Limhamn Bunkeflo 2007 (LB07) was one of 100 clubs from Sweden that had teams playing during Skånecupen 2017. They participated with one team in Pojkar Junior - f. -99 el. senare.
In addition to Limhamn Bunkeflo 2007 (LB07), 23 other teams played in Pojkar Junior - f. -99 el. senare. They were divided into 6 different groups, whereof Limhamn Bunkeflo 2007 (LB07) could be found in Group D together with FC Frölunda, Kulladals FF and Kvarnby u17 2000/01.
Limhamn Bunkeflo 2007 (LB07) continued to Slutspel A after reaching 1:st place in Group D. In the playoff they made it to Semi final, but lost it against Trelleborgs FF 1 with 1-3. In the Final, Trelleborgs FF 2 won over Trelleborgs FF 1 and became the winner of Slutspel A in Pojkar Junior - f. -99 el. senare.
Limhamn Bunkeflo 2007 (LB07) comes from Bunkeflostrand which lies approximately 5 km from Malmö, where Skånecupen takes place. The area around Bunkeflostrand does also provide 77 additional clubs participating during Skånecupen 2017 (Among others: FIFH Malmö, Lunnarp, Borgeby, Vacant, AIF Barrikaden, IFK Klagshamn, Skabersjö DFF/Anderslöv BoIK, Holma kroksbäck IF, Oxie SK and Bjärred IF).


The CARRARA SCULPTORS COOPERATIVE was created by the young Carrara Masters Riccardo Barsottini, Raffaele Bruzzi, Diego Zampolini and Andrea Franceschi.
Four young sculptors who still use the chisel and who know how to score the points by moving them from the sketch to the block with the compass technique, drafting the sculpture by hand. They are sculptors who, like Michelangelo, extract the shape from its marble prison.
Four young sculptors who carry in their arms and eyes the oldest and most distinguished Carrara tradition and who have had more than twenty years experience in the historic Nicoli Laboratories. Here they have become the arm of the most famous artistic minds of contemporary sculpture, shaping the marble according to the will of the artists' genius.


2017 is officially in the history books and 2018 is upon us. So what lessons were learned that will help make 2018 your best year yet?
In the pursuit to Do Thrift Better, here are highlights from 2017 that help chart the way forward in 2018.
Turning data into actionable intelligence is paramount in the pursuit to Do Thrift Better. ThriftTrac was created to make the collection easier and the new dashboards help you visualize the data to inform your decisions. The implementation of dashboards at one partner resulted in a 15% boost in year-over-year sales.
Further changes improved performance as well as made ThriftTrac more visually appealing.
Over the past five years, PickUpMyDonation has made scheduling a donation pick up easy for donors across the country. It's led to over 140,000 requests and $36 million in potential sales for those who follow up with donors and follow through on a pick up.
Every week, the SMCo Thrift team shares a weekly agenda for team discussions with select partners. Every month, those same partners join in a live Q&A session with the SMCo Thrift team to pose questions raised from the weekly discussions or other "hot topics" they encountering. These monthly interactions have been both fun and challenging.
It was during a monthly group coaching session that participants voiced the need for a conference. It was during Q&A sessions that we identified topics for the weekly team discussions. It was during the virtual meetings that we heard updates of expansion plans and the questions associated with a new location.
The previous highlights combined to drive sales higher for coaching and managed partners of SMCo Thrift, averaging more than 25%.
One new partner saw sales jump at one location by 64%, from $28K at the beginning of 2017 to $46K at the end of the year. Their average price per piece jumped by $1.50, from $1.86 to $3.36.
One long-term partner saw year-over-year sales increase by 26%. The jump was driven by an increase in donations from a newly opened donation center. It catapulted total sales from its two retail locations to over $1.1 million.
These two case studies exemplify the efforts of SMCo Thrift to partner with others to Do Thrift Better.
With the impressive highlights from 2017, it is easy to say "let's just do it again". And we certainly anticipate building upon these successes. But we're not satisfied with stopping there.
Plans for the next conference are already underway with the dates set for April 18th to 20th and the location in Knoxville. Additional content relevant for executive leadership and those starting a thrift operation is to come to provide more opportunities for conversation.
We plan to host a second conference in 2018 too to set a rhythm for an event every six months.
Dashboards will continue to become more powerful as customizations are made for each organization.
A big planned addition for 2018 is of a point-of-sale function, automating more of the data collection effort.
With the proliferation of smartphones, more people are using their devices to surf the web rather than making a phone call. So, an online scheduling option increases the likelihood those valuable donations will come to you. PickUpMyDonation provides online scheduling for dozens of partners and plans to add more partners with their own custom link .
Monthly Q&A sessions will continue. And they will play an outsized role in determining what content we share in our conferences and our published content.
New videos will debut in the video library too.
These dreams have heightened our excitement for all that will come in 2018. And we're excited to Do Thrift Better alongside you, as you evaluate, manage and expand your thrift operation. Let's partner together in 2018 to make the most of every opportunity.


BBSRC Innovator of the Year recognises and rewards individuals and small teams who have harnessed the potential of their excellent research.
It is designed to recognise the full breadth of impacts that BBSRC investments in research have, from creation of spinout companies or social enterprises, to working in collaboration with business and NGOs, to working with policy makers, both in the UK and abroad.
Winners in each category will receive a £10,000 award, with a further £10,000 for the overall winner, the BBSRC Innovator of the Year.
The awards will be presented at a high-profile event in London on 15 May 2019 in front of an invited audience of leading figures from the worlds of investment, industry, government, charity and academia.
Researchers in institutes receiving strategic funding from BBSRC.
For team entries, at least half of the team should meet the above entry requirements. Where there are non-eligible individuals who have played a significant part in helping deliver impact, their role in assisting the eligible researcher(s) should be made clear in the application.
For all entries, applicants must demonstrate the connection between their BBSRC-funded research and the impact generated or expected.
Do you know a BBSRC-funded researcher who is passionate about the impact of his/her research?
Do you have a great story to tell about your own research impact?
Have you worked with a researcher who has stepped outside the lab to help realise the impact of their research?
Key Survey: BBSRC Innovator of the Year 2019 - register to apply.
If you wish to recommend someone other than yourself for this award, you can use the recommendation link below instead. Upon receipt of a recommendation we will invite the nominee to apply as soon as possible. We welcome recommendations at any time up until a week before the application deadline.
Key Survey: Innovator of the Year 2019 - recommendations.
Recommendations alone are not sufficient for consideration and we need the applicant to fill out the complete form (approx. 1500 words).
If you are unable to use the web forms, please contact us via email with your recommendation or for an electronic document version of the application form.
Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton and Professor Rob Honey said: "We are delighted that the quality and impact of our science has been recognised with such a prestigious award. We will continue with our programme of research, using brain science to keep our fighters safe so they can keep you safe."
Dr Temple said: "I was overwhelmed with excitement and pride that all the hard work had led to this fantastic recognition, but I also felt bashful because there were so many great and deserving projects."
Professor Brown said: "I'm amazingly proud to have been chosen for this award given the remarkable array of innovators who were finalists – I was particularly impressed by the global nature of some of the innovations up for the award. It has been BBSRC's long term and consistent support which has allowed the science to flourish that has led to my innovation."
Professor Givens said: "I am honoured and very surprised to be named the BBSRC Innovator of the Year. Innovation is at the heart of research at Reading, and I am lucky enough to work in one of the best possible research environments of its kind. Much of my research in this area has been supported by BBSRC DRINC which is an excellent model for integrating research with industry."
Professor Luke Alphey said: "It is such a great honour to win Innovator of the Year – particularly when there is such stiff competition. Tonight really showcases how innovations from UK bioscience are tackling such a huge range of challenges."
Dr Donnelly said: "I'm delighted and very surprised. I knew for a contest like this there was going to be very strong competition. To win something like this at such an early stage of my career, well it's the highlight of my career, it really is."
Professor Lomonossoff expressed his delight at winning, saying: "You want to hope but you don't dare. It's a big surprise; rather like winning an Oscar."
Professor Swedlow said: "It is a great honour to accept this award. The support we have received from BBSRC, as well as the Wellcome Trust, during the early stages of the research has been invaluable. Our vision has always been to create a global standard for imaging software and the community that has grown up around the open source development is extraordinary. In reality I am receiving this award on behalf of a large group of extremely talented people who share a common commitment to innovation through team work, collaboration and the process of creating something new and exciting as a community."
Professor Balasubramanian said: "I am delighted to accept the award of BBSRC Innovator of the Year and I do so on behalf of many people who have made important contributions at many stages of the Solexa project. I would particularly like to acknowledge my departmental colleague, Prof David Klenerman, who I co-founded Solexa with in 1998.
"None of this would have happened without the support of BBSRC. Their backing was essential for the blue skies research that gave rise to our original inventions. The continued funding of fundamental science by BBSRC will be an essential part of future enterprises and ultimately, wealth creation."
Professor Jackson said: "It's a tremendous honour to receive this prestigious award. It really reflects that science, like that funded by BBSRC in my group over the years can yield both exciting science and commercial and social applications. I think this award is a showcase for how funding of science by BBSRC is able to provide major tangible benefits not only the UK science base but also the biotech and pharmaceutical industries."


