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Reinaldo Arenas (Holguín, 16 de Julho de 1943 - Nova Iorque, 7 de Dezembro de 1990) foi um escritor cubano de poesia, novelas e teatro. Era assumidamente homossexual e passou grande parte da sua vida combatendo o regime comunista e a política de Fidel Castro.

Carreira
Em 1963, Arenas mudou-se para Havana, para se matricular na Escola de Planificação e, depois, na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Havana, onde estudou filosofia e literatura, sem completar o curso. No ano seguinte começou a trabalhar na Biblioteca Nacional José Martí.

Apesar de ter apoiado a revolução cubana nos seus primeiros anos, devido à extrema miséria em que vivia com a sua família nos anos de Fulgêncio Batista, acabou por ser vítima de censura e de repressão, tendo sido várias vezes perseguido, preso e torturado e forçado a abandonar mesmo diversos trabalhos (como conta na obra autobiográfica Antes que anoiteça), mostrando que o governo de Fidel Castro não havia trazido mais democracia à ilha.

Durante a década de 1970, tentou, por vários meios, abandonar a ilha, mas não obteve sucesso. Mais tarde, devido a uma autorização de saída de todos os homossexuais e de outras persona non grata e depois de ter mudado de nome, Arenas pôde deixar o país e passou a se estabelecer em Nova Iorque, onde diagnosticaram o vírus da Sida/Aids. Nessa época, escreveu "Antes que anoiteça" (no original Antes que anochezca).

Em 1990, terminada a obra, Arenas suicidou-se com uma dose excessiva de álcool e droga. Dez anos mais tarde, em 2000, estreou Before Night Falls, a versão cinematográfica da sua autobiografia, tendo Javier Bardem no papel do escritor.

Obra
 El mundo aluciante (1966) Tradução para o inglês Hallucinations (1987) ISBN 01420001901
 Cantando en el pozo (1982) (originally published as Celestino antes del alba (1967)) Tradução para o inglês Singing from the Well  (1987) ISBN 014009444X
 El palacio de las blanquisimas mofetas  (1982) Tradução para o inglês The Palace of the White Skunks (1990) ISBN 0140097929
 Otra vez el mar (1982) Tradução para o inglês Farewell to the Sea (1987) ISBN 0140066365
 El color del verano  (1982) Tradução para o inglês The Color of Summer (1990) [Conta a história, imaginativa e informal, da adolescência do autor; aborda a homossexualidade; é considerada a obra mais completa do autor] ISBN 0140157190
 El Asalto  (1990) Tradução para o inglês The Assault (1992) ISBN 0140157182
 El portero  (1987) Tradução para o inglês The Doorman (1991) ISBN 080213405X
 Antes que anocheza  (1992) Tradução para o inglês Before Night Falls (1993) ISBN 0140157654
 Mona and Other Tales (2001) ISBN 0375727302 Esta é uma tradução para o inglês de uma coleção de contos originalmente publicados em espanhol na Espanha entre 1995 e 200
 Con los ojos cerrados (1972),
 La vieja Rosa (1980), Tradução para o inglês Old Rosa (1995) ISBN 0802134068
 El central (1981), ISBN 0380869349
 Termina el desfile (1981).
 Arturo, la estrella más brillante (1984),
 Cinco obras de teatro bajo el título Persecución (1986).
 Necesidad de libertad (1986)
 La Loma del Angel (1987), Tradução para o inglês Graveyard of the Angels (1987) ISBN 0380750759
 Voluntad de vivir manifestándose (1989) ISBN 9879396553
 Viaje a La Habana (1990).  ISBN 0897295447
 Final de un cuento (El Fantasma de la glorieta) (1991) ISBN 8486842387
 Adiós a mamá (1996) ISBN 0897297911
 Un plebiscito a Fidel Castro, Madri, 1990 (carta enviada a Fidel Castro pedindo que o ditador realizasse um plebiscito em Cuba. A missiva foi escrita em coautoria de J. Camacho e Betania, seus amigos)

Bibliografia passiva
 Ottmar Ette (cur.), La escritura de la memoria. Reinaldo Arenas: Textos, estudios y documentación, Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1992. ISBN 3893549536.

Ligações externas

 Aproximacion critica a "Termina el desfile" de Reinaldo Arenas, por Miguel Correa Mujica - ucm.es

Mortos em 1990
Escritores LGBT de Cuba
Suicidas de Cuba
Anticomunistas de Cuba
Naturais de Holguín
Escritores suicidas
Poetas de Cuba
Poetas modernos
Pessoas com HIV/AIDS
Pessoas processadas por homossexualidade
Suicídios por overdose

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Originals — for years the OG Superstars were more than just a staple to pair with jeans and a fitted. The shelltoe kicks have been around since '69, and were a top-tier performance kick for nearly a decade. They just don't make them like these anymore.


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Popular On-Demand Car Care Company, Spiffy, is Going Carbon Neutral Says CEO Scot Wingo
Spiffy is an on-demand car care company on a mission to revolutionize the car care experience everywhere. They go directly to fleets, office parks, and individual car owners to clean vehicles, change oil, install tires, and perform other preventative maintenance, all through contactless service. The Spiffy Green™ process has saved
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For CEO Scot Wingo, it was a logical decision, as it aligns with one of Spiffy's core values of being a green company. "We've done everything we can to be as green as possible, with our sights set on becoming carbon neutral. Now, I'm wondering if we can go even further and become a carbon positive story," said Wingo.
With Spiffy going carbon neutral, Wingo believes more business opportunities will open. He sees Spiffy's continued commitment to sustainability as a boost to their competitiveness in gaining clients who prioritize eco-focused solutions more than ever. "Almost all of our large office park clients have hired Chief Sustainability Officers, and many are in LEED-certified buildings." said Wingo, "For them, it's gone from cost of entry to a selling point to help attract and retain talent."
Spiffy sees the move to carbon neutrality not only as a way to help their business, but also to engage their own employees more deeply. In talking with some of his employees, Wingo reports a general feeling of enthusiasm around the office towards going carbon neutral. In reflecting on a conversation with Grayson Leverenz, Spiffy's VP of Marketing, Wingo said, "She was very excited, and I think that's reflected across our company. People want to work at a place where they're making an impact on people's lives today and for future generations."
Employees and clients alike are excited about Spiffy's partnership with Green Places. We are eager to help them continue their commitment to being a green business and hope to help Spiffy grow in the process.
Fulcrum Equity Partners Goes Carbon Neutral
Fulcrum Equity Partners has always been committed to clean energy. Both in the office and through their investments, they have attempted to do their part in keeping the world a cleaner place. Now, they are partnering with Green Places and going carbon neutral, a decision that Fulcrum Partner Phillip Lewis thinks will benefit employees and set a good example for current and future investments.

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A pinched nerve (Nerve Compression) is an irritated or inflamed nerve which occurs when too much pressure is applied to a nerve. The pressure may be the result of repetitive motions or even long periods of poor posture, causing disruption in the nerve's function and severe pain.
Damage caused by a pinched nerve may vary from minor pain to neurological symptoms such as Peripheral neuropathy and Carpal tunnel syndrome.
Physiotherapy treatment will help, especially when combined with other physical therapies such as exercises and stretches.


Trypanosomes remain a problem for humans and other animals throughout large regions of Africa and South America. African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease are invariably fatal, though it may take weeks or years to succumb, depending on the species and the strain. Cross's research focuses on how the African trypanosomes evade our immune systems, which has prevented the development of a vaccine, and on the novel biochemical and genetic mechanisms employed by these organisms. Trypanosomes branched very early in eukaryotic evolution, and they have significant and sometimes bizarre variations from the conventional mechanisms of gene expression. Research on trypanosomes can shed light on how more complex, higher eukaryotic regulatory systems have evolved.
Trypanosoma brucei causes African sleeping sickness and is transmitted by the Glossina species, commonly known as the Tsetse. Ten million copies of a single glycoprotein form the surface coat of the parasite, a dense structure that surrounds the entire cell body and the flagellum. Using recombinatorial mechanisms, trypanosomes possess an infinite capacity for switching among the thousands of genes that encode members of the variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) family, allowing infections to evade the host immune system, so the parasites proliferate indefinitely, until death of the host.
Cross was the first to identify the VSG family, which led to the discoveries of trans-messenger RNA splicing and a mechanism for protein anchoring to the cell membrane, called glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchoring, which has since been found to be used for numerous proteins in a wide range of organisms. Trypanosomes use GPI anchoring to a greater extent than any other cell type, and there are some unique features of GPI anchoring in these parasites that are still not well understood.
Born in Cheshire, England, Cross received his undergraduate degree in 1964 and his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1968 from the University of Cambridge, where he held a Medical Research Council Research Training Scholarship, and was an Imperial Chemical Industries Fellow during his postdoc. From 1970 to 1977 he worked in the Medical Research Council Biochemical Parasitology Unit in Cambridge. He then joined the Wellcome Research Laboratories of the Wellcome Trust in England, where he was the head of the department of immunochemistry and molecular biology. Cross came to Rockefeller in 1982. In 1984 Cross was a recipient of the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, awarded in Germany, and he received the Chalmers Memorial Medal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1983. He is a fellow of The Royal Society.


