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SEATTLE - Three Snohomish County residents were arrested on February 14, 2018, in connection with a two year investigation into a money laundering scheme tied to multiple drug trafficking organizations. Maria Angelica Maldonado, 55 and her husband Ismael Garcia SR, 49, were arrested at their Marysville home. Anthony Bustos, 20, was arrested at his Monroe residence. In all, law enforcement served search warrants on five residences, a business on Evergreen Way in Everett, Washington, and six vehicles.
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Today my heart was filled with conflicting emotions, pride mixed with concern. A young man we know, 24 years old, today completed 5 years of service with the IDF, most of those years as an Officer. He saw combat during these times and most likely was inside Gaza last summer during Operation Protective Edge, although he never told us where he was at that time. He effectively led a unit of even younger soldiers, teaching them to be strong, smart and brave – and what better example than himself.
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The other young man, 19 years old, is our cousin whom we've known practically since the day he was born. He spent the last year in a "mechina" preparatory program, working and living in a community, creating and providing after school programs for children who are in need of this supervision and support. The IDF allows and even encourages young people to delay their army induction by one year, in order to develop and strengthen leadership skills as well as the ability to communicate and work in a variety of settings. The rationale is that young people who experience these mechina programs will ultimately become elite soldiers. Last week we celebrated with our cousin and his family and friends the fact that he would be drafted into the IDF this morning. While we munched on delicious food and watched him mingle with a large smile on his handsome face, we could see that his army service will cause some sleepless nights for his family. Yet his excitement was contagious. His father delivered a meaningful Dvar Torah, relating the simultaneous emotions of fear and pride for his son and the hope that his army service will quickly pass.
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finally hit that rear lat ... surgery looks like it helped alot , i noticed the past few years he had been avoiding that pose at his guest posings
finally hit that rear lat ... surgery looks like it helped alot , i noticed the past few years he had been avoiding that pose at his guest posings
Looks much better than he has in along time. Arms look alot smaller though, and his left leg is still messed up. But still carries Pro level muscle.
looks much better then he has the last few years..
When you've been as great as coleman has been, this looks like a stepdown from where he was at his peak and he looks a shadow of his old self. However the guy carries a huge amount of muscle that most could only dream of even at this stage in his career and the majority of guys who trained with the same training style as coleman look far worse for wear years down the line. I think training the way coleman and yates trained was what was necessary to win the olympia and be the best, but long term what guys like freeman and dex are doing seems to work better in the long run.
He's making a fool of himself IMO. There comes a time to bow out gracefully.
what people dont realize is this is what he looks like only training 70 or 80 percent. If the doctors could fix his leg like they did his back, and he could train 100% again, I think numer 9 is possible especially considering the extreme lack of talent right now.
"Hallelujah, holy-shit!! Where's the Tylenol?!"
looks like he's just going throuhg the motions. he doesnt even complete his poses. hate to say it but awful just awful
I see a lot haters!!
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He looks great for 47 years old, Ronnie is the best, too many haters in this thread imo.
He's like, kinda gross. Yeah, he is a big nasty.
to all the haters: you are idiots, the man retired 4 years ago, had two surgeries, and he still carries more muscle than 95% of the currently competing pros.
he is still a monster and would always be the greatest of all time.
And looks great for that point in his life. And I agree, his back is coming back, no doubt. But also noticed his arms might be slightly smaller thou.
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Yikes!! I can't say for sure if any of this is true but it sure looks like it is! I haven't really followed Alex's work, I just watched a couple videos and read some things. I knew things were not going so good for him, and he was having a hard time but I didn't know that he had colon cancer and that he and his family were homeless!! Go here to get details http://starshipearththebigpicture.com/2015/04/03/alex-collier-an-urgent-plea-for-help/ UPDATE: I just went to AlexCollier.org and there is nothing there about this. That doesn't mean that it is a scam, but it might be. I don't know for sure. It just seems to me that James Harkin would post about it there. You'll have to carefully check things out for your selves. Also it might be best to go directly to AlexCollier.org to donate. Here's the link http://www.alexcollier.org/


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Wall Street is one of the favorite punching bags in the presidential primary campaigns. Donald J. Trump claimed in September that hedge fund managers were "getting away with murder" by avoiding taxes, while Senator Bernie Sanders argues that "it is time to break up the largest financial institutions in the country."
There is the oft-heard refrain that individual executives were not held accountable for violations that led to the financial crisis. Hillary Clinton promises to cut into the bonuses of executives when their companies violate the law, "and when egregious misconduct happens on an executive's watch, that executive should lose his or her job."
Campaign rhetoric rarely gets into the details of just how the financial sector should be tamed. Simply calling for greater policing of management is unlikely to change how they operate, especially when there is little threat of personal liability for individuals.
Although "Downton Abbey" has ended its run, something better may be coming from Britain: new rules that can furnish a guide for how to hold senior managers accountable when their companies violate regulatory requirements.
Under provisions approved by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority that went into effect on Monday, high-level management at banks have a "statutory duty of responsibility" under which they must "take reasonable steps to prevent regulatory breaches in the areas of the firm for which they are responsible." A failure to take those steps can result in an enforcement action against the executive, which could lead to civil fines and even removal from the firm.
This provision for individual management responsibility for violations is actually weaker than an earlier proposal. As originally drafted, the rules created a "reverse burden of proof" that would have required executives to prove that they took all reasonable steps to prevent a violation, otherwise they could be punished. This was more of a "shoot first, ask questions later" approach to liability that drew substantial opposition from the banking sector.
