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Kraft downgrade hurts tender trades
IFR 2321 - 22 Feb 2020 - 28 Feb 2020
William Hoffman
The fall of Kraft Heinz to high-yield is a worst-case scenario for investors who put their faith behind liability management exercises that were expected to save it from such a fate.
In 2019 companies such as Kraft were praised for their ability to issue long-dated debt that funded tender offers for shorter maturities.
This was supposed to give them a runway to grow sales, sell assets and cut dividends as a way to deleverage and ultimately maintain investment grade ratings.
Bondholders gladly participated in those liability management trades based on those expectations.
But with Kraft falling into junk territory last week some investors are regretting such assumptions and questioning the long-term strategies of Kraft and other issuers on the cusp of junk ratings.
"Was that a prudent move by a company to manage its front-end maturities or was it a move to prepare itself to exist and live as a high-yield company without investment-grade ratings?" asked Jason Shoup, head of global credit strategy at Legal & General Investment Management America.*
"We don't know yet, but Kraft Heinz illustrates that there are examples of the latter out there."
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Before Fitch and S&P dropped Kraft's nearly US$30bn of debt to BB+ earlier this month, the company priced a US$3bn three-part bond in September to part-refinance close to US$10bn in short and medium-term debt.
Despite credit concerns, order books swelled to US$16.2bn in part because former CFO David Knopf said in an earnings call that the company was committed to its investment-grade ratings and that it had sufficient cashflows to deleverage and pay dividends.
"If you had told those same investors [from September], 'We might not be committed to investment grade', the cost at which they extended that debt and created that runway would have been totally different," Shoup said.
"Any creditor wants to make sure companies are able to do things to enhance their creditworthiness and removing front-end debt tends to do that. But if at the same time that removes an incentive to remain investment grade we'll have to be very careful about doing that in the future."
Kraft's liability management exercises reduced its debt maturities to US$1bn in each of 2020 and 2021 with another US$2.1bn maturing in 2022, according to CreditSights.
Ultimately such moves have left the company in a comfortable position to handle short-term maturities as a high-yield credit, Barclays analysts said in a research note.
Kraft generated free cashflow of US$1.05bn last year and held US$2.3bn on hand at the end of the year to cover its maturities, the report added.
And Kraft has been reiterating a similar mantra, only without its commitment to an investment grade.
"We believe it's important to Kraft Heinz shareholders to maintain our dividend during this time of transformation," Michael Mullen, SVP of corporate affairs, said in response to questions about investor concerns.
"We also remain committed to reducing leverage over time as we reposition the company for sustainable growth and returns."
Indeed, clinging to an investment-grade rating may have made little sense for Kraft given the buoyant backdrop for junk credits.
With the BBB-BB spread differential hovering at 73bp, near post-financial crisis lows, according to ICE BofA data, the cost of a downgrade to junk has become less painful.
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Even so, other companies seem less willing to forgo their investment-grade rating.
Anheuser-Busch InBev kicked off the liability management trend last year with a US$15.5bn deal but, unlike Kraft, seems to be protecting its investment grade ratings.
The bonds have tightened as the company paid down debt through the sale of its Australian subsidiary for US$11.3bn and the IPO of its Asia unit that raised US$5bn.
Still, investors worry about AB InBev's connection to Kraft. Both companies are owned by Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital and in July Miguel Patricio came from Anheuser-Busch to take the CEO job at Kraft.
There are a host of other cuspy Triple B names that have issued liability management trades in the past year that could be called into question, including Mexican petroleum company Pemex, retailer Macy's and midstream company EQT, which recently received its second high-yield rating.
"What we saw last week with Kraft Heinz is a reminder that you need to be able to go in there and do that credit work and understand the incentives of management teams," one investor said.
"In Kraft Heinz's case clearly they were comfortable with a slide in their credit rating."
* This sentence was changed to correct the job title.
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Gene therapy specialist Passage Bio launched marketing of its all-primary IPO last week after refreshing financials through the fourth quarter and full year to December 31. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Cowen are marketing 7.4m shares at US$16-$18 each for pricing after the market close on February 27. Passage Bio is targeting a valuation of roughly US$800m on the up to US$133m offering, the week's only IPO. The biotech is in pre-clinical development of gene therapies, continuing a trend of earlier-stage biotech IPOs this year. It will be the fifth biotech IPO this year following the well received debuts of Black Diamond Therapeutics (up 95%), Arcutis Therapeutics (up 58%), Beam Therapeutics (up 58%) and Revolution Medicines (up 82%). Passage Bio reported a net loss last year of US$45.6m after spending US$29.7m on R&D. Finishing the year with US$159m in cash, it is looking to the IPO to boost liquidity to about US$275m. Passage Bio completed a US$110m Series B private round in August at a US$14.50 per share valuation, so the IPO is coming at a reasonable 1.1-times to 1.24-times step-up to that crossover. BLAVATNIK BACKING Access Biotechnology, an investment vehicle for billionaire Len Blavatnik, anchored the crossover with a US$30m investment to give it a 6.5% pre-IPO stake. Blavatnik is also the controlling shareholder of IPO-bound Warner Music. Passage Bio has strong VC support from OrbiMed (19.6%), Versant Venture Partners (14.8%) and Frazier Life Sciences (13.9%). Passage Bio was founded in July 2017 as a partnership with University of Pennsylvania's Gene Therapy Program, which is led by gene editing pioneer Dr James Wilson. Wilson, a co-founder of Passage Bio, holds a 7% pre-IPO stake. Passage Bio uses techniques developed by Wilson and his team to correct genetic defects that are believed to be the root causes of many central nervous system disorders. The biotech plans to launch a Phase I trial of its lead drug in the second half of this year for a rare inherited disease that destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Two additional Phase I trials for two other drugs are planned for the first half of 2021, one is a treatment for Krabbe disease and the other for an inherited form of dementia.
BioXcel makes concessions on US$64m overnight raise
BioXcel Therapeutics seized upon the positive momentum from recent news flow to raise US$64m from an overnight stock sale. The biotech discussed the financing to a select group of investors intraday Wednesday ahead of broader overnight marketing of 2m shares, a little more than six days' volume and 11% of outstanding. Bank of America, Canaccord Genuity and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey were half-covered when they flipped the deal public with a marketing range at US$32.00–$35.00, a seemingly steep 22.2% discount to the US$41.14 last sale at the bottom of the range. They placed the 2m shares at US$32.00, the bottom of that range, though BioXcel closed on Thursday at US$34.20 and traded midday Friday at US$36.92. While it looks like a big price to pay, the hefty concession must be taken in the context of a stock that has nearly tripled this year and traded as low as US$3.76 in November. Privately held BioXcel Corporation, which spun off the biotech in early 2018, also owns 9.5m shares (52.6% pre-offer stake), representing a significant overhang. BioXcel Therapeutics is buying back 300,000 shares from its privately held parent if the 15% greenshoe is fully exercised. With the offering proceeds, BioXcel has roughly US$100m to fund drug development. The biotech gained momentum in September when the FDA granted orphan drug designation for one of its drugs to treat acute myeloid leukaemia. It struck a deal in December with MD Anderson Cancer Center to conduct Phase II trials on that same drug in combination with Merck's Keytruda in multiple solid tumours. That trial is expected to kick off in the first half of this year with initial readouts in the second half. BioXcel last month enrolled its first patient in a Phase Ib/II trial for a separate drug to treat agitation in patients with dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease sufferers. It is also conducting two concurrent Phase III trials on that same drug on agitation in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.
Dynatrace makes rapid return to ECM
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo returned for the second time in less than three months to cut its stake in IT monitoring software company Dynatrace, selling the bulk of the shares in an US$862.5m two-day marketed follow-on. Active bookrunners Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Citigroup resisted the temptation to upsize before pricing the 25m-share all-secondary offering at US$34.50, a slim 2.5% discount to last sale and 1.8% file-to-offer discount. Thoma Bravo cut its Dynatrace stake to 52.1% from 59.6% via the sale of 21.3m shares or 85% of those offered. The syndicate signalled early in the marketing effort the offering was oversubscribed with good demand from new and existing investors. Yet in a tough tape, Dynatrace shares were trading at US$34 or below the offering price in Friday's session. The price of the latest offering was well above the US$24.75 set on Dynatrace's first-time follow-on in December and more than double its US$16 IPO price. Shares of Dynatrace touched a record US$36.49 just days before the offering launched, benefiting from analyst price target increases since its reported upbeat fiscal third-quarter results on January 30. To enable the deal to happen, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan released insiders from a 90-day lock-up put in place alongside the December offering that was due to expire in early March.


