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Eugene Taylor was head of the Mathematics Department from 1920 until his retirement in 1950. He died in Moscow in 1973 at the age of 93. His son John Taylor and his grandson John Taylor received bachelor's degrees from the Mathematics Department. In 1979 his sons Paul and John Taylor established this endowed scholarship in memory of their parents.
The scholarships are based on merit. The recipient must be a mathematics major entering the junior or senior year. Recipients are selected by the faculty in mathematics in amounts at their discretion from the available income.
J. Lawrence Botsford Memorial Fund
This endowed scholarship was given by his family in memory of Larry Botsford, a long-time faculty member in mathematics.
Awards are made to students majoring in mathematics or a closely related field who are entering their senior year. The recipients are selected by the faculty of the Department of Mathematics. The amount of each award is determined by the faculty in mathematics, but must be no less than $100 per award.
Linn Hower Honor Scholarship
This scholarship is endowed by Mildred and Loyal L. Hower in honor of their son L. Linn Hower, who graduated with honors with a B.S. in mathematics in May 1979.
The recipient must be a junior or senior enrolled full-time in the Department of Mathematics and majoring in mathematics or applied mathematics with a computation or scientific option and with intention of applying mathematics in a physical or biological science field. The recipient must be a graduate of an Idaho high school. If possible, preference is given to native Idahoans from rural Idaho. The recipient must have a high potential for success in a mathematics or scientific field other than teaching at the elementary or high school level. Financial need shall not be a consideration. The scholarship may be renewed for a second year if the recipient reapplies and remains otherwise eligible. Recipients are selected by the faculty in mathematics.
The Ya-Yen Wang Memorial Scholarship Endowment
Ya-Yen Wang was a professor of mathematics at the University of Idaho. This scholarship was founded in her memory at the time of her death in 1995 by family members.
These scholarships in the amount of $1,000 are available to junior and senior mathematics majors. Preference is given to women. Selection is based solely on merit, as determined by the Mathematics Department Scholarship Committee.
The Clancy and Barbara Potratz Mathematics Education Scholarship
This scholarship was established by Clancy and Barbara Potratz. Clancy was on the Mathematics Department faculty from 1966 to 1994. He served as head of the department from 1990 to 1994.
This $1000 scholarship is available to full time students majoring in mathematics. Students with sophomore, junior, or senior standing are eligible. First preference is given to students preparing for a career teaching mathematics at the middle through high school levels.
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Established in 1987 by Angeline Elder, daughter of Rose and Emil Helmholz. The Helmholzes moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, from Wisconsin in 1909 and operated a dairy farm until they retired to Renton, Washington in 1953.
In accordance with the Helmholzes' desire to leave a lasting contribution to higher education, the scholarship is granted annually to the female student majoring in chemistry, mathematics, or physics who has the highest grade point average at the conclusion of her junior year.
The J. Karen Pyrah and Pyrah Family Scholarship
Established in 2012 in memory of J. Karen Pyrah and her parents, Walter Glen Pyrah and Georgia Anderson Pyrah, and her brother, David Anderson Pyrah. Karen grew up in Ketchum and graduated from the University of Idaho with a B.S. in math in 1967. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She spent her career with the CIA, and retired as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service. Karen passed away in 2010. The scholarship was established to provide students with the opportunity for a successful career such as Karen had.
The scholarship is for undergraduate mathematics majors, with preference to students from Idaho.
Malcolm and Carol Renfrew Endowed Scholarship in Mathematics
Established in 2014 through a bequest from Malcolm and Carol Renfrew. Malcolm earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry in 1932 and 1934, respectively. Carol earned a B.A. in economics in 1935. After a successful career in industry, Malcolm returned to the University of Idaho as head of the Department of Physical Sciences and later the Department of Chemistry. During his time on the faculty, Malcolm helped to raise the research profile of the university and played a leading role in establishing a Ph.D. program. Following retirement, the Renfrews remained incredibly supportive of the University of Idaho and the Moscow community.
The scholarship is open to all students in the math department.
Newman and Neah Fisher Mathematics Scholarship
This scholarship was established in 2016 by Newman and Neah Fisher for students majoring in the Department of Mathematics who are preparing for a career teaching math at the secondary or community college level. Dr. Newman Fisher was the first person to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Idaho. He is professor and chair emeritus of math at San Francisco State University.
The scholarship is based on merit and is open to full-time students (undergraduate or graduate level) majoring in mathematics. Preference is given to students preparing for a career teaching math at the secondary or community college level.
The Mathematics Department Scholarship
This scholarship is not endowed, but is awarded from funds donated each year. Donations are made by department faculty, alumni, and friends. The recipient must be a freshman of sophomore student majoring in mathematics.


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THE Sunshine Coast's leading powerhouses in commercial real estate have joined forces in an exciting merger of expertise, market knowledge and commercial listings.
Property Only managing director Michael Shadforth announced the company had merged with Ray White Commercial Maroochydore and was moving forward under the brand of Ray White.
"It is a transition and advancement to the next stage of where I want to be positioned," Mr Shadforth said.
"When you want to be the best commercial real estate agency offering unparalleled market knowledge and expertise, it stands to reason to join forces with a company that shares the same principles and values in business.
"Ray White has such a strong brand across Australia and the culture and business methodology is in synergy with my ideals and visions. It just made sense to buy into the Ray White brand.
"When you team the fastest growing commercial real estate business with the most experienced on the Sunshine Coast, you bring together a wealth of industry knowledge and a strong catalogue of listed properties.
"Ray White Commercial Maroochydore Principal David Smith brings strong leadership and direction to the company. …
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Sharp Announces 13 New Monochrome Multifunction Printers That Join Award-Winning MFP Product Family
MONTVALE, N.J., Aug. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), announces 11 new Advanced and Essentials Series workgroup MFPs, as well as two new Advanced Series desktop MFPs for the technology-driven workplace. All the new models are built using Sharp's latest controller technology and...
Sharp Adds Four New High-Volume A3 MFPS To Highly Successful Color Advanced And Essentials Series Lineup
MONTVALE, N.J., April 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), announces the addition of four new high speed models to its color Advanced and Essentials Series lineup, bringing the total to 11 models in the product family ranging from 26 to 60 pages per minute. The four new models are...
Sharp Expands A4 Lineup With Two New Desktop Color Multifunction Printers For The Technology Driven Workplace
MONTVALE, N.J., March 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), today introduced two new A4 desktop color multifunction printers for the technology driven workplace, delivering strong workflow capabilities and leading-edge security features, all in a compact design. The new Advanced...
Sharp Earns Buyers Lab 2019 Copier MFP Line of the Year Award
MONTVALE, N.J., Jan. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), today announces that it is has earned the Keypoint Intelligence - Buyers Lab 2019 Copier MFP Line of the Year. Presented annually by the world's leading authority on document imaging devices and software solutions, Buyers Lab...
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A new regulation from the Food and Drug Administration taking effect this month aims to decrease the agricultural use of medically important antibiotics — the ones also used to treat people. The rule has raised questions in farm country and sparked debate among public health advocates who worry that the new mandate doesn't do enough.
