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Images from my rooftop in Bushwick, a walk along the highline, and an arvo stroll in Central park.
Visuals from a East Coast Tassie roadtrip.
And just like that, over a 6 pack of coopers on the back deck of his Wooloweyah home one nice afternoon - Loz gave a rare insight into his life as a family man, who works a regular job for a living and loves his family, surfing, and the area he calls home - more now than ever.
I take a lot of photos when I travel - And they more often than not end up on a hard drive never to be seen again, apart from the occasional instagram flashback post. Every busy filmer or photographer knows about 'the vault' - that place where images and videos more often than not go to die.


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Imagine you've recently had abdominal surgery. A few days after the surgery, you develop a pain in the site of the surgery. This is followed by signs of infection. You go to the doctor and an X-ray reveals a piece of metal in your abdomen which is exactly the size and shape of a surgical scalpel. More than likely, your malpractice suit will be based upon the legal premise of "res ipsa loquitur." The presence of a metal, scalpel shaped object in your abdomen speaks for itself and to how it got there.
I have played with this analogy off and on for several years. The condition of the church speaks for itself. The cause of whatever "infection" that is afflicting and weakening many of our bodies, is within us. Like many clergy, I've done my share of blaming realities outside of the church building. I've belly-ached about sports leagues on Sunday morning, the explosion of child and youth activities, and the overall dismissive tone the "world" and the "media" use in describing organized religion in general and the Christian faith specifically. But, though true, are these factors really the cause of our dis-ease and decline?
To go back to the analogy of a medical lawsuit, many of us (I include myself) not only suffer from some spiritual infection that tends to weaken us and make us susceptible to a plethora of other spiritual conditions which only hasten this weakening, but also we are the ones who performed the surgery! Our own lack of spiritual purpose and increasing unwillingness to address the reality of our dis-ease are, themselves, the cause. Res ipsa loquitur.
My wife is also an ordained clergy in the United Methodist Church and experiences this dis-ease as well. She is also quick to add that she hates blogs, articles, sermons and speeches like this one because all it does is describe the dis-ease, it doesn't offer any solution.
In an effort to keep things relatively quiet on the homefront, I do have some modest suggestions which, I believe, may heal our self-inflicted infections.
1. We need to rediscover the wonder of bending over and seeing an empty tomb. If the contemporary church was a journalist, it would be fired for "burying the lead." We find it easier to tell stories about ourselves, our structures, our activities, our programs, our positions and our traditions than it is to talk about the story which gives purpose to all we do. The stories we tell shape us. If our story is mostly about us, then we shouldn't be surprised that most folks outside our churches think we only care about ourselves. Can we tell a story in which we aren't the main character but Christ is?
2. We need to quit worshiping the scalpel which we have planted in ourselves. Many church consultants will tell you that even when told a certain congregational tradition or behavior is off-putting to some members and most visitors, they will continue to do them because they are "sacred traditions." Though the scalpel was necessary at one point to do the surgery, there is a point where it is no longer needed and its presence causes more harm than good. Can you say, "Let's have all the visitors stand up and tell us about yourself while we slam this glow-in-the-dark ribbon on your chest identifying you as a VISITOR!" I admit, that was an easy one. But there are others: "We're a hugging church!" (usually said after an unwelcomed hug), or keeping the front doors locked because everyone knows we use the side door on Sundays, or making visitors and newer members wait for a bulletin or assistance because we're a friendly church whose ushers and long-time members speak in closed huddles until the service begins. Are we able to name and address the causes of our dis-ease?
3. We need to move away from all forms of rhetoric, leadership or structure which equate being a disciple with being a customer. Clergy and denominational leaders have become so fearful of losing more "customers," that many churches operate out of a customer satisfaction mode and mindset. Can you do that and still faithfully proclaim the message of One who calls us to "take up our cross and follow?" Our call to discipleship is a call to serve, not be served. Ironically, obsession with customer satisfaction has led us to lower expectations and demands and instilled a certain level of distrust of an entity whose founder expected servanthood and self-denial but whose current management seeks success and self-fulfillment. Such a mindset has, according to Stanley Hauerwas, reduced the office of clergy to a "quivering mass of availability" (sorry, I do not have a direct source on this, but have heard Bishop Willimon quote him on several occasions).
If you have other suggestions that address this dis-ease, I'd love to hear from you.
Great blog. Things are fine on the homefront.
Good insights, Jon. Some would question whether or not healing of the dis-ease can truly come from within the church. Even now a new young adult generation is serving its indictment on Church as irrelevant to their world. We in the Church are beginning to see the need for change but we still don't know how to do it. During such times of angst it is always good to refocus on the most important thing: new life is always possible thanks to the resurrection of Christ, and to stay focused more than a Sunday morning.


In April 2015 the Wedding Reception of Andy and Lynda took place in their local sports hall. We erected a 12m marquee framework in the hall, then lined the frame. For their marquee interior they chose a purple and ivory theme which was beautiful, and the new carpeting in the dining part of the structure completed the look. These photos show the design and installation of the wedding marquee and the transformation.


