Chevron Corporation is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies with subsidiaries that conduct business across the globe. The company's success is driven by the ingenuity and commitment of approximately 62,000 employees who operate across the energy spectrum. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and other energy products and services; manufactures and sells petrochemical products; generates power and produces geothermal energy; and develops and commercializes the energy resources of the future, including biofuels and other renewables. Chevron is based in San Ramon, California.

Chevron Energy Technology Company is accepting online applications for the position of Production Chemistry Management Specialist located in Houston, TX.

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This position will have responsibilities for monitoring, diagnosing and treating oilfield production problems, developing and optimizing chemical treatment programs, and working closely with operating assets and chemical service company personnel. This position will be based in Houston, Texas and will report to head of the Production Chemistry Team.

Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:

Provides technical support for major capital projects by developing recommendations for fluid sampling, fluid and chemical analyses, and chemical treating and performance monitoring as part of the system design and development

Provides guidance to both capital projects and existing fields on the selection and qualification of production chemicals. This includes recommending appropriate test methodologies/protocols and providing oversight of chemical vendors' chemical selection process

Provides consultation to operating assets in diagnosing chemical related issues and providing reliable and cost-effective chemical solutions

Works with operating assets and chemical vendors to develop chemical management programs, and optimize chemical treatments and performance monitoring

Develops proposals for funding from operating assets/business units

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Author Peter Carey starts every novel with the big argument what is wrong with the American approach to democracy in Parrot and Olivier in America; how do Australians live with the convict stain in The True History of the Kelly Gang.

In his most recent novel, The Chemistry of Tears, he's concerned with nothing less than the fate of the earth. The story of a contemporary museum curator who is restoring an automaton a clockwork silver swan takes place in 2010, the year the BP oil spill threatened environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. A parallel story takes place in the 19th century as Henry Brandling struggles to get the swan made as a gift for his consumptive son.

If you ask why are you interested in the 19th century, I would say, because were living in it, Carey said in an interview with CBC News. Were living with the consequences of it. We argue with the 19th century capitalists, growth is good we still talk like that

At the same time we know that growth is killing us. At the same time, we know were living on the resources of a planet and a half. The system will break with all the destruction man can do. So in both those cases were living in the 19th century were living in 19th century with its mad, technological optimism. We have the idea that we get richer by making stuff and then throwing it away.

The prophet that Carey gets to carry his message in The Chemistry of Tears is Amanda Snyde a crazy young woman who is off her medication and who may also be a spy for the powerful manager of the fictional Swinburne Museum in London, where much of the story is set. Amanda is obsessed with the Gulf oil spill, transfixed by the webcam that shows the stain spreading across the ocean. She sees it as an end-of-days event, but then, she also believes that the internal combustion engine is the work of aliens, who bequeathed it to humankind to lead us toward self-destruction.

Shes nuts, but shes correct, Carey says, waggishly, adding that he had to make her unhinged because I wanted someone who could give a poetic expression of a bigger truth.

Carey is Australian born the youngest son of a man who ran a car dealership and admired Henry Fords invention. Carey himself has made his home in New York for the past 22 years, teaching creative writing. now at Hunter College. Hes won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and The True History of the Kelly Gang. The Chemistry of Tears is his 18th book.

The main contemporary character, the curator Catherine Gehrig, is the first Carey conceived and the woman who provided a narrative arc to the story he tells. Shes been in a secret affair with a married man and he dies, leaving her so paralyzed by grief she does not trust her own judgment. She cannot grieve openly, and her behaviour is so erratic she is moved to an annex of the Swinburne Museum and given a project meant to keep her out of harms way to reconstruct an automaton that arrives packed in pieces in numerous tea chests.

Im really very fond of her, Im fond of all my characters. I find her behaviour totally reasonable, Carey says of Catherine, who is more concerned about breaking into her lovers account and deleting all the e-mails theyve exchanged than with her odd assistant, Amanda, or with her job. Ive never experienced what Cat did, but I have loved someone. Its not hard to imagine.

The 19th century character Henry Brandling who seeks out a clockmaker in Karlsruhe, Germany to make an automaton is equally perturbed by grief, both for his failed marriage and over the illness of his child, Percy. Brandling has found a drawing of Vaucansons duck, an automaton that eats and excretes, by the real French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson. He wants a similar device for his consumptive son, thinking that it will make the boy laugh and encourage him to live.

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Sutro Biopharma today announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with The Scripps Research Institute and will have access to "click chemistry," a modular synthetic approach that allows the assembly of new molecular entities by efficiently and reliably joining two molecular units together stably and irreversibly. The agreement with Scripps Research provides Sutro with a worldwide license to apply click chemistry for the synthesis of novel therapeutic protein candidates by utilizing Sutro's biochemical protein synthesis platform to incorporate one or more of the "click" components into a peptide or protein chain.

The click chemistry approach was developed by Nobel Laureate K. Barry Sharpless, Ph.D., the W.M. Keck professor of chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, and describes synthetic chemistry tailored to generate substances. This is done by joining, or clicking, reactive molecular building blocks together selectively and covalently. Click chemistry allows the further design of different types of therapeutic agents, including antibody therapeutics, peptide therapeutics and various small molecules.

"Combined with Sutro's powerful platform, 'click chemistry' will further extend our capability to engineer customized therapeutics with pharmacologic properties that are optimized for each specific application," said Trevor Hallam, Ph.D., chief scientific officer of Sutro. "The agreement will expand our armamentarium as we continue to develop novel protein therapeutics with our partners and advance our own pipeline of next-generation antibody drug conjugates."

The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

About The Scripps Research Institute

The Scripps Research Institute is one of the world's largest independent, not-for-profit organizations focusing on research in the biomedical sciences. Over the past decades, Scripps Research has developed a lengthy track record of major contributions to science and health, including laying the foundation for new treatments for cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, and other diseases. The institute employs about 3,000 people on its campuses in La Jolla, CA, and Jupiter, FL, where its renowned scientists -- including three Nobel laureates -- work toward their next discoveries. The institute's graduate program, which awards Ph.D. degrees in biology and chemistry, ranks among the top ten of its kind in the nation. For more information, see http://www.scripps.edu

About Sutro Biopharma

Sutro Biopharma, located in South San Francisco, is developing anew generation of antibody drug conjugate therapeutics and bifunctional antibody-based therapeutics for targeted cancer therapies. These therapeutics will significantly extend the clinical impact of current oncology therapeutic approaches and are beyond what can be envisioned with current (cell-based) expression technologies. Sutro's biochemical synthesis technology, which underpins these therapeutics, allowsthe rapid and systematic exploration of many protein drug variants to identify drug candidates. Our make-test cycle for hundreds of protein variants, including those incorporating non-natural amino acids, takes approximately two weeks.Once these product candidates are identified, production can be rapidly and predictably scaled up to commercial levels. In addition to developing its own drug pipeline, Sutro Biopharma is collaborating with select pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the discovery and development of novel protein therapeutics. For more information, visit http://www.sutrobio.com.

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TWICKENHAM, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Conversational marketing technology provider Neolane today announced the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the United Kingdom as a new customer. The organisation will implement the Neolane Leads marketing automation software platform to improve the effectiveness of its publishing and membership marketing activities and to alert members, readers and authors to new content, activities and events specifically relevant to them.

We considered marketing automation to help us form better and higher value relationships with members, authors and readers through understanding and serving their specialised interests more closely, said Richard Crouch, marketing director at the Royal Society of Chemistry. Neolane Leads will help us define complex communication workflows and then engage in automated one-to-one conversations cost-effectively, cross-channels including via social media.

He continued: Sophisticated analysis and reporting capabilities within Neolane will help us to optimise marketing effort and the value of the communications we send to each customer, whilst excellent data protection capabilities will ensure customers details are kept secure.

RSC operates in a business to business to consumer (B2B2C) environment where customers are both companies and institutions and the scientists, information professionals and students that work or study there. Neolane Leads will collect campaign responses and inbound data from web forms and events, automatically fulfil requests for marketing collateral and content and update profiles in the single customer view. Later on, RSC will also use the platform to score and track leads from inception through to maturity, integrating it with the societys sales force automation system. As leads become hot prospects, they will then be passed directly to relevant sales teams for conversion.

Neolane Leads addresses the full breadth of marketing needs spanning demand generation, customer communications, and lead management, said Martin Smith, head of marketing Neolane (UK). In a single application, RSC will be able to feed, visualise, and monitor its marketing pipeline, plan and execute demand generation, implement customer communications programmes, and nurture leads all while demonstrating revenue accountability.

About Neolane

Neolane provides the only conversational marketing technology that empowers organizations to build and sustain one-to-one lifetime dialogues, dramatically increasing revenue and marketing efficiency. Born digital, withbest-in-class email and inbound-outbound channel fusion capabilities architected into a single code-based platform, marketers achieve results in record time. Neolane is easy to use for both power and casual users, but powerful enough to drive the most sophisticated marketing strategies. Future proof, Neolane has a track record of enabling its customers to adapt to new customer engagement challenges and exploit opportunities more quickly than their competition.Neolane is used by more than 350 of the worlds leading companies including Alcatel Lucent, barnesandnoble.com, Orange, Sears Canada, Sephora Europe and Sony Music. Visit http://www.neolane.com and read our blog The Cross-Channel Conversation.

About the Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry is the UK Professional Body for chemical scientists and an international Learned Society for the chemical sciences with more than 48,000 members worldwide. It is a major international publisher of chemical information, supports the teaching of chemical sciences at all levels and is a leader in bringing science to the public. http://www.rsc.org

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SAN DIEGO, CA and BRUSSELS, BELGIUM and MOSCOW--(Marketwire -06/13/12)- UCB and ChemDiv have successfully concluded the first phase of their 2011 collaborative discovery chemistry program executed with ChemDiv's Moscow subsidiary, the ChemDiv Research Institute.

In the course of the collaboration, ChemDiv prepared hundreds of complex and highly targeted medicinal chemical scaffolds, building blocks and templates as part of a complete discovery chemistry solution. The partners' joint steering committee review of progress milestones confirmed the success of the ongoing collaboration, which carries an initial term of 2 years, and can further be extended.

UCB's Benoit Kenda remarked, "UCB had been looking for a partner that has a very strong standing in scaffolds ideation, library preparation and could contribute to UCB's already large and diverse compounds library, in particular in developing special libraries, according to UCB's specifications, and need to inhibit novel Biotargets. We are very happy to have found a partner with ChemDiv which is equally strong in developing novel scaffolds and templates.

Dmitry Kravchenko, CEO of ChemDiv Research Institute, said: "We are pleased that our collaboration with UCB proceeds with continuing success, as acknowledged by both parties. Our success in developing this comprehensive chemistry solution for UCB was enabled by ChemDiv's proprietary Chemistry On Demand design and development system, which encompasses over 2B of druggable, target-relevant and validated structure/synthetic space. We are committed to further extending our collaboration with UCB as a long term relationship."

About ChemDiv Research Institute:

ChemDiv and the ChemDiv Research Institute (CDRI) comprise a fully integrated discovery and development CRO based in San Diego and at the ChemRar High Tech Center in Moscow. CDRI collaborates with pharmaceutical and biotech partners by enabling them to accelerate R&D programs to higher value clinical inflection points. ChemDiv and its CDRI subsidiary offer integrated Discovery outSource solutions covering the complete range of disciplines, in multiple therapeutic areas (CNS, oncology, inflammation, metabolic, infectious diseases, and others), from discovery research and preclinical development, through accelerated Proof of Concept, and to market registration.

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Two students and two staff memberhave been taken to hospitals after a chemistry experiment gone wrong sent fumes into the air and forced a North Hollywood high school to evacuate the campus.

Students were released from their East Valley High gymnasium at 3:22 p.m. Monday at normal dismissal time, according to Los Angeles Unified spokeswoman Monica Carazo. She said the entire student body of 900was evacuated and four people were taken to hospitals as a precautionary measure.

The students and staff members who were hospitalized hadcomplained of dizziness, headaches and respiratory irritation, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey. The victims included the chemistry teacher, he said, awoman in her 30s.

Fire officials responded to a call about 12:52 p.m. after the teacherapparently mixed two substances incorrectly, authorities said.

Officials said the teacher had performed the experiment in her third-floor chemistry class in the morning and it had gone well. In the afternoon, however, she mixed nitric acid and sugar rather than the intended sulfuric acid and sugar. The misstep caused reddish-brown clouds to form, prompting the evacuation, Carazo said.

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Sweet and sought after, young Hollywood stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are speaking out about their chemistry onscreen, that is, in "The Amazing Spider-Man."

While the two keep a low profile in their personal relationship (sparked last June), the actors bring some theatrical heat as lovebirds Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker.

"We got on really well as people, in between [takes]," Garfield told MTV News. "That was the fun stuff. In between, we'd just mess around, and I felt, 'Ah, this is different.'"

Garfield expressed relief that Stone decided to take the role, saying that his scenes with the"Crazy Stupid Love"actress were his favorite to shoot (watch the interview below).

"Those were the days I would look forward to. For Peter as well. Because Peter goes through some horrible stuff in the movie. There's some joy to be had when experiencing his first love," Garfield said.

Stone echoed his sentiments, saying that mutual attraction is instinctive.

"The Amazing Spider-Man" swings into theaters July 3. Next up for Stone is the period drama "Gangster Squad," alongside Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling. Garfield just finished his run in Mike Nichols' Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of"Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman."

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A chemistry teacher at Appleton East High School is receiving recognition from President Barack Obama.

Kara Pezzi will receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching later this month in Washington, D.C.

"This is an incredible, it's an incredible experience," said Kara Pezzi.

Pezzi has been teaching for twenty years, at Appleton West and Wautoma before East, but has never received this kind of attention.

"I've gotten Wisconsin awards but nothing like this," Pezzi explained.

Recently, Pezzi became one of 97 teachers nation wide to receive the award.

Organizers say the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching is awarded annually to outstanding K-12 science and mathematics teachers from across the country.

In a statement, President Obama says," These teachers are the best of the best, and they stand as excellent examples of the kind of leadership we need in order to train the next generation of innovators and help this country get ahead."

"I can't think of a more deserving teacher we have on our staff," said Appleton Superintendent Lee Allinger. "She's a person who lives and breathes science education and what a tremendous role model not only for our district but for young people that might be considering a field in education."

Pezzi began the application process back in 2010.

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MURRAY HILL, N.J. & NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Linde North America has received a commendation by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) for its role in helping ACC meet industry-wide safety and product stewardship targets through its Responsible Care Performance Award program. ACC recognized Linde at its 21st annual Responsible Care Conference, which highlights the industrys world-class environmental, health, safety and security performance initiative.

Linde North America is a member of The Linde Group, a world-leading gases and engineering company. The American Chemistry Council (ACC) is an association of producers, manufacturers and suppliers of chemical products. Since 2008, Linde North America has received certification at 21 of its operations facilities, as well as at its corporate headquarters in Murray Hill, New Jersey, under ACCs Responsible Care program.

Responsible Care is a globally recognized management system aimed at helping companies improve performance in areas such as safety, health, environment and security. Certification is mandatory for all ACC member companies, which must undergo headquarter and facility audits by an independent, accredited auditor to verify that they have a structure and system in place that manages and measures performance. Lloyds Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) is Lindes independent auditor.

Patrick Murphy, president of Linde North America, which has been a member of ACC for over 60 years, said, We are extremely proud to receive this recognition from the ACC. We are committed to the Responsible Care program and retaining our membership in the American Chemistry Council. While it is a painstaking process to meet all the criteria for these awards, it is a very rewarding experience. Working toward and receiving Responsible Care certification falls right in line with our goals as a high performance organization and our vision to be the leading gases and engineering company.

The Responsible Care Performance Award recognizes companies with significant achievements in occupational safety and product safety communications. These companies are leading the ACC membership in improved safety performance and public communications about the safety of chemical products, said Debra Phillips, managing director of ACCs Responsible Care Program. We are pleased to recognize Linde North America for its commitment and dedication to the health, safety and security of their workers, their facilities, and the communities in which they operate.

The Responsible Care management system offers an integrated, structured approach for driving continual improvement in seven key areas: community awareness and emergency response; security; distribution; employee health and safety; pollution prevention; process safety; and product stewardship.

The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 50,500 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2011 financial year, it achieved sales of EUR 13.787 bn (USD 18.1 billion). The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The Group is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

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Welwyn Garden City, UK -- Cresset, innovative provider of software and services for molecule designers launches forgeV10 a powerful computational suite to understand SAR and design. forgeV10 gives computational chemists control and insight into activity data enabling the planning and direction of projects with confidence. ForgeV10 uses the shape and electrostatic character of molecules to create qualitative and quantitative 3D models of activity that are visually stimulating and easy to communicate.

ForgeV10 takes advantage of Cresset's patented ligand comparison method to align, score and compare molecules from a biological view point. Cresset's technology has been tried and tested in hundreds of projects from virtual screening to compound design. ForgeV10 is used to: decipher complex SAR and communicate the results; design better molecules based on predictions which can be trusted; prepare detailed pharmacophores; virtually screen 10,000 compounds on the desktop; and generate ADME and off-target activity profiles. The powerful capabilities afforded the user by forgeV10 are available through locally installed software or through Cresset Consultancy Services.

Meeting the needs of computational and medicinal chemists, Cresset's new suite of next generation chemistry software comprises: forgeV10 a powerful computational suite to understand SAR and design; torchV10 an intuitive design and 3D SAR tool for medicinal chemists; torchV10lite a free 3D molecule viewing, editing and drawing tool; blazeV10 an amazing ligand based virtual screening tool; sparkV10 an exciting and powerful way of generating novel and diverse structures.

Cresset CEO, Dr Robert Scoffin said, "We are excited to bring to market these powerful tools to help companies maximize the potential of their projects. Some of the applications have simply been renamed but others have changed significantly and now include exciting new features. The release of forgeV10 as the lead off application in the Cresset pro v10 suite is a milestone in the provision of excellence in computational chemistry software."

Scientists interested in Cresset's next generation software can download free demos from the company's website.

For further information on the complete range of software and services available from Cresset, please visit http://www.cresset-group.com, follow Cresset on Twitter (@cressetgroup) or join the LinkedIn group.

About Cresset Group Ltd Cresset develops software for calculating and comparing the molecular Field characteristics of chemical compounds. Field technology uses the surface properties of molecules to evaluate their activities and properties, rather than relying on 2D structure similarity, which enables Cresset's users to find more interesting, novel and relevant results than other methods. Cresset's Fields provide a smarter, structure independent way of hit-finding, lead switching and lead optimization in drug discovery and other chemistry-based research projects. Cresset's Field technologies have been successfully applied to a very wide range of target classes, with and without structural information, on over 100 projects for major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. http://www.cresset-group.com

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At its height, it was as an all-purpose cleaner, refrigerant and even fire extinguisher but we have since learned (the hard way) that it is dangerously toxic. Brian Clegg charts the downfall of carbon tetrachloride in this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast.

                  

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Leicestershire spinner Claude Henderson believes on-field relationships between players are crucial to success in Twenty20 cricket.

The Foxes won last year's competition, but have since lost key players in Paul Nixon, Andrew McDonald, James Taylor and Harry Gurney.

Henderson told the club's website: "It is like cat and mouse and you have a game of chess out in the middle.

"We'll work to develop relationships on the field because it's so important."

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The 39-year-old believes that the partnership between wicketkeeper and bowler is key in T20 is crucial, and he will be looking to develop a new alliance this year after Nixon hung up his gloves last season.

Battling for the keeper's place in T20 this year are Paul Dixey and Ned Eckersley, with the latter set to be given the nod for Tuesday's opening game of the tournament against local rivals Nottinghamshire.

"I am used to seeing Nico [Paul Nixon] behind the stumps and he was very good for us over the years," added Henderson.

"Nico was a key figure but it is time for the younger lads to have their go now.

"The keeper has to know his attack and understand what the bowler is trying to do, and the keeper also needs to tell the bowler what he thinks the batter is trying to do.

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Like many global manufacturers, Flexsys is caught in the squeeze of rising costs, falling prices and tough competition from emerging markets like Asia and Eastern Europe.

To maintain customer service levels while keeping costs in line, Flexsys recently changed its planning processes from make-to-stock to make-to-order.

The challenge

This shift eliminated the high cost of buffer inventory. But without safety stock to fall back on, the pressure was on the companys manufacturing assets to deliver top performance. That objective was hindered by inconsistent maintenance processes across the company. Plants were either using antiquated software to schedule and track maintenance or a combination of manual processes and spreadsheets.

An audit by an external consultant found that asset management at Flexsys was primarily reactive, rather than preventive, which led to poor equipment reliability. Production output was well below the level of efficiency required.

Implementing a single enterprise asset management solution and standardizing processes across all our sites were key to driving critical asset management improvements, says Roger Mason, Operations Manager for Flexsys.

The solution

We compared the functionality and reporting capabilities of the leading solutions and decided that QAD EAM was our best option, says Mason. The biggest factor in selecting QAD EAM was the interface to our existing QAD logistics and accounting software. This allowed us to very quickly have QAD EAM up and running at all our sites.

The Flexsys team identified four essential steps to reduce equipment breakdowns and improve plant reliability: 1) Develop a consistent work order process, 2) Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) inventory, 3) Implement root cause analysis (RCA) and, 4) Directly involve the production operators by initiating total productive maintenance (TPM).

The QAD EAM work order system provides the structure required for positive control over the maintenance work order process, supporting a global process that helps improve asset care and reduce breakdowns across all facilities. Flexsys relies on the excellent database contained in QAD EAM to help assess asset performance, and flexible reporting allows the company to define and measure KPIs. The system supports RCA and TPM: This means the companys production operators and maintenance technicians can focus most of their efforts on less costly preventive maintenance and very little on reacting to equipment breakdowns.

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/nb2x8l/environmental_chem) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology of Mercury" to their offering.

The book that looks at mercury's impact on the planet today

Recent research by the EPA has concluded that one in six women of childbearing age have unsafe levels of mercury in their bodies, which puts 630,000 newborn babies each year at risk of neurological impairment. Mercury poses severe risks to the health of animals and ecosystems around the world, and this book provides the essential information that anyone interested in environmental sciences should know about the fundamentals of the entire mercury cycle.

Comprised of four parts that present an overview of mercury in the environment, mercury transformations, transport, and bioaccumulation and toxicology, each chapter of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology of Mercury includes the basic concepts of the targeted subject, a critical review of that subject, and the future research needs.

This book explains the environmental behavior and toxicological effects of mercury on humans and other organisms, and provides a baseline for what is known and what uncertainties remain in respect to mercury cycling. The chapters focus on the fundamental science underlying the environmental chemistry and fate of mercury. This work will be invaluable to a wide range of policy experts, environmental scientists, and other people requiring a comprehensive source for the state of the science in this field.

Key Topics Covered:

1 OVERVIEW OF MERCURY IN THE ENVIRONMENT

PART I ANALYTICAL DEVELOPMENTS

2 ADVANCES IN SPECIATION ANALYSIS OF MERCURY IN THE ENVIRONMENT

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It is baseball's version of the chicken-and-egg conundrum. Which comes first, positive clubhouse chemistry or winning?

In search of insight, Reggie Jackson is always a nice place to start. Mr. October graced five World Series champions -- three with the Athletics, two with the Yankees -- and unloaded 18 homers in 17 postseason series. His intelligence quotient is top tier, like his monumental home runs.

Asked the question that cannot be definitively answered, Jackson -- traveling with the Yankees as a consultant, always happy to impart wisdom -- didn't hesitate.

"Winning creates chemistry," Jackson said. "It's all about strong leadership. You've got to have someone to keep everything and everybody in order. I've been on teams that didn't have great clubhouse chemistry, but won. We didn't always get along off the field, but between the lines we played the game hard, together.

"What those teams all had in common was leadership. That's what you have to have to win. In the NBA, you look at a guy like [Gregg] Popovich [of the Spurs]. He's got everything under control. That's how it was in the Lakers' "Showtime" days with [owner] Jerry Buss and Jerry West. They made sure they brought in good people. They weren't like the Oakland Raiders, who didn't mind having what you'd call incorrigibles on their roster."

In Oakland and later in the South Bronx during the tumultuous 1970s, Jackson was the star stirring potent drinks. The A's and Yankees, on his watch, shared an affinity for fighting among themselves before and after battling the opposition. Steve Garvey and Don Sutton fought in the visitors' clubhouse at Shea Stadium in 1978 while the Dodgers were en route to a second straight World Series against Reggie's Yankees.

You don't see or even hear of that kind of behavior anymore in Major League clubhouses. If there is discord, it's out of the media's view, in inaccessible back rooms.

Paul Konerko, on his way to another big season with the White Sox, comes down on the other side of the chemistry issue. When his 2005 South Siders rolled to a World Series title, the first baseman was convinced their collective attitude was the difference.

"When we left Spring Training," Konerko recalled, "no one thought we were a good team. Everyone on that team thought we had a solid team. We hung out together and started winning games, and it kind of took off. That was a team that had fun together, and it carried over to the field.

"We had a lot of close games. We didn't bomb a lot of people and put games away. We didn't score a ton of runs, but we put together rallies and won games late. Some of that has to come from being on the same page and pulling together. You have to believe in chemistry when you go through something like that."

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WEIRTON - There are a lot of reasons why a team wins a state championship.

Luck is involved, as is senior leadership, players who accept their roles, some right moves from the coach that work out and a little self-fulfilled retribution to make up for the way the previous year ended.

"Not making it out of sectionals last year was not a good feeling," said Madonna senior Logan Linder.

Blue Dons baseball coach Jeff Baire chose sophomore Luca Fuscardo to pitch the West Virginia Class A state championship game last Sunday against East Hardy.

As Fuscardo took the bump at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston, senior Connor Mogan took his position at first base.

"That way, we only had to switch two guys from the semifinal game - Luca and Logan," Baire said of Fuscardo and the senior Linder, who pitched a complete-game 6-1 win over Charleston Catholic in the semifinals. "The rest of our lineup stayed the same and that lineup had been working well for us as of late.

"Everybody's going to judge in that situation and wonder why would you throw Mogan, or why would you throw Luca in that situation. We chose to go with the guy who was a little bit more finesse, who was able to throw to spots a little bit more, and he did great through five and two-thirds innings.

"Tory (Fuscardo) comes in and does a great job and that change of pace, that extra four-to-five miles per hour, was just enough to have the bats slow for Connor when he came in and finished out the seventh and eighth innings.

"Connor was locked in when he came in and that says something about the seniors. They wanted this game badly."

Sophomore Will Bowser hit a one-out bases-loaded single in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Blue Dons their second state championship in three years with a 5-4 victory.

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Chemistry leads Blue Dons to state title

By Joginder Tuteja, Glamsham Editorial

Even though Sunny Deol and Arshad Warsi have earlier come together in JAANI DUSHMAN, this Rajkumar Kohli film had a dozen odd other actors including Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty amongst others. Now while BHAIYAAJI SUPERHIT also features Tusshar Kapoor in a key role, it is the Sunny-Arshad chemistry that is being designed to surpass the magic that was created by Sanju-Arshad in the past.

"Yes, in fact even Arshad was of view that since he has made a good pairing with Sanjay Dutt in the past, why couldn't he and Sunny bring on a new association. Okay, so the screenplay of BHAIYAAJI SUPERHIT isn't exactly on the lines of MUNNABHAI series but it has ample moments that would demonstrate good chemistry between a veteran like Sunny as well as Arshad who himself has been around for a decade and a half now. It is going to be magic for sure," promises Neeraj.

No wonder, Neeraj is adding extra zing to his 'bhaiyaaji' so that the results are 'superhit'.

"Since I am a writer first, I personally feel character detailing has to be perfect and the pacing should be just right. Moreover to compliment that you need to have actors who come with the best comic timing. I see that in my actors. When you have this combination in place, the script has to be designed in such a way that it never becomes boring when translated on screen. That was the case in RIGHT YAAA WRONG as well and I can confidently state that with the kind of genre BHAIYAAJI SUPERHIT is exploring, we would be moving many more steps ahead," promises Neeraj.

Also starring Ameesha Patel with expectation of Preity Zinta joining the cast soon, BHAIYAAJI SUPERHIT would release early next year.

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Outstanding Ph.D. students help shape the future of chemical information

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 8, 2012 /CNW/ - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, announced today the selection of 15 Ph.D. students in the chemical sciences for the 2012 SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry program. Each of these students demonstrated academic excellence, a commitment to research and an appreciation of chemical information, as evidenced through their exceptional essays and impressive letters of recommendation, distinguishing them among the hundreds of students who applied.

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Since 2010, the SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry program, formerly the SciFinder Academic Exchange Program, has served as an intensive mini-university where graduate students from around the world exchange ideas and experiences in chemistry and informatics. In only the third year of the program, applications were received from 32 countries around the world and more than doubled in number from last year, resulting in an acceptance rate of just over four percent. This year's class joins an elite group of scientists who have unique perspectives on how chemical information is vital to the advancement of research.

The following Ph.D. students have been selected:

Participants in the 2012 SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry program have the unique opportunity to share their insights on chemical information and learn from their peers. During their visit to the CAS campus in Columbus, Ohio, participants get a behind-the-scenes look at how CAS builds and maintains the most authoritative chemistry databases as they meet and exchange ideas with the CAS scientists and engineers responsible for SciFinder, the world's best chemical information research tool. As in past years, participants will also visit prestigious Central Ohio research organizations such as The Ohio State University, Battelle Memorial Institute and TechColumbus.

In addition, participants will join an expected 12,000 chemical professionals in Philadelphia , Penn., to attend the 244th ACS National Meeting & Exposition and listen to scientists present new research, hear the latest information in their areas of interest, and network with other chemists.

"This will be the third year we've welcomed students to our campus to share an exclusive look inside the world's premier organization for chemical information," said Christine McCue, vice president of marketing at CAS. "The program is an invaluable experience, providing the students and CAS a better understanding of the trends in chemical information and a fresh perspective on the needs of researchers around the world. We expect this year's program to be no different - but with a new name to reflect the remarkable accomplishments and leadership of these students, the future leaders in chemistry."

About SciFinder

SciFinder is the leading information research tool for chemistry and related disciplines. SciFinder provides scientists the essential content and proven results to increase productivity and make faster breakthroughs. The intuitive Web interface offers instant access to the CAS content collection, including CAS REGISTRY(SM)the gold standard of chemical substance and other related information. Fortune 500 corporations, more than 1,900 universities and major government agencies around the world rely on SciFinder to fuel R&D initiatives and foster innovation.

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For the last decade, the New York Knicks have struggled with underachieving and mediocrity.

Even after trading for and signing players like Amar'e Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler and J.R. Smith, the Knicks can't seem to get their act together and make it out of the first round of the NBA playoffs.

While the Knicks' lack of postseason success is certainly disheartening for Knicks' fans, the real issue is that no matter who's on the court, the Knicks can't seem to develop into a cohesive unit.

That lack of chemistry is what holds the Knicks back from being more than aperennialunderachiever in the Eastern Conference year in and year out.

No head coach in the world, not even the mighty Phil Jackson, could lead the Knicks to an NBA title without first helping developlegitimatechemistrybetween the players on the roster.

While Mike Woodson certainly plays a part in helping the Knicks develop chemistry in the locker room and on the court, the ultimate responsibility of establishing chemistry falls squarely on the shoulders of the veteran players on the team.

It's the responsibility of players like Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler and Amar'e Stoudemire to ensure that there is chemistry on the court between the players on the Knicks' roster.

We saw last season just how important chemistry is when the Dallas Mavericks knocked off the mighty Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.

Even with three All-StarsLeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Boshthe Heat didn't have the chemistry they needed to knock off a veteran Mavericks team who played with an incredibly high level of chemistry.

With chemistry between the Knicks' star players, they could be one of the best teams in the East even with Will Ferrell coaching the team.

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