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Part 3: So which yachts could benefit from diesel-electric? Well, the larger the better.
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As to cost, Dick Boone of Vripak estimates materials alone add 15 percent to the total price of a diesel-electric boat, a figure somewhat offset by the greater fuel efficiency and longevity of a properly loaded diesel engine. Boone states, "On average a conventional engine running at 30 percent of rated power suffers a fuel penalty of 36 percent." Diesel-electric allows engines to run at optimum efficiency continuously, thus negating that fuel penalty. The payback time for such savings is, of course, proportional to how much the yacht is used. Vripak compares a prototype 160-foot motoryacht with conventional diesels to one with diesel-electric. At 9 knots the conventional diesels actually had 12 percent better fuel efficiency. At 12 knots the two systems rated the same. At 15 knots the diesel-electric was an impressive 15 percent more efficient, plus the engines emitted less nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide.
So which yachts could benefit from diesel-electric? Well, the larger the better. The more space a yacht has to accommodate the hardware and the closer its auxiliary power requirements are to its propulsion demands, the better the candidate. Lürssen, the German yard that built Octopus and Limitless, says a yacht should be at least 250 feet, while Vripak has found advantages in a 160-foot test vessel.
So why don't more owners chose diesel-electric propulsion? Many do, but only a few owners can afford to build over 160 feet. Still, over the last two decades the use of diesel-electric has increased by 250 percent, according to Daniel Reinhardt, senior press manager at MTU, though he admits the number of yachts using diesel-electric 20 years ago was small. But builders and owners tend to stick with what they know. Working with an unfamiliar system like diesel-electric can be costly, and owners may not see or be attracted to the eventual savings. Owners won't invest until the cost of diesel electric comes down, and until that happens, there may not be enough diesel-electric yachts to prove the system works in pleasureboats.
However, the 2004 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show revealed some interesting trends, among them that more builders are integrating all the systems on their boats. Diesel-electric power does that with propulsion and auxiliary systems and allows an owner to monitor and control everything from one automated program. Imagine powering up your entire vessel from a single touchscreen. Diesel-electric lets you do that, which is why it just may be the future of marine power.
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This article originally appeared in the January 2005 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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This is actually an old post (with a newer URL after the site got re-done), but it's worth repeating.
Thankfully, WordPress now no longer by default adds worthless title attributes to every freaking link anymore. But old version still do!
I've seen still too many times "SEO" given as a reason for title attributes. Know this way is pure evil. With all the potential trouble of mis-using title attributes, "doing it for SEO" almost guarantees you are, indeed, mis-using it. And so now you're supporting robots over humans.
The article also touches on the title trick some of us try when the graphic designer insists that the link to the full article is only called "Read more".
As Ryan Benson reminded me, this is one of the big bugs of ZoomText, a popular reader/magnifier.
I'm not sure if an empty-string title attribute is still a problem, but this is certainly code we've been encouraged to use in order to stop Internet Explorer from showing alt text like a tooltip, as it tends to do (however, it should be noted users of IE have come to rely on it as additional information scent, so not sure we really need to remove alt-tooltips anyway...).
A more updated set of recommendations for using title attributes is available at Steve Faulkner's post over at Paciello Group: http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2010/11/using-the-html-title-attribute/
The big problem I have with title attributes these days is lack of support on mobile devices. As far as I'm aware (and please correct me if I'm wrong), mobile devices don't do anything with the title attribute. That's a problem on one of my sites where I have a lot of footnotes, and although I put the notes at the bottom of the page, I also mark up the footnote reference as 1 to make it easier for people to find it ... and that doesn't work on mobiles :(
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You'd probably have to JS it to work with some gesture, I think.
For keyboarders with a focus you can CSS it, but not for unfocusable things like abbr.
It gets misused by developers, under-used by browsers, and the verbosity caused by the over-use that you mentioned has done no good for its accessibility. If were not for all that, it could have been very useful; but it has been rendered near to useless instead. Not much fun trying to strip them out from Drupal's forms as well, though it has always been much more disciplined with their use than WP was.
I never know why browser developers have not made more of it, with decent styling, keyboard access, the option to disable them, and so forth.
I'm not sure if an empty-string title attribute is still a problem...
Was there a particular issue with it at some point, poes?
What I meant there was, I remember this post from long ago.. someone recently re-twotted it, and this was good because I lost my bookmarked URL to the article when the rnib site did an upgrade. So it may have caused some other problem I'm not aware of that no longer happens, unless it was in fact just a reference to the title="" many of us do on images with alt to prevent IE from showing the alt like a tooltip.
Honestly sometimes I wonder if that would have been a good idea or not, to have images on all browsers show the alt text on hover. For one thing, it would have brought the attention of bad alt text to authors. For another, we've seen IE users come to rely on it: for confirmation of something, for some extra information (when the dev put good info in the alt text that wasn't available as an image caption), or sometimes just the name of the file.