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The Four Shaolin Challengers (1977)
Lin Shih Yung (Larry Lee Gam-Kwan) is a student of Wong Fei Hung who finds himself a hero after standing up to a gang that is threatening his local market. He soon opens a kung-fu school, but is pushed into exile after the gangsters attack his students and force his friend Jing-Jing into prostitution. Three of his Kung Fu school brothers (Bruce Leung, Wong Yuen-San & Jason Pai Piao) arrive to offer help, and to kick the crap out of anyone who gets in their way. This includes crime boss Shiao Pei Li (Lau Dan), who employs his own fighters to take on the four Shaolin challengers.
That was succinct. As one might imagine, the best fights come when the Shaolin four take on these hired guns.
Middle-of-the-road kung fu flick featuring and entertaining climax that unfortunately proves to be too little, too late. The Four Shaolin Challengers includes some strong onscreen talent, but the stilted story and mundane set pieces don't give them much of an opportunity to show off their talents. Some lousy dubbing and painful pan and scanning also make watching the film an often frustrating experience.
Lin Shih Yung (Larry Lee Gam-Kwan) draws the most attention as a supporse student of Wong Fei Hung (who is only mentioned briefly, and his famous theme song is played, but doesn't actually appear), but his fight scenes are not particularly exciting. More enjoyable (and top billed) is Bruce Leung (Kung Fu Hustle) as Devil Kick Chi. He's mostly played for comic relief, but gets a few chances to show off some charisma and terrific kicking. The other two brothers are generally unmemorable until the final fight sequence, but Lao Dan as Shaio Pei Li makes an appropriately malevolant villain.
The story, particularly the parts revolving around Jing-Jing and her conversion into prostitution, is confusing at best. Much of it seems to have been devised during filming, and the connection between Jing Jing and the Shaolin brothers is never properly explained. While this does lead to a few confrontations after Jing Jing is raped, it all feels shoehorned in and is obvious filler.
Things do pick up in the last twenty minutes when the four stars finally get to pair off against the hired goons in some one on one action. While the choreography isn't mindblowing, the weapons on display are original and we get to witness stick fighting, baton fighting, umbrella fighting and (my personal favorite) cymbal fighting. The battles are original and entertaining, though serve to spotlight the wasted potential of the first seventy minutes. As well, this weapons showcase seems to come from nowhere as, except for a brief earlier scene of the thugs showing off their skills, these unusual weapons are never mentioned.
The Four Shaolin Challengers is a public domain film and is featured in the Millcreek Martial Arts 50 Pack. This tranfer is full screen, and painfully pan and scanned which makes even the more entertaining fights hard to enjoy since director Wei Hui Feng loves to shoot scenes in close-up. The sound is also a problem, as the dubbing is particularly poorly done and often hard to hear. Obviously the storyline isn't particularly engrossing to begin with, but plot details sometimes get lost in bad translations and lousy voice acting.
No special features here except chapter selections. Though, if you just want to jump to the last twenty minutes, this could be very useful.
The original title of the film literally translates to Wong Fei-Hung's Four Big Disciples which explains how this movie was originally sold. Audiences must have been disappointed to instead find a severe lack of Wong Fei-Hung and, even more tragic, a lack of kung-fu fights. As average as they come, The Four Shaolin Challengers wastes some strong talent on a weak story.

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Shadow in the Mirror is a crime novel by the American writer Robert Aiello set in contemporary Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The story opens when an identical twin⎯a flame from Grant Montgomery's past⎯reenters his life, and he is soon implicated in the murder of the twins' father, an old friend and mentor. Montgomery, the mentalist, must uncover a secret to reveal the murderer, but he is threatened by a beautiful psychopath who wants his love or his demise and a sadistic criminal with a score to settle.

Sources
Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006.

External links
 Author's website
 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette book review

2001 American novels
American crime novels
Novels set in Pittsburgh
Twins in fiction

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I FORGOT HOW TO MAKE THE TEXT WHITE AND I CANT FIND IT HERE SOMEWHERE. PLEASE HELP DUE TO MUTIPLE REASONS.
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Talent on display during the district's 20th Annual Poetry, Music, Art & Dance Celebration!
Mill Middle raised over $27,000 goin' Bald for Bucks to support cancer research & patient programs at Roswell Park Cancer Center.
Transit Middle raises over $27,000 as they go Bald for Bucks!!
Williamsville beats Skaneateles 5-4 in Overtime to win the State Championship.
Country Parkway spreads positive messages to Amberleigh Retirement community!


"I wanted a Christmas tree that you could happen upon in the forest," says homeowner and designer Barbara Milner. So she strayed from the glam and glitz and focused on fashioning a natural appeal that didn't feel crafty. "I was going for fuss-free...and yet I fussed so much," she adds. In keeping with the earthy elegance of her tree, Barbara wrapped the gifts in brown kraft paper – "I love the back-to-basics understated feel of it," she says. "But, as with anything, you choose your moment to make a statement." Here, it's all about the sumptuous satin ribbons.
Unusual and imperfect yet bright and seasonal, persimmons are the perfect accents for this natural style. Strewn along the mantel, they look like they're about to be foraged by the vintage taxidermied pheasants above.
Instead of splurging on pre-made bows, Barbara suggests going to a fabric outlet and having some custom made. These pricey-looking ones created from four-inch-wide peau de soie are dramatically oversized: 16 inches wide with 22-inch tails. "If you can explain what you want, it's inexpensive to go to the experts," she says. Find more holiday DIY projects here.
With its muted, monochromatic palette, traditional touches (like the toile-look wallpaper), unexpected elements (check out the exotic veneer of the console) and elegant accents (don't those sconces make you think of Gatsby?), the entryway feels "like an old, cozy Park Avenue hotel with an eclectic British undertone," says Barbara. What could be more welcoming than that?
Barbara's four-year-old son, Marshall, loves everything about Christmas, especially decorating. "He is very hands-on and opinionated about what's beautiful," says Barbara, "which is both a joy and a challenge." Check out these fun and easy holiday decorating ideas for the whole family.
It doesn't always have to be in the shape of a house or a person – gingerbread is just as tasty in tree form. Their snowy candy-floss tops fit perfectly with the forest theme.
Medium Darlana lantern in Guilded Iron, Circa Lighting, $630 US. Dion mirror in G, through designers, Worlds Away, $1,200 US. Proud Pheasant figurine, Wayfair, $96 US per two-piece set.Deconstructed French Napoleonic armchair in Sand, Restoration Hardware, $1,195 US. Cole & Son Versailles 99/15061 wallpaper in Charcoal, Lee Jofa, $414 per double roll, through designers. Evergreen wreath, visit your local garden centre.


