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Find out what's normal and what's not normal for your periods.
Amenorrhoea simply means an absence of your periods. Doctors usually classify amenorrhoea into primary or secondary amenorrhoea.
It is normal not to have periods:
Amenorrhoea may be caused by:
Dysmenorrhoea means painful periods. Period pain and discomfort is usually most severe for the first day or so of your period. Dysmenorrhoea tends to peak quite soon after puberty, so if your periods are getting increasingly painful as you get older, see your doctor. Doctors usually classify dysmenorrhoea into primary or secondary dysmenorrhoea (see below).
Common symptoms of dysmenorrhoea include:
Common symptoms associated with dysmenorrhoea include:
Occasionally you may have vomiting.
The symptoms, which do not last very long (usually around one to 2 days), are caused by prostaglandins, natural substances found in many body tissues. Prostaglandins stimulate contractions of the muscles of your uterus during your period. Experts believe these contractions of the uterus compress the blood vessels to the uterus, temporarily cutting off the blood supply and depriving the tissues of oxygen, which triggers pain.
Primary dysmenorrhoea may affect more than half of all women, and occurs with no known underlying cause. The pain in primary dysmenorrhoea occurs from the contractions of the uterus, caused by prostaglandins, described above.
Secondary dysmenorrhoea is caused by an underlying gynaecological problem or condition such as:
The use of intra-uterine devices for contraception (not including the intra-uterine levonorgestrel-releasing system Mirena) has also been associated with dysmenorrhoea and heavy bleeding.
Menorrhagia means that periods are long and heavy. It is one of the most common causes of iron deficiency anemia in Australian women. Menorrhagia may include periods that are prolonged, lasting for longer than a week, or that involve excessive bleeding with 'flooding' or clots.
Women with menorrhagia lose 80 mL (4 tablespoons) or more of blood per period (equivalent to about 6 tampons per day for 4 to 5 days).
Menorrhagia may be caused by:
If you think you may suffer from amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea or menorrhagia, see your doctor who should be able to make a proper diagnosis and advise you of treatment options for your condition.
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Fines associated with letter grade inspections will be reduced by 25%, according to new rules unveiled Friday by the City Council and Department of Health and now open for comment.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an expanded paid-sick-leave bill into law Thursday. The new policy goes into effect April 1, but some smaller businesses will have a six-month grace period before the law applies to them.
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Johnny Manziel sits down with Rece Davis to talk about how his life has changed since winning the Heisman trophy and the controversial Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax....Blog | January 18, 2013
Friend says Ronaiah Tuiasosopo confessed to Manti Te'o girlfriend...Shelley Smith
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man who has been publicly identified as being behind the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax, called a church friend in early December crying and admitted to duping the Heisman finalist, the friend told Outside the Lines Thursday.Story | Conversation | January 18, 2013
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Businesses looking for attention know how to get it these days: Tie to Manti Te'o, the Notre Dame linebacker in the midst of a fake girlfriend scandal.Story | Conversation | January 17, 2013
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Texas A&M Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel says his "mind was blown" when he learned of the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax.Story | Conversation | January 17, 2013
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Johnny Manziel sits down with Rece Davis to talk about how his life has changed since winning the Heisman trophy and the controversial Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax....Blog | January 17, 2013
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A University of Notre Dame graduate who launched a campaign to raise money for a cancer research group in memory of linebacker Manti Te'o's girlfriend says he is "shell-shocked" to learn the woman didn't exist.Story | Conversation | January 17, 2013
Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax - A lawsuit could arise from the case,...Lester Munson
Whether Manti Te'o was a victim of a hoax or one of its participants, the bizarre scenario involving a nonexistent girlfriend raises the possibility of legal repercussions. Some legal questions surrounding the case and their answers: Q: Is anyone i...Story | Conversation | January 17, 2013
Story of Manti Te'o girlfriend and her death apparently a hoax
Notre Dame says a story about Manti Te'o's girlfriend dying, which he said inspired him to play better as he helped the Fighting Irish get to the BCS title game, turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against the linebacker.Story | Conversation | January 16, 2013
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Manti Te'o says his rough rookie season has nothing to do with the flak he's faced over getting fooled by a hoax involving a fake girlfriend while at Notre Dame.Story | Conversation | December 11, 2013
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NASA funds laser tractor beam research
NASA has awarded a $100,000 grant to three boffins who are investigating a tractor beam trifecta. Principal Investigator Paul Stysley and team members Demetrios Poulios and Barry Coyle at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center received the grant to research three methods of using lasers to collect particulate samples without the …
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"Though a mainstay in science fiction, and Star Trek in particular, laser-based trapping ...."
Star Trek tractor beams use a subspace/graviton interference pattern for their effect. I'm surprised that a scientist working in this field wasn't aware of that.
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It's not your imagination -- maybe that sound in the night really was a moan.