Take enough antibiotics, and your system can build resistance. And those bugs can hop from person to person. The same thing can happen with livestock on farms. More than half of the antibiotics sold for livestock use in 2015 were also of the types used in human medicine, and a strain that becomes resistant in animals won't necessarily stay down on the farm.
It's hard to say no to a patient. Doctors wrote 47 million prescriptions in 2015 for antibiotics that were medically unnecessary, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"You want to please the person that's spending the money to come see you, because this is a service-based industry," Ellis said.
Patrick Butaye, a professor and vet at Ross University on the Caribbean island St. Kitts, teaches a lot of students going into work on farms in the U.S. He doesn't think antibiotics should be used on healthy animals and he tries to teach his students that. But he knows that with this regulation in place, vets will have to make some tough decisions.
Nancy Butler still works on the Calhoun, Kentucky, farm where she was born. Back then, the family grew tobacco and soybeans. Now she raises chickens, one of the biggest agriculture money makers in this region.
For the past 20 years Butler has contracted her two chicken houses to Perdue. Butler describes herself as a small producer, even though each of her houses holds 25,000 chickens per contract. Here's the remarkable thing about those chickens: not one of them is raised with antibiotics.
Perdue growers do things public health advocates say the chicken industry should do to prevent disease.
Christine Daugherty is Tyson Food's vice president of sustainable food production. She said that by the end of this year, Tyson will no longer use antibiotics used in human medicine.
PIRG and other public health groups are putting pressure on the big buyers, such as restaurants and fast food chains.
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Perdue did identify one partner: Chick-fil-A.
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The U.S. is not the first country to tackle this problem, and the experience of one other country offers a lesson.
Denmark took action 20 years ago with a rule similar to the one the FDA just adopted. Karl Pedersen at the National Veterinary Institute in Copenhagen said the consumption of antibiotics on farms has decreased.


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Soccer and the Concussion Dilemma: Are They Preventable?
Over the past decade, there has been a 60% increase in the number of sports and recreation-related emergency room visits due to concussions and traumatic brain injury.1 As a result, concussions are at the forefront of media coverage, prompting investigations into management of concussions at multiple levels of play. This has also prompted a surge of research into concussion management and prevention, including the well-known Heads Up campaign. Concussions are highest in football and girls soccer with females between the ages of 10-19 being most at risk for soccer-related concussions.1 There is minimal research to support that concussions are preventable however, there are ways to modify the factors involved in the mechanism of concussions. Thus far, the majority of the focus has been on modifying helmets and other headgear versus within the players themselves. The goal of this article is to educate coaches, parents, and athletes about the signs and symptoms of a concussion as well as to explain potential injury prevention strategies.
A concussion is defined as "…a complex pathophysiological process affecting the brain, induced by traumatic biomechanical forces."2 What does this actually mean? A concussion can occur as a result of a direct blow to the head, face, neck, or any other part of the body where the force is transmitted to the head. This usually occurs during sports or as a result of a fall or car accident. This trauma usually results in short-lived neurological symptoms (headache, dizziness, tingling, numbness, vision changes) that typically resolve quickly on their own. These symptoms reflect a change in function of the brain but usually do not cause an injury evident on imaging. Basically, a decrease in blood flow to the brain causes an energy crisis. With exercise, blood is pulled away from the brain to support the lungs and muscles that work to sustain activity. Therefore, if an athlete attempts to return to sport before their brain heals, too much stress is placed on the brain. This can cause continued symptoms and place the brain at risk for further damage including Second Impact Syndrome.
Symptoms of a concussion may include: loss of consciousness, confusion, headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, loss of memory from before or after the injury, mumbling, drowsiness, blank stares, personality change, irritability, mood swings, exaggerated emotions, seizures, poor performance on the field, unsteady gait, poor balance, slow speech, poor coordination, difficulty concentrating, ringing in the ears, double or blurred vision, sensitivity to light or sound, feeling mentally foggy, and numbness or tingling. If any of these signs or symptoms are present in an athlete after a blow to the body or head, the athlete should be removed from play until cleared by a medical professional specializing in concussion management. Never return an athlete to play on the same day.
Many important factors may increase the likelihood of suffering a concussion in soccer and therefore, prevention programs should aim to modify these factors. Females are more likely to sustain a concussion due to differences in head-neck strength as compared to males. However, this being said, females are also more likely to report their symptoms.2,3 There is an increased risk of concussion in the 10-19 year old female soccer athlete since they start to compete at a higher level but have not yet developed the strength and awareness to control their body.1 Core strength is vital to head control and far too often, developing the correct kind of core strength is overlooked in modern day training regimens. The core must have good strength as well as endurance to help stabilize the hips, shoulders, and head during contact, especially in soccer. Many athletes attempt to complete exercises that are too difficult, resulting in loss of form and control. Often these athletes must go back to the basics of core strengthening prior to completing more advanced exercises. It is vital to maintain a neutral spine at all times during exercise. The chin should be tucked, pelvis should be in neutral, core should be drawn up and in, and shoulder blades should be lightly pinched. The deep cervical spine neck flexors are the most important component in neck stabilization during head contact, and unfortunately, one of the most poorly recruited muscle groups. Strategies to correct this are listed in the exercise table. By improving core muscle timing, strength, endurance, and recruitment patterns, decreased strain is placed on the head and neck, and therefore the brain during repeated contact in sports such as soccer.
Another important factor in concussion prevention is visual tracking and postural awareness. Soccer athletes must be able to dribble and kick a ball while accelerating, decelerating, changing direction, cutting, and heading a ball. They must be able to follow the ball effectively with their eyes and head while paying attention to their surroundings. Often times when young athletes attempt to head a ball, they are somewhat hesitant, forgetting to protect their head by putting their elbows up. Occasionally, they will even close their eyes prior to the time of contact. This loss of visual control and awareness may increase the likelihood of head contact with another player. Improved education about correct heading mechanics as well as practice to improve visual tracking will only make for a better soccer player. Some strategies to improve visual tracking are listed in the exercise table as well. Improved visual tracking may decrease the likelihood of concussions in youth soccer by improving an athlete's body awareness, heads-up play, and ability to brace their body with contact.
Although many other strategies exist for potential concussion prevention, the main focus should be on improving core strength and control as well as visual tracking. As young athletes grow, their ability to stabilize their body rapidly decreases, placing them at risk for a multitude of injuries. A few simple changes to strength and conditioning regimens may be enough to decrease the risk for concussions. A number of additional strategies for decreasing the likelihood of concussions are listed below.
Know the signs and symptoms of a concussion: The sooner an athlete is removed from play, the more likely they are to recover. Remember, just because they didn't get "knocked out", doesn't mean they don't have a concussion.
Play heads up soccer: Always watch the play happening around you, even when you aren't involved. Concussions occur when an athlete is unable to effectively brace their head and neck.
Posture: Keep your head in a neutral position especially when heading the ball.
No blindsiding: Don't hit people who can't see you as this is dangerous to both athletes. Promote fair play and clean body contact from your teammates and opponents.
