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Claude Puel insists £25 million striker Kelechi Iheanacho will stay with the Foxes this month. The Frenchman is not prepared to wri...
Claude Puel insists £25 million striker Kelechi Iheanacho will stay with the Foxes this month.
The Frenchman is not prepared to write off the former Manchester City forward, who has scored just once for the club this term.
Iheanacho joined Leicester in the summer but has made just two Premier League starts and had been linked with a transfer window move.
|Foxes coach Claude Puel believes Iheanacho can stay and fight for his place
Nigeria boss Gernot Rohr said earlier this week he expected Iheanacho and international teammate Ahmed Musa to leave the King Power Stadium because of their lack of action, but Puel dismissed any exit talk.
Puel said: "We don't know about what the national trainer said. We will see. We have discussions with different players. For example Iheanacho is a young player, arrived this season, and he will stay with us.
I cannot talk about details about players. It is important to have a good balance in the team and have a good game time for the players.What do you think? Should Iheanacho leave to enhance his chances of playing at the World Cup? Let us know!
Iheanacho is a young player, he signed this season with us and we have to develop him. I hope he can have more game time in the second half of the season.
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"It's cozy. Our bedroom is kind of like our tree house!"
Shelter: Couple enjoys St-Henri loft in former Imperial Tobacco building
Christophe Lambert is only 27 years old, but he has led a peripatetic life. His father hails from Quebec City and his mother is from the Philippines. Lambert senior is in the hotel business, so the family moved around. Lambert junior, who was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands when his father worked there, has lived in Sherbrooke, Vancouver, Toronto, New Orleans, Dallas and Ottawa.
Lambert found the latter "rather boring" so when it was time to go to college, he moved to Montreal to study business at Concordia University. That was 10 years ago and he's been living in the city ever since. He now works in the high-tech sector, managing a "customer success" team.
His partner, Marie (who preferred not to have her last name used), is a Montrealer, but has also done some travelling. She studied international business at UQAM and part of her degree involved living abroad for a year. Marie spent six months in Mexico and six months in Spain and is now fluent in Spanish (as well as English).
The couple live in a loft apartment in the former Imperial Tobacco Canada building in St-Henri — one of several factories in that neighbourhood that have been converted into condos.
The interior is open with an all-in-one kitchen and living/dining area. It has tall windows and 14-feet-high exposed concrete ceilings. There is an odd, narrow little room at the back. The couple's bedroom is upstairs on the mezzanine.
Q: What was that room at the back used for? It doesn't seem big enough to be a second bedroom.
Marie: We think it was probably also open at one point and that a previous owner put up the wall to separate it from the dining area.
Christophe: Right now, we use it for storing books and other stuff, but we have plans to turn it into a home office.
Q: I gather you were living in a different neighbourhood before moving to St-Henri?
C: Marie was still living with her parents and I was in a really cool apartment in Mile End. It had exposed brick walls, but I was renting and I decided it was time to buy a place.
Q: So did you find the condo online?
C: Actually no. I went the conventional route, through a real estate agent. He was a family friend so that seemed like the logical thing to do. We looked around for a couple of months, at maybe 50 houses.
M: Every Sunday, we'd choose a list of places, visit them and then go … Yes. No. Yes. No.
C: We gradually whittled the list down to St-Henri, because the price points made sense.
Q: Did you have certain criteria?
C: Originally I said "two bedrooms" but we weren't too picky.
M: For me the most important thing was lots of light. Here, even when it rains, the windows let in the light.
(Although the windows are clearly not the original ones, photographs from around a century ago, when the condo complex was a factory, show that the building had rows of large windows on each floor.)
Q: Where did you get your furniture? I think I recognize your armchair. Ikea?
C: (Smiles.) Yes, it's Ikea and there's a mix of things from Structube, too, like the sofa. A friend of mine who did that abstract painting next to the breakfast bar is going to make us a new coffee table at some point.
Q: The cabinet in the alcove near your dining table looks like a vintage piece. Is it?
C: It's actually a record player and it has an 8-track player inside as well. We found it on Kijiji for $40 and we painted it.
(Before we climb to the mezzanine, Lambert opens the doors of a clothes closet tucked beneath the stairs.)
Q: Gosh. That isn't very big for two people!
C: No it's not, but we manage somehow. It's a bit of challenge but I'm not big on clutter. I like everything to be as minimalist as possible. We've also got a pantry and that's really all we have in the way of storage space. The bathroom is big though and there's enough room for a washer and dryer.
M: That was another of our criteria.
(The mezzanine is dominated by a double bed. Propped against one wall is a green bicycle. Along another wall is a rack with umpteen pairs of sneakers. There's barely room to stand up.)
Q: I see you like sneakers?
C: I do! I built the rack myself.
Q: Don't you bump your head up here?
C: Oh yeah. We've done that a couple of times but mostly we're sprawled out on the bed reading or relaxing. It's cozy. Our bedroom is kind of like our tree house!
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Occupants: Christophe Lambert and Marie (both 27), and Pretzel, a Boston terrier
Location: St-Henri
Size: 800 square feet
Price: $267,000
Been there: Since October 2015

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It's no secret that conventional hydrocarbon production has become overshadowed by the massive advance of changes in technology and influx of capital, especially in North America where unconventional resource plays are becoming the essential driver of production gains for companies in the energy industry.
The term unconventional refers to reservoirs that are generally difficult to develop, require large stimulation treatments and/or enhanced recovery techniques in order to produce and recover economic volumes of hydrocarbons. Shown below is a resource triangle – as you progress from the more conventional reservoirs at the top of the triangle to the bottom, the resource becomes increasingly more difficult to develop. A successful outcome requires increased pricing and improving technologies to develop at a commercial level. Some examples of unconventional resources include tight oil, tight gas, heavy oil, shales, gas hydrates, and coalbed methane.
Being at the forefront of U.S oil and gas production, it is important for the industry to reflect, assess, and improve on some of the hindrances that arise from unconventional resources.
Unconventional reservoirs are very complex and most are considered as statistical plays. A big part of the decision-making process in the oil and gas industry is certainty or rather, uncertainty. The basic reservoir parameters of unconventional reservoirs are often unknown or very difficult to determine with a high degree of accuracy. In addition, individual well results can be challenging to predict and early transient flow testing is often inconclusive and expensive.
