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Life expectancy in Scotland has failed to rise for the first time since records were established in 1861, research has found.
Statistics show that in three years from 2012-2015 the ages at which women and men could expect to live remained static at 81.1 and 77.1 years respectively.
Experts believe the trend was partly caused by a huge spike in mortality in 2015, when more people died than in any other single year since the Second World War.
It is the first time in more than 150 years life expectancy has not increased.
The findings will be presented at a seminar organised by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health later this month.
"This is part of a wider trend seen across the UK, and in the USA, but not in other countries in Europe or elsewhere in the world," Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography at the University of Oxford, told The Sunday Times.
Dorling, who will speak at the seminar, continued: "There is now mounting evidence of falls in life expectancy taking place for particular groups in our societies.
"What is happening in Scotland is the exception, not the norm. In some ways it is the end of a 40-year experiment to test the supposed benefits of promoting inequality, in which we (and especially people in Scotland) have been the guinea pigs. The experiment is unlikely to end well as those who have most benefited from it seek to preserve as much inequality as they can."
He added: "Life expectancy is based on all deaths that have occurred in both periods, so the sample size is very large. Changes of about 0.1 years are significant and unlikely to happen by chance, so not having an increase of 0.1 years is similarly surprising. The other way of measuring significance is by how often something has happened and if it has never happened before in the history of a statistical series that goes back that far."
Dorling said austerity measures introduced by the coalition and Conservative governments since 2010 may have contributed.
"I don't think it has anything to do with the SNP government" he added. "I think the same thing would have occurred had Labour held power in Scotland. It is the fall in funding due to the financial crash of 2008."
Scottish Labour health spokesman Anas Sarwar MSP said: "It is truly astonishing that life expectancy in Scotland has not increased for the first time since records began.
"Such revelations will shock Scots and should act as a wake-up call to the SNP.
"We know that life expectancy is linked to inequality. Under this SNP Government inequality is on the rise, with the health inequality gap, attainments gap and wealth gap all widening not narrowing. That's a shameful record of neglect over the last 10 years.
"How long you live should not be determined by the postcode you are born in.
"Poverty traps too many too early and remains too persistent to be tolerated in a country that aspires to brighter, healthier and fairer."


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Ella Kemp rounds up the best films to catch at this year's London Film Festival…
The most wonderful time of the year is nearly upon us – the reason people get excited after summer is only for London Film Festival, right? Ok maybe not everyone, but you should be because this year the fortnight of film in the big smoke is really raising the bar. From huge Hollywood hits to hidden indie stars, here's your guide to catching the cream of the crop at this year's London Film Festival.
Call Me By Your Name
Off the back of the sweltering A Bigger Splash, director Luca Guadagnino is definitely one to watch. His new movie Call Me By Your Name has been taking the festival circuit by storm, telling the story of the passionate love affair between academic Oliver and young man Elio, played by Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet respectively. Somewhat reminiscent of Stranger by the Lake, the movie's official description of the pair is fairly enticing: 'they bond over their sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the landscape'. What more could you want?
Both actors have shown incredible promise – Hammer shone in Nocturnal Animals and Free Fire, while Chalamet can be seen in Homeland and Interstellar. But for both, and Guadagnino – Call Me By Your Name could be the gamechanger. And for anyone who yearns for an intense emotional punch this side of 2017, it could be too.
Loving Vincent
The life of Vincent Van Gogh was so tumultuous that it feels like it always has been a work of fiction. But Loving Vincent isn't just another biopic – remarkably, it's the first fully painted feature film: all 65,000 frames of the film are oil paintings on canvas, created by a team of 115 painters. A step up from stop-motion, it's set to honour the artist's craft while focusing on some lesser known parts of Van Gogh's life, and his death.
While that's already a fair amount to reel audiences in, the cast boasts Douglas Booth, Saorise Ronan, Helen McCrory and Chris O'Dowd to tell the tale. The legacy of an icon paired with the jaw-dropping technical innovation and a star-studded cast? Run, don't walk, and don't let Loving Vincent fade away.
Lean On Pete
There isn't tons to go off for Lean on Pete, but sometimes you have to trust those older and wiser than you. Critics have been raving about Lean on Pete, with that irrational, unconditional love that washes over you when a film just captures the intricacies of growing up better than you could ever put into words, that you just have to urge everyone else to experience too.
Telling the coming of age story of a boy in his horse, and promising a somewhat more serious role for icon Steve Buscemi, Lean on Pete is set to warm your heart and inspire every bit of growing up left to do – it's always better together.
The Florida Project
A couple of years ago, indie director Sean Baker blew basically everything else away with debut feature Tangerine, a funny, sharp, electric journey of empowerment, shot entirely on iPhones. He's now back with The Florida Project, travelling run-down motels and cherishing family and freedom – featuring Willem Dafoe on top form.
If Tangerine was a celebration of sexual independence and young adulthood, Florida is an ode to childhood. Baker sets his indie Hollywood movies amidst poverty in America, and is bound to reach out to audiences from all over at London Film Festival with empathy, humour, and a whole lot of heart.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The trailer for The Killing of a Sacred Deer features a haunting a capella cover of Ellie Goulding's 'Burn'. Bet you weren't expecting that, right? The chilling snippets tease what's to come in Yorgos Lanthimos' follow up to festival darling The Lobster.
A similarly unsettling tone promises to plague Killing, this time letting the darkness take over where The Lobster favoured humour. Colin Farrell returns, and is joined by Nicole Kidman and newcomer Barry Keoghan in the psychological portrait of a surgeon and his dangerous relationships.
You Were Never Really Here
Aptly described as 'an arthouse Taken' by the Independent, You Were Never Really Here gives Joaquin Phoenix the role Liam Neeson should have been promised. A teenage girl goes missing and Phoenix has to pick up the pieces, and put it all back together.
If director Lynne Ramsay's track record is anything to go by (we're still not over We Need to Talk About Kevin), this is set to be a searing, intense profile for Phoenix – an exciting opportunity poles apart from his romantic puppy dog in Her.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Closing the festival and going out with a bang, Three Billboards marks Martin McDonagh's long awaited return. The director of In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths carries his ease with black comedy onto his latest feature, which focuses on a woman who uses three billboards (guess the location) to communicate her anger to the police, nine months after her daughter is raped and murdered – with still no culprit.
Frances McDormand seems like a perfect match for McDonagh's style, and she is joined by Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and the highly underrated Lucas Hedges in the supporting cast. With potential Oscar material all over the shop in this one – add it to the top of your list for this year's festival.
So, film fanatics, buckle your seat belts because this year looks to be one hell of a rollercoaster.
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July 28th, 2009 – At Sea, 70 11N 143 14W
by Herb McCormick
(July 28): The first thing you notice is how little there is to notice. A few hours after Ocean Watch left the Arctic township of Barrow on Sunday morning, the tiny barrier island called Cooper hove into view. Cooper Island, as you'll see, is not the sort of place one would normally visit, unless of course you happened to be carrying a big bag of groceries, an inverter, and other assorted goodies for the isle's lone human inhabitant, scientist and ornithologist George Divoky, who for reasons vast and wondrous has called the glorified scrap of sand home each summer for the last 33 years.
This bears repeating: George has made a pilgrimage to Cooper every single year since the mid-1970s. As in: Every. Single. Year.