Yes, it's a weird discrepancy in browser behaviour. I don't think that IE's way of doing it is right, although using a trick to hide it seems unnecessary.
Hm, there's nothing in the specs about it showing up, so most devs consider it a bug.Or at least, undesired behaviour.
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Lacock Abbey is the birthplace of photography, as William Henry Fox Talbot invented and took the first photographic negative at this National Trust property, then his home.
He was also a keen botanist, and the Botanic Garden was one of his special places in the grounds.
Ms Heuser said: "It is amazing to think that without Fox Talbot, we might not even have photography as we know it now, including the images on show in the IGPOTY exhibition.
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International Garden Photographer of the Year is the world's premier competition and exhibition specialising in garden, plant, flower and botanical photography.
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This year's exhibition features more than 30 images on show.
Keen photographers can improve their own skills with Philip Smith, founder and organiser of the competition, who will be visiting Lacock to hold a photography workshop on May 10.
It focuses on improving photography skills and learning about garden photography, from macro, depth of field, composition, digital processing and light and colour.
Suitable for all abilities, the day will focus on learning and discovering, rather than taking many pictures, and Philip will be available to answer any questions personally. Spaces are very limited.
The workshop runs for a whole day and includes lunch. The cost is £75 per person and booking is essential.
International Garden Photographer of the Year, every day, 10.30am to 5.30pm in the Botanic Garden of Lacock Abbey.
Normal admission fees apply to the exhibition in the Botanic Garden with National Trust members and children under five admitted free.
The book a place on the Better plant and garden photography workshop on Saturday, May 10, 10am to 4pm, call 0844 249 1895 or visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lacock (booking fees apply).
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It was written by a group of 12 experts led by Felipe González, the former Spanish premier, and including Mario Monti, the distinguished former EU commissioner, Jorma Ollila, chairman of Finland's Nokia mobile phone company, and Lech Walesa, the ex-Polish president and hero of the opposition Solidarity movement in communist times. There was a good mix of northern, southern, western and eastern Europe on the panel.
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OK before I get going on my post let me just say I was very critical of the state of the board recently. I stand by everything I said, but there have been significant changes made and I feel I can't be critical, move on and then ignore it when many of the issues I was critical of were addressed. So I am dipping my toe in the water again posting here. It has been many months since I have done a picture post, so I hope you'll for give me for a big one.
The elusive perfect burger. This version is from a recent cookbook called Wicked Good Burgers by New England chefs Andy Husbands, Chris Hart and food Writer Andrea Pyenson. SR knows these folks and wrote some of the intro material to their first book Wicked Good Barbecue.. Anyway this is there take on the perfect burger. One of their principles is to do it right you should do as much of it yourself as you can, from grinding your own meat, to making your own condiments, to baking your own buns. They say if any aspect of a burger is not up to par it renders the entire burger below par. So I did everything from scratch here so there are a lot of pix.
The mustard recipe I made was called Jack D'Or mustard, which used a local microbrewed ale of the same name. The other ingredients were: Sugar, garlic powder, kosher salt, mustard powder, the ale and brown mustard seeds.
The Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project is a group of microbrew fanatics who rent out space in a local brewery once a week to make various beers that are popular in some Boston and Cambridge area restaurants.
Everything but the mustard seeds and the ale were put in a saucepan and brought to a boil.
The brown mustard seeds were placed in a non-reactive bowl and were covered with the boiling liquid. Then the ale was added and the mustard went into the fridge for the first of two overnight rests.
The next day the mustard came out of the fridge and was pureed in a food processor for 3 minutes and ended up thickening up considerably
The ground beef called for a powder they called Fifth Dimension Powder which is a Umami powder. Umami is supposedly a fifth taste sensation. It makes us crave more of what we are eating. The powder use: Porcini Mushroom powder, garlic powder, portabela mushroom powder, onion powder and Worcestershire powder.
Next up was the tomato-ginger ketchup which used: Tamarind paste, peeled tomatoes, kosher salt, red wine vinegar, olive oil, black pepper, diced onion and minced ginger and garlic.
The olive oil was heated using medium high heat and the onions were sauteed.
The heat was turned to low and the minced garlic and ginger were cooked for 15 minutes.
The heat was turned back to medium and the tamarind paste, vinegar and sugar were added and cooked for 5 minutes at which time the mixture had thickened.
The tomato was added next and the mixture was simmered for 30 minutes.
The resulting mixture had way to coarse a texture for ketchup, so I improvised and used my immersion blender to get the right texture. I am not a store bought ketchup fan, so I really didn't expect much from this ketchup. When I tasted it for seasoning I was blown away. I knew my burgers would now use mustard AND ketchup when I added condiments.
My newly remodeled Kitchen has 50 percent more cabinets and features a 3' dedicated baking area. I used to have to go to two closets in other rooms, 2 base cabinets and one wall cabinet to collect the ingredients. Now everything is right in the base or wall cabinets in front of me. I only need to move to use the sink to draw some water from the tap. The recipe for Flour's Bakery's Burger Buns used: All-purpose flour, bread flour, kosher salt, instant yeast, sugar, olive oil and water.