Stories of spirits and unexplained phenomena have persisted on U.S. military bases in the Pacific for years.
Doors slam, shadows creep and voices shout in the night. Could it be spirits of the dead reaching out?
As costumed ghosts and ghouls hit the streets for Halloween, Stars and Stripes has compiled some accounts of allegedly real ghosts and ghouls to keep the holiday creepy.
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Many of the buildings on Yongsan Garrison in South Korea have been there longer than the U.S. military. Some date back to Japan's occupation of Korea before and during World War II.
One of those buildings, near the gas station on the garrison's South Post, has been surrounded by rumors for years.
"I hate being here at night. The hairs on the back of my neck stand up just talking about it," said Sgt. 1st Class Riviere Cools, 52nd Medical Battalion as he eyed the squat, red-brick building in the center of his unit's complex of offices. "I don't believe in that kind of stuff, but in the back of my mind, there are souls here."
The entire compound, surrounded by a thick, crumbling, brick wall, was a prison during the occupation.
For years, said U.S. Army Garrison spokesman David McNally, soldiers working there have passed along stories claiming that the area, especially the small building in the center, was haunted.
McNally said the building was most likely the prison's administrative office, but those working around it have a more sinister theory.
"Everybody that's worked in that building right there has either seen something or heard something," said Staff Sgt. Sae Kim, 52nd Medical Battalion. "Because that's where they burned people."
McNally was quick to point out there was no evidence to suggest that the building was a crematorium, but that doesn't stop the stories from spreading.
"I haven't seen any ghosts," said Sgt. 1st Class Freeman Witherspoon. "But I definitely have heard the rumors. People say they see shadows when they have duty at night."
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Stories of strange happenings abound at the base chapel at Camp Zama in Japan.
Strange presences in rooms and doors that mysteriously open and close are part of chapel lore, employees say.
Some tell stories of strange figures passing by and then disappearing.
"My predecessor said that she used to hear footsteps through the halls late at night," said Staff Sgt. Desmond West, the Unit Ministry Team noncommissioned officer in charge.
Last year, Spc. Jennifer Villagomez, a funds clerk, said she was working late when a voice emanated from her unplugged computer speakers.
It sounded like a Japanese man, "like a drill sergeant yelling at a private," she said.
At first, Villagomez said she thought the sounds were a practical joke and called for a sergeant who was the only other person in the building at the time.
"And as I heard him come closer to my office, the voice on the speaker went lower and lower until it went away, just before he walked in the room," Villagomez said.
She said that since that incident, she tries not to be the last person to in the office at night.
Sgt. Joshua Lee, who works at the chapel with Villagomez, said he didn't hear the voice that night but has witnessed other strange occurrences.
Chapel lights switch on and doors open seemingly on their own, Lee said.
West, who has worked in the chapel for four years, said he has never seen or heard anything peculiar.
"But the day I start hearing things, I'm running out of here," he said.
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Reportedly haunted sites can be found around almost any corner on and off Okinawa bases.
So many ghost stories abound that Marine Corps Community Services and 18th Services Squadron on Kadena Air Base both run special Halloween spooky sites tours that sell out weeks in advance.
Web sites and a book on the subject -- Jayne A. Hitchcock's "The Ghosts of Okinawa" -- celebrate the local haunts.
A World War II soldier is said to roam Gate 3 on Camp Hansen in blood-splattered fatigues asking sentries to light his cigarette.
Marines refused to stand guard due to the haunting, and the gate was eventually closed, according to Hitchcock.
Camp Foster is said to be the home of a ghostly samurai warrior who eternally travels from Stillwell Drive uphill toward Futenma Housing.
Kadena Air Base also has its ghost stories.
A small house behind the Kadena United Services Organization, numbered 2283, is now used for storage because, it is said, no one willingly lives in it for long.
Some say the house remains haunted after a man murdered his family there. Others say the house rests on an ancient burial site, and the souls of the dead beneath are restless.
Kadena's golf course might be the site where in 1945 a group of high-school girls pressed into service in the Japanese Imperial Army committed suicide, according to another yarn.
The spirits of the dead girls are said to still haunt the land.
Off-base, half-finished buildings are abandoned due to reports of ghostly visitors.
Construction of the Royal Hotel off Route 329, near the Nakagusuku Castle ruins, was begun some three decades ago -- possibly on a sacred site.
Mysterious accidents and deaths drove workers to abandon construction.
Meanwhile, at Maeda Point, there is rumored to be a prophet-of-death ghost.
The elderly Okinawan apparition is said to appear at a tomb that can be seen only from the water, and within days of a sighting, a body is found on a nearby beach.
Stars and Stripes reporters Travis Tritten, Jimmy Norris, Vince Little and Cindy Fisher contributed to this story.
