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Allianz Global Assistance Urges Aussies To Stay Safe While Travelling In Rio
With over half a million tourists expected to arrive in Brazil this August for one of the world's largest sporting events, Allianz Global Assistance is urging Aussies to stay safe during their travels.
As the fifth-largest country in the world slides further into recession, Rio's unemployment rates are on the rise and wages are in decline, resulting in concerns of increased crime and violence.
According to AGA owned data, 26 per cent of all paid luggage claims occurring in Brazil were caused by violent crime including mugging or armed robbery, while travellers are also likely to be the target of non-violent crimes, particularly opportunistic theft of electronic devices.
Allianz Global Assistance General Manager Travel & Medical, John White said, "It's an exciting time to be travelling to Brazil, with people from all over the world set to visit the country come August. We do however advise all Australian travellers to remain vigilant and aware of their surroundings as tourists will be a key target for crime in the region, particularly when attending large sporting events and visiting major tourist attractions.
John White's recommended advice to remain safe while travelling in Brazil:
- Stay alert in locations where petty crime such as pickpocketing and mugging is rife – Even when in a group it's best to avoid travelling in shanty towns or 'favelas', minimise night-time travel and remain vigilant in crowded outdoor areas such as markets and beaches. If you are the victim of a mugging, AGA recommends handing over your items – safety is more important than your phone!
- Dress like a local to avoid becoming a target of crime – Avoid demonstrating signs of wealth by wearing expensive jewellery, watches or handbags, which will draw attention from locals. Put your phone and camera away when walking the streets sightseeing.
- Carry minimal cash and credit cards – Money should be stored securely in multiple locations and be sure to use the hotel safe in your room. Ensure money is concealed safely before walking away from shop counters or ATMs. Where possible, use ATMs inside buildings and banks and do not use ATMs that show signs of tampering. Only take the money you need for that day / evening.
- Be aware of local scams – It's not uncommon for scam artists to work in pairs to distract you while stealing your valuables. This could be anything from pretending to spill something to asking for directions.
- Always report the incident to the police and ask for a police report – even if it's in Portuguese, this can be translated later for insurance purposes. If your passport is lost or stolen you are required by law to report it. You can do so online or at the Australian Consulate.
- Be cautious on the bus network and avoid taking trips at night – Tourists are increasingly targeted at night on public buses, and are encouraged to find alternate transport such as registered taxis.
- Taxis are inexpensive and efficient, especially at night and for longer distances – Avoid unregistered taxis! Official taxis drivers must display their photographic license. Catch taxis from registered ranks or prepay at the airport to reduce the risk of robbery.
- Plan your transport in advance – Before setting off sightseeing, make a plan to navigate the city and be discreet when reading maps. Utilise maps of the Metro Rio and bus network and take advantage of apps such as Easy Taxi to order registered taxis.
- Drink spiking does occur – Avoid leaving food and drinks unattended at bars or entertainment venues and do not accept drinks from strangers.
- Be prepared for personal security screening and bag searches at event venues – Follow directions from Brazilian authorities on what is permitted in venues and act accordingly.
- Invest in comprehensive travel insurance before you embark on your trip – Always take copy or two of your insurance policy details and ensure emergency contact numbers are accessible throughout the trip so you can act quickly if something goes wrong.


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I Cupak munyinne pragat nyapa kadi aku, melenan pesan ajak adinne I Grantang ane alep tur munyinne setata ngliangin anak len. Tuah saja, nyuh aijeng sing ja patuh.[example 1]
Cupak's words always arrogant. In contrast to his little brother, Grantang, he was calm and always pleases others. It is true that a cluster of coconut doesn't have the same quality of coconuts (refers to children of the same parents not all being alike).
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Apparently it's tough to ride the train in Japan if you're a women. It seems there is a problem with women getting groped partly due to the congestion problems associated with commuter trains. It's such an issue that a mobile application was developed to help women ward off gropers.
According to an Associated Press report, the application is called "Anti-Groping Appli." The application was developed by game developer Takahashi. The application works by flashing threatening messages on the user's mobile phone.
Threats include "Excuse me, did you just grope me?," "Groping is a crime," and "Shall we head to the police?" The user can use what's called an "Anger" icon to escalate the level of threats. Visual threats are accompanied with a warning chime as they are escalated. The application can be downloaded for free on Web-enabled phones from Takahashi's website.
I wonder if a similar application could be designed to ward of muggers while visiting New York. Some of the warning messages could be "Sorry, I don't carry any cash; I'm married," "I hear the guy behind me is loaded," and "I'm broke because I just bought tickets to a Hannah Montana concert." Of course, if you're single, then maybe you would want to use a similar application to attract the opposite sex rather than repel. Messages could include "I'm divorced, but I got the convertible and this phone," "I'm available and on the rebound," and "If you're ready to settle I'm available."
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After a lot of planning we recently decided to go ahead and finally do something about our boring old kitchen. We ended up switching all the cabinet-doors for new highly glossy white ones, as well as putting in new boards and brand spanking new fridge and freezer. Plus, new awesome looking wall tiles for a slick, darker look to give some contrast to all the whites.
It ended up being so fucking perfect we just can't stop smiling walking in there... but of course, getting such a wonderful kitchen costs a bunch of money, which now forces me to hold of on most (if not all) of my DVD-purchases for a while. So that's that. No purchases until all the loans are paid. So far I'm doing okay cause there's still a few packages in transit that are yet to get here but once everything is recieved I'll really start getting the shakes. Then again, I guess that's just one of the risks you take when you choose to be a movie memorabelia crackhead.
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life...
But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. But who needs reasons when you've got fucking Blu-rays?


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I scanned this page today to preview it at print size.
It's huge because I pay for Flickr, so by gum, I'm gonna use it.
I noticed scanning errors. I've noticed them before though. Even went as far as comparing and documenting them for myself.
On the big panel up at the top, you can see them on her collar and hand, and his hat and suspenders, but what caught my attention immediately was here.
These are inarguably straight lines, but they looked crooked or cockeyed.
The whole scanner isn't bad, just sections. I'm tempted to grid a piece of paper and scan it because I'm curious about the extent.
I guess this has been in the back of my head for a while, I'm just acknowledging it now. I'll need to buy a new scanner before I start scanning finished pages. I'm lucky that I draw stacks of pages before I ink them. It gives me a little time to get one and I don't feel as rushed.
I've had that old scanner about seven or eight years, so it's had a pretty good run, but I gotta start looking for a new one.