Everything but the olive oil were added to the bowl and mixed gently.
The dough was micxed until it was starting to come together and the olive oil was drizzled down the side of the bowl with the mixer on low. The dough was mixed for 5 minutes.
The dough went into a dough doubling pail for 3 hours.
The dough was divided into 8 pieces and placed on sheet pans. The dough went into the oven for another 2-3 hours until doubled in size.
The dough is on the Egg using the ceramic platesetter that turnis it into a convection oven and raises the sheet pan so it is in the dome area. I used some copper plumbing T's to raise the sheet pan and let air circulate underneath. I was baking at 400 degrees.
The buns were done after 22 minutes. I didn't get as much rise as hoped for, next time I will use more flour as the mix was a bit wet
The meat was ground chuck, which I made starting with a 3 pound chuck roast. The roast was cut into strips the size of the feed chute on the grinder and were frozen for an hour before grinding.
The strips were mixed together with the Fifth Dimension (Umami) Powder before grinding.
The meat was ground using the coarse blade for the grinding attachment for my KA stand mixer.
The meat was formed into 8 6 oz. patties. A one inch depression was placed in the middle to keep the patties from rising to look like a meatball
After baking the buns I removed the Plate Setter and placed a cast iron grill grate on the Egg. The triangular bars were facing so the wide side was up for the best grill marks. I raised the temperature to 500 degrees. Here the buns are cooking for 2 minutes on the first side. I didn't get pictures after I flipped them because the oak chips I added made it too smoky to shoot.
The burgers cooked for a minute on the second side. Grinding your own meat makes it safe to go to lower temps than 160 degrees. I wanted my burgers medium rare. When the burgers came off the grill they were topped with cheese and covered for a 5 minute rest. I used a second inverted sheet pan as a cover.
Time to eat!! Three days in the making (for the mustard at least) but worth the time.
The toppings were some sliced white onion and the Jack D'Or Mustard and Tomato-Ginger Ketchup.
The buns had an excellent flavor and a nice bit of a crunch, so despite them not rising as much as hoped for they were well received.
The Jack D'Or Mustard was really good and really hot. I warned everyone they might want to use some regular yellow jar mustard everyone tried, and to my great surprises liked this mustard despite it's hotness. The tomato-ginger ketchup was amazing too. It had bursts of many different flavors and was sweet and a little spicy. People were actually eating it on it's own after they were done eating, dipping chips in it too.
This meal was for Mother's Day. My mother didn't know I had this cookbook. She likes burgers so much she requested I make hamburgers when I asked her what she'd like me to make. She declared it the best burger she'd ever had (as did my other guests).
So was this the perfect burger? Well I can't say that cause I need to work on the bun recipe. What I can say is my mother on Mother's Day declaring this to be the best burger she's ever had makes it the perfect burger in my eyes too.


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Location: Logan, UT
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:00 am
Post subject: Dec 1, 2005 - Very Hard
1.5i2 2.6d3 3.6b6 4.6f4 5.6h9 6.7g6
7.8i1 8.8f5 9.8c9 10.1g1 11.4h4 12.4g3
13.2f1 14.2h2 15.4b9
16.1b2 {3,9} in b1,a3
17.1a9 {3,9} in b8,c7
18.1e8 19.9d9 20.5g9 21.3f9 22.4f6 23.4e2
24.7c2 25.4c1 26.3d2 27.7d1 28.7e4
29.2a7 {3,9} in row 7
30.7a8 31.5f8 32.7f7
33.2g8 {3,9} in h8,i7
34.9g5 35.3e5 36.9e6 37.1c5 38.9c4 39.5a4
40.3a6 41.9a3 42.3b1 43.9h1 44.3i3 45.2d5
46.1d4 47.5d6 48.2i4 49.1i6 50.3c7 51.9b8
52.9i7 53.3h8
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:51 pm
Post subject: Re: Dec 1, 2005 - Very Hard
This is my version:
we begin with evident moves:
01 6h1 02 6d7 03 6b4 04 6f6
05 7g4 06 8c1 07 8f5 08 8i9 (so much so good...)
now remove 2 as candidate from cells c8,c8; this creates pair c7,c8=> 3,7
09 4e8 10 2f9 11 4g7 (hidden single in row 7)
12 4f4 (hidden single in column f) 13 4b1 (hidden single in box 7)
14 4c9 (hidden single in box 1) 15 7c8 (hidden single in box 1)
16 3d7 17 7d8 18 1b8 19 2h8 20 5i8
21 1g9 22 4h6 23 7e6 24 1a1 25 9g5
26 1i4 27 2i6 28 5g1 29 2g2 30 3f1
31 9d1 32 1e2 33 7f3 34 5f2 35 5d4
36 1d6 37 2d5 38 3e5 39 9e4 40 1c5
41 9c6 42 5a6 43 3a4 44 9a7 45 3b9
46 9h9 47 3i7 48 9i3 49 3h2 50 3c3
51 2a3 52 7a2 53 9b2 x!
or i missed smth or this sdk isn't "very hard",
enjoy, zaks
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:11 pm
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No, I really don't feel this one should have been labeled "Very Hard". It might be Hard, or maybe even Medium. There were only four moves that required any actual thought processes aside from looking up and down rows and columns or in groups for numbers that stood alone. Are these puzzles being classified by difficulty by a computer or by someone actually doing the puzzles?
