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In 2004, bands were growing up. Court jesters Blink-182s self-titled album a year previous had hinted at a more mature sound and Green Day were about to blow the whole thing sky high by trading two-minute slacker anthems about masturbation and not wanting to tidy your room for the sprawling, epic, anti-war rock opera American Idiot.
Popular music was primed for change. With Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, My Chemical Romance delivered it.
The hushed opening of Helena was an intriguing preamble that marked MCR out as a group of musicians prepared to experiment and take the scenic route toward pure rock fury. Its subdued scene-setting soon gave way toa deeply personal and heartfelt love letter to Gerard Ways deceased grandmother. Despite its heavy lyrical content, it still kicked serious amounts of arse, the thrashing verses and breakdown groove of the chorus sating those who just wanted to bang their heads.
Give Em Hell, Kid and To The End follow in a much more straightforward punk-rock vein, all urgency and blazing power chords, yet are characterised by Gerards bitter and wounded prose. You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison tries to restrain itself and allows Gerard to wallow in his own fears, but, like Animal in The Muppets going crazy on his drums, MCR cant keep the subdued gothic shoegazing up for long. Just as the chorus is about to kick in, the band detonate in exhilarating fashion.
Then there comes the song with which My Chemical Romance captured the hearts of so many. When MCR released Im Not Okay (I Promise), they immediately entered into the lexicon of great anthems for the disaffected youth. It stands alongside the likes of The Whos My Generation, The Sex Pistols Anarchy In The UK, Nirvanas Smells Like Teen Spirit and Rage Against The Machines Killing In The Name in the honours list of zeitgeist-capturing, generation-defining statements.
Its also a song that best showcases what made My Chemical Romance so exhilarating musically. Despite its outsider stance, the song is effortlessly cool, the mid-section breakdown where Gerard declares Im okay over a tinkling piano before the whole band come careering back in with renewed vigour that they keep until the songs end is delivered with a swagger that any band would sell body parts to replicate.
Im Not Okay became the most perfect three-and-a-half minutes of teen angst in a decade and, in doing so, launched MCR. It made them more than a band they became a badge of honour. It's still a genuine anthem for the disaffected, sounding as righteously pissed off and fresh as it did 15 years ago. For all their future success, its this moment that turned My Chemical Romance from a band to a cult and is arguably the four minutes that have come to define them.
If people thought the album was to peak there, then The Ghost Of You, while not being as startling and instant, still kept the anthems coming. A black-hearted ballad of true woe and despair, it marks the point where the more grandiose tendencies of the band were first allowed to flex their muscles.
On reflection, all these years later, there is no denying that the second half of the album isnt quite as breathless as the first. Only the spaghetti western-inspired Hang EmHigh, featuring a typically frantic vocal performance from former Black Flag and Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris, and the brilliantly defiant Thank You For The Venom, really live up to what had gone before.
By that point, though, it was enough. My Chemical Romance had spliced an original, inspiring and youthfulcollection of dark-sounding punk-rock anthemsthat showed as many glimpses of instantaneouspop as it did the wildly lavish pomp and ceremony that would come to characterise the oncoming juggernaut that was The Black Parade. Andalthough that may be the album most identify themwith,Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge still stands asMy Chemical Romances masterpiece and one of the finest alternative albums this decade has seen.
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A team of Harvard chemists has succeeded in performing the coldest chemical reaction to ever occur, according to a Nov. 29 paper they published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Science.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology professor Kang-Kuen Ni leads the team, which has been working on this ultracold chemical process for four years.
The team created a technique using lasers that allowed them to set the reaction temperature just a few millionths of a Kelvin above absolute zero the lowest physically possible temperature. They used the reaction to study the process by which the chemical reactants broke down.
Ming-Guang Hu, a postdoctoral researcher in Nis lab, said the team wanted to observe the effects of the ultracold technique on a chemical reaction. Hu is one of the first authors on the paper, along with Yu Liu, a graduate student in the lab.
Our goal is to apply the ultracold molecule technique to different fields, Hu said. For this project specifically, we want to apply the ultracold molecule technique to study the chemical reaction.
Hu added that scientists have long understood the theoretical basis of the different stages of chemical reactions, but that the new experiment allows them to more directly observe intermediate stages. Hu and Ni said scientists have relatively little knowledge of the short-lived middle stages between reactants and their final products.
What we were looking for was the products of this reaction, to confirm that these chemical reactions were happening, going from reactants to product, Ni said. But a bit of a surprise was that we also see the intermediate, which is usually more transient in nature.
Hu said he hopes the study will help future researchers to better control the speed of ultracold chemical reactions.
The long-term goal is really to be able to control, or alter, the reaction rate of chemical reactions, Hu said. The ultracold technique is probably the most close to that dream.
The team is currently exploring new ways they can use the ultracold technique, according to a Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology press release. The release states that the technique may help researchers manipulate reactants during a reaction, prematurely excite them, or physically nudge them around.
Ni said she has heard very positive reactions to the experiment from other researchers.
In the very immediate community, people are very excited. It was a bit of a puzzle for at least ten years, Ni said. But, moreover, we also saw something that we didnt expect. Now we have opened up new possibilities to everybody, so the community is very excited to see what we could learn next.
Ahead of the Washington Mystics 78-72 win over Atlanta on Sunday, Mystics Coach Mike Thibault was asked to describe the progress his retooled roster is making toward becoming a cohesive unit. His response was simple.
Slow, he said.
That disconnect showed Sunday, when for the second straight game Washington needed the final seconds to seal a home win. The Mystics (5-2) staved off an impressive comeback from Atlanta after frittering away an 18-point lead. Washington trailed 72-71 with 43 seconds left before it won the game at the foul line, with Elena Delle Donne hitting five free throws and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough sinking two as the Dream (4-2) missed its final two field goals.
Its hard, eight players, we got tired legs shooting the ball, Thibault said. ... But its really nice to have one of the best players in the league on your team when youre down the stretch.
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Delle Donne led Washington with 23 points and a career-high 15 rebounds and hit 10 of her 12 free throw attempts. Tierra Ruffin-Pratt added 11 points, and a hot-handed Kristi Toliver had 15 on a season-high five three-pointers.
Washington was without starting guard Tayler Hill (neck/left shoulder strain) and backups Natasha Cloud (left knee strain) and Asia Taylor (neck pain), but a shortened rotation is just one of the reasons team chemistry on offense was spotty Sunday.
A month into the season, the Mystics are integrating six new players. Starting forward Emma Meesseman is overseas with the Belgian national team, and Toliver is still catching up after missing all of training camp.
Hills injury also forced Walker-Kimbrough into the starting lineup just four games into her WNBA career. Her first task as a starter was no easy ask the former Terp had to guard Eastern Conference player of the month Tiffany Hayes, who averages 19.8 points and had 24 against the Mystics.
All that offensive adjustment resulted in Washingtons second shoddy shooting game in a row: The Mystics shot 36.5 percent from the field Sunday.
I just think were operating at about 50 percent offensively right now, Thibault said.
His star player agreed, though no one in the Mystics locker room is fretting. The win put Washington ahead of Atlanta at the top of the Eastern Conference and in second place in the league overall behind undefeated Minnesota.
We have great moments, and then we have some bad moments, Delle Donne said. But its early in the season, and its kind of expected. Were a brand-new team, and were all trying to figure one another out. Obviously I hope to see us improve each game and get better and better, but until then, we just have to continue to be really good on defense.
Defense helped Washington dominate the first half. Hot shooting from Toliver, who had three three-pointers in the first three minutes of the game, got the Mystics off to a good start, and they kept Atlantas offense from getting out in transition as they went on lengthy runs at the start of the second and third quarters.
With Walker-Kimbrough on her, Hayes got to the free throw line only twice in the first half and was held to just seven points.
But breakdowns crept in midway through the third quarter, when Hayes finally pushed through a tired Washington defense and the Mystics sputtering offense lost its safeguard.
Hayes had seven points in the third quarter alone. Washington ended the game with 14 turnovers to Atlantas three, many of them a result of miscommunication.