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A few figure drawings from 2 different sessions.
Me and a few of the people I work with bought Mini Gore for our Ipod/Iphones. It's a really fun and simple game with some really great art (WELL worth the dollar it costs). We have a little competition for the highest score, and the holder of that title, gets to display this little "trophy" of the main character, John Gore, that I made on their desk. Current record holder....yours truly, At *14,340 points.
John was made with Sculpey and acrylic paint.


On Friday, at 1:21 a.m. ET, exactly on schedule, SpaceX's Falcon 9 lifted off for a mission that would be one of its most impressive to date.
After launching a communications and TV broadcasting satellite toward an extremely high orbit, the rocket beat the odds and landed its first stage safely on target on the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The landing wasn't the only impressive goal SpaceX achieved.
It also successfully delivered a satellite called JCSAT-14 — which will deliver HD TV to folks in the Asia-Pacific region and help boats and airplanes communicate — into geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO).
GTO is a highly elliptical orbit that puts the satellite in position to move around the Earth about 22,000 miles above sea level. To put this in perspective, the first stage of the rocket from SpaceX's first successful Falcon 9 landing at sea (on April 8, 2016) was returning from low Earth orbit (LEO), which is only 1,000 miles above sea level.
Friday's target is 90 times further from Earth than the International Space Station, where some of SpaceX's previous rockets have launched payloads. To reach it, the rocket had to travel roughly 23,000 miles per hour, 13.5 times faster than a speeding bullet.
Shortly after it launches, the first stage burns through its propellant, then separates and heads to the drone ship. This is to prevent it from dragging the rocket down with excess mass on its way to orbit.
Next, the second stage, carrying the satellite, continues to its first burn, bringing it to circle Earth in what the SpaceX engineers call "parking orbit."
Then the second burn begins, raising the orbit to geostationary distance about 22,000 miles above sea level — geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). Here, the satellite is in position to achieve its desired orbit.
Next, the second stage deploys the satellite. When the satellite reaches its highest point of orbit, it uses its thrusters to prevent getting to close to Earth.
Launches to extremely high orbits like this require more fuel, which is where landing on a drone ship comes in handy: They require less fuel than traditional launch pad landings on land.
This landing was a perfect opportunity for SpaceX to prove its reusable rocket technology, which will significantly decrease the cost of space travel. It will allow companies to salvage and reuse rockets instead of discarding them after just one use, potentially saving them tens of millions of dollars.


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Day 02 - Day 07: Trivandrum: Spend six days in Ayurvedic Resort to enjoy the Ayurvedic Rejuvenation Therapy treatments. Your personalized program may include daily yoga, meditation, medicated steam baths and soothing herbal massages.
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The Ecdysozoa-hypothesis on the origin of arthropods questions the homology of segmentation in arthropods, onychophorans, and annelids. The implication of convergent gain of metamery in these groups seems to conflict particularly with the correspondence in the development of serial coelomic cavities and metanephridia. Ultrastructural studies of the mesoderm development in Onychophora revealed that main correspondence with the state in annelids concerns the involvement of epithelial lining cells of the embryonic coelomic cavities in the formation of the visceral and somatic musculature. The significance of this correspondence, however, remained unclear as comparable data on the state in arthropods were still missing. Developmental studies on selected representatives covering all major arthropod subgroups aim to fill in this gap. Data were raised by a combination of transmission electron microscopy and fluorescent stainings of the muscular system and nuclei for the anostracan crustacean Artemia salina. In this species, putative transitory coelomic cavities proved to be absent in all trunk segments. In the second antennal and second maxillary segments small, compact nephridial anlagen develop into a sacculus and excretory duct. The sacculus originates from the terminal cells of the nephridial duct, which is formed in advance. The lumen of the sacculus is inconspicuous in its earliest functional stage and later enlarges to a bulb; it accordingly represents no remnant of any primarily large coelomic cavity. The muscular system is entirely formed prior to and independent of coelomic or nephridial anlagen. Visceral and somatic mesoderm already separate in the caudal body region. Transitory segmental clusters of mesodermal cells are composed of somatic cells only and accordingly represent no "somites". Our observations overall do not provide any support for the homology of coelomic cavities in annelids and arthropods.
Our project on the mesoderm development in arthropods is supported within the priority programme "Deep Metazoan Phylogeny" of the German Research Foundation (DFG-project Ba 1520/9). We thank Alexander Suh (FU Berlin) for rearing the animals, and Jörn von Döhren (FU Berlin) for his help with the fluorescence staining. Suggestions on the manuscript by two anonymous referees are also gratefully acknowledged.