The new rules currently apply only to the banking sector, but will expand in 2017 to cover other financial companies that have a substantial impact on the economy, including insurance companies, securities firms and commodities brokers. The financial crisis showed that it was much more than the banks that contributed to the near meltdown, so a wider range of firms need to be brought under the regulatory umbrella.
The approach of imposing responsibility for ensuring regulatory compliance on individual executives has been required in limited circumstances in the United States. A provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, adopted in 2002 after accounting frauds at Enron and WorldCom, requires the chief executive and chief financial officer of a company whose shares are traded on the public markets to certify that its financial reports comply with the accounting rules, including those for adequate internal controls. That law caused corporate executives to be much more careful about corporate accounting procedures, lest they risk a criminal prosecution that could result in up to 10 years in prison for a knowing violation.
That law is much more limited than the new British rules because it only covers two top members of corporate management, and applies to just corporate financial statements and internal controls. Regulatory violations can come from a number of areas, such as environmental discharges and health care reimbursement, which have little to do with accounting yet can cost a company millions of dollars in penalties in addition to the cost of conducting an internal investigation.
The quest to hold corporate executives accountable seems to be a never-ending search for a mechanism creating a strong enough incentive for them to change the corporate culture. Attacking bonuses has been offered as another means for getting the attention of senior management by putting their personal assets at risk.
A provision of the Dodd-Frank Act expanded the use of clawbacks by requiring public companies to adopt policies to recover incentive-based compensation paid to executives when there is a restatement of previously issued financial statements. The problem with this approach is that it is prompted only by a restatement not by other regulatory violations, and gets to only one component of executive pay, leaving untouched regular salaries — some of which are quite substantial.
Professors Claire A. Hill and Richard W. Painter, who teach at the University of Minnesota Law School, wrote a book, "Better Bankers, Better Banks" (University of Chicago Press, 2015), in which they argue that executives at financial firms should be held personally liable for a portion of any fines imposed for a violation and fraud-based judgments, including settlements.
Under their proposal, multibillion-dollar payments like those made by global banks JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America to settle cases for their sales of mortgage-backed securities in the years before the financial crisis would result in exposure for their executives, which at least puts their pocketbooks on the line even if the bulk of the penalty is absorbed by shareholders.
Any effort to adopt rules like those of the regulators in Britain, or the professors' proposal, is likely to run into significant resistance from Wall Street. The Department of Labor's proposed rule to impose on brokers giving advice on retirement savings a requirement to put their clients' interests first, called a fiduciary duty, would seem to be unremarkable for firms helping to manage money for investors. But it has provoked criticism from Wall Street, including claims of financial catastrophe for small investors. The financial firms can be expected to fight any change that might expose their executives to greater liability or require more spending to comply with the law.
Getting financial executives to change the culture of their firms will not be easy, as campaign promises to "clean up Wall Street" have been made before but cause hardly a ripple on Wall Street.
The British rules might be worthwhile for a new administration to consider as a means to focus management on treating regulatory requirements as a topic worthy of their attention as much as increasing corporate profitability.


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Why is it so striking that Tony Blair has said that Theresa May will be Prime Minister 'if the polls are right'? On the surface, this appears to be a statement of the bleeding obvious, given the Tory party national poll lead isn't exactly within the margin of error. Of course, around election time, politicians do develop the amazing ability to argue that the earth can in fact be flat, and in a normal election Blair might be focusing on talking about how Jeremy Corbyn can in fact become Prime Minister. His refusal to do that may have mildly surprised people.
Of course, what the former Prime Minister is really up to is trying to help his moderate colleagues still in Parliament who are arguing that Labour cannot win the election in a desperate attempt to save their seats. The Conservatives are trying to talk up Jeremy Corbyn as a potential Prime Minister to scare voters. But in Labour seats, the MPs who in normal circumstances would be selling their leader are trying to contradict that Tory message by saying their party won't get into government. Many are doing this on the quiet, while some, such as Ben Bradshaw, have gone so far as to put on the record. Their argument goes that it's safe to elect a Labour voice locally as nationally their party won't have a chance of implementing all the things that the Tories say it would on defence, spending and so on.
This is how Blair put the strong opposition argument on Sky News:
'I think the most powerful argument for Labour in this election – because of the way the polls are, and the way the opinion polls are and the leadership issue – the most powerful argument for Labour is to say it's important for our democracy that the Government is held to account and needs a strong opposition.'
So to recap, the Tories want to talk as much as possible about Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister. Labour MPs and Tony Blair want to insist that their party leader is not going to be Prime Minister and Labour won't form a government after 8 June. If this doesn't seem totally topsy-turvy and confusing, then you're not paying attention.
Corbyn, meanwhile, is conducting an election as any leader with as big a mandate as he has should, by visiting seats that the party hopes to win in order to form a government. He was in Harlow today, and while the ridicule focused on his spinners turning him around so he faced the cameras rather than having his back to them as he spoke to a crowd, it might be fair to say that a more ridiculous image is that of a Labour leader whose existing MPs are peering into the abyss standing in a seat he thinks his party can gain. But given so many of those MPs are trying to avoid the abyss by running campaigns that are all about them, not their party leader, Corbyn might find that invitations to campaign in Labour-held seats are reasonably thin on the ground anyway.
