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The U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. International Trade Commission After Ten Years -- A Personal View
James A. Toupin
This Article will present come impressions of the effect on the U.S. International Trade Commission of key elements of the 1979-1980 reforms contained in the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 and the Customs Courts Act of 1980. The reforms established the current system for the judicial review of antidumping and countervailing duty determinations. This Article will first address some of the observable impacts of the judicial review system on the operation of the Commission and will then attempt to examine the operation of the U.S. Court of International Trade as an expert tribunal with first-level appellate responsibility over trade cases. Finally, this article will present views on the potential effects of the current judicial review process on litigants.
James A. Toupin, The U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. International Trade Commission After Ten Years -- A Personal View, 14 Fordham Int'l L.J. 10 (1990).

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A globe-trotting poet has led UI's International Writing Program to new heights
Zach Berg
Christopher Merrill, the director of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, as well as a renowned poet and author of numerous nonfiction books, has probably traveled to more countries than any other Iowan.
He can't name them off quickly, but it's over 100.
That number has been climbing for decades. As a journalist in 1990, he covered the FIFA World Cup in Italy. Soon later, bullets were being shot above him in the former Yugoslavia as he covered the wars that would eventually lead to the dissolution of the country. By the 2000s, he was going to Iraq to help conduct cultural diplomacy missions for the U.S. Embassy.
"I email him all the time. He'll respond 'I'm sitting on the tarmac in Bangladesh and waiting for my flight to Jaipur. I thought I'd take a moment to write you,'" said John Kenyon, executive director of Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature. "It's amazing. He really is a man of the world."
In April, Merrill took in Baghdad's International Flowers Cultural Festival with Iowa City Mayor Jim Throgmorton after the Iraq capital was added to the UNESCO Creative Cities network. In September, the Iowa City resident traveled to Changwon, South Korea, to accept the 2017 Changwon KC International Literary Prize for his work as a writer and poet.
The same year the IWP, which has brought writers from 140 different countries to Iowa City, is celebrating its 50th anniversary, Merrill looked back on his globe-trotting life in his first memoir, 2017's "Self-Portrait with Dogwood."
"Someone told me 'You go to so many interesting places in your life, I hope you keep a journal.' I told them I do, it's called 'Self-Portrait with Dogwood,''' Merrill said.
Earlier this year, "Self-Portrait with Dogwood" was published by Trinity University Press. Merrill tells the story of his life, from growing up in New Jersey to being appointed to the National Council on the Humanities by President Barack Obama in 2012, with nature writing, loving portraits of influential friends and a history of his travels.
Marvin Bell, former Iowa poet laureate and Writers' Workshop instructor for 40 years, said it's no wonder that the words and work of Merrill, Bell's former student, have taken him across the globe.
"Chris has gravitas." Bell said via email. "He possesses a transcendent intelligence, a great ear and an impressive memory for details."
Bell taught Merrill during a graduate school class at the University of Washington in Seattle back in 1982.
"Truth to tell, he'd be a good fit no matter what he was given to do. Chris is a phenom," Bell said. It's with that gravitas that Merrill has helped shape the literary influences of Iowa City globally by growing the IWP dramatically and helping Iowa City earn its UNESCO City of Literature status.
Growing a self-portrait
Merrill was approached by Trinity University Press to write something of a hybrid: a book that would recount writers' lives by connecting them to specific species of trees. This planned series, with different writers focusing on different trees, would fuse personal stories with folklore surrounding the trees, as well as ecological, etymological and historical facts.
"I said immediately I would do dogwood," Merrill said.
The tree resurrects vivid memories at various points in his life. He built a fort under a dogwood tree that stood at the edge of the woods near his childhood home in northern New Jersey. Dogwood trees now stand where Merrill and his daughters would go swimming together.
"The thing of it is I've always been not too interested in the form of the memoir," Merrill said. "When I was writing this book, there came a moment of 'Oh my God, I'm writing a memoir.' I've spent a lot of time trashing the form."
With a prompt in hand, Merrill took to the book and "caught fire" during the writing process.
"So much of writing is doing the daily work, you're doing the research and writing the words. It feels lifeless, you don't know if it's making sense at all, you're afraid of a looming deadline. Then suddenly, there came a moment I found so many bits of my life that had haunted me, I realized I could write about them through this context," Merrill said.
When he turned in the first draft, Merrill was told the series had been canceled but the press would still want to publish his book. That gave Merrill some creative freedom to explore more of his own personal story.
The book weaves intimate stories, like Merrill watching a high school friend fall into the pits of mental illness, or his time working at a plant nursery in Seattle during graduate school, and the years spent as the caretaker of a wealthy couple's estate and their large garden. All the while, Merrill was writing poems, translating works and working as a freelance journalist for the Albuquerque Journal and the New Mexico Reporter.
"My wife (Lisa Merrill) said once, somewhat dismissively, 'You know, you've never had a plan B for if this writing thing doesn't work,'" Merrill said. "She was right, of course. I never had a plan B."
After making a joke at a cocktail party that he should be sent to Italy to cover the 1990 World Cup if America made the tournament, he got a job from a publisher writing about the soccer tournament.
With more international writing experience in hand, he was able to get work as a wartime journalist in Bosnia.
"For a journalist, it's a great job to have because I can just go and say 'I can learn about this now? I get paid to be curious?' What could be better?" Merrill said. "Of course there's not a lot of money in it."
In "Self-Portrait," Merrill recounts standing along Sniper Alley, the infamous street in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina — then Yugoslavia — where snipers picked-off random victims. More than 1,000 people were shot and over 200 killed in Sniper Alley during the Bosnian War, according to an NPR report. Instead of recreating these violent moments with stylistic grandeur, Merrill writes them almost as quickly as if he were recounting them in real time.
"I had gone upstairs to get some air, and when I stepped out onto the balcony to survey the damage a sniper shot at me, the bullet lodging in the lintel above the door. I dove back inside, awkwardly twisting in my Kevlar vest," Merrill writes.
"Writing poetry instills in a writer a sense of economy. So I am always trying to compress and see how much I can distill. In nonfiction, I'm trying to activate facts, and I want the writing to be so compressed that the reader won't know they're getting facts," Merrill said.
With a collection of poetry and wartime nonfiction books to his name, Merrill landed the William H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters position at the College of the Holy Cross. By 2000, he was named the director of the IWP.
"When I got the IWP job, a much older friend told me 'Who would have guessed that by traveling all across the globe to these crazy war zones, you were acquiring the skill set for one job in the world?'" Merrill said. "I felt it then and I still feel it now, that I am incredibly lucky that these things came together so I could be at the International Writing Program."
Impact on the City of Literature
What's only hinted at in "Self-Portrait with Dogwood" is Merrill's impact on the city of Iowa City. Bell said Merrill has shaped the city and its stature as a literary town as much as anyone currently in Iowa City.
"He is responsible for a significant expansion of the International Writing Program and for the naming of Iowa City a UNESCO City of Literature," Bell said. "Seattle tried for that (UNESCO) designation and was turned down. They needed a Chris Merrill. Indeed, Chris and John Kenyon have convinced UNESCO to give the city another chance."
"He was instrumental in making this happen," Kenyon said about Iowa City being named a UNESCO City of Literature. "He's an ambassador to the rest of the world for what has become the City of Literature"
It was Hugh Ferrer, an employee at IWP since 2001 and current associate director, who learned about the then-developing network of international towns, the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, as he was looking for ways to fund visiting IWP writers in 2004.
"I took this idea to Chris and said 'Boss, I think we qualify for this.' He, being Chris, saw all the ways it would help us and jumped at it," Ferrer said. "He's got that entrepreneurial bug that also marked (IWP co-founder) Paul Engle. He already knew who to talk to about getting the designation."
Engle, longtime director of UI's Writers' Workshop, and his wife, Hualing Nieh Engle, founded IWP in 1967. The idea of bringing writers from disparate parts of the world, especially from countries where literary freedoms may have been restricted by governments, earned the Engles a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 1976.
Merrill recalled writing to the Paris office of UNESCO about whether the group would entertain a proposal from Iowa City. "They wrote back quickly saying 'We've been waiting for you to approach us,'" Merrill said.
"That cemented in the public imagination something about what we've been doing in Iowa City for a very long time. I've only been in a small part of that story, but it's a great story to be in," he said.
In 2008, UNESCO accepted the application and Iowa City was named the world's third City of Literature in November of that year. There are now 20 cities with the designation, with Iowa City being the only one in North America.
"I always said we wouldn't be a City of Literature if it weren't for Paul Engle, or without Carl Seashore," Kenyon said. "Without the IWP, without Chris, without Paul Engle and Hualing Engle, we wouldn't be a City of Literature."
To note the IWP's 50th anniversary, the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature's annual Iowa City Book Festival hosted several events and readings centered on IWP's anniversary. The IWP has hosted dozens of events this semester celebrating the anniversary, including readings at Prairie Lights on Sundays, regular readings at the Shambaugh House and free screenings of movies.
Asked what made him proudest when looking back on his career, Merrill mentioned his work developing and growing the IWP over the past 17 years first. "I'm very proud of having rebuilt the IWP. That was big."
Since taking over the IWP in 2000, the program has been transformed. Bell said he's seen his former student grow the IWP dramatically.
Merrill has "extended the number of countries that send writers to the IWP, created an international digital presence for the program and its alumni, translated writers from other countries, built online writing courses, and led workshops abroad," Bell said.
Ferrer has seen the growth firsthand since joining the IWP staff in 2001. Then, the program was simply three offices in the English-Philosophy Building on UI's campus and only featured a fall residency for international writers.
Today, the IWP has its own home inside the Shambaugh House on North Clinton Street, just across the street from the Writers' Workshop's Dey House.
Now, the IWP runs the Distance Learning Program, which features year-round online courses for writers throughout the world. Courses for UI undergraduates feature written works and lectures by visiting authors. Graduate students have courses where they can help translate the works of visiting writers to English. The program has also organized reading tours to countries like China, Armenia, Ukraine, Israel, Palestinian territories and Kenya.
"We were a small cultural diplomacy program in 2001, now we're a big cultural diplomacy program," Ferrer said. "We're bringing something new to (Iowa City), something different, something the city wouldn't have otherwise."
The growth is due, in large part, to Merrill, Ferrer said. "He's got the entrepreneurial bug that also marked Paul Engle."
That "academic entrepreneurship" bug Ferrer says his boss has helps the program get funding from various organizations, including the U.S. State Department, which pays for a large part of the program.
Ferrer also credited former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, of Iowa, for the IWP's growth after he helped ensure the IWP got more federal funding.
The IWP receives funding from several countries, Ferrer said, which means Merrill and the IWP have to be sure to appeal to UI, the countries where the artists come from and the State Department.
"It requires nimbleness. Chris' ability to move between those three realms and to create an organization that has those facets is why we succeed," Ferrer said.
"Cultural diplomacy works best when an artist can be that diplomat, someone in the culture and knows the value of culture," Ferrer said. "He has a real sensitivity to beauty. What's the point of all of this work if we don't share a sense of beauty, or a sense of possibility or a sense of creativity with the world?"
Bell said his former student, now a close friend, is a "savvy spokesperson for the arts and can speak truth to power" as he deals with foreign leaders and organizations.
"He constantly comes up with new ideas for artistic creation, public events, and international collaborations," Bell said. "On top of all that, unlike most poets, he has managerial skills."
With Merrill constantly traveling, he and Bell keep in touch by writing poem-like letters to each other. In 2016, a collection of those letters "After The Fact: Scripts & Postscripts" was published as a book.
"It was Chris' idea that we start a back-and-forth conversation in paragraphs," Bell said. "We constantly look forward to the other's latest. We feel that the collaboration nourishes our inner lives."
All the words written by Merrill, and all the work done for the IWP, the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature and his family have led to a life well-traveled and with plenty of details for a self-portrait in prose.
"It all ends up blending together. You have success in your professional life. You raise a family, you watch your kids grow and see them become who they will become, which is incredibly satisfying and interesting," Merrill said. "You also hope you've written some pages that endure, some pages that maybe caught some thoughts you couldn't quite catch otherwise."
Reach Zach Berg at 319-887-5412, zberg@press-citizen.com or follow him on Twitter at @ZacharyBerg.