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So far, Dogecoin's grassroots-based approach has helped the cryptocurrency avoid obsolescence; people buy the coin for fun and profits, not usability. But unless larger stakeholders also step up, these efforts can only go so far. But in open-source cryptocurrencies, no rule is permanent. With enough core contributors voting for change, even projects as large as Ethereum can alter its fundamental building blocks to keep up with newer coins. Inflation will also become a minor issue over time – the outcome of a flat reward divided by a growing capital base. By 2040, Dogecoin's inflation rate would have dropped to just 2.4%, or roughly the same as U.S. dollars today. By 2060, it would be 1.6%, making it deflationary relative to dollars. Today, the cryptocurrency is worth almost $10 billion and has one of the most dedicated followings of any tradable security. Lucky investors could have turned a $1,000 initial stake into nearly $1 million.
That transaction alone perfectly shows the dramatic change in value that Bitcoin has experienced over the years. That would put Bitcoin as having around a $50 trillion market cap. At this point, all we need is to divide $50 trillion by the number of bitcoins in existence. In an even newer Twitter exchange, McAfee explained that he believes the BTC price could reach into the billions one day.
This is followed by $1914 (.382 Fib), $1840 (.4 Fib), and $1770 (.618 Fib). The Dogecoin community has changed DOGE's inflationary trajectory before. BitYard Integrates 80+ Chainlink Price Feeds for Enhanced Price Accuracy and… Binance Charity accepts Ethereum donations for global projects that aim to improve the lives of people in the bottom billion. You can donate Ethereum so no one misses out on the growth made possible by blockchain.
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From there, XRP headed lower as the week progressed until support was found at $1.10 (.382 Fib & lower angle of price channel) on Wednesday. It has since bounced from this support and is trading at $1.25. Ethereum saw a 5.4% price hike this week as the coin sits around $3200. It surged above $3200 last Friday to meet resistance near $3350, provided by a bearish .618 Fib Retracement level. Unfortunately, it could not overcome this level and ended up rolling over from there.
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An overview showing the statistics of Wrapped Ether, such as the base and quote currency, the rank, and trading volume.
Its upward march was underpinned by a spike in interest by big Wall Street and tech firms into the cryptocurrency.
Looking ahead, the first resistance lies at $87.20 (1.618 Fib Extension – blue).
There was a large flash crash on 19th May 2021 and I remember gas prices hovering around 1,500–2,000 gwei.
This is followed by $2.28 (.236 Fib), $2.10 (.382 Fib), and $2.00.
The current market cap of all global stock markets is around $100 trillion USD. Accordingly, let's say that the entire cryptocurrency market one day reaches this $100 trillion cap. Please note that technical indicators don't provide a full representation of what's happening in the cryptocurrency market. Before making the decision to buy or sell any cryptocurrency, you should carefully consider both technical and fundamental factors, as well as your financial situation. The cryptocurrency market is also highly volatile, which means it may not be suitable for investors with a low risk tolerance. You can convert Uniswap to US Dollar by trading your UNI for USD on a cryptocurrency exchange. The best way to exchange Uniswap for US Dollar is on Coinbase Pro.
On the other side, the first support lies at the lower angle of the price channel, around $2.50. This is followed by added support at $2.35 (.382 Fib), $2.23 (20-day MA), $2.15 (.5 Fib), and $2.00 (.618 Fib). XRP/BTC continued lower as it broke beneath the 20-day MA yesterday, to hit the support at 2290 SAT (.382 Fib). But just like the USD pair, XRP/BTC had since bounced nicely from there to return to the 20-day MA price area. Together with the sentiment, ETH has since bounced from this support and is now trading above $3200. Thoughts about bitcoin, altcoins, NFTs and blockchain technology in general. You should always consult with a professional/licensed financial adviser before trading or investing in any cryptocurrency related product. Now imagine a more complex transaction, which requires say 100,000 units of gas… suddenly we're looking at around 500 USD. Attaching cost to every transaction prevents spamming or accidental infinity loops. Processing transactions on Ethereum network requires computational power and gas is the fee paid to miners for providing that computational power.
By November, it had declined 94 percent all the way to $20. At the moment of the statement, Bitcoin was traded over $11,000, days later it reached the lowest point in months when it was displayed in cryptocurrency exchanges under $6,000 dollars. Mr Draper said in 2014 that Bitcoin could reach $10,000 in just three years, something that happened in 2017, exactly on the date he predicted. When he explained that bitcoin could reach that price ($10,000), the cryptocurrency was traded just at $413 dollars. Interacting with Ethereum requires cryptocurrency, which is stored in a wallet. That wallet connects to DApps, acting as a passport for the Ethereum ecosystem. From there, anyone can purchase items, play games, lend money and do all sorts of activities just as they do on the traditional internet.
Grayscale added 700k to their Stellar Lumen Trust from yesterday to today. Their holding in XLM is already triple the size of their Solano holding, and growing. Global level transaction volume is coming thanks to Stellar's L2 +100M TPS capabilities. Cameron Winklevoss is one of the two popular Winklevoss twins. The co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, stated that bitcoin could be worth 40 times its current value. The cryptocurrency expert and venture capitalist, Tim Draper, has also given its opinion about the future price of Bitcoin. According to him bitcoin and blockchain technology are one of the best things that happened for businesses.
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Different platforms have different pricing, security measures and other features, so doing some research before signing up is a good idea. While Bitcoin is the most mainstream cryptocurrency, the Ethereum community has the ambition to expand the project. The former is meant to be digital money, and it serves that purpose reasonably well. It's a PoW network that's struggling to scale, leading some to believe that it's more of a store of value, similar to gold. Bitcoin also has a hard cap of 21 million coins, lending itself more to that argument. Ethereum, is a decentralized platform that allows for the running of applications without any downtime, fraud, censorship of third-party interference. Ethereum uses blockchain technology to allow network users to send and receive payments.
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If the adoption trend continues, bitcoin could lead the market towards new all time highs. Additionally, payment processors are working with cryptocurrencies trying to spread their benefits. Once renowned for being a prominent Wall Street hedge fund manager, Mike Novogratz has now set his sights on the cryptocurrency space, and he's not turning back. Running the crypto-based Galaxy Investment Partners, Novogratz is betting big on the Bitcoin boom in general as his mid-term BTC price projection suggests. Ethereum is also benefiting from the rise of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, digital assets designed to represent ownership of unique virtual items like art and sports memorabilia.
That's certainly the most aggressive price prediction anyone's made for BTC yet. But if that insane price materializes, McAfee will end up looking like even more of a madman genius than he already is. Beyond that, though, Keiser has his eye set on the impressive $100,000 BTC price milestone. If this reality were to materialize down the road, that would put each BTC around the $390,000 price point. That means the BTC could potentially shoot up exponentially in future years. Let's take a look at some of the more prominent projections we've seen thrown around in recent days. Think about how when the price of oil surges, more companies begin producing oil, which then increases the supply and acutely deflates the price of oil accordingly. Sign Up NowGet this delivered to your inbox, and more info about our products and services. 40 days have passed since then, and now the price is 78.70% of the maximum.
According to Coindesk, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, and a number of other firms joined forces in February to create the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. The collaborative venture aims to use the Ethereum platform to integrate blockchain solutions into their infrastructures. Mt Pelerin is a financial intermediary duly affiliated with VQF (), a Self-Regulatory Organisation officially recognised by Switzerland's Federal Financial Market Supervisory Authority . There may be restrictions in certain countries as to whom may acquire cryptocurrencies.
To see all exchanges where Uniswap is trading, click here. However, this boom in activity has led to congestion on the Ethereum network. Ethereum is currently undergoing an ambitious upgrade that will, in theory, allow for faster transaction times and reduce the amount of power required to process transactions. Both bitcoin and Ethereum have attracted criticism from environmentalists over the impact of crypto mining on the climate. A list of the top Wrapped Ether markets across all crypto exchanges based on the highest 24h trading volume, with their current price. On the contrary, investors like Garg warn that with Ethereum's long-term significance, the cryptocurrency markets may be set for a reversal, with Bitcoin vaulting back to undisputed dominance.
Funds sent overseas also eliminate the need for currency conversions, since ether is the exact same whether it is in Canada or Japan. This website is intended to provide a clear summary of Ethereum's current and historical price as well as important updates from the industry. Ethereum ERC20 token prices can also be found in the menu options along with other coin data such as BTC, XRP and others. Prices are updated every minute in real-time and the open/close prices are recorded at midnight UTC.
Ethereum is a decentralized, open-source blockchain platform with smart contract functionality. The Ethereum platform has its own cryptocurrency called Ether, which also known as ETH or interchangeably as Ethereum. The Ethereum platform is effectively a world computer that allows developers to build applications called Smart Contracts with money built into the code. The first element of the new model is the base fee, which can go up or down depending on how busy the network is at a particular point in time.
