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Do I need a CoQ10 supplement?
Maybe not. CoQ10 is made from L-tyrosine in the endoplasmic reticulum of cells throughout our body . Beyond what is made in our body, CoQ10 is also obtained through food. Foods richest in CoQ10 are animal products: beef, pork and chicken (organ meats are highest), then fish and seafood followed by dairy and eggs. Plant based sources include peanuts and oils, but in order to get significant amounts of CoQ10, unrealistic amounts of nuts and oils would need to be consumed , , .
CoQ10 is a fat soluble molecule and the body stores are about 2 grams. Research suggests we require about 500 mg per day to maintain these stores (through diet and what is made naturally). The recommendation is to get about 30 to 100 mg from diet, with the rest being made within our body .
CoQ10 is commonly suggested to healthy individuals but in my opinion, it only serves a purpose in specific populations. Although it acts as an anti-oxidant, I believe you can obtain similar antioxidant properties from food or even cheaper supplements. A lot of the 'health benefits' are only proven in research on specific patient populations. Ordinarily, CoQ10 doesn't show significant improvement in otherwise healthy individuals. This one should be reserved for those who need it. Click here for major clinical applications of CoQ10 and here to learn of its necessity for those on Statin drugs.
If you, or someone you know does need CoQ10, this article will help you navigate the supplement stores and find the best product for you. If you're unsure, book an appointment with a local Naturopath or GP and have this discussion.
Below will be information on the major discussion points surrounding CoQ10.
Ordinarily understanding chemical structure isn't a vital part to buying a supplement – but with CoQ10, it is. The terms 'ubiquinone', 'ubiquinol' and 'reduce form vs oxidized form' are thrown around a lot. One of the biggest price differences is based on which form the CoQ10 in – ubiquinone or ubiquinol. Let's see what the difference is and whether it's worthwhile paying more for one form over another.
Figure 1, seen below, shows the chemical structure of CoQ10 on the left. The images on the right show the truncated structure, highlighting its oxidized and reduced forms. The reduced form (ubiquinol) can accept electrons from free radicals, converting it into ubiquinol; hence, ubiquinol is defined as an antioxidant. What makes ubiquinone unique is that it too can work as an antioxidant .
Figure 1: CoQ10s molecular structure is shown on the left. On the right, see the oxidized (top) and reduced (bottom) forms of CoQ10. Notice how the oxidized form (ubiquinone) can freely convert to the reduced form (ubiquinol) and vice versa. This relationship is called a Redox Pair. The nature of these molecules to switch back and forth is important when comparing ubiquinone and ubiquinol products.
Which supplement should I buy?
When you compare CoQ10 products, you will notice some products offer ubiquinone and others tout their ubiquinol content. Ubiquinone has been on the market for closer to 40 years, whereas ubiquinol has only been around since 2007 . One of the biggest marketing claims are that ubiquinol has a significantly better absorption, higher biologic activity and improved bioavailability versus ubiquinone . Let's break it down and see if these claims are true.
*note – you can find many research papers online arguing both points of view. I place emphasis on quality of research paper and who funded/sponsored the research. There are very few statistically sound, indepenent research papers on PubMed. A lot of my opinions are based on biochemistry as well as interpreting the research, which is explained below.
Ubiquinol is often touted as being more biologically active than ubiquinone. Biological activity refers to how much an effect a molecule can have on the body. As you can see in Figure 1 (above), ubiquinol and ubiquinone can freely change back and forth. They are referred to as a redox pair  – a common biochemical phenomenon. In fact, the form we obtain from food is often the ubiquinone form. Prior to the invention of ubiquinol in 2007, we survived with this form in our diet. Also, ubiquinol is quite unstable in the stomach – and converts to ubiquinone in the stomach before it even gets absorbed in the small intestine. So, in my opinion (based on the research and chemistry, there is no advantage of one over the other when it comes to biological activity.
Bioavailability is different to biologic activity. Biologic activity refers to what and how much of an effect a molecule can have. Bioavailability refers to the body's access to that molecule. If something has great biological activity but zero bioavailability, it means as good as that molecule is, the body simply can't get to it in order to use it.
Ubiquinol is actually more bio-available than ubiquinone . Earlier, I did say CoQ10 is fat soluble, however, its relative solubility in water is also important as our lymphatic, venous and body's fluid compartments are comprised mainly of water. The chemical structure of ubiquinol allows it to be considered more water soluble than ubiquinone. It has two hydroxyl groups which allow it to bond with water (and in turn have improved solubility in water), thus making it more bio-available . Research also shows ubiquinol being more efficiently incorporated into micelles during digestion, which has to do with transportation of the fatty molecules .
Absorption refers to how much CoQ10 absorbs through the small intestine into the lymphatic vessels in the intestinal microvillus (it does not absorb directly into the blood stream). As mentioned above, ubiquinol is exposed to a very harsh environment in the stomach where it oxidizes to become ubiquinone . So when we talk about absorption, we need to talk about oil based preparations versus crystalline forms.
Raw Crystalline CoQ10 in its unprocessed form. This needs to be added to a fat solvent in order to absorb as a supplement.
Remember CoQ10 (both ubiquinone and ubiquinol forms) are fat soluble. They absorb through the gut lining via simple diffusion. CoQ10 generally comes from the manufacturers in crystalline form. Our digestive system cannot absorb crystals, and the crystals don't break apart at our body temperature. So any product that comes in this raw form would be useless - it must be dissolved in a fat solvent. So, when looking for a supplement, look for one in a carrier oil. The most common ones you'll find now are coconut oil (best in my opinion) as well as soy, palm or sunflower oils.
It may be confusing looking at the label and understanding what you're buying. The terminology is sometimes misleading, so here's the breakdown.
When you research CoQ10 other key 'buzz' words may pop up – MitoQ and Idebenone. Continue reading to see what they are and how they relate to CoQ10.
MitoQ is an up and coming antioxidant supplement. It targets the mitochondria and has demonstrated encouraging preclinical results in a number of studies (none in human subjects yet). Its developers claim its simply CoQ10 that has a positive charge added, delivering more into the mitochondria than any other CoQ10 supplement . Promising results in rat models have shown potential in a number of diseases including: liver fibrosis , Alzheimer's disease , ALS , metabolic syndrome  and alcohol induced fatty liver . This is something I will keep watching out for as preliminary research is looking bright. It is currently not available in retail locations in Canada or the United States. It is available online.
Idebenone is a synthetic quinone (the same chemical class as CoQ10). It is often said to be the pharmaceutical version of CoQ10 (remember coQ10 is a naturally derived antioxidant). Although similar, Idebenone is rather different to CoQ10 with regards to pharmokinetics, bioactivation and modulation of cellular energy production . A key differentiating factor is that CoQ10 relies on mitochondria to activate it, whereas idebenone does not. Meaning, compromised mitochondria may not utilize CoQ10 properly, whereas idebenone would not be affected . Idebenone first came out as a pharmaceutical drug for Alzheimer's disease and later Friedrich's ataxia and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. As of 2013, the drug was no long approved for those uses in North America or Europe . It is now being sold as an over the counter dietary supplement. Similarly to MitoQ, this is not available in retail stores in Canada or the US, but it is available online.
CoQ10 is most often produced in a lab through bacterial fermentation. This method requires the least amount of solvent use, and is the most cost effective way to make CoQ10 for supplemental use . Most supplements on the market today are derived through bacterial fermentation.
Since CoQ10 can be made from bacterial fermentation, CoQ10 supplements are commonly vegan. Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the most common bacteria used to make CoQ10.
If it is derived from natural food sources, it means the CoQ10 is extracted from food– which is usually meat, making that product non-vegan.
Since CoQ10 is fat soluble, it would be advantageous to take these supplements with a fatty meal.
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Six more years for Hugo Chavez works in tightest race
World hidden Oct 08, 2012 21:02:22 IST
Caracas (Venezuela): President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race against a youthful rival who has galvanized Venezuela's opposition.
The state governor who lost Sunday's presidential vote, Henrique Capriles, had accused the flamboyant incumbent of unfairly leveraging to his advantage Venezuela's oil wealth to finance his campaign as well as flaunting his near total control of state institutions.
Hugo Chavez greets his supporters. AP
Capriles also narrowed Chavez's margin of victory to his smallest yet in a presidential contest. This time, the former army paratroop commander who led a failed 1992 coup won 55 percent of the vote against 45 percent for Capriles, with 98 percent of the vote counted.
In 2006, Chavez's margin of victory was 27 points.
Nevertheless, the populace endorsed once again Chavez's stated aim of converting Venezuela into a socialist state.
Capriles said in his concession speech that he rejects the idea of two Venezuelas divided by ideology and class.
"I will continue working to build one country," said the wiry, 40-year-old grandson of Holocaust survivors who unified and energized the opposition while barnstorming across the oil-exporting nation.
