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- To be able to run this example you need to install UiPath.Excel.Activities and UiPath.Database.Activities. See more details on how to install packages here.
This sample extracts information from a database and put them into a CSV file.
Steps to automate
- Connect to the database.
- Specify the columns that you want to extract from the database.
- Put the information extracted into CVS file.
- Connect to a database using "Connect" activity. You will need a server name, username and password.
- Use an "Execute query" activity to specify the name of the database and the columns that you want to extract.
- "Execute query" activity returns a datatable so you have to use a "Write CSV" activity to take all the information from datatable and write into CVS file.

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Málà Project is a cozy, casual East Village spot where even the most jaded New Yorkers can come try food they have never experienced. The restaurant specializes in Sichuan dry pot which is a dish that became popular in the provincial capital of Chengdu during the '80s. To build your dry pot there are roughly 70, yes 70, ingredients to choose from ranging from traditional (glass noodles, oyster mushrooms, prawns) to absolutely wild (beef artery, duck tongue, chicken gizzard). Ingredients are then tossed in a big bamboo bowl with plenty of cilantro and chili peppers. To round out your meal there are plenty of non-dry-pot specialties, like crispy-thin scallion pancakes, excellent dan dan noodles, and pan-fried pork dumplings. This is a really fun place to come with a group and try an interesting cuisine for a very low price.
Address: 122 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10009
Neighborhood: East Village
Price: $$


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A group of 774 pilgrims returned to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday via the Rafah crossing, Palestinian officials said. The pilgrims arrived at Cairo international airport after performing the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia and returned to Gaza via Rafah. There have been frequent closures of the Rafah terminal in recent weeks due to political unrest in Egypt and violence in the Sinai peninsula. After a July coup deposing president Mohamed Morsi, Egypt ' s army has repeatedly closed the border crossing and destroyed hundreds of tunnels that Gazans used for years. The Rafah crossing has been the principal connection between Gaza ' s 1.8 million residents and the outside world since the imposition of an economic blockade by Israel beginning in 2007.
Rafah open for humanitarian cases, Hajj pilgrims


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Is the 21st Century Consumer, Research Obsessed?!
Imagine going to a restaurant or booking a holiday without checking reviews and scouring websites beforehand. Sounds like a foreign concept to us in this day and age. Well, that used to be the reality! I remember my Dad telling me about a time when he booked a holiday to Corfu, only to turn up and see the hotel was nothing like what it looked in the brochure.
The hotel looked like a quaint, family-run hotel when in reality the hotel grounds smelt like sewers; the coach never came to pick my parents up and wild dogs roamed the hotel for food in the morning! Fast forward 30 years and that hotel on TripAdvisor would be plastered with bad reviews, dire ratings and those awful pictures of suspiciously small hairs on the bed sheets. It is safe to say that my Dad is incredibly grateful for the internet now and his experience has definitely turned him into a "Research Obsessive". If you are unaware of what that is, I'm sure someone will come to mind when I explain.
A "Research Obsessive" is someone who will always find every scrap of information before doing anything. Whether that is choosing a meal in a restaurant; booking a tour for a holiday or even buying a new pair of trousers.
The "Research Obsessive" will make sure they have read multiple reviews, asked their Facebook friends and checked a blogger's recommendation before making any decisions.
However, it is not a bad thing. I would call myself a "Research Obsessive" to be honest with you. 99% of the time I know exactly what 3 courses I am going to order before I even step foot into a restaurant. I do not doubt that many people would agree considering mobile searches for "menus" has increased by 55% over the past 2 years. The Digital Revolution has provided us with a "Tyranny of Choice," as described by the Deloitte Consumer Review, 2014. With a plethora of options for food, holidays, clothing, shoes, homeware and many more, consumers want to be satisfied with the idea that they chose the best option and haven't wasted their money. A staggering 81% of consumers conduct online research before making a purchase and...
61% of consumers will read reviews on the products they desire.
This has led to the surge in popularity of independent review websites such as Reevoo and TripAdvisor, the latter being worth over $4 billion!
So why are 21st Century consumers research-mad? According to a Think with Google article, it is usually one of three things. First, it helps to build excitement. Researching weeks or months before an event creates a lot of anticipation and makes consumers more eager for the experience as they are aware of how much they are going to enjoy it. Secondly, it gives consumers confidence. Getting clued up about prices, directions and attractions will definitely reduce anxiety and stress levels, particularly when you are venturing into a new country. This is the main reason why the term "wait times" has grown in mobile searches by 120% over the past couple of years because consumers want to be confident that they are making the most of their time. Lastly, it generally helps to create the best experience possible. By planning in advance, it ensures that consumers avoid that dreaded feeling of regret you experience after you miss out on something good.
However, with all the positives that arise from conducting research, it takes away one thing…spontaneity. The thrill of the unknown and sense of adventure is completely lost by knowing everything. Although preparation is exciting, there is something incredibly satisfying about going somewhere on a whim and having the best time. You feel a sense of happiness that you have good instincts and can gauge when something is enjoyable without knowing anything about it. Take backpackers for example. They pack a bag, book a plane ticket and see where their journey takes them. It builds adrenaline and they might even stumble across something amazing that they wouldn't have found if they knew the exact route to go. Yet, "Research Obsessives" no longer feel this satisfaction as the concept of spontaneity is completely alien to them. Their satisfaction comes from having schedules, directions and pre-booked tickets!
Consumers are not the only ones to benefit from conducting research. Businesses who have good online reviews or positive recommendations from bloggers benefit from free marketing. A survey conducted by TripAdvisor found that: "Nearly 90% of travellers say reviews are influential in choosing where to book" (TripAdvisor, 2014)
Referring back to the story from the beginning, my Dad is definitely in that 90% of travellers and gives his custom to businesses with the best reviews. It was found in the Deloitte Consumer Review, 2014 that consumers trust review websites just as much as a family/friend recommendations. This proves how important it is in the 21st Century for businesses to actively ensure they provide customers with a positive experience, as the key to growing your business in this day and age is to look favourable in the eyes of the "Research Obsessive".
Researching is a luxury we are lucky to have. Whether you're a consumer or a business owner, the internet has provided us with a wealth of resources to help you make the most out of your life.
So, the next time you feel like you're doing too much searching and scouring of the web...you are certainly not the only one! The key is making sense of it and using your research correctly! Take a look at the research we completed for a childrenswear company when they were looking to break into a new market - here!


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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — By the middle of this week, Ben McAdoo had interviewed for vacant head coaching positions with the Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles. He knew that if either team was serious about hiring him, it would call him back for a second interview.
Indeed, the Giants on Wednesday asked McAdoo, the team's offensive coordinator for the last two seasons, to come back for another meeting the next morning. But McAdoo had a scheduling conflict — he was supposed to be in Philadelphia on Thursday morning for his second meeting with the Eagles.
That was alarming news to the Giants. They had sweated out the possibility that Tom Coughlin, who resigned as the team's head coach last week, would end up on the Eagles' sideline. Coughlin had that day withdrawn his name from consideration in Philadelphia, but now McAdoo appeared to be moving to the top of the Eagles' coaching wish list.
"We knew we would regret letting him go elsewhere," John Mara, a Giants co-owner, said of McAdoo. "I guess you could say he had been the favorite."
The Giants hastily summoned McAdoo to a meeting on Wednesday and offered him the job shortly thereafter.
On Friday at Giants headquarters, the 38-year-old McAdoo, who just 12 years ago was an obscure assistant coach at the University of Akron, was introduced as the Giants' 17th coach. Though McAdoo has never been a head coach at any level, he promptly called himself "the right man for the job."
"I'm hardened, battle-tested, and I've been groomed for this opportunity," said McAdoo, who previously worked for the New Orleans Saints and the San Francisco 49ers and for eight seasons was an assistant coach in Green Bay.
But the swiftness of the Giants' decision may have caught even McAdoo by surprise. On Friday, he wore a suit that looked too big, one that fit better before he recently lost about 60 pounds.
McAdoo, raised in a small town in western Pennsylvania, thanked a litany of leaders for his development as a coach, including Coughlin. As a tribute, McAdoo said he was going to keep all the clocks at the Giants complex five minutes fast — a practice Coughlin brought to the team when he was hired in 2004.
Coughlin's final two seasons each ended in a 6-10 record, but on Friday, McAdoo said that he thought the Giants were nonetheless closer to a successful season than their record indicated. McAdoo said that, moving forward, the theme for his tenure was going to be "evolution not revolution."
"We're not looking to rebuild; we're looking to reload," McAdoo continued.
Hiring McAdoo maintains a sense of continuity for the Giants, something the franchise has valued. McAdoo also received endorsements from Coughlin and quarterback Eli Manning during the hiring process.
McAdoo, in turn, indicated that he planned to keep last season's defensive coordinator, Steve Spagnuolo, on his staff. The Giants' defense ranked last in the N.F.L. during the 2015 regular season. But McAdoo emphasized that he thought the defenders would do better next season — in part, because they would be more familiar with the system installed by Spagnuolo last year.
Mara, however, was more blunt about the Giants' needs and the changes that were coming.
"There will be changes on the staff," he said. "There's a lot about being a head coach that you don't know about until you do it. Every new head coach goes through that and needs to surround himself with experienced people.
"And let's face it, we've got to help Ben with better personnel."
McAdoo would not otherwise be specific about the makeup of his coaching staff.
Steve Tisch, the Giants' other co-owner, addressed the most obvious concern about McAdoo — his age. He will be the second-youngest N.F.L. coach after Adam Gase, 37, who was hired last week by the Miami Dolphins.
"His age is a positive factor," Tisch said in a conference call with reporters. "He's young. He's, in the best sense of the word, ambitious. He's got a vision. He seems appropriately fearless."
Mara, meanwhile, recounted the moment two years ago when he first considered McAdoo a potential head coach. It was at a training camp practice.
"You never know for sure how an assistant will be as a head coach, but Ben had a presence," Mara said. "And he has a hard edge. I saw that he was not afraid to bark at the players when things weren't going the way he wanted them to go. I like that. I like a coach with a bark."
In Friday's news conference, Ben McAdoo blamed himself for not taking more action when receiver Odell Beckham Jr. displayed reckless and dangerous behavior during the Giants' 38-35 loss to the Carolina Panthers last month. Beckham, who was penalized three times for unnecessary roughness, was later suspended for a game. "I should've been better, and I take full responsibility for that," McAdoo said, referring to the Carolina game. "Odell feels as bad as anybody about it, and it's my job to pull him out of that when we go down that road." ... John Mara acknowledged that it would have been difficult to see the former head coach Tom Coughlin leading the Philadelphia Eagles. Coughlin interviewed for the Eagles' head coaching job but eventually took his name out of the running. "I'm not going to lie; it would have bothered me," Mara said. "I want Tom to be happy, but I didn't want him to be happy in green."


