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Excellent points. If only
Excellent points. If only there was a diagram that illustrated this with a quick glance!
One conversation we frequently have with our clients is what level of involvement they want with the larger Drupal community. It is becomming increasingly common for our clients to say up front that they want to "play nice" with the community, which is terrific, but not all clients fully understand what that means.
Engaging with the community when building a Drupal site has a number of benefits both hard and soft. But there, are, of course, costs to doing so. There are also many different ways that you can engage with the community, each with their own pros and cons.
New code is developed as new releasable modules that are contributed back to the community on Drupal.org. This can lead to technically better solutions at slightly increased time/cost as well as some community recognition. Alternatively, a more general solution may actually end up saving time both during development and later during support. Modules that "play well" with existing approaches (Views plugins, Media plugins, Field modules, etc.) rather than being stand-alone mini-applications will be better received, especially if they are well documented.
That recognition may sour, however, if the modules are simply "dumped" and time is not allocated for ongoing maintenance. Abandoned modules do not generate good will. They may even generate ill-will. Before releasing a module, make sure that you have a strategy in place for ongoing maintenance, including handling of new feature requests or patches from others. You want to be a responsible maintainer. Don't be shy to add more maintainers from the community, too, if someone shows interest. Free labor is a precious commodity.
Far better than building yet-another-module that won't get maintained is enhancing an existing module. Most module maintainers are happy to entertain well-thought-out patches, especially if you explain the need for them rather than saying "here, I need this now". Be prepared for some back-and-forth with the maintainer as he or she reviews your patch, as it may need some work to get into just the right shape. Helping to extend and maintain an existing module is frequently better received than creating a new module, especially if that module is already widely used. It also means that you are not responsible for maintaining the module long-term, unless you decide to continue working with that maintainer long-term.
This approach can take longer than building a new module from scratch, of course, as the module maintainer may not be on the same schedule as you. You will need to factor in collaboration time and time to revise the patch a few times. It may also be problematic if the maintainer is inactive or uncollaborative, but most maintainers are happy to have help if it's offered the right way. If a module you need seems to be abandoned, you can see about taking over the module and improving it yourself.
Whatever you do, though, don't simply fork an existing module to a new project on Drupal.org. That's an excellent way to develop a bad reputation, as you're not helping the community but simply creating yet-another-unmaintained-module. Don't do that.
The community at large recognizes certain needs that are unfulfilled or under-fulfilled, but they are a sufficiently large or complex problem that solving them takes more than just a module or two. Frequently they require a considerable amount of collaboration, time, or funding. This applies especially to improvements to Drupal core itself.
If your site faces one of these problems, working with other members of the community directly to develop, in the open, a better solution can yield the best technology for your site as well as the best response from the community. The end result has buy-in from many people, but as a key player in building the solution you get recognized as the go-to person or company in that space. The commercial PR you get back from that is worth its weight in gold, in addition to the karma you can then leverage when asking someone else for help on another problem later.
On the other hand, this can be challenging when there are frequently different competing needs, your own budget and timeline being one of them. The community doesn't always work on a tight schedule. For such a solution to be truly well-received, it needs to be built collaboratively and in public, not in a closed process and then released on a silver platter. Even if it starts out as your own private project, once it goes public and develops momentum you need to be able to let go and let the community drive it.
While this approach is the most challenging, it will also generate the most community good will and karma over the long term.
At Palantir, we usually steer our clients toward either Module Release or Module Engagement, depending on the project or task at hand. Sometimes a one-off solution is best; rare is the site that doesn't have at least a little bit of site-specific code. However, we've learned through experience that over the lifetime of a site, and definitely when spread out over many sites, building and collaborating on general solutions gives the best ROI over the lifetime of a site. And isn't that why we use Drupal in the first place?
Where possible, engage in larger community initiatives, too. Even if you're not driving one yourself, being part of those that are already afoot can help future-proof a site, generate a positive feedback loop of karma and support, and deliver a better product over the long-haul.