Capriles had vowed to seriously address violent crime that has spun out of control, streamline a patronage-bloated bureaucracy and end rampant corruption, but his promises proved inadequate against Chavez's charisma, well-oiled political machine and legacy of putting Venezuela's poor first with generous social welfare programs.
Yet Chavez only got 551,902 more votes this time around than he did six years ago, while the opposition boosted its tally by 2.09 million. Chavez appeared to acknowledge the opposition's growing clout.
"I extend from here my recognition of all who voted against us, recognition of their democratic weight," he told thousands of cheering supporters from the balcony of the Miraflores presidential palace.
Tensions were high Sunday night as announcement of the results were delayed.
Finally, fireworks exploded over downtown Caracas amid a cacophony of horn-honking by elated Chavez supporters waving flags and jumping for joy outside the presidential palace.
Chavez will now have a freer hand to push for an even bigger state role in the economy, as he pledged during the campaign, and to continue populist programs. He's also likely to further limit dissent and deepen friendships with U.S. rivals.
A Capriles victory would have brought a radical foreign policy shift including a halt to preferential oil deals with allies such as Cuba, along with a loosening of state economic controls and an increase in private investment.
President Raul Castro of Cuba, which could have been badly hurt by a Chavez loss, was among Latin American leaders sending warm congratulations to the former paratrooper on his victory after nearly 14 years in office.
"I can't describe the relief and happiness I feel right now," said Edgar Gonzalez, a 38-year-old construction worker.
He ran through crowds of Chavez supporters packing the streets around the presidential palace wearing a Venezuelan flag as a cape and yelling: "Oh, no! Chavez won't go!"
"The revolution will continue, thanks to God and the people of this great country," said Gonzalez.
Voter turnout was an impressive 81 percent, compared to 75 percent in 2006. Chavez paid close attention to his military-like get-out-the-vote organization at the grass roots, stressing its importance at campaign rallies. The opposition said he unfairly plowed millions in state funds into the effort.
Chavez spent heavily in the months before the vote, building public housing and bankrolling expanded social programs.
"I think he just cranked up the patronage machine and unleashed a spending orgy," said Michael Shifter, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue think tank.
But Shifter also didn't deny the affinity and gratefulness Venezuela's poor feel for Chavez. "Despite his illness, I still think he retains a strong emotional connection with a lot of Venezuelans that I think were not prepared to vote against him."
"They still think that he's trying hard even if he's not delivering what he promised, that he still has their best interests at heart," Shifter said.
Chavez spoke little during the campaign about his fight with cancer, which since June 2011 has included surgery to remove tumors from his pelvic region as well as chemotherapy and radiation treatment. He has said his most recent tests showed no sign of illness.
Capriles told supporters not to feel defeated.
"We have planted many seeds across Venezuela and I know that these seeds are going to produce many trees," he told them at his campaign headquarters.
Despite winning a February primary that unified the opposition, Capriles was unable to sufficiently erode Chavez's firm base of loyal support.
One pro-Chavez voter, private bodyguard Carlos Julio Silva, said that whatever his faults, Chavez deserved to win for spreading the nation's oil wealth to the poor with free medical care, public housing and other government programs. The country has the world's largest proven oil reserves.
"There is corruption, there's plenty of bureaucracy, but the people have never had a leader who cared about this country," Silva said after voting for Chavez in the Caracas slum of Petare.
At many polling places, voters began lining up hours before polls opened at dawn, some snaking for blocks in the baking Caribbean sun. Some shaded themselves with umbrellas. Vendors grilled meat and some people drank beer.
Chavez's critics accused the president of inflaming divisions by labeling his opponents "fascists," ''Yankees" and "neo-Nazis," and it's likely hard for many of his opponents to stomach another six years of the loquacious and conflictive leader.
Some said before the vote that they'd consider leaving the country if Chavez won.
Gino Caso, an auto mechanic, said Chavez is power-hungry and out of touch with problems such as crime. He said his son had been robbed, as had neighboring shops.
"I don't know what planet he lives on," Caso said, gesturing with hands blackened with grease. "He wants to be like Fidel Castro — end up with everything, take control of the country."
Updated Date: Oct 08, 2012 21:02:22 IST
Tags : Elections In Venezuela, Henrique Capriles, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela
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Study sheds light on relationship between environment, hormones and evolution
by Morgan Sherburne, University of Michigan
These three species of spadefoot toads metamorphose differently. The first two species from the left are able to regulate the timing of their metamorphosis by modulating hormone production. The species on the right has a fixed period for their metamorphosis. It's all thanks to the ponds they live in. Credit: Robert Denver
Different species of spadefoot toads approach metamorphosis differently, and it's all thanks to the pond they grew up in, according to a team of researchers that includes a University of Michigan scientist.
The researchers found that some species can regulate the timing of their metamorphosis by regulating hormone production, while the timing of other species is fixed.
Their study, published in Nature Communications, is one of the first to provide a mechanism—in this case, the differences in the ways metamorphosis is controlled by hormones in different species of spadefoot toad—that underlies a theory called genetic accommodation. The theory was introduced more than 15 years ago by Mary Jane West-Eberhard, an evolutionary biologist who completed all of her degrees at U-M, says study author Robert Denver, a U-M developmental neuroendocrinologist.
In this theory, when organisms of any kind—microbes, plants or animals—experience changes in their environment, over time, that organism may change its phenotype, or its physical characteristics, that develop in reaction to its environment. West-Eberhard suggested that differences between species and new phenotypes can evolve through the changing of their ancestral phenotype. These changes then become fixed through the process of genetic accommodation.
The spadefoot toad species Pelobates cultripes can induce metamorphosis when it senses its pond drying up in order to escape as a juvenile toad. Credit: University of Michigan
"For this to work, the ancestors must have had the capacity to express a range of phenotypes in response to different environments, a process known as phenotypic plasticity or developmental plasticity." said Denver, professor and chair of the U-M Department of molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.
For example, the way humans look can vary depending on their diets, stress, or a number of other factors.
"We all have a genotype, or genes, that code for proteins that ultimately determine what we look like and what the capacity is for our growth. But within that, there's a range of body sizes that can be achieved based on the environment," said Denver, who is also a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. "As the environmental values shift towards the extremes, natural selection may favor phenotypes that are better able to make a living in the new environment."
In the toads Denver studied, the key was in whether the ponds of water the tadpoles hatched into were permanent or short lived.
The spadefoot toad species Spea multiplicata can induce metamorphosis when it senses its pond drying up in order to escape as a juvenile toad. Credit: University of Michigan
The researchers discovered that the species of spadefoot toad that live in semi-permanent ponds can trigger their own metamorphosis when they sense that their pond is drying up. The activation of their thyroid glands spurs metamorphosis, just as in humans, but the toads also activate their adrenal glands. This produces a stress hormone that accelerates metamorphosis, allowing the tadpole to escape the drying pond and move onto land as a juvenile adult.
Other species of spadefoot toads breed in ephemeral pools—for example, pools of water in the Arizona desert that exist for only a few days. These species have a very short developmental period that cannot be altered by the environment that they live in.
The shorter larval period of the spadefoot toads that breed in the ephemeral pools also affects their size as adults. The spadefoot toads that breed in semi-permanent ponds are about the size of half dollars when they metamorphose, while the other species is about the size of a dime, Denver said.
Denver says the common ancestor of spadefoot toads was most likely able to modulate the timing of its metamorphosis, but when some spadefoot toads started living in extremely challenging, arid environments, they shifted their developmental period to a very short, fixed one.
The spadefoot toad species Scaphiopus couchii lives in ephemeral ponds and cannot regulate the timing of its metamorphosis. They can go from hatching to metamorphosis to able to breed in about 10 days. Credit: University of Michigan
"Their ancestors likely had the capacity to metamorphose over a range of time, for example from two weeks to three months or more," Denver said. "But over time, either their habitat became much drier, or they happened to move into these dry environments, and the individuals who survived there were the ones that had this very short developmental period."
In the drier environments, natural selection favored the individual toads with very rapid development but lacked the capacity for varying their rate of development in response to their environment. Instead, their endocrine systems are active much earlier in development, and their tissues became much more sensitive to the hormonal signal.
"Our study is one of the few examples of a physiological/developmental mechanism underlying genetic accommodation," Denver said.
Denver conducted the research with co-authors Saurabh Kulkarni and Daniel Buchholz in the department of biological sciences at the University of Cincinnati, and Ivan Gomez-Mestre at the Doñana Biological Station in Spain.
Genes could get the jump on cane toads
More information: Saurabh S. Kulkarni et al. Genetic accommodation via modified endocrine signalling explains phenotypic divergence among spadefoot toad species, Nature Communications (2017). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00996-5
Journal information: Nature Communications
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This winter has been a very interesting one for the weather up here in Truckee / Tahoe, California. Actually, it might be more "uninteresting". We have had very little snow compared to usual years. I was hoping to have many more new snow scene photos by now but so far, it's been all about shooting ice.