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Jan Piecko (born February 3, 1955) is a former Polish ice hockey player who played for the Poland men's national ice hockey team at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

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1955 births
Living people
Ice hockey players at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players of Poland
Polish ice hockey left wingers
Sportspeople from Katowice


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After you've had a chance to get familiar with all of the currently available Mazda models, you're ready to make the tough decision of choosing just one. Once you know which car, crossover, or SUV that you'd like to purchase, head on over to our finance center and we'll get the ball rolling on your finance application. Our Mazda financing and leasing consultants haves years of experience helping customers from all over Pennsylvania get approved for a competitive line of credit. If you're reside in Allentown, Lancaster, Pottstown, Reading, Sinking Spring, or Wyomissing, then you're just a short drive away from discovering the new Mazda of your dreams!


Simple ingredients make these fun and easy Easter Bunny Biscuits that make the perfect Easter morning breakfast or anytime treat!
Place five biscuits on 15 x 10 x 1-inch nonstick baking pan.
To assemble bunny biscuits: Cut remaining 5 biscuits in half, pull a little to form ears.
Press 2 biscuit halves (ears) under top of each whole biscuit to form bunny head.
In each whole biscuit, press in two raisins for eyes, cherry half for nose, two slivered almonds on each side of cherry half for whiskers.
Bake 10 minutes, or until biscuits are done. Serve immediately.
For more brunch and snack favorites, order your copy of Holly Clegg's Too Hot in the Kitchen Cookbook with my favorite Lemon Blueberry Bread!
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Home Voices Harvey Milk Day
by Benjamin Ohene
In 2009, the State of California officially designated May 22 as "Harvey Milk Day" in order to commemorate one of the most outspoken LGBT government officials to this day.
Harvey Milk was an activist, an organizer and the first openly gay man elected to office in the United States as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the late 1970s. Milk organized against the discrimination of gay and lesbian business owners in San Francisco and pushed for equality throughout the country. Harvey Milk also fought and won against the Briggs Initiative, a proposal that sought to ban homosexual teachers from instructing in California's public school system. During his 11 months in office, Milk was responsible for passing several gay rights ordinances for the city of San Francisco and made big changes to the way that the LGBT was seen in the city. Unfortunately, Milk was was assassinated by another government official on November 27, 1978. We celebrate Harvey Milk Day on his day of birth, May 22.
John Storey / The Chronicle
Harvey Milk believed that the government should represent individuals and ensure equality for all citizens regardless of their sexuality or skin tone. Milk spoke for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and other minorities during his time in office and his legacy continues to live on.
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Restoration of Power to North Attica Suburbs Nearing Completion
By Athens News Agency
(Photo by Eurokinissi/ Sotiris Dimitropoulos)
ATHENS — Restoration of the power distribution network at North Attica's suburbs will be "almost complete" by the end of Friday, the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO) said on Friday.
The heavy snowstorms that hit the country at the start of the week caused malfunctions in medium-voltage power lines spanning 250 kilometers, with 3,000 registered malfunctions in the low-voltage network. A total of 5,000 meters of power cables were destroyed by the extreme weather, noted HEDNO, while 100,000 household nationwide experienced problems with electricity supply.
Approximately 1,500 trees fell during the Attica snowstorm, causing serious problems in the power network: more than 50 medium-voltage pylons and 40 medium-voltage sub-stations were damaged.
Meanwhile, the Athens suburb of Chalandri on Friday announced its decision to take legal action against HEDNO, as power cuts are observed there for a fifth consecutive day, said Mayor Simos Roussos.


Letter from Ralph L. Ross to Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee and chair of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce. Ross writes that he, while serving with the Iola, Kansas, Police Department in 1934, arrested several armed men after a car accident. He writes that those men were suspected of an attempt to murder Kansas City gangster Mike LaCapra, and suggests they "could give valuable information on crime in Kansas City." Ross wishes Kefauver luck on his investigation into Kansas City organized crime.
Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about drugstores, such as the Katz chain, that now sell other goods such as groceries, liquor, and general merchandise, and how they evade laws limiting the days traditional grocery and liquor stores can remain open. Other featured articles include: "We've Got the Equipment" (p. 2), regarding new forensic investigation techniques touted by J.
Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the crime rate for auto theft and parts stripping in Kansas City compared to Saint Louis and description of its inaccurate measurements by the Kansas City Police Department not accepted by the FBI, with photo of a stripped car and a portrait of J. Edgar Hoover. Other featured articles include: "One Year Ago This Week" (p.