May be able to make someone a lot of money in the future . This is followed by $65, $58.32 (.382 Fib), $55, and $51.44 (.5 Fib). This is followed by $80, $87.16 (1.618 Fib Extension), $90, $96.60 (1.272 Fib Extension), and $100. Looking ahead, the first resistance above 5400 SAT lies at 5720 SAT (1.272 Fib Extension – purple). This is followed by 5800 SAT (1.618 Fib Extension), 5888 SAT (1.414 Fib Extension – purple), and 6000 SAT. This is followed by $2.28 (.236 Fib), $2.10 (.382 Fib), and $2.00. It slipped through the 0.067 BTC support (.382 Fib) and continued to decline until reaching support by the 100-day MA (~0.0651 BTC). The RSI continues to make lower lows as it heads toward the midline, indicating the previous bullish momentum continues to dwindle.
"Dogecoins — they're great to talk about because of the moves they're having but I don't look at them as a real asset," he said. Since then, Mars, the parent company of Snickers and Milky Way, have taken to social media to jump on the Dogecoin bandwagon and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has tweeted his support for the meme-based token. Ok let's be real….XLM is responding better than the majority of the crypto market after that free fall…..I'm just not sure why it's happening but I'm happy to see it. The launch is part of a broader offering by ETC Group, which says it has plans to list five new cryptocurrency products this month.
Only, the traditional web is free to users, as they're giving away personal information. Centralized entities running websites then sell that data to make money. Unfortunately for many, Ethereum gas fees can run quite high based on network activity. This is because a block can only hold so much gas which varies based on transaction types and amounts.
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Native Oklahoma artist Harvey Pratt was chosen to design a memorial at a Smithsonian Institute museum in Washington, D.C.
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Harvey Pratt was chosen to design the National Native American Veterans Memorial.
Cheyenne/Arapaho artist, 2017 Oklahoma Creativity Ambassador and El Reno resident Harvey Pratt almost didn't submit a design for the very contest for which he was recently awarded a unanimous selection designation. Last month, Pratt was named winning designer during a competition process for a federally authorized commission by Congress to complement the grounds at Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).
His winning work, "Warriors' Circle of Honor," features multisensory elements and encompasses traditional features shared by a range of tribes across American lands. The National Native American Veterans Memorial will break ground on Sept. 21, 2019, the 15th anniversary of the museum; however, as a recent retiree, it took a close friend to enlighten Pratt, a Marine Corps veteran, about the gravity of his accomplishment.
"After I won, someone said, 'Harvey, you're going to be on the [National] Mall with 11 other national memorials,'" Pratt said. "I'd never thought about it. At that point, I was trying to do a good job and be competitive. [He said,] 'You're going to be there as long as there is an America.'"
Luckily, Pratt started on a design concept in December and the rest will very well be history.
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The veterans memorial honors Native Americans who have served in the U.S. armed forces.
Lasting design
Rebecca Trautmann, project curator for the memorial, shed light on the selection process, which began with an advisory committee of about 30 members, including co-chair lieutenant governor of the Chickasaw Nation Jefferson Keel and fellow Native American veterans, family members and tribal leaders.
From 2015 to 2017, representatives from NMAI traveled across 16 states and the District of Columbia, consulting with 1,200 people across the country to gain insight for drafting the design guidelines. The process helped them better understand what the most vested parties wanted to see in the memorial, what story needed to be conveyed and what the takeaway of visiting the memorial should be.
Pratt attended one of the conversations conducted in Oklahoma. Discussions were hosted by Choctaw Nation, Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes, Comanche Nation and Cherokee Nation.
"Something in this memorial will fit everybody." — Harvey Pratt click to tweet
That collective nationwide conversation and feedback is what directly shaped the criteria, including a desire for the tribute to be inclusive of indigenous people and veterans across the country (including Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians), for men and women to be honored and for all branches and eras of service — from the Revolutionary War up to the present and through the future — to be recognized. Additionally, the support of families and guidance of spirituality was paramount, as was a designated space for remembrance, reflection and healing. Native Americans willingly serve in the military at a higher rate per capita than any other population group since the American Revolution.
The competition was announced on Veterans Day 2017. 120 Stage 1 design entries were received, which were narrowed down to five Stage 2 finalists.
"Then the jury spent a few days really discussing, deliberating over these five designs," Trautmann said. "Each of the [finalists] also presented their designs to the jury. The jury really talked about which of the five designs they felt best accomplished [needs] based on what we'd heard in our consultations."
There was a unanimous agreement that Harvey Pratt's design did just that.
Harvey Pratt / Smithsonian Institution / provided
A rendering of Harvey Pratt's "Warriors' Circle of Honor"
Animated elements
Pratt is an internationally renowned forensic artist, painter and sculptor who was born in Oklahoma and retired in March 2017 after 50 years in law enforcement. He recalls hearing that there was going to be a memorial to honor Native American veterans after attending one of the Smithsonian's early discussions with Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes' director of veteran affairs' Russell Willey while helping with research on Cheyenne Code Talkers in WWI.
"So we went, and I listened and he said, 'Harvey, you oughta do that," Pratt said. "I said, 'No, there will be huge companies, architectural firms working for that. There's just no way you could compete with guys who do that thing for a living.'"
Willey continued to encourage Pratt to submit for the Smithsonian bid. He thought about it. He slept on it. Then he dreamed about it and a concept appeared that seemed to fit the requirements once they were announced.
The thought centered on the idea of water, fire, earth and wind.
"Those are things that all tribes have a reverence for, and they use those things in their ceremonies, so I thought, 'Well, that's a start,'" Pratt said. "I got the idea that things evolve in circles — [it's] a timeless thing and endless; you can step into it at almost any part and circle back and do it again. I said, 'A vet or war mother could come in there and choose their direction.'"
Acknowledging the ceremonial songs that contribute to honoring veterans, Pratt included a speaker system in his design. Uniquely, that hadn't been done before. The memorial will be equipped to play those songs, with auditory attributes coming from the beat of drums, the sound of voices and the water element. An eternal fire component wasn't allowable; however, a ceremonial fire might be lit for special occasions.
"So I included directions, five military seals, we had the four elements, cardinal points and I thought I'd include the sacred colors," Pratt said. "Something in this memorial will fit everybody so they [can] come in and do it the way they do it and not what someone else is doing."
Pratt's designs started on lined yellow legal paper, and he began drawing in December 2017 right before Christmas. He expanded materials to grid paper and enlisted his son and wife for the design team. It was his son who suggested that they animate the process in order for it to really come to life. The family affair grew to include help from local, yet nationally recognized animation and design firms Skyline Ink and Butzer Architects and Urbanism to bring the designs to life and has continued to encompass various other architects.
By June 1, the team had to have everything submitted, including designs, plans, exhibits and 34 pages of dialogue explaining what they wanted to do and what exactly it meant. There will be some slight modifications along the way and many visits to D.C. in the meantime to ensure that the core values remain intact.
Pratt's gratitude and pride resonates in the tone of his voice. Upon returning from Vietnam, he maintained his warrior mentality as a Marine and still wanted to help people. Though he's retired, Pratt said it's hard to say no to someone in need. He's one of the Southern Cheyenne chiefs and said he first gained respect for veterans as a child and is thankful to teachers for helping him recognize his talents at an early age.
The National Native American Veterans Memorial is slated to open in late 2020. To date, close to $3 million has been raised of the $8 million needed to cover the cost of building the memorial.
Visit nmai.si.edu.
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1) Supports displaying the artist and album information of the mp3 file with ID3v1.
2) The playback and recording stability when a SD card is used has been improved.
3) Other various updates to increase operation stability.
1) File copy/move in the music folder is now possible.
2) Other various updates to increase operation stability.
1) File transfer function from Android version smart phone app "Olympus Audio Controller" to the recorder has been added.
2) Fixed phenomenon that operation status does not appear at the time of playback speed changes.
This software is updating the voice guidance files.
You can change the voice guidance files to each language.
To change the voice guidance you can downlad the application and instructions.
1) From the Home display, press the [MENU] button.
2) Press the [-] button repeatedly to select the Device Menu, which is represented by an icon of a wrench, and then press the Right Arrow button.
3) Press the [-] button repeatedly to select System Info, and then press [OK].
This screen will display the model number, firmware version and serial number of the recorder.
- This firmware update program is only for use with the Olympus DM-901 digital recorder.
1) Download the update file.
2) Connect the recorder to a computer running a supported operating system using the USB cable packaged with the recorder and wait until the recorder LCD displays "Remote".
3) Close all programs running on the computer.
4) Doubleclick the update file to begin the update.
5) Follow the on-screen prompts.
6) When the update is complete, wait until the recorder LCD displays "Remote" and then disconnect the recorder.
7) Verify that the firmware version has changed to the new version number.