Prosser Creek Reservoir is a little lake near my house that usually freezes over in the winter. It usually has a very short ice skating season, if any, because the snow usually covers the ice pretty quickly. With very little snow at the ski resorts and no snow at most of the frozen small lakes, many locals have been enjoying an incredible ice skating season up here. I've been taking advantage of the ice by getting some pretty cool photos of it.
"Ice Skaters and Bikers on Prosser Reservoir 1" - These ice skaters and mountain bikers were photographed on a frozen Prosser Reservoir, Truckee.
"Mountain Bikers on Prosser Reservoir" - These mountain bikers were photographed riding on ice at Prosser Reservoir, Truckee.
"Rock on Prosser Reservoir Sunset" - Sunset photograph of a rock sitting on top of an icy frozen Prosser Reservoir in Truckee, CA.
"Frozen Prosser Reservoir Sunset 4" - A colorful sunset photograph of an icy frozen over Prosser Reservoir in Truckee, CA.
Please enjoy this slide show below of all the icy frozen over Prosser Creek Reservoir photos that I've got this year, so far... Most of the images are available as large fine art prints, photo gift items, and to license, download and use as stock photography. Click on an individual image to see a larger version, and click "buy photo" for purchasing options.


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Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is "If I could go back to my Debut Year..." You can tell I didn't suggest this one because I don't believe in the "Debut Year."
See, the "Debut Year" is a bit of magical, sparkle-pony mythology of Author Land.
This is how the myth goes:
One day a writer receives "The Call" where an editor offers the Big Book Deal. The writer's First Book comes out - their Debut Book - and they have their Debut Year. It's a time of glory and terror and dancing sparkle ponies. The writer is hopefully toasted as the New Big Thing. Reviews always discuss the book in terms of it being the author's First Book. And every mention of the author after that will note their First Book.
All of this is a fictionalization. We're novelists, after all! But I think it's also a damaging bit of mythology, so I'd like to discuss why.
First, let me break this down in reality.
1. All of this is cast in traditional publishing terms. Not only that, it's pretty much only for deals with the Big Five. So, only authors who publish their first book (see caveats to this) with the Big Five get an experience anything close to the Debut Year.
2. Almost nobody gets "The Call," even though you still hear people talk about it. If you're working with traditional publishing, you'll almost certainly be working with an agent. Those exchanges happen first via email. Your agent may call with exciting news, but very rarely - even vanishingly rarely - is there a single phone call with the final deal news. This is a fictionalization that makes it sound good.
3. Not many authors get a Big Book Deal. You just hear about the ones who do. And, because it's a Big Book Deal, the publisher puts a lot of marketing behind the book, so you hear about that, too. But hey - it's a book deal and that's fabulous!
4. But, you know what? It's one book deal. If you plan to make a career as an author, there will be more book deals. Lots of them. You might also self-publish or do that instead. We tend to celebrate "Firsts" of all kinds, but there's no particular magic to them. (Besides that you're a newbie, which is likely the point of this topic, but I'm ignoring that. You'll find out why. Stick with me.)
5. There is a lot of terror. Moments of glory. Mostly a lot of work. Spoiler alert: No sparkle ponies.
6. Some writers get to be the Big New Thing, which is super cool. Most don't. Even those that do? Well, like prom queens and MVPs, there's a finite shelf life to being one, and there's a replacement coming the following year, if not sooner.
7. The "First Book" is a myth I'd really like to see die.
Most writers have written many books before their first published one.
Most writers have written and published extensively before their first published novel - poems, essays, other nonfiction, short stories, novellas, etc. By making a big deal about the first novel, we're elevating it above all other forms.
Because they understand the "magic" of the debut, very often publishers will ask an author to adopt a pseudonym and present the initial book under that name as a first book by a debut author. All smoke and mirrors.
In new publishing landscape, an author's first book is much more likely to be self-published or published by a small/digital-first publisher. These don't get the same splash.
The reason I think this mythology of the Debut Year is damaging is that any author who doesn't get this particular brass ring ends up feeling less than. Because this is most authors - I want to say 95% or more - that makes a lot of people laboring under a false perception of being lesser.
For myself, my "First Book" was WYOMING TRUCKS, TRUE LOVE, AND THE WEATHER CHANNEL, an essay collection published by a university press back in 2004. A lot of those essays had been published in literary journals and magazines - including Redbook, my big score - so the collection wasn't even my first publication.
After that...
[insert montage of time passing here]
...when I transitioned into fiction, my "first book" was a digitally published novella. My first novel-length work was published by Carina, an imprint of Harlequin, also a digital-first publisher.
My first print deal was with Kensington, for The Twelve Kingdoms trilogy. The first book, THE MARK OF THE TALA, was my 4th novel-length publication, my 2nd print book, my 13th fiction publication, and I have no idea what number it would be in overall number of creative works.
The first book in my first Big Five book deal, THE ORCHID THRONE, comes out next summer. It will be something like my 30th novel-length publication.
The point is, I never had a Debut Year.
Okay, yeah - maybe we could say it was 2004, when Wyoming Trucks came out. That's why I put that photo at the top, because that's at my signing and launch party, where I'm clearly bright-eyed, cheeks flushed with excitement.
It was a great night.
And good things came of that book.
But I was never the New Big Thing. I didn't get rich or famous. The only sparkle pony I have is a plastic one that an author friend gave me.
What's most important is that this is just fine! My career has grown slowly and steadily, which I will absolutely take over what some of my friends have gone through - a Debut Year that burns fast and hot, but ends in ashes and reinvention. Building a career through small presses and thoughtful self-publishing is a viable path - often a far better one - than shooting for the moon and the Big Book Deal. Even if you *do* get the Big Book Deal, that's no guarantee of the future.
So, the others of the SFF Seven might have more to offer on the actual topic. But when I consider going back to my Debut Year, I don't know when that was.
Even if I did know, and could go back - I wouldn't change a thing.
Posted by Jeffe Kennedy at 1:50:00 PM
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Jeffe Kennedy
Jeffe Kennedy is a multi-award-winning and best-selling author of romantic fantasy. She is the current President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and is a member of Novelists, Inc. (NINC). She is best known for her RITA® Award-winning novel, The Pages of the Mind, the recent trilogy, The Forgotten Empires, and the wildly popular, Dark Wizard. Jeffe lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is represented by Sarah Younger of Nancy Yost Literary Agency.
Minerva Spencer October 7, 2018 at 8:34 PM
Great article and so very, very true! It is a dangerous trap to measure yourself against the blazing stars in our industry, but I think everyone does it (I certainly do). The real gold ring is definitely a satisfying career that doesn't suck you dry and will end up providing you with a nice living. Thanks for putting this out there, it is especially helpful to me as I end my "debut year" (about 10 lbs heavier, MUCH grayer, and very, very tired)
Jeffe Kennedy October 8, 2018 at 10:02 AM
A trap for sure - and also the "blazing stars" aren't always what they seem. (Though I do it, too.) And absolutely true on what a truly satisfying career is. You're one of the few people I've known who had a classic "debut year." It IS exhausting. Maybe you should write a guest post for us on the topic. :-)
Alexia Chantel October 7, 2018 at 10:15 PM
You've got that long game thing down! A great post. There's temptation to compare from the start. But I'm enjoying the journey and will continue to remind myself to live in the moment and not wish time away, there's things to appreciate at each step.
I am in it for the long game! (As I've been saying for nearly thirty years now - eep.) Good on you to have your eyes open and enjoy the journey!
Emily Bybee October 8, 2018 at 10:24 AM
Thank you for this! I have been feeling pressure as my first book is coming out at the end of this month (from a small publisher) and it is hard not to compare what I have going on to the highly public debuts that got book deals. I almost felt silly celebrating at some points but something that helped me was being supported by my wonderful critique group- they are super excited for me. I hesitated to do a launch party but I think it's important to enjoy the moments and not devalue them :)
Jeffe Kennedy October 8, 2018 at 3:12 PM
Absolutely have a launch party! This is so much something to celebrate, regardless of your publishing path. This is exactly why comparisons cause so much trouble - how big would your press have to be to "count"??
Congratulations on your debut!
Emily Bybee October 8, 2018 at 4:17 PM
Evergreen October 8, 2018 at 8:51 PM
Now I know what to bring if I ever have a book launch: sparkle ponies! (wouldn't be unlike what I gave out at my wedding).
Do it! Everyone deserves a sparkle pony :-)


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Terry Venables' GOAL! (DVD Player)
Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd
Zoo Interactive Entertainment
Sports, Strategy / tactics
1st-person
Fixed / flip-screen
Full Motion Video (FMV), Live action
Game show / trivia / quiz
Menu structures
Football (European) / Soccer
Terry Venables' GOAL! is a DVD football quiz for one or two people/teams, as the name implies this game is hosted by Terry Venables a former player, club manager and manager of the England team (1994-1996) and the Australian team (1997-1998).