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this was reissued by f.m.r records a few years ago.
but now seems to have slipped out of the catalog
there may be a few copies of the cd floating 'round the aether,
boromir'said '''Here's John Surman's "Morning Glory" from 1973
John Surman: soprano sax, bass clarinetJohn Taylor: keyboardsTerje Rypdal: guitarJohn Marshall: drumsChris Laurence: bassMalcolm Griffiths: trombone
Tracklist Cloudless Sky2 Iron ManSide 21 Norwegian Steel - Septimus2 Hinc Illae Lacrimae - For Us All (Hence Thes Tears) Viny ripped at 192 kbps
The group, which was short-lived (this their only recording together) went under the name of Morning Glory (which I think is a yellow flower that is short-lived and sheds it's petals by mid-day, but it does grow more flower the next day). So this is perhaps why they called themselves Morning Glory. I digress, but many, many years ago, before my time even, there was a music hall performer called Nosmo King, who apparently got the inspiration for his stage name from the No Smoking notices around the theatre.
Anyway, back to the record. We are all probably familiar with Surman, Taylor and Rypdal, all of whom are still enjoying illustrious careers, making records for ECM. John Marshall I believe is still drumming with a Soft Machine legacy band, and occasionally with John Surman. Sadly I have not heard of Malcolm Griffiths for many years. During the 70s, it seemed to be a case in British jazz, if you want a trombone - send for Malcolm. Chris Laurence is also still playing and recently released his first recording as leader at the age of 60.
just a brief coda to boromir's message- morning glory seeds ,have the reputation of being a hallucinogen.
heres the list of available f.m.r releases
ALSO find the earlier classic surman,phillips and stu martins the trio here in the recesses of the archive with some refreshed links in the comments


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Motorola has been offering quite a few deals of late. In the U.S. at the end of May/start of June, Motorola announced they were reducing the cost of their popular smartwatch, the Moto 360 down by $100. Meaning, anyone interesting could pick one up, for as low as $149.99. This was then followed by the recent announcement from Motorola, that like other retailers, they were also reducing the cost of the Nexus 6 down to $499 and $549 (dependent on storage variant chosen). This was followed even more recently by the news that they were reducing the cost of the Moto X (2015) down to $299.99. Although, this last deal was after a rebate. Either way, Motorola have definitely been in the sale mode. In the U.S. that is.
Well, it looks like the UK branch are also going to be getting some good deals soon as Motorola have also confirmed they are reducing some of their devices in the UK too. The two big headlines acts from Motorola's Summer Sale will be the Moto X and the Nexus 6. In terms of the former, the Moto X (2nd Gen) will be available in the UK for only £229 for the standard 16GB version and forty pounds extra (£269) for the 32GB version. This is essentially a saving of around £160 on either model. Likewise, the Nexus 6 will see its price drop down to only £399 for the standard 32GB version while the larger 64GB storage model will be available for £469.
If these prices sound like something you will be interested in, then the Summer Sale is set to start on June 17th and will run through until the end of the month (June 30th). So this will be a fortnight sale for those interested. Although, as per anything like this, it is probably a while stocks remain type deal and therefore, you might be better off buying sooner rather than later. Those interested can check out the specs of either device by hitting the source link below and heading over to the UK Motorola site. Alternatively, as June 17th is tomorrow, you can just hold on until then and place your orders at the reduced price.


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The latest immersive escape experience ties in with one of the more highly anticipated movies of the summer and that is The Purge: Anarchy. The Purge: Breakout touring several cities including Atlanta, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles brings up to a group of six people together to try to escape from their tormentor within 30 minutes before the Purge begins. Locked up, there are puzzles and obstacles that the group must work together to overcome in order to survive. Tickets are $20.00 per person not including TicketLeap fees.
If you're attending Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con, they have a VIP package that includes admissions as well as other The Purge: Anarchy goodies. Goodies such as a t-shirt, movie poster and EP from the soundtrack. To purchase tickets for the other cities, visit: http://purgebreakout.ticketleap.com/
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Periodically, I find myself in need of inspiration — struck by the desire, I am more susceptible than usual to a good yarn. It was in just such a moment that I re-encountered Paul Bowles yesterday.
My partner and I were at a client's house, cleaning, when I happened to notice a book on a table. One has to know these particular clients and their habits to realize it is quite remarkable that I would notice any book in particular at all. This particular house has books on every available surface, book shelves lining every intact wall in one room, books hanging from the walls, books, books, books, and more books. Rather like the library of my dreams, if you want the honest truth.
So anyway, there are always books around, and if I could be disturbed at all by the riotous and ever-changing cacophony of competing memes I would probably find this house more of a challenge in which to work than I do. As it happens, though, the flittering of ideas, governing themes, and new literary faces suits my pallet and my temperament, so I tend to exist in a hyper-aware state when I am there. Snooze even for a moment and I might miss a potentially life-alteringly great read.
On this particular day, I just happened to glance down at the right moment to catch an all too familiar face peering back at me from the cover of a book. I am ever the voyeur when it comes to other people's reading habits, but the charge that went through me was more than just that. I have encountered this author before, but it has been at least twenty years since and in radically different circumstances that I first made his acquaintance.
When I was in junior high going into high school, I became enthralled with Bohemian culture and it's many anti-heroes. It started with the Lost Generation of 1920's Europe courtesy of a highschool teacher's life long obsession with Ernest Hemingway, careened almost simultaneously through the 1960's drug culture of Timothy Leary and Hunter S. Thompson, who was at that time still writing for Rolling Stone, which I also read) and merged with the Beat Movement (Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs) and their compadres, of whom Paul Bowles was one. One encounter lead to the next and I was deeply into before I knew it. I have long felt that with a little more direction and forward momentum, I might have found myself in grad school getting a degree in liberal studies with a concentration in Bohemian culture.
But I digress.
In my obsession with the Beats and with immersing myself as completely as possible in their lives and their world, I found myself rubbing shoulders with Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and their friend and compatriot, Paul Bowles, who lived for 52 years in Tangiers, in the Kingdom of Morocco. It started with a simple picture, one of many in the Allen Ginsberg collection, of Ginsberg, Burroughs, and friends sitting with Bowles in front of a house in Tangiers. At that time, I knew Bowles only as the indulgent host who allowed William Burroughs to stay with him for long periods of time in the 1950's, while Burroughs was writing the fragments of prose that Ginsberg would help him turn into The Naked Lunch. (Burroughs, though a remarkably visionary writer in his own right, was at that time addicted to and later strung out on various opiates and other hard drugs that made coherent writing difficult at best.)
Although I made note of Bowles, I had many literary interests, and as the source I was immersed in at the time was a Ginsberg biography ( or a history of the Beat Movement) there wasn't enough salient detail about Bowles to keep me enthralled, and thus, I soon moved on.