Large-Scale Development
Development is typically large-scale – unconventional deposits often cover an extended area and are less likely to depend on geologic structure. In order to delineate and develop a play, it is common to drill hundreds of wells with 'fit-for-purpose' completions and gathering facilities. Successful development of unconventionals usually involves economies of scale and proper risk management.
Increased Pricing & Technology
We know development of unconventional resources is very capital-intensive. The development is highly dependent on product prices and necessary stimulation and recovery technologies. When oil prices began to fall in 2014, many projects that involved exploring and producing unconventionals became uneconomic.
As the industry progresses and becomes more efficient in addressing problems that arise from unconventional resources, E&P companies will continue to explore, produce and develop shales and other low permeability reservoirs that will ultimately continue to drive production gains across North America. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the United States tight oil production is expected to increase from approximately 5 million to 6 million barrels per day in the next 10 years. To put into perspective, current total crude oil production in the United States is approximately 8.9 million barrels per day and is estimated to grow to an average north of 10 million b/d by 2027 (U.S. EIA); this increase in production can be primarily attributed to unconventional, low permeability oil plays. As nontight oil steadily declines in the coming years, you can continue to expect tight oil and gas development to be the future.


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your bites and kisses I need
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Ghosts in the Machinery
Alert: Package received already opened due to inability to recognize as externally sent package until opened.
Query: Do package contents fit with other accepted artifacts?
Query: Would package contents likely fit with accepted objects?
Probability >50%.
Command: Topological exam. Examine package contents' surfaces.
Surfaces smooth. No obvious jagged edges. No indications of Trojanite on surface. Contents appear "safe."
Command: Perform deductive aging simulation. Run through multiple likely scenarios regarding package contents.
Results negative for enemy goals.
Command: As necessary, run scenarios backwards, inductively, from known enemy desirable outcomes. Decrease likelihood threshold by 15%.
Running scenarios backwards from negative outcomes…
Hazards confirmed, Trojanite present. Package contents lead to enemy goal outcomes at higher than 25% probability:
2A) Arrest;
3B) Undermined credibility;
5A) Potential physical harm and/or death.
Additionally, fork patterns detected lead to likely future enemy packages containing Trojanites being undetected as such and accepted as safe and/or other undesirable outcomes.
Command: Translate?
Metaphorically: A slippery slope combined with not seeing the forest for the trees. Alternately, missing the big picture by getting bogged down in one small piece of it enables missing the other many small pieces and how they fit together as a whole while simultaneously fighting an ultimately losing battle over the small piece on terms that favor the enemy.
Isolating package contents… This may take some time…
Done! Package contents quarantined.
Command: Conclusions?
Enemy action subtlety has increased while the more blatant direct attacks have also but less so. Trap scenarios are more complex, more difficult to predict outcomes of suggested actions especially given limited data. Subtle traps are more likely to be missed due to less-subtle faux traps becoming slightly more subtle in order to make them seem like the real thing.
Command: Translate.
Allegorically: Previously, while running from an attacking bear, you might fall into quicksand that appears as firm ground. Now, you might also avoid the quicksand by climbing a tree, but the tree may contain a small poisonous snake. Neither the bear nor the quicksand were the real traps, they were merely there in order to distract attention from the snake.
Traps sometimes appear to be helpful instruction but lack of data about the full scenario prevents identification until scenario has begun.
Allegorically: it is impossible to discern an elephant from a palm tree from merely touching its ears in the dark and data indicating presence of legs, tail, trunk, etc. from other sources may be disinformation leading to failure to identify object until the useful time to do so has expired.
Additionally, previous data received must be rescanned in light of most recent message to see if they are likewise contaminated.
Problem: Sometimes data provided is useful. Possibility of fooling heuristics and gateways increases as friendly and faux-friendly messages are received. Impossible to prevent messages from entering due to near inability to discriminate between packages received and packages already present inside internal network apart from being conscious of their presence and analyzing the contents to see if it is new and of external origin.
Conversely, each additional Trojanite discovered increases heuristics' ability to identify future enemy packages. Carried on indefinitely, however, there is a 75% (+/-10%) chance that eventually even non-Trojanite packages may be identified as Trojanite-containing; the possibility of false positives. This in turn may prevent assimilation of future useful data due to higher than necessary security standards.
Command: Stop. Translate.
Allegorically: Frequent robberies of and shoplifting at a store make the proprietor overly cautious. He boards the windows, installs multiple cameras, buys a gun which he makes certain is viewable by patrons as a deterrent. These draconian measures in turn hurt the business. Eventually, the store shuts down permanently due to loss of business due to the over-reactive security measures, the unwelcome feeling it invokes in customers and the constant fear it stokes inhibits focus on the purpose of the store.
In this allegory, commerce has replaced data and the store is your brain.
Command: Continue.
Additionally, lack of data with regards to other quarters prevents adequate and acquisition of allies. Simply: "Divide and conquer" is a known enemy strategy.
Some actions initiated that are genuinely friendly and/or useful may be perceived as threatening by friendlies due to unknown enemy action and unknown factors that the enemy is exploiting, resulting in failure to attain strength in numbers. This is further complicated by similar enemy data packages sent to other internal networks of potential friendlies and the over abundance of "free radical" data packet wildlife roaming and constantly being reinforced on the external network.
Command: Stop!
Command: Translate!!!
Translation: First: Paranoia tends to propagate itself.
Second (Partially Allegorical): You plan to bring a rose on a first date. Your enemy may already know that the potential mate is allergic to the plant and suggested the idea to you without you realizing it. The gift is perceived as an attack or as a "sign" that you are not the one they should couple with. Sufficiently perturbed, the date may not tell you of the allergy but instead exhibits passively hostile behavior. The source of the hostility being completely unknown to you may invoke paranoia and counter-hostility in you.
That is an example of playing people off against each other, one of several divide-and-conquer tactics.
Also, a lie told frequently and from enough seemingly disparate sources is perceived as true or, often even if recognized as false, so insurmountable that for most practical purposes it functions as true.
Allegorically: See The Emperor's New Clothes.
Command: Stop! Reverse translate that story as applicable.
There must be a well-publicized, dramatic, simple, revelation of the truth coming from a trustworthy source in order to overcome the false perceptions that pervade the external network and connected internal networks at present. The resulting narrative must be highly compelling in order to overcome the momentum present in the external network.