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Food Alert "For Action": UNREGISTERED and UNAPPROVED ICE-CREAM PRODUCER – ZAK ICES (or…
Food Alert "For Action": UNREGISTERED and UNAPPROVED ICE-CREAM PRODUCER – ZAK ICES (or LUCKY GOLD LEAF), BELLE VUE STREET, BATLEY, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF17 7DD
Food Alert
View Food Alert "For Action" UNREGISTERED and UNAPPROVED ICE-CREAM PRODUCER – ZAK ICES (or LUCKY GOLD LEAF), BELLE VUE STREET, BATLEY, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF17 7DD as PDF
Please copy to all Local Authority Officers with a possible interest.
UNREGISTERED and UNAPPROVED ICE-CREAM PRODUCER – ZAK ICES (or LUCKY GOLD LEAF), BELLE VUE STREET, BATLEY, WEST YORKSHIRE, WF17 7DD
Heads of Environmental Health Services and Directors of Trading Standards should be aware that an unregistered and unapproved Food Business Operator (FBO), Zak Ices, Belle Vue Street, Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 7DD has been producing ice cream using an approval code of UK KM058 EEC which previously belonged to a another company and was withdrawn in 2007. The FBO is also producing Ice cream in the name of 'Lucky Gold Leaf', using the same approval code of UK KM058 EEC.
Since the last food alert was issued, Ref: 02/2017, dated 12 October 2017, further investigations by Kirklees Council have taken place, a more comprehensive distribution list (attached) was found at the FBO's premises of ice cream supplied by Zak Ices (or Lucky Gold Leaf). It has also been found that some products supplied by Zak Ices are produced by third parties. These products come from approved premises and, although there are no known issues with regards to the safety of these particular products, as they are supplied by Zak Ices there is insufficient assurance as to the hygienic handling and storage and we recommend that they be withdrawn from sale. Pictures of some of these products can be found in menus (picture attached) supplied by Zak Ices to restaurants. Giving that Zak Ices have not traded for the last 4 weeks, before withdrawing any products, can LAs please confirm with the FBO's that any third party products found are not being supplied by Zak Ices.
The only products identified so far are listed as below (pictures attached), but other flavours could be available.
The ice cream is supplied and produced at an unregistered and unapproved premise and therefore it is not known what production, storage and hygiene procedures are taken place at the premises.
Actions (to be) taken by enforcement authorities:
These products were supplied and possibly produced by ZAK ICES, Belle Vue Street, Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 7DD. They have also produced under the name of 'Lucky Gold Leaf', also using the unauthorised approval code of UK KM058 EEC. This business is not approved or registered for this activity and has been producing ice cream using an approval code of UK KM058 EEC.
The FBO and products fail to comply with various food hygiene and labelling legislative requirements, including the following:
Failure to register or gain the necessary approval for activities involving processing of products of animal origin - Regulation 852/2004, Article 6 (Registration and Approval)
Inappropriate use of an old approval code (previously allocated to another business) - Regulation 853/2004, Annex II, Section 1, A (1) (Identification Marking/Application of)
Failure to comply with requirements for allergen labelling - Regulation 1169/2011, Article 21, para 1 (b) (Labelling of certain substances or products causing allergies or intolerances)
Kirklees Council have already contacted the businesses located in Kirklees and removed the products where found. The businesses listed are mostly restaurants.
We recommend that local authorities with those premises in their areas as listed in the customer list visit those FBOs and determine whether the premises hold any products supplied from ZAK ICES or Lucky Gold Leaf, looking out for the unauthorised use of approval number UK KM058 EEC. Local authorities should, acting in their capacity as enforcement authority, consider whether products which are found should be withdrawn from sale and, acting in accordance with the applicable statutory procedures, detained or seized, if necessary using powers under the Food Safety Act 1990 and Regulation 29 of the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013.
Local authorities are also requested to inform the FSA if they find these products and to provide the FSA with details of onward traceability from these businesses and advise them to contact their retail customers to advise them to voluntarily withdraw any product still within their control. Details should be reported to foodincidents@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk or tel: 020 7276 8448.
ZAK ICES – Vanilla Ice Cream
Product code None
Pack size White tub
Batch code None
ZAK ICES – Luxury Ice Cream
ZAK ICES – Pistachio Ice Cream
ZAK ICES – Mint Mania Ice Cream
ZAK ICES – Banoffee Pie
ZAK ICES – Mango Kulfi
ZAK ICES – Mint Choc Chip
ZAK ICES – Pistachio Kulf
ZAK ICES – Strawberry Sensation
ZAK ICES – Bubblegum Ice Cream
Lucky Gold Leaf – Pistachio Kulfi
Lucky Gold Leaf – Mango Kulfi
FSA-FAFA-02-2017-update-1 Examples
If you have bought any of the above products, do not consume them.
and Caterers: If you have bought any of the above products, do not consume them.
About product recalls and withdrawals
If there is a problem with a food product that means it should not be sold, then it might be 'withdrawn' (taken off the shelves) or 'recalled' (when customers are asked to return the product). The FSA issues Product Withdrawal Information Notices and Product Recall Information Notices to let consumers and local authorities know about problems associated with food. In some cases, a 'Food Alert for Action' is issued. This provides local authorities with details of specific action to be taken on behalf of consumers.
Ref: FSA-FAFA-02-2017-update-1


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Q: Classify each word in a paragraph (TF Keras) I want to create a model to turn vectors of input_len integers between 0 and vocab_size to vectors of input_len integers between 0 and 31.
The order of the integers matters, as these vectors represent paragraphs I am trying to classify each word of, with 32 possible categories.
I have the following training data:
The paragraphs themselves (inputs) formatted as arrays of words which have been numbered 0-vocab_size, and padded or cut off to input_len words
Labels (outputs) formatted as equally long arrays of labels 0-31 (0 being none)
A made-up example input might look like: [12,4,63,2,9], and an output might look like [0,0,3,0,7].
model = tf.keras.models.Sequential([
    tf.keras.layers.Embedding(vocab_size, embedding_dim, input_length=input_len),
    tf.keras.layers.LSTM(128, input_shape=(input_len, embedding_dim),
                         return_sequences=True),
    tf.keras.layers.Dense(32, activation='relu')
])

model.compile('adam', 'sparse_categorical_crossentropy', metrics=['accuracy'])
model.fit(x_train, y_train, epochs=10)
model.evaluate(x_test, y_test)

The code above throws the error

InvalidArgumentError: Can not squeeze dim[1], expected a dimension of 1, got 1000"

Currently, input_len = 1000.
TLDR, I have an input of shape (training_set_size, input_len) and want the LSTM to have an output of shape (training_set_size, input_len).

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Information about wildlife sanctuary by Tamil Nadu Forest Department
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Cornerstone Church was founded on 15 September 2013 as Cornerstone Bible Fellowship. The Rev Dr Paul Ferguson delivered the inaugural sermon "Our Chief Corner Stone" (Ephesians 2:20b) with 91 persons attending.
On 21 September 2013, the Young People's Fellowship (YPF) held its first meeting at the Home of Elder & Mrs Boaz Boon. On 20 October 2013, the Mandarin Service of Living Fountain Christian Church was inaugurated. Preacher Kelvin Wong delivered the inaugural sermon 《基督耶稣为教会的房角石》 with 37 persons attending. The Rev Dr Paul Ferguson conducted the Lord's Supper.
On 26 October 2013, we had our first church outing as we embarked on a one-day trip to Johor Bahru.
On 25 December 2013, the first Christmas and baptismal service was held. 5 adults and 1 infant were baptised. Attendance was 149.
On 31 December 2013, the Registry of Societies (ROS) approved our registration as "Cornerstone Church" (UEN: T13SS0224B) as the Lord crowned the year with His goodness (Psalm 65:11).
On 16 February 2014 more than 80 new members were received in at the Lord's Table.
Reviewing the past blessings of God for a church is always spiritually profitable. The Lord has blessed us in many ways. The work of God has been blessed with the strengthening of the saints, the salvation of sinners, the establishment of new ministries, and the material needs of the work here have been met.
Cornerstone has continued to grow with souls being added to the church regularly in the preceding months. We thank God for His blessings.
The Psalmist cried, "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles." (Psalm 43:3) The desire to spread the good news of the Gospel is a Scriptural one. It should be central to the ministry of every church.


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Having a dazzling white smile is something that most of us aspire to. Looking after our teeth with regular brushing and flossing certainly helps, as do regular visits to the dentist to have our teeth cleaned, or perhaps even laser whitening. A bright smile fills us with confidence, essentially helping to make us happier people as we don't refrain from opening our mouths. Even the camera lens seems much friendlier when we are confident with our smiles.
While it's important to look after our teeth with brushing and certain treatments, trying to avoid discolouring or rotting our teeth should also be a part of our overall health agenda.
In this post we'll look at some foods and drinks to avoid or cut back on that are notorious for causing stains and discolouration, and possibly even tooth decay as well.
Really any foods with high or dark pigmentation have the capacity to stain the teeth. While it's not necessary to avoid these foods completely, it's worth keeping in mind what foods can cause staining so you can make an informed decision whether to eat them or not.
Drinks are even more notorious for tooth discolouration and staining. Many drinks contain the 3 elements mentioned above, and some contain all three. One way to help avoid tooth discolouration when drinking is to use a straw when possible. This helps the liquid bypass the teeth for the most part.
Another good habit to develop is to always rinse your mouth out thoroughly with fresh water after eating or drinking anything that can potentially stain your teeth.
Make an appointment with your dentist for advice on how to keep your teeth healthy and white. Your dentist can also give your teeth a thorough professional cleaning on a regular basis, and if you really want dazzling white teeth, book in for a laser whitening session.


