text: Home ARTICLE Date ArticleType 4/26/2018 Member News Nationally Acclaimed "The American Soldier" exhibit to open May 2 Media Release The American Soldier Storms Back into St. Petersburg The Nationally Acclaimed Photography Exhibit Finds a Permanent Home at the St. Petersburg Museum of History St. Petersburg, FL (April 26, 2018) – The birth of photography turned the camera into a notebook of history, especially when it came to battlefields and the men and women in a U.S. uniform. A celebrated collection of those historic American military photographs make its way back to St. Petersburg in May, and this time for good. The St. Petersburg Museum of History is proud to announce that The American Soldier – A Photographic Tribute opens May 2 in the Museum's main gallery. A dramatic exhibition of nearly 70 wall-to-wall photographs capturing the essence of American soldiering for more than 150 years, the exhibit will take guests on a soldier's journey from the Civil War to the streets of Baghdad. The oversized, award winning photographs capture the emotions of danger, frustration, humor, camaraderie, death and victory that American soldiers encountered in this odyssey through history. Museum curator Nevin Sitler and collections manager Amy Anderson have added various military artifacts from the Museum's collection - including weaponry, uniforms and equipment - to complement the award winning exhibit. The American Soldier made its St. Petersburg debut in 2014 to record-breaking attendance for a three month run. Originally on loan from curator Cyma Rubin and her Business of Entertainment, Inc., Rubin decided to retire the world renowned traveling exhibit in 2018 and graciously gifted it to the St. Petersburg Museum of History, where it will now becomes part of the Museum's permanent collection. "We're still in shock that this amazing exhibit, one of the greatest photographic collections of its kind, now belongs to the St. Petersburg Museum of History," said Rui Farias, Museum Executive Director. "Words can't express how grateful we are to Cyma Rubin and The Business of Entertainment for gifting this collection to the Museum of History. "Visitors and residents who missed this enlightening exhibit four years ago now have a second chance to walk through photographic history." Rubin is the curator and producer of The American Soldier, as well as the curator of the highly successful exhibition, Capture the Moment – The Pulitzer Prize Photographs. Exhibit Opening: The American Soldier Opens: Wednesday, May 2 for a limited run Museum Operations during Pier & Pier Approach Construction Although the street will be under construction, the Museum of History will be open for normal operations during the Pier and Pier Approach construction. Visitors can continue to enter the Museum through the front doors on 2nd Avenue NE. Location: St. Petersburg Museum of History The St. Petersburg Museum of History – celebrating 96 years of sharing stories of the Sunshine City – is located at 335 2nd Avenue NE on the Pier Approach. Hours are 10am-5pm Monday-Saturday and Noon-5pm on Sundays. For more information, please call 727.894.1052 or visit www.historystpete.org. - # -


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Photo: Kemono Chicken and Rebecca Lim
Endorsements and sponsorship deals signal that a celeb has "made" it. Or do they? Check out some of the stranger pairings we've seen in Singapore lately.
1. Zoe Tay X Kemono Chicken
Photo: Zoe Tay/ Instagram
The Queen of Caldecott is more likely to be endorsing luxury beauty products or fashion labels. So, it certainly was a surprise when she agreed to be on Team Kemono Chicken, where she, alongside hunky model-photographer Chuan Do and comedian Kumar, will judge a photo contest involving a rubber chicken and a top prize of $50,000.
The online shop, which boasts deliveries up to midnight daily, offers roast chicken, one-bowl meals, pies and soups. Its trademark roast chicken have been described as "delicious", "tender" and "healthy". And perhaps we should add "stylish" too, as Zoe would attest — she poses for Kemono's ads in a classy black evening gown while holding a bright yellow rubber chicken. Other celebs endorsing Kemono include Elvin Ng, Fann Wong and Xiang Yun.
2. Pierre Png & Andrea De Cruz X Redbrick Mortgage
Photo: Property Quotient
What do celebs and mortgages have in common? Well, maybe it's more like what do celebs and properties have in common.
Actor Pierre Png, most recently of Crazy Rich Asians fame, and his wife, ex-actress and hair salon owner Andrea De Cruz, are apparently astute property investors, having bought three private homes together.
Redbrick Mortgage Advisory named them its first-ever celebrity ambassadors in September 2018, and they even star in a spy-esque video on how to find the best home loan.
Any advice for the newbie buyer? In an interview with Redbrick's publication Property Quotient, the couple recommended freehold property over leasehold and if choosing between a condo unit or a landed property, buy both!
3. Rebecca Lim X NTUC Income
Sadly for the actress, her outing for NTUC Income in 2016 was short-lived. Fans and netizens alike were upset after falling for an Instagram post that seemingly implied that she was retiring from showbiz.
But the post turned out to be a publicity stunt promoting an NTUC Income product, to remind young people to plan financially for retirement.
After a social media uproar where Rebecca was slammed for the stunt, the insurer had to call for a press conference to explain that the celeb and company were not trying to mislead the public. Ouch.
4. Sandra Riley Tang X Maggi Hot Heads
Photo: Screengrab from Maggi Singapore's Facebook
Celebs endorse many things, but to go through some level of pain must surely be a sign of dedication.
In a video to promote Maggi Hot Heads bowl noodles, singer and yoga studio founder Sandra Riley Tang (one fourth of The Sam Willows) engaged in an epic battle with stylist and performer Hirzi to see who would be crowned the champion of spice. Social media influencer Xiaxue also took on performer Dee Kosh. Watch to see who won.
5. Jimmy T X SodaStream
Actor-producer Jimmy Taenaka (more commonly known as Jimmy T), an American who is based in Singapore, endorses something that some people see as bland – plain old water.
Well, to be precise, he promotes an innovative appliance that carbonates water, the SodaStream.
Perhaps it ties in with his position as the vice-president and coach for the Wrestling Federation of Singapore — as a sportsman, you've definitely got to choose the healthy way. Other ambassadors for the brand include author and magician Ning Cai and celeb makeup artist Clarence Lee.
6. Sukki Singapora X Two Lips
So, masks aren't only for the face — arguably one of the most important features for someone constantly in the limelight, such as a celeb — but it's also for one's nether regions.
Burlesque performer and model Sukki Singapora, and presenter and race-car driver Claire Jedrek have been touting the benefits of Two Lips sheet mask for the vulva — the exterior region of a woman's private area.
Created by Cynthia Chua, the founder of the Spa Esprit Group, the activated charcoal mask is said to help to detoxify, brighten and hydrate the area.

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Voltaire [1694-1778] French philosopher and writer whose works epitomize the Age of Enlightenment.
"Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men." Harry Elmer Barnes, An Intellectual and Cultural History of the Western World (1937) p. 766, quoted
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." James A. Haught in "Honest Minds, Past and Present" Talks for History of Freethought conference Sept
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." Letters vol. xcvi (1769), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live." Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
"The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool"
"Men who believe absurdities will commit atrocities."