I thought we had two terrible possessions on offense where causal, not executing what we called, then we watched us shoot a jump shot, and while were watching, theyre out running two-on-one a couple times, Thibault said of third quarter. They had us on our heels a little bit.
Delle Donne stepped in when the Mystics were really reeling, after Sancho Lyttle nabbed Atlantas first lead of the game with a 12-foot jumper with 43 seconds to play. Washington came out of a timeout with the ball, and Delle Donne drew a three-shot foul when Lyttle jumped to block her shot far too early.
Walker-Kimbroughs two free throws with four seconds left provided insurance and accounted for two of the rookies three points Sunday. Her first career start was a solid one defensively, and she may be seeing more minutes soon.
Hill strained her neck in Wednesdays win over Connecticut but could play this week. Cloud had a gnarly collision with Taylor in practice Friday, and an MRI exam Saturday morning revealed a left knee strain. There is no timetable for Clouds return.
For now, at least, she is another missing piece for Washington to work around.
New York tops Phoenix
Kiah Stokes scored a career-high 23 points and added 14 rebounds to help the New York Liberty beat the visiting Phoenix Mercury, 88-72.
Its the second straight game that Stokes has had a career high in points and finished with a double-double. I think shes in a good place and I think shes shown great progress, New York Coach Bill Laimbeer said of Stokes.
Shavonte Zellous added 21 points, and Tina Charles had 16 for New York (4-3).
Brittney Griner scored 26 points, and Diana Taurasi added 17 for Phoenix (4-3).
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DuPont has developed ionomeric resins for making balls that fly farther.
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Manufacturers have taken a fresh swing at the chemistry of golf balls in recent years to make balls that suit every golfer, from the duffers that shank them out of bounds to the latest hot shots who bend them around bunkers on the pro tour.
Much of the latest chemistry is designed to make balls that are more controllable or fly fartheror both. Softer balls typically give golfers better control, while harder balls travel faster. The latest golf ball brand names (Max, Rush, TruSpeed, and Velocity) hint at where the technology is headed.
About 1.2 billion golf balls are produced every year. There are more than 80 different types of balls of varying construction materials and designs.
Although major changes have taken place in ball formulation recently, golf ball technology has been on an upswing for more than 500 years; that is, ever since the game was invented on the eastern coast of Scotland sometime in the 15th century. Back in the day, golfers played with wooden clubs and made their balls from local hardwoods such as beech.
In 1618, golf ball technology really began to take off with the creation of the featherie, a leather pouch stuffed with boiled feathers from chickens or geese. The featherie-making process was lyrically described in The Goff, a 1743 poem by Thomas Mathison. The feathers and leather started wet and as the leather dried, it shrank to create a tightly packed ball.
By 1848, the featherie was dropped and the gutty came on the scene. The ball was made from gutta-percha, a type of coagulated latex, likely from Palaquium gutta, a fruit originating from the Yucatan. When gutta-percha was heated in water and rolled into a sphere, it formed a virtually indestructible ball. Historians widely attribute the guttys creation in the 1840s to Robert Adams Paterson, a divinity student at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Chemistry is helping players hit golf balls with better speed and accuracy.
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With the advent of industrialization in the late 1800s, companies began producing rubber balls from molds. In 1898, Ohio-based tire and rubber producer B.F. Goodrich introduced the first ball that had rubber threads wound around a natural rubber core, all encased in a gutta-percha sphere.
The wound ball went through a number of incarnationsincluding one with a compressed air core that tended to explodebefore manufacturers adopted a design that replaced the gutta-percha cover with balata, a form of natural rubber obtained from a South American tree. Throughout much of the early 20th century, gutta-percha and balata balls became the weapons of choice for most golfers, pro and amateur alike.
These days, a golf ball is typically made of a butadiene rubber center surrounded by one or more rubber mantles and topped off with a tough skin. These outer layers are made from blends of high-performance ethylene copolymers known as ionomeric resins, which harden through ionic crosslinking between negatively charged acid groups and positively charged metal salts, such as zinc and sodium salts.
This design is favored because the resulting balls have a hard core with an outside that is compressible, or soft, according to the website of DuPont, which has been high on the leader board for golf ball technology for more than 50 years. DuPonts technology, for example, is being used by Nike under the brand name Speedlock RZN.
Other rubber and polymer producers are also collaborating with golf ball manufacturers to make a ball that really flies. Japanese golf ball maker Kasco has been using polymer producer Lanxesss neodymium polybutadiene rubber in the core of its balls. This material efficiently converts impact energy into kinetic energy and thus enhances flying distance, Lanxesss website claims.
Perhaps the most quintessential part of a golf ball is its pitted coating, which affects how the ball rolls and how it feels when it is hit by a golfers club. Dimples also reduce a balls drag as it flies through the air. Manufacturers alter the size and number of dimples to adjust performance.
PPG, among others, has produced coatings for golf balls. The company has been producing a range of proprietary coating formulations, including scratch-resistant ones made from polyurethane, for companies such as the Titleist balls producer Acushnet for more than a decade.
Unlike most politicians of the 20th century, former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill wasnt impressed with the game. He once described golf as a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. He may have been right at the time, but as it turns out, golf ball technology has been on an upward trajectory ever since.
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KITTITAS Kittitas baseball coach Eric Sorensen had to think a bit when asked to describe the type of season he hopes to have in 2017.
Its not a rebuilding year, he said, after contemplating the question. I think its going to be a year that we can feed off of from last year.
The Coyotes came ever so close to a fifth-straight state tournament appearance. Instead, a loss to Liberty Bell in a loser-out 2B district tournament game ended their season.
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I felt like we didnt achieve what we wanted to, Sorensen said. Districts left a bad taste in everybodys mouth and I remind them from the first day of practice that we have a whole lot more to accomplish.
Creating chemistry
This season, the Kittitas coaching staff has made it a point to create more team chemistry early on, starting with more senior leadership.
The Coyotes feature seven seniors in Travis Ledgard, Tommy Ott, Ben Weber, Jerome Lael, Jace Moen, Dylan Byers and Hunter Wallace.
Sorensen said it is going to be important for them to set an example for the kind of baseball club they want to become.
We have a bunch of old guys and then we have a bunch of young guys that will be our future, Sorensen said. We need to have good leadership to teach these new guys what it is about.
After weeks of being forced inside and watching their baseball diamond slowly thaw out, the Coyotes have been working on team building exercises to create one cohesive unit.
It can always be better, Sorensen said. If we arent a cohesive brotherhood it doesnt matter how good you are. We are nine guys working as one.
Finding replacements
This past Monday, Kittitas finally got its first taste of a damp field when it was able to practice on the elementary school grounds, but there were a few familiar faces missing.
Over at least the last few seasons, pitcher Jaden Meador, catcher Druw Ledgard and outfielder Eli Eilers have been cornerstones in the program, but they graduated last spring.
Sorensen found suitable replacements including a three-man pitching rotation made up of seniors Webber, Ott and Travis Ledgard.
We are going to miss Jaden, Sorenson said. He was a guy you could trust for a Game 1, but the nice part with these three is take your pick. Over the course of a weekend we can have two good starters and a third that can come in and shut the game down.
Although each could pitch on any given day, each has his own identity.
I have big shoes to fill, but I think the three of us are going to make a big difference, Travis Ledgard said.
Balanced lineup
Kittitas also will feature a balanced lineup that will have Weber at the top to Tyson Dekoning in the middle to junior Nick Meador.
Another bench player looking to contribute is freshman Justin Hudson.
We just have guys who can get on base and we will have an overall better lineup, Weber said.
The Coyotes start their season this afternoon against Selahs junior varsity squad, but throughout the upcoming weeks their opponents will not be as familiar.
Kittitas entered the brand new Eastern Washington Athletic Conference league this year, and although DeSales has been a perennial powerhouse by winning 11 state championships since 2000, Sorensen said there is going be some great competition.
We want to have the first league title for this new league, and I think if we dont make it out of districts, we wont be satisfied, Sorensen said.