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The New Forest Bead Store
You can email us at email@example.com or Telephone us on 01202 798151. Or, why not come and see us? All of our products shown online - and many more - are available from our Bead Store on the edge of the New Forest, close to Christchurch, Bouremouth, Lymington and a short drive from Southampton and Bournemouth. PLUS we offer our Bead Store Customers a Loyalty card that gives visitors a great saving - every £10 you spend gives you one loyalty point and every 10 points gives you a £10.00 voucher!
Our Store opening hours are;
- Monday to Thursday, 09.30 to 4.30pm
- Friday, 09.30 to 4.00pm
- We are also open the 2nd Saturday of each month from 9.30 to 4.00pm. So in 2019, that means the following dates;
- October 12th
- November 9th
- December 14th
Level disabled access is available via an alternative door - give us a call when you are coming and we can arrange to meet you. 30 minutes free parking is available, but we have parking permits for anyone wanting longer.
Finding us
We are located on a small Industrial Park on the outskirts of New Milton - Williams Industrial Park, which is signposted on Gore Road.
By Bus
The X2 bus route passes the Park entrance, between Stem Lane and Milton Mead. For details of the Bus timetable, click here.


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If you suffer from GERD, chances are that diet is probably a big part of your life, as is looking for foods that will join you in battle against acid reflux. Managing your symptoms of GERD, particularly your acid reflux, is a battle that's oftentimes fought in the kitchen, and it involves some amount of meal planning. When you remove all the reflux trigger foods from your life, you're left having to piece together what you can actually eat.
As acid reflux and GERD specialists, we do what we can to help you, and while no diet or "superfood" will cure your acid reflux, managing your diet can help ease a lot of the discomfort caused by your GERD. Here are 5 top superfoods that can help minimize your symptoms of GERD.
1. Aloe Vera
Most people aren't aware that you can even eat aloe vera, but inside these bendy sword-like green leaves hides a gooey, clear and gel-like substance that is rich in enzymes and other amazing properties. The inner gel can calm your esophagus, reduce inflammation and gut acidity. Just make sure to blend it with other ingredients, otherwise it won't taste (or look) too appetizing.
2. Kefir
Kefir, or fermented milk, is a great, gut-healthy probiotic that's important for sustaining healthy bacteria in your stomach and reducing heartburn. It's also a good option if you're looking for a milk substitute. To make it, simply get kefir grains and mix with coconut water (or coconut milk). Other great probiotics include yogurt and kombucha.
3. Bone Broth
If your esophagus has been damaged by acid reflux, bone broth could help restore it's lining. Bone broth is rich in gelatin and cartilage, which may sound weird, but they are essential in rebuilding tissue. It also carries amino acids, minerals, electrolytes, and antioxidants that help heal the GI tract.
4. Healthy Fats
When you're diagnosed with GERD, you're told to avoid fatty foods above everything! But, that doesn't include healthy fats like olive or coconut oil, avocado, coconut milk, and nuts and seeds like chia, almonds, walnuts, and flax. These fats will not only help your overall health, they'll also keep your GI tract happier.
5. Chlorella
Our last top superfood is a freshwater algae that is both a probiotic and an amazing source of soluble fiber. Chlorella will help rebuild the lining of your GI tract and keep you "regular." There's a good reason why it has been deemed a "near perfect food."
While only surgery can effectively treat and cure GERD and chronic acid reflux, these top superfoods will help keep you healthy and they can help you manage your symptoms of GERD while you prepare for surgery. To find out more about the treatments for GERD or to meet with one of our reflux surgeons contact us today or book an appointment.


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Honey from Deutsche Bahn
Honey Made in Germany
The Deutsche Bahn helps bees and beekeepers in Germany. Together with the DB real estate division beekeepers can pick from unused properties owned by the Deutsche Bahn railway company. Up to 750 of these vacant lots and tracks are now home to over 30 million bees, their hives and their caretakers. This eco-friendly project produces a honey named "Gleisgold" sold by the Deutsche Bahn.
Concept // Ogilvy
PRODUCTION, SHOOT & GRading // TOBI & TRON
CAMERA // Alex Düsterberg & TOBIAS BECKER
EditOR // Michael Münch
Honey made by Deutsche Bahn
client // Deutsche Bahn
agency // Ogilvy
production & grading: // Tobi & Tron
editing // Michael Münch


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"I love languages because it helps me connect with different people… When I was a girl I was bilingual in English and French. I used to interpret for my francophone grandmother because my cousins only spoke English."
Grace is a 51 French-Canadian living in Victoria, BC. She is a polyglot who can speak French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Portuguese, and she hopes to learn even more languages. She shares her love of language to others by being a French, Spanish, and Italian language instructor. Unsurprisingly, her favourite thing to do is watch foreign films. Grace is actively involved in her mosque's community, and volunteers as director of membership at the BC Muslim Association. On top of that, she is the treasurer and volunteer coordinator of H.E.R.S. Foundation. When I asked Grace what her proudest achievement is she told me, "I like helping others as much as I can. One year I helped an Iranian family pass the citizenship exam orally in front of a judge. They really wanted to live here permanently but couldn't pass the exam in English in written form." Her own favourite quality is her generosity, she told me, "I can't stop giving." Grace told me her most challenging experience was when she "reverted to Islam in 1992 after being raised as a Roman Catholic all my life. It has been a challenge to keep good relations with my Catholic family despite my new chosen faith."
Q&A Feature:
What is your biggest hope?
"My biggest hope is for peace in the Middle East between the Palestinians and the Israelis. We are able to live in peace and harmony in North American and elsewhere so why not there?"