So a seats strategy in which he focuses on seats he would like to win while his MPs focus on persuading their electorate that he can't win those seats and form a government might be the best contorted way of approaching this election. The greater difficulty, of course, comes when the party is divvying up funding for seats, with a tension between those who want to pour resources into saving as many existing Labour MPs as possible, and those who think the party should be aiming to make gains.
So as ever, Labour is split, this time on its election strategy. The question is whether it can find a way of the two strategies in the party coexisting so that there still is a Labour party big enough to continue enjoying splits after 8 June.
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At the last day of our Canadian Council of Churches gathering we talked of process. Some churches want to move to agreement and forge ahead with advocacy around issues like poverty, housing, refugee support, disarmament, and other social challenges. Some churches would prefer to take their time, differing to a consensus model, praying, listening to one another, sharing statements made by our respective church bodies. As someone who generally would fall into the former group I have learned here the value of taking time. Issues like death and dying are a good example. Even though we could not find consensus on pieces of that issue we were able to come to a common voice on palliative care. Had we rushed to decision making we would surely have missed finding the common voice on an important part of this issue.
Those of us who leap to content over process do have legitimate concerns. In non-profit groups, which includes churches, if there is more focus on process than outcomes, the morale and enthusiasm of said group does wane. Process people can come to believe that good process is content and walk away feeling much has been accomplished even if concrete action is completely mission or deferred to a later date (skeptics like me hear language like deferred dates as similar to people who overeat over Christmas holidays assuring others that in the new year they will make up for overindulgence with rigorous exercise, "deferred dates."
But content people do need to hear that some need the space and permission to share their views. These expressions are cathartic and can self-reveal insights that allow the person to move to action. Likewise the sharing of these views can change hearts and minds and move the community to action. I never appreciate it when people arrive at a meeting with the sentiment, "OK, let's vote!" It's as if listening to the other might threaten the strongly held belief, begging the question how thoughtful the point-of-view was in the first place.
Conversations like this, done in this way, is a way of arriving at a deeper place, an outcome that is more likely to have a lasting effect. People voting on an issue who feel their views have been heard are more likely to take that decision back to their bodies with determination. If a minority know their view is not likely to carry the day having their voices heard in a full and patient way can lead to insights by those in the majority. The result is then "owned" by all in the room.
Process need not be a debating society or an exercise in endless personal sharing. One thing that truly drives us content people to distraction are voices that have little to do with the issue at hand and more to do with ourselves. This kind of process is not helpful to the interests of deep content. Surely process and content people can agree on this.
Listening, sharing, honouring, these are all ingredients to a more authentic and just decision.


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A broader perspective can be achieved by presenting wide ranges of forecasts that would help in knowing about the market conditions, product demand, and other probabilities.
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In most of the cases, forecasting methods help in popularising your product, Jonathon Karelse of NorthFind Partners. Through the same, one can develop an effective and accurate model. Thus, in order to make your product better, nothing is better than a forecasting method.
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And in the end, Jonathon Karelse concluded his speech by saying "This reality checks should be conducted frequently especially for the new products so that the new products can be improved accordingly."


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Murdoch's a happy man, Dow Jones dream about to come true !2 min read . Updated: 12 Dec 2007, 01:01 PM IST
Murdoch's a happy man, Dow Jones dream about to come true !
Murdoch's a happy man, Dow Jones dream about to come true !
New York: Rupert Murdoch is poised to fulfill his dream of taking over The Wall Street Journal as a hard-fought takeover of Dow Jones & Co. is expected to be completed this week.
News Corp., the conglomerate headed by the Australian-born mogul Murdoch, clinched a deal earlier this year to take over the prestigious media group after members of the controlling family of shareholders accepted a $5.6-billion takeover offer.
Some of the family members and journalists at the Journal had opposed the offer, fearing damage to the newspaper's integrity in a takeover by Murdoch, who has a reputation for meddling in editorial affairs.
The deal, that is still pending, expected approval by the shareholder vote, was sealed after members of the Bancroft family and trustees, representing about 37% of the family's 64% voting power, agreed to the sale.
The merger agreement addresses a key concern that had sharply divided the Bancrofts by calling for the editorial independence of The Wall Street Journal, the leading US business newspaper.
News Corp. offered $60 per share for Dow Jones, representing an approximately 65 % premium over the closing sale price on 30 April, a day prior to the companies confirming news reports that News Corp. had made the offer.
News Corp. already has begun the process of reshaping management at The Wall Street Journal, drafting star players from elsewhere in its vast media empire.
On Friday the company announced two major appointments: Robert Thomson, editor of The Times of London, would become publisher of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, and Les Hinton, executive chairman of News International, Murdoch's British newspaper group, will become chief executive at Dow Jones.
"I have every confidence that his energy, dedication and foresight will enable Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal to reach their full potential as the leading financial information source globally," Murdoch said of Hinton's appointment.
Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino had already announced he was stepping down after the deal closes. He has served as CEO of Dow Jones since February 2006 and plans to assist with his successor's transition.
As Murdoch, 76, closed in on his long-sought prize, The Wall Street Journal, he gave his son, James, an expanded role in the media empire, naming him to a position apparently aimed at grooming him to head the conglomerate.
News Corp. announced on 7 December 2007, that James Murdoch, 34, the youngest of Murdoch's four children, will be the boss of News Corp. in Europe and Asia, effective immediately.
News Corporation is the umbrella company for an empire that also includes the Fox News Channel, the New York Post newspaper, the Fox Hollywood film studios and television network and the rapidly growing Internet social networking site MySpace.