Avoid excessive contact at practice: This decreases the unnecessary force through the brain because as few as 50-60 blows to the head per week may lead to a change in brain function.
Heading the ball: Maintain good posture (chin tucked) while heading the ball.
Complete an injury prevention program: Improving your posture, awareness, core strength, and visual tracking may decrease your likelihood of concussion.
Improve your visual tracking: Just like any other muscle in the body, the eye muscles require use and exercise to get stronger. There are many exercises to improve your visual tracking. An easy way is to start tracking the ball with your eyes every time you receive a pass, kick the ball, during throw-ins, or if you go up for a header. Writing a different number on each of your practice balls and having the player call out the number as the ball is being passed to them is one unique way to train this.
Develop core strength: A strong core (including hips, shoulders, neck, and abs) helps to stabilize your head during contact, thus decreasing the strain through your neck and brain with contact.
Improve your conditioning: The better your conditioning, the less likely you are to place your body into poor situations. You must be able to stabilize your body during all athletic activities. As fatigue increases, body control decreases, increasing your likelihood for injuries such as ACL tears and concussions. Cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, strength, agility, power, balance, and control are all important to injury prevention.
Correct your asymmetries: Have a medical professional assess side-to-side differences with strength, flexibility, and posture to prevent injury.
Cross-train: Find an activity or sport outside of soccer that you enjoy and do it! Playing soccer all year without a break or change in training leaves certain muscle groups weaker.
Growth and development: If the athlete is smaller (especially pre-pubescent females with longer necks) but plays against larger athletes, consider activity modifications until adequate strength develops.
Nutrition and hydration: The better your nutrition and hydration, the more likely your brain can prevent and recover from a trauma (including smaller, repeated traumas).
Skip the head gear: Understand that headgear may or may not prevent concussions (the research is mixed). Often athletes feel invincible with more protective equipment, which may leave them more vulnerable.
Advocate for rule changes: Children are not "little adults" and therefore should not play with the same rules as adults.
ImPACT testing: Remember ImPACT tests are of little value without baseline testing. Consultation of a skilled professional is also needed to interpret the results.
Concussion in Sports and Play: Get the Facts. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. 2011. http://www.cdc.gov/concussion/sports/facts.html. Accessed 2/20/2014.
McCrory P, Meeuwisse W, Johnston K, et al. Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport- the Third International Conference on Concussion in Sport Held in Zurich, November 2008. Br J Sports Med. 2009; 43 (suppl 1): i76-i90.
Sabini RC, Reddy CC. Concussion Management and Treatment Considerations in the Adolescent Population. Phys Sportsmed. 2010; 38 (1): 139-146.
This entry was posted in Healthy Body, Healthy Minds on October 4, 2017 by Greg Macionsky.
Concussions have become a hot button topic not only on the playing fields across the country but in the media as well. While the extra attention can certainly increase awareness, misinformation can lead to an incomplete picture and the inability to separate fact from fiction. This post will be dedicated to describing and how the injury most commonly occurs.
First a definition; a concussion is most often referred to as a mild traumatic brain injury. However, there is not currently a consensus definition for this injury. An athlete with a concussion who is subjected to an MRI or CT scan does not usually present with "brain damage," or any visible signs of bruising or bleeding. Our inability to accurately see the "damage" can sometimes lead to an incorrect and incomplete diagnosis. This does not change the fact that even though an injury is not visible a concussion can lead to impairment in one or more areas of the brain which can affect balance, coordination, speech, memory, and visual system.
A concussion can be caused in a number of different ways, but ultimately occurs when the brain rapidly moves back and forth, subsequently striking the inside of the skull. The most common mechanism is a direct blow to the head from another player, a piece of equipment like a soccer ball or lacrosse stick, or contact between the player's head and the ground. A less common way is from an indirect blow. This could be caused by a blow to the body which forces the head to violently snap back or rotate. It is very important to note that a concussion DOES NOT always come from a direct blow to the head.
This entry was posted in Healthy Body, Healthy Minds on March 22, 2017 by Greg Macionsky.
Welcome to our new weekly blog series!
Kinetic Physical Therapy's Adolescent Sports Medicine Program was founded to address the rehabilitation unique to the adolescent athlete. Understanding that athletes require a different approach, the Adolescent Sports Medicine Program applies the best evidence when designing sport-specific rehabilitation and injury prevention programs. These programs aim to educate athletes on his or her injury, the importance of a dynamic warm-up prior to participation, implement exercises to combat injuries, and discuss other strategies to keep the athlete healthy and on the field. In addition to this, Kinetic Physical Therapy has a host of other services available to the athlete including: sports nutrition, Functional Movement Screens, and ImPACT concussion testing.
The goal of these posts is to keep the athlete, parent, and coach informed on important topics in sports. We will address sports performance, nutrition, the mental aspect of sport, when to seek out a physical therapist for a consultation or evaluation, provide injury prevention strategies that the athlete can implement immediately, and dive in to specific injuries and our approach to managing them. All of this information drives us towards our ultimate goal, to keep athletes pain-free and on the field.
This entry was posted in Ask Your Healthcare Provider, Healthy Body, Healthy Minds on March 2, 2017 by Greg Macionsky.


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Factory is a design pattern that you can use when you don't want client code creating objects directly, but you want to centralize object creation within another class. To get a new instance of an object, you call a method in the factory, which creates the object on your behalf.
In the example below, DogFactory.CreateDog is a factory method, which does the actual creation of a Dog object.
Also why not just make a static method instead of Singleton Pattern?
There are sometimes advantages that argue for a singleton over just doing static methods, e.g. being able to treat the factory as an actual object. See http://www.dotnetperls.com/singleton-static for a nice comparison.


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Did you see the Queen?!
Published 3rd February 2014
Queen opens new village hall in Thornham
Her majesty was in town last week! Did you see her?
Thornham residents were "honoured" today when the Queen paid an unofficial visit to open their new village hall.
Children waved flags and crowds cheered as Her Majesty arrived to congratulate villagers on their new £640,000 community facility.
The Queen was given a tour of the bright, modern building, and she spoke with residents who helped turn a five-year development plan into reality.
"Her Majesty really enjoyed the visit," said John Warham, chair of Thornham Village Hall and Playing Field Ltd.
"She saw a display showing the development of the field over the last seven years, from when it was growing turnips to getting a sports field, children's play area and now the new village hall.
- Lynn News
Maybe next time she'll pop in for a cuppa :-)
Photo taken by Camrovision Photography.


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It is no secret how often people wonder about, a soul. Not just a soul I suppose, but their soul. Will they go to heaven, or hell? Does their soul have a mate? Can their soul transcend time and space, and meet, talk, feel, or experience on another level? Is there such a thing as two souls being so interlaced, the very thought of being apart, is too much for them to fathom? How do you feel about your soul? Is your soul at peace within? Do you know, or do you even think about this?