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FAN REVIEW OF FAITH NO MORE SEATTLE SHOW
Photo: Niffer Calderwood
Frank Quinn travelled from Glasgow Scotland to the musically historic Seattle to see FAITH NO MORE. He has kindly written an in depth analysis of the show, thanks for sharing Frank.
Damn the line was huge but we didn't care as the excitement levels were building. You could feel the electricity in the air and everyone in line was just smiling and laughing. It was a happy place to be. As we get near the front of the line this is when Amy realises the tickets she has brought for her and Nicole are for the wrong show.......argh!!! I thought I was gonna faint.....luckily after much panicking (on my part not the girls) Amy jumped in a cab and returned with the correct tickets. Disaster averted. What was even better was that we hadn't missed the support act and arrived just in time. What to say about Christeene......to sum up in a few words....ummmm......Alice Cooper's and the Heath Ledger Joker's love child on crack with two half naked male back up dancers. She/he is a combat drag queen, which means messy make up and a fuck you attitude. Camp. Yes. Crazy. Yes. Great music. Yes. Totally insane. Yes. Disturbing. Yes. Did I enjoy. HELL YES!!! It was performance art and stand up comedy rolled into one and great to watch (this will be my full review as Christeene also performed in Portland the next night, which some great changes to the act the second night).
And now onto Faith No More themselves. I'm gonna give you the Seattle setlist to digest in detail.
Motherfucker was a great opener and is better live than the recording. The guys had totally taken charge from that first second and the crowd was loving it. The swagger as they knew they had the crowd from the first note was discernible and the atmosphere was outstanding. Right down front was too hot and crushed for my liking so I moved a little ways back to enjoy the show. Land Of Sunshine was next and the crowd went apeshit crazy and I do not blame them. It's been one of my favourites for years and it is a beast of a song live. This is when I started to hear or think I was hearing that Billy Gould's bass was louder in the mix and that he had made his basslines a lot more funky than usual. Caffeine was it's brutal best and the heading was in full effect throughout the crowd. I a managed to accidentily headbutt a guy in the ass as I was bent double really going for it. One apology later and boom Ricochet is dropped. Wow.....pulling this out of the bag for this show. Always great for the singalong and just as the crowd is well and truly in heaven they move straight into Evidence. This is my favourite getting your breath back and swaying gently song and I've never heard Mike Patton sing it better. I took a second to just scan the crowd and can see all those smiling and ecstatic faces and I can't help feeling that this is home Epic was next and got a wilder reaction than I've ever seen in Europe. Guess it's been so long since the American audience has seen that they don't have the boredom factor us European fans have with Epic. Personally I'd drop the song from the set for a while, but it was at this point I could hear murmerings about Bill's bass sound and it wasn't just me it was changed up and damn more funky.
Sunny Side Up from the new album Sol Invictus was next and I have to say it was fantastic. Groovy and funky and not out of place with the classics. Dunno if it was the first time they played it or not but I am honoured to have it live before the majority of us European fans. Roddy Bottum's keyboards stopped working halfway through so it may sound even better. Get Out was it's fast paced and punky self and you could see that Mike Bordin really enjoyed playing it live as he was grinning from ear to ear at the pit erupting in front of him. Midlife Crisis was simply sublime and for more than one reason. The song itself is always welcome in any FNM setlist but this time it was a bit more special. Halfway through they song they stopped playing.....glanced at one another and then broke into what I can only as a George Clinton-esque remix version of the song. Now this was something to behold. Roddy was grooving on the keyboards and John Hudson's guitar was so so damned funky. Guys that was a joy to behold and made me and the rest of the crowd grin from ear to ear. Last Cup of Sorrow was played next and still sounds as awesome live as it ever did. In fact Billy really changed up the bass sound on this making it sound better than ever. Gentle Art Of Making Enemies got the pit going again and gave Roddy a bit of a breather so he could take in the crowd going crazy and he wandered off stage at the wrong.
The noise from the crowd erupted and I turned to my right and there was a crazy bastard crowd surfing......in his fucking wheelchair. I have never seen that in the flesh before and it was just as crazy as it sounds. I thought Mike Patton's eyes were gonna bug out his out his head. Just as well the next song was Easy and damn it was sang and played at it's sexy best. He even had a cigarette thrown up on stage to smoke during the song, totally floating the no smoking indoors Seattle law. Go Mike.....cos I took the chance to have a quick smoke too.
Spirit from Introduce Yourself was played next and it was a much a shock for the Seattle fans as it was for the fans at Hammersmith when they played it live. I can see this being a set staple for a while and it is quick magical to behold. King For A Day was next and I love that song so much. It was magificient and imperious and one of the finest songs on the same named album. Ashes To Ashes blew me away. It's my all time favourite song and damn I've never heard it played better. It might simply be that The Paramount has better sound than any venue I've been in before but.....wow. Superhero closed the show before the encore and is a giant of a song live. Mike and Roddy bouncing back and forth with lyrics and Billy, Puffy and John grooving together. My favourite studio recording off the new album so far. This Guy's In Love With You opened the encore and I had a grin on my face as I've always wanted to hear it live. Simply bliss and also had me laughing too. During the song a girl was up on someones shoulders and took her top off.....much to Mr Patton's disgust. He turned his head and blocked the view and told her at the end to get her clothes back on. Please learn ladies that he doesn't like that shit at his shows.
Cone Of Shame was the second to last song played and I bounced about like a loon as I'd been hopeful it would be played at one of the dates. Damn I'm digging this song and can't wait to hear the studio recording. Mark Bowen was the surprising closer, but Roddy explained that this was due to the man himself being in attendence. Unfortunately he didn't get up to play with the band but you can't have everything.
So that is 4 tracks from the new album heard so far and I feel lucky with that.
What a show.....I truly was blessed with such a great setlist.
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POSTS FOR BREAKFAST #24 - REVIEWS AND COVERS
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PCA investigates Heineken on violating rules of agreements with pubs
The British regulator PCA suspects Heineken of having violated rules for contracts with pubs. The brewer may have imposed on tenants of several pubs in his chain Star Pubs & Bars more stringent than permitted obligations regarding the purchase of Heineken beer.
The investigation of the PCA, Pubs Code Adjudicator in full, focuses on the period from July 2016 to the present. Three years ago, a law for pubs came into effect that allows tenants of large pub chains to get out of purchasing obligations.
Chains in the possession of brewers may demand that these "free" tenants continue to buy their drinks, but they cannot exclude other brands. In addition, affiliated pub owners must keep the possibility of buying the beer on the free market, and not from the brewer himself.
In the research on Star Pubs & Bars, the market watchdog calls on pub owners to provide evidence that the chain has not complied with these rules. Researchers want to know, among other things, whether Heineken has demanded that tenants almost exclusively buy draft beer from the brewer. In addition, they wonder if Heineken has tried to influence the prices for its beer in pubs through contracts.
Heineken states that it fully cooperates with the investigation in a response. According to the brewer, the PCA looks at 100 pubs out of the 2700 that Heineken owns. At the same time, the company believes that the rules for pubs in the UK are complex and unclear. "We therefore hope that this research will provide the certainty and clarity that we have repeatedly asked for over the past three years," said a spokesperson.
The brewer has considerably strengthened its position on the British market for pubs in recent years. Two years ago, the company took over 1900 cases from Punch Taverns, after which the number of pubs at Star Pubs & Bars more than doubled.
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Pierre Marchand (voire Marchant ou Merchant) est le facteur d'orgues français le plus représentatif et le plus prolifique en Provence et Comtat Venaissin à la fin du  et au début du  siècles, digne continuateur de Nicolas Petit à la fin du .