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Fort Worth Star Telegram | Rangers clubhouse missing key players, but chemistry will be there Fort Worth Star Telegram For those who still believe in chemistry being a major component of the game and that's just about everyone in baseball, by the way the Rangers expect that the clubhouse will again be a strength despite the disruptive spring and the loss of three ... |
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VANCOUVER, B.C. Consistency is the name of the game forVancouver Whitecaps FC right now, and it's no coincidence that its reaping results.
Carl Robinson fielded an unchanged starting lineup for the fifth straight match in Saturday's 2-0 win over Western Conference leaders Sporting Kansas City at BC Place. Vancouver's new-look 4-1-4-1 lineup had brought the 'Caps some success on the road in a tough four-game road stretch. They came back with six points and could have had more, given their four fine performances.
Robinson admitted he toyed with the idea of mixing things up, but went with an if it ain't broke, don't fix it approach, and it paid off.
"I gave it lots of thought," Robinson said. "Sometimes you get it right when you win, or get a result or a performance, and sometimes you dont. So lots of thought has gone into it. I just felt it was right."
The Whitecaps recent chemistry has been noticeable, especially on the defensive side, with two clean sheets in their last three matches. Elsewhere on the pitch, link-up play is improving every game as players understanding grows. With three wins in their last four games, the results speak for themselves.
Defender Sheanon Williams says hes excited by what may lie in store for this group.
"As the weeks go on I have started to feel more comfortable with the players that Im playing with on my side," said theMLS veteran. "This team is a team that day in, day out, comes to work. Even the substitutes that come on, you can see the work that everybody does for each other its something that I havent seen. Its a credit to the team and the guys we have in that locker room.
"I have been in the league eight years and this is definitely the most excited that I have been to be on a team. I think that this team has everything to make a deep run and to be successful in this league. Im excited and I hope everyone else is."
Center backTim Parker agrees.
"In the backline it's great, we're grooving pretty well now," he said. "We're not giving up many chances. In front of us, it's good. We all understand the kind of team we want to be and the kind of players we want and how we want to play the game."
But Robinson doesn't want his team to feel too settled. Injuries and a lack of available bodies are factors in the Whitecaps' lineup stability, and as much as he likes the consistency and chemistry, the coach also wants competition for places.
"I just said to them, when players become healthy, competition will rise," Robinson said. "Challenges for your starting spot will rise. The strong will come out and the weak will have to get their head down and fight again. And thats what pleases me the most. You know, weve been consistent, weve performed, weve got some really good results."
Starting this week, Robinson will have to balance rotation, competition and continuity. The games now come thick and fast for Vancouver, starting with a two-legged Canadian Championship semifinal against the Montreal Impact that opens at BC Place on Tuesday night (10 pm ET | TSN1 in Canada).
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Alexander Platt and Celeste Oliva in Stage Kiss.
Theres surely something strange about depictions of physical intimacy onstage. We understand that the stage directions, like the lines the actors speak, are all scripted. But two people kissing onstage are still kissing.
Sarah Ruhls comedy Stage Kiss doesnt dwell too deeply on such metaphysics. Ruhl is a highly interesting playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, but this 2011 entry is not a major work. Yet as seen in a crisp and attractive production at Lyric Stage Company of Boston, it makes for an agreeable romp with ample laughs and just enough winks toward something deeper to suggest to attentive audience members that perhaps theyre onto something.
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Ruhl gives us two central characters, identified only as She (Celeste Oliva) and He (Alexander Platt), ex-lovers reunited in the cast of a remount of a 1930s Broadway flop. Oliva motors Stage Kiss from the outset, when we see her nervously auditioning for the amusingly ineffectual director played with a light comic touch by Lyric mainstay Will McGarrahan. This actor has the gift of making it look easy, but his comic timing here is expert.
Through the rehearsal process of this play-within-a-play and its opening night, we track the exchange between the hokey melodramas depiction of an affair and the evolution of She and Hes relationship. The structure is inverted in the second act, when offstage life gives way to the performance of a different play. We get repeated reminders that the line between an actor doing her job and a person living in the moment is more permeable than is comfortably acknowledged such as when botched stage business leads to a genuinely broken foot or sprained neck.
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Director Courtney OConnor keeps the clever storytelling twists lucid, making sure we follow the transitions from play to play-within-a-play, even when they occur in the same scene and on the same set. OConnors deftest move, though, is facilitating a pair of ever-more-impressive central performances.
Oliva and Platt are provided here a showcase of their craft. The piece could easily lie inert if not for these actors firecracker chemistry. In scenes set onstage and off, the two model the full emotional journey of a testy romance, from post-coital bliss to the bitter re-litigation of ancient disputes to an awkward post-breakup meeting. Stage Kiss is forever reminding us of the essential artifice of performance (starting with the protagonists names), but Oliva and Pratt keep things anchored by believably playing the reality underlying the gags. Even when their motivations are obscured by costumes and heavy accents, we observe the evolution of these characters.
Another chief asset is Michael Hisamoto as Kevin, an all-purpose understudy. Kevins presence in various roles becomes a running joke particularly when a scene calls for his very awkward kissing skills. (Kevin is gay, and the trepidation with which he approaches his intimate moments with She is hilarious.) Craig Mathers, Theresa Nguyen, and Gillian Mackay-Smith also do admirable double duty in roles that work as mirror images.
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The playwright doesnt quite stick the landing, as things take a turn for the sentimental and were suddenly meant to be invested in the mending of an offstage relationship weve seen little of. The plays concluding beats feel very familiar, reminding us weve really seen all of this before, in other backstage tales told in the theater and on film.
But in one bravura comic sequence involving the directors intervention in an onstage kiss, we get a reminder that even the most personal of gestures may be merely artifice whatever one might be pretending.
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Nature's carbonate system, the dynamic chemistry involving carbon dioxide (CO2), carbonate (CO32-), bicarbonate (HCO3-), and carbonic acid (H2CO3), is a vital component of the biosphere. Carbonate, bicarbonate, and carbonic acid emerge when atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolves in the oceans, which is the largest sink for this greenhouse gas. Researchers are interested in better understanding the carbonate system to potentially help facilitate carbon sequestration schemes, especially with carbon-bonding minerals, to help mitigate climate change. The carbonate system is also central to biological respiration systems, another reason why researchers are interested in this chemistry.
Recently, a group of chemists from the University of California, Berkeley teamed up with scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and made breakthrough discoveries about the carbonate species' behavior at saltwater surfaces, like that of the ocean. They report their findings this week in The Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing.
According to one of the paper's authors, UC Berkeley chemistry professor Richard Saykally, a strong motivation for this research was understanding the chemical processes involved in carbon sequestration. They found that while neutral carbonic acid was most heavily present at the surface, as was expected, the more highly charged carbonate ion was more abundant than the weaker bicarbonate.
"We want to generally advance our understanding of the global carbon cycle," Saykally said. "The aspects of this cycle that we have been focusing on begin with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dissolving into salt water, followed by some very interesting chemistry."
Carbon dioxide is captured by the water surface and hydrated to form carbonic acid or bicarbonate, which can then ionize into either bicarbonate or carbonate where carbonate may react with dissolved magnesium or calcium ions to form limestone.
"We want to know all those steps going from gaseous carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to limestone," Saykally said. "Our goal is to understand all the details in all the steps in that process."
UC Berkeley chemistry doctoral candidate Royce Lam, a co-author of the paper who led much of the research, wanted to build on earlier examinations of the hydration structure of carbonic system species, focusing on the relative abundances of carbonate species at the liquid surface.
Collaborating with LBNL's Dr. Hendrik Bluhm, Lam and co-authors made use of the ambient pressure photoemission spectroscopy (APPES) beamline (11.0.2) at the Advanced Light Source synchrotron at LBNL, to conduct X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) measurementsa way to probe the molecular makeup of materials using an intense beam of high-energy X-rays. The XPS system enabled them to probe different aspects of the carbonate system they could not access before.
"What is special about XPS is that it allows us to probe at different depths into the water surface," Lam said. "This is one of the few beamlines in the world that can do this class of experiments on liquids."
For samples, Lam combined solutions of the carbonate species and hydrochloric acid, which fortuitously resembled the ocean system. With a liquid microjet device, the researchers injected these samples into a vacuum chamber and probed them at multiple X-ray energies to deduce the relative abundances of the carbonate species from the photoemitted electrons.