If I had to summarize engagement in the Drupal community, or any open source community, it would probably resemble a famous African proverb:
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Excellent points. If only there was a diagram that illustrated this with a quick glance!
here is the diagram your looking for...
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together & further, and slower
Ha, funny comment, but the statement it's based on is so true and rings well with the Drupal community.
I tend to go for the Module Release and sometimes Module Engagement, which is what I think is in my current capabilities in Drupal. However, Larry, I find it a bit confusing to understand your statement about the Community Initiative Engagement: are you referring to starting something and let the community take over, or more as a sort of "marketer" for collaboration? If that's the case, I feel it would be the kind of thing that someone, even with little technical background (or none at all), could very well use as a way of pushing the community that extra step when it needs it.
One of the things that characterizes a large initiative is that it takes many different kinds of input. A bug fix or minor feature addition just takes someone to code it and someone to test it, but major changes require input from lots of people.
As an example, there's currently an active discussion about Search in Drupal. Core search sucks. Core's search API is simply not up to the task of, well, anything useful, and its search algorithm is sub-standard compared to the other options available. The apachesolr module in contrib is built around the existing core API, and assumes a specific workflow. There's the search_api module in contrib, but that's still very new and has some kinks to work out.
This is a hard problem space. So if you're doing anything major with search, do you:
1) Write a new search module yourself and release it? Do you maintain it after doing so?
2) Work with either the apachesolr or search_api maintainers to improve those modules to the point that they'll do what you need?
3) Get involved in this ongoing community initiative to improve the search world in general: http://groups.drupal.org/node/117274
#3 is the "community initiative" approach; better end result, but takes longer. And yes, there's lots of things that could be done:
- Help (constructively) architect the new approach on that thread.
- Attend or pay someone to attend the Core Conversation session at DrupalCon Chicago where this issue will be discussed.
- Offer time to help develop a new search infrastructure.
- Offer time to help test a new search infrastructure.
- Offer time to help coordinate the work of building a new search infrastructure (very important).
- Offer time to test test test test test the search system as it is developed.
- Offer time to do usability testing and accessibility testing on any interfaces that are proposed.
- If some parts of the system are completed early, try using them in pre-release form. That will help flush out bugs and design flaws early when they're cheaper to fix, even if it may make the project you use it for a bit rougher at first.
- Offer sprint space at your offices for people doing any of the above to get together and collaborate.
- Probably others I'm forgetting.
This isn't actually a made up example; Palantir is actually facing exactly this question on an upcoming search-intensive project, and we're weighing the pros and cons of all of the above approaches. Naturally we'd like to go with the "community engagement" approach, but time and budget may limit that. So could we do it in such a way that anything we do lends itself to future work by others in this area, even if it's not part of the over-arching framework? Well, maybe. We're looking into that right now. That's one of the things that prompted this article. :-)
Very nice article delineating code-sharing, module maintaining and community values. I'll definitely be incorporating your clear and robust explanation. Thanks for a thoughtful framing of an answer to the question, "Why Contribute?"
Thanks for this clear description of the levels and values of community engagement. We ( http://oss-watch.ac.uk ) often expand on the increased sustainability of the work as another clear benefit.
alone & fast
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together & further, and slower
I don't necessarily agree with the above diagram; at the very least, it should be put in perspective.
The Theory of Relativity was developed by a lone genius named Albert Einstein. Had he kept it in his desk drawer to himself, he can be faulted for not "collaborating" and advancing science. The fact that he PUBLISHED it in a scientific journal, albeit an obscure journal, IS itself an ACT of COLLABORATION. Period. Another lone genius, Linus Torvalds, developed Linux on his own time, and then he released on the Internet. Had Linus chosen not to maintain his OS after he released it, that's within his rights and perfectly normal. His code is open source and anybody can now "collaborate" as they see fit.
Somebody like Albert and Linus have to come up with an original idea for the rest of us mortals to have something to collaborate on.