The Pew Survey of the Landscape of Religion in America found young people are leaving the faith of their parents and declaring themselves "None's" (unbelievers) at an alarming rate – an increase of 1% per year – from 25% to 36% in eleven years. (Dervic, 2004) Another study from the Journal of American Psychiatry reported how dangerous this mistaken abandonment of the human transcendentalist and religion truly is. What does this mean to the world of those who believe? It means there will be an increase in suicides, family violence and domestic episodes, familial tensions, drug and alcohol use. It is destructive to our culture as a whole, and it is happening at an alarming rate. (Dervic, 2004) As a parent, I find this frightening, as I will always feel accountable for my children.
Evidence of the presence of God in religious experience.
Proof of God – and God's presence to human consciousness.
Our transcendental desire for perfect love, justice (goodness), and beauty – and how they indicate the presence of God to human consciousness.
Contemporary medical studies of near death experiences showing the abundance of veridical evidence for a trans-physical soul capable of surviving bodily death.
According to Spitzer, more than ever, people are looking for evidence of a divine existence, either through a life-after-death occurrence or some other intervention. He provided evidence for the presence of God in a religious experience. I personally, have not read his book, but I do plan to. Just this once fact in itself, has me concerned as to why anyone who has attended a Revival has not found this evidence.
Spitzer secondly, found evidence of Proof of God and his presence to human consciousness. Some would tell you, "I speak to God, but he does not answer." Strange, how some people tend to do so much talking, but their listening skills? Not so good.
There is also the transcendental desire for perfect love, justice (goodness), and beauty – we want to so much be in God's image; until this desire interferes with something we have planned. I once heard a friend say, "I would love to go to that church you go to, but they are so strictwell that religion is so strict." "They have too many rules." I remember thinking, how hard it must be for God to interfere with a person's way of life they can't go to church, and conform to HIS teachings. There was also mention of awareness and survival after bodily death. How can that be?
These are those questions that rely on faith. Spitzer gave an indignation that we may be looking for an awareness of ourselves. Something introspective, or in some sense where we seem to be striving to see ourselves as God sees us, in truth, love, beauty; in a light of perfection and truth having dignity in the image of God. Without this belief, we in some way would underestimate our very destiny. One of this times bestselling authors, Dean Koontz, wrote a No. 1 Times triumph entitled, THE SOUL'S UPWARD YEARNING. This book gave a strong sense of faith, that completely erased any argument against those who claimed emotion or delusion was the true meaning of faith.
With the varying reflective of Spitzer and Kootnz, one thing is for certain, their arguments are quite similar. Regardless of the various conceptions of what a soul is, and how it may leave the body, the fact it is real and that it can – is still, defined. For years there was a conception of the soul being some sort of force field. It would radiate around the body, varying in intensity relating to degrees of experience (vitality, emotion, mentality, and sensation) The question was if the vital energy, left the body; then wouldn't the soul leave the body? This would be as a medium, such as one would view a clairvoyant experience or sensory experience in which the mind would leave taking all physical, creative and judgmental forms of thought. Once the soul leaves the body, then no moral or free will is left.
When I started writing on this topic, I. had a few different angles in mind, but as it often happens; divine intervention intercedes. I began getting settled, and I had researched the material to put in, yet I thought, "I will spend a bit of Social Media time, before I get started." This is something that clears my thoughts rather quickly, or sends them flooding into my keyboard. Well, this was one of those nights.
You see, as I read and write about souls, it always "kicks the tires' on your own, wouldn't you say? You think about those close to you, and for a brief moment, you think, well, I got everything taken care of. I'm not one of those unbelievers, and my children are ……. This is where you think of all of those people you love, and you pray you will see them again. Question is, do you have a spouse? How long have the two of you been together/?
I will always remember Vera Grant's smile. If you saw her at church, or maybe you observed her teaching students at the high school attended. Either way, her pleasant demeanor was defined by her life of service. Jimmie Grant was also active in the public school system, and had a demeanor you knew immediately, only came from someone who loved the Lord. When you look at couples, and you think of soulmates? This is one of the couples. For 51 years, the two of them were married and by each other's side. And they had two beautiful children, whom they have watched grow themselves.
On November 3rd, Mr. Grant left this realm to travel to his new Heavenly home. Approximately two hours lately, his wife, Vera, who was under duress with so much, suffered a heart attack, and joined him on his journey to heaven. This is an example of the soul mate experience read about in books and on sites. Some even write about it, such as The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. For the family, I am quite certain this is a huge loss. Therefore, the comforting thought of the souls traveling together, is lost in grief, and rightfully so, at this time. However, later the realization of how special this is, and how unique, will be found and understood.
Consider your feelings! How do you feel about soul mates, and traveling thereof? How do you feel about the existence of God? How do you feel about life-after-death, and transcendent time of love and truth? I certainly believe in the existence of God. I believe in heaven and I believe in the transferring of souls therein. I pray you'll join me. Let's do that now.
I find myself more aware of this short time on earth I have.
I realize you watch over me, as you see everyone and everything- all knowing.
So please know, I worship only you.
As I find myself a bit vulnerable right now, I feel ashamed.
Ashamed for being so busy, I forget to keep my promises.
Ashamed for being so tired, I forget to keep my promises.
Ashamed for being so sick, I forget to keep my promises.
And I praise you Father for loving us for our faults.
and it is our souls you are preparing for your home, our home, in heaven.
And all of the earthly things we dwell on, we will be judged for.
as Thy Kingdome will come, thy will- it will be done on earth, and Your blessed souls shall be delivered to You in Heaven.


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Andres Knobel ■ How to verify beneficial ownership information – new report
How to verify beneficial ownership information – new report
Beneficial ownership registration ↘
In a world where billions in laundered money can move through the world's top banks undetected, or where kleptocrats can set up anonymous companies at the ease of a click, the fight against corruption seems to have stayed in the Stone Age. The Tax Justice Network's new paper suggests proposals to bring the fight against illicit financial flows into the 21st century.
'Hate the sin, find the sinner'
Today the Tax Justice Network published a report – Beneficial ownership verification: ensuring the truthfulness and accuracy of registered ownership information – that tackles financial crime at its root: anonymity manufactured via layers of opaque legal vehicles, such as companies and trusts. While many countries, especially in the European Union, have made great advances in requiring companies and other legal vehicles to register their 'beneficial owners' (the individuals who ultimately control and benefit from legal vehicles), verification of this information continues to be a great challenge. What's the point of requiring a company to identify and declare its beneficial owners if it cannot be prevented from lying to our faces?
The main proposal of this paper is the use of inter-connected government and public databases to ensure that registered information is valid and consistent: the declared name and date of birth of a shareholder should match whatever record the government has on the person; the commercial address of a company should be a real place you can find on Google Maps and should not refer to a park or a lake; the listed active director should still be alive. Verifying the validity of the information is the first step. The second step is verifying whether the information is legitimate. A company could register a real living person as its director instead of a deceased person, but that still doesn't mean the company isn't lying about who its real beneficial owner is. To address this risk, our paper proposes the application of advanced big data analytics to identify redflags, similarly to the analytics applied by banks and credit cards to prevent online fraud.
