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Living, breathing reminders of independence: Celebrating America's 250th
As visitors cross the Bay Bridge into Queen Anne’s County — a region that has long stood as the "gateway" to the Eastern Shore — they are greeted by the modern energy of the Kent Narrows. But just beneath the surface of the county’s bustling waterfront and evolving arts districts lies a deeper, older narrative.
Building a community by building a boat
CAMBRIDGE — At the Richardson Maritime Museum, a community is being built by ... well ... building. Boatbuilding classes are offered at the museum for those of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels to take on improvisational projects that teach problem-solving skills and create a community with an environment where there are not necessarily teachers or students, but peers on a mission to craft something special.
Embracing Our Warriors: Restoring confidence one smile at a time
A healthy, joyous smile is worth a thousand words — it restores happiness in the recipient, it lights up a room, and it fills the sender with a special kind of self-confidence so dire to our mental health and self-image.
The Olympic Medals of the 2024 MLB Season
The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris have officially concluded, and the delightful weeks where you somehow found yourself yelling and cheering someone on in a sport you didn’t know existed until now will likely go on hiatus until the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles… When baseball will be back on the slate of games! MLB, baseball, and the Olympics have had an on-again off-again relationship due to the crossover of seasons, much like hockey and the Winter Olympics, but ultimately getting more eyes on...
Brandon Birdsell: The Cubs Starting Pitcher Prospect Nobody is Talking About
At his repeat of Double-A this year, Brandon Birdsell had a 21.1 K%, 4.2 BB%, and a very solid 3.63 ERA. His season at Tennessee was capped off with seven nearly no-hit innings and a 35-inning walkless streak. This earned him a well-deserved promotion to Triple-A Iowa, where he has just completed his fifth start. The raw numbers are underwhelming–his 4.97 ERA is pretty high, and the BB% is up nearly 3% from his stint in Double-A Tennessee.
"Who Would You Rather Be?" MLB Postseason Edition
Now that the Trade Deadline is definitively behind us, don’t think of August leading towards September as the dog days: think of this month as the acceleration ramp. Front offices definitively just decided if they’re gunning for the postseason or not, and the capitalization on the field from those moves or non-moves in this “stretch before the home stretch” is monumental and can turn seasons around since that was the initial hope.
Giving Names and Trophies to MLB's 2025 Rivalry Week
The MLB has already announced the upcoming schedule for the 2025 season. While that date doesn’t even sound real at the moment, and we’re about 60% done with the one we’re currently playing, it gives us the opportunity to already start planning trips and gave us a couple of new wrinkles and announcements to look forward to.
What we were Wrong About in the First Half of the MLB Season
In the midst of the All-Star Weekend festivities, we’re over halfway through the season and approaching the home stretch. While the trade deadline is at the end of the month and organizations will be trying to either improve upon their fixable flaws or flip the narrative ahead of the home stretch, for the most part, we know who is who by now.
We're Living in the Golden Age of Shortstops
In baseball, there aren’t nearly as many player vs. player barbershop-style debates as sports like basketball where the players are actually facing off against each other head-to-head. However, for the past decade, we’ve been graced with what was known as one of the golden ages of third baseman. We’ve been on a tear of superstars that could pick it from the hot corner and slug all at or near their primes that the debate from the top of the list generated conversation.
In the UFL, famed football coaches find ‘a breath of fresh air’
D.C. Defenders head coach Reggie Barlow is a former XFL coach of the year. John McDonnell/The Washington Post By nature, spring football leagues serve as a proving ground for players hoping to showcase their talents. But in the UFL, which is entering the final weekend of its inaugural season, the most familiar names might belong to its wide range of coaches.
Cubs Minor League Hitter of the Month: May 2024
Honorable Mentions C Moises Ballesteros: 124 wRC+, 9.2 BB%, 12.8 K%, 5 2B, 2 HR Ballesteros followed up his Player of the Month-worthy April with a very strong May, continuing to show his incredibly advanced plate discipline for such a young age, especially at Double-A Tennessee. OF Leonel Espinoza: 171 wRC+, 8.3 BB%, 15.0 K%, 4 2B, 2 3B, 2 HR Espinoza played just 13 games in May, but the results were astounding. The 21-year-old has an astounding 27.8 line drive percentage.