Biographie

Originaire de Pontoise, diocèse de Rouen, et se recommandant de l'école de facture d'orgues Normande, il s'installe vers 1583 à Cavaillon puis en Avignon. Il construira pendant une cinquantaine d'années (de 1582 à 1632) des orgues (environ dix-sept) dans toute la Provence et le Comtat Venaissin dont il est le principal organier pour cette période. Il tente de faire évoluer l'orgue comtadin et provençal du "Ripieno" italien vers le modèle du Nord de la Loire, introduisant notamment de nouveaux jeux: Tierce, Sesquialtera, et généralisant l'usage du Bourdon et, semble-t-il, des premiers jeux d'anches, mais sans vraiment réussir à imposer un instrument plus vaste. Également bon menuisier il réalise les buffets lorsque la latitude lui en est laissée, ce qui, à l'époque, était assez fréquent (La Major de Marseille, par exemple).

Sa facture est caractérisée par une tuyauterie réalisée, pour tous les jeux, en alliage plomb - étain assez pauvre (17 à 18 % d'étain), avec usage d'une préparation colle tenace et ocre rouge pour la soudure, et vernie afin de la protéger de la corrosion.

Son émule, Jean Duvivier, ne lui ravit pas sa place de chef de file de la facture méridionale.

Il transmit son art notamment aux frères Eustache, André, Gaspard et Dominique, et à la famille Meyssonnier.

Œuvres connues

 Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, restauration en novembre 1582, disparu.

 Cavaillon, cathédrale St Véran, construction en 1583, complètement remplacé en 1653 par Charles Royer.

 Carpentras, cathédrale St Siffrein 1583; composition: Montre 8', Bourdon 8', Flûte 4', Nazard 2'2/3, Doublette 2', Flûte 2', Fourniture IV, Cymbale II, Tremblant, Rossignol et Tambourin. Disparu.

 Pertuis, église St Nicolas 1601 seuls quatre jeux subsistent dans l'orgue actuel ; composition originelle: Flûte 8', Montre4', Flûte 4', Nazard 2'2/3, Doublette 2', Larigot 1'1/3, Cymbale, Pédale de flûte 8' de 3 notes, Tremblant & Rossignol.

 Beaucaire, collégiale Notre-Dame-des-Pommiers  1602, disparu.

 Embrun, cathédrale Notre-Dame du Réal, reconstruction d'un instrument de 10 jeux dans le buffet gothique de l'orgue donné en 1463 par Louis XI; certains éléments du buffet gothique subsistent dans le massif ou soubassement de l'orgue actuel ainsi qu'au couronnement du petit orgue de la chapelle Sainte-Anne accolée à la cathédrale, ainsi que 62 % de la tuyauterie originelle de Marchand, restauré par Pascal Quoirin en 2007.

 Pernes-les-Fontaines 1603, transformé et agrandi en 1771 par Antoine Gibert, , restauré par Alain Sals en 1975

 Taracon, collégiale Ste Marthe 1604, partie centrale du buffet actuel mais tourelle agrandie par Charles Boisselin, partie instrumentale de Prosper-Antoine Moitessier de 1847, .

 Viviers,cathédrale St Vincent 1609, placé dans le chœur, transféré en 1842 à Bourg-Saint-Andéol, où il se trouve toujours;  car c'est la seule façade (boiserie et tuyaux) de Marchand conservée dans son aspect originel, partie instrumentale restaurée en 2008 par Stéphane & Olivier ROBERT, le buffet par Pascal Quoirin.

 Aix-en-Provence, cathédrale St Sauveur 1612; composition: clavier de 45 notes avec Montre 8', Flûte 8', Prestant 4', Flûte 4', Nazard III (probablement petit cornet), Doublette 2', Larigot 1'1/3, Sifflet 1', Cymbale III, et 4 notes de Pédale de Flûte 12', Tremblant & Rossignol. Remplacé par l'orgue de Jean-Esprit Isnard.

 Cucuron,église Notre-Dame de Beaulieu 1614, reconstruit dans un nouveau buffet par messire Allemand et Pierre Duges d'Aix-en-Provence en 1786 mais en conservant la tuyauterie de Marchand en grande partie toujours présente.

 Marseille, cathédrale N.D. de la Major, 1615: un seul clavier de 45 notes à octave grave courte et un pédalier de 7 notes en 12', avec mention, pour la première fois en Provence, d'un jeu de Tierce; disparu.

 Avignon, St Agricol 1627; 1 clavier de 48 notes avec: Montre 8', Flûte 8', Prestant 4', Flûte 4', Nazard 2'2/3, Doublette 2', Flûte 2', Flageolet 1', Sesquialtera II, Cornet V, Fourniture III, Cymbale II et à la Pédale 8 notes de Flûte 16'.Disparu.

 Forcalquier,cathédrale N.D.du Bourguet 1627 9 jeux sur un clavier de 49 notes avec un tremblant et une flûte de Pédale, reconstruit en 1847 par Prosper-Antoine Moitessier dans un buffet neuf encore visible de nos jours; 3 jeux plus ou moins complets subsistent dans le positif dorsal, .

Annexes

Références

Bibliographie

 Jean-Michel Sanchez (textes) et Olivier Placet (photos), Orgues, le chœur des Anges, Éditions Le Bec en l'Air
 Norbert Dufourcq, Le Livre de l'Orgue Français, tome III, la Facture, 1 partie, Picard,1975
 Norbert Dufourcq, Orgues Comtadines et Provençales, Libriarie E.Droz, 1935
 Jean-Robert Caïn, Robert Martin, Jean-Michel Sanchez, Les Isnard: une révolution dans la facture d'orgues, EDISUD 1991, page 23