I have a monocoque 2005 Talisman, owned for over a year. Things starting to need attention so hope experiences from forum members will help me keep her on the road for many years.
Bexhill is one of our favourite places, as my sister-in-law used to live there and we often enjoy revisiting.
The De La Warr is stunning.
And a little Italian restaurant just around the corner.
Yes it is a great place. We walked along the beach from Norman's Bay about 6 years ago into Bexhill, fell in love with it and moved from Suffolk 4years ago. Now 3 great Italian restaurants near the pavillion.


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۲۵۵Tbps: World's fastest network could carry all of the internet's traffic on a single fiber
A joint group of researchers from the Netherlands and the US have smashed the world speed record for a fiber network, pushing 255 terabits per second down a single strand of glass fiber. This is equivalent to around 32 terabytes per second — enough to transfer a 1GB movie in 31.25 microseconds (0.03 milliseconds), or alternatively, the entire contents of your 1TB hard drive in about 31 milliseconds.
To put 255Tbps into perspective, the fastest single-fiber links in commercial operation top out at 100Gbps, or 2,550 times slower. 255Tbps is mindbogglingly quick; it's greater, by far, than the total capacity of every cable — hundreds of glass fibers — currently spanning the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, 255 terabits per second is similar to — or maybe even more than — the total sum of all traffic flowing across the internet at peak time.
How did the researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and University of Central Florida (CREOL) do it? Multi-core fiber, of course! As it stands, the entire internet backbone consists of single-mode glass and plastic fiber. These fibers can only carry one mode of light — which, in essence, means they can only carry the light from a single laser. (It's a bit more complex than that, but it's beyond the scope of this story to explain it any further.) You can still use wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to push insane amounts of data down a single fiber (a few terabits), but we will eventually run up against the laws of physics.
Multi-core, multi-mode fiber – and a schematic of the device used to send data over such fibers.
Another visualization of the seven-core multi-mode fiber
Multi-core fiber — literally a strand of optical fiber that has multiple cores running along it — allows for multi-mode operation. It has historically been hard (and costly) to make high-quality multi-mode fiber, but it seems those barriers are finally starting to fall. In this case, the TU/e and CREOL researchers used a glass fiber with seven individual cores, arranged in a hexagon. They used spatial multiplexing to hit 5.1 terabits per carrier, and then WDM to squeeze 50 carriers down the seven cores — for a total of 255Tbps. This wasn't just a short-range laboratory demo, either: The multi-mode fiber link was one kilometer (0.62 miles) long. [Research paper: doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.243]
(The image at the top of this story is DARPA's multi-core photonic-bandgap fiber — not the seven-core fiber used in the research discussed here.)
Eventually, multi-mode fiber will most likely replace the internet's current single-mode backbone — but considering such an upgrade would require millions of miles of new multi-core cabling, and lots of new routing hardware to handle the multi-mode connections, we're talking very long-term here. Still, with internet traffic continuing to grow at an alarming rate — mostly fueled by the popularity of streaming video, and smartphones and tablets bringing billions more people online — it's nice to know that we now have the necessary technology to make sure that we don't run out of bandwidth any time soon.
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Edward Hutton, a prolific writer on Italy, was one of the founders of the British Institute of Florence. Hutton was known for his writing on Italian subjects and as the author of travel-books covering nearly the whole of the peninsula as well as Sicily. The collection, given by his son, contains manuscript copies of Hutton's published work and over 350 letters, including some from his friend and fellow Italophile, Norman Douglas.
This is a transcript of a manuscript in the collection in which Edward Hutton recalls his childhood and youth in north London and Devon, where he went to school at Blundell's, and his early working life in London, where he worked for John Lane in the 1890s and where he met the likes of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardley and Richard Le Gallienne.
Edward Hutton's son, Peter Hutton, gave the collection to the Library of the British Institute. The bulk of the material was given in 1977 and was followed by a smaller proportion of material in the 1980s and in 1996. Edward Hutton had kept the collection until his death in 1969.
Edward Hutton is known for his writing on Italian subjects and as the author of travel books covering nearly the whole of the peninsula as well as Sicily. He also wrote about Greece and Spain, and produced three of the volumes in the Highways and Byways series (Somerset, Gloucesteshire and Wiltshire). In 1917 the Italian government made him a Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Corona d'Italia in recognition of his wartime services to Anglo-Italian co-operation and in 1959 a Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. In 1924 the British Academy gave him its gold medal for his work in the field of Italian studies.
Born in 1875, Edward Hutton first went to Italy when he was twenty-one. In the spring of 1901 Hutton and his wife rented the Casa di Boccaccio at Ponte a Mensola, east of Florence, not far from I Tatti into which the Berensons had moved at around the same time, and from Janet Ross at Poggio Gherardo. Here Hutton began to write the travel books that were to become famous, e.g. The Cities of Umbria (London, 1905), Florence and Northern Tuscany (London, 1907), Siena and Southern Tuscany (London, 1910), Venice and Venetia (London, 1911) Rome (London, 1912), Naples and Southern Italy (London, 1915). At least one of his research journeys to Greece was done in the company of Norman Douglas (1868-1952, writer).
At the same time Hutton edited new editions of James Dennistoun's Dukes of Urbino (London and New York, 1909), and Crowe and Cavalcaselle's History of Painting in Italy (London, 1909). He wrote a book on Sigismondo Malatesta (London, 1906), and an outstanding critical biography of Boccaccio (London, 1910) that continues to be recommended today. Janet Ross inspired his writing of Country Walks about Florence (1908), and with her he edited Poesie Volgari di Lorenzo de' Medici (1912).
During the First World War, Hutton was sent to Italy on a special mission by the then permanent under-secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sir Eyre Crowe (1864-1925). He was kept there for nearly two years, at the end of which time he was lent to the Italian authorities to work for the Italian Foreign Action Bureau under Filippo de Filippi in England. In 1918 Hutton founded the Anglo-Italian Review. Two articles written by Hutton in the Review prompted Arthur Serena (d. 1922, a shipbroker and son of the Venetain patriot Leone Serena) to come to him for advice on how he might further the cause of Italian studies in Britain. Hutton suggested that Serena should found Italian professorships at Oxford and Cambridge and made the necessary proposals to their vice-chancellors. Serena provided half the cost of the new chairs and the Universities found the rest.
In 1917 Edward Hutton was one of the founders of the British Institute in Florence. In 1928 he converted to Catholicism and dedicated much of his time to Catholic issues. In 1943 Hutton was called on by the Political Department of the Foreign Office to write detailed descriptions of the various Italian provinces, nineteen volumes in all, and to each of these he appended, on his own initiative, a list of works of art which should be protected. These lists were later officially recognised by Eisenhower.
Hutton owned no fewer than eleven examples of the work of Simone Martini at one time or another. As an admirer of Cosmati work, Hutton designed and had laid Cosmatesque pavements in Westminster Cathedral and in Buckfast Abbey. He demonstrated his authority on the subject in The Cosmati (London, 1951).
Edward Hutton died in 1969, in the same year that he was made a Patron of the British Institute of Florence.
The collection consists of letters (over 500), hand-written and typed manuscripts (over 60), cuttings, working notebooks and published work. Edward Hutton's son, Peter, packed up the collection after his father's death. The majority of the letters were in alphabetical order by author. Peter Hutton had also selected and put together letters that concern Norman Douglas. The manuscripts were packed individually in newspaper, card and string. The cuttings are either in volumes kept by Hutton, or loose in files given by Peter Hutton.
Edward Hutton had a wide correspondence but the surviving letters often amount to only one or two by a particular writer. Their interest may lie more as groups of letters surrounding a particular issue, e.g. the founding of the Anglo-Italian Review, Catholic controversies in England, or the response to unfavourable comments in the press about Norman Douglas after his death. Correspondents include: Harold Acton (1904-1994, author), James Barrie (1860-1937, author), Max Beerbohm, (1872-1956, author), Arnold Bennett (1867-1931, author), Bernard Berenson (1865-1959, art historian), Robert Bridges (1844-1930, poet), Kenneth Clark (1903-1983, author, Director of the National Gallery, London), Sir Sidney Cockerell (1867-1962, publisher and typographer), Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966, stage designer), M.C. D'Arcy (1888-1976, Jesuit priest and author), Norman Douglas (1868-1952, author), J.L. Garvin (1868-1947, editor of The Observer from 1908-1914), Eric Gill (1882-1940, artist), Graham Greene (author, 1904-1991), Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923, author), W.H. Hudson (1841-1922, author), Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986, author), John Lane (1854-1925, publisher), David Lloyd George (1863-1945, politician and Prime Minister 1916-1922), Harold Macmillan (1894-1986, publisher, politician and Prime Minister 1957-1963), F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944, Futurist), C.C. Martindale (1879-1963, Jesuit priest), Alice Meynell (1847-1922, poet and critic) and Wilfred Meynell (1852-1948, author and journalist), Raymond Mortimer (1895-1978, critic), Aldo Palazzeschi (1885-1974, poet), Pino Orioli (1884-1942, bookseller), Janet Ross (1842-1927, author), Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960, architect), Montague Summers (1880-1948, author on restoration drama and witchcraft, 33 letters between 1928 and 1948), Arthur Symons (1865-1945, poet), Edward Thomas (1878-1917, poet), G.M. Trevelyan (1876-1962, historian), Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966, author), Rebecca West (1892-1983, author), Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976, archaeologist).
The manuscripts are those of Hutton's published works and articles. They include the beginnings of an Autobiography. The scrapbooks surround particular issues. In combination with the published works held by the Harold Acton Library, this is the fundamental archive for any research into the person and writings of Edward Hutton.
Peter Hutton provided a hand-written list of the authors of letters: the list is not complete and does not indicate the related number of letters or their contents. On an envelope containing a number of selected letters Peter Hutton listed the authors: the selection consists of letters relating to Norman Douglas.
A catalogue of the collection now exists. There is also a comprehensive list of correspondents.
Peter Hutton also gave a collection of Edward Hutton's printed works to the Library. The following list includes these.
Why Italian? : a lecture delivered at the Italian conference summoned by the Italian Committee of the Modern Language Association at Bedford College, London, on July 22, 1934.
The children's Christmas treasury of things new and old.
The Library also holds the bibliographical work by Dennis Rhodes, The Writings of Edward Hutton, published in 1955.
Also in the holdings is an almost complete run of the Anglo-Italian Review, edited by EH. The review ran from May 1918 to May 1921, with the commercial supplement continuing to April 1922.


China's Shenhua Ningmei Coal Group has placed a follow-up order with Siemens Energy for four identical CO2 compressor trains for a coal liquefaction plant.
The end customer is Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. Ltd. (SNCG), a subsidiary of the Shenhua Group, the largest coal producer in China. The compressor trains are destined for a coal liquefaction plant in Ningxia Province, which lies in the northwestern part of the People's Republic of China. The plant has a capacity of 4mTPA (tonnes per annum) of liquefied coal. Siemens will deliver to this plant what is currently its largest CO2 compressor. The compressor trains are scheduled for delivery in the summer of 2015.
The four compressor trains each consist of one STC-GV integrally geared compressor, each of which is driven by an SST-600 condensing steam turbine via an intermediate gear. The scope of supply also includes the associated auxiliary systems. The compressors, each of which has six stages, are designed for a carbon dioxide volume flow rate of approximately 141,000 standard cubic meters (NM3/h), allowing these new units to compress nearly twice the volume of CO2 as the predecessor model. In addition, Siemens also supplied gasification technologies and equipments for the same project.
The gas in the plant is compressed from a suction pressure of 1.25 bar to 68-bar. Each compressor has a rated output of 28 megawatts (MW). Part of the CO2 gas compressed by the Siemens compressor train is used, among other things, as process gas for internal transport within the plant, while the unneeded portion of the CO2 is vented. The compressor trains will be produced in Europe, while the Siemens joint venture in Huludao, China, will deliver the auxiliary systems and handle local project management and engineering.
In 2009, Siemens delivered CO2 compressors with a volume flow rate of 83,000 Nm3/h and five coal gasifiers, each with a thermal power rating of 500MW, for the coal chemical plant in Yinchuan, Ningxia.
The combined heat and power plant with an electric capacity of 138 MW and also has a fuel efficiency of 84%. The order value, including long-term service agreement, is approximately €160m.
The order involves 20 SGT-800 industrial gas turbines, for small power producers, being delivered to the country – with it valued at over €300m, including installation and commissioning. The total capacity of gas turbines is about 1,000MW.
Siemens and Fortum have signed a long-term service contract for the Nyaganskaya GRES combined cycle power plant in Nyagan, Russia. The power station consists of three combined cycle power units totaling 1,254 megawatts (MW).