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Would Like To Try Organic Gardening? These Tips Can Help
Discover how to beautify your outdoor spaces using the helpful horticulture tips in this post to help you produce a garden which everybody can also enjoy. You may have a good plan on what you require, so you may not waste money on unnecessary equipment, or the wrong forms of seeds.
The handles in your tools can be used as clever rulers. Just lay your tool down on the ground then lay a yardstick next to the handles.Work with a bright permanent marker to label the distances.
Brighten your flower beds with biennials and biennials. You may fill gaps between shrubs or perennials. Some flowers you can utilize are sunflower, cosmos, rudbekia and marigold or sunflowers.
Bulbs are an excellent option for those who would like to enjoy spring as well as in summer. Various kinds of bulbs bloom at different times, so choosing appropriately, you may have blooms early spring to later summer.
Once the fall season approaches, you should plant autumn edibles. A pumpkin can become a planting container rather than clay pots. Once you've cut its top and scooped the insides out, spray the inside and edges with Wilt-Pruf to hold the pumpkin from rotting.
Don't mow your grass down with the soil when you run the mower. The roots will grow deeper to the soil, making the lawn stronger and a lot more immune to drying out, should you let your grass to develop just a little longer. Short grass however is quite likely going to getting dried out and turning brown.
Pest control is incredibly difficult when you have a veggie garden. A technique you could help control garden pests from increasing would be to remain diligent concerning your garden. If you catch the pests early, you can take them out by hand effectively.
You just need a bit homework, some operate in the great outdoors, and a few patience. The time and effort will pay off, and you will definitely see a good reward to your perseverance.
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Media and Advertising: D- Grade for Attracting and Retaining Diverse Talent
Jul 2018 By Jack Myers
- Media and advertising ranks lowest among of 15 industries for retention of multi-cultural summer interns who join our community – fewer than 20% remain after three years.
- Media and advertising rank toward the bottom among 15 industries for attracting multi-cultural students from the top 30 universities and from colleges with high density of multi-cultural students.
- The average duration in first-time jobs is only nine-months, compared to 18-months just a decade ago.
- According to a LinkedIn study, media and advertising employees suffer the lowest morale and have the lowest entry-level salaries among eight industries.
Yes, many media and advertising companies support and help underwrite diversity and inclusion programs – IRTS, IDEA, NY Ad Club, AdColor, She Runs It, Verizon AdFellows, the ANA, 4As and IAB, AdvancingDiversity.org and more. They deserve credit and support. There are those in our community who devote extraordinary personal effort to advancing gender and multi-cultural diversity and inclusion; they are owed praise and recognition. But they, more than anyone, realize how much of the support they receive is 'talking the talk' and not 'walking the walk.' As an industry we are failing to attract and retain the diverse multi-cultural talent that will be required to succeed in the future.
This year, through our 1stFive.org Summer Intern Experience initiative, MediaVillage launched the 25 Under 25 Program in response to feedback from past year's multi-cultural summer interns who informed us "they don't see themselves fitting into the organizations they worked for or a path to success for people like them." The 1stFive Summer Intern Experience had welcomed more than 250 summer interns working in advertising and media each year for the past four years. The retention rate for diverse young employees who joined us at each year's event is more than twice the industry average. However, after four years of hosting the 1stFive Summer Intern Experience in partnership with Turner, Horizon Media, and OMD, we were sadly not able to generate sufficient industry support this year to continue the successful and important program.
Our plan was to introduce a job fair, add new speakers and educational components, and reach out to local colleges and through targeted social media to assure a strong representation of multi-cultural candidates. Under MediaVillage's Jack Myers KnowledgeExchange, we planned to introduce a diversity-focused college-loan relief scholarship program.
We're not giving up on our community and our shared commitment to diversity and inclusion. It's up to us all to focus on improving our grade from a D-. We will be sharing details on the expanded 25 Under 25 initiative later this year, and have begun soliciting nominations of young emerging talent submitted by media companies, agencies, tech providers, and marketers. We will highlight nominees through profiles at the MediaVillage 1stFive.org site and plan to honor recipients at a new industry event next Spring focused on and serving our community's diverse emerging under-25 leaders. Our emphasis is on talent retention and promoting to college career development offices the inclusive diversity of our community. We are also expanding the Pop-Up Job Fair model we successfully piloted at the MediaVillage Advancing Diversity Honors induction held last January during CES, where eight companies, organizations and individuals, including Unilever, Ad Council, IAB, IPG, Nielsen and others were honored for "walking the walk" on diversity and inclusion.
At the Advancing Diversity Honors event during next year's CES, inductees will include P&G's Marc Pritchard, Budweiser's Ricardo Marquez, Diego Scotti of Verizon, the NBA's Pam El, Kat Gordon of the 3% Conference, Madonna Badger of Badger & Winters, Robert Liodice and the ANA, and Alma Ha'Arel of #FreetheBid. Hold January 9th from 3:30-7:30 during CES for this event. To express your company's commitment to advancing diversity, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com to request 25 Under 25 Nomination Forms and sponsor details for the Advancing Diversity Honors event.


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Hearse of a Different Colour – An Irishman's Diary about the strange etymological story of how an agricultural implement turned into a funeral car
Consulting the old French republican calendar recently (on November 10th, or 20 Brumaire as it would have been in the 1790s), I noted that the day in question was dedicated to the "Harrow".
This was in keeping with the revolutionaries' scheme whereby seven-day weeks and religious feast-days were abolished in favour of a metric system based on France's rural economy, with every tenth day named for a farm implement, and plants and animals celebrated in between.
Thus, with logical development, the month of Brumaire progressed from the Plough (day 10) to the Roller (day 30), with Harrow Day in between.
But of course the word isn't "harrow" in French, as I noticed for the first time: it's herse. So I wondered if there was a connection between this and the English word for a funeral car. And sure enough, fascinatingly (to me anyway), they turn out to be the same thing. The cross-over between the two meanings, which dates back centuries, was via a framework used for holding church candles.
The tines on which the candles were stuck pointed upwards, obviously, whereas the pins of a harrow point down. But they shared a rake-like appearance, so that in time the agricultural herse, later hearse, crossed over into ecclesiastical use.
Also, these candle-holders tended to feature in funerals and, from the 16th century on, as decorations on graves. Sometime after that, the meaning extended to the decorative biers on which coffins were placed and from there, eventually, to the funeral vehicles themselves.
My Concise Oxford English Dictionary seems to have forgotten the ecclesiastical meaning. But de Bhaldraithe's English-Irish Dictionary has not. It lists two kind of hearse: the vehicle and the "taper-hearse", or cliath coinneal.
I don't know if Patrick Kavanagh knew all this when he wrote his poem To the Man After the Harrow. Whether he did or not, his lines are suitably preoccupied with the intersection between heaven and earth, in "the black Eternity of April clay" from which next spring's crop will emerge.
As he advises himself: "Forget the worm's opinion too/Of hooves and pointed harrow-pins,/For you are driving your horses through/The mist where Genesis begins."
But where, I hear the actors and musicians among you asking, does the word "rehearse" come into all this? Well, I'm glad you brought that up, because yes, that too originally meant to re-harrow, or go over something, and was also used of recitations in churches. Only in the late 16th century did it spread to drama. So Shakespeare was at the head of the curve, as usual, when in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he has Quince say: "Come, sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts".
The Canadian rock star Neil Young knows all about rehearsing, clearly. What he knows about harrows I can't say, although his lyrics frequently touch on agricultural themes, as when he sings "in the field of opportunity, it's plowing time again". But Young has also participated in that great American tradition of writing love songs about cars. And his contribution to the genre was unusual, if not unique, because the vehicle he romanticised was a hearse.
In the early 1960s, Young's first band The Squires used as their tour-car a 1948 Buick Roadmaster that had formerly served an undertaker. They called it "Mort", wittily, and this was doubly apt, because the car must was on its last legs.
It left them stranded somewhere in Canada once and later, when it broke down again in California, Young returned the compliment by abandoning it on the side of a road.
He must have been haunted by the memory, however. A decade later, by now enormously successful, he wrote "Long May You Run" in the car's honour, remembering its "chrome heart shining/In the sun" and expressing affectionate hope that it had been resurrected in some Californian paradise: "Maybe the Beach Boys/Have got you now."
That's not the only hearse to have achieved US celebrity, although most of the others earned distinction via their main role, for carrying famous remains. The white Cadillac used for Elvis Presley's funeral in 1977 was one such, and would likely be a museum exhibit today were it not for an ironic fate that combined the different historic meanings of 'hearse'. For several years after its Memphis cameo, the car continued to work in the funeral business. Then in 1984, the owner lent it to someone in Florida. While being driven on the motorway there, the engine caught fire. And yes, the hearse was cremated.