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Georgia Historical Society Awarded Eighth Consecutive 4-Star Rating by Charity Navigator
Atlanta, Ga., January 18, 2018– The Georgia Historical Society is pleased to announce that it has been awarded its eighth consecutive 4-star rating by Charity Navigator for demonstrating strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency.
"Astute donors are yearning for greater accountability, transparency, and for concrete results," said Michael Thatcher, President and CEO of Charity Navigator. "Attaining an eighth 4-star rating indicates that your organization adheres to sector best practices and executes its mission in a financially efficient way."
Since 2002, using objective analysis, Charity Navigator has awarded only the most fiscally responsible organizations a 4-star rating. In 2011, Charity Navigator added 17 metrics, focused on governance and ethical practices as well as measures of openness, to its ratings methodology. These Accountability and Transparency metrics account for 50 percent of a charity's overall rating and reveal which charities operate in accordance with industry best practices and whether they are open with their donors and stakeholders.
"Striving for transparency and sound fiscal management is the goal of everyone at GHS but this designation would not be possible without the leadership of Vince Dooley, our Board Chairman, the GHS Board of Curators, and Laura García-Culler, GHS Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer," said Dr. W. Todd Groce, President and CEO of the Georgia Historical Society. "It is an honor to receive this distinction for the eighth consecutive year and to be counted among the elite 2% of non-profits nationwide. Our donors can continue to give to us with complete confidence."
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Айтаска () — округ в штате Миннесота, США. Столица и крупнейший город — Гранд-Рапидс. По данным переписи за 2010 год число жителей округа составляло 45 058 человек, по оценке Бюро переписи США в 2015 году в городе проживало 45 435 человек.