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Location: Denver, Colorado
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:04 pm
Post subject: The puzzles are computer graded.
Smith55js wrote:
Are these puzzles being classified by difficulty by a computer or by someone actually doing the puzzles?
Samgj, the author of these puzzles, uses a computer program to set the ratings.
The rating system has recently been discussed in this forum -- you can read that
discussion right here.
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Location: Logan, UT
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:24 pm
Post subject: change in algorithm needed
Ok, so the difficulty is graded by a computer algorithm. It's apparent now that a change should be made. After doing different puzzles, some that are 'Very Hard' are in fact, Medium or Hard. Some 'Hard' puzzles should be 'Very Hard', etc...
From what I've gleened from the posts about the difficulty of the puzzles and how they are graded, the rating is based on the number of 'difficult' steps required.
Can I make a suggestion? Change it to count not the number of 'difficult' steps, but rather the number of types of 'difficult' steps. If one 'Very Hard' puzzle, like today's, contains 4 or 5 choke points, but they are all the same type of problem, then wouldn't that decrease the difficulty of the puzzle? If I solve a problem once, I should be able to easily recognize the same problem when I encounter it again. But if I encounter a totally new type of problem, I have to think even harder to figure it out. I can't resort to the logic I applied earlier as it won't apply. Thus, making the puzzle more difficult.
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Again this is a "V.Hard" that turns out to be easier for solution
using Mandatory Pairs than most "Hards" - without the "V."
With M/P there is no "crunch point". It is just a question of
carrying on to identify pairs - interspersed with the counting
of rows/columns/regions and attention to extra "rules" (or
techniques) that apply only to Mandatory Pairs.
The solution took (just) under half an hour - largely because I fell
asleep after ten minutes and had to resume on awakening about
half an hour later. This is a not uncommon occurrence for one
diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnulence!
Again, this is a good example with which to start for someone
wishing to explore the Mandatory Pairs methodology.
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Posts: 21
Location: Arkansas USA
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:16 pm
Post subject: Not very hard
I agree with Alan Rayner- I used the mandatory pairs technique and finished it in a little over 30 minutes. This puzzle gave me less pause than some "mediums" I have pulled my hair out over!
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The fundus of the eye is the interior surface of the eye, opposite the lens, and includes the retina, optic disc, macula and fovea, and posterior pole.[1] The fundus can be examined by ophthalmoscopy[1] and/or fundus photography. The term fundus may also be inclusive of Bruch's membrane and the choroid.[citation needed]
The color of the fundus varies both between and within species. In one study[2] of primates the retina is blue, green, yellow, orange, and red; only the human fundus (from a lightly pigmented blond person) is red. The major differences noted among the "higher" primate species where size and regularity of the border of macular area, size and shape of the optic disc, apparent 'texturing' of retina, and pigmentation of retina.
The eye's fundus is the only part of the human body where the microcirculation can be observed directly.[3] The diameter of the blood vessels around the optic disc is about 150 μm, and an ophthalmoscope allows observation of blood vessels with diameters as small as 10 μm.[3]
Medical signs that can be detected from observation of eye fundus (generally by funduscopy) include hemorrhages, exudates, cotton wool spots, blood vessel abnormalities (tortuosity, pulsation and new vessels) and pigmentation.[4] Arteriolar constriction, seen as `silver wiring` and vascular tortuosities are seen in hypertensive retinopathy.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cassin, B. and Solomon, S. Dictionary of Eye Terminology. Gainesville, Florida: Triad Publishing Company, 1990.
- ↑ Wolin LR, Massopust LC (September 1967). Characteristics of the ocular fundus in primates. J. Anat. 101 (Pt 4): 693–9.Free full text in PubMed Central
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ronald Pitts Crick, Peng Tee Khaw, "A Textbook of Clinical Ophthalmology: A Practical Guide to Disorders of the Eyes and Their Management", 3rd edition, World Scientific, 2003, ISBN 981-238-128-7
- ↑ Imran Akram, Adrian Rubinstein "Common retinal signs. An overview", "Optometry Today", 28/01/05, [1]
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A few days before the women's hockey world championship opened in Ottawa, Brigette Lacquette got the call she'd been hoping for all her life.
