In part two of our feature on the building materials of the future Professional Builder looks at the potential of graphene in the construction industry.
It is 200 times stronger than steel but – at just one atom thick – one of the thinnest materials known to science. Add to that excellent heat and electrical conductivity and it’s no wonder that graphene has been greeted as a wonder material. Today, a number of companies are eager to exploit these properties in building materials, with a recent partnership between specialists at the University of Manchester and a contractor promising to advance its use in concrete.
“The Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) is dedicated to translating research from the academic world into practical real-world products,” explains GEIC Application Manager, Dr Craig Dawson. “An indication of how serious the prospects for the materials are taken is in the levels of investment involved, with the nation’s two major institutions for the advancement of the material, the National Graphene Institute, and the GEIC sharing a budget of over £120 million.”
The Centre also runs a European Regional Development Fund project called Bridging the Gap, through which contractors and manufacturers can access the latest thinking on graphene. Through that initiative, and with the help of an Innovate UK award, Nationwide Engineering and the GEIC were able to score one of graphene’s most recent successes in the construction sector with Concretene, an additive product that has given Craig’s team the opportunity to determine if the material can really achieve what academic papers claim.
The project has seen graphene-enhanced Concretene used for the floor of a new gym in Amesbury, Wiltshire. The additional properties gained by engineering graphene into the concrete meant that the builders were able to eliminate the need for steel reinforcement in the floor slab, saving on both the price of the steel itself but also the associated labour in laying it. Due to the small amount of graphene needed to provide those performance gains – approximately 0.01 per cent by volume of concrete laid – Nationwide Engineering claim Concretene can deliver savings of 10 – 20 per cent, depending on project size.
Moreover, construction firms need no additional equipment or training to use the product. Craig Continues: “The goal was to be as non-disruptive as possible at the point of use, so that site workers would not have to change their processes in any way. As a consequence, the graphene was introduced at a batching plant as an admixture to the ready mixed concrete and then poured and worked in the normal way.”
The benefits do not end with graphene’s green credentials either. Whilst the volume of concrete at the Amesbury job was reduced by 25 per cent, there is already evidence of increases in flexibility, as well as tensile and compression strength, whilst researchers are equally anticipating improvements in durability. Sensors installed in the floor will provide further data and allow the team to monitor its performance over the long term.
The Nationwide Engineering experience is now just one of many avenues for graphene in construction, with pre-cast and concrete shuttering another possible application, particularly in relation to the gains that could be made in the speed of de-moulding. Any structural usage will, of course, demand significant accreditation, but it is again an active area of research and development. Concretene is, for instance, currently undergoing BBA and CE accreditation through the BRE for use with internationally recognised structural and civil engineering design codes.
Today, graphene can be bought commercially in relatively large quantities, with some of the largest makers in capable of producing 100s of tonnes in powder form per annum, although the quality of the finished product does vary. There are two broad methods for its manufacture – either ‘exfoliated’ from graphite or where carbon is extracted from a gas and then deposited as graphene as a substrate, with the former being considerably more cost effective. At the same time a separate method of producing graphene from waste materials – such as from the plastics industry – is beginning to become a viable option, which is clearly good news from the point of view of the circular economy.
Furthermore, because graphene exhibits impressive strength gains, it is hoped it could be put to use with recycled materials, in order to reduce the amount of primary material that is used in the manufacture of building products, and the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre is already working with a producer of recycled aggregate on that basis. The longer term goal is for graphene to facilitate a reduction in the cement content of the likes of bricks and mortar – as well as the industry’s consumption of concrete, which is one of the world’s most carbon hungry commodities.
“On the back of the one Nationwide Engineering pour, we’ve had huge interest from around the world,” concludes Craig. “We’ll be looking to partner with them in a patent of the process, and we know that it can be scaled upwards to become commercially viable. For construction graphene’s sustainability wins clearly have appeal, and that’s across a whole range of applications. One of our partners is National Highways, for example, and graphene could well have a role to play in improvements to the longevity of everything from road surfaces, to street furniture and road markings. We have a trial of graphene-enhanced asphalt due to take place in the autumn on the A1 near Alnick, Northumberland. At the same time, given that graphene is supplied as a powder, there’s no reason why it couldn’t be introduced to products like bagged cement in the future – it is that range of applications that makes it such an exciting area of research.”
To watch a video that explains the graphene process and Nationwide Engineering’s pour in Amesbury, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yogj3ns3XU


Aug 20, 2009
Two arrested over Britain's biggest gem robbery
Aug 20, 2009
LONDON, Aug 19, 2009 (AFP) - London police have arrested two men in connection with what is thought to be Britain's biggest jewellery heist, a spokesman said late Wednesday 19 August.
A combination of handout pictures from Britain's Metropolitan Police shows some of the 43 jewellery items stolen from Graff's jewellery store in London. London police have arrested a man in their hunt for the smartly-dressed robbers who pulled off what is thought to be the country's biggest jewellery heist - Photo: AFP/HO
Two gun-toting and smartly dressed men walked into an exclusive Graff store in central London and stole 43 rings, bracelets, necklaces and watches with a retail value of 40 million pounds (47 million euros, 65 million dollars).
The Metropolitan Police said the pair were arrested Wednesday 19 August but would not issue any more details for "operational reasons" -- including whether they were the same two captured on video pulling off the raid earlier this month.
A record reward of up to one million pounds has been offered to find those behind the robbery in broad daylight on London's swanky New Bond Street.
A 50-year-old man has already been arrested over the robbery, which police have said was well organised and could have involved accomplices.
The two men, dressed in grey suits and white shirts and speaking with London accents, arrived in a black taxi and threatened staff with handguns.
As they left, they dragged a female staff member with them and fired a warning shot outside. They left her behind as they raced off in a blue BMW.
They abandoned their car nearby, firing another shot at the ground. No one was hurt.
Graff, which is known for its diamonds and caters to celebrities, was also targeted in 2003 in what until now was reportedly Britain's previous most expensive jewellery robbery, worth 23 million pounds.
Stars spotted wearing Graff's jewels include Paris Hilton, Kylie Minogue, Naomi Campbell, Oprah Winfrey and Victoria Beckham.
The latest heist is also thought to be the second biggest robbery in Britain, after a 53-million-pound raid on a Securitas depot in Kent, southeast England, in 2006, police said. A gang tied up staff and stole cash.
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“A lot of older women say to me and to Lily, ‘You know, you gave me hope. I can now see that there could be a future,’” Jane Fonda once told Vogue while discussing the significance of Grace and Frankie, the beloved Netflix series starring her and Lily Tomlin. After seven years chronicling the later-life friendship between Fonda's Grace and Tomlin's Frankie—beginning with the day their longtime husbands left them for one another—today, the final episodes are available to stream (and take note: it’s Netflix’s longest-running original series ever).
Needless to say, there’s much that’s aspirational about Grace and Frankie. As Fonda put it, “I think one of the reasons that people like the show is that it’s really easy on the eye.” There’s the scenic California locales, like that beachfront San Diego house. There’s their style, which is definitely a wink at the coastal grandma aesthetic TikTok can’t get enough of. And of course, there’s each of their individual, yet ageless beauty aesthetics: Grace is classic and elegant, while Frankie skews earthy and bohemian. Here, we’re speaking with Fonda and Tomlin’s glam team about each character’s beauty ethos—and the hair and makeup tricks behind their signature looks this season.


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Alberta Can Show Pride by Removing Barriers to Trans Health Care
Unequal access to hormone replacement therapy causing wait times
Friends of Medicare are calling on the Government of Alberta to mark Calgary Pride week by removing barriers to health care for trans patients, and end the practice of unequal access to hormone replacement therapy.
"Trans patients needing hormone replacement therapy in Alberta can be waiting for more than two years for access to needed medications," said Executive Director Sandra Azocar. "The same medications are provided as needed through general practitioners for cis patients - those who identify with their sex assigned at birth. This creates discriminatory access to health care that should end. We hope to see the Government celebrate Pride and commit to removing this barrier for trans health care."
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"It would also save the system money to move to informed consent. Costs for psychiatrist and endocrinologist referrals would be avoided, a win for a Government looking to "bend the cost curve" in health," added Azocar. "We also know moving to an informed consent model is a manner of harm reduction, as trans patients who do not get medication when they need it may seek out street drugs or engage in self-harm and even commit suicide. We can save lives by removing these barriers."
"We need our Government to make a commitment in policy to adopt an informed consent model as the right decision for cost savings, human rights, and ultimately patient care," concluded Azocar.
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Anthony Gormley to construct a 43 metre sculpture in the liffey - wow!
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"A sculpture two-thirds the height of Liberty Hall by internationally renowned artist Antony Gormley has been commissioned by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.
Costing an estimated â‚¬1.6 million, the sculpture is likely to be located in the river Liffey close to the SeÃ¡n O'Casey footbridge, pending planning permission.
While the final form of the work is yet to be decided, the artist has been inspired by the research of Trinity College Prof Denis Weaire who, with Prof Robert Phelan, "unlocked the geometries of the bubble matrix", or "double helix", to "radically redescribe the human form as an open structure".
The London-born artist is perhaps most famous for his Angel of the North, a massive sculpture that put Newcastle on the international artistic map. He wants to have the Dublin sculpture "arising from the water as a drawing in space".
Mr Gormley said: "The work will allude to the human body as a dynamic interconnected matrix evoking the collective body, which is in itself in dynamic relation to the movement of people in the street and across the new SeÃ¡n O'Casey Bridge."
The sculpture is expected to use previously unused construction techniques to build the 48-metre-high structure and carry its weight.
According to the authority, the work will be "a signpost for the realignment of Dublin's epicentre eastwards". In other words, they want to move the "city centre" to the docklands, as a symbol of the development and the large numbers of people moving in to the area. The sculpture "will read as a drawing against the changing light of the sky, within an area of Dublin that has low-rise buildings on both sides of the river".
Mr Gormley has evolved this proposal from Field, a vast installation of 35,000 sculptures last seen in Dublin in 1993 at his show in Imma, where tiny clay objects looked up at the viewer.
This dynamic has been reversed in this proposal for Dublin, where the pedestrians on the street will be "Lilliputians" relative to the sculpture.
The docklands authority will apply for planning permission at the end of the year and, if successful, construction will begin in 2008 and take about eight months to complete.
Mr Gormley's latest exhibition, Antony Gormley: Blind Light, was the subject of a Channel 4 documentary and is on display at the Hayward Gallery in London until August 19th.
The artist was selected from a shortlist of six after an international competition for the landmark public art project for the docklands."


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“The disaster in Flint brought national attention to lead in water just as the EPA finalizes new regulations, due out in 2017. But it’s unclear if the revisions will include more rigorous testing of drinking water…
…federally mandated tests used across the country to ensure water systems are safe may significantly underestimate lead levels in drinking water. By some estimates, up to 90 million Americans could be drinking from water systems that, if tested more rigorously, would not pass federal muster.
“The flaws in our sampling program have created a false sense of confidence both with the utilities, and the EPA, and consumers in this country that lead in water is a problem of the past,” said Dr. Marc Edwards, the Virginia Tech researcher who helped expose widespread lead contamination in the water in Flint, Michigan. “This is a problem of the present.””

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THE JOURNEY YO REMARKABLE RETAIL
Steve helps organizations understand and respond to retail disruption by creating customer-centric, memorable and profitable growth strategies.
Macy’s Must Learn That Bailing Doesn’t Fix The Hole
Earlier this month, as part of a previously disclosed three-year store closure plan, Macy’s announced it would shutter an additional 45 locations this year. Like most of its moderate department store brethren, Macy’s has gone from being a highly productive, traffic-driving mall anchor tenant to a long-suffering, chronic under-performer. During the past five years, when the stock market has nearly doubled, Macy’s has lost about three quarters of its value.
Faced with multiple years of tepid sales and a brutal contraction in business caused by the pandemic, Macy’s decision to close so many stores might seem sensible. But just like JC Penney, Sears and other retailers that have been stuck in the mediocre middle for a long time, Macy’s does not fundamentally have a “too many stores” problem. It has a customer relevance and remarkability problem made plain by its continued share of wallet losses with its core customers and lackluster profitability. Macy’s will never cost cut and store close its way to prosperity. Bailing won’t fix the hole.
The troubles for the department store sector are hardly new. While it’s convenient to blame Amazon, in particular, and e-commerce more broadly, for their woes, department store market share has been declining for some two decades. For the most part, customers have defected to off-price retailers (TJX, Ross, et al) and discount mass merchants (Walmart, Target, Kohl’s)—not to online-only retailers. And obviously nothing fundamentally prevents Macy’s from getting its fair share of e-commerce anyway.
There is no question that the accelerated growth of online shopping is changing the role of physical stores, in many cases quite radically. The commercial retail real estate market was long overdue for a correction given the rampant overbuilding of the past decade or so. The size, configuration and operating principles of many brick-and-mortar locations need to be fundamentally reimagined to address the realities of shifting consumer preferences, new competitive dynamics and supply chain fulfillment requirements.
But here’s the undeniable truth, despite the goofy “physical retail is dead” narrative: Very few brick-and-mortar dominant brands that have a remarkable value proposition, well executed against a clearly identified and big enough set of target customers are closing stores, even in the Covid economy. In fact, across a spectrum of categories, dozens of national retailers that already have sizable footprints—Lululemon, Sephora, Tractor Supply Company, Five Below, AtHome, Aldi, IKEA, Costco, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and more—are collectively opening a lot of stores. While Macy’s is on its way to 400 or so locations, Kohl’s, its most similar competitor, has over 1,100. Kohl’s has been winning on off-the-mall convenience for years. Macy’s keeps making Kohl’s (and other direct competitors with many more outlets) even more convenient as it continues to vacate dozens of markets. The idea that Macy’s will make up much, if any, of this online is unlikely.
Every time a national retailer announces an aggressive store closing initiative without having clearly laid out how they are going to profitably win, grow and keep sales with a well identified set of core customers, I now reflexively hear the voice of an airline captain coming over the PA system announcing that we are about to begin our initial descent. Store closings by themselves do precisely nothing—zero—to improve Net Promoter Scores, help acquire valuable new customers, grow sales with existing customers or anything that point to Macy’s ever becoming a remarkable retailer. In fact, closing stores can undermine these efforts and make it even harder to deliver a harmonized shopping experience with directly competitive retailers that have more convenient locations.
To be fair, Macy’s has been more innovative than many legacy retailers. The current leadership team inherited a business model with huge structural disadvantages. I know from my time years ago at Sears that addressing these issues is done neither quickly nor inexpensively. To the extent that their Polaris Strategy might turn out to be more than a slightly better version of mediocre, the Covid-19 crisis has put much of this on hold. The harsh reality is that having not been able to move the dial on customer relevance, and faced with strong headwinds for at least the next six months, they were left with no good near-term options.
Nearly a decade ago, when I first started speaking, writing and advising clients on the inevitable collapse of the unremarkable middle, I frequently pointed out that if you understood where disruption was taking us—and did a little basic retail math—you could easily see that for most struggling retailers to thrive, much less survive, they had to focus 80% on revenue growth (a decent proxy for customer relevance) and 20% on cost reduction. Going forward, particularly for brands like Macy’s that lack the capital to aggressively reinvent their fundamental business model, the percent grows ever closer to 100%.
As tough as store closings and headcount reductions are on associates and local communities, they are comparatively easy to execute. But to believe they are meaningful strategic progress is wrong. Fixing the hole(s) that inevitably led to having no other reasonable options is now the only thing that really matters to prevent a descent into oblivion.
This article originally appeared on Forbes.com where I am a senior retail contributor. It builds on concepts from my bestselling book Remarkable Retail, which will be released in an expanded and completely revised 2nd edition in April. The hardcover and ebook are available for preorder at Amazon, Bookshop.org and just about anywhere books are sold.
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Reading the Bible through with me? Then grab your pen and journal and read 2 Samuel 16-18. When we left David in chapter 15, he was climbing the Mount of Olives, mourning over his son’s rebellion. If ever there was a man in a deep emotional valley, it was David. His own son had turned on him. It seemed he would lose his kingdom and his life. If you read the last few chapters again, you must conclude that David’s kids were a mess, and his present suffering was rooted in passive parenting. As a parent, David did not confront his children about their sinful actions. He took no action in response to the incestuous rape of his daughter by his oldest son, Amnon. For two years his son, Absalom, patiently waited to exact revenge on his brother. After killing Amnon, Absalom went into hiding for three years. When he returned, he set out to overthrow his father and take the throne of Israel. His efforts were enough to force King David to leave the holy city of Jerusalem.
As David crested the mountain top, he spoke with some trusted advisors about strategy. When he turned to continue his journey, Ziba was standing there. Ziba was the one assigned as the caretaker for Mephibosheth, Saul's grandson. Ziba had food, wine, and donkeys as refreshment and transportation for David and his party. It was an unexpected blessing. Quite often, we find ourselves feeling betrayed, under stress, grieving, broken. Yet, we must still climb that mountain called life. When, like David, we seek our strength in Yahweh, HE provides blessing and refreshment at just the right time. Here is the best part. Sometimes, you are the one receiving the blessing (David) and sometimes you get to be the blessing (Ziba). So, even when you find yourself under pressure, instead of asking God to pull you out of it, try asking Him how He will use you to bless others in His Name. I promise, your problems will look much different then. Accept the blessings God brings to you through others and look for opportunities for God to use you to bless others!
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Pinheiro, J., Alegria, C., Abreu, M., Gonçalves, E.M., & Silva, C.L.M. (2015) Use of UV-C postharvest treatment for extending fresh whole tomato (Solanum lycopersicum, cv. Zinac) shelf-life. Journal of Food Science and Technology, 52(8), 5066-5074. DOI:10.1007/s13197-014-1550-0.NON-cE3c affiliated
The effect of UV-C treatments (0.32, 0.97, 2.56, 4.16 and 4.83 kJ.m(-2) at 254 nm) on the physical-chemical properties [colour, texture, total phenolic content (TPC), weight loss (WL)], and mesophylic counts of whole tomato, was evaluated during 15 days at 10 °C. During storage, the Ctr samples acquired faster red colour than all UV-C samples (higher a* and lower °h values). Comparing texture of Ctr and UV-C samples at 15(th) storage day, an increase of 9 and 8 % on firmness of treated samples at low UV-C intensities (0.32 and 0.97 kJ.m(-2), respectively) was observed. At the end of the storage, Ctr samples showed ca. 4 Log10 of mesophylic load, and the samples treated at 0.97 and 4.83 kJ.m(-2) revealed the lowest microbial load (1.9 and 3.2 Log10, respectively). These results indicate that UV-C radiation, at an appropriate dose, combined with low storage temperature (10 °C) are an effective method to preserve the postharvest life of tomato, without adversely affecting quality parameters.


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Before I begin: I don’t want to seem as if I’m singling Pakistan out as a means to condescend the country that reared me. Pakistan as a “case study” is the terrain I’m most familiar with and, therefore, most comfortable with discussing. Anything else would be irresponsible. Moreover, this is a legitimate problem in Pakistan that is important to highlight in light of recent…regressions…regarding the status of women in Pakistan’s upper decision-making echelons. My own experiences and the stories I’ve heard from friends further underscore why I’m writing this in specific reference to Pakistan.
I’ve noted before (a generalization that I am absolutely willing to make) that Pakistanis are, on the whole, a hot-blooded people. My city in general is known for having the kind of people who put up their fists first, then think to argue, and then think to think. It is easy to romanticize and even exalt this sort of “passionate” behavior. I should know, I always did.
In dramas, you always have the emotional male lead who is protective and possessive, with little attention paid to the fine-line between. Any backlash he receives for being abusive or being smothering gets quickly fixed with a sloppy redemption arc, and his previous actions are never mentioned again (if they are corrected to begin with). More often than not his possessiveness is billed as desirable. Who wouldn’t want a man that would go to jail for them? Who wouldn’t want a husband that would kill for them? Who wouldn’t want a man who takes their wife/significant other’s honor so seriously?
“But those are dramas and steeped in fantasy” – if only. Real life isn’t much different, even if men don’t have quite the same nicely groomed eyebrows. Any young relationship between a Pakistani woman and a Pakistani man is laced with this almost paranoid consideration of your girlfriend’s honor. “Who are you going out with? Kaun hai? Pehlay kyun nahin bataya? How long have you known him? If he tries anything…”
This behavior is expected. When you’re a teenager, it’s cute. And then it stops being cute when the motions become rote and internalized. That’s how you get entitlement.
Women and children often hold their feelings and experiences close to their chest for fear of provoking an emotional outburst from the males in their life. The infamous socio-historical construct of “honor” comes into play here. Offense towards a woman or a child is no longer their offense; it is an offense that must be taken up by the men in her/their life.
An all too common example: a young girl is sexually assaulted. She weighs her options, and opts for silence because if she tells the male members of her family, they would take matters into their own hands and honor codes would suggest a violent beating is in order, at the very least. Not wanting blood on her conscience, the young girl considers telling the female members of her family. That particular honor code would lead to either complete silence, stories of “This happens to every little girl” normalizing what should never be normalized, shaming (depending on the age of the young girl and the nature of the act) or a pained admission of what the young girl already knew: “You know what your (male family member) would do if they found out.”
At best, accommodations may be made to spare the young girl the anxiety of seeing the perpetrator again. Some accommodations may be more stifling than others depending on the proximity of the perpetrator and the frequency of their interactions.
The young girl makes her decision. Her own silence is better than the silence of others, and vastly preferable to the grating of broken bones.
Autonomy is an incredibly underrated possession. Sexual assault is an act of violence on ones bodily autonomy. Consent is the ultimate act of autonomy, and the younger you are, the more volatile your grip on autonomy is. For a child coming into adolescence, autonomy is especially important – and for a girl in a (conservative) cross-section of Pakistani society, autonomy is a precious commodity. Reacting to what was told to you in confidence and trust with a declaration of violence and vigilante justice is never helpful. The problem with this usurpation of justice is that it takes the autonomy that was already stolen from the survivor and adds a deeper disconnect. It is incredibly important to support survivors and honor their wishes after they have their agency taken from them and to – despite all your instincts and protective urges – understand where they are coming from. Your violent justice is a retraumatization at best, and a heavy burden the survivor will carry for the rest of their life at worst. Your chivalry and honor have no place in the healing of a sexual assault survivor. Besides, are you really going to practice vigilante justice and then complain about mob mentality in the same breath?
Sexual assault is not the only realm where outdated practices of chivalry must end, but it is the most urgent territory. Parents express horror that their survivor child kept their experience from them for so long, but when your first instinct is towards punitive violence rather than truly nurturing and understanding, somewhere along the way you did something wrong. The message you are telling your child/friend/sibling/significant other/etc is that you are just another person who doesn’t care about their wishes.
Survivors suffer in silence for far too long. Take the first step towards their security: tone down your self-righteous outrage long enough to actually listen.
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Woods’ relationship with Deal’s successor, Brian Kemp, has been friendlier, and Thomas’ position looked increasingly tenuous. Last year, he was interviewing for jobs in other states and finally quit without one in January after the education department initiated an audit of his office. (His resignation was, technically, effective May 30, but he left in January and an education department administrator took on his role temporarily.)
Thomas then claimed in a lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court in February that the department had orchestrated a "sham" investigation to retaliate against him as part of the tug of war over control of his office.
Prior to the lawsuit, the state Office of Inspector General wrote that Thomas had mismanaged his office and interfered in contracting decisions. Thomas responded that he was confident the inspector general would ultimately find he had followed the rules.
On Thursday, Woods showed the school board a proposed House of Representatives budget that drains the rest of the turnaround office's funding, transfering $700,000 to the education department in fiscal year 2021, which begins July 1. With revenue cuts, its budget would be eliminated.
State lawmakers would have to approve the transfer. They are expected to meet in June to pass a budget.
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L.E.S. Dwellers, the community group fighting to keep the SantaCon participants from entering the Lower East Side, sent a press release saying the SantaCon route will now skip that neighborhood.
“Our community of residents and businesses have successfully worked to keep the official Santa Con route from going through the Lower East Side, ” said Diem Boyd, the group’s founder, in a statement. “We will not be immune to the drunk and rowdy crowds who have swarmed the neighborhood in the past. We expect some Santas will deviate from the route into the Lower East Side. Hopefully, event organizers and the NYPD will keep participants on course to reduce the negative effects on residents and communities.”
If you plan on being naughty this weekend, you won’t have to worry about Santa Claus checking his list - he’ll be too drunk.
Saturday is the annual SantaCon in Manhattan, the dreaded descent of an estimated 30, 000 unruly, costumed bar-goers. The clamorous confab has long been an annoyance to local residents, particularly those who live in the areas of Manhattan most affected by the legions of red-hatted hooligans clogging up subways and vomiting and urinating in the streets.
But this year New Yorkers are fighting back. In November, police precincts in Hell’s Kitchen, where the Santas have traditionally begun their wobbly jaunt through the city, urged local tavern keepers not to serve SantaCon participants who appear to be inebriated. Many bar owners in the neighborhood agreed.
In response to the backlash, the Santas have reportedly decided to meet up in the Lower East Side this year. (The exact route is kept secret until the night before the event.) But bars and community organizers in that Lower Manhattan neighborhood say they have no intention of taking the Santa onslaught lying down.
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With this post we are initiating coverage of Bayshore Networks in our IoT Companies category
The company’s policy-based Information Technology/Operational Technology (IT/OT) Gateway, an alternative to next-generation firewalls in some settings, inspects and filters industrial data for customers in fields such as manufacturing, connected cars and smart cities.
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The Industrial IoT refers to connected machines — specifically, industrial machines that are now connected to the Internet. Traditionally used for Operational Technology (OT), this industrial equipment is being increasingly managed by IT networks, introducing a new layer of complexity. Bayshore Networks was founded to safely and securely protect Industrial IoT networks, applications, machines and workers from the threats of the Internet.
The Bayshore IT/OT Gateway software provides operational and security policy for Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS). IACS encompasses several types of control systems used in industrial production, including supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, distributed control systems (DCS) and other smaller control system configurations such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs) often found in the industrial sectors and critical infrastructures. IACSs are typically used in manufacturing, the power grid, water, and oil & gas.
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Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.
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Anne McCaffrey's best-selling Harper Hall Trilogy is a wonder-filled classic of the imagination. Dragonsong, the first volume in the series, is the enchanting tale of how Menolly of Half Circle Hold became Pern's first female Harper, and rediscovered the legendary fire lizards who helped to save her world.About the Author:
Anne Inez McCaffrey (April 1, 1926–November 21, 2011) was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. Early in McCaffrey’s forty-six-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science fiction books to appear on the New York Times bestseller list. In 1999 she was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, honoring her lifetime contribution to writing for teens. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its twenty-second Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006.
Beloved author Tamora Pierce has written a great number of books, including The Song of the Lioness quartet, The Immortals quartet, The Circle of Magic quartet, The Protector of the Small quartet, The Circle Opens quartet, the Trickster series, The Will of the Empress, Melting Stones, and the Beka Cooper series. She lives in New York and can be visited at TamoraPierce.com.
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On February 1, the festival held at a stadium of the district’s Phong Phu commune was attended by Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Hoang Van Tu and representatives of departments and sectors in localities of the province.
Leaders of districts in other provinces such as Ba Thuoc in Thanh Hoa; Muong Ang and Dien Bien of Dien Bien; Son Dong and Luc Ngan of Bac Giang; Thanh Son of Phu Tho and Vu Ban of Nam Dinh, also participated in the event, along with local people and tourists.
A palanquin procession dedicated to Hoang Ba at the Muong Bi Khai ha festival.
The festival, also dubbed as the ploughing or opening-the-forest festival, is a traditional one in connection with the wet rice cultivation which carries a sign of civilisation of the ancient Vietnamese. It has become an indispensible cultural activity of Muong Bi people in the new year.
Per local residents’ wish, Tan Lac district held this year’s festival at district level. It was part of activities to celebrate the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3).
On January 30, or the sixth day of the lunar year, competitions of traditional sports such as tug-of-war, stick-pushing, volleyball and crossbow shooting took place at the cultural house of Phong Phu commune and the stadium of Luy Ai hamlet.
A gastronomic event and the preliminary round of the contest on Muong people’s traditional costumes were held the next day.
On the last day of the festival, at the stadium in Phong Phu commune, delegates, local people and visitors took part in a live-broadcast palanquin procession from a shrine dedicated to Hoang Ba Mother Goddess in Luy Ai hamlet. It was a new point of the festival this year, together with a performance featuring Muong gong with the participation of 300 artists in the district.
Art performances staged by local artists were held after the rituals. To wrap up the festival, the commune arranged a palanquin procession to a local field to perform the ploughing ritual in early spring, praying for a new year of favourable weather, bumper crops and prosperity.
The festival ran until the end of February 1. Folk games, a singing contest and sporting events were organised in the afternoon of the same day. Meanwhile, the final and award ceremony of the contest on Muong people’s traditional costumes and an art programme took place in the evening, creating a joyful atmosphere for participants./.


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While the board was not scheduled to take any action after hearing the results of the cannabis workshops and survey conducted by De Novo Planning Group in recent months, county staff did ask for the board’s direction on how to proceed. The four person board (Kim Dolbow Vann’s last meeting as a supervisor was on May 15) was initially split on how to move forward. Supervisors Gary Evans and John Loudon came out in favor of staying the course, keeping the county’s current cannabis ordinance in place, and keeping commercial cannabis operations out of the county.
Kent Boes and Denise Carter, on the other hand, suggested that further study should be conducted on the costs and benefits related to allowing certain commercial cannabis activities – indoor cultivation, and manufacturing and processing, respectively. Both Boes and Carter favored putting the matter out to the voters again in November. While she noted it had failed in Colusa County in 2016, Carter said she wondered whether the voters’ opinion on cannabis had changed since the state passed Proposition 64, and said that the decision on whether to proceed should be left in the hands of the county’s electorate. Boes agreed on the advisory measure, and suggested overlay zones in the communities that wanted to allow certain commercial cannabis operations, according to the survey. Both Boes and Carter suggested that hemp be explored separately as a potential commercial crop.
Ultimately, the four supervisors arrived at a compromise, agreeing to bring the item back during a meeting in the second week of June. They also directed staff to explore their deadlines for getting an advisory measure on the ballot for November.
Ben Ritchie, principal at De Novo Planning Group, presented the results from the survey to the board prior to public comment and board deliberation. The results of the survey indicated that, as a whole, a small majority of the county indicated that they would definitely not be in favor of indoor cultivation.
“About 44 percent came out in some flavor of the yes camp,” said Ritchie, adding that there were two effective ‘yes’ answers – one indicating an unqualified yes, and the other with the condition that the industry be heavily controlled and regulated.
The county-wide sentiment for outdoor was notably less favorable, with 65 percent of survey takers coming out against outdoor commercial grows. Around 56 percent of respondents said that they were definitely against processing or manufacturing. The top concern raised on the survey, by far, related to public safety and crime: 64 percent of respondents indicated that was their top concern. ‘No concerns’ was a distant second, followed by odors, then environmental issues, and finally increases in traffic. The top concerns raised on the open-ended responses on surveys were potential impact on children and teens, potential increases in noise, reduction in morale for longstanding citizens, and a desire to avoid non-residents setting up operations within the county without regard for the local culture.
The top concerns raised at the community workshops, in order, were crime and increased funding required for law enforcement activities, corruption and tax avoidance, cannabis’ federal illegality, clean up of poorly-run operations, public nuisances such as odors and increased wast in the county, water contamination from cultivation, increased risk of fire and explosions, people moving into the county from outside of the county, and potential harm to the county’s reputation. The top benefits listed by attendees were that people who need it could buy it from a reputable source and not have to travel, increased tax revenues for the county, fewer drug dealers on the streets, and the creation of more jobs.
“We also hear folks mention things along the lines of private property rights – that they should be able to grow what they want on their property,” Ritchie said.
A total of 121 people showed up at the various community forums across the county, 388 people responded to the survey online, and 78 handed in hard-copy surveys. De Novo broke down the online surveys according to population. Colusa, Williams and Maxwell all indicated they would be in favor of indoor cultivation. All seven communities were against outdoor cultivation, and only Colusa appeared to be OK with manufacturing and processing uses.
Numerous residents spoke at the meeting, the majority of them against allowing commercial cannabis operations in unincorporated Colusa County. Mike Reardon of Maxwell said that the numbers returned from the survey didn’t match what he saw at the community meeting.
“I’m part of an older generation, and I want no part of this in Maxwell,” Reardon said. “This is a rural area, and we don’t need to bring urban problems in our town. Just because the people in Sacramento pushed this onto us, there’s no reason we have to go with them.”
Fellow Maxwell resident Marion Mathis also voiced her opposition to commercial cannabis in the county. Jen Turkleson, of Williams, said she was 100 percent opposed.
Colusa residents Jim White, Janice Bell, and Russ Phillips all commented that they weren’t keen on commercial cannabis operations. Charles Yerxa, another Colusa resident, suggested that by opening up the county to commercial cannabis, it would pull companies away from downtown Colusa. Phillips said that if commercial cannabis belonged anywhere, it was in an industrial park.
County Auditor-Controller Peggy Hickel Scroggins asked the supervisors if they had studied what the increased county costs would be if they allowed commercial cannabis operations, and what revenue it would bring to the county – urging them to do so before making any decisions, or putting the issue out to the voters.

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British P1821 Artillery Officers Short Sword. Incredibly Rare!
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This is an incredibly rare Pattern 1821 Artillery Officer’s short sword made around 1850 most probably for use in the Crimean War of 1853-1856.
While standard artillery swords followed the cavalry pattern, once the guns were unlimbered and in place, the officer commanding the battery tended to dismount, as an officer on horseback would have provided a very tempting target. On foot, the standard P1821 artillery sword would have proved unwieldy (being intended for mounted combat), so prior to departing for the Crimea, a small number of artillery officers commissioned bespoke shortened models of the P1821. These swords are very rare. The Royal Armouries in Leeds holds one in its collection and I know of only two others in addition to this one.
The 62.5cm single edged blade has a wide fuller on each side, with a rounded spine and spear point. The blade is frost etched and decorated on both sides with cannon flanked above and below with laurel wreaths. The leather washer on the ricasso is present.
The spine of the blade bears the cutler’s name, “B Levy. Sunderland.” Benjamin Levy is recorded as being an outfitter at 29 Market Place in the 1850’s.
The steel three bar hilt is of the standard 1821 pattern, with a domed oval pommel and steel back strap. The shagreen grip is in good condition and the twisted copper wire is intact and tight.
The sword is complete with its original, bespoke steel scabbard, which has an oval frog stud. The scabbard is in very good condition with a mild salt and pepper patina. The sword is held firmly within the scabbard without rattle or play.

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- Tom Hull — Projects
At the end of every Motocross GP season, a huge event is held in celebration of the riders, teams, sponsors and the fans. It's the culmination of the year's hard work for all involved and brings everyone together for one last enormous spectacle.
The riders from various countries in the world, instead of riding for their normal teams and sponsors, ride together in teams of three as a country, a little like athletes would do in the Olympics, or football players in the World Cup, competing against all the other nations from across the globe.
Matterley Basin in Winchester played host to the 2017 edition, drawing massive crowds of ever-passionate, dedicated fans. Along with the travelling supporters however, came a particularly bleak, wet weekend for weather, quickly turning what grass there was underfoot into a total mudbath. It felt somewhat like the Olympics and Glastonbury might be like, rolled into one!
Visiting on the final day of racing, I wandered through the crowds, amongst the deafening racket of motocross bike engines, leaf-blowers, fog horns and anything that created a never-ending, raucous din and found that there was more attention given to what havoc the fans were creating than was to the actual racing!
With Max Anstie riding amazingly on the day, it was the UK's best result for years, finishing third overall and really giving the home crowds something to cherish and the perfect reason for enduring the ceaseless rain.


Plasma Air - Plasma Catalysis Technology
Air treatment using plasma-catalysis technology(gaseous cleaning). Plasma-catalysis technology, was first developedin the 1980’s for air treatment plants in space vehicles. It is now one of the most effective and cost-efficient modern gas treatment technologies. Plasma-catalytic technologyis based on two ways of decomposing gaseous contaminants into elementary compounds: plasmo-chemical and catalytic. Due to their combined effect, organic substancescomposed of oxygen, hydrogen and carbon are converted into entirely harmless compounds comprising carbon dioxide and water, which are expelled ingasesous form. This process may be expressed by the following equation:
This process may be expressed by the following equation:
CxHyOz + hν → CO2 +H2O
Lets consider the impact of decomposition methods separately:
Plasma-chemical air treatment techniquefordecomposinggaseous contaminants
It is well known that plasma is a gas with ionized molecules and atoms. Plasma consists of many components: electrons of different energies, positive and negative ions, neutral particles, as well as excited atoms and molecules. The process of convertingharmful substances takes place as follows:
contaminated air flows through the chemical reactor of the air cleaner where gaseous harmful substances are destroyedunder the influence of a low-temperature plasma, and other physical and chemical effects.
Futhermore, as a result of these influences molecules, atoms and radicals become excited affecting the efficiency of the of catalytic treatment stage.
Catalytic air treatment technique of decomposing gaseous contaminants
The catalytic air treatment technique produces a deep oxidation of conversion products, resulting from the passage of air through the plasma-chemical reactor. This method uses a low temperature catalyst, which due to plasma-chemical step starts to operate effectively in a temperature range from 20 to 50 0C.
The plasma catalytic technique for removing
harmful gaseous substances is unique in that it allows a thorough conversion of a whole range of toxic compounds to CO2 and H2O, even at indoor room temperature. This air purification technology is also interesting because pathogenic microflora in the air is also suppressed at the same time as gas treatment takes place. The air is disinfected to a significantly greater degree than possible with ionizing air filters.
The plasma catalytic technique solves the problem of air cleaning (gas cleaning):
- with a minimum of catalyst (free of precious metals);
- at minimum temperature (from 20 0С);
- with minimum power requirement;
- and allows the amount of treated air to range from 100 m3/hour up to 100 000 m3/hour or more.
One of the areas in which it has clear advantages over conventional gas cleaning techniques is in industries, which use small or medium sized manufacturing equipment: small heating, thermal, melting furnaces, paint-spraying booths, smokehouses, stoves for heat treatment of food products, etc. These benefits arise due to low capital and operating costs for plasma-catalytic air cleaners and the high efficiency of gas treatment achieved.
One more interesting sphere of application of plasma-catalytic air treatment technology is usage of air cleaners in air ventilation systems.This applies especially to big industrial cities and centers. Traditional air treatment is mainly limited to the use of oil and fibrous air filters, that effectively (at least 99%) clean dust and aerosols from the air. However, the problem of treating of harmful gases remains open. Plasma-catalytic technology provides deodorisation for offices and other premises.


Virginia came out on top in an exciting showdown against Duke with a 69-62 victory in overtime. The final play of regulation saw Duke’s Kyle Filipowski drive to the basket, but the officials initially whistled a foul, drawing outrage from fans. However, after a lengthy review, the call was waved off, a decision that the ACC later admitted was incorrect. Duke’s coach, Jon Scheyer, expressed his confusion about the call, saying, “I still would like an explanation exactly. I don’t have clarity on that.”
Despite the controversy, Armaan Franklin made the big shot for Virginia, a 3-pointer with 39 seconds left in overtime. Franklin said he was initially out of position for the play, but adjusted when point guard Kihei Clark found him. Clark also had a strong performance with 16 points and five assists, and Ben Vander Plas added 13 points for the Cavaliers.
Jeremy Roach led the Blue Devils with 16 points, and Tyrese Proctor had 14. Despite Filipowski’s scoreless performance, Duke made a late push, with Roach driving to the basket and Jacob Grandison hitting a 3-pointer to tie the game with 50 seconds left. However, in the end, it was Virginia who took home the victory.
Despite a size disadvantage, Virginia drove to the basket constantly in the opening half, scoring 20 of their 25 points in the paint. Meanwhile, Duke’s Jeremy Roach scored 12 consecutive points for the Blue Devils, giving him more points than Virginia’s 11 at the time. By halftime, Duke had four players with two fouls, and Roach was whistled for his third foul just 31 seconds into the second half.
The game was a thrilling battle between two talented teams. Despite the controversy surrounding the final play of regulation, Virginia’s strong performance, including 42 points in the paint and 20 points off Duke’s 22 turnovers, ultimately led to their victory.


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A fast and reliable HPLC method for the determination of caffeic acid derivatives (caftaric acid, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, cynarin, echinacoside and cichoric acid) in various species of the genus Echinacea has been developed. Extraction of root samples by magnetic stirring with 80% methanol aqueous solution at room temperature allowed the complete recovery of all compounds of interest. Root extracts were analysed on a reversed-phase column with gradient elution and photodiode array detection. Caffeic acid derivatives showed differential qualitative and quantitative distributions in Echinacea species. The total amount of phenolic compounds ranged from 33.95 to 0.32 mg/g. The highest contents of caffeic acid derivatives were found in E. paradoxa var. paradoxa, E. paradoxa var. neglecta and E. purpurea, followed by E. angustifolia var. angustifolia, E. simulata, E. pallida and E. laevigata, whilst E. tennesseensis, E. sanguinea and E. atrorubens had low amounts of phenolic compounds. The radical scavenging activities of methanolic extracts of roots of Echinacea species was evaluated in vitro using the DPPH* radical scavenging method. The EC50 values of the samples ranged from 122 to 1223 mu g/mL. The radical scavenging activities of the root extracts were correlated with the content of phenolic compounds, with a correlation coefficient (r(2)) of 0.923.
|Data di pubblicazione:||2005|
|Titolo:||Variability in the composition of anti-oxidant compounds in Echinacea species by HPLC|
|Autori:||Pellati, Federica; Benvenuti, Stefania; Melegari, Michele; T., Lasseigne|
|Digital Object Identifier (DOI):||10.1002/pca.815|
|Appare nelle tipologie:||Articolo su rivista|
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I’m so pleased to introduce Volume 27 of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, a peer-reviewed journal about the theory, substance, and pedagogy of legal writing.
Volume 27 begins with four articles that exemplify the richness and breadth of the legal writing discipline. In the first article, Recovering Grammar, Professor Rachel Goldberg reclaims grammar as a rhetorical tool. She encourages legal writing professors to think of teaching grammar as more than “a problem to be solved” and to embrace an approach that critically examines grammar as a contextual and ideological phenomenon. Next, in Unbelievable: How Narrative Can Help Vulnerable Narrators Overcome Perceived Unreliability in the Legal System, Professor Cathren Page applies narrative theory to fictional and legal examples of vulnerable narrators. Professor Page’s article considers how advocates might craft narratives that allow vulnerable narrators to overcome their audiences’ biases and disbelief. The article is a stirring addition to the storytelling literature. Third, in Writing for the Digital Reader, Professor Joe Rosenberg describes the digital reality of modern practice. He explores how our brains process digital writing—and how the judges and lawyers who read our writing will process it—and addresses implications for how best to write for the medium.
Finally among the articles in Volume 27, Legal Writing is honored to publish a special tribute to two pillars of the legal writing discipline. The article Into the Spotlight: Ralph Brill features a condensed and lightly edited interview between Mary Lawrence and Ralph Brill, based on a series of transcripts. This interview is the third of Professor Lawrence’s legal writing history trilogy. The first two interviews were published in Legal Writing in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Despite completing her interviews with Professor Brill around 2008, Professor Lawrence was unable to complete the final feature due to declining health. Professor Karin Mika has completed the project to honor the legacies of Professors Lawrence and Brill. The editorial board is delighted to publish the final entry in Professor Lawrence’s trilogy in this volume.
Volume 27 also features essays on a range of topics. This year, the editorial board opted to issue an open call for essays with no topical limits. Rather, we wanted to know what’s on your mind. Accordingly, the essays in this volume reflect the depth and range of discussions in our community, from the challenges of teaching and lawyering in the “post-pandemic” “new normal,” to amplifying diverse voices in the classroom. I encourage you to read each essay and consider how you can use the authors’ ideas to take care of yourselves while continuing to care for our students.
Finally, Legal Writing continues its tradition of publishing reviews of recently published books of interest to the legal writing community. First, Professor Maureen R. Van Neste reviews Law Student Professional Development and Formation: Bridging Law School, Student, and Employer Goals, which will be of high interest for those who are considering the implementation of ABA Standard 303 regarding professional identify formation. Next, Professor Andrew Martineau reviews the recently published eighth edition of the classic research text, Basic Legal Research.
Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute
Mary S. Lawrence, An Interview with Marjorie Rombauer, 9 Legal Writing 19 (2003).
Mary S. Lawrence, The Legal Writing Institute—The Beginning: Extraordinary Vision, Extraordinary Accomplishment, 11 Legal Writing 213 (2005) (interviewing Laurel Currie Oates and J. Christopher Rideout).


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An order from Cromwell to the officer in charge of the Tower of London, 1 December 1654
(W.C. Abbott (ed.), The writings and speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Vol. III, p.522. Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1947)
To my trusty and well loved John Barkstead, Esquire, Lieutenant of the Tower of London
I want you immediately to set free Theodore Naudin, John Jenkins, Roger Lee, Thomas Smith and Dutton, now prisoners under your charge in the Tower of London. You must make sure that all these persons appear when called before my Council at Whitehall within six months. They must not do anything against or harmful to me, or the Commonwealth, and it is your task to make sure of this.
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The Iowa women’s gymnastics team has had success all season long, winning 10 straight competitions in the regular season and coming away with the regular season Big Ten Championship.
While the team has been successful, numerous gymnasts and head women’s gymnastics coach Larissa Libby performed well enough throughout the regular season to be recognized following it.
Iowa junior Lauren Guerin and sophomore JerQuavia Henderson earned a share of the Big Ten women’s gymnastics title on floor during the Big Ten Championships March 20.
Guerin and Henderson are the GymHawks third and fourth Big Ten champions on the floor and the first since 2004. Alexis Maday was the last GymHawk to win the floor title. Maday won three-floor titles in 2001, 2002, and 2004.
Guerin, Henderson, and senior Clair Kaji were all named to the Big Ten All-Championships Team thanks to their performance at the competition.
Freshman Adeline Kenlin has made her name known as one of the best freshmen in the country. After the Big Ten Championships, the Iowa City native was honored by being named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
Kenlin, who was also named to the first-team All-Big Ten, earned the award after her standout freshman season, where she won five event titles. She set a school record on beam, with a score of 9.975 on March 14 against Nebraska. She also earned four Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors throughout the regular season.
Alongside Kenlin, Libby was named as the Big Ten Coach of the Year. It’s the third time she has received the distinction and the fifth time an Iowa coach has received it. Libby previously won the honor in 2008 and 2017.
“You don’t win Big Ten Coach of the Year without a great staff and a great team,” Libby said. “That award is as much for my staff and my team as it was for me. It’s as much about recognizing what they did as my guidance in all of it. I’m very honored and humbled by the award and the love that came behind it.”
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In 2021, Libby led the GymHawks to their first Big Ten regular season title in school history. During the season, Iowa reached as high as No. 7 nationally — the highest ranking in program history.
Under Libby, four athletes earned All-Big Ten recognition. Kaji, Henderson, Guerin, and Kenlin all earned that distinction.
The GymHawks also earned three first-team honors, which is the most in school history. Iowa also had nine gymnasts earn Big Ten weekly recognition during the regular season, also a program high.
The awards and honors didn’t stop there.
Three GymHawks — Guerin, Henderson, and Kenlin — were named Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association All-Americans.
Guerin was a first-team selection on floor, while Henderson and Kenlin were honored with second-team honors on floor and beam. It’s the first time in program history where the GymHawks had three All-American honors in the same season.
Guerin is the third Hawkeye to earn first-team All-America honors. Henderson and Kenlin are the third and fourth second-team All-Americans in school history, and Kenlin is the first freshman to earn All-American honors.
This is Guerin’s second All-American distinction, with the first coming in 2020, where she was a second-team All-American. The Austin, Texas, native earned the honor after having a 9.950 National Qualifying Score on floor.
The second-team honor for Henderson is the first of her career. She finished the floor with a National Qualifying Score of 9.944. The Peoria, Illinois, native and first-team All-Big Ten selection tied the school record on floor with a 9.975 against Minnesota and Maryland Feb. 13.
Kenlin earned her All-American distinction after finishing with a National Qualifying Score of 9.944 on beam. She scored 9.900 or higher on beam in five meets during the season, including tying the school record with a 9.975 against Nebraska March 14.
Libby couldn’t be more ecstatic about the recognition and performance of her team.
“It’s so exciting,” Libby said. “A first-team All-American and to have two young kids. Adeline’s a freshman and technically [Henderson] is too. It’s her first year competing. For those two to come out, and in a COVID year, win second-team All-American. They love to compete, and there is nothing better than being rewarded for your hard work, especially when you’re having fun. What a blessing.”
For the Iowa women’s gymnastics team, this season has been one for the ages, and it’s not done yet. The GymHawks start their road to the NCAA Championships with the NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional Friday at the University of Alabama.

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In Blanchard v. Berrios, the independent inspector general of Cook County filed a complaint to enforce a subpoena that the Office of the Independent Inspector General (OIIG) sent to the Cook County Assessor. The circuit court ordered the Assessor to respond to the subpoena. The Assessor then appealed to the Illinois Appellate Court, arguing that it was unconstitutional for the Cook County Board of Commissioners to enact ordinances granting the OIIG subpoena power.
In finding the ordinances to be constitutional, the Illinois Appellate Court noted that the Board’s ordinances were a valid exercise of its home rule powers and that it was valid for the county to delegate it’s subpoena power to the OIIG. The Illinois Appellate Court looked to City of Chicago v. Stubhub, 2011 IL 111127, in which the Illinois Supreme Court evaluated how to determine whether an ordinance exceeds home rule powers. In Stubhub, the Illinois Supreme Court found that a county, as a home rule unit, has all powers of a sovereign unless the General Assembly has expressly limited those powers. The court noted that the Assessor failed to identify any statutes in which the General Assembly had limited the subpoena power of home rule entities. Further, just as the state is allowed to delegate subpoena powers, so may a county.
Post Authored by Erin Baker, Ancel Glink

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