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The Festival de Cannes is reserved to film industry professionals. Every participant must be granted accreditation to take part in the Festival. Professional accreditations are granted by professional category.
- Journalists, the Press Accreditation guidelines are available on our Press Area
- Find out more about the Marché Badge on the Marché du Film Website
- The "Trois jours à Cannes / Three days in Cannes" Pass, reserved for cinema lovers aged between 18 and 28! (more info below)
Online accreditations for the Festival de Cannes are now closed.
► Further information is available on obtaining accreditation for the Marché du Film Online which will take place from June 22 to 26.
Consult the registration procedure by category
|Marché du Film Online Accreditations
|Film professionals' accreditation
|Accreditation for "Three Days in Cannes"
Marché du Film Online Accreditations
The Festival de Cannes is launching the Marché du Film Online, an online market created to support the international film industry and help its professionals. It will be held from Monday 22 to Friday 26 June.
The online market will reproduce as far as possible the market experience in Cannes, with live and real-time meetings. It will offer creative alternatives to facilitate business and networking for film industry professionals from all over the world. The Marché du Film Online will take the form of a closed industry space including:
- Virtual booths for sales agents: sales companies will be able to connect with buyers and to display their new films and projects-in-progress in an online dedicated space, serving as a digital equivalent to their booths at Cannes.
- Virtual pavilions for institutions: institutions from all over the world will present their national cinematography, film commissions and film locations, support their producers and organise meetings in a virtual space, as they are used to doing in their pavilions in the Village International.
- Video meetings: participants can request and organise meetings via the Marché du Film networking app Match&Meet, which now has integrated video calls.
- Online screenings: completed films, those in post-production and project presentations will be programmed according to set schedules in about fifteen virtual cinemas, to maintain the market momentum and allow time for viewing and negotiation. Reruns will be organised for buyers in different time zones. The platform will be based on Cinando technology and will have strict security measures in place - including DRM, individual watermark and real-time management and monitoring of admissions to screenings (Cinando is the platform launched by the Marché du Film in 2003, which has become the number one network for navigating the film industry, including contacts, films, projects in development and screeners).
- Programmes and conferences: most programmes and conferences will be transposed to the digital space: Cannes Docs, Cannes Next, Producers Network, Goes to Cannes, Frontières and Fantastic 7 will be reshaped to offer these communities - creators, producers and sales agents - the same opportunities to network and present their projects. Le Marché du Film Online will also offer "speed meetings" around composers, book publishers and producers. Cannes XR, our programme dedicated to immersive entertainment, will present its projects in a setting where films can be viewed with a VR headset.
Accreditations for the Marché du Film Online will soon be available for industry professionals at an early bird rate of €95 until May 29, then at the normal rate of €195 (accreditation includes a one-year subscription to Cinando).
► Keep up with all the Marché du Film Online news.
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The Festival de Cannes is exclusively reserved to film industry professionals.
It is not necessary to register with the Festival if you make your request through the Marché du Film, as the Market badge includes all Festival participation rights and access to screenings (www.marchedufilm.com/en/accreditations).
Festival accreditation is required to gain access to the Palais des Festivals and the Marché du Film. This accreditation gives you access to the screenings according to the conditions set out on your online account, once your request has been validated.
Through your personal account, you will be able to register online, attach the requested documents justifying your experience in your professional field, and follow the evolution of your accreditation request.
The Festival de Cannes is exclusively reserved to professionals of the film industry. If you do not belong to one of the professional categories listed below, your request may not be taken into consideration.
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- Artistic Agency
- Author, Director, Writer
- Book Publisher and Agent
- Buyer's Rep*
- Cinema Owner and Manager
- Civil Service, Embassy, Administration and State Institution
- Communication, Publicity and Marketing
- Consulting*
- Cultural Organization (Art Center, Museum, Multimedia Library …)
- Distributor*
- Film Commission
- Film Festival
- Film Financier*
- Film Library, Archive and Film Restoration
- Film Rights*
- Film School and their students
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- Interactive & New Media
- Music (Composer, Singer-Songwriter, Music Publisher and Producer)
- Organization of Film Promotion and Film Events
- Press-Media: except Journalists
- Producer
- Public Relations
- Sales Agent*
- Technical Industries
- Television Broadcast*
- Training/ Coaching
- VOD Platform*
*If you apply with one of these professional categories, you have to submit your accreditation
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Online accreditations are now closed.
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The Festival de Cannes is also open to film enthusiasts and educational groups, within the limits of availability through the "Cannes Cinéphiles" programme. "Cannes Cinéphiles" accreditations give access to the films of the Official Selection, Semaine de la Critique and Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in some Cannes' theatres. These accreditations do not give access to the professional areas, Palais des Festivals included, which are reserved for professionals of the film industry only.
Please visit our accreditation portal online in order to submit your "Cannes Cinéphiles" accreditation' request, attach the required documents listed below, and follow-up on your request' status:
- School groups:
For each student: a certificate of school attendance for the ongoing year.
For the administration: an official document justifying your position and a motivation letter explaining your school project related to the "Cannes Cinéphiles" program.
For all: ID card / passport (both sides)
- Film students: motivation letter, an official document mentioning your studies for this year and your ID card / passport (both sides).
- Cultural or Film club associations: motivation letter, photocopy of your film association's membership card for the ongoing year, ID card / passport (both sides).
- Member of a cinema club: motivation letter and the membership card for the ongoing year, ID card / passport (both sides).
Online accreditations are now closed.
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The Festival de Cannes offers film buffs aged 18 to 28 the opportunity to take part in the 2020 event and to discover the films in the Official Selection as part of the 'Three days in Cannes" programme.
Accreditation for "Three Days in Cannes" gives you access to the Official Selection (Competition, Out of Competition, Special Screenings, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Classics, Cinéma de la Plage) and to the Palais des Festivals, as well as a dedicated programme at Les Arcades cinemas for the final three days.
To apply for accreditation for "Three Days in Cannes", you must:
• be aged between 18 and 28
• be passionate about film
Applications must be submitted online via the accreditation portal (no applications will be processed by telephone).
Documents to be provided with the application form:
• ID document (both sides) or passport;
• ID photo;
• A letter of motivation;
Once the accreditation request has been accepted, you will be sent an email (no answer will be given by phone).
Named badges with a photo ID and the programme of dedicated sessions can be collected from the Accreditation Office of the Palais des Festivals.
Online accreditations are now closed.
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🤣 tech bros' highly-rated answers on Orange Site to "What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into?"
1 message queues, Zeromq &c.