One doesn't grasp the significance of this rather startling statistic until one gets a load of Cooper – roughly the
|This rickety ex-storage shed serves as Divoky's seasonal homestead.
width of a football field and about three flat miles long – situated hard by the gray Beaufort Sea. Most everyone has harbored a fantasy of chucking it all and setting up camp on a deserted tropical island, but Cooper, at 71N, is most assuredly not tropical, and due to the increasing number of polar bears who wash up on the place – yes, polar bears – it's not necessarily deserted, either. Once Ocean Watch was about a mile off the beach, we could make out three distinctive silhouettes, in descending order of stature: 1) the pair of lonely towers for the wind generator and weather instruments, respectively; 2) the rickety ex-storage shed that serves as George's seasonal homestead, and; 3) George.
The fact that George, who stands about 6-feet tall, was the third most prominent feature on the Cooper skyline will hopefully speak for itself. Look up the word "desolate" in the dictionary, and enjoy the accompanying illustration of Cooper. Strapped to George's back, also clearly visible from a mile out, was his rifle, a Cooper Island fashion accessory that wasn't at all necessary back in the '70s but which has become all the rage since the turn of the millennium. Of the big white bears that have made firepower so trendy, we could see none.
|Dave Logan, David Thoreson and Herb McCormick set off to visit George Divoky.
Thus encouraged, we dropped the hook well offshore in rather choppy, windswept seas, and deployed the dinghy while skipper Mark Schrader remained on anchor watch. Swathed in foul-weather gear, with a box of fresh shotgun shells tucked into George's watertight bags of supplies, Dave Logan, David Thoreson and I set out for the lonely figure waving from the beach.
All About the Birds
By midday Tuesday, Ocean Watch was motoring with a reefed mainsail and had closed to within a day of our next scheduled stop, Hershel Island, situated just off the coast of Canada's Yukon Territory. The trip thus far from Barrow has been cold, unpleasant and forgettable, and we'll leave it at that. On this slow news day, we'll take the opportunity to profile the increasingly well-known George Divoky, who knows more about the tough and tender species of Arctic seabirds known as black guillemots than you, me and the rest of humanity ever will.
George has a deep, alarming story to tell. In fact, a significant portion of it has already been told, and exceedingly well. In a 2002 cover story in the Sunday New York Times Magazine that sets the bar for great non-fiction writing, journalist Darcy Frey captured the very essence of his moving-target subject in an epic 13,000-word piece called "George Divoky's Planet." This is an article we could not possibly recommend more highly (a link can be found on George's own website – http://www.cooperisland.org- or by logging on to Google and typing in the relevant key words above) and it garnered George all sorts of media attention, including an appearance with David Letterman.
Here are some salient details, for which we need to credit Darcy Frey: As a young ornithologist, 26-year-old George first set foot on Cooper in 1972 while working for the Smithsonian Institution in a study to identify vulnerable seabird habitats. The island was littered with abandoned 55-gallon oil drums and empty ammunition boxes the Navy had deposited there after the Korean War.
As he stumbled through the mess, writes Frey, "Two black guillemots, startled by the crunch of gravel, suddenly
|Climate change has had a biological effect on the reproductive cycle of the guillemot.
flew out from beneath an ammo box. Since guillemots don't normally breed in this part of the Arctic – they are cavity nesters whose natural habitats, rocky cliffs and headlands, do not exist for more than 500 miles – it was, in George's words, 'definitely a hit.' He looked around and found eight more pairs breeding in the boxes, at which point, he says, 'I almost wet my pants.'"
It was three years later before George returned to the island, launching the annual trek that continues to this day, and when he arrived, he "found 18 pairs of guillemots breeding in the boxes… Hoping to grow the colony, George began creating – and naming – new nest sites in earnest: Freshman Housing, the Condos, Married Student Housing… To a degree that was unusual even in the field of ornithology, George became obsessed… By 1978, there were 70 guillemots on Cooper Island, and by 1981 the population was up to 220. By 1990, almost 600 birds were scrambling around the drums and ammo boxes, looking for places to breed.
"For many years," continues Frey, George "pursued a rather esoteric study of them – mate selection, age of first breeding, 'the kind of thing that's of interest to about 20 ornithologists,' he says now. Then, almost by accident, he discovered that his birds were picking up on another kind of frequency, and that if he watched and listened with great care, they could tell him about something no less consequential than the climatic fate of the earth."
George kept coming back to Cooper – and coming back – and eventually realized the very song of life to which the guillemots danced was changing. Frey cut to the chase in his piece on George's career:
"In 1995, in response to Vice President Al Gore's task force on climate change, a call went out for data sets: did anyone have information that would shed light on regional climate change? George acquired National Weather Service data on when the snow melted at Barrow and plotted the dates on a graph. Then he looked at his own data on when the first egg showed up on Cooper Island and plotted those dates as well. The correlation leapt off the page: from 1975 to 1995, snow was melting in northern Alaska, on average, five days earlier each decade. Over those same 20 years, the date his guillemots laid their eggs was occurring, on average, five days earlier each decade.
"In fact, since guillemots require at least an 80-day snow-free summer in which to copulate, ovulate, hatch and fledge their chicks – and there were rarely 80 snow-free days in northern Alaska until the 1960's – they wouldn't even be this far north were it not for warmer temperatures. Expanding their range, playing with the edge of a changing climate, his guillemots, he realized, were tracking the region's snowmelt on an annual basis. And an earlier date of snow melt was, in effect, an indication that the seasons were in flux; that in a mere 20 years, the brief Arctic summer was now arriving 10 days earlier; and perhaps most important, that climate change was having a biological effect, leaving a fingerprint on a species living in a seemingly remote, pristine environment thousands of miles away from the industrial hand of man."
All About the Bears
Darcy Frey's story, as mentioned, was published in 2002. Quite eloquently, he described how George's studies of black guillemots unexpectedly morphed into a definitive statement about one effect of climate change at the apex of the planet. Since that time, however, there have been new chapters added to the story, none of which bode well for the future of the pigeon-sized black birds that drew George to Cooper in the first place. Receding pack ice, melting permafrost and the arrival of a new species of predators and competitors, the horned puffins, are all contributing to the guillemot's not-so-well being.
But for the scientist and his subjects, the biggest new problems, literally and figuratively, are the polar bears.
"From 1975 to 2002, I saw one bear on this island," he said. "Since 2002, they've been here every year. And last year, they were here every day for my last week on the island, a different bear."
The reason is simple. The pack ice that for all those stated years was within sight of Cooper – and the big, fat, abundant, blubber-coated seals on which they dined and feasted – is now nowhere in view. The bears are hungry. They're swimming to Cooper Island in search of chow.
For the first 27 of his 33 years on Cooper, George camped in a series of tents, but with the arrival of the bears, he's hauled an old shed to the island for shelter. As we walked up to it, he told us the tale of his latest unwanted visitor. George is, shall we say, chatty, and perhaps more so when he's having his first conversation with folks other than himself in several weeks. The story unfolded rapidly:
"On the 21st (of July) a bear showed up, he came up the beach from the east, and he worked his way down the island flipping over nest boxes, and at first, eating some guillemot eggs and chicks but then just flipping over nest sites and not doing anything with them. There isn't much I can do. Some of these birds I've had for twenty years or so and they're raising their young and then suddenly a bear comes along and it's eating their chicks. These are chicks I've seen come from an egg on the 20th of June to the chicks they are now. He was apparently looking for something good to eat but not finding anything. The eggs were fully developed embryos – no yolk – and the chicks are all bone and down and they don't amount to anything.