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The Moving To Work (MTW) program, authorized by section 204 of the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996, offers a limited number of housing authorities the opportunity to design and test innovative strategies for addressing the needs of their tenants and communities.
MTW agencies have the flexibility to find new approaches that accomplish three primary statutory goals:
- Reducing cost and achieving greater cost effectiveness in federal expenditures;
- Giving incentives to families with children where the head of household is working, is seeking work, or is preparing for work by participating in job training, educational programs, or programs that assist people to obtain employment and become economically self-sufficient; and
- Increasing housing choices for low-income families.
There are currently 39 housing authorities with MTW status. Each has an agency-specific MTW agreement with HUD, detailing the flexibilities granted in order to meet program goals. All existing agencies have had their agreements extended through the end of 2028. Each year, the housing authority completes an annual plan, to be approved by HUD, and an annual report on the outcomes achieved. Congress authorized the expansion of the MTW program to 100 additional agencies in the 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act. HUD anticipates the first cohort of new agencies will be added in 2019.
CLPHA's Membership Spotlight features the outstanding work and achievements of our member public housing authorities - the nation's largest and most innovative PHAs. Based on interviews with PHA executives, these brief profiles spotlight our members' initiatives to strengthen their communities and improve life outcomes for their residents. The Membership Spotlight is published in the newsletter, on clpha.org, and on our social media platforms.
In a few months, the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) will bid farewell to an innovative, valued, and dedicated member who is a true asset to the public housing community. After nearly 30 years in the affordable housing industry and 11 years at the Oakland Housing Authority (OHA), OHA Executive Director Eric Johnson announced his plan to retire at the end of 2019. Johnson's three decades of service to the affordable housing industry show his commitment to the individuals and families served by public housing authorities, as well as his enthusiasm for finding creative solutions to address the needs of low-income populations.
Johnson came to work in affordable housing from a completely different industry: Hollywood. In the 1980s Johnson worked as a location manager for various films, including Prizzi's Honor and Turner and Hooch, but he sought a more meaningful career path. Johnson decided to accept a job in housing and rent stabilization with the City of West Hollywood, and through this career change he developed his passion for increasing housing opportunities for those who need them most. After several years at the City of West Hollywood, in 1996 he joined the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) in their resident services department.
During his tenure at HACLA, Johnson fulfilled a variety of roles in several departments, including serving as the head of the housing authority's Housing Services Department, which included the property management, resident services, and capital improvements departments. He views his work under the Hope VI program in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood simultaneously as one of his greatest successes and challenges at HACLA – though the legal issues and negotiations with the community proved difficult and drawn-out, Johnson is proud of the project's result and the stakeholders' ability to find common ground in the end. He does regret that HACLA was unable to convince HUD at the time to build more units at increased density at the sites.
In 2008, Johnson accepted the role of deputy executive director at OHA, a move he also remembers being a significant career challenge because it was difficult for him to leave the Los Angeles communities he loved behind. However, upon moving to Oakland he quickly employed the negotiation skills he displayed during the Boyle Heights project in settling a legal battle between OHA and the City of Oakland. In the decade since, OHA's relationship with the City has vastly improved, a testament to Johnson's talents of bringing stakeholders together. Johnson demonstrated strong leadership in this deputy role, and in 2010 he was appointed OHA's executive director.
At OHA, Johnson has deftly leveraged the housing authority's Moving to Work (MTW) status to collaborate with local partners around the common goal of serving low-income individuals and families. Johnson is proud of the numerous programs developed under his tenure that link the housing authority's capacity and resident services with existing federal, state, and local programs and improve life outcomes for various populations of low-income Oaklanders. Using a data sharing agreement between OHA and the local school district, the housing authority has been playing a role in increasing school attendance and parent engagement for their youngest residents.
In 2015, Johnson helped bring a $2.7 million HUD Jobs Plus grant to OHA, funding the housing authority's successful jobs training and placement program. Another OHA program, in partnership with the Alameda County Social Services Agency, is using the foundation of the California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program to provide short-term housing assistance and Section 8 waitlist preference to families experiencing homelessness. Another program offers sponsor-based wraparound services to 125 families, including 25 foster youth exiting the juvenile justice system. Johnson says that without MTW flexibility, OHA programs like these that improve life outcomes for children, foster youth, families experiencing homelessness, and other populations needing targeted housing services would not be possible.
When asked about the public housing industry's greatest needs, Johnson stressed that housing authorities need to seek diverse sources of funding and become much less dependent on federal, state, and local monthly federal assistance payments. Another area of great need, and of opportunity, that Johnson sees is the development of workforce housing for households making 60 to 120 percent of Area Median Income (AMI). Johnson believes that housing authorities could do more to address the housing needs of people who do not qualify for traditional housing assistance, yet cannot afford market-rate housing. "If we want to be seen as a protected and valuable industry, we need to serve these people [in the middle]," says Johnson. He adds that by addressing the workforce housing population, the public housing industry can build more support from communities and elected officials.
Johnson was reluctant to position himself as an expert when asked if he had any advice for public housing professionals, but he observed that his experience moving between different skill sets and departments at HACLA, including resident services, development, and capital improvement, and becoming knowledgeable in as many areas as possible, helped him to understand the industry from several angles. He also emphasized the importance of always remembering who public housing authorities serve. "Affordable housing is not about the housing, it's about the people who live in the housing, and their life outcomes," he said. "Never forget this."
In OHA's press release announcing his retirement, Greg Hartwig, Chair of the housing authority's Board of Commissioners, praised Johnson's successful career at OHA and his passion for improving residents' life outcomes: "Eric has exceeded our highest expectations and has been a pleasure to work with… He has always kept the welfare of our residents and the need to expand our reach to serve even more people as his highest priority; adding new life-enhancing services for our residents and significant numbers of new affordable housing units. His leadership in mitigating the effects of the worst rent and housing crisis in Oakland history has been exceptional. In addition, Eric has positioned OHA for long term success in an era of uncertain government funding and has won both local and national recognition. He will be dearly missed by all of us."
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf also praised Johnson's leadership and unwavering focus on resident wellbeing: "Oakland city leaders have benefited immensely from Eric's leadership at the Housing Authority, and many more of our vulnerable residents and families enjoy a sense of housing security thanks to his personal mission to make federally funded programs work better for those who most rely on them. As a member of the city's Housing Cabinet, Eric approached his role with a refreshing blend of technical expertise and humanity. During the worst affordable housing crisis in a generation, Eric has created initiatives which serve as a model for the region, and consistently fought to break down silos in the human service sector that have historically kept communities from ending cycles of poverty. My colleagues and I will miss him dearly and wish him well in all his future endeavors."
When asked about his retirement plans, Johnson deadpanned that he would "float in the pool" at his house in Palm Springs. After three decades of exceptional, innovative service to the affordable housing industry and many years of engaged CLPHA membership, CLPHA wishes Johnson a happy and relaxed retirement.
Image captions (from top to bottom, left to right): Johnson with children at Lockwood Gardens "School's Out Block Party;" "Never give this man a mic" - Johnson addresses OHA Employees at their annual all-staff retreat; Ceasar Chavez Day at HACLA's old Aliso Village with Ethel Kennedy and the HOPE VI team; 2018 groundbreaking event for a VASH project-based Section 8 project currently under construction; With Congresswoman Barbara Lee and HUD Secretary Julian Castro after a meeting with Tech Industry Leaders to discuss the housing crisis in the Bay Area; With Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and others cutting the ribbon at the Grand Opening of OHA's new Parents And Children Together (PACT) site, expanding the number of units for this reunification/re-entry program
DATE: Tuesday, May 14, 2019
TIME: 1:30-3:00pm EST
REGISTER: Click here to register
QUESTIONS: firstname.lastname@example.com
The MTW Collaborative, which works on behalf of the current 39 Moving to Work (MTW) agencies, and the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) will be hosting a webinar on MTW specifically for larger-sized PHAs who are interested in applying to the program under Cohort 2, which will study rent reform policies.
During the webinar you will have the opportunity to engage with and learn from current MTW agencies with many years of valuable experience operating under MTW. These agencies are widely recognized as experts and innovators in their local communities and at the national level. Our panelists will focus on the advantages and benefits of MTW, potential challenges, the application process, and other important topics.
If you are a larger PHA who is considering applying to MTW under Cohort 2, we highly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about the program.
May 14, 2019, 1:30-3:00pm EST
Rick Gentry, CEO - San Diego Housing Commission
Michael Johnston, Executive Director - Cambridge Housing Authority
David Northern, CEO - Housing Authority of Champaign County
Contact Nicole Barrett, firstname.lastname@example.com
Executives and staff from the 39 public housing authorities that participate in the Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration program gathered in Washington, D.C., this week for the 2019 MTW Conference, Bringing Innovation Home. The meeting featured learning tracks focused on improving resident outcomes, improving the quality and quantity of affordable housing, peer-learning among executives, and opportunities for PHA executives who are new to MTW or considering whether to apply for the next cohort to learn more about the program and application process.
The conference kicked off with the launch of the MTW Collaborative, a new organization created to represent existing and future MTW PHAs and advocate for MTW. Hunter Kurtz, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, offered keynote remarks on the first day of the convening. "Affordable housing is not one-sized fits all...allowing local flexibility is key to providing additional affordable housing across the country," said Kurtz.
Panel sessions and roundtable discussions enabled practitioners at all levels to share innovative ideas, best practices, research findings, and practical guidance for using MTW flexibilities to meet residents' needs. Speakers covered: affordable housing accreditation, resident engagement and self-sufficiency, cross-sector collaborations, evaluations, staffing, housing mobility, intertwining MTW flexibility with the Rental Assistance Demonstration program, and more.
During the closing panel of the conference, CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman congratulated attendees on effectively implementing the full range of MTW flexibilities to best serve their residents. She also called on practitioners, the innovators in the field, to think about how their local solutions can be scaled up to support the whole public housing portfolio.
Conference materials are on the HAI Group website.
March 26, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
Public Housing Authorities eligible to apply to MTW Cohort 2 are invited to attend HUD's free webinar tomorrow at 3:00 PM ET.
On March 14, HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing released a notice offering eligible PHAs the opportunity to apply for admission to the MTW program, as the second cohort under the expansion process.
Following recommendations from the MTW Research Advisory Committee, the second cohort will be required to study alternative rent reform policies designed to increase resident self-sufficiency and reduce PHA administrative burdens. Per the notice, the second cohort will consist exclusively of mid/large sized agencies, with 1,001 units or more of combined public and HCV housing. The alternative rent policies will be limited to non-elderly, non-disabled households, so eligible agencies must have 1,000 or more existing non-elderly, non-disabled public housing and/or HCV households within their units.
HUD has provided the following dial-in information:
The conference begins at 3:00 PM Eastern Time on March 26, 2019; you may join the conference 10 minutes prior.
Step 1: Dial into the conference.
Dial-in: 1-877-369-5243 or 1-617-668-3633
Access Code: 0745060##
Need an international dial-in number?
Step 2: Join the conference on your computer.
Entry Link: http://ems8.intellor.com/login/813496
When you access the entry link above, you will be provided a choice - to install the WebEx plug-in for your preferred browser or to join the web conference using a temporary path. Either option is acceptable.
On March 14, HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing released a notice offering eligible PHAs the opportunity to apply for admission to the MTW program, as the second cohort under the expansion process.
Per the 2016 MTW Expansion statute, eligible PHAs must be high performing, meet certain size and selection requirements, and represent geographic diversity across the country. Additionally, the expansion of MTW includes a significant research and evaluation component. Housing agencies will be added to the MTW demonstration as part of a cohort, and each cohort will be directed to enact a specific policy change subject to evaluation by HUD. HUD has created a research advisory committee, including members of HUD, housing experts, and existing MTW agencies, to determine which policy changes will be enacted and evaluated.
Following recommendations from the MTW Research Advisory Committee, the second cohort will be required to study alternative rent reform policies designed to increase resident self-sufficiency and reduce PHA administrative burdens. Per the notice, the second cohort will consist exclusively of mid/large sized agencies, with 1,001 units or more of combined public and HCV housing. The alternative rent policies will be limited to non-elderly, non-disabled households, so eligible agencies must have 1,000 or more existing non-elderly, non-disabled public housing and/or HCV households within their units.
Per the notice, agencies will be able to select one of four proposed alternative rent policies listed below, including the option of creating their own policy:
- MTW Test Rent #1 – Tiered Rent (Income-Based): Households are grouped by income into tiers.
- MTW Test Rent #2 – Stepped Rent: 5% Step (Decoupled from Income): Rents are increased annually (or, in the HCV program, the participant contribution is increased) according to a fixed schedule of 5% of Fair Market Rent (FMR) by bedroom size.
- MTW Test Rent #3 – Stepped Rent: 3% Step (Decoupled from Income): Rents are increased annually (or, in the HCV program, the participant contribution is increased) according to a fixed schedule of 3% of Fair Market Rent (FMR) by bedroom size.
- MTW Test Rent #4 – PHA Proposed Alternative Tiered/Stepped Rent: PHAs may propose a tiered or stepped rent that is different from the three HUD test rent policies above.
Agencies interested in applying to the second cohort will be chosen through a two-step selection process that is outlined in the Notice. PHAs selected will be required to forgo the ability to utilize certain rent reform MTW waivers/activities outside of those within the scope of the evaluation, these waivers are listed in the Notice. Additionally, PHAs selected may not pursue RAD conversions to Project-Based Rental Assistance during the evaluation time period, but can still pursue Project-Based Voucher conversions.
Agencies who are interested in applying must submit a letter of interest by June 12, 2019. To view the full notice, click here.
Please contact MTW Program Manager Nicole Barrett at firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions.