2 Makefiles
3 profilers
4 SQL, query plans, ACID
5 Graph search/traversal
6 Sequential Bayesian filters
7 Unit testing, mocking
8 Dtrace &c
9 Shell scripting text processing
10 Property based testing
11 Prolog
12 Awk
13 Chord/DHT
14 Formal methods, type & category theory
15 Vim/emacs
I laughed and laughed!
Woah, my answers made it into the top 20?
@enkiv2 ¡Cool! Which were your answers? You don't have to tell if you want to preserve your privacy :) I'd like to pick your brain about any of these.
@enkiv2 Ah I see I should have checked the username :)
The old timers in the office were like "Prolog! AI class!" but bitch please, as if any modern AI class will bother with that old-school AI trash instead of shiny TensorFlow/&c. juice.
But these were great suggestions! I'm going to see if I can solve some problems with awk or find some awk katas, I need better text fu.
I've not studied Prolog, only Datalog/DataScript/Datomic but these were cool!
DHT/Dat/IPFS/SSB—very important!
@enkiv2 yesterday I had a Markdown file with some header lines plus other content, and another file with just the headers but slightly modified, and I wanted a one-liner to replace each header in the first file with the appropriate line in the second file.
Wound up doing it in JS, three-ish lines, but had to paste the file into browser, etc.
I remember thinking, "I wonder if awk is the thing here" since my usual shell scripting tricks didn't seem to be up to the task.
Reading about awk now👩🎤
@enkiv2 Also whoa you found my comment about the thread and recognized my quoting you and connected with me! Thanks! That's very awesome!
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A massive update for Pokémon GO has been released. The update includes a ton of new bug fixes, some new visual enhancements to the environments and items, as well as UI upgrades. Most of all, the update brought with it the ability to change you Pokémon GO avatar, something that was not available until this weekend. Previously you were able to create your character, and players were stuck with that specific Pokémon GO avatar.
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The update also removed the tracking from the Pokémon, this has received much criticism though, as players now find themselves running around with no real direction on where they are going. The battery-saver mode was removed from the iOS version, why this decision was made, we are not aware of yet. If anything, the new Pokémon GO update seems to be a case of one step forward and two steps back. Many of the features help navigate the game or update your Pokémon GO avatar, but do not really add to the main objective of the game.
Niantic has also shut down the Pokémon tracker websites which players used to track Pokémon around them. With no tracking apps, and no tracking system in the game, we will have to wait for the backlash from players as they update their game to find it less appealing than before. Players have already started asking for refunds for their in-game purchases, as the update has violated the terms and conditions of the game by removing a feature which was there at launch. Apple has started refunding players up to $45, while Google has not yet started the refund process.
On the bright side, at least you can change your Pokémon GO avatar now. Visit our Pokémon GO hub for all your Pokémon GO content.


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Family Service at 10:30 am
At 10:30 children are always welcome. Our service is from the Book of Common Prayer and we have a choir to support the music in worship. As in all of our services, all are always welcome.
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text: Feathers and Fins 235 Report post Posted October 26, 2011 If you were at the Cave you were at the right place. when you get to the cave throw your net at the stick up directly in front of you and slightly to its right and you should have a few shad. If not motor out and then over to the main creek arm and throw it a few times in there. BEWARE TURTLES IN THE NET LOL. HDS10 not a bad unit. First thing is take some soap and water and gently clean off the transducer HDS units are fenicky about being clean. WATER DEPTH 20 FT TO 50 FT= Ping speed 19, Colorline 53, Sensitivity 64 for good id and 74 for drop shot, Set to archs and fish symbol. Under 20 ft turn on the flasher it has a instant return. Remember your cone is on the up and down 10 ft = 2.5 ft, 20 ft =5.25 ft, 30 ft = 9.75ft and 40 ft = 16ft I got those numbers from a buddy who dives and has a HDS7 AND HDS10 and dropping my 4oz rigs around the boat those numbers seem very accurate. I use the arch/fish function because fish in the center of an cone always appear big and ones barely on the edge of the cone small. The dual ID helps me better understand where in the cone the fish is to help me correct the rods. If im off Saturday Ill be out all day and Should be able to get on them all day if mother nature doesnt mess us up with this front. They are hanging in 50 foot right now and moving up in the PM so for me Ill be hitting them shallow in the moring and follow them deep in the midday and back in shallow pm. Probably going to need to go to Ye Old Flyshop in F-Ville and get more flies McLellans is going to love me more this year than normally with them being on the fly this early. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Amazon SQS PHP Tutorial: Where & How To Use the Simple Queue Service
AWS has many services that sometimes do just the thing you need. One such great AWS service is what we call " Simple Queue Service" or SQS in short, Let's look into it.
We'll not discuss the basic FAQs like "What is SQS" and "How much does it cost" or "How is it different from SNS". Because Amazon SQS FAQs page answers all these questions in detail.
In this post, we are about to see the answers to the following two questions:
Where To Use SQS (Simple Queue Service) by AWS?
If you want a queue serving service where you can insert messages, that another machine (or the same machine) can pull & process later, SQS is the thing for you, especially if you're an AWS fan.
Here are a few ideas/usage that the official Amazon SQS FAQs Page by Amazon suggests:
- Integrate Amazon SQS with other AWS services to make applications more flexible and reliable.
- Use Amazon SQS to create work queues with each message as a task to be completed by a process. Let one (or many) computers read tasks from the message queue and then process them.
- Build a microservice architecture and use message queues to connect your microservices.
- Keep notifications of significant business events in an Amazon SQS message queue. Each event can have a corresponding message in a message queue, and applications that need to be aware of the event can read and process the messages.
and the last question this post answers is
How To Use SQS with PHP
Its very simple to get going with SQS as Amazon already provides the PHP SDK for the purpose. We'll start by installing the AWS SQS PHP SDK to our project. Let's divide our jobs into three parts
- Setting up the SDK
- Sending data to the queue
- Retrieving data from the queue
Setting up the SDK
While working with PHP, its always the best to use third-party package managers such as composer. If you prefer composer and are familiar with it, update your composer.json to require the following.
{ "require": { "aws/aws-sdk-php": "dev-master" } }
Once you have included "aws/aws-sdk-php" in your composer.json, its time to run "composer update" so that the SDK is downloaded and placed into your project.
However, if you don't prefer using composer. You can instead download the zip file from the SQS PHP SDK Git repo and unzip it into your project directory.
Once you have the SDK in your directory you need to include it into your PHP file, let's say you are writing your code in the file sqs.php in the root directory.
At the top of your code in sqs.php, you need to add
require '/path/to/aws-autoloader.php';
If you used the ZIP for adding the SDK to your project.
And those who used composer would include the following
require 'vendor/autoload.php'
That's all about the installation of the SDK into your project, its time to use it.