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Today, or tomorrow, may not be "the end of the world" as many are saying. But, be careful that you don't lose sight of the simple truth that judgement will come when it's least expected and at its appointed time.
Don't ignore the pending end just because, like Chicken Little, there are those who are screaming, "The sky is falling". We need to be living as though this is our last chance to tell our family, friends, and the world the good news of the gospel.
Live for Jesus like this is your last day on earth and plan as though you have forever. This is a healthy tension that will keep you ready for " that day" while you plan to live out your life for many days.
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I thought faith was a fire that would always burn brightly if I fed it with the right kindling. But now. Now I see that fire of faith as if it were lit on a tiny raft, adrift in a powerful ocean, with kindling a rare commodity of the sea.
Depression: A wave threatening to overcome my fire, but failing to put it out.
Breast cancer: A stronger wave, lifting the raft, so my fire floated above the waters and I glimpsed more clearly everything surrounding me. And it was almost beautiful, being tossed upward by that terrible wave. And then …
Job loss: The wave that nearly sunk the raft.
And how can you expect me to know you love me when the waves keep coming? It's almost as if the waves are both the impetus that might hurl me toward you and the enemy that might douse my faithful fire. Is life always going to be like this, God? Wave after wave …
Even now, when I look at my bills and compare them with my bank statement, I'm not sure you love me, God. That is, I know in my head that you do, but my heart sometimes requires evidence. (The kind of evidence I can hold in my hands, I admit.) Is living by faith simply coming to terms with the fact that you never promised me that kind of evidence or reward in the first place?
The trouble is, I'm not sure which is harder: understanding exactly what it is you've promised me, God, or living by faith. I understand that you never promised me a house, but I cling to it anyway. And maybe you never promised me a successful career or a long life, but I cling to those desires anyway. Are you promising me an eternal Sabbath with you, Lord? Is that to be my reward for a faithful life, for keeping the fire lit?
Now, you must understand, God, I don't mean to sound disappointed. And it isn't that I don't want my fire to survive the ocean, because I do. More than anything. And sometimes, in a certain light, the water sparkles, reflecting my fire, and I know why you've put me at sea.


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Motherhood is a gift. There are joyful days and days that wear you down. If you are tired and worn, this prayer is for you.
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My family, friends and colleagues often tease me about my fascination for Alexander the Great. I get it. Who cares about someone – a single-minded Greco-Macedonian conqueror, no less – who lived some 300 years before Jesus?
But you see, the fact that we call Jesus Christ "Jesus Christ:" – and not Joshua bar Joseph, his historical Hebrew name – is because of Alexander and the spread of Hellenistic culture. Before Alexander, culture flowed east to west. After his conquest of the Persian Empire (331 B.C.), it would tend west to east. And the resulting tension between the two has reverberated down through the ages, particularly in the Middle East, the heart of his empire.
Our soldiers have been following in his footfall since the start of the Iraq War in 2003, as I wrote then for the Gannett newspapers. We're still living in Alexander's world. We just don't know it.
Well, some of us do. As Elizabeth D. Samet, author of "Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point," observed in an opinion piece for The New York Times' Sunday Review Nov. 23, the long guerilla war that Alexander waged in Afghanistan – the subject of Frank L. Holt's "Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan" and Steven Pressfield's novel "The Afghan Campaign – mirrors our quagmire in the Middle East today. But we must be careful here in casting a backward glance at history. Alexander was an absolute monarch and perhaps the greatest field commander the world has ever seen, who understood the warlord mind-set as his father, Philip II of Macedon, was one. Moreover, Alexander took a Bactrian (Afghan) princess – the beautiful Roxane, daughter of the warlord Oxyartes – as his chief wife. Alexander would die in Babylon (modern-day Iraq) of a fever (possibly cerebral malaria) at age 32.
Had he lived, he might've turned his questing heart west to Arabia or nascent Rome or east to China. The point is he had a pothos, or ineffable longing, for the ever-receding horizon. He was never going back to the Macedonian capital of Pella.
Ultimately, Alexander conquered Afghanistan as part of the Persian Empire. (He never lost a battle.) The idea that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empires" is true only as applied to the modern world that began with the 19th century. Afghanistan, a crossroads of the world, was endlessly conquered in ancient times.
Whereas we're a democratic republic and reluctant empire that's never going to conquer Afghanistan – not because we can't but because it's not in our mission and anyway, we're unwilling to do what it would take, which is what Alexander did: We're unwilling to stay. Once we see the tchotchkes – like Saddam Hussein's Wedgwood Renaissance Gold china, which makes an appearance in "Water Music," the first novel in my series "The Games Men Play" – our thoughts drift home.
So not only are we in a vastly different position from Alexander's but we have failed to absorb his essential lesson – that you lead from the front, which means ironically that you put others first.
As Iraqi-American tennis player Alí Iskandar, victim of the remains of Alexander's day, notes in "Water Music": We live with the past, not in it. We can learn from the Alexandrian model.
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — In letters from his last hideout, Osama bin Laden fretted about dysfunction in his terrorist network and the loss of trust from Muslims he wished to incite against their government and the West."
After all of the hate and misery he spread around the world, he died in failure and misery. In all of history, people who lived with hate have never gained anything but more hate. Why don't they ever learn? Why do people who profess religious motivation spew hatred when every major religion says God loves us? Even if they have no religion, can't any of these people look at history and decide to try a better way?
