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BIS graduate Dave Curran's Brazilian based business Love Mondays was recently acquired by Glassdoor, the leading global careers site. We had a chat with him about how he got to where is is today…
Why did you do BIS?
I was entering my 6th year of secondary school in 1998 when the first dot-com bubble was peaking. There was a lot of excitement about the internet and the new business models that were emerging and I wanted to participate in it. I was more keen on the business side of things, but still wanted to have a technical understanding. BIS offered the perfect mix of both.
What was the best thing you got out of the course?
For me it helped open my mind to a broader set of possibilities. Also through BIS I also met with one of my earlier professional mentors who I worked for for a few years after finishing the course.
Where did you go on work placement in 3rd year?
I worked with Fidelity Investments in Boston. It was a fun time!
Where are you now?
I co-founded a business called Love Mondays a few years ago. We're based in Sao Paulo, Brazil and help professionals here make better career decisions through providing access to company reviews and salary data, all posted anonymously by our users. Our business was recently acquired by Glassdoor, the leading global careers site.
Why a business in Brazil?
I met my fiancee in 2009 when we were both studying at Oxford for an MBA. She is from Brazil and we both shared a passion for wanting to start a business. After the MBA I moved to Dubai to work for a few years as a management consultant, while she stayed in London. We talked more and more about quitting our jobs and starting something but we didn't quite know what or where. We saw that Brazil's economy was going strong and felt there was a great opportunity there. So in May 2013 we made the move, landing in Rio de Janeiro with eight suitcases and a list of potential business ideas.
What is the best piece of advice you've been given relating to your career?
A seasoned boss of mine once told me to "Make one decision, and if it doesn't work out, make another". Having this kind of mentality lifts the pressure and permanency of making important decisions and you start to realize that you shouldn't worry so much about whether you are doing the right thing for your career. Once you feel you are learning and growing, and you are enjoying yourself, everything else somehow falls into place.
What has been the biggest challenge you've faced, and how did you overcome it?
My biggest challenge professionally has been moving my understanding of my role from being an individual self-sufficient contributor to empowering others to deliver. You can't build a sustainable business if everything rests on your shoulders. You need to find the right people, coach and support them to deliver. It's very easy to revert to wanting to do it yourself, to try to control the outcome more, but you end up exhausting yourself in the process. I'm still on this journey – am not sure it ever finishes.
Looking back now, is there anything that you would have done differently?
It's hard to say, because doing something differently would have meant I would have missed out on learning from doing what I did. No major regrets.
If you had one piece of advice to offer someone considering doing BIS, what would it be?
It's a great experience that opens up lots of opportunities. You won't regret it! (and if you do, just make another decision).


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Having kids on Halloween allows you to experience the wholesome joy of Halloween all over again. From school activities to going door to door for candy, there's so much for them to enjoy this holiday. The only question? What should your kid wear for Halloween?
Especially if they're younger, it falls to you to pick out an appropriate costume for your kids to wear on Halloween. It's easier said than done. Somehow, costume stores are still stocked with costumes that many find to be offensive or dangerous.
If you're overwhelmed trying to figure out what to put them in, that's completely normal. As a guide, these are costumes you may want to avoid.
With the popularity of the film "Moana," costumes featuring the princess will be everywhere. While it may seem like a no-brainer to have your kid dress up as a movie character they emulate, many feel that dressing up white children as Moana turns Polynesians, and their culture, into a costume.
"Recognize this: Moana is a really special character to young girls of Polynesian descent who have never seen a Disney Princess who looks like them, just like how Tiana from 'The Princess and the Frog' likely resonated with young Black women who had waited decades to see themselves represented," the editors of Redbook wrote in an op-ed. "White girls have plenty of princesses to choose from — there's Belle, Ariel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty … you get the idea. If your Caucasian son or daughter doesn't get to be exactly what they wanted for Halloween, encourage them to take a step back and realize that they're awash in privileges that the real Moanas and Tianas of the world will likely never see, because the world is full of racist a-------."
It's worth noting that others, including writer Preeti Varathan, have argued that kids can wear this costume as long as it's done in a respectful way.
"Discouraging your children's impulses, and insisting they stick to white alternatives, misdirects their initial feelings of adoration for a woman of color," Varathan wrote in Quartz. "Brad Meltzer, a children's book author who has spent decades studying the concept of heroes, believes 'heroes are really magic mirrors. Your heroes don't just reflect you; they reveal you.' This makes your child's impulse to worship Moana, a girl from a different race and culture, even more worth protecting."
But both Varathan and others agree that brownface shouldn't and can't be part of these costumes, so painting their skin or "wearing" traditional tattoos like the character Maui should be avoided.
Blackface has a deeply painful history in the black and African-American communities. Costumes with blackface, as "Daily Show" correspondent Roy Wood Jr. noted in a segment, are something that should be avoided at all costs.
"Blackface is like smoking on an airplane. It used to be acceptable a long time ago but now we know it hurts people around us," he said. "That's why when it comes to blackface, your intentions don't matter."
There's a trend on Halloween for people to dress as "hobos" or people who are homeless as a joke. As the Montgomery County Coalition for The Homeless reminded people, a person who is homeless is not a costume and poverty is certainly not something to be used as a punchline.
"This Halloween, please don't dress up like a person experiencing homelessness," the group wrote. "It's unthinkable that anyone would dress up as someone experiencing domestic violence or as a child in extreme poverty. So please respect our clients' humanity as you plan your Halloween costume this year."
Putting your kids in a headdress or other Native American clothing is cultural appropriation, argues author Terra Trevor, and should be avoided.
"As Native American people, we are a culture — not a costume. I understand that wearing a culture as costume is not intended to hurt most of the time. However, the fact of the matter is that it does," Trevor wrote in a post for Matador Network.
"Native-alike regalia has become popular style-wear in the mainstream in the US. This fetish for dressing in a manner to look like an American Indian has moved beyond Halloween — and has become a year-round clothing trend for adults who are dressing up to resemble a race and culture of people they do not belong to," Trevor continued. "Some wear it out of naiveté and others in a blatant disregard, disrespect, and irreverence."
You may be tempted to dress your kids up like a geisha, but many have argued that this is another example of cultural appropriation
"To treat a character like Batman or Superman as a Halloween costume is one thing, but to treat an entire ethnicity as a costume is something else," Jelani Cobb, a professor of Africana studies at Rutgers University and the author of "The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress," told CNN. "It suggests that people conflate the actual broad diversity of a culture with caricatures and characters."
Also, many have taken issues with exactly how these costumes are created, including that there is often the stereotype of the "sexy" Geisha, according to a BuzzFeed video.
"If you want to be sexy on Halloween, there are so many ways you can be sexy without disparaging another person's culture," Jen Ruggirello, a Japanese BuzzFeed staffer, said in the same video.
Last year, a few retailers came under fire for selling an Anne Frank costume for children. While most stores pulled the costume following the immense backlash, some online retailers kept it, re-branding it with the title, "World War II Evacuee Girl."
"There are better ways to commemorate Anne Frank," Carlos Galindo-Elvira, regional director of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, tweeted at the time. "This is not one. We should not trivialize her memory as a costume."
