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'You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?'
4thcoming: Philip Hensher
4th Estate • Mar 8, 2018 • Tags: 4thcoming, philip hensher, the friendly ones
I suppose the first gentle push towards The Friendly Ones happened in the very early 1970s. My family was living in South London. My mother worked for the fire brigade, and had a friend in the office who lived very near by. The friend asked us round; there was some family event. She was Indian, and her house was not quite like ours. It was a house of gorgeous colours, an unusual perfume in the air, and a grandmother wearing something beyond my powers of description in both colour and construction – I think it must have been a brilliant pink sari. The manners of the family were unfamiliar – the four of us were divided into separate rooms to be entertained.. Afterwards the fact was clear: not everybody is like you.
Since then, my life has largely been spent with people who are not like me. It seems obvious to me that novels are best when they help the reader find out about both similar people, and about very different people. This country has spent the last fifty or more years opening up to the world, and a novel, I thought, might start to explore that fact.
The Friendly Ones is about two families who live next door to each other. In the end, they just can't do without each other. One family is a white British family; the other comes from somewhere else. I often thought that the British pride themselves on being generous and open to new arrivals, and liking their new neighbours, while often not knowing very much about the stories of those new arrivals. One thing novels can still do is to tell those stories, as well as finding sympathy for people who don't really want to tell their stories, or those who don't want to listen to others'.
It's a book about how small, quiet lives can be utterly changed by large historical crises, and how a private decision – to walk away from education, or to embark on a divorce – can damage many lives. A national genocide; a murderous atrocity; or just a divorce; each of these things resonate in families for decades. I hope it's an optimistic book, and it does seem to me to be about how people mostly manage to live together. There are casualties. Not everything can be put right, and not everything can be forgiven or forgotten. Perhaps the best we can do is one of the characters' favourite observations from history: that nothing matters very much, and most things don't matter at all. Some things are easier to put on one side than others, that's all.
I think it was the book I most loved writing. After some time, I felt as if I were observing the different ways Sharif and Nazia, Hilary and Celia lived and made sense of things. At the end of the book, Sharif wonders whether it is time or space that has changed them so much – whether the forty years in England or the 5,000 miles from the place they were born has made a greater difference. There is no answer. People like Hilary are in no doubt, however, what changed them, and England: the answer is Sharif and Nazia, and people like them. English life changed, and the novel seemed to grow more topical as I went on with it – sometimes in sad and rather shocking ways. as the remote descendant myself of people who, in the 1680s, fled persecution to find a home in the East End of London, I hope the novel will make sense to readers in ways I haven't imagined.
The Friendly Ones is out now.
'It's the book you should give someone who thinks they don't like novels; sit back and watch them laugh and cry and become obsessed with the history of East Pakistan. This powerful book marshals dozens of convincing characters, each distinctive voice tinting the third-person narrative, cross-fading place and time. Hensher makes all those other weavers of inter-generational, politically charged tales look like babies, frankly. Here is surely a future prizewinner that is easy to read and impossible to forget.' Melissa Katsoulis, THE TIMES
'Hensher's 11th novel is his biggest and most ambitious yet: old-fashioned in its storytelling, with sly nods to The Winter's Tale, but shot through with tenderness and peopled with an unusually rich cast of characters, from druggies and dropouts to doctors and MPs' Max Davidson, MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Marvellous new novel … Zipping between Oxford and Devon, Sheffield and Dhaka, Hensher's immersive, cartwheeling narrative follows the history of two neighbouring families in a quiet suburban street and asks reverberating and powerfully resonant questions about what makes a family, a community and a country' Claire Allfree DAILY MAIL
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The best place to own a brewery?
by Louise Ashworth | Nov 2, 2017 | News | 0 comments
TThe best place to own a brewery? East Sussex microbreweries experienced a 1,500 per cent growth year on year, outperforming every other UK county.
A study, by business finance specialist Rangewell, found that the craft beer industry in East Sussex showed 25 per cent better revenue growth than Greater London. With a combined turnover of £2.5m, high growth areas include Heathfield, Brighton, Forest Row, Rye and Bexhill-on-Sea The single highest revenue growth was 655 per cent, in Heathfield.
East Sussex is fast becoming a beer enthusiasts paradise. The county currently has a total of 33 breweries, which equates to 6.4 breweries per 100,000 people. In comparison to London's 0.4 breweries per 100,000 people.
Cllr Rupert Simmons, East Sussex County Council lead member for economy, said: "Helping small businesses such as microbreweries to set up is a key part of our work to boost economic growth and job creation. We have made funding available through our East Sussex Invest and South East Business Boost schemes for this purpose, and through Business East Sussex we offer a 'one-stop shop' providing business advice and support services to small businesses."
"In the last four years, £180,000 grants or loans has been provided to help six micro-breweries start up or develop in East Sussex, helping them to grow and to create 20 new jobs. Some of the breweries we've supported have won international awards and we're delighted with their success."
"In largely rural areas such as East Sussex, helping small businesses to develop and thrive is vital and the rapid growth of this sector in the county is a real economic success story in which we're proud to have played a part."
Mark Berry, Co-Founder and Director of Gun Brewery in East Sussex, says "East Sussex has a long history of brewing and a long established beer culture. Craft beer is really just the latest chapter. Any brewery starting out here is entering a market that's comfortable trying new beers and supportive of new enterprises. At the same time, it is also demanding when it comes to quality."
He adds, "Entering a strong local market that demands quality makes sure that brewers are on their game. This, in turn, is a great platform for national growth. Once you've tried an IPA, made from Sussex Spring water, alive with lip-tingling tropical fruit and citrus flavours, or a complex warming stout, why would you drink anything else!?"
Wild growing hops were discovered in East Sussex in 2005. Named the Sussex Hop, they were found to be ideal for brewers thanks to their resistance to both mildew and wilt. Local brewery, Harvey's, uses the Sussex Hop which boasts earthy, grassy aromas in its award-winning Wild Hop beer. Local breweries are also catering to more specific tastes, such as Bartleby's Brewery which offers vegetarian brews and Gun Brewery which caters to the vegan and gluten-free market.
In 2015, the number of breweries in the South East Region grew from 133 to 192, a 44 per cent increase from 2013. 153% more than those that opened in London.
The South East is the second most affluent region in the UK, after London, with an average household disposable income of between £35-40k,and with accessibility to London, it is attracting young people, often those who leave good paying jobs to start their own small business ventures.