There are six rounds in the quiz, all questions are multiple choice with four possible answers and, apart from round five, all correct answers are worth one point. The rounds are;
Round One "Player Power": In this round the team(s) are shown a picture or video of a footballer which they have to identify. The second and third questions are related to that footballer and are typically questions like;
'From which club was he signed?',
'What number did he wear?',
'In the 2006 World Cup how many goals did he score?' and so-on.
Round Two "Golden Goals": Here each player in turn is shown a video and is asked two questions about players taking part. Typical questions are;
'Who scored that goal?',
'Who passed the ball to the scorer?',
'Who was the goalkeeper?',
'In this classic match what was the final score?'
Round Three "Make The Link": Here the team(s) are asked three football questions, the first is a random question but the second has some connection to the first and the third has some connection to the second. In the next two questions after identifying the footballer the player is shown a new picture before the question is asked. Some of the questions that could be faced are;
'Name the 1st player's brother?',
'In their managerial career when was the first time they qualified for a championship?'
Round Four "The Gaffer": Three questions in this round. In the first the team(s) have to identify a club manager. In the second question they have to pick two clubs he/she has managed from a list of four possible pairs. The final question is about an event in their career. Typically 'When did they first win the League Cup?', 'How many trophies did they win with one of their clubs?' etc
Round Five "Mind Games": Here the team(s) must identify one footballer from the four pictured based on the clue they are given. If they can do so they score three points however if they cannot name the player they can ask for a clue. There are two clues and each reduces the value of the answered question by one point. A typical first clue would be something like; 'He started his career at this club in 1999' or 'He made his international debut against this country in 2004'.
Follow up clues could be 'He was signed by this club in 2006', or 'His transfer set a new record of £xxx.xxx.xxx'
Round Six "Extra Time": Each player is asked five random questions and has ten seconds to answer each. The questions are not related
At the end of round two and all rounds that follow it Terry shows the team(s) scores. When the whole game has been played Terry introduces a competition in which contestants text their answer for a chance to win a footballing prizes.
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Terry Venables
Zoo Production Team:
Andy Scrivener, Peter Dalton (credited as Pete Dalton), Jon Hughes, Jonathan Huggins, Jim Bailey, Chris Skinner, Kate Lee, Paul Fielder, Rob Millington, Mark Oliver, Jonathan Gent, Richard Cartwright, Martin Caplin, Rough Collie, Dust
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"Will your stalwart band choose to (F)ight or (R)un?"


1. Accounting records should include information on grants and authorizations, income, assets, liabilities, sub-recipient contracts and unobligated balances.
The correct answer is 'True.' Accounting records include all aspects of an agency's flow of funds, assets and liabilities.
The correct answer is 'D.' An organizational chart would be used to help justify the pay rate or salary of an individual employee, or to demonstrate a person's role in the agency's internal control system, but not as a source document for cash expenditures or billing.
3. One recommendation to improve recordkeeping and internal documentation is to maintain a comprehensive timekeeping and activity tracking system to track staff's time and activities completed under the HUD grant or contract.
The correct answer is 'True.' Maintenance of supporting documentation, including staff timesheets or logs, is a mandatory activity for all Federal grantees and sub-recipients.


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In Justin Bieber's hometown, a shinny game pulls Maple Leaf pros: Mansbridge
CBC December 28, 2019
It's not always easy being a musical icon or a hockey star. Sure, you make lots of money, you can live in a fancy place and drive fast cars… but what if you just want to be kid again?
Think Justin Bieber. He still calls Stratford, Ont., home (full disclosure — so do I), and he comes here often to visit his Dad and grandparents. He slips quietly in and out of town on his private jet and most people don't even know he's here.
That is, unless he wants to do something he's loved since he was in single digits — play hockey.
He'll rent the ice at the historic, century-old Allman Arena and play pickup hockey with his pals from his school days. I remember once being at the arena for some other event, but ended up watching them play.
Justin had bought them all white jerseys — his was yellow. Why? "Don't hit the guy in the yellow!"
Not that hitting or, especially, lipping at the referee was ever a problem for young Justin. Once, when my son was playing midget, he got suspended for a game for mouthing off at the ref.
He was called before the "commissioner" of the league for a quite proper dressing down. But it ended with a smile.
"Will", the commissioner said, "you did wrong, but it won't ruin your future. Just remember, the kid who holds the record for the most suspensions here in Stratford is Justin Bieber." Willie took some pride in that.
I've never met Justin, but I used to see him sitting on the steps of the Stratford Festival's Avon Theatre when he was approaching teenager status and my wife, Cynthia Dale, was performing in musicals on stage.
He was strumming a guitar and singing for loonies. Within a couple of years, he was crooning Baby and making millions.
He has led a complicated life, to say the least. Not one without mistakes, but one thing that's never changed has been his love for hockey and his desire to be a kid forever, dreaming of playing with the big guys.
@justinbieber/Instagram
A couple of days before Christmas, Justin called the city with a request. He knew the Allman was normally closed on Boxing Day, but like any other Stratford citizen, if the overtime rate for rink staff was paid, and if they were willing to come in to work, he could bring along some of his old school pals for shinny.
All he wanted in return was that the moment be kept as quiet as possible so they could enjoy some privacy. A reasonable request and quickly it was game on.
The pals it turned out, included some other "kids" who probably have the same dream on occasion — just play for fun with your friends.
No coaches. No analytics. No pylons on the ice to run drills around.
Those "pals" had their own star status: Auston Matthews, Mitchell Marner, Tyson Barrie — all of them players on the Toronto Maple Leafs. I guess Justin couldn't find my number. Call me. Maybe. Next time. (I know, not his song, but I like the thought.)
They played four-on-four, uninterrupted, for a couple of hours and then packed their gear and headed out the door.
Unifying a community
Plumbers, electricians, insurance salesman and a No. 1 draft pick alongside a worldwide pop star. Your typical hockey crowd.
Word had travelled a bit and as a result there were kids outside. But the stars stopped, and signed, and had pictures taken with fans and rink staff too. No one complained.
Now, before you get all huffy and dump on Justin and his pro pals for spending his Stratford time and money on himself, he's actually not that kind of guy.
Bieber's been a generous contributor, silently usually, to all kinds of local charitable causes including the museum and the soup kitchen.
He comes home, and he brings friends and his new family with him, because he keeps his connection to his Stratford family no matter how far away from the California lights it may be.
And in that, at least for this week, he's not that different than the rest of us. Surround yourself with friends and family, remember how lucky we are and enjoy a few hours just having fun.
Editor's Note: An auditory edition of this story is available on Peter Mansbridge's podcast "the bridge."
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Leave it to the late, beloved leader of the official opposition, Jack Layton, to still be thinking of others, of you and me, of Canadians young and old, especially the young, as he stared down death in his last 48 hours on earth.
In what will go down in history as one of the most remarkable pieces of political writing ever, Jack's death-bed letter urges a more decent and generous Canada where everybody has a chance and no one is institutionally left out.
He lived and breathed public service until he could breathe no more. And he did it sometimes loudly, sometimes behind the scenes, but always with grace and dignity.
Jack was never afraid of telling us we can be better than we are, not hectoring, but appealing to what's good in all of us - even his opponents.
He may have worn his left-wing politics on his often rolled-up sleeve, but he was adept at bridge-building and non-partisanship. His ability to work with apparent foes on city and metro council as well as in community organizations throughout his career are great examples of this.
It meant that Jack got things done, including leading his New Democratic party to unimagined electoral heights in the last election, while mortally ill and physically hobbled.
When the old-school parties realized the NDP was about to break through in this election, they mustered attack ads against him and leaked negative stories to the compliant press. Jack's telling response was to say, "I'm attacking poverty, cuts in health care, not people." He refused to be drawn into the mudslinging, and a nation embraced him for it.
We on the left are often operating from a minority position, on the outside trying to battle our way in. That means that for all our savoured victories, we have to learn how to deal with plenty of defeats. And this was something Jack was especially good at; it seems he lost almost as many elections, campaigns and votes as he won. But he was never defeated, just delayed, and the essential truth he believed in was never diminished. His perseverance was astounding, and the ever-present smile under his trademark moustache was rarely absent. A loss simply meant there was more work to be done, not that the battle was over or the idea unworthy.
Jack was audacious enough to believe that the NDP could ultimately take power and that he would become prime minister, and I truly believe he would have if the fates had allowed it. He was never afraid to think big, and his energy and enthusiasm could bring all of us - even a nation - along with him.
I was on my way to my son's hockey game in February 2008, soon after Canada had seemingly elected another Harper minority government even though a majority had voted for progressive parties. My cell rang; it was Jack. He unspooled an outrageous but inspiring plan to form a coalition government. I was stunned, but a jolt of adrenalin shot through me. We had a chance to work for a government better than the one we had apparently just been handed.