I wonder what Afghanistan would be like today if he had used the vast wealth of his family and friends to build schools and roads and hospitals rather than buying weapons and funding terrorists. I wonder what it would be like if he had created productive workers rather than fighters. I wonder what it would be like if the Afghans were free to choose a positive way of life and have hope of succeeding in what they chose to do.
With all of the money the Arabs, the Russians and the US have poured into that country, it could have been the shining example of the greatest possibilities of the human race. Instead it is a hell on earth, full of suffering, hatred and misery. Do you think there is any chance that the situation might change in this century?


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Mistress Minax and I enjoy a sunny but windy day in kinky San Francisco.
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15 Ways to Save Money Planning Your Wedding
If you are engaged, chances are you've probably had two opposing internal dialogues throughout the wedding planning process.
One side of your brain is saying, "It's my one day to splurge a little, so it's okay if I spend a little on (fill in the blank)."
The other part of you is saying, "Okay, its just one day, do I really need to spend this much on (fill in the blank)?"
I 100% had both thoughts over and over as I planned my wedding so I am in no way judging for either thought process. I'm not here to say you shouldn't splurge on a photographer for your big day or that you need to skimp on expensive linens— it's YOUR day, and you (and whoever is helping fund your wedding) get to determine what is important to you for your wedding day.
What I am saying is that finding the balance between the necessary, the special splurges, and where to save money is certainly difficult. I get it. I in no way found the perfect balance, but I just want to offer a little insight on ways I saved money and ways I wish I would have saved money. I'll also give you a few tips I discovered on how to get deals, so read on bride-to-be, I hope this is helpful for you!
1. First and foremost, set a budget.
Doesn't matter if that budget is cushioned or tight, set one. If you don't, you'll find yourself easily spending way more than you intended. And beware, things will sneak up on you left and right that you didn't plan for, so set a budget ahead of time.
2. Go to a bridal show or open house!
Often times, when you go to an open house, vendors there will give you discounts for booking with them after seeing them at a bridal show. I'm not guaranteeing this but it's worth a try!
3. Rethink a Saturday wedding
Let's be real, for most a Saturday wedding is ideal. But that's not always ideal for the budget. Think about choosing a Sunday or Friday wedding instead— it's super common these days and way more affordable. I had mine on a Sunday and honestly loved it. People who love you will come regardless if they have to get up early for work the next morning!
4. Design your own invites
Ok, invitations are expensive. This was one of the costs that I did not expect to be so expensive, and I just couldn't get myself to spend the money on them. Instead, I designed my own (or you could have a friend) on Illustrator and got them printed with Vistaprint, and they run TONS of good deals. They weren't as fancy as some, but they got the job done and our people got the memo!
5. Online RSVP
Online RSVP's via a website like The Knot or Minted is not just convenient for your guests and you, but it's another way to cut down the cost of paper and stamps needed!
6. Ditch the programs
While we are talking about how expensive paper can be, let's talk about programs. Let's be honest, most of them are going to end up on the floor anyways and people don't necessarily need to know the game plan for a 30-minute ceremony. I'm not knocking anyone who chooses to use them, they're great and I would have if I wasn't on a budget! But if you are trying to cut down cost, this is an easy way to save a good chunk without feeling like you are losing out on anything. If you want, make a sign at the front that says who the wedding party is and the game plan!
7. Go home-made!
This maybe goes without saying but choosing homemade over rentals or buying things can go a long way. Make your own signs and have friends help you. Go to hobby lobby once a day with your 40% off coupon and go crazy. Not everything can be homemade, but when they can be, go for it!
8. Suit Sales
Truthfully, buying a suit can be just as cost-effective as renting. The two best months to buy a new suit is January or July. Spring fashion collections hit the stores in January, so hello price reductions. Alternatively the same happens in July. Also, Joseph A. Bank always has deals like buy 1 get 2 or even 3. So be patient and wait for a good deal, it's worth it!
9. Alcohol
Real talk, you don't need alcohol to have fun, but offering alcohol does add some fun. I said it. But I get it, it's a hefty cost for something that is for sure not a necessity. One way to keep this cost manageable is to use a venue and caterer that allows you to bring in your own alcohol. This saves huge because otherwise it gets marked up a ton.
10. Stick with beer and wine
While we are taking about alcohol, don't be afraid to just go with beer and wine. Maybe add a signature drink for the bride and groom's favorites if you want. But in my experience, beer and wine still brings the party without having to pay for the liquor.
11. Have a buffet dinner
Buffets are great people! And surprisingly, they can save a good amount!
12. Shop off the rack
For me, I didn't have a choice to shop off the rack or not. We had about a 4 month engagement so I had to choose a dress that I could take home that day. Not only did it narrow down the choices which was great for me, but it ended up saving a good amount of money. Either way you'll probably have to get it altered so why not!
13. Focus on the pictures
When it comes to decorations, like floral and candles, etc. keep the photos in mind! Take aisle markers for instance, (that's the floral pieces that hang from each pew or chair in the aisle). What are you going to see in the photos that you keep forever and look back on? Probably just the first couple rows. So instead of decking out every row, just do the first two, plus it can mark reserved rows! That's just one example, but if you are going to splurge, do it in a place that will be heavily photographed.
14. Getting ready outfits
Trust me when I saw this, I LOVE robes. I live in a robe from the moment I wake up until I decide to get dressed for the day, I'm actually wearing one right now. But what I quickly learned is that those silky floral robes are not cheap. Instead, I got my girls some comfy gray joggers and a t-shirt. It ended up being SO comfy hanging out in all morning and I truly wear those joggers every day, under my robe of course:)
15. DIY Makeup
This one isn't for everyone, but I did it and I don't regret it. The main reason I did my own makeup is because I'm scared to trust someone else with it. I didn't want to not look like myself so to be sure, I just did my own makeup. No it certainly wasn't photoshoot quality, but I looked like myself and felt comfortable so I didn't mind!
