben Reader.
YES! Magazine's ongoing coverage of the U.N. climate negotiations in Copenhagen.


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The first call was to a woman in her 80s who was stuck in her chair! I had visions of a very large lady wedged into a very small chair! Control asked me to go and assess and to call up for a crew if needed. Fair enough, off I went in search of the address which I found with my Sat Nav system. Knocked on the door and opened it and called out.."Hello, Ambulance service, anybody there?"
A voice called out from the living room. I opened the door to the living room and saw the lady sat in her chair. She must of been in a bad way….she was watching cricket on the telly!!! I asked her if she was okay and she said that she could not get out of her chair. She had no pains or acute conditions and did not want to go to hospital. She just wanted to go to the toilet…..oh joy!
I moved her zimmer frame closer to her, and moved the telephone from off her knees back to the other side of the room where it belonged! (bells start to ring in my cynical mind!). With a heave and and a pull I manage to get her standing on her own two feet and guide her towards the toilet. I wait outside to make sure that she gets back to her living room safely. After about 5 minutes, while I scan a cursory look at the photos on the wall, she comes out of the bathroom.
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Primed, with preliminary metalwork done, the next step for the bed box was final bodywork (filler and block sanding) followed by primer-sealer. Once all the panels were straight and smooth, paintwork ensued. The result: a nice light shade of yellow, which will perfectly complement the curly maple wood flooring it's about to receive.
Originally, early Ford pickup beds came with basic pine (or similar species of wood) floors, most of which were painted, not stained and varnished. This is where the "restoration" takes a major detour, as painted wood with painted strips were not an option. Instead, the bed floor will go from utilitarian to show quality, something Bed Wood and Parts specializes in.
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