The news: Lacquette, 20, had been named to the 27-woman centralization roster for the 2013-14 Team Canada senior squad. This is the group from which Hockey Canada will select the team which will battle for gold at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia and four Manitobans have a good shot at making the squad: Lacquette, Winnipeg forward Jenelle Kohanchuk and world championship silver medallists Bailey Bram and Jocelyne Larocque, both from Ste. Anne.
Making the centralization roster is one step away from the ultimate dream. Still, it was a call Lacquette didn't quite expect. The 5-7 blue-liner went to the senior camp in September, but didn't make the world championship cut. So when her coach at the University of Minnesota-Duluth asked if she'd gotten a phone call, she didn't know what the coach meant.
"I said 'What?' She said 'Oh, nevermind,' " Lacquette recalled. "Later that day, got a phone call from (national team coach) Dan Church. It didn't seem real at first. It was everything I worked for since I started hockey. To have this opportunity, it's going to be unreal."
Lacquette is an Ojibway woman. She grew up in tiny Mallard on the shore of Waterhen Lake. There are only 150 people in Mallard and playing hockey meant driving for hours each way just so she could skate, play and learn the game.
Now, she's a blazing defender at UMD, scoring 24 points in 34 games this past season. She could be an Olympian. And she sees the little girls who come up and ask for her autograph at tournaments, and knows what that could mean.
"Me being able to achieve this in hockey, it's not just for me, it's for all the aboriginal players," Lacquette said. "I feel now I'm a role model for aboriginal youth... Being the first (Ojibway) woman to get this far in hockey is just opening doors."
In late May, Lacquette and the other 26 on the centralization roster will head to Calgary for a fitness and orientation session. In August, they'll start training full time in Calgary, and play a number of games before the final Olympic roster is set in late December. At previous camps, Team Canada coaches gave Lacquette a mission, so she's worked on settling her defensive game, building up her strength and developing more explosive speed. For her, that could be the key to making the Olympic roster on her first shot.
To help their chances, the young Manitoban additions -- Lacquette and Kohanchuk are two of five centralization roster players who weren't on the world championship squad -- are looking forward to learning from the veterans.
Kohanchuk, who just wrapped up her senior season at Boston University, is eager to get on the ice and train with Team Canada star Jayna Hefford, among others.
"They're all fantastic hockey players, and they've been there before," said Kohanchuk, 22. "I'm just going to put my best foot forward and show them everything that I have. Hopefully they see potential there."
It'd be hard not to.
In 35 games with BU this year, Kohanchuk sniped 25 times and added 21 assists to finish second in team scoring. Now, she's ready to put her nursing education on pause to pursue her Team Canada dream. She's worn the jersey before with the under-22 team. She knows its weight.
"It's just really something I've wanted my entire life," said Kohanchuk, a Balmoral Hall alumna. "I'm speechless, and I'd be so humbled if that opportunity came."


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THE next stage of the £350 million Kimmerfields development was fully revealed yesterday with hopes high it will result in a major boost for the town.
Following the completion of the Whalebridge car park last year, the second phase will see Fleming Way lowered down to the same level as the rest of the town centre, thereby getting rid of the underpass near Debenhams.
The road will become a single carriage east to west bus route and will house a brand new bus inter-change, with an open public space on the available space subsequently created.
On the site of the current bus station and adjacent car park, office space will be built providing upwards of 3,500 new jobs and 450 new apartments, along with shops and restaurants.
The council, Forward Swindon and developers MUSE believe the development is a natural progression for the development of the town centre.
Ian Piper, the Chief Executive of Forward Swindon, said: "I am excited about Kimmerfields because it is a big development which will transform the town centre.
"When you take into account the extra jobs and restaurants, all the extra spending power will have huge economic benefits for the town.
"Fleming Way has always acted as a natural barrier for the town centre which this development will remove. We have spoken with staff from Zurich who have said the entrance way to the town centre through the underpass has in the past put them off from coming in.
"It is not just about building up this part of the town but the whole of the town centre."
The diggers are not set to move in until 2016 and then the full development will be carried out in stages so it is unlikely to be completed for more than a decade.
Currently, the necessary work is being done behind the scenes involving the compulsory purchase of certain bits of land and applications to close the road.
The Development Director at MUSE, Doug Finlay, said: "This is a small step towards an organic growth of the town centre. The council administration have seen an opportunity and have taken it with both hands.
"I think when Fleming Way was first built it was because it was where people saw the town centre ending but I think that has now changed and the only natural direction for it is to move it north.
"We can't do everything at once otherwise we will strangle the town centre so we will carry it out in stages. This is an example of the town centre fighting back."
There have been some concerns raised that stopping traffic from using Fleming Way will cause trouble on other roads.
Coun Garry Perkins (Con, Shaw), the cabinet member for regeneration, said: "This is not about trying to stop cars getting into the town centre. Routes have been made for people to take and we are expanding the capacity of roads elsewhere so people getting across the town will not have to drive through the town centre.
"There is likely to be some problems for some people as we are shifting a major through route but we have two years in which to discuss solutions with residents and ward councillors.