Sending data to the queue
I have written the following PHP function to send data to an SQS queue
<?php require 'vendor/autoload.php'; use Aws\Sqs\SqsClient; //A function to send message to SQS queue function send_to_sqs(){ //Connect to SQS $client = SqsClient::factory(array( 'credentials' => array ( 'key' => $AWS_KEY, //use your AWS key here 'secret' => $AWS_SECRET //use your AWS secret here ), 'region' => 'us-east-1', //replace it with your region 'version' => 'latest' )); $client->sendMessage(array( 'QueueUrl' => $queueUrl, //your queue url goes here 'MessageBody' => 'An awesome message!', )); } ?>
The code above is easy and self-explanatory, yet if you need help, drop a comment and I'll get back to you.
Moving on to our last step in this post.
Retrieving data from the queue
Well this is really as easy as Amazon claims it to be. Please have a look at my code below that retrieves messages from SQS and deletes them from the queue once processed (to avoid duplicate processing).
<?php require 'vendor/autoload.php'; use Aws\Sqs\SqsClient; //A function to send message to SQS queue function get_from_sqs(){ //Connect to SQS $client = SqsClient::factory(array( 'credentials' => array ( 'key' => $AWS_KEY, //use your AWS key here 'secret' => $AWS_SECRET //use your AWS secret here ), 'region' => 'us-east-1', //replace it with your region 'version' => 'latest' )); //Getting messages $result = $client->receiveMessage(array( 'QueueUrl' => $QUEUE_URL, //replace with your Queue URL )); //Array containing all the messages $works=$result->getPath('Messages'); if(count($works) > 0){ $k=1; foreach ($works as $messageBody) { echo "Processing : #".$k.'...'.PHP_EOL; // Do something with the message, print for now print_r($messageBody['Body']); //work done, remove data from queue echo "Processed & Deleting : #".$k.'...'.PHP_EOL; $result = $client->deleteMessageBatch(array( 'QueueUrl' => $QUEUE_URL, //replace this with your Queue URL 'Entries' => array( array( 'Id' => $messageBody['MessageId'], 'ReceiptHandle' => $messageBody['ReceiptHandle'], ) ) )); $k++; } }else{ echo "No data in queue, Complete!".PHP_EOL; } } ?>
I hope you find it useful, questions and suggestions are welcomed.


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Turkey, Canned, Boned by the US Department of Agriculture, public domain government resource—original source of recipe
- Serves: 8
- 1 can (16 ounces) tomatoes
- 4 cups turkey broth or reduced-sodium chicken bouillon
- 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 1 cup carrots, peeled and thinly sliced
- 4 cups cabbage, thinly sliced
- 2 cups cooked turkey (cubed or chopped)
- ½ cup alphabet pasta (or any other type of pasta)
- In a 5-quart saucepan, over medium heat, combine tomatoes, turkey broth, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, onion, and carrot; bring to boil, stir occasionally.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer 10 to 15 minutes or until carrots are tender; stir occasionally.
- Add cabbage, turkey and pasta; stir and return to boil 5 to 10 minutes or until cabbage and pasta are tender.
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Combine ingredients in a yarai and stir with ice to chill. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass containing one large piece of ice. Twist a grapefruit peel over the drink and then use as a garnish.
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Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. Ohio is the 34th most extensive, the 7th most populous, and the 10th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's capital is Columbus. The Anglicized name "Ohio" comes from the Iroquois word ohi-yo', meaning "great river". The state, originally partitioned from the Northwest Territory, was admitted to the Union as the 17th state (and the first under the Northwest Ordinance) on March 1, 1803. Although there are conflicting narratives regarding the origin of the nickname, Ohio is historically known as the "Buckeye State" (relating to the Ohio buckeye tree) and Ohioans are also known as "Buckeyes". The government of Ohio is composed of the executive branch, led by the Governor; the legislative branch, which comprises the Ohio General Assembly; and the judicial branch, which is led by the Supreme Court. Currently, Ohio occupies 18 seats in the United States House of Representatives. Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state and a bellwether in national elections. For those who gave everything for our great country "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." ***** John F. Kennedy *****
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Here's some booze news that'll make you breathe easier: Researchers say drinking wine may help keep your lungs healthy.
A team from the University of Buffalo determined wine contains nutrients that keep the tissues of the lung in good working order.
Their study, conducted on a random sample of 1,555 people across the state, also found white wine to be more effective than red in helping the lungs.
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This game is the second in our ongoing series of interactive comics. After the success of All You Can Eat, we decided to upgrade our interactive comic making engine and also our storytelling abilities. That's why The Lot features much more gameplay, a longer story with multiple endings and improved in-game mechanics such as animations, paralax, saving and loading and other bleeding edge technology like that! :P
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Kenny Chesney has added some dates to his upcoming Songs For The Saints Tour, which kicks off in Louisville April 4 and will include a mix of arenas and stadiums. The first leg of the tour will hit Jacksonville, Florida; Oklahoma City; Albany, New York; Charleston and more through May 25.
"We have played the stadium in Louisville several times, but in really looking at this notion, I wanted to give them something more intimate," Chesney explains. "This tour is going to really feel like a club show – and put the music front and center. It's why we're going to Oklahoma City, Albany, Lincoln and Jacksonville next year. Go to No Shoes Nation, and bring them the songs where they live. We know how to do stadiums, and we love the rush of those shows. But you never want to get to where you take it for granted, or you're so used to it, it's just what you do. There's a real intimacy even in arenas that you don't have in a stadium, and it's something we've not had for a while. To me, it's a whole other canvas for us – and I'm psyched about it."
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When you think of Peru, images of ancient ruins, colorful land of textile, and incredible culture spring into your mind. Being the third-largest country in South America, Peru is home to several varieties of potatoes. The country boasts of beautiful landscapes, unimaginable architectural feats, a wide range of wildlife, and fantastic food, among others. To know more about Peru, here are 5 fun facts about Peru that probably you didn't know.
1. Macho Picchu
The city of Machu Picchu hosts one of the most famous landmarks not only in Peru but in the whole world. Located in the sprawling Inca citadel, it is the most famous archaeological site in the continent. In 2007, it was voted as the seventh wonders of the world. The unique archaeological site was first discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham. It rests on a sacred valley which is 8,000 feet above sea level.
2. Highest Sand dune
When it comes to deserts and sand dunes, the majority of people do think of the Sahara desert, which is the largest on the planet. Nonetheless, the majority do not know about Cerro Blanco, the tallest dune in the world. The sand dune, which is 3,880 meters high offers an incredible sight of the Sechura Desert. It is arguably one of the best hiking and sandboarding destinations in the world. If you visit the top dune on clear days, you can see the Pacific Ocean.
