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A complete sample set with all colors &SHUFL's RAW collection. The collection consists of raw black and raw light grey, and is made of a hard type of MDF, valchromat, that is protected with bio oil.
About the collection: You might not know that many kitchen doors are made of chipboard with a frame of wood outside, which is then painted, veneered, or covered with foil. At &SHUFL we work differently. In all of our products (other than RAW), we have a core of MDF or valchromat and a front and back side that is painted or covered with another material. Nothing else. With RAW, we actually expose the core, and cut all the way to the bone for a RAW and sleek look.
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2018 Tata Nexon XZ+ longterm review: Introduction
It's just about a month since the Tata Nexon joined our long term fleet, but the SUV already has done over 1,000km since. For a change, my weekend trips to Pune aren't to blame though, as the Nexon has been used as a support car for shoots several times. Both our in-house photographers like how spacious its boot is and I cannot disagree. In fact, I recently bought a 55-inch LED TV and flipping the 60:40 split rear seats down made for enough space to carry the TV with its full packaging and some luggage.
I've also taken a liking to the interiors as the plastics have a solid feel. Our Nexon had clocked over 11,500km before it came to us but there are no squeaking or funny sounds at all. The driving position is comfortable but it still feels more car-like and I would have liked a taller seating position.
The C-pillar blocks the view when reversing into tight spots
Also, the C-pillar looks appealing from outside but its thickness hinders your view from inside when reversing into tight parking spots. Our Nexon does have a reverse camera and parking sensors, but the resolution of the camera leaves something to be desired.
The Nexon gets Android Auto but not Apple CarPlay.
Further, the Nexon's infotainment system features Android Auto connectivity but not Apple CarPlay that's slightly disappointing for iPhone users like me. Bluetooth connectivity works well, but I do miss CarPlay's seamless connectivity. The 1.5-litre diesel engine is impressive on many fronts too, though that's something I'll save for my next report.
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Mister Monkey
Mister Monkey
A novel that casts its gaze on a group of "underpaid, brave, disappointed actors" in the waning days of an off-off-off-off Broadway production of a children's musical about an orphaned monkey transported from Africa to New York City likely won't strike many as the stuff of compelling fiction. But in MISTER MONKEY, her latest novel, Francine Prose transforms that unprepossessing premise into an endearing examination of the indomitability of the human spirit.
The musical portrait of the "smartest, cutest, nicest, strongest, most powerful chimp of all" --- based on an improbably popular novel by a Vietnam War veteran named Raymond Ortiz, who has prospered on the story's enduring appeal --- draws together a motley troupe of performers. Its stars include Margot, a graduate of Yale Drama School whose career has taken her as far as the road company of Wicked and who "still wants the world to know that she is a talented actress," and Eleanor, an ER nurse without similar illusions who's moonlighting as the musical's villain and whose "beliefs have not only made her a better person but also have magically enabled her to have her cake and eat it."
"For all the apparent slightness of its foundation, MISTER MONKEY is a solidly constructed and winning addition to her body of work."
Whether it's the shabby costumes designed by a young woman named Lakshmi, who doubles as a police officer in the play, the vaguely sexual antics of Adam, the 12-year-old gymnast who plays the title character, or the plaintive question ("Grandpa, are you interested in this?") a child poses in a moment of silence during one of the musical's oddball production numbers (including an opener, "Monkey Tango," that's "more like a square dance and just about as sexy"), an aroma of defeat lingers over the production and everyone associated with it.
Prose could have exploited the slapstick humor inherent in this debacle, but she's aiming for more than laughs, even well-earned ones. There's an air of resigned nobility about the way these actors deliver their performances despite the knowledge of their own shortcomings, something that could well describe the way most of us negotiate life's inevitable disappointments. Margot and Eleanor are but two of the characters whose indelibly honest portrayals animate the novel. Prose shifts her point of view no fewer than 11 times, as the narrative proceeds almost in the manner of a relay race, at times giving the novel a feel of linked stories that blend together into a seamless whole.
The theme of thwarted dreams transcends the boundaries of the theater to encompass stories like those of Miss Sonya, a young school teacher teetering on the edge of dismissal after she allows a discussion of evolution to slip into the uninhibited child's show-and-tell presentation about the performance he attended. The restaurant scene of Sonya's first date with a self-absorbed environmental lawyer is a classic that successfully balances on the knife's edge between humor and pathos. Prose artfully links it to the story of Mario, the waiter who witnesses Sonya's humiliation and later is mesmerized by Margot's game performance in the musical.
The spirit of Anton Chekhov hovers over the novel through recurring allusions to his "Uncle Vanya" --- in which Margot played the leading role of Sonya during her drama school days --- but most directly in the form of an excerpt from a letter from that keenly melancholy observer of the human spirit to Maxim Gorky in 1899 that appears in an anonymous note left in Margot's dressing room that sums up the existence of most of the novel's characters: "Failures and disappointments make time go by so fast that you fail to notice your real life, and the past when I was so free seems to belong to someone else, not myself."
In her book READING LIKE A WRITER, Prose explicitly acknowledges her debt to the Russian short story master in a chapter entitled "Learning from Chekhov," observing: "But what Chekhov believed and acted on more than any writer I can think of is that judgment and prejudice were incommensurate with a certain kind of literary art." In the surpassing sympathy she displays for these characters, whose lives might just as easily be the subject of mockery, she demonstrates how fully she has absorbed that lesson.
Francine Prose's long and impressive literary career has been noteworthy for its versatility and range. For all the apparent slightness of its foundation, MISTER MONKEY is a solidly constructed and winning addition to her body of work.
Reviewed by Harvey Freedenberg on October 27, 2016
Mister Monkey
- Publication Date: October 17, 2017
- Genres: Fiction
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial


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For Bon Appétit's annual "Hot 10" list, Andrew Knowlton has whittled down the list of 50 nominees and awarded the top honor to AL's Place in San Francisco. "Think of the place as a window into the slightly manic and fully obsessive mind of an extremely talented and driven chef," Knowlton writes. "It's a restaurant so personal and passionate and satisfying that it was easy to name AL's Place this year's best new restaurant in America."
To round out the list, he's also selected Gjusta and Ludo Lefebvre's Petit Trois in Los Angeles, and Semilla in Williamsburg — of which he says, "For $75, you receive ten works of art. I'm not exaggerating." Here's the full list:
1. AL's Place, San Francisco
2. Gjusta, Los Angeles
3. Petit Trois, Los Angeles
4. Semilla, Brooklyn
5. Parachute, Chicago
6. Dai Due, Austin
7. Kindred, Davidson, NC
8. Rintaro, San Francisco
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TOP 10 Startup Success Stories: April
We started working from home almost six weeks ago already, and although it feels like more and more people are getting used to this new situation, we are still in a crisis. With this in mind, we are extra proud of our startup, who keep on building tomorrows leading firms from home. Their hard work led into us sharing another month of successes with you, all made possible by them! Here are some inspirational success stories for a business idea.
1. SD-Insights
A business idea SD-Insights has attracted its first investment. Three investors have bundled their capital and knowledge, and started to helping SD-Insights their coaching app NEXTdriver, which will make sure that the logistics sector is and remains sustainable and safe on the road.
2. Aquablu
The CleanTech startup announced that it will join forces with Waterluxe, a Dutch company specialist in water softening. Together they would like to make clean drinking water accessible to everyone in The Netherlands and Belgium.
This startup donates a set of chips to EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), which will be used for a Lung-on-Chip model. This donation will enable quick and effective drug testing. BI/OND challenges other Organ-on-Chip companies to start contributing as well by donating to research groups.
4. Mapiq
Although this post is called 'Top 10 Startup Success Stories' there is obviously also room for our scaleups. Mapiq, a developer of smart office software, got an investment of € 3.4 million. This capital injection, done by energy innovation fund ENERGIIQ, informal investors and existing shareholders, will be used to scale up the software platform of Mapiq.
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5. Craytive Technologies
This brand new edition to our ecosystem just launched their website, with which they kicked off their search for early adapters to test their initial versions. The startup incorporates 3D Geological models into a real world environment using Mixed and Augmented Reality, to optimize the 3D modeling processes and team collaboration around the globe.
6. FeedbackFruits
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, colleges and universities are in the need of solutions to continue their lectures online. University Business has listed FeedbackFruits as one of these solution providers, because they offer higher education resources at no charge. All institutions can now use their LMS tools without any financial costs until September 2020.
7. Nurtio Technologies
Nurtio Technologies, the startup incorporating the smart sensors and AI into the indoor gardening process, has received €300.000 of funding from the RvO (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland). This capital will help Nurtio finish their new prototype, go through the certification process, and prepare the product for the market launch. Now they continue working in their business idea.