Again, these won't work for everyone but many of these worked for me so I wanted to share them with you. It's your day, you do you. I hope these help you plan the wedding of your dreams while staying in your budget!
xoxo, CW.


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Unlock the Shrine by The Ruins of Beverast is not technically a new recording. Its release date is 2004, but it is going to appear here in the States only now thanks to Battle Kommand Records licensing this album. The record has been making a buzz in the underground BM scene, and it is no doubt attracted Azentrius' interest (Nachtmystium mastermind and Battle Kommand leader). The Ruins of Beverast is a one-man band, a trait quite popular today in the UGBM scene. TRoB is a creation of Alexander von Meilenwald, who used to drum for another underground BM German outfit Nagelfar. With Nagelfar not heard from much since 2000 Virus West, Alexander proceeded down his own dark path. Fully expecting the music style to be non-conformal to the "mainstream" black metal, I took a plunge …
The descent into madness begins right away from the weeping, sobbing samples and slow dissonant guitar leading the way for about the first 3 min of Between Bronze Walls. The song's climax, and perhaps the most beautiful spot on the whole album, begins after the aforementioned 3 min. It is a beautiful melody, very much late Nachtmystium or Xasthur style, set to layered guitars and drum sound heavy on the snare and cymbals, but not on bass. Beauty makes a rare appearance elsewhere on the album. It is neither in long odd-numbered tracks which form the record's backbone, nor in even-numbered mood setting segues. The album is about the dark recesses of the human mind, not a soft nature-inspired undertaking.
For the longer tracks, blasting dementia becomes full bloom on Euphoria When the Bombs Fell ending in a slowdown vibrato procession to the Abyss led by sacrificial virgins. The Clockhand's Groaning Circles and Summer Decapitation Ritual very much share riffing similarities, the former however being a droning doom which accelerates through periodic double bass bursts, the latter traveling in the opposite direction form the dissonant blasting barrage to a procession taken right out of Hollenthon.
The inserts are what is giving Unlock the Shrine its truly creepy atmosphere. Low frequency roar with evil whispers, horse neighing, water splashing and shamanic beat on Skeleton Coast, mechanical march of mindless beings on Procession of Pawns, sounds of water drops in the cellar driving a person insane on Cellartunes, pounding mammoth steps on Subterranean Homicide Lamentation – all these are necessary pieces to unleash the psychotic feeling. Throughout the record you will feel that you are participating in a dark ritual, some sort of Black Mass. There is enough of female vocals touch, bells and choirs to convey the feeling. Unfortunately for the participant the proceedings will end in utter delirium, and Alexander's banshee screeching vocals reinforce the point.
With this Black Mass feeling in spots Unlock the Shrine reminds me of Deathspell Omega, however, the album does not rock nearly as much as Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice. If Unlock the Shrine is a heavyweight, then Deathspell Omega opus is massive. The Ruins of Beverast simply tends to last too long, funeral doom of the title track becoming wearisome, and The Mine burgeoning with anticipation which never delivers.
I can't say I have taken all of this record in on the first listen, or I am taking it all in now, but I am certainly proud to say that I understand where this music is coming from. Fans of bands mentioned in this review will do well for themselves to check this one out.
Killing Songs :
Between Bronze Walls, Euphoria When the Bombs Fell
|Alex quoted 74 / 100
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About Us
Previously...Wish Experience officially formed in London in 2011. Prior to that, we were making work in the US under the name of Secret Theatre. In the old days, we were working out of apartment living rooms, making costumes from bits of found materials, and doing Shakespeare.
The Beer ShowWith the move to the UK came the move to the great, British beers! As we began to explore these incredible flavors, something began to bubble in the backs of our minds.
Wish Who?Wish is made up of Will Glenn and Trish Parry, two performer/makers who have travelled the world bringing joy to thousands of people with their unique, inviting live performances.
|Wish Experience are a small group formed in London with the purpose of creating interesting, exciting performances. We are inspired by every day experiences shared by large numbers of people; by the magical within the mundane, and by the common language such experiences give us. By harnessing these cultural phenomena, we hope we can invite our audience members into our work, rendering them part of the performance and co-conspirators to our schemes and plots.
We have travelled the world with our work, performing in a variety of spaces including churches, pubs, theatres, crypts, concert venues, town halls, bars and dwellings. Our work has played prominently in the Edinburgh Festival fringe, the Adelaide Fringe, the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and as part of the CAFF circuit of festivals as well as a number of other, smaller fringe festivals. We actively tour our work all over the globe, to date having performed in eight different countries from New Zealand to the United States.


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This year has fewer games with Christmas themed updates than last year, at least so far, I'm hopeful that the next few days will see more games release new updates.
We'll start with an old favorite, Hayday. For the past several years Hayday had had the best holiday updates, unfortunately this year it seems to be lacking. There are still the same decorations that there were last year, but nothing new. However there are rumors of an update coming in the next few days, with luck there will be new decorations.
I have to thank Jennifer Paetsch from http://lmgcomic.com/ for getting me hooked on this game around Halloween, it's quickly become one of my favorite games.
As this is my first year playing HappyStreet, everything is new to me. There are several tasks to be completed, daily gifts and even sleighs to stop before they drive out of sight.