Rail switches or 'points' are used in the rail industry to guide trains to their correct route. They work by using a tapered set of rails (points) lying between the outer rails that can be moved to direct the train travelling across them.
Being involved in the rail industry, we at PRV like to keep an eye on the latest developments and innovations coming over the horizon, whether it's to do with passenger travel, the moving of freight or the development of the trains of the future. So the recent headline about a UK company winning funding to develop a solution for passenger travel and the movement of freight for the future caught our eye.
A St Ives based company has won a share of £2.2m through the Tomorrow's Train Design Today (TTDT) programme.
Siemens has recently landed a contract to provide and maintain trains for the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. The Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) is being hailed as the project of the century for the region, whose rail connections and public transport systems have been heavily burdened for years.
At a time when development within the rail industry is gathering pace, battery powered trains are poised to make a comeback. Battery powered trains have been used for around 100 years, but expanded use has been held back by battery technologies.
Now, the first passenger train of its kind in over 50 years has recently undergone a five-week trial in a bid to prove the viability of more eco-friendly alternatives to diesel-powered locomotives.
Back in 2013, The Independently Powered Electric Multiple Unit (IPEMU) came into force. It draws power from overhead lines and then lowers its pantograph to allow it to run on its batteries instead, so enabling it to run over non electrified lines. The challenge was in finding an effective energy storage system or battery.
The United Kingdom's rail industry can afford to smile with the news that the first completed pre-series Class 800 train is on its way.
The train, built by Hitachi in Japan, is the first of a fleet of 122 trains set for the Great Western Main Line and the East Coast Main Line, as part of the Department for Transport's Intercity Express programme.
Even better news for the rail industry in the UK is that the bulk of the fleet will be manufactured in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. The factory is currently under construction and will employ over 700 staff.


I have lived in the "Lowcountry" for about four decades. Over that time, I have learned to appreciate the flora around me more and more, particularly Southern trees. Currently I live in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, but have lived in Charleston for a period of time. During these 40-some years, I have pretty much canvassed the area and have seen most of the various trees and tree care.
I have started this blog to show some of the pictures I have taken of the local trees. Over time I hope to add some more information and interesting articles about South Carolina trees, tree service options and interview summaries with arborists.
Please send me pictures of the trees around Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island. I have not taken any pictures out there yet.


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Q: Stanford CS193p - Changing font size in line with card count number? I'm on the final task for Assignment 1, "5. When your game randomly shows 5 pairs, the font we are using for the emoji will be too large (in portrait) and will start to get clipped. Have the font adjust in the 5 pair case (only) to use a smaller font than .largeTitle. Continue to use .largeTitle when there are 4 or fewer pairs in the game."
I've added the following code below I made, but cant figure out HOW to do it correctly. Any help greatly appreciated. New to coding for those super enough to answer!
struct ContentView: View {
var viewModel: EmojiMemoryGame

var body: some View {
    HStack {
        ForEach(viewModel.cards) { card in
            CardView(card: card).onTapGesture {
                self.viewModel.choose(card: card)
            }
// MARK: - Aspect Ratio 2/3
        }.aspectRatio(2/3, contentMode: .fit)
    }
        .padding()
        .foregroundColor(Color.orange)
  //.font(Font.largeTitle).   To be deleted once the below is made successful

  //TODO: - Add font size to allow 5 pairs of cards not to clip on portrait view

  if numberOfPairsOfCards.count >=5 {
            .font(Font.footnote)
        } else {
            .font(Font.largeTitle)
        }

A: I used the ternary operator
struct ContentView: View {
var viewModel: EmojiMemoryGame

var body: some View {
    HStack {
        ForEach(viewModel.cards) { card in
            CardView(card: card).onTapGesture {
                self.viewModel.choose(card: card)
            }
            .aspectRatio(2/3, contentMode: .fit)
        }
    }
    .padding()
    .foregroundColor(Color.orange)
    .font(viewModel.cards.count == 10 ? Font.footnote : Font.largeTitle)
}}

A: So what I did was adding a parameter when initializing the ContentView, since I found that many things are not mutable inside the contentView. So I had a line in the SceneDelagate to handle the font type
let game = EmojiMemoryGame()
    var fontType: Font
    if game.cards.count == 10{
        fontType = Font.body
    } else {
        fontType = Font.largeTitle
    }
    let contentView = ContentView(game_viewModel: game, fontType: fontType)

And here's my ContentView Code
struct ContentView: View {
var game_viewModel: EmojiMemoryGame
var fontType: Font
var body: some View {
    let cardStack = HStack {
        ForEach(game_viewModel.cards) { card in
            CardView(card: card).onTapGesture{
                self.game_viewModel.choose(card: card)
            }
        }
    }
        .padding()
        .foregroundColor(Color.orange)
        .font(fontType)
    return cardStack
}
}

Another way of doing it is by adding a function to update fonts:
struct ContentView: View {
var game_viewModel: EmojiMemoryGame
func updatefont() -> Font{
    if game_viewModel.cards.count == 10{
        return Font.body
    } else {
        return Font.largeTitle
    }
}
var body: some View {
    let cardStack = HStack {
        ForEach(game_viewModel.cards) { card in
            CardView(card: card).onTapGesture{
                self.game_viewModel.choose(card: card)
            }
        }
    }
        .padding()
        .foregroundColor(Color.orange)
        .font(updatefont())
    return cardStack
}
}

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.Mid-Week Menu: B-Side, Nido, and Moderno Italiano
By Luke Tsai
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Welcome to the Mid-Week Menu, our weekly roundup of East Bay food news.
1) Eater brings news that B-Side BBQ (3303 San Pablo Ave.), Tanya Holland's barbecue joint, will extend its hours starting this Friday, in conjunction with the launch of a brand new cocktail menu featuring Holland's housemade syrups. The new hours will be 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday. In October, the restaurant will also feature hapy hour specials from 4 to 6 — $10 for beer or wine and your choice of chicken wings, pork sliders, or
I'd been under the impression that after-dark hours might have been seen as risky for the neighborhood — a somewhat desolate stretch of San Pablo Avenue. But Holland told me she'd always wanted to stay open late and has just been slowly revving things up: "You can always add hours, but you can't take them away; otherwise, people will be really upset." Safety hasn't been an issue, she said.
Meanwhile, the question on everybody's mind: What about Holland's flagship restaurant, Brown Sugar Kitchen (2534 Mandela Parkway)? Alas, the hours there won't be extending to include dinner service — Holland said that between breakfast and lunch, the restaurant is already "at capacity."
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When Marc Benioff launched Salesforce in 1999, he thought he had it all planned out.
The CEO wanted his company to be based on a new kind of technology -- cloud computing. He wanted to create a new business model based on subscriptions. And he wanted the firm to prioritize philanthropy.
The one thing he overlooked? Ensuring women's equality.
"I wish I could rewind time and go back and put that women's equality issue into the culture from the beginning," Benioff told CNN's Poppy Harlow. "Looking back, 16 years, that was as big an issue as the philanthropy issues for me now."
Less than 30% of Salesforce's 16,000 employees are women. At the leadership level, the percentage drops to 15%.
Benioff told Harlow he has an aggressive goal to employ an equal number of women and men, and he thinks it's "absolutely doable" within five years.
"We have to take the goal of 50-50," he said. "There has to be a goal. This should be a metric that every CEO manages."
Salesforce (CRM) has already implemented a number of programs aimed at hiring more women and pushing efforts to make women more visible within the firm. One initiative, dubbed Women Surge, requires meetings to include at least 30% women.
Benioff also said he wants to make sure women are always interviewed for open job positions, and increase mentorship opportunities.
The issue of pay equality is another problem the tech industry veteran wants to tackle.
Earlier this year, Benioff promised to review all employee salaries to ensure men and women are paid equally for the same role.
"I would really like to achieve that in 12 months," he said, but admitted he will probably need a few years.
The evaluation process, which is already under way, has already revealed some inequality issues.
"We are correcting that," said Benioff. "Fortunately, we haven't found as much of it as I was worried we might have found."
On the bright side, he added, Salesforce has found that the company's 20 top women are paid more than the 20 top men.
Salesforce isn't the only big tech company focused on improving diversity and equality issues in the workplace. Most recently, Intel (INTC), Apple (AAPL), and Google (GOOGL) have also committed to helping correct gender inequality.
Benioff is one of the most outspoken CEOs in the tech industry, often taking to Twitter to share his views on a wide range of national social issues.
In the spring, the 50-year-old executive, who says he leans conservative but isn't a Republican or Democrat, publicly opposed Indiana's controversial religious freedom law. He also told Harlow he is a staunch supporter of a $15 minimum wage.
While some have questioned his political ambitions, Benioff said he is simply doing what he thinks is right as a leader. In general, he believes CEOs should feel more empowered to speak out.
"I think it's part of our training, [that] we are supposed to focus on our shareholders, on EPS," he said. "Well guess what? It's 2015. The business of business is not business. The business of business is improving the state of the world."