Conversely, we can lock up 1000 people in a room and then tell them "ok, collaborate on 'nothing'", we will still get 'nothing'. Adding one more person in the room just to have 1001 bodies would not necessarily lead to a productive result. In IT especially, religious wars and strong disagreements can ensue in a so-called collaborative setting and can therefore impede progress.
My point is: the two development processes COMPLEMENT each other. Contribute in any way you can, in the way that is most productive to the individual, and therefore to the whole.


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I have a thin client with 112mb RAM which boots ubuntu server 12.04.1 from a usb drive with openbox and it is to be used by students to communicate with cisco equipment. And because of this the students need to be able to reconfigure the network interface and then restart it without a reboot using the only user - cisco.
This is what I have so far:
adduser cisco
usermod -a -G dialout cisco
chown root:cisco /etc/network/interfaces
chmod 664 /etc/network/interfaces
chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown
chmod u+s /sbin/reboot
chmod u+s /sbin/poweroff
chmod u+s /run/network/if*
chmod u+s /sbin/ifdown
chmod u+s /sbin/ifup
And when I run
/etc/init.d/networking restart as cisco I get:
*Reconfiguring network interfaces...
rm: cannot remove `eth0.dhclient': Permission denied
Failed to send flush request: Operation not permitted
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted
Any ideas on how to get this working?

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Schroedinger's Cat Executive Decision Maker for $29.99
I really want one. The physicist's best friend. And I'll even make it a deal: buy $60, and knock $10 off.
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awesome little toy! Upvoted this deal even though I can't stand the seller.
I need one to decide if I need one......uh-oh.
@kamikazeken: Why the Thinkgeek hate? Just curious...I've only had good experiences.
@okham: ordered a bloody bathroom rug for our halloween party 10 days before halloween. They didn't even ship it until 5 days later, and when the package arrived, the day AFTER Halloween, all that was in box was an umbrella.
Contacted them about it, they said they'd send the right item out asap, but again, they didn't even use expedited shipping to make up for their mistake.
So 11 days after halloween, I finally had the correct item. Not even a partial refund, like maybe the shipping charge, or a coupon code for next time.
I mean, what kind of mental midget confuses an umbrella with a bathroom rug? It wasn't even a nice umbrella, just a crappy dollar store one.
@kamikazeken: Wow! I've had some great experiences with Think Geek, including dealing with their customer service monkeys. Wonder what went wrong with your order.
For $30 it should include a real cat.
You'd have to restock every time it came up dead, but my neighborhood is full of them.
My biggest beef with ThinkGeek is their high prices. This is a perfect example. $30 + shipping for this item is WAY to much...
@okham: I want 90% of ThinkGeek's products no doubt.. but I don't buy anything from them at all due to how outrageous everything is priced. Even when they have "sales", the shipping prices are terrible. For a company as large as ThinkGeek, you think they could offer free shipping or do like Overstock/Woot does and make all shipping 1 flat price.
When they have good prices, I will start buying from them.
@devexityspace: I see your point, but just don't think their shipping costs are that high. They are usually offset by a coupon or freebie, which is always involved in my purchases.
I'm probably just skewed by the shipping costs I see at some other companies.
As a physicist, I find this a little cute, but $30 is pretty steep for a psuedorandom number generator and a motorized cat.
@snoopjedi: find me a better price on a motorizedcat! :-P
@devexityspace: The best "sale" thinkgeek ever had was free shipping on everything.
...and even then, I still only ordered Astronaut ice cream (that I could have gotten in 2 days from Amazon for like 2¢ more lol)
So... the cat's a zombie, right?
I love when someone posts a product that I have the opportunity of buying at full price! I am always excited to find a product at MSRP, and would be shocked.. nay.. appalled if anyone suggested that this site should only be used to post.. DEALS...
It's terrible that they would even offer 10$ off if someone were to buy 2.
I'd pay $30 + shipping in a heartbeat for this IF the cat were either alive or dead right when I opened the box. The fact that it switches back and forth totally kills the whole idea of the splitting of the wave function when the cat is observed.