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The World of Emma Bridgewater
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Emma founded the company in 1985 and since then has designed a huge number of patterns, many no longer available. The very nature of pottery (i.e. it breaks!) also means that as time goes by less and less of the discontinued patterns are in existence, and are therefore more collectible.
Emma Bridgewater is the oldest daughter in a large family and her mother Char provided the first inspiration for her as a designer.
Emma grew up in Oxford, where her mother's welcoming kitchen was dominated by a scrubbed pine kitchen table and a big dresser covered in colourful, mismatched china including big Victorian meat plates, pretty cups and saucers and generous jugs big enough for a bunch of flowers from the garden. An early exponent of kitchen living, with rush matting on the floor and Elizabeth David's cookbooks on the window sill, Char Stroud's taste defined relaxed, easy living. Emma's father started, built up and eventually sold, a publishing business; this gave Emma an insight into entrepreneurial life.
Emma graduated from London University with a degree in English Literature. Her first and only job was working for knitwear designers Muir & Osborne. She became involved in every aspect of this small fashion company and it gave her the taste for doing something for herself.
Matthew trained as a theatre designer, and subsequently designed bespoke furniture. He also produced a range of stationery and desk accessories featuring his watercolour paintings of Venice, country houses and farms.
Emma and Matthew met when they were both selling their products at London trade fair Top Drawer.
Born in 1962 in London, Matthew is the only son of designer Pat Albeck and theatre set designer Peter Rice. Matthew went to Chelsea and Central School of Art. He set up furniture design company David Linley Furniture with David Linley, an old school friend from Bedales, in 1985. Matthew produced a range of beautiful desk accessories and stationery for the company featuring his trademark muted watercolours. Subjects included Venetian scenes, country house and English farms.
After marrying Emma, Matthew left David Linley Furniture and in 1989 set up his own company 'Rice-Paper' which was very successful for some years. Matthew joined forces with Emma after their marriage in 1987 and he now collaborates on designs in partnership with her.
The Royal Wedding collection
As well as his work on Emma Bridgewater designs, Matthew has also produced a range of beautifully illustrated books about architecture and Norfolk, where he and Emma have lived for much of their married life.
Emma and Matthew now live in Oxford, but retain a home in Norfolk, which they both love. Matthew and Emma design together, working on the patterns that decorate your kitchen.
The early family life which inspired the Emma Bridgewater business took place round the kitchen table, and that is still the focus of Emma and Matthew's life with their four children today.
As well as our own stores, Emma Bridgewater products are also available from lots of lovely shops in the UK and around the world.


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CRC Provides Insights into Disease, Management
AUSTRALIA - The latest Poultry CRC projects are providing insights into fowl cholera, litter reuse and poultry welfare.
Poultry CRC research continues to produce significant outcomes for industry, including valuable insights into the genes influencing the virulence of Pasteurella multocida, which causes fowl cholera (or pasteurellosis). Information gained from a completed CRC project that identified a number of genes which appear to be necessary for the establishment, growth, or reproduction of P. multocida within its bird hosts has been passed on to the University of Melbourne's Peter Scott, who is completing the work necessary for the registration of the live vaccine, PMP1.
Compact litter pile with no large clumps. Litter can be re-used across chicken cycles without any build up of food-safety pathogens.
A project looking at litter reuse across broiler cycles undertaken by DPI&F Queensland has helped form the basis for a possible code of practice for the management of piles across litter pile-up cycles. Project leader, Nalini Chinivasagam, conducted on-farm studies, demonstrating that the current practice of litter piling is an effective means of reducing the level of both Salmonella and Campylobacter. The project showed that litter can be re-used across chicken cycles without any build up of food safety pathogens. Nalini is preparing a publication for submission to a peer-reviewed journal on pathogen die-off in litter via the pile-up process.
Establishing an evidence-based methodology for poultry welfare remains a challenging goal but CRC researchers at the University of Melbourne have not let that stop them from making headway. The project, Improving the scientific assessment of poultry welfare, compared biological functioning and animal preferences. While the analyses in the final experiment are presently incomplete, it is clear that further research is necessary to comprehensively test the underlying hypotheses.
A project with the aim of increasing the implementation of animal welfare standards for the meat chicken industry has been completed, having achieved its intended outcome of providing 85 per cent of the Australian chicken meat industry with the capability to implement the standards derived from the Welfare Audit for the Chicken Meat Industry, an earlier RIRDC project. The Poultry CRC, having completed the delivery of training to chicken meat companies and growers, has handed over implementation to industry.


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A man is asleep on the knees of a woman who holds scissors in her hand and is about to cut his hair. The woman is Delilah, Samson's mistress.
Samson has a tremendous strength that he uses against the Philistines. Delilah, who belongs to this people, has promised them to find the cause of this strength. And Samson has just revealed that no razor has ever passed on his head because he is nazir, that is to say dedicated to God, and it is the latter who gives him his strength.
Samson can also sleep in a bed only, near Delilah. The latter is sometimes undressed but, whether she is naked or dressed, everything indicates they are lovers.
Delilah cuts his hair or else, once she has committed the act, she makes a sign to the hidden men who rush into the room to bind Samson hand and foot.
Samson's strength is gigantic. After many adventures, he has just pulled up the gates of the city of Gaza and carried them away on his back. Since"he loves a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name is Delilah" , the Philistines decide to pay her so that she should tell them the secret of his strength.
Delilah says to Samson: "Tell me, I pray you, where your great strength lies, and with what you might be bound to afflict you." Three times, Samson gives her wrong.
And she said to him, "How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? …" he told her all his heart, and said unto her: "No razor has ever come upon my head; for I have been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb: if I am shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man…."
This betrayal shows one must distrust foreign women but it also symbolizes sensual pleasure prevailing over male strength.
An intimate scene with the two lovers.
Samson and Delilah; Gustave MOREAU; 1881-1882 ; watercolour; Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The Philistines rush on Samson; Delilah's betrayal is blatant.
Samson and Delilah; Ludovicus FINSON; c. 1610; oil on canvas; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France.


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HomeBusiness & FinanceSoaring second home ownership hitting young people
Soaring second home ownership hitting young people
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The number of British people who own a second home, buy-to-let or overseas property has doubled since 2001, says think tank the Resolution Foundation.
While the number of millennials who own a home continues to fall, one in 10 people now own an additional property.
Just 37% of people born in the 1980s managed to buy a home at the age of 29, compared with half of those born in the 1960s.
Wealth from owning a second home has risen since 2001 to almost £1 trillion.
Buy-to-let property is now the most common form of property wealth, having grown by 58% since 2006-08, the report found.
However, when looking at the number of people who can afford an additional property, millennials match the property ownership rates of other generations.
This suggests that only younger people who are rich can afford a second home – a sign, according to the foundation, that property wealth is not distributed fairly across the country.
'Wealth gap'
The Resolution Foundation wants to see policymakers step in to reform the housing market, in particular buy-to-let, in order to rebalance the housing market back towards first-time buyers.
"The sheer scale of additional property wealth is an important driver of rising wealth gaps across Britain," says George Bangham, policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation.
"While young people in particular are less likely to own their own home than previous generations, those that do own are more likely to have more than one property.
"And as the huge stock of second homes, buy-to-let and overseas properties starts to be passed on to younger generations, Britain risks becoming a country where getting ahead in life depends as much on what you inherit, as what you earn."
Chris Norris, director of policy and practice at the National Landlords Association, defended second home owners.
"There is a distinct difference between those who have a second home for personal use, leaving it empty for long periods of time, and those who have invested in a rental property which provides a valued home for someone else," he said.
"Far from the stereotype of the wealthy property baron, most private landlords invest in residential property to provide for their future and their family's in the form of supplementing a pension or establishing a business."
Meanwhile, the government said it was helping first-time buyers get on the housing ladder.
"The Government is determined to ensure that a new generation can realise the dream of homeownership," a spokesman said.
"Last year saw the highest number of first-time buyers in more than a decade. Since 2015, we have helped more than 300,000 people to purchase a home through schemes such as Help to Buy."
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Because there are several forms of Atlanta medical malpractice, it is important for victims and their families to retain a firm who is trusted and qualified to handle such cases. A dedicated medical malpractice attorney will have the experience and knowledge to help victims and their families pursue compensation when their lives have been altered by medical or hospital malpractice.
There are four elements regarding the types of Atlanta medical malpractice and the negligence to prove the common types. There will always be a relationship between the doctor and the patient. As a result, the first element would be duty. That is the duty that the doctor, nurse, or healthcare professional owes to the patient to exercise a reasonable degree of care and skill. That is the duty all medical professionals owe to their patients.
The second element would be a breach of that duty. They have to exercise their professional judgment in a way that other doctors or nurses normally would not do.
The third element is causation. Lawyers have to be able to show that the negligence or the breach of the duty, whatever they believe that the medical professional did wrong, caused injury to the plaintiff or to the patient in a medical malpractice case.
Lastly, lawyers have to be able to show damages. That is the fourth element; an attorney would have to be able to show that the person did suffer damages that were caused by the breach of the duty and negligence.
In Atlanta, one of the common types of medical malpractice is a birth injury. These are cases where there is evidence of negligence, error, or any mistakes that come up either during a woman's pregnancy or during the labor and delivery process. Surgical errors are common, which are defined as cases where something went wrong during the surgery. There are commonly emergency room cases, where a patient is admitted to the emergency room and something goes wrong.
There are also misdiagnosis cases where a physician missed something. For example, a patient comes down with symptoms that the doctor did not initially pick up on. If the patient's condition worsens, and they learn that the problem that the person developed was a result of the doctor's negligence, then that could be considered one of the forms of Atlanta medical malpractice.
An incident can go from an error or mistake to medical malpractice when a person is able to determine that the doctor, nurse, or facility taking care of them did something wrong and can show that their conduct was below the standard of care. When considering the forms of Atlanta medical malpractice, it is important to understand the nuance.
If several doctors ask, "How would you treat this type of patient?" and one medical professionals gives an answer outside of the consensus of the others in the room, that would be an example of a departure from the standard of care. That is when an accident would be elevated from an error to a case of potential malpractice.