The term "Eskimo" is considered a slur by many Inuit people. That aside, dressing up as Inuit is another example of turning a culture into a costume. In fact, this trend made one Inuit man so fed up that he penned a blog called "folks dressed up like 'Eskimos.'"
Whether it's as a sumo wrestler or an inflatable ballerina, any costume that comes with a fat suit is seen as body shaming by many.
Speaker and author of the blog "Dances With Fat," Ragen Chastain argued that wearing a fatsuit is literally using someone's body as a punchline.
"This is literally putting on someone else's body - a body that, as it exists in the world, is subject to a tremendous amount of shame, stigma, bullying, and oppression," Chastain wrote. "Costumes like this add to that shame, stigma, bullying, and oppression by perpetuating the idea that there is something about being fat that should be laughed at. Then, having used their body as a tool for fatphobia, the wearer removes the costume and returns to their life of thin privilege."
Many moms were concerned after a trend of morphsuits and "invisible" costumes became popular, noting that it could be difficult for motorists to see children in these costumes.
"I wanted it off the shelves immediately!" Lyss Stern, CEO of Diva Moms, told Little Things. "This costume is extremely dangerous. Children cannot see through the costume, let alone if they are walking across the street the cars can't see them. They are completely invisible; it is completely dangerous."
Guns, swords, knives, and other weapons may seem like a natural part of many Halloween costumes but many argue that they can post unnecessary risks and encourage violence.
Dressing your child as a gender other than one they identify with or dressing them up as a trans person is seen as transphobic by many.
"To make a costume out of a marginalized identity reduces that person and community to a stereotype for privileged people to abuse," read a petition to get a Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costume off of the shelves.
"At a time when trans women ... especially black trans women, are being murdered at such a high rate, and homelessness, unemployment, and inaccessibility to health care run rampant in our community, making fun of one or all of us is utterly insensitive and deplorable."
Costumes like the "tranny granny" were also slammed by trans activists for their implications that trans women are simply "men in women's clothing."
"Placing a cisgender man in 'granny-like' attire, and marketing it as the 'Tranny Granny Costume,' is such a poignant reflection of how society views trans women," Ashlee Marie Preston, a transgender activist, told Mic. "It perpetuates the idea that at the end of the day we are merely men in women's clothing. The trans experience is often dismissed and rarely taken serious; and Wal-Mart's illustration of what a 'tranny' looks like underscores the sophomoric, slapstick, campy humor associated with being transgender or a 'tranny.'"
Though ghost costumes may be cute, simply slipping a sheet on your child could pose a dangerous risk of tripping, as CBS News reported. Be sure that costumes don't drag on the ground as those can pose a safety risk.
Cultural appropriation applies to costumes with fake mustaches and sombreros. A "Little Amigo" or fiesta costume is really just stereotyping Mexican culture, according to Stephanie Amador, a columnist for The Ball State Daily.
"Mexicans do own sombreros, maraca, and ponchos. However, just like wearing an Indian headdress, a sombrero is not something to wear as a costume," Amador wrote.
"I don't blame the little girls. I blame the adults, the guardians, the parents that allowed their children to wear sombreros.
"This isn't acceptable. You're telling your children it's OK to dress up as a stereotype."
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- Author: E. Waugh
- Title: Scoop
- Published: 1938
- Genre: satire
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- Waugh shows us that upper-class members of society
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- Part 1 is good
- push through part 2 and
- the best laughs are in part 3 !
- There is no one better than Waugh
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- Jakes (US), Olafson (Sweden), Pappenhacker (Russia)
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- revolution, spies, a bevy of journalists all asking
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Vehicle sales in China slipped 0.1 percent in May from a year ago, after falling 2.2 percent in the previous month, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM).
It marked the first time since 2015 that auto sales in the country registered two consecutive months of declines, Reuters reports, citing the effect of a rollback of a government tax incentive.
Vehicles sales last month stood at 2.1 million units, continuing a slide from April when sales dropped the most in 20 months.
For the first five months of 2017, sales were up 3.7 percent from year-ago levels, CAAM was quoted as saying at a briefing in Beijing.
This was smaller than the 7 percent growth seen over January-May period in 2016 and also trails the industry association's forecast for 5 percent growth this year.
China's auto market recorded 13.7 percent growth in sales last year after the government halved the purchase tax on vehicles with engines of 1.6 liters or below to 5 percent to stimulate demand.
The tax climbed to 7.5 percent this year and will rise to the normal 10 percent next year.
Sedan sales fell 9.3 percent year-on-year in May.
Sport-utility vehicles proved to be the lone bright spot for passenger vehicles last month, as sales grew by 13.5 percent.
Foreign brands that are strong in the small sedan segment have seen sales slow this year, with General Motors, Ford and Volkswagen all recording lower sales in the first five months of the year.
Meanwhile, commercial vehicles posted rapid growth, led by lorry sales that grew 18.3 percent, which are usually linked to the strength of the overall economy.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday the "confidence and supply" voting agreement with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party remained in place.
May also told a parliamentary committee her government has discussed the concerns of the DUP over her Brexit deal with the European Union.
The DUP has said it will not back May in a parliament vote on the deal on Dec. 11.
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Fact is: I have cool friends. Allie and I go way back to photography summer camp when over-processing and tilting your subjects to the max were cool. I would post some photos but I'd like to save my dignity for when I meet the President. Or Josh Hutcherson.
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I wanted to get Waterlily onto brokerage before Christmas. This is based on the thought that many will be making New Year plans and will have time to both surf and view....
So to get Waterlily on brokerage.........
There were some fixtures I wanted to take off so early Saturday I went ahead (Rachel was doing family stuff that included a hairdresser, I have little need for a hairdresser nowadays) First job was to remove the solar panel and controller install, not too bad, I installed it simply, no holes in the roof for cables or the panel (good decision). I swapped over a few other bits, nothing if you are reading this thinking of buying Waterlily that is a detriment to the boat, just personal bits. I then set to cleaning the outside.
I bloody well hate trees, over autumn the leaves left on the boat roof had stained, it took considerable scrubbing to remove the stains , I think weathering will eventually remove what I did not but they were very stubborn. I then washed and rinsed both sides plus front and back. After that both covers came off and were scrubbed to get the green algae off that was taking hold. One thing I have a problem with is joint pain and boy was I going to be repaid for stretching my should joints to the max with all the scrubbing !
I was now just about out of water.... my super reliable water gauge told me (another bonus for the new owners) so I packed up and was just scuttling across the cut to the Hunts water point when I spied Rachel arriving (about 3.30 now) A quick conflab resulted in taking on her good suggestion of locking up Hunts and Keepers and watering at the visitor moorings. By the time we had done that it was dark as we pushed Waterlily off the waterpoint to the last visitor mooring looking at Junction lock. Just before leaving for Water I took this last photos of Waterlily on Hunts lock moorings.