8. Physee Technologies
Together with Kindow and Luxaflex, PHYSEE Technologies introduced a new energy-generating facade concept. The concept consist of PHYSEE's energy-efficient glass facade and Kindow's intelligent roller blinds, which provides 65% more daylight in buildings and 20% energy savings on cooling, heating and lighting. Luxflex supplies the mechanical systems and a premium awning fabric.
9. Philips Innovation Award
ADI (Applied Drone Innovations) and DeWarmte got selected as two of the five Innovators to compete at the Grand Final of the Philips Innovation Award 2020, which is the largest student-entrepreneur award in The Netherlands. On May 18th we will hear who is going to be this years winner.
10. Circularise
The Blockchain startup got selected by the Plug and Play Tech Center Italy, for their 12-week Business Development Program in the Sustainability Batch. The goal of Circularise is to focus on their development, according to expressed industry challenges and prepare themselves for implementing this with corporate partners.
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His crusade to house L.A.'s poor praised by Oprah Winfrey, Garcetti. But others have doubts
The day that Star Owens welcomed a swarm of dignitaries and TV cameras into her new home in South Los Angeles last fall marked the debut of a bold challenge to the city's way of building homeless housing.
The 28-unit Avalon apartments — constructed without taxpayer money in less than half the time and at less than half the cost of a typical subsidized project — would house nearly 60 formerly homeless adults and children.
For the record:
9:57 a.m. June 14, 2022An earlier version of this post referred to the tenants' advocacy group Strategic Advocacy for a Just Economy. The correct name is Strategic Actions for a Just Economy. The story also referred to an investment by EBay's Jeff Skoll. The investment actually came from the Skoll Foundation.
Its developer, SoLa Impact, is the brainchild of Martin Muoto, an entrepreneur who had spent nearly a decade investing in one of the most neglected parts of the city, rehabilitating distressed rental properties and, now, building new ones.
"SoLa is building right now around 1,300 units," Muoto told admiring attendees. Almost all of those units will be affordable, he said, and a majority will have covenants requiring them to remain so for 55 years.
Muoto has won admirers such as Oprah Winfrey and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, housing more Section 8 tenants than any other landlord in Los Angeles. But his for-profit, investor-backed model also racked up criticism from tenants' advocates, some who vilify him as just another corporate landlord maximizing profit at the expense of tenants' quality of life.
The dueling views reflect the conflict inherent in a for-profit company with a social mission, and what a battlefield affordable housing in Los Angeles has become for tenants and landlords alike.
Costs for Proposition HHH-funded projects continued to rise and only half the projects are set to be ready for occupancy by 2023, the audit found.
The day after the Avalon opening, the nonprofit Inner City Law Center alleged in a suit that SoLa exposed tenants in one of its buildings to "health and safety threats on a daily basis" including "long-term infestations of rats and cockroaches, severe water damage destabilizing the walls and ceilings, rampant mold" while the company's principals "have lined their own pockets with ... rental payments by skimping on necessary repairs and regular maintenance."
Public records show that many of SoLa's buildings have been repeatedly cited for code violations, a fact Muoto attributes to their age and the deteriorated condition they were in when he purchased them.
"We are better than other landlords, at least the ones we bought them from — landlords who bled them for cash and didn't put a penny into maintenance," Muoto said. "There was an unwritten rule that if you don't bother us, we won't bother you. Pay when you can, but don't expect us to really take care of the buildings."
Muoto said SoLa has invested nearly $50 million into renovations and attributed any unresolved problems to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inherent challenge of the company's mission.
By raising hundreds of millions of dollars of what is loosely called social impact capital — put up by private investors who are willing to risk their money for a public good — SoLa funded a five-year buying spree.
"We purposely bought some of the tougher buildings to rectify them, certainly because there was an economic discount," Muoto said. "This is not Moses leading people out of Egypt. But if we didn't buy them, who would, right? If we didn't invest, who would, right?"
Muoto calls his business ethos "doing well by doing good." His evangelistic model, detailed on SoLa's website, has won praise for attracting capital into poor Black and Latino communities generally shunned by financial markets and for pursuing a private market solution to house homeless people.
His detractors say the company has not lived up to those ideals.
"They bit off more than they could chew, and they sat on everyone they had to to get it done," said Ve'ona Rogers, who has battled SoLa over bed bugs, mold and patio furniture at her apartment on East 60th Street. "They took advantage of poor people who couldn't protect themselves."
SoLa has been named in multiple lawsuits over labor relations and habitability.
"This is a 12 out of 10 on a slumlord scale," Grant Riley of the Beverly Hills law firm Riley / Ersoff said of one SoLa building where he represents tenants. Riley's firm has four lawsuits pending against SoLa alleging unlivable conditions.
He acknowledged that he found the company's dual personality hard to comprehend, noting that most bad landlords keep a low profile.
"It's a complete disconnect," he said. "First of all, slumlords don't have websites."
In several interviews, Muoto acknowledged letdowns in the maintenance of SoLa's challenging properties but dismissed his critics as ideologues who seek out disgruntled tenants to advance an anti-corporate agenda. He said SoLa has improved the housing stock of South L.A. by renovating half the units in its portfolio, spending more than $1 on rehab for every $4 in purchases.
"We bought about 150 buildings," Muoto said. "It takes time. You can't simultaneously rehab 150 buildings."
Curtis Jeter recalls fearing for his future when his new landlord told him he must move from his South Los Angeles apartment because the building in the gentrifying neighborhood would no longer be for rent.
The child of a Nigerian father and Polish mother, Muoto parlayed his graduation from a Christian boarding school in rural Nigeria to a degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He sharpened his financial skills at national venture capital firms before turning his attention to what he believed to be undervalued real estate in South Los Angeles.
Starting in 2009, Muoto first invested his own money in several Los Angeles properties — as well as a parcel in Pacific Palisades where he built the house he lives in. He formed SoLa in 2015 and, under its banner, raised $10 million in private capital, promising investors double-digit annual returns if they were willing to wait seven to 10 years before cashing in.
While still spending that money, he raised a second fund of $55 million. The buying became frenzied: 40 properties in 2017, then 71 the next year. Leveraging the investor funds with bank loans, SoLa ultimately poured nearly $200 million into about 200 South Los Angeles properties.
In 2019, Muoto pivoted into new construction.
"We had saved and were rehabbing 1,200 units, but we hadn't added a single unit to the inventory in Los Angeles," Muoto said. "That bothered me, right? We're not solving the problem."
SoLa raised another $115 million and bought up 28 additional properties, taking advantage of the recently adopted opportunity zone law that provided generous capital gains write-offs to investors in low-income neighborhoods. Many were either vacant land or tear-downs such as the former church on Avalon Boulevard and 64th Street, where the television crews came to see the new apartment building.
Besides the 12 projects now in construction, SoLa is working on permitting or negotiating for properties that will support an additional 1,876 units, the company's co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Gray Lusk said.
SoLa also broadened into commercial real estate, buying a complex of derelict buildings on East 60th Street in the heart of a pre-WWII warehouse district. SoLa's 140 employees now occupy the renovated campus of boutique offices surrounded by sophisticated landscaping. When the construction is done, the campus will be home to an art gallery, two restaurants and a Black-owned brewery.
There's also a tech laboratory, complete with recording and live performance studios. SoLa's nonprofit arm, the SoLa I CAN Foundation, has raised millions of dollars — most recently $2 million from the video game producer Riot Games — to provide free technology education to South Los Angeles youth and to hand out scholarships.
While many opportunity zone investors faced criticism for getting big tax breaks while putting their money in rapidly gentrifying, highly profitable neighborhoods, Muoto was winning fans for investing in truly poor ones. Forbes in 2020 picked SoLa's fund as the nation's best with an urban focus. And in a book castigating the abuse of opportunity zones, David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, singled out Muoto as something of a true believer in the spirit of the law.
The speed and cost of SoLa's building program contrasts with the plodding and costly progress under the city's Proposition HHH homeless housing bond. More than halfway into the 10-year program to add more than 7,000 new units of subsidized housing, barely 1,200 have been completed, and the cost for those units has risen steadily to nearly $600,000 on average.
The 3,500 units on SoLa's drawing boards are on a schedule to open over the next three years at an average cost of between $275,000 and $300,000, even taking into account the past two years of inflation.
With investor cash at hand, SoLa has quick access to conventional loans to get projects underway, compared with the two years or more it often takes developers to line up multiple government commitments. SoLa also avoids strings that come with that government money, most importantly requirements to pay prevailing wages and, in some cases, hire only union labor.
SoLa can choose which units to place under rent restrictions and whom to accept as tenants. Muoto has said he will keep about half the units affordable to low-income renters and most of the rest to those who earn less than 120% of the county's median income.