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Dark Matter Experiment's Central Component Takes a Deep Dive – Nearly a Mile Underground
LUX-ZEPLIN experiment's time projection chamber is successfully moved to its research cavern
Q: How do you get a 5,000-pound, 9-foot-tall particle detector, designed to hunt for dark matter, nearly a mile underground?
A: Very carefully.
Last week, crews at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota strapped the central component of LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) – the largest direct-detection dark matter experiment in the U.S. – below an elevator and s-l-o-w-l-y lowered it 4,850 feet down a shaft formerly used in gold-mining operations.
This final journey of LZ's central detector on Oct. 21 to its resting place in a custom-built research cavern required extensive planning and involved two test moves of a "dummy" detector to ensure its safe delivery.
"This was the most challenging move of a detector system that I have ever done in decades of working on experiments," said Jeff Cherwinka, the LZ chief engineer from the University of Wisconsin, who led the planning effort for the move along with SURF engineers and other support.
Jake Davis, a SURF mechanical engineer who worked on the cryostat move, said, "Between the size of the device, the confines of the space, and the multiple groups involved in the move, the entire process required rigorous attention to both the design and the scheduling. Prior to rigging the detector under the cage, we did testing with other cranes to see how it would react when suspended. We also completed analysis and testing to ensure it would remain nice and straight in the shaft."
Crews at the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory in Lead, South Dakota, begin to lower the LUX-ZEPLIN central detector. Its nearly mile-long descent down an elevator shaft, and its delivery to a research cavern where it will hunt for dark matter, were successfully carried out last week. (Credit: Nick Hubbard/Sanford Underground Research Facility)
He added, "The ride was slow, right around 100 feet per minute. The ride to the 4,850-foot level typically takes 13-15 minutes. Today, it took close to 45 minutes. I rode in the cage, watching it through an inspection port in the floor. There was a huge sigh of relief after the move, but there's still a lot of work ahead to finish LZ."
Theresa Fruth, a postdoctoral research fellow at University College London who works on LZ's central detector, said that keeping LZ well-sealed from any contaminants during its journey was a high priority – even the slightest traces of dust and dirt could ultimately affect its measurements.
"From a science perspective, we wanted the detector to come down exactly as it was on the surface," she said. "The structural integrity is incredibly important, but so is the cleanliness, because we've been building this detector for 10 months in a clean room. Before the move, the detector was bagged twice, then inserted in the transporter structure. Then, the transporter was wrapped with another layer of strong plastic. We also need to move all our equipment underground so we can do the rest of the installation work underground."
The LUX-ZEPLIN time projection chamber, the experiment's main detector, is pictured here in a clean room at the Sanford Underground Research Facility before it was wrapped up and delivered underground. (Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility)
The central detector, known as the LZ cryostat and time projection chamber, will ultimately be filled with 10 tons of liquid xenon that will be chilled to minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists hope to see telltale signals of dark matter particles that are produced as they interact with the heavy xenon atoms in this cryostat.
The liquid form of xenon, a very rare element, is so dense that a chunk of granite can float atop its surface. It is this density, owing to the heavy atomic weight of xenon, that makes it a good candidate for capturing particle interactions.
The cryostat is a large tank, assembled from ultrapure titanium, is about 5 1/2 feet in diameter. It contains systems with a total of 625 photomultiplier tubes that are positioned at its top and bottom (see a related article). These tubes are designed to capture flashes of light produced in particle interactions.
Pawel Majewski of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the U.K., who led the design, fabrication, cleaning, and delivery of LZ's inner cryostat vessel for the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council, said, "Now it is extremely gratifying to see it … holding the heart of the experiment and resting in its final place in the Davis Campus, one mile underground."
Photo – A tractor carries the LUX-ZEPLIN central detector to the Yates Shaft at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, which can be seen in the background, for its nearly mile-long descent down an elevator shaft. The move was successfully completed last week. (Credit: Nick Hubbard/Sanford Underground Research Facility)
LZ is designed to hunt for theorized dark matter particles called WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles. Dark matter makes up about 27 percent of the universe, though we don't yet know what it's made of and have only detected it through its gravitational effects on normal matter.
It is 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor experiment, called LUX, which operated in the same underground space. Placing LZ deep underground serves to shield it from much of the steady bombardment of particles that are present at the Earth's surface.
LZ's cryostat will be surrounded by a tank filled with a liquid known as a scintillator that will also be outfitted with an array of photomultiplier tubes and is designed to help weed out false signals from unwanted particle "noise." And the cryostat and scintillator tank will be embedded within a large water tank that provides a further buffer layer from unwanted particle signals.
While LUX's main detector was small enough to fit in the SURF elevator, LZ's cryostat narrowly fit in the elevator shaft.
It was first moved outside of a clean room at the surface level, picked up with a forklift, and carried into position below the elevator cage. It was then attached to the underside of the cage with slings and straps, where it was slowly moved down to the level of the Davis Cavern, its final resting place.
Once detached from the elevator cage, it was moved using air skates on a temporarily assembled surface – akin to how an air hockey puck moves across the table's surface. Because of the cryostat's size, crews had to first temporarily remove underground duct work to allow the move.
From left: Jack Bargemann, Simon Fiorucci, Alvine Kamaha, Charles Maupin, Jake Davis, Jeff Cherwinka, Pawel Majewski, and Doug Tiedt, welcome the arrival of the LUX-ZEPLIN central detector to the 4,850-foot level at the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory. The detector, which is lying on its side, will ultimately be surrounded by several other tanks. (Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility)
Murdock "Gil" Gilchriese, LZ project director and a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), said, "Next, the cryostat will be wrapped with multiple layers of insulation, and a few other exterior components will be installed." Berkeley Lab is the lead institution for the LZ project.
"Then it will get lowered into the outer cryostat vessel," he added. "It will take months to hook up and check out all of the cables and make everything vacuum-tight." Most of the LZ work is now concentrated underground, he said, with multiple work shifts scheduled to complete LZ assembly and installation.
There are plans to begin testing the process of liquefying xenon gas for LZ in November using a mock cryostat, and to fill the actual cryostat with xenon in spring 2020. Project completion could come as soon as July 2020, Gilchriese said.
–Erin Broberg of the Sanford Underground Research Facility contributed to this press release.
VIDEO: LZ Time Projection Chamber assembly completed
Some Assembly Required: Scientists Piece Together the Largest U.S.-Based Dark Matter Experiment
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By Jessica Duchen
The mystery of Beethoven's lost love – Immortal Beloved.
FIDELIO rising
With the Beethoven 250th anniversary coming up next year, just about every opera company I can think of is preparing to stage Fidelio, and plentiful orchestras are planning concert performances. It is the only opera Beethoven wrote - or at least, the only one he completed.
He started another, earlier, entitled Vestas Feuer, set in ancient Rome. The libretto was by Schikaneder (of The Magic Flute fame) who was employing him as composer quite literally in residence at the Theater an der Wieden - Schikaneder was artistic director there and Beethoven moved into an apartment in the theatre to set to work on the piece. The libretto did not inspire him, to put it mildly. He said it was "only fit for washerwomen". Fidelio followed - with a long history of fits and starts, invasions and censorship; after flopping in the midst of the first occupation of Vienna by Napoleon, it did not reach its final form until 1814.
I'm puzzled - exceedingly so - by the complaint I always hear about Fidelio: people almost invariably say they admire the music, but find it unsatisfying as a drama. I simply do not understand this. What is there to be unsatisfying? It sometimes strikes me that this is one of the few operas that features a strong, brave heroine who wins against all the odds. Can it be that most opera fans like the wilting 19th-century flowers who die of consumption, go warbling mad or meet a violent end at the hands of the men in their lives? Or is it that Florestan, being jailed, never has the chance to do very much except long for Leonore to rescue him? You'd think this aria (sung in this extract from the Salzburg Festival by Jonas Kaufmann) would be enough of a challenge to keep him busy and his listeners happy, though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxhAaftYrZs
The story is based on a French play that itself was apparently taken from a real incident during the French Revolution. Because of the official censors - every artistic product of words, music or images in Vienna had to be assessed by censors at the time - Beethoven and his librettist elected to set the piece in Spain instead of France, which did not help very much; it also accounts for the lack of specificity about the political background of the story. We never find out what Florestan did to make Pizarro hate him so much, other than - one infers - being some kind of freedom fighter. That doesn't help either.
Or does it? It opens the door for directors to take a view on the story and bring out its power in new ways of their own. Sometimes, of course, it's flunked. I've seen a ridiculous number of daft productions over the years, perhaps the nadir being the time Covent Garden had little Blakeian red and green demons strutting around the final scene on stilts, honest guv. The audience laughed aloud. You might want Blake, but you don't want that. I suspect that next year will bring up some better takes, and that many will be interesting, provocative and, if you'll excuse the term, "relevant".
I love Fidelio with a passion for its idealism: its extolling of liberty and love, its message of resistance to tyranny and its iron core of devoted love. Its dignity. Its humanity. And, yes, its drama.
And Leonore...who is the devoted wife Florestan longs for? Is she inspired in some way by the 'Immortal Beloved'? No prizes for guessing...but you'll have to read IMMORTAL to find out.
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The science of formulating wholesome skin care products lies in the selection of the base oils and butters used to create each recipe. Each natural oil and butter lends unique properties to the finished product.
A great deal of experimentation has gone into finding just the right combinations of oils and butters to create Greenviv natural skin and hair care products.
We use unrefined oils and butters whenever available. Unrefined oils retain their natural scent, color and nutritional benefits. It does not make sense to create "all natural" products with plant based oils and butters that are grown using toxic pesticides, that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs),or that use solvents or other toxic chemical in their processing. How is this "natural?"
It does not make sense to create "all natural" products with herbs and botanicals that are sprayed with pesticides, irradiated and fumigated. Since botanicals are not processed, these toxic chemicals remain on the leaves, flowers and fruits. So when you make an oil infusion with non-organic botanicals, it is also infused with the pesticide residue. How is this "natural?"
We purchase only organic fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs and grains when available.
Some botanicals are not available as certified organic, in that case we purchase botanicals that are ethically wildcrafted in a pesticide free environment.
We use only the purest natural plant essential oils!
We individualize our handmade soaps and skin care products by including natural additives.
Natural additives lend their own special qualities by adding natures own nutrients and providing a unique look, color, texture and aroma. Skin care products are only as good as the ingredients used to create them. It does not make sense to create "all natural" products using ingredients that are grown using toxic pesticides, that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), or that use solvents or other toxic chemicals in their processing.