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16th February 2018 by Jane Maciver
Tutor Policy Update February 2018
New Secretary of State for Education
2018 began with a British Government Cabinet reshuffle and the appointing of a new Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds. He is the former chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility and has worked hard on bringing social mobility to the fore since becoming an MP in 2010. In his initial address to the staff at the Department for Education he spoke about social mobility, life chances and the need for England's education system to be "internationally competitive". At Action Tutoring, we are pleased to see another Secretary of State for Education who is (at least verbally) prioritising the future of education for disadvantaged young people and we are looking forward to the positive changes he will introduce.
Justine Greening, the previous Secretary of State for Education resigned from the cabinet after turning down the position of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. She had held the position for the last eighteen months and will be stepping down to continue championing social mobility. During her time as Secretary of State for Education, her main areas of focus included Free Schools, Grammar Schools (pre June 2017 election), changing the school funding formula and championing social mobility. This final area of work, social mobility, appears to be what she is most passionate about; stating that it mattered to her more than her ministerial career. It appears she still shares our vision for a society in which the circumstances we are born into do not predict our chances of success in life: "I'll continue to work outside of government to do everything I can to create a country for the first time that has equality of opportunity for young people wherever they are growing up.
Changes to Free School Meals
You may have seen the headlines at the end of last year concerning the changes to Free School Meals. The Government is proposing changes as part of the rollout of Universal Credit, the new benefit intended to simplify the welfare system and make it easier for people to move into work. Until now, all children from families on Universal Credit have been able to receive free school meals. But under the new proposals, only families earning less than £7,400 a year would be eligible. If a parent takes on additional work that pushes the family income only slightly over this threshold, they will be worse off financially as they will no longer be eligible for free school meals, worth around £400 a year per child. This risks putting off families from taking on extra work. By introducing an income threshold, the Government is undermining the fundamental principle of Universal Credit to 'make work pay'. At Action Tutoring we're hoping to see more support for struggling families and giving young people access to nutritious meals that help them concentrate in class.
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Study Shows Lyme/MSIDS Patients Infected With Many Pathogens and Explains Why We Are So Sick
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-34393-9?fbclid=IwAR3k-zPy2rJu8OuFl3HHqJ0twLPJvQrxiIUALUs0T-BuuJ50_1VQVwcflIQ (Please see comment at end of article)
Evaluating polymicrobial immune responses in patients suffering from tick-borne diseases
Kunal Garg, Leena Meriläinen, Ole Franz, Heidi Pirttinen, Marco Quevedo-Diaz, Stephen Croucher & Leona Gilbert
Scientific Reportsvolume 8, Article number: 15932 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34393-9
There is insufficient evidence to support screening of various tick-borne diseases (TBD) related microbes alongside Borrelia in patients suffering from TBD. To evaluate the involvement of multiple microbial immune responses in patients experiencing TBD we utilized enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Four hundred and thirty-two human serum samples organized into seven categories followed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention two-tier Lyme disease (LD) diagnosis guidelines and Infectious Disease Society of America guidelines for post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome. All patient categories were tested for their immunoglobulin M (IgM) and G (IgG) responses against 20 microbes associated with TBD. Our findings recognize that microbial infections in patients suffering from TBDs do not follow the one microbe, one disease Germ Theory as 65% of the TBD patients produce immune responses to various microbes. We have established a causal association between TBD patients and TBD associated co-infections and essential opportunistic microbes following Bradford Hill's criteria. This study indicated an 85% probability that a randomly selected TBD patient will respond to Borrelia and other related TBD microbes rather than to Borrelia alone.
A paradigm shift is required in current healthcare policies to diagnose TBD so that patients can get tested and treated even for opportunistic infections.
Please see link for full article. Snippets below:
Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) have become a global public health challenge and will affect over 35% of the global population by 20501. The most common tick-borne bacteria are from the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) group. However, ticks can also transmit co-infections like Babesia spp.2, Bartonella spp.3, Brucella spp.4,5,6,7,8, Ehrlichia spp.9, Rickettsia spp.10,11, and tick-borne encephalitis virus12,13,14. In Europe and North America, 4–60% of patients with Lyme disease (LD) were co-infected with Babesia, Anaplasma, or Rickettsia11,15,16. Evidence from mouse and human studies indicate that pathogenesis by various tick-borne associated microbes15,16,17 may cause immune dysfunction and alter, enhance the severity, or suppress the course of infection due to the increased microbial burden18,19,20,21,22. As a consequence of extensive exposure to tick-borne infections15,16,17, patients may develop a weakened immune system22,23, and present evidence of opportunistic infections such as Chlamydia spp.24,25,26,27, Coxsackievirus28, Cytomegalovirus29, Epstein-Barr virus27,29, Human parvovirus B1924, and Mycoplasma spp.30,31. In addition to tick-borne co-infections and non-tick-borne opportunistic infections, pleomorphic Borrelia persistent forms may induce distinct immune responses in patients by having different antigenic properties compared to typical spirochetes32,33,34,35. Nonetheless, current LD diagnostic tools do not include Borrelia persistent forms, tick-borne co-infections, and non-tick-borne opportunistic infections.
The two-tier guidelines36,37,38 for diagnosing LD by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been challenged due to the omission of co-infections and non-tick-borne opportunistic infections crucial for comprehensive diagnosis and treatment39,40. Emerging diagnostic solutions have demonstrated the usefulness of multiplex assays to test for LD and tick-borne co-infections41,42. However, these new technologies do not address seroprevalence of non-tick-borne opportunistic infections in patients suffering from TBD and they are limited to certain co-infections41,42. Non-tick-borne opportunistic microbes can manifest an array of symptoms24,29 concerning the heart, kidney, musculoskeletal, and the central nervous system as seen in patients with Lyme related carditis43, nephritis44, arthritis45, and neuropathy46, respectively. Therefore, Chlamydia spp., Coxsackievirus, Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, Human parvovirus B19, Mycoplasma spp., and other non-tick-borne opportunistic microbes play an important role in the differential diagnosis of LD24,29. As the current knowledge regarding non-tick-borne opportunistic microbes is limited to their use in differential diagnosis of LD, it is unclear if LD patients can present both tick-borne co-infections and non-tick-borne opportunistic infections simultaneously.
For the first time, we evaluate the involvement of Borrelia spirochetes, Borrelia persistent forms, tick-borne co-infections, and non-tick-borne opportunistic microbes together in patients suffering from different stages of TBD. To highlight the need for multiplex TBD assays in clinical laboratories, we utilized the Bradford Hill's causal inference criteria47 to elucidate the likelihood and plausibility of TBD patients responding to multiple microbes rather than one microbe. The goal of this study is to advocate screening for various TBD microbes including non-tick-borne opportunistic microbes to decrease the rate of misdiagnosed or undiagnosed48 cases thereby increasing the health-related quality of life for the patients39, and ultimately influencing new treatment protocol for TBDs.
Positive IgM and IgG responses by CDC defined acute, CDC late, CDC negative, PTLDS immunocompromised, and unspecific patients to 20 microbes associated with TBD (Fig. 1) were utilized to evaluate polymicrobial infections (Figs 2–4). Patient categories included CDC acute (n = 43), CDC late (n = 43), CDC negative (n = 46), PTLDS (n = 31), immunocompromised (n = 61), unspecific (n = 31), and healthy (n = 177).
Polymicrobial infections are present at all stages of tick-borne diseases.
Microbes include Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, Borrelia afzelii, Borrelia garinii, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto persistent form, Borrelia afzelii persistent form, Borrelia garinii persistent form, Babesia microti, Bartonella henselae, Brucella abortus, Ehrlichia chaffeensis, Rickettsia akari, Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), Chlamydia pneumoniae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16), Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycoplasma fermentans, and Human parvovirus B19 (HB19V).
In Fig. 2A, 51% and 65% of patients had IgM and IgG responses to more than one microbe, whereas 9% and 16% of patients had IgM and IgG responses to only one microbe, respectively. Immune responses to Borrelia persistent forms (all three species) for IgM and IgG were 5–10% higher compared to Borrelia spirochetes in all three species (Fig. 2B). Interestingly, the probability that a randomly selected patient will respond to Borrelia persistent forms rather than the Borrelia spirochetes (Fig. S2) is 80% (d = 1.2) for IgM and 68% for IgG (d = 0.7). Figure 2A and B indicated that IgM and IgG responses by patients from different stages of TBDs are not limited to only Borrelia spirochetes.
In Fig. 3 sub-inlets, more than 50% of the patients reacted to only the individual Borrelia strains suggesting that Borrelia antigens are not cross-reactive. If patients were cross-reacting among antigens, a larger percentage of the patients would be seen with the combination of all three species (Fig. S2). These results provide evidence to suggest that the inclusion of different Borrelia species and their morphologies in current LD diagnostic tools will improve its efficiency.
The study outcome indicated that polymicrobial infections existed at all stages of TBD with IgM and IgG responses to several microbes (Fig. 2). Results presented in this study propose that infections in patients suffering from TBDs do not obey the one microbe one disease Germ Theory. Based on these results and substantial literature11,15,16,17,27,49,50,51 on polymicrobial infections in TBD patients, we examined the probability of a causal relationship between TBD patients and polymicrobial infections following Hill's nine criteria47.
An average effect size of d = 1.5 for IgM and IgG (Fig. 4A) responses is considered very large52. According to common language effect size statistics53, d = 1.5 indicates 85% probability that a randomly selected patient will respond to Borrelia and other TBD microbes rather than to only Borrelia. Reports from countries such as Australia27, Germany49, Netherlands11, Sweden50, the United Kingdom51, the USA15,16, and others indicate that 4% to 60% of patients suffer from LD and other microbes such as Babesia microti and human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA). However, previous findings11,15,16,27,49,50,51 are limited to co-infections (i.e., Babesia, Bartonella, Ehrlichia, or Rickettsia species) in patients experiencing a particular stage of LD (such as Erythema migrans). In contrast, a broader spectrum of persistent, co-infections, and opportunistic infections associated with diverse stages of TBD patients have been demonstrated in this study (Fig. 2). From a clinical standpoint, the likelihood for IgM and IgG immune responses by TBD patients to the Borrelia spirochetes versus the Borrelia persistent forms, and responses to just Borrelia versus Borrelia with many other TBD microbes has been quantified for the first time (Fig. S2).
Borrelia pathogenesis could predispose individuals to polymicrobial infections because it can suppress, subvert, or modulate the host's immune system18,19,20,21,22 to create a niche for colonization by other microbes54. Evidence in animals55 and humans11,15,16,27,49,50,51 frequently indicate co-existence of Borrelia with other TBD associated infections. Interestingly, IgM and IgG immune levels by patients to multiple forms of Borrelia resulted in immune responses to 14 other TBD microbes (Fig. 4B). In contrast, patient responses to either form of Borrelia (spirochetes or persistent forms) resulted in reactions to an average of 8 other TBD microbes (Fig. 4B). Reaction to two forms of Borrelia reflected an increase in disease severity indicating biological gradient for causation as required by Hill's criteria47.
Multiple microbial infections in TBD patients seem plausible because ticks can carry more than eight different microbes depending on tick species and geography56,57. Moreover, Qiu and colleagues reported the presence of at least 18 bacterial genera shared among three different tick species and up to 127 bacterial genera in Ixodes persulcatus58. Interestingly, research indicates Chlamydia-like organism in Ixodes ricinus ticks and human skin59 that may explain immune responses to Chlamydia spp., seen in this study (Fig. 2). Additionally, prevalence of TBD associated co-infections such as B. abortus, E. chaffeensis, and opportunistic microbes such as C. pneumoniae, C. trachomatis, Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, and M. pneumoniae have been recorded in the general population of Europe and the USA (Table S2). However, true incidence of these microbes is likely to be higher considering underreporting due to asymptomatic infections and differences in diagnostic practices and surveillance systems across Europe and in the USA. More importantly, clinical evidence for multiple microbes has been reported in humans11,15,16,27,49,50,51, and livestock55 to mention the least. Our findings regarding the presence of polymicrobial infections at all stages of TBD further supports the causal relationship between TBD patients and polymicrobial infections (Fig. 2). Various microbial infections in TBD patients have been linked to the reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and increased disease severity39.
An association between multiple infections and TBD patients relates well to other diseases such as periodontal, and respiratory tract diseases. Oral cavities may contain viruses and 500 different bacterial species60. Our findings demonstrate that TBD patients may suffer from multiple bacterial and viral infections (Fig. 4). In respiratory tract diseases, influenza virus can stimulate immunosuppression and predispose patients to bacterial infections causing an increase in disease severity61. Likewise, Borrelia can induce immunosuppression that may predispose patients to other microbial infections causing an increase in disease severity.
Traditionally, positive IgM immune reaction implies an acute infection, and IgG response portrays a dissemination, persistent or memory immunity due to past infections. Depending on when TBD patients seek medical advice, the level of anti-Borrelia antibodies can greatly vary as an Erythema migrans (EM) develops and may present with IgM, IgG, collective IgM/IgG, or IgA62. This study recommends both IgM and IgG in diagnosing TBD (Figs 5 and S4–S6) as unconventional antibody profiles have been portrayed in TBD patients. Presence of long-term IgM and IgG antibodies have been reported in LD patients that were tested by the CDC two-tier system. In 2001, Kalish and colleagues reported anti-Borrelia IgM or IgG persistence in patients that suffered from LD 10–20 years ago63. Similarly, Hilton and co-workers recorded persistent anti-Borrelia IgM response in 97% of late LD patients that were considered cured following an antibiotic treatment64.
Similar events of persistent IgM and IgG antibody reactions were demonstrated in patients treated for Borrelia arthritis and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans65, chronic cutaneous borreliosis66, and Lyme neuroborreliosis67. A clear phenomenon of immune dysfunction is occurring, which might account for the disparities in LD patient's antibody profiles and persistence. Borrelia suppresses the immune system by inhibition of antigen-induced lymphocyte proliferation18, reducing Langerhans cells by downregulation of major histocompatibility complex class II molecules on these cells19, stimulating the production of interleukin-10 and anti-inflammatory immunosuppressive cytokine20, and causing disparity in regulation and secretion of cytokines21. Other studies have demonstrated low production or subversion of specific anti-Borrelia antibodies in patients with immune deficiency status22.
In the USA alone, the economic healthcare burden for patients suffering from LD and ongoing symptoms is estimated to be $1.3 billion per year69. Additionally, 83% of all TBD diagnostic tests performed by the commercial laboratories in the USA accounted for only LD70. Globally, the commercial laboratories' ability to diagnose LD has increased by merely 4% (weighted mean for ELISA sensitivity 62.3%) in the last 20 years71. This study provides evidence regarding polymicrobial infections in patients suffering from different stages of TBDs. Literature analyses and results from this study followed Hill's criteria indicating a causal association between TBD patients and polymicrobial infections. Also, the study outcomes indicate that patients may not adhere to traditional IgM and IgG responses.
For the first time, Garg et al. show a 85% probability for multiple infections including not only tick-borne pathogens but also opportunistic microbes such as EBV and other viruses.
I'm thankful they included Bartonella as that one is often omitted but definitely a player. I'm also thankful for the mention of viruses as they too are in the mix. The mention of the persister form must be recognized as well as many out there deny its existence.
Key Quote: "Our findings recognize that microbial infections in patients suffering from TBDs do not follow the one microbe, one disease Germ Theory as 65% of the TBD patients produce immune responses to various microbes."
But there is another important point.
According to this review, 83% of all commercial tests focus only on Lyme (borrelia), despite the fact we are infected with more than one microbe. The review also states it takes 11 different visits to 11 different doctors, utilizing 11 different tests to be properly diagnosed. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20181101/Tick-borne-disease-is-multiple-microbial-in-nature.aspx?
This is huge. Please spread the word.
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Q: Angular 7 httpClient.post subscribe data is not accessible in the angular template Tech: Angular 7
I am trying to subscribe to httpClient.post and in the subscribe I am assigning the response to my local model and that local model is being used in the Angular HTML template to display the server response values
In the HTML template the model attributes are empty and are not displaying the assigned server response after subscribe.
However, in the console inside the subscribe I am able to print the model values
My code snippet for controller:
constructor(private httpClient:HttpClient){
this.mymodel = new MyModel();
}