Its first two new-build projects are dedicated to homeless people. HOPICS, the main homeless services agency based in South Los Angeles, has a five-year lease on the Avalon building. Another homeless services agency will occupy SoLa's building at 92nd Street and Compton Avenue. Two other buildings scheduled to be completed in the next few weeks will be leased by an organization for homeless women and a group housing Afghan refugees.
Tenant advocates who have criticized SoLa say its private-investment strategy has inevitably led to skimping on labor and upkeep.
According to court records, in September 2020 SoLa agreed to a $520,000 settlement in a class-action lawsuit in which workers alleged that the company wilfully misclassified them as independent contractors, denied them overtime and minimum wage, failed to provide rest periods and did not produce itemized wage statements. The lawsuit estimated that as many as 600 workers were affected over a five-year period. SoLa did not admit to wrongdoing.
In an interview, Muoto and Lusk said the lawsuit had been a wake-up call and that they have since stopped working with independent contractors and instead work only with large, bonded general contractors.
They attributed maintenance issues to the age and decrepit condition of the buildings they purchases.
Of the 109 SoLa buildings for which Los Angeles County Assessor data list ages, more than half were built before World War II, the oldest dating to 1907.
A Times analysis of Los Angeles Housing Department records shows that, within a year before SoLa's purchase, 64 of its buildings had tenant complaints and orders to correct code violations. Eighteen of those buildings were straddled with unresolved code violations when the property changed hands.
Those issues continued under SoLa. In the first year of SoLa ownership, orders to correct code violations were recorded at 60 buildings, and four of those cases were referred to hearings because of the slow response. Lusk attributed those delays to the city's slow processing of building permits, especially during the pandemic.
Sharon Price, a neighbor of Rogers in the building on 60th Street, said she recently reported water seeping from under her sink and had to wait two weeks for a plumber to show up. He cleaned the drain and left, Price said, but the leaking continued. A maintenance worker then ripped up the baseboard to find a broken pipe covered in mushrooms.
Lusk provided a before photo of the repair showing a badly corroded pipe and a gaping hole in the exterior wall but no mushrooms. He said the repair was done in three days.
Disgruntled SoLa tenants, including Rogers, began showing up at community meetings organized by the tenants' advocacy group Strategic Actions for a Just Economy.
Favian Gonzalez, the group's assistant director of organizing, collected about 20 notice to repair complaints from several buildings and sent them to SoLa Rentals, the company's property management arm.
"This company looks like a nonprofit, [like] they have a heart," he said. "No, they ignored it."
One building stood out. The 100-year-old, four-story, 29-unit apartment at 300 East Washington Blvd. had been purchased by SoLa in 2018. Three years later it was still a wreck. Layers of ancient lead-filled paint were peeling from the exterior walls, plumbing was leaking, flooring was dislodged, bed bugs were rampant, and whole sections of window casing were hanging loose.
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy turned to the Riley law firm. In May 2021, the firm filed a lawsuit on behalf of 23 tenants of the building. Two more lawsuits followed over conditions at other buildings. Among the plaintiffs was a mother of two who had video of rainwater gushing through a light fixture and a family of five in a small apartment whose ceiling collapsed on a bunk bed.
The law firm tipped off KCBS-TV Channel 2 investigative reporter David Goldstein, whose Oct. 16 report on the Washington Boulevard building featured tenants displaying baggies full of cockroaches and bed bugs interspersed with SoLa promotional videos showing Muoto touting his company's social mission.
Three days later, the Inner City Law Center filed its lawsuit.
By late November, SoLa workers were hustling all over the building tearing out rotted framing and flooring, setting new drywall, installing plumbing and cabinets and painting inside and out.
Several tenants were moved to hotels while their units were refurbished.
Muoto has vigorously defended against the lawsuit. He characterized Strategic Actions for a Just Economy as an ideologically driven interest group. He denied that pressure to deliver promised investor returns caused the firm to short-change maintenance.
"In 2020 we did very little in terms of rehabbing," he said. "Now, maintenance we did. But that was particularly challenging during COVID when tenants didn't want us to come in and maintenance techs didn't necessarily want to go inside. But we continued to do critical maintenance."
Muoto said the public criticism has made it harder for him to raise development funds.
Investors grow leery "because of things that David Goldstein wants to sensationalize and what Grant Riley wants to profit from," he said.
Muoto points to SoLa's record of making housing available for poor people who hold Section 8 federal rental subsidies, resulting in a decrease in the average income of SoLa tenants. Resistance to subsidized tenants has been a chronic obstacle to finding suitable homes for poor and homeless people.
About half the 650 new leases SoLa has signed hold Section 8 vouchers, Lusk said.
SoLa's critics contend that the company is selectively rehabbing units after pressuring tenants to leave so that it can raise rents beyond the 3% or 4% increases allowed under the rent stabilization ordinance. Section 8 rents, based on federal guidelines, can be much higher than long-term tenants in rent-controlled buildings pay.
Muoto denied that SoLa pressures, or pays, tenants to leave. The Los Angeles Housing Department, which requires landlords to file reports when they pay tenants to vacate, has no record that SoLa has used that practice.
But Housing Department records obtained by The Times through public records requests show a pattern of aggressive rent increases by SoLa. In 155 buildings subject to rent control, rents for about a third of units have been increased more than the annual limit — allowable only when a tenant vacates — and those increases in many cases were more than 50%.
SoLa said the Housing Department data were grossly inaccurate, but a check of one building confirmed that six of 16 units has been raised between 57% and 92% after tenants left. All those tenants left voluntarily with unpaid rent up to $10,000 that SoLa did not collect, Lusk said.
For all its controversy, support for SoLa has not wavered. In February, it announced a $50-million commitment from the California State Teachers' Retirement System to its latest enterprise, the Black Impact Fund that has so far raised $270 million from investors including PayPal Holdings, Adirondack Capital and the Skoll Foundation. The money will fund another 3,500 units, Lusk said.
"SoLa's model has demonstrated that a high-caliber operator with a disciplined investing approach, combined with intentional social impacts, can deliver returns that benefit investors and community members alike," Julie Donegan, a portfolio manager for CalSTRS' real estate team, said in announcing the decision.
The Black Impact fund will continue SoLa's shift to new construction, Muoto said. About 90% of it will go into new affordable housing in South LA.
Muoto said the controversy has caused him to stop buying older buildings, but SoLa has no plan to divest its aging housing portfolio.
Muoto recoiled at a critic's suggestion that the 100-year-old building on Washington Boulevard wasn't worth saving.
"We're not going to take away naturally occurring affordable housing regardless of what Grant Riley wants us to do," he said.


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The uncle of the family injured Friday morning in a terror attack said during the afternoon that the father had tried to save his daughter's life, but it was too late.
Rina Shnerb, 17, was murdered Friday morning in a terror attack which left her father and brother moderately and seriously wounded. Investigators believe that the homemade explosive device which injured the family was planted in the path to the spring, where the family had been walking.
"He came over to his son Dvir, took of his tzitzit (religious four-cornered garment) and used it as a tourniquet," the uncle said.
"The attackers planned this. They saw innocent, pure, and good people coming to swim in the spring, a spring that is in Israel and under our control. The explosive device hurt them so badly. Rina was a sweet girl filled with a fear of heaven and fear of G-d.
"She was a girl who gave her entire self to youth activities and volunteer activities. She was so sweet, and she had her entire life ahead of her."
Rina celebrated her 17th birthday last week. Her brother, 19-year-old Dvir Haim, was moderately to seriously injured, while their father, Rabbi Eitan, was lightly injured. The two were evacuated by helicopter by the IDF's Unit 669 rescue unit and taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
Dvir is currently unconscious and on a respirator, a hospital statement said.
Rabbi Eitan is in stable condition and fully conscious. He had his wife have 11 children. Dvir is their third child, and Rina is their fourth.
Rina will be laid to rest at 3:30p.m. Friday afternoon, at the new cemetery in her hometown of Lod.


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POASITO, Alajuela – While Costa Ricans who evacuated their homes after Thursday´s magnitude 6.2 earthquake were doing their best to cope, some tourists were shaken up after spending the night in parking lots and buses with no idea of when help was coming – and paying out of their own pockets when it did.
Walter Holmes, of the U.S. state of Virginia , was in the restaurant of the La Paz Waterfall Gardens Hotel, located in Vara Blanca, the closest town to the quake´s epicenter, eating lunch when the quake hit Thursday at 1:15 p.m. CST. "The restaurant simply exploded," he said, "I didn´t even have time to get scared."
Holmes and his wife were among 300 tourists trapped overnight in the luxury eco-resort at the base of the scenic Poás Volcano when landslides cut off roads in and out of the luxury eco-resort. The couple spent the night in a bus in the hotel´s parking lot, where they scoured the hotel´s ruins for supplies before they were evacuated in a helicopter the next day.