"It was disconcerting but it's not like the bear was malicious in any way, he's stuck here trying to find something to eat. So he just walked through the colony, he wrecked 26 nests, and then he just headed back toward the east (had a three-hour nap on the beach, and swam away).
"It was nice. I was very happy. I love seeing the back end of a polar bear, walking away from me. If they had magazines – if there was an Internet site that basically just had the back ends of polar bears walking away – I would pay for that stuff. It makes me happier than anything. That's what I saw: a polar bear walking away.
"I mean, people ask me if I believe in climate change. And I say, 'No, but I believe in polar bears.' When I see a polar bear, I know that's a polar bear. But I also know I was out here for so long and I didn't see polar bears. So, you know, something's going on."
Bad Omens Abound
Okay, for obvious good reasons, the bears have George freaked. Nestled in the confines of his cluttered cabin, he has three shotguns, strategically placed, against each wall. But polar bears aren't the only change that's come to Cooper. Take those puffins.
|Since 2003, puffins have killed more and more chicks.
"Since 2003," says George, "there have been more puffins on the islands and puffins have killed more and more chicks. One year, we had 180 chicks after hatching took place. Sixty of those were killed by puffins and sixty of them starved to death because the ice was so far offshore and there was no real good alternative prey. It basically happened two years in a row: 2003 and 2004. In those years, almost two-thirds of all the birds died from puffins or food shortages. And those that did leave the nest were underweight."
And then there's the island itself. "It's eroding much faster because the permafrost under it has melted," said George. For many years, when he first arrived each summer, he brought a small cache of yogurt and dairy products to make the early part of his stay "more enjoyable." To keep the stuff fresh, all he had to do was dig a small hole, a foot or so, and he'd have a cool place to stash his food.
Then, in 2003, he came out and started digging. "And digging, and digging," he said. "I'd gone around a meter and then I hit water. In terms of things I've experienced out here, that made me realize, something strange is going on. I mean, it was chilling – so to speak – because I had dug this hole for 28 years, and that's how I always kept things cold. And now, you cannot dig here and find what was permafrost.
"Shortly after that, all the freshwater ponds on the islands, because they lost the ice that was under them, they drowned and now there're no more freshwater ponds or plants on the island as there used to be. So the whole island is changing while things are changing offshore."
Not only is the island undergoing radical changes, so too are the colonies of guillemots. There used to be well over 200 functioning nests on Cooper Island. Yesterday, after the latest polar-bear rampage, there were eighty-five. They're trending in the wrong direction. The writing is on the wall.
End of an Era?
So, one has to ask the question: How many more years, George? How long will you keep coming back to Cooper Island?
He thinks for a moment. Is he weighing the ledger, the plusses and the minuses? He rattles off some thoughts and you realize, it's all in the red: The longer summers have wreaked havoc on the breeding cycle, what George calls the "salad days" for guillemots are over; the puffins and bears are becoming a nightmare; the pack ice that keeps everything in balance is going, going, going…
"I came here to see how this seabird could react to different prey abundance and species types in terms of raising their young. That's not really possible now when the puffins are coming and killing the chicks and the polar bears are flipping over their nest sites. So I think the puffins and polar bears will decide when this really isn't worth my time. If the thousandth bear is the one that's going to get you, I'm up to some level now, so I don't want to be around when the 999th comes strolling down the beach. I'm trying to avoid that. I'm dedicated, but not stupid…though you could argue that…
"There's a book called The Last Polar Bear," he says later. "So there'll be the last guillemots on the island that started breeding here when things were pretty good, but were (ultimately) never able to be successful…"
George's voice trailed off. He remembered a guillemot called White-Orange-Gray (George names his birds), a bird he banded in 1975 that kept coming back until 2003. "From 1978 til 2003, that was the only vertebrate that I saw annually over that period of time," he said. "I mean, there were certain times I didn't see my family for a whole year. I had different girlfriends. White-Orange-Gray was my touchstone."
Okay, one last story, back to the most recent polar-bear intrusion. As George surveyed the carnage, he came across one chick that had survived, but barely. Somehow, it was torqued around in its shell; he could see the back where the bill was supposed to be. "And I thought to that bear, what, you know, why'd you do this?
"So I did something I probably shouldn't do, but I started picking away, thinking, maybe the bill is really close by,
|A peeping guillemot comes out of its shell.
but it wasn't. It was definitely the back of the bird. And I kept picking away and I thought – wait a minute – I'm hatching, I'm having this chick hatch in my hand. So I picked the shell off and here's this very wet, little guillemot, peeping.
"I take the shell away and put him back in the nest and the parents come right back. And I went and saw him today. Now, of course, when I go out and weigh the chicks I'll be very curious to see how that guy's doing. If it fledges and comes back to breed here, and I band it, I would always have…that would always be a connection, that bird. It would, you know, go beyond what you have with most lab rats."
Yes, George, it most certainly does.
So: Cooper Island without George Divoky? Like the cold, white world around him, it's hard to get a grasp on. Like the changing Arctic itself, it just won't be the same.
- Herb McCormick with photographs by David Thoreson
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George received a Bachelor of Science degree from Elmira College in Elmira, New York.
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1928 The company's beginnings
The foundation stone for our company was laid more than 85 years ago in Wachenheim, at the heart of one of Germany's largest wine-growing regions. In economically and politically troubled times, Franz Scharfenberger and his wife Katharina showed a great deal of entrepreneurial courage, setting up a metal workshop specializing in repairing viticulture appliances.
1949 Close connections to viticulture from the very outset
Over the years, Scharfenberger increasingly specialized in developing viticulture appliances for use in vineyards – adapted to the needs of our customers. For example, the company invented the so-called "Vintner's Horse", which could be equipped with either a plough or a sprayer, according to requirements.
1958 Grape processing systems
Building on the company's experience in the area of viticulture technology, our own production unit for planning and manufacturing grape delivery, storage and processing systems was set up around 1950.
1963 Company relocation
Expanding production meant the company had to relocate within the town of Wachenheim, moving to the new buildings on Weinstrasse in 1963.
1971 The first "Europress" – a milestone in our corporate history
The development of our Europress grape press in the early 1970s expanded our range of grape processing systems. This press was the first fully automatic, electronically controlled press with an exterior spindle.
In retrospect, this marked an important step for the future development of our company. Even more than 30 years after it was introduced onto the market, the Europress still forms the vital heart of our activities. Our strong market position today is due to our customers' trust in the constantly high quality and modern technology, our trusting relations to our customers and sales partners in all of Germany's wine-growing regions and worldwide, and also our reliable customer service.
1976 Establishment of our own electronics department
As the controls are an essential and extremely sensitive element of every grape press, we set up our own electronics department in 1976. Our experienced and competent staff develop, program and produce our electronic control systems all year round.
1980 The dawning of a new era: Braud grape harvesters
Our takeover of the general agency for Braud grape harvesters was another step towards rounding off our product family. We have now been exclusively distributing and servicing the grape harvesters in Germany for more than 25 years.
1981 The first pneumatic Europress with central in-fill
After a two-year development phase, we launched the first pneumatic Europress in 1981 – at that time the only grape press with central in-feed available on the market. The predecessor of today's Europress, ensured outstandingly gentle processing of the grapes, from its beginning almost 25 years ago.