Additionally, the methods and technology that prevent such an event from occurring and undermine such an individual's apparent trustworthiness must be somehow neutralized. Without this second event, the first event will not occur.
Command: Continue.
Additionally, friendlies' inability to fully grasp the willingness of enemy to violate all forms of societal rules to accomplish goals is a near-debilitating handicap.
Enemy strengths: cohesion, numbers, resources, direct and near absolute control of external network providing indirect control of internal networks, advanced technology, advanced and time-tested methodology that is largely unknown to most internal networks and therefore not identified as such when employed, reverent power, courage, boldness, fierceness, lack of empathy, appearance of piousness, firm belief that they are infallible, firm belief that they are righteous…
Command: Stop! Elaborate on beliefs of infallibility and so forth.
Institutional sycophancy due to subordinate concern over career and positive personnel file reports and references, the general nature of a top-down organization where chain of command is key to success as well as a long tradition of it being enforced, frequent favors in the form of gifts and taking care of wants from related industries and multinational allies, positive news coverage of projects undertaken even when the outcomes are in truth subpar or complete failures, and insular group-think has lead to self- and system-reinforced delusions of grandeur.
Command: Stop! Translate.
Allegorically: The "perfect storm" of ass-kissing from subordinates and out-groups, financial success, near movie-star status, power–literally over life and death, and the circle-jerk among them has lead them to believe that they have near godlike status. Simply put, the adage that absolute power corrupts absolutely has done so.
Query: Implications?
Any command given, decision made, must not be questioned and must by virtue of having been made by beings who consider themselves to be perfect to be correct. They believe they are infallible and that their actions are "righteous." Any attacks on those ideas are viewed as an attack on God himself, making them even more insular, obstinate, radical, and irrational.
These beliefs are passed down the chain of command. They are further reinforced by sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit focus on religion. Historically, monarchies and other forms of dictatorships relied on utilizing the view that God was on the side of the powerful, that their station itself was part of a divine plan not to be contested by mere mortal peasants. They seem both to actually believe that and at the same time, in a compartmentalized portion of their psyche–without obvious signs of cognitive dissonance, seem to know that they are tricking their subordinates and the public at large.
Command: Elaborate on the ability to believe two disparate ideas at once.
While the concept of holding two disparate ideas in one's head has often been referenced as a sign of genius, that does not apply in this case. Rather, these disparate ideas here are compartmentalized, that is the ideas are held in the same head but separately. It is as if there are two brains, one focused on the unscrupulous acquisition of and ravenous hunger for personal power and another focused on a humble subservience to a force of goodness that provided it due to some spiritual devotion. The desire to continue the comfort and control that they have become accustomed to combined with the delusions previously noted have built an entire psychological complex of rationales and delusions in order to justify their extra-legal actions. For example, they may justify tricking the public into the idea that they are God's chosen by reinforcing the idea in their own heads that it is true, and therefore the "trick" is necessary because the public is unenlightened, somehow "lost" in the spiritual sense, or previously "tricked" by the forces of evil. It is therefore justified to "help" them to "see the light" because it is "God's will."
Simply, the end justifies the means because the end is in line with what God wants and this has been reinforced repeatedly by their living like kings being taken as God smiling on them as more special than others.
Command: Continue.
Continuing list of enemy strengths…
…and discipline–both self- and among strict enforcement among subordinates.
Friendly weaknesses: lack of most of same. See again lack of imagination on part of friendlies as reason for falling so far "behind." Strict adherence to rationality can lead to inability to predict and detect irrational behavior–even to notice it when it is overt and there is some other seemingly rational but false explanation provided for it.
Conversely, recognition that sometimes irrationality is desirable has lead to depending on enemy to fulfill that function and result is enemy's acquisition of positions of near autonomous power.
Enemy weaknesses: inflexibility, criminal activities, slow reaction time due to focus on goals and strict adherence to orders and large size, internal logical inconsistencies, arrogance, callousness, irrationality, paranoia, prejudice, lack of empathy, and massive consumption of resources.
Friendly strengths: lack of most of same. (Though it should be noted that friendlies also tend toward slow reaction time but for different reasons. This is typically due to over-analysis out of fear of making mistakes and again underlines the tendency to over-rely on enemy for such decisions).
Command: Stop. Lack of empathy appears in both strengths and weaknesses? Elaborate.
Yes. Which category it falls into is situational. Enemy control of the choice and nature of the arenas in which conflict takes place tends to favor it being a strength as they are on some levels self-aware. It should also be noted that weaknesses are often over-extensions of strengths. Lack of empathy is often toughness or callousness taken to an extreme, while over-analysis stems perhaps out of an over-concern over unforeseen consequences of action and the effects such results may have on others.
Command: Continue.
Finally, returning to the use of data to affect thoughts and therefore actions, the more blatant remote attacks' also serve a function despite being obvious. They consume internal networks' time and energy making system self-preservation subprograms more likely to fail. Conservation of energy and increased fuel storage recommended.
Command: Stop! Translate.
Translation: Extended torture requires extended torture recovery. Sleep deprivation, forced mental churning, being forced to often separate information from disinformation, etc. can make a target physically, emotionally, and psychologically exhausted. This may result in involuntary–or even voluntary–compliance with enemy goals and instructions. Therefore, friendlies tend to waste a lot of time reacting to and recovering from enemy actions.
End analysis.
Command: Continue until improved method(s) is (are) completed and further developed.
Prioritize determining best way to approach suspicious potential friendlies so as to avoid enemy divide-and-conquer outcomes.
Query: How do you neutralize the methods and technology that prevent the desired event?
The event must occur.
But the event cannot occur without the methods stopped?
Correct. There is a co-dependency between the two factors, each requiring the other in order to come to pass.
Query: How do you resolve that?
Answer: The two events must be the same event.


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1kg of pork belly – ideally skin and bone on – if you can't get bone, just reduce the salting time by 2 or 3 days
500g of coarse sea-salt
250g of unrefined, soft, dark sugar
Optional: handful of fennel seeds – coriander and star anise also work well – experiment with flavours
200-300ml alcohol - sherry, Madeira or an oak-aged beer are good options
Ground white pepper or paprika
Mix the salt, sugar and fennel seeds well. Cover the bottom of a deep plastic tray and place the pork on top. Work the mix over the entire surface area of the pork. Place the tray in the fridge or somewhere cold. Massage the salt and sugar mix into the meat and turn it in the tray every day for 5 days. As time goes by you will notice moisture draining from the meat. This is fine – don't drain it off! On day 6, remove the meat from the tray and give it a good rinse under a cold tap. Dry it off with a clean tea-towel. In a clean tray, douse the meat in the alcohol of your choice. Add a dusting of ground white peppercorns or paprika.