At the liquid surface, both carbonate and carbonic acid were more abundant than biocarbonate. The most significant surprise was that the more highly charged carbonate was more abundant at the surface than the less charged bicarbonate, which conflicts with expectations from existing theoretical models.
This raises important question about where the bicarbonate could be moving in the system, with a possibility that the carbonate could be "ion pairing" with sodium, changing the chemistry, and causing bicarbonate to move to lower depths.
"We are still working on the theory and we hope that this paper will stimulate further theoretical discussion that may actually yield definitive insights about what is going on here," Lam said.
Lam hopes that this research will also lead to more direct research on carbon sequestration possibilities.
"So, the next step would be to look further into ion pairing, and essentially limestone or mineral formation, specifically, looking at the interaction of calcium and magnesium ions with carbonate," Lam said of one carbon sequestration possibility he discussed.
Saykally feels this research connects with the whole system of aqueous carbonate chemistry, with applications ranging from carbon sequestration to biomedical research.
"In order to achieve these kinds of advances, I believe you have to know every detail of the chemistry involved in all those steps of the water-carbonate system." Saykally said. "It is a very intricate chemistry with profound practical implications."
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More information: "Reversed interfacial fractionation of carbonate and bicarbonate evidenced by X-ray photoemission spectroscopy," Royce K. Lam, Jacob Smith, Anthony Rizzuto, Osman Karsilio?lu, Hendrik Bluhm and Richard J. Saykally. Journal of Chemical Physics. DOI: 10.1063/1.4977046
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Do you want to know how much pee you're swimming in? A scientist at the University of Alberta has some answers for you. (Those who wish to remain blissfully ignorant, keep scrolling.)Stock Photo via Anne Lepesant
Do you pee in the pool? Maybe its a habit yououtgrew,but for every potty-trained graduate ofage-group swimming there are a dozen more older and mature swimmers that would still rather just let it go than get out during practice. After all, most swimmers only ever get out of the pool to pee right before the hard setwe see you, slackers, but were not debating the actual sizes of your bladders here. In fact, we applaud your willingness to walk all the way to the toilet, because as Dr. Xing-Fang Lifrom the University of Alberta has discovered, your teammates that stay put havent stopped answering natures call in your shared aquatic field of play, the pool.
So, do you still want to know how much pee is in a pool? Well, assuming youre swimming in a standard eight-lane, 25 yard pool, which holds approximately 220,000 gallons of water, youre also swimming in about 20 gallons of urine. Your best friends backyard pool, which likely measures around 20 feet long by 40 feet wide at about five feet deep, probably contains onlytwo gallons of pee. In either case, this translates to approximately 1/100th of 1% of the pools total volume. Peanuts, right? Well, it turns out its not that simple.
Even a volume as tiny as 1/100th of 1% of the pools volume can be a hazard to patronshealth. How? Well, when urine andchlorine bond in their objectionable union a whole host of unsavory compounds known asdisinfection byproducts are born. Such byproducts include thechloramines floating in the air that swimmers and pool-goers breathe in, giving pools that classic chlorine odor, to cyanogen chloride, a chemical so dangerous it is classified amongchemical warfare agents,to nitrosamines, substances which are usually carcinogenic. While theres not enough evidence to say whether the nitrosamine levels in pools increase risk of cancer, one Spanish study founda trend inbladder cancers in some long-term swimmers. Apparently, even peeing in the pool can generate bad karma that might bite you back in the very organ you sneakily relieved during that social kick your coach was nice enough to pencil into the workout.
So how did scientists determine these volumes in the first place? Well, if it leaves your body, it had to find its way in somehow, so in the case of pee, scientists followed the Yellow Brick Road back to artificial sweeteners which leave a distinct and traceable residue in pool water. For this study,Dr. Xing-Fang Li measured the amounts of acesulfame potassium, or Ace-K for short, in competition pools, hotel pools, and hotel hot tubs in two Canadian cities. University of Purdues Dr. Ernest Blatchley III equated peeing in the pool to second-hand smoke, saying that the habit is disrespectful and potentially dangerous. However, as Blatchley points out, any pool open for wide-spread or public use is definitely absorbing its fill of urine. Essentially, pee in the pool is a foregone conclusioneven a joke among many swimmersso best prepare to deal with it.
Any swimmer or swim parent can tell you how much worse air quality tends to be in natatoriums than at outdoor pools. Without open air and sunlight, airborne compounds like chloramines build up and are more concentrated, making breathing more difficult, especially for those with respiratory issues such as asthma. Whats more, urine isnt the only unpleasant substance finding its way into common waters via the human body. Oils on the skin and in the hair, and products used on the body such as lotions and hair gels, all contribute to the sump that pool water can become if both patrons and aquatics directors and staff do not take the necessary precautions to side-step inadvertentlyadulterating the seemingly pristine waters within which weswim.
Thankfully, the path to a cleaner pool is simple. First, if you gotta go, just get out of the pool and go, or go before practice, or hold it. Your choice! Second, actually take a shower before getting in the water like the sign in the locker room says. It might seem redundant to shower before getting in the pool, but by rinsing off whatever residue is on your skin and hair before getting in the water, youre doing everyone in the pool, on deck, and in the stands a favor. So there you have itthere really is a lot of pee in the pool, but with any luck, well keep a few gallons out!
The original study this information is drawn from can be found here. For further scientific reading about chloride formation in swimming pools and other disinfection byproducts, click here.
Reid Carlsonoriginally hails from Clay Center, Kansas, where he began swimming at age six. At age 14 he began swimming club year-round and later with his high school team, making state all four years. He was fortunate enough to draw the attention of Kalamazoo College where he went on to
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By Debra Bruno By Debra Bruno March 2 at 6:00 AM
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Veronica Branch, 56, a government procurement expert, describes her dream date as an educated man who has traveled some, has his own means and wants a companion who is his equal. Alan Oakes, 59, a government IT manager, is looking for someone who laughs easily and is intelligent but not too engrossed in their work. The pair agreed on everything necessary to make a great long-term relationship, and that this thing called sparks is for crazy youngsters. Or is it? If not sparks, then what would it take for them to make a romantic connection? We sent them to Ophelias Fish House on Barracks Row to find out.
Veronica: I got there early. Im always early. He was just a little late, and he said that time management was one of his issues.
Alan: She was a charming, attractive lady. There wasnt a love connection, thats for sure, however, and I say that because the type of lady Im attracted to is someone who is fairly active.
Veronica : He was well-dressed and looked friendly.
Alan: She was a widow. Fortunately for her, she had been in a very good marriage and lost him about three years ago. We talked a lot about that. It was still very obvious that the pain of losing her spouse was present.
Veronica : I could see why we were set up. We had a lot of things in common. Hes a government worker, and so am I. Hes financially responsible, and so am I. He has children and I have children.
Alan: Shes originally from Philly, and my ex was originally from Philly.
Veronica : He said he was a Catholic, and Im a Christian. I go to a nondenominational church.
Alan: We were together about two hours, and for probably the first hour we discussed our past relations. I had been married about 15 years and divorced about 12, but I said my ex and I are friends. We occasionally this is true meet and do things together.
Veronica: I told him Im a widow. Its been only three years. But Im good. God is good. Ive worked on becoming a full person. And with grief support for a couple of years, it really helped, spiritually, physically, mentally. Its not a difficult conversation now.
Alan: It didnt bother me. I wanted her to feel comfortable and relaxed, and I didnt mind talking about it. That was a large part of her conversation her husband, who she said was her best friend. I complimented her and her marriage, and that she was in such a satisfying marriage.
Veronica : He talked about his ex, that they have a great relationship, and he talked about his daughter. Hes a proud father. There werent any lulls in the conversation.
Alan: Once she mentioned how close and how satisfying her marriage was, I wanted her to know that there wasnt any current angst between me and my ex. That sort of cleared the air, that there was no lingering anger over any past relationships.
Alan: Ive been dating more than she had. She said I was her first date in three years. She asked candidly how she could spot a man who was, for example, not sincere in dating.