"We scrounged up enough chips and food for the night," said Holmes in a phone interview from the Herradura Hotel in San José after being evacuated. Holmes, 66, had visited Costa Rica as part of a cruise tour.
Howard and Cathy Moore, from Orange County , California , were on a sightseeing day trip to the Poás Volcano when the earthquake hit. They, too, found themselves stranded with the hotel guests and little idea of what was happening.
"All we heard was lies, lies, lies," said Mr. Moore. "(The hotel staff) told us we would get some food at 3 p.m., and then there was no food. … They told us we would get blankets when it got dark, then there were no blankets. … Then they told us the army was coming to pick us up in the morning, and all we had were news stations and photographers."
Costa Rica has no army, however, since the military was abolished in 1949.
The Moores spent the 24 hours after the earthquake outside with almost nothing to eat and little water, they said, while helicopters swirled above, landed and apparently gave government officials tours of the disaster´s aftermath, but didn´t pick them up. In the end, they ended up being charged $300 each by a private helicopter company to fly out to a nearby relief camp in the community of Poasito.
Nazario Llinarez, a Spanish tourist from the town of Alta , said he and companion Vicenta Ferrandiz found shelter on a tour bus during the night. The two had been walking near one of the water falls when "everything started to come down around us."
Ferrandiz said at least 200 tourists were stranded along with them, including families with children.
"We had no type of information, not from anybody," Llinarez said.
Roberthe Margarithe, a visitor from southern France , said he spent the night on the highway near the hotel under a plastic trash bag to keep off the rain, and only a banana to eat.
Carlos Benavides, director of the Costa Rican Tourism Board, said that all the La Paz Waterfall Garden Hotel´s guests were accounted for and without any serious injuries.
The large Poasito camp, 10 kilometers from the volcano, was one of many refuges set up in open fields by small towns in the affected areas in the Bosques de Fraijanes and Poás region, northwest of San José .
Ticos and other stranded tourists did their best in the situation at the Poasito camp, making fires to keep warm and using tarps to ward off the rain. There were also tents, an improvised helicopter landing area and temporary shelters. Newly rescued Ticos and tourists arrived by all-terrain vehicles and helicopter and were greeted by two medical teams, of the six teams working throughout affected areas.
Regional Health Director of Poás, Gilberth Arias who oversees the half dozen medical squads, had been there since 6 a.m., when workers reportedly had 73 injured on the premises. Helicopters and ATVs have made the search for missing people more efficient, but operations are far from running smoothly.
"I know there are still people trapped, and we need to get them out of there as soon as possible," said Arias, as a helicopter landed behind him.
Lorena Morales sat at another camp in Dulce Nombre de San Isidro in her makeshift home, made of tarps and string, watching her son play soccer with other boys. Despite being forced from their homes and living outside, the atmosphere was not one of misery.
"We had to get out of the house because it was too dangerous, and there was no point after the earthquake in going back in – no electricity, no water, and everything we own in ruins," said Morales, recounting the previous day´s events. "So we´ve been here, and everyone I know is fine, thank God."
Water was distributed to families in the area Friday afternoon. Most people had gone without water since the earthquake.
Luis Arce was one of the many distributors making their way through the area. Despite his own losses – broken television, motorcycle, lights and plates – he was trying to help out the people in his area.
"It´s been really hard … but all we can do is make the best of it, right?"
Tico Times reporters Blake Schmidt and Leland-Baxter Neal contributed reporting to this story.


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Danbury Community Speedwatch - Volunteers Needed
Community SpeedWatch is a traffic monitoring scheme coordinated by Essex Police but managed and run by neighbourhood policing teams and community volunteers. Volunteers are issued high-visibility jackets, roadside signs and are trained to use the equipment and record the information which is passed onto Essex Police.
The Danbury Speedwatch are local people who want to help make a difference and encourage awareness of the speed that vehicles are travelling through our village. We usually volunteer for 2/3 hours per month.
Essex Police are running training sessions for those who would like to volunteer in the coming months. If you are interested in becoming a community speedwatch volunteer, please contact Debbie Hay on 01245 227258.


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When you come across a dry bag the first thought that springs to mind is a bag to keep your belongings dry, right?
Now, this may be the main reason we all buy a dry bag but it is certainly not the only one. Dry bags have many more uses than just being thrown on your paddleboard with your phone and wallet in (even though this is a great reason to buy one). But, there are plenty of other ways in which you can use your dry bag for.
If you're looking for some other unique ways to utilize your drybag for everyday activities, have a read below of some creative ways to use your dry bag!
1. Workout Weight
If you don't have access to your usual gym or weights, perhaps if you're travelling or just away from home, then using your dry bag as weight can be a great alternative! It works just like a kettlebell and you can make it as light or heavy as you want.
Simply fill it with water or sand or anything else which is unlikely to damage your bag but can add some weight. Seeing as you already know what size dry bag you own and how big it is, you can simply convert the gallons into the weight that you're looking for and voila, you've got yourself a set of weights!
2. Electronics Bag
Seeing as a dry bag is so great at keeping the water out, why not use it to store your most important electronics and keep them dry? If you're packing your backpack for the day with your cables and a bottle of water or your suitcase for a long-overdue vacation, filled with shampoo and shower gel.
Then to save the risk of your electronics getting wet, pack them in your dry bag. It's also a great space saver for your suitcase, but more on this below…
3. Use as a packing cube or organizer in your luggage
Running out of space in your luggage? Enter your dry bag! When empty, a dry bag takes up very little space, but, when filled with your belongings (think those extra tops that you've packed 'just in case') it can be used as a compression packing cube. Perfect for packing even more 'must haves' in even less space!
4. Create extra storage
Most dry bags come equipped with an interlocking buckle or an attachment point, meaning if all of your belongings don't fit in your existing bag anymore then you can simply fill up your dry bag as well and attach it to the top of your existing bag.
5. Use them to carry water
Seeing as dry bags are so waterproof, this also means that water can't get out of them, right? If you're looking for a way to carry extra water or maybe ice back from the ice machine to your hotel room, your dry bag is the perfect solution!
6. Use it as a pillow
Have you ever tried sleeping on an airport floor whilst you wait for your delayed flight? Or maybe you're on a camping trip and have left your pillow on the side at home? Whatever the occasion might be, your dry bag will act as an awesome pillow because of its roll-top closure.
Ensure your dry bag is filled with air, then roll the opening three or four times and clip the buckle to seal in the air. It should create a softish pillow for a few hours, if not fill your dry bag with clothes for a slightly softer headrest.
7. Use your dry bag to separate clean and dirty clothes
There are multiple times when you might need to do this. It may be after a sweaty gym or hot yoga session where putting your worn clothes into your bag doesn't seem like the most hygienic thing to do.
A gym bag is great, but when you are continuously throwing in your dirty shoes and clothes those odors get trapped in the fabric of your bag over time, something you most definitely do not want! Instead, throw your sweaty and dirty clothes into your dry bag to separate them from your clean items, take them home, and rinse off your bag ready for the next time.
A dry bag is so much more than just a bag to keep your belongings dry at sea (although, this is a great one), but it also has so many other uses, the ones mentioned above are just the tip of the iceberg (or the dry bag filled with ice!) So, keep experimenting with yours and see how else you can creatively use it!


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Pediatric Health State Utilities: Whose Dyad is it Anyway?
M. Hassan Alkazemi, MS, Rohit Tejwani, MD, Leigh Nicholl, MS, Steven Wolf, MS, Gina-Maria Pomann, PhD, Jonathan C. Routh, MD, MPH.
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
BACKGROUND: Pediatric health state utility values, a quality of life measurement, can be estimated from preference assessment of a community. Online work-distribution platforms provide a means through which these utilities can be estimated using time-trade-off (TTO) surveys. Utility estimates are not only condition-specific, but also perspective-specific. Utility values for pediatric conditions may differ widely depending on whether respondents are queried from a parent perspective, the child's perspective, or a parent-child dyad perspective. We aim to resolve the ambiguity associated with a dyad perspective using a validated online community survey.
METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on Amazon′s Mechanical Turk, a validated online platform where users receive small rewards for completing surveys. Respondents were required to be ≥18y and based in the USA. They were randomized to one of three common Difference of Sex Development (DSD) conditions. Demographics data, including parental status, religious affiliation and prior familiarity with DSD were collected. Attention checks were used to exclude respondents. A TTO approach was used to determine a utility value as well as query dyad responses. A final sample size of 1,628 (of an initial 2,278) was obtained.