Brew By Joesph James Brewing Co.
Another new brewery to grace the blog! Well…the brewery itself isn't new, nor is this offering–but it IS the first time I've gotten my hands on it to review here on the blog.
While this offering is gluten free–that is to say, it's brewed with ingredients that are all gluten free from the start, Joseph James Brewing Co. does brew regular glutenous beers as well. So be sure you are reaching for the blue can Foxtail Pale Ale if giving them a taste.
This particular brew is built on a foundation of organic brown rice. There is sorghum in this ale, but it's unclear to me whether this was always the case. I read a couple reviews for this ale when it was still in the old black/green designed can, and they claimed there wasn't sorghum. Not sure whether its true, but if so, JJ Brewing must have reformulated.
The gluten free Joseph James offering comes in an eye-catching blue and white can that matches the rest of the JJ Brewing fleet of ales. This beer pours a pale yellow with a bubbly head that fades quickly. Its texture is light and clear, its aroma is hoppy.
The Foxtail is an interesting brew. Its body is very light, the flavor crisp and slightly citrusy. This pale is dry–a bit champagne-y even. It's very drinkable with mellow flavors and light bitterness. This pale ale would be great for hot summer days. I find it quite refreshing.
I would recommend giving this pale ale a try, especially if you are based in Nevada or Colorado, as I believe their distribution is heaviest in those states.


CLARENA is one of the biggest Polish cosmetic companies. For over 10 years it has been specialising in the service of beauty salons, supplying them not only with professional cosmetics, but also with specialist equipment for treatments. Clarena supports about 18 000 beauty salons across the whole country. Clarena succesively develops launching new products, expanding the range of its services and its geographical scope.
Clarena runs 3 Training and Sales Centres: in Wroclaw, Warsaw and Cracow. The company is an originator and organizer of professional, cycle trainings for beauticians, national forums and branding events. For those activities Clarena has been awarded by the professional branding magazines as well as by mainstream economic institutions.
RUBICA – specialist devices and equipment for beauty salons.
Clarena's offer is available and used all over Poland.
The company distributes its products to 18 000 beauty salons in Poland and covers 40% of professional cosmetic market of the country. Both professional cosmetic brand CLARENA and specialist equipment for treatments RUBICA are known and distributed also around the world.
Nowadays cosmetics and devices of Clarena are being sold e.g. in Great Britain, Ireland, Romania, Spain, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Czech Republic, Norway, Belgium, Bulgaria, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, Hungary and Malta. Currently negotiations of distribution agreement with partner in Hongkong are taking place. Clarena is also going to open own sales centre and beauty salon in Brussels.
CLARENA was founded in 1998 by Patricia Popławska.


Yes, that's the supposed starting price of the phone, according to Goldman Sachs.
I hope you've been saving up for the next iPhone.
Goldman Sachs said in a research note Thursday that the iPhone 8 could start at a whopping $1,000. The next iPhone will boast a 5.8-inch display with OLED technology and 3D-sensing augmented reality capabilities, the firm said. That reaffirms many of the rumors that have been floating.
"With only four months left until launch, we believe Apple has now locked down the design," Goldman Sachs analyst Simona Jankowski said in her note.
If you can't swing the pricey iPhone 8, there's still the rumored iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus, which will likely have similar pricing to the current phones, which start at $649. Jankowski doesn't believe the 7S and 7S Plus will get the OLED display, and said the features will be similar to this generation, aside from a faster processor and potentially larger battery.
Update, 8:42 a.m. PT: Includes more details from the note.