География
Айтаска расположен на севере штата Миннесота. Площадь округа — 7583 км², из которых 6902,8 км² — суша, а 680,2 км² — вода.

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История
Округ был основан 27 октября 1849 года вместе с организацией территории Миннесота. Он был одним из 9 первоначальных округов, на которые была разделена территория. Название округа произошло от озера Айтаска, название которого впервые фигурирует в записях Скулкрафта об экспедиции к истоку Миссисипи. Согласно первой переписи 1850 года в округе проживало 97 человек, земли тогда ещё принадлежали индейцам и поселенцами в основном были охотники, живущие в изолированных хижинах. За последующие 10 лет из части территорий округа были сформированы новые округа — Лейк, Кук и Сент-Луис на востоке, Айткин и Карлтон на юге
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Население

В 2010 году на территории округа проживало  человек (из них 50,5 % мужчин и 49,5 % женщин), насчитывалось  домашних хозяйства и  семьи. Расовый состав: белые — 93,6 %, афроамериканцы — 0,3 %, коренные американцы — 3,5 %, азиаты — 0,3 и представители двух и более рас — 2,0 %. Согласно переписи 2014 года в округе проживали 45 303 человека, из них 30,8 % имели немецкое происхождение, 15,7 % — норвежское, 3,2 % — польское, 11,6 % — ирландское, 7,4 % — английское.

Население округа по возрастному диапазону по данным переписи 2010 года распределилось следующим образом: 21,8 % — жители младше 18 лет, 3,4 % — между 18 и 21 годами, 55,8 % — от 21 до 65 лет и 19,0 % — в возрасте 65 лет и старше. Средний возраст населения — 45,4 лет. На каждые 100 женщин в Айтаске приходилось 102,0 мужчин, при этом на 100 совершеннолетних женщин приходилось уже 100,0 мужчин сопоставимого возраста.

Из  домашних хозяйства 66,3 % представляли собой семьи: 53,7 % совместно проживающих супружеских пар (16,6 % с детьми младше 18 лет); 8,2 % — женщины, проживающие без мужей и 4,3 % — мужчины, проживающие без жён. 33,7 % не имели семьи. В среднем домашнее хозяйство ведут 2,35 человека, а средний размер семьи — 2,83 человека. В одиночестве проживали 28,2 % населения, 12,3 % составляли одинокие пожилые люди (старше 65 лет).

Населённые пункты
Согласно данным 2010 года в округе Айтаска 16 городов, 41 тауншип, 5 неорганизованных территорий и 2 статистически обособленных местности:

Экономика
В 2014 году из  трудоспособных жителей старше 16 лет имели работу  человек. При этом мужчины имели медианный доход в  долларов США в год против  долларов среднегодового дохода у женщин. В 2014 году медианный доход на семью оценивался в  $, на домашнее хозяйство — в  $. Доход на душу населения —  $. 9,3 % от всего числа семей в Айтаске и 13,1 % от всей численности населения находилось на момент переписи за чертой бедности.