RESULTS: Median respondent age was 34y, 59.4% were female and 59.1% were parents at the time of the survey. Most respondents were white (77.1%), 49.0% were Christian and 60.4% were unfamiliar with DSD. The median overall utility value for any DSD diagnosis was 0.70 (IQR 0.50-0.90). Respondents were asked to provide their age, after which a scale was generated of their combined total remaining life years for their hypothetical 6yo child with a DSD diagnosis and their remaining life years based on the 2013 Centers for Disease Control life tables. When asked what percentage of their total remaining shared life-years one would trade in the dyad situation in order to avoid a DSD diagnosis, the median response was 100% (IQR 63.0% - 100.0%) came from the respondent's life vs. their hypothetical child. When looking at parent status, the median dyad for current parents is 100%, IQR 70%-100%; non-parents 90%, IQR 57%-100%. Median dyad was the same for those who had "none to minimal knowledge of the term "intersex" and those who had "moderate to ample" knowledge of the term.
CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric health utility values that are calculated from dyad scenarios may differ based on the perspective of the respondent. We show that in the dyad scenario using TTO methods, parents and hypothetical parents were likely to trade all of their remaining combined hypothetical lives from their share.
Funding Source: The Charles Josiah Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund.
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The NBA Playoffs: The Best Looks From the Tunnel
The NBA tunnel is back.
It's no secret the modern-day basketball player has transformed arena tunnels into runways for some of the most sought-after fashion. Players like the Washington Wizards' Russell Westbrook, Boston Celtics' Jayson Tatum, Phoenix Suns' Devin Booker and Utah Jazz's Jordan Clarkson didn't disappoint this season, wearing pieces from the likes of Valentino, Gucci, Goyard and more.
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While the tunnels have always served as a stage for fashion trends in recent history, 2020 witnessed a political shift in the NBA. Last summer in the Orlando bubble, the NBA, the National Basketball Players Association and the teams worked together to use the bubble as a platform for Black Lives Matter. With that, the players' fashion influence turned into activism.
"When you look at the Black Lives Matter movement, you have to pay homage to Jesse Owens, to [Muhammed] Ali, to the Michael Jordans of the world that paved the way for you to be where you are now," Vick Michel told WWD in February. "It started somewhere. Fashion didn't just happen three years ago because League Fits joined Instagram."
League Fits is an Instagram account dedicated to the off-duty "fits" worn by NBA players as they walk from the parking lot, or sometimes their hotel, to the locker room. Since its creation in March 2018, the account has accrued more than 700,000 followers and counting.
Ahead of Game 1 of the championship series between the Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks, WWD looks at some of the best League Fits from the 2020-21 NBA season playoffs. Scroll for more.
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ZyXEL Corporation Celebrates 20th Anniversary as Competitive Network Solutions Leader at Cebit 2009
Hsinchu, Taiwan, February 23, 2009 - Boasting of more than 495,000 attendees from around the world, Cebit is reportedly the world's premier marketplace for IT businesses. As one of the world's leading networking equipment providers, ZyXEL Communications representatives will be at Cebit between March 3 and 8 to present the latest networking products and solutions. ZyXEL's booth will be in Hall 13, booth C70.
Using the theme "Unleash Networking Power-- Freedom, Innovation and Collaboration", the ZyXEL booth will cover three exhibition areas including "Seamless Collaboration" for SME, "Broadband Digital Living" for SOHO and Consumers and "Innovative Service Enabler" for the Telco/ISP.
"This year, ZyXEL is celebrating our 20th anniversary," ZyXEL president Dr. Yuh-Long Chen said. Beginning with our first dial-up modem to the Next Generation broadband access solution; and from personal networking devices to Carrier-class central office equipment, ZyXEL insists on constant innovation which has empowered us to meet the challenges ahead and is the force behind our success," Dr. Chen continued. "At Cebit 2009, as in the past, we will feature a wide range of demonstrations and solutions to showcase products and services and demonstrate that our company is a leader in today's broadband industry. Leveraging our extensive line of end-to-end networking solutions, ZyXEL representatives will show how our comprehensive products and solutions are designed to deliver high-speed, reliable connectivity for network operators, enterprises and consumers."
(SME Area): Seamless Collaboration - Empower to Perform
ZyXEL solutions are specifically designed to meet the criteria of flexible mobility, robust security, high scalability, and easy management with advanced enterprise level features and functionalities. At the ZyXEL booth, visitors can see ZyXEL's comprehensive products and solutions including Carrier Switches, LAN Switches, Wireless LAN Hybrid AP, Unified Security Gateway and IP telephony solutions at five product zones in the technology area. There, they can see how ZyXEL solutions help network administrators to construct secure, fast and stable networks with minimal cost and effort through Secure Mobile Access, Hospitality, and Public Sector vertical market-related scenarios. In addition, the Distributed Enterprise area demonstrates a highly productive business environment of central/ branch/remote offices to show how ZyXEL's comprehensive products provide the best solutions to meet the specific needs of a business.
(SOHO/Consumer Area): Broadband Digital Living - Easy. Efficient. Secure
In order to fulfill the increasing demands of home multimedia streaming, ZyXEL introduces comprehensive digital home solutions including 11n wireless routers, adapters, Powerline devices, Network Storage Appliance, and Digital Media Adapters for easy- to- use, energy-saving, and secure solutions for multimedia entertainment in the living room or home office.
Just plug and play! Users can extend the network with ZyXEL's Powerline devices by simply using the existing power grid in the house. Or customers can access the Internet anywhere in the home through ZyXEL's wireless products. High-quality video streaming, high-speed networking, excellent network speed, and coverage is essential. Featuring the latest 802.11n standard, ZyXEL has introduced a more complete 11n product line this year, providing an efficient way to achieve the faster speeds, wider ranges, and more reliable home network connections.
(Telco Operator/Service Provider Area): Innovative Service Enabler - Profit through Differentiation
Service operators' success relies on their ability to provide user-centric services and an integrated access platform with flexibility and more value-added services to meet diversified customer demands will be the major trend. At Cebit 2009, ZyXEL will introduce the new Multi-Service Gateway for NGN converged service.
Featuring the 802.11n wireless function, multiple WAN interfaces, advanced home networking standards, and modularized technologies, it will help telcos easily deploy innovative services with a single integrated device. In addition, it is ready for further changes without further maintenance effort or deployment costs. It will also support new applications such as network storage, Web 2.0, social networking, and intelligent home control to help telcos provide customers the differentiated services they want. The innovative device will help telcos optimize their capital expenditures and operational expenditures and guarantees the best return on investment.
ZyXEL's wide range central office solutions including Metro Ethernet, WiMAX, FTTx and xDSL integrated with multimedia appliances, IP Set-top Boxes and NGN gateways provide telco operators and service providers more valuable services at an efficient deployment cost.
To find a local ZyXEL distributor or for more information about ZyXEL's products, visit
About ZyXEL Communications
ZyXEL Communications Corp., founded in 1989 and headquartered in Taiwan, is the leading provider of complete broadband access solutions for service providers, and business and home users. The company was recently named Taiwan's first "green enterprise," and is the second highest ranked "green" company in Asia (2007 CG watch, Asian Corporate Governance Association).
As one of the early modem manufacturers, ZyXEL has undergone many transformations in the fast-paced networking industry. Today, ZyXEL is one of the few companies in the world capable of offering complete networking solutions including DSL customer premise equipment, central office equipment, Internet security appliances, switches, WLAN equipment, network-attached storage and centralized network management systems.
The company has 3200 employees and distributors in 70 countries, reaching more than 150 regional markets. The ZyXEL Communications Corp. includes 29 subsidiaries and sales offices and three research and development centers worldwide. For more information, visit the company's Website, http://www.zyxel.com.


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TVS Motor Company has now raised $8.5 Million in the Bangalore based startup, TagBox, which is a supply chain industrial Internet of Things and the Machine Learning platform company as a part of its Series A funding round. This round was entirely led by the TVS Motor Singapore and TVS Motor Company.
TagBox also has plans to use the funds for the R&D and product innovation and to also expand its global footprint. The startup will also invest in the AssetLens and BoxLens and also in deploying some of the more predictive analytics and automation solutions.
Rajesh Narasimhan, Board Member of TVS Motor Company and CEO of TVS Motor (Singapore) said: "Our current investment in Tagbox is part of the initial set of investments being made in strategically relevant digital startups."
He also revealed that the TVS evaluated many of the companies which provide the IOT solutions in the logistics and supply chain space and found that the TagBox product offerings and solutions to be a unique blend of the AI, Machine Learning and IOT.
He added "Their ability to help organizations monitor, predict and prevent SKU health risk in the supply chain is a clear differentiator. We are happy to invest in and strategically partner TagBox as they continue to pursue bottom line impact for Fortune 1000 companies by improving their supply chain processes while leveraging them for our own group businesses."


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13 Sep 2020, Clapham Rovers Clapham Rovers beat Parklife
Sunday saw Rovers second game of the season upon us. It was another glorious day, this time at the pitch with two first names, Edward Allan in Dulwich.