3. Over 3000 varieties of potatoes
Potatoes did not only originate from Peru, but it is also the staple food here. It is the primary energy source for many Peruvian cultures. There are over 3,000 different varieties of potatoes. According to scientific research, potatoes have been grown in Peru, especially in the High Andres region as early as 8,000 years ago. It doesn't stop there. Potato forms a significant ingredient for a variety of delicacies and cuisines. Some of the mouthwatering cuisines include:
- Mashed potatoes served with different stuffing such as tuna, avocado, and vegetables.
- Potatoes can also be smashed and served with minced meat, or boiled eggs
- Other menus include chips (salchipapas) and Crips.
4. Guinea Pig is a food, not a pet
Also in your dinner table, you are more likely to find roasted guinea pig. Probably you may know guinea pig as a nervous little pet that lives in a cage. However, in Peru, the small animal is considered a delicacy. The guinea pig has been one of the staples for Peru's Andean diet for more than a century. It is regarded as a traditional food with values. It is usually served on skewers or a plate. This is one dish you can't miss.
5. Interesting Biodiversity
Another essential fact about Peru is that it is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. There are over 90 microclimates in the country. This makes it host a wide variety of plant and animal species. Besides, several endemic species are living in Peru. Also, about 60% of the country is covered by Amazon rainforest. As such, you are a nature lover, Peru has exciting facts you may want to see.


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any of several composite plants of the genus Ageratum, especially A. houstonianum, having heart-shaped leaves and small, dense, blue, lavender, or white flower heads, often grown in gardens.
any of various other composite plants, as the mistflower, having blue or white flowers.
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1560–70; < New Latin; Latin agēraton < Greek agḗraton, neuter of agḗratos unaging, equivalent to a- a-6 + gērat- (stem of gêras) old age + -os adj. suffix
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Ageratum, candytuft and dwarf nasturtiums are good for the purpose.The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.|Ellen Eddy Shaw
The Ageratum is a lovely plant for a low bed, with its great masses of soft lavender flowers.Amateur Gardencraft|Eben E. Rexford
It is easily grown, and makes a fine second-row plant for a border, contrasting well with Browallia or Ageratum.The Practical Garden-Book|C. E. Hunn
The soft blue tufts of the ageratum were on each side continually.Bonaventure|George Washington Cable
I should think a low-growing plant like ageratum would be pretty in a vase of that sort.Ethel Morton's Enterprise|Mabell S.C. Smith
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any tropical American plant of the genus Ageratum, such as A. houstonianum and A. conyzoides, which have thick clusters of purplish-blue flowers
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C16: New Latin, via Latin from Greek agēraton that which does not age, from a- 1 + gērat-, stem of gēras old age; the flowers of the plant remain vivid for a long time
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by Rev Joel Yong
Colossians 3:1-2
Since you were brought back to life with Christ, focus on the things that are above–where Christ holds the highest position. Keep your mind on things above, not on worldly things.
In baptism, we have died to our old ways and become alive to a new way of life in Jesus.
We did it publicly and proclaimed we now belong to Him.
It's like a wedding. We say we are done with our previous lovers and now committed to this one and only love in our life.
We do it publicly and we now live a new life devoted to this bride or groom.
So it would be a joke and cheapening the whole rite of marriage or baptism if we continue thereafter in dalliances with our old sinful habits or our old lovers.
Fill your mind with godly things.
Things that please God.
Our thoughts fuel our deeds. It will lead to a transformed life. A new one with this Master we have committed to following.


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By Adrienne Ross – http://www.motivationtruth.com
My Conservatives4Palin colleague, Steve Flesher, addressed Dick Cheney's ridiculous comments about the selection of Governor Palin as Senator McCain's running mate. First, let me say I find it very disheartening that the GOP establishment continues to attack the one person who has taken more slings and arrows than anyone else as she tries to save this country from what President Obama has done to it. She has done nothing but put herself on the line time and time again–withstanding the lies, the sexism, the intrusions into her privacy, the attacks on her children, the death threats, the skewing of her record, the questioning of her intelligence, the misrepresentations, and the list goes on.
Nonetheless, Governor Palin fights. She fights because she loves this country, and she knows it'll take a fight to restore this country. Like so many others, Dick Cheney responds with the typical bull and the same old faulty talking points. Perhaps he should save his criticism for President Obama and show the former Vice Presidential candidate a little respect.
Here's what Cheney said:
I don't think she passed that test … of being ready to take over. And I think that was a mistake.
Flesher handled this well over at C4P:
The news of Cheney's interview airing on ABC tomorrow morning (Monday) on GMA is making its Sunday-rounds. The MSM couldn't be happier.
While the entire interview has yet to be released, it appears Mr. Cheney has decided to do his part for his establishment-buddies by attacking his own party's last VP nominee in lieu of going after the nation's biggest elected mistake of all time – Barack Obama.
Apparently, Palin's not "ready" to sit in an administration for eight years which adds 5 trillion dollars to our unpaid debt basically demoralizing the spirit of conservatism leading to four years of Barack Obama. Cheney was "ready" for that, wasn't he?
Palin's not "ready" to engage in cronyism which dictates who she'd appoint to lifetime positions on the Supreme Court or to head federal emergency agencies like FEMA. Bush & Cheney were "ready" for that, weren't they?
Palin is "ready" to balance a budget – since she did it in Alaska.
Palin is "ready" to increase benefits for our esteemed elders while cutting out wasteful spending existing all across our federal government – since she did similar things in Alaska.
Palin is "ready" to call out entrenched special interests like she did when she served up a little justice to the Republican Party's good old boys and their dealings with big oil. She did that in Alaska, too.
Palin's "ready" to unabashedly call out Barack Obama. This includes pointing out his past associations, his reckless squandering of billions of our dollars to pay back his Wall Street friends (just as Bush/Cheney once did), and his plans to whip Americans into Greece-like big-government submission. This is in contrast to the establishment's plans to hold back.
Palin's "ready" to endorse countless candidates for the Congress. She's been successful at using her enormous grassroots influence to pull a great deal of them across the finish line.
Palin's not ready to fall in line with the establishment. Until any candidate (including our perceived "front-runner") demonstrates a full willingness to truly unify with the party's grassroots, don't count on her to make deals behind closed doors or hold high-priced fundraisers at her home.
Considering everything Bush & Company were "ready" for, it's no wonder why Barack Obama was ever put in the position of becoming President of our great Republic. Now of course, he must be fired.
Read Steve Flesher's full article here.
Doug Brady added an update to Steve's piece, a tweet by Cheney's daughter, Liz, in disagreement with the position her father has taken:
The article also quotes others who have the common sense to note that Governor Palin was more than qualified to be elected and certainly more qualified than the person who was elected as President. And lest we forget, she had more administrative experience than everyone on both tickets.
So let's move on–with the facts–and remember that President Obama is the opponent, not Governor Palin. It is he who was "not ready to take over," but we elected him nonetheless. That was the mistake. And we're paying the price.