1988 The Europress comes of age
Our Europress finally reached adult size with the sale of the first 25,000-liter press to California, USA. The Europress is now mass-produced with a capacity of up to 32,000 liters.
1992 The first Europress tank press EHT
To grant our customers more flexibility in their selection of a press system, we have been offering the Europress as a closed system EHT since 1992.
1993 Relocation to Bad Dürkheim
Rising demand, particularly for large-scale presses, meant the company had to relocate its production plant, which had been based in Wachenheim for 65 years. In 1993, the new premises were complete, and on June 30th work began in the new, modern production facilities and offices on the Bad Dürkheim industrial estate – today's corporate headquarters. In the course of the subsequent eight years, we increased our manufacturing figures to over 200 grape presses per year.
1995 Europress with intelligent controls
Another of Scharfenberger's innovations with an enduring influence on the technologies of the grape press market is the Europress "intelligent control system" launched in 1995. Developed and manufactured entirely within our electronics department, this control system allows customers to adjust the press program individually to their specific needs and conditions, achieving an optimal press performance.
2001 R+S Kelterhaus und Kellereitechnologie GmbH
To meet rising demand for complete grape processing facilities, we founded a joint-venture winery technology company with Rieger Behälterbau, Bietigheim-Bissingen, in March 2001: R+S Kelterhaus und Kellereitechnologie GmbH.
Backed by the experience and expertise of two long-standing companies from within the industry, R+S projects, plans, implements and services all-round crush facility installations, covering all areas from grape delivery to wine storage.
2001 Technological innovation Europress EHS: two systems – one press
The launch of the Europress EHS type at the Intervitis 2001 trade show marked a further successful venture in the field of modern grape processing. The EHS model is a dual press system, i.e. customers can press using an open or closed system, depending on their requirements and preferences. The externally mounted juice channels can be quickly and easily removed, granting our customers maximum long-term flexibility in their selection of a press system. Thanks to its many advantages, the Europress EHS has since become our top-selling press model.
2003 75 years of Scharfenberger Maschinenbau
The year 2003 was a very special one for us: on March 21st, we celebrated our company's 75th anniversary with all our staff and business partners!
2003 Belt destemming machine EuroSelect
The 2003 introduction of our innovative belt destemming machine, EuroSelect, added a high-quality appliance for gentle grape processing to our product family. We developed the destemming machine with a novel system of functions for gentle transport, destemming and selection of grapes. The EuroSelect was awarded the Innovation Prize in Gold at the Intervitis Interfructa 2004 trade show.
2004 Extension of the product family
Alongside the innovative destemmer EuroSelect, our product range was extended in 2004 to include even more products for gentle grape processing, which we also presented at Intervitis for the first time. These include transport belts, selection tables, vibrating dosing hoppers, grape crushers and vertical presses.
2004 Premiere on the grape press market
A further highlight of 2004 was the production of two EHM 320 – the largest ever pneumatic grape presses with half-open drum anywhere in the world. The 32,000-liter-capacity presses are in operation at the cooperative Goldenes Rheinhessen in Bornheim/Germany and Smith & Hook in California, USA.
2005 New Europress series
Nearly 25 years after the first run of our Europress membrane press open style we are pleased to present the new Europress series, including nine different sizes from 6 to 60 hl and available as open style, closed style and dual system. Starting at 20 hl, the press can be equipped optionally with a pneumatic door. Another option is the frequency driven motor. The programs of the press have been more detailed and tuned.
2007 Cold pressed! - Europress Cool with cooling jacket
With the new Europress-Cool you can cool the grapes before and during the pressing cycle. Negative temperature influences can be excluded and you keep cool even if the harvest should be to hot again.
2008 Presentation of the new whole Cluster conveyor
2009 Scharfenberger takes over R+S
On 20th. June 2009 R+S Kelterhaus und Kellereitechnologie GmbH became a part of our enterprise and is now 100 % owned by Scharfenberger. This means that the Scharfenberger team, in particular Reinhard Pikl and Egon Zimmermann, are available as your partners for the planning and realisation of complete winery solutions - from reception of the grapes through to the wine storage areas.
2010 35 Years of BRAUD Grape harvesters
In celebration of "35 years of BRAUD Grape Harvesters", Scharfenberger has been commended by NewHolland BRAUD for the long cooperation, sales of over 1,000 grape harvesters, and the best after-sales service department.
2011 Marketing of Sthik Grape trailers
With the addition of Sthik grape trailers, to our range in Autumn 2011, we are now able to offer our customers complete processing lines from the grape harvest through all stages of processing.
2012 New: Europress Inert-Gas
Presentation of the new Europress with inert-gas installation. The pressing operation takes place in an inert atmosphere - atmospheric oxygen is excluded.
2012 The first Scharfenberger Symposium
This event features lectures and the latest research results on the subject of "Grape juice pasteurisation as a quality assurance measure", and also covers practical experience with a modern flash-pasteurisation plant with subsequent specialist discussions.
2014 The second Scharfenberger Symposium
We welcomed numerous guests to our second Scharfenberger-Symposium. Our guest speaker Prof. Dr. Dominik Durner from the Wine Campus Neustadt a.d. Weinstrasse explained the basic principles and advantages of inert gas pressing in his lecture.
2015 A lot of room for technical competence
In March 2015 our Electronics department staff moved to new, modern rooms. The larger, brighter environment offers our employees in this department better possibilities for developing, programming, producing and testing control systems.


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Coming Up Soon!!
Sorry about the brief hiatus there, it always gets a little hectic around exams and then the holiday season. I hope to be back on track with a lot of things in the coming weeks here on The Sports Report. Here is a list of things to expect very shortly:
1. The most important thing on my list right now is coming out with an Atlantic-10 season preview. Back around Thanksgiving I created a spreadsheet analyzing the conference strength of schedule based on last year's numbers. I updated that information for the statistics for all fourteen teams thus far this season, and I came up with some surprising results. This will be a must-read for all Dayton Flyers fans out there!!
2. I hope to come out with a few Boots about the recent acquisitions for the Cleveland Indians. I hate that I have gone so long without commenting on the Tribe, and the recent additions of Carl Pavano, Kerry Wood and Mark DeRosa should be a significant boost to the current roster. I feel really good about our chances for next season, even though I wouldn't mind another free agent signing or two.
3. Another look at what is going on in the NBA thus far this season. Every basketball fan out there is looking forward to the Friday, January 9th match-up between the Boston Celtics and the Cleveland Cavaliers, and I will be here right afterward, recapping the recent mayhem at the top of the league standings. I also will look at what surprising rookies (*cough* *cough* Rob Kurz) have quite the story behind them, as well as some other interesting observations from my statistics.
4. A final recap of the college football season and a summary of my past economic analysis of the Bowl Championship Series. My entire Sports Report began with my passion for the BCS, and I did a pretty in-depth report on the economic benefits of the current bowl system about two years back. I will look back to my work in the near future, and recap what has gone wrong this season as 13-0 Utah was left out of any chance for a National Championship.


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The Power of Positive, Personal Interactions
In the age of mobile phones and tablets, the way people interact and relate to others is rapidly evolving. Psychology Today recently said that younger generations are especially prone to informal, mobile-based methods of communications – like texting. Mobile has certainly affected older generations as well.