Navy Federal Credit Union's fight for veterans' healthy homes
For many Americans, a minor home repair or extra expense is manageable despite being an inconvenience. If you’ve got something like a leaky faucet, you need to replace a broken tile, or you need to patch a hole in the wall, you’ll likely pay someone to come out and fix it for you and life goes on with a little less to spend that month.
NFL Offseason Fanbase Vibes Tiers Part 2: The AFC
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NFL Offseason Fanbase Vibes Tiers Part I: The NFC
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The Oscars of Super Bowl LVIIII
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Washington Glass School help veterans restore
The bolded procedure on the case normally tells us to “BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY,” but for veterans in need of healing, the Washington Glass School (WGS) and the Museum of Glass (MOG) in Tacoma, Wash., provides the opposite of the directive: making glass to achieve restoration.
Washington Glass School help veterans restore
The bolded procedure on the case normally tells us to “BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY,” but for veterans in need of healing, the Washington Glass School (WGS) and the Museum of Glass (MOG) in Tacoma, Wash., provides the opposite of the directive: making glass to achieve restoration.
XFL, USFL announce merger to form the United Football League
Spring football is undergoing yet another transformation. The XFL and USFL announced Sunday they will merge to form the United Football League. The eight-team UFL will include four teams from the XFL: the D.C. Defenders (who will play home games at Audi Field), Arlington (Tex.) Renegades (Choctaw Stadium), San Antonio Brahmas (Alamodome) and St. Louis Battlehawks (The Dome at America's Center).
XFL, USFL announce merger to form the United Football League
Spring football is undergoing yet another transformation. The XFL and USFL announced Sunday they will merge to form the United Football League. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.
XFL, USFL announce merger to form the United Football League Original
The eight-team UFL will include five teams from the XFL and three teams from the USFL • Article content Spring football is undergoing yet another transformation. Advertisement 2 Don't have an account? Create Account Article content We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team. The XFL and USFL announced Sunday they will merge to form the United Football League.
Philadelphia Stars will not be part of the new United Football League
Spring football is undergoing yet another transformation, but the new iteration will not include a team in Philadelphia. The XFL and USFL announced Sunday they will merge to form the United Football League. The Philadelphia Stars, Houston Gamblers, New Jersey Generals, New Orleans Breakers, and Pittsburgh Maulers of the USFL plus the Orlando Guardians, Seattle Sea Dragons, and Vegas Vipers of the XFL will not be part of the UFL for the 2024 season.
The “Person of the Year” in the Four Major Sports Leagues
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Electron transport through supercrystals of atomically precise gold nanoclusters: a thermal bi-stability effect
Electron transport through supercrystals of atomically precise gold nanoclusters: a thermal bi-stability effect† Nanoparticles (NPs) may behave like atoms or molecules in the self-assembly into artificial solids with stimuli-responsive properties. However, the functionality engineering of nanoparticle-assembled solids is still far behind the aesthetic approaches for molecules, with a major problem arising from the lack of atomic-precision in the NPs, which leads to incoherence in superlattices.
The Perfect MLB Manager
On Monday, at 12:26 PM CST, Ken Rosenthal dropped a nuclear missile on the baseball world - Craig Counsell, longtime Milwaukee Brewers manager, was stolen away by the division rival Chicago Cubs. I gotta say, I was just completely blindsided by this, as were probably a lot of other people. Counsell had been linked to the Mets, Guardians, and obviously the Brewers, but not the Cubs. It all came together very quickly, as the Cubs had not made contact with Counsell before November 1st.
The Good, the Bad, and the First Takes of the MLB Opening Weekend
The Opening Weekend of the MLB Season has come and gone, so everything is going to stay the exact same as the way it played out...