I haven't gotten very far in getting all the special Christmas buildings in yet, however I haven't been disappointed in this game yet.
Jetpack Joyride
Jetpack Joyride was the first game I saw to get their Christmas theme up this year. While there isn't anything new to buy in it, all of the evil scientists are dressed up with mistletoe and wreaths. There are also other decorations on the background.
Hopefully I'll have another post with more games next week.
Thanks for reading!


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Douglas Lundholm
Researcherin the Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics research group.
Funded by a Swedish Research Council Junior Researcher Project Grant for the period 2014-2017/18 with my project "Spectral theory of quantum systems with exotic symmetries".
Recipient of a Göran Gustafsson Prize for Young Researchers, 2018.
During the summer term 2019 I am a professor (W3, Vertretung for Christian Hainzl) at LMU Munich.
During the spring 2013 I was a CARMIN postdoc visiting:
IHÉS, January - April, 2013.
IHP, April - July, 2013, for the trimester program Variational and Spectral
Methods in Quantum Mechanics.
During the fall 2012 I was a postdoc at Institut Mittag-Leffler in the program Hamiltonians in Magnetic Fields.
During 2011-2012 I was an EPDI laureate visiting:
IHÉS, September - October, 2011.
FIM, ETH Zurich, November - December, 2011, and April - August, 2012.
INIMS Cambridge, January - March, 2012.
During 2010-2011 I was a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen.
Department of Mathematics,
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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Room 3646, Floor 6,
Lindstedtsv. 25, KTH
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Research interests
Mathematical physics, including: spectral theory of quantum mechanical systems (typically incolving supersymmetry - such as supermembrane matrix models, or exotic particle statistics - anyons), Clifford (geometric) algebras and their applications, quantum gravity and quantum geometry.
Click here to read more about my research and find some ideas for student projects. I encourage any interested students to contact me if you are looking for a suitable project.
Curriculum vitae: PDF
Preprints and publications
Talks and lectures
Mathematical methods for uncertainty and exclusion in quantum mechanics,
LMU Colloquium, Munich, May 2019.
Exchange and exclusion for non-abelian anyons,
Tübingen, January 2019.
Recent studies of anyons,
Oberwolfach, September 2016.
Recent studies of anyons,
at YRS on the Occasion of the 70th Birthday of Barry Simon, Fields Institute, Toronto, August 2016.
Spectral properties of the (super)membrane matrix models,
in Aspects of Membrane Dynamics, KTH / Nordita, June 2016.
Identiska partiklar
(in Swedish for high-school students), KTH, March 2016.
Rigorous studies of anyons,
ICMP, Santiago, July 2015.
Lieb-Thirring bounds for interacting Bose gases (general),
Rome, January 2015.
Lieb-Thirring bounds for interacting Bose gases (detailed),
Zürich, October 2014.
Local exclusion and Lieb-Thirring inequalities for intermediate and fractional statistics,
Paris, June 2013.
Zero-energy states in supermembrane matrix models,
Cambridge, March 2012.
|Simon Larson, Asymptotic and universal spectral estimates with applications in many-body quantum mechanics and spectral shape optimization, PhD thesis, 2019.
|Gustav Brage and Erik Sönnerlind, Braid group statistics and exchange matrices of non-abelian anyons, with representations in Clifford algebra, BSc thesis, 2018 [PDF].
|Joel Wiklund, Braiding non-abelian anyons with representations in Clifford algebra, with representations in Clifford algebra, BSc thesis, 2018 .
|Elias Riedel Gårding, Geometric algebra, conformal geometry and the common curves problem, BSc thesis, 2017 [PDF].
|Viktor Qvarfordt, Non-Abelian Anyons: Statistical Repulsion and Topological Quantum Computation, MSc thesis, 2017 [PDF].
|Emil Jacobsen and Erika Lind, Triangles in particle interactions and applications of Clifford algebra, BSc thesis, 2016 [PDF].
|Oskar Weinberger, The braid group, representations and non-abelian anyons, BSc thesis, 2015 [PDF].
Topics in mathematics IV: Methods of modern mathematical physics, KTH, Spring 2017 (Master course).
Clifford algebra, geometric algebra, and applications, KTH, Spring 2009 and Spring 2016 (PhD course).
|Mathematical physics of anyons and topological states of matter, Nordita, Stockholm, March 2019.
|The Mathematical Physics session at the 27th Nordic Congress of Mathematicians, Stockholm, March 2016 (co-organizer).
|A one-day conference in honor of the 65th birthday of Lars Svensson, KTH, January 2014 (in Swedish).
Seminar series
Talks in Mathematical Physics in the Stockholm area, learning seminar (co-organizer).


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It's been a long process and it was rejected on the first submission but I fixed the issues and now it is live. You can download by clicking on the Available on the App Store button below. I would love what you think of this app and let me know if you can think of anything that will make it better!
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Modex day 1: Technology is king, but you've got to talk to your customers too
Technological imperatives abound, but supply chains aren't going to significantly improve unless there's also communication up and down them. And maybe that communication is going to be produced by sharing vital data on a distributed ledger.
Through numerous presentations at both the first day's keynote for both the annual Modex meeting and Georgia Logistics Summit for the supply chain industry in Atlanta, that was the message that could be extracted. A speaker would within minutes of each other note that technology is disrupting every player in the supply chain, but that to stay with the changes, you needed to communicate with your counterparties.