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China is driving the electric car
"There is a powerful reason that automakers worldwide are speeding up their efforts to develop electric vehicles — and that reason is China." So begins the story by @KeithBradsher in today's New York Times. According to Bradsher, China feels it has little choice in pushing forward to an EV future. "While it is true that electric vehicles fit neatly into China's plan to become the world leader in sci-fi technology like artificial intelligence, the country also fears a dark future — one where its cities remain cloaked in smog and it is beholden to foreign countries to sell it the oil it needs."
China Hastens the World Toward an Electric-Car Future does not gloss over the many contradictions involved in the country's drive for automotive independence. Nearly three-quarters of China's power comes from coal, which emits more climate-changing gases than oil and, as Keith Bradsher puts it: "Even on electricity, China's cars are still burning dirty."
It's a long road, comrades, as the Great Driver
Helmsman would have said.


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"The last thing we needed here were more McMansions"
It's dawn at a small, tranquil lake in a wooded corner of northern Dutchess County — more of a pond, really, bordered only by a few houses on rustic plots. The water is still; the sky is bright with birdsong. In a small hut, mere steps from the shore, a white-haired man sits at a simple wooden table making watercolor sketches. Surrounding him on the walls of the hut are dozens of sketches he has done here on previous mornings — some geometric in feel, others more organic, several more inscribed with lines of poetry, like these from John Ashbery, on a sheet depicting the arc of the passage of the sun or some other celestial orb:
"The summer demands and takes away too much.
But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes."
Silently, the man paints. There is no phone or computer. Then he puts away his brushes, leaves the hut, and follows the path back up to his house, not far away. Later that morning, he will be sitting in his New York office a hundred miles south of the lake, supervising the design of buildings to be built or proposed on major sites on most of the world's continents. In the office are more watercolors — sheaves of them — along with architectural drawings and models. While exploring issues of form and composition with the curiosity of an artist's mind, many of the watercolors echo an inscription I found written in pencil on one of the raw plywood walls of the lakeside hut, when I was invited inside it, later that day: "The Zen sense of the alone"
That afternoon, in the woods across the road from the property leading down to the lake, I stepped out of a car with a friend and began a hike that almost instantly reestablished the strong connection to nature I formed when growing up in a small town nearby, in Ulster County. All was silence, except for the crunch of our footsteps on leafy groundcover and the echoes of birdcalls in the canopy of old-growth trees. In a way, the experience of hiking there produced the kind of aloneness that lets you feel you can encompass all of humanity — or should at least try harder to do so.
We were at the T2 Reserve, a rocky, 30-acre forested preserve in Rhinebeck, New York, which was recently created by architect Steven Holl, the man from the hut. After several minutes amidst the greenery my friend and I found ourselves delighted by the seductive way in which the path gently reveals itself in front of us, moment to moment. Not with the primal logic of an ancient Indian trail, insinuated centuries ago into the landscape's dips and rises, like so many other paths in upstate New York. Nor with the Cartesian clarity of a now-abandoned road that was carved out for motor vehicles in the 1920s, still discernible even after new greenery has encroached upon once-clear path. And certainly not with the elegant definitude of a Zen garden walkway, where, with elliptical grace, a string-wrapped stone on the ground might signal, "Not this way, that way." No, the directional signals to be found in the T2 Reserve reflect the esthetics governing Holl's architectural work in general: sophisticated but subtle and unpretentious, and all about the rich possibilities any of us can find in the simple experience of being alive — walking through the woods, looking at nature, breathing deeply, gratefully; thinking in a relaxed way about nothing and everything.
When I met Holl for the first time, a few days after my hike and peek into his hut, I was eager to tell him what a restorative experience it was for me to visit his preserve — and how much fun it was to discover the path forward.
"I made the path with my landscape designer," said Holl, whom Time magazine once called America's best architect. "It was a sculptural cut. We only needed to clear a few trees."
The land from which Holl created the preserve was once slated for subdivision into five suburban residential plots. Holl bought the land and turned it into what he calls an experimental topological landscape.
"The last thing we needed here were more McMansions," he said.
It was also a delight, I told him, to come upon the pieces of sculpture he had so cannily placed along the path — discoveries that seemed to draw power from the quiet magnificence of the setting: Chapel of Mosquitoes (2015) by José Oubrerie; SUSTAIN/VISIBILITY (2016) by Dimitra Tsachrelia, Eirini Tsachrelia, and Nicholas Karytinos (1987); and Cold Jacket (2016) by the architect himself, among others. Holl nodded when I said this, having designed this patch of land to express his belief in the close connection between nature and human creation. Also on site are the T2 Studio, an exhibition and working space for participants in Holl's fellowship program for students and young professionals, and a gem of a residential case study, Holl's Ex of In house, a 980-square-foot retreat for artists, visitors, and students, which is also now available (mainly through word-of-mouth in architecture and design circles) for Airbnb stays.
Visiting this place, it's impossible not to get a strong sense of the motivating energies — the hopes, beliefs, convictions — that imbue Holl's work with such humanity. His museums, galleries, libraries, performing arts centers, and other works are widely noted for gratifying both spirit and mind. "Architecture is bound to situation," he has written. "And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be."
Holl's T2 Reserve is an extension of a cultural project that he founded in 2007 called T Space, a minimalist "T"-shaped forest gallery whose purpose is "to unite the architecture, art, poetry, and music of our time." Holl told me that the impetus for the gallery, the reserve, and the site's other installations recall the curiosities and creativities that he was feeling even as a child, growing up in Bremerton, Washington. Then, he explained, he and his brother were building tree houses in their back yard and playing a game they called "Property," in which they were cutting little roads and making little villages in a bank of earth — a kind of real-life SimCity.
"We had a two houses up in the tree and a one-story cabin," said Holl. "Then, underground, we dug a hole and put logs over it and carpet, and put dirt on that, so it was a cave in the earth. And so we had what I call the four kinds of architecture: under the ground, in the ground, on the ground, and over the ground."
The house that Holl grew up in was largely hand-built by his father, he added — a man "who was a maker." By the time Holl entered architecture school, he was an admirer of great humanist philosopher-architects like Alvar Aalto and Louis Kahn — the latter whom hired Holl for his firm but died just before Holl would have begun working there.
When I asked Holl how the elements of his architecture conveyed this essentially human spirit, his smile broadened. This aspect of his work is clearly at the core of his professional drive. He spoke of form and scale, of course, but also of natural light.
"Light is enormously important in connecting us to the cycle of the seasons and times of the day — which for me brings a deep bodily connection to time. It's a spiritual thing. Sunrise is one of the most amazing times of the day. I'm always getting up before sunrise and working on my watercolors, almost like a religious exercise. Maybe it's my form or meditation. It puts me in a frame of reference that's really important to thinking and being."
Holl's lakeside hut is a small, wood-frame structure with large windows but no plumbing, heating, or insulation. The interior is noiseless but feels tacitly in harmony with surrounding nature — indeed, that is its chief function. Those eloquent, swiftly made watercolors that grace the wall inside represent a wealth of thought, observation, existential interrogation, and esthetic investigation. Unsurprisingly, Holl's working environment, an expansive office floor in New York's West 30s, is a correlative of this hut — only populated by the 40-some professionals of his busy architectural firm. In a former industrial building, towering windows admit a wash of light; an atmosphere of charged quiet prevails. In front of computer screens the firm's designers concentrate on projects ranging from a library in Malawi to a major expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Elsewhere in the office, 3D architectural studies and models are printed. In Holl's private office, some of the 30,000 watercolors he has made over the years are at hand, in folders and notebooks, many out and available for contemplation and inspiration. On a table sits the shell of a lighting fixture that the architect designed for his Ex of In house — a white, scalloped object that looks like it might have been modeled on the four chambers of the human heart.
The house started as an investigation of intersecting spheres within a more rigid grid, explained Holl. And, in fact, the T2 Reserve's Fellows Studio, just down the road from the Ex of In house itself, contains several small-scale models from which the house's final design grew: a series of boxoid toys riddled with bubble-like hollows, clearly resulting as much from inspired play as from calculated manipulation. As Holl describes it, "The Ex of In house explores a language of space, aimed at inner spatial energy strongly bound to the ecology of the place — questioning current clichés of architectural language and commercial practice."
Strolling down a forested country road and coming upon the Ex of In house — a decorous composition of geometry that barely contains its boisterous energy — is a thrill: Culture complementing Nature. And the public is invited to experience this for themselves. Past programming has featured poet Ann Lauterbach, artist Pat Steir, and musician Don Byron.
Entering Holl's world means more than embracing Nature with a capital N. It means giving yourself back to your own human nature apart from screens and media and a frame of mind often too distracted — actually, too constricting — to allow the deepest kind of breathing that human bodies are capable of.
Architects may be known for manipulating materials like stone, glass, and steel in the creation of structures we can successfully live and work in; and good architects inspire us, too. But the best architects, like Holl, also create places that help amplify not only cogitation and inspiration, but, indeed, respiration itself…
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Stephen Greco wrote the live shows Inside Risk: Shadows of Medellin and Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood. His most recent novel is Now and Yesterday published by Kensington.