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Transport, Airports
Heathrow's new Star Alliance hub dubbed "The Queen's Terminal"
Jason Clampet, Skift
- Jun 14, 2013 8:55 am
What flyers and airlines really want is a runway and the absence of one has turned into a royal pain.
Heathrow may not get the extra runway it needs, but it's been on a tear building new terminals. The new Terminal 2 that's currently in progress will be home to the 23 Star Alliance airlines, as well as Virgin's Little Red, Aer Lingus, and germanwings.
Today Heathrow authorities announced that Terminal 2 would be known as The Queen's Terminal upon its opening in June of 2014.
The new Queen's Terminal replaces a structure torn down in 2010 that had been built in 1955 and housed Heathrow's original first terminal. Incidentally, the current Queen dedicated the terminal upon its opening nearly 60 years ago (see image, above).
The new terminal will cost £2.5 billion and will be completed this November, after which authorities will carry out seven months of testing in order to avoid the problems that plagued the opening of Terminal 5.
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Dr Rebekka Artz
rebekka.artz@hutton.ac.uk
Twitter: @ArtzRebekka
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I have more than 17 years of research experience in the ecology and ecosystem functions of peatland ecosystems and more than a decade of experience of providing links between science and policy, delivering land management decision support tools, policy briefings and expert opinions on Soils and Climate Change mitigation policy matters to Scottish and UK Governments. I have been an expert reviewer on the carbon benefits of peatland management to the UK and Scottish Governments as well as for various nature conservation agencies in the UK.
My publication metrics can be found here and you can read a case study of work on peatland restoration in the current RESAS 2016-2021 programme here. This includes findings from a wider team of colleagues at James Hutton Institute and SRUC (former and current staff).
Current research includes assessing remote sensing as a means to estimate the effectiveness of peatland restoration and monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands in relation to climate change impacts and emissions mitigation potential.
One of my projects involves instrumenting and running peatland sites with eddy covariance equipment (CO2/H2O and CH4) in order to better understand the impact of regional climatic difference on GHG emissions. I currently manage a peatland eddy covariance tower at the highest elevation in the UK, and co-supervise a PhD studentship (with University of Western England) that will elucidate the hydrological effects of restoring eroded peatlands on this site. I am investigating the effects of various methods of peatland restoration on soil fungal community, vegetation structure, site hydrology and carbon dynamics in various field sites in one of the largest landscape scale restoration areas on blanket bog in Europe (Forsinard Flows). This research also aims to determine whether these methods are effective in areas that are likely to experience significantly lower rainfall in future decades. This will broaden our understanding of the (limits to) resilience of peatlands and the effect that drought/restoration management can have on this ecosystem's capacity for carbon sequestration. A linked PhD project is investigating the impacts of climatic variability on peatlands, with University of Reading. Finally, I also currently lead a NERC Urgency project that seeks to understand the drivers of post-fire recovery of GHG fluxes in peatland.
CURRENT PROJECTS (in addition to RESAS 2016-2021 Strategic Research Programme)
2020-2021. Scottish Natural Heritage. Peatland Action equipment grant for new eddy covariance equipment. Principal Investigator, Value £453k.
2019-2020. Commercial confidential research contract, Principal Investigator. Value £49k.
2019-2020. NERC FIRE-RECOVER (Urgency Grant; 2019-2020) Assessing the greenhouse gas emissions post wildfire on restored peatland. Principal Investigator, with partners at University of Glasgow; University of the Highlands and Islands, RSPB Scotland, and University of Edinburgh. Value £67.3k
CURRENT PhD STUDENTS
- Gillian Donaldson-Selby (University of Western England) 2018 – present. Understanding and evaluating peatland degradation and restoration dynamics through hydrological monitoring and modelling
- Linda Toca (University of Reading) 2019- present. Analysis of peatland carbon dynamics using combined optical and microwave satellite data
- Will Pallier, starting October 2020 (University of Aberdeen & Universty of Highlands and Islands)
Previous PhD students:
Helen Gordon (2007); Clare Trinder (2007), Hannah Toberman (2008), Pauline Currey (2008); Sam Quin (2012); Mike Whitfield (2012), Ully Kritzler (2013); Ainoa Pravia (2018); Kirsten Lees (2019)
Lees, K.; Artz, R.R.E.; Chandler, D.; Aspinall, T.; Boulton, C.; Buxton, J.; Lenton, T. (In press) Using remote sensing to assess peatland resilience by estimating surface moisture and drought recovery., Science of the Total Environment.
Lees, K.J.; Khomik, M.; Quaife, T.; Clark, J.M.; Hill, T.; Hancock, M.; Ritson, J.; Artz, R.R.E. (In press) Assessing the reliability of peatland GPP measurements by remote sensing from plot to landscape scale., Science of the Total Environment.
Pravia, A.; Andersen, R.; Artz, R.R.E.; Boyd, K.; Cowie, N.R.; Littlewood, N.A. (In press) Moth responses to forest-to-bog restoration., Mires and Peat.
Lees, K.J.; Artz, R.R.E.; Khomik, M.; Clark, J.; Ritson, J.; Hancock, M.; Cowei, N.; Quaife, T. (2020) Using spectral indices to estimate water content and GPP in sphagnum moss and other peatland vegetation., IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58, 4547-4557.
Artz, R.R.E.; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and contributors (2020) Peatland mapping and monitoring - Recommendations and technical overview., Report to FAO.
Pravia, A.; Andersen, R.; Artz, R.R.E.; Pakeman, R.J.; Littlewood, N.A. (2019) Restoration trajectory of carabid functional traits in a formerly afforested blanket bog., Acta Zoologica Academiaea Scientiarum Hungaricae, 65, 33-56.
Lees, K.J.; Clark, J.M.; Quaife, T.; Khomik, M.; Artz, R.R.E. (2019) Changes in carbon flux and spectral reflectance of Sphagnum mosses as a result of simulated drought., Ecohydrology, 12, Article No. e2123.
Lees, K.J.; Quaife, T.; Artz, R.R.E.; Khomik, M.; Sottocornola, M.; Kiely, G.; Hambley, G.; Hill, T.; Saunders, M.; Cowie, N.R.; Ritson, J.; Clark, J.M. (2019) A model of gross primary productivity based on satellite data suggests formerly afforested peatlands undergoing restoration regain full photosynthesis capacity after five to ten years., Journal of Environmental Management, 246, 594-604.
Artz, R.R.E.; Johnson, S.; Bruneau, P.; Britton, A.J.; Mitchell, R.J.; Ross, L.; Donaldson-Selby, G.; Donnelly, D.; Aitkenhead, M.J.; Gimona, A.; Poggio, L. (2019) The potential for modelling peatland habitat condition in Scotland using long-term MODIS data., Science of the Total Environment, 660, 429-442.
Rivington, M.; Spencer, M.; Gimona, A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Wardell-Johnson, D.; Ball, J. (2019) Snow cover and climate change in the Cairngorms National Park: Summary assessment., ClimateXChange Website, December 2019, 31pp.
Artz, R.R.E.; Ball, J.; Gimona, A.; Blake, D.; McBride, A. (2019) Access to peatland for restoration - physical limitations., ClimateXChange Report, 8pp.
Coyle, M.; Khomik, M.; Artz, R.R.E.; Yelaputri, J. (2019) Carbon storage and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from restored peatlands., Project Progress Report, April 2019.
Evans, C.; Artz, R.R.E.; Moxley, J.; Smyth, M.A.; Taylor, E.; Archer, N.; Burden, A.; Williamson, J.; Donnelly, D.; Aitkenhead, M.; Thomson, A.; Buys, G.; Malcolm, H.; Wilson, D.; Renou-Wilson, F. (2019) Implementation of an emissions inventory for UK peatlands., Report to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor, 88pp.
Lees, K.J.; Quaife, T.; Artz, R.R.E.; Khomik, M.; Clark, J. (2018) Potential for using remote sensing to estimate carbon fluxes across Northern peatlands., Science of the Total Environment, 615, 857-874.
Eastwood, A.; Juarez Bourke, A.; Lorenzo-Arribas, A.; Fischer, A.; Herrett, S.; Donaldson-Selby, G.; Hague, A.; Pakeman, R.J.; Hester, A.J.; Artz, R.R.E. (2018) Glen Creran Woods: Exploring the perceived impacts of different management interventions on woodland benefits., Workshop Report, Appin Village Hall, Port Appin, Argyll, 23 April 2018, 18pp.
Donaldson-Selby, G.H.; Artz, R.R.E. (2018) Visualisation of peatland restoration., Report for RESAS 1.1.2., James Hutton Institute, 3pp.
Artz, R.R.E.; Faccioli, M.; Roberts, M.; Anderson, R. (2018) Peatland restoration - a comparative analysis of the costs and merits of different restoration methods., Report for ClimateXChange Scotland Website, Final report, March 2018, 48pp.
Williamson, J.; Morton, D.; Artz, R.R.E.; Burden, A.; Rowland, C.; Tornero, L.; O?Neill, A.; Poggio, L.; Khomik, M.; Donnelly, D.; Evans, C.D. (2018) The role of earth observation in an integrated framework for assessing peatland habitat condition and its impact on greenhouse gas accounting., Final Report to Defra, Project number MI07.
Blackstock, K.L.; Brooker, R.; Pakeman, R.J.; Ellis, C.; George, T.; Iason, G.; Gilbert, L.; Artz, R,.R.E.; Irvine, R.J.; McVittie, A.; Newey, S.; Mitchell, R.; Gimona, A.; Fischer, A.; Begg, G.; Maxwell, J. (2017) Ecosystems and Land Use Stakeholders Engagement Group (ELSEG) Workshop Report., Workshop, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, 20 November 2017.
Artz, R.R.E.; Donaldson-Selby, G.; Poggio, L.; Donnelly, D.; Aitkenhead, M.J. (2017) Comparison of remote sensing approaches for detection of peatland drainage in Scotland., Report for CxC website.
Taylor, E.; Smyth, M-A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Donnelly, D.; Aitkenhead, M.; Evans, C.; Moxley, J.; Archer, N.J. (2017) Activity data for drainage and rewetting of organic soils 1990-2013., Report to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Work package 4 Project report, not for external publication), 37pp.
Artz, R.R.E.; Donnelly, D.; Evans, C.; Williamson, J.; Moxley, J.; Smyth, M-A.; Taylor, E.; Archer, N. (2017) Sourcing and compilation of baseline activity data., Report to the UK Government Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 102pp. (Project report, Task 4.1, not for external publication).
Eastwood, A.; Brooker, R.; Irvine, R.J.; Artz, R.R.E.; Norton, L.R.; Bullock, J.M.; Ross, L.; Fielding, D.; Ramsay, S.; Roberts, J.; Anderson, W.; Dugan, D.; Cooksley, S.; Pakeman, R.J. (2016) Does nature conservation enhance ecosystem services delivery?, Ecosystem Services, 17, 152-162.
Kritzler, U.H.; Artz, R.R.E.; Johnson, D. (2016) Soil CO2 efflux in a degraded raised bog is regulated by water table depth rather than recent plant assimilate., Mires and Peat, 17, Article No.1., 1-14.
Taylor, E.; Smyth, M.A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Donnelly, D.; Aitkenhead, M.; Evans, C.; Moxley, J.; Archer, N. (2016) Activity data for drainage and rewetting of organic soils 1990-2013., Workpackage Report to the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.
Irvine, R.J.; Miller, D.R.; Artz, R.R.E.; Brooker, R.; Chapman, S.J.; Newey, S.; Hester, A.J.; Pakeman, R.J. (2016) Scoping a strategic vision for the uplands: A response from the James Hutton Institute., Response to a Consultation for Scottish Natural Heritage.
Artz, R.R.E.; Potts, J.; Chapman, S.; Wilson, D.; Heinemeyer, A.; Evans, C.; Renou-Wilson, F. (2016) Emission factors applicable to UK peatlands., Workpackage Report to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Aitkenhead, M.; Poggio, L.; Donaldson-Selby, G.; Gimona, A.; Artz, R.R.E. (2016) Detection of peatland drainage with remote sensing - a scoping study., Technical Report to CxC Directorate.
Grelet, G.; Martino, E.; Dickie, I.A.; Tajuddin, R.; Artz, R.R.E. (2016) Ecology of Ericoid Mycorrhizal fungi: what insight have we gained with molecular tools and what?s missing?, In: Martin, F. (ed.). Molecular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. Wiley-Blackwell, Chapter 22, pp405-420.
Wilson, D.; Dixon, S.D.; Artz, R.R.E.; Smith, T.E.L.; Evans, C.D.; Owen, H.J.F.; Archer, E.; Renou-Wilson, F. (2015) Derivation of greenhouse gas emission factors for peatlands managed for extraction in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom., Biogeosciences, 12, 5291-5308.
Quin, S.; Artz, R.R.E.; Coupar, A.M.; Woodin, S.J. (2015) Calluna vulgaris-dominated upland heathland sequesters more CO2 annually than grass-dominated upland heathland., Science of the Total Environment, 505, 740-747.
Towers, W.; Chapman, S.J.; Artz, R.R.E.; Miller, D.R. (2015) Carbon-rich soil, deep peat and priority peatland habitats map., Consultation response to Scottish Natural Heritage from the James Hutton Institute.
Chapman, S.J.; Artz, R.R.E.; Poggio, L. (2015) Determination of organic carbon stocks in blanket peat soils in different condition - assessment of peat condition., Final Project Report to SEPA (TT1401).
Quin, S.L.O.; Artz, R.R.E.; Coupar, A.M.; Littlewood, N.A.; Woodin, S.J. (2014) Restoration of upland heath from a graminoid- to a Calluna vulgaris-dominated community provides a carbon benefit., Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 185, 133-143.
Bonn, A.; Reed, M.; Evans, C.D.; Joosten, H.; Bain, C.; Farmer, J.; Emmer, I.; Couwenberg, J.; Moxey, A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Tanneberger, F.; Von Unger, M.; Smyth, M.A.; Birnie, R.V. (2014) Investing in nature: developing a peatland carbon code., Ecosystem Services, 9, 54-65.
Zakharova, A.; Midwood, A.J.; Hunt, J.E.; Graham, S.L.; Artz, R.R.E.; Turnbull, M.H.; Whitehead, D.; Millard, P. (2014) Loss of labile carbon following soil disturbance determined by measurement of respired d??CO., Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 68, 125-132.
Artz, R.R.E.; Donnelly, D.; Aitkenhead, M.; Balana, B.; Chapman, S. (2014) WISE Peatland Choices - A decision support tool for peatland restoration in Scotland., Version 2- September 2014, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, 16pp.
Artz, R.R.E.; Chapman, S.J.; Saunders, M.; Evans, C.D.; Matthews, R.B. (2013) Comment on "Soil CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes from an afforested lowland raised peatbog in Scotland: implications for drainage and restoration" by Yamulki et al. (2013)., Biogeosciences, 10, 7623-7630.