A good half a decade or more later I was a late night DJ on a local Memphis radio station (a gig which itself lasted about ten years). I worked in an a very organic electronic format, with lots of room for experimentation, and so found myself with a still heady interest in the Beat Movement and, even better, a media outlet for my experimentation. As a result, I began incorporating audio clips of the Beats and other like minded authors reading as well as the more experimental audio outpourings of Bohemian culture. It was at this time and in this environment that I encountered a CD produced by Bill Laswell (an audio syncretist and musical hero of mine) of Paul Bowles reading from _The Sheltering Sky_ and other works on top of highly discordant and experimental soundtrack. Needless to say, I loved it and played from it (& with it) frequently. I was at that time passingly familiar with Paul Bowles and his life and works, but even so, I was stuck by the power and cold beauty of his prose.
Now another half decade later I am happy to encounter a new collection of shorter works by Bowles organized around a subject that is central to my own life as well: the art of travel, the power of place, and the traveler's life. _Travels: Collected Writings 1950-1993_ by Paul Bowles looks well worth reading, touching as it does upon a central theme of my own life, travel and the power of place.
Thinking about Paul Bowles again and finding myself in need of more information, I found myself at his official website, Paul Bowles. There I found a number of intriguing side notes from those whose encounters with him and his works were a good bit more intimate and personal than my own. One of my favorites is this interview with the man himself: interview


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The federal government can't be expected to continue to pay for commuters to hop a bus from Hamilton County to Downtown. The responsibility is, or at least should be, a local and regional concern.What a difference four years makes. Greg Ballard ran against then-Mayor Bart Peterson's 65% increase in the income tax increase to fund public safety in 2007. In 2011, he plans to run on a new regional tax to fund public transportation. Sounds like an effective re-election strategy. Hah.
But there's another layer of government -- the state -- that stands in the way of Central Indiana's ability to build its own regional transit system. That needs to change next year.
State legislators likely will be asked during next year's session to authorize regional leaders to stage a referendum on transit funding in November 2011. To be clear, lawmakers won't be asked to approve a tax increase to pay for rail and bus lines. Rather, their role is only to allow Central Indiana residents to decide for themselves whether to spend money on buses and trains.
The need for a better transit system -- and for a proper mechanism to fund it -- is evident. At year's end, when federal grants expire, popular bus routes that carry commuters from Fishers and other points in Hamilton County to Downtown are scheduled to be dropped. Residents who now ride the bus to work will have little choice but to pile into their cars, adding to the congestion on city streets and highways.
It's important to remember, however, that the proposed regional transit system isn't just about helping Hamilton County commuters. Bus lines would be extended to various points in the region. Rail lines would be extended to Fishers but also to Greenwood, and eventually other regional destinations.
Even more important, Indianapolis' woeful bus system finally would have the means to create a functional network for moving urban workers to suburban job sites. That's a critical step for the financial health of individual families and the economic strength of the region . . .
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Star Backs Ballard's Regional Tax To Fund Public Transportation
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- James said...
I get it that the way to reduce taxes is to start by saying "No" to new taxes.
And yet I believe that we need some regional taxing authority if we are going to address the transportation problem - particularly mass transit.
We also have to address land-use on a regional scale.
Rather than a regional tax, an environmental impact fee on new "greenfield" development to help pay for transportation would put the responsibility on the people who are driving the costs of transportation up - and promote redevelopment of existing land.
Any new taxes would have to be combined with restraint in other areas - like multi-million dollar gifts to billionaires.
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- Cato said...
So you pay for Indy regardless of whether you live in it. So much for "voting with your feet."
Nobody likes to raise taxes more than a Republican.
As for regional transportation, Indy has spent the last two decades tearing up train tracks and paving them over with bike trails. You can still see the streetcar tracks trying to peek through the asphalt on College Avenue.
Indy used to have a lovely streetcar and interurban system. Indy threw away its chance to be a transportation hub, and it destroyed wonderful installed infrastructure.
Search "Indianapolis Traction Terminal" in Google Images.
Nobody should have to pay to dig Indy out of the hole it dug for itself.
If there is a transportation board, keep it and all its members far from Indy. No Indy resident should be allowed to serve on it, and no Indy person or corporation should have access to its budget.
I'm perhaps being a bit extreme, but if Indy is advocating something, you can bet that it's trying to scam the rest of the state.
- Advance Indiana said...
Suburban taxpayers in Chicago have forked over billions to fund regional public transportation projects. That has only led to more tolled roads and a mass transit system that is always teetering on bankruptcy and looking for a state bailout. They've invested billions in bringing light rail to the suburbs in Chicago but they still keep building more highways and widening the lanes of existing highways. Toll fares and mass transit fares keep going up; the politicians and their buddies keep lining their pockets with all of the contracts, high-paying jobs, legal work, etc, that the regional transportation authorities generate.
If this tax increase passes in my area, I am done helping out this city, trying to make it a better place. My $100-$200 a year in charity giving ceases immediately. My spending money at local businesses ceases immediately. With this tax, and demands for taxes for other things, I won't be able to afford to give to charity, eat out at all, etc.. This city is becoming nothing but a socialist cesspool. This transit plan is about making a select few extremely wealthy, providing jobs for maybe 1,000 middle to upper middle class construction workers, and bailing out rich folks in Hamilton County, without making the rich folks foot the bill.
- Mike Kole said...
Nowhere is it ever considered that the riders actually pay for it. That's the obscenity. Always looking to skin somebody else. This is emblematic of everything that is wrong with this country.
- Paul K. Ogden said...
This is at least a tax increase argument the Mayor could make a decent argument about. The problem is he has no credibility given his history of supporting tax and fee increases, which now total over 100. Also he has no credibility on the spending side either - the $86 million guaranteed loan for a developer who couldn't get financing to develop a project and the behind the scenes deal to send property taxes to the Pacers are but two of the latest examples o fthat.
- Unigov said...
There is no sense in spending tax money to build a rail system to help white people who moved to Fishers to get away from black people. Almost all the people in Fishers own cars and if they chose to move 18 miles from downtown, that's there problem. They could move into town if they wanted.
The buses would be funded if the City hadn't given all its money over to sports and conventions.
I could not disagree more with "James" - I live close to where I work, I made a rational life choice, and those that didn't can suffer their consequences.
- James said...
If you actually read the proposal, you will see that the vast majority of the money is going towards...roads.
BTW: Roads are a socialist plot. They don't begin to pay for themselves in dedicated taxes and fees - dedicated money only pays about 1/2 of the cost.
Also, if you are paying attention to the issues you understand that Indianapolis Metro area isn't growing in housholds much- but it's expanding outward. It's that expansion outward that's driving the traffic.