Veronica : We also talked about the politics of the day. We both have a little anxiety about our country right now.
Alan: I asked her about her definition of the chemistry thing. I told her with the women I have met it seems like ladies want bells and whistles on the first date. I told her thats basically not true of men. Even though we are visual creatures and our eyes can light up, men arent into that instant chemistry.
Veronica : I feel that only crazy young people can have that kind of craziness. Not that I think you cant find love, or that its not romantic, but its a little bit more evolved.
Alan: Were mature people who are, I guess, out in the singles dating world, so we agreed, based upon our situation, that we dont need to beat around the bush.
Veronica: Were there sparks? That is so young. I would say we were in the friend zone.
Alan: I think neither of us felt the wow factor. But shes a gracious lady. She asked to stay in touch, and we swapped numbers.
Veronica: I called a friend of mine to come and get me. You cant be too safe, and you just dont know if people are crazy.
Alan: Her escort was already there. We went outside and he honked, and she introduced me to him. We shook hands, it was all very gracious, and I gave her a hug, and off to the vehicle she went.
Veronica: I could have driven, but if things go south, now you know where I live and know what my car is.
Alan: Ive dated ladies in their 50s who are angry at their ex-spouse and angry at the dating scene. This was not like that at all. It was a nice, friendly date.
Veronica : He brought me a flower and a valentine card. A good date is a good date.
Rate the date
Veronica: I would give it a 3 [out of 5]. Like I said, we were more in the friend zone.
Alan: Id say a 4, in terms of friendliness, relaxation and respect for her.
Update
The two have not been in touch since their date.
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Youve probably heard of physics engines in games. But what about chemistry engines?
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wilds technical director, Takuhiro Dohta, talked about some of the open-world games design philosophies at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The anticipated title launches soon (it might even be out by the time youre reading this). Itll be available as a launch title for the Switch on March 3, and its coming out for the Wii U that same day. We gave it a score of 100/100 in our review
Dohta said thatNintendo decided that its new Zelda needed a chemistry engine. If physics engines dictate how objects influence the way things move, a chemistry engine could be in charge of how objects change each others states.
Basically, Breath of the Wilds physics engine has three rules:
So, fire (an element) can set a tree (a material) on fire. But a tree cant change the state of another tree. However, water (another element) can put out a fire.
Above: Its all connected.
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But Zelda lets playersget more creative than that. This interaction of elements and objects is one of the keys that makes Breath of the Wild such an interesting game. It lets players experiment and find unique solutions to problems. For example, you could fan a giant leaf at a sail on a boat to move it, or you could throw a sword toward a group of enemies during a storm to attract a lightning bolt in their area.
Dohta admitted that this kind of chemistry isnt real chemistry. Little of it would scientifically work in the real world. However, a sense of in-game logic dictates theway everything interacts. In real life, a leaf, no matter how big, couldnt make enough wind to move a sailboat. But in the game, it makes sense once you become familiar with theitems mechanics.
Nintendo wants people to feel like geniuses when they play Breath of the Wild, and this chemistry engine makes those ah ha moments possible.
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With the NBA trade deadline in the rear view mirror, the Celtics will have to turn to the buyout market if they are looking to make changes to their roster.
Talking to CSN Celtics InsiderA. Sherrod Blakely, Danny Ainge explained why signing players who have been bought out can be a risky move for a team like the Celtics.
Well weigh each guy that comes on the market and see if that can be a boost to our team, explained Ainge. At the same time, I like our team. Bringing in new players sometimes messes up your whole chemistry, and it shifts somebody into a different role that theyre not accustomed to doing. You better know what youre getting.
We brought in Michael Finley, Sam Cassell. . . PJ Brown turned out to be a very good asset to us. Most of the time it sort of disrupts things. At the end of the year you go, wow, we probably shouldnt have done that. Even though on paper it looked like a great acquisition, it wasnt as good as everyone thought it would be.
Chris Mannix breaks down the Boston Celtics deciding to stand pat at the trade deadline, and how the C's were not very close at all to getting Paul George.
For the second straight season the trade deadline came and went with no moves from the Boston Celtics.
President of basketball operations Danny Ainge continues to look at the big picture as his team moves forward with their roster intact.
It wasnt for lack of trying, last year and this year, said Ainge. We came away with Al Horford in the summer. We drafted Jaylen Brown, Jaylen just continually getting better. Im very excited about the future of both those guys. We were also able to get Ante Zizic, who is having a terrific year over in Turkey. I think that our future is looking good.
We hope to have another good summer this year, whether we use the draft pick, whether we trade the draft pick. I think we cant go wrong, as long as we dont screw it up and pay too much for certain assets.
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John White Webster was known as something of ahot-head. And, as a professor of chemistry at Harvard College, he certainly liked to blow things up. But he could not seriously be considered a suspect in the caseof Dr. George Parkmans death. After all, as Harvards President Jared Sparks said, Our professors do not often commit murder.
Dr. Parkman was a very prominent Bostonian, famous for, among other things,his false teeth. He was the benefactor of Harvards Medical College and had endowed thechair of anatomy occupied by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. His nephew, Francis Parkman, would grow up to be Americas first great historian. One moresolid fact about the doctor: he was last seen on this Earth walking towards the Medical College on the afternoon of November 23, 1849.
An eminent Bostonians disappearance occasionedone of the earliest uses of forensic evidence in the American courtroom.
Two days after Dr. Parkman was last seen, Professor Webster admittedthat hed had an interview with him thatafternoon and paid him several hundred dollars. So, his pockets full of money, Parkman must have been robbed on the way home. Had the desperate cutpurses done something even worse?
An eminent Bostonians disappearance was real news. A reward was posted. Enter the Medical Colleges janitor, Ephriam Littlefield, who testified that he heard Webster and Parkman arguing. On his own, Littlefieldbegan excavating the privy vault under Websters rooms. Dr. Parkman, onepresumes? Yes, or at least parts of him. Constable Derastus Clapp promptly arrested Webster. More bodily remains were found in Websters laboratory, in the stove and in a tin box, including those famous false teeth. The teeth were identified by Dr. Nathan C. Keep, who had made them for Parkman. This was one of the earliest uses of forensic evidence in the American courtroom.
Stewart Holbrook gives a fine prcis of the scandal and trial. John Webster didnt make enough money to pay for his famously lavish entertainments. He had gone deeper and deeper into debt with Parkman, a real estate tycoon known for extracting every penny he was owed. Webster had even sold his rock collection to help pay off his debt, though it had already been mortgaged to Parkman. Unfortunately, he sold it to Parkmans friend Robert Gould Shaw, grandfather of the Robert Gould Shaw who commanded the first all-black regiment in the Civil War.
Defense attorneys, including Pliny Merrick, were later sharply criticized for not vigorously cross-examining Littlefield. Webster claimed that Littlefield moonlighted as a resurrectionist, one of that infamous crew who illegally supplied bodies to medical colleges for anatomy lessons. Albert I. Borowitz details the charges laid out against the defense by A. Oakey Hall, later a Mayor of New York (and another Harvard man, obviously). But as Borowitz notes, Halls points were blunted by the fact that he hadnt actually attended the trial.
Capital crimes in Massachusetts where presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, Lemuel Shaw (Harvard, Class of 1800), who was also Herman Melvilles father-in-law. Shaws three-hour charge to the jury in the Webster case is considered one of the greatest expositions of the law of circumstantial evidence ever delivered. The jury found Webster guilty after three hours of deliberation. He appealed, to no avail. Just before swinging from the hangmans rope in 1850, he confessed to the crime.
The case was long remembered. Twenty years later, Charles Dickens named the murder room as the one place he really wanted to visit in Boston, much to the chagrin of locals. And attorney Ben Butler, who was not a Harvard man, was soon admonished by a judge to tread lightly with awitness.
Dont you know hes a Harvard man?
Yes, I know, your honor; we hanged one the other day.