Andersen, R.; Chapman, S.J.; Artz, R.R.E. (2013) Microbial communities in natural and disturbed peatlands: a review., Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 57, 979-994.
Quin, S.L.O.; Conolly, T.R.A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Coupar, A.; Woodin, S.J. (2013) The assimilation and retention of carbon in upland heath plant communities typical of contrasting management regimes: a 13C tracer study., Journal of Ecosystems, Article ID 209890, 10pp.
Vinten, A.J.A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Thomas, N.; Potts, J.M.; Avery, L.M.; Langan, S.J.; Watson, H.; Cook, Y.; Taylor, C.; Abel, C.; Reid, E.; Singh, B.K. (2011) Comparison of microbial community assays for the assessment of stream biofilm ecology., Journal of Microbiological Methods, 85, 190-198.
Curlevski, N.J.A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Anderson, I.C.; Cairney, J.W.G. (2011) Response of soil microbial communities to management strategies for enhancing Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) establishment on heather (Calluna vulgaris) moorland., Plant and Soil, 339, 413-424.
Currey, P.A.; Johnson, D.; Dawson, L.A.; van der Wal, R.; Thornton, B.; Sheppard, L.J.; Leith, I.D.; Artz, R.R.E. (2011) Five years of simulated atmospheric nitrogen deposition have only subtle effects on the fate of newly synthesized carbon in Calluna vulgaris and Eriophorum vaginatum., Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 43, 495-502.
Currey, P.M.; Johnson, D.; Sheppard, L.J.; Leith, I.D.; Toberman, H.; Van der Wal, R.; Dawson, L.A.; Artz, R.R.E. (2010) Turnover of labile and recalcitrant soil carbon differ in response to nitrate and ammonium deposition in an ombrotrophic peatland., Global Change Biology, 16, 2307-2321.
Toberman, H.; Laiho, R.; Evans, C.D.; Artz, R.R.E.; Fenner, N.; Vavrova, P.; Freeman, C. (2010) Long-term drainage for forestry inhibits extracellular phenol oxidase activity in Finnish boreal mire peat., European Journal of Soil Science, 61, 950-957.
Artz, R.R.E.; Reid, E.; Anderson, I.C.; Campbell, C.D.; Cairney, J.W.G. (2009) Long term repeated prescribed burning increases evenness in the basidiomycete laccase gene pool in forest soils., FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 67, 397-410.
Trinder, C.J.; Johnson, D.; Artz, R.R.E. (2009) Litter type, but not plant cover, regulates initial litter decomposition and fungal community structure in recolonising cutover peatlands., Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 41, 651-655.
Toberman, H.; Freeman, C.; Artz, R.R.E.; Evans C.; Fenner, N. (2008) Impeded drainage stimulates extracellular phenol oxidase activity in riparian peat cores., Soil Use and Management, 24, 357-365.
Trinder, C.J.; Artz, R.R.E.; Johnson, D. (2008) Contribution of plant photosynthate to soil respiration and dissolved organic carbon in a naturally recolonising cutover peatland., Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 40, 1622-1628.
Trinder, C.J.; Artz, R.R.E.; Johnson, D. (2008) Interactions between fungal community structure, litter decomposition and depth of water-table in a cutover peatland., FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 64, 433-448.
Toberman, H.; Evan, C.; Freeman, C.; Fenner, N.; Artz, R.R.E. (2008) Summer drought effects upon soil and litter phenol oxidase activity and soluble carbon release in an upland Calluna heathland., Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 40, 1519-1532.
Weigang, Y.; Artz, R.R.E.; Johnson, D. (2008) Species-specific effects of plants colonising cut-over peatlands on patterns of carbon source utilisation by soil microorganisms., Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 40, 544-549.
Trinder, C.J.; Artz, R.R.E.; Johnson, D. (2008) Temporal patterns of litter production by vascular plants colonising cut-over peatlands., Wetlands, 28, 245-250.
Toberman, H.; Freeman, C.; Evans, C.; Fenner, N.; Artz, R.R.E. (2008) Summer drought decreases soil fungal diversity and associated phenol oxidase activity in upland Calluna heathland soil., FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 66, 426-436.
Phuyal, M.; Artz, R.R.E.; Sheppard, L.; Johnson, D. (2008) Long-term nitrogen deposition increases phosphorus limitation of bryophytes in an ombrotrophic bog., Plant Ecology, 196, 111-121.
Artz, R.R.E.; Chapman, S.J.; Siegenthaler, A.; Bortoluzzi, E.; YliPetays, M.; Francez, A-J. (2008) Functional microbial diversity in European remediating cutover peatlands is directed by labile carbon., Journal of Applied Ecology, 45, 1799-1809.
Artz, R.R.E.; Chapman, S.J.; Robertson, J.; Potts, J.M.; Laggoun-Defarge, F.; Gogo, S.; Comont, L.; Disnar, J-R.; Francez, A-J. (2008) FTIR spectroscopy can be used as a screening tool for organic matter quality in regenerating cutover peatlands, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 40, 515-527.
Chapman, S.J.; Campbell, C.D.; Artz, R.R.E. (2007) Assessing CLPPs using MicroRespTM: a comparison with Biolog and other methods., Journal of Soils and Sediments, 7, 406-410.
Artz, R.R.E.; Anderson, I.C.; Chapman, S.J.; Hagn, A.; Schloter, M.; Potts, J.M.; Campbell, C.D. (2007) Changes in fungal community composition in response to vegetational succession during the natural regeneration of cutover peatlands., Microbial Ecology, 54, 508-522.
Artz, R.R.E.; Avery, L.M.; Jones, D.L.; Davey, L.; Killham, K. (2006) Potential pitfalls in the quantitative molecular detection of escherichia coli O157:H7 in environmental matrices., Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 52, 482-488.
Artz, R.R.E.; Chapman, S.J.; Campbell, C.D. (2006) Substrate utilisation profiles of microbial communities in peat are depth-dependent and correlate with whole soil FTIR profiles., Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 38, 2958-2962.
Artz, R.R.E.; Townend, J.; Brown, K.; Towers, W.; Killham, K. (2005) Soil macropores and compaction control the leaching potential of Escherichia coli O157:H7., Environmental Microbiology, 7, 241-248.
Knox, O.G.G.; Killham, K.; Artz, R.R.E.; Mullins, C.; Wilson, M. (2004) Effect of nematodes on rhizosphere colonization by seed-applied bacteria., Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70, 4666-4671.
Ritchie, J.M.; Campbell, G.R.; Shepherd, J.; Beaton, Y.; Jones, D.; Killham, K.; Artz, R.R.E. (2003) A stable bioluminescent construct of escherichia coli 0157:H7 for hazard assessments of long-term survival in the environment., Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69, 3359-3367.
Artz, R.R.E.; Donnelly, D.; Cuthbert, A.; Evans, C.; Smart, S.; Reed, M.; Kenter, J.; Clark, J. (2013) Restoration of lowland raised bogs in Scotland: emissions savings and the implications of a changing climate on lowland raised bog condition., Final report. Commissioned by the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
Worrall, F.; Chapman, P.; Holden, J.; Evans, C.; Artz, R.R.E.; Smith, P.; Grayson, R. (2011) A review of current evidence on carbon fluxes and greenhouse gas emissions from UK peatlands., JNCC Report 442, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, June 2011.
Worrall, F.; Chapman, P.; Holden, J.; Evans, C.; Artz, R.R.E.; Smith, P.; Grayson, R. (2011) Climate change mitigations and adaptation potential., IUCN UK Peatland Programme Commission of Inquiry on Peatlands.
Evans, C.; Worrall, F.; Holden, J.; Chapman, P.; Smith, P.; Artz, R.R.E. (2011) A programme to address evidence gaps in the greenhouse gas and carbon fluxes from UK peatlands., JNCC Report 443, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, June 2011.
Prior to Appointment
Artz, R.R.E.; Semple, K.T.; Killham, K.; Prosser, J.I.; Paton, G.I. (2002) The potential for anaerobic mineralisation of hydrocarbon constituents of oily drill cuttings from the North Sea seabed., Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 4, 553-557.
Artz, R.R.E.; Killham, K. (2002) Survival of Escherichia coli O157 : H7 in private drinking water wells: influences of protozoan grazing and elevated copper concentrations., FEMS Microbiology Letters, 216, 117-122.
van der Maarel, M.J.E.C., Artz, R.R.E., Haanstra, R., and Forney, L.J. (1998) Association of marine archaea with the digestive tracts of two marine fish species., Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 64, 2894-2898.
van der Giezen, M.; Sjollema, K.A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Alkema, W.; Prins, R.A. (1997) Hydrogenosomes in the anaerobic fungus Neocallimastix frontalis have a double membrane but lack an associated organelle genome., FEBS Letters, 408, 147-150.
Books / Book Chapters
Artz, R.R.E. (2009) Microbial community structure and carbon substrate use in Northern peatlands., In: Northern Peatlands and Carbon Cycling (eds. A. Baird, L. Belyea, X. Comas, A. Reeve and L. Slater). American Geophysical Union, pp111-129.
Artz, R.R.E.; Donnelly, D.; Aitkenhead, M.; Balana, B.; Chapman, S.J. (2013) WISE peatland choices - a decision support tool for peatland restoration in Scotland., ClimateXChange Scotland, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen.
Reed, M.S.; Bonn, A.; Evans, C.; Josten, H.; Bain, B.; Farmer, J.; Emmer, I.; Couwenberg, J.; Moxey, A.; Artz, R.R.E.; Tannerberger, F.; Von Unger, M.; Smyth, M.; Birnie, R.V.; Inman, I.; Smith, S.; Quick, T.; Cowap, C.; Prior, S. (2013) Towards the development of a UK peatland code. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) pilot research project., Defra PES Pilot Code Final Report.
Eastwood, A.; Nijnik, M.; Brooker, R.; Pakeman, R.J.; Artz, R.R.E.; Norton, L.; Ross, L.; Bullock, J.; Albon, S.; Vellinga, N.; Fielding, D.; Irvine, R.J.; Ramsay, S.; Cooksley, S. (2013) Nature conservation and ecosystem service delivery., Joint Nature Conservancy Council, Contract C12-0170-0635.
Matthews, K.B.; Artz, R.R.E.; Birch, A.N.E.; Blackstock, K.L.; Brooker, R.; Brown, I.; Cummins, R.; Flanigan, S.; Hallet, P.; Irvine, R.J.; Kenyon, W.; Pakeman, R.J., Prager, K.; Slee, B.; Squire, G.; Stutter, M.; Sutherland, L.; Thomson, K.; Towers, W.; Vinten, A.J.A. (2012) Developing agri-environmental measures for the next Scottish Rural Development Programme: a summary of relevant research findings from the James Hutton Institute., Report to the Scottish Government, Natural Resources Division, SRDP Technical Working Group (Agri-Environment), 11pp, 25 June 2012.
Chapman, S.J.; Artz, R.R.E.; Donnelly, D. (2012) Carbon savings from peat restoration., Climate XChange Enquiry Number 1205-02, Edinburgh, ClimateXChange.
Artz, R.R.E.; Chapman, S.J.; Donnelly, D.; Matthews, R. (2012) Potential abatement from peatland restoration., Briefing Note to Scottish Government.
Artz, R.R.E.; Donnelly, D.; Andersen, R.; Mitchell, R.; Chapman, S.J.; Smith, J.; Smith, P.; Cummins, R.; Balana, B.; Cuthbert, A. (2012) Managing and restoring blanket bog to benefit biodiversity and carbon balance - a scoping study., Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report.
Scientific posters/conferences
Restoring the carbon accumulation function in cutover bogs: do micro-organisms matter?
Peatland restoration - can it restore microbial diversity and their functions in the soil?
Does the regeneration of cut-over peatlands restore below-ground functions and diversity?
Interactions between atmospheric nitrogen deposition and carbon dynamics in peatlands.
Ecological Sciences (Research Page)
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This has a lot of units that u can copy to make your scenarios really cool, hmmm i think thats all i can say really.
Rasher and EO did this a LONG time ago.
You just copied the units from Rasher's Map Tricks and Enrique Orduno's New Units and New Objects template v.1.1!
Why did you say that you made it yourself, but you actually made it by copying all the units from the two New Unit templates?
I totaly agree with Poken i mean men can you think of any thing on your own but 2 steals other people work and call it you'r own.Shame on you.
Actually i didn't get this from other templates, i got it from scenario's and just pasted it onto a map. shame on you, for saying shame on You to me lol. but does that still count as stealing?
I now understand that someone else made this, and i give them most of the credit, and maybe say sorry? i don't know what to say... But pleaseee pleaseeeeee don't send any more complaints in, im getting really angry/upset about this.
At least i have made something good that i have put on aok HG:Jailbreak China's tests 'yue Fei'v3.2, it probably has one of the best game play ever, but map is not good, only the other day i found out that some1 had copied my Jb, they/he/it called it Special Jailbreak v10, i was so angry! the guy changed a few things but never mentioned his name or mine, i just hope no one copys my next jailbreak or i'll kill them!
I hope no one sends in any complaints any more... I think i've said enough already, bye.
guys i think there must be a COPYRIGHT agreement posted on the AOK Heaven Main page,prevent retard like this guy do such thing. Again all credit goes to rasher.
I'm Enrique Orduno, the creator of one of the 2 templates that you stole/copied units from.
I'm as annoyed as you were when you discovered someone stole your jailbrake. If you don't like people copying your work, don't copy someone else's, consciously or not.
Look, i've tryed saying these things nicely to you people out there, BUT YOU JUST HAVE TO COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN AND COMPLAIN!
THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'LL SAY THIS, UNLESS OF COURSE SOMEONE SENDS ANOTHER MAJOR COMPLAINT.
And remember:I thought it was some kind of hidden thing in AoK at first.
Enrique is a Moderator.... telling him to STFU will result in a BAN.
not a load of complaints...Look i know Rasher and Enrique done way more work but i still want a little bit of 'Possitive comments', please have some sympathy.
As for the Enrique being a moderator he can band me but then the world will never see a betta JailBreak in aok again...I worked so hard for months and i could only play on wedsdays and saturdays and i only worked on it a little bit when i was allowed to play.
PS i've given credit to them in my recent posting of my latest JailBreak for the template units.
Oh its sorted, im not gonna get band, I emailed Enrique and he said i won't get band, and im gonna clear my name as soon as possible.
PS:What do you think i should call my self:Mak_LEADER1(my zone name) or Don Seb-er_torium(my msn nic name).