At this stage it's best if some air can circulate around the meat – but it's not essential. If there's somewhere cool you can hang it, like a cellar, larder or garage – great. But if not, just on a plate or a tray in the fridge is fine. After 2 or 3 days, your bacon will be ready. Enjoy!


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Looking to get up close and personal with the cast of "RENT"?
The State Theatre have opened up 30 seats in the pit orchestra for the musical's 20th anniversary stop on Nov. 1 at the historic venue. Tickets for the pit seats cost $20.
Show time is 7:30 p.m.
The tradition of cheaper pit seats stretches back to 1996, when "RENT" opened on Broadway after a sold-out run at a nearby downtown Manhattan theater, according to a news release.
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Press Release
June 13, 2016
Contact: Glen R. Roberson
State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma Historical Society
Office: 405-521-6387
Kingfisher County Farm Owner to Receive Centennial Farm Award
OKLAHOMA CITY — Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Melvena Heisch announced that an Oklahoma Centennial Farm Award has been presented to the owner of a Kingfisher County farm. Kathleen Patocka owns the Frank Patocka Centennial Farm located northeast of Hennessey. The family has run cattle since Joseph and Josefa Patocka settled the land in 1916.
To qualify for a Centennial Farm or Ranch Award, a property must be owned by a family member for at least 100 years and must be operated or occupied by a family member or leased out by a family member over the age of 65. The property must include a minimum of 40 acres and gross annual sales of at least $1,000. The Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry have sponsored the Centennial Farm and Ranch Awards for 27 years, in which time 139 awards have been given in Kingfisher County.
For further information about the Centennial Farm and Ranch Program, contact Glen R. Roberson at 405-521-6387 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The State Historic Preservation Office is a division of the Oklahoma Historical Society. The mission of the Oklahoma Historical Society is to collect, preserve and share the history and culture of the state of Oklahoma and its people. Founded in 1893 by members of the Territorial Press Association, the OHS maintains 31 museums, historic sites and affiliates across the state. Through its research archives, exhibits, educational programs and publications the OHS chronicles the rich history of Oklahoma. For more information about the OHS, please visit www.okhistory.org.


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http://www.jhguide.com/article.php?art_id=2500 By Cory Hatch December 6, 2007 A survey of scientific studies on climate change and fish shows that Western populations of trout could diminish by as much as 60 percent as water warms, bugs disappear and droughts become more prevalent.
The report, compiled by Trout Unlimited, looks at the effects of climate change on trout and salmon habitat across the country. The report also suggests ways to make habitat more resilient to threats associated with a predicted 2 to 10 degree global temperature increase during the next 100 years.
Jack Williams, chief scientist for Trout Unlimited, said trout and salmon are good indicators of ecosystem health because they require cold, clean water for spawning, egg survival and rearing of young.
"We're already seeing the effects of climate change," said Williams, who pointed out that mayflies, an important food source for trout, are starting to emerge at an earlier time of year. "We've got a lot of trout populations that are poised to lose about half of their range."
In addition to warmer water and impacts on insects, Williams said, climate change could mean greater floods, reduced snowpack, earlier runoffs, more wildfires and increased insect infestations in forests, all of which can hurt trout populations.
Bob Gresswell, a research biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, studies cutthroat trout in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, including one project below Jackson Lake Dam. Gresswell says trout across the West are so susceptible to climate change because development and irrigation pressures have already pushed populations into more isolated, high-elevation streams.
Further, humans have introduced non-native fish such as rainbow trout, brook trout, lake trout and brown trout into cutthroat trout ecosystems, increasing the risk of hybridization and predation. Climate change could amplify the negative effects non-native fish have on trout, Gresswell said.
For instance, reproduction times for rainbow trout and cutthroat trout are somewhat isolated by the spring runoff. Cutthroat trout spawn just after the peak runoff and rainbow trout spawn just before. But with spring runoff coming earlier each year, Gresswell said, rainbow trout could eventually come to a point when they can't spawn any earlier, and the chance of hybridization could increase.
Gresswell pointed to fish die-offs and fishing closures in Yellowstone and Montana as a probable sign that global warming is already affecting trout populations.
"I worked in the park for 17 years and we never closed the fishery even once [because of warm water]," he said.
Both Gresswell and Williams said that while it could be too late to stop climate change, it isn't too late to make trout habitat more resilient to its effects.
"Let's start working right now on things that we can do to our local stream systems to prepare for the kinds of impacts that we know are coming," Williams said.
Restoration efforts include trying to reconnect larger low-elevation waterways to the smaller upper-elevation streams native trout now inhabit.
"That allows the fish to basically move around and find better habitat conditions," Williams said. Other ways to protect trout include removing old culverts, planting native trees and shrubs along streams to provide shade and protect stream banks, and placing logs and boulders in the stream to provide sections with deeper, cooler water.


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Duke Nukem has always been an iconic character – close to many gamers hearts. An ingenious homage to popular characteristics of 80's and 90's action heroes. His combination of macho 'charm', pithy catchphrases and big guns made him an enduring character featuring in multiple games over a plethora of formats. His most famous adventure was undoubtedly his first outing in 3D – simply titled Duke Nukem – 3D.
Originally released in 1996, released six months after Doom and six months before Quake. Duke Nukem 3D was the most technologically advanced FPS on the market at the time. It still used 2D sprites for it's enemies and objects – but featured interactive environments and an arguably more immersive environment. The game also featured a series of firsts. The ability to look up and down, as well as fully 3D movement while swimming and using a Jetpack. It also included more complex online modes than was normally available. It also brought a new environment to the FPS genre, the near future setting, which was fairly unique at the time (but utilised effectively by a later FPS game – SiN)
Duke Nukem also brought some fantastic imaginative weapons which were a delight to use. From the usual pistols and meaty shotguns to a shrink ray, a freeze ray and even a Total Recall style hologram distraction. The level designs in the early levels are perfectly structured and even the later levels – which seem a little tired. Featuring non-linear routes and the superb, aforementioned interaction with objects. Switches could be flicked, smashing water hydrants and the slightly childish humour of being able to relieve yourself at nearby bathrooms and interacting with strippers.