Pushes up glasses
Perhaps a future release will be more accurate.
wow that YouTube video is pretty stupid. Hopefully no one is using that as a selling point
I love think geek.. My first order ever years and years ago was a caffeine molecule mug. It arrived with the molecule image reversed. I emailed them and they sent me a replacement and let me keep the defective mug.
Then for Christmas this year I ordered 1 titanium spork (~$9) as well as some other items. Everything came in correct except instead of giving me a single spork they gave me the package they buy in bulk which is a white box of 12 titanium sporks. Contacted them asking how I can ship back the 11 I didn't order and they said just keep them! They made great stocking stuffers last year.
I've never had a problem with ThinkGeek.
@elitemrp: For $9, getting 11 of them is about the right price. Really, $9 for a single spork??
Regardless of your thoughts on Thinkgeek, this particular item is NOT on sale. The only deal here is actually a previously wooted deal ($10 off a $60 purchase).
A lot of times I use ThinkGeek to find things, but then I just look elsewhere to order them.
TITANIUM spork, thank you (this ain't KFC)
ThinkGeek is the go-to site for friends when Hallmark + Walmart just doesn't cut it in the gift category. Got the spork for my brother, I've got the "no, i will not fix your computer" tshirt.
You don't buy from ThinkGeek because you are looking for a great deal. You buy from ThinkGeek because of all the concentrated geeky-tech goodies bubbling and simmering in one place.
@bentsea: You've been around since ought-six so you know that part of what makes Deals.Woot so awesome is seeing (and posting) cool stuff that most people wouldn't see otherwise.
Example (That actually was a "deal" too though.. not a GREAT one, but a deal :))
@drchops: Thanks for your support :) And I upvoted and enjoyed your fire piston back when you posted...maybe this is some of that "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" voting I'm hearing about...
@okham: haha... one of the benefits of being a part of "The Family" :)
(heh.. I forget about that thread, but somebody says something every once and awhile that reminds me of it)
@drchops: Totally missed that thread. Made for some entertaining reading, though. :)


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Cronin Group Research
Research Overview
Research in the Cronin Group is focussed on the potential of complex chemical systems derived from non biological building blocks to have a major impact on our fundamental understanding of the interplay of chemical systems and to revolutionise modern technologies. To this end the Cronin group works within four major research "areas" of Molecular Fundamentals, Inorganic Biology, Synthetic Systems and Hybrid Devices. The Cronin Group believes in a synergistic approach to research with research areas and projects reinforcing each other to enable fundamental advances to be made.
This research feeds into a number of major applications being investigated in the cronin group with the intention of realising the real-world benefits of the fundamental science being conducted. These applications range from developing materials for solar fuel devices to producing potential drug and drug delivery candidates.
Research Overview
Research in the Cronin Group is focussed on the potential of complex chemical systems derived from non biological building blocks to have a major impact on our fundamental understanding of the interplay of chemical systems and to revolutionise modern technologies. To this end the Cronin group works within four major research "areas" of Molecular Fundamentals, Inorganic Biology, Synthetic Systems and Hybrid Devices. The Cronin Group believes in a synergistic approach to research with research areas and projects reinforcing each other to enable fundamental advances to be made.
This research feeds into a number of major applications being investigated in the cronin group with the intention of realising the real-world benefits of the fundamental science being conducted. These applications range from developing materials for solar fuel devices to producing potential drug and drug delivery candidates.
Molecular Fundamentals
Understanding of the fundamental behaviour of nano-sized materials is crucial to the development of new technologies which benefit society. The knowledge we gain from our research in this area acts as the foundation for the ambitious and exciting chemistry taking place in the Cronin Group. The Cronin group has a long history of investigating the fundamentals of molecular metal oxide synthesis, with our focus on the development of materials which have an inherent functionality such as redox-activity, host-guest chemistries and magnetic capabilities. Learning to reliably design and incorporate these properties into molecular materials represents a real leap forward in the applications of metal oxide technologies.