£18k plus £4k bonuses structure.
Benefits include ability to Personal Train to top up income as well as offering widely considered the best internal development progression opportunities in the industry.
We are recruiting for a fitness brand who have gyms all over the UK and they are looking for an Assistant Manager for their brand new club in Didcot. They provide great opportunities to develop through giving opportunity and with a great learning and development program. There is genuinely a huge amount of industry leading talent to work for, alongside and develop.
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A background in Personal Training, management, supervisor or Duty Management within the fitness industry, typically encompassing these keys areas of people management, managing brand standards, loving the fitness industry and be commercially aware and savvy. We are typically looking for someone who has been a Fitness Manager, Deputy/Assistant Manager, Sales Manager, Senior Instructor or an experienced PT within the fitness industry.
If you are from outside the industry this role is still possible but you must completely excel in the areas above and have transferrable examples. You will need to be Personal Trainer qualified to level 3.
You will have energy, personality and ambition. Skillset is vital but this company also recruit the person sat in front of them.
This role can develop significantly and there are considerable examples of this happening consistently over time and over the country. The next step from this role would be progression to a larger AGM position for more experience or a GM position.
Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.


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Regular physical activity relates to physical and mental functioning in older people, and promoting physical activity has the potential to substantially reduce functional decline and improve well-being. Despite this, investigations of the physical activity quotient through participation in functional activities in everyday life have traditionally gained limited focus among older populations compared to leisure-time physical activity and exercise. Considering the accumulated evidence of the health benefits of low-intensity physical activity, exploring and measuring such activities in this population is highly relevant. The aim of this study was to visualize and describe older people's physical activity patterns in daily life using a time-geographic approach in combination with the estimation of metabolic equivalents (METS). To exemplify the new method, a sample of nine retired men (65–82 years old, mean age 76.4 ± 5.8) with no homecare services from the municipality was recruited. In order to enable a visual analysis of the physical activity patterns in daily life, we developed the VISUAL-PA software, which is a visual analysis tool that includes METS to account for intensity and enables the analysis of distinct types and domains of physical activity. The VISUAL-PA software creates graphic outputs of physical activity patterns that enable the identification, visualization, and analysis of distinct types and intensities of physical activity in addition to sedentary behavior. The use of VISUAL-PA can contribute to a broader understanding of the complexity in physical activity patterns among older adults in terms of dimensions such as activity patterns and habits, domains, and intensity level. To strengthen the public health strategies that promote health and an active lifestyle, additional knowledge about physical activity patterns is necessary. Moreover, the visualization of physical activity can enable reflections on and awareness of activity habits and preferences, and thus facilitate behavior changes in older individuals.