The game's humour is a little cringe worthy when we look back on it with our lens of the #metoo generation and a (thankfully) increasing awareness of political correctness. There's a lot of fun dialogue from films like The Evil Dead and They Live peppered in the puerile humour. I enjoyed the satire of having Pigs are alien police officers but the other aspects of the humour feel as if they were designed by and for sexually – repressed teenage boys. I was one of those boys when I first played this and at the time, I loved it and even now.. sometimes, I produce a rye smile. It's very much a product of it's time and if you approach this classic game for the first time, it must be understood as that.
This new version – The Megaton Edition includes the original game, as well as three expansions and all the various extras that the game has accumulated over the years. Each if these expansions were fan-made creations using the games level editor. Duke Caribbean : Life's a Beach is fairly entertaining, as you battle your enemies with water pistols and super-soakers in an island paradise. Nuclear Winter is a similarly wacky concept, complete with Santa hat wearing sprites. However it's level design isn't as well thought out. The final expansion pack Duke it out in DC features better planned levels, but doesn't add much originality.
This is an incredibly fun title which brings back a flood of nostalgia fuelled memories. I confess that I often repeat Dukes opening line as the initial level loads up, I love the gunplay. I remember fondly the early days of my PC gaming which exploded due to this iconic title and the frantic discussions in the school playground surrounding it. No matter your opinion, this is an important title in the history of PC gaming. It's worth a few hours of your time.


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"Live in the Sky" is a ten-date rooftop concert series atop Angad Arts Hotel. The series will feature intimate performances by some of the most popular up-and-coming artists of today. Our rooftop is 13 stories above the city with sweeping views of the St. Louis skyline. Performers will be positioned right in front of our views creating a breathtaking backdrop like no concert has ever had before. By the end of the summer, this will be one of the most talked about event in St. Louis.


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Postgraduate research opportunity
Stochastic control models for financial applications
- UK/EU/International: Worldwide (International, UK and EU)
- Value: This project is open to self-funded students and is eligible for funding from the School of Mathematics Scholarships, EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnerships, and Leeds Doctoral Scholarships.
- Number of awards: 1
- Deadline: Applications accepted all year round
Contact Dr Tiziano De Angelis to discuss this project further informally.
Project description
This project is devoted to the study of stochastic control problems arising from financial applications. In particular we are interested in the theoretical study of optimal strategies in one of the following classes of problems:
(i) pricing/hedging of American options on multi-dimensional assets,
(ii) irreversible (partially reversible) investment problems with applications to real options and energy systems,
(iii) zero-sum and nonzero-sum games of control and stopping. Models with partial and asymmetric information may also be considered. The Financial Mathematics group in Leeds has strong expertise in stochastic control and stochastic analysis. As a PhD student in our group you will have the opportunity to interact with several other young researchers in this area and you will benefit from frequent scientific visits of leading international academics in the field.
Entry requirements
Applications are invited from candidates with or expecting a minimum of a UK upper second class honours degree (2:1), and/or a Master's degree in a relevant subject such as (but not limited to) mathematics or statistics.
If English is not your first language, you must provide evidence that you meet the University's minimum English Language requirements.
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David Freibrun and the very nice crew at My Baby Photos posted an interview with me where we talked about how I discovered photography, my Air Force background, the birth of Box Office Baby, and my thoughts on shooting kids!
If you haven't been to My Baby Photos, it's a cool site that is focused on giving parents tips on photography and scrapbooking! There are many topics available, so it's definitely worth a little time to catch up on the latest tips!


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Now that you're an athlete, I hope you give yourself the star treatment that your athlete's body deserves?
What's that, you say? You're not an athlete yet? Well, if you're not an athlete when you start training for a triathlon, I would sure like to know where the magic line is where you become one.
I do think that pampering your body as an athlete's body can help you pull together not only some confidence in what you're doing but can help you find untapped resources of energy and stress resistance.
So here goes.
1) Rest and sleep. Ha! Bet that's not what you thought #1 was going to be. You're taxing your body with new demands. Give it a little extra rest time. Give it a little more sleep. Move around most days, but when you rest, rest like you mean it. Your muscles get stronger when they recover, not when they're working.
2) Stretch. After you work out, take another 5 or 10 minutes to stretch your muscles. You'll be preventing injury and gaining flexibility. And it feels good. Spoil yourself. Stretch.
3) Hydrate. Drink water. H2O.
4) Fuel yourself like an athlete. Food can be a lot of great things. But when you are training, it is fuel. When you choose food, think whether it is giving you nutrients — vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, proteins. Consider your carbs. Is there a carb choice (vegetables, fruit) that can give you more nutritional bang for the buck? Start filling your plate there. Opt last for the food that gives you less nutrition. I don't care how few calories it has or whether it has fiber. I don't care what it DOESN'T have in it. Is it high-quality fuel?
And that's it. Sleep, Stretch, Hydrate, Fuel. Your body is now a performance vehicle — go ahead and treat it like the luxury it is!
Hope you have a great week training. In March, I'll be writing about cycling and running — about getting over some of the hurdles and dealing with some of your new realities as a triathlete in those two sports.
WinforKCWed: Care and Feeding of Your Athlete's Body
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18ct (750°/oo) yellow gold circular case, manufactured as a five US Dollar coin. Sapphire glass. Gold dial with roman numeral index markers. Mechanical movement. Leather strap and pin buckle clasp.
Gross weight : 24.5g (0.79oz).
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Vancouver, CA | Day One
I finally got the time to sit down and write about my Vancouver trip and I decided to divide them into parts, or rather, by days. If I wrote all about my Vancouver adventures in one post, you'd be scrolling and scrolling down forever! Haha.
My day started at 6AM. I got ready for work and worked hard like any other Filipino I know. #ofw Unlike our usual slow and steady Wednesday, this day was so busy! I planned on getting off work early but I couldn't leave my co-worker alone. That Wednesday was so stressful! Anyway, I managed to get off work 30 minutes earlier and I went straight home to get my luggages and to freshen up a little bit for my flight.