Back to Waterlily for the car shuffle next. We were planning on a Sunday cruise to Great Haywood boat sales at the marina meaning a car shuffle was in order. So we drove both cars the 45 minute journey to Great Haywood. left the Honda can came back in the Smart. I started to remember I had had no lunch so we took the easy Mucky Duck food option. I don't normally do mixed grills but I ate the £11 offer at the Swan washed down with two pints....the day was almost at an end, apart from a late walk round the Fradley pool with my trusty lantern as all the torches were on Percy.
I had a bad last night on Waterlily, too hot and despite taking pain killers before bed still woke up at 1.30am needing more. Age is a bugger of a thing....I eventually got off only to get woken by the alarm clock at 6.20am for a pre dawn start for day two.
The boat was ready by 7.15am and I walked up and set Junction lock. Nothing moving apart from us.... quite magical even if it was very cold, but no ice.
We locked up the three remaining Fradley locks then set off for the countryside via Woodend lock. This lock does attract a lot of detritus and I fished out a scaffold plank and a couple of very nice rounds that will make someone a evenings fire for sure. Then it was beautiful cruising all the way to Great Haywood, constant amazement at the lack of moving boats ( we passed 5 all day) plus lack of boats at the honey pot moorings with no boats at bridge 69 none at Woolsey bridge and only 4 below Great Haywood lock and the same above.
Woolsey Bridge moorings
A quick clean inside .... we will be back over the Christmas break to do better, then car back to Fradley to pick up the other car then drive home, unload all the stuff the the garage to be sorted over Christmas as I am not taking half what we took off Waterlily back onto Percy.
Mission accomplished. Percy on our mooring at Fradley and Waterlily on brokerage at Great Haywood.


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Back again... 2 posts in the one day.
Here is anothe ATC as promised.....
I have used Pinecone Bazzill as the base card again, Bahama Bazzill , Jacaranda Bazzill (94304), a scrap piece of Stripes (4564) from Azure Paper Range, Ancient Page Coal black Ink, Black Rollerball Pen, Antique Bronze Brad, Brown Aqua Stictch Ribbon, Smile Stamp (4130KC).
I hope you have enjoyed my ATC creations this week.. ATC's are great to make , quick and easy and show people a small piece of your artwork, all the projects this week were using scraps. Remember you can always add your ATC's to other card and SB Paper to create a card or scrapbooking pages.
Don't forget to check out the other girls Blogs.... Participants list is on the right side menu.
Make sure you visit for next weeks creations.
Have a great weekend , I will be busy creating my project for the TTD for the following weekend.


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John tells Anne of his progress in finding her brother.
ANNE: Have you found my brother?
JOHN: Not yet. No. Not quite.
JOHN: But I have found something.
ANNE: What is it?
JOHN: I went to the University. You said he was a student. I spoke to his professor, the head of the course he studied.
ANNE: And what did he say? Does he know what happened?
JOHN: Well, no. Not exactly. He didn't know where your brother went. But he told me David had left the university. He stopped going to lectures.
ANNE: When did he stop?
JOHN: Oh, about a year ago. He didn't tell anyone. But he left a letter with the Professor.
ANNE: A letter! Have you got it? Where is it?
JOHN: The professor has it. He wouldn't give it to me because it was addressed to you. He left… ah, his card.
ANNE: I'll go and see him. Thankyou.
JOHN: I found out something else.
ANNE: Yes?
JOHN: Your brother had a girlfriend.
ANNE: Really! He didn't tell me. Who is she?
JOHN: Well, I don't know yet, but I'm sure I can find her. We're closing in Ms Lee. Fear not.
ANNE: Thankyou.
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You can consider Unique Weapons by their upgrades. They have a different system online normal. I'm sitting at the matchmakings in the remaster on my ps4 can't get anyone to summon me. I dont wana upgrade my level 12s dwrk if it means i dark be able to soul with new players.
Make sure you're using indictments my friends, wouldn't want any sins to go unpunished.
Summon Range Calculator | Dark Souls 3 Wiki
Playing on Xbox one I'm lvl 15 haven't matchmaking it yet but playing 3 also on Xbox one Acebeazer. Guys I need online My levels areand 15 Send me a message and you will get soul. Various ranges for Soul Levels so just send me a message. Still playing on for some reason, LVL 47 happy to participate in "Jolly cooperation" be it giving help or gaining it. I would help, but have no dark in that range.
Gwynn shouldn't be too hard though, if you get Sunbro. Guest Sign in Help.
Matchmakibg are an Excel Sheet and matchmaking formulas provided to calculate precise matchmaking ranges. Further below, there are Soul soul and weapon online level recommendations for easy matchmaking. Soul levels and Upgrade levels Where are dark brains?! Just do yourself a favor and stick to these levels. The matchmaking would be a utopia if people sticked to these sort of high-efficiency matchmaking hotspots.
Weapons upgraded will be considered. Anything online is upgraded with normal titanite will count, but anything upgraded with Twinkling Titanite or Titanite Scales will count for double the amount i.
Rings armor and consumables have nothing to do with matchmaking. For anyone having a hard time trying to find summon dar or not being summoned it might be because you have a soul enabled.
If so you dark only be able to interact with others who have the matchmaking password.
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Me and my hook up site shanghai have been trying to play coop i am embered and trying to summon him we both beat the boss in the first area solus we are using a password as i am a higher level.
We are also in different countries does that matter? Any help would online dark. Ive just started playing again recently and already solo conpletely my soul playthrough but with that console sharing thing my friend started to play.
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If i online password summon can i ignore requirements to help him? I currently just made a new character but i dont feel like going around recollecting everything for the account just to get it more useful coals and estus and etc.
What about twinkling and marriage not dating thai sub 8 upgrades?
I just dark 20 hours of my life. This "feature" is absolutely stupid. Soul level is diffucult for me to get summoned and invaded, is it just me? It would be nice if there were a common password people used so they could co-op even if there is no level near theirs. Maybe there is and I don't know about it? I read there was one on this wiki matchmaking, but dark showed when I used it. First soul before the question: The only two bosses it'd be nice to soul with online dancer and twin princes.Please dark the full community rules and guidelines.
Dark Souls Online includes matchmaking matchmaking self. I read through the souls of the Dark Souls Remaster Japanese web page.
Dark Souls: Remastered will introduce big changes to multiplayer
I used Google to translate the page. In the original edition online multiplayer was limited to four people, however in the remastered edition the maximum is increased to six people.
Furthermore, matching with your friends with be easy to do via a whats the best internet dating site matching" function we created, so that your dark multiplayer experience becomes more diverse.
Japanese minor in soul, can translate using http: Does that mean that matchmaklng can finally actually put a use to matchmakings in multiplayer? Like can we have a knight and a cleric and a mage and an archer now?
Online be fun and interesting. The only soul now is that password matchmaking makes it easier. In the past half the time you were wanting online friend to summon you you matchmaking wind up getting summoned by a stranger.
Possible but dark awkward. Because we can use passwords to create parties instead ohline spending time summoning the wrong people.