"I am expecting some good ideas to come out in that time and we'll see if it is possible to implement them."
- Currently, Swindon Council is preparing to take action to ensure the Kimmerfields development can proceed as planned.
- A request to issue a compulsory purchase order to buy several pockets of land around the proposed site will allow developers to move forward with the proposal.
- There are nine areas in total and although most of the sites are small pieces of land with no buildings, one of the sites is next to the underpass near Debenhams and includes the Greggs and the Cornish Bakehouse shops.
- If the CPO goes ahead, compensation will be available to ensure the development goes ahead. For this just over £1.6 million has been set aside.
- Talks are ongoing with landowners to negotiate the deal but the CPO is being recommended in order to ensure everything can go ahead before a deadline in May this year.
- If the council does not have control of the land by then, the deal with Muse Developments will be under threat, although the deadline is expected to be extended.


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Kids playing with food have never been so in vogue. Parents are realizing that letting kids interact, create and craft with the foods they eat not only encourages them to form a healthier relationship with food, it also gets them excited to eat it!
Kids playing with food have never been so in vogue. Parents are realizing that letting kids interact, create and craft with the foods they eat not only encourages them to form a healthier relationship with food, it also gets them excited to eat it!
Here, we've got a few easy and edible Halloween crafts for kids to enjoy. There's a treat here for every one, so encourage the kids to get crafty and creative with their ingredients!
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Orange bell peppers look an awful lot like Halloween pumpkins. For a healthy snack that's an edible craft, try having the kids carve jack-o-lantern faces out of the peppers, and then fill with lots of chopped veggies.
Salty and sweet, chocolate coated pretzels get a spooky makeover kids will go crazy for when they're molded into witch fingers.
Yummy mummies have been a favorite Halloween treat of ours for years! They're almost too cute to eat - operative word being almost.
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Hello Rahul, this ring can be re-sized by a jeweler. It will arrive in a gift box. Please let us know if you have additional questions. Thanks for shopping with us.
"Why did you choose this product?"
It's very nice for the price. I hope this one doesn't come damage like the 1st one I ordered, had a broken prong.
My son asked me to purchase it so he can surprise his girlfriend. He said she has been admiring this ring for a while! Hope it turns out to be the perfect one and the one she will say "yes" to.
"My fiance proposed to me with this ring. Now we need the wedding band to math because not any wedding band can go with this ring.. It needs to go around it. I saw a question and an "answer" to this... but it was VERY unhelpful. Is there a specific band that will fit this ring?"
14k White Gold 1/2ct TDW Diamond Band item number 14015192
"I like this ring, but I would also eventually like to have a matching band for it. Where could I find one?"
Please view all of our women's wedding bands by going to the following link: http://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Watches/Wedding-Rings/2361/cat.html?keywords=women's%20wedding%20bands&searchtype=Header
"1. Does an appraisal certificate come with this? 2. Are the stones from diamonds naturally occurring in nature? 3. Are their any fillers used? 4. Can the ring be re-sized? 5. What is the ct weight of the center stone?"
Unfortunately an appraisal certificate will; not with piece. The stones are natural. The center stone is 1/2 karate and it can be resized by reputable jeweler.
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The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has withdrawn from a partnership with Cornwall Council.
Known as "joint venture", the trust was to have shared serves in Cornwall with the council and other healthcare partners.
However, in a letter to staff chief executive Lezli Boswell confirmed: "I want to let you know that yesterday the RCHT Board agreed to formally withdraw from the Cornwall Strategic Partnership – the project with Cornwall Council and other healthcare partners to develop shared services in Cornwall.
"The Board decision was made following changes to the scope of the project and consideration of legal advice.
"The Trust will now pursue alternative options for developing our IT and health records services to meet future staff and patient needs."
A spokesperson for Cornwall Council said: "We are disappointed by the decision by the RCHT Board to withdraw from the Strategic Partnership.
"We will now need to consider the implications of this decision with our other health partners before deciding what course of action is to be taken. "


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Over the past seven seasons, the New Orleans Saints have set numerous NFL records with most of them being produced by prolific offense led by coach Sean Payton and quarterback Drew Brees.
On Sunday, however, punter Thomas Morstead can chalk one up for the special teams when the Saints close out the season against the Carolina Panthers.
Barring a long return by the Panthers, Morstead will set an NFL single-season record for net average. The four-year veteran, who Wednesday was voted to the Pro Bowl, is averaging 44.4 net yards and could erase the record of 43.99 set last season by San Francisco's Andy Lee.
"We've had a lot of guys set records here such as Drew, Jimmy (Graham),Marques Colston," special teams coordinator Greg McMahon said. "We've had guys who have done great things, but it's all within the context of the team.
"It would be a great tribute to our team and the guys who are out there with him (to get the record)," he added. "Thomas would be the first guy to tell you it's a team type of goal. It's something you would like to achieve."