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Округа Миннесоты

Появились в 1849 году в США

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Manchester United look set for another record-breaking year off the pitch after posting a healthy 16.5 per cent increase in first-quarter turnover to £73.8million.
United reported growth in all areas, with the commercial side benefiting from the amazing £40m deal with DHL to sponsor their training kit, helping it rise 22.3 per cent to £29.6m.
Media revenues were up from £19.4m to £22.6m, largely thanks to United's status as Premier League champions ensuring they get a larger share of the Champions League pot, and a lucrative five-match tour of the United States.
In addition, matchday income has also grown 9.6 per cent to £21.6m, thanks to the first complete sell-out of seasonal hospitality boxes since the plush Old Trafford quadrants were completed in 2006.
It leaves United's gross debt at £433.2m.
After posting turnover of £331.4m and profits of £110.9m last year, matching a campaign when they won the title and reached the Champions League final, where they were beaten by Barcelona, will not be easy given Manchester City's rise to prominence, including a 6-1 derby-day annihilation last month.
It places more emphasis on the commercial side, which has grown enormously thanks to a 'territorial' approach to marketing, which rival clubs may attempt to copy.
However, speaking last month, commercial director Richard Arnold was relaxed about that prospect.
'There is only one Manchester United,' he said. 'Whilst a lot of the strategy is public knowledge, I am very fortunate to be with the club I am with and able to do these deals.
'A lot of hard work has gone into getting to the position we are in now and we are already looking to the future.
'If people want to recreate what we did five years ago that is up to them.
United are also patting themselves on the back for securing five players on new contracts, including England international Chris Smalling and striking sensation Javier Hernandez, in addition to the summer arrivals of Ashley Young, Phil Jones and David de Gea.
However, there was no comment on speculation that Portugal winger Nani may be the next to benefit from an extension to his present deal, which is due to expire in 2014.
The position of £30.75m record signing Dimitar Berbatov also remains unresolved, with United still to confirm their intention to extend the Bulgarian's stay with the Red Devils by a further season, which under the terms of his present contract, which expires at the end of the season, they have the right to do.


text: Q: Trying to Find Bounds on a Trig Function I have the function $|\sin(\frac{N+1}{2}x)\sin\frac{Nx}{2}|$ and I want to use inequalities to get it to the form $c\sin\frac{Nx}{2}$ for some constant $c$. For a little perspective, I am going to integrate $|\sin(\frac{N+1}{2}x)\sin\frac{Nx}{2}|$ from $-\pi$ to $\pi$ and I have the problem done if I can just get the top less than $c\sin\frac{Nx}{2}$, then it is pretty easy from there. I may not have phrased this problem correctly, but could anyone help with this? Thank you in advance.

