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New York Weather: CBS2 11 p.m. ForecastCBS2's Vanessa Murdock is talking about spring-like conditions again on Monday, but some rain is coming. Here's your 11 p.m. forecast.

Levittown Neighbors Concerned About Alleged Peeping TomAn alleged peeping Tom on Long Island was out of jail on Sunday night, but he's accused of secretly recording a woman through her window more than a dozen times. Neighbors say they are worried she's not the only victim. CBS2's Lisa Rozner reports

B. Smith 1949-2020Iconic fashion model and celebrated New York restaurateur B. Smith died Saturday night at the age of 70. Smith fought a long battle with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. CBS2's Hazel Sanchez looks back at her life and legacy.

1 Dead In Yonkers Apartment Building FireFire officials say one person was killed and three others were injured on Sunday night in an apartment blaze in Yonkers. CBS2's Jessica Moore reports

Family Of Hit-And Run Victim Sends Plea To DriverThe siblings of a 26-year-old man who was killed in a hit-and-run on Sunday in Brooklyn is asking the driver to go to the police. CBS2's Christina Fan reports

Family Of Hit-And-Run Victim Implores Driver To Go To The CopsJose Contla, a 26-year-old aspiring attorney, was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Sunday morning in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. His wife and siblings are hopeful of a quick arrest. TV 10/55's Christina Fan reports

Aaron Hernandez Documentary EP Sits Down With CBS2Kevin Armstrong, the writer and executive producer of the Netflix documentary on former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, discusses the film with CBS2's Steve Overmyer.

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JCC In Albany Evacuated Email Bomb ThreatA bomb threat is under investigation at a Jewish community center in Albany. Multiple agencies are looking into threatening emails, but officials say right now everything appears to be safe. CBS2's Jessica Moore reports

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Celebrated New York Restaurateur B. Smith Dead At 70B. Smith was a legendary lifestyle icon. On Sunday, her husband of 27 years, Dan Gasby, announced the passing of his beloved wife, saying she died peacefully at their home on Long Island on Saturday night. CBS2's Hazel Sanchez looks back on her career.

FDNY Mourns Loss Of Another 9/11 Firefighter, Danny FoleyLieutenant Mickey Conboy of Rescue Company 3 in the Bronx talks about the death of 9/11 firefighter Danny Foley on Sunday, Feb. 23.

Cuomo: JCC Bomb Threats Under InvestigationGov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed multiple Jewish community centers across the state were emailed anonymous bomb threats on Sunday, prompting the JCC in the capital to be evacuated.

Sen. Schumer Warns TSA Still Using Vulnerable TikTok AppSen. Charles Schumer warned on Sunday that the Transportation Security Agency continued to use the China-owner TikTop app, a platform the agency denies using.

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Man Hospitalized After Being Stabbed Inside Manhattan DeliThe attack happened inside a deli on Broadway near Tiemann Place just before 4 a.m. on Saturday. CBS2's Cindy Hsu reports.

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N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy To Undergo Surgery To Remove Kidney TumorThere was an outpouring of support this weekend for New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy after he revealed on Twitter he has a kidney tumor that is likely cancerous. CBS2's Cindy Hsu reports.

Pedestrian In Critical Condition After Getting Hit In BrooklynOne person was left in critical condition Sunday morning after being struck by a car in Brooklyn. CBS2's Cindy Hsu reports.

Man Sprayed With Chemical, Robbed Of $5 In Washington HeightsThe victim was coming home from work when he was attacked and robbed inside his Washington Heights building, reports CBS2's Nick Caloway.

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Marshall basketball: Herd experimenting to find the right chemistry – Charleston Gazette-Mail

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HUNTINGTON Football has been called a game of inches, but so, too, is basketball.

A pass thats a split second late, a cut made a shade early or a rushed shot can be the difference in winning and losing. Many of those aspects go unnoticed by fans, but not by Marshall University mens basketball coach Dan DAntoni, who worked with his team to correct such mistakes Friday during practice at Cam Henderson Center.

The Thundering Herd (2-5) visits Toledo (6-2) at 2 p.m. Sunday in a contest that can be seen on ESPN+.

I look forward to the game, DAntoni said. Everythings going to be a learning process with these kids. Were going to try a couple of new things.

DAntoni didnt give away the game plan. After all, Marshall already lost to the Rockets 96-70 on Nov. 10 here. Some lineup adjustments, whether in regard to personnel changes or just positioning alterations, could be in store.

The Herd wont have Furman transfer point guard Andy Taylor until Dec. 16, which will change the dynamic of the offense, but DAntoni said hes adjusting on the fly anyway, a necessity with a young team.

Well have Andy Taylor pretty soon, so were going to look at a lot of different things, DAntoni said. Stay with us.

Much of the tinkering DAntoni is doing has to do with decision making. With 6-foot-10 Ante Sustic the lone senior, experience isnt a strength for Marshall. Because of that, sometimes players think rather than react.

That slows the flow of the offense and can lead to players being out of position or making bad passes. As the season progresses, DAntoni said he expects many of the mistakes that occurred in the first seven games will be no more because running the offense correctly will be second nature.

Most of the trouble has come on offense, as the Herd has adjusted to the loss of all-Conference USA players Jon Elmore, who averaged 20.3 points per game, and C.J. Burks, who scored 17.7. The fast-paced attack averaged 80.5 points per contest last season but also gave up that same amount. This year, Marshall has given up 75.3 points per game and averaged 71.1.

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Suncor Is Very Sorry for Raining Chemical Dust on Commerce City – Westword

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The operator of a Commerce City oil refinery says it's not yet ready to reopen one of the facility's refining units following a malfunction that spewed yellow ash over the surrounding area earlier this month but it's assuring the community that when it does, such an incident won't happen again.

Canadian oil giant Suncor Energy once again apologized for the refinery's "operational upset" in a statement released Friday, December 27, and said that it won't restart the unit in question before it conducts additional safety tests.

"While we had planned to begin start-up of the fluidized catalytic cracker unit (FCC) this week, weve made the decision to do additional operability checks in the unit to ensure we have ideal start-up conditions," the company said in its release.

The unit has been shut down since December 11, when a malfunction caused a plume of yellowish material identified by Suncor as a clay-like substance known as "catalyst" to drift into the air above the refinery and fall on parts of Commerce City. Two nearby schools were placed on lockdown when staff noticed unusually poor air quality and a layer of dust coating cars and other outdoor surfaces.

In its initial statement on the incident, Suncor said that the emitted catalyst was "classified as non-hazardous," but additional documentation released by the company indicated that the material is rated as a slight health hazard under the National Fire Protection Association Hazard Identification System. Suncor later acknowledged that the airborne catalyst "may have caused short-term discomfort to eyes, and coughing and wheezing," and offered free car washes to impacted residents.

"We sincerely apologize for the release of catalyst from our fluidized catalytic cracker unit on December 11," the company said in a previous news release. "We know this incident created significant concern among our neighbors and the broader community. This incident does not reflect the level of care and concern that we have for the community around us. We know that you expect more from us, and we want you to know that we expect more from ourselves."

The Suncor facility is Colorado's only oil refinery and one of the state's largest stationary sources of air pollution. Ithas long drawn criticism from environmental activists and residents of surrounding communities, including disproportionately low-income and Latino neighborhoods like Globeville and Elyria-Swansea. The facility reported at least 88 violations of pollution rules to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in the first six months of 2019 alone, according to an analysis by environmental group WildEarth Guardians.

In a letter to state health officials earlier this month, three Denver-area lawmakers Senator Dominick Moreno and representatives Adrienne Benavidez and Alex Valdez wrote that "more action is needed" in the wake of the latest Suncor incident.

"We believe that these types of upsets have become normalized at this facility and effective corrective actions are inconsistent," the lawmakers wrote to CDPHE director Jill Hunsaker Ryan. "We believe the communities we serve deserve access to information when these incidents occur. As such, we request CDPHE publicly release investigation reports into this matter, including the Suncor 'root cause' report, which should include recommendations to prevent any reoccurrence."

Chase Woodruff is a staff writer at Westword interested in climate change, the environment and money in politics.

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Chemistry helps carry Imhotep deeper into postseason after rout of McDevitt – PennLive.com

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PHILADELPHIA Twice in a row Saturday night, Daron Russell dribbled up the left side, across halfcourt and settled a couple feet outside the three-point line. Both times he flicked a two-handed pass up to the rim where a rising Donta Scott caught it and slammed it down.

Bishop McDevitt had challenged Imhotep Charter early in the PIAA Class 4A first-round playoff matchup Saturday night at Lincoln. But the Panthers have been a well-oiled machine for most of the season, and soon enough, they were hitting on all cylinders in a 74-41 rout.

Russell and Scotts alley-oops in the second quarter marked a turning point in the game, where the momentum swung behind Imhotep and the Panthers were able to get some separation on the Crusaders. But those plays also showed Imhoteps chemistry, which was a work-in-progress in the early stages of the season and has helped the Panthers take off down the stretch.

Before we all came, we'd never played with each other before, but as the season went along, we all just talked, like we got to do this and we got to live up to our potential and that's what we did, guard David Beatty said. We lived up to our name.

RELATED:Imhotep ends McDevitts season in Class 4A first round with 74-41 romp

The Panthers returned one of the citys top players this season in Russell, who was the Public League MVP and is the schools all-time leader in points, assists and steals. But they were adding plenty of newer faces to the mix. Beatty transferred back to Philadelphia from St. Benedicts in New Jersey, while sophomores Scott, Chereef Knox, Jamil Riggins and Dahmir Bishop were all moving into contributing roles.

There were plenty of moving parts for coach Andre Noble to sort out, and the season didnt get off to the smoothest start after an 87-73 loss to Neumann-Goretti in December.

But Imhotep played a national schedule and tested itself against some of the nations best. And over the course of that grueling slate, the Panthers started to come together. Imhotep won the Beach Ball Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in December, and a month later, the Panthers took down national powerhouse Montverde Academy in the Montverde Academy Invitational Tournament in Florida.

We just needed chemistry and know what each other do and how they do it, where they want to be at and how they want to be, Beatty said. That was me and Daron, that's our part and our role to know where everybody's supposed to be at. As soon as we got that down pat, we was just on a roll.

Beatty, a South Carolina signee, has been a significant boost to the backcourt alongside Russell, a Rhode Island signee. The 6-foot-3 Beatty has the size and strength to bully into the lane and to the basket and the touch to shoot from the outside. Late in the win over McDevitt, Beatty knifed through the Crusaders defense for a coast-to-coast layup, and he beat the buzzer with a 3-pointer to close the third quarter as part of his game-high 20 points.

Despite his accolades hes ranked as the No. 7 combo guard in the country and a four-star recruit by 247Sports Beatty has slid seamlessly into the Imhotep lineup.

Once he came here, he was just like, whatever you need me to do, Noble said. He hasn't demanded anything. Some days he scores four or five points, and he's still happy and excited about winning games He's just been a good teammate.

Beatty and Russell have helped the teams younger players grow into their roles. Scott has blossomed into a rising star this season with some of his performances on the national stage, like his 17 points against Montverde in the tournament final in January. Against McDevitt, he was an early force with 10 of his 16 points in the first half. His combination of athleticism was apparent with his big dunks and a resounding chase-down block of Chris Briner in the first quarter.

He's talented but now he's being aggressive with what he's doing out there, so that's the key, Noble said. He knows to be aggressive, and we're demanding that he goes after it. Sometimes he's too tentative because there's seniors on this team that are good. but this year he's really stepped up, like, No, I'm a really good player and asserting himself. That's been a big part of it.

Imhoteps next task will be Scranton Prep, which dismantled Salisbury, 99-46, in its first-round matchup. Noble said he expects it to be a tough task the teams are scheduled to meet Wednesday night at Easton Area Middle School but Imhotep remains one of the favorites to cut down the nets in Hershey later this month.

The Panthers have one of the most impressive collections of skill, athleticism and depth in the state and possibly the country. Theyre up to No. 6 in USA Todays rankings and No. 3 in the MaxPreps Xcellent 25.

Some of the blocks that they made and some of the plays that they made athletically were plays that not only we can't match, but the rest of the state's not going to match, McDevitt coach Mike Gaffey said. We just played in our state championship today because we just played the state champion.

RELATED:Jody Morales toughness leads McDevitt in season-ending loss to Imhotep in Class 4A playoffs

Noble remains impressed by his teams ability to stay balanced and ride the hot hand. In addition to Beatty and Scott, junior Bernard Lightsey hit three 3-pointers and finished with 17 points, while Russell had nine.

The road trips to Florida and South Carolina the team took earlier this season helped bring the Panthers together, Noble said. Its a close-knit group, and the longtime coach thinks that helps carry the team through its tough stretches. And that can make a difference when the calendar flips to March and the games are win or go home.

We preach to be selfless on our team because a lot of our guys can score more points, but we're just trying to be a great team, Noble said. Sometimes you got to sacrifice those things.

RELATED:Daron Russell secures his legacy in Imhotep Charters Public League title game victory

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Its been just over 650 days since Hungarys Videoton FC were crowned 2014-15 champions of the Hungarian Nemzeti Bajnoksg (National Championship) 1, the countrys highest division of professional soccer.

The title -- the second in the clubs history -- came in part due to 21 goals from then-27-year-old forward Nemanja Nikolic(a personal high at the time) as well as the steady link play of midfielder Arturo Alvarez, who also chipped in a pair goals that season.

Fast-forward to last Saturday, almost 22 months later, and the pair found themselves yet again playing difference-maker together on a cold March afternoon in a stadium 4,800 miles to the west.

It was a feeling of old times before, Nikolic said. Arturo played fantastically also at Videoton in Hungary, and he also scored goals there. We celebrated a lot of victories together and it was great to see that again we scored and we won.

Nikolic -- a five-year veteran of Videoton and its second all-time leading scorer -- scored the opening goalin his newest clubs 2-0 victory over Real Salt Lake on Saturday just prior to current-and-former teammate Alvarez providing the insurance goal shortly thereafter. The past-to-present goal-scoring connection was not lost on the pair.

I said to (Arturo) before the game that Toyota Park looks like our stadium in Szkesfehrvr and that I had some good feelings before the game, Nikolic said. It was a great to feel these things after the game.

He did say that, Alvarez said with a smile. Its funny because when I was in Vidi and I first got to the stadium to look at the club, I was like, This reminds me of an MLS team. The Videoton stadium is very similar.

(Photo and video courtesy of Videoton FC)

Alvarez himself spent three seasons with Videoton before arriving back stateside for a trial with Chicago in the run-up to the 2016 season. Long story short, Alvarez quickly became a regular for Veljko Paunovics side on the way to putting up career highs in goals (5) assists (9) and appearances (30). Hes hoping the chemistry he and Nikolic established in Hungary continues to build in Chicago.

For me its about trying to make something happen, create some goals, score some goals, he said. Niko being a forward, hes always back then and now someone thats always going to get you some goals. Obviously we know each other from when we played together, and now weve just got to hopefully do the same things.

He has good eyes, good vision on the pitch, Nikolic said of Alvarez. He sees very good. I like to be close to him because I played with him one-and-a-half years, so when somebody knows and understands football with him, its easy to play.

With a Hungarian league championship on their respective resumes as well as victories in the countrys League Cup and Super Cup tournaments, the focus for the past and presentteammates arenow fully focused on bringing that same level of success to the city they both now call home.

We ended up winning the championship and thats the most important one, Alvarez said. With Vidi we had a good team. I just want to keep playing well and do the same things we did over there here.

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Culver: Chemistry could carry FSU to Sweet 16 – Tallahassee.com

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Florida State beats Western Illinois 87-66 in the first round of the NCAA women's basketball tournament at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center March 17.(Photo: Hali Tauxe/Democrat)Buy Photo

If you want a great example of the selflessness of FSUs womens basketball team, look no further than senior center Kai James.

James was an ESPNW top-25 recruit when she came to Florida State out of Dwyer in West Palm Beach. She was the No. 3 center in her class and a two-time all-state player.

While with Florida State, things havent quite clicked for James in terms of playing time. This season, shes averaging 7.4 minutes per game and 3.4 points per game. Her career high is 11 minutes per game. Shes still a fan favorite theres a mini celebration every time she steps on the floor.

And still, before every game, James is right in the middle of Florida States huddle making sure the team is excited and ready to play. She might not even see the court, but shes in charge of getting the team hyped up before NCAA tournament matches.

Ive been here four years, James said. I know its about team basketball. Coach Sue has definitely taught me though. Its more about we than it is about me. It doesnt matter who puts the ball in the basket because we all win together and we all lose together.

Third-seeded FSU takes on 6-seed Missouri on Sunday at 7:10 p.m. for the right to go to the Sweet 16.

White, Thomas shine in FSU's rout of W. Illinois

James lost minutes this year due to the emergence of ACC Sixth Player of the Year Chatrice White and the because of the great play of Ama Degbeon. The two are Semraus primary post players off the bench.

Friday, during FSUs first-round victory over Western Illinois, White was having a stellar game. She put up 19 points and grabbed 14 rebounds and head coach Sue Semrau said she didnt have to reach too far down her bench to give the Illinois transfer a break.

Degbeon, who usually comes in right after White, was just fine with that. She said, Chatrice is balling out of control. Let her ball out of control.

This is the NCAA tournament.Players should be chomping at the bit for some time on the floor. Degbeon who is just starting to get real minutes as a junior after two years of averaging less than two points per game was OK letting White shine.

The team chemistry has been really great this year, Degbeon said. Everyone wants to play, we know that, but people are not putting themselves first. Theyre putting the team first. They cheer on the bench like crazy, it doesnt matter how they play.

Its amazing. Its even fun to sit on the bench.

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I get the feeling Degbeon really means that. FSU is one victory away from a third-consecutive appearance in the Sweet 16.

Its so fun to coach when you have players that want the team to succeed, no matter who gets the credit, Semrau said. You look at players who were the best where they came from, and to be able to set aside their own personal credit and accomplishments for the team is what athletics are all about.

Im sure it is, coach.

Its easy to talk about team chemistry. Its a pretty nebulous concept. It could mean how well the group passes the ball around, how fluid the group is on offense or how quick players are to help on defense. It could mean how well players get along off the court.

FSUs post players showed what chemistry can look like in action. Ivey Slaughter, a starter, had an impact against the Leathernecks, but she wasnt the star. She took a back seat.

Against Missouri, she could be the star. Degbeon could provide more key minutes off the bench. White could repeat as the best player in the paint. James could come on shine.

For the record, this is all true for FSUs guards. The post players are being talked about for the sake of this column, but Brittany Brown, Leticia Romero, Imani Wright any of them could go for 20 in a game.

Shakayla Thomas could score all of FSUs points and the team would be happy to advance.

Thats real chemistry. And, if it holds up, its what will separate FSU from other teams in the field.

Everyone is good at this point in the season. Only 64 teams make the tournament.

Something has to separate the good teams from the Final Four teams.

The confidence that no matter who has the ball, a shot as the potential to go in, could carry the Seminoles past Missouri and all the way to Dallas.

Florida State vs. Missouri

When/where: 7:10 p.m., Sunday, Tucker Civic Center

TV/Radio: ESPN2/106.1 FM

3 Florida State

First round: 87-66 over No. 14 Western Illinois

Top scorer: Shakayla Thomas, 15 ppg

3-pointers: FSU is looking to get to the Sweet 16 for the third year in a row. ... Shakayla Thomas has scored at least 10 points in 11 straight games and in 13 of the last 14 games. ... After a seven-game slump where Leticia Romero averaged just 6.7 points per game, she's averaged 13 points per game over her last four.

6 Missouri

First round: 66-64 over No. 6 South Florida

Top scorer: Sophie Cunningham, 17.5 ppg

3-pointers: Former Maclay star Hannah Schuchts is a player who comes off the bench for Missouri. She played five minutes against USF and didn't score. ... The Tigers are the best 3-point shooting team in the SEC in terms of 3-pointers made. They've hit 221 shots from beyond the arc this season. ... The Tigers are looking to advance to the Sweet 16 for the third time in program history.

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MILWAUKEE -- The excitement of March Madness could be felt on the Marquette University campus Monday, March 6th as the Big East Tournament rolled on. Marquette and Creighton tipped off at 3:00 p.m. Monday. Carolyn Kieger, MU's head coach said ...

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Indian boxers will miss the Chemistry Cup in Germany after not getting the visas on time but the national federation has assured that the pugilists will be compensated by being sent for another event soon.

A 10-member new-look team, which included two Asian youth medallists, was to travel to Halle, Germany tonight for the 44th edition of the tournament.

But the plan was thrown haywire after their visas could not come through.

The visas could not come because we got to know quite late that the applications for Schengen visas are now supposed to be filed from the region to which you belong. We were used to a centralised process which could be done from Delhi, Boxing Federation of India (BFI) President Ajay Singh told PTI.

But this time, we were told that the applications had to be routed through the regional centres from where the boxers came. Some time was lost in the process and therefore visas did not come in time. From now on, we will ensure that visa procurement procedure is started 15 days in advance, he added.

Singh said the boxers, who were sent back from the national capital today, will soon be sent to compete in another tournament.

The boys who were selected for this tournament will be sent for another event very soon, in fact, in the next fortnight itself. They should not feel disheartened, we are already in talks for a couple of invitational tournaments in the next 20 days, he asserted.

The boxers for this tournament were picked exclusively from the Aurangabad camp, which is under the tutelage of Shiv Singh, one of the two chief coaches assigned with the male boxers.

The Asian youth silver-medallists in the team were Ankush Dahiya (60kg) and Reyal Puri (81kg).

The Chemistry Cup will be held from March 13 to 18.

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The University of New Mexico Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology presents the Milton Kahn Annual Lectureship on Friday, March 3 at 4 p.m. in the Science and Math Learning Center (SMLC) 102. The talk features Todd Martinez, a David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.

Martinez, who is also a professor of Photon Science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will present Discovering Chemistry with Advanced Computing and Machine Learning.

He will discuss how novel computational architectures and methodologies are revolutionizing diverse areas ranging from video gaming to advertising and espionage. In his talk, he will discuss how these tools and ideas can be exploited in the context of theoretical and computational chemistry, and discuss how insights gleaned from recommendation systems (such as those used by Netflix and Amazon) can lead to reduced scaling methods for electronic structure (solving the electronic Schrodinger equation to describe molecules) and how the algorithms in electronic structure can be adapted for commodity stream processing architectures such as graphical processing units.

Martinez will describe how these advances can be harnessed to progress from traditional hypothesis driven methods for using electronic structure and first principles molecular dynamics to a discovery-driven mode where the computer is tasked with discovering chemical reaction networks. Finally, he will show how these can be combined with force-feedback (haptic) input devices and three-dimensional visualization to create molecular model kits that carry complete information about the underlying electrons. This interactive first principles molecular dynamics method (molecular computer-aided design or mCAD) opens the door to novel ways of teaching chemistry and may also be of use in applied chemical research.

Martinez received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1994 and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute for Molecular Dynamics at Hebrew University as well as a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA. In 2009, Martinez joined the faculty at Stanford University to continue his work as a theoretical chemist with research focuses primarily on developing first-principle approaches to chemical reaction dynamics, starting from fundamental equations of quantum mechanics.

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Ever since Cameron Maybin has learned of being an Angel on November 3 of last year, he has been absolutely pumped at the prospect of playing for the Angels alongside Mike Trout. But despite all that has been written, what hasnt been talked about enough is Maybins outside-the-box-score contributions to his team on a day-to-day basis.

Both Pedro Moura of the LA Times and the Associated Press discussed Maybins positive presence with Maybin himself.

I was, like, the heartbeat to that locker room last year, Maybin said. As far as the energy goes, I was the catalyst. I brought the energy every day, the passion to the locker room, the fire. I got guys going. People publicly said that a lot. When I came back, you saw how it turned around. As soon as I got back to the locker room, it was an immediate attitude change. It was an immediate turnaround.

The facts support his claims: Maybin returned from a season-opening disabled-list stint on May 16 and was named the American League player of the week the subsequent Sunday. The slumping Tigers began to win. Come seasons end, they were 21-32 while Maybin was on the disabled list and 65-43 while he was not.

He expects his personality to have the same effect within the Angels.

Maybin added that passion and energy is something he brings to the table, citing his positive influences in the clubhouse. In fact, if you look for baseball pictures of Maybin, youll find as many pictures of him energizing or embracing a teammate as you will actual action shots.

As much as we baseball fans like to discuss a certain players value, we often fail to incorporate a players worth across a locker room. Over the course of 162 games where certain players are always in proximity to one another, its an absolute must that they maintain good relationships with one another. The case of Cameron Maybin appears to be one where his value goes beyond the box score, one where he not only plays his heart out on the field, but also is a valuable asset in empowering his teammates.

Said Maybin, I think my energy speaks for itself. I enjoy playing the game with a passion. Its the only way I know how to play.

In the sabermetric age of baseball, its within the realm of possibility that Maybins trait of empowering others is undervalued. Could being a good teammate be a market inefficiency? Either way, its one way for the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts.

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The oceans have absorbed about 40 percent of the manmade carbon dioxide (CO2), and mankind doesnt seem likely to make fewer demands anytime soon. Just how much CO2 can be forced into the ocean is a question that arose when scientists noticed that despite ever-increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the oceans inhaled it at different rates over the years. UCSBs Tim Devries may have found outwhy.

The geoscientist and his colleagues, Mark Holzer of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and Franois Primeau of UC Irvine, took apart data since the 1980s, and some pre-industrial estimates from 1765, to look at the problem from the other end of the telescope. Given the carbon cycle since the 1980s, what was the pattern of change in certain tracer elements, they asked, namely temperature, salinity, two chlorofluorocarbons (CFC 11 and 12), and carbon-14. Their paper, Recent increase in oceanic carbon uptake driven by weaker upper-ocean overturning, appeared in the February 9 issue of Nature.

They limited their query to the upper 1,000 meters of water, but expanded it to include all the oceans of the world. What they discovered was that the total carbon exchange depended on whether more came up out of the water than went down into it. The deeper parts of the ocean are rich with ancient carbon from limestone, rocks, dead creatures, and so on. With cold temperatures and windy conditions, as prevailed in the 1990s as compared to the 1980s, CO2 emerged to such an extent that it overwhelmed the amount being absorbed into surface waters. The rolling layers of water also took anthropogenic CO2 deeper into the ocean. The reverse has happened through 2014, with warmer conditions and less overturning circulation in the upperocean.

In some areas, the circulation rate varied by 50 percent from one decade to the next, though the pattern did not hold throughout the world. Some areas of the Northern Hemisphere oceans had fairly equal rates of carbon exchange through the 80s and 90s, the researchers found, and upwelling in the tropics in the 2000s belied the strength of the tradewinds.

The model does not separate natural variations from anthropogenic forcing, they noted, but shows a trend toward future circulation weakening. One thing seems clear, Devries told The Independent. Changes in ocean circulation can have a big impact on how much CO2 the oceans absorb, and we need to better understand how these changes will affect oceanic CO2 uptake in thefuture.

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The 10 Best Popular Science Books of 2016: Maths, Physics, Chemistry – Forbes

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This group of books that I think were the best to be published in 2016 focuses on chemistry, physics and mathematics. So if the other book lists that I published a few weeks ago (evolution/ecology/behavior, environment/conservation and birds/birding ...

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Yesterday, we provided oral evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into the Future of Chemicals Regulation, which focuses on the future of REACH (the Registration, Evaluation Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) regulation in the UK after it leaves the EU.

Building upon our written evidence, our Programme Manager for Environment and Regulation, Dr Camilla Alexander-White, answered MPs questions on what different options the UK has to regulate chemicals in the future and the scientific skills and expertise needed to run regulatory systems.

Dr Alexander-White said: "Chemical scientists are vital to the development and implementation of a range of regulations that aim to protect the environment and human health, including systems like REACH.

"Whatever regulatory system the UK follows, we need to make sure that we have a strong chemical sciences base that can deliver, analyse and interpret the high quality, robust scientific data that is needed to underpin regulation."

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Flashes of light help chemists at Princeton University and Bristol-Myers Squibb drive the hydroaminations of olefins to produce substituted amines. The light-powered reaction gives chemists another tool for installing amines in drugs and other biologically important molecules.

The new hydroamination is noteworthy for its intermolecular reactivity, its use of unactivated olefin substrates, its toleration of several different functional groups, and its regioselectivity for anti-Markovnikov amine productswherein the new CN bond forms on the less substituted carbon of the olefin (Science 2017, DOI: 10.1126/science.aal3010). Most other examples of hydroaminations result in products with the opposite, Markovnikov regiochemistry. Whats more, the new reaction can produce highly substituted amines (such as in the example shown) that are impossible to make any other way.

In the reaction, irradiation of a secondary alkyl amine in the presence of an iridium catalyst and a thiol cocatalyst yields an aminium radical cation intermediate. This species is responsible for the reactions anti-Markovnikov regiochemistry and highly substituted products, explains Robert Knowles, who led the research effort. These alkyl aminium radical cations are highly reactive and will add to many olefin classes with extraordinarily fast rates, allowing us to achieve these types of intermolecular hydroaminations. he says.

Knowles came up with an elegant approach to what was really an unsolved problem, comments Kami L. Hull, an expert in anti-Markovnikov hydrofunctionalization at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Previous examples of anti-Markovnikov hydroaminations, she points out, either required activated olefins or directing groups, or produced stoichiometric amounts of unwanted by-products. Furthermore, Hull adds, Knowless olefin substrates are so energetically stable that they wouldnt react without his photocatalytic approach, which really expands what chemists can do with this reaction.

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Chemical Bond Making & Breaking Recorded in Action 500,000x Smaller Than the Width of a Human Hair – SciTechDaily

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Re2 on Carbon Scheme. Credit: University of Nottingham

Ever since it was proposed that atoms are building blocks of the world, scientists have been trying to understand how and why they bond to each other. Be it a molecule (which is a group of atoms joined together in a particular fashion), or a block of material or a whole living organism, ultimately, everything is controlled by the way atoms bond, and the way bonds break.

The challenge is that lengths of chemical bonds are between 0.1 0.3 nm, about half a million times smaller than the width of a human hair, making direct imaging of bonding between a pair of atoms difficult. Advanced microscopy methods, such as atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), can resolve atomic positions and measure bond lengths directly, but filming chemical bonds to break or to form, with spatiotemporal continuity, in real time, still remains one of the greatest challenges of science.

This challenge has been met by a research team from the UK and Germany led by Professor Ute Kaiser, head of the Electron Microscopy of Materials Science in the University of Ulm, and Professor Andrei Khlobystov in the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham they have published Imaging an unsupported metal-metal bond in dirhenium molecules at the atomic scale in Science Advances, a journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science covering all aspects of scientific endeavor.

This group of researchers are known for their pioneering use of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to film movies of chemical reactions at the single-molecule level, and dynamics of tiny clusters of metal atoms in nanocatalysts utilize carbon nanotubes atomically thin hollow cylinders of carbon with diameters at the molecular scale (1-2 nm) as miniature test tubes for atoms.

Professor Andrei Khlobystov, said: Nanotubes help us to catch atoms or molecules, and to position them exactly where we want. In this case, we trapped a pair of rhenium (Re) atoms bonded together to form Re2. Because rhenium has a high atomic number it is easier to see in TEM than lighter elements, allowing us to identify each metal atom as a dark dot.

Professor Ute Kaiser, added: As we imaged these diatomic molecules by the state of the art chromatic and spherical aberration-corrected SALVE TEM, we observed the atomic-scale dynamics of Re2 adsorbed on the graphitic lattice of the nanotube and discovered that the bond length changes in Re2 in a series of discrete steps.

The group have a rich track record of using an electron beam as a tool for dual-purpose: precise imaging of atomic positions and activation of chemical reactions due to energy transferred from fast electrons of the electron beam to the atoms. The two-in-one trick with TEM allowed these researchers to record movies of molecules reacting in the past, and now they were able to film two atoms bonded together in Re2 walking along the nanotube in a continuous video. Dr. Kecheng Cao, Research Assistant at Ulm University who discovered this phenomenon and performed the imaging experiments, said: It was surprisingly clear how the two atoms move in pairs, clearly indicating a bond between them. Importantly, as Re2 moves down the nanotube, the bond length changes, indicating that the bond becomes stronger or weaker depending on the environment around the atoms.

After a period of time, atoms of Re2 exhibited vibrations distorting their circular shapes onto ellipses and stretching the bond. As the bond length reached a value exceeding the sum of atomic radii, the bond snapped and vibration ceased, indicating that the atoms became independent of one another. A little later the atoms joined together again, reforming a Re2 molecule.

Dr. Stephen Skowron, Postdoctoral Research Assistant at University of Nottingham who carried out the calculations for Re2 bonding, said: Bonds between metal atoms are very important in chemistry, particularly for understanding magnetic, electronic, or catalytic properties of materials. What makes it challenging is that transition metals, such as Re, can form bonds of different order, from single to quintuple bonds. In this TEM experiment, we observed that the two rhenium atoms are bonded mainly through a quadruple bond, providing new fundamental insights into transition metal chemistry.

Andrei Khlobystov, said: To our knowledge, this is the first time when bond evolution, breaking and formation was recorded on film at the atomic scale. Electron microscopy is already becoming an analytical tool for determining structures of molecules, particularly with the advance of the cryogenic TEM recognised by 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. We are now pushing the frontiers of molecule imaging beyond simple structural analysis, and towards understanding dynamics of individual molecules in real time. The team believe that one day in future electron microscopy may become a general method for studying chemical reactions, similar to spectroscopic methods widely used in chemistry labs.

Reference: Imaging an unsupported metalmetal bond in dirhenium molecules at the atomic scale by Kecheng Cao, Stephen T. Skowron, Johannes Biskupek, Craig T. Stoppiello, Christopher Leist, Elena Besley, Andrei N. Khlobystov and Ute Kaiser, 17 January 2020, Science Advances.DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay5849

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Digital chemistry set reaches new heights with space launch – Phys.Org

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February 16, 2017 by Ross Barker Professor Lee Cronin

A University of Glasgow research project is set to get underway beyond the earth's atmosphere following a successful launch into space today (Wednesday 15 February).

The project could help future space explorers create their own chemicals and drugs on demand, allowing them to maximise the efficiency of their launch payloads by taking raw chemical ingredients with them rather than specific medications. They could then use digital chemistry technology to make drugs and other materials as required.

A DIDO2 nano-satellite containing an experiment designed by Professor Lee Cronin, the University's Regius Chair of Chemistry, was one of 103 launched into space this morning on an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rocket. Professor Cronin and his research team developed the launch in partnership with SpacePharma, a company which specialises in providing scientists with access to microgravity environments.

The mission, part of the ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle programme, was successfully launched just before 4am GMT/ 9am local time at Sriharikota, around 80km from Chennai.

The experiment is a continuation of previous research from the Cronin Group which aims to digitise chemistry and make it possible for chemical compounds of all kinds to be 'printed' on demand.

During the experiment, the research team will remotely activate a microfluidic device inside the satellite which will bring together chemical agents. Using an onboard microscope, they will be able to watch the agents react, forming crystals of a drug currently being developed for use in as a possible anti-cancer treatment.

Professor Cronin said: "This is a fantastic opportunity to literally take the Cronin Group's research to new heights. Low- and zero-gravity environments offer a wide range of new opportunities for science, and we're excited to see how this experiment progresses.

"Imagine you are on living on Mars and you need access to a drug that you have not taken with you, this approach might allow you to use a digital blueprint and make the drug on demand from a minimal set of chemicals.

"This collaboration is exciting since we are going to be able to do a digitally controlled chemical experiment in space that produces a complex organic molecule that is part of a class of anti-cancer drugs under study in my laboratory. We chose this molecule as it complex one-pot three step assembly and ends by producing the drug candidate in highly pure crystalline form."

Yossi Yamin, founder and CEO of SpacePharma, said: "We are really excited that Professor Cronin is using our nano-satellite for his digital chemical experiments and we hope this will pave the way for developing chemistry in space including drug manufacturing and testing."

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A university building was evacuated after a student accidentally made the same explosive that was used in the Paris terror attacks.

The University of Bristol said triacetone triperoxide (TATP) was unintentionally formed in its chemistry laboratory on 3 February.

Police, fire service and bomb disposal experts were called to the building and carried out a controlled explosion of the substance. No one was injured in the incident.

TATP was used in bomb vests worn by militants in the attacks that killed 130 people in November 2015.

A university spokesperson said: Following a full investigation, we can confirm that the chemical triacetone triperoxide (TATP) was unintentionally formed during a routine procedure carried out by a PhD student.

The student was following a published literature method and the risk of TATP as a potential byproduct had been identified during the risk assessment process.

They added: We have robust contingency plans in place to deal with incidents of this nature. As soon as the presence of TATP was identified, the student immediately notified those responsible for laboratory safety in the school.

A series of actions were then taken which resulted in the precautionary evacuation of the chemistry building and surrounding buildings and the controlled disposal of the substance by the emergency services.

The spokesperson said the chemistry departments risk assessment process was being reviewed to determine whether additional checks could be made.

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Chemists glimpse the fleeting transition state of a reaction – MIT News

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During a chemical reaction, the molecules involved in the reaction gain energy until they reach a point of no return known as a transition state.

Until now, no one has glimpsed this state, as it lasts for only a few femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second). However, chemists at MIT, Argonne National Laboratory, and several other institutions have now devised a technique that allows them to determine the structure of the transition state by detailed observation of the products that result from the reaction.

Were looking at the consequences of the event, which have encoded in them the actual structure of the transition state, says Robert Field, the Robert T. Haslam and Bradley Dewey Professor of Chemistry at MIT. Its an indirect measurement, but its among the most direct classes of measurement that have been possible.

Field and his colleagues used millimeter-wave spectroscopy, which can measure the rotational-vibrational energy of reaction product molecules, to determine the structure of the products of the breakdown of vinyl cyanide caused by ultraviolet light. Using this approach, they identified two different transition states for the reaction and found evidence that additional transition states may be involved.

Field is the senior author of the study, which appears this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead author is Kirill Prozument, a former MIT postdoc who is now at Argonne National Laboratory.

A central concept of chemistry

For any chemical reaction to occur, the reacting molecules must receive an input of energy that enables the activated molecules to reach a transition state, from which the products are formed.

The transition state is a central concept of chemistry, Field says. Everything we think about in reactions really hinges on the structure of the transition state, which we cannot directly observe.

In a paper published in 2015, Field and his colleagues used laser spectroscopy to characterize the transition state for a different type of reaction known as an isomerization, in which a molecule undergoes a change of shape.

In their new study, the researchers explored another style of reaction, using ultraviolet laser radiation to break molecules of vinyl cyanide into acetylene and other products. Then, they used millimeter-wave spectroscopy to observe the vibrational level population distribution of the reaction products a few millionths of a second after the reaction occurred.

Using this technique, the researchers were able to determine nascent populations of molecules in different levels of vibrational energy a measure of how much the atoms of a molecule move relative to each other. Those vibrational energy levels also encode the geometry of the molecules when they were born at the transition state, specifically, how much bending excitation there is in the bond angles between hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen atoms.

This also allowed the researchers to distinguish between two slightly different products of the reaction hydrogen cyanide (HCN), in which a central carbon atom is bound to hydrogen and nitrogen, and hydrogen isocyanide (HNC), in which nitrogen is the central atom, bound to carbon and hydrogen.

This is the fingerprint of what the structure was during the instant that the molecule was released, Field says. Previous methods of looking at reactions were blind to the vibrational populations, and they were blind to the difference between HCN and HNC.

The researchers found both HCN and HNC, which are produced via different transition states, among the reaction products. This suggests that both of those transition states, which represent different mechanisms of reaction, are in play when vinyl cyanide is broken apart by the ultraviolet laser.

This implies that there are two different mechanisms competing for transition states, and were able to separate the reaction into these different mechanisms, Field says. This is a completely new technique, a new way of going to the heart of what happens in a chemical reaction.

The new technique allows scientists to explore the transition state in a way that has previously not been possible, says Arthur Suits, a professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri.

In this work, the researchers use the powerful new technique of broadband rotational spectroscopy to monitor the nascent vibrational distributions of the products of a photodissociation reaction, thereby gaining deep insight into two different transition states, says Suits, who was not involved in the study. Broadband rotational spectroscopy continues to amaze us with unexpected applications such as this glimpse of the elusive transition, and other exciting advances driven by this technique are no doubt on the way.

Additional mechanisms

The researchers data shows that there are additional reaction mechanisms beyond those two, but more study is needed to determine their transition state structures.

Field and Prozument are now using this technique to study the reaction products of the pyrolytic breakdown of acetone. They also hope to use it to explore how triazine, a six-membered ring of alternating carbon and nitrogen atoms, breaks down into three molecules of HCN, in particular, whether all three products form simultaneously (a triple whammy) or sequentially.

The research was funded by the Department of Energy, the Petroleum Research Fund, and the National Science Foundation. Other authors of the paper include Joshua Baraban PhD 13 of Ben-Gurion University; G. Barratt Park PhD 15 of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry; Rachel Shaver SM 13; P. Bryan Changala of the University of Colorado at Boulder; John Muenter of the University of Rochester; Stephen Klippenstein of Argonne National Laboratory; and Vladimir Chernyak of Wayne State University.

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Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston have sizzling sexual chemistry but possessive streak may ruin reunion – Mirror Online

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Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's PDA packed reunion at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday night has been the talk of the SAG Awards.

The former spouses were seen embracing, holding hands and gazing adoringly at each other in cosy moments not seen since their heyday as Hollywood's golden couple.

Their backstage and onscreen antics have prompted much discussion as to whether the duo - who divorced in 2005 - could perform a U-turn worthy of the most soppiest of romcoms and reunite.

Or is that the pair, who were torn apart after Brad fell head over heels for Angelina Jolie , have finally learned to get along as friends?

Body language expert Judi James gives her inside take on what the couple really mean to each other.

Judi explains: "Brad and Jen are one of those Hollywood couples that fans will always see as being made for one another, despite their divorce and his marriage to Angelina, so now the moment in time has arrived that they are both single and looking great it will appear that fate is pushing them back into the same romantic plot line they left in 2005.

"Their body language here does a lot to fuel those rumours as they use vast amounts of loving eye contact and torso proximity as they meet up on the red carpet but Im not sure their subtler signals are congruent enough for us all to be celebrating a re-run of their relationship. Brad does look incredibly pleased to see Jen and even to pull her away for an intimate greeting, grabbing her wrist like a small child impatient to get his mummys attention, but this time its Jen who shows signs of proceeding with caution.

"The last time we saw this couple in action they looked intensely loved-up and tactile as they walked along a beach during a break to re-boot their marriage and despite intense signals of mutual love Brad went straight back to announce their split and his relationship with Angelina the next day, meaning we need to be cynical however great it would be to see them back together as a couple.

"Brad gazes longingly as Jen as she chats to the press but her Wait! reaction is to extend an arm and place her hand out palm-flat. The way hes grabbing her wrist rather than her hand suggest a lack of easy-going intimacy between the pair, otherwise I would expect him to hold her hand. The gesture does make him look quite possessive, as though hes trying to capture her full attention but she is clearly making him wait.

"Brads narrow-eyed smile and his wide display of teeth make him look very much like the male lead in a movie returning to his girl. His smile suggests genuine warmth bordering on feelings of love while his eye-gaze looks intense. Jen responds but with bent knees and raised brows that seem to imply some surprise, as though they havent met up for a while.

"The way Jen touches both Brads arms suggests shes using a checking gesture, holding him a bit at arms length while she checks out his intentions.

"Jen leans in for a kiss that is very much led and controlled by her. Her pelvis is pushed back to avoid more intimate contact and her touch on his arm looks polite, for some reason making a display of the ring on her wedding finger.

"We can see Jens response from another angle here as she greets her ex.

"Brad still has hold of her wrist rather than her hand and Jens puckered brows and squeezed smile suggest surprise rather than passion as she bends her torso and raised her hand to move in for the cheek kiss. Brads wrist-hold is a complex gesture, looking surprisingly possessive given their circumstances but not intimate or romantic."

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