As middle class infant children learnt to play cricket on the neighbouring pitch, the Rovers warm up commenced with an air of nonchalance. G was seen lofting numerous high balls into Pybus for him to catch, warming up his right leg muscles for multiple big kicks over the top to Seb when the game began. A gaggle of other Rovers were seen attempting the hallmark of all professional football club warmups, the Guardiola 'rondo', whereby a hapless player is put in the middle of a circle and made to chase the ball. Lastly, Nath, a student of the intricacies of sport science, orchestrated a mini HIIT session whereby Rovers players were made to jog back and forth (no more than 15 yards on one stretch) and periodically perform actions such as 'knees up at the front', and 'legs up and the back'. The more explosive 'get up for the header' was left until the very end to release the most testosterone closer to kick off.
As 10:30 approached and the referee blew his whistle to signal to both teams to cease their warm up and get ready to start the game, Nath was seen remonstrating with Kewy to announce the lineup and Sun Tzu Art of War tactics. Kewy duly obliged and hurriedly huddled the Rovers 15 players together on the side of the pitch. As the referee grew more agitated and asked again to hurry up, Kewy gave him the universal '1 index finger' sign (bottom of finger side facing referee) to inform him that just 1 more minute was required. Kewy proceeded to announce a 3-5-2 and proclaim "they're some big lads, organised. Let's get up at them".
As the game began, Rovers were in control for a good 20-25 minutes. Shaf was causing havoc down the left-hand side and frequently drew the foul in a dangerous area, or was able to beat his man and whip in a ball from the edge of the area. The two midfield anchors of Fordy and Tim Louis were providing a shield to the defence not seen since the heady days of Lucas and Spearing circa 2011 for Dalglish's second-coming at Liverpool.
As the half wore on, Parklife grew in confidence and began to dominate possession, albeit with minimal penetration. As Parklife's midfield attempted to break away on swift counter attacks and expose the ageing Rovers defence, Swindon-born West Ham fan Fordy, not to be mistaken for previous Rover 'Tanned Howard', ensured that the Rovers 'tactical foul' strategy was in full force.
Nevertheless, the Rovers continued to have glimpses of goal and had the best chance of the half to score as half time rapidly approached. Shaf and Bernard, much like the Sunday before, were managing to scurry past their markers on the left-hand flank. On one such occasion, Bernard got to the byline and whipped across a delicious ball to strike partner Mckee. Fresh from his inexcusable miss in Matchday #1, Mckee's confidence was low. As the ball sped across to him, all that was required from a confident striker was an outstretched toe or boot into the gaping net and Rovers would have been 1-0 up. Rather, Mckee lunged at the cross and the ball careered high and wide. Cries of "unlucky mate" and "bad luck pal" were heard, in a rousing attempt to mask the contempt fellow Rovers were feeling.
The referee blew his half time whistle and both teams trudged off. As each player went to his respective sports bag to collect their Covid compliant individual water bottle, Kewy and Nath delivered a tactical run down of the half's events as each player looked emptily at their feet or into the distance.
Moreover, in what Oliver Holt from the Daily Mail described as 'swearing to try to impress the older children' when referring to Mourinho's team talks in the Amazon 'All or Nothing' documentary, Mckee was seen trying to emulate his Spurs managerial hero by yelling "f*ckin hell yeah", directed at everyone but no one in equal measure.
The second half began, and having not injected any fresh legs into the proceedings, Rovers restarted sluggishly, in stark contrast to one week ago. Parklife quickly took ownership of the half, and within 10 mins, after a bit of pinball in the box, managed to fire past Pybus at point blank range to go 1-0 up.
The Rovers response was positive with more lofty balls to Bernard over the top. Within a quarter of an hour, Rovers had equalised, Bernard adding to his brace from Matchday 1 with another here. Brother Seb was busy beavering away at the tip of the Fordy-Louis dual-quarterback midfield, and on one such occasion, the Rovers sprayed the ball out to the right and as the cross came in and was half cleared, like all good strikers, Bernard was lurking to hammer home.
As time ticked on by and with Rovers looking to maintain their 100% start to the season, Kewy was increasingly becoming agitated on the sidelines at the lack of creative flair or invention being seen. In a bold move, Kewy, in what is a rare sight event even in Sunday League, decided on a Triple substitution. On came Charlie, Godders and Drew.
The game was immediately changed and became an open, entertaining affair that the spectators had been crying out for for 70 minutes.
Godwin, brought on by Kewy to not be afraid to 'try things' used his changing room influence to take ownership of a free kick in a dangerous position on the edge of the Parklife box. With manager Kewy's permission to take risks, Godwin attempted an Argentina vs England 1998 style free kick to Shaf who had peeled away on his right-hand side (the blind side to the cross). Shaf, having not angled his run correctly was unable to receive the pass and the defender simply intercepted the pass.
Rovers were understandably now beginning to pull the strings in the twilight period of the game with the fresh, technical impetus brought about by Kewy's triple substitution.
However, with the Rovers centre backs G and Nath tiring, mistakes were inevitable. Fearful of having their lack of pace exposed, G and Nath did what any ageing centre back pairing would do and began to retreat deeper and deeper. This enabled Parklife to gain a momentary foothold deep into Rovers half, and as they squeezed in a cross, Fordy flailed through the back of their onrushing central midfielder and the referee pointed vociferously towards the spot. It was minute 85 and the Rovers were staring down the barrel of a loss.
Cue Rovers indignation.
G, having seen such a tackle commonplace in the 80s and 90s, was hear hollering 'No!'. Nath, trying to remain calm and hide his fury tried to explain the science behind the tackle to the referee, pointing out that the ball travelled in the same direction of Fordy's leg movement, meaning he must have taken the ball cleanly. Mckee was simply witnessed shouting 'Embarrassing!'.
As the Parklike player lined up to take the penalty, Nath then commenced a series of unsavoury remarks in an attempt to get into his head. One week on from his 'always late, get a watch' dig, Nath was conscious of fellow Rovers hearing another poor one-liner, so simply reverted to going "Gump's gonna miss" repeatedly.
It indeed worked, and the Parklife penalty taker blazed his penalty down the middle, with Pybus getting his body in the way and the ball rebounding high and wide out towards the corner flag. Fresh from a double-save 20 minutes earlier, and scrapping opponents on Matchday 1 when barged into from a cross, Pybus has been in inspired fighting mood at the start of the 2020/21 season. As the ball motored out for a throw in, numerous Rovers embraced Pybus, who did the only acceptable thing a goalkeeper can do in such a situation and refuse to celebrate the moment, instead throwing off his teammates and gesticulating wildly towards where the ball went out. The future Grant Thornton partner would later pick up MOM for what, at that point, was the defining moment of the game.
In reality, the game's most special moment was still to come. As the match entered injury time, one final Rovers foray into the opposition half began. A desperate lofty ball was hoofed over to the left hand flank which Shaf latched onto. Shaf advanced up the field and with minimal movement from the Rovers target man Mckee, did the only thing he could do and checked back inside.
Having been deployed to play a post-modern, deep lying quarterback role, Godwin, a striker by trade, sensed his opportunity. Seeing the space on the edge of the Parklife box, Shaf spotted Godwin surging from the midfield depths. It was a telepathic connection to be expected by two technicians of the game. Shaf looked up, and sprayed the ball into the space for the onrushing Godwin, similar to Neil Mellor to Gerrard vs Olympiakos in 2004. As Godwin came towards the ball ready to strike, the ball began to fall victim to the summer pitch and weave and bobble uncontrollably. In what can only be put down to instinct, Godwin adjusted the pace of his run and the angle by which he came onto the ball in an instant. With two onrushing defenders in his way, the only place Godwin could put the bobbling, fizzing ball from 30 yards out was towards the Goalkeeper's bottom left. He duly obliged and with a 'banana-kick' technique fired the ball cleanly towards goal, hitting the post and rebounding to the always predatory Bernard to tap home into an open net.
As Bernard wheeled away to the squeals of delight being heard from all on and off-field Rovers, he was left to celebrate alone with strike partner Mckee as Rovers players flocked to the assister, Godwin, with Fordy repeatedly proclaiming "that was a hard one that, it was bobbling".
There was little time for Parklife to summon a response, and the referee soon after blew his whistle for a 2-1 Rovers victory and a 100% record maintained.
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Washington, D.C. – Kris Perry, Executive Director of the First Five Years Fund (FFYF), released the following statement upon the unveiling of the administration's fiscal year 2018 (FY18) budget proposal:
"The overwhelming research makes clear quality early childhood education for children from birth through age five is among the best investments we as a society can make. Congress has consistently recognized the importance of early learning and care programs. The recent passage of the FY17 Omnibus Bill reaffirmed bipartisan lawmakers' commitment to the federal early childhood programs from birth through age 5.