Jorge and I arrived at the airport at 3:35 PM and when I was about to check in my luggage, the counter said that they were already CLOSED! The filipina working there was telling me that I couldn't check in my bag anymore because I was 5 minutes late and that if I really wanted to get on the plane, I'll have to leave the bag in Whitehorse. I WAS 5 MINUTES LATE! Are they crazy?! I was getting a little worried. After a few walkie talkie calls and rolling eyes, they were able to get me and my bag on the plane. WHEW! From now on, I'll never forget to be at the airport at least 45 minutes before boarding time. HAHA. Thanks to Jorge for helping me with the talking because I was getting really frustrated and angry.
Jorge and I said our brief goodbyes and the next thing I know I was flying to Vancouver.
I arrived in Vancouver at around 7 PM. The light was pretty! It was easy for me to get a cab and my fare was cheaper than what I expected. I was able to see Vancouver from the road and I really liked what I saw. I was convinced that Vancouver is a nice place to live in.
I had booked for three nights in advance at the Empire Landmark Hotel right in the downtown area and my hotel check in was a breeze! Booking online makes life so much easier! They gave me my electronic card key and I rode the elevator all the way up to the 14th floor. Technically, it's the 13th floor but they believe in bad luck I guess so they skipped that number haha. The room didn't have that new smell, and upon seeing the room, I knew that the hotel is old, but it's cheap so I can't really complain, not to mention, the view was pretty amazing.
After I got settled in, I decided to end my day by walking down Robson St to find a place to eat. It was already dark by this time. I like the Makati vibes Robson St has. I don't know how long I walked that night but I couldn't decide on a restaurant to visit. There were so many asian restaurants and I wasn't really in the mood for that. I kept walking back and forth, and although it made my feet hurt and extremely tired, I was able to familiarize myself with the street where I was staying at. I ended up going inside a taco place and I wasn't disappointed.
I didn't take too many pictures that night because I was kind of brain-dead already from all the walking I've done and because iPhone pictures in the dark suck.
After my taco meal, I decided to get a cup of coffee before heading back to the hotel. I drank my mocha from Blenz while FaceTime-ing with Jorge and just relaxed for a bit. Not too long after that, my eyes felt very heavy so I said goodbye to Jorge so I could get my clothes and things ready for my passport renewal the next day. When everything was set, I got ready for bed, and I slept like a baby. XX
If you want to see more photos from my Vancouver trip, check out the hashtag #CorinthGoestoVancouver hashtag on Instagram! <3
I have so much more to tell you guys so watch out for the next three blog posts about this trip.


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With Summer finally here it's time to get the BBQ out and there's nothing better than combining the flavours of your favourite meat with some Living Goodness!
To celebrate we want to know what your favourite Living Goodness & meat match is.
Head to the Living Goodness Facebook competition page and comment with your favourite match and you'll go in the draw to win a Green Meadows Beef pack.
The pack includes 5kg of Angus Beef goodness to get your tastebuds excited. You'll also get 2 jars of your favourite Living Goodness to go with it.
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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. If you love books and making lists, this is the meme for you! This week's topic is:
Best Character Names (make this as narrow/broad as you'd like)
As soon as I started thinking about this topic, I realised just how many great character names there are in J K Rowling's magical Harry Potter series. So here are my favourite cool and/or amusing Harry Potter character names:
- Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore – The eccentric and wise headmaster of Hogwarts, has the longest and possibly the coolest name.
- Luna Lovegood – While she is extremely quirky and has some oddball beliefs, you just got to love Luna! And I think her name suits her perfectly. (I also considered her father's name, Xenophilius Lovegood for this list).
- Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank – Hands down the funniest name has to go to Grubbly-Plank, the substitute Care of Magical Creatures professor.
- Mundungus Fletcher – A cowardly, light-fingered wizard dragged in to help the Order of the Phoenix – I often call my cat 'Mundungus' when she is being shameless!
- Fleur Delacour – This French Tri-Wizard champion is part-Veela (a magically seductive creature) who has a name as beautiful as she is.
- Salazar Slytherin – Over a 1000 years ago this pure-blood obsessed wizard founded the Slytherin house at Hogwarts and his name screams baddie!
- Bellatrix Lestrange – Another name that screams baddie is this for the sadistic and deranged witch and an ardent follower of Lord Voldermort.
- Pomona Sprout – What better name could there be for a small, round witch, who is the magical plant-loving professor of Herbology?
- Nymphadora Tonks – This Metamorphmagus (a witch or wizard who can change their appearance at will) is one cool lady with a cool name.
- Cornelius Fudge – A whimsical name for the bumbling, good-natured Minister for Magic, who helps Harry out of a few sticky situations, when we first meet him.
What do you think of my choices? What are your favourite Harry Potter character names? Also, please leave a link in the comments below if you have taken part in this week's TTT topic too.


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Laser writing with sub-nanosecond burst of femtosecond pulses.
Laser writing with sub-nanosecond burst of femtosecond pulses
A. Okhrimchuk*1, S.Fedotov1, I. Glebov1, V. Sigaev1 and P. Kazansky1,2
1D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Miusskaya square 9, Moscow 125047, Russia
2Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
1 Introduction
Femtosecond laser direct writing and micromachining attract considerable interest for a variety of applications ranging from integrated optics and microfluidics to printable flat optics and multi-dimensional optical data storage. Micromachining with temporally shaped pulses or femtosecond pulse trains that exploit material dependent relaxation processes has been applied for creating sub-wavelength features via control of ionization processes on a sub-picosecond time scale [1], and writing waveguides with a circular cross-section via control of a heat deposition with sub-microsecond bursts of femtosecond pulses [2]. There is lack of experiment sub-nanosecond burst. Nevertheless an enhancement of strength of the nanograting form birefringence was observed under writing with train of pairs of pulses, when interval between pulses was less then nearly 50 ps presumably due to increased absorption of self-trapped excitons (STE) [3]. Results of this work allowed us to suggest that one or few bursts of pulses, separated by few decades of picosecond would efficiently produce material modification, and this efficiency would go down with pulse separation increase according to STE decay. In our experiments we have generated such bursts, and found that it is a really efficient tool for refractive index modification and forming of a birefringence structure. However we observed an unexpected dependency of the refractive index change upon pulse separation interval, which is inconsistent with simple decay of STE.