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Lights, Cars, Action: Luftgekühlt 6 Goes To Hollywood
Posted on August 25, 2019 by Renngeschäft
With summer winding down, we can't help but reflect on our favorite event of the year: Luftgekühlt 6. Of all the Porsche events that exist in the universe–or at least here on Earth–Luftgekühlt, the "air-cooled only" Porsche extravaganza is more or less without equal, eclipsed only by Porsche's infamous Rennsport Reunion.
Luftgekühlt, the creation of Porsche factory race driver Patrick Long and Creative Director Howie Idelson, is held at a different venue each year. This year's event, Luftgekühlt 6, saw a myriad of air-cooled wonder machines assembled on the backlot of Universal Studios in Hollywood, CA.
Early in the morning, photographer and director Jeff Zwart carefully guided over 350 cars into their final positions across several studio backlot areas that most visitors only catch a glimpse of as they wind their way through the property on the studio's tram. At 8 am and 10 am, over 6,000 ticket holders disembarked shuttle busses and flooded the faux streets of iconic film sets to feast their eyes on Luftgekühlt's air-cooled stars.
Auto History & Movie Memories
Around each backlot corner, we encountered a different piece of Porsche history and Hollywood movie memories. Courthouse Square, featured prominently in Back to the Future, served as a general gathering area for the attendees, complete with picnic tables, music and food and beverage booths.
The Wild West, made up of Western Street and Mexican Street, provided some of the backdrops for The Three Amigos, Dirty Harry, and several John Wayne films. This was the domain of both past and present rally cars, outlaws, and one-off customized machines that seemed perfectly at home, surrounded by cactus, wooden porches and faded hand-painted signs.
On Wall Street and New York Street, sat epic machines such as the Le Mans winning Jules Porsche 936 driven by Jacky Ickx and Derek Bell along with the record-setting 911R, used to smash several 24-hour records in 1967 at the Monza racetrack in Italy. Further down the street, appropriately sitting under the Western Theatre marquee, was the Gulf livery 917K famous for its victories at Le Mans in the early 1970s and featured in Steve McQueen's Le Mans.
Off in a tunnel in London-Paris Square sat a dusty 1955 Pre-A 356 which had been in a shipping container since 1979; the car was displayed in as-found condition – a true "barn-find". On the other side of the square was an unusually smooth orange tractor. Porsche manufactured tractors from the 1950s through the 1960s, many of which were seen at Rennsport Reunion VI however, this one was different. At first, we thought it had been customized, but we later learned it was a P-312 Coffee Train, 1 of 200 produced and only 20 left in existence. It was specifically built with smooth sides for use on coffee plantations in Brazil.
Queue the Cars
Sitting on a wood platform in the 914 corral sat the IMSA GT Championship winning Brumos Porsche 914/6 GT, one of only eleven built by Porsche and driven by Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood. It didn't end there… there were rows of 911s, an assembly of 914s, a soundstage filled with 917s, a 930 turbo, a 1973 911 RS, and the last 550 Spyder built – the model, made famous by film legend James Dean.
Also in taking their places was Jerry Seinfeld's 1976 934 Turbo RSR, recently restored by Canepa, the original Ruf 911 CTR "Yellow Bird" (I still remember reading about that car in Road & Track when I was a kid), and Paul Newman's famous Hawaiian Tropic liveried 935, currently owned by Adam Corolla.
That's A Wrap, Folks
Patrick Long, Jeff Zwart and the rest of the Luftgekühlt crew really outdid themselves this year and the crowds were a reflection of that. It will be interesting to see what they come up with for Luftgekühlt's next incarnation. Regardless, this is the event to catch if air-cooled Porsches are your groove like it is ours.
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STEPHEN RODDY
Founder and Director
Stephen Roddy is the Founder & Director of the Houston Children's Chorus. This auditioned group of children represents the very finest of Houston's young musicians. They are frequently called upon to represent Houston at local and worldwide civic and cultural events, including 32 performances for the President of the United States. They perform more than 40 concerts each year to an approximate audience of 750,000 people. The Chorus is regularly featured with the Houston Symphony and sang as back-up vocals to Josh Groban during the pre-game ceremonies of the Super Bowl in 2004. In 2008, the Children's Chorus performed concerts in the major concert halls of Beijing and Shanghai as part of the 2008 Olympics cultural arts festival. In 2010, the Chorus performed with full orchestra at Carnegie Hall in the premiere of "Heartsongs," a major composition on the poetry of Mattie Stepanek and commissioned by Houston Children's Chorus.
An accomplished pianist, organist and conductor, Mr. Roddy has conducted state honor choir festivals in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Arkansas, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Texas. A recent concert involved 1,500 singers and a 100-piece orchestra at Our Lady of Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles. He is in demand as a children's music recording specialist and has directed or produced recordings for Silver-Burdett Ginn Music textbooks, Shawnee Press, Lifeway, Fred Bock Music Company, Warner Bros. Music, Blue Bell Ice Cream, Gerber Baby Foods and United Way. Mr. Roddy has choral compositions published by Fred Bock Music Company, Gentry Publications, Shawnee Press, Harold Flammer and Hal Leonard.
Prior to the founding of the Houston Children's Chorus in 1989, Mr. Roddy served as organist/music associate at First Baptist Church of Houston, First Presbyterian Church, St. Luke's Methodist Church and Tallowood Baptist Church. He served as Director of Music at Grace Presbyterian Church of Houston for 10 years and recently as the Director of Traditional Music and Fine Arts at Chapelwood United Methodist.
Mr. Roddy is a native of Dayton, Ohio and Memphis, Tennessee and is a graduate of Auburn University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Texas Foundation for the Arts and on the Advisory Board for the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Houston Masterworks Chorus.
Aaron Menke
Aaron Menke is the new Operations Manager of the Houston Children's Chorus. In addition, he is the Founder/Operator of Katy Farmers Market in Katy, Texas.
Aaron Menke strives to work with a servant mindset as draws skills from a variety of experiences in music, business and ministry. As a percussionist, Aaron opened at Lance Armstrong's Livestrong Gala in Austin, Texas. Other performing musicians were Stephen Marley, Norah Jones and comedian, Robin William. He also toured the country twice with Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps as a marimba player. As a vocalist, Aaron has performed with the University of Birmingham, England and recorded works of Durufle with Baylor University in Paris. In 2014, he received a Bachelor's Degree from Baylor University where he studied percussion, piano, voice and guitar.
Aaron has a heart for ministry and also coffee. In 2018 Aaron served at First Baptist Church Robinson as a youth minister while managing a coffee business in downtown Waco, Texas. Additionally, in January of 2020, Aaron joined The Texas State Guard, a non -combat volunteer branch of the Texas Military Forces. He is training to be a Commissioned Officer and Chaplain, and he hopes to serve Texas in emergency and disaster situations.
Above all else, Aaron values spending time with his family. He enjoys teaching music and fishing with his 2 year old son, Matthias. Aaron and his wife of 3 years, Elizabeth, are expecting another son in September 2020. On a typical weekend, they enjoy participating in outdoor and recreational activities. One of their favorite things to do is take a ride in their 1971 Super Sport Chevrolet Chevelle.
BRYAN ANDERSON
Preparatory Choir Director & Concert Accompanist
Bryan Anderson enjoys a versatile career as a concert organist, church musician, and musical collaborator. The Diapason, which named Bryan to its "20 under 30" Class of 2017, called him "brilliant, yet quiet and unassuming." In June 2019, Bryan won the Firmin Swinnen Second Prize at the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition. He has been broadcast on American Public Media's "Pipedreams."Having performed at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society, Bryan's reputation as a sensitive and facile musician is well-established.
In the field of choral and church music, Bryan is employed as Director of Music at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church and School in Houston, TX, and teaches choirs of adults and children in the parish and school. He previously held positions at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Houston; Wells Cathedral in Somerset, England; and St. Mark's Episcopal Church and Tenth Presbyterian Church, both in Philadelphia. In the larger Houston music scene, Bryan is the accompanist for the Houston Masterworks Chorus and regularly performs with the Houston Children's Chorus. A lover of chamber music and collaboration, he makes a habit of presenting recitals with various ensemble elements.
Bryan received his Master's Degree in organ performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in May 2018, where he studied with Ken Cowan. Bryan's undergraduate work was completed at the Curtis Institute of Music, resulting in his Bachelor's Degree in organ with Alan Morrison. He received an Artist Diploma in harpsichord (studying with Leon Schelhase). Previous teachers were Jeannine Morrison, in piano, and Sarah Martin, in organ.
KATHY COUCH
Chorus Rehearsal Assistant
Kathy Couch has been a Chemist for Shell Research for the past 30 years. Kathy has sung with the Beaumont Civic Opera, Houston Masterworks Chorus, and done numerous shows with the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston. Currently, she sings in the Grace Presbyterian Chancel Choir, as well as serving as Vice President on the Houston Children's Chorus Board.
JOSHUA FANG
Chorus Rehearsal Assistant & Office Intern
Joshua Fang, a senior at Bridgeland High School, has been involved with the Houston Children's Chorus since the fall of 2014. After graduating from the Chorus in the summer of 2016, he joined the staff as a rehearsal assistant (and later as an office intern) in hopes of guiding the Choristers in their development as young musical artists. He has served three times as a chaperone for the annual Galveston Summer Music Funshop and has even accompanied the Chorus on a trip to Taiwan. He loves every part of Houston Children's Chorus, and he feels honored to be able to serve the Chorus family.
RIBHU NAG
Office Intern
Ribhu Nag has been involved with the Houston Children's Chorus for the past 11 years, both as a Chorus member and Office Intern. Ribhu is currently a sophomore at Northwestern University as an Economics Major. While in high school, Ribhu was a part of the St. John's School choir and performed numerous concerts both locally and at performance venues in the United Kingdom, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.