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Notes: Sun is closely conjunct Ketu until Feb. 7th. This is not ideal for leaders, administrators and governments. Take care of your heart, stomach, blood, bones, and immune system. Watch for news about leaders and heart attacks.
In the SAMVA* chart for USA, (Perpetual Union — 5:00 p.m., Feb. 2, 1781, Philadelphia, PA) transit Rahu and Ketu are now stationary at 20 degrees – and afflict 6 of the 12 houses. This is NOT ideal for the country and suggests we may be in for serious challenges for the next 3 months. (On the day that Rahu and Ketu went stationary, the U.S. government shut down). *Systems' Approach to Mundane Astrology.
Sun transits Capricorn, from 18:12 to 25:18°. This connects governments with practical matters, including working-class persons, the elderly, immigration and agriculture. Sun is closely conjunct Ketu until Feb. 7th. This is not ideal for leaders, presidents, administrators and governments. In some cases, there may be violence, explosions or military intervention.
Moon is waning and transits Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra and into Scorpio.
Mars transits Scorpio, from 09:23 to 13:40°. Mars is outside the orb of influence of other planets, which should be helpful for the military, police, athletes, firefighters, executives and property matters.
Mercury transits Capricorn, from 06:58 to 18:28°. This connects business, technology and communications with practical matters. For most of the week Mercury is outside the orb of influence of other planets.
Last week's prediction: "Be careful with stocks…" (The Dow plunged 363 points on Tuesday, one of its worst days since the 2016 election — hours before President Trump's first State of the Union address.)
Jupiter transits Libra, from 27:10 to 27:50°. Jupiter is outside the orb of influence of other planets, but is weak in degrees until May 3rd. This may cause issues with law, education, children, husbands, and religion. (Deputy Director of the FBI retires early amid controversy.)
Jupiter represents law, religion, morality and education. Libra is ruled by Venus, representing women, sexuality, and the scales of justice. This combination supports the revelations and movements regarding the sexual harassment of women. This slow-moving 13-month transit of Jupiter in Libra should provide a long-lived transformation.
Jupiter remains in Libra until October 11, 2018. Taurus, Scorpio, and Pisces rising signs should be careful and patient as Jupiter is transiting their 6th, 8th, and 12th (inauspicious) houses, respectively, which undermines the strength of Jupiter.
Venus transits out of Capricorn and into Aquarius on Feb. 6th at 12:28 a.m. Venus is weak in degrees until Feb. 10th. Take care of the women in your life and be patient with romance, luxuries, entertainment and the fine, healing and performing arts. Be careful with transportation and weather conditions.
Saturn transits Sagittarius, from 10:45 to 11:26°. Saturn is outside the orb of influence of other planets. This should be helpful for working-class persons, the elderly, and immigration – as well as for agriculture, manufacturing, and the oil, gas, and minerals industries.
Saturn remains in Sagittarius until Jan. 2020. Taurus, Cancer and Capricorn rising sign persons, companies and countries (including USA) should be careful and patient as Saturn is transiting their 8th, 6th, and 12th (inauspicious) houses, respectively.
Rahu and Ketu transit Cancer and Capricorn, respectively, from 20:49 to 20:49°(exactly stationary). Rahu and Ketu remain in the 20-degree range until March 19th. This stationary position of Rahu and Ketu is generally NOT favorable worldwide. Those persons with 19 to 21° rising signs or with any planet(s) in the 19 to 21°range in even signs (Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn or Pisces — including the USA) should be especially careful and patient.
The Impact of the Transit Planets for each "Rising Sign":
Aries: Expect relief with partnerships and joint ventures – but take care of your children, education, and investments. Focus on research and ancient knowledge. A windfall or marriage may come your way, but you are also vulnerable through Feb. Be vigilant with authority figures at work.
Taurus: Expect relief with debts, disputes, legal and health issues. There may be progress with your children, education, investments and creative projects. Be patient, however, with property, vehicles and home life. Expenses, relocation, and separations remain likely through Feb.
Gemini: Lay low and exercise patience. Be vigilant with health, communications, authority figures, and entrepreneurial activities. These are vulnerable to setbacks. Income and friendships are subject to debts, disputes and health issues. Expect relief after the 12thof Feb.
Cancer: Expect some relief with property, vehicles and home life – but be vigilant to manage your status, family life, and relationships with authority figures. Consider joint ventures, and connect your career with education, children, investments, competition and creative projects.
Leo: Be vigilant with your health, finances, legal matters, communications and independent projects through Feb. 12th. Other people may take you the wrong way, leading to debts, disputes, and mental tension. Focus on property, vehicles and home life – these should do well through Feb.
Virgo: Expect relief with your status and family life, but be patient with short-lived losses, expenses, and separations — and issues abroad. Be careful with communications and independent projects. Focus on your children, education and investments through Feb. 14th.
Libra: Expect relief from personal setbacks. Gain from property, vehicles, fixed assets and home life. There may be money and status for you through marriage, partnerships, joint ventures and foreign lands. Focus entrepreneurial investments over the next 2 years.
Scorpio: Expect some relief from losses, expenses, separations and foreign ventures. Be vigilant, however, in the workplace to manage setbacks. Make executive decisions, but manage your health, debts, disputes and legal issues. Take care of family matters through mid-Oct.
Sagittarius: Expect relief with income and friendships, but be patient with setbacks and authority figures. There may be status with your professional life. Take care of your children, education and investments through Feb. These are vulnerable to expenses, relocation and separations.
Capricorn: Expect relief at work, but be careful to manage marriage, windfalls, and to avoid accidents. (Take the slow place of a royal elephant and don't mind a few stray barking dogs.) Get a haircut and buy new clothes, and consider a day spa. Expect property gains.
Aquarius: Expect general relief, but be vigilant to manage setbacks with marriage, partnerships, joint ventures and foreign lands. Make executive decisions and connect your career with property and independent entrepreneurial projects. Good fortune comes your way next week.
Pisces: Expect relief from recent setbacks, but continue to exercise patience to manage short-lived debts, disputes, health and legal issues. There may be gains from marriage, partnerships, and joint ventures – and from writing, business, brokering and communications.
About the Author: David Hawthorne
Planetary Transits for February 1 – February 7
Notes: Sun is closely conjunct Ketu until Feb. 7th. This is not ideal for leaders, administrators and governments. Take care of your heart, stomach, blood, bones, and immune system. Watch for news about leaders and heart attacks.