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The twenty-fifth anniversary of Batson v. Kentucky provides an important moment to reflect on Batson and to consider how this seminal case and its progeny have affected the use and abuse of peremptory challenges. I had initially welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court's approach to peremptory challenges in Batson back in 1986. Although Batson was a compromise preserving peremptories while seeking to address discriminatory—peremptories—it had the noble goal of trying to eliminate discrimination during jury selection. I also embraced its expansion over the years. The logic of Batson was inexorable: just as prosecutors should not be permitted to use peremptories to eliminate African Americans as jurors, so too, defense attorneys and civil parties should be similarly constrained. Just as African
Americans should not be subjected to discriminatory peremptories, so too, members of any race, ethnicity, or gender should not be subjected to discriminatory peremptories. However, over time I developed serious doubts that Batson and its progeny could achieve their central goal of eliminating discrimination during jury selection. Now, with twenty-five years of experience, we can look back and see just how ineffective Batson has been. This anniversary is an appropriate juncture to renew the call for the elimination of the peremptory challenge, echoing Justice Thurgood Marshall's recommendation in his Batson concurrence twenty-five years ago.10
This anniversary prompts not only a reassessment of why Batson has been so ineffective over the course of twenty-five years, but also a reexamination of what any of us—lawyers, judges, and prospective jurors—can determine about individual juror bias before the start of the trial (other than the most clear-cut cases for which a for-cause challenge is appropriate). At some point during voir dire, judges typically ask prospective jurors whether they can be impartial. If they say that they can be, then they are free to serve. The only barrier to their service is the lawyer who distrusts their response and removes them through the exercise of a peremptory challenge. But this assumes that a lawyer can recognize individual juror bias, and this assumption is based on anecdotal evidence, which is undermined by empirical studies.
England, which has eliminated the peremptory challenge, offers another theory of juror bias. English barristers and judges explain that jurors will rise to the occasion and put aside their biases and perform their role as impartial jurors. When questioned about this, they suggest that most jurors can serve because they take their responsibilities seriously and will step into their role as "impartial jurors."
An alternative theory of juror bias, which I call the "process theory," is that various stages of the jury process will help jurors to perform their role impartially even if they began the trial with biases that the juror, judge, or lawyers failed to identify. For example, the voir dire, oath, instructions, and deliberations (particularly with a diverse jury) help jurors to put aside their biases and to perform their role as impartial jurors. According to this theory, peremptories, which limit the diversity of the jury, make it more difficult for jurors to challenge each other during deliberations, and therefore, make deliberations less of an institutional constraint on juror bias.
Under both the English and the process theories, peremptories do not play a constructive role and should be eliminated. The elimination of peremptories in England also suggests that peremptories are not inevitable, even in a jury system that has had a tradition of peremptories, as England has had and the United States still has. Moreover, peremptories are harmful to the jury system. As twenty-five years of Batson have shown, peremptories can limit African Americans' opportunities to serve as jurors and skew the composition of the jury, particularly in capital cases. Peremptories make it more difficult to achieve juries that reflect a fair cross section of the community.
This twenty-fifth anniversary gives us an opportunity to rethink the theory and practice of peremptory challenges under Batson. Toward this end, Part I will offer three explanations as to why Batson has been so ineffective in practice. Part II will critique the American theory of juror bias, which assumes that lawyers can discern juror bias and that lawyers will exercise peremptories to eliminate so-called biased jurors. Part III will look at the English theory of juror bias, which assumes that jurors will rise to the demands of their role and be impartial. Under this theory, peremptories are no longer needed. It will also look at the process theory and consider how peremptories undermine the effectiveness of jury deliberations. Finally, Part IV will examine the ways in which we should revise our own jury-trial practice by eliminating peremptory challenges to reflect the difficulty of identifying individual juror bias and militate against the harms that peremptories cause. Even if peremptories are eliminated, for-cause challenges and voir dire should remain. For-cause challenges exclude jurors who say they cannot be impartial, and voir dire serves other, albeit unacknowledged, functions, such as transforming summoned citizens into responsible jurors and providing the first step, according to the process theory, of educating jurors about the need to be impartial.
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So while I 'kinda' falling asleep while watching the last episode of Game of Thrones :-/ something suddenly got my attention, and by "something" I mean a hot scene between Loras and Olyvar.
You may remember Laras as part of the ménage à trois with Margaery (now fiance with Joffrey) and Renly (the son of King Robert) who got killed last season. Olyvar is a male prostitute and spy working for Petyr Baelis who made his debuts on this episode ... and what a debut!
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Hamilton County Board of Education members and Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Jim Scales have reached a tentative buyout agreement to end Scales' five-year tenure at the helm of the local school system, officials announced this afternoon.
However, Scales and school board members said the deal won't be official until a vote is taken later this month.
The specific terms of the buyout will not be released until the deal is accepted by the board.