These advanced analytics could be trained to find patterns indicative that registered information is unreliable. For example, when a multi-million dollar company registers as its beneficial owner a person who has no declared income, no bank account and has been living for decades at the same address located in an impoverished neighborhood, the IT system would raise a redflag. Similarly, when a company is billing invoices worth millions of dollars to its commercial office, but the company has no employees and its office makes no electricity consumption, the system would raise a redflag. The relevant authorities would be notified of the redflags and scrutinize suspicious cases. Further investigation may reveal that the company that had registered a director with no bank account as its director was exploiting a poor individual to serve as a front director. The latter company with the empty commercial office may be revealed to be a shell company.
The paper also focuses on all the data that should be collected in the first place. A country may have the best computer system in place to run analyses, but if there's not enough data to analyse, the results will be worthless. Based on our previous reports, the paper describes all the legal vehicles that should be subject to beneficial ownership registration, the details that should be registered on each shareholder, beneficial owner and director, and the right incentives to use to help ensure information is kept up to date (spoiler alert: it's not a US$50 fine for non-compliance).
This report is also about rethinking commercial registers and their role in the economy and the fight against illicit financial flows. Commercial registries make magic. They give life ('legal personality') to thin air by allowing an abstract idea (a 'company') to own assets, open bank accounts and engage in business as if it were a real person. Commercial registries are so vital to the economy – and to financial crimes – that they should stop being regarded as old storage houses that print certificates of incorporation on request. The fact that anti-money laundering provisions usually consider the information held by commercial registries to be so untrustworthy that financial institutions are not allowed to rely only on them when running their due diligence checks on customers speaks for itself. Instead, we propose that commercial registries should become dynamic databases required to be consulted on a real-time basis by banks, notaries, corporate service providers or brokers before they engage in any transaction with a company. Any opening of an account, signing of a contract or purchase of a house should depend on the relevant company still being listed as "active" in the commercial register. This wouldn't happen if the company failed to file an annual return or tried to register information found to be invalid (eg a non-existing address).
The proposals mentioned in this paper will not be able to prevent every possible crime, but they would give authorities a great deal more power to use technology in their favour. Criminals are using bitcoins to pay for drugs or ransomware. Internet giants know us better than ourselves by collecting tons of data on our photos, online searches and interactions. It's about time authorities drop the world of paper and live up to the digital challenge.
For any media enquiries about this report, or to speak with one of our media spokespeople, please contact Mark Bou Mansour at [email protected]
For any technical enquiries, please contact Andres Knobel at [email protected]
Tax Justice Network proposal to FATF's consultation on beneficial ownership for legal persons
By Andres Knobel ■ 6 December 2021 ■ 20 min READ
Indonesia launches investigation following 'Macao Money Machine' report
By Luke Holland ■ 18 October 2021 ■ 2 min READ
Pandora Papers and (South Dakota) trusts: Why do criminals and the rich like them so much?
By Andres Knobel ■ 8 October 2021 ■ 7 min READ
Pandora Papers: law firms must disclose clients' names (like they've started doing in the US of all places)
By Andres Knobel ■ 7 October 2021 ■ 12 min READ
Beneficial ownership verification: exploring Belgium's sophisticated system
By Andres Knobel ■ 26 February 2021 ■ 3 min READ
The US beneficial ownership law has its weaknesses, but it's a seismic shift
By Andres Knobel ■ 20 January 2021 ■ 6 min READ
September 24, 2019 - 12:57 pm
Many of us do not want to live in the police state that would result if every financial transaction was run through a government database. Ask the Chinese if they like living under the social responsibility index.


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meet the winners of the 2015 rachel funari prize for fiction: 3rd place, "excerpts" by ali zayaan
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Ali Zayaan's story, 'Excerpts' won 3rd place in the 2015 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. Here is an interview with Ali, plus his award-winning story!
Tell us a bit about yourself. Who are you?
I study Econ and Politics at Adelaide Uni. I love writing like I have loved very few things ever in life but I don't do enough of it and I feel constant low-level guilt slash impostor syndrome about that. I follow both catspotting and cool fun cat group on Facebook and waste a lot of time on BuzzFeed. I don't feel too strongly one way or the other about long walks on the beach.
What do you think it takes to write an award-winning story?
Well, I'm not really sure, because third place in the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction is the only award-winning story I've ever produced. I do notice that the lit world's diversity problem extends to which stories win awards, and it's not because minority writers aren't producing great work but because a lot of people in the lit world- their frame of reference is very aligned with a certain history of literature, very linear and Western Canon, and that influences what fiction is considered good fiction and what writing is considered good prose. It's not very constructivist at all when arguably it should be, because storytelling and narratives are such universal ways of making sense of life and English is such a universal language, and in that context a lot of the judging of good fiction and good prose is so limited.
I personally think that there should have been a moratorium on literary short stories about a white man in a dead-end job having an affair with his student where he can't get it up and he's disillusioned by life so he masturbates in the shower – there's always one or two profanities tossed in because it's edgy – what, 15 years ago. But I still see variations of that all the time, in print, winning things. And I see vibrant, colourful, original stories from the perspectives of women and people of colour and lgbtqia+ people mostly concentrated in publications that get described as "niche" or "radical" or "special-interest" or somehow in opposition to the mainstream. Like Lip.
So, yeah, I don't have much that's helpful on what it'd take to write an award-winning story. I do have an opinion on what it should take, and that is: really really good, original writing that makes you feel things, because while there are a lot of distant and cerebral stories that are so beautiful, I do think that the emphasis on rather detached and cerebral writing as opposed to colour and emotions and politics, which comes from this idea that the former is more pure than the latter, is limiting. (It's definitely a constraint when trying to write fiction capturing the realities of those of us whose everyday existence is political, and I also suspect that the distrust of openly emotional writing is similar to the kind of subtle lit sexism that considers romance or chick-lit or novels about women's domestic lives frivolous but the minutiae of middle-aged men's everyday lives literature).
Where do you write?
I'd like to say I write at home, in my bed, but I'm also really unproductive at home and end up doing most of my writing when I'm visiting people and staying somewhere different.
Why did you enter the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction?
I liked the theme and the description of the kind of stories they wanted (for the reasons mentioned earlier), and the info on the panel of judges sounded really cool.
What does privilege mean to you?
Privilege is having things you don't have to think about and that you can get away with not thinking about. This applies in so many ways, of course, and a lot of them are covered thoroughly elsewhere. But what I think is important in this context is being able to be a blank slate because your identity is the default, the norm, and thus a non-entity: people fill in the blanks about you with new things they learn about you through your self-expression, through what you tell them and how you present yourself and your sense of humour and your social media profile. Not everyone gets that privilege. People talk about representation in numbers: a lot of writers, directors, actors, characters are white, straight, male, but it's more than just that. It's perspectives, and who gets allowed natural self-expression. What Laura Mulvey said about the male gaze and women looking at themselves through the eyes of men – that, as male, and as white, and as straight and cisgender, and so on.
When, say, you're a bisexual brown woman, something as simple as wearing a shirt out somewhere can be like: am I making a statement about my sexuality by wearing plaid as opposed to a blouse? Am I implicitly condoning lite racism by not ever wearing traditional clothes when I'm out and am I just validating the idea that non-Western dress and traditions are something to be ashamed of? Do I dress like this because I want to present a certain way or because I just fucking like this shirt?