onSubmit() {
this.submitted = true;
// this.mymodel.success  = false; //this.mymodel is my model object
if (this.form.invalid) { //reactive form
  return;
} else {
 const result: model= Object.assign({}, this.form.value);
this.httpClient.post<MyModel>('http://myservice/url/api', result)
.subscribe(
  response => {  this.mymodel = response;
  console.log(this.mymodel.firstname) //this is printing the server response value
  }
  );
}

}
My code snippet for template (HTML):

{{mymodel.firstname}}

{{mymodel.lastname}}

Note: The same code is working perfectly in Angular 5.
What am I doing wrong here, what is the missing in my code. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Note: Edited, previously I didn't added {{ in the template.

A: Change it to :

{{mymodel?.firstName}}

{{mymodel?.lastName}}

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*You are not binding the values to what's declared in your  TS part

*Check your model , whether it is firstname or firstName, could not be both.

*Separe your services from components, create other injectable classes (services = classes with @Injectable()) and inject them in your components WHERE you should subscribe on them once inner methods are called.

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Uuugh... We wish we were little kids so that we could ride one of these vintage wooden horses. And rocking on it while dreaming about golden unicorns. How lovely is it to be a baby.
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What do you get when you combine Dave Dobbyn and a popular Australian ice cream? A mildly witty name for a beer... a beer that's all about pineapple, creamy vanilla and lime - and that's the bottom lime - that makes us feel like there's a warm Moon Dog shining over our collective horizon. It's most certainly a splice of heaven.
Hops: Tomahawk, Kohatu, Citra. Malt: Pale, Wheat, Oats, Crystal. Yeast: American. Other: Vanilla.


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Fashion is any visual choice someone makes regarding their body. This includes all possibilities of choices in relation to the body. The most basic example would be someone choosing what clothing to wear, perhaps based on color or association or fit. One of the more extreme or abstract examples of fashion within this definition would be someone choosing what chair should go in their apartment based on their personal style, or even deciding to start working out. After completing the dress practice log and hearing others explain their dress practice logs in week four, I came to the realization that no clothing is chosen without some degree of thought and reasoning. Thus, I believe fashion includes some element of choice.
In the beginning of the semester, I did not consider decisions in my definition of fashion. My definition was extremely broad, as it still is, but it was much less informed and far more abstract. Through all of our discussions in this course, I was able to refine my definition of fashion by backing it with academic and opinion texts, and combine those with my own opinions and thoughts to create my definition of fashion as being choices someone makes about their body.