School board members Jeffrey Wilson and George Ricks and Hamilton County Commissioner are among those at a news conference at the school system's main office on Bonny Oaks Drive.
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School board member Rhonda Thurman said she received a call earlier today asking if she could attend a board meeting on May 26. She said 15 days notice is required.
School board member Chip Baker said he also got the call about the May 26 meeting and said he is also familiar with discussions about Scales' contract. Baker said he would not attend, saying the school board needs to focus on passing his budget.
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Wow. Simply, wow! Isn't this school board composed of many of the same people who rushed a contract extension through for this guy? I'll be the first to admit, I don't think Scales has done much of anything since he's been here. And he certainly did not deserve $50k/year more than an already worthless superintendent who was on his way out. However, once this guy steps up and finally makes the hard, gutsy decisions that need to be made in order to balance the budget, he puts his own job in jeopardy?! The school board needs to follow suit, making the difficult decisions necessary while keeping priority in the classroom, NOT the central office. Just imagine how the voters will react during the next election when they decide whether or not to re-elect a board member who stood in the way of common sense and fiscal responsibility!
This is just a ploy by Rhonda Thurman and Fred Skillern to save their buddy, Rick Smith, from the firing line. Do you think that we should be buying out contracts when the budget is $14 million in the hole? Everyone should contact their school board representative and tell them that it is unacceptable for Rick Smith to remain at Central Office and we will not tolerate this nonsense when HCDE doesn't have the money to do so!
Next up... electing an all new school board or at least replacing those who are responsible for hiring and extending the contract of Mr. Scales.
Great idea, Rhonda. Let's pay a guy $200K + benefits for doing nothing and then hire another guy for another $200K for doing next to nothing. What if we all walked into our bosses office in the morning and informed the boss that we're quitting and would like a year's salary in advance. How would that work out?
The people on the board who voted to extend Dr. Scales' contract last time are the same folks who are now against cutting him loose early. There are some new faces on the board now and that's why there is now a majority who wants him out now.
I think sending Dr. Scales off now is a win-win. Scales gets about $260,000 to do nothing but sit on his rump for at least a year...some may argue that's what he's been doing anyway, but that's another debate. Hamilton County wins by not having to deal with Scales anymore. Wahoo!! Now the main issue will be trying to plug the $14 million hole in the budget for next year.
By the way, if Scales is getting $57,000+ as part of his buyout due to built-up vacation days, doesn't that amount to over 1/4 of the year's worth? 12 or 13 weeks? How many weeks did he get per year if he had that much saved up? Wow.
We need to hire a superintendent who is from Hamilton County (or close by). No need to make an expensive national search again.
Well ole blondie getting a bit more media time, wonder what her plan is for her new run at what office, State or Fed as she sure makes certain she is out in front of press every time she can. Nice to know why the fired the guy they extended, but since they took no pay hits, or budget cuts, guess not a personal issue for board, just a stepping stone for few for a new R party job for some one whom so loves the media?
I never thought an African-American professional could survive the whiteness of Thurmon and the implicit racism of many of the comments to this article, including Skillern. It is really a shame bu it costs money to have a good a school system, and an educated school board willing fight for it... Oh, and by the way I am a southern-bred caucasian).
For years Rhonda Thurman has called on the former Supt. and now the current Supt. to cut the Central Office Staff. In fact, she had asked both men several times to make cuts at the Central Office rather than in the classroom. Nothing wrong with that if it is her TRUE agenda. So, Dr. Scales creates a budget calling for exactly what she has been screaming about for years - He makes cuts at the TOP of the Central Office along with other recommendations for cuts. But instead of getting praise for this move, they offer him a buy out. Because in her words the "new Superintendent" should be the one to make those cuts. The hypocrisy here is so blatant until it's almost funny. What is really being said here is NOT about making cuts but it's about POWER and who decides where the cuts will take place. Ms. Thurman wants to be THE "decider." In reality that's what it's been about all along. It's ok for her to suggest more than a quarter of a million dollars be spent to send Dr. Scales on his way but it's not ok for him to suggest cutting top positions at the Central Office to save that much. But one shouldn't give her too much credit alone. She has four more members on the board who are going along with this hairbrain scheme. You just have to wonder when those "fiscally conservative teabaggers"(the ones who chased Ron Littlefield around for his so-called tax and spend ideas) are going to rise up and get a petition going to oust these free-willing spenders? After all when Dr. Scales rides off into the sunset with his quarter of a million dollars and the next Supt comes in (whether it's someone local or not) they're going to have pay him with those "hard-earned" tax dollars Rhonda Thurman likes to say she's the "Steward" of and they will have to make cuts somewhere to pay for this power-grab. Where oh where are those teabaggers and their petitions when we need them??? Evidently,they don't really come after their own.


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So many events going on and so little time to blog about.