MLB 2023 Season Preview: Your Disruptor Candidates
WegENT MLB 2023 Season Preview: Your Disruptor Candidates By Jake Russell, 21 minutes ago By Jake Russell, 21 minutes ago Comments / 0 Add a Comment
The NFL-NBA Organization Comparison Matrix
Watch: Tom Brady Announces His Retirement From Football "For Good" Tom Brady is putting down his helmet, for good this time. The NFL quarterback, who previously announced his retirement in 2022 before returning to the sport for one more season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, shared an update with fans on Feb. 1. "Good morning, guys, I'll get to the point right away," Tom said in a video message, posted to Twitter and Instagram. "I'm retiring, for good.
Meet Reggie Barlow, the longtime college coach now leading the D.C. Defenders
Joe Burrow reacts to loss with bold message After making the conference championship game for a second time in as many seasons, Cincinnati Bengals suffered a tough loss to the Kansas City Chiefs following a costly penalty in the final seconds of the game that set up a game-winning field goal for the Chiefs. It wasn’t the outcome the team had hoped for, Read more... The post Joe Burrow reacts to loss with bold message appeared first on The Comeback: Today’s Top Sports Stories & Reactions.
A Deep Dive on the Lawlessness of NBA City Edition Uniforms
After nearly 10 months in a Russian prison colony, Brittney Griner was finally released following drug charges and a surprising nine-year prison sentence. And now that she’s back home and even making public appearances, her next step is to get back on the basketball court as she plans to play for the Phoenix Mercury this season. But that could Read more... The post WNBA’s huge Brittney Griner problem revealed appeared first on The Comeback: Today’s Top Sports Stories & Reactions. 1 DAY AGO
Let’s Poke a Hole in Everyone’s NBA MVP Case
Former NBA player wins car on ‘The Price is Right’ The pressure of hitting a game-winning shot in basketball and winning a car on The Price is Right probably has some similarities. For Jared Jeffries, he now has the experience of doing both. The former Indiana Hooser star played and won a brand new car during Monday’s episode of The Price is Right. After winning a couple Read more...
Unleashing Potential Receives $15,000 Grant from Bayer Fund
Donation to provide access, improve proficiency and promote diversity in STEM ST LOUIS, MO - 11/16/2022 - Unleashing Potential, one of St. Louis' oldest and most important nonprofits, received a grant for $15,000 from Bayer Fund, a philanthropic arm of Bayer in the U.S., which will be used to provide access, improve proficiency and promote diversity in STEM.
D.C. Defenders return as XFL unveils team names
"We're excited that the Defenders logo was kept," D.C. Coach Reggie Barlow said in a phone interview. "Obviously, ownership, our great people that work in the XFL, knew that the fans wanted that. . . . We were really pulling for that. Everybody embraced the name and the shield from 2020." Along with the Defenders, the league will feature the Arlington Renegades, Houston Roughnecks, Orlando Guardians, San Antonio Brahmas, Seattle Sea Dragons, St. Louis BattleHawks and Vegas Vipers.
'Terrified' Griner writes to Biden to push for her freedom
WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia since February on drug charges, wrote a letter to President Joe Biden that was delivered to the White House on Monday morning, her sports agency said. In the letter, Griner, 31, expressed fear over not knowing how long she will be detained and urged Biden to work for her release and that of other Americans detained abroad.
'Terrified' Brittney Griner writes to Biden to push for her freedom
Advertisement 1 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'I'm terrified I might be here forever,' Griner wrote in a letter Article content WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia since February on drug charges, wrote a letter to President Joe Biden that was delivered to the White House on Monday morning, her sports agency said. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
'Terrified' Brittney Griner writes to Biden to push for her freedom
'I'm terrified I might be here forever,' Griner wrote in a letter Article content WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia since February on drug charges, wrote a letter to President Joe Biden that was delivered to the White House on Monday morning, her sports agency said. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
'Terrified' Brittney Griner writes to Biden to push for her freedom
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'Terrified' Brittney Griner writes to Biden to push for her freedom
Advertisement 1 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'I'm terrified I might be here forever,' Griner wrote in a letter Article content WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia since February on drug charges, wrote a letter to President Joe Biden that was delivered to the White House on Monday morning, her sports agency said. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
Site-Selective Surface Modification of 2D Superatomic Re6Se8
Coating two-dimensional (2D) materials with molecules bearing tunable properties imparts their surfaces with functionalities for applications in sensing, nanoelectronics, nanofabrication, and electrochemistry. Here, we report a method for the site-selective surface functionalization of 2D superatomic Re6Se8Cl2 monolayers. First, we activate bulk layered Re6Se8Cl2 by intercalating lithium and then exfoliate the intercalation compound Li2Re6Se8Cl2 in N-methylformamide (NMF).