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A 22-year-old woman was allegedly set on fire by her in-laws on Sunday.The Daba police have booked victim's husband Deepak Kumar, along with her mother-in-law and father-in-law, following a statement of the victim.
A 22-year-old woman was allegedly set on fire by her in-laws on Sunday.
The Daba police have booked victim's husband Deepak Kumar, along with her mother-in-law and father-in-law, following a statement of the victim.
The woman suffered burn injuries and was admitted to a local hospital, where her condition is stated to be critical.
A case was registered under Section 307 (attempt to murder), 498-A (dowry harassment) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
Amarpal Singh, victim's father, said his daughter Komal tied the knot with Deepak of Daba Colony around four years ago.
He alleged that Deepak and his parents used to harass his daughter for dowry. They had even demanded motorcycle in dowry.
He further alleged that Deepak, with the help of his parents, assaulted Komal and had set her on fire after pouring kerosene on her on Sunday. Inspector Jatinder Kumar, station house officer at the Daba police station, said a case of attempt to murder had been registered against the accused.
The police had launched a manhunt to arrest the accused, the SHO added.


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package com.lightcrafts.ui.browser.ctrls;

import static com.lightcrafts.ui.browser.ctrls.Locale.LOCALE;
import com.lightcrafts.ui.browser.model.ImageDatumComparator;
import com.lightcrafts.ui.browser.view.AbstractImageBrowser;
import com.lightcrafts.ui.browser.view.ImageBrowserEvent;
import com.lightcrafts.ui.browser.view.ImageBrowserListener;
import com.lightcrafts.ui.browser.view.ImageBrowserScrollPane;
import com.lightcrafts.ui.layout.ToggleTitleBorder;
import com.lightcrafts.ui.toolkit.BoxedButton;
import com.lightcrafts.app.ComboFrame;
import com.lightcrafts.app.CollapseButton;

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.Border;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.*;

/**
 * A container for the various browser control widgets, and also a place where
 * their interactions are defined.
 *

 * Such as:
 *

 *
The browser scroll pane layout centering behavior is disabled except
 * during interactive thumbnail size changes.

 *
A browser error label is updated on browser error events and selection
 * events.

 *
Initial values for the sort control and the thumbnail size are
 * enforced.

 *

 */
public class BrowserControls extends Box {

    private JLabel browserError;

    public BrowserControls(final ImageBrowserScrollPane browserScroll, ComboFrame frame) {
        super(BoxLayout.X_AXIS);

        AbstractImageBrowser browser = browserScroll.getBrowser();

        BoxedButton rotator   = new BoxedButton(LOCALE.get("RotateBorderTitle"),    new RotateButtons(browser));
        BoxedButton rater     = new BoxedButton(LOCALE.get("RateBorderTitle"),      new RatingButton(browser));
        BoxedButton copyPaste = new BoxedButton(LOCALE.get("CopyToolsBorderTitle"), new CopyPasteButtons(browser));

        SortCtrl sortCtrl = new SortCtrl(browser);
        BoxedButton sort      = new BoxedButton(LOCALE.get("SortBorderTitle"),      sortCtrl);

        SizeSlider sizeSlider = new SizeSlider(browser);
        ToggleTitleBorder.setBorder(sizeSlider, LOCALE.get("SizeBorderTitle"));
        // Use the centering layout only when the SizeSlider is working,
        // so other size changes (like when files come and go) don't result
        // in scroll jumps:
        sizeSlider.addMouseListener(
            new MouseAdapter() {
                public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
                    browserScroll.setCenteringLayout(true);
                }
                public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
                    browserScroll.setCenteringLayout(false);
                }
            }
        );
        //BoxedButton size      = new BoxedButton(LOCALE.get("SizeBorderTitle"),      sizeSlider);

        BoxedButton collapse  = new BoxedButton(LOCALE.get("CollapseBorderTitle"),  new CollapseButton(frame));
        BoxedButton latest    = new BoxedButton(LOCALE.get("SelectBorderTitle"),    new SelectLatestButton(browser));
        BoxedButton trash     = new BoxedButton(LOCALE.get("TrashBorderTitle"),     new TrashButton(browser));

        browserScroll.setCenteringLayout(false);

        browserError = new JLabel();

        browser.addBrowserListener(
            new ImageBrowserListener() {
                public void selectionChanged(ImageBrowserEvent event) {
                    // Clear any lingering error messages from a prior events
                    browserError.setText("");
                }
                public void imageDoubleClicked(ImageBrowserEvent event) {
                }
                public void browserError(String message) {
                    browserError.setText(message);
                }
            }
        );

        final int space = 8;
        // add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));
        add(rotator.box);
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));
        add(rater.box);
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));

        add(trash.box);
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));

        add(new Separator());
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));

        add(copyPaste.box);
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));

        add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());

        add(browserError);
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));

        add(collapse.box);
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));
        add(latest.box);
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));

        add(new Separator());
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));

        add(sizeSlider);
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));
        add(sort.box);
        add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));
        // add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());

        // Add space above and below, to tune the layout:
        Border border = BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(0, 0, 3, 0);
        setBorder(border);

        ImageDatumComparator comp = sortCtrl.getSort();
        boolean inverted = sortCtrl.getSortInverted();
        int sizeValue = sizeSlider.getValue();

        browser.setSort(comp);
        browser.setSortInverted(inverted);
        browser.setCharacteristicSize(sizeValue);
    }

    class Separator extends JSeparator {
        Separator() {
            super(SwingConstants.VERTICAL);
            setMaximumSize(new Dimension(3, 32));
        }
    }

/*
        // add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));
        // Box s = Box.createHorizontalBox();
        JSeparator separator = new JSeparator(SwingConstants.VERTICAL);
        // s.add(separator);
        // separator.setLayout(new BoxLayout(separator, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
        add(separator);
        // add(Box.createHorizontalStrut(space));
        add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());

 */
    public void dispose() {
        ToggleTitleBorder.unsetAllBorders(this);
    }
}