Two weeks ago, four members of this group traveled to Morelia in southern Mexico to present their research at the XIII Mexican Physical Chemistry Meeting. The next week after that, they all brought their posters back to Toluca for the internal symposium at CCIQS, where a masters student, María Eugenia, gave a small talk about her research project concerning photosynthesis in bacteria. Below, a short description of their projects is presented in order of seniority.
María Eugenia "Maru" Sandoval
Maru is working in photosynthesis of green sulfur bacteria. Her research deals with the excited states calculations at the Time Dependent DFT level for describing the first stages of photon interaction in antennae complexes of the photosystem II, namely the Fenna-Matthews-Olsen (FMO) complex, which was selected due to its relative structural simplicity over that of more evolved organisms. Maru also gave a talk at the internal Symposium back in Toluca the very next week where she got a positive feedback which will be used in her project.
Howard Diaz
One of the many strategies out there for treatment of HIV-1 infections is to block those proteins used to anchor the virus to a healthy cell. Sort of getting the virus' hands busy so they can't attach to a host. 60+ new compounds derived from thiourea were screened and assessed in their interactions with protein GP120, the protein to which the attachment is made, through docking and DFT calculations. Lead compounds are reported. It must be stressed that Howard got an award at CCIQS for having one of the best posters out of 70 in the entire symposium. Kudos and thanks to you, Howard! We now have some MD simulations in order.
Guillermo "Memo" Caballero
His project has some nice philosophical implications if you ask me. Memo started as an experimental chemist and when he ran into a wall trying to obtain a pyridine from the non-aromatic analogue (glutarimide), he came to our group to run some calculations and find out how to force the aromatization process, or at least rationalize if it could be performed at all. Two mechanisms were proposed and now we know that even when the reaction should be quite exothermic, the reaction barriers are too high to be overcome by conventional methods. We now need to find a way to decrease those barriers (cue transition metal simulations). So in a way we are dealing here with the mechanism of a reaction that never happens (at least in an intramolecular way), leading to a reverse reductio ad absurdum reasoning – we assumed the reaction(s) did happen and we found out why is it impossible for them to happen.
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Luis Enrique "Kike" Aguilar
Luis continues to work with calix(n)arenes, this lab's first love, in drug delivery systems. He is working with two drugs at once: Bosutinib and Sorafenib, second generation drugs for the treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in cases were resistance to Imatinib has been developed. One of his main goals is to find a calixarene system which is able to discriminate between Bosutinib and pseudo-bosutinib, a commercial isomer which has incorrectly been available for a few years now.
reers and the advancement of our research group. Now back to work, guys!
Atoms in Molecules (QTAIM) – Flash lesson
As far as population analysis methods goes, the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules (QTAIM) a.k.a Atoms in Molecules (AIM) has become a popular option for defining atomic properties in molecular systems, however, its calculation is a bit tricky and maybe not as straightforward as Mulliken's or NBO.
Personally I find AIM a philosophical question since, after the introduction of the molecule concept by Stanislao Cannizzaro in 1860 (although previously developed by Amadeo Avogadro who was dead at the time of the Karlsruhe congress), the questions of whether or not an atom retains its identity when bound to others? where does an atom end and the next begins? What are the connections between atoms in a molecule? are truly interesting and far deeper than we usually consider because it takes a big mental leap to think about how matter is organized to give rise to substances. Particularly I'm very interested with the concept of a Molecular Graph which in turn is concerned with the way we "draw lines" to form conceptual molecules. Perhaps in a different post we can go into the detail of the method, which is based in the Laplacian operator of the electron density, but today, I just want to collect the basic steps in getting the most basic AIM answers for any given molecule. Recently, my good friend Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor and I have used rather extensively the following procedure. We hope to have a couple of manuscripts published later on. Therefore, I've asked Pezhman to write a sort of guest post on how to run AIMALL, which is our selected program for the integration algorithm.
The first thing we need is a WFN or WFX file, which contains the wavefunction in a Fortran unformatted file on which the Laplacian integration is to be performed. This is achieved in Gaussian09 by incluiding the keyword output=wfn or output=wfx in the route section and adding a name for this file at the bottom line of the input file, e.g.
(NOTE: WFX is an eXtended version of WFN; particularly necessary when using pseudopotentials or ECP's)
Analyzing this file requires the use of a third party software such as AIMALL suite of programs, of which the standard version is free of charge upon registration to their website.
OpenAIMStudio (the accompanying graphical interface) and select the AIMQB program from the run menu as shown in figure 1.
Select your WFN/WFX file on which the calculation is to be run. (Figure 2)
You can control several options for the integration of the Laplacian of the electron density as well as other features. If your molecules are simple enough, you may go through with a successful and meaningful calculation using the default settings. After the calculation is finished, several result files are obtained. We'll work in this tutorial only with *.mpgviz (which contains information about the molecular graph, MG) and *.sum (which contains all of needed numerical data).