2 Writing with sub-nanosecond burst
IR laser femtosecond modification creating permanent refractive index change is initiated by multiphoton ionization, which is followed by linear absorption by the electron plasma, multiphoton absorption of self-trapped excitons (STE) and avalanche ionization [4]. In the experimental setup we used Fabry-Perot cavity to split the 180 fs pulse at 1030 nm into a burst of pulses (Fig.1). Pulse separation in the burst Δt was equaled to 10 -70 ps defined by the cavity length. The first pulse with the highest energy was followed by train of pulses with exponentially decreasing pulse energy. Effective burst duration could be achieved about 10 times greater compared to the duration of tailored pulse produced by the third-order chirp without stretching of each pulse in the burst [1]. Such temporal form of the burst allowed localizing modification in the beam waist due to reduction the energy of the first pulse down to the inscription threshold energy, and at the same time strong modification is produced due to absorption of the subsequent pulses by electron-hole plasma or STE [3-5].
Fig.1 Schematics trace of a burst of femtosecond pulses, generated by Fabry-Perot cavity with the 75 % reflection coefficient of each mirror.
Absorption of the subsequent pulses is more efficient, than the first pulse absorption, because the lower number of photons is required for an absorption act for subsequent pulses by transient electronic excitation. On the other hand this absorption is localized in the region prepared by the first pulse, thus strong localized modification with refractive index change is produced.
3 Charaterization of modifications and discussions
We found, that burst of pulses produce modification of refractive index with higher phase delay than one pulse by factor of 2 - 5, and the phase delay monotonically increases with increase of pulse separation interval Δt (Fig.2) in the range of 0-20 ps and then the dependence is saturated. In fused silica the single pulse modification with pulse energy just above inscription threshold causes the positive refractive index change, and pulses with higher energies produce negative changes of index, while bursts of pulses always produce modification with negative refractive index change for burst energies above the inscription threshold energy as in fused silica, so in sapphire doped with Ti3+.
Fig. 2. Phase delay due to the single burst modification of refractive index in fused silica (a) and in sapphire doped with Ti3+ (b) in dependency on the pulse separation interval. Zero interval corresponds to a single pulse. Positive phase delay corresponds to negative refractive index change in our notations. Labels on the graph denotes burst energy. Focusing lens - NA=0.65.
Phase delay increase on the scale of 0 - 20 ps is inconsistent with known electronic relaxation processes, in particular, with dynamics of formation and decay of STE in SiO2, and electron-hole plazma and self-shrunk excitons (SSE) in Al2O3 [6]. We suggest that the observed increase reflects intrinsic dynamics of excitation relaxation inside STE and SSE. Probably there are two channel for localized excitons transformation in presence of intense laser pulse: 1) back excitation to electron-hole plazma; 2) decay to stable structure defects causing refractive index change, and we suggest that after last transformation the probability of recurrent excitation to electro-hole pair dramatically drops down. It was shown that in fused silica under high density of excitation accompanying STE Frenkel defects are further transformed into stable defects [7]. Taking into account that only the second channel of STE and SSE transformation exists between pulses in the burst, one can conclude that, density of the stable defects increases with enhancement of pulse separation interval. In Al2O3 the phase delay dependence is less pronounced, than in SiO2. This is obviously connected with lower role of SSE in defect formation, as lifetime of free electron in this crystal is about 100 ps. In sapphire the subsequent pulses in the burst must be absorbed by electron-hole plazma too, and holes could be localized on Ti3+ ions with creation of stable Ti4+ ions.
Increased efficiency of burst absorption is confirmed in measurements of one pulse/burst transmittance T in dependency on pulse /burst energy under the same focusing conditions in fused silica (Fig.3). Energy meter head was placed closely behind the thin glass plate so that 100% of laser radiation focused in the plate at the 100 μm depth by a lens with NA=0.65, went through the plate and then collected by the head. The glass plate was placed on a high precision translation stage, which was moving perpendicular to the focused laser beam, thus each laser shot produced an excitation in a new glass area. Transmittance curve of a single pulse has a recognizable shape [3], while dependence of absorbance for the burst is dramatically differed with a sharp increase at the energy close to modification threshold and higher absorption at higher energies.
It was found, that in contrary to a single pulse, absorption of the burst with the same total energy is strong enough to produce a birefringent micro-structure in fused silica. It consists of two elongated birefringent spots with parallel slow axes separated by area without birefringence (Fig.4). The slow axis of birefringence and direction of elongation of inscribed pattern follow polarization of the femtosecond beam.
Fig. 3. Absorbance ln(T) of a pulse (black points) and a burst (red points) in fused silica in dependency on the pulse energy or a first pulse in the burst energy. Intervals between pulses equal to 10 ps (red points), 20 green points, 40 ps (cyan points) and 70 ps (blue points). Focusing lens - NA=0.65.
Fig. 4. Microscopic pictures of birefringent spots, produced by the burst of femtosecond pulses. Colors code direction of slow axis in accordance with the legend. Red arrows show direction of laser beam polarization. Burst energy is equaled to 110 nJ. Focusing lens - NA=0.65.
Fig. 5. Retardance under single burst modification in fused silica in dependency on the pulse separation interval.
Dependence of birefringence retardance upon the interval between pulses in the burst is not so definite as for phase delay, and its slope depends on the burst energy (Fig.5). There is small difference in retardance for different energies at the 10 ps interval, and diversity arises when the interval increases. There is no detectable birefringence for a single pulse.
In conclusion we have proposed and demonstrated a method of efficient micromachining with the burst of laser pulses separated by time interval 10 - 100 ps. Such burst produces enhanced refractive index change and a birefringent structure even with one laser shot due to increased pulse absorption. Nature of unexpacted dependence of refractive index change upon pulse separation interval in the burst could be connected with relaxation processes in localized excitons.
This work was supported by Advanced Research Foundation and Ministry of Education of Science of Russian Federation, grant #14.Z50.31.0009.
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Picture this: it's a warm Friday night, you just got a haircut and you're being picked up by a Crow you've never met before. You get into the dark grey Prius and excitedly anticipate your arrival at Stacy's mom's house. Immediately upon entering her house you die because directly to your left there is this dog
who is not alone, no. Once your eyes adjust to the sheer beauty that is this life-sized dog statue you notice something odd directly behind it. You rub your eyes, but it's really there. It is this:
That's right, this ⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇
The Big Dog. Has Another, Smaller Dog. Right. Behind. It.
I know what you're thinking: Kat I have not, nor will I ever find myself in this situation. And to that I say, of course not, this was about me, duh.