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Guangzhou Ballet
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Tickets range from $50-$150.
China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd. (CAEG) returns to the David H. Koch Theater with two ballet productions, Carmina Burana and Goddess of the Luo River, performed by the Guangzhou Ballet. Winner of 42 international awards and 159 national awards, Guangzhou Ballet is one of the most outstanding artistic performance organizations in China. Currently, Guangzhou Ballet has a wide repertoire of 18 large-scale dance operas and more than 70 small and medium-sized programs. It has toured in more than 20 countries and regions, such as Russia, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Australia, and Germany among others.
Carmina Burana is the most complete and artistic medieval poem ever known. For centuries, it was buried deep in a monastery south of Munich, Germany, and then made public, shocking the world. The Guangzhou Ballet's contemporary version of ballet Carmina Burana is not a classical ballet in the usual sense, but an exploration and attempt of ballet and medieval poetry, aiming at the perfect integration of medieval poetry and music.
Goddess of the Luo River was recomposed by Peter Quanz based on violin concerto of Composer Du Mingxin. The music style features eastern classic appeal, establishing the emotional atmosphere of the whole play with dance music driving the plot forward like floating clouds and flowing water.
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Subway: 1 to 66th Street/Lincoln Center. The theater is on the south side of the Lincoln Center Plaza.
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China Arts and Entertainment Group
Approved by China's State Council, the China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG) was set up in April 2004 on the foundations of the China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA) and the China International Exhibition Agency (CIEA), both formerly under China's Ministry of Culture.


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Poll: Should AG Barr appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden?
By Jim Polito Dec 10, 2020
Joe Biden's son Hunter is being investigated by the US Justice Department in relation to his financial history. The probe began in 2018 and reportedly involves his business dealings with China and allegations of money laundering.
The revelation comes as the President-elect is preparing to pick his own Attorney General. That member of Biden's cabinet would oversee the investigation of his son that reportedly involves a grand jury and allegations of money laundering.
In a statement released Tuesday, Hunter Biden said: "I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisers."
Many news organizations refused to report on allegations of shady business dealings by Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential election. Social media platforms censored or limited the spread of an October New York Post story that claimed Hunter's laptop was in the possession of federal investigators.
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Transport infrastructure planning rarely gets much more ad hoc and misleading than the Baird government's announcement this week. Or much more disdainful of the community's intelligence.
Past "commitments" and "master plans" by the O'Farrell government have suddenly become conditional on our willingness to accept a blatant bribe. And the ostensible benefits of the proposed projects, glorious in their almost total absence of detail, hinge on the mindless repetition of old and demonstrably false assertions.
Superficially, the transport projects to be funded by the assumed $20 billion electricity privatisation magic pudding are attractive enough, at least in electoral terms: a second harbour rail crossing with three new CBD stations and a later conversion of the line to Bankstown, more "congestion attacking" toll roads in Sydney and a $1 billion "fund" for unspecified road and bridge upgradings in the bush.
It's impossible to comment on the last of these elements, as there's literally nothing of substance to like or dislike. But when details are provided, the first thing to check will be any double counting with existing commitments.
The timing of the harbour rail crossing project is actually a quiet backslide, not a step forward as claimed. Until Tuesday, this project was to have "followed" the completion of the North West Rail Link in 2019, and the Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian had been dropping sly hints it might start even earlier. But Premier Mike Baird now says, if his bribe is not accepted, the project "would otherwise be decades away". And even if the bribe is accepted, there's silence about the project's timing.
What is being "promised" has changed, as well. There's now no station in the northern CBD employment heartland, no inner west stations, no branch line from Sydenham to Hurstville and no extension from Bankstown to Cabramatta. The government's 2012 Long-Term Transport Master Plan centrepiece has been gutted, probably because it would have necessitated major works to cater for displaced freight services.
What hasn't changed are the commitments to privatised single-deck "metro" train services with little seating, an inevitability since the size of the tunnels for the North West Rail Link was deliberately reduced in 2012, a decision every bit as stupid as the 1855 decision to adopt different rail gauges in different states.
The claimed "up to 60 per cent" increase in the number of trains "across the network" assumes "at least" 30 trains per hour each way on the new line, vastly more than any patronage study has ever suggested as necessary. It would also necessitate severe degradations in services on the double-deck lines not taken over by the privatised services, including slower trains, the loss of express services and the termination of many western and northern Sydney trains at Central.
And there will be be a much lower increase in passenger capacity, because each smaller privatised train will carry fewer people. The government's latest claims to the contrary conveniently cite examples involving longer, single-deck trains and ignore the fact that double-deck services can be upgraded using exactly the same train control techniques as those proposed for the new line (as has been done in Paris).
Worse, even while excess capacity is being generated on the new privatised line, its "poaching" of parts of the existing rail network (the Epping–Chatswood line, the Illawarra line tracks now used by Campbelltown expresses and the Bankstown line) will forever prevent serious capacity improvements on the most congested lines.
This will particularly harm services from Sydney's south-west, particularly as the four-track East Hills line now has to squeeze onto just two tracks via Sydney Airport. And don't even think about adding Badgerys Creek expresses into this mix.
The ethical issues are not confined to these sorts of inequalities. The successful bidder to operate the privatised North West Rail Link services will inevitably become the operator of the extension of this line across and south of the harbour, but there are no signs this is being taken into account in the current (and highly secretive) tendering process.
Sandy Thomas is a recently retired transport writer and planner. He was a member of The Herald's 2009 independent inquiry into a public transport plan for Sydney.