Visualization of the MG yields different kinds of critical points, such as: 1) Nuclear Attractor Critical Points (NACP); 2) Bond Critical Points (BCP); 3) Ring CP's (RCP); and 4) Cage CP's (CCP).
Of the above, BCP are the ones that indicate the presence of a chemical bond between two atoms, although this conclusion is not without controversy as pointed out by Foroutan-Njead in his paper: C. Foroutan-Nejad, S. Shahbazian and R. Marek, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2014, 20, 10140-10152. However, at a first approximation, BCP's can help us to explore chemical interactions.
Now, let's go back to visualizing those MGs (in our examples we've used methane and ethylene and acetylene). We open the corresponding *.mpgviz file in AIMStudio and export the image from the file menu and using the save as picture option (figure 3).
The labeled atoms are NACP's while the green dots correspond to BCP's. Multiplicity of a bond cannot be discerned within the MG; in order to find out whether a bond is a single, double or triple bond we have to look into the *.sum file, in which we'll take a look at the bond orders between pairs of atoms in the section labeled "Diatomic Electron Pair Contributions and Delocalization Data" (Figure 4).
Delocalization indexes, DI's, show the approximate number of electrons shared between two atoms. From the above examples we get the following DI(C,C) values: 1.93 for C2H4 and 2.87 for C2H2; on the other hand, DI(C,H) values are 0.98 for CH4, 0.97 in C2H4 and 0.96 in C2H2. These are our usual bond orders.
This is the first part of a crash tutorial on AIM, in my opinion this is the very basics anyone needs to get started with this interesting and widespread method. Thanks to all who asked about QTAIM, now you have your long answer.
Thanks a lot to my good friend Dr Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor for providing this contribution to the blog, we hope you all find it helpful. Please share and comment.
WATOC 2014 – Virtual edition
I had a blast last week at WATOC2014 in Santiago de Chile! It was a wonderful opportunity to find old friends, meet new ones and listen to some exciting research done around the world, as well as some of the classics such as Pekka Pyykkö, who was awarded the Schrödinger medal. I decided to share my talk on SlideShare.com but also here because I found at WATOC that many many people seem to like this little space of mine! I was shocked, flattered but mostly happy to know that this little blog of mine is well regarded.
So, without further ado, here is my presentation at WATOC2014, please read the captions on each image for context. Feel free to make any comments, sharing or liking. Thanks for clicking!
If you made it this far, let me tell you that this is also available at Slideshare.com :)
Thanks for reading, commenting and sharing!
I inexcusably forgot to write about my visit to WATOC2014 but as they say it's better late than never. I've been here in Santiago de Chile for a day and a half now attending mostly to session 5 "applications to compelling problems". WATOC (World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists) is probably the largest conference in our speciality and some of the big names are here which makes me very nervous to present my talk!
My talk will be very similar to the one presented in the last ACS meeting in San Francisco, in silico design of monomolecular drug delivery agents based on calix[n]arene macrocycles.
I wont try to report from WATOC, I'm not any good at that but will for sure be available if anyone wants to contact me.
248th ACS meeting – San Francisco 2014
This is my first time giving a talk at the ACS meeting so I'm a tad nervous but also excited about the possibility to listen to so many great researchers and hopefully interact with some of them, although such a massive event is hardly the best place to build a network.
My talk will deal with our recently published work on calixarene based drug carriers and the new results we are currently getting, and will take place on Tuesday 12th at 16:15 at the session regarding the use of small macrocycles in drug discovery. Feedback is very important to us so we look forward to some heavy criticism of our results.
If you are there, download the free app which will show you around the different presentations and stands.
I will also make use of twitter to move from one lecture to another. See you there!
New paper in JACS
Well, I only contributed with the theoretical section by doing electronic structure calculations, so it isn't really a paper we can ascribe to this particular lab, however it is really nice to see my name in JACS along such a prominent researcher as Prof. Chad Mirkin from Northwestern University, in a work closely related to my area of research interest as macrocyclic recognition agents.
In this manuscript, a calix[4]arene is allosterically opened and closed reversibly by coordinating different kinds of ligands to a platinum center linked to the macrocycle. (This approach has been referred to as the weak link approach.) I recently visited Northwestern and had a great time with José Mendez-Arroyo, the first author, who showed me around and opened the possibility for further work between our research groups.
Closed, semi-open and fully open conformations; selectivity is modulated through cavity size. (Ligands: Green = Chloride; Blue = Cyanide)
Here at UNAM we calculated the interaction energies for the two guests that were successfully inserted into the cavity: N-methyl-pyridinium (Eint = 57.4 kcal/mol) and Pyridine-N-oxide (Eint = +200.0 kcal/mol). Below you can see the electrostatic potential mapped onto the electron density isosurface for one of the adducts. Relative orientation of the hosts within the cavity follows the expected (anti-) alignment of mutual dipole moments. At this level of theory, we could easily be inclined to assert that the most stable interaction is indeed the one from the semi-open compound and that this in turn is due to the fact that host and guest are packed closer together but there is also an orbital issue: Pyridine Oxide is a better electron acceptor than N-Me-pyridinium and when we take a closer look to the (Natural Bonding) orbitals interacting it becomes evident that a closer location does not necessarily yields a stronger interaction when the electron accepting power of the ligand is weaker (which is, in my opinion, both logic and at the same time a bit counterintuitive, yet fascinating, nonetheless).
All calculations were performed at the B97D/LANL2DZ level of theory with the use of Gaussian09 and NBO3.1 as provided within the former. Computing time at UNAM's supercomputer known as 'Miztli' is fully acknowledged.
The full citation follows:
A Multi-State, Allosterically-Regulated Molecular Receptor With Switchable Selectivity
Jose Mendez-Arroyo †, Joaquín Barroso-Flores §,Alejo M. Lifschitz †, Amy A. Sarjeant †, Charlotte L. Stern †, and Chad A. Mirkin *†
Thanks to José Mendez-Arroyo for contacting me and giving me the opportunity to collaborate with his research; I'm sure this is the first of many joint projects that will mutually benefit our groups.
Summer Interns 2014
Just as last year, the "Dolphin Summer Internship Program" (Programa Delfín) has started and this time it coincided with #RealTimeChem week. Four students from various cities (and accents) around Mexico have come to our lab in Toluca in order to spend about 7 weeks of research in the field of molecular modeling and within our research of molecular recognition in biochemistry. Karen, Cynthia, Jesús and Marco have started their training today as they arrived to CCIQS so we went over the (very) basics of quantum chemistry, the (very) basics of Linux and the basics of Gaussian09. (I should really think about developing some web tutorials or something because this impromptu training is very exhausting!)
Their academic backgrounds are mostly centered around pharmaceutics and biochemistry although their ages range from the second to the fourth year of college education. Computational chemistry is pretty unknown to all of them; I'll do my best to change that, while at the same time I make them aware of its power as a research tool and as a research field in itself.
Here is to a very productive summer! I hope we manage to get enough data for a paper and, more importantly, that they all get a good experience out of their time here, make new friends and learn something new that enriches their skills in this increasingly competitive world.
Visit to 'Universidad de la Cañada' in Oaxaca, Mexico
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to give a talk to a small university in southern Mexico called 'Universidad de la Cañada' in the state of Oaxaca, one of the most underprivileged states in our nation. This institution is a rather small one but the work they are doing over there with as little resources as they have is truly remarkable . UNCA offers degrees in pharmacy, pharmacology, food sciences, clinical chemistry and other topics that aim to supply the needed human resources for the various industries that are settled in the region. There is a true feeling of togetherness at UNCA since they have little pieces of equipment yet they are all fully shared among researchers regardless of who received the finance to acquire them. Last year, two of their students came for a two months stay, after which, Alberto and Eduardo got their names on a publication of our research group. It was nice to see them again and even nicer to learn they are about to finish their studies and that they will come back again to our lab in late July.
Every year at UNCA there is a Pharmacology Day on which the students show the results to their research projects during a poster session and listen to lectures by guest speakers from various universities around Mexico. Most of their projects were aimed to the isolation of natural products from local resources and their usage in several kinds of consumer products. UNCA is in a very small town, village I might say, surrounded by mountains and vegetation; the view was spectacular as you may see from the pictures below. Thank you very much to my good friend Dr. Carmen Hernández-Galindo for inviting me to participate and share our work with their students, I hope we may go back again and keep a fruitful exchange between our groups.
During this talk, I took the opportunity to talk about the aforementioned paper in the context of molecular recognition and their in silico design but I think I should have talked more about the computational strategies that are most employed in the pharmaceutical industry. Never mind. I hope I get the opportunity to right this wrong. Still it was nice to give Alberto and Eduardo the opportunity to brag a little about being published authors.
Kudos to Rola Aburto, Dr. Margarita Bernabé, Dr. Rocío Rosas, and all the academic staff at UNCA for their invaluable dedication to teaching science against all odds, I can testify, through the hard work of their students, hat their effort is paying off.
Science in the World Cup
So the World Cup is once again on top of us. I'm not a Football (Soccer) enthusiast but I've got to admit that the expectation of such a large and widely covered event is pretty contagious. This year, however, I'm very excited about the inaugural kick-off ceremony because a paraplegic teen will be the one to set the ball in motion, thanks to the use of an exoskeleton developed by the illustrious Brazilian researcher, Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, this patient will not only walk again but also perform a feat of equilibrium: kicking a football. More impressive than the exoskeleton itself is the brain-computer-machine interface since the patient will control the entire process by himself. Miguel Nicolelis is widely known and highly regarded in the scientific community; I'm not sure if he is that famous outside academia, but if he isn't, he should be. The natural question about Dr. Nicolelis is what is he? Is he a robotics engineer? a neurologist? a programmer? a physician? The answer could be no other than 'all of the above'.
And even more impressive than all that, if that's even possible, is the fact that this huge achievement of technology is presented at one of the most viewed sporting events on the planet. Brazilian organizers could have selected many things to kick-off this event: From Adriana Lima to Pelé; from a Samba line to aboriginal Amazonian people, but instead they chose to go with a scientific and technological breakthrough achieved by one of their own. I wonder if this is a way to tell the world they are interested in investing in science and technology as a way to pave the way of their economical and social development. Brazil is currently regarded as a fast growing nation economically although the social disparity seems to be still quite large. The message I'm getting, at least in principle, is that Brazil is a modern nation with high regard for scientific development on which they will rely their future.
Kudos to the Brazilian organizers who thought of placing this large scientific breakthrough in a sporting event, proving that this world should become boundless and the way to do it is through science.
Taking the Joy of Chemistry into a Children's Home
On Friday May 30th, my good friend Dr. Josefina Aldeco, my wife and I, visited a children's home in Querétaro (central Mexico) and brought them a few cool chemistry experiments for a short show. This event was promoted by a non-profit organization called "Anímate a estudiar" (Dare to study), namely by Mrs. Paulina Milanés who is always looking for ways to encourage kids from poor backgrounds to pursue their goals through study; among other things, they provide backpacks with school supplies to orphan kids like the girls we visited.
As a way to inspire them, we handed each girl a balloon drawn in the shape of a brain and asked them to inflate them daily by reading; by doing their homework; by asking questions all the time; by working hard in pursuit of a brighter future for which their brains are the most powerful muscles.
Many reactions took place that Friday; not only inside the flasks and beakers before our little audience but also in their faces and their engagement with us. Little by little these girls got out of their shells and became more excited, up to the point of performing their own chemical reaction themselves by polymerizing some glue with borax in hot water. This was for sure the first time they got in contact with chemistry but the true goal was to set up a spark in their minds that one day may turn into a life opportunity. We are aware that one small chemistry show can't really have that effect, but if many more scientists reach out to these kids there is a bigger chance of creating a ripple effect that convince disenfranchised children that studying is the way to take the wheel of their own future.
Science is about development; its about spreading knowledge and the love for knowledge. Although we most times sit high on our ivory towers it is paramount to remember that there is also a social component to the scientific activity. Kids are eager to learn, but most school systems do their very best to limit their curiosity and ambition. We hope these girls find in studying a way to a better, happier and safer future. Mexico has a large economic disparity; climbing the social ladder is very hard and even more so for women which makes these girls a very vulnerable social group in the next generation.
It only takes one day. One day and some potassium iodide; some mentos on a diet-coke (sorry, Gina, for the squirt!); some cobalt chloride on paper; some balloons some glue and some borax in hot water. But above all it takes a big commitment.
I hope you readers, computational and experimental chemists alike, take some time out of your busy schedules and share your passion for science with kids, specially those with the lowest opportunities of getting in touch with real scientists. You can also contribute to this noble effort by making a small pay-pal donation to www.animateaestudiar.org or to any other similar organization in your local community.
It only takes one day.
P.S. Thanks to Josefina from Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro for providing material and reagents. Please go and check out her blogs (here and here) and encourage her to write more often! (Did I mention she published in Science a few years ago?)


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Mets, Yankees games rained out
Faced with an awful weather forecast, the Yankees postponed Wednesday night's game against the Mariners.
The game has been rescheduled for Monday, June 2 at 7:05 p.m.
There was no immediate word on how the postponement would impact the club's rotations.
David Phelps, filling in for the suspended Michael Pineda, was scheduled to face Seattle's Roenis Elias (1-2, 3.54) Wednesday night.
Thursday night, Hiroki Kuroda (2-2, 5.28) is scheduled to take on Mariners' ace Felix Hernandez (3-1, 2.40).
The Mets will have to wait another day to continue their assault on the Phillies.
The Mets' game has been rescheduled for June 2. The Mets won, 6-1, on Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park.
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I Founded Prodigus Inc in January 08. We are an Entertainment, Events and Promotions Company, based out of Brooklyn, New York. We mainly specialize in promoting events and services within neighborhood bars. Our newest networking/promotion tool is http://ThisBarSucks.com This site has seen a rapid growth in readership and has shown increased revenue for local businesses, that are featured on the site. I also represent a multi award winning New York Real Estate company (my office is based out of Brooklyn). I am a member of The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and am closly associated with The Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and The European Real Estate Network (EREN). I currently focus on residential sales and rentals.