"The administration has voiced its desire to tackle important issues like affordable child care for working families. While the budget doesn't target these programs for deep cuts, the federal budget should do more to support young children, from home visiting, to child care, to Head Start and preschool. The administration's FY18 budget request serves as a reminder that lawmakers must work together to make high quality early learning and care more accessible for all families.
"Moving forward, FFYF will continue to work with bipartisan leaders on Capitol Hill to build on the ever-growing momentum and support for federal early childhood education programs. These programs are essential to laying the foundation for all children to succeed."
Congress' bipartisan support led to the authorization of the FY17 Omnibus legislation, which sustained funding levels for the Preschool Development Grants program, and increased federal funding for:
- Head Start ($85 million increase to $9.253 billion)
- Child Care and Development Block Grants ($95 million increase to $2.856 billion)
- Early Head-Start Child Care Partnerships ($5 million increase to $640 million).
Earlier this year, advocates and experts testified before the Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee (L-HHS) of House Appropriations on the need to support these vital early childhood programs as part of the FY18 budget. Both Republican and Democratic members of the subcommittee spoke with those testifying about the necessity of supporting young children from birth through age 5.
FFYF is a bipartisan organization that provides deep knowledge and resources to advocate for proven investments in federal policies that support the first five years of a child's life. To learn more about FFYF visit http://www.ffyf.org.


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The following is an excerpt from Mika Brzezinski's latest book Grow Your Value.
I cannot stress it enough: if we are going to grow our professional and inner worth, meeting people who either are or could one day be valuable associates, potential future colleagues or bosses, connectors, collaborators—and also personal friends—is simply essential. I see every moment out of my house (except when I'm on vacation) as a networking opportunity because I almost always get something out of every encounter. There should be nothing wrong about that.
But there is one thing I don't do anymore. As I stated earlier, I do not do people-pleasing.
Networking is not about trying to get everyone to like you. It's not about making close friends. I've said it before and I'll say it again now: people-pleasing is poison. It is enemy number one for women who want to grow personally and professionally. It actually saps your value. If you are trying to be all things to all people, you will not leave a solid impression on anyone nor will you make any genuinely useful contacts. If you keep it up, eventually you will be seen as a sycophant, someone not to be trusted or taken seriously. People can usually sense an acting job, and that will make them uneasy and unsure about what your motives and intentions are. At best you won't be seen as a serious person; at worst you'll be looked on as vaguely devious and untrustworthy. In addition, people-pleasing will run you ragged. Networking, however, is seeing that there may be a useful connection between two people. It is either there or it is not.
Even more importantly, if you are playing to the crowd you may be giving them what you think they want, but you will not be getting what you want or need. To network effectively you must communicate who you are and what you have to offer. This is not to say it's permissible to be rude; it is never permissible to be rude. But it is permissible—in fact, it's advisable—to be powerful, open, fearless.
For example, at a women's awards event I met a woman named Nadja Bellan-White, an executive at the advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather. We got to chatting, and it turned out that she was in the running to head up Ogilvy Africa. "When the CEO of North America warned me I was about to get called into the offices soon, and my first reaction was, 'Oh boy…what client situation has occurred now?'" she said.
I moaned in complete sympathy. So typical of us women, isn't it? We're such people-pleasers that if the higher-ups want to talk to us, we expect that we're in trouble rather than assume that good news is coming our way. I gave her my one-minute lecture on the importance of knowing her value, told her about my experience negotiating my salary at Morning Joe, and encouraged her to pick up my book before she went into further discussions with the muckety-mucks so she could make sure to get her money's worth while considering the offer. She read the book that night.
Next thing you know Nadja's e-mailing and calling me to tell me about how she'd negotiated the Oglivy Africa CEO position. "I went from thinking 'why me?' to 'why not me?' I stopped apologizing. Still, I was afraid. Can I do this? Will I have the resources to get the job done?" she told me. "[Your] book was about succeeding, so I started thinking, 'What would happen if I succeeded?' I think that kind of bravery is frowned on in women. But there's a difference between being brave and cocky, and I think that's a line that men don't seem to negotiate as finely as professional women."


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Discover more from Snack Stack
The Japanese snack that's actually Mexican
A brief history of cacahuates Japonéses
Hello and welcome to Snack Stack! This is our very first issue. Thanks for reading. Scroll to the bottom for a list of upcoming snacks. Now let's get right to it.
Cacahuates Japonéses
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The basics
"Cacahuates japonéses" translates to Japanese peanuts. So…these are peanuts. Coated with a shell made with flour and a bit of soy sauce.
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The intel
The origins of some snacks are lost to history, but Japanese peanuts have a clear lineage: they were created by Yoshigei Nakatani, a Japanese immigrant living in Mexico City, around 1945.
Nakatani had worked in a candy factory in Hyogo Prefecture prior to moving to Manzanillo, Mexico in 1932, at the age of 22, to work for a wealthy department-store owner named Heijiro Kato. In Mexico, Nakatani fell in love with a woman named Emma Ávila and the two started a family. But after the United States entered World War II, the Mexican government followed the lead of its northern neighbor and forced Japanese immigrants and their families living near the Pacific coast or the USA border to move to interior areas; most, including the Nakatanis, went to Mexico City. The government also forcibly closed many Japanese businesses, including Kato's stores, leaving Yoshigei Nakatani jobless.
Needing income to provide for his family, Nakatani started making candy again, setting up a shop in La Merced Market just outside the city center. He made traditional Mexican candies first, and then tried to come up with something new, something that spoke to his roots in Hyogo Prefecture. The result was a coated peanut, crunchy and salty, and with a signature soy sauce flavor. It was an instant hit, and customers stood in long lines for what they started calling "Japanese peanuts."
The Nakatanis soon had a thriving family business—the five children helped make, bag, and market the product—and eventually added more products, including enchilada and chamoy flavored peanuts. They also acquired lots of competitors, with many brands of Japanese peanuts available today; together, they sell more than 20,000 tons every year.
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Your local store in Mexico or online at Nuts.com, where you can buy twenty-four pounds for a mere $78.96 (or one pound for $5.99).
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Read more
Discover Nikkei: "Japanese Peanuts, a Legacy of the Nakatani Family"
Hazlitt: "Mexico: Land of the Japanese Peanut"
The Nakatanis' son Carlos was a prominent artist best known for his paintings, which drew on his Japanese and Mexican backgrounds.
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If you like this, subscribe to get three snacks every week! A few coming attractions:
The snack that tells the time (Uganda)
The snack that world leaders ate together (China)
The snack that went into space (USA/THE COSMOS)
The snack from the mango monks (Philippines)
The snack that comes with a safety warning (Australia)
The snack that comes with a risqué message (Portugal)
The snack that's "like wool" but way tastier (Iran)
The snack that involves no actual rabbits (South Africa)
The snack that cooks in salt and sun (Egypt)
The snack that gets you through Arctic winters (Norway)
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Jeremy & Pat recap the Cubs Season Ticket Holder Event.
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Concerned about whether you can use slugs as fishing bait? If yes, then explore this article carefully. It is one of the most-asked questions that I often face from beginner anglers.
But, no more worries!!!
In this article, I'll go over how slugs can be the best bait for your oncoming fishing trip. Just keep on reading.
Can you use slugs as fishing bait? Slugs are excellent live fishing baits. Using slugs as bait, you will be able to gain more. As no fish species turns down the natural live baits, your opportunity of capturing more fish in any waterway will be increased.
What's more, fishing with slugs will cost you less time. Plus, slugs and fish often stay in the same habitats such as rivers and ponds. For this reason, it's logical that slugs are a part of fish's natural diet. Therefore, it is the perfect time for you to use slugs as bait.
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Are Slugs Good For Fishing?
Of course! Slugs are good for fishing without any doubt. As a self-declared fishing specialist, I can realize three major benefits of using slugs as fishing bait.
These are:
- Slugs are organic. Almost all fish species, especially predator fish, tend to eat them every day. For this reason, fishing with slugs can be a good idea for anglers.
- It's a natural way to serve fish. Needless to say, you have a good chance of getting more fish by natural bait instead of artificial ones.
- Slugs are costless. You can collect them in any damp area of your house. However, if you want to buy them, they're available at every online store.
Where Can You Find Slugs?
Slugs move slowly with a large locomotive foot and emit slippery mucus. And, the interesting thing is this mucus gets hard behind them, leaving a clear track.
Well, you can usually find these slimy critters sticking around in your peaceful garden or your neighbor's abandoned backyard after recent rain. You can also find them in freshwater biomes like rivers, ponds, streams, and lakes in great numbers.
Many slugs can also be found under the thin mantle of a tank, in your lawn, on trees, or under rocks as they like to be in the shady areas.
What Time Do Slugs Come Out?
Slug's maturity depends on their type and comes after around 3 to 6 months. They usually lay in clusters in soil breaks, in the trees, and inside other safe areas.
