For nearly three decades, Rodolfo Sorto Aldana and Karen Sorto have lived in the same six-unit walk-up in San Francisco's Mission District. Karen, who is from El Salvador, had traveled northward as a teenager to study in the U.S. Rodolfo followed soon after, and the two were married. Now in their 60s, they are part of a rich community of immigrants who have helped make the Mission one of the most sought-after neighborhoods in the Bay Area.
A couple of years ago, the Sortos received a notice from the building's owner informing them of the property's impending sale to a private buyer. The sale would subject the couple's rent-controlled apartment to market rates, some of the highest in the nation. In this once working-class Latino neighborhood, those rates now exceed $4500 a month for a two-bedroom apartment—far more than the Sortos could afford. The sale would likely have forced the couple out of their home, a scenario that plays out regularly in the intense housing market.
SFHAF, a public-private partnership, is a San Francisco initiative taking root in a region that is desperately in need of affordable housing. The accelerator fund was first incubated in the Mayor's Office and spun out as an independent nonprofit in 2017 with the help of a $10 million loan from the city. SFHAF's goal: to provide swift and flexible capital to nonprofit developers to preserve and expand the city's supply of affordable housing.
So far, SFHAF has deployed $90 million of capital to secure 402 affordable homes in San Francisco. Other initiatives are taking cross-sectoral approaches to solving the housing crisis in the Bay Area as well. The newly launched Partnership for the Bay's Future, for example, includes the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the San Francisco Foundation, and eight other community foundations and private companies. Launched in January 2019, the Partnership differs from SFHAF in that it's regional—it operates in San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties—and has no structural connection to the government.
This story was produced as part of a solutions-journalism initiative through FUSE Corps, a nonprofit that partners with government agencies to tackle communities' biggest challenges.


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Mahou Shoujo Tai Alice: The Adventure 02
December 9th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy
魔法少女隊アルス the Adventure 02
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Tweeny Witches the Adventure 02
Alice greets the morning, calling her mother's name and wondering how her mother (Yoko-san) is doing. She thinks back to how her mother doesn't wake up to an alarm clock, leaving Alice to wake her up. A strong wind comes up and blows Alice off the rock outcropping she'd been on. She's about to fall into the ravine below when she's caught by a witch she's never met before. The witch pulls her back up to safety but disappears before Alice can get her name, only leaving a bracelet behind.
At class, Sheila goes off on her young students, threatening to send them to the human world because they aren't studying. The young witches flee in terror at this, leaving Sheila flabbergasted. Alice takes off to go find them and discovers five of them heading for the Palatium, where they've been told a mirror exists that will show them the human world. They want to see it for themselves to know if it is as bad as Sheila claims. Alice thinks of her mother and so goes along with the group to the Palatium.
Inside the Palatium, the young witches and Alice find an energy-filled giant panel but can't see the human world. The witch who saved Alice earlier arrives and says her name is Toma, so Alice addresses her as "Toma-chan." Alice hangs back from the "mirror," so Toma shoves all five young witches into it. They are trapped and somehow, Toma knows Alice is from the human world. She plans to use the hostages as leverage but takes an attack from outside the room. This allows the young witches to escape.
Toma attacks the group, but Alice erects a barrier that completely repels the attack. Toma is stunned by this and more so by Alice's breaking the seal on the door that had them trapped. Realizing that Alice is far more powerful, Toma traps the fleeing young witches and Alice by raising a drawbridge in the underground cavern. She then takes Alice's powers, causing herself and the young witches to fall into the darkness below. Meanwhile, Sheila is out looking for the remaining students.
In their cage, Alice is about to show the young witches her breakout spell but she then discovers that she cannot perform magic. To their surprise, Toma shows up to free them. Toma promises to get Alice's magic back and tells them to flee but before they can do so, Toma is attacked. The attacker is also Toma. "Bad-Toma" then binds Alice and because she has Alice's power, she's more powerful than "Good-Toma." However, Good-Toma still manages to free Alice and the young witches, placing them in a giant bag that acts as a rail car, as it travels down some rail tracks (like mining tracks).
Bad-Toma recaptures Alice and has knocked out Good-Alice. Bad-Toma reveals that they are both Toma and that their real body has been sealed. Bad-Toma tells Alice that she will return her stolen powers if Alice unseals them, allowing the two Toma's to return to their body. Meanwhile, the young witches are still in the bag-car and use their powers to get to safety outside of the mountain. They are found by Sheila and Eva, where they tell Sheila that Alice has been captured. Sheila and Eva race to where Alice is and stop her from unsealing Toma's body.
Sheila explains that Toma is extraordinarily powerful, so much so that she has caused calamities and has been the cause of a war. After some evil witches placed evil in Toma's heart, Toma requested she be sealed to prevent herself from doing evil but two personalities were born. After Alice hears the story, she now understands Toma and realizes that Bad-Toma was the one who saved her from the cliff. With Good-Toma now conscious, Alice talks with the two halves of Toma, telling them she believes in them that they won't go out of control. As such, she unseals Toma's body and the two "hearts" re-enter it.
Toma is now alive and whole when the Grand Master's image appears. Toma acknowledges the Grand Master silently and the Grand Master returns the gesture. As such, Toma is allowed to live and will now serve Ateria. Back in the city, she thanks Alice for what Alice did for her.
As I watch the intro to this episode (which is a simple musical interlude), I immediately just get caught up in the haunting beauty of that song and indeed all of the music in Mahou Shoujo Tai Alice. It happens every time I watch an episode, mind you and frankly proves that music can go a long way in setting a proper mood. Granted, this kind of music won't be to everyone's like (what is though?), but for me, I get caught up in its beauty, followed by the beautiful art in the series.
I rather like these one-shot side adventures of Alice, Sheila, and Eva. Had these been aired within the series, they would have been branded as filler and set aside. As OVA episodes done after the TV series completed, they are simply a delight to watch, returning to this magical world to see those other things that happened which had nothing to do with the TV series plot.
For this specific episode, I liked how we got to see a bit more of Alice's mother, Yoko-san. One thing that's never been clear to me is why she addresses her mother by her given name, even if she does add the "san" honorific to it. Her father is "Papa" so why her mother isn't more respectfully addressed is a mystery. Still, the brief flashback to Alice on Earth sleeping with her mother and then waking her mother up is a nice touch.
Since it has been a while since I last saw an episode in this franchise, I'd forgotten how powerful Alice can be. I guess there's something to be said for that kind of surprise.
The mild weakness of the episode was the explanation of Toma. After Alice unseals her, one would think that the Grand Master showing up might have a thing to say to Alice, even though all's well that ends well. It was never stated, but maybe the Grand Master knew Toma back before her sealing.
Still, I can say I completely enjoyed this episode and hope to get to see the rest of the OVA series in the near future.
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Wildcats Track Coach Matt Young will be taking nine Wildcats to the Jesuit-Sheaner Relays in Dallas Friday and Saturday (March 22-23). Events begin Friday night with Landon Thornton and Christian Palomino competing in the 3200-meter run Friday evening. All other events take place Saturday. Coach Young said Thonrton and Palomino would also be participating in the 1600-meter run. Kylan Wade is in the 110-meter hurdles. Ricardo Torres is in the 400-meter run and will run a leg on the 4×400-meter relay. Landry Tyson will compete in the 300-meter hurdles and run a leg on the 4×400 meter relay. Other members of the 4×400 meter relay are Nabian Ramirez and Rhett Reed. Ramirez and Reed will also compete in the 800-meter run. Jeremiah Roland will high jump and Eli Sellers will compete in the pole vault. Coach Young said he was excited to see what his guys can do in that atmosphere.


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Home Drug Interdiction Coast Guard offloads more than 12 tons of cocaine in Port Everglades
Coast Guard offloads more than 12 tons of cocaine in Port Everglades
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Members of the Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba crew stand next to approximately 12.4 tons of cocaine Dec. 7, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric Woodall)
MIAMI — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba offloaded approximately 12.4 tons of cocaine Thursday in Port Everglades.
The drugs, worth an estimated $378-million, were interdicted in international waters off the Eastern Pacific Ocean between mid-October and late November.
The contraband is from suspected smuggling vessels interdicted in drug-transit zones off the coast of Central and South America by three U.S. Coast Guard cutters and a Royal Canadian Navy ship patrolling with an embarked Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) team.
The bulk offload represents:
Five interdictions by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba, approximately 6,048 kilograms.
Five interdictions by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Thetis, approximately 4,239 kilograms.
One interdiction by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, approximately 515 kilograms.
One interdiction by HMCS Nanaimo and an embarked U.S. Coast Guard LEDET, approximately 468 kilograms.
Numerous U.S. agencies from the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security are involved in the effort to combat transnational organized crime. The Coast Guard, Navy, Customs and Border Protection, FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement along with allied and international partner agencies play a role in counter-drug operations. The fight against transnational organized crime networks in the Eastern Pacific requires unity of effort in all phases of detection, monitoring, and interdictions, to prosecutions.
"I am extremely proud of the professionalism and tireless dedication of the crew of Escanaba," said Cmdr. Michael Turdo, commanding officer of the cutter Escanaba. "Escanaba seized over 6 tons of cocaine worth an estimated $202 million during the interdiction of five suspected drug smuggling vessels. The crew's contributions over the past two months directly support our government's efforts to dismantle smuggling routes used by transnational criminal organizations and interdict drugs at sea bound for the United States."
The Coast Guard, along with U.S. and allied partner agencies, has increased its presence in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Basin as part of its Western Hemisphere Strategy. During at-sea interdictions of these known drug transit zones, a suspect vessel is initially located and tracked by allied military or law enforcement personnel. The interdictions, including the actual boarding, are led and conducted by U.S. Coast Guard personnel. The law enforcement phase of counter-smuggling operations in the Eastern Pacific is conducted under the authority of the 11th Coast Guard District, headquartered in Alameda, California.
Escanaba and Spencer are 270-foot medium endurance cutters homeported in Boston. Thetis is a 270-foot medium endurance cutter based in Key West, Florida, and HMCS Nanaimo is a Royal Canadian Navy Kingston-class coastal defense vessel based in Esquimalt, British Columbia.
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Cutter James offloads more than $411.3 million in drugs at Port Everglades
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Wix.com is a cloud-based web development platform that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company also called Wix. It allows users to create HTML5 web sites and mobile sites through the use of online drag and drop tools. [1] Social plug-ins, e-commerce, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums can be used to their web sites using a variety of Wix-developed and third-party applications. [2]
Wix is built on a freemium business model, earning its revenue through premium upgrades. Wix ads, add e-commerce capabilities, or buy extra data storage and bandwidth. [3] [4]
Wix was founded in 2006 by Israelis Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan. The company, headquartered in Tel Aviv , with offices in Be'er-Sheva , New York City, San Francisco, Dnipro , Kiev , and Vilnius , is backed by investors Insight Venture Partners , Mangrove Capital Partners , Bessemer Venture Partners , and Benchmark Capital . [5] [6]
The company entered an open beta phase in 2007 using a platform based on Adobe Flash . [7]
By April 2010 Wix had 3.5 million users and $ 10 million in Series C funding provided by Benchmark Capital and other investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Mangrove Capital Partners. [ citation needed ] In March 2011, Wix had 8.5 million users and raised $ 40 million in Series D funding, bringing its total funding to $ 61 million. [8] In April 2014, Wix announced its acquisition of Appixia, an Israeli startup for creating native mobile commerce (mCommerce) apps. In October 2014, Wix announced its acquisition of OpenRest , a developer of online ordering systems for restaurants. [9]
On February 23rd, 2017, Wix.com was acquired by DeviantArt for $ 36 million. [10]
Move to HTML5
In March 2012, Wix launched a new HTML5 site builder, replacing the Adobe Flash technology. Existing sites built in Flash continued to be supported, but all new customers were directed to the new HTML5 platform. [11]
By August 2013, the Wix platform had more than 34 million registered users. [12] By 2014, the company reported 50 million users. [13]
IPO on NASDAQ
On November 5, 2013, Wix had an initial public offering on NASDAQ , raising about $ 127 million for the company and some share holders. [14]
This section is missing from the company's Artificial Design Intelligence software . Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page . (November 2016)
Wix provides customizable web site templates and a drag and drop HTML5 web site builder that includes apps, graphics, image galleries, fonts, and other options. Users can also opt to create their web sites from scratch. In October 2013 Wix introduced a mobile editor to allow users to adjust their sites for mobile viewing . [15]
On October 2012, Wix launched an app market for users to sell applications built with the company's automated web development technology. Wix's software development kit lets app developers create and offer web apps to the millions of Wix users around the globe. [16] Wix App Market offers both free and subscription-based applications, with a revenue split of 70 percent for the developer and 30 percent for Wix. [17]
The App Market enables customers to make third-party applications in their own websites, such as photo feeds, blogging, music playlists, online community, email marketing, and file management. [18] Various applications are offered by Google , Instagram , LiveChat , Shopify , and Ecwid . [19] [20]
On May 15, 2014, Wix announced "WixHive API", which allows any installed Wix app within a user's web site to capture and share their visitor data (such as contact information, messages, purchases and bookings) with other installed apps within the same web site. By sharing data, this gives more information about their visitor behavior and can help their businesses. [21]
In August 2014, Wix Wix lancé Hotels, a booking system for hotels, bed and breakfasts , and vacation rentals qui use Wix websites. [22] This was followed in 2015 by Wix Music, a platform for independent musicians to market and sell their music. [23] and Wix Restaurants in 2016. [24]
Appixia, a developer of a platfrom for building "mCommerce" apps, was acquired in March 2014. [25]
OpenRest , a provider of online ordering and mobile solutions for restaurants, was acquired in October 2014. [26]
Moment.me , a service building for mobile social media, was acquired in April 2015. [27]
Flok , a provider of customer loyalty programs, was acquired in January 2017.
DeviantArt , an online community for art / design creators and enthusiasts, was acquired in February 2017. [28]
In October 2016, there was a controversy over Wix's use of WordPress [29] GPL -licensed code. In response, Avishai Abrahami, Wix's CEO, published an answer explaining which open source code was used. [30] However, it was subsequently noted that GPL license, which requires any code built on GPL-licensed code, is also under license. [31]
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Jump up^ Israeli startup Wix Raises $ 40 Million, Wants to Become a Large Company in Israel, Eze Vidra, VCCafe; March 28, 2011
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Jump up^ "Wix acquires website builder art community DeviantArt for $ 36M" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 23 February 2017 .
Jump up^ Wix launches a brand new HTML5 site builder as Flash heads the way of the dodo, Harrison Weber, The Next Web, 26 March 2012
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Jump up^ Wix.com launches market apps, Paul Krill, 16 October 2012, Computerworld
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Jump up^ Wix and Shopify Partner to Launch New Small Business SolutionYahoo! Finance, 19 November 2012
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Jump up^ Boutique hotels just got Easier To book, Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN Money, 6 August 2014
Jump up^ Wix targets indie musicians with WixMusic launch, Natalie Gagliordi, ZDNet | 31 March 2015
Jump up^ Wix.com Launches Wix Restaurants Bringing a True DIY Solution for Online and Mobile Ordering to Worldwide RestaurantsYahoo Finance, March 31, 2016
Jump up^ Fresh From IPO, Wix Acquires Israeli Startup Appixia To Bring Native Mobile Commerce Support To 42M Users
Jump up^ Wix.com Acquires OpenRest to Bring Online & Mobile Ordering to Worldwide Restaurants
Jump up^ Wix Buys Moment.Me For $ 10M To Social Marketing To Its Website Building Platform
Jump up^ Website Builder Wix Acquires DeviantArt art community for $ 36M
Jump up^ The Wix Mobile App, a WordPress Joint| Ma.tt, 28 October 2016
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Mum's mobile phone deflects deadly metal nuts of Manchester bomb
By Abigail Malbon| 5 years ago
A mum who was on her mobile phone when the deadly Manchester bomb was detonated was most likely saved by the device.
Lisa Bridgett from Pwllheli in the UK was using her phone after the Ariana Grande concert on Monday night when the bomb went off, sending a steel nut flying towards her, severing her middle finger before going through her phone and lodging in her nose.
"The fact that she was on the phone at the time probably saved her life," husband Steve Bridgett wrote on Facebook. "The nut has hit her phone which has more than likely not only diverted it, but also slowed it down considerably."
"Lisa is in a positive mood and feels very lucky to be alive, witnessing first hand what could have been," he wrote. "She has suffered multiple injuries including losing the middle finger from her left hand, which was caused by a steel nut that hit her finger then into her phone and eventually coming to rest in her nose.
"She has a fractured ankle caused by shrapnel, also a large bullet hole would to her thigh.....other cuts and bruises as you can well imagine.
"The fact she ws on her phone at the time as [sic] probably saved her life...as the nut has hit her phone which as more than likely not only diverted it, but slowed it down considerably....her nose is fine as the nut entered through her cheek, so just a scar to deal with!"
Steve said his wife will have pins in her ankle and joked that it would be a "bloody pain in the arse at airport security".
She is expected to make a full recovery.
The couple wants to thank police and medical staff for their incredible work and Lisa's husband singled out a steward at the venue named Peter who helped get his wife to safety.
"All of us want to thank the police for their incredible work after the incident and all the staff at both the MRI and Wythenshawe for all the work they have done and are doing.....and in particular, Peter (the steward) at [sic] the MEN for helping Lisa outside and getting her to safety."
He says he and Peter have made plans to meet up.
Incredible photo of the bloodied mobile phone that most likely saved Lisa's life. Image: Facebook/Steve Bridgett
Lisa Bridgett was at the Ariana Grande concert with her daughter and one of her daughter's friends, both of whom are unharmed. She has undergone one surgery and has more lined up to fix her ankle and thigh wounds.
The bombing in Manchester was carried out by suicide bomber Salman Abedi, killing 22 people and injuring 64 others.
Eight other men have been arrested since the attack.
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