Technologies based on solid-state metal oxides are worth over a trillion dollars per year, but there are significant costs attached to these technologies, such as the need for high temperature processing. Molecular level processing, on the other hand, promises technologies which offer significant advantages in terms of both easy control and low costs. This is not routinely possible as yet. Our fundamental work is to design and synthesise new molecular metal oxide clusters with controllable sizes and elemental compositions, which can be directly transferred and manipulated to assemble nanoscale doping dots with adjustable structures and tuneable physical properties after appropriate post-treatments.
Inorganic Biology
Our growing understanding of complex chemical systems has allowed a fundamental change in the way chemists both perceive and investigate the chemical world. We have already shown the potential of this approach in our work with template-directed cluster synthesis under flow, growth and control of metal oxide based microtubes and construction of membranous inorganic chemical cells iCHELLs.
In biological systems, arguably the ultimate example of chemical complexity, subtle control of a huge number of interlinked non-equilibrium processes is achieved by partitioning within semi-permeable membranes, which are fine-tuned in their ability to allow or deny the passage of different chemical species. We are increasingly drawn to the complex and highly evolved mechanisms found in nature, to help us to design and build molecular ensembles and aggregates of our own; that can effectively build or manage themselves without needing our constant intervention. Research under the Inorganic Biology theme aims to put together a toolbox of inorganic materials; molecular metal oxides, hybrid-functionalised polyoxometalates and coordination compounds, which allows us to construct pre-designed complex chemical systems that have emergent properties, i.e. properties pertaining to the overall system rather than just its components. It is often proposed that in order for a system to be considered as living, it requires, at a minimal level, some form of containment such as a membrane or cell-wall, and a means of sequestering material from its environment to facilitate growth and/or replication. Coupled to this, some form of information storage and ability pass that information from one entity to the next generation allows Darwinian evolution to take place. By combining our inorganic toolbox and knowledge of chemical complexity, we can start to address these points; metal oxide based membranes for containment, growth and division by osmotically driven morphogenesis and information storage in molecular metal oxides, and will eventually be able to synthesise an inorganic chemical cell capable life-like function.
Synthetic Systems
The Cronin group is developing revolutionary techniques in chemical synthetics which will alow the literal 'evolution' of materials to fulfil a desired function. Using a combination of fundamental insights into the interconnected nature of synthetic reaction networks with the use of purpose designed reaction hardware, our aim is initially the understanding and control of the self-assembly processes and finally the designing of molecular nanoparticles with the desired functionality which will stimulate an impact in modern technologies. In order to do this inorganic nano-sized molecules are being designed and built "to order" to conduct specific tasks at the nano-level. Our highest priority targets tasks involve energy applications (water splitting, storage devices, quantum computing, molecular electronics, catalysis and solar fuel devices).
Hybrid Devices
Polyoxometalates are highly versatile cluster building blocks that can self-organize in 1D, 2D and 3D frameworks. We have recently illustrated their potential for example in devices for memory storage, catalysts for water - splitting reactions or materials for microtubes fabrication.
Even though we have only scratched the surface of their potential and many great discoveries are to be made, these fantastic properties can surely be enhanced when covalently linked to organic molecules with selected properties. These hybrid organic - inorganic materials benefit from mixed organic - inorganic behaviors, and therefore cannot be treated as purely inorganic or purely organic. One of the main challenges and difficulties is the design and discovery of new synthetic ways compatible with the nature of both sub-components and to extend the number of POMs building blocks available for hybrid systems. The organic components can be based upon the same self-recognition motifs used in conventional supramolecular chemistry (eg. H-bonds, electrostatic interactions, pi-stacking, reversible covalent bonds ) and can rearrange upon external stimuli, on a surface, in solution, or in the solid state (eg. single crystal to single crystal transformation). A better understanding of the molecular interactions in these different states is gained via AFM, NMR, mass spectrometry, X-Ray analysis, DSC and result in materials with properties useful in medicine (drug delivery, cell recognition, anticancer agent, contrast agent for medical imaging) or in electronics (photoswitchable devices, surface water-splitting devices). The understanding and therefore the control over intermolecular interactions is the key for the design of more and more complex chemical systems that could potentially self-sustain in an oscillatory mode, and that could thereafter lead to an evolvable chemical system eg. a primitive form of life.