And for a little while the impossible seemed possible, as it often did around Jack. People tried to paint him as a separatist, a revolutionary, an opportunist, but none of it stuck. And as we all would see, while delayed, he was not defeated, and ultimately almost succeeded in wrenching the reins of power from the disempowerers.
Election night in May 2011 was a remarkable moment, and I was fortunate enough to briefly join Jack and his family in their hotel suite to watch the stunning results, and later to hear the magnificent speech he delivered in the Toronto Convention Centre. I wanted to, and still want to, live in the Canada he envisioned. It is unbelievable to think the dynamic man who spoke so passionately and eloquently that night would be taken from us little more than 100 days later.
The next night Jack was out with his beloved Olivia Chow, not resting on his laurels but supporting good friend Stephen Lewis's Hope Rising Dinner and Benefit to fight AIDS in Africa at the Sony Centre.
Jack was on fire, of course delighted at what the future represented, electrified by the opportunities for engagement with the Canadian people. He had already had a conference call that day with his supersized caucus filled with kids and Quebeckers, among others, and he was beaming. He was also thrilled at the number of artists and musicians in his new gang, and couldn't wait to get going.
"People say we should get more young people involved in politics. Well, why not as Members of Parliament?" he said, laughing heartily. Why not, Jack?
I will cherish having been part of the crowd of thousands that night who rose to our feet in a spontaneous ovation when Jack and Olivia entered. His smile lit up the darkened hall, and he waved his cane like a wand, or maybe as a staff of blessing for us all.
Stephen Lewis, himself a magnificent orator, will read the eulogy for his friend at Jack's state funeral Saturday (August 27) at Roy Thomson Hall at 2 pm. I'm sure the irony of a magnificent socialist being eulogized in a hall named after one of Canada's more notorious capitalists would amuse Jack. And I'm confident that in honouring Jack, Lewis will embrace one of Jack's last wishes that this moment be a celebration, not one of despair.
Because Jack is right. "Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair."
As heartbroken as so many of us are, he would want us to honour him by carrying on his work, not collapsing in defeat and hopelessness. We don't honour Jack by saying he's irreplaceable or believing those who say there is no party without him. We do it by determining that he has helped start something unstoppable.
It was never about Jack to Jack; it was about a movement larger than any man or woman. We must carry his ideas and dreams forward, and especially the gracious and loving way he pursued them. Like Jack, let us show Canada a committed but caring approach to change, with respect for all, no matter what the odds.
We do that, as a great and dearly missed Canadian said to us this week, "and we'll change the world."
Okay, Jack, it's a deal.


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Bootham Park – York
Fortis Quay Major Residential Development – Salford Quays, Manchester
West Moor Park East – Doncaster
Enterprise Retirement Living
Bowman Riley has been providing masterplanning and architecture on the re-purposing of Bootham Park, a series of historic listed buildings with extensive open grounds in York into a new retirement community.
The site includes the Grade I listed 1777 landmark building designed by acclaimed architect John Carr and four Grade II listed heritage assets built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally designed as a lunatic asylum, it became Bootham Park Hospital in 1904 until it was closed in 2015.
The heritage assets will be re-purposed to host the communal facilities including a restaurant and bar situated within the Palm Court, a new café/bistro, a library, a games room, bowling alley, hobbies room, lounges, a cinema, a wellness centre with a gym, exercise studios, treatment and consultation rooms and hair/beauty salon.
Four complementary new wings will accommodate new homes with residents able to access the communal facilities. Each apartment will be designed to a high specification and will feature a spacious open-plan kitchen/lounge/dining area and generous bedrooms. The majority of the apartments will also benefit from private outdoor space in the form of ground floor patios, balconies or garden terraces. The Gate Lodge will be renovated back into a single dwelling with private gardens.
Externally, there will be outdoor seating areas set within beautifully landscaped courtyard gardens and terraces, residents' fruit and vegetable garden, bicycle and buggy stores for staff and residents with electric vehicle charging points.
The parkland and bistro will be accessible to the public and other facilities will be made available to the public including the Palm Court and bowling alley.
See our other project for Enterprise Retirement Living, The Red House.
See our other Heritage projects.
See more of our retirement communities.
Elite City Living
Salford Quays, Greater Manchester
Bowman Riley designed Fortis Quay a major new residential development of 759 stylish apartments adjacent to Salford Quays, a site of major regeneration of the former Manchester Docks.
The scheme will see the conversion of two 1960s former office blocks and the introduction of two new buildings including a 27 storey apartment block, which will be the tallest building in Salford Quays. The two existing office buildings already have consent for residential use, with Custom House to be extended from six storeys to 10 storeys and Furness House to be extended from 11 storeys to 17 storeys. .
The 1960s office buildings were built in a modern international style to resemble ships and are architecturally unique within Salford Quays. Although distinctive in their architectural merit the buildings have been under-occupied for years and their elevations have become tired and in need of refurbishment to bring them in line with neighbouring developments. Our design concept is to celebrate these buildings, which has influenced the overall site regeneration masterplan. The retention of the existing buildings embraces the curved form of the original architecture.
As part of the masterplan, the new and refurbished structures will be integrated within a new landscaping scheme linked with a network of new and upgraded pedestrian and traffic routes.
The development brings a new lease of life to the site and enhances the existing urban grain to create a vibrant new area, which will regenerate far beyond the development site boundary. In conjunction with specialist consultants, the tall building elements are designed with flair and imagination and form an iconic focal point.
News Link: https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/northwest/revised-salford-quays-scheme-approved
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Blue Anchor Leisure
Bowman Riley has masterplanned and designed West Moor Park East, a sustainable new business park in Doncaster owned by Blue Anchor Leisure.
The new development will be an extension to the existing West Moor Park commercial development that currently accommodates Ikea, Next, Fellowes Manufacturing, Anglo Beef Processors and other businesses. The proposals will deliver much-needed jobs to the area quickly, which will be important for the economic recovery from the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. Development of the site will also complement public investment in local infrastructure offering excellent transport links.
Working alongside Peacock and Smith, our masterplan includes flexibility for a range of employment units both industrial and commercial to allow existing local businesses to grow and attract major inward investment into Doncaster. The masterplan also features extensive landscaping and planting, trails for exercise and outside seating areas.
Jonathan Moses, a Director of Blue Anchor Leisure, said:
"West Moor Park East will provide a major boost to the local economy, especially in the current uncertain times the whole country faces. Over recent months there has been a big take up of other commercial space that has resulted in an under-supply of space in the Doncaster area."
Following public consultation with encouraging feedback from the local community, the development has been submitted for outline planning application.
Read more about the development in this press article.
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Office and Factory Extension – Keighley, West Yorkshire
Brookfield Garth Residential Development – Harrogate
Major Expansion Project – Harrogate Grammar School
The Motor Works, Mixed Use Development – North Yorkshire
Keighley, West Yorkshire
Gesipa is a manufacturing company producing threaded fasteners and is part of the SFS Group AG, they have over 8000 employees worldwide.
Gesipa has been based on Dalton Lane in Keighley since 1972. In recent years they have experienced significant growth in turnover and employee numbers. The company employ
local people and work closely with Keighley College and the apprenticeship scheme to develop the skills for future employees.
To facilitate this growth plan, more manufacturing capacity is required in terms of additional floor space. Alternative sites have been considered, but ideally, Gesipa wishes to remain in the Keighley area where there is a long legacy of engineering.
Bowman Riley's design takes advantage of land to the rear of the present building, where the intention is to build a landmark building of three storeys providing an additional 3,000m2 comprising a ground floor of factory space and two floors of offices, demonstration rooms and technical facilities. This would release 960m2 within the existing building thereby expanding factory capacity by nearly 2,000m2.
Creating a landmark building adjacent to the busy A650 would send a statement to the passing world that GESIPA is an exciting and growing engineering and manufacturing company and that the town of Keighley and the wider Bradford area is a place in which to do business and build success.
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Stonebridge Homes
Hampsthwaite, Harrogate
Bowman Riley has prepared designs for Brookfield Garth, a new residential development on a vacant plot of land in the North Yorkshire village of Hampsthwaite, five miles from Harrogate for developer Stonebridge Homes.
The site consists of 1.24 hectares of an overgrown grassed field with a public right of way to be retained and a number of trees with preservation orders.
Adjacent to the site is a variety of existing dwellings varying from multi-story family homes to single storey bungalows each uniquely built with various stones, bricks, and renders.
We prepared initial feasibility sketch schemes for a mixture of 36 new 2-3 bedroom semi-detached and 4-5 bedroom detached properties with generous parking allocation and rear gardens. 40 percent affordable housing will be provided in accordance with Harrogate Borough Council's policy.
The development site has been recently allocated for residential use to help meet the housing land supply for the Harrogate area.