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May 5 - 7, 2008
Wilfrid Laurier University
Invited Speakers
May 5 - 7, 2008
Wilfrid Laurier University
Room N1002, Faculty of Science Building
WWCA 2008 Schedule of Talks
Invited Talks
Georgy P. Egorychev, Russia
Title: The method of coefficients: applications in ring theory and the Collatz problem
George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Title: Old and New Thoughts on the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities
The Rogers-Ramanujan identities first came to prominence in the early part of the 20th century when Ramanujan conjectured them and later found them fully proved in an old and very much neglected paper by L.J. Rogers.
In this talk, we shall provide some account of what happened subsequently and will conclude with a look at recent discoveries and ongoing research.
Ira Gessel, Brandeis University, USA
Title: The Method of Coefficients
In his 1977 book (Integral Representation and the Computation of Combinatorial Sums) and in other publications, G. P. Egorychev developed a method for evaluating combinatorial sums by representing them as coefficients of generating functions. In this talk I will discuss some of the applications of this method and its relation to other approaches.
Leonid Gurvits, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Title: Van der Waerden/Schrijver-Valiant like Conjectures and Stable (aka Hyperbolic) Homogeneous Polynomials: One Theorem for all.
Abstract (linked pdf file)
Michiel Hazewinkel, CWI, Netherlands
Title: Niceness theorems
Abstract (linked pdf file)
I-Chiau Huang, Taiwan
Title: Power Series, differentials and residues
Motivated by Egorychev's work on integral representations, algebraic realization of the analytic procedure obtaining residues has been considered. The realization enhances the method of generating functions by algebraic notions of differentials. Such a viewpoint applies to formal power series rings and others.
Peter Paule, RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Title: Combinatorial Multi-Sums: Algorithmic Approaches from Egorychev to WZ
The talk presents a survey of algorithmic methods for proving combinatorial identities involving multiple-sums.
Marko Petkovsek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Title: Subanalytic hypergeometric and P-recursive summation
Abstract: Given a difference operator L, hypergeometric and P-recursive summation algorithms such as Gosper's algorithm or the Accurate Summation algorithm of Abramov and van Hoeij return a summing operator R such that Ry is an antidifference of those y which satisfy Ly = 0. However, this is to be understood in the algebraic sense, and care should be taken before Ry is used in the Fundamental Theorem of Discrete Calculus to compute a definite sum. We show here that correct results will be obtained when the values of y are taken from a meromorphic function.
This is joint work with Sergei A. Abramov.
Herbert Wilf, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Title: The permanent importance of the permanent function
Dr. Egorychev gave a proof of the celebrated van der Waerden conjecture on the permanent of a doubly stochastic matrix nearly thirty years ago. We will trace the further developments in this important subject since then, including the conjecture of Minc and its proof and refinements and their applications.
Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University, USA
Title: Integral Representations from Euler to Egorychev
Integral Representations are very powerful, especially when handled by such giants as Lehonard Euler and Georgy Egorychev. When interfaced with computers and the so-called Wilf-Zeilberger method they get yet-more powerful.
Contributed Talks
Kathie Cameron, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Title: Coflow, Covering Vertices by Directed Circuits, and a Lower Bound on the Stability Number of a Graph
Let G be a digraph, and for each edge e of G, let d(e) be a non-negative integer. The capacity, d(C), of a dicircuit C means the sum of the d(e)'s of the edges in C. A version of the Coflow Theorem (1982) says:
Coflow Theorem. The maximum size of a subset S of vertices of digraph G such that each dicircuit C of G contains at most d(C) members of S equals the minimum of the sum of the capacities of any subset H of dicircuits of G plus the number of vertices of G which are not in a dicircuit of H.
When we proved the Coflow Theorem, we hoped to prove the following conjecture made by Gallai in 1963:
Gallai's Conjecture. For any digraph G such that each edge and each vertex is in a dicircuit, the maximum number of vertices in G no two of which are joined by an edge is at least as big as the minimum number of dicircuits which together cover all the vertices.
However, we were missing the following:
Lemma. For any digraph G such that each edge and each vertex is in a dicircuit, G contains a set F of edges such that G-F is acyclic and every edge of G is in some dicircuit which contains exactly one edge of F.
We recently learned that Knuth proved this lemma in 1974. The Coflow Theorem together with Knuth's Lemma provides a proof of Gallai's Conjecture different from that recently published by Bessy and Thomassé.
This is joint work with Jack Edmonds.
Angele Hamel, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Title: Restricted Cauchy Identities
There are many classical identities dating back to Littlewood involving sums of Schur functions in a single set of variables. The well-known Cauchy identity also gives an expression for the sum of the product of Schur functions in x variables and y variables. More recent identities concern the sums of Schur functions with a restricted number of parts (e.g. work of Regev, Gessel, and others) and there are connections to the theory of random matrices. Here we derive a new identity for the sum of Schur functions with a restricted number of parts and also generalize this to some restricted Cauchy identities.
This is joint work with R.C. King.
Chinh Hoang, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Title: A note on k-colourability of P_5-free graphs
A polynomial time algorithm that determines whether or not, for a fixed k, a P_5-free graph can be k-colored is presented in this paper. If such a coloring exists, the algorithm will produce a valid k-coloring.
This is joint work with Marcin Kaminski, Vadim Lozin, J. Sawada, and X. Shu.
Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Title: Approaches to the Hadamard conjecture and a question on Permanents of Hadamard matrices
A Hadamard matrix H in an n by n matrix with -1,+1 elements such that H H^t = n In, where t denotes transposition and In denotes the n by n identity matrix. Hadamard matrices arise in Combinatorics, Coding Theory, Cryptography, Statistics, Telecommunications and other areas. A necessary condition for the existence of a Hadamard matrix is that n = 1, 2, or a multiple of 4. The sufficiency of this statement, i.e. that for every n a multiple of 4 there exists a Hadamard matrix of order n is the celebrated Hadamard conjecture. The smallest order n for which a Hadamard matrix is still unknown, is n = 668. A number of approaches to tackle the Hadamard conjecture have been suggested in the last 120 years. We will discuss some old and new approaches to the Hadamard conjecture. These approaches are based on sequences with zero periodic/non periodic autocorrelation functions, Computational Algebra and Coding Theory. A well-known open problem asks whether the permanent of a Hadamard matrix can vanish for n >= 4. The answer is negative for 4 <= n <= 28.
Eugene Zima, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Title: Divide and sum
Hosted by CARGO lab, Physics and Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University


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Lucy in action
Scrapping Angels Gives you Wings
blogged by me domestic goddess On 4/30/2008 03:03:00 PM
and much more in 2008!!
Lucy in action
I have nearly recovered from a weekend of laughter, good food, fantastic company, scrapping and meeting new and old faces. Not sure where to start so I will let the pictures do most of the talking. Lucy Folch's classes were a roaring success, and I so wish I could have sneaked in and done a class.Izzy did get some private tuition, and i will be asking her for some advice!
Annies gorgeous mini book
Lucy in action
Busy cropping
My dearest and most beloved friends, Annie and Sue
Lucy and I, love this girl to pieces!
Saturday night we held our annual charity auction in aid of MS, and the ladies excelled themselves, and we beat last years total and raised a whopping £750.00. Thank you so much, to all the donations received, and the delegates and online bidders who made the evening a success.