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July 30, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Please don't forget that this are the people that have us in this mess, united nations,OEA, international community
compromise, compassion, all type of justification to play w/ our enemies appeasement and undesrtanding, one
of those gesture was to nominated a well known MUSLIM after 9/11 to find out why the MUSLIMS hate us
and try to understand why. BIG MISTAKE the Republican establishment don't get it we had enough of this
idiotic ideas.
July 30, 2012 at 12:01 AM
He won't dare talk about what little a roll he played in the government as Vice-President. Half the people didn't even know who Dick Chenney is. Sarah Palin didn't loose the election, dumbo McCain did.


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Stephyn Butcher
Stephyn Butcher is a principal software engineer for Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (GLG), where he applies machine learning and data science to problems including recommendations, data cleaning, and A/B testing. He was formerly a data product solutions engineer for Appriss Safety and, prior to that, was a senior software engineer for ThreatGRID, a division of Cisco, where he focused on malware detection. Butcher also has worked as a data scientist/engineer for Clubhouse Software, LivingSocial, NIH/HPCIO and Mercury Analytics.
Butcher has taught machine learning at Johns Hopkins University where he is a lecturer in the Whiting School of Engineering's department of computer science. Through JHU's Engineering for Professionals programs, Butcher teaches courses in artificial intelligence, reasoning under uncertainty, and data science.
Butcher has an MS in computer science, an MA in economics, and a BA in economics. His dissertation focused on swarm intelligence, and his research interests include games programming, machine learning, programming languages, software engineering, and statistics.
Butcher also is an ordained Zen priest.
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Course Description
The incorporation of advanced techniques in reasoning and problem solving into modern, complex systems has become pervasive. Often, these techniques fall within the realm of artificial intelligence. This course focuses on artificial intelligence from an agent perspective and explores issues of knowledge representation and reasoning. Students will investigate a wide variety of approaches to artificial intelligence including heuristic and stochastic search, logical and probabilistic reasoning, planning, learning, and perception. Advanced topics will be selected from areas such as robotics, vision, natural language processing, and philosophy of mind. Students will have the opportunity to explore both the philosophical and practical issues of artificial intelligence during the course of the class.
Course Goal
To expose students to the fundamental topics and techniques in artificial intelligence through lectures, problems and experiments.
Course Objectives
- Understand the main approaches to artificial intelligence such as state space search approaches (state space search, constraint satisfaction, planning, reinforcement learning) and model search approaches (regression, neural networks, bayesian networks, decision trees).
- Recognize problems that may be solved using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
- Implement artificial intelligence algorithms for hands-on experience with them.
- While many of these algorithms are available in libraries for many programming languages and packages, unless the user understands the algorithms, they're a "black box". One objective is to make the box more transparent.
When This Course is Typically Offered
This course is usually offered online in the Spring (online) and Summer (Hybrid).
- State Space Search
- Adversarial Search (Games)
- Constraint Satisfaction Problems
- Reinforcement Learning
- Local Search
- Logic
- Planning
- Regression and Classification
- Model Evaluation
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Decision Trees
- Probabilistic Reasoning
- Instance Based Learning
Student Assessment Criteria
|Programming Assignments (12)
|Class Participation
|Self Checks
The percentages indicate that you must achieve an excellent level performance on all assessments for an "A". For example, an "A" in the class requires an "A" in Class Participation, submission of a super majority of Self Checks, an "A" on on a super majority of Programming Assignments and an "A" on a super majority of quizzes. A satisfactory level on each Assessment type would earn a "B".
Computer and Technical Requirements
Must have completed all fundamental courses (605.401, 605.411, and 605.421).
Python is required for the course. You can google for video tutorials (the Google tutorial is nice), Dive into Python is a free book online and in PDF form. There is a lot of programming in the course (weekly assignments).
Participation Expectations
Unless otherwise noted, all work is to be by individual effort. The computer science academic integrity policy is strictly followed and enforced.
Textbook information for this course is available online through the MBS Direct Virtual Bookstore.
Course Notes
There are no notes for this course.
Final Words from the Instructor
Artificial Intelligence is, of necessity, a survey course. Many topics are worthy of courses in their own right (and many such courses are offered through EPP). The main goal of the course is familiarize the student with the breadth of topics covered by artificial intelligence as well as some depth and experience with a few specific topics and algorithms. This approach strives to strike a balance between knowing what and being able to do more research at a later date with some practical experience implementing AI algorithms.
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— by Tom Kenworthy, Guestblogger at ThinkProgress, August 12, 2013
This week, to see how climate change will pull a nasty water surprise on the desert Southwest, you only need to look at one river.
Lake Powell is the giant reservoir on the Utah-Arizona border that backs up behind Glen Canyon Dam and is the linchpin for managing the Colorado River. The Colorado basically makes modern life possible in seven western states by providing water for some 40 million people and irrigating 4 million acres of crops. It is also depended upon by 22 native American tribes, 7 national wildlife refuges and 11 national parks.
As soon as Monday, the federal government's Bureau of Reclamation will announce the results of some very serious number crunching and model running focused on falling water levels in Lake Powell. It is widely expected that the bureau will announce that there is a serious water shortage and that for the first time in the 50-year-history of the dam, the amount of water that will be released from the reservoir will be cut. Not just cut, but cut by 750,000 acre feet — an acre foot being enough water to cover an acre one foot deep. That's more than 9 percent below the 8.23 million acre feet that is supposed to be delivered downstream to Lake Mead for use in the states of California, Nevada and Arizona and the country of Mexico under the 81-year old Colorado River Compact and later agreements.
It will be, in the somewhat dry appraisal of Anne Castle, the assistant secretary of the Interior for water and science who oversees the bureau, "very unusual."
Unusual, and unprecedented, but not totally unforeseen.
Six years ago, following another period of dropping water levels in Colorado River reservoirs, the federal government and the seven states that rely on the river agreed on"interim operating guidelines" for apportioning water in the event of shortages. That step is part of a longer-term process of trying to figure out how to deal with a river system that is no longer providing the volumes of water the southwest long ago came to expect. The guidelines require the secretary of the Interior each year to assess what the water supply looks like for the lower Colorado River basin states of California, Nevada and Arizona. The secretary can choose among three declarations: normal, surplus or shortage. This year the smart money is on shortage.
Lake Powell, and its downstream cousin, Lake Mead — formed by Hoover Dam — are the two largest reservoirs in the U.S. They are the main plumbing fixtures for dividing up Colorado River water under a complex set of agreements known as the Law of the River. The Colorado River Compact is the most important of those agreements, and requires that the lower basin states and upper basin states (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) each get 7.5 million acre feet a year. Mexico gets another 1.5 million under a 1944 treaty.
All good in theory, but the river was divided up in the 1920's, a wet period when river flows were high. Times, and flows, have changed.