We supported the planning application process by submitting a Design and Access Statement to submission to Harrogate Borough Council, which resulted in outline planning consent. This was then followed by approval of reserved matters.
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Harrogate Grammar School/Red Kite Learning Trust
Bowman Riley designed a major expansion project at Harrogate Grammar School to increase space following growing demand for pupil places at this high performing academy.
We designed a new building to connect the 1930s school building to a 1960s design block with three classrooms on the first floor and a large atrium below, which forms the new student entrance. The project means the school can increase the number of places available to 290 annually.
The project infills an external courtyard to reuse space within the footprint of the 1930s building with the new double-height central atrium space providing flexible teaching and exhibition space, with three new general teaching classrooms at first-floor level. This has created naturally light-filled spaces with natural ventilation to create a sustainable environment.
The new spaces improve circulation through the school and provide a new student-focused entrance. Previously students, staff and visitors all had to use the same narrow entrance. A key driver for the project was to improve connections throughout the existing school, therefore, as part of our designs, we reworked the existing floor levels to improve accessibility.
The project began in January 2020 and was completed in the October despite the challenges brought on by the lockdown period as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Headteacher, Neil Renton said:
"We are indebted to the professionalism of the architects' Bowman Riley and Sewell Construction… From the very start, we were impressed with the entire team. This was a complex build at the very heart of the school that resulted in significant changes to the movement of over 2,000 students around the school site. I am really proud of what has been achieved. The way in which all the teams involved have come together has been a masterclass in collaboration, expert knowledge and providing the very best for children."
Click here to read an article about this project in the local media.
Photography credit: the Sewell Group: https://sewell-group.co.uk/
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Bowman Riley was appointed to transform a traditional 19th century Yorkshire mill building and six-acre brownfield site into The Motor Works, a mixed-use development in the village of Cononley, North Yorkshire.
Our designs retain the historic core of the heritage asset, including the iconic mill chimney. A sympathetic extension was created to double the size of the mill to accommodate circa 50 bespoke apartments with recessed balconies.
The original north light weaving sheds that occupied the site were removed to make way for 46 traditional houses. Each house has been individually designed, 40% of which comprise affordable housing.
In addition, the site includes a 15,500ft2 commercial building to the rear of the mill to maintain an element of employment on the site.
The site is adjacent to the railway station, with direct commuter links into Leeds and Bradford and views over the picturesque Aire Valley. As part of the redevelopment, new pedestrian and cycle access links the village to the railway bridge. This provides a route to and from the village centre and rail passengers are able to bypass the often closed level crossing to catch a Leeds or Bradford-bound train.
Historic England said:
"We very much welcome the retention and conversion of the existing mill buildings and consider the design of the proposed extension is a clever and interesting, yet sympathetic, response to its historic context"
Since completion the development has won two accolades; the LABC Building Excellence Awards 2021 (North & West Yorkshire) for Best High Volume New Housing Development and the Yorkshire Residential Property Awards 2021 for Best Large Development of the Year.
Images courtesy of Candelisa. Exceptional spaces in exceptional places…
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Thornhills Garden Suburb Masterplanning – Brighouse, West Yorkshire
Hattersley Retail Centre – Greater Manchester
Brakes Food Wholesalers – Croydon, London
Evans Property Group and England Homes
Bowman Riley developed the masterplan for Thornhills Garden Suburb, a sustainable urban development of circa 2000 new homes in and around the town of Brighouse in Calderdale.
Calderdale needs 16,871 additional dwellings over the period of 2017-2032 to meet the anticipated shortage of homes in the area. The Council has assessed the availability of sites to accommodate this level of growth and concluded that there are insufficient to meet these needs within the existing settlement. The Thornhills site has been put forward for release from the Green Belt to be allocated for residential-led development.
Working alongside planning consultants Quod, we have prepared a masterplan to extend the settlement of Brighouse to make a significant contribution towards the housing needs.
Based on Garden Suburb principles, the site will deliver a high-quality development that is well connected to its surroundings and has a unique sense of place and community.
The houses will be in keeping with local vernacular using local and natural materials interspersed with plenty of natural planting. Key areas of green space and woodland have been retained as well as the creation of a more robust wildlife corridor through the site.
In addition to the new residences, new primary and secondary schools and a new community hub have been proposed to create a sustainable neighbourhood.
Thornhills Garden Suburb will provide much-needed homes, contributing greatly to the local plan as well as creating a new defensible boundary to the green belt.
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Maple Grove Developments
Hattersley, Greater Manchester
Bowman Riley supported Maple Grove Developments in their bid to Tameside Council to develop a new retail centre in Hattersley, Greater Manchester. This follows our previous successful projects, Albion Place and No.9 Skipton High Street.
Working closely with Maple Grove, Bowman Riley provided an approach, concept designs and 3D images for the 75,000ft2 retail scheme located on a brownfield site just off the M67 at the junction of Stockport Road and Ashworth Lane. The scheme comprises a mix of units including an anchor store, a drive-through restaurant and retail space.
Our site analysis and concept development focused on links with the recently constructed local community hub and supermarket. This allowed for smaller retail and drive-through food amenities to be located at the focal point of the junction of Stockport Road whilst maintaining the pedestrian scale and opening the retail centre visibility from the highway.
Our proposal offered the best use of the site and was attractive for prospective tenants. Maple Grove was selected by Peak Valley Housing Association and their partners Tameside Council and the Homes and Communities Agency as their preferred developer to take the scheme forward.
Following the success of the bid, Maple Grove Developments appointed Bowman Riley to follow the design through to completion and provide the role of Principal Designer.
Brakes Bros Ltd
Bowman Riley was commissioned by Brakes Food Wholesalers, a leading supplier to the foodservice sector in the UK. We supported their ambitious plans to move into the business to business food market capitalising on a strong brand and distribution network.
Working in partnership with Brakes and the wider design team, we provided architecture and CDM coordination bringing our considerable expertise of designing and master planning developments in the retail sector.
The first project was a refurbishment of an existing warehouse to convert it into a 25,000ft² food market in Croydon. The designs provide a friendly and appealing environment whilst maximising the functionality and efficiency of the development. We were involved in the concept planning of the scheme, store layout and the design of the building envelope including a new customer entrance to present their branding on the first scheme.
We facilitated a quick delivery on a nine week programme to a high standard. We introduced value engineering details to ensure the project was delivered within the target budget. The new food market we delivered has allowed Brakes to start their journey in this new venture. The specific internal layout and design has given Brakes a unique identity differentiating their offering from their competitors' brands.
Bowman Riley is continuing to work closely with Brakes to develop their standards and specifications, whilst reviewing new sites to assist them in their expansion plans.
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The Red House Luxury Retirement Village – Ripon
Holmes Mill Mixed Use Development – Lancashire
The Chocolate Works Mixed Use Development – York
Skipton Town Hall Refurbishment – North Yorkshire
Barnardo Developments Limited
Ripon, North Yorkshire (Ripon Conservation Area)
Bowman Riley provided architecture and the role of principal designer on the redevelopment of The Red House, a vacant Edwardian property set within a conservation area and a protected landscape with ecological issues in Ripon.
Originally built in 1905 as a private residence, The Red House became a residential institution for Barnardo's children's charity in the 1940s.
Working in consultation with the local community, Bowman Riley secured planning consent to transform the former children's home and surrounding grounds into a retirement community of 59 properties.
Delivered in two phases, the development provides a mix of high-quality one and two-bedroom private residences comprising apartments, cottages and two-storey houses with features such as underfloor heating and walk-in showers.
The existing Red House building was refurbished and extended to accommodate the comprehensive range of communal facilities including residents' lounges, bar, library, restaurant, consulting suite, hair and beauty salon and gym.
The existing lodge, stable block and cottage were refurbished and extended to form apartments and cottage accommodation.
The landscaping preserved the protected trees and woodland zones and further planting complements and supplements the existing mature landscape.
Images credit RN Wooler and The Red House.
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Candelisa/McCarthy and Stone
Holmes Mill is a Grade II Listed former textiles mill complex in a conservation area in Clitheroe in the picturesque Ribble Valley.
Bowman Riley was appointed by Candelisa and McCarthy & Stone under a joint venture. We provided a feasibility design on the redevelopment of the mill complex, the construction of the new build retirement homes and site-wide master planning to integrate both developments in the sensitive and historic location.
Candelisa was planning to convert existing three storey traditional mill buildings into 36 residential apartments and townhouses. The existing single storey infill between the mills was to be replaced with a landscaped communal deck area at first-floor level, providing enclosed under-croft parking for residents.
McCarthy & Stone was planning to occupy the northern part of the site for 37 new-build retirement homes with communal lounge areas.
As part of the development, the former engine room would be handed over to a community-run organisation in the interests of preserving the history of the site.
We developed an innovative solution to provide outdoor space in the roof areas and add sensitive contemporary additions such as Juliet and walk-on balconies.