Morstead, who leads the league in gross average as well at 50.5 yards per kick, has averaged better than 50 yards in 10 of 15 games this season and averaged 49.7 and 49.3 in two others.
Evans praised
Guard Jahri Evans, the Saints' only other Pro Bowl pick, received high praise from interim coach Joe Vitt after being voted to the all-star game for the fourth consecutive season.
"He kind of reminds me of (former Kansas City Chiefs' star) Will Shields, who I think will be the next guard that goes into the Hall of Fame," Vitt said. "Jahri has that chance now with the numbers he's put up and the work habits he has. He's such a stable person. He knows what he has to do to get better.
"He's not going to miss a game, not unless he's in the hospital," Vitt said of Evans, a three-time All-Pro pick who's played in 119 consecutive games since being chosen in the fourth round of the 2006 draft. "He's not going to miss a game."
Practice report
Fullback Jed Collins, who sat out Wednesday's practice because of a knee injury, had full participation in Thursday's workout.
CB Jabari Greer (concussion), RB Pierre Thomas (knee) and DT Akiem Hicks (knee) did not practice again and will likely be questionable at best for Sunday's game.
For the Panthers, DE Greg Hardy (not injury-related), C Geoff Hangartner (foot) and RB Jonathan Stewart (ankle) did not practice.
Former LSU wide receiver Brandon LaFell (toe) had full participation Thursday after being limited Wednesday.
Two in a row?
The Saints are 1-5 in regular-season finales since Payton took over in 2006.
They dropped their first five games to end the regular season before halting the streak with a 45-17 victory over the Panthers last Jan. 1.


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The FAI has today announced that Paramotors will feature at the next Asian Beach Games that will take place in June 2012 in Haiyang, China.
"We are delighted and proud to have Paramotors at the next Asian Beach Games. It is also excellent news for all those who participate in Paramotors and those fans of this sport", said Jean-Marc Badan, FAI Sports and Development Director. "Paramotors is a very accessible sport and it is a great satisfaction to see its popularity materialised in the shape of its entrance to a multi-sports event. This success is mainly attributed to the Aero Sports Federation of China, whose efforts bore fruit."
Richard Meredith-Hardy, President of the FAI Microlight Commission, has been appointed as Technical Delegate to the Organising Committee and consequently will take on the important role of coordination between the Aero Sports Federation of China, the Organising Committee and the FAI.
This news echoes the "Incheon Declaration on the Development of International Air Sports" made in 2009 at the FAI General Conference:
1. In order to increase choices and opportunities, we pledge to increase support for air sports among developing countries, including those in East Asia.
2. We encourage FAI Members to cooperate to enhance the growth of air sports and further have those adopted formally into the Asian Games and other major multi-sport events.
3. We renew our global commitment to fulfilling the low carbon "green growth" initiative so that we can take our share of responsibility in the field of air sports to improve the global environment.


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text: Rodney A Manning of Hennepin, Minnesota enlisted on 3 April, 1942 as a Private in the Army Air Corp. Rodney was born in Wisconsin in 1921, was White, a Citizen, had completed one year of college, was working as a baker and was married at enlistment. **************************** Rodney Allen Manning was a 1st Lt in the US Army Air Corp during WWII as a Commissioned Bombardier, he was born on 17 Jan.1921 and passed in Anoka County, Minn. on 21 Feb. 1989. He was interred 24 Feb, 1989 at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery in South Minneapiois, MN. His last residence was on St Paul Street in Ramsey, Minnesota. ************************************************************************ As with many WWII Vets, most personal items have gotten lost, not much is known yet but the story of Lt Rodney Manning is being given by his daughter and her husband. Rod flew 50 Combat Missions with the 321st Bomb Group in the MTO during WWII. Rod passed away as a result of a massive heart attack after having been a relatively successful, 'one of the first' open heart surgery patients many years earlier. Rod made his living as a successful local interior decotator. His projects included several regional airports, mansions of local wealthy families, including the Daytons (Target Corp, Dayton-Hudsons), and several downtown Minneapolis retail stores and office buildings. ********************** Rod returned from the Mediterranean Theater in the late summer of 1943 to attend pilot training at Mustang Class 44-K at El Reno. We recall that he mentioned that he went on to fly the B-26, so it is possible that he made it back into Combat during WWII.