By: Stewart Holbrook
The American Scholar, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Autumn 1945), pp. 425-434
The Phi Beta Kappa Society
By: Albert I. Borowitz
American Bar Association Journal, Vol. 66, No. 12 (December, 1980), pp. 1540-1545
American Bar Association
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Over the last few years, the 00s emo revival has been snowballing. With comeback tours, reformations, emo nights and new artists adopting the sound, its now somehow bigger than ever. In the last few months, the quiet hum of emos comeback has grown to a scream, and its here to stay. 2020 is the new 2005, so in this fortnightly column, Marianne Eloise, whos been covering the revival since 2016, will round up (some) of the near-daily emo news: from new shows to new songs to cryptic clues.
Its been another huge two weeks for the 00s emo revival, and naturally, My Chemical Romance have been pretty much dominating the entire conversation. With their US tour being announced, on sale and sold out within a matter of days, US MCR fans have been completely bankrupted in the last fortnight.
That also means that some of the smaller news has been swiftly forgotten in the midst of MCR mania (it really is 2006!). Hayley Williams has also been incredibly busy, releasing two new songs, debuting the cover of her album, and putting us all through an emotional wringer.
Here are some of the highlights from a very emo fortnight:
While The All American Rejects havent strictly gone anywhere, they have teased that they might throw their hat in the nostalgia ring. When a fan tweeted that their 2005 album Move Along is an underrated powerhouse, they quote tweeted him to say, Cheers bud, shes turning 15 this year... think we are gonna do a real tribute for it, sound like a plan? A lot of fans got very excited very quickly, offering to empty their bank accounts if the band do a full tour, but they havent yet announced anything officially.
While The Used and My Chemical Romances relationship has been at times fraught, the two bands have a long history. A lot of fans just want to see them working together again specifically, with The Used supporting on the comeback tour.
It looks like it might just be a reality. On their current tour, Bert McCracken joked a few separate times that The Used could be supporting MCR, at one point saying, You can probably catch us on tour with My Chemical Romance in the fall. Well see. he later said, Im not saying Im joking. Come on, you know me, Im a kidder. but who knows? Maybe its a double bluff.
On January 29, MCR dropped another cryptic video entitled A Summoning. At 13 minutes long, the video announced a US tour while stirring up nostalgia in their oldest fans. Its jam packed with references to key moments in MCR history, like Im Not Okay, The Black Parade era, dead friends and colleagues, Helena, Killjoys, Life On The Murder Scene... etc. Its full of the cult-y imagery of the previous teaser videos, and at the end, announces the US tour dates. Naturally, the dates sold out in minutes, with additional shows being added in LA and the extremely high resale prices becoming very controversial. Still, its all just testament to how loved My Chemical Romance are in 2020. Their fans are not to be reckoned with. Plus, many believe that the sounds heard in A Summoning will be part of new music.
As The Format split in 2008, singer Nate Ruess is probably better known by many as the singer of pop band Fun., which he formed with Jack Antonoff. But The Format were pretty formative for a lot of baby emos, and after years of silence, this week they surprised everyone with an impromptu acoustic performance at a screening of their 2007 concert film Live At The Mayan Theatre. They havent announced new music just yet, but if youre in the US, they will be playing five shows in March and April.
After releasing the vicious, beautiful song Simmer a few weeks ago, Hayley Williams gifted fans with some more news and music. She teased a new song with a video entitled Simmer Interlude that saw Williams-as-monster wrapping her human self in a cocoon. She also tweeted, theres more to the story. Its almost never what you think.
The song, Leave It Alone, is far more subdued and less unnerving than Simmer. A heartfelt rumination on grief and loss, it relies primarily on strings and Williams voice. The video shows her waking in a cocoon as a scaly, butterfly-esque creature in Bjrk-like costume and makeup singing, 'Now that I finally wanna live/the ones I love are dying'.
We then see her emerge from the cocoon, and human Hayley walks around the woods, where we also see a body under a sheet. It marks the continuation of an incredibly raw and emotionally generous era for Williams, cemented by her debuting the cover for Petals For Armor, which features her makeup-free looking at the camera. Not keen to let her fans rest for a second, on February 6, Hayley released an eerie video for more upbeat song Cinnamon, a poppy testament to being home alone and free. And then she released the first half of her album, with two brand new tracks! She never stops!
That's all for this fortnight check back in two weeks' time for the latest in the world's emo revival news
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The UC Davis department of chemistry is hosting the 17th annual R. Bryan Miller Symposium on Thursday and Friday, March 16-17, at the UCD Conference Center off Old Davis Road.
The Miller Symposium celebrates the contributions of UCD professor R. Bryan Miller, who laid the foundation for the departments thriving pharmaceutical chemistry and chemical biology programs. The symposium features invited speakers from industry and academia from across the country who will share cutting-edge research that will interface between chemistry, biology and medicine.
In addition, the student poster session and opening receptions, coffee breaks and lunch provide ample time for networking.
This event is open to the public, and all proceeds from ticket sales will benefit poster awards and scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as ensure continuation of the conference. Tickets range from $10 for UCD students to $50 for faculty and staff to $75 for the general audience.
For more information and to register, visit http://www.conferences.ucdavis.edu/miller.
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The Claremore boys basketball program is too busy winning games and conferences to worry about posting one of the best seasons in school history.
Last Friday, the Zebras wrapped up the Metro Lakes Conference title with their 55-45 win at Tahlequah. Tuesday, they recorded their 20th win in 22 games with a 48-42 victory at No. 7 Collinsville.
Friday night, the Zebras get a playoff warm-up game at Skiatook before hosting them the following Friday in the first round of the Claremore 5A Regional.
Nope...not enough time to pat themselves on the back. They got business to take are of.
Honestly, we really havent got caught up in the records or anything like that, said head coach Tommy Nolan. I think what we try to preach to the kids is we take it a day at a time, a practice at a time, a possession at a time and a game at a time. I told our coaches that when the dust is settled and when the season is over, well start digging down into the record books. We know (this season) is up there. Its been a special season. These kids deserve the recognition. Its definitely got to be one of the best winning percentages Claremore has had.
Talk of records may have not crossed the coaching staffs minds, but they are getting talked about. The Zebras are ranked No. 3 in the state. They will host a regional, which means they are one of the favorites to be one of eight teams at the state tournament.
Conference title check.
Winning a playoff game is next.
We accomplished a goal, Nolan said. We knew it was important. But weve got to maintain that momentum going into the playoffs. We want to make sure the kids enjoy it along the process, but as a coaching staff, weve got to stay focused and keep these guys as focused as we can.
At times this season, fans can tell this is a special team with lofty expectations. The senior-heavy team is full of athletes who have played together for years. Through those years, they have developed a chemistry almost a melding of the minds where they know where each other is going to be on the floor.
Sometimes, its just downright eerie.
The chemistry is there, Nolan said. And the guys who havent played with them as long, you can tell the chemistry has been built throughout the year in practice. These guys love to play. When they get done with practice, they stay around and play. You can tell they have built a chemistry together. They are able to read off one another and get to the right spots. They feed off each other.
And its not just Chemistry 101. There are other reasons why this team is 20-2.
Chemistry is very important, Nolan said. This team has been very unselfish. They relish in the success of the other guys. Its helped with the chemistry on the floor.
Last years early exit in the first round of the playoffs was a tough pill to swallow. Now, the Zebras are a year older and a year wiser. And that first-round game will be on their home floor against Skiatook at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24.
The other regional game will be Edison vs. Bishop McGuinness at 6:30 p.m. The winners will play at 7 p.m. Saturday.
If the Zebras hold court and are regional champs, they are just one win away from a trip to state.
Our first goal was to win the MetroLakes. Now it is to win a playoff game, Nolan said. There are a lot of good teams on that board behind you. And weve got a tough region. Weve got a couple of good teams coming in and a really good team from the west side of the state. When you get into the playoffs, anything can happen. We want to worry about winning that first game and then focus on trying to win the regonal and whatever happens from there on happens.
The Zebras wont be looking to rest players for the regular season finale at Skiatook. They may try some different rotations, do a little more substituting, try some new things. But Nolan wants his team to be that snowball rolling down the mountain gaining momentum and growing as it goes.
We will have a week, Nolan said. Theyve got plenty of time of rest after (Fridays) game. We just need to make sure we go out and execute and keep working together.