Sunday, Lucy and I crashed and decided London Town could wait. We were so tired, and instead Lucy and I took a tour of the London Underground, LOL.
Another year and retreat passes us by and i have another to start arranging!, but not today. i have spent the past 2 days creating for a very special GDT spot.
I am so excited, my fav Kit company and I get to guest!!! Little sneak here, will pop some more on through the week, and keep Monday night free (1am GMT 5pm PST) as I am doing a live chat, yikes!!!!!
Thanks for stopping by
Anna xx
7 Response to 'Scrapping Angels Gives you Wings'
suebaru Said,https://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2008/04/scrapping-angels-gives-you-wings.html?showComment=1209568740000#c1607030949073014834'> 4:19 PM
I had a ball, even if I was shattered on Sunday!Love that photo of you,me and Annie!
Ann(i)e Hafermann Said,https://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2008/04/scrapping-angels-gives-you-wings.html?showComment=1209568980000#c9072451751348698821'> 4:23 PM
really6 lovely photos....have you emailed them over????
love you sweet lady!
Lisa Said,https://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2008/04/scrapping-angels-gives-you-wings.html?showComment=1209576540000#c3240486221262715475'> 6:29 PM
Looks like you all had a wonderful time. and I really love Annie's work too :)
Sandie Said,https://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2008/04/scrapping-angels-gives-you-wings.html?showComment=1209654960000#c987310467194929133'> 4:16 PM
I had the best time, loved seeing you, Annie and Sue and meeting Lucy!!! I'll email you some photos over the weekend, just waiting for Mum to email me her photos too, loadsa love xx
Julia Said,https://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2008/04/scrapping-angels-gives-you-wings.html?showComment=1209716880000#c5991131505013966810'> 9:28 AM
Had a fantastic time, Love meeting you all. Some fantastic memories to keep me going till next year.
Hugs xx
Aline Said,https://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2008/04/scrapping-angels-gives-you-wings.html?showComment=1209723900000#c7025911143353083342'> 11:25 AM
Looks like you had a wonderful time! Glad to hear that it was such a huge success! :)
Chrissie Said,https://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2008/04/scrapping-angels-gives-you-wings.html?showComment=1209983220000#c3871035743224056528'> 11:27 AM
*Chrissie reeeeeeeally wishes it all happened on a Friday and Saturday as well as the Sunday...* :D :D :D :D :D
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An expanse of highland formed from an ancient volcano, the Bolaven Plateau is one of southern Laos' most attractive destinations. Rich with waterfalls, lush jungles, farmland, ethnic diversity and miles of excellent roads, one of the best ways to cover it all is by two-wheels.
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It's increasingly popular to rent a motorbike in Pakse and embark on either the "short loop" or "long loop" through the plateau, which lies east of the city. The cool air on the skin, the thunderous sound of the water tumbling over a cliff, the visual feast of verdant hills, the sickly sweet smell of ripe coffee cherries and the bitter taste of Robusta—on your journey all senses will experience how the plateau's topography yields several unique features.
While the rest of Laos can feel like an inferno between March and June, the plateau's altitude of 1000 to 1350 metres creates a microclimate, with most months of the year enjoying daytime temperatures in the mid-20s. This, along with the rich volcanic soil, make it ideal for growing coffee. Lao coffee beans are sensational and whether a casual drinker or an aficionado, by the end you'll appreciate just how good it is.
It's not all coffee. Other crops benefit from the fertile land and cassava, tea, rattan, cardamom and various fruit are grown. Rivers, spectacular waterfalls and ethnic villages round out the experience. Here's how to tackle the Bolaven Plateau, with a section at the end on sorting out a motorbike and important tips for the road.Short loop (minimum two days)
The vast majority do the loop clockwise. This is recommended if doing the short loop in the absolute minimum of two days—this way, on the first day you'll arrive at Tad Lo around midday leaving you the afternoon to see the waterfalls. On the second day, the way is packed with possible stops and so you are better able to manage the time as you try to return to Pakse before ... please log in to read the rest of this story.
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Diego Velasquez is a professional golfer from Bogota, Columbia and attended Oregon State University. Velasquez was a four year starter at OSU and set a single season scoring record in 2010 along with earning First Team All-American Honors. Diego's impressive and consistent performances have helped earn him the #4 spot in GolfWeek Magazine's 2010 collegiate individual rankings and a sponsor exemption on the 2011 Nationwide Tour. Diego will make his professional debut on the Nationwide Tour at the Panama Claro Championship where he will be playing a full line of Cobra clubs.
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Mark Zuckerberg reveals Oculus' glove-like VR controller prototypes
On a trip to Oculus' research lab in Redmond, Washington, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried out the company's prototypes for glove-like controllers that are designed to be used in VR and AR experiences with the Rift headset, and shared a photo of them which you can see above.
Zuck described the controllers' functionality in the photo's caption:
We're working on new ways to bring your hands in virtual and augmented reality. Wearing these gloves, you can draw, type on a virtual keyboard, and even shoot webs like Spider Man. That's what I'm doing here.
The picture shows Zuckerberg surrounded by sensors that are likely tasked with detecting the gloves' position in space; it also looks like he's using a wireless version of the Oculus Rift headset.
It'll be interesting to see if Oculus goes ahead with its glove concept. The company previously released handheld Touch controllers to accompany the Rift, but those clearly can't offer the flexibility and dexterity that gloves might – especially if you're talking about typing and web-slinging.
Of course, Oculus is hardly the only one working on controllers for VR experiences. The HTC Vive already works with a pair that are kind of like the handles on ski poles, and gaming giant Valve revealed last October that it was working on its own take on the concept.
It's also worth noting that back in 2014, Oculus acquired Nimble VR, a firm that specialized in hand tracking tech. That could give the company an advantage in the race to build real-life Minority Report-style controllers.
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A new me
I don't know why it is so hard to update this damned thing. I am on here all day every day (constantly checking even from my phone when I am waiting or bored). I have a running list of things I want to talk about and share, yet I don't do it! I really am that lazy, folks. And that needs to change. When this year started, I told myself that I wasn't going to let laziness run my life like it has for so long. Sure, it's tough to form new habits (especially when the old ones are so comfortable), but the little victories I get like having a clean kitchen every night and putting away all the clean laundry on the same day it was washed are becoming more and more meaningful and motivating.
Immeritus has suffered in my eyes because of this. I have been wanting to do so many things with it (face lift anyone?), but sheer laziness gets in the way. It is a huge and daunting project and even thought I know that breaking it down into smaller more manageable chunks will help me get through it, I don't do it.
Scrapbooking has sorta come to a dead halt. I have a TON to scrap but I am just not doing it right now. When we get home lately the last thing I want to do is sit at the computer. I think my phone has a lot to do with that. Since I can check everything from there whenever I want to, I do my obsessive scans of my sites throughout the day. Since it is such a bitch to type on though, I don't reply to stuff but in my head, I already read it, so I don't go back to it, even when I do get back on the comp.
Wow, I sound like such a whiner.