And on some level you feel that second-guessing about everything, from your accent to your interests to who you date to what you study to your beliefs: do I speak in a neutral accent because I don't like people making presumptions about where I'm from, or because foreign accents are seen as uneducated or funny, and am I condoning that belief by being smart and articulate in a neutral accent? Do I date white people because I end up meeting more of them living in Australia, or because Eurocentric beauty ideals have been drummed into me? If I'm atheist, will that be taken as an intelligent brown person implicitly condoning the racism of a lot of New Atheism public figureheads/did I stay religious because I believe or because being part of this is an important cultural and group identity thing for me? It ends up seeping through into how you express yourself – how you speak, how you dress, how you write.
We're often told, implicitly and explicitly, that our readers will be the default white and straight and male – Junot Diaz's article on this, 'MFA vs POC', is great –that the only universal fiction is in that perspective and that to write for a different audience from that makes your work "niche", demonstrates insecurity or a lack of ambition, and so on. (No matter that 'minorities' are a majority of readers, and have long been able to understand and empathise with white straight male perspectives in stories, even while those are different experiences from ours – the reverse would be asking too much). And trying to make sense of your life and seek out understanding through someone else's perspective doesn't really allow for free, natural self-expression.
Privilege would be the freedom to express yourself without modulation or self-censorship, and to have that expression taken seriously and understood.
oracle, storyteller, narrator
She goes about her writing with a snarling ferocity, all hard hooks and uppercuts, bleeding over the keys until she's all dried out, and then she goes and sits outside in cold that nips at her arms, that drills into her bones and aches, in cold wind that hurts, because visceral pain is good. It's tangible, the kind of anchor she needs to remind herself that she's real. She sits on the steps and windblown leaves eddy at her feet, rich thick reds and browns and yellows, frayed at the tips into fractals, frayed leaves falling from frayed naked trees. She's made up of stories, she thinks, and she's not quite sure where they end and she begins, so she's not quite sure if she's all real.
She's not sure what the stories are. The stories fill her up and start to press against her skin, feeling for the seams; if she couldn't write she felt like she'd have to exorcise them, dig up the veins on her arms with a scalpel to let the stories out.
Most of her stories don't feature her. Sometimes they feel like letters she writes to herself, in the second or third person because she needs to keep her distance, but most of the time they feel like something greater, something she channels like a medium, like some hyphenated third-culture-millennial tribal storyteller. They're snapshots, usually, of people that aren't her, though they most likely are her, of course, versions of her, but she does sometimes wonder if around her Adelaide is full of the people she writes. She wonders if she's ever seen any of them on the train.
You've seen enough movies to know how it goes. The handsome white man and the pretty white woman end up together, and the handsome white man saves the day, and the pretty white people do all sorts of things.
Sometimes you get to be a best friend who has some decent one-liners, but just as often the handsome white man rescues you and in return for being saved from those evil men the same colour as you, of course, you give yourself to him, breasts heaving, voice husky and meek and slightly inflected. Or you're in a sitcom and you get a minor storyline where your parents call you and their accents are not husky and slightly inflected, of course, but it's all very funny.
That, or you're a poverty-porn star, and you get to be an inspiring slumdog, and everything is very bright and oversaturated, like you're seeing it all through the cheap yellow sunglasses being peddled by those poor, poor children, god bless their souls.
Once, for your creative writing class, you read a short story about two brown people in love or maybe not in love, and after you'd read it out loud your tutor asked you, but how would the majority of your audience relate to it? You understand the implication: your experiences are niche, white stories are universal.
You don't really care, you want to say. You couldn't give less of a fuck because that's not who you are writing for is it, you're writing for people like you who never get to read about people like them. You're more diplomatic, though. A lot of us reading these stories aren't white, or straight, or men, you say, but we're expected to be able to empathise with them, so is it too much to ask that white people be able to identify with me? Can't you slip into our skins like we slip, every day, into yours?
The girl across you in class looks scandalised, and everyone gets very defensive, and it feels pointless to try press home your point, so you give it up, because you're fucking tired. Living in colour is fucking exhausting. You write plenty of ambiguity into the rest of your stories, colour never explicitly stated.
Later you'll submit those stories to journals, and never get one in. Sometimes you nurse your suspicions, and sometimes you feel like you're making excuses, that you're just not good enough, but you've read the stories in those journals enough to make a list that you now check off with every new issue. Middle-aged white man, check, dead end job, check, labyrinthine sentences, check, masturbation and/or unsatisfying sexual experience, check, existential apathy, check.
Serious short fiction is soul-crushing, you see, and conservative. It only flirts with edginess. Ruffling feathers or being entertaining is the domain of lowbrow art. Race and class diversity is for the underground. You can learn to embrace that. You're a certain cosmopolitan archetype now: the smart, political woman of colour, polite, diplomatic, endlessly patient, but with controlled rage that could fuel a dying star. Women who speak clipped English with only the faintest hint of their original accents, because they've had it drummed into them that a woman speaking in thick native accents don't get taken seriously, sharply dressed women, obsessively aware of what presentation lets a woman actually be taken seriously; women proud enough to hate that they have to speak white and dress white, and ask things politely of white men. You've got bitterness folded up inside you like samurai steel.
You really like this one white girl in your comparative politics class and you feel vaguely guilty about it because you want to be fiercely proud, you want to be defiant, and feeling dry-mouthed and nervous when the thin blonde girl with a campus hoodie sits down next to you at lectures feels the exact opposite of that.
You feel vaguely guilty that you don't really like any Hindi music, but you listen to a lot of Kanye West and you bought all of M.I.A's CDs, and you've actually read Edward Said and everything Jhumpa Lahiri or Warsan Shire ever wrote, and although you've only seen like six Bollywood films you loved Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and that makes you feel kinda legit. You know how to make three kinds of curry, and that's a perfectly healthy amount of pride, you think. You can't help who you like, even though you only talk occasionally and you don't even have her number and it's all very embarrassing and you're pretty sure she's straight anyway, though she did compliment your hair once. You don't see why it's a statement anyway. You can't help who you like. You can't help who fills you with a longing that physically hurts.
You go to get-togethers and huge family dinners with people from over the community every fortnight or so, and you talk awkwardly to the one other boy your age there while all your relatives and his don't even bother with subtlety and whisper to each other across the room.
Sometimes the two of you go out and you talk about things and he almost gets it, he feels out of place, just as stuck between worlds, he knows even less Bollywood movies than you do and you're pretty sure he's also besotted with a pretty white girl in one of his classes, though of course he'd never say that, just as you'd never mention the pretty blonde girl from politics. You're not remotely romantically interested in each other, but he gets it, and so do you, so you sit through movies lightly stroking each other's hands, then arms, letting him run his fingertips lightly fake-absently up the side of your thighs, and then you go out to the parking lot and make out with him up against the wall.
You always wear button-up blouses when you go out with him, and he notices but pretends not to notice because you both like to pretend each time is spontaneous and unplanned, but this means he can undo your buttons with one hand as you press your mouth into his, and when your blouse is open you push his head down, tell him he can't kiss your neck because you can't go home with visible hickeys, shiver because it hurts but you feel glorious, kinda.