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Faun Noetic
To find a space of contemplation and serenity
Sidi Larbi Cherckaoui about FAUN and NOETIC
THE BALLET AT LA BÂTIE
As we welcome Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève invites the Geneva Ballet to the Château Rouge main stage with the revival of two original works by the Belgian choreographer. A premiere for the Ballet and the first stop of a new tour, as we turn a new page for the company and the transnational community of Greater Geneva.
31 August 2022 – 8:30pm
Duration: approx. 2h with one intermission
Choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Scenography and lighting design Adam Carrée
Costumes Hussein Chalayan
Music Claude Debussy and Nitin Sawhney
First performed in 2009 at the Sadler's Wells
Scenography Antony Gormley
Lighting Designer David Stokholm
Costumes Les Hommes
Dramaturgy Adolphe Binder
Music Szymon Brzóska
First performed in 2014 pour la GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
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Faun, in the collective memory or better still in the Ballets Russes section of our cultural consciousness, refers to the original creation of Vaslav Nijinsky's mythical choreography based on the music of Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. This performance was based on the famous poem by Stéphane Mallarmé on the awakening of the Faun in the forest, which caused something of a stir in 1912. One century later, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui made his Faun at the request of Sadler's Wells in London. While Nijinsky's dancers are still very two-dimensional, like figures on a Grecian urn, in Cherkaoui's version the mythological and animal aspects are presented much more strongly, in a language of motion that becomes truly three-dimensional. The main source of inspiration for the choreographer in the creation in 2009 was the strength of dancer James O'Hara, who created the male role. A greater focus was placed on the fact that the faun is half human and half animal: his movements are wilder and more carefree. Daisy Phillips, as the nymph in the original version, is deeply rooted in the forest. The interaction between the two is innocent but still laden with sexual tension, just as in the Nijinsky choreography. They have the playfulness of children but at the same time they are presented, in a way, as archaic old souls.
Cherkaoui asked composer Nitin Sawhney to intersperse Debussy's music with his own musical language: the music slides almost unnoticed from one style and culture to another and from one century to another. The costumes by Hussein Chalayan are both natural and organic, but they are also synthetic: the characters are therefore eternal archetypes but also creatures of today.
The word noetic comes from the Greek and refers to a relationship with thinking. In philosophy, it is defined as the intuitive search for knowledge, the knowledge that is already present in ourselves and in the universe and that manifests itself again and again.
Noetic explores the idea that a straight line is actually a curve and that everything can be connected through the shape of the circle. During the rehearsals for Noetic, dancers were encouraged to work collectively rather than individually in order to bring out a shared, collective subconscious. The result is a chain reaction of movements, a flow – like a flock of birds or a school of fish in the water. The dancers flow through and past each other in a way that is elegant and unforced, but also has passion and conviction. At other times, the dancers seem to be part of a complicated clockwork, the building blocks of the inner workings of a society. The dance material oscillates from ethereal to liquid to solid.
In his fourth collaboration with visual artist Antony Gormley since their first artistic encounter in 2005, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui works on a scenography consisting of long slats that can be linked together to create one uninterrupted path. These slats are made of carbon fibre and curve naturally because of gravity. At the same time, by connecting to each other, they curve into perfect circles. By understanding the beginning and the end, by connecting them, a line suddenly finds its completion as a circle and fulfils a new purpose, has a new life, a new form.
Sacred geometry, city life portrayed as mechanical functions, the microcosm reflected in the macrocosm, all these structures leading to interconnectedness: Noetic tries to touch on all these themes in a poetic way. Deep inside, the knowledge, actions and consciousness are already there.
Along with its sister-piece Faun, Noetic integrates the repertoire of the Geneva Ballet with a local premiere in September 2022 at La Bâtie-Festival de Genève. These two seminal pieces by Cherkaoui will then embark on an international tour, as the auteur-choreographer from Antwerp takes his first steps in a new adventure as dance director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève ballet company.
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Q: Python Beautiful soup to scrape urls from a web page I am trying to scrape urls from the html format website. I use beautiful soup. Here's a part of the html.

Banana Good for health

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My code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
re=requests.get('http://xxxxxx')
bs=BeautifulSoup(re.text.encode('utf-8'), "html.parser")
for link in bs.find_all('a') :
    if link.has_attr('href'):
        print (link.attrs['href'])

The result will print out all the urls from this page, but this is not what I am looking for, I only want a particular one like "/stroke?p=3083" in this example how can I set the condition in python? (I know there are totally three "/stroke?p=3083" in this, but I just need one)
Another question. This url is not complete, I need to combine them with "http://www.abcde.com" so the result will be "http://www.abcde.com/stroke?p=3083". I know I can use paste in R, but how to do this in Python? Thanks in advance! :)

A: Just put there a link in the scraper replacing some_link and give it a go. I suppose you will have your desired link along with it's full form.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.parse import urljoin

res = requests.get(some_link).text
soup = BeautifulSoup(res,"lxml")
for item in soup.select(".article-image"):
    print(urljoin(some_link,item['href']))

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Another question. This url is not complete, I need to combine them
  with "http://www.abcde.com" so the result will be
  "http://www.abcde.com/stroke?p=3083". I know I can use paste in R, but
  how to do this in Python? Thanks in advance! :)

link = 'http://abcde.com' + link

A: You are getting most of it right already. Collect the links as follows (just a list comprehension version of what you are doing already)
urls = [url for url in bs.findall('a') if url.has_attr('href')]
This will give you the urls. To get one of them, and append it to the abcde url you could simply do the following:
if urls:
    new_url = 'http://www.abcde.com{}'.format(urls[0])