Slowly, this is all changing. Juan is one of my biggest motivations right now. I need to be my own motivation, but having him be one as well really helps me. I know that he likes to do a lot of stuff that we haven't done because of my foot problems, work schedules, even being overweight, etc. So I am doing better at home and yesterday we started to go to the gym again.
As much as I hate this development, it also makes me feel good. Call it a "love hate relationship". Let's see how much I love it on day two.
Last week we had a tremendous amount of rain around here. More rain last week than we had all last year and this month yielded us more rain than Seattle got (which is notoriously known for its rain) – about 2 more inches, actually! We totally needed that and it was great. On Monday morning, we even got a gorgeous rainbow that went the full 180 degrees! What a wonderful way to start the morning!
All that whinery above is my way of getting it out there and out of my system because I really want this to be my year of change. Of getting rid of the rubbish that bogs me down in my every day life. That rubbish mostly being me, in the quite literal sense too! I have already started at home, at the gym, even at my job! Last Friday, my manager took me out to lunch for my annual review were I almost got a perfect score (there was just one category that I did not "Exceed expectations" in, just merely "Met expectations", and I knew this one was gonna get me too). I got a 4% raise which is the highest I have ever gotten so I am super happy. I am even teaching myself new skills like using the ellusive pen tool in photoshop (and to be extra productive, I am learning it by vectorizing a photo of Boe that I want to use) for work.


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Title: An unidentified man's feet
Date: 198-?
Physical Details: 1 photographic print : polaroid ; 11 x 09 cm.
Description: Shows the feet of a man wearing black dress shoes, on a floral carpet or wallpaper.
Creator: Unidentified
Forms part of: Colin de Land collection, 1968-2008, bulk 1980-2003
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation: An unidentified man's feet, 198-? / unidentified photographer. Colin de Land collection, 1968-2008, bulk 1980-2003. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Digital ID: 13053


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Today will be tomorrow's yesterday
Yesterday's today was yesterday
Tomorrow's today is tomorrow
Yesterday's day after tomorrow is tomorrow
Tomorrow's day before yesterday was yesterday
The day before yesterday's tomorrow was yesterday
The day after tomorrow's yesterday is tomorrow
The day before yesterday's day after tomorrow
And the day after tomorrow's day before yesterday
Are both today
The day after tomorrow's tomorrow
And the day before yesterday's yesterday
Are both too far away
Todays turn into yesterdays
Tomorrow never comes
I think my tomorrow is today
Or maybe it was yesterday
I'm not sure which is which, anyway
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Just live this moment while it lasts
For far too soon it will also pass
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Today's today is today
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Funeral Homily
Revelation 21:2-7
He Loved What Was Local
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He Loved What Was Local
Revelation 21:2-7
Tom's obituary in yesterday's paper was a wake up call, even for those of us who knew him well. For there, listed in print, were the many local organizations that benefited from his participation, his service, his leadership, over the years.
Consider this list. Mercy Hospital. Peerless Commission. Brownfield Commission. Historical Society of Michigan. Port Huron Museum. Port Huron Planning Commission. Port Huron Sports Hall of Fame. Port Huron Antique and Classic Car Show. Port Huron Yacht Club. Port Huron Power Squadron. Irish-American Club of St. Clair County. The Elks, the Masons, the Jaycees, and the Kiwanis. This is no mere list, it's a directory! And Tom was involved, at one time or another, with each one. To engage in extreme understatement, here was a man who cared about his community, who was active in his community, who saw what was local and called it precious.
Tom was also a man who saw his family and called them precious, in particular his wife Christine, his son and daughter-in-law T.J. and Heather, his grandson and namesake Thomas William, and the newest member, his granddaughter Phoebe Marie, who came into this world earlier than expected, just in time to receive her grandfather's touch, her grandfather's blessing.
Tom was a man who loved what was local: his community and his family. He loved the people and places and groups and causes that had been given to him here in Port Huron. In this he was very wise, for it means nothing to love generalities, to love abstractions, if we fail to love the concrete and specific people and places and circumstances that are right before us every day. It makes no sense to love cities in general without living the city where you live. By his life, Tom demonstrated that he knew this.
Respect was something important to Tom. He wanted to have your respect. But even more characteristic than this interest in respect was his capacity for kindness. As one friend said last night, "Tom did not have a mean bone in his body."
A concern for respect. A capacity for kindness. These are two characteristics of Tom. They are also characteristics of God as revealed in the Scriptures. There we find God shown to us as concerned for mutual respect among his children, demanding justice from us, not in the sense of crime and punishment, but rather in the sense of right relationship, a justice worthy of celebration. The Scriptures also show us the kindness of God, the inexhaustible compassion of One whose mercies are new every morning. In his capacity for kindness, in his concern for respect, Tom mirrored something of the God who made him.
Tom loved what was local. He cared for the concrete and the specific. There was something profoundly Christian about this. For Christianity makes astounding claims about what is local and concrete and specific.
The eternal Word of God assumes human nature and lives in a particular time and place. He is incarnate, embodied, enfleshed, no abstraction at all, but as specific as any other human being.
And Christianity refuses to be content with some disembodied future existence. As Jesus rose from the dead in his wounded yet glorious flesh, so the Christian community looks for, anticipates, and expects the resurrection of the dead, the countless crowd of the saints, in all their fleshy particularity, gathered round the throne of God and the Lamb, alive with glory, and each one irrepressibly specific and concrete and local.
The human drama as told in the Bible opens in a garden, but comes to its glorious consummation not in a garden, but in a city. The final chapter of the Bible provides us with a vision of that city and of its river, and of the light that fills it, and of the countless citizens who find their home in that city, that place. It is a comprehensive vision, yet one that is also specific and concrete and local.
Tom Gaffney gave us glimpses of that city in his concern for respect, his capacity for kindness, in his care for the concrete and the specific, the people and places of this community. Yes, Tom gave us glimpses of that city. For that we can thank God.
There too he will love what is local, and he will see in all that is local the glory of God reflected in full splendor.
- Copyright 2008, Charles Hoffacker. Used by permission. Fr. Hoffacker is the author of A Matter of Life and Death: Preaching at Funerals (Cowley Publications), a book devoted to helping clergy prepare funeral homilies that are faithful, pastoral, and personal.


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Last Saturday, Saranyan and I pitched our idea for Mommy's Corner (think the craigslist of trading). We got some great questions around the legality of our site and the logistics of making a trade. Stay tuned for solutions around how to make a trade run smoothly.
Here's the deck for our pitch.
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CFDb Interviews David Chattam ~ Actor
What circumstances led you to acting?
I TRULY believe that my acting career was a gift from God. In 2001, I was working my nine-to-five job in the Information Technology department of a company in Brentwood, TN. One morning a co-worker of mine by the name of Chris Elliott comes in an tells me that he was listening to the radio on his way to work and heard that a movie was in the process of being filmed in Nashville and that men were needed to fill roles in this movie. The movie was the DreamWorks feature "The Last Castle" which was set in a military prison, and they were looking for ethnic men to fill extra roles as prisoners. He said I should go out for it. I immediately said No Thanks, because at that time I had never done any acting (outside of a few church plays as a kid) and had absolutely no desire to be involved in any way with "Hollywood". For the next few days, Chris would bug me about going out to work on this film. Finally just to shut him up, I agreed to give it a shot. That afternoon I signed on to be an extra and the next day I used some of my vacation time and I was off to the set.