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Northern Jazz News
News and Reviews from the Northern Jazz Scene
Friday Interviews
Venue Profiles
Gig Preview: NYJO in York, November 14th
NYJO at Royal Albert Halls for BBC Proms
St Peters School, York
November 14th, 7pm
£10 (£5 for under 18s and seniors)
On Thursday evening, St Peters School in York hosts the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and their MD Mark Armstrong.
NYJO have had a busy year fulfilling numerous concert dates across the country, recording a new album and appearing on radio and TV. In 2012, the band appeared on BBC television performing at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms. More recently, the considerable talents of the band were enlisted to accompany pianist Jamie Cullum in an early morning concert at St Pancras station in London.
Though based in London, the North is well represented in the band with the saxophone section featuring 3 LCoM alumni - Riley Stone-Lonergan, Phil Meadows and Nadim Teimoori.
To book tickets to see the band in action, contact Jo Appleby at j.applebyATst-peters.york.sch.uk (replacing AT with @)
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Sarah Palin's 'Who Is America?' Interview Did Not Air, Fans Wonder Why
by Samantha RosalboAugust 27, 2018, 4:38 pmAugust 27, 2018, 4:38 pmAugust 27, 2018, 4:38 pmDaily Digest, News, News Feed >
Last month, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin announced that she had been tricked into appearing on Sacha Baron Cohen's political satire series Who Is America? Palin is one of many politicians who were —in her words — duped by Baron Cohen. Despite Palin's complaints, however, Who Is America?'s season finale aired last night without featuring Palin's interview.
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In a Facebook post, Palin wrote that Baron Cohen disguised himself as a disabled veteran and claimed that he was interviewing her for a documentary about American veterans. She called the comedian "evil" and "sick," and challenged him to donate the proceeds from her episode to a veterans' charity. Showtime, however, refuted Palin's claims that Baron Cohen was mocking disabled veterans. The channel stated that Baron Cohen never presented himself as a veteran and that there was no wheelchair in sight. In the series premiere, Baron Cohen's character confirmed to Bernie Sanders that he was not disabled.
Earlier this month, Showtime's CEO, David Nevins, hinted that the interview might not air. At the Television Critics Association press tour, Nevins was asked about the Palin segment and said, "There are several people who have thrown themselves in front of buses that may not be headed their way." It has not been confirmed whether or not Showtime was forced to cancel the segment due to a legal issue or if Baron Cohen simply did not find Palin's interview interesting enough to air. Baron Cohen did, however, get one last laugh out of Palin during the season finale. Palin's name appeared listed as "Special Publicity Consultant (Inadvertent)" in the episode's credits.
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Mr. James C. "Jimmy" Griggs Jr.
October 29, 1948 - April 21, 2020
(This obituary is posted as a courtesy to local family and friends.) FLORENCE- After many health hurdles and a long, graceful fight, on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, James Calhoun "Jimmy" Griggs, Jr., 71, finished his earthly race well and no doubt heard "well done my good and faithful servant." Jimmy was born in Darlington, South Carolina, a son of the late James Calhoun Griggs, Sr., and Edna Bernice Johnson Griggs. He earned his bachelor's degree from Limestone College and worked in human resources for ESAB and McLeod Regional Medical Center. McLeod was his choice for medical excellence, and he was Team Teal. He loved the people he worked with and all the exceptional healthcare providers that have cared for him all these years. Jimmy was a devoted member of St. Paul United Methodist Church and a lifelong member of the beloved John Wesley Sunday School Class. He served on countless committees and outreach ministries. His favorite weekly act of service was visiting church members in the hospital, local nursing homes, as well as those members who were homebound. He could be found purchasing holiday candy, fingernail polish and other "surcies" to give to those he visited. He met his "good egg" at the Skyview Restaurant and they were happily married for almost 50 years. Together, they built a life that pointed those they met to Jesus. He instilled family values and traditions that will never be forgotten. His time best spent was around the kitchen table talking and sharing stories. To have known Jimmy, was to love him. Always a hugger, he never met a stranger. With a kind word, a constant smile and a servant's heart, the void of his life will carry tremendous weight to all who loved him. Jimmy is survived by his best friend and love his life, Jacqueline "Jackie" Hewitt Griggs; two daughters, Julie Griggs (Brandon) Shealy and Jessica Griggs (Tory) Brown; and five grandchildren, Sullivan "Monk" and Skylar Grace "Peanut" Shealy, and Victor "Bud," Harper Lin "Lily" and Griggs Michael "Buddy" Brown, all of Florence; and three beautiful sisters, Laura G. Burns of Darlington, Nancy G. (Steve) Chorney of Greer, SC, and Jane G. (Bill) Stephens, also of Darlington, along with many special nieces and nephews. A private graveside service will be held at Mount Hope Cemetery, directed by Waters-Powell Funeral Home. A memorial service to celebrate Jimmy's life will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to St. Paul United Methodist Church, P. O. Box 5446, Florence, SC 29502.
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Clean, efficient … and excellent in every sense of the word
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PE bag with high water-tightness
The dust-tightness of the process ensures a clean final product
The Haver ADAMS® system in operation at a Lafarge plant, Cookstown/UK
Bags made of polyethylene (PE) are suitable for many requirements, and are used for transportation and sales of many consumer goods. Yet, who would have imagined some years ago that powder-type construction materials could also be filled into compact and weatherproof PE bags in an environment-friendly process? Haver & Boecker took the initiative: The result is a form-fill-seal system named ADAMS®.
"With the ADAMS® we have developed a filling machine for PE bags that offers a series of advantages," explained Burkhard Reploh, General Manager Haver Building Products & Minerals. "The PE bags used are characterized by excellent water-tightness and resistance to tearing. Bag damage and ruptures during filling can be reduced by an average of 80 to 90 %," added Heinz-Werner Bunse, Sales Manager of Haver Cement.
Packing into PE bags enables customers to benefit from a series of advantages. During filling and transport there is a comparably lower level of product loss. Cost savings in transport are the result of reduced freight volume and the elimination of additional protective packaging. "Less bag breakage, high levels of weight accuracy, improved health protection from a dust-free solution and CO2 savings with 100 % recyclable material lead to significantly higher customer satisfaction," said Burkhard Reploh, who is convinced of the technology which is meanwhile installed in more than 70 plants.
Heinz-Werner Bunse experienced the development of the bags first hand: Approximately 49 years ago the technician began his apprenticeship at Haver & Boecker. Back then he was familiar with the use of jute sacks. "During the 1920s, when the technology was developed, there was a huge technical development in this segment," said Bunse while summarizing his impressions of the decades-long innovation management. They were customized to suit the individual needs of various industrial branches, and increasingly more efficient solutions were brought to the market. "The filling of PE bags expands the opportunities in the global building material market and creates options that improve and simplify the weather-proof storage of goods," said Bunse. Burkhard Reploh added: "Currently some 10 % of all bags do not reach their point of destination – mainly because of inadequate shelf life and bag breakage. This error rate can be greatly reduced by using PE bags." He proudly pointed to more than 70 references in 18 countries where the ADAMS® technology has been in use since 2005. Here the scrap amount has been reduced to almost zero. These machines were designed to handle 5-50 kg bags.
A new development for PE-bagging pouches called Haver & Boecker ROTO-PACKER ADAMS® MINI can fill pouches from 1-10 kg and is opening up totally new perspectives for building material producers. The results are very nice compact pouches for DIY-stores with an optimum of compactness and display.
All these advantages result to a great extent also from the innovative vibration technology and the dust-tightness of the process, which in the end assures a clean final product. "With the ADAMS® we have succeeded in developing a technology that fulfills all the market requirements when it comes to improving storage capacity and product cleanliness," elaborated Burkhard Reploh. Once the filling of powder-type products into PE bags had gained acceptance on the market, an Innovation Management team went to work on a Haver & Boecker ROTO-PACKER ADAMS® MINI. The team used past experience with the technology and developed new, detailed solutions for small pouches which are to be on display in the standing position in the DIY-stores.
The new machine forms a tube from a flat film. The pouches are then placed in open cassettes arranged in a circle on a rotating unit. The product is filled step-by-step, precisely dosed and compacted. A hermetically sealed package that provides optimum protection against moisture is the final result.
"The ADAMS® technology for industrial bag sizes is foremost suitable for countries where processes such as loading and unloading are mostly done manually. At the same time the technology is suitable for climatic conditions where the material has to be protected from the weather elements," said Heinz-Werner Bunse. However, this not only makes the ADAMS® technology a leading export for Africa, Asia and South America: "We are sure that also customers all across Europe will be convinced of the advantages of this technology."
"The high level of automation requires an operator skill profile that is more than what we were used to seeing in the past," admitted Burkhard Reploh. However with the right training it is absolutely possible to rely on a single person for the operations and monitoring of various machines. For this case the HAVER specialists have created a training program that includes the aspects of material flow, PE-film specification and bag handling.
Aspects such as recycling and re-use of PE material are especially important factors in countries where manual handling was common in transport and storage. "Filling powder products into PE bags will define a new industrial standard," Burkhard Reploh is convinced.
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July 30, 2014 (LBO) – Ceylon Asset Management (CAM) has launched a dollar denominated mutual fund that will invest in sovereign debt and securities issued by rated banks and firms in Sri Lanka. CAM Managing Director Dulindra Fernando said the fund expects to draw foreign investors with a target return of over 4 percent a year.
Fernando said the dollar asset fund will be a first step for Sri Lanka based firms to manage foreign funds, as in other financial centres like Singapore is doing.
The Ceylon Dollar Bond Fund has been rate 'BB-' by Fitch Ratings with most of the fund expected to be invested in Sri Lanka sovereign debt.
Director Michael Preiss said the expansion of financial products will deepen capital markets and help the economy grow and develop a financial market that also serves foreign investors.
Foreign investment funds, foreign passport holder and Board of Investment approved companies in Sri Lanka will be able to invest in the fund.
The fund has been licensed by Sri Lanka's Securities and Exchange Commission.
SEC Chairman Nalaka Godahewa said the fund will help expand Sri Lanka capital market products beyond rupees, giving an investment opportunity in another currency for foreign investors.
The fund will have a minimum investment of 1,000 US dollars which managers hope will be a draw for the Sri Lankan diaspora abroad.
SEC market development consultant said Rohan Seneviratne said the smaller ticket size will allow smaller investors to access Sri Lanka dollar debt.
The minimum investment needed to buy Sri Lanka sovereign bonds traded in Singapore was about 200,000 dollars.
The open-ended fund could be withdrawn at any time giving liquidity, Preiss said.
The dollar fund will also give protection against currency depreciation.
Deutsche Bank will be the trustee.
In addition to 5 and 10 year sovereign bonds, Sri Lanka's state-run Bank of Ceylon, National Savings Bank and listed DFCC Bank have issued bond traded in international markets. SriLankan Airlines has also sold bonds with a sovereign guarantee.