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Wonder Boy Returns Remix Arrives On The Nintendo Switch On May 23, 2019
By Jenni Lada May 2, 2019
Another more modern take on Wonder Boy game is heading to the Nintendo Switch, but this time it is the one that is a take on the Adventure Island adaptation of Wonder Boy. Wonder Boy Returns Remix, a new version of Wonder Boy Returns, will arrive on the eShop on May 23, 2019. The "remix" part of the name refers to the fact that there will be entirely new content present in this iteration.
There are two major additions in Wonder Boy Returns Remix. The first is that the 32 stages present have all been rearranged and supervised by Ryuichi Nishizawa, the original Wonder Boy creator. Also, a Charge Shot has been added that lets you charge up an attack to send out a larger than usual hammer.
The Wonder Boy Returns Remix launch trailer shows off the Charge Shot and other new features.
Wonder Boy Returns is immediately available for the PlayStation 4 and PC. Wonder Boy Returns Remix will arrive on the Nintendo Switch on May 23, 2019.
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Iran says it will pass a uranium cap. Is it a threat? What happens next?
The reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, in 2010. Photo / Getty Images
By: Rick Gladstone
Amid escalating tensions with the United States, Iran said on June 17 that by Thursday it would surpass the limit on the uranium supply permitted under the 2015 nuclear agreement, a potentially combustible new phase in the country's confrontation with Washington.
The declaration came days after the United States accused Iran of attacking two oil tankers, and days before Iran shot down an American drone and President Donald Trump approved, then aborted, a strike in retaliation. Iran has threatened further acts of noncompliance with the accord in the coming weeks.
Iranian leaders have sought to justify these steps as a response to the Trump administration's abandonment of the nuclear accord last year and its reimposition of sanctions, which have weakened Iran's economy and in particular choked its ability to sell oil, the country's most important export.
Iran insists its nuclear work remains peaceful, as guaranteed under the accord. But Iran also insists that the country has the right to stop honouring some or all of provisions because the United States has re-imposed sanctions in violation of the accord.
Here are questions and answers on whether Iran has violated the agreement, the possible consequences, and what could happen next.
What exactly is the limit Iran will exceed, and is it significant?
Iran is permitted to keep up to 300 kilograms, or about 660 pounds, of uranium enriched to 3.67 per cent purity, a level that can be used for civilian purposes like nuclear power fuel. This is a fraction of the uranium stockpile it had once amassed, which was shipped out of the country after the nuclear agreement took effect.
The limit is among several restrictions in the 2015 accord designed to prevent Iran from producing enough uranium enriched to a purity high enough for a nuclear weapon.
An Iranian technician at the uranium conversion facility just outside the city of Isfahan in 2007. Iran agreed in 2015 to limit its stockpile of energy-grade uranium. Photo / AP
The Arms Control Association, a non-proliferation group based in Washington, has estimated that Iran would need roughly triple the amount of 3.67 per cent-enriched uranium it is permitted to possess under the accord in order to further enrich the material into weapons-grade strength sufficient to make one bomb.
Breaching the 300-kilogram limit of low-enriched uranium is not in itself a signal that Iran intends to abandon its pledge of peaceful nuclear development. But Iranian officials, in announcing their plans last month, said they were quadrupling production of low-enriched uranium, raising the possibility they could start stockpiling far greater quantities again.
Does this mean Iran is violating the nuclear agreement?
That depends on whom you ask. Iranian officials have said they remain a party to the agreement — unlike the United States. The Iranians have cited language in the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA, in which Iran asserts that if nuclear-related sanctions are re-imposed, that would be "grounds to cease performing its commitments under this JCPOA. in whole or in part."
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Western experts on the agreement have disputed Iran's reasoning. "It's basically a unilateral interpretation from the Iranian side of what the nuclear deal means," said Henry Rome, an Iran analyst at the Eurasia Group, a Washington-based political risk consultancy. "In their view they can reduce compliance commensurate with what the other side does."
Daryl G. Kimball, the executive director of the Arms Control Association, called Iran's action a violation "of one of many of the JCPOA's nuclear limits, but it is not, by itself a near-term proliferation threat."
Are other countries violating the accord?
Yes. The United States, by Trump's own declaration, is not complying with its provisions, describing the agreement as a disaster that needs to be renegotiated with Iran. The other parties to the agreement — Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia — have all said it was working and have exhorted the United States to rejoin.
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran listening to explanations about nuclear achievements in Tehran last year. Photo / Iranian Presidency Office
Iranian officials have argued that the accord's European members are not complying with the accord because they have failed to provide the promised economic benefits, fearing American retaliation. The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, said Tuesday that Iran will suspend more of its commitments starting July 7 unless the Europeans stop their "deceitful political attempts aimed at restricting the Iranian people's obvious rights."
Shamkhani did not specify what commitments might be suspended. Other Iranian officials, including President Hassan Rouhani, have hinted at higher uranium enrichment levels, which could reduce the time needed to attain weapons-grade fuel.
Have the Europeans accused Iran of noncompliance?
They have urged Iran to adhere to the accord's requirements but have not specified what action might be taken otherwise. The accord has a provision for addressing accusations of noncompliance, in which a joint commission would evaluate complaints and try to rectify them. None of the participants have resorted to that provision, partly because of fears it could unravel the accord.
"Then you enter a state when the Iranians or the other parties will think the deal is dead," Rome said. "The hesitancy from the Europeans is they don't want to start that process."
Diplomats from Britain, France and Germany reiterated this week at the United Nations Security Council that they want "full implementation" of the nuclear agreement.
What role does the UN Security Council play in this crisis?
The Security Council adopted a resolution in 2015 that endorsed the nuclear agreement and ended U.N. sanctions against Iran. The resolution, 2231, includes what is known as a "snapback" provision that could reinstate those sanctions if other parties to the agreement complained that Iran was cheating. Such a step would likely doom the agreement.
Could the United States invoke the 'snapback' provision?
That is an unresolved question. While the United States is a member of the Security Council, it is no longer a party to the nuclear agreement and may not have the legal grounds to invoke that provision. And other parties to the agreement who wish to preserve it — including American allies on the Security Council — might challenge the United States were it to make the attempt.
"If the US doesn't have the standing, it's not quite clear what happens," said Richard Nephew, a former State Department sanctions expert who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal and is now a research scholar at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. "It's unfortunate but that has become a real mess."
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LG Front Load Washing Machine Mold/Mildew Litigation
On May 6, 2008, Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP (CSK&D), along with co-counsel, filed a consolidated class action complaint in the District Court for the District of New Jersey against LG Electronics USA, Inc. ("LG") on behalf of consumers who purchased allegedly defective front load washing machines manufactured or sold by LG (the "Washing Machines"). According to the complaint, the Washing Machines suffer from a design and/or manufacturing defect that leads to the formation of mold and mildew on the inside of the washing machines. In addition to being unsightly and smelly, the mold and mildew that forms on the interior of the Washing Machines can damage clothes and other items, substantially decrease the value of these high-end products, and produce foul and noxious odors, according to the complaint. The complaint alleges that the named plaintiffs have run bleach and other cleaning products through their Washing Machines in an attempt to cleanse them of mold and mildew, but that these efforts have been unsuccessful.
On June 17, 2016, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey granted preliminary approval to a nationwide settlement of this action. The settlement covers certain LG front-load washing machines manufactured between January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2006. Settlement class members who purchased these washers may qualify for a cash payment or a rebate on the purchase of a new washing machine. Claim forms are now available. For additional information and to file a claim, CLICK HERE or visit the settlement website at www.lgwashersettlement.com.
If you are a member of the settlement class, your legal rights are affected whether you act or don't act. Please read the FAQ on the www.lgwashersettlement.com settlement website carefully. The only way to get a cash payment or a rebate for the purchase of a new washing machine is to complete and submit a Claim Form, including all required documentation. Your Claim Form and documentation must be submitted online on or before October 10, 2016, or mailed via U.S. Mail with a postmark no later than October 10, 2016
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Military Spouse Residency Relief Act
Good news on the homefront! The Military Spouse Residency Relief Act was passed by Congress last week and is awaiting the President's signature.
Here is the body of the press release:
Washington, DC -Tuesday, November 3, 2009. A comprehensive military family legislation, the Military Spouses Residency Relief Act (S 475 and HR 1182), which will legally recognize military spouses by providing them the option to claim the same state of domicile as their active duty spouse, passed through the House and Senate with strong bipartisan support, and is now being brought before the President to become a law.
The bill was introduced by Congressman John Carter (R-TX), who represents Fort Hood, the largest military installation in the country. "This is fantastic news for our service families worldwide," says Carter, who has been pushing the legislation for the last three years.
Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the companion bill into the Senate, which passed unanimously in August. The legislation will amend the Servicemember's Civil Relief Act (SCRA) of 1940 allowing military spouses to share a home state with their spouse, the service member.
Currently, military spouses experience impediments in voting and property ownership as well as deterrents in employment and education. The bill offers fair treatment of the military spouse and improves the quality of life for military families by allowing the stability of a single state of domicile to call home.
Over 8,000 military spouses, friends and family members united to support the Military Spouses Residency Relief Act on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Military-Spouses-Residency-Relief-Act/51457362877 They shared their individual stories as they contacted Congressional representatives to ask for support. Initially, Army Spouse, Rebecca Poynter and Navy Spouse, Joanna Williamson, approached Congressman Carter with their request to petition. "It has been a grass roots effort by thousands of spouses across the country, who have campaigned to get this passed, by telling their stories," explains Poynter.
"The support from Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) and the Veterans Service Organizations who testified in our support is greatly appreciated," said Williamson, "and together we claim this victory for all military families."
This is exciting news for military spouses and will undoubtedly save us all time and possibly even money.
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I will say it again…you have the best program we offer without question! Your efforts are unquestionably extraordinary!!! Anything I can do, I will do my best to fill that gap for you.
I find the PACE program is very informative. I got a lot out of each session. It's very therapeutic to be able to talk to other parents that are kind of 'in the same boat' so to speak. It was also been quite an eye opener. I had no idea of how bad things are in some of our neighborhoods. Our counselor has an easy going way about him and maintains a good rapport with all the parents. He gives information in a way that is easy to understand and encourages feedback and participation. I enjoy coming each week and always take something home from the sessions.
I really enjoyed the program. There was so much I learned and so much about how to get along better with my child. Thank you for our teacher. He was awesome!
I heard the bowling outing yesterday was a great success and even a first time experience for many of the kids. Thanks for all you are doing. Many parents of participants have commented on the visible changes occurring in their kids. Keep up the good work.
I went with the PACE coordinators, 10 probationers and several of their mothers on a field trip to U of H for bowling, pizza and a lot of fun! Mr. Holloway did a wonderful job organizing the trip. Not only were the boys able to bowl, there were also ping-pong and pool tables available for us to use. Many of the boys had never been bowling before so it was nice to see them being exposed to something different, but most importantly, positive. Everyone interacted really well, had a lot of fun and expressed gratitude after we returned from the trip. I would love to supervise any trip the PACE coordinators have planned for the future. I just wanted to let you know how well the PACE Program is working out for our boys!
One of the primary impressions that led me to PACE was the passion that Steve Holloway, the board, and staff had for the youth of Harris County and the excellence by which they provided the services necessary to make a difference. The vision was clear, concise, and compatible with the needs of the parents and the youth that we serve.
PACE has been, and will always be, the place where God-given gifts and talents are displayed to strengthen, develop and equip families in our communities. I am confident that we have been effective and impactful in both lives of youth and parents. Passion is what I feel, and compassion compels me to do something about it with the gift and talents God has blessed me with. PACE functions to encourage, empower, equip and feed the sheep, literally.
I'm excited about helping our community reach its fullest potential by supporting parents, giving them tools to help their children become productive citizens. My motto in life is "To occupy until the Lord comes," and I see PACE as a ministry for me.
I had a wonderful time at the PACE graduation last week. I know from speaking with probation officers that PACE is a well respected program by the juvenile probation officers. That means results are happening and kids are benefiting. I now also know that not only are children benefiting but families are benefiting. That is where change needs to happen – to stop negative cycles and create positive results in future generations. I look forward to witnessing the graduation of the next group of lucky children (and their families) who benefit from being in the PACE program.


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