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Henry Boot Developments
The Chocolate Works won the Game Changer award at the Yorkshire Property Awards 2016.
Bowman Riley provided masterplanning and the role of principal designer on The Chocolate Works, a 14 acre development site adjacent to York racecourse.
The site was formerly Terry's Chocolate Factory, which ceased operating in 2005 with the buildings remaining vacant until the site was purchased by Henry Boot Developments in 2013.
Bowman Riley supported Henry Boot Developments in the creation of a new sustainable and vibrant mixed use neighbourhood as an integral part of York.
The development includes the sensitive and active reuse and renovation of 250,000 ft² of Grade II 1920s Art Deco buildings: the Clock Tower and Boiler House, Fruit and Nut store, office headquarters building, Time Office and main factory building. The Grade II-listed factory building will be converted into 173 high quality apartments. Many of these luxury new homes overlook York Racecourse and the river Ouse. Springfield Healthcare Group is transforming the 4,000ft2 former headquarters building into a care village. The plans include 82 care bedrooms and eight luxury care apartments for residents.
Bowman Riley has undertaken feasibility studies for further developments on the site including a hotel, offices, convenience store and medical centre. In 2016, a public realm network was established including streets, squares, courtyards and green spaces to connect the site to adjacent urban districts.
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Craven District Council
Skipton, North Yorkshire
Bowman Riley provided strategic master planning on the Skipton Town Hall complex of buildings located on the High Street . The Grade II listed Town Hall was built in 1862 and today is home to Craven Museum & Gallery, Tourist Information and Skipton Concert Hall.
Working closely with Craven District Council, the masterplan was developed into a series of phased projects that could be delivered according to the client's programme and allocation of funding.
On the first phase of the strategic masterplan, Bowman Riley provided full architectural design, project management, CDM coordination and cost advice from inception to completion. Phase One created a striking contemporary extension providing a new accessible entrance to the side and reinstated the original entrance to the front, replaced the public facilities, created a commercial unit on the ground floor to let and refurbished office spaces.
The demolition of an existing building close to a busy public highway required coordination with the local highways authority, the contractor and the client team and resulted in public safety at all times.
Careful planning between the contractor and the client team enabled the works to be undertaken while parliamentary elections were taking place within the building.
Now complete, the Skipton Town Hall project has restored the building as a key civic asset by providing an active frontage and vibrant street scene. The project sees the sustainable re-use of a public building improving the public realm and community facilities, whilst also providing a source of revenue from the refurbished lettable space.
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Cawingredients Soft Drinks Factory – North Yorkshire
Homes and Communities Agency and Department for Communities Master Planning
Cawingredients Ltd
Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire
For more than a decade, Bowman Riley has helped soft drinks manufacturer, Cawingredients, to construct one of the most technologically advanced soft drink facilities in the country.
We continue to assist with the overall masterplanning of the site, with its evolving flagship factory to produce carbonated soft drinks, supplying major UK customers.
At the outset, we supported Cawingredients in identifying a suitable site (minimum 25 acres) for their new factory with excellent transport links to ensure that the company would not outgrow their premises once operations expanded. We assessed the viability of a number of potential sites before a plot alongside the A1 was identified.
We designed 240,000 ft2 of purpose-built factory space, which accommodates multiple bottling and canning lines. Supporting the production facility is 213,000 ft2 of warehousing space, plus 23,000 ft2 of office and laboratory space.
We have also assisted Cawingredients with strategic land purchases. This work has created a new site entrance for all vehicular traffic, additional development land, a new car park (to facilitate ongoing expansion), plus a new bespoke trade effluent plant. All of which has now secured planning consent.
Construction work has commenced on the latest phase of development, which is a 100,000ft2 warehouse with packaging robots, seven new HGV docking stations, extensive HGV parking and turning areas, plus surface water attenuation infrastructure.
Bowman Riley was commissioned to provide master planning and feasibility services on behalf of the Homes and Communities Agency, Department for Communities and Local Government and Walsall Council to examine the development potential of sites across Walsall and Wolverhampton as part of the Government's Enterprise Zone Initiative.
We produced detailed site plans for seven of the areas identified by the Council; all of which had difficult and limiting factors such as services easements, contamination or unstable ground. Phoenix 10, the largest of the sites, is reported to be the most contaminated site in Europe and without the Enterprise Zone, funding would never be commercially viable for industrial redevelopment.
Working alongside DTZ, the sites were evaluated and a range of industrial units from large scale distribution warehouses to bespoke innovate hybrid commercial/office units were proposed. The intention is to maximise developable area within the Enterprise Zone boundaries to take advantage of the maximum funding contribution.
We were able to provide quick turn-around response times for drawing production and amendments to facilitate the delivery of clear and concise strategies, which benefitted the wider team in their respective roles.
Allerton Residential Development – Bradford
New Livestock Haddocks Farm – York
DX New Distribution Hub – South Staffordshire
New Crossings Business Park – North Yorkshire
Allerton, Bradford
Bowman Riley provided concept designs and masterplan for a developer on a new residential development on greenbelt land in Chellow Dene to the north of Allerton, Bradford.
The complex 31 acre site is a wooded valley with two Victorian reservoirs and a significant number of public rights of way.
The plan is for 276 new family homes including a portion of affordable housing with access to be taken off an existing 1950s housing estate.
The masterplan incorporates a large portion of open space to mitigate the impact of the new development with travel routes around the desire lines and a pumping station to work around.
Sir Ken Morrison/Myton Hall Farms
Myton on Swale, North Yorkshire
Sir Ken Morrison purchased a series of derelict farm buildings with 1000 acres of land to create a new livestock farm (Haddocks Farm) based on the concept of the model farm, an 18th – 19th century experimental farm, which demonstrated improvements in agricultural techniques, efficiency and building layout.
Bowman Riley prepared a development strategy and designed the state of art farming facility Working in close collaboration with our client to realise his ambitions of creating a best practice farm that can operate to maximum efficiency whilst adhering to the highest environmental and RSPCA welfare standards.
Haddocks has become the third largest livestock farm in the country.
Typically farms grow organically on an ad-hoc basis, however, our client wanted to create an exemplar facility from scratch designed to meet best practice farming methods. We carefully master planned a series of 186,000ft² agricultural buildings. The buildings were delivered in four phases including cattle buildings, grain store, silage store, machinery shed, lambing shed, largest straw barn in Britain, ancillary buildings and 132,000ft² of service yard.
The careful layout of the facilities combined with the most up to date technology has resulted in a controlled environment that allows the livestock to thrive, minimises the risk of infections and maximises the efficiency of the farm.
DX Network Services
Essington, South Staffordshire
Bowman Riley was commissioned by DX Network Services to provide architectural services on Project Verne, a new distribution hub for their operations in South Staffordshire.
Project Verne is located on a 43 acre site of a former brickworks up until 1978 before it was subject to open cast operations.
The development comprises a new 36,720sqm distribution hub incorporating a load hall with loading dock facilities, ancillary office space to accommodate logistics operational support facilities and head office functions.
In addition, there will be an external open sided covered loading area incorporating an onsite recycle centre for processing packaging waste and workshop facilities to provide maintenance to the vehicle fleet and associated refuelling facilities.
Externally the development includes 303 car parking spaces, new site access for HGV vehicles and service yard with associated gatehouse to control entry.
The project also provides enhanced landscaping to the site including formal landscaped frontage and car park areas, earth mounding, woodland screening to the areas surrounding the service yard and the introduction of detention/retention wetlands connected via swale ditches.
Skipton Properties Ltd
Crosshills, Skipton, North Yorkshire
Bowman Riley was instrumental in the development of the Crossings Business Park, a 20 acre mixed use scheme in Crosshills, adjacent to the A629, a dual carriageway linking Keighley to Skipton.
The business park accommodates a range of 150,000ft² industrial and commercial units ranging in size from 5,000 to 24,600ft².
Working on the original phase of the Crossings, we used the outline plan of the business park and the infrastructure already in place to liaise with prospective tenants to determine their needs and ultimately design fit-for-purpose buildings.
We designed the final phase of this industrial park, Riparian Court, 29 two storey units ranging from 1600-3000 ft².
The Crossings is now fully occupied having attracted car dealerships, office occupiers, trade counter and general warehouse and industrial occupiers.
Dalton Lane Industrial Units – West Yorkshire
Tockwith Residential Development – Harrogate
Higher Raikes Residential Development – Skipton, North Yorkshire
Lords Close Residential Development – Giggleswick
Aire Valley Developments (UK) Ltd
Bowman Riley designed the redevelopment of an unused brownfield site at Dalton Lane to provide new industrial units of various sizes, ideal for local businesses or as starter units.
The design was created in harmony with the existing adjacent industrial buildings and construction was undertaken in a traditional manner for this type of use.
The scheme also provides vehicular, cycle and disabled parking, and includes sympathetic landscaping with boundary fencing.