Now, the two reservoirs are giant flat water billboards advertising what climate change is doing to the American West. Persistent drought, and diminished snow runoff in the Rocky Mountains, have drastically shrunk the two reservoirs. Both are now less than half full, and both sport bathtub rings that show in dramatic fashion how high the waters used to be. Inflows to Powell this year are about 42 percent of average.
Some people believe that Lake Powell is toast, that it will never fill up again. For a lake that attracts a couple of million visitors a year who spend lavishly on houseboats, fishing gear, sun tan lotion and beer, that has some serious economic implications.
It could get worse.
Lake Powell is a moneymaker in other ways. Glen Canyon Dam and its hydroelectric turbines, produce 1320 megawatts of electricity, enough for about 1.3 million people. That yields something like $125 million every year, and that pot of money pays for the operations of much of the entire Colorado River Storage Project, and a host of vital environmental restoration programs.
Droughts do happen from time to time. But the hydrological cycle is being stressed by more than just natural variations. As greenhouse gases trap more heat in the atmosphere, dry areas like the Southwest will get drier and drier.
Last month, Eric Kuhn, the general manager of the Colorado River Water Conservation District in western Colorado, which looks out for the state's interest in river issues, sent a memo to his board of directors outlining the likelihood of a shortage declaration by the Bureau of Reclamation.
"A one year shortage is probably not a big deal," wrote Kuhn. But he made it clear that a multi-year shortage, and some very serious repercussions, are quite possible. In 2015, Kuhn wrote, the water level in Lake Powell may fall low enough — below what is known as minimum power head — to shut down the production of hydroelectric power. "The financial impacts could be substantial," he wrote.
"The scary scenario for the Lower Basin is a multi-year shortage," according to Kuhn's memo. Among the impacts: big water delivery cuts to Nevada and Arizona, power production from Hoover Dam is "dramatically reduced," recreation on Lake Meade "becomes marginal."
Long term, the outlook is particularly grim. Late last year, a joint study by the Bureau of Reclamation and the seven river basin states looked at water supply prospects over the next half century. It projects average yearly imbalances between supply and demand of 3.2 million acre feet by 2060. An acre foot is about what a typical suburban household uses in a year.
Asked what she thinks of Kuhn's analysis, Bureau of Reclamation overseer Castle told Climate Progress that "it's based on some pretty draconian scenarios, but it's not out of the realm of possibility." But she predicts that ultimately "the states and the federal agencies together with all the stakeholders on the river will come together around a management plan that will attempt to ensure that we don't hit critical [water levels] in either Powell or Mead."
Outside groups are looking for solutions, too, and one — the Glen Canyon Institute, which advocates for a free-flowing Colorado River and the restoration of the magnificent canyon inundated by the dam and the filling of Lake Powell — sees at least a partial answer in its "Fill Mead First" plan.
Citing research that shows large water losses in Powell because of seepage into the porous sandstone banks, Glen Canyon Institute executive director Christi Wedig says Fill Mead First could save 300,000 acre feet of water a year, equivalent to Nevada's annual allocation. The plan would allow Lake Mead to fill first, and would keep Lake Powell at the depth just above minimum power head. It would, said Wedig, bring substantial environmental benefits to the Grand Canyon, and would reveal many of the hidden treasures of Glen Canyon and stimulate tourism there.
Before the dam and lake erased it, few people had explored Glen Canyon. Author and photographer Eliot Porter described it in his book "The Place No One Knew"
"The big features, the massive walls and towers, the shimmering vistas, the enveloping light, are all hypnotizing, shutting out awareness of the particular," he wrote. "Later you begin to focus on the smaller, more familiar, more comprehensible objects . . . the velvety lawns of young tamarisks sprouting on the wet sand bars just vacated by the retreating flood . . . the festooned, evocative designs etched into the walls by water and lichens. It is an intimate canyon."
"Glen Canyon has been unexplored since 1963," said Wedig. "There is a huge opportunity to capitalize" on its re-emergence with new tourism that focuses more on exploring vivid canyons and less on partying aboard 60-foot houseboats.
Castle declined to comment on the Fill Mead First idea. But she does say that current circumstances on the Colorado River are "unprecedented."
The last 14 years on the Colorado River, she says, have been the driest years since records began being kept in the late 1800's, and based on tree ring studies among the driest 14 year periods in the last 1,200 years.
"If you say climate change doesn't have an impact, you're smoking something," Castle concludes.
Andrew Breiner contributed graphics to this piece.
This material [the article above] was created by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. It was created for the Progress Report, the daily e-mail publication of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Click here to subscribe.
- Fortune Telling: Colorado River Teeters Toward First-ever Shortage Declaration (circleofblue.org)
- Colorado River Basin: 'You can't go to court…you don't have time to go to court' – Pat Mulroy #ColoradoRiver (coyotegulch.wordpress.com)
- Will the #ColoradoRiver 2007 Shortage Sharing Agreement come into play this season? (coyotegulch.wordpress.com)
- Colorado River Basin: Will the 2007 Shortage Sharing Agreement kick in next year? #ColoradoRiver (coyotegulch.wordpress.com)
- Water: Study identifies major 'leakage' from Lake Powell (summitcountyvoice.com)


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Several performances are scheduled in February at Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas:
Danny Elfman's Music From the Films of Tim Burton, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, presented by Arkansas Times.
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, presented by Power 92 FM.
Cirque Eloize Saloon, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, presented by Conway Printing Company.
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I stared up at the ceiling over my four-poster bed. Next to me, Estrella lay on her side, snuggled into the crook of my arm, her "go to" position whenever we finished. I always felt so profoundly relaxed after spending time with her. Often she sang a lullaby that puts me right to sleep. Estrella cared for me, that much is obvious. She works hard to please me and quickly corrects any behavior that requires discipline.
"Yes, Stella?" I answered as I came out of my reverie.
"Are you pleased, Sir?"
"Yes, Stella. Why do you ask?"
"Well, Sir, you seem distracted. Are you upset?"
I turned my head and kissed her on the forehead. "Not with you, Stella. You please me and you are so very good for me."
She burrowed down closer to me and I felt her kiss me on my side.
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"Sir?" Estrella cut off my thoughts again.
I turn and kiss her head again. No more Artemis. Stella deserves my full attention.
"Yes, Stella?"
"Sir, do you think your wolves will ever warm up to me?"
I sighed. "I'm not sure Stella. You must remember I have been with them for a long time. They are the personifications of Hate and Jealousy. Their personalities are a result of having been with me for so long."
"I don't understand, Sir."
"Think of it this way. Imagine a vessel overflowing, so you put another under it to catch the overflow. They catch my overflow of emotions."
Stella thought for a bit, then replied, "But if they are divine, why are they so affected by you?"
"Yes, divine. I heard that Loki, the Norse deity, gave them to you as gifts. So aren't they divine?"