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SANDAG's '5 Big Moves' Plan Idles in Neutral as Coronavirus Plays Out
by Andrew Keatts June 8, 2020 March 15, 2022
Jim Desmond (left) and Hasan Ikhrata / Photo by Megan Wood
Hasan Ikhrata was ready to unveil his transformation of the region's transportation system in March, a year after his promise to do so turned the San Diego Association of Governments into a political battleground.
Then, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The director of the regional transportation agency paused his plans to lay out in detail how he would remake San Diego's transit and highway network. Uncertainty around the region's transit has only increased since then.
The agency is inundated with new information from a vast experiment in telecommuting forced on it. The Metropolitan Transit System has abandoned plans to put a tax increase for transit on the November ballot. And an economic crisis has further cratered revenues – threatening funding for existing plans, let alone new projects required to meet Ikhrata's lofty promises.
He's said his "5 Big Moves" plan would create a countywide transit system as fast and convenient as driving, the only way the region can meet a state mandate to cut carbon emissions per person to 19 percent of 2005 levels by 2035. Previous SANDAG plans, he said, met state laws through deception without really lowering the region's carbon footprint.
But the plan was announced only in broad strokes – and left out critical details like what type of transit systems would operate on hundreds of miles of new rail, and how the agency would charge highway drivers to help manage congestion.
It also did not include a price tag for the whole ambitious proposal.
The public was poised to hear some of those specifics on March 27, before the world changed.
SANDAG put the unveiling on hold, opting to wait until it could wow the board in person with large 3-D models and video demonstrations. It's now grappling with how much longer it can wait.
"We would rather wait until we can get together," Ikhrata said in an interview. "But if this goes until September or October, we're probably going to have to unveil of it through technology."
SANDAG was due to adopt a new, state-required regional transportation plan by the end of last year. It got that deadline extended until the end of 2021, after Ikhrata announced it was impossible to write a plan that met state greenhouse gas reduction targets without starting from scratch. The agency will still need to conduct a massive environmental analysis of the plan before it can consider adopting it.
The agency is now considering detailing the new framework as early as this or next month. A Zoom call with the board wouldn't be the grand reveal Ikhrata had in mind, but it would bring into focus what staff has been working on for a year.
"Initially, we put lines on a map and said, 'it'll be a transit line here, a highway option here in terms of managed lanes,'" he said. "Right now, we're going to be detailing what that transit line means – is it underground, is it above ground? Where does it exactly go? What's the route?"
Transit lines will be one of four tiers, including the existing light rail and rapid bus systems, and a new fast commuter rail concept. The plan will specify how SANDAG will manage traffic by charging drivers to use highways, and where it can add new lanes from existing shoulders, but the plan will not include any general highway-widening projects.
Last year, leaders in North County and other suburban and rural areas dependent on driving – led by County Supervisors Jim Desmond and Kristin Gaspar – balked at the proposal due to its shift from highways to transit. They dubbed the plan to charge drivers for freeway use during rush hour "track and tax," and called it both an invasion of privacy and an unwarranted tax increase.
Ikhrata wouldn't say whether the final proposal will satisfy their concerns.
"It depends how they look at it. Let me just make a statement: Are we proposing to add any general purpose lanes anywhere? No,'" he said, referring to projects that add new travel lanes to freeways by widening them, an approach frowned upon by transportation planners because it encourages more car travel and hasn't been shown to decrease congestion over time. "Are adding any pure (carpool) lanes? No. But we're taking every corridor in San Diego and making sure every corridor has the option of, either you pay to travel faster, or you can take a transit line."
Other county leaders opposed – or at least expressed skepticism over – the potential price tag of a plan that would remake the region's transportation system. On that, they're about to get some clarity.
"And we'll have an idea of the cost. We'll be able to say that during the unveil, which we weren't able to do before," Ikhrata said.
One thing the new outline definitely won't be able to say: whether it meets the state's emissions reduction mandates.
"We don't know that yet," Ikhrata said. "We're running the model as we speak. We will not put out a plan that does not meet or exceed the requirement. If we come to a point where we don't meet it, there will be no plan out."
Part of the problem, he said, is the modeling software available to determine how much the agency's new proposal will change residents' behavior.
"We don't have the tools – the old tools can't evaluate such a system," Ikhrata said. "So we're building from scratch the tools to evaluate such a system."
The new regional outline is also built around dense hubs where multiple transportation options would intersect – one of the titular "big moves" – the largest being a new regional transit center near the airport, at the federal government's NAVWAR property in Old Town. The $5 billion "Grand Central San Diego" project would be a keystone of the regional plan.
That project is still not a sure thing, but the Navy's environmental review for it kicked off in January, and a bill to streamline state environment review of the project, written by Assemblyman Todd Gloria, who's running for mayor, has advanced in the Assembly. The Navy could make a final decision on the project in December. The unveiling of the regional plan will include more detail on the Grand Central plan, too.
But the coronavirus hasn't just produced a procedural delay for SANDAG.
It also led to the demise of a proposed MTS ballot measure that would have increased sales taxes to pay to expand transit service and build new transit projects.
In one way, that's a hit to SANDAG's efforts. Though MTS had its own list of projects for the tax measure, any new funding for transit would have helped chip away at the old and new projects that lack funding in the region. And it would have funded service improvements that will be necessary under any plan.
But in another way, the measure was competition that's no longer in place.
Ikhrata said he had been tentatively planning on putting up a ballot measure in 2022 to help pay for the 5 Big Moves, no matter what MTS did. He concedes that the political likelihood of putting up a tax measure in two years is lower now than it was three months ago, but he's not ready to foreclose the idea yet.
"We were planning to go for a measure in 2022," he said. "Now, we'll join forces and make sure we have one list for the region, and hopefully we'll be supported. Now, it's too early to tell how this pandemic is going to go, but eventually we're going to go together to get the resources to build the 5 Big Moves system."
The other big change from the coronavirus comes from the sudden surge in telecommuting. The stay-at-home order led to a drop in traffic and the pollution it creates.
Coleen Clementson, SANDAG's director of land use and planning, said the agency's previous plans had always projected a 12 percent to 15 percent adoption of telecommuting. Now, they're testing it out.
"It's almost like right now we have this little laboratory to see, gosh, that may really be possible," Clementson said. "Maybe that was visionary, so that's one aspect of this. The other thing is, and I'm sure you see it in your neighborhood too, just all the people biking and walking more than ever before."
But Ikhrata seems skeptical those changes will stick. In 2014, the agency received a grant from the federal government to get 10 companies to shift to telecommuting, but it could only get four to participate.
"Maybe the world has changed," he said. "But I also remind people that even with a total economic shutdown, we still have 60 percent of people traveling."
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By Raj Sheth August 12, 2013 July 23, 2015
Everyone seems to have a stance when it comes to the validity and usefulness of job boards. Once the reining champion of sourcing and recruiting, job boards are quickly losing steam. When Monster and CareerBuilder first stepped on the scene in 1994, they were the top dogs, and stock was through the roof. Last year, Monster went on the market when it had a market cap of $969 million and since then, shares have fallen by half.
Job boards were seen as this new, ultra convenient way to search for a job quickly. Before then it was the newspapers, door-to-door, and good old fashioned networking. Everyone flocked to these job boards and the industry boomed. But something went wrong; the technology didn't really grow with the crowd. The big job boards have stayed seemingly stagnant or on the decline in comparison with the advances in social networking and recruiting. Furthermore, they never really surpassed the power of networking.