Car parking to service the scheme is located both on the lower levels of the second mill building and in a purpose built parking structure located on the vacant industrial site to the east end of the site.
In order to accommodate the new business and residential uses on the upper floors, new circulation cores were constructed. These were treated as distinct elements in terms of both materials and structure, so as not to detract from the architectural integrity of the original building.
Evans Property Group (Lonsdale Developments)
Tockwith, Harrogate
Bowman Riley worked with Planning Consultants, Quod to obtain outline planning consent for up to 80 new homes on land that formed part of a former RAF base in Tockwith, Harrogate. The process involved careful and lengthy pre-application negotiations; using landscape architects, highway engineers and ecologists to evaluate the site and promote its deliver-ability to help meet Harrogate Borough Council's Housing Land Supply.
The pre-application public consultations and presentations to the Parish Council responded to local concern about traffic generation and capacity of existing village services. On adjacent land, a full planning application was submitted concurrently by others. It was imperative that we responded quickly to amend our indicative masterplan and fully justify why our site was equal; if not preferable to the adjacent application site. Whilst our land is further from the village core and Conservation Area, we convinced the local authority that our site was sustainable in transport connectivity, reusing previously developed land and sufficiently separated from listed buildings that would not detract from the historic village core.
The application was approved within four months of submission. Alan Syers, portfolio director at Evans Property Group, said: "We are delighted to have been given the green light to transform this strategic site into a high quality housing development to help meet local needs and support the viability and vitality of Tockwith village."
"The plans evolved through engagement with local stakeholders, officers at the Council and local residents resulting in a scheme which adopts good design principles and responds positively to local characteristics. We are looking forward to implementing our proposed scheme in due course."
Bowman Riley has designed Higher Raikes, a new residential development in an attractive setting on the semi-rural fringe of Skipton yet within walking distance of the town centre.
Higher Raikes is multi-award-winning recognised as the 'Best Large Development' at the Yorkshire Residential Property Awards in 2019 and as 'Best New Development' at the LABC Yorkshire (North, East & South) 2019 Building Excellence Awards.
The development comprises of 45 three, four, and five-bedroom family houses, the majority of which are detached. 30 percent of the development is affordable homes contributing to the need for additional houses in the Skipton area.
Each home has been individually designed to provide generous room proportions designed to cater to the needs of modern family life.
The high specification properties are to be built in random natural reclaimed stone with landscaped gardens, private driveways, and stone-built garages. Many of the plots will also benefit from views towards the surrounding hills and countryside.
Higher Raikes has been designed to be sympathetic to the character of the surrounding area and of a much lower density than many new housing estates to create an attractive gateway development into Skipton.
The development retains existing trees on site boundaries to provide a line of tree planting, an area of public open space for use as a park/recreation area and footpaths.
Images courtesy of RN Wooler & Co Ltd.
RN Wooler & Co Ltd
Lords Close, Giggleswick, Yorkshire Dales
Bowman Riley designed an attractive new residential development in the Yorkshire Dales village of Giggleswick, near to the market town of Settle for local building contractor RN Wooler & Co.
The development comprises ten high quality town-house style homes. The three and four bedroom properties have attractive gardens and private car parking facilities.
The properties were designed to a high standard using natural stone and slate roofs, combined with stone boundary walls and cobbled and stone flag paving. Stone surrounds, mullions, heads and window sills to windows and doors were used to add interest to the façades, combined with minimal overhangs to the roofs in line with the established character of the surroundings.
The development is located at the entrance to an existing residential development with a scenic backdrop of the surrounding fells and countryside. Through the careful use of scale and layout the proposed development preserves and enhances the special character and appearance of the village.
The new houses were designed to a high standard of thermal insulation providing outstanding energy performance and efficiency.
Calder Green Residential Development – Lancashire
Springhead Mills Residential Development – Leeds
Grove Mills Residential Redevelopment – West Yorkshire
Wyvern Park Residential Masterplan – Skipton
Renaissance Land
Padiham, Lancashire
Bowman Riley was commissioned to develop the designs of a major residential development, Calder Green, Padiham in East Lancashire.
Located on 5.5 acre brownfield site (the town's former railway station), the majority of the land had been occupied by disused industrial buildings at the time of acquisition. The land was is ideal for residential development overlooking the new Memorial Park and local leisure centre and within walking distance of the town centre.
Appointed by Renaissance Land, we provided the technical drawings on the 120 house development over four phases. The mix of two, three and four bedroom family homes are stylish, light and airy with practical and flexible interiors. Free flowing living areas open into private gardens, while attractive kitchens are designed to be a focal point for contemporary family life. The homes are energy efficient and meet the Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3.
The first two phases comprising of 42 homes have been completed to date.
Evans Property Group
Guiseley, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Bowman Riley created concept designs for a residential development on the 4.64 acre site of a redundant series of industrial buildings at Springhead Mills in the West Yorkshire town of Guiseley, which originally opened in 1842.
The town has been shaped by its long history and its character today relates to its past development as a booming industrial mill town in the 19th century. Today Guiseley is a desirable commuter town with local amenities, good schools, close proximity to the countryside and excellent rail links to Leeds, Bradford and Ilkley.
Springhead Mills is the last sustainable site of significance in Guiseley and is adjacent to green space and close by the rail station. The site consisted of 90,318 ft² of deteriorating buildings of varying construction and design. The regeneration of the site provides an opportunity to develop a brownfield site, creating the potential for this underused space to contribute to its surrounding context and to the setting of the adjacent conservation area.
The new development provides 54 much-needed family homes and brings the site back into beneficial use. The development will provide benefits for the wider community through improved permeability and connectivity between surrounding streets and open spaces.
The design responds sensitively and creatively to the character and historic context of the town. The plans will re-introduce activity to area and will open up and connect two underused areas of existing open space adjacent to the site. Part of the client's land was used to increase the size of the adjacent parkland.
Skipton Properties
Bowman Riley provided concept designs for the redevelopment of Grove Mill, a redundant textile mill complex in Ingrow, close to the West Yorkshire town of Keighley to provide a £65 million regeneration mixed use scheme.
The mills would be converted into 354 flats and 53 family homes, alongside offices, a cafe bar, a gym, crèche, health club, swimming pool, creche and a mini-market.
The complex site is bisected by the famous Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, a heritage steam branch train line which has been restored and runs through the Worth Valley from Keighley to Oxenhope and the Brontë sisters' Haworth.
The banks of the River Worth would get new pedestrian and cycle links with 700 cars parking spaces provided some underground and a new entrance off Halifax Road controlled by traffic lights, with a pedestrian crossing.
We helped Skipton Properties prepare the planning application, one of the biggest ever to be submitted in Keighley. A public consultation led to several amendments to the plan, which was unanimously supported by the local authority to receive full planning permission.
Following the economic downturn, the developer won permission to substantially reduce the number of planned flats and increase the number of houses in response to the changes in market demand.
Bowman Riley provided a residential masterplan for Stonebridge Homes on Wyvern Park, a large greenfield site with existing outline planning consent on the outskirts of the North Yorkshire town of Skipton.
We developed the masterplan by applying the Stonebridge Homes' standards and house types for up to 225 residences. The houses are based on a defined mix of market and affordable houses ranging from one to five bedroom homes.
The properties will form part of a wider mixed use development. Careful consideration was given to site layout in consideration of the nearby flood risk zones and the crematorium.
The residences were zoned to create a diverse neighbour whilst making the most of the open views across the beautiful Yorkshire Dales countryside for the larger five bedroom detached houses.
The development will help to meet a shortage of homes in the Skipton area considered by The Sunday Times as the Best Place to Live in the UK 2014.
Timothy Taylor Transport Hub – Keighley
Keighley, Bradford
Since 1858 Timothy Taylor has been producing award winning Yorkshire beers and ales from its base in Keighley using the spring water that wells up from deep under the Pennines. By 2007 the site had become too small and cramped for Timothy Taylor's expanding operations. A new four acre site was purchased across from the brewery, formerly the home of WASK Engineering.
Bowman Riley was commissioned to survey the site and design a new transport depot. We were involved in the demolition of the old factory buildings and the design of fit-for-purpose, large modern warehouses and sheds whilst still leaving plenty of room for further expansion. This work included creating a refuelling depot, fuel tank storage, a hops store and the sinking of a bore hole to provide further spring water for the site. The new transport depot provides the brewer with an efficient vehicle distribution centre for its refrigerated lorries, which enables them to deliver twice the volume of beer than was previously possible and frees up their existing site of vehicles. This allows Timothy Taylor respond far quicker and more efficiently to their customers base.
The design included provision for ample vehicular and bicycle parking, disabled and public transport access. The site redevelopment has proved attractive to public transport operator, TransDev, who leases land, bringing Timothy Taylor's additional revenue. Landscape design enhanced the appearance of the area and maintains an adjacent millpond and its surroundings as a haven for wildlife.


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