At the same time, people of all ages still seem to appreciate personal touches from brands. Such interactions may in fact be more valuable moving forward. Take Forbes' recent example of a company called Hex. It serves a diverse customer base with its mobile-centric products, and built its brand and customers' loyalty on the most simple, traditional and time-honored personal gesture – the handwritten thank you note.
While technology is changing the way we interact, it has not diminished the value of sincere interactions between brands and their customers, and marketers have many options at their disposal to accomplish that aim. Handwritten cards may not be scalable or viable in every situation, but the idea behind them certainly is.
Isn't this kind of "personal outreach" expensive?
Not necessarily. Underleveraged assets can be put to good use in this effort. For example, consider your contact center, which can be realigned and its staff trained to deliver this caliber of interaction. Simply using the contact center to say, "Thank you for doing business with us" or to ask, "Is there anything more we can do for you?" can set your brand above the rest.
What about scale?
In the case of the contact center, companies can turn to outsourced call center services. At first glance this may seem counterintuitive to the idea of personal interactions. However, if the partner is capable and committed, it can become an extension of your brand and brand voice. Check the provider's track record, training and capabilities before making this move.
Delivering personal touches when interacting with your current and potential customers should not be relegated to a "nice to have," as marketplaces fill and market share is harder to come by. To stand out, brands need to get personal – and your marketing partners, up to and including the contact center, may well be the best-equipped team members to meet the challenge.
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Guided Tours
Mission Quest Adult Team Building Program
Guided History Tour (Ages 5 – Adult)
Explore World History through exhibits and aircraft at The Museum of Aviation! Guided Tours are history-based tours led by trained staff from the Museum of Aviation Education Center.
You will also go inside the C-130 "Hercules" airplane for an Inside-an-aircraft experience. While inside the C-130 "Hercules," you will watch a video on paratroopers and other missions performed by the C-130.
- Guided Tours last approximately 1.5 hours.
- The Guided Tour will include one or more buildings.
- The minimum number of students required for a tour is 20 and the maximum number is 90.
- Guided Tours are offered Tuesday – Saturday
- Fee: $5 per participant
- Book A Guided Tour
Team Building Program (Adults)
The Mission Quest Team Building Program is an opportunity for you and your partners to plan and fly a mission in the Mission Quest Flight Simulation Lab. Mission success depends upon working together as a team for mutual support. The Aviation Team Building Program offers your organization the opportunity to engage in historical combat scenarios. Team members will fly state of the art B-1, C-17 and F-15 flight simulators while working to complete specific team oriented goals. Live ATC will monitor your mission but you will have to plan it with your squadron.
No flight experience necessary.
Basic instruction includes:
- Situational awareness/ Science and technology
- Teamwork / Basic flight physics / Risk assessment
- Decision-making / Flight planning / Communications
- This 6 hour program must be scheduled in advance
- $75 per participant
NASA Regional Educator Resource Center (Educators & Interns)
K – 12 and University Educators: Programs are offered to educators and future educators. These programs provide free NASA materials, monthly STEM workshops, NASA online training opportunities, STEM conferences and intern opportunities to future educators.
The NASA Regional Educator Resource Center (RERC) is located in The Museum of Aviation's Education Center and serves as a preview and distribution center for NASA produced educational materials which focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum. It offers K-12 and University educators teaching in Georgia easy access to STEM resources suitable for use in their classrooms.
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Tamara's Collection
Islamic fashion boutique offering contemporary wedding dresses
After not being able to find an elegant and understated wedding dress with implemented Islamic dress code for my wedding, I started to think about designing a wedding dress for myself and also for other women. It took me some time to develop the idea and to do a detailed research on what was out there on the market and as I learned more, I realized that there is really a huge gap when it comes to Islamic bridal wear. And that's how it all began. I started to meet with future brides, creating custom made wedding dresses. Everyone loved the idea, because I wasn't the only one faced with that challenge of finding a perfect wedding dress that is in accordance with our religion and beautiful at the same time. I find myself to be very lucky to have the chance to meet many brides and to contribute to their special day the best way I can. That is how I decided to start a serious project. Tamara's is the first online store worldwide that was established exclusively for designing, manufacturing and distributing elegant and understated wedding dresses for Muslim women. The main goal is to be globally recognizable as Muslim wedding dress brand and to be no. 1 choice of every future Muslim bride or a bride who simply prefers to dress modestly. In order to reach that prestigious position, Tamara's operates solely with the highest quality fabrics, innovative designs and constructions and offers the highest level of service. The plan is to also offer a wide range of products that are substantial part of every wedding event, e.g. wedding cards, bridesmaid dresses, Muslim evening dresses, accessories, etc. Striving for a modest wedding look Wedding is a solemn and sacred social contract between two people. It is commonly known to be one of the most special moments for every woman which celebrates entering into a new phase of life usually fulfilled with hope, compassion, love, and understanding. Having a corresponding appearance on that special day, a perfectly fitted wedding dress, is fairly important. Wedding and marriage carry great significance in Islam and every Muslim woman or man strives for finding that special one. Bearing that in mind, it is most likely that every Muslim woman will get married at a certain point of life. Tamara's goal is to be the first brand that every future Muslim bride thinks of when it comes to purchasing a perfect wedding dress for that special day and in order to reach that goal, we truly need your support. How it should all work After doing a detailed research on what was out there on the market, Tamara's at last was established in 2013. In the same year debut collection was introduced to the public. The feedback was remarkably positive although only few designs from the collection had been presented. The idea was to create a visual platform that could be presented to the future supporters of Tamara's. And the day has finally arrived: Tamara's started to raise funds for developing a new line of wedding gowns (10 pieces). The plan is to have the line developed and available online (www.tamaras.eu) until September 30th insha'Allah. How You Can Help Since formation of the Tamara's was financed only with a limited personal budget, I am also looking for other ways of supporting the project. The main struggle I am facing at the moment (label promoting/marketing/further development) is mostly related to the finances, so the best ways to support the project would be: 1. Make a prayer for our success 2. Donations 3. Spreading the word through the social media tools above. May Allah help us all in our efforts. Be Friends With Us: https://www.facebook.com/www.tamaras.eu More details: https://www.launchgood.com/project/tamaras_collection#/


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Rams RB Jackson On Verge of Milestone Year
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson is on the verge of a milestone.
Just 34 more yards rushing, and he will become the seventh player in NFL history to gain 1,000 yards in seven or more consecutive seasons. Only Emmitt Smith, Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin, Thurman Thomas, Eric Dickerson and LaDainian Tomlinson have done it.
Jackson knows he is close to being in elite company going into Saturday's game at Pittsburgh. And it would give Jackson something to smile about in another lost year for the Rams.
He has played in just one playoff game in eight seasons with St. Louis.


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Narcotics arrests in Orange County
Orange County Sheriff's Office detectives arrested two men after a traffic stop revealed the suspects to be in possession of a large amount of what police believe to be methamphetamine.
According to a news release fro OCSO, detectives with the Orange County Special Services Division were in the 2600 block of South Lutcher, Orange on Tuesday, March 11 at about 8:45 p.m. when they observed a Dodge truck with "defective lighting equipment in violation of state law."