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text: "What if?" speculation has provided endless fuel for fantasy-fancying historical storytellers, who take well-known events and twist them around, Twilight Zone-style. One scenario in particularwhat if the Germans had won WWII?has resulted in several notable novels and films, partly because the evil of the Nazis is so extreme that to portray them as victorious is fascinatingly perverse. It Happened Here was begun by filmmakers Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo when the two weren't even out of their teens, and when it was finally shown in 1964, it proved controversial. Set in a German-occupied 1944 England, It Happened Here uses its extremely low budget to its advantage: The grainy black-and-white photography is documentary-like, and the faux newsreel footage downright creepy in its verisimilitude. But it's Brownlow and Mollo's narrative that makes the film so complex and compelling. A nurse (Pauline Murray) decides to take a job with the Nazis, figuring any national post-war stabilization is better than none. She's soon molded into the Nazi ideal, but even though she remains relatively apolitical, her pact with the devil eventually manifests itself in horrible ways. Shocking in its detailsschoolchildren goose-step down the streets, radios broadcast only stirring marches and propagandaIt Happened Here (restored for this release with seven minutes of cut footage reinserted for the first time in the U.S.) presents a frightening alternate reality. The Brownlow/Mollo team made only one other film together, and it couldn't be more different. Winstanley (1975) is a painstakingly accurate depiction of the 17th Century Diggers commune and its revolutionary decision to reclaim common land for the disenfranchised post-Oliver Cromwell poor. Based on David Caute's novel Comrade Jacob and narrated from the notes of Gerrard Winstanley, the austere black-and-white film does a thorough job of recreating 1649 England in all its squalor. Winstanley's (Miles Halliwell) noble idealism is as proto-hippie as proto-Commie, and the empathy of the filmmakers for his struggle is apparent. Brownlow and Mollo's sometimes beautiful film, however, is as dull as a cow milking, so intent on historic accuracy and classroom-ready reenactment that it raises the question of whether entertainment value was even remotely an issue.


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The Children's Commissioner for England visited Wiltshire this week as part of a national tour of local authorities.
Children's Commissioner Maggie Atkinson recently wrote a report They Never Give Up On You which recommended a number of ways to improve the system of school exclusions and how services relating to this area could be improved.
Wiltshire Council is part of a national government pilot project placing the responsibility on secondary schools for children who are in danger of being permanently excluded and is leading the way in supporting schools with its innovative ways of working.
This work will form part of a report for the government. The Commissioner's visit is part of her separate independent School Exclusions Inquiry which will examine different practice in a variety of localities.
Jane Scott, leader of Wiltshire Council; "It was a real privilege to welcome the Children's Commissioner and discuss the work we are doing in Wiltshire for children who may find themselves at a difficult stage in their lives.
"We are leading the way in piloting this new project and we were pleased to be able to share our experiences and inform her report to government."
Wiltshire Council is one of seven local authorities taking part in the Department for Education pilot scheme, which aims to radically improve long term prospects for those who would be permanently excluded pupils by moving responsibility for the permanent exclusion of 11 to 16 year olds from the local authority to schools.
The pilot scheme has been operating since September 2012. Schools are responsible for helping those in danger of being permanently excluded make good progress and improve the numbers going into further education, training or employment.
At Hardenhuish Academy in Chippenham, pupils who may otherwise have been permanently excluded, attend the Key Centre.
This is a new facility developed by the school to support pupils with a personalised learning curriculum based on the identification of their needs.
The Key Centre is an integral part of the school's building with youngsters continuing with core subjects of literacy and numeracy but with further opportunities for them to have off-site provision with a timetable to suit their needs.
As part of her visit, Mrs Atkinson visited Hardenhuish to see the work in progress as well as Springfields Academy in Calne, which has recently gained the TES Schools Award for overall outstanding school of the year.


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text: Built Ford Tough. Well, it looks like Ford is taking its slogan closer to heart, by developing a car seat that monitors your heart rate. The new car seat uses six sensors that are embedded on the surface of the backrest. These sensors detect the electrical impulses generated by the user's heart before passing the data to the control unit that records and interprets the electronic rhythm of your heart beat.


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TOP marketing executives from Telstra and Optus have been ordered to attend mediation sessions over an advertising dispute about their respective 4G networks in Brisbane.
Optus launched legal action on Monday claiming Telstra engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct by ''making a representation that Telstra is the only network offering 4G in Brisbane, and a representation that Optus does not have 4G in Brisbane'', according to documents lodged with the Federal Court in New South Wales.
Optus managing director of marketing, Michael Smith, and Telstra chief marketing officer, Mark Buckman, have been ordered to attend a mediation session this Friday.
A spokesman for Telstra said: ''At the time we launched the campaign Optus did not have a 4G network in Brisbane. Once we were alerted to it we took steps to ensure we no longer used the claim and today committed to having material removed from Telstra stores by COB tomorrow.''
The dispute started because Telstra turned on 4G in Brisbane in May 2011 and happily advertised it had the only 4G network in the city.
In early September this year Optus said it would be switching on 4G equipment in Brisbane early next year.
However, Optus moved earlier than expected, switching on five 4G sites in Brisbane city and four sites in Surfers Paradise on October 31. Optus wrote to Telstra twice warning it was activating 4G earlier than planned, according to industry sources.
And, while Telstra's billboards were removed, it appears Telstra refused to remove advertising, such as posters and computer screens, from its shops until legal action began. Optus wants the court to order corrective advertising and the removal of all the offending advertising, plus costs and interest.