Superatomic solid solutions
Abstract In atomic solids, substitutional doping of atoms into the lattice of a material to form solid solutions is one of the most powerful approaches to modulating its properties and has led to the discovery of various metal alloys and semiconductors. Herein we have prepared solid solutions in hierarchical solids that are built from atomically precise clusters.
High-performance organic pseudocapacitors via molecular contortion
Abstract Pseudocapacitors harness unique charge-storage mechanisms to enable high-capacity, rapidly cycling devices. Here we describe an organic system composed of perylene diimide and hexaazatrinaphthylene exhibiting a specific capacitance of 689 F g−1 at a rate of 0.5 A g−1, stability over 50,000 cycles, and unprecedented performance at rates as high as 75 A g−1.
Theme of Love (FINAL FANTASY IV), by Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card from Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY, released December 4, 2007 Performed by: The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor and executive producer: Arnie Roth. Composer: Nobuo Uematsu.
Milbury steps away from role as NHL TV analyst for rest of playoffs
Author of the article: Washington Post Matt Bonesteel and Jake Russell, The Washington Post Publishing date: Aug 23, 2020 • • 3 minute read TV commentator Mike Milbury works between the benches in a game between the Penguins and Rangers during the Stanley Cup Playoffs in Pittsburgh, May 4, 2008.
Mike Milbury steps away from NHL analyst role after controversial comment
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Warriors? Red Wolves? Red Tails? Next step for Washington's football team is securing rights
PERSPECTIVE Warriors? Red Wolves? Red Tails? Next step for Washington's football team is securing rights By RICK MAESE AND JAKE RUSSELL | The Washington Post | Published: July 13, 2020 For as much debate as the Washington Redskins' team name has generated over decades, there has been just as much contention in guessing, and attempting to profit from, what the new one will be. "Washington Warriors" has been claimed and abandoned multiple times over the past two decades.
Rohrwasser has tattoo connected to extremist group removed, report says
Former Marshall University kicker Justin Rohrwasser was a relatively unknown name at the NFL draft in April when the New England Patriots selected him in the fifth round. But that was before reporters and football fans noticed a tattoo on his left arm.
Shape Matching in Superatom Chemistry and Assembly
Download Hi-Res ImageDownload to MS-PowerPointCite This:J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 28 RETURN TO ISSUEPREVCommunicationNEXT Jingjing Yang, Feifan Wang, Jake C. Russell Jake C. Russell Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States , Taylor J. Hochuli Taylor J. Hochuli Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States , Xavier Roy, Michael L. Steigerwald Michael L.
Rudy Gobert can't smell properly after contracting virus in March
Jake Russell, The Washington Post Published 9:18 pm CDT, Sunday, June 28, 2020 FILE - In this Saturday, March 7, 2020, file photo, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) talks with guard Donovan Mitchell, left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons, in Detroit. Both players have tested positive for the coronavirus. Gobert's test result forced the NBA to suspend the season.
Arizona, Florida, Texas are latest coronavirus epicenters
Confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States surpassed 2.5 million on Sunday as a crushing new wave of infections continued to bear down throughout the country’s South and West. Across the nation, 40,587 new daily cases were reported. Florida, Texas and Arizona are emerging as the country’s latest epicenters after reporting record numbers of new infections for weeks in a row. Positivity rates and hospitalizations have also spiked.
Arizona, Florida, Texas are latest coronavirus epicenters
Confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States surpassed 2.5 million on Sunday as a crushing new wave of infections continued to bear down throughout the country’s South and West. Across the nation, 40,587 new daily cases were reported. Florida, Texas and Arizona are emerging as the country’s latest epicenters after reporting record numbers of new infections for weeks in a row. Positivity rates and hospitalizations have also spiked.
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