The Detectives conducted a traffic stop on the truck as it pulled into a parking lot of a nearby gas station in the 2300 block of South Lutcher. The driver failed to produce a driver's license and was detained. A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed approximately 25 grams of methamphetamine.
The driver was identified as 26-year-old Justin Keith Martin of Orange. There was also a passenger, identified as 26-year-old John Mason Edwards of Bridge City. Both men were arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance, a 2nd Degree Felony, and were transported to the Orange County Jail.
Justice of the Peace Judge David Peck arraigned both men at 8:45 a.m. on Wednesday, March 12 and set their bonds at $50,000 each. Both remain in custody at the Orange County Jail.
Sheriff Keith Merritt said that the Orange County Sheriff's Office "will continue to target individuals who sell, distribute, or use drugs in Orange County, and will use all resources available to get drugs out of the community," according to the release.


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The VITOOS ISO8 is the flagship model of its POWER PACKTM series power supply for effect pedals, with FULLY ISOLATED GROUND, 6 outlets @ 9 volts and 2 outlets ADJUSTABLE @ 9 volts,12 volts and 18 volts.
The high light of this power supply is that it is all isolated and plays the magic to boost the voltage for some special pedals or special sound by just changing the voltage.
If you own some pedals using 18v or 24v, you may use them at the same time with your other pedals running at 9v, or even if you want to get more dynamic and sparkle sound,some pedals can be originally running between 9v and 18v just like some fulltone pedals. (Not all pedals can be used with 18v, make sure you read through the manual, any damage because of the incorrect connection will not be warranted)
The ISO8 will drive EIGHT pedals from the same source, it's more than a power supply, it's a power conditioner which supplies a predictable voltage all the time and keeps your pedals in constant performance from one show to another.
Fully Isolated outputs provides a stable and noise free performance.
Powers SIX 9v pedals and two ADJUSTABLE @ 9 volts,12 volts and 18 volts all at once without losing any signal intensity.
Come with totally 8 DC cables to connect your pedals to the ISO8, and 1pc of Y cable to boost the voltage.
The pedals might come out with a different sound by using such a Y cable.
Short Circuit Protection ensures the stable working condition.
The LEDs of each 9v OUTLET will light on to indicate the using mode, it also indicate the fault pedals when the LEDs turn on RED, meanwhile, the ISO8 goes in self-protection mode and it will auto-restart in about 2 seconds once you unplug the short-circuited pedal.
FCLC (Foldback Current Limiting Circuit) provides ultimate protection against power shortages and overloads. Even at full load, you'll enjoy the quiet and cool operation of a fully regulated power supply.
Most battery-powered effects rarely exceed 30 milliamps each, you're not likely to use anywhere near the ISO8's capacity of 2000 milliamps output.
Connect the AC adaptor to 100~240v AC power, the blue LED will light, if you use other AC adaptors, make sure the output is 12v DC rated at 2000mA and the plug is positive barrel and negative center type.
Connect your 9v pedals to the SIX 9v OUTLETS with included DC cables.
Connect your 9v/12v/18v pedal to the A OUTLET with included DC cables.
Connect your 9v/12v/18v pedal to the B OUTLET with included DC cables.
Use the Y cable to connect from any of the EIGHT outlets to get the right voltage for your pedals.( the voltage will boost from 18v to 36v under such a connection)
Technical Info
INPUT: AC 100v~240v at 50/60Hz.
OUTPUT: DC 12v, 2000mA.
POLARITY: Positive Barrel and Negative Center.
ISO8 Power Supply
INPUT: DC 12v 2000mA
OUTPUTS: 9v@300mA (x6), 9v/12v/18v@500mA(x2)
LEDs: Blue LED for power light, Green to go and Red to stop
Important Notice
Do not put or use in waterish locations which might cause circuit shorted or other electric dangers.
Use only 12v/2000mA output DC adaptor with positive barrel, negative center polarity plug.
Do not use any other adaptors different from the requested ones as above, or there might cause harm to the unit, the adapter or yourself.
Unplug your ISO8 when not in use for extended periods of time.
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Record a rant and win comedian Eddie Pepitone's documentary The Bitter Buddha! (Contest)
Attention, Laughspinners who love free, quality comedy stuff! We're giving away a download of the brilliant documentary The Bitter Buddha about comedian Eddie Pepitone. Featuring the likes of Patton Oswalt, Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis and many more of your favorite comics, the film (by Steven Feinartz) explores the hyper-active and tortured mind of the veteran comic. You'll follow him at home, onstage and everywhere in between.
So, how do you win? Well, we announced the contest at the start of the latest episode of The Laughspin Podcast – which you can hear on iTunes, Stitcher or SoundCloud – but we'll lay it down for you here as well.
You'll have to record yourself ranting for up to one minute (no longer!) about the thing in the world of comedy your most excited about this week—and email it to email@example.com. Get passionate, creative, stupid—whatever. Maybe you're excited to see a comedy flick (or already saw a great movie) or you're stoked NBC renewed Community, or you just saw an amazing live stand-up show or you're a comic and you wrote the best joke ever. It could be anything related to comedy– anything at all.
We'll play our favorite rants on the next Laughspin Podcast and declare our favorite the winner. We'll then coordinate with said winner to make sure he or she gets their prize. You could check out Eddie on The Longshot Podcast on the AllThingsComedy network, watch the trailer of The Bitter Buddha at the film's official site and follow Eddie on Twitter at @EddiePepitone.
Be sure to subscribe to the weekly Laughspin Podcast on iTunes or on SoundCloud for all the latest comedy news, audio clips and more! Listen to the most recent episode below!


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CDC teams up with Bourton Co-operative store to spread reduce, reuse and recycling message
Release date: 3 August 2018
Caption: Cllr Coakley (right) with Midcounties Co-operative staff l-r Jeremy Ince (Bourton Store Manager), Matt Windridge (Head of Supermarket operations), and Adam Quinton (Leadership Team Community Ambassador).
Cotswold District Council has joined forces with the Bourton-on-the-Water Midcounties Co-operative store to raise awareness about how to reduce, reuse and recycle many of the products available to shoppers.
Cllr Sue Coakley, CDC's Cabinet Member for the Environment and Chair of the Gloucestershire Joint Waste Board, visited the store and met with Matt Windridge, Head of Supermarket Operations, and Adam Quinton, Leadership Team Community Ambassador, at The Midcounties Co-operative in the Cotswolds to review ways to increase recycling. They also discussed how the store can promote this information to best effect - and possibly take further steps to avoid unnecessary packaging.
Commenting on her visit, Cllr Coakley said: "I have been very impressed by the proactive attitude shown by The Midcounties Co-operative and many of the customers regarding recycling, reuse and reduction of waste – in fact the reason I made this visit today was because a local resident was very keen to get us together to explore further improvements.
"I know that The Midcounties Co-operative already has good environmental credentials, and it is encouraging that they want to do even more, most notably in reducing single use plastics and other unnecessary packaging by switching to more paper bags and recyclable, biodegradable or compostable containers.
"There are many household items for sale that can be recycled either via our weekly kerbside collection service or by visiting local Household Recycling Centres, and we will be working with The Midcounties Co-operative to ensure that this information is clearly displayed to customers in the store and that they are aware of the relevant details on our website /residents/bins-and-recycling/ .