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Test – Chronos: Before The Ashes – PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4, Switch, THQ Nordic, Stadia
It's a difficult exercise to judge Chronos for what he is. Released on the dock on March 28, 2016, it had the audacity to deliver Dark Souls specific gameplay mixed with the immersion that virtual reality offers. So it's not an original game coming back to us in this Before The Ashes issue, but rather a title that we would have stripped of the tinsel for a multi-media release (PC / XONE / PS4 / Switch / Stadia). And while Gunfire Games has gone to great lengths to make us forget that, the lingering feel of a game lacking a facet will never leave us.
However, as a gamer, despite not having played Chronos VR, we had a lot of faith in Gunfire Games. It's simple, we can no longer count the hours we spent in Remnant: From The Ashes, which is still one of the best heirs of the From Software school today. If the affiliation between the two opuses is obvious from a thematic point of view (the two titles share the same universe), we feel that Remnant was built on the knowledge gained thanks to Chronos. If it's perfectly logical on paper, it's hard not to get confused when you first start the game, with this haunting impression of regression at all points.
Where Remnant: From The Ashes has for him the addition of firearms in the "Soulsienne" formula and the assets that are unlocked according to our actions, Chronos himself remains in absolute classicism. We lead an unnamed character with a third person camera, on a strange island, and progress according to a labyrinthine level design that requires a lot, a lot of Uncle Dark Souls' approach. And that's not bad! It is a pity that we find ourselves, once again, with in our hands a title that risks nothing, or so little. Like Ashen before him, Chronos will never surprise, even if it is very little, the player used to the references from which he draws inspiration.
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Without even needing a tutorial, we ended up with a parry, a key to hold the shield up, a light hit, a hard hit, a dodge, and roll youth! And bingo-souls keep ticking all their boxes with a health gauge, a stamina gauge, estus cocktails, and other weapons to upgrade … Once again, it's the playstyle that wants it, and it's hard to blame them for have taken these items. So of course, the notion of soul (this experience that we accumulate with each dead enemy and that we lose in case of the death of our avatar) is not present, and the potions that restore vitality only recharge. 'to each of our dead (impossible to recover them by going to take refuge near a "fire", here symbolized by floating amaranth-red stones). But these small changes do not make big differences that by themselves justify the originality of the title: we keep looking, in the game, the "twist", the little idea that makes everything pleasant and surprising. So we remember that the game was originally a virtual reality project. So let's find out a little about the Internet. And there everything is explained.
The false good idea
Chronos VR was built from scratch, "frome ze grounde uppe" with virtual reality in mind. And in these types of adventure games, the view of the camera is a crucial issue. At the time (and it was a smart choice!), Gunfire Games had opted for a fixed camera position, which the player cannot move, but can only rotate based on the tilt of their head. Each passage then offered a predefined point of view for the player. The problem is that the further away from the action, the more difficult it is for the player to be precise in his movements and the way he plays.
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Therefore, the entire gameplay of the title has been built around this idea of a player away from the action. For the sake of readability, the graphics are sharpened and most of the levels are quite empty – we avoid confusing the user with information or objects that are not important to the avatar's course or navigation. The game is slow, to allow you to read well your attacks and those of your opponents from a distance. The character crawls, so that the player has time to see that enemies or traps are approaching. And we assume that in virtual reality it works! The scale ratio brings real gaming pleasure and real added value. The problem is that taking virtual reality out of a title like this makes it tremendously unstable.
To make up for all that, Gunfire put a lot of emphasis on the mechanics of aging. Our character, each time he dies, takes a year and his statistics change. Where at 20 you won't be able to use much magic, your agility will be your true strength. As you decline, you will lose in dexterity what you gain in willpower. If, on paper, the idea of what to seduce, its implementation, peripheral to the gameplay (the ten deaths), unfortunately does not manage to save the game from its softness, its heaviness and its obsolete side.
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Here's How Science and Infrastructure Projects Can Help Highways Recover Faster from Flooding
Originally Published	June 29, 2021 2:16 pm EDT
Photo by Steven King via Getty
DETROIT, MI - JUNE 27: Many cars were abandoned at this I-96 overpass of Pacific Ave. causing the freeway to become impassible where the water was over 2 feet deep due to the torrential rains of the previous day during the day on I-96 freeway in Northwest Detroit on Saturday June 26, 2021 in Detroit, MI.
With floodwaters still draining off I-94, how long the highway will be closed isn't known. But there are ways to recover from future floods faster.
DETROIT, Mich.—Metro Detroit's I-94 was less a vital corridor between Canada and Chicago, and more of a river between Detroit and Dearborn as June came to a close.
It came after a weekend of severe thunderstorms passed through Michigan, with follow-up storms crossing the state on Monday and Tuesday. The storm flooded the stretch of I-94 and knocked power off at pump stations designed to clear floodwaters, reported WWJ. The results were abandoned vehicles, stalled semi trucks, and countless homeowners calling restoration crews to salvage their belongings in nearby homes.
Wow. 94 between Lonyo and Livernois on Detroit's west side. Water level has not gone down. Traffic and Weather together on the 8's on WWJ Newsradio 950. AM 950. pic.twitter.com/g2cj810DHH
— Dennis Neubacher (@DNeubacher950) June 28, 2021
Quick video from our liveshot along i94 pic.twitter.com/0M3ezeeAEH
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) June 28, 2021
A photo of Detroit's major interstate highway I94 right now. @POTUS @SenStabenow @GaryPeters BETTER BRING HOME THAT CLIMATE MONEY. We got 5 more days of rain and major pumping stations have already failed! https://t.co/BymJzR7a21 pic.twitter.com/59HNfAFRkn
— netzero is NOT ZERO (@MXLDET) June 26, 2021
As of this reporting, large sections of the highway are still closed. Michigan's Department of Transportation (MDOT) said roadways will need to be repaired.
Once the water entirely drains, the department will move on to towing away abandoned cars, before clearing mud and debris. Only at that point can the damage to the road itself be evaluated, officials said.
The main reason this stretch of highway is taking so long to reopen is the systems designed to mitigate flooding were entirely overwhelmed. About 30 pump stations along the stretch of highway lost power, and southeast Michigan's water systems got completely overwhelmed.
With more storms passing over Michigan, repair and restoration efforts may be further delayed.
Preparing for Flooding Is an Infrastructure Challenge
The new American Jobs Plan includes more than $50 billion to modernize the water systems of the nation, including crucial stormwater systems that were unable to keep up with recent storms in metro Detroit. It's part of President Joe Biden's plans to update and modernize infrastructure problems communities are having, including Michigan's 2021 flood.
RELATED: 7,000 Miles of Michigan Highway Could Get Repaired Thanks to Biden's Infrastructure Plan
But there are also ways the plan's intended road repairs could help recovery from future floods where even a modernized water system fails: For instance, the repairs MDOT is expecting to need to perform on I-94 largely result from what's called scour, and preventing scour could mean reopening important lanes of traffic sooner after floods.
Scour happens when enough water collects on a road to flow. Flowing water is an extremely powerful force, able to pull small bits of the road, and critically the road's embankment, along with it. The longer a flood lasts the more scour occurs, and not addressing it quickly can lead to the road being washed away. Scour is even worse when it starts eroding overpasses as it can cause disastrous bridge failures.
In the case of I-94, MDOT expects to confront days of scour on the pavement. Some areas of the highway may need patching or resurfacing, and it's likely the embankment may need repairs as well.
Because embankments typically hold roads above natural ground level to help hold back minor flooding and ease elevation changes in the terrain, a failed embankment causes the road itself to start failing. In the worst cases, this can outright collapse a section of road, as happened with 31 Mile Road in St. Clair over the past decade.
SEE ALSO: Michigan Releases First Report on Midland Dam Failure
In 2018, the University of Minnesota found a solution to protect embankments better in future road design. Laying out a thin grid pattern called a geogrid and letting plant life grow in the soil through the grid helped protect the soil from erosion in their study.
As the Biden infrastructure plan is deployed, supporting highway embankments with one of these vegetated geogrids could massively slow the rate of soil erosion, and speed up road repairs during flood recoveries.
And with roads opened again faster, other flood recovery efforts can more easily get to the scene of damage, be that someone's home or a breaking dam.
Immediate Steps to Draining One Big Great Lake
The weekend floods were severe enough for Michigan to declare a state of emergency in Wayne County June 26.
"The State Emergency Operations Center has been activated to coordinate our state's response as we rush resources to affected areas, and the state of emergency declaration will help counties access even greater assistance," Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement. "I want to thank everyone who has been working 24/7 to clear roadways, restore power and communications, provide emergency services, and make sure our neighbors have what they need to get through this storm. We've overcome tremendous challenges this year because Michiganders are a tough people who know that we are all in this together."
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Flooding extended well beyond just Wayne County. On the opposite coast of Michigan, Kalamazoo is also cleaning up after weekend storms, and preparing for the next round of floodwaters. Though it fared far better than the state's east coast, the west side did have to clear downed trees, debris, and overwhelmed drainage systems.
While also comparatively minor, flooding rocked mid-Michigan as well, with homes being damaged by flooding in the Lansing area.
But as the imminent emergency resolves, it lays bare the infrastructural issues that underpin the severe flooding, chiefly the pumping stations and water systems of Michigan.
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This is hard for me to believe, but I had never seen the pilot episode of Veronica Mars in its entirety until today. I started watching in prime time with episode 1.2—with a healthy dose of cynicism—when I was assigned to write about it for a local paper and interview Enrico Colantoni. I had written it off in advance as another Dawson's Creek-type teen drama. But I fell in love. VM ended up being the first show I can remember that I made sure not to miss, and re-watched episodes, and talked about to friends and co-workers. I worked as an extra on it twice, and an episode was taped where I work. I love this show. And I love pilots. So I have no logical explanation for why I've never seen episode 1.1 until now. I write about it with full knowledge of who killed Lily, and all the other secrets that will be revealed, which makes the early hints that much more exciting.
Right away, the theme gritty song, "We Used to be Friends," grabs you. (Hated when they remixed it for Season 3.) Veronica gives us a succinct and color introduction to Neptune, the town where she lives. It's populated with the over-privileged and those who work for them.
She's tenacious: She alone steps forward to help a boy who's been taped, naked, to a flagpole in front of the high school. She's smart: She demonstrates thorough understanding of the assigned reading even though she's dozing in English class. She's a smartass: When cops come to search her locker, she's comfortable telling their dog to back off. She's bitter: Her family isn't rich and important like the others in town. The bitterness continues as Veronica explains how she used to be in with the cool crowd. Now it looks like her only friend is the new kid, Wallace—the one she freed from the flagpole. There a couple of blue-tinged flashbacks to reveal what her life used to be like, full of parties and BFFs.
After life at school, we see life at work; Veronica's dad's P.I. office. Her dad, Keith used to be the town's Sheriff. (There are lots of "used-to-bes," in keeping with the theme song.) Currently, V. is trailing Jake Kane on assignment from his suspicious wife. Veronica used to date their son Duncan, and her best friend was their daughter Lily. Lily was murdered, Keith accused Mr. Kane but couldn't prove anything, was removed from office by recall, and V.'s mom left them. To add insult to injury, people believe it was Keith who leaked a video of the crime scene all over the internet.
The new sheriff immediately found evidence incriminating a Kane employee, and the matter was put to uneasy rest. Also, Lily's boyfriend, the rich, spoiled bad boy Logan Echolls really, really hates V. In another subplot, V. reveals that she lost her virginity while roofied at some party the year before. This won't be unraveled until the end of Season 2, but clues are revealed in several episodes along the way. I love when a show asks for a viewer's long term commitment for payoff.
But wait, there's more. V.'s mom appears to be shacking up with Jake Kane. The Veronica-Wallace friendship is a little sappy, but it lets the audience see that V. still has a heart, and gives us a look at her mad P.I. skills and twisted sense of humor. She ends up with the local biker gang in her camp, defending her from Logan. It's a delightfully tangled web. Every little detail will come back in later episodes. Of course, you don't know that. But the kicker: Keith is still investigating Lily's murder. That alone lets us know there are plenty of juicy revelations to look forward to.
V. leaves us with this declaration: "I will find out what really happened." Rest assured, she will.
Weird note: I once saw the first 10 minutes or so of this episode online (in French) and the scene where V. is camped outside the Camelot Motel in her car was the cold open. Here there is no cold open, and that scene takes place mid-episode. Hm.
Here's an article I wrote about this show early in its run, including an interview with Enrico Colantoni.
UPDATE 8/14/10: For a more thorough analysis of this blog then you probably ever dreamed of, check out this blog.
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awesome show !! I still don't understand her cancellation…sigh..


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from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

from keras.optimizers import SGD
from keras.optimizers import Adam
import os

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# Background config:
# DATA_DIR= '/home/pratik/DeepIntent_Datasets/KITTI_Dataset/'
# DATA_DIR= '/local_home/data/JAAD_data/'
DATA_DIR= '/local_home/data/KITTI_data/'
# DATA_DIR = '/grad/2/pgujjar/DeepIntent/data/JAAD_data'
# DATA_DIR = './../data/JAAD_data'

MODEL_DIR = './models'
if not os.path.exists(MODEL_DIR):
    os.mkdir(MODEL_DIR)

CHECKPOINT_DIR = './checkpoints'
if not os.path.exists(CHECKPOINT_DIR):
    os.mkdir(CHECKPOINT_DIR)

GEN_IMAGES_DIR = './generated_images'
if not os.path.exists(GEN_IMAGES_DIR):
    os.mkdir(GEN_IMAGES_DIR)

LOG_DIR = './logs'
if not os.path.exists(LOG_DIR):
    os.mkdir(LOG_DIR)

TF_LOG_DIR = "./tf_logs"
if not os.path.exists(TF_LOG_DIR):
    os.mkdir(TF_LOG_DIR)

PRINT_MODEL_SUMMARY = True
SAVE_MODEL = False
SAVE_GENERATED_IMAGES = True
DATA_AUGMENTATION = False
SHUFFLE = False

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# Network configuration:
print ("Loading network/training configuration...")