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No one enjoys waking up. That's no great discovery, it's common sense - sleep gives us what we all want - dreams come true. We're often too preoccupied with our crushed dreams to even zombie crawl our way through life.
Then why the hell would we ever want to wake up?
First off - don't ask yourself that. You start asking why you should wake up and people will start asking if you're okay and need to see a therapist. Which isn't that outlandish of an idea.
One way to avoid your debilitating entry into waking life is this - just wake up early.
Let's say you get to work at 10:00 am every day. All your friends may envy you for those extra hours of slumber, but you still find yourself slow and sloth-like. Why is that? You know for a fact that you're getting more sleep than that shit-eating-grin of a girl on the G train every morning. You don't want to be slurping shit, but you sure as hell want that grin, don't you?
Break the Routine.
The reason you're so tired all day is because of routine. Doesn't matter how early or how late you wake up, if you're caught in a daily routine you could be caught in a daily headache that'll never go away until you start changing a few habits.
You ever work out beside someone in a gym and watch them change up their muscle groups every few weeks? (let's pretend like I actually go the gym for this). It's called avoiding a plateau. If you're on a plateau, you're gonna be chilling there until the sun sets, chatting up all the garden gnomes about how much work you just did for nada. Muscle Memory is real, and it doesn't like redundancy. If your body is used to doing the same thing every day it'll get comfortable, it'll get lazy, and it'll get fat. Same logic applies to the brain.
Wake up two hours early.
Get yourself a cup of coffee and a little breakfast. No, scratch that. Don't just get it. Order it. Sit down and treat yourself to a small meal inside a diner. These places are built to get you fed and get you out before the next train arrives underground (most of my remedies involve food btw).
Order something you're not used to and throw a little sugar in your coffee. Suddenly you'll start to feel the rush of legal drugs! Your grueling morning will only be considered grueling by those few colleagues unfortunate enough to be in your wake.
That beautiful smile of yours will shine. Your eyes will sparkle. Every person in your office will be so angry with you, that they'll be incapable of simply asking how, or why you're so goddamn happy this morning.
The next day, if you feel good, do it again. If not - don't worry about it. One morning is enough. Your system is going to be jumpstarted into new gear and you'll find that every day following will be a touch easier.
That 10:00 am arrival time will actually feel like 10:00am again.
You may even be more creative.
Think about the idea that your brain is accustomed to sleeping for those two hours you chose to wake up early. Those gears are on a cycle and if they need to keep turning, they will. The juice that fuels your dreams will begin to fuel your morning and that smile will reach up into your eyes and through to your cerebral cortex until you're crying wet joy. See how creative that sentence was? I woke up early today.
One more benefit to waking up early is the possibility of leaving early.
If you get to work an hour or more before anyone else I bet you could argue that leaving an hour before anyone just makes sense. Doesn't it?
Well, I tried that. It doesn't work.


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This week's topic is another slightly controversial one, but has turned out to be a very common questions from listeners, so we thought we'd dedicate a whole episode to tackling how you as a leader, set the right boundaries on your work relationships.
The key questions here is, how do you strike the balance between maintaining professional distance, while establishing a trust based, caring relationship with your people? In this episode I'll answer this question by covering the following:
Outlining what type of relationships you should try and create (I'll give you some examples to demonstrate these points)
A classic insight from author Jeffrey J Fox on who you should spend most of your time focusing on, and why this can sometimes be problematic
The dynamic of a professional relationship when you're leading a friend, and the potential outcomes of this - some good points in here about unconscious concessions
What it looks like to be a friendly leader and some key points on how to create these friendly relationships without crossing the line
How to behave at work functions such as Christmas parties (which is very appropriate for this time of year!) when you're a leader - I'll give you some of my favourite rules of thumb that have worked for me for years
All of this doesn't mean having an 'in the office' relationship only - sometimes connecting outside of the office environment is important for a relationship, so I'll talk about when those times are
I'll then delve into romantic relationships in the workplace - so the ramifications if they go sour (I use a few high profile examples here that are quite interesting), the potential imbalance in power dynamic and what to watch out for if you do decide to date a co worker/boss/subordinate etc.
The free resource for this week is 'The Dos and Don't's of Appropriate Leader Relationships', which should really help you with drawing a line in the sand. You can download this resource below!
This episode is one to mull over in the coming days. When you first listen to it you may think, 'But I met my wife at work!', or 'I met some of my best friends at work!', and that's great, I'm not saying it doesn't work 10/10 times. What I'm doing in this episode, is showing you the boundaries, the ramifications of different decisions, and what are in my opinion, the best types of relationships to create if you want to be able to lead your team effectively.
As always, I'd love to know what you thought of this episode, so send me any of your feedback to email@example.com.
If you haven't rated or reviewed the podcast yet, please do it now! It helps us reach even more leaders who are potentially struggling with appropriate leader relationships!


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Kieran Kunhya, MD at Open Broadcast Systems predicts a more concerted move to IP studios, enabling broadcasters to properly maximise the benefits of IP. However, this will not be without challenges.
Despite proven benefits in remote production, live production and use of software-based architecture, broadcasters are choosing to merely dip their proverbial toes in IP, writes Kieran Kunhya, MD at Open Broadcast Systems, who urges a more vigorous move to IP workflows in studios.
IP has been greatly talked about for a number of years, but very few broadcasters are actually taking the leap to IP workflows in studios. Those that are, for the most part, are dipping their toes in the water with some mostly experimental workflows or productions, and they often have some sort of back-up in place.
As these experiments prove more and more reliable, we will begin to see a concerted move to IP studios, enabling broadcasters to properly maximise the benefits of IP. However, this will not be without challenges.
Remote production
Remote production is an interesting scenario for IP. Connectivity is now good enough to backhaul all traffic over an IP network to a studio. This saves the broadcaster vast amounts through not having to have teams of people on-site and all the associated costs.
Live production environment
The live production environment is still very much SDI-based. SDI provides only a single video feed down a single cable. The biggest challenge is the cables, you need lots of them! At the highest size, SDI routers are limited to 1,152×1,152 feeds; facilities routers are now filling up, with the current explosion of content.
The broadcast world is now learning from the much larger economies of scale in the networking world. 10GB Ethernet is now ubiquitous, and 100GB/s is now relatively affordable. This means broadcasters can build facilities that are usable and upgradable from day one, be it for more HD, 4K or even 8K. Given that technologies change at a fast pace, that easy scalability is absolutely key.
SMPTE 2022-6 is being used today as a bridge between the SDI and IP world in complex, multi-vendor facilities. It transports an SDI stream directly over IP, including legacy data such as the vertical blanking interval (VBI) and the cyclic redundancy check (CRC). For this reason, it is relatively inefficient in an IP world.
The industry is looking to SMPTE 2110 as the future. It carries video and audio separately without the legacy constraints described previously, and handles timing through precision time protocol (PTP). It is also suitable for higher resolution signals such as 4K and 8K.
Benefits of deploying software-based architecture
Although IP is becoming more widely deployed, there are very few broadcasters doing this using software. This seems a little surprising, as it means they are not making the most of what IP can deliver in terms of cost efficiency, flexibility and scalability.
Use of a pure software-based architecture increases flexibility. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) IT servers can have multifunction capabilities, running multiple processes such as high-density decoding and encoding in a single chassis.
There are numerous manufacturers offering SDI-based solutions around COTS IT equipment, and a few offering SMPTE 2022-6 and SMPTE 2110 solutions in pure software.
Many traditional hardware manufacturers are treating SMPTE 2110 as the nirvana of IP video, but software implementation is challenging. The SMPTE 2110 series is a complex set of documents with many different profiles. It is likely that the most common timing profile will be 2110-N, narrow gapped. This has very tight timing requirements of four packets (about 40us), which is complicated to achieve in software.
Furthermore, no products to measure compliance of the timing model currently exist. The gapped nature also means the VBI will remain, a long-outdated relic from the past. Unfortunately, all this means that legacy constraints will exist for decades and continue to reduce business agility in the broadcast industry.
It is likely that initial multi-vendor 2110 facilities will be challenging to implement, with some reverting to 2022-6 owing to the complexity. That said, the introduction of uncompressed IP and software into the broadcast environment will be the biggest transition in production since the transition from analogue to digital.