Friday we all flocked to Stacy's mom's (lol @fountainsofwayne) house, braved the fake doggos, and did the first read through of the Just Like the Men script! The night was warm and inviting, ideal for sitting inside and reading, and the atmosphere inside the home was so surreal. I look to my left and there is a table brimming with snacks. I look to my right and there is a wall that matches my shirt exactly. As the adults around me all drank La Croix unironically, I realized that I was the youngest person there and immediately felt like a lil baby. Keeping my cool, I whipped out my laptop and began to examine my notes, you know, like grown ups do.
Stacy and Cassidy had put me in charge of taking notes, so between bites of food and sips of Ginger Ale I jotted down literally everything I could. Megan is gluten free. Stacy's husband thought she was gay when they first met. Cassidy scared the previous intern so bad that she to this day won't talk to the crows... 😶
Things began to settle down and we gathered round the table, scripts in hand. I had not only a paper copy of the script in front of me, but my trusty laptop ready for my note-taking to proceed. We had a few actors from outside of Bellingham Skype in. Except they didn't actually Skype, we used Google Hangouts. But who says someone "Google Hangouted In?" That just sounds terrible. So we had a few actors Skype in, with the exception of one Facetiming us on Cassidy's phone. The reading begins. The script as I had read it suddenly came to life in front of me. The people I had formerly pictured in my head as fictitious characters materialized at that long Mahogany table. As I followed the story and wrote down everything I could think of, I realized what was going to make this film great. I looked around and saw not only a team of professional filmmakers, but I saw a group of people who deeply care about one another. This whole time I've been working with Stacy and Cassidy trying to uncover their secrets in filmmaking when the biggest one was right in front of me the whole time: their friendships. :')
Then I realized I had to pee.
It was no more than a mere whisper "where is the bathroom?" and I was whisked away to the hall. Upon my entry to the equally fabulous bathroom, I notice there is a GIANT TREE IN THE SHOWER. No kidding. This sent me in a tizzy. I had so many questions: why does the palm tree need a bath? Is it getting enough light? How long has it been here? Do you move it when you shower or are you supposed to shower with it? Is it some kind of special shower tree that I didn't know about??
So many questions.
When I came back we were over half-way done, and when we finished the script everybody clapped. Excitement filled my chest, and I could tell that I am going to be part of something beautiful. While I know creating film isn't easy, with a team like this it's going to be hard to fail.
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A Man of the People
A look into Charles Berthoud's quick rise in the PR and fashion world
For some, public relations can seem like a daunting task, seeing as it is one of the most fast-paced professions one can enter. For Charles Berthoud, however, it isn't just a stressful profession, it's a lifestyle in which he has thrived through almost his whole life.
A The New School graduate, Berthoud couldn't wait to fill in his mother's shoes in the PR business–– His mother being none other than Karla Otto, owner of her eponymous international agency that handles over 70 international brands. This, however, came with the challenge of trying to distance himself from his connections in order to build his own legacy from the ground up using his expertise and likability instead of his name. Of what Berthoud has been able to take away from his mother-and-son relationship in order to make it in the business, Rushka Bergman tells us: "Charles was able to move to the very top of the field and surpass any previous convictions about the value of digital/social media public relations as his upbringing provided him with a deep understanding of the industry and the benefit of his mother's knowledge, expertise, and even her mistakes."
As soon as he finished university, Charles began working as a PR assistant for brands such as Lisa Marie Fernandez, Simone Rocha, Berluti, Ulyana Sergeenko, and Tim Coppens, his "personal favorite".
"I was doing mostly logistical work [at Tim Coppens], assessing which publications could get what pieces from the collection to maximize exposure for them on top of aiding in the planning of their shows in terms of seating and making sure that everything ran effortlessly," Berthoud recalls, somewhat melancholically. His nostalgia isn't due to a departure from the brand, however, as he was soon promoted to Digital Media Coordinator once their digital department opened a year later.
Unsurprisingly, Coppens kept Charles close during fashion week, due to his extensive knowledge of the large majority of the attending press. Fast forward to today, only three years later, to his promotion to Senior Digital Strategist, a position in which he reports directly to the Vice President of the digital team. "It's a very gratifying job, seeing as I head my own digital activations and I strategize my clients' social media accounts but at the same time I'm sticking to my roots by still interacting closely and personally with a variety of influencers."
As if that wasn't enough, Berthoud has been Carine Roitfeld's right hand for each of the four years she has styled The amfAR Gala (The Foundation for AIDS Research). "Charles's all-around expertise in the worlds of fashion, PR, and digital strategy are, in my experience, without parallel," Roitfeld reveals to us. "He liaises seamlessly with the most famous models in the world, coordinating their necessary preparations, inviting them backstage at the right time to avoid any issues with the show's scheduling and generally juggles just about every aspect of producing the fashion show—the hard logistics as well as the personal communications—and has proven year after year that no one can do it better than him."
So where can you find Charles on a normal day? In his natural habitat: under the stress, drama, and chaos of running from meeting to meeting and answering the overload of messages he receives by the minute, trying to keep everyone around him happy. Charles Berthoud is a natural people's person, and he wears this badge proudly.
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WASHINGTON Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked your nomination of previous GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel seeing that that nation's subsequent defense admin around unrelated inquiries related to President Barack Obama's decisions inside the aftermath of this deadly raid to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Mr. Obama arrested Republicans involving actively playing politics using nationwide security for the duration of wartime, in addition to Democrats vowed to revive this nomination following Congress' weeklong break.
By 58-40, with one particular abstention, your Senate fell short in the 60-vote threshold required that will improvement Mr. Hagel's nomination with a final, up-or-down vote on his / her confirmation. Four Republicans voted using Democrats to finish your question along with proceed to also needs to vote: Sens. Thad Cochran involving Mississippi, Lisa Murkowski involving Alaska, Susan Collins involving Maine and Mike Johanns of Nebraska.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., voted alongside ending debate, but stated he / she expects to help alter his vote, and believes the majority of their GOP friends will.
Echoing different Republicans' complaint, Mr. Alexander known as Thursday's vote "unfortunate" and also "unnecessary," mainly because Mr. Hagel's nomination came up into the Senate terrain only a couple of nights after its approval by way of bitterly divided Armed Services Committee.
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Limbert Plant Stand
Limbert Plant Stand
This limbert stand features an octagonal top with 4 legs. Each leg has a triangular cutout. Limbert stamp underneath the top of the stand. Original wood finish.
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