BATCH_SIZE = 128
NB_EPOCHS = 100
IMAGE_SHAPE = (64, 64, 3)

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US Investors Drawn to Africa's Economic Potential
By Aru Pande
WHITE HOUSE - In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, with thousands of families decimated, and many Rwandans left to fend for themselves, Janet Nkubana devised a way to help women become self-reliant.
"They had lost husbands, they had lost children, some were the only surviving member of a family. It led to me and my sister Joy thinking of how we can make ends meet for these women," Nkubana said. "The only opportunity that was available was the handwork that women knew how to do, which was weaving."
Nearly 20 years later, Nkubana is the co-founder and managing director of Gahaya Links, selling handwoven baskets and handmade jewelry overseas to large American retailers such as Macy's.
"We have actually empowered more than 3,000 women in Rwandan communities. These women are no long on the street begging, they can buy their own health insurance, they can pay tuition for their children," Nkubana said.
The Rwandan business owner sat down with VOA during a July stop in the United States where she attended the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
'Hand-Up' for African Entrepreneurs
Nkubana credits the 2000 passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act for opening U.S. markets to African entrepreneurs and the government-funded U.S. Africa Development Foundation (USADF) for giving her a grant and training to get her business off the ground more than a decade ago.
"They did not give us free money. But they looked at our company, the potential it had and they invested in us. They looked at the infrastructure and invested in a center for the women," the Gahaya Links co-founder noted.
FILE - US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks as
FILE - US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks as he poses with employees of the General Electric (GE) Sonils compound at the Port of Luanda in Luanda, Angola.
USADF chairman Jack Leslie says the foundation's mission is to work with the underserved in Africa, where roughly 50 percent of jobs are created by small business, and women launch some 40 percent of startups.
"Africa, to give you a sense, only gets about three percent of foreign direct investment. So, helping these engines of growth and these enterprises that are really creating jobs is incredibly important, and they are good investments," Leslie said.
The USADF chairman told VOA President Obama's visit and speech at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi this week will bring the world's attention to a new wave of economic activity in Africa.
"When you look at the entrepreneurial activity across the continent, much of it has to do with technology," Leslie said. "There is talk of the Silicon savannah in East Africa, which is really showing amazing leaps in mobile technology. In many ways, the Kenyans are way ahead of us in the United States on mobile banking, for example."
But it's not just boosting small African entrepreneurs, USADF is also pairing with large U.S. companies like GE – to help give Africans greater access to electricity.
"We are providing $100,000 grants to off-grid energy enterprises. So much of Africa, at least for the foreseeable future, is not going to be part of any electrical grid. So to get power particularly to rural communities, it is going to be through off grid solutions," Leslie said as he prepared to leave for Nairobi for the summit.
Infrastructure Investment
GE Africa President and CEO Jay Ireland says Africa offers tremendous potential for investment. The company has put in more than a billion dollars across parts of Africa, including oil and gas equipment manufacturing facilities in Nigeria and Angola and a customer innovation center in South Africa – all tied to the locomotive industry.
"The reason we are excited about Africa is that there is a tremendous amount of opportunity and potential. We are an infrastructure company and infrastructure is what Africa needs," Ireland said.
The Nairobi-based executive notes GE's work in making electricity more accessible both in urban and rural communities are particularly crucial.
"[For the] Economic growth of the countries, it's going to be absolutely critical to have power. And they need that to attract manufacturing, and they need that whether it's mines or oil rigs or shopping malls – they need electricity. So you are looking at significant deficit of power across the range of countries," Ireland told VOA.
GE and USADF are partnering with locals in Africa to come up with off-grid energy solutions.
"I think what gets under-emphasized and misunderstood is the amount of innovative capability there is in Africa. And I think having this Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi is great because it highlights all of the advancements and the tools and technologies that have been developed locally from the standpoint of really making life easier," Ireland said.
Janet Nkubana said the spirit of entrepreneurship is alive and well in her native Rwanda, where U.S. investment and training has spurred the Rwandan government to offer vocational programs for young people who are now leading the way in information technology solutions.
"If you go to Rwanda today, there are so many young boys and young girls who are not job seekers, but job creators. All of these initiatives – they are creating jobs. When you teach me a skill I will utilize it to make an income and maybe employ another person," Nkubana said.
But for the Gahaya Links co-founder, the greatest impact, she says, is on the families of the women who weave baskets that are sold in department stores across an ocean.
"When a woman makes money, a family in Rwanda is doing well because women have proved to be the backbones of their families," Nkubana said. "Today, we contribute equally. Empowering us, giving us opportunities, you are giving opportunity to the generation of tomorrow.
Buhari Tells US Diaspora: Nigeria Will Trace Oil Money
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said his government will trace and recover what he called "mind-boggling" sums of money stolen from the oil sector. Buhari, who was inaugurated on May 29 after being elected on promises to fight corruption, made the comments on Tuesday while addressing Nigerians in the United States. His four-day visit included talks with President Barack Obama. "250,000 barrels per day of Nigerian crude are being stolen and…
Kenya Sees Economic Boost from Obama Visit
Kenya's shilling is likely to strengthen against the dollar due to an anticipated recovery in tourism and the positive sentiments around President Barack Obama's visit, Finance Minister Henry Rotich said on Wednesday. The shilling is hovering near 3 1/2-year lows against the dollar and is down 10 percent so far this year, mainly due to a firmer dollar, a surge in imports and lower tourism earnings after a number of Islamist militant attacks in East Africa's…
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The following was written in advance of the happening strangely toward 2011. Here I attempt to unravel the relationship between poetic politics, human agency, and desire, that formed the substance of the work.
It is as though, between my hand and the work, there exists a thread that I must keep delicately taut. The work is as yet unmade. It has not happened, but it has been promised. Can this be said of any work of art? Yes, of course, yet there is something significant about the stubborness with which certain works evade being present. It is as though they would like to dwell a little longer in an undetermined space of their making, where daydreams mingle with desire.
This nacent site where dreams and desire perculate, is also the formative site of human agency. What is agency, but our ability to act on the world, to make our hidden thoughts part of a larger matrix of existence? Moments that constitute significant changes become part of our history. And so agency becomes connected to politics, as a process that can affect change and imbue a thought with a concrete reality.
Not every act is destined to become part of a shared history. And not every thought or dream is meant to become a concrete reality. Poetry is something that resides in the indeterminate world of thoughts. Though it can create an action, indirectly, as a catalyst on the psyche, it exists and is complete before this action. Language is the medium for this strange world.
Of course, writing is itself an act of agency. As such, it makes a decision on a thought to give it form. Though the text is concrete, the images brought up in the text are often unrealized, perhaps unrealizable. Here we can differentiate between a process that fully realizes a thought into concrete reality, and a process like utterance or writing that allows the thought to remain part of both worlds. Language and other forms of communication offer us intermediate states. As thoughts emerge from inner consciousness they achieve different levels of form or formlessness. Thoughts can emerge wholly, partially, or not at all.
If a thought can have many outcomes or no outcomes, what kind of responsibility does this place on us as humans, as agents of our present and possible futures? We cannot anticipate the consequences of an action or utterance. Even the most direct action can have unexpected consequences. Conversely, huge events in humanity's histories have often been sparked by what would, in another time or place, have remained inconsequential.
This might seem to put humanity in an unequal relationship with its history and future. Circumstances and culture are malleable, but in unexpected and sometimes volatile ways. Perhaps we can look at this unequal relationship as one that gains us considerable freedom in our thought and action. If we can affect history through agency, but have no control over the specific outcomes, then neither should we control our agency.
Myriads of situations become, as they pass out of our present, available as a seeming whole, a past, a history. Yet those myriads of situations, and in turn, the myriads of natural and cultural processes from which those situations were formed, are so unruley, that they inspire in me a desire to affect the world similarly. I have called this tendency 'poetic politics'.