The term self-assembly is often used as an all-encompassing explanation to rationalize the formation of very large molecules and supramolecular aggregates, but unfortunately this term lacks specific mechanistic details specifically in the formation of supramolecular systems. These details could be very important in the ongoing efforts to understand, control, predict, and then design multifunctional inorganic materials by use of molecular synthons, which exhibit well-defined structure and linkable geometries. The Cronin group developed a dynamic synthetic procedure in a flow system that enabled real-time adjustment of the three input variables (pH, concentration of molybdate, and reducing agent) controlling the synthesis of complex self-assembled chemical systems such as the molybdenum blue (MB) compounds. This approach allowed us to probe the self-assembly of the MB nanoparticles, where by controlling the degree of reduction of the polyoxomolybdate clusters we managed to trap an elusive supramolecular intermediate species and shed light upon the formation mechanism of the MB family.
Molecular Metal Oxides (MMOs)
Traditional bulk metal oxides, such as titanium oxide and indium tin oxide, have a wide variety of uses in modern technologies such as catalysis and electronics. These materials however are reaching their limit of exploitation in modern technologies. Molecular Metal Oxides (MMO) represent a class of material whose potential has not yet begun to be realised. These nanoscale materials can have radically differing properties to their bulk analogues, which are affected not only by the chemical composition of the material, but also the structural morphology of the cluster material. The Cronin group developed over the years novel synthetic approaches allowing the generation of new building block libraries which can be used as transferable set of synthons for the manufacturing of large and potential functional architectures in a programmable fashion.
Network Flow Systems
Both traditional polyoxometalate-based synthetic approaches and fundamental self-assembly mechanisms are being under intensive reviewing because one-pot reactions mask a vast and complex range of intricate self-assembly processes. Therefore it is difficult to predict or control the assembly processes. In early 2010, flow systems were employed in POM chemistry for the first time. This approach unrevealed the mechanism of formation of giant polyoxomolybdates. Since this fundamental discovery, a new generation of PC-controlled configurable reactors has been designed for automating/accelerating the discovery of new complex inorganic architectures. Two advanced configurable reactors enable the synthesis of nano-scale complex inorganic architectures by controlling macroscopic variables only in a unique fashion based on chemical mixture programming and fast resolution on in-situ experimental variable monitoring. The development of such fully automated reactor systems revolutionize and open new areas in experiment design in research laboratories, due to the potential applications in accelerating discovery of inorganic clusters, organic reactons and materials.
Synthetic Biology
Synthetic Biology is essentially the development of engineered biological parts that we can manipulate in more controllable fashion. Using engineered automated experimental systems developed by the group, we are working towards automated screening and directed evolution of genetically engineered cells, such as E.coli and Synechocystis. In this context, 3D printing technology only provides custom-made reaction/culture chambers, but also enables us to monitor and manipulate biological cells in conjunction with integrated sensor (e.g. optical density sensor) and acuator devices (solenoid valves for fluidic control). As a long-term perspective, we will be able to further integrate with other analytica devices developed by the group, such as flow IR and flow NMR, and microfluidic assay systems, from which we will able to gain better understandings of complex biological processes inside cells.
Artificial Life and Evolvability
Microfluidics describes the study and development of systems which control small volumes of fluids (typically on the picolitre to nanolitre scale).
The Cronin Group has set up the facilities to enable microfabrication of Lab-on-a-Chip devices. Therefore, by using droplet-based microfluidic technology, we aim to access a large number of individual experiments per unit time with enhanced analytical performance. Manipulation of microdroplets with high precision enhances the realization of diverse operations within a device such as formation, fusion, fission, mixing, sorting and transport of droplets.
3D Printing
3D-printