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On October 10, 2014, Chris Fitzmaurice, Health and Wellness Director of Group Exercise and Programs at the Blocker Norfolk Family YMCA gave a presentation to other kids with Autism about living with this condition and also about his new Adaptive Fitness Program at the Blocker Norfolk Family YMCA.
At one stage of the season the South Wales Snooker players seemed to be having their own individual competition as they traded high breaks. Daryl Wilson came on top with a superb 93, the highest Thursday League break in years.
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Chemistry Presentation:
An Amusing Incident during 1968/69
I was taking my finals in the academic year 1968-69 - a year that would see me complete my BSc (Special Chemistry). I would be in the second tranche of undergraduates to do so in the new Chemistry building at the junction of Manresa Road and the Kings Road – opposite Lightfoot Hall. During that 12 months I spent a considerable time in the Laboratory, 27 hours per week I seem to recall, concluding with a practical examination spread over several days. As a diversion a short period was spent on a ‘personal research project’. This sounds very grand until you realise: marks/grades awarded for the work would not be linked to the outcome of the BSc course; students, working in pairs, would be given a specific brief regarding the work; and no written report was required at the end of the study. Notwithstanding, a short presentation on the research was expected, in front of peers and profs, in the main lecture hall.
The chemistry seemed simple enough. You ground up two ingredients, mixed them gently together and roasted them at high temperature in a special glass tube until a reaction took place. If you were lucky you saw a red glow appear in the powdery pile. About halfway through our study I approached my academic tutor to say our project was not going well. He did not recommend advising Dr D.., who had set the study, but to persevere. So we did, but still no results were forthcoming. A week before the presentation I asked my tutor if, in the absence of any science-shattering breakthrough, how would he feel if I ‘spiced up’ our presentation with some humorous comments and observations? I think he said he was sure that would be OK.
When it came to our turn we set up the glassware we had used on the benching at the front of the lecture theatre and then, waving a large piece of chalk, I took the audience through what we had done. The compound we were looking for was apparently unstable until cold and had therefore to be created in an atmosphere of nitrogen. The intention was to pass a slow, steady stream of the gas, from a large metal cylinder, through a bubbler bottle of concentrated sulphuric acid to dry the gas before proceeding to the reactor tube. At the other end the exhaust gases were fed out through some quicklime to dry them. We were all set up and ready to go, I told my audience, and the Bunsen burner with a heat-spreading ‘batswing’ attachment was just about to play on the tube containing the reactants, when my colleague realised that bubbles were no longer passing through the sulphuric acid. I gently eased the handle on the cylinder’s manifold – to no effect. A little more …and the rubber tubing next to the cylinder flew off. As the tubing dropped below bench level, the acid in the drying bottle was subject to a partial vacuum, and concentrated sulphuric acid started to pump towards the floor, via my jeans. By way of illustration I parted my lab coat to reveal some holey jeans - and it was at this point that I first heard a little laughter.
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