Nolan says this is a passionate group. They celebrate their wins as a team, celebrate their individual successes with no jealousy. They jump around and sing in the locker room after a game. It has been one of those seasons.
Its a joy to be around, Nolan said.
But when it all eventually comes to an end, either in the regional or area tournaments, or standing on the podium while holding the gold ball, it will be sad for everyone knowing it is over.
Thats the tough part of coaching, Nolan said. You build relationships. Its not just the scoring and the defense and what they do on the floor, in the halls and in the classroom. You build strong bonds and relationships with these guys. You hope when all is said and done, in three years or four years, that theyll come back around and be a part of the program because they are a big piece of the success we had.
Thats what we enjoy is seeing them become young men, and hopefully, some of the things weve instilled in them they can carry on later as they become husbands and fathers themselves.
PLAYOFFS
5A Girls Regional
At Shawnee
Thursday, Feb. 23
6:30 p.m. - Claremore vs. Tulsa Memorial
8 p.m. - Shawnee vs. Durant
Saturday, Feb. 25
1:30 p.m. - Regional championship
5A Boys Regional
At Claremore
Friday, Feb. 24
6:30 p.m. - Edison vs. Bishop McGuinness
8 p.m. - Claremore vs. Skiatook
Saturday, Feb. 25
7 p.m. - Regional championship
4A Districts (Area II)
Friday, Feb. 17
Oologah at Victory Christian (girls 6:30 p.m., boys 8 p.m.)
Claremore Sequoyah at Rogers (girls 6:30 p.m., boys 8 p.m.)
Saturday, Feb. 18
Inola at Miami (girls 6:30 p.m., boys 8 p.m.)
4A Districts (Area IV)
Friday, Feb. 17
Muldrow at Catoosa (girls 6:30 p.m., boys 8 p.m.)
3A Districts (Area II)
Saturday, Feb. 18
Dove Science at Verdigris (girls 6:30 p.m., boys 8 p.m.)
Kellyville at Chelsea (girls 6:30 p.m., boys 8 p.m.)
2A Districts (Area II)
Friday, Feb. 17 at Liberty
Foyil vs. Libert (girls 6:30 p.m., boys 8 p.m.)
Saturday, Feb. 18
Winners play Christian Heritage (girls, 6:30 p.m, boys 8 p.m.)
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Chemistry 101: Claremore boys will talk about school records 'when the dust is settled' - Claremore Daily Progress
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For the first time, scientists have watched a chemical reaction happen from beginning to end without any missing pieces. Kang-Kuen Nis lab at Harvard University chilled molecules to within a millionth of a degree of absolute zero and used a Kerplunk!-style array of lasers to document the reaction as it happened.
Taking molecules to extremely low temperatures can be called ultracold chemistry, and it not only slows the particles down, but allows them to be manipulated in ways they cant be at higher temperatures. The molecules are essentially in a hypothermic coma that reduces their movement to the lowest possible speed.
One of the ways solid materials mislead us is by suggesting the particles in them arent active, but solidity and liquidity are usually the result of chemical reactions themselves. Within an ice cube, molecules move less than they do in liquid water and steam, but they still move very fast compared with what the Harvard lab calls the quantum crawl of near-zero Kelvin.
Ni has used ultracold chemistry to do a de facto Crispr drawer on molecules, combining impossible pairs that are so cold that they lack the normal resistance to bonding. This led to interesting work by itself, but the scientists in Nis lab realized they were seeing something else amazing: Instead of a before and after, where molecules were separate and then together, they were seeing what happened in the middle for the first time ever.
That new understanding will inform future research into how molecules combine and split. Both the observation of splitting and the molecule manipulation are made possible by ultracold chemistry, which slows a chemical reaction from a trillionth of a second to a huge, leisurely millionth or more.
Its amazing that scientists were observing anything within that trillionth of a second to begin with, which they did using powerful and extremely fast lasers. With microsecondsmicro is metric for a millionththe same level of laser power can document a hugely increased amount of data about the reaction. One microsecond is a million times longer than the chemical-bonds phase of a naturally occurring chemical reaction. Imagine if you sneezed in a very cold room and your half-second sneeze extended to 139 hours.
Nis research team is excited to see what else its near-absolute-zero facility will help reveal. The ability to slow reaction observation time by a factor of a million offers tantalizing possibilities in every field of science, but perhaps most of all in quantum physics, where the measured impression has always been that a few things are somehow happening simultaneously.
Is that truly the case, or is there billionth-of-a-second microthread processing that just appears smooth and simultaneous? If we slow particles enough, can we identify why observing them changes their outcomes or even stop that from happening? And what will having this power mean for changing isotopes, making new molecules, and more? The possibilities are limitless. Nis team published its paper in Science, and lead author Ming-Guang Hu summed it up nicely: Without this technique, without this paper, we cannot even think about this.
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DUBLIN, Jan. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "IoT in Chemical Industry by Technology Type (Enabling Technology and Operational Technology), Chemical Verticals (Mining & Metals, Food & Beverages, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Paper & Pulp), Region - Global Forecast to 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
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The Global IoT in Chemical Industry is estimated to grow from USD 48.9 billion in 2019 to USD 77.9 billion by 2024, at a CAGR of 9.7%.
It is largely driven by the increasing emphasis on technology for various industrial applications, such the growing use of IoT in the manufacturing process and the introduction of AI base models in predictive analytics for asset management and condition monitoring.
The key players profiled in the report include as Siemens AG (Germany), General Electric Co (US), ABB Ltd (Switzerland), Rockwell Automation, Inc. (US), Emerson Electric Co (US), Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Japan), Honeywell International Inc. (US), Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Japan), Schneider Electric SE (Germany).
Enabling technology is expected to be the fastest-growing type segment of the IoT in Chemical Industry market, in terms of value, between 2019 and 2024
The enabling technology segment is projected to register the highest growth, in terms of value, during the forecast period. The growing concern toward the reduction of risk associated with chemical and metal industries, rising environmental concerns due to chemical release from the plants, and the rising emphasis on circular economy are driving the demand for digital transformation, which is leading to the growth in the IoT in Chemical Industry market.
Chemical verticals segment is estimated to register the highest growth rate, between 2019 and 2024
The chemical verticals segment is estimated to register the highest growth rate, in terms of value, between 2019 and 2024. This is owing to the increase in chemical production across various regions and rise in demand for specialty chemicals in advanced engineering processes.
The chemicals segment is expected to reach USD 5 trillion in next 5 years. This also reflects the growing chemical production facilities and infrastructure globally. The increased number of chemical refineries and production plants is expected to impact the market positively since new plants are highly anticipated to adopt technologies such as IoT, big data, augmented reality, and industrial robots.
Rising customer demand from food & beverage and pharmaceutical industries and the growth in chemical production are likely to drive the demand for IoT in Chemical Industry in APAC
The APAC IoT in Chemical Industry market is estimated to witness significant growth during the forecast period. The growing chemical production in China and increasing urbanization and industrialization are driving the IoT in Chemical Industry market in the region. In addition, the rise of mining and metal companies in the region will further drive the IoT in Chemical Industry market.
APAC has some of the highest growing countries in the world. This is possible due to the growth in industrial infrastructure and increased foreign investments. Various plants and production facilities are anticipated to start in the region in the coming years. Greenfield projects are likely to integrate new processing technologies, thus further boosting the growth of the IoT in Chemical Industry market.