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Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day except when closed for scheduled swim/dive meets, social events or inclement weather.
We will have several upcoming events that will require the pool to be closed during regular operating hours throughout the season. These dates will be listed below at the start of the season.
Please check your email for a special Membership Meeting that's being held Thursday, May 2nd at 7PM. The club needs at least 34 families represented directly or by proxy to hold a vote.
For more details and or proxy form to have another vote in your place, please check your email.
* This meeting is for full share holders, if you are leasing a membership you do not have full voting rights. If you would like to have full voting rights please consider purchasing a full Share membership, we would love to have you as a member of our MHC family!
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We at Mansion House often get asked why our club isn't called Mount Vernon. Well the fact is, we actually get our name from Mount Vernon, in that George Washington's Estate was comprised of five farms that were originally included in the land between two waterways, Dogue Run and Little Hunting Creek.
Those farms included four working farms; River, Dogue Run, Union and Muddy Hole along with its crown jewel, the Mansion House Farm. Mansion House Farm included Washington's home, gardens, lawns and the entirety of the neighborhood surrounding this very pool. During Washington's lifetime, the five farms grew in size to almost 8000 acres, or 12 square miles, and include the majority of the pools in the Northern Virginia Swim League (NVSL). To see how this looked back in "the day", refer to the map below.
For more information on how to become part of such a historic pool, visit our Membership page.
Mansion House Club (MHC) is a private facility located at 9321 Old Mount Vernon Road, Alexandria, VA 22309. This beautiful club located near George Washington's historic home has established swim, tennis & dive programs plus social activities all summer long!
MHC is a member of the Northern Virginia Swimming League, the country's largest summer league. MHC competes in both swimming and diving throughout the summer, and is appropriate for children of all abilities. Mansion House Junior Tennis Team competes in the Mount Vernon Community Tennis League. The club has an extensive social calendar for both adults and children including a Fourth of July family celebration, a crab feast, movie nights, and a variety of themed evening parties.
Come join us and see what summer memories will soon be yours!
MHC is currently offering a $100 referral incentive to any member whose guest referral results in a full membership sale.
Don't miss the Dive & Swim Team Slideshows which are now posted under their Team tabs. Relive the highlights of last summer!
MHC IS SOCIAL MEDIA SAVVY!
Your Annual Dues must be paid to get our pool up and running in time for opening day!
Please click 2019 MHC Membership Dues to start your payment process. Thank you for your prompt attention!
Welcome to the Mansion House Swim Team, Home of the Piranhas!
To view more information regarding our upcoming season click the 'Swim Home button below!
There are opportunities to participate for every age and skill level. All tennis classes and programs are staffed by USTA professional coaches from the Mount Vernon Athletic Club.
For children just starting out, this is a fantastic opportunity to learn the fundamentals from experienced coaches and have fun while learning this life-long sport.
For more experienced and advanced players, our professional coaches will help take their game to the next level, and experience with match play can be gained during our Wednesday and Sunday matches against other clubs in the Mount Vernon Community Tennis (MVCT) League.
THESE HIGHLY EXPERIENCED INSTRUCTORS ARE TERRIFIC WITH THE KIDS!
For more information regarding the upcoming tennis season and registration, click on the button below.
The MHC Dive Team is looking forward to another great season of diving, competing for our ninth year in NVSL Dive Division 1. We are thrilled about this upcoming season and look forward to even more people signing up. For more information click the Dive Team Home button below!
*Quiet Swim during dive meets: The pool will be open for lap swimming only. The baby pool will be closed. The diving well and the grounds on either side of the diving well will also be closed for spectators. The divers need quiet in order to focus on their dives. We ask that adults stay with their children during this time to assist them in keeping their voices down. Please be respectful of the divers. Thank you.


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Hopewell has had a passion for the people in South Africa for over ten years. Our work has partnered us with many ministries already working to address the enormous problems created by poverty, racism, and the AIDS pandemic in particular. It started with two mission-vision tours where we met many local ministries. But the foundation was set when Jen Lisowski became our first missionary in 2008 (left in photo below).
Jen worked with Aunt Suzie at the Ikageng Daycare Center for the Aged and introduced Hopewell to Meyer Conradie, a local South African whose vision was to help orphans and vulnerable children. Meyer started Mosaic (http://mosaicsa.org) in 2009 and Hopewell built their first house.
In 2011, Jordan Ridge became Hopewell's full-time missionary continuing the relationships Jen established. Jordan helped Mosaic grow with a focus on job creation. She started Made by Mosaic which provided jobs for Mosaic foster parents and other members of the surrounding community. This business manufactures handmade goods and food products, such as scarves, event favors, fruit preserves, cookies and chutney.
Hopewell has helped Mosaic build over 10 houses which provide affordable housing to families with two or more orphans or vulnerable children. We also helped Mosaic construct a community center by renovating used shipping containers. The last shipping container for community center was renovated in Downingtown the summer of 2016. The container project was called the HOOP (Africaans word for Hope) and became a kitchen and meeting room. It has been a blessing to Mosaic and another local organization, Ma's for Wellington, which both use the kitchen to provide food to kids involved in their programs.
Mosaic is now currently in three locations:
Mosaic Potchefstroom (started in 2009) – As of 2017, Mosaic Potch is made up of 23 houses which include 79 orphans and vulnerable children.
Mosaic Paarl Valley (started in 2015) – As of 2017, Mosaic Paarl Valley is made up of 15 families that include 47 orphans and vulnerable children.
Mosaic Port Elizabeth (started in 2017) – Mosaic's newest location plans to have 10 families by the end of the year. They also plan to start building a community center later in 2017.
Hopewell also supports several other ministries including:
H.E.L.P Ministries – a hunger project providing a daily lunch for school children
Nederburg Primary School – a school in Paarl where Hopewell has provided salaries for a computer lab teacher and librarian, repairs to the school building, and shoes for the students
Ma's for Wellington – run programs for the township children, mothers, and grandmothers that live in the community across from the Mosaic Paarl community center
Second Harvest – a new ministry whose vision is to feed a nutritionally balanced meal to children & elderly in poor communities
To learn more about the South Africa mission at Hopewell, please contact Tony Brantzeg at tonybrantzeg@verizon.net or Cammy Brantzeg at cammybrantzeg@verizon.net.
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Mosaic House built by Hopewell
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Choose the Punching Unit IDs command in the Course Setting menu to enter the punching unit IDs. The Punching Unit IDs dialog appears.
Punching unit IDs are often used for Emit result systems. OCAD exports the punching unit IDs in IOF XML file version 2 and 3.
After placing a control you can add the electrical ID of the Emit punching unit to it or, if there is more than one unit at the same control, all the IDs which refer to this control. The ID of an Emit unit is often different from the code shown in the control description.
Select a field in the Punching Unit IDs column and double click an ID in the list on the right side of the table to add it. The ID can also be typed directly into the field. Per control code more than one punching unit IDs can be allocated. They are separated by a semicolon (;).
Choose a punching system in the Punching system dropdown list. You can choose between SportIdent, Emit and Other.
Choose the first option to add the existing control codes only to controls, which does not have a punching unit ID, yet.
Choose the second option to add all existing control codes and replace the existing punching unit IDs.
Choose the third option to add all existing control codes without replacing the existing punching unit IDs.
Click the Add button to execute the chosen action.
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Attitude - a positive attitude yields positive results!
Control - if you want to meet someone special, it's time to take control of your schedule and priorities. If you don't make the time and effort, no one else is going to do it for you.
Destiny - take charge of your own destiny! Put yourself out there to start dating, meeting other single people and trying new things to increase your opportunities of meeting someone special.
Ego - leave the ego at home. It does not matter how attractive, or successful you are, there's nothing wrong in using Asian dating services to meet a life partner, it's the norm in today's society.
Fun - dating is FUN! Enjoy the experiences of meeting new people. At the early stages of dating don't put unnecessary pressure on yourself to identify whether he or she is the one.
Goal - you know what your goal is, what are you waiting for? 2014? Put your plan of action into play to achieve your personal goal, as you would with a professional goal!
Heart - put your heart into dating. If you're genuine and seriously want to meet someone, you'll get out exactly what you put in.
Interview - remember it's not a job interview for a husband, or wife, it's just a date so relax and be your natural charming self!
Journey - you're on a journey to find that special someone, along the way there will be ups and downs but don't give up, or lose sight of your destination. Once you get there, it will be worth it!
Karma - treat others how you would like to be treated - what goes around comes around!
Love - being in love is one of the greatest human emotions that you'll experience. Isn't it time to stop missing out?
Moment - seize the moment, don't put of tomorrow what you can do today.
New - we're at the start of a new year full of new possibilities; make new changes to get new results in your love life.
Opportunity - grab it with both hands as you may not get a second chance to make a first impression.
Procrastination - it's time to stop making excuses and delay putting your love life on hold due to work, friends or family commitments.
Quality - when it comes to dating, quality is always more important than quantity - if you're using Asian dating services and events remember you pay for what you get!
Rush - it's not a race, take your time to get to know someone rather than rushing into something out of pressure.
Serendipity - we all fantasise of that chance encounter; your eyes meeting across a crowded room but we all also live in the real world. Whilst it can happen, you cannot sit around waiting & hoping, you still need to be proactive in your search.
Time - we are all busy but admittedly, we all find the time when we deem it important enough. So how important is your search, or desire for a life partner?
Upbeat - there will be good dates and challenging dates but whatever the outcome it's important to remain upbeat because like attracts like.
Virtual - don't spend too much time in the virtual world. You want to date a human being not an email address, phone number or BB pin!
Work - it's time to prioritise; all work and no play can leave your love life kept at bay.
X -Factor - dating can be a competitive game but we each have something unique and great to offer - so make sure you bring your X-Factor to the table!
Zest - you'll get better results if you pursue your search with zest - good luck!
Thanks for the quick reminder, it's always easy to forget and become lazy when you are tired and busy than to make an effort. I just hope 2013 is going be a lucky in love year for me!