If it were up to me, I'd say screw the people that want to commute from Carmel to a job Downtown or in Greenwood. They can sit in gridlocked bumper-bumper traffic as far as I'm concerned.
Again, I'd suggest that we tax the folks who are building and buying new homes and businesses in what were once cornfields - an impact fee. They are the ones who are increasing the vehicle miles.
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It now
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- Downtown Indy said...
As to the matter of highways, I think they should actually remove lanes. Make I-65, I-69 and I-465 2-lanes again as repairs become necessary. Quit adding more lanes - this only adds more recurring cost and thus tax burden in addition to the cost of adding them in the first place.
People WILL modify their behavior and *gasp* even carpool if driving and getting stuck in miles of traffic backup is unacceptable to them.
The more capacity the highways have, the farther out people will move. And that results in still more highway lanes to be built, and people again move farther out.
There are plenty of lanes for actual 'interstate' traffic, just not for the peak commuting hours.
- Unigov said...
I agree with this completely:
"If it were up to me, I'd say screw the people that want to commute from Carmel to a job Downtown or in Greenwood. They can sit in gridlocked bumper-bumper traffic as far as I'm concerned."
Impact taxes ignore the fact that these knobs who commute downtown to Noblesville are already paying gas taxes out the ying tang.
Tax money should be used to help the poor. Indy does the opposite. Irsay gets a new stadium but poor people have to deal with the worst bus service in the country...and if an enterprising poor person tries to run a taxi they get busted by the Taxi Mob.
- James said...
"Impact taxes ignore the fact that these knobs who commute downtown to Noblesville are already paying gas taxes out the ying tang."
They may be paying gas taxes "out the yin tang"---whatever that is--or they may not be - depending on the MPG their car gets. Whatever amount they are paying, overall it's only about half of what it costs.
You could increase the gas tax to actually pay the costs of the roads - or you can use impact fees to address the sprawl issue... which is at the heart of a lot of problems - including transportation.


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So on the whole, you're getting about half a card. Seems pretty darn good, but not broken.
This is my early pick for best blue common. Between your own ETB effects, opposing werewolf transforms for a zillion mana, Emerge creatures, and the occasional permanent buff (creatures that get counters from when other stuff dies or is sacrificed, or might I suggest the card right above this one), there's going to be quite a bit of value to be had, I think, when you get an extra card to boot. But even in a bad case, bouncing any creature with CMC of 4 or more is a tempo-positive cantrip, 3 is tempo-even, and even bouncing an opposing 2-drop is a 1-mana-down cantrip, which isn't the worst thing ever.
Casting one of this is obviously bad. Casting the second is obviously good. Does getting to cast the second make up for having to cast the first? I think so, but it isn't fantastic - 4 mana for +1 card is below rate, but you do get to split it up, and I expect this to be a bit of a slow format. Compare to Courrier's Capsule. It's worth pointing out that Mill/Looting and to some extent discard can help you out here. But I still don't think I would run these almost ever with less than 3 in my deck. You won't get 3 very often (on average, only 2 will be opened in a draft), so I wouldn't pick it high, but you can spend a mid-pack pick on one if you tihnk another will wheel. If you ever get to cast 3 in a game, you've obviously done it, with a split-cost Opportunity.
It's worth noting that this is really the best chance you have in this set of reliably getting an enchantment in your graveyard (at common, since SOI commons are now rarer than EMN uncommons), which is fairly important for Delirium. It also kills 80% of the format (or more, if you include tokens). Not only is this going to be the best Black Common, it won't be all that close. I'm fairly confident there's a bigger gap here than in any other color.
I think I've learned my lesson from Angelic Purge and Sinister Concoction: This card will be good. Now, it is worth noting that between costing 5, there being less madness overall and in black in particular, and actually wanting your lands in play because of additional mana sinks, you're going to get to mitigate that discard cost much much less than you did with the Concoction. This is also worse for Delirium. On the flipside, though, the "sacrifice a creature" part is actually less painful now - we have a lot more fodder now, probably largely because they needed to make Emerge work. You can't load yourself up on too many sac effects without enough fodder, but I think you can make this work.
It's also worth noting that you need them to have two creatures for this to be not bad - there's no 'up to' clause. Still, that's not uncommon, and 3-for-2ing yourself when the 2 are their two best creatures, has got to be worth it, in general. So I expect this to be one of the better black uncommons, while still far far below the top dog (Murder).
I think a good comparison here is Fireshrieker. That card was pretty good, but not absolutely amazing. You could pay its cost in installments, but once you were going to the second creature, it cost more overall. It was colorless, though, and importantly, it worked on defense. So it's hard for me to think this will be a good card, but with the number of boardstalls that seem likely, it will probably be at least playable.
As I noted in my mathy review, this kills about 20% of the creatures in the format. My guess is that that's enough to make it begrudgingly main-deck-able, or more likely, a card I'd like to have in my sideboard. Worth noting that I think it would be pretty playable as an instant (where it can block and kill an x/3, with some options for upside), or as a 1 mana card. Also, this does have some applications in "finish a creature off, get a devil", but.... a devil for 3 mana is too bad to help you on such a minor trade-up, I think.
This card is very good. 3 mana shock is a bit below rate, but would get played reasonably often anyway. 4 mana to deal 3 to a single creature is in a similar reasonable-not-good territory. The option between the two is already getting to be a fine inclusion. This also has the board-sweep option, which is a nice little plus. Four mana is going to be very common - killing one thing, and trading up with one or more others (and picking off X/1s). People are going to learn to expect this and play around it - that'll be a key skill in the format. Problem is, it's going to be pretty touch to play around most of the time.
The big thing I want to point out, though, is that the fully escalated version is actually an overrun variant. 5 mana, probably kill a thing, all your stuff gets trample, and hits in for 1 more because you pinged their stuff. Not as big pump for sure, and scales off their blockers rather than your attackers. But one cheaper, instant speed, and probably most important, with lots of flexibility.
There's enough sacrifice that I expect this to make the cut... probably a bit more than half the time. Friendly reminder that clues count.
The nice thing about this is that you can just "raw dog" it on turn 2, and you'll almost never miss. With very few Vessels of Nascency anymore, this is going to be one of the better ways to get to Delirium, which is quite a bit harder now. The more important this is for you, the better this card is.
I think this card might actually be reasonable. Transform costs are a lot more than this, and flipping is very much like a combat trick much of the time. The thing I really want to note, though, is that this is the only way to get the new eldrazi werewolves back to the front side.... though you'd almost never want to. I guess someone somewhere will at some point use this to get around a Humble the Brute or something, and I will be happy then.
People seem to think this card will be very good. I look at the font side and see... well, 3 mana for an 0/3 and a 3/2 is fine, but not worth sacrificing a permanent, unless you're getting big value from that. We see lots of fodder in this set, but I'm still rather skeptical. It's certainly not a turn 3 play. But I think that, in general, to be good enough, you have to have a reasonable chance of turning on Delirium. I am thinking that's going to be a good bit harder now than it was before, which makes me think that this card is middling. If you can get it fairly reliably, then the card becomes quite good.
I think this is getting slept on significantly. 3 mana 2/3 is only slightly under where we want to be. Tap to mill for 2 is fairly powerful in the format. If you can ever flip it, the back half is really game-winning if you aren't massively behind - and even if you are, paying 3 mana for a 4/6 is more or less better than you can hope for. Hard to imagine the card can be too great, since it will be a bit tricky getting enough colorless creatures to make this reliable (remember, you only count front faces). That brings the average number of colorless creatures per draft to 11.6. I expect you can get a disproportionate number of those, so let's say 3 on average. That means you'll usually draw or mill one within a couple turns of this being out, which makes it such that you're reasonably likely to flip it by the time you'd be flipping a wolf (assuming it isn't too hard to trade a critter off) - but with no additional mana cost.
I'm actually going to go ahead and predict this will be the best green common, over Prey Upon. I wouldn't be surprised to be wrong on that, but they're at least in the same ballpark. Mana dorks are typically good anyway, and this format has tons of mana sink. This has the extra bonus of being quite relevant in the late game, too. It's just a win/win/win.
People seem to think this card won't be good. I don't think it will be amazing - 3 is kind of a lot to equip - but +2/+2 is a big bonus, and if it's slow and board-stall-y, as I expect, this one will be above average.
People are really scared of the rider here. Obviously, that's not a good thing for you. But you can plan for it, and this creature is just sooo big. Artifact creature also helps delirium. You have to be wary of enchantment-based removal here, which probably makes this a tiny better if you have sac effects to get out from under it, but I think that just by itself, it's already something I'm never cutting form my deck, and usually pretty happy to have.
And the last card is one I think is pretty overrated. Yes, gravedigger is usually pretty good. Adding a mana, power, and toughness.... you can debate if that's good or not - I think it's a weakening. But being limited to CMC 3 or less is a real cost, and one I think is being underestimated. There are a couple things it stops you from doing; first of all, you can't loop this thing. So your endless loop of value has been cut off. Possibly more importantly, you can't get actually good creatures back with this very often. Finally, you're going to have 0 legal targets for this, which is a molten disaster, way more often than with normal Gravedigger. So I expect this to be a mid-late pick (6th-10th ish), and while totally playable, also definitely cuttable.


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Decadent and so, so good. Homemade peanut butter cookies are filled with peanut butter ice cream and strawberry preserves for a yummy treat.
1⁄2 lb. butter
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Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation Season 2 Release Date
Is it really scary to find someone studying bones? I mean, to befriend a bone enthusiast. I think it is never scary to have an osteologist on your circle of friends. They are enthusiast as well just like us who loves the Japanese culture of animation, manga and light novels. Right now, I feel more intrigued of having a person that studies bones as one of my friends. It will be such fun as most of osteologist have good understanding on forensic sciences.
As one of the only few mystery anime for Fall season of 2015, Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru had a very good run. The adaptation may have had some mixed reviews about it but I think the original writter Shiori Ota is very well satisfied on how his work turned out as an anime. Shiori Ota loves to write mystery novels, I hope that his other work would have another chance on the anime scene.
Speaking of chances, there is a small chance that this anime would get another shot. The 12th episode wrapped everything up and sorta told the fans that the world doesn't stop changing and time will never wait for you. I will be really sad not to see this franchise for a second season but I wish that this is not the end as everybody and everything deserves a 2nd chance just like on how I hoped for Shiori Ota's other work to have an adaptation as well.


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This film marks the follow-up to Heanue's directorial debut Today, which won Best First Short Drama at the 27th Galway Film Fleadh. Heanue will also star with some of Ireland's brightest actors, including Gemma-Leah Devereux (Get Up & Go, Stitches) Marie Ruane (Foxes, Striking Out, The Clinic), and Linda Bhreathnach (Adulting, Ros na Rún).
The origins of the film come from a real place for Heanue "It's about a young couple as the struggle to adjust to becoming parents for the first time. I hadn't planned to make a film about this subject but over a short period of time, I had spoken with a few people who had struggled in different ways to become parents, some friends and some friends of friends, both male and female. Some of their stories really stuck with me and I wanted to make something that showed both sides as the pressures and mental health strains on a man during this period can be huge too."
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Poisoning our children with lead was not enough. Contaminating baby milk and candies was not enough. Let's not forget our pets and the contaminated food for them. The latest in the China recalls is eggs. No, not chocolate eggs like the Cadbury eggs on the candy recall list. Real eggs from chickens.
W*lM*art's [ sorry, that's a forbidden word around here ;o) ] "Selct" eggs have been pulled from shelves for containing over 2 times Hong Kong's limit of the melamine chemical in food. At the moment it is unknown what countries have imported these eggs. To date, no illnesses have been reported, although, it's unknown what consuming melamine in eggs will do to humans. Babies that drank contaminated milk suffered kidney problems and even death.
It's suspected that melamine was added to chicken feed to increase profit. Chickens consuming the feed evidently showed no signs or affects, but passed the chemical on.
One has to wonder just how far this oh so lovely chemical has invaded the food chain and what the next hot item will be.
WAKE UP! STOP buying Chinese! If we'd stop manufacturing items in China and stop importing Chinese goods, maybe, just maybe, we'd have a little less to worry about. As the holiday season approaches, I urge you to buy your gifts from non-Chinese sources. Take the time and spend the money, your family deserves it! My favorite online shop for purchasing gifts for my kids is Oompa.com. Over at Oompa they go the extra mile. They list the country of manufacture, they only sell toys they approve.


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Human Resource Development (MS)
The Master of Science in Human Resource Development (MSHRD) program at Barry University focuses on individual, team, and organizational performance improvement. Human Resource Development is a dynamic field of practice grounded in theories from a variety of disciplines including adult learning, psychology, organizational behavior, and economics. Professionals in the field of HRD work on identifying workforce performance gaps in organizational settings and designing strategic learning-based solutions to enhance individual, team, and organizational effectiveness. The program's coursework integrates research with real-world experiences and has a strong skill-building focus. The program is designed to accommodate working adults and offers face-to-face, hybrid, and online delivery options.
Who is this program for?
MSHRD is for anybody who wants to be effective at leading people. It is for professionals aspiring to assume leadership positions in both public and private sectors, and for those who want to work in the areas of training and development, learning and performance, organization development, talent development, leadership development, diversity and inclusion, and Human Resources.