Juan Perez, the CIO and chief engineering officer of local company UPS, kicked that theme off at the start of the day, when he declared that the brown-and-yellow is "more than ever before, a technology company." And that didn't apply just to UPS, he said; "whatever you do" in the supply chain, "you work for a technology company."
So what has UPS done to meet those goals? What Perez talked about was far more than just implementing new technology. "We had to disrupt ourselves," he said in his address. But much of what he discussed involved focusing on customers, with some alliteration thrown in: "enhanced mobility…empower consumers…evolving technologies" were described as the company's "innovative initiatives."
Perez described the "flexible shopper" as somebody who wanted to go "from one channel to the next channel and to the next channel. At the end of the day, we need to make sure that technology is easy, pleasant and efficient to use. Customers are defining these experiences. They want control of their delivery experience."
Perez talked about the latest developments in UPS' ORION system, which he said is the company's "best example" of its "robust technology." ORION stands for On-Road Integration, Optimization and Navigation. When first introduced, it would provide a driver with a plan for the day that kept mileage down to a minimum and saved the company millions of miles driven, millions of gallons of fuel consumed, and significant reductions in CO2 emissions, Perez said.
But more recently, ORION's technology has been updated so that it isn't just a one-and-done plan for the day. Rather, according to Perez, it can be updated over the course of the day to further improve the driver's performance.
But every time Perez laid out a technological change, he kept coming back to management. "We had to create a culture of innovation," he said. "We had to create a rewards system and the discipline to support innovation."
And that might mean emphasizing "strategy over governance," avoiding where the latter trumps the innovation inherent in the former. Companies need to be, Perez said, "constructively dissatisfied." And to do that, he said the views of everybody right down the line, including the drivers, need to be taken into account. A company needs to "free your geniuses." Perez joked that if he wanted the best and most honest feedback about the company's technological innovations, "go talk to the drivers."
Among the other topics that were featured in the dozens of seminars through the day:
3PLs: Bryan Jensen, the chairman and executive vice president of St. Onge Company, a supply chain consulting firm, said the relationship between a shipper and its contracted third-party logistics company is going to be troubled "if you don't treat each other like a partner." And it's particularly important where the product being shipped is subject to significant regulation.
For example, a company using a 3PL to ship Styrofoam cups is going to have a significantly different set of needs that one shipping pharmaceuticals regulated by any number of governments, Jensen said. In his accompanying slides, Jensen talked about the "increased emphases on rules and regulations…cosmetics and drugs are particularly challenging." And the slides drove home the message of necessary cooperation: "3PLs are often viewed as another vendor, not as a partner by the shipper."
Jensen provided data on the types of operations outsourced to 3PLs. In a survey from the company's 2018 Third Party Logistics study, 83% of the respondents said they outsources domestic transportation, and 66% outsourced warehousing. Just under that at 63% was international transportation, with a surprisingly large drop to customs brokerage at 46%, showing no clear correlation with the amount of international transportation outsourcing.
Jensen did show numbers that were positive for the industry. Quoting a report by Armstrong & Associates, it showed logistics costs rising 57.6% between 2010 and a projected total of $11.2 billion 2021. But 3PL revenue is shown rising even more, up 68% to $1.149 billion from $681 million.
Jensen said one of the trends in the industry has been acquisitions and consolidation, joking that he thought XPO Logistics was going to buy everybody. But his accompanying slide asked a more existential question: "Will Amazon or Home Depot acquire a 3PL?"
Blockchain: Data shown by Jensen from the 3PL study showed 3PL wariness over blockchain, interesting since supply chains have long been seen as a part of the economy that can most benefit from the sharing of data on a public or permissioned ledger. In the survey results, 67% of the shippers said they "don't know enough (about blockchain) at this time to rate," while 62% of 3PLs gave the same answer. In another question though, a far greater number of 3PLs than shippers did say that they could "see a potential application but not yet engaged." Still, the largest percentage answer in that question was "not yet talking about blockchain."
A more optimistic view of the potential of distributed ledger technology was provided by Yvan Caceres of Deloitte Consulting in an address titled "Successfully Navigating the Last Mile." That address was part of a series about Smart Cities, and cutting down congestion is a necessary part of any sort of Smart Cities initiatives.
It would involve far more use of dropping parcels off at collection centers or so-called "lockers." Just-in-time delivery gets more important; the delivery of materials needs to be able to "land that unit on any operation," Caceres said. And the best solution to that would be a distributed ledger, Caceres said.
Labor: It isn't just trucking companies looking for employees. Jensen opened up his remarks on 3PLs with "Finding New Talent" at the top of his first slide. Peter Schnorbach, senior director of product management at Manhattan Associates, said rising minimum wage laws in many states pose a significant employee issue for many companies involved in a supply chain. A company with 500 workers seeing their hourly wage workers get a $1 per hour kick as a result of a rising minimum wage will see its labor bill rise $1 million per year."
Schnorbach also bucked conventional wisdom by pushing against the oft-heard complaints about millennials in the work force. They are oriented toward mobile technology, they "thrive on recognition," they "work hard and we can learn a lot from them."
ELDs: It wouldn't be a full day without some reference to ELDs. On the enormous convention floor, a representative from one airline that shall rename unidentified said his freight business in the last month or two had risen about 5%. He said he believed that reduced trucking capacity as a result of the ELD implementation was a reason, though he conceded he had nothing to base that on, raising yet another possibility of ELDs becoming the catch-all rationale for anything in the market that breaks with previous trends.