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San Francisco Is First U.S. City Where All Residents Live Within A 10-Minute Walk To A Park
May 16, 2017, 14:00 ET
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayor Edwin M. Lee and The Trust for Public Land today announced that San Francisco is the first city in the United States where all residents have access to a park within a 10-minute walk. The findings were part of the Trust for Public Land's ParkScore, an assessment of the park systems of the nation's 100 largest cities.
"In San Francisco, we want everyone to enjoy the prosperity of this city, which is why it is particularly meaningful we have a parks system that is accessible and enjoyable for all of our residents," said Mayor Lee. "We are proud to be the first city in the nation to have a least one open space within a 10-minute walk of every resident. We are maintaining our record investment in our local parks so all San Franciscans can continue to enjoy our wonderful natural environment."
"Most city residents won't walk more than 10 minutes to get to shopping, transit, or parks, so close-to-home access to parks is vital for public health, clean environments, and thriving, equitable communities," said Adrian Benepe, The Trust for Public Land's Urban Parks Director. "This is an enormous achievement, based on years of dedicated and thoughtful work and planning, and San Francisco should be very proud."
During Mayor Lee's tenure, San Francisco has invested $355 million in parks and open space. For his upcoming two-year budget, he has proposed $84.4 million in capital projects for the Recreation and Park Department, maintaining record levels of investment in the city's parks and open spaces. The $84 million investment in capital projects is an 81 percent increase from 2015.
The announcement was at the newly renovated Hilltop Park, which has a state-of-the-art skate park and playground. To get to the park, Mayor Lee, Benepe, and Recreation and Park General Manager Phil Ginsburg took a 10-minute walk with children from the nearby Family & Children Empowerment Services child care center.
A 10-minute walk, or a distance of one-half mile, is the standard for urban park systems. Though walking speeds vary, the U.S. Department of Transportation agrees most people can walk a half-mile in about 10 minutes. Park planners use sophisticated technology and data to measure the 10-minute walk and have concluded that everyone should be able to reach a park in that time, no matter what kind of neighborhood they live in.
To achieve the 10-minute goal, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department has been maximizing the recreational use of park land as well as acquiring new land to develop into parks. The $355 million invested under Mayor Lee includes $280 million in parks bonds, $15 million in open space acquisition funds, and more than $60 million in grants and gifts. In the past 15 years, the City has spent over $1.1 billion on various park improvements.
In recent years, San Francisco has added the Golden Gate Park CommUNITY Garden, Interior Greenbelt, Geneva Community Garden, Noe Valley Town Square, 17th and Folsom Streets Park, Francisco Reservoir, and India Basin, to the list of new parks.
"Our goal is to have clean, safe parks accessible to all San Franciscans," said Ginsburg. "We are thrilled to see our efforts recognized and grateful to Mayor Lee for his unwavering support and firm belief in the importance of open space."
The Recreation and Park Department works to address open space needs, bringing expertise and perspective to emerging open space projects, and working to advise on open space needs. As a result, parks such as the SOMA West Skate and Dog Park, Tunnel Top Park, Progress Park, Playland at 43rd Ave, and others have become neighborhood parks.
The Trust for Public Land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. Millions of people throughout the country live near a Trust for Public Land park, garden, or natural area, and millions more visit these sites every year. To support The Trust for Public Land and share why nature matters to you, visit www.tpl.org.
SOURCE The Trust For Public Land
http://www.tpl.org


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Roger Anthony Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 16 January 2014) was an English actor. He is best known for playing Trigger in Only Fools and Horses from 1981 to 2003, and Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley from 1994 to 2007. He later starred as Tom in The Old Guys with Clive Swift. He is also well known for the role of Barty Crouch Sr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and for his appearances in Doctor Who as John Lumic in the episodes "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel". He was sometimes credited without the hyphen in his surname. He died in 2014 from pancreatic cancer.

Early life
Lloyd-Pack was born in Islington, London, the son of actor Charles Lloyd-Pack (1902–1983) and Ulrike Elisabeth (née Pulay, 1921–2000), an Austrian Jewish refugee who worked as a travel agent. He attended Bedales School near Petersfield in Hampshire, where he achieved A Level passes in English, French and Latin. He subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he worked with actors including Kenneth Cranham and Richard Wilson.

Career
Roger Lloyd-Pack began his acting career at Northampton's Royal Theatre, which he revisited when he appeared in the tour of Blue/Orange.

Only Fools and Horses

On British television, he was best known for portraying "Trigger", Del Boy's slow-witted "Village idiot" friend in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, from 1981 to 2003.

Lloyd-Pack was cast by pure chance, an Only Fools and Horses executive producer, Ray Butt, hired him to portray Trigger after seeing him in a stage play, and had only attended that play to observe potential Del Boy actor Billy Murray.

Later Career
He was also known for his role in The Vicar of Dibley as Owen Newitt and to international audiences his greatest fame was as Barty Crouch, Sr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In addition, he had a semi-regular role during the 1990s as the plumber Jake "The Klingon" Klinger, Ben Porter's arch-rival, in the sitcom 2 point 4 children.

In 2005, he appeared in the second series of ITV's Doc Martin as a farmer who held a grudge against Doctor Ellingham for what he believed was the malpractice-related death of his wife. In 2006, he played John Lumic and provided the voice of the Cyber-Controller in two episodes of Doctor Who, "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel", opposite David Tennant, who had played his son in the same Harry Potter film. Lloyd-Pack's final TV appearance was in Law & Order: UK as Alex Greene.

He voiced the pre-match build-up montage video shown ahead of all Tottenham Hotspur's home matches which is still played today.

In June 2008, he appeared as a guest on the BBC's The Politics Show, arguing the case for better-integrated public transport (specifically railways), and, in January 2012, he and fellow actor Sarah Parish supported a campaign to raise £1million for The Bridge School in Islington.

In 2012, he portrayed the Duke of Buckingham in the play Richard III, and, in 2013, portrayed Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, both plays by William Shakespeare.

Personal life
Lloyd-Pack was married twice: first to Sheila Ball, from whom he was divorced in 1972, and secondly to the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham (the daughter of David Markham), whom he married in 2000. He had a daughter, actress Emily Lloyd and three sons. He latterly lived in Kentish Town, north London, but also had a home near Fakenham in Norfolk.

Lloyd-Pack was a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur.

He was an honorary patron of the London children's charity Scene & Heard.

In a 2008 interview, when asked what profession he would have chosen aside from acting, Lloyd-Pack said: "Psychiatrist or a psychoanalyst or something in the psycho world because I've always been interested in that... or I might have been a photographer... I also would have loved to have been a musician." In that same interview, he listed his favourite directors as Peter Gill, Harold Pinter, Richard Eyre, Thea Sharrock and Tina Packer, and listed actor Paul Scofield as both a favourite and influence.

Political Views
Lloyd-Pack supported the Labour Party and campaigned for Ken Livingstone in the 2012 London mayoral election. However, in 2013, he signed a letter in The Guardian stating he had withdrawn his support from the Labour Party, in favour of a new party of the left.

Death and tributes

Lloyd-Pack died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Kentish Town aged 69 on 16 January 2014. His funeral was held at the church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. It was attended by Sir David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, John Challis and Sue Holderness. His body was buried at Highgate Cemetery East.

Tributes
Nigel Havers, Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Alison Steadman, Kathy Burke and Joely Richardson paid tribute to him.

In March that year, the Sport Relief special of Only Fools and Horses was dedicated to the memory of both Lloyd-Pack and John Sullivan. Similarly, the final episode of the lockdown edition of The Vicar of Dibley ended with a tribute just before the closing credits reading, "In loving memory of Liz, John, Emma and Roger", paying tribute to him and three other late Dibley cast members (Liz Smith, John Bluthal and Emma Chambers).

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage
Wild Honey (1984) by Anton Chekhov, playing the part of Osip
Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett, playing the part of  Kafka
Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall
'Art'
Dick Whittington, pantomime by Mark Ravenhill at the Barbican Centre
One for the Road
Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber, playing the part of Ash
The Last Laugh, by Kōki Mitani (English version of Warai no Daigaku), playing the part of The Censor, Japan, 2007
The Trojan Women (2012), Caroline Bird's adaptation of the tragedy by Euripides, playing the part of Poseidon, at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London
Richard III (2012) by William Shakespeare, playing the part of  Duke of Buckingham at the Globe Theatre, South Bank, London
Twelfth Night (2013) by William Shakespeare playing the part of Sir Andrew Aguecheek

References

External links

Roger Lloyd-Pack (Aveleyman)
BBC biography
BBC interview about appearing in Doctor Who

Roger Lloyd Pack Archive at V&A

1944 births
2014 deaths
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors
Alumni of RADA
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
English male film actors
English male stage actors
English male television actors
English people of Austrian-Jewish descent
Male actors from London
People educated at Bedales School
People from Islington (district)
Deaths from cancer in England
British male comedy actors