- The MSHRD program will provide you with the skill set necessary to develop people in the context of work and to effectively drive individual, team, and organizational performance improvement initiatives within both public and private sectors.
- Our students acquire expertise in planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based learning and development and organization development solutions in a variety of organizational contexts.
- The program will prepare you to assume leadership and expert roles in the areas of learning and development, talent development, organization development, and diversity and inclusion.
What is the difference between Human Resource Development (HRD) and Human Resource Management (HRM)?
While Human Resource Development is one of the central elements of HRM and our graduates can pursue careers in the general field of HR, MSHRD program centers around unique competencies that are not developed in traditional HRM programs, including:
- creating and managing learning programs
- training facilitation and delivery
- instructional design
- evaluating learning impact
- talent development
- change management
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- inclusion and diversity
- performance management and improvement
These core competencies align with competency models put forth by leading professional organizations such as Association for Talent Development and Society for Human Resource Management. At the core of our curriculum is the focus on learning as the vehicle to strategic long-term individual and organizational performance improvement.
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I just came across this article I wrote at the very beginning of my career as a pastry chef. It is so nice to look back on one of my first experiences in the food industry. Pretty amazing to know that years later, the challenges remain the same.
4:30 AM should not belong to the waking. Although technically morning, there is nothing about this hour that welcomes consciousness. But as a baker, I am already awake, bathed and starting my day an hour and half before my local Starbucks opens.
I work at a high–end cupcake store where seventeen varieties of cupcakes are made each day in addition to special orders. I was once asked if my work ever gets boring, since I seem to do the same thing every day. The answer is no — in this industry the unexpected happens daily, and I must be prepared for whatever is thrown my way.
Typically, I open the store. I unlock the back door and slip inside the dark storeroom. I turn on all the kitchen lights, change into my uniform, wash my hands, turn on the ovens and review the day's specials and the private orders. At this point, another baker will arrive and we spend the next four hours cranking out cupcakes. So, on what seemed to be a fairly average morning, I was opening up the kitchen when I received a call from my fellow morning baker — she was sick and was not coming to work. I hung up on her immediately (having no time to scold her on the late call) since I knew I had to begin working full force if I wanted a chance at getting the cupcakes out on time. The company I work for believes in using home-sized Kitchen Aid mixers, thereby producing small quantities of cupcakes throughout the day to preserve freshness. This is a fantastic way to produce quality items, but is not especially efficient when trying to rush orders. The gravity of the situation hit me: no one else was coming in for the next four hours, I could not double the recipes due to the size of the mixers and I was already twenty minutes behind! I needed a plan.
There were a total of seven mixers, four for making cupcakes and three for making frosting. The only way to meet the deadline was to use all seven mixers simultaneously. I quickly began making two batches of vanilla, two batches of chocolate, one batch of red velvet and two batches of the day's specials. I work with the same recipes every day and have a good feel for how long each part of the process takes, so while one batch was mixing, I'd melt butter in the microwave and measure out the milk for the next batch. I played games in my head to keep everything straight; what stage I was at with each mixer, which ingredients had yet to go in, how long each mixer had been beating and at what speed. I sang melodies to help me keep track of the numbers; how many of cups of sugar, how much flour, how many eggs. The thrum of seven mixers running full blast set the rhythm to my tune. Between verses I'd dash into the next room and line the pans with baking cups. Then, another hurtle arrived — one of the ovens was down. I had to recalculate everything. How many cupcakes could I fit into a single oven? What were the different bake times for the different mixes? What were the different temperatures they had to be baked at? What would be the most efficient order for the batches to go into the oven? My scuttling and singing continued until I solved the puzzle by settling on a baking line-up that would get the cupcakes baked as fast as possible. Before I knew it, small fluffy cupcakes were beginning to fill the countertops and my heart rate slowly began to return to normal.
I'm happy to report that all the cupcakes came out beautifully that day, and all of my batches were baked and ready before the staff arrived. Do I find my job boring? Anything but. Efficiency and focus are a baker's only armor against life's unpredictability, and a few seconds of careful thinking can be the difference between success and disaster. Even in the pre-Starbucks dawn of 4:30 AM.
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Casale di Torca is a luxury house situated in Sant'Agata on the two Gulfs, a pleasant town between the Gulf of Sorrento and the Gulf of Amalfi: the Sorrento Coast and the Amalfi Coast are just at hand! Sorrento, Positano, Ravello, can be easily reached by car, by bus, by taxi.
But you can also get to Pompei and Ercolano with their fascinating ruins as well as to the islands of Capri and Ischia! The apartment stands in a gorgeous position, surrounded by green areas and just in front of the sea! From the terrace you can enjoy an absolute quietness and a stunning view at any time of the day and night, but you can also choose your relax in the Jacuzzi tub!
If you are planning to visit Naples and the South of Italy, Casale di Torca represents the perfect accommodation for your holiday in the places of "O' Sole Mio"
Sorrento and its Peninsula, Positano and Amalfi are all quite near this splendid and luxury apartment situated in St. Agata on the two Gulfs. St. Agata is a very pleasant town between the gulf of Sorrento and the gulf of Amalfi.
The house is part of an old restored farm-house, surrounded by beautiful gardens and terraces, with an outside pizza-oven. The apartment is on two levels and there are large balconies from where you can enjoy an astonishing view of the sea painted with boats, ships and the typical "lamparas" at night.
The first floor has got three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a large living-room,a well-equipped kitchen and a sunny,spacious balcany. On the second floor with its original attic ceiling there are two single beds, a bathroom and a balcony.
In addition to its gorgeous position and wonderful surroundings, the house is decorated with the colours and the materials typical of this sunny region and is completed with refined and exquisite furnishings
The main entrance to the house is through a tiny garden in which a luxury Jacuzzi hydro massage tub welcomes you!
Braight hand-made 18th century tiles of Sorrentinean floors enliven the stone walls and beautiful plants and lemon trees shade this open space.
The tub will give you an indulgent relaxing experience thanks to the swirling effect of the lukewarm water…
While using it or after it why not have a fresh drink or a herbal tea? No problem, inside the hall of the house which boasts a magnificent tiled floor decorated with a maiolica windrose you'll find a minibar and a boiler! But you'll also find plenty of colourful bathrobe in a large copper bowl.
So everything has been thought of and cared for to let you enjoy at most this part of the house too!
Casale di Torca is a really luxurious, excellent quality residence!