Recruiting site CareerXroads did a study that concluded that as little as about 18 percent of all hires are a result of job boards. Other studies in the same field would contend that 12 percent is high, and that the figure is in all actuality probably less than 10 percent. HR pro Paul Bernard says that he, "frequently cautions clients who are applying for a position online." Bernard says that job boards "will give them no more than a 2 percent chance of getting an interview, let alone walking away with an offer."
A main issue is the sheer number of applicants who come from these job ads. Job boards cast such a broad net that the screening process becomes a joke. With dozens or even hundreds of applicants, no wonder these large job boards are on the decline.
Internal movement, referrals, social recruiting, niche job boards ,and networking are all trumping these major job boards because of one simple thing — connection. Job boards, no doubt, have the market cornered when it comes to quantity, but candidates and hiring managers are finding out quickly that that isn't what matters. In fact, that tends to inhibit the chances of a professional match. Quality is what matters. Cultural fit is what matters. Access to relevant connections is what matters.
Don't get it wrong, job boards are not all together useless. Niche boards should not be thrown out with the bath water. Pulling away from the masses and finding niche boards that are relevant and targeted can make a world of difference for both recruiters and candidates. Where candidates are concerned, it's obviously better to be one of a dozen than one of a hundred. And for recruiters, these niche boards provide fewer candidates, but of those fewer candidates there will be more relevant ones. Furthermore, using niche boards shows that the homework has been done, you're an industry insider and you know what you're looking for.
Major job boards do a great job at providing a large pool of candidates. That's great if you happen to be opening up a 500-employee plant, but that's not what most of the candidates and recruiters are on them for. As the decade of big job boards has come and gone, we're finding a renewed passion for connection. Soft skills and cultural fit aren't assessed in a resume online (that happens to be amongst dozens of others), they are conveyed through interactions, dialogue, and personalized communications.
Raj Sheth
Raj Sheth is the co-founder of Recruiterbox, an online recruitment software and applicant tracking system designed especially for growing companies. Prior to Recruiterbox, he founded two other web startups -- a classifieds portal and an ecommerce site. He is a graduate of Babson College and spent the first three years of his career as a financial analyst with EMC Corporation in Boston. Visit his website at recruiterbox.com.
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Meet Wicket, voted Cutest Pup of 2015 and one of our DogStar models in the Mister Migs Denim Dogs Fashion Blast!
Meet Wicket, an adorable Pomeranian/Papillion mix who was voted Suwannee Magazine's "Cutest Pup 2015." But there's more to him than just being cute as a button. Wicket is a therapy dog and Reading Education Assistance Dog (READ). He is registered through Pet Partners ® and Atlanta Pet Partners, Inc., a member of READing Paws, and a volunteer with Happy Tails Pet Therapy. Wicket regularly volunteers in our metro Atlanta schools and throughout the community helping children read, being a companion to Seniors, and helping individuals who are dealing with trauma.
Wicket's very first therapy client was a 7-year old girl who had been so severely traumatized that she was in complete social withdrawal and not speaking. When they met, Wicket went right to her side and she immediately began to pet him and talk to him, telling Wicket about what had happened to her. After a few visits with Wicket, she came out of her isolation and was able to return to the happy little cheerleader she once was. Though she no longer needs his help, they remain in contact and she regularly emails Wicket's mom to get his latest picture.
In another instance when Wicket was visiting a school, Wicket saw a young boy who was crying uncontrollably. Wicket walked right up to the little boy, cocked his head as if saying "what's the matter?" The boy stopped crying and told Wicket what was wrong. Wicket is magic!
Perhaps Wicket understands how to help because he was rescued from a puppy mill when he was eight weeks old. Despite this rough start, he loves people and people love him. He can sense when someone has had a bad day and cheers them up with his affectionate antics.
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Tragic failure of a road system – an Australian example
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OMR NewsTalk of the town
Hamburg welcomes Hollywood: Ashton Kutcher to speak at OMR Festival 2022
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Actor, investor, producer and philanthropist Ashton Kutcher will take the Conference stage on May 18, 2022. A Tinseltown fixture for over two decades and a prolific tech investor to boot, Ashton Kutcher is a man of many talents—including tackling pressing societal issues. Kutcher's non-profit organization, Thorn, creates technology to combat child sex abuse. Additionally, he and his wife Mila Kunis are raising money for Ukraine and have already collected over USD 35m. With such diverse areas of interest and activities, Kutcher is an absolute must-see guest this May 18 in Hamburg.
Recently, OMR announced that Academy-award winner and New York Times bestselling author Quentin Tarantino will also speak at OMR22. In addition to Kutcher and Tarantino, a host of industry stars will be on hand in Hamburg, including Kara Swisher, Scott Galloway, Lilian Li, Rutger Bregman and additional international top speakers.
Kutcher first garnered international fame and acclaim as Michael Kelso in the hit sitcom "That 70s Show" in 1998. He further solidified his A-list status through subsequent roles in films, such as "Dude, where's my car?," "Butterfly Effect" and "No Strings Attached." He also returned to the small screen as Walden Schmidt in "Two and a Half Men." At the same time, he has been investing in tech startups for years, first as an angel investor, later with his investment funds A-Grade Investments and currently Sound Ventures. With over USD 3b invested, he is considered the most active "Hollywood investor." Kutcher has been an early investor in Airbnb, Uber, Spotify and Warby Parker, among others. All that is more than enough to warrant his spot on the big stage at OMR22.
We are excited once again this year to be able to deliver our audience with a diverse Festival program that also focuses on the day's most pressing events. I truly look forward to my conversation in the OMR Podcast with Ashton and hearing about his tech investing efforts, his atypical career path and, of course, his charitable efforts combatting child sex abuse through his non-profit Thorn and for the Ukraine."
Focus on the philanthropic—from child sexual abuse and the Ukraine
There is more to Kutcher than just the bright lights of Hollywood and his activities as an angel investor in the tech scene. With his nonprofit Thorn, which he co-founded in 2012, he is taking on child sexual abuse—and using technology to do so. "We build software that fights the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet," Kutcher stated back in March 2021 on the OMR podcast. In addition to developing the technological tools to empower law enforcement and platforms, Thorn raises public awareness of the issue and lobbies lawmakers. Kutcher is also raising money to support Ukraine along with his wife Mila Kunis. At the beginning of March, the two had called for donations for humanitarian aid via Gofundme, with the goal of collecting USD 30m. On March 21, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj personally thanked the two in a video call for approximately EUR 35m in donations.
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Senior UK and Scottish government ministers will speak at the first Borderlands Conference which will be held in Dumfries next month.
The conference, in Easterbrook Hall on Monday, June 18, will bring together the Borderlands Partnership, stakeholders and local and national politicians in a bid to enhance the proposals that will be made to both the UK and Scottish governments later this year.
Keynote speakers will include David Mundell MP, Secretary of State for Scotland and Keith Brown MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work.
Mr Mundell said: "The Borderlands Growth Deal is a genuinely innovative initiative and has the potential to transform the economy of the whole region, both in the South of Scotland and across the border, creating jobs and increasing prosperity. It aims to build on the successes of city and growth deals across Scotland that are already delivering benefits for people and businesses.
The proposed Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal is unique and is a partnership that brings together the five cross-border local authorities of Carlisle City Council, Cumbria County Council, Dumfries and Galloway Council, Northumberland County Council and Scottish Borders Council to promote the economic growth and competitiveness of the area that straddles the Scotland-England border.
Mr Brown also said the Scottish Government has made a clear commitment to a deal for the Borderlands that will drive inclusive growth across the area.
He continued: "Indeed, we want to see every part of Scotland benefit from this sort of focused, transformational investment.
The conference will take place between 9am and 3.30pm. Places can be booked via www.borderlandsgrowth.com/get-involved.