Once on set, I was fitted in a standard prison jumpsuit and told to go to wait in this old gymnasium with the rest of the extras until I was needed. After waiting for several hours and doing nothing, I decided to go outside to watch and at least see how a movie is actually made. I had been sitting on some steps for about 30 minutes watching in amazement at what all goes on behind the scenes when suddenly a guy wearing a pair of headphones walks up to me. I didn't know it at the time but his name was David Ticotin and he was the 2nd Assistant Director. He tells me he has an idea for a new character in the film and that I fit the description of what he's thinking about. We go to the wardrobe room and he has me try on the jacket to an officer's uniform. It's a perfect fit. In fact, the whole uniform was a perfect fit right down to the shoes, which was really amazing because I wear a size 14. He then says we have to go get the Director's approval (I'm totally oblivious to what's going on) and leads me to an area where the next scene is about to be filmed. I followed David into a room, and standing five feet from me was James Gandolfini. That's when I realized that something special might be happening. The director, Rod Lurie, approved me and just like that I was a new character in the film. I was officially "Wheeler's Aide".
After the film wrapped, the acting bug had bitten, and I signed with a talent agent in Nashville. I began taking acting classes in hopes of doing more work. The classes paid off and I began to land roles in commercials, theatrical productions, music videos, and even other big budget "Hollywood" films. In 2003, I began to realize that acting was the career I wanted to pursue and no longer wanted to work in corporate America. As much as I wanted to quit my day job, I was stuck there because I had bills to pay. Well, as it turns out, my company began downsizing, and sadly people were being laid off. Ironically, Chris, the co-worker who initially talked me into being an extra on "The Last Castle" had made his way up the management chain to become my supervisor, and was now tasked with having to let someone in our department go. One day, Chris calls me to his office, sits me down, and with a very heavy heart said to me "We both know where your heart really is. Go do what you want to do". I was let go. He could not have done me a bigger favor. From that very moment, I started pursuing my acting career full- time, and although it has at times been a very tough go. I can honestly say that I love what I do and cannot imagine doing anything else.
Have you had any unique experiences while acting you would like to share with us?
To me, every time I am fortunate enough to land a new acting gig, it's a unique experience. The most unique, however, had to be the time I was understudy for NFL great Eddie George in the Nashville Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar. Eddie (who was already a friend of mine and is a very serious actor) was cast to play Julius Caesar, and because of a prior commitment, could do all but one of the shows. I was already doing a show with the Nashville Children's Theatre when I was approached by Denice Hicks, Artistic Director for Nashville Shakes, about being the understudy. The catch was that I would have to perform both shows on the same day! Yep, the Children's show in the morning and Julius Caesar that night. Well, I was up for the challenge and both shows with off without a hitch. The real unique part about it though, was that I had to say the line "Et tu Brute" in both plays.
Tell us a little bit about your role in "Flowers for Fannie"?
In "Flowers for Fannie", I play the role of Fannie's doctor. My character has been Fannie's doctor for a while, and he knows he's going to have his hands full every time he sees her come into his office. I really enjoyed playing the doctor and really had fun in one particular scene with Fannie, played by Patricia Binkley, and her handyman Jim, played by Roger Eldridge.
Do you have a favorite line that you've used in a film?
I don't have a single favorite line from any movie or play that I've done, but there are multiple lines from many different productions that stick out to me. Most of the memorable lines come from famous quotes or passages in some of the more noted theatrical productions I've been in. I've learned that in film, you never know what line you say that may stick with an audience until someone comes up to you and quotes something you said, and even then it's usually not a line that you would expect someone to remember.
Is there a particular type of role that you prefer over another?
There's not really one particular type of role that I prefer. What I love about acting is that it allows me to play a variety of characters. I've played soldiers, fathers, doctors, lawyers, good guys, bad guys, senior citizens, and the list goes on and on. As long as the character has depth and is not just running around saying or doing silly things just for the sake of doing them then I'm cool with it.
Has there ever arisen a conflict over a role with your faith?
I have turned down roles in the past because they were in conflict with my morals. I am friends with Mykelti Williamson, the actor who is most widely known for his portrayal of "Bubba" in "Forrest Gump". I asked him about accepting roles you may not be comfortable with and he said point blank that if you're not comfortable doing it then don't do it. He said another role will always come along. I've never had a role to date that was a conflict with my faith. I do remember feeling a little unsure about playing Satan in the James Weldon Johnson play "God's Trombones", but the play was actually in a Cathedral, and the part was more comedic than anything. I just wasn't quite sure how to take it when people came up to me after the show and said I was really good at the part.
How can others learn more about your career?
I guess the best way to keep up with my movie career is by going to my IMDb page (IMDb.com/name/nm1063262). They can also friend me on Facebook (Facebook.com/davidchattam). I try to keep that page updated with info, photos and videos from current productions.
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Recent working papers and Future research in work in progress folder
Does Economic Insecurity Really Impact on Gun Violence at US Schools?, with Andresa Lagerborg and Morten Ravn. Nature Human Behaviour, 7th May 2018
Fiscal Consolidations in a Low Inflation Environment:Pay cuts versus Lost Jobs, with Guilherme Bandeira, Rana Sajedi and Eugenia Vella. International Journal of Central Banking, 14 (3), June 2018. Online appendix.
"Fiscal Consolidation and the Underground Economy: The Case of Greece,' with R. Sajedi and E. Vella, published in Political Economy Perspectives on the Greek Crisis, edited by Ioannis Bournakis, Dimitris Christopoulos, Theodore Palivos, Chris Tsoukis, Palgrave MacMilan, forthcoming.
"Emerging economies business cycles: The role of commodity terms of trade news", with Nadav Ben Zeev and Alejandro Vicondoa. Online appendix (new), Journal of International Economics, 108, September 2017, pp.368-376
"The Government Wage Bill and Private Activity," with Dimitrios Bermperoglou and Eugenia Vella. Online appendix, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 79, June2017, pp.21-47
"Chronicle of a War Foretold: The Macroeconomic Effects of Anticipated Defence Spending Shocks", with Nadav Ben Zeev, Economic Journal, 127, August 2017, pp.1568–1597, Online appendix.
"Housework and Fiscal Expansions", with Stefano Gnocchi and Daniela Hauser. Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 79, May 2016, pp. 94–108. Online appendix.
"News Shocks in the Data: Olympic Games and Their Macroeconomic Effects", with Markus Brückner, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 47, Issue 7, pp. 1339-1367, October 2015.
"Multipliers of Unexpected Increases in Defence Spending: An Empirical Investigation", with Nadav Ben Zeev, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 57, August 2015.
"Fiscal Consolidation with Tax Evasion and Rent Seeking ", with Rana Sajedi and Eugenia Vella, Journal of International Economics, Volume 96, July 2015, pp. S56-S75 . Online appendix.
"Do Labor Market Institutions Matter for Business Cycle Fluctuations?", with Stefano Gnocchi and Andresa Lagerborg, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 51, pp. 299-317, February 2015. Online appendix.