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How to Sell an Upside Down Car {Dealing With Negative Equity}
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Today we're talking all about negative equity and how to sell an upside down car. You probably found this post by searching for ways to cover the negative equity in your car. As a self-diagnosed free-spirited nerd, I have had a bad habit of trading in cars with negative equity for an "upgrade". What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result? Yeah, that's been me. I'm sure many of you can relate.
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Our Latest Upside Down Car Trade-In
My husband and I purchased a brand new vehicle years ago and decided awhile later, that, after financing $48,000 and $733 minimum monthly payment, we were done. We were done basically paying the equivalent of a house payment for a car. We already knew our credit scores, so we walked into our credit union. We sat down with our banker, and we explained our situation. I asked them, "Will you please pull the NADA value of my vehicle?" Being a former banker, I know that NADA is how the banks and credit unions determine how much money to loan on vehicles. They actually don't even use Kelley Blue Book. KBB is garbage, in my opinion. It's not an accurate valuation of a vehicle. If banks and credit unions are using KBB, then…I've worked at a few different banks, and none of them use KBB. So if they used it, I might feel differently about it. Car dealers tend to use KBB to their advantage when they're offering trade values for your vehicle. So let's say you walk into your bank. You talk to your banker. You say, "Ok…I'm upside down $5000."
If your local bank won't work with you, try Lending Tree. Their rates are low, depending on credit, but you can click here to see if they're a valid option. Just don't have the dealership run your credit. You lose all the power when they know your entire financial situation.
Now you know the value of your vehicle, and you're upside down $5000. If you've been looking at vehicles, and you have an idea of what you're looking for, talk to them about it at that time. Say you found a 2009 Buick Enclave, and it's $12,000, and it has 90,000 miles. They can plug that into NADA Retail or NADAguides.com and give you a retail value on that as well. And sometimes the bank or credit union will loan 125% of the retail value. So that's good to know going forward because if you are upside down, sometimes you can get a little bit of that negative equity squeezed in there. But I would always recommend gap insurance in that instance…always.
Your insurance company likely offers gap insurance for significantly cheaper than the car dealer. Do not purchase gap insurance from the car dealership. Purchase gap insurance through your insurance company. And you will save hundreds of dollars.
How to Sell an Upside Down Car When You Have Negative Equity
You need to know your credit score before you get started. You can find out your FICO score here. So you'll talk to your bank to weigh some options. The next place that I would go after having talked to your bank, when you have an idea of how much money you're gonna have to come out of pocket, is to Carmax. They'll give me a valuation offer for it. So Carmax will offer to purchase your vehicle at a set amount. It's no b.s. It's no-haggle. It takes about 45 minutes for them to value your car, and you can leave there with a sheet of paper that says they will buy your car for X amount of dollars within 7 days.
So you want to make sure you're at the end of your decision-making process before you do that. But take that piece of paper…fold it up, put it in your purse, and now you're gonna drive to the car dealership where you were looking at a vehicle. And you want to not give away too much information about what you are looking to do.
How to Deal with Car Salesmen when Selling an Upside Down Car
Walk in there and ask to test drive a specific vehicle. They will ask you if you have a car to trade. Don't tell them that you have a trade yet. Don't lie to them, but say, "You know? I'm not sure what we're going to do yet." So go in, test drive the vehicle. See how you like it. And make sure you've got your pre-approval from your bank as well. Knowing your credit score will help you get the best rate. Then you can sit down with them and explain to them that you want to negotiate a price for that vehicle. Try to negotiate a price for the purchase of the vehicle without your trade included at first.
Car dealers will hate on me for this, but that's what we have to do. We have to protect ourselves as consumers. So see if they'll negotiate a price for you and then if they are really persistent about if you are going to be trading your vehicle or if you feel weird about not telling them then just let them know. Also, let them know that you did get a valuation at CarMax, but you're waiting to see what their offer is going to be. Don't share the offer from Carmax just yet. You're going to get an offer. They'll write down some numbers, and they'll want you to sign something committing to purchasing the vehicle. They might ask you to initial the paper.
Don't do that. Ask if you can test drive the vehicle overnight while you think about it. Take the car and go to a competing dealership with the car. With the other dealership's vehicle, and tell them that you're looking at this car, but do they have anything similar? And sit down and do the exact same process with that other dealer. If you have to do this at several different dealers that day, do it and then take the car back and go back and forth between the dealers. I know it sounds like a lot of work, but I can promise you that you will get a better deal.
More Money for Your Trade
I actually was able to get $500 more than what Carmax had offered me, but, strangely enough, the Honda dealership that I purchased my vehicle from (brand new) was offering me $2000 less than Carmax, and they said, "Oh! We want your vehicle!" Because we bought it brand new at that dealership. It was 2 years old. And it had been serviced faithfully, so they could put it as a certified pre-owned vehicle on their lot for about $4000 or $5000 more than what they were offering me. So I walked away from that dealership. We'll never do business with them again.
I hope that these tips have helped you a little bit to understand how to sell an upside down car. Obviously, you'll need some cash. I would never recommend using credit cards to offset negative equity…not even the 0% credit cards because …it's just not a good idea. You can tell yourself that you'll pay off the balance within the promotional period, but it's just too risky. Unsecured loans are really hard to get unless you have A+ credit, and the interest rate is usually very high on these types of loans due to risk.
The Best Budget "Dave Cars" with 3rd Row Seating
If you're thinking of selling an upside down car but are worried about finding a reliable vehicle big enough for your family's needs, here is a list of options with third-row seating for larger families. You can also search for AWD options if you live in snowy areas.
- Buick Enclave
- Chevrolet Traverse
- Dodge Durango
- Ford Explorer
- Mazda CX9
- Toyota Highlander
These are all midsize SUV's with third-row seating available. We owned a Buick Enclave and loved it! It was a 2009, and with leather, heated seats, a backup camera, Sirius XM radio, and AWD, it met my family's needs at a price of just $10,000. If you can find a good, used vehicle with a lifetime warranty at a dealership (at no additional cost), this is the route you want to go for your "Dave" car.
So to recap: talk to your bank about your options. Go to a Carmax. Get your valuation. Use your valuation as leverage, and just keep that nugget of knowledge for you as fuel with the other dealers so that you can get the best deal when you're trading out of a more expensive vehicle. Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube channel. Let me know if you have questions or comments! I hope this helps you understand a bit more about how to sell an upside down car!
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Red Devils upset Cavaliers in playoffs
By JOCELYN SHEETS
Register Sports Editor
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Allen County Community College's Christian Rodrigues (23) battles with two Johnson County Community College players in an early season game here between the teams. The Cavaliers won that game 3-2 but Tuesday in the Region VI playoffs, the Red Devils upset the No. 1 seeded Johnson County, 3-1.
OVERLAND PARK — They did it again.
Allen County Community College's men have knocked off a higher seed in the first round of the Region VI soccer playoffs. And for the second year in a row, the upset victim was Johnson County Community College.
Johnson County was the No. 1 seed in this year's Region VI tournament at 13-5-1. Allen County was No. 8 seeded at 7-8-2. The two teams had played a close regular season soccer game here in Iola Sept. 15. Johnson County won 3-2.
Payback is tough. Allen County sent the Cavaliers packing Tuesday. The Red Devils scored the upset win, 3-1, on the JCCC field.
"We just really play well in the playoffs," said Doug Desmarteau, ACCC soccer coach. "Our conference was tight this year. Fourth through ninth place were decided on the final day of play."
Allen County reaches the Region VI Final Four for the fourth straight year. Three of those years were first-round wins over Johnson County.
The Red Devils (8-8-2) move into the regional semifinals to play fourth-seeded Cloud County (11-7-2) at 4 p.m. Saturday. The semifinal games and the champion game are played at Hummer Park in Topeka.
In the other semifinal are ninth-ranked Barton County and 12th-ranked Garden City. That game is at 6:30 p.m.
The championship game is at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
On Tuesday, the Red Devils held a 1-0 halftime lead. The goal was scored by Christian Rodriguez on an assist from Zack Doolan.
With 20 minutes remaining in the game, Tyler Hageman made a crossing shot that hit a Johnson County defender and bounced into the net. Johnson County came back and made it 2-1.
Lehi Ortega added an insurance goal for the Red Devils with eight minutes on the clock.
Zack Hanks was in goal for the Red Devils. He made 15 saves in the game.
The ACCC men defeated Coffeyville 2-0 in their final regular season game Oct. 21. The ACCC women lost to Coffeyville 3-0 to finish 4-7 in Jayhawk Conference and 4-13 overall.


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Determine (DTRM) Misses Q2 EPS by 7c
Determine (NASDAQ: DTRM) reported Q2 EPS of ($0.17), $0.07 worse than the analyst estimate of ($0.10). Revenue for the quarter came in at $6.58 million versus the consensus estimate of $6.56 million.
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Michael Chandler and Brian Eno
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
The dimly lit gallery which housed the Michael Chandler/Brian Eno installation transported its visitors to a quiet contemplative otherworld. Eno's ambient sound recordings permeated the gallery, setting not only the tone of the piece but the modus operandi as well. After an early, successful career as a rock musician, producing work which incorporated John Cage-inspired methodology and Dadaist poetics, Eno abandoned lyrics completely, choosing instead to work in an ambient mode which, itself compositionally ambiguous, offers no clear foreground or background. Walking through this installation, one was apt to forget the music; it was at once geospheric and atmospheric. One didn't listen to it; one entered it.
Eno's compositions layer track over track, not quite erasing the one before. Chandler's paintings are similarly constructed. Each of these small, sculptural works suggests a mysterious
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M.E.M.O. aka Anselmo Alarcon from Spain is opening the series for a new Mobilee season.
M.E.M.O. "Tai Tai" EP
Mobilee Records
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What Drives You?
Philippians 3:12-14
12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Sermon Notes:
1. Humans tend to be motivated by __________________________
2. Paul was driven by one __________________________
3. The church is focused on our __________________
4. The important question: What is your _____________________?
Scripture taken from the New King James Version ®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.


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