Sometimes if you're feeling it you push your hands into his pants and touch him a bit but you can't make him cum cos he has to go home. Things have never actually gone all the way to sex. The mood usually wears off after a while. You put him in your mouth once but then you kinda didn't feel it anymore so you stopped, and the both of you got dressed and left. You suspect that if either of you actually lived alone you'd probably have fucked by now, if only because you'd be able to go on longer in a bedroom before the mood just faded than you could in parking lots at 11pm, in winter where every kissed spot burns with the cold after the warmth of his mouth has left it. You think it's a little sad that convenience has ultimately become the deciding factor for if you've had sex, because you've still never had sex. It feels like the deciding element should be something a little more… highbrow, like you should decide and plan it, plan out a day, but you never really feel the mood in advance.
Your mum smirks while asking you how your date went, every time you come back home. You're pretty sure she thinks this is a chaste courtship that will eventually end in a proposal, and that's easier than explaining hooking up, or coming out, or discussing sex with your parents at all. So you protest enough to convince her she's spot on and you go lock your room behind you, examine your body in the mirror, the blotchy red marks, and you turn the lights off, change into your loosest shirt, and go to sleep.
prose politics polemics
Written during a creative writing class on the inside of the notebook:
I'm so sick of 'rich, sensuous' Asian novels with lush descriptions of colours and spices and sticky sweetmeats. I refuse to conform. Why does any book set in the continent have to be full of colours and odours and sounds, anyway? Establishment Western literary canon gets a whole range of styles, I will be as sparse or colloquial as I fucking want, and fuck you if you think you'll stop me. I don't need to be exotic and full-colour, I'll run the gamut from Faulkner through Lahiri to fucking Hemingway or avant-garde postmodernist bullshit if I want, Christ
Diary entry:
I don't know how I can tell one story. I don't know if there is such a thing as a single story, the concept is alien to me, I don't know why, I don't know if it's because I am so full of stories that my blood feels thick with it. I don't know if that's ambition. I want to be the Fitzgerald of the third-culture internet-age diaspora. Telling one story is too easy, my story is no more important than any others, we're all equally fascinating and we're all equally voiceless, I want to tell our stories, I want to write a novel that is all our stories at once, somehow. Is that possible? Should I really be aiming for any less?
When a boy asked me what I most wanted:
I want someone to read me and cry. Is that ridiculous?
Well-
It sounds morbid- I don't mean because they're sad. I want them to recognise something, I want them to cry because they've found a home.
That's what it's always been. I never knew why it was so important, but I think I've figured it out. Why I write, why I need my vicious, bitter, self-loathing fucking self on paper, why I fucking need people to read and to give a shit. I've realised that what I want, above all else, is to be known.
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This week Universal NOW's Brandon Glover and I went to the Universal Orlando Resort to experience Grinchmas and see the latest construction work at CityWalk and Universal Studios Florida. We also wanted to see the Blues Brothers Holiday Show. We had heard a lot of great things about this show and wanted to see if it lived up to the hype. Spoiler Alert: it does, but more on that later. Lastly, we were determined to finally go into NBA City and check out the legendary Towering Cheesecake dessert.
Our first stop was the upcoming Mexican restaurant Antojitos. Earlier this month, Morgan Crutchfield was at the Universal press event that detailed the upcoming dining venues including Antojitos. Her writeup of the event details all the upcoming restaurants in the massive CityWalk renovation, including concept art for each.
The above picture was taken on a Friday and the one below was taken on Sunday. Universal is using a lot of color on the outside of this restaurant. I personally don't like it. The overuse of color is perfect in Seuss Landing, but – to me – just seems out of place in CityWalk. I think the front of this restaurant looks gorgeous and all the wacky colors just take away from it. Maybe I'm alone on the island on that one though. I am looking forward to trying the restaurant out as I'm a huge fan of freshly made guacamole and quality Mexican food.
There were a lot of holiday themed merchandise available in both parks. IOA even had this "stocking stuffer"section.
Most of the times were things you could get all year long, but they did have exclusive lollipops, including one for Grinchmas.
These scientists inside Jurassic Park are occasionally brought out when the crowds get really heavy.
Brandon and I have working for a while on an in-depth study to determine which are the top six burgers at the Universal Orlando Resort. For this visit we stopped by Captain America Diner and tried their double burger. Two burgers, three buns, lettuce, and tomato and fries for $9.89. Bacon was an extra $0.75. Cheeseburger is the same price.
The burger was good for a theme park burger, but nowhere near the class of some of the offerings at Fast Food Blvd. Right now the Kitchen burger is still holding the top spot in our list, but we're looking forward to trying Margarittaville's Cheeseburger in Paradise and the Hard Rock Cafe's Legendary burger.
One thing to note is that the Captain America Diner should be called The Avengers Diner. The theming inside the restaurant is filled with Avengers artwork, with very little Captain America. It also has an INCREDIBLE view where you can sit and look out at the lagoon. One of the best views of any restaurant in either park.
Over in Seuss Landing, their were carts selling Grinch items.
After leaving IOA we took the side entrance to USF, one which most people don't know about. If you walk up to the Blue Man Group area, its right next to that and underneath Rip Ride Rockit. I have never seen a line here, but it opens up after park opening. On this day it opened up at 10:45AM.
Pretty much everything was busy. I've never seen the line for the Shrek/Donkey meet n' greet this long before. I do consider it well worth the wait and it made the list of one of the top six Photo Connect experiences. Donkey is worth going out of your way to see.
We went straight to the Blues Brothers Holiday Show, which is held on Delancey Street (in between Transformers: The Ride 3-D and Revenge of the Mummy.) I'm not a big fan at all of the Blues Brothers and have walked by their regular show countless times, never stopping for more than a few seconds. To quote Austin Powers, "it's not my bag, baby." However, I had heard great things about their Christmas show so we decided to check out the set.
We were blown away by the show. Just a tremendous experience and one of my all time favorite live shows in either park. I wrote more about the show in a recent article on the holiday festivities at Universal, but suffice to say this show is now on my Must Do list every year from this point on. The guy playing the Elwood character was particularly good but everyone involved did a great job.
What I enjoyed maybe most of all, and this is something you would never see at Disney and brought back memories of the great Bill and Ted's show during Halloween Horror Nights, was when Jake Blues created his own Christmas tree using cigarette packs as ornaments, toilet paper as garland, and a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer can as a tree topper. This was fantastic.
Seth Kuberskey is doing a great job with his PotterWatch articles (including the latest which details the amazing Gringott's bank vault key that Universal sent to selected members of the media) and I find myself blown away every time I pass by the Diagon Alley construction area. The amount of detail just on the London waterfront facade buildings is amazing. The picture below does not do justice to the intricate work on display. You have to see it to believe it.
When Disney announced Avatar would be coming to Animal Kingdom in September of 2011, this area was operating the Jaws attraction and would continue to do so for another three months.
This Dr. Who jacket was for sale in the T-2 gift shop (one of the most underrated gift shops in any theme park). Price was only $59.95.