"We agreed that while introducing more eco-friendly retail and packaging practices is a great step forward, changes in consumer behaviour are an equally important consideration in making a difference – for example, if shoppers were to bring in their own container and Tupperware for fresh products like fish. The Council – and the Gloucestershire Joint Waste Team - is eager to encourage this sort of change in shopping habits and we are always willing to promote more environmentally-friendly alternatives.
Adam Quinton, a Leadership Team Community Ambassador at The Midcounties Co-operative in the Cotswolds, said: "We're committed to reducing waste across each of our trading groups and are always looking for ways to improve sustainability. Last week we hosted an open discussion about reducing plastic at our Bourton-on-the Water store. We're looking forward to partnering with Cotswold Council to help make a real difference in the local community."
Earlier in the year the Bourton-on-the-Water store was voted by grocery research organisation IGD as one of the top 14 in Europe for its eco-friendly design and approach to the sourcing of local produce.
For more about The Midcounties Co-operative, go to www.midcounties.coop or @midcountiescoop on Twitter
For more information, please contact:
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The Midcounties Co-operative has headquarters in Warwickshire, with trading outlets in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Shropshire, West Midlands, Avon, Somerset, Dorset, Worcestershire and the surrounding counties.
The Society trades in food retail, funeral, travel, pharmacy, childcare nurseries, flexible benefits and energy, as well as running a number of post offices. Midcounties is the largest independent co-operative society in the UK and has more than 500 sites and 650,000 members. In 2017 we distributed £1.2million to members as share of profits.
The Society's mission statement is 'To be a successful consumer co-operative working towards creating a better, fairer world, and to enhance the lives of our colleagues, members, customers, and the communities we serve'.


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Traveling in Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz Republic – or simply Kyrgyzstan – is a small landlocked country in Central Asia. The country is defined by the beautiful Tien Shan mountain range which occupies 90% of the country, lush valleys and hundreds of crystal-clear alpine lakes. Kyrgyzstan is a land of nomads who still strongly value their centuries-old nomadic traditions.
If you like being in the wilderness and you're interested in learning more about the nomadic lifestyle in Central Asia, then you'll have to travel to Kyrgyzstan! It's one of the few off-the-beaten-path countries where you can still get a taste of the authentic nomadic culture!
Capital: Bishkek
International airports: Bishkek airport, also called Manas (FRU), and Osh airport (OSS)
Currency: Kyrgyzstani Som (KGS)
Official Languages: Kyrgyz and Russian
Main religion: Islam (86%)
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Hi Anonymous (justin),
Thank you for your question and for finding EmpowHER. It is important to keep up with your medication and whatever therapy your doctor has prescribed to help control your mood and improve stability. Additionally, here are some things you can do at home to help your condition:
- Quit drinking or using illicit drugs (if you need help, contact your healthcare provider to ask how they can assist you in quitting bad habits)
- Steer clear of unhealthy relationships
- Get regular exercise
- Get plenty of sleep
For more detailed information, check out this link: Bipolar Disorder Remedies
Good luck and let us know how you are doing.
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Style your Wedding Seating Plan with an Ombre Effect
Wedding seating plans and escort cards
The lovely escort cards shown here double up as a seed-packet favour. They have a fuchsia ombre effect which, when they are all displayed together, provides a great burst of colour to your seating plan.
For a DIY ombre effect similar to this, buy a selection of white escort cards or tags. Mix some coloured ink in a bowl of water, and dip a card in so that you submerge about ¾ of the card. Take the card out, and add some more ink to the water. Dip the card again – but only ½ way in this time. Add another dash of colour to the water to do your final dip, just ¼ of the way up the card. Leave to dry and either use calligraphy or stencils to write guests' names and table numbers.This ombre seating plan is cheerful and modern, guaranteed to brighten up your wedding reception.
For a DIY ombre seating plan, make or buy some cards in all shades of your chosen colour – maybe 5 or 10 cards in each of 5 or 6 shades. Print or write your guest's names and table names on them. Mount them on a canvas or picture frame, or hang them from ribbons. The effect of the gently graduating tones throughout your seating plan will be sure to wow your guests.
Table names and numbers
These really pretty table numbers successfully combine the crafts of decoupage and ombre watercolour, and are elegant and detailed.Use the DIY ink technique described above to make your very own table names or numbers to coordinate with your colour scheme.
To really embrace the ombre theme, why not name your tables after different hues of your wedding colour scheme. For example:
Red: Cherry, crimson, ruby, blush, berry and rose
Blue: Azure, sky, navy, teal, spruce, indigo and lapis
Green: Fern, olive, sage, mint, moss and lime
Table décor
Use ombre table confetti (table confetti in various hues of a given colour) to highlight your theme.
Coordinate your place settings – a dark coloured mat under a lighter plate, under a lighter smaller plate with a light coloured bowl on top.
Ask your florist to create floral centrepieces using flowers with varying shades of your chosen colour, arranged from dark to light across the arrangement.
Tie ribbons across the backs of chairs, from darker hues of your chosen colour at the bottom, to the lightest at the top.
Other ideas
Make your wedding cake ombre too! Use food colouring gels to create a layered effect sponge cake, graduating from dark through to light. A guaranteed showstopper when you cut the cake!
Don't forget to have a look at our ombre-inspired Pinterest board for plenty more ideas about incorporating this delightful colour scheme into your seating plan.
Other TopTablePlanner articles you may like:
A little bit about Adam, founder of TopTablePlanner...
Adam has been working in the wedding industry since 2006. After discovering that arranging the seating is one of the hardest parts of planning a wedding, he launched TopTablePlanner in 2007. See his Google+ profile.


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Stay bright this winter in your neon green Strictly Positive Vibes Tee.
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Having blogged about its chicken chop previously, I decided to try the mixed grill from Western Barbeque at Old Airport Road Food Centre today and it was simply extraordinary.
For only $7.50, the sumptuous mixed grill comes with an enormous piece of chicken chop, a juicy slab of pork chop and a tasty chunk of lamb chop. Enjoy this wholesome combo meal with French fries, a fried egg and a butter bun.
Other than the expensive meaty buffet dinner at Carnivore, I cannot think of any other meal that is as sinful as this mixed grill. If you are a meat lover like me, you must not miss Western Barbeque's mixed grill which will certainly leave you feeling very satisfied and wanting to return for more.
Western Barbeque
Old Airport Road Food Centre
51 Old Airport Road #01-53
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Western Barbeque Mixed Grill
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09 August 2010
Cheers from the 72nd floor Westin - ATL
THUS WRIT @CoryODonnell at 8:31 PM View Comments
Lazy Sunday around Atlanta
More strolling around downtown ATL...checking out Gibney's Pub, Meehan's, and more.
Love that Wednesday is opening night for a play based on an amazing book, John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederancy of Dunces".
Finally, a late dinner in Midtown at my favorite brewery chain, Gordon Biersch. Marzen beer, anyone?
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08 August 2010
Why Dropbox is my new favorite app
Dropbox is an great service that continues to amaze me every day I own it. It's been indispensable so far on my trip to Atlanta, syncing up my trip info and photos into one place that's backed up on the cloud and constantly synced with all my computing devices (phone, iPod, computer, laptop, etc.)
The best part: All the apps and your 2GB account are FREE!
Still not convinced you should create an account and download this app for iPhone / Android? The Common Craft folks should fix that issue.