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Failure Is Not an Option
Robert Gates said, "failure in Iraq is not an option." The president told Americans on Wednesday that failure in Iraq would be a disaster and Condi Rice repeated the mantra in front of a Senate committee with its hair on fire.
So, I guess the natural question to ask (that no one seems to be asking) is, if we find ourselves in a disaster where failure is not an option, who got us there? Just as the first requirement of an architect is to keep the rain out of a building, the first requirement of a president is to keep the country out of failures without options.
George Bush didn't do that. Now that he feels there is no option but continuing, he has lied (again) about the reasons to continue. From Fort Benning, Georgia the president claimed
"The [Iraqi] Prime Minister came and said, look, I understand we've got to do something about this violence, and here is what I suggest we do. Our commanders looked at it, helped fine-tune it so it would work. . . .
"The commanders on the ground in Iraq, people who I listen to -- by the way, that's what you want your Commander-in-Chief to do. You don't want decisions being made based upon politics, or focus groups, or political polls. You want your military decisions being made by military experts. And they analyzed the plan and they said to me, and to the Iraqi government, this won't work unless we help them. There needs to be a bigger presence. . . .
"And so our commanders looked at the plan and said, Mr. President, it's not going to work until -- unless we support -- provide more troops. And so last night I told the country that I've committed an additional -- a little over 20,000 more troops, five brigades of which will be in Baghdad."
That's a total and unforgivable lie. A lie that hands off Bush's personal responsibility for failed strategy to the Prime Minister of Iraq and whoever the latest of Bush's remaining generals 'commanding' in Iraq might be. It's a cowardly passing of blame by a cowardly, bull-headed and ignorant commander in chief.
Nouri al-Maliki is just waiting (and hoping) to get American troops the hell out of the way, so his Shiite death-squads, in combination with Moqtada al-Sadr's militia, can clean up what Sunni resistance yet remains. They will turn the country from a perhaps-democracy to a for-sure-theocracy.
Maliki asked Bush to take his troops and go home in September. The president wasn't having any. That was our one great shining moment to take Maliki at his word and get out, but Bush couldn't bear to leave the oil, his swagger and the permanent basing behind. This, far more than any false hope of democracy in the Middle East, is why failure is not an option. Where the hell would we base our troops?
Well, he's correct—failure is not an option. An option is the act of choosing or selecting and the time of choice or selection in Iraq is long gone. The enemy there is
not Shiite, Sunni or Kurd;
not al-Qaeda, Syria or Iran;
not the forces of evil,
the death squads
or even the insurgent roadside bombers
—the enemy is everyone.
We will not be allowed to rebuild anything. There isn't a contractor in the world (not even the criminally protected Halliburton) who would be able to successfully undertake a construction project under fire. We will funnel more billions into the coffers of the Halliburtons of our nation, but we will build no schools, transmit no electricity, treat no sewage, repair no pipelines and put no wages into the pockets of Iraqis.
We will not be allowed to keep our two 'permanent bases,' constructed under the fraudulent rationale of temporary military support. Meant to base our Middle East contingent of troops for decades to come, these bases were to be the Middle East equivalent of our client-state basing in the Philipines.
That particular failure has Saudi Arabia sweating, as well they should. Nor is it welcome news in Israel.
Suffice it to say, the Iraqi oil is and will remain beyond our control. Iraq is not currently buffering any American costs with their oil revenues (some 60 million barrels of which conveniently 'go missing' each year).
Additionally interesting in that regard, Iran is said to be running dry of oil, the last pump to stop within twenty years.
Thus, we may be able to buy Iraqi oil in future, but probably through Iran and most probably for Euros. George Bush, incredibly, has now upset the applecart of world-oil trading in dollars; a former (1970s) bulwark against a steadily weakening dollar.
This will be his least noticed and least cared about immediate failure in Iraq, but certainly of the most long-term damage to America.
Failure in Iraq not being an option takes on an entirely different rationale, when one considers that this former ball-club-owner president has left America precariously obligated to single-source oil availability—Saudi Arabia. Among the oil producing nations of the world (Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela) we can perhaps count on Saudi, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates. One need only scan the political turmoil within these nations to see how disastrous has been our foreign policy toward major suppliers.
Small wonder the sweating administration is adamant upon opening up Alaska and the Gulf to drilling. Small wonder Cheney's hidden energy policymakers encouraged the 'regime change' in Iraq.
The game is up, the loss attributed to a president hornswoggled by swagger, greed, avarice and score-settling within a small coterie of his advisors. Desperately unwilling to walk away from a losing hand, they have convinced The Decider to double down on two pairs.
That's a chump-bluff even among the greenest of poker players.
But Bush's an easy guy for Cheney to manage. George's career was built on swagger in the place of ability and, ultimately, bail-outs to disguise his repeated failures. Now, with failure assured, failure is no longer an option because this man has never stood up to it. Lacking that basic requirement of a well-lived life, Bush has subscribed your and my sons and daughters lives to lay his calamity at the door of the next president. Which will allow, for the rest of a dishonorable life, the 43rd president of the United States to blame anyone but himself for his own lack of integrity, strategic vision and honesty.
The next president of the United States will be blamed by this failed man for not having 'stayed the course.'
Media comment;
SanDiego Union Tribune-McCain defends Bush plan as president calls leaders of Egypt and Jordan
San Jose Mercury News-Analysis: Democrats' delicate strategy
Kansas City Star-Lawmakers in both parties criticize Bush plan for Iraq
Washington Post-Bush, Democrats on collision over Iraq troop boost
Sauk Valley News-Anger, ambition make for a combustible day for Rice
Boston Globe-Rice won't rule out military actions on Iran


My husband Neil is a runner so when he has a race I give him a day off (hah!) and work with one of my favorite second shooters that I've worked with before Neil started shooting with me on the regular. Megan and I arrived at the Event Barn a tad early to scope out the area. I like to arrive early to weddings to find the bride and her girls and the groom and his guys and to say hello in an un-rushed manner before starting my day. But if I've yet to shoot at a particular venue, I definitely want to take my time to walk around and get a feel of the area – this is typically when I choose portrait locations for throughout the day.
This location scouting definitely came in handy because we jumped from first look, to bride & groom portraits, to wedding party portraits, to ceremony, to family portraits, and then back to more bride & groom portraits, all within an hour and a half!


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Sergio Moldavsky (* 1955 in Buenos Aires) ist ein argentinischer klassischer Gitarrist.

Moldavsky hatte Gitarrenunterricht bei Alfredo Vicente Gascón. Er studierte dann bis 1982 am Conservatorio Provincial "Juan  José Castro" in La Lucila bei Graciela Martínez Zárate und vervollkommnete seine Ausbildung bei María Isabel Siewers. Er unterrichtete Gitarre an mehreren Provinzialkonservatorien Argentiniens, am Städtischen Konservatorium "Manuel de Falla" und der städtischen Musikschule "Juan Pedro Esnaola" in Buenos Aires.

Bei den Promociones Musicales de la Argentina (1980) und dem Concurso Abel Carlevaro der Stadt Buenos Aires (1987) erhielt Moldavsky zweite Preise, beim vom Círculo Guitarrístico Argentino veranstalteten Concurso María Luisa Anido (1988) den ersten Preis. 1993 nahm er an einem Konzert zu Ehren der Gitarristin María Luisa Anido teil. Im selben Jahr trat er auch beim 19. Internationalen Gitarrenfestival in Stockholm auf. Mit Victor Villadangos spielte er 1998 eine CD mit Werken des argentinischen Komponisten Jorge Gómez Crespo, darunter die erste Gesamtaufnahme von dessen Serie Argentina. 2000 erschien eine CD mit Werken von Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts, teils in eigenen Transkriptionen Moldavskys.

Eine weitere CD entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Gitarristen Eduardo Fernández, 2002 veröffentlichte Moldavsky eine Aufnahme des Gesamtwerkes Abel Fleurys. Im selben Jahr spielte er bei einem Konzert zum 10. Todestag von Atahualpa Yupanqui die Uraufführung von Carlos Carmonas Yupanquiana für Gitarre und Orchester. Auf der Doppel-CD Cantabile en cuerdas spielte er Gitarrenwerke von Enrique Cipolla und mit der Sängerin Rosana Risé die Erstaufnahme von Jonathan Kulps Kinderliedern nach Texten Federico García Lorca ein.

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argentmúsica - Board Members - Sergio Moldavsky

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Sean Dugan, Teddy Spooner lead LNC to win on senior night
Michael Hughes sports@gastongazette.com
HUNTERSVILLE – Lake Norman Charter won a wild shootout on Senior Night at Knights Field, edging North Gaston 36-32 in Friday's season finale for both teams.
The all-night-long combination of quarterback Teddy Spooner to Davis Wilder provided the winning points on Davis's 16-yard touchdown grab with 27.6 seconds left to play. Spooner's two-point run provided the final margin of victory for the Knights, who had lost six straight coming in.
After LNC advanced a North Gaston punt to the Wildcats 46, Spooner completed passes of 18 and 17 yards to Jackson Newton and Matt Scott, respectively, before senior fullback Sean Dugan was stopped after a 1-yard gain to the 10 with 54 seconds left. Following a Charter timeout, Dugan was tackled for a five-yard loss by North Gaston's blitzing linebacker Ethan Costner. With the clock ticking, Spooner found Davis high and over the middle in the end zone for the Knights' first lead of the game.
The Wildcats kept it interesting when their QB, senior Brae Wooten (149 yards rushing on 18 keepers), scrambled out of a pocket that was closing fast and ran 51 yards before a last ditch tackle left him lying on the Charter 23 as the horn sounded.
"It was fun to watch the seniors finish on their last game," said Knights coach Mark Steele. "It worked out for us, but we basically scored [last]. That was fun."
Dugan (163 yards, 23 carries, 1 TD) was the big weapon for Charter aside from the Spooner-to-Wilder connection.
Spooner ended his last game with 14 completions in 18 attempts for 206 yards and four scores.00
"We were running the ball really well," Steele said, "so we knew we could burn up some clock and still move the ball. We switched over to the pass because we were running so well at the end. They made some mistakes that we were able to capitalize on."
Spooner was decked hard in the first half and limped off the field, only to return at full strength two plays later. His 38-yard run near the 10-minute mark of the fourth quarter set up Wilder's second TD reception from Spooner, a 15-yard score with 9:45 to play.
Costner, playing at fullback on offense, led the Wildcats attack with 169 rushing yards and all four touchdowns for North Gaston.
"They started pushing us around, so we tried to change up the front as much as possible," said Steele. "They did a really good job running the dive against us."
Lake Norman Charter ended its regular season at 5-6, 1-6. North Gaston falls to 1-10, 0-7.