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Graham Kelly
Graham Kelly's love for the Canadian Football League (CFL) started with his tenure as the water boy with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1956, then as a stringer for UPI from 1963 to 1968.
In 1972, he started writing for the Medicine Hat News, has been writing about the CFL for more than 30 years. In those years, Graham has missed but 5 Calgary Stampeders home games, has covered more than 27 Grey Cup games and has also found the time to write two books on the CFL which were; The Grey Cup – A History in 1999, and Green Grit: The Story of the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2001. All this, showing Graham's determination, pleasant manner, and his belief in helping others enjoy the good things in life, makes him a prime candidate for induction into Football Reporters of Canada Hall of Fame.
Graham Kelly was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Museum, Football Reporters of Canada wing in 2002.
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Roughshod Theatre Company are coming to St. Andrew's on June 16th, 7pm.
Catch some surprising stories of hope in their new faith-filled show. Mixing comedy, dramatic storytelling, spoken word and the personal experience of the actors themselves, Riding Lights Roughshod deliver a show that asks: what happens when God intervenes in ordinary lives?


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What Everyone is Saying About Dance Music Store Downloader Is Useless Wrong And Why
Everyday life is stuffed with music. We've radios in our homes and our vehicles, CD gamers and mp3 players. Extra transportable than ever, music goes with us for everything we do. The music industry has ample opportunity to reach out to fans in quite a lot of ways. To the musicians, this could be about sharing their art, however within the music trade as a complete, it is about creating wealth. Followers spend billions of dollars every year worldwide to support the business. To support that money making machine, hundreds of various roles are required to make the music we hear. With so many individuals involved within the process, how do they still make a lot cash? It makes money from much more than simply album gross sales.
15 years in the past, Kurt Cobain blew his brains out with a shotgun. He was strung out on heroin, and had simply skipped out on rehab. It is quite possible that he would have continued his musical career if not for these unlucky circumstances. Had he, it is conceivable that he may have change into a profound musical great. Most notably would have been his business success, accessibility to the disenfranchised masses, and even more than annoying clone-like vogue tendencies proliferated by way of all class ranges worldwide. His intentions could have been genuine, but they'd have been awash amidst the huge myriad of advertising slogans generated by his profitability. It's an actual disgrace, but he most likely did the precise thing by offing himself. It stored him seeming real.
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Children lately have all kinds of devices; its part of their era, and computers and computer video games are totally the norm. For anyone older, many of this stuff pose an actual problem. A number of years in the past I attempted to get my mum to start using a mobile phone; after about eight weeks we gave up. She simply didn't "get" methods to change it on and off. I noticed then how deep a fear she had of mechanical issues and know-how in general.
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Moses composed songs of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord. King David wrote many of the Psalms which were prayed in addition to sung in Bible occasions. It has been recorded that King Solomon composed many songs, notice "The Songs of Solomon", a ebook in the Previous Testomony. A basic subscription to the site is free.
Apple are doing well from the MP3 Market (which after all they beautiful much generated), iPod's are extra well-liked than ever, the iPhone is now open to a number of mobile phone networks and iTunes are still the number one music download web site. Apple seem to have created a gold mine (I am sure they labored hard for). Nonetheless its not just Apple which are benefiting from the recognition of the iPod. There are now many giant brands that have built their fame on the again of the success of the iPod and iPhone. Often revolving round iPod equipment.
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Josh Duhamel reveals his favorite meal to cook for his son
The actor says he's a better cook than his ex-wife, singer Fergie.
If Josh Duhamel is in the kitchen, it's a pretty good sign that he's making something special for Axl Jack, his 4-year-old son with ex-wife, singer Fergie.
TODAY Food recently caught up with the newly single actor in his home state of North Dakota where he was filming a spot for the state's latest ad campaign. Getting busy in the kitchen isn't a hard a sell for the Midwest native who owns a restaurant in his hometown of Minot. "I don't own a restaurant because I like to cook," Duhamel told TODAY Food. "It's because I like to eat."
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While his favorite dishes at his eatery 10 North Main are the bison steak and pheasant strips, when he's at home, Duhamel tones down the menu to suit a preschooler's palate.
"If I'm cooking, it's usually for my son," said the "Transformers" star who turns 45 this month."I'll make eggs and grilled sandwiches — but lasagna is my specialty."
When asked about the secret behind his take on the classic Italian comfort food, (in 2012, Fergie even raved about his "mean lasagna" to Rachael Ray) Duhamel simply shrugged and said it's his "homemade sauce." When asked how Axl Jack would describe daddy's cooking, Duhamel laughs. "'Good'," the actor quipped.
But when asked how the toddler would describe mommy's cooking, Duhamel laughed even harder and said, "'Not as good as daddy's'." Still, the actor remained humble about his culinary skills. "I think I have a fear of cooking more than anything. I don't know how people can throw certain things together and just make it work."
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One of the people he's referring to is Thomas Keller, Duhamel's friend who also happens to be a James Beard Award-winning chef.
During last year's AT&T golf tournament in Pebble Beach, California, Keller wowed a crowd of hungry players — but Duhamel missed the magnificent meal. "He [Keller] was staying with me at a friend's house. He cooked one night for everybody," Duhamel recalled. "Of course, it was the one night that I'd already committed to going to another dinner I couldn't get out of.
"I got back thinking they would have saved some for me, but they ate everything!"
Even with a famous, food-loving father, Axl Jack seems to be like many other kids his age and Duhamel says it's not always easy to get his son to eat everything he's served.
"I bribe him with promises of dessert," Duhamel admitted. "But I always follow through with those promises, so he knows if I say 'You have to finish these three pieces of broccoli,' he won't quit until he's done."


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AVEDA SUPPORTS CLIMATE ACTION TO MEET THE PARIS AGREEMENT
Aveda supports the development of renewable wind energy to help offset our carbon footprint over time. We are proud to be the first beauty company manufacturing products with 100% wind power**.
** First beauty company manufacturing with 100% wind power in our primary facility
supporting wind energy
Our wind energy purchases offset 100% of the energy used by our primary manufacturing facility in Minnesota, our company headquarters, the Aveda Institute Minneapolis, and our Aveda-owned Experience Centers, Salons and Institutes in New York City. We also purchase CO2 offsets for our aerosols which are made by a third party.
That being said, there is still some way to go to achieve "carbon neutrality". While we have balanced the GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions associated with our primary manufacturing facility in the United States, our makeup manufacturing in Canada and the manufacture, transportation and use of our aerosol products through the purchase of wind power through the electrical grid and GHG emissions offsets, approximately 6% of Aveda products are manufactured by a third party which does not purchase wind power or C02 offsets.
Also, the transportation, use, disposal and other impacts of most Aveda products are not covered by offsets.
here's more about our offset purchases:
Our Minnesota location offset purchases:
In Minnesota we purchase wind-generated electricity directly through our electrical grid via a program called Wind Source®, which is used by our primary manufacturing facility, our company headquarters and the Aveda Institute Minneapolis.
By electing to purchase an alternative energy option, like Wind source®, available through our local electric utility Xcel Energy, we support the development of wind power equal to our energy use. This helps address our carbon footprint because wind energy is produced without air emissions like carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, uses no water, and doesn't need water treatment during production.
We purchase Windsource® from Xcel Energy—power generated on 21 wind farms in Minnesota—increasing the amount of wind energy available to the entire power grid from which we draw our electricity.
U.S. corporate location offset purchases
Aveda purchases CO2 offsets from Native Energy to balance the climate impact of the energy used by our corporate locations in the U.S., outside of Minneapolis. 60% of the environmental benefits from these offsets are realised over a period of more than two years.
Aerosol hair spray offset purchases
Aveda also purchases CO2 offsets from Native Energy to balance the climate impact of the manufacturing, transportation and use of our aerosol hair spray products, which are made by a third party manufacturer. The majority of our offset purchases are used to fund future wind energy projects over time.
Funding long term development of renewable energies
In keeping with our commitment to continual progression in environment leadership and responsibility it is important to Aveda that we do more than just purchase offsets. Our goal is to help fuel the expansion of renewable energy to touch more people for generations to come.
To this end, as mentioned above, some of our purchases are invested in Native Energy's Help Build™ projects that provide funding for the long-term development of new sources of renewable energy including wind energy that might not otherwise be possible. By investing in this way we purchase offsets that will be realized over time periods ranging up to 20 years during the life of these projects.
Now that the projects are built, they will produce clean energy and avoid greenhouse gas emissions for years to come. Offsets purchased through Help Build™ projects are independently verified annually to the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) over the life of the projects and donated to Clean Air Cool Planet and retired each year. Aveda also purchases some offsets from wind farms in rural India; these offsets are purchased and verified to VCS annually, not over a multi-year period.
Where We Are Headed in Our Journey
As described above, our wind energy purchases offset 100% of the energy used by our primary manufacturing facility in Minnesota, our company headquarters and the Aveda Institute Minneapolis. We also purchase CO2 offsets (the majority of which fund future wind energy projects over time) for the manufacturing, transportation and use of our aerosol hair sprays, which are made by a third party manufacturer. And, we purchase wind energy credits through Native Energy to offset the energy used in our company-operated Experience Centers and Aveda-owned salons and institutes in New York City.
As a result, we have balanced the GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions associated with our direct manufacturing in the United States, our makeup manufacturing in Canada and the manufacturing, transportation and use of our aerosol products through the purchase of wind power through our electrical grid and of GHG emissions offsets. This covers approximately 94% of all Aveda products. Some of our packaging suppliers also use renewable energy to produce our materials.
That being said, we have a long way to go to achieve "carbon neutrality" and steps along the path range from purchasing offsets to cover the production of Aveda products by 3rd party manufacturers, buying offsets for our international business locations, offsetting product distribution and travel related to our business, and engaging with our ingredient and packaging suppliers on the issue of renewable energy. Aveda is committed to continuing to work towards further reduction of the GHG impacts of our business but a specific plan and timetable for addressing all of these categories has not yet been fully developed.