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Three current shows — Roseanne, Transparent and House of Cards — have been crippled by scandal, but each plans to continue without their disgraced stars.
The reboot of Roseanne had an excellent first season in the ratings — it also earned an estimated $45 million (Dh165 million) in advertising revenue for ABC — when its future was thrown into doubt by a racist tweet by star Roseanne Barr.
On Thursday, ABC said it ordered 10 episodes of a spinoff called The Conners after Barr relinquished any creative or financial participation in it, which the network had said was a condition of such a series.
In a statement issued by the show's producer, Barr said she agreed to the settlement to save the jobs of 200 cast and crew members who were idled when Roseanne was canceled last month.
"I regret the circumstances that have caused me to be removed from Roseanne, she said, adding, "I wish the best for everyone involved."
A Barr-less Roseanne sitcom might get viewers to tune in but Tongson doesn't believe they'll all hang around. "I think people will be curious to see what they try to do with the exit of its lead. But I'm not sure it will hold necessarily," she said.
Roseanne isn't alone in trying to forge a new TV path without a key member.
House of Cards, Netflix's first original series and one that's important for its brand, was rocked last October amid sexual misconduct allegations against star Kevin Spacey. Robin Wright, who co-starred as wife to Spacey's Francis Underwood, will be the focus of the new final season.
And Amazon Studios has said Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor won't be on the series when it returns for its fifth season. Two women — an actress on his show and his assistant — allege sexual misconduct; he has vehemently denied it.
Finding success with new stars?
Tongson notes that Roseanne, Transparent and House of Cards — two of which appear on streaming platforms and one on a big network — face different challenges when they restart.
Tongson notes that while Tambor was a prominent character on Transparent, he's not as front-and-center any more, perhaps meaning that the show can better survive his loss. The series also prides itself on having a diverse production staff with many transgender people represented, something creators want to keep together.
With House of Cards, while Spacey was without a doubt a central character, Tongson notes that the show has always been about the interplay between Frank and Claire Underwood. "Spacey was both irritant and stimulant for many viewers of that show, so I think they can easily see themselves proceeding without that character," she said.
Television history offers a mixed scorecard of shows surviving without its original star: For every successful one — Cheers and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — there's a Nashville or a Spin City that largely failed.
Hit shows surviving the loss of their stars include The Office, which bid farewell to Steve Carell after seven seasons and continued on for two more. Cheers nicely weathered the loss of Shelley Long and kept going for six more seasons and NYPD Blue shrugged off the loss of David Caruso.
Other examples include Charmed, which survived the loss of Shannen Doherty after three seasons to press on for five more, and CSI, which kept solving cases until the final 15th season with Laurence Fishburne and Ted Danson after William Petersen walked away from regular duties after season nine. Even the show Valerie survived without its star, Valerie Harper.
But Nashville couldn't overcome the loss of Connie Britton after season five and ratings plunged for the final season six. And Charlie Sheen couldn't save Spin City after the departure of Michael J Fox. Many believe The X-Files didn't succeed without star David Duchovny in seasons 8 and 9.
Berman said he thought The Conners might succeed simply because Roseanne lasted for 10 seasons. "These characters have been around for a very long time. We know who they are. In some ways, this will give these characters a chance to stand out a little bit more without the central character on the show," he said. "The secret sauce in all these shows is it's not just about this one character."


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When experiencing mysterious delays while using broadcast communications, change it to unicast. Do so by manually setting the destination hardware address.
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Use the buttons "Restore" and "Read" in this order to restore and read the default values.
It has happened that some XBees do not respond when testing them with the "test" button in the X-CTU main screen. Try with all possible baud rates until you find one that works. Then, flash the XBee with the "router AT" firmware.
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Silas Lapham finds Bromfield Corey to be offensively aristocratic. Silas disapproves of the fact that Bromfield has always let his father's wealth take care of him. He has traveled in Europe and studied painting. Mrs. Corey married him in Rome when he was a rich young painter who said so much better things than he painted. He continues to say charming things when they return to Boston. Actively but rather passively extravagant with his father's money, he is not adventurous with it. His tastes are simple, and he has no expensive habits. Secluded life suits him best, and the Coreys' life has been uneventful.
Bromfield is the spokesman for the intelligent, aristocratic class, although he says that to his relief he has found himself to be of common clay rather than porcelain. "If I get broken, I can be easily replaced," he says.
His uselessness is not an understatement, for he is not actively involved in any project that makes him valuable to the world. He does not paint, but rather theorizes about it. He has found that it is absurd for him to paint for pay, and ridiculous to paint for nothing; so, he does not paint at all.
As a representative of the aristocratic class, he seems alien to the American culture. Walker, Lapham's bookkeeper, mistakes Bromfield for an Italian correspondent when the painter visits Silas at the office. Bromfield realizes that this nearly foreign culture, which he represents, is a society that is dying because it has narrow conventions and lacks creativity. When Tom returns from Texas with new ideas, Bromfield knows that the creativity of one of his own family will help to unseat his secure position as a social leader.
Realistically, Bromfield realizes his own sterile elegance is in competition with the crude materialism of Silas Lapham. He maintains, however, that civilization does not come from the noble savages like Lapham but, instead, from the reading citizens. Nevertheless, Bromfield appreciates the best in Silas. Bromfield's generosity and imagination let Tom work and marry with the Laphams in order to throw the Corey "sterile elegance" back into the main stream of life.
Bromfield is a humorous character used by Howells for comic relief. Bromfield says that when Silas told him about his paint "he poured mineral paint all over me, till I could have been safely warranted not to crack or scale in any climate." He is gracefully witty at the expense of those who take life seriously. He tells his wife that Persis' extremely embarrassed and excited reaction to Mrs. Corey's call was because "you made her feel so. I can imagine how terrible you must have been in the character of an accusing spirit." When Mrs. Corey proposes the necessity of a dinner for the Laphams, Bromfield replies, "Ah, you overdid the accusing-spirit business, and this is reparation."


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Q: How to find a string in a column with a specific pattern I have a column that contains character data that is always of the form:
String1/String2|String3|**String4**/String5|String6|String7/String8

I would like to retrieve the value of String4 for each record, but struggling with it.
I noticed that the length of String1/String2|String3| is always 48, so I tried doing something like
substring (my_field, charindex('String1/String2|String3|',my_field)+48, 20) as **wanted_string**

It doesn't quite work as expected, as I am struggling to retain only the string in the String4 part, and I don't want to hardcode a length value of 48 in it, as it may change over time.
I would appreciate any help to get it working.
Thanks

A: String operations are relatively painful in SQL Server.  You can get rid of the first 48 characters using stuff() and then take the next delimiter:
select left(v.my_field, charindex('|', v.my_field) - 1)
from t cross apply
     (values (stuff(t.my_field, 1, 48, ''))) v(my_field)

A: declare @s varchar(100)='String1/String2|String3|**String4**/String5|String6|String7/String8';

select substring(@s,
--start@:pos 2nd | +1
charindex('|', @s, charindex('|',@s)+1)+1,
charindex('/', @s, charindex('|', @s, charindex('|',@s)+1)) --pos / after 2nd |
-
charindex('|', @s, charindex('|',@s)+1)-1 --subtract start@
);

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FC Cincinnati's owners and their family members gave at least $112,000 to local campaigns in 2017, donating the most to Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley, who has been very supportive of a new soccer stadium coming to the city.
Nearly every one of FC Cincinnati's owners donated to Cranley's re-election campaign – but none gave anything to Cranley's challenger, City Councilwoman Yvette Simpson. While both are Democrats, Simpson was more tepid in her support of a new stadium.
A dozen people who have been named as owners of the soccer team -- from Carl Lindner III to Middletown business owner Stephen Hightower -- gave Cranley a total of $15,050. In many cases, their spouses, siblings, children or parents matched the donation on the very same day.
In all, FC owners and their families gave $53,000 to Cranley in 2017, according to campaign finance reports released so far this year.
WCPO reviewed campaign finance reports for Cranley, the newly elected Cincinnati City Council and the three county commissioners.
Hamilton County Commissioner Chris Monzel, a Republican who runs for re-election next year, has received $40,500 from FC Cincinnati owners and their family members so far this year. Monzel has opposed the idea of building a new stadium.
Just weeks before FC Cincinnati unveiled its stadium plan in June, both Lindner and Cintas CEO Scott Farmer wrote checks totaling $7,500 to Monzel, according to finance reports filed in July.
Two county commissioners -- who ran for office last year -- also benefited from FC Cincinnati owner cash. A review of their 2016 campaign finance reports found $5,450 from FC Cincinnati owners and their family members went to Commissioner Denise Driehaus. Meanwhile, Commissioner Todd Portune got $5,250.
FC Cincinnati General Manager Jeff Berding has been pressuring the county commission to support the project. At a press conference on Tuesday, Berding praised Cranley for his leadership, but questioned where the commission stood on the plan.
"At this point, it is rather unclear if the county shares the vision," Berding said at a press conference Tuesday.
The commission meets Wednesday to decide whether to use $2.8 million of its hotel tax revenue every year for the next 30 years to help fund the stadium project. That money would help pay for new roads and a 1,000-space parking garage, among other things.
Berding said the club will privately fund its own $200 million soccer-specific stadium. But without some public money -- specifically, $75 million for infrastructure at the site -- the deal won't happen.
The concept is a 21,000-seat stadium in Oakley, which would meet the minimum bid requirement for Major League Soccer.
While Cranley has been adamant that no city tax dollars should be spent on building a new soccer stadium, he has supported using other tools, such as tax abatements, and help with zoning and regulatory approvals, to get the stadium built.
Cranley has been so enthusiastic that he named Lindner and Berding as Cincinnatians of the Year in his 2016 State of the City Speech last October.
When MLS Commissioner Don Garber visited Cincinnati in November 2016, Cranley urged residents to wear FC team colors by calling it "Blue and Orange Day," and he took Garber on a tour of the city.
In contrast, Simpson's support for a new stadium was more reserved and it carried some conditions.
She received no donations from FC owners, and only a single donation from one of Lindner's cousins for $1,100.
Simpson did support the idea of helping FC Cincinnati build a new stadium by using the same tax abatements any other developer would receive. But she wanted FC owners to build the stadium in a disadvantaged neighborhood and pay all employees working at the stadium at least a $15 an hour living wage.
"When they look for a new space I do hope they pick someplace like Bond Hill or Roselawn, someplace where they could actually use that investment to help lift the entire community and not be tempted to go over the river or choose somewhere where they might be able to get some incentives. They are FC Cincinnati after all," Simpson said at an April debate.
If the stadium project receives tax abatements or tax increment financing (or TIF, a public financing method used as a subsidy for development projects), city council would almost certainly need to approve it.


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The Roy W. Dean Grant is available for short films, low budget independent features, documentaries, and web series. Budgets for the projects must be under $500,000.
Submit a written proposal. If you need help writing your proposal, you can listen to this description from Carole Dean's podcast from The Art of Film Funding on Blogtalk Radio.
For documentaries, please send us 2 to 6 pages on your proposal. You can also send additional pages for your budget and your crew. If you do not have a budget, please include an estimate.
All proposals must be accompanied by a sample of applicant's previously completed work on DVD. If you do not have a prior work, submit one from anyone on your crew. If you need to mail it instead of providing a URL on the application, please do not send original DVD, send us copies because we do not return DVDs.
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My father, Roy W. Dean, was a wonderful listener. When dad retired I asked him to move to Southern California and help me run Studio Film and Tape. Dad could have had any job in the office, but he chose to work at the front counter because he wanted to meet the filmmakers as they came in to buy their film and sound stock.
Dad loved listening to filmmaker's talk about their latest projects, and never grew tired of listening to a passionate filmmaker's pitch.
When dad passed away in 1992, I began receiving stacks of cards and letters from filmmakers all over the country who were indebted to his generosity. I read letter after heartfelt letter from successful filmmakers who told me they never would have realized their dream had it not been for Roy's generosity and kindness. It was only then that I discovered that unbeknownst to me, dad had been using Studio Film and Tape as the informal headquarters for his own little independent filmmaker's foundation. So that's where the missing inventory was going!
In the last decade, the Roy W. Dean Grants have grown into one the most sought after competitions in the world. This year alone, we expect to have close to $30,000 in donations for our two Los Angeles grants, and $30,000 for our New York Grant. Not bad for a covert underground operation started by a gentle 76 year-old man who just wanted to help give passionate filmmakers an opportunity to be heard!
Over the last 20 years the grant has funded some wonderful films, The Flute Player, Miss Navaho, Kusama: The Polka Dot Princess, BAM 6.6, Women Behind the Camera, A Girl & A Gun, BURNED, Shakespeare Behind Bars, American Chain Gang, Stolen and many more that are listed under grants as prior winners. We are very proud of our filmmakers and our goal is to continue to fund films and support documentary filmmakers.
——————————————————————-*In the true spirit of "Pay it Forward," after spending two years living on the Hopi reservation, Bart completed his film HOPILAVAYI, and offered all film rights to the Hopi Nation. In appreciation for the film and its message, Brooks Institute of Photography offered a full scholarship to a Hopi student. Bart's insight, boldness, and sensitivity caught the attention of the film industry, which awarded him the coveted CINE Golden Eagle Award, and the Townsend Tenacity Award. HOPILAVAYI was shown in national and international film festivals.


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23 miles of Coastal Land, Levees and more
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Louisiana plans to spend $877 million in fiscal 2022 on coastal projects building more than 23 square miles of land and on advancing hurricane storm surge reduction work along the state's southeastern and south central shoreline.
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This $877 million is a 19% reduction in spending largely because of permit delays in the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project.
The state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority will take a first look Friday at its proposed budget for fiscal 2022. It includes $633 million for continuing and new construction of restoration and levee projects, using a mix of state and federal money for projects that are being built by both levels of government. The total budget of $877 million is $203 million less than what the agency approved for fiscal 2021. It's also $210 million less than what agency officials last year predicted would be spent in 2022.
The budget includes 66 southeast Louisiana projects that are either already under construction or on which construction will begin during the year, 35 in the south central region and nine in southwest Louisiana. The restoration portion includes 19 dredging projects that will use more than 92.4 million cubic yards of dredged material to create or nourish almost 15,000 acres, slightly more than 23 square miles, of coastal wetlands. "We have never wavered in our commitment to dredging as a major tool in our restoration and protection efforts," said Bren Haase, the coastal authority's executive director. "We'll have more dredging projects underway in the upcoming fiscal year than ever before in our history."
Next week there will be Zoom meetings with South East Louisiana's session Wednesday at 6 P.M. The meetings link can be found at coastal.la.gov/calendar.
These projects are needed and hopefully will help protect our land and slow the degradation.
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Charles Ferdinand Dowd
Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904)
One of our nation's most influential citizens was the man who created our system of standard time zones—and he was a Madison boy, born and raised.
Our country's westward expansion in the late nineteenth century highlighted the need for the nation to evolve from an agriculture-based system of telling time. Until 1883, the noon hour was set locally when the sun was at its apex. The high-noon-hour setting needed to be changed many times, if one were travelling in either direction across the country. This method might have been satisfactory in an agrarian society because farmers didn't travel much, but, by the late nineteenth century, this method was no longer practical for an emerging industrial nation. In particular, the railroads needed constants, not variables, for the scheduling of arrivals and departures. One train station, for example, had seven different clocks in use for calculating cross-country routes.
Enter Charles Dowd, born in 1825 in East Guilford, now Madison. A teacher by profession and an organizer by nature, he was a descendent of the original 1639 Guilford settlers. As a young man, he worked as a shoemaker for his father, and his education at Yale, where he was officially a member of the Class of 1853, was interrupted by financial hardship. Nevertheless, he earned both his baccalaureate degree and his master's degree from Yale in 1856, at the age of 31.
In 1860 he bought the North Granville Ladies Seminary in rural New York State and ran it until 1867 with his wife, Harriet Miriam North, a graduate of Mount Holyoke Seminary. In 1868, Dowd bought another rural school, The Saratoga Female Seminary at Temple Grove, fifty miles to the south of North Granville in Saratoga Springs. Dowd closed the school in North Granville, renamed his new purchase the Temple Grove Seminary, and ran it for thirty-five years with Harriet as his co-principal. While Charles and Harriet were at Temple Grove, Charles found the time to study the confusing railroad time problem, which he solved by creating an elegantly simple zone plan.
The Prime Meridian, longitude 0 degrees, is an imaginary line running between the north and south poles. Its starting point in Greenwich, England, begins the westward meridian lines, which are spaced every fifteen degrees of longitude.
Dowd's plan divided the country into four time zones. He used the 75th meridian, which runs through New York State, as the base for his Eastern Standard Time. He then assigned three cross-country meridians: Central Standard (90th); Mountain Standard (105th); Pacific Standard (120th). Each zone time was set one hour apart. Thus, if EST were 9 pm, then CST would be 8 pm, MST would be 7 pm, and PST would be 6 pm.
Dowd met with railroad officials and in 1870 issued a pamphlet entitled "A System of National Time for Railroads." Several West Point and Yale professors endorsed his plan, but difficulties abounded. Nearly 500 railroad companies held objections that focused on competition, not cooperation.
William F. Allen, editor of the Traveler's Official Railway Guide and a former railroad engineer, liked Dowd's plan. With his helpful modifications—and Dowd's continual work—Allen convinced railroad officials to adopt it. On November 18, 1883, Allen was on hand at the Western Union Telegraph System building in New York City to witness the plan's implementation. Room 148 contained the company's regulator clock. At 9 am, the clock was stopped for precisely three minutes and 58:38 seconds. The clock was then restarted, and Eastern Standard Time was born.
At Chicago's West Side train depot, at 11:45 am that same day, the station's clock was stopped for 9 minutes and 32 seconds. When it was restarted, Central Standard Time had arrived. Mountain Standard and Pacific Standard Times subsequently followed in due course.
Some pushback occurred. Three days before the time change took effect, U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Brewster advised all federal agencies not to change their clocks because Congress had not given its consent to do so. Though the government did not rescind the unlawful change--probably due to the huge improvement it made for train-traveling voters--it was not until 1918 that Congress officially adopted Standard Time.
Others resisted the new plan. The mayor of Bangor, Maine, threatened jail time for anyone ringing church bells using the new Standard Time hours. An impassioned preacher in Tennessee smashed his own pocket watch at the pulpit, decrying the railroad's interference with "God's time."
After his time zone project, Dowd obtained a doctorate from the University of the City of New York in 1888. That same year, he was made a Fellow of the Society of Science, Letters and Arts of London. At his fiftieth reunion at Yale, he was called "Father Time"—and was recognized as Yale's greatest graduate for the international impact of his work.
When the Temple Grove school closed around 1900, Dowd spent his retirement years enjoying a daily three-mile walk around downtown Saratoga Springs. On November 12, 1904, at approximately 5:30 pm, he arrived at the intersection of Broadway and the Delaware and Hudson train crossing. This ungated, dangerous section had poor visibility, and pedestrians could not see an oncoming train until the train was upon them. Dowd accidentally walked into the D & H train and was thrown thirty feet. He died instantly. At the time of his death, he had been continuing his effort to develop an international standard time system, featuring a twenty-four-hour day.
We salute Dowd today for his perseverance in developing an orderly system of national time. His ingenuity created a simple solution for one of the many problems generated by our emergence as an industrialized nation. That he died in a railroad accident after immeasurably assisting the burgeoning railroad industry can only be viewed as one of life's mysterious ironies.
Researched and written by Madison resident Jan Pruchnicki, with additional details from Judith Ann Schiff, from her article, "The Man Who Made Time Workable," published in the Yale Alumni Review, July/August 2017.
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My first Style Arc pattern and I loved sewing it but.... not sure I love it on me.
On Gorgeous Fabrics's blog, Ann recently made this top and stated she was going to make it in a rayon doubleknit the next time. I think that might be a good fabric choice. I am going to work on this a bit more, so the bust fits and then it doesn't stand out around the waist and hips.
That type of fabric might make all the difference. I will try it and see before I give up on the pattern.
I still will wear this one but will work on it one more time. Suggestions?
Open the side seams and add a long diamond shaped piece. Don't make all four sides of the diamond all the same length. Long v from underarm seam to hem and then short v to give it a little visual interest. Hope you can make sense of this. I think a little swing would do it wonders. Have a good one!
I like it! It will be perfect on you after a little tweaking. I also think Ann is right, the fabric makes a difference.
It does still look like you have too many pull lines near the bust area so, more fullness in that area. You also look like you have great upper arms so I'd actually open up the shoulders even more to let more of your arms peak out....perhaps that will distract from the "lumps and bumps" you don't want to highlight (that I don't even notice in your pics, by the way). I like the design, though - don't give up on it! I'd love to see your second draft!
I agree with Jill about the pull lines near the bust. A full bust adjustment is likely to open up the shoulder a bit, but it may need to show even more flesh to flatter (now that's a conundrum for women of our age!).


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The Bipartisan Innovation Act represents a monumental opportunity to invest in American-made manufacturing, which can create jobs in communities across the country. The Bipartisan Innovation Act enhances this opportunity, addressing future supply shortages in tech manufacturing, creating jobs, incentivizing STEM talent to stay in the United States, and laying the groundwork for future innovations in science and technology. This will help ensure that American industry and labor remain competitive in the long run
Falling Behind
American competitiveness in the global economy is at risk. As technological advancements open up new opportunities, there is a present and growing concern that innovation in critical 21st-century markets will take place outside of U.S. borders at an increasing rate. This, coupled with offshore production of technologies developed in the United States, has revealed significant vulnerabilities to American industry and national security.
One concern, in particular, is the vulnerability of global supply chains in tech manufacturing. Semiconductors — complex silicon products known colloquially as computer chips — take approximately three months to produce in a complex series of over 700 steps to complete one batch. With large-scale halts to production in 2020, coronavirus outbreaks in manufacturing hubs, and a subsequent spike in demand for chips, producers found themselves with an unprecedented backlog of orders. In 2022, two years after the initial spread of coronavirus, industry experts expect that the present-day chip shortage will likely continue for at least two more years based on current backorders.
Prioritizing American Made
This chip shortage illustrates the vulnerabilities presented by offshore dependency on key manufacturing components. By prioritizing American-made products expected to play a critical role in the 21st-century economy, the United States can secure supply chains for industry, create economic opportunity for Americans, and preserve a climate of innovation that can keep the American economy ahead of economic competitors like China.
Now is the opportunity to invest in America's national security and competitiveness. The United States' place in the evolving global economy is anything but certain, so it's critical that concrete steps are taken to invest in preserving a strong future for decades to come.
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The Bipartisan Innovation Act (BIA) is a landmark investment in America's future, with support on both sides of the aisle and endorsements from American labor and industry leaders. The bill aligns provisions of the House's America Creating Opportunities For Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength Act of 2022 (AMERICA COMPETES) and Senate's United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA) to keep America competitive in the global economy.
Simply put, the BIA is a large-scale investment to empower the United States to restore innovation and manufacturing in critical technology industries.
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The Bipartisan Innovation Act represents a monumental opportunity — to invest in American-made manufacturing, create millions of jobs, address future supply shortages in tech manufacturing, incentivize STEM talent to stay in the United States, and lay the groundwork for future innovations in science and technology. This will help ensure that American industry and labor remain competitive in the long run.
By educating lawmakers on key provisions that will strengthen American competitiveness, we can advance legislation with far-ranging positive impacts for the United States.
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Russell Westbrook to Join Juneteenth Block Party in Tulsa
Rockets guard Russell Westbrook will be participating virtually in a Juneteenth block party scheduled for Saturday (June 20) at 7:00 pm ET in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to a report from Yahoo Sports. The party will be held at the same time as President Donald Trump's campaign rally in the city.
Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the last remaining slaves in the United States in 1865.
Russell Westbrook will be participating virtually in the Tulsa Juneteenth Block Party, sources tell Yahoo Sports.
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Westbrook is one of many entertainers, activists, and political figures taking part in the celebration, including Senator Kamala Harris, actress Alfre Woodard, and rapper Jidenna. Guests are also invited to tune in via the party's website.
Having spent the first 11 seasons of his career with the Thunder, Westbrook has a close bond to the state of Oklahoma. He announced last week that he'll be producing an upcoming documentary entitled, "Terror In Tulsa: The Rise And Fall of Black Wall Street," focused on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.
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