I sighed again. Years ago I said it to protect them. But for a long time now I wished I never made up the story about Loki.
"Stella, that story may not be totally accurate," I replied.
"Well, Hate and Jealousy did not come from Loki. In fact, not only have I never met Loki, I'm not sure if he even exists."
"Then why? Why would you tell that story?"
"To protect them."
"Protect them from what?"
"Stella, it's, uh, complicated."
Stella ran her hand across my chest and whispered, "Then tell me. Any complicated burden is always easier to carry when it is shared."
I looked over at her. Her full-length flowery tattoo was partly covered by the sheet, except for where it graced her neck to gently swoop over her ear. Intoxicating, she simply is intoxicating.
I started the tale. "Many, many years ago, when I was much younger, I betrayed my friends."
"Yes. At Lamark," she commented.
I nodded. "After that happened I felt terrible. I wandered, alone, for many years until I was taken in by a woman."
"A woman?"
I nodded again. "Circe, a sorceress. She was my first lover, my first relationship. I, um, submitted to her love for many years. As time passed however, I fell out of love with her and no longer felt the need or desire to service her. Circe had strict rules that no men, other than her lovers, were allowed on the island. She did, however, maintain a number of maidens who helped her and were acolytes."
Estrella raised one eyebrow at me and I waved her off to keep quiet.
"I fell in love with two of the maidens, sisters. Circe caught us together and flew into a rage. She couldn't curse or smite me because of my divinity, but she still could hurt me."
Stella gently ran her fingers along my jawline. "What did she do?"
"She cursed them. She turned both of them into wolves who would never age. As long as the curse is in place, then I have them both as my eternal, platonic companions. However I can never be with them again. I found out years later that the curse can be broken, but then they would revert to normal mortals who would grow old and die. After all our time together, I couldn't bear the thought of being apart from them, so I left the curse in place."
"So, then, they really are women? Not wolves?"
"They were. I'm not sure anymore. They think and react as wolves. I believe that part took over."
"Well, then what about them changing into women at times? Or traveling faster than the eye can see?"
"Hermes actually blessed them with the speed. I helped him long ago with an issue he was having and in exchange, he paid me by blessing them with speed. I made him swear to keep quiet about it. As for changing into women, well, that only started happening recently. Within the last thousand years. I wonder if the curse is becoming unstable. Still, they don't seem to be aging."
"Do they look the same now as then?"
I nodded. "Exactly the same. It pains me to see them in human form because of the memories."
Stella nodded thoughtfully. "So they can be harmed by mortal weapons?"
'Well, yes, but why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason," she replied with a casual shrug. "I assume that's why you kept it a secret. Because you knew they could be injured or killed."
"Oh, yes," I replied, "I can heal any wounds received in battle, so I take care of them. But I can't raise them from the dead. They have earned the reputation as immortal because of their curse. But they are not immortal. Immortal and ageless are two different things."
Stella lie quiet for several minutes, then asked. "What are their names?"
"Their names? What are their real names?"
I hesitated. Suddenly, it seemed deeply personal to reveal their names. I hadn't uttered their names in thousands of years. In fact, only two people still remembered, me and Circe. Wherever she was.
I looked at Stella and she back at me.
"Calligenia and Aoede. Roughly translated, Beauty and Song."
"Beautiful," murmured Estrella, "may I sing you to sleep now?"
I smiled. "I would love that."
Estrella began her soft lullaby. An enthralling chant that would rise and fall with a mesmerizing cadence. I still didn't understand the language, but it made no matter. I turned on my side to face her and breathed deeply. Her scent was heavenly. My eyelids grew heavy and once again as I drifted into Hypnos' arms, I thought I heard her close the song.
"As foretold, the Master becomes the Slave."


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WeWork showed lofty growth numbers in the first quarter, with revenue and memberships more than doubling from the same quarter last year, but that's not enough for some analysts.
Despite the positive numbers, analysts told Business Insider they're still worried about the 9-year-old company's future, largely because WeWork hasn't seen a full market downturn. Rett Wallace, the CEO of the New York-based research firm Triton, says it is even harder to understand how WeWork would fare in a downcycle since the company doesn't report the percentage of its desks that are occupied.
WeWork's occupancy rate for the first quarter stayed about the same as it was a year ago, about 90% for locations open at least 18 months, a source with knowledge of financials said. The publicly traded workspace provider IWG had about 74% occupancy across its similarly mature locations last year, according to its annual report.
Wallace said a healthier number for WeWork would be locations with waiting lists, rather than with 10% vacancy. He compared the company with Uber, which, in a downturn, would see expenses decrease almost in tandem with revenue, since the car company has comparatively little physical infrastructure and long-term liabilities.
"For WeWork, if they have an occupancy problem, it'll take them months or years to unwind the expense equation," he said. "If you get on the wrong side of it, it could get so much uglier than these asset-light businesses."
WeWork's cofounder and CEO, Adam Neumann, told Business Insider last week that a downturn could actually benefit the business. He highlighted that WeWork was 50% to 70% cheaper than other office buildings and benefited from US accounting changes on how businesses allocate money for leases. WeWork also offers "flexibility and mobility," which helps in a slowing market, and because half of its members do business with one another, they could buoy one another.
Neumann also pointed to local downturns in Buenos Aires, Argentina; São Paulo, Brazil; China; and the UK, all of which saw memberships growing faster than ever and lower construction costs when the market went down. WeWork is also expanding its work with major companies, which have longer leases and could presumably ride out a downcycle better than smaller clients.
WeWork now has $3.4 billion in multiyear agreements with big companies, a major revenue driver as it moves away from overseeing coworking spaces for small startups and into managing office space for big companies. Chris Lane, a Hong Kong-based analyst with Bernstein, said that growing exposure to enterprise was "a healthy sign."
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See more: WeWork's latest earnings report shows it's still using a controversial accounting method that reminds experts of tech-bubble shenanigans
Barry Oxford, a senior research analyst at DA Davidson who covers real estate, said he's concerned about a downturn that's longer than a "short, mild recession."
"Do they lose more tenants than a regular office building in a recession? My gut tells me they'd probably lose a few more," he said.
That doesn't seem to bother the big-office real-estate investment trusts that Oxford covers, many of which, including Boston Properties, have WeWork as a tenant.
"From a real estate and landlord perspective, I can say there's not a lot of pushback from allowing them in buildings," he said.
Another analyst, Andrew Shepherd-Barron at Peel Hunt, has followed IWG — formerly known as Regus — for 17 years. He said WeWork had built up brand loyalty that shouldn't be discounted but was unlikely to carry the company through a recession.
"Just flicking through Q1 numbers, you've got to say they're growing rapidly," he said. "Then again, if you throw enough money at a business, that tends to happen. But if there's any hiccup in the market — watch out."
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