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Q: Broken response from Raspberry Pi server when GETting stored images I have a Raspberry Pi server which has PNG images saved on it. I am trying to GET the images from the server and append them all to an HTML element. All of the relevant files (the images, HTML, JavaScript, and PHP) are all stored in /var/www/html.
File load.php:
<?php
$dirname = "/var/www/html/";
$images = glob($dirname."*.png");
$data = '
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foreach($images as $image) {
  $data .= '

'; // append all images
}
$data .= '
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echo $data;
?>

JavaScript function:
function loadImg(){
    $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: "load.php",
        success: function(data){
            console.log(data); // To check something there
            $("#imgsDiv").html(data);
        }
    });
}

However, this functionality does not work and only displays the traditional broken image icon onto the 'imgsDiv'.
I really have no idea why it can't display the images from the server. It is not an issue with folder permissions as I am able to load single named images into img srcs.
This is the HTML when I inspect the page:

I also get a 404 error saying that the page can't find the resource: http://192.168.1.201/var/www/html/image.png, etc. for all of the listed images.

A: It Seems the PHP code was bugging out with me having declared the directory:
$dirname = "/var/www/html/";
$images = glob($dirname."*.png");

It should just be:
$images = glob("*.png");

And the PHP code looks in the correct directory for the images ans successfully displays them.


On North Road in Coquitlam, there is a little cafe called Borandsi, or quite commonly known as the board game cafe. People come to Borandsi to eat dessert and grab a drink. They also have a large amount of board games which you can use for a small fee. If you live in Vancouver, it really isn't worth it to play games here since your bill can rack up to the cost of a brand new board game.
It's perfect for international students or travellers who do not have games with them.
After eating Pho, Jojocake really craved waffles … so we headed to Borandsi for dessert!
The interior is quite nice. Large tables and couches. It is usually not that busy, so you can always find a seat for you and your friends. People either: a) sit and chat b) study or c) play board games.
At one time they had a spa and a cell phone shop in the back corner, but it has since been removed to make room for more tables.
The menu is all listed on a piece of paper double sided. They have drinks, desserts and some Korean dishes. Yes, it is Korean owned and operated.
KoreanGirl ordered the Brownie & Ice Cream ($5.95). The brownie is not freshly made. When you walk up to the counter and stare at their fridge, you can see all the brownies all chilled and wrapped in plastic wrap. They heat up the brownie, add vanilla ice cream and drizzle chocolate sauce on top.
This is not a gourmet brownie, just your regular brownie.
I ordered the Apple Pie & Ice Cream ($5.95). Similar with the brownie, it is also pre-made and stored in a fridge. I think they microwave it so the crust is no longer crispy. The apple pie still tasted good but I wish it was crispy on the outside. They also added vanilla ice cream and drizzled chocolate on top.
JojoCake was CRAVING waffles, so she ordered Waffles & Ice Cream ($7.95). Unlike the brownie and the apple pie, this was made fresh. How do I know this? I saw a waffle iron while peeping into their kitchen.
The waffle is topped with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, bananas, kiwis and strawberries. One things Jojocake commented on the waffle was that it was a bit over done.
Overall, great place to chill and catch up for friends. Service is not very good, so you gotta do the usual staring and hand waving.
I actually live really close to here and it's my go-to place when I'm feeling lazy to go far and I'm hankering for a late-night snack.
I always noticed that when you want the pot bing su, bubble tea, or anything that requires more than assembling, it's important to make sure that a girl is there to make it. The owner, who I rather like because he's always so friendly, is not so good with preparing them. Just to note!
I'm definitely trying the waffle next time..
This is the place I was thinking of!
I remember reading about the patbingsu and board games but I forgot the name of the place.
There really isn't too many late night snack places in Burquitlam that are to die for.
When we went this time, the girl made our desserts. The man wasn't there but I remember seeing him a few months ago.
Oh ya! the bing su is good here! Even served in a pyrex cup!
the only thing i like here is the bing su. but… as you mentioned service is not great. i wonder why many korean places don't have good services.


To become a romantic poet u need an inspiration. Luckily I got many. Dedicated to one of them.
She makes my mind to stir.
When her lips spread a smile.
We are worse than them too.
Wish around us were fences.
If I see, her in tears.
Its for her I am living.


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Thursday, May 10 2007
HHS Grant Helps To Remove 93 People From South Carolina's ADAP Waiting List; State's List Still Largest Nationwide
A recent $26.8 million grant from HHS has helped South Carolina to remove 93 people from the waiting list for its AIDS Drug Assistance Program, but HIV/AIDS officials in the state want to ensure there is enough funding to provide treatment access to everyone on the waiting list, the Columbia State reports. As of May 3, the state's ADAP waiting list stood at 474 people (Reid, Columbia State , 5/10). ADAPs are federal- and state-funded programs that provide HIV/AIDS-related medications to low-income, uninsured and underinsured HIV-positive individuals.
HHS last month awarded a $26.8 million grant to the state to provide HIV-positive people with increased access to treatment and care services. According to Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), $25.6 million will be allocated to provide low-income individuals and families in the state with access to treatment. The remaining $1.2 million will be given to three South Carolina community health centers for a variety of uses -- including risk-reduction counseling and ongoing health services for HIV-positive people ( Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report , 4/27). According to the State , South Carolina has the largest ADAP waiting list nationwide. As of March 1, only three other states had waiting lists of 13, 20 and 75 people.
Additional federal and state funds will help determine how many people on the waiting list will be able to enroll in the state's ADAP, according to Lynda Kettinger, director of STD/HIV Division at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. The South Carolina House has approved a one-time, $3 million grant for the ADAP, and the Senate has approved an additional $3 million annually for the program, as well as a one-time grant of $1 million. State funding for the ADAP will be decided in the coming weeks, the State reports.
State Rep. Joe Neal (D), who has led efforts to increase funding for HIV/AIDS services, said the state previously has relied on federal funding, and "clearly, that has not worked." Neal said the state "need[s] to add dollars, and they must come from the state," adding, "We have no other source." Bambi Gaddist, executive director of the South Carolina HIV/AIDS Council and a member of the South Carolina HIV/AIDS Care Crisis Task Force, said the state needs $8 million. The task force plans to work with hospitals to develop cost estimates incurred by HIV-positive people who are uninsured or who are Medicaid or Medicare beneficiaries, the State reports (Columbia State , 5/10).


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export declare const CHAR = "\u0001-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF";
export declare const RESTRICTED_CHAR = "\u0001-\b\v\f\u000E-\u001F-\u0084\u0086-\u009F";
export declare const S = " \t\r\n";
export declare const NAME_START_CHAR = ":A-Z_a-z\u00C0-\u00D6\u00D8-\u00F6\u00F8-\u02FF\u0370-\u037D\u037F-\u1FFF\u200C\u200D\u2070-\u218F\u2C00-\u2FEF\u3001-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDB7F\uDFFF";
export declare const NAME_CHAR: string;
export declare const CHAR_RE: RegExp;
export declare const RESTRICTED_CHAR_RE: RegExp;
export declare const S_RE: RegExp;
export declare const NAME_START_CHAR_RE: RegExp;
export declare const NAME_CHAR_RE: RegExp;
export declare const NAME_RE: RegExp;
export declare const NMTOKEN_RE: RegExp;
/** All characters in the ``S`` production. */
export declare const S_LIST: number[];
/**
 * Determines whether a codepoint matches the ``CHAR`` production.
 *
 * @param c The code point.
 *
 * @returns ``true`` if the codepoint matches ``CHAR``.
 */
export declare function isChar(c: number): boolean;
/**
 * Determines whether a codepoint matches the ``RESTRICTED_CHAR`` production.
 *
 * @param c The code point.
 *
 * @returns ``true`` if the codepoint matches ``RESTRICTED_CHAR``.
 */
export declare function isRestrictedChar(c: number): boolean;
/**
 * Determines whether a codepoint matches the ``CHAR`` production and does not
 * match the ``RESTRICTED_CHAR`` production. ``isCharAndNotRestricted(x)`` is
 * equivalent to ``isChar(x) && !isRestrictedChar(x)``. This function is faster
 * than running the two-call equivalent.
 *
 * @param c The code point.
 *
 * @returns ``true`` if the codepoint matches ``CHAR`` and does not match
 * ``RESTRICTED_CHAR``.
 */
export declare function isCharAndNotRestricted(c: number): boolean;
/**
 * Determines whether a codepoint matches the ``S`` (space) production.
 *
 * @param c The code point.
 *
 * @returns ``true`` if the codepoint matches ``S``.
 */
export declare function isS(c: number): boolean;
/**
 * Determines whether a codepoint matches the ``NAME_START_CHAR`` production.
 *
 * @param c The code point.
 *
 * @returns ``true`` if the codepoint matches ``NAME_START_CHAR``.
 */
export declare function isNameStartChar(c: number): boolean;
/**
 * Determines whether a codepoint matches the ``NAME_CHAR`` production.
 *
 * @param c The code point.
 *
 * @returns ``true`` if the codepoint matches ``NAME_CHAR``.
 */
export declare function isNameChar(c: number): boolean;

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2011 Dakar Rally: Volkswagen Takes Top Three Podium Spots
Volkswagen has claimed overall victory in the Dakar Rally for the third consecutive year, taking top three podium spots.
Nasser Al-Attiyah from Qatar, with his German co-driver Timo Gottschalk, finished the final stage with the second quickest time and an overall winning margin of 49m 41s.
33 year old Al-Attiyah is the first Arab in the desert classic's history to be presented with the Dakar winners' trophy. The back-to-back hat-trick of victories means that Volkswagen is still unbeaten since the famous event moved to South America.
Volkswagen competed with four diesel-powered Race Touareg 3s, that all completedthe gruelling 9,600 kilometre course through Argentina and Chile, winning 12 out of the 13 stages between them and remaining at the top of the timesheets throughout.
Al-Attiyah and Gottscahlk were joined on the podium in Buenos Aries with the 2009 winners Giniel de Villers and Dirk von Zitzewitz claiming second overall, and last year's winners Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz finishing third.
The fourth Volkswagen with Mark Miller and Ralph Pitchford completed the rally in sixth position.
With seven stage victories, including the 13th and final stage of the Rally, Carlos Sainz broke the record for the highest number of stage wins on the Dakar. This victory took his tally to 24, overtaking the previous record-holder and Volkswagen's closest rival on this year's Dakar, Stéphane Peterhansel.
Final result after leg 13, Córdoba (RA)–Buenos Aires (RA); 181/826 km SS 13/total:
Pos	Team	Vehicle	Leg 13 Total time
1	Al-Attiyah / Gottschalk (Q/D)	Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 1h 16m 46s (2)	45h 16m 16s
2	de Villiers / von Zitzewitz (ZA/D)	Volkswagen Race Touareg 3	1h 18m 06s (4)	+ 49m 41s
3	Sainz / Cruz (E/E)	Volkswagen Race Touareg 3	1h 16m 08s (1)	+ 1h 20m 38s
4	Peterhansel / Cottret (F/F)	BMW X3 CC	1h 19m 05s (6) + 1h 43m 48s
5	Holowczyc / Fortin (PL/B)	BMW X3 CC	1h 17m 33s (3) + 4h 11m 21s
6	Miller / Pitchford (USA/ZA)	Volkswagen Race Touareg 3	1h 18m 10s (5)	+ 4h 54m 42s
7	dos Santos / Fiuza (P/P)	BMW X3 CC	1h 27m 16s (11) + 6h 50m 07s
8	Lavieille / Polato (F/F)	Nissan Proto 1h 25m 07s (10) + 7h 57m 18s
9	Spinelli / Haddad (BR/BR)	Mitsubishi Racing Lancer 1h 20m 06s (7)	+ 8h 23m 37s
10	Kahle / Schünemann (D/D)	Buggy SMG	1h 28m 02s (12)	+ 15h 11m 56s
New Subaru WRX STI debuts in Detroit, confirmed for UK return
Winter driving tips: Prepare yourself and your car [infographic]
2015 Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG saloon spied with less camouflage
Guerlain Chicherit will attempt the longest car jump this Sunday
Jon Olsson drifting uphill on snow in his 600bhp Rebellion R2K in Storlein, Sweden [videos]
Bentley Continental GT3-R for the road is here - packs 572bhp from a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8
2015 Vencer Sarthe production version from the Netherlands ready for orders
Tesla announces Roadster 3.0 package with a 400+ mile range
Shelby American introduces the 50th Anniversary Cobra 427
Ferrari GTC4Lusso revealed ahead of Geneva debut
Alpine opens reservations for its 'Premiere Edition'
Tags: 2011 Dakar Rally, Carlos Sainz, Dakar Rlly, Dirk von Zitzewitz, Giniel de Villers, Gottscahlk, Lucas Cruz, Nasser Al-Attiyah, Race Touareg 3, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Race Touareg 3, VW