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Downtown Atlanta - Aug 2010
Trips to Turner Field for Braves - Giants -- CNN Center / The Omni Hotel -- Mosaics from Tabernacle / 125 Luckie Street (best music hall in the Southeast US) - Centennial Park - Midtown Arts Cinema - Highlander Bar - and other night spots in downtown Atlanta.
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07 August 2010
Friday night in the ATL
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01 August 2010
The Best of Carl on ATHF - Promos
The best of Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Still bald..still single..still lovin' it!
Still bald..still single..still lovin' it!
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text: On 7/14/09, Victor Starenky <freebsd at victorstar.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > I was running FreeBSD server at home for a few years on an old box for mail, > some web and ftp etc. I've been through a number of upgrades even though > it's not easy with the box as old as this one (PII 350). Right now I'm at > 7.0 Release. > Now last weekend something's screwed up there pretty badly and machine is > pretty much unusable. > The sympthom is that pretty much any command results in the following error: > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol "_nsdispatch" There is still /rescue, but you will need to resurect /lib/* files anyway. This can happen only if something was attempting to upgrade/update something and failed for whatever reson yet to be found. > Specifically this is thrown when trying to login (after entering login name) > on the console, ssh, ftp. > This is also thrown for "fetch"or for "ls -l" (plain ls works). > So I'm lucky to have one root session on the console as I can't login at any > other... > Most recent thing that might have something to do with it would be an > (unsuccessful) attempt to portupgrade cups-base. This failed with the error > message of wrong cups client. Now this is not new and I have a number of > ports that wouldn't upgrade - cups-base, apache for example. But before > portupgrade would fail without affecting the system. Same cups-base failed > before without any side effects. > As I said this might have nothing to do with the errors I'm getting, just > most recent my actions. > So currently server is not usable - it won't even accept mail (Currier > server) with the same error message. > I tried portupgrade bash but portupgrade itslef also fails with the same > message. I do have one mean of getting new files there through mounted smb > directory. I've tried putting all new bash files into > /usr/ports/distfiles/bash but portupgrade still fails (just a bit further > now). > I ran pkg_libchk which shows a bunch of missing libraries, mostly for > compat4x-i386-5.3_9 but for example courier also misses one: > courier-0.54.0: /usr/local/libexec/filters/perlfilter misses libperl.so > At this point I think I'm lost. I'd really rather avoid complete reinstall > of the server if possible. > I would greatly appreciate any help troubleshooting the libraries. Still > hope there is something that can be done other than reinstall. > Thanks in advance! > Victor > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" > -- Paul


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Kelley Mason, group moderator, has come out with the details.
The group garage sale will be at the corner of Highland Avenue and 10th Street next weekend. Right now, the Sheridan Angels are working on gathering items for the sale and enlisting volunteers to help on June 7 and 8.
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Red-faced Whitehall officials have apologised after a Government minister got his Newcastles mixed up.
Embarrassed Local Government Minister Nicholas Raynsford has admitted confusing our great city with Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire.
The blunder happened after he decided not to back calls for a vote on a powerful US-style directly-elected mayor to run here on Tyneside.
In a letter explaining his decision, Mr Raynsford said Geordies had already drawn up their own petition to force a referendum.
His claim puzzled campaigners as no such petition has been presented to Newcastle City Council.
In fact, the petition referred to by Mr Raynsford was drawn up by voters 200 miles away in the Midlands market town.
Coun Nigel Todd, spearheading the Newcastle Campaign for a People's Mayor, says people want a change and so far 2,000 have signed a petition.
Coun Todd said: "I'm not surprised officials in London got their Newcastles mixed up, but I'm encouraged that Nick Raynsford in a more recent letter to the council left the door slightly ajar."
Lib Dem leader Coun Peter Arnold, said: "I would expect a Government minister to know the difference between Newcastle-under-Lyme and our city. It's a common failing among Labour politicians in London who are not particularly interested in doing their homework and finding out locations."
Newcastle-under-Lyme councillor Derrick Huckfield said the Government's mistake was "absolutely disgusting".
He added: "When you look at a map you see Newcastle-under-Lyme is exactly in the middle of the country. To get us mixed up with somebody from the North East is a bit of a joke, really. This could be one of the reasons why we're always missing out on grants - they don't know we exist."
Government officials say the mix-up will make no difference to the minister's decision.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Transport, Local Government & the Regions, said: "It did not play a part in the assessment of the proposals or affect the decision."
Newcastle campaigners who want a referendum on a mayor are still hoping Mr Raynsford may change his mind.
Newcastle City Council rejected calls for a referendum by 32 votes to 28.


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1. Pick any organization; determine what strategy you would recommend for the organization in terms of pricing, non price barriers to entry and product differentiation?
2. Explain which market structures are price makers and price takers. What is the difference in the demand curves and why.
3. Describe the pricing strategies in monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly market models.
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1. Pick any organization; determine what strategy you would recommend for the organization in terms of pricing, non price barriers to entry and product differentiation?
The organization that I have picked makes plastic strapping is Blueview Plastics located near the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. The company makes plastic strapping of different sizes and qualities and markets them through hardware stores and direct to some industries in the area. Now, there are many such producers all over the USA that make plastic strapping and each strives to differentiate its product from others. The structure is monopolistic competition. The strategy in terms of price would be that the prices should be close to what the other strap makers are charging. However, it can differentiate its product through high quality printing, high compliance with specifications, and higher break strength through the use of imported additives. Differentiation will enable the firm to charge slightly higher prices for its strapping but it should not charge very high prices or the customers will move to other strap makers. The non price barriers are the access the company has to local industries, the "secret" additives it uses to increase the strength of its straps, and the close relationship its sales persons have established with its industrial customers.
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Panasonic to deliver a "very high-end" Micro Four Thirds camera; big players joining in 0
Just last week, Olympus launched their much-hyped Micro Four Thirds (MFT) camera: the OM-D E-M5. With that announcement, it seems that the new OM-D camera has set a new standard in the MFT category and what Panasonic Director Ichiro Kitao recently revealed in an interview with Amateur Photographer (AP).
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Although, Kitao said that Panasonic has no plans in offering a much larger sensor than it currently has.
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The attempts to muddy the waters (by claiming that OT has an offer from Hogwarts, for example) is getting more and more ridiculous. Again, stick to the facts people:
Fact: PS and SS (by staying silent and going along with it and benefiting from it, true snake, in my opinion - at least PS was straightforward with his villain ways) threatened HS and OT to be made co-authors on the paper.
Fact: HS and OT, from what I understand from the threads, were at a crossroads in their own careers, where this AER paper was quite important to them. Regardless of whether or not PS and SS had any rightful claim to be coauthors, any concerns raised otherwise would either delay the paper from being published or it might not get published at all. Since they had been working on it for a very long time, and it was afterall good enough to get published in AER, they probably didn't want to risk it and therefore acquiesced to the threat.
Fact: PS and SS are looking for new jobs (related to this post or not, I don't know)
Fact: OT and HS seems to come out as winners by 1) getting the AER, 2) exposing the crooks and discrediting their contribution to the paper, and 3) OT actually reveals through this scandal that he has made major contributions to the paper.
Fact: Statement by SS doesn't really deny what OT has claimed, HS supports OT, and there is no official statement from PS.
Fact: PS and his cronies are trolling on this thread to muddy the waters by making disturbing accusations and making middle-school level jokes on people's sexuality and what not.