Construction is done in front of Animal Actors on Location. One set of flag poles have been removed and the others have new flags on them. The new flags alternate between Woody Woodpecker and what looks to be the People's Republic of China. Sounds about right.
Chief Wiggum was back to his donut eating ways in Springfield USA after being gone for a little while.
The amount of decorations throughout USF is pretty amazing, especially the larger than life balloons.
As good as the decorations are, the Macy's Holiday Parade is even better.
Happy Hippo appeared in this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in NYC before coming do to Universal.
We closed out our day going to NBA City. As a person who is more than a little fond of outrageous foods at Universal, I was intrigued when I heard they had brought back the Towering Cheesecake to their menu. Now after having gone, I have to say NBA City moved way up my restaurant depth chart. The menu had a lot of interesting selections, there are TVs all over the place (including small ones in some of the booths), the game room was a lot of fun, and they had on of the best "photo" areas I've seen in any restaurant.
But first, the main event. The Towering Cheesecake. Here's the description: A traditional favorite with a twist. 4 towers of cheesecake lightly fried and rolled in cinnamon sugar. Accompanied by ice cream in a cinnamon tortilla basket on a plate of creme anglaise.
There is a green screen area where you can get your photo taken and have it put onto a variety of pictures. My favorite by far is the kid dunking. You can also have two kids in the picture (or two adults) and have one kid dunking on the other. It's hilarious! Definitely the most surreal photo op I've seen in a while and much more original than the "place your face on a magazine cover" that you see in the parks.
That's it for this trip. See you soon on our next adventure through the Universal Orlando Resort. If you like what you read you may also enjoy The Magic, The Memories, and Merch! photo reports of the Disney Outlet Stores or – for your listening pleasure – the Pardon the Pixie Dust podcast.
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WILLMAR, Minn. - Pamela Carlson, 63, Willmar, Minn., died Sunday, Nov. 24, in Carris Health Rice Hospital.
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On 17 May 2019, by Anne Doridou-Heim
The French illustrator took centre stage with a series of original drawings, including a cover illustration for the American magazine House & Garden that sold for €3,072.
Pierre Brissaud (1885-1964), original layout of the cover of the January 1937 issue of House & Garden magazine, pencil, India ink and watercolour, 35 x 26.7 cm.
Result: €3,072
Pierre Brissaud needs no introduction in France. He not only illustrated fashion and a certain kind of lifestyle from 1910 to 1940, but also made humorous sketches of elegant women. The small studio collection of his original drawings and etchings on sale at the Friday 10 May auction at Drouot of the Delon-Hoebanx auction house recalled the light, nicely turned touch that foreign magazines (Vogue, Vanity Fair, etc.) liked so much. Bidders also discovered a real find: the original layout of the cover of the January 1937 issue of House & Garden. This watercolour offered a different, much more modernist perspective on a long career, like the villa at the centre of the composition. It obtained the highest series' price, €3,072.
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ECHOES FROM THE ORIENT – 1 – ALETHEIA THEOSOPHY VICTORIA BC.
What appears to the Western mind to be a very strange superstition prevails in India about wonderful persons who are said to be of immense age, and who keep themselves secluded in places not accessible to the ordinary traveler. So long has this been current in India that the name applied to these beings is well known in the Sanskrit language: "Mahatma," a compound of two words, maha, great, and atma, soul. The belief in the existence of such persons is not confined to the ignorant, but is shared by the educated of all castes. The lower classes look upon the Mahatmas as a sort of gods, and think most of their wonderful powers and great age. The pundits, or learned class, and educated Hindus in general, have a different view; they say that Mahatmas are men or souls with unlimited knowledge of natural laws and of man's history and development. They claim also that the Mahatmas — or Rishees, as they sometimes call them — have preserved the knowledge of all natural laws for ages, not only by tradition among their disciples, but also by actual records and in libraries existing somewhere in the many underground temples and passages in India. Some believers assert that there are also stores of books and records in secluded parts all over that part of Tibet which is not known to Europeans, access to them being possible only for the Mahatmas and Adepts.
The credence given to such a universal theory grows out of an old Indian doctrine that man is a spiritual being — a soul, in other words — and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth in order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind. The perfected men are said to know the truth about the genesis of worlds and systems, as well as the development of man upon this and other planets.
Were such doctrines held only in India, it would be natural to pass the subject by with this brief mention. But when it is found that a large body of people in America and Europe hold the same beliefs, it is interesting to note such an un-Western development of thought. The Theosophical Society was founded in New York in 1875, with the avowed object of forming a nucleus for a Universal Brotherhood, and its founders state that they believe the Indian Mahatmas directed them to establish such a society. Since its foundation it has gained members in all countries, including people of wealth as well as those in moderate circumstances, and the highly cultured also. Within its ranks there flourish beliefs in the Mahatmas of India and in Reincarnation and its twin doctrine, Karma. This last holds that no power, human or divine, can save one from the consequences of acts performed, and that in this life we are experiencing the results due to us for all acts and thoughts which were ours in the preceding incarnation.
that the Theosophical movement must be counted as one of the three great religious influences in the world today, there is no need of an excuse for presenting its features in detail to readers imbued with the civilization of the West.


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COLORFUL launches all new Battle-AX memory and CN Series SSDs
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TEAMGROUP announced its a new generation of T-FORCE VULCAN Z SATA SSDs, providing a faster and smoother gaming experience, and is the best choice for those who are upgrading their SATA storage device from a HDD to a gaming SSD.
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Apple will launch the iPhone 5 in October, according to Japanese blog Macotakara, a permanent change to the handset's release schedule to accommodate major changes of its flagship model.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company unveiled the first four iterations of its smartphone at the World Wide Developers Conference in June, with a release following just a few weeks later. However, the iPhone 4S broke that tradition last year with a pre-holiday October launch, which led to the highest sales of an Apple handset ever.
A fall launch for the iPhone 5 after the successful release of the 4S last year will be a continued alteration to the way Apple normally does things, but it makes sense for the company. A June release of the next iPhone would put just nine months between its debut and the launch of the 4S, a move that could anger customers who shelled out for the 4S, while also stifling the shelf life of Apple's current device.
Analysts also expect the iPhone 5 to feature some of the biggest changes to the device since the iPhone 4, and Apple may need the extra time to iron out any lingering issues resulting from such a shift.
For example, the company's next iPhone will likely feature LTE support for both Verizon and AT&T's network, an addition that will likely have a significant impact on the device's battery life. Apple engineers will need to assure the iPhone 5's battery does not become a victim of faster data speeds, a common complaint leveled against several other LTE-capable devices.
The iPhone 5 will also feature a form-factor change, if Apple follows its usual cycle. The iPhone 3G and 3GS sported the same design before major changes came in the form of the iPhone 4, and the same thing could be expected after the 4S. Apple has not tipped its hand on the potential design changes to the iPhone 5, but most analysts are anticipating large alterations to the device's body, which could also be a reason for the fall release.
Customers may have to once again hold out longer than usual for the next version of the iPhone, but the device could feature a host of changes that make it worth the wait.
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