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From Business Today:
Ford Motor Co.'s enormous stamping plant on Route 5 in Hamburg has upgraded its lighting to be 70 percent more efficient than it was when it used metal-halide light fixtures. The plant now boasts 1,740 LED tandem fixtures--which will save enough electricity to run 1,400 homes for a year. The $2.7 million project received an energy efficiency grant from $1.35 million grant from National Grid. The light fixtures were built by S3J Electronics in Lancaster.
Western New Yorkers are waiting to see how HSBC Holdings' profit losses will affect the rest of the community. HSBC's fourth quarter profits fell 26 percent, from $4.4 billion to $3.2 billion. The British banking company still hasn't made decisions about its subsidiary HSBC Bank USA's space in downtown Buffalo or its mortgage operation in Depew. More than 4,000 Western New York employees are anxiously awaiting their fate.
M&T Bank will close one of its three Jamestown branches. An office at 2-8 E. Third Street near Main Street will close on May 25. Its services will be consolidated with a full-service office and another walk-up location in Jamestown.
Who is getting hired, promoted and honored?
Lots of bank news. Here's some Banksy news:


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Archive for the 'Virtual' tag
Wells Fargo Puts Virtual-Reality Twist on Experiential Marketing
***Many thanks to Wells Fargo for giving our incredible Atlanta team the opportunity to develop this Virtual Reality consumer experience with you!
If you attended the Livermore Rodeo in California in June, you could have tried out one of the hottest technologies that has yet to go on sale to the general public – and it would have been supplied by a bank. Since June, Wells Fargo has been putting virtual reality Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 headsets on consumers at local events across America as the San Francisco bank works to build brand awareness in a fun way.
"It allows us to show we are part of the community," said Jennifer Copeland, vice president and experiential marketing manager at Wells Fargo. "There's more to us than financial products. We are able to show you a good time."
The initiative, which has consumers playing a virtual maze game and includes social media components, represents part of a trend of bank brands creating funkier – and techier – in-person experiences to get in front of consumers one on one, to strike up conversations in a new way, to secure new customers down the road and to have a stronger shot to get positive mentions on the internet.
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By The Hand has witnessed transformation within the lives of our kids—and as an organization.
We started with 16 kids
and grew to 1,523 today
and grew to 1,523 today
Number of kids served through By The Hand
Over a decade of loving kids—mind, body and soul
By The Hand Club For Kids began as a pilot program of The Moody Church. Soon after, By The Hand relocated to be in the heart of Cabrini-Green, at that time one of the nation's largest housing projects and home to thousands of kids. Now, as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is separate from The Moody Church, By The Hand is serving 1,523 kids from four of Chicago's most under-resourced communities.
Organizational highlights: 2001-2018
- 1997
- May 12, 1997
God revealed the vision for By The Hand Club For Kids to Donnita Travis, who felt called through prayer to start a holistic after-school program to help children have new abundant life (John 10:10).
- May 12, 1997
- 2000
- 1997 to 2000
Donnita volunteered at The Moody Church to help with ministry to children living in Cabrini-Green.
- October 2000
Donnita resigned from being the president of an advertising firm to launch By The Hand Club For Kids in the spring of 2001.
- 1997 to 2000
- 2001
- March 20, 2001
Using classrooms at Moody Church, By The Hand began with 16 children from Cabrini-Green. Ms. Shanta, the first staff member, agreed to work without pay until donations were received. Donnita served as a full-time volunteer and continues to do so today. Donnita began sharing her God-given vision to serve 1,000 children by 2012.
- June 2001
Even though the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) declined many other nonprofit organizations, it agreed to lease the bottom two floors of a Cabrini-Green high-rise tenant building to By The Hand, recalling that Moody Bible Institute students had faithfully served the children and families of Cabrini-Green throughout the 1960s during rioting, shootings and turmoil.
- September 11, 2001
By The Hand Club opened its new location at 419 W. Oak St., in the heart of Cabrini-Green, expanding to 42 kids from every part of Cabrini-Green and Marshall Field Homes. Even though By The Hand was told that kids from rival gang territories could never be brought together peacefully, God used this to teach the children that they are all created in God's image and should love and respect each other accordingly. By The Hand remained opened after terrorists attacked the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon even though many businesses and organizations closed, recognizing that the kids would be terrified and confused because they lived in high-rise apartment buildings. As a result, 9/11 turned into a day of prayer during which the kids were receptive to hearing about God and His love for them.
- March 20, 2001
- 2003
- February 2003
Outgrowing its space at 419 W. Oak St., By The Hand asked the CHA for a lease on the Lower North Center, a 24,000-square-foot building with classrooms and a gymnasium, located across the street from its current location. Negotiations had stalled, but God encouraged Donnita through prayer that a man would talk to her in two days about Lower North. Two days later, Franklin Ballenger, youth ministry partner, spoke to Donnita and encouraged her to pursue lease.
- June 2003
By The Hand started its Club For Big Kids (CBK), a high school program.
- February 2003
- 2004
- September 1, 2004
For only $100 per month, the Chicago Housing Authority gave By The Hand Club a 5-year lease for the 24,000-square-foot Lower North Center in Cabrini-Green, allowing By The Hand Club to expand that year to serve 214 children. A week later, pipes in the 419 W. Oak building burst and flooded the building, which was demolished that December, making it obvious that God had provided By The Hand Club with a new place in perfect time.
- September 1, 2004
- 2005
- March 7, 2005
In response to the CHA request that By The Hand open a second location in the Altgeld-Murray neighborhood, By The Hand Club prayerfully agreed to if $600,000 was raised in 60 days to confirm the decision and provide first-year funding for the new club. CHA referred to By The Hand Club as their "most effective social service agency."
- May 6, 2005
A final gift was received to reach the needed $600,000 and By The Hand Club announced that it would open a location in Altgeld-Murray.
- July 2005
By The Hand became a 501(c)(3) and formed a board of directors
- September 2005
By The Hand leased an empty police station from Chicago Housing Authority to open a second location in Altgeld-Murray with 66 children.
- September 6, 2005
By The Hand Club began serving kids from Altgeld-Murray at the local Park District while renovations were made to a CHA-leased property. The Club was serving 310 students at two locations.
- March 7, 2005
- 2007
- April 2007
By The Hand Club felt God's leading to open a third facility in Austin, one of Chicago's most under-resourced neighborhoods. A general contractor friend introduced By The Hand Club to a newly renovated church owned by Chicago First Church of the Nazarene. The 8,000-square-foot-facility was located at one of the most dangerous corners in Austin—the perfect location for reaching kids from the neighborhood. By The Hand finalized the lease agreement over the summer months. Later the contractor shared that while he was renovating the church in 2005, he prayed that By The Hand would open in that facility.
- September 4, 2007
By The Hand opened in Austin with 132 kids. By The Hand was serving 500 children that year.