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Key Topics Covered
1 Introduction
2 Research Methodology
3 Executive Summary
4 Premium Insights 4.1 Attractive Growth Opportunities in the Chemical 4.0 Market4.2 Chemical 4.0 Market, By Region (2019-2024)4.3 APAC: Chemical 4.0 Market, By Enabling Technology and Country4.5 Chemical 4.0 Market, By Operational Technology
5 Market Overview 5.1 Introduction5.1.1 Market Evolution5.1.2 Elements of Chemical 4.05.1.2.1 Cyber Physical Systems5.1.2.2 Industrial Internet of Things5.1.2.3 Cloud Computing5.1.2.4 Cognitive Computing5.1.2.5 Data5.1.3 Essentials of Chemical 4.05.1.3.1 Technical Requirements5.1.3.1.1 Connectivity5.1.3.1.2 Sensor Technology5.1.3.1.3 Automation5.1.3.1.4 Data Analytics5.1.3.2 Organizational Requirements5.1.3.2.1 Digitization Strategy5.1.3.2.2 Workforce Optimization5.1.3.2.3 Change Management5.1.3.2.4 Cross-Industry Collaborations5.2 Market Dynamics5.2.1 Drivers5.2.1.1 Increased Emphasis on Efficiency and Optimization5.2.1.2 Increasing Adoption of Industrial Robots5.2.1.3 Increasing Demand for Industry-Specific Solutions to Drive the Growth of the Market for IoT in Manufacturing5.2.1.4 Increased Emphasis on Regulatory Compliances5.2.1.5 Growth of the Semiconductor Industry and Other Supporting Industries5.2.1.6 5G Communication5.2.1.7 Circular Economy5.2.2 Restraints5.2.2.1 High Capital Investment Required for Transformation5.2.2.2 Low Adoption Rate of Technologies5.2.3 Opportunities5.2.3.1 Industrial Growth in Emerging Economies5.2.3.2 Enterprise-Wide Integration Leading to Enhanced Efficiency5.2.3.3 High Emphasis on Digitization By Governments Globally5.2.3.4 Advancement in IoT, Cognitive Computing, and Additive Manufacturing5.2.3.5 Real-Time Data Generation and Data-Driven Process5.2.3.6 Better Working Conditions, Superior Sustainability, Increased Energy-Efficiency, and Environmentally Sustainable Production and Systems5.2.3.7 Food Safety, Spoilage, and Contamination5.2.4 Challenges5.2.4.1 Threats to Data Security and Other Cybersecurity Risks5.2.4.2 Skill Gap5.2.4.3 Lack of Infrastructure5.2.4.4 Challenges in Information Technology and Operational Technology Convergence5.2.4.5 Low Adoption Rate of Industry 4.0 Infrastructure in Small- and Medium-Sized Industries5.2.4.6 Employee Pushback and Change Management5.2.4.7 Transparency, Ethics, and Regulatory Compliances
6 Chemical 4.0 Market, By Type 6.1 Introduction6.2 Operational Technology6.3 Distributed Control System (DCS)6.3.1 DCS Provide Safe Execution and Control of Critical Process, Which are Not Possible to Control Manually Due the Risks Involved6.4 Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)6.4.1 Increasing Number of Factories are Generating Demand for Micro and Nano Plcs6.5 Manufacturing Execution System (MES)6.5.1 High Rate of Adoption of Mes is Due to Its Increasing Benefits in Process and Discrete Industries6.6 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)6.6.1 Ability to Integrate All the Critical Business Information Across an Organization is Boosting the Adoption of Erp Solutions in Smart Factories6.7 Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)6.7.1 Shift Toward Development of Scada App for Smartphones and Tablets is Likely to Encourage Chemical 4.0 Market Growth6.8 Plant Asset Management (PAM)6.8.1 Increasing Demand for Software Solutions Capable of Determining Failures in Advance is Favoring the Market for Pam6.9 Human Machine Interface (HMI)6.9.1 Evolution of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and the Growing Demand of Smart Automation Solutions are Driving the Market6.10 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)6.10.1 Rising Demand for Efficiency and Productivity in Manufacturing Plants Across the Globe is Promising for the Market6.11 Enabling Technology6.12 Industrial Robotics6.12.1 Traditional Robots6.12.1.1 Cartesian Robots6.12.1.1.1 Cartesian Robots Help With A High Degree of Mechanical Rigidity, Accuracy, and Repeatability6.12.1.2 Scara Robots6.12.1.2.1 Scara Robots Provide Higher Flexible Reach6.12.1.3 Articulated Robots6.12.1.3.1 These Robots Cover A Larger Work Envelope6.12.1.4 Other Robots6.12.2 Collaborative Robots6.12.2.1 The Robotics Industry Players are Focusing on Designing Collaborative Robots as Per the Requirements of Smart Manufacturing Facilities6.13 Machine Vision6.13.1 Machine Vision Will Be Able to Reduce the Risk of Humans to Get Exposed to Hazardous and Toxic Conditions in Chemical Industries6.14 Internet of Things (IoT)6.14.1 IoT is Gaining Traction With Its Ability to Enhance Product Knowledge and Production Efficiency6.15 3D Printing6.15.1 The 3D Printing Market is Experiencing Growth With Strong
R&D Regarding New Print Materials and Technologies6.16 Big Data6.16.1.The APAC Region Holds Immense Potential for the Growth of the Big Data Market6.17 Machine Condition Monitoring6.17.1 The Technology is Helpful in the Reduction of Maintenance Costs By Optimizing Machine Performance6.18 Augmented Reality (AR) & Virtual Reality (VR)6.18.1 The Implementation of These Technologies is Increasing in Various Industries, Including Chemical6.19 Artificial Intelligence (AI)6.19.1 The Major Factor Contributing to the Growth of the Market in the Ai Segment is the Ability of the Technology to Reduce Human Errors6.20 Digital Twin6.20.1 APAC is the Fastest-Growing Market in This Segment
7 Chemical 4.0 Market, By Industry Vertical 7.1 Shift in Revenue Streams Due to Megatrends in Chemical Industry7.2 Introduction7.3 Metals & Mining7.3.1 Rising Demand for Preventive Maintenance is Encouraging the Adoption of Industry 4.0 Solutions in the Mining Industry7.4 Food & Beverage7.4.1 The Implementation of Automation Technologies is Growing in This Industry7.5 Chemical7.5.1 Petrochemicals & Polymers7.5.1.1 The Growth of the Petrochemicals & Polymers Segment is Opening Up Opportunities for the Adoption of Industry 4.0 Solutions7.5.2 Specialty Chemicals7.5.2.1 Data Analytics Have Immense Scope in This Segment of the Chemical Industry7.5.3 Fertilizers & Agrochemicals7.5.3.1 The Growing Demand for Organic Chemicals is Expected to Drive the Market7.5.4 Others7.6 Pharmaceutical7.6.1 Increasing Demand for Industrial Automation to Ensure Product Standard is Driving Digital Transformation in This Industry7.7 Pulp & Paper7.7.1 The Ongoing Digitization of the Paper Manufacturing Process is Expected to Drive Chemical 4.0 Adoption in the Industry7.8 Used Cases
8 Chemical 4.0 Market, By Process 8.1 Introduction8.2 Research & Development (R&D)8.2.1 Reduced Product Development Time8.3 Manufacturing8.3.1 Leveraging Technology to Improve Production Process8.4 Procurement8.4.1 Inventory Management Complements Procurement Process8.5 Packaging8.5.1 Achieving Sustainability Through Automation and Technology8.6 Supply Chain Management and Logistics8.6.1 Faster and Flexible Distribution8.6.2 Maintaining A Large Amount of Data8.6.3 Automation as A Solution8.6.4 Warehousing for Profit
9 Chemical 4.0 Market, By Region 9.1.1 Introduction9.1.2 APAC9.1.3 Europe9.1.4 North America9.1.5 Middle East & Africa9.1.6 South America
10 Competitive Landscape
11 Company Profiles 11.1 Siemens AG11.1.1 Business Overview11.1.2 Products Offered11.1.3 Recent Developments11.1.4 Winning Imperatives11.1.5 Current Focus and Strategies11.1.6 Threat From Competition11.1.7 Siemens AG's Right to Win11.2 General Electric Co.11.3 ABB Ltd.11.4 Rockwell Automation, Inc.11.5 Emerson Electric Co.11.6 Yokogawa Electric Corporation11.7 Honeywell International Inc.11.8 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation11.9 Schneider Electric SE11.10 Fanuc Corporation11.11 Fortive11.12 International Business Machines Corporation11.13 Cisco Systems Inc.11.14 Microsoft Corporation11.15 Stratasys Ltd.11.16 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company11.17 Qualcomm Inc.11.18 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd11.19 Texas Instruments Inc.11.20 Atos SE11.21 3D Systems Corporation11.22 Denso Corporation11.23 Other Players
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