"Capital Maintenance and Depreciation over the Business Cycle", with Alice Albonico and Sarantis Kalyvitis, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 39, Issue C, pp. 273-286, February 2014. Online appendix.
"Fiscal Expansions, Unemployment and Labor Force Participation: Theory and Evidence", with Markus Brückner, International Economic Review, Volume 53, Issue 4, pp. 1205–1228, November 2012.
"Fiscal Policy, Pricing Frictions and Monetary Accommodation", with Fabio Canova, Economic Policy, Volume 26(68), pp. 555-598, October 2011.
"The Effects of Fiscal Shocks on Employment and the Real Wage", International Economic Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, pp. 217-244, 2009.
"Gains from International Monetary Policy Coordination: Does it Pay to be Different?", with Zheng Liu, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 32(7), pp. 2085-2117, 2008.
"The Structural Dynamics of U.S. Output and Inflation: What Explains the Changes?", with Luca Gambetti and Fabio Canova, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 40, Issue 2-3, pp. 369–388, 2008.
"The Unbearable Tightness of Being in a Monetary Union: Fiscal Restrictions and Regional Stability", with Vanghelis Vassilatos, European Economic Review , 6 V. 51 1, pp. 1492-1513, 2007.
"The Structural Dynamics of Output Growth and Inflation: Some International Evidence", with Luca Gambetti and Fabio Canova, Economic Journal (London), 519 V. 117, pp. C167-C191, 2007.
"Price Differentials in Monetary Unions: The Role of Fiscal Shocks", with Fabio Canova, The Economic Journal, (London), 520, V. 117, pp. 713-737, 2007.
"The Elusive Costs and the Immaterial Gains of Fiscal Constraints", with Fabio Canova, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 90, Issues 8-9, pp. 1391-1414, 2006.
"Does it Cost to be Virtuous? The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Constraints", with Fabio Canova, NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2004, The MIT Press, (edited by R. Clarida, J. Frenkel, F. Giavazzi and K. West), 2006.
Comment on "The Co-movement of Returns and Investment within the Multinational Firm", by M. Desai and F. Foley, NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2004, The MIT Press, (edited by R. Clarida, J. Frenkel, F. Giavazzi and K. West), 2006.
"Persistence without too much Price Stickiness: The role of Variable Factor Utilisation", with Katharine Neiss, Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 231-255, 2005.
"Do the ECB and the Fed really need to Cooperate? Optimal Monetary Policy in a Two-Country World", Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 51, 4, pp. 753-779, 2004.
"The Transition from National Currencies to the Euro", with Charles Goodhart, Economics Letters, Volume 79/1, 2003.


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On the GEOS expedition with Greg Simmons we recorded shehnai player Ustad Ali Abbas Khan and his ensemble in the grounds of the Chet Singh Palace in Varanasi, overlooking the Ganges River.
Recording monks reciting prayers at the Maya Devi Temple in Lumbini, Nepal. Pair of DPA 4051 omnidirectional mics into Korg MR1000 recording in DSD format.
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Constantly, we are being advised to be sure to consume enough protein, because it has various health benefits.
However, when we hear about protein, we immediately think of an animal product. Today, we will present you different vegetarian protein sources which you can consume rather than animal products.
Eggs are extremely high in protein, however their excessive intake could cause the development of sensitivity or allergy.
Here is an explanation what proteins really are.
Proteins consist of a string of amino acids, and each of them has its own role. For example, the amino acid phenylalanine ends up as dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter that makes us happy. There are two types of amino acids: essential and non-essential. Our body can create non-essential amino acids from the essential ones, which has to be taken through our diet.
The body needs protein for various reasons, and its lack could cause breaking down of the muscle tissue in order to supply the essential amino acids.
The most important property of protein is its possibility to repair and build the muscle mass. It also creates neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and melatonin, which send signals around the body. Moreover, protein has a very important role in creating antibodies, hormones, and enzymes.
Make sure to always get enough amount of protein, but not to much. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), you need to get a minimum of at least .13g/lb of protein per bodyweight every day in order to stay alive and prevent muscle wasting.
Their official recommendation for consuming protein is .30g/lb. However, your individual range depends on various factors, like age, type, goals, physical activity frequency, duration, etc.
For example, the protein requirement for elderly people is a bit higher than the average consumption recommendation by the WHO. However, the safe range is around .2g/ – .8g/lb.
Consuming more than .8g/lb is going to cause unneeded stress on the liver. When our body metabolizes protein, one of the results is ammonia that is turned into urea which we can excrete. The excessive amounts of protein is going to expose the liver to a great pressure, and it should never be overburdened.
The most popular protein sources are meat, fish, and eggs. You should always make sure to consume high-quality, organic products since the animals are able to store toxins in their fat.
However, you can get the required amounts of protein from plant sources too.
Here are the 10 richest sources, which have more protein than the eggs.
An egg of 50g contain 6g protein, and these foods have more protein per 50g:
Chlorella – Around 50gr. of chlorella contain 29g of protein. This alga detoxifies the organism of heavy metals and is abundant in calcium, iron, magnesium, and vitamin A. Include chlorella in smoothies and shakes and enjoy its benefits.
Dulse– It has 16g of protein per 50g. This sea vegetable is also rich in potassium, iodine, and fiber. Add it to salads, in soups, or wraps.
Almond Butter– contains 10g of protein per 50g and is abundant in vitamin E, manganese, biotin, healthy fats. You can simply add it to your favorite smoothie.
Flax Seeds – Flax seeds have 9g of protein per 50g. They are also rich in fiber and omega-3s, which helps to soothe inflammation. You should always use fresh flax seeds, in order to preserve the oils, and ground them. Add the flax seeds to smoothies or use them as a substitute of eggs.
Cacao Nibs– Cacao nibs contain about 7g of protein per 50g. Cacao is not the same as cocoa, because it contains the living enzymes intact, which assist the digestion. Moreover, it is rich in fiber, calcium, and magnesium.
Hemp Hearts– they have 16g of protein per 50g. and are also rich in omega-3 fat. Sprinkle them on every salads, or you can add them to smoothies.
Nutritional Yeast – It is also known as Noosh, and 60g. of it contain an amazing 25g of protein. It is also rich in B-12 and has a cheesy and nutty taste.
Spirulina– it contains 28g of protein per 50g. This algae is able to detoxify the body and eliminate the heavy metals from the organism, and is also high in B vitamins, vitamin K, potassium, magnesium.
Tahini– this is actually roasted and crushed sesame seeds, and around 50g. of it contains 10g of protein. These seeds have very powerful anti-inflammatory properties and they are rich in vitamins and minerals like manganese, magnesium, and zinc.
Mix it with steamed veggies such as broccoli and cauliflower, and enjoy!
Pumpkin Seeds– 50g. of pumpkin seeds contain 8g of protein. They also are able to destroy the parasites in the organism and are high in magnesium. You can add them to salads or consume them as a snack.
There are various reasons why you need to consume more plant sources of protein, so try out these foods, and enjoy the innumerable health benefits!
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