Slugs typically prefer wet and damp weather. So, rainy days, nighttime, or nebulous days are the most preferable to many slugs for coming out.
In addition, slugs hibernate in the topsoil during extreme cold. They typically remain active in mild winter areas like the south coast. Whereas, during warm days, they splash a membrane to prevent them from drying out and are stuck to tree logs and fences easily.
Are Slugs Poisonous to Fish?
It is a wonder if slugs are toxic or not. Right? Actually, the answer depends on the type of both fish and slug.
From an angler's perspective, slugs are harmless for most fish species. They are also considered as healthy as frog meat. So slugs should be alright and safe for fishing bait.
Slugs can be unappetizing for some delicate saltwater fish species as they are more sensitive to the changes in their diets. On the other hand, some freshwater fish, such as walleye and bass can easily digest slugs, as they are more robust.
Apart from this, slugs generate more mucus when they get frightened. For example, the thick mucus produced by the Banana slugs creates a barrier to their predators like birds. So, it might be a bit poisonous.
Plus, pets like cats or dogs are seen vomiting after swallowing slugs. Hence, we would recommend you not to use Banana slugs as fishing bait. But, if your target fish is pretty large, you can make use of them.
What Slugs Are Not Allowed To Use As Fishing Bait?
While most garden slugs are not harmful to fish, some types of sea slugs excrete highly toxic mucus. That's why sea slugs are not suitable to use as fishing bait.
What Are The Best Slugs For Anglers?
The ideal slugs for the avid anglers are the black, Arion ater and the red, Arion ater rufus. Though there are over 20 species of slug in Britain, most of the slug types won't work out as ideal baits. As they are too small to catch big fish.
Do Carp Eat Slugs?
Slugs are a brilliant bait for carp. You can get an instant response from carp if you use slugs as carp bait on the river in summer instead of on the Stillwater.
Do Bass Eat Slugs?
Fish species like bass and other types of panfish of the freshwater biomes feed on slugs. Though juvenile bass consumes small baitfish and insects, adults like to eat slugs, snails, frogs, and so on.
Do Goldfish Eat Slugs?
As goldfish are omnivorous, they can feed on both plants and animals like slugs and snails. They eat both garden and aquatic slugs.
Where Do Slugs Go During the Daytime?
As slugs' bodies dry out fast in the sun and they need water. That's why they hide in the cold, damp, or shaded areas during the daytime. And, they prefer to go out searching for food at night or during rainy and wet weather.
What Kind Of Bait Can You Use For Fishing?
Let's have a look at some of the most popular live baits you can use for fishing are:
- Worms.
- Leeches.
- Minnows.
- Crickets.
- Crustaceans like crawfish or shrimp and many more.
Can You Use Snails as Fishing Bait?
Of course, you can use snails for catching various types of fish all year round. Any type of snail will do the trick. As snails cohabitate with fish in the waterways, they are alluring bait for fish.
What Kind Of Fish Eat Slugs?
Common fish species found in the freshwater including bass, carp, catfish, pike, perch, and panfish prefer to eat slugs. Whereas, most predatory species like catfish and pike don't typically prefer to feed on small worms like slugs.
Final Words:
One of the most cumbersome options for amateur fishers is to choose a bait type. Though most anglers carry synthetic lures on their fishing trip, I would highly recommend you to use live baits like slugs. As live baits are the easiest to use and they are typically cheap as well.
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Akkermann: State nomination committee candidates have been pre-selected
The Appointments Committee (Riigifirmade nõukogu) created in 2020 to appoint members of the boards of state-owned companies is nearing the end of its three-year mandate. Minister of Finance Annely Akkermann (Reform) said that the nominees for the next term have been finalized and will be confirmed soon by the government.
Minister Akkermann said that although she is not satisfied with the current system of the nominating committee members, she does not have a clear proposal how to reform the system and has no plans to do so during her term.
"As minister of finance, I am responsible for suggesting candidates for the new nomination committee and these candidates have been thought out. This is an ongoing task," Akkermann said.
"I have submitted a bill to the government wherein the prime minister can choose which ministers will propose new nomination committee members. The new members will be nominated by [Minister of Economic Affairs] Riina Sikkut (SDE), [Minister of Justice] Lea Danilson-Järg (Isamaa) and the minister of finance. They have nominated their candidates, and the minister of finance will then present their lists to the government," she explained.
The prime minister will decide the publication date of the new names.
Current nomination committee members were elected on January 27, 2020.
Kaido Padar, Argo Luude, Toomas Tamsar and Reet Roos are the committee's current members.
A member of the committee must be a recognized business and management expert with extensive international management experience and an impeccable professional and corporate reputation and they should not be in a conflict of interest with publicly owned companies, the State Assets Act prescribes.
The nomination committee is responsible for recommending to the minister who is administering the company, the election and removal of board members, as well as their number and compensation.
There are around 130 members on the boards of directors of state-owned companies.
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Powered by Verizon's 5G network, Ryot and JJLA produced and executed, what evolved into a main focal point of, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Red Carpet Premiere After Party on Hollywood Boulevard. Attendees were given the opportunity to stand in line to interact with two red armor-clad First Order Sith stormtroopers in real time through an LED Video wall that could be viewed 100 feet away on the opposite side of the event tent.
While the actors were 15 miles away in Playa Vista, guests attending could see their movements on screen in the green room, as well as in their stormtrooper gear in 3-D while interacting with each individual who chose to participate. The purpose was to prove the real-time response of Verizon's 5G network during a large scale event.


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The Hill Country Flyer is a steam train operated by the Austin Steam Train Association. It makes the run from Cedar Park to Burnet and back on most weekends. We took the trip just before Christmas of 1998. During the holiday season the train goes out in the afternoon and comes back after dark so that passengers can view the Christmas lights at houses along the tracks.
The train is made up of a mixture of first-class sleeper and coach-class commuter cars, plus a concessions car, an engine, and a caboose. The cars are from various periods and railroads.
The engine is a Mikado built by the American Locomotive Company's Brooks Locomotive Works at Dunkirk, New York in 1916. It burns oil to generate the steam.
A group of us rented the caboose. Having a car all to ourselves was fun! We spent a lot of time hanging out on the back platform. The best seats were the two up to in the cupola. The Christmas lights were nice, but the stars were more spectacular.
The track runs through the Texas hill country. There are some spectacular views, including this one of the San Gabriel river from up on the trestle.


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Music producer and artistes manager at Zylofon Music, Willie Roi has reacted to Wendy Shay performing her explicit songs such as 'Uber Driver' and 'Bedroom Commando' to children below 18 years at a birthday party.
Speaking during an interview on Zylofon FM's Tuesday segment of Showbiz Agenda with the host Sammy Flex stated that, even though Ghanaians criticized Wendy Shay for what she did but we should not blame the female singer because these songs are played on the airwaves without regulations.
"We are in a situation where we don't regulate the time of play. We have already polluted the air and we come back and say why are the kids singing these songs.
It is true that the pictorial realities of kids are not the same hence let's blame no one in this case. We the adults who know it is sexually suggestive have played it in the time when the kids are listening. Our only salvation is in their pictorial realities.
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Those people that are picking on the girl have their reality and to them it was offensive but if they took the time to ask the kids, they will understand that they are not thinking the way you are thinking.
They are not seeing it the way you are seeing it, they are happy with the song and they are singing it. Secondly, the reason we play these songs is not that it is explicit, let's be realistic about the child's pictorial reality. This is just being done to victimize Wendy Shay because she has succeeded in ways that no one thought she could", Willie Roi told Sammy Flex.
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NLMK La Louvière, a leading producers of flat steel coils in Belgium and part of the Russian NLMK Group, has received the first major equipment for its EUR 150 million hot strip mill upgrade that will enable the company to expand the production of thinner, stronger and more environmentally friendly steel for customers in the European Union.
Early last month, two 100-tonne mill housings for the first finishing mill stand, one of three stands to be replaced by the year end, were delivered to the Belgian plant.
The mill housings have been supplied by Primetals Technologies who last year was awarded the contract to modernise the hot strip mill.
Investment in La Louvière's modernisation is part of the NLMK Group's Strategy 2022. With the improved capability, the plant will increase its share of the niche HRC market .
The upgrade and modernisation includes the installation of a state-of-the art automation system, three new and three upgraded roll mill stands, new drives and motors as well as a new run-out table, modernised cooling and water systems, and a new down-coiler.
The project will enable the mill to expand the production of high strength thin hot rolled coil (as thin as 1.2 mm), increase the range of high-strength products beyond 1,000 MPa yield strength and provide customers with best-in-class surface and dimensional tolerances.
Phase one of the mill's transformation is scheduled for completion by the year end, and a second phase will be completed in 2021.


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