- September 26, 2007
By The Hand was out of space in the Altgeld police station when they heard that one of only a few privately owned properties in the CHA development was going on the market. It was an 8,000-square-foot Presbyterian Church on an acre of land at the front of Altgeld-Murrary—ideal for By The Hand Club For Kids. By The Hand was able to purchase the property before it went on the market and began renovations in October 2007.
- April 2007
- 2008
- July 2008
By The Hand added a reading specialist to help children in 4th grade and up who couldn't read; kids advanced on average two grade levels in reading during the 2008-2009 academic year.
- September 2008
By The Hand opened its fourth location in Englewood with 88 children in 1st to 4th grades.
- September 1, 2008
CHA extended By The Hand Club's 5-year lease on Lower North Center by 25 years, resolving a long-term facility need in Cabrini-Green. While By The Hand Club had a long-standing and solid reputation with CHA, Alderman Walter Burnett was instrumental in negotiating the long lease asking CHA to "make a lasting place in Cabrini-Green for By The Hand Club."
- October 2008
By The Hand Club moved to its new location in Altgeld-Murray and expanded to serve 154 children in Altgeld. By The Hand Club also opened a fourth location serving 88 children in Englewood, another one of Chicago's most under-resourced neighborhoods. Overall, the club served 638 children that year.
- July 2008
- 2009
- August 2009
By The Hand added a college specialist and started emphasizing college prep at CBK.
- 2009 to 2010
By The Hand Club was serving 176 children in 1st to 8th grades in Austin and was out of space. Unable to serve high school students without additional space, they began seeking the Lord while looking for opportunities to lease, buy or share space. After an exhaustive search, By The Hand launched its first capital campaign to build a new learning center in Austin. In Austin, the city of Chicago sold a facility with three vacant lots for $1 to By The Hand. After Donnita fasted three days, By The Hand received calls from two other property owners who offered to sell their lots. A fourth initially said "no," but changed his mind after "everything started going wrong at his property." In total, God blessed By The Hand with 17 lots from seven different owners, enabling By The Hand Club to begin construction in winter on a 26,000-square-foot ministry center for after-school programming, as well as community and ministry collaboration and instruction.
- August 2009
- 2010
- May 26, 2010
Donnita Travis was named the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Social Entrepreneur of the Year.
- August 24, 2010
The Austin location was overcrowded, noisy and had no room for its incoming 9th graders. While the Chicago First Church of the Nazarene offered to purchase the foreclosed house to the north, demolish it and install modular classrooms as an interim solution, they could not get any information from Freddie Mac, the holder of the mortgage. By The Hand called a supporter at Freddie Mac and within 24 hours the contract was signed, making it possible for By The Hand Club to stay at its current location while it built a new facility across the street.
- August 31, 2010
Sharing space with a school for the first time, By The Hand leased space at Wentworth Elementary School in Englewood, which had sufficient space to accommodate By The Hand Club when it reached capacity in Englewood. This allowed By The Hand Club to expand to 132 kids in 1st to 6th grades in Englewood, serving a total of 767 children at four locations.
- September 2010
By The Hand started CBK in Austin and Altgeld to serve 9th graders.
- May 26, 2010
- 2011
- March 8, 2011
Mayor Daley gave Donnita Travis the Sage Award for her work with women and children in Chicago.
- March 8, 2011
- 2012
- June 11, 2012
Mayor Rahm Emanuel proclaimed June 11 By The Hand Club Literacy Day in the city of Chicago.
- September 2012
By The Hand Club crossed the milestone of enrolling 2,500 kids over last 11 years.
- October 31, 2012
By The Hand broke ground for its new Austin center to accommodate kids in 1st grade to 12th grade.
- December 17, 2012
By The Hand holds official Groundbreaking Ceremony for its new Austin center.
- December 2012
Donnita Travis was named Chicago Magazine Chicagoan of the Year.
- June 11, 2012
- 2013
- June 4, 2013
By The Hand kids, along with several dignitaries, families, friends and staff, "crossed over" from our old By The Hand Austin building to a gleaming new $6 million, 26,000-square-foot center that is being called the "gem of Austin." The nationally acclaimed Marching Band of Proviso East High School led the way.
- September 2013
Trinity Christian College opens campus at By The Hand Club — Austin
- June 4, 2013
- 2014
- December 17, 2014
CPS gave Moving Everest a charter to open a K-8 school in Austin to serve 810 children. By The Hand will serve the ME children in the after-school hours
- December 17, 2014
- 2015
- January 30, 2015
By The Hand Club broke ground on a three-story, 50,000 SF building to serve students attending ME Charter School during the day and By The Hand in the after-school hours.
- August 20, 2015
Austin children, parents, friends, neighbors and public officials celebrated the opening of the $12 million By The Hand Club and Moving Everest Charter School with a ribbon cutting.
- January 30, 2015


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The world's most accomplished battery inventor says he has a new cell aimed at electric cars that delivers double the energy density of existing lithium-ion, and, in a first, actually achieves an increase in capacity when it's charged and discharged.
Quick take: The claims, among the most ambitious by any major researcher in recent memory, come in a paper co-authored by John Goodenough, a celebrated 95-year-old professor at the University of Texas who invented the battery used by almost every cell phone on the planet. It was published in the prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society with co-authors Maria Helena Braga and two other researchers.


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The minute those photos came out, every man in the Boston counter-terrorism unit should have said "That's Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his little brother." The Boston counter-terrorism unit had placed Tamerlan on at least one terrorism watch list, had interviewed him in their offices, and investigated his family. It kept getting warnings about him from Russian intelligence, as late as Oct. 2012. Yet on Thursday April 18 at around 5pm, Boston Special Agent Richard Deslauriers, head of the Boston division, held a press conference to release the surveillance photos and said:
"the public will play a critical role in identifying and locating them. Somebody out there knows these individuals as friends, neighbors, co-workers, or family members of the suspects."
"The same scenario occurs frequently in the North Caucasus, using a single bomb, often in a trash can, then when emergency services arrive, a second bomb goes off, sometimes a third one."
The rest is history. They knew who the suspects were, and knew where they lived (Tamerlan at 190 Norfolk St. in Cambridge.) They could have surrounded the house and captured or killed them before they panicked and went on the rampage that allegedly killed Collier. Someone tell me how the FBI is not responsible for Collier's death, if in fact the brothers killed him.
Note: the Boston FBI has a history of tipping off notorious criminals who it happens to be working with, like Whitey Bulger.
Surveillance photo released by FBI on Thursday April 18
MIT police officer Sean Collier


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What happens in the mind of a composer such as Pierre Boulez when he writes the music piece The Hammer without a Master or in that of Stravinsky when he wrote the Rite of Spring?
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