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The road to renewal: How to rebuild America's infrastructure
March 1, 2017 | Article
By Michael Della Rocca, Tyler Duvall, and Rob Palter
America's approach to planning, financing, building, and maintaining public infrastructure is fragmented and inefficient. Here is how to improve it.
Ride America's highways, byways, and rails, and one thing becomes clear: in many places, the country's transportation infrastructure is aging and declining in quality. The same could be said of the country's sewers, ports, and electric grid. Overall, the American Society of Civil Engineers gives US infrastructure a grade of D+. And things will not necessarily get better, because population and economic growth are putting more stress on everything from dams to airports.
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Inadequate infrastructure not only affects Americans' quality of life; it is also bad for business. McKinsey Global Institute estimates that for the United States to sustain its economic growth, an additional $120 billion needs to be spent in 2017 alone—and $150 billion more per year by 2030.
Money is necessary, but it is not enough. Here are four steps that could help transform infrastructure delivery.
Establish a clear point of accountability within the federal government
There are many overlapping federal agencies, processes, and roles with oversight into how projects are approved, managed, and funded. The situation is different for every asset class. Overlapping and competing regulations and processes can extend schedules, increase costs, and reduce investment returns. For example, according to the US Department of Transportation, it takes an average of 13 years to build a major highway project, from idea to completion.
There is an opportunity to learn from how other democracies have improved decision processes to move projects through the pipeline at much greater speed, while ensuring projects are properly reviewed and environmental concerns are mitigated. The national government of Australia, for example, created a national infrastructure body, Infrastructure Australia, and charged it with reducing regulatory burdens while still prioritizing environmental and safety considerations. Australia cut the number of procedures for obtaining a construction permit from 25 to 14 and the average permit processing time from 150 to 112 days. In other countries, similar entities can be found at the state or provincial level; Canada's Infrastructure Ontario, for example, has built more than 30 hospitals on time and on budget.
The US federal government could also help catalyze better performance from the construction industry. Meanwhile, US construction labor productivity is lower today than it was in 1968, even as all other major industrial sectors have experienced impressive gains. A national effort to implement programs and incentives that could systematically unlock productivity-enhancing innovations would clearly improve the current situation.
Focus on outcomes; define performance metrics
Infrastructure can be an incredible enabler of such aspirations as economic growth, greater access to jobs and healthcare, increased interstate commerce, or access to broadband. It is through such an outcome-focused lens that the federal government could identify nationally significant projects. Today's approach, however, focuses almost exclusively on inputs, such as planning, procurement, and permitting.
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To set priorities and better evaluate potential outcomes, the federal government could set a formula for calculating projects' economic and social impacts, and a system for measuring and reporting performance. The cost of each project can then be compared with these benefits, in turn helping determine the order of priority. This would help ensure the right projects are supported from all levels of government and the private sector.
A transparent pipeline of well-planned projects, with appropriate risk-adjusted returns, could help to attract public and private investment. Moreover, this predictability and clarity could reduce the rate of return private investors require in order to make infrastructure investments, lowering the cost of capital.
Large-scale, multistate projects often bring the biggest payoff. However, these can also be especially difficult to deliver. Costs are shared unequally, regulations can vary, benefits may not be evenly distributed, and there are likely multiple stakeholders with varying interests. One example is the Gateway Program, which aims to double rail capacity between urban centers in New York and New Jersey, ultimately improving rail service from Boston to Washington DC. Gateway could improve mobility and foster enormous economic benefits for the whole region. Given how critical urban areas are to the US economy, and the New York region in particular, this could also be seen as a national imperative. The fact that there are many stakeholders, however, makes it difficult.
The federal government could also establish a common set of performance measurements for major infrastructure projects, applied using a central system for reporting and public disclosure. Experience in other countries shows that when the costs and progress of large capital projects are more transparent, costs come down.
Empower and support state and local experiments
Some of the most notable recent infrastructure projects were led by local leaders. They succeeded in spite of the challenges, including cumbersome and inconsistent procurement and permitting processes, skills gaps in the workforce, and limited sharing of best practices.
The federal government could partner with state and local governments to overcome some of these issues. For example, it could collect and share examples of best practices and innovations that are working in different sectors or regions. It could also draw from the private sector, where companies have made significant advances in areas from procurement efficiency to the application of advanced analytics to evaluate user experiences.
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Besides better building, there is an opportunity to operate and upgrade existing assets more efficiently. The federal government could provide financial and regulatory incentives for states and cities to more rapidly deploy smart solutions like demand-based pricing and the use of Internet of Things technology to evaluate problems, improve the physical quality of assets, and manage performance in real time.
Improve funding and financing processes
Private investors, such as insurers, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds, manage approximately $120 trillion in assets, and they are looking for solid long-term investments. Yet many have avoided investing in US infrastructure, seeing the sector as complex, uncertain, and risky. We expect that more capital would flow if investing in infrastructure were simpler, faster, and more transparent. The three previous steps could help get there.
Additionally, the federal government could consider providing an incentive to states that monetize existing infrastructure assets and invest the money in new projects. This can take many forms—some may be sold entirely, others may incorporate revenue-generating features such as tolls, and others might be partly sold or change their financial model. For example, the government could rent out space in under- or unutilized buildings. The incentives could be financial or even in the form of opportunities, such as the chance to take part in a new pilot program or receive funding for a new technology.
There is a massive amount of public equity tied up in existing assets that could quickly be deployed to advance new projects. Australia has spurred significant increases in infrastructure investment since its federal government began offering a 15 percent premium to states that monetize an asset, as long as the proceeds go to new infrastructure.
Our research suggests that every dollar of US infrastructure investment can raise GDP by an additional 20 cents, as long as the investment is sound. An outcome-focused approach to America's national infrastructure could help ensure the investment is directed toward projects that offer significant economic and social benefits and that are planned, built, and operated efficiently.
A version of this article appeared in TIME Magazine.
Michael Della Rocca is a partner in McKinsey's Philadelphia office, Tyler Duvall is a partner in the Washington, DC, office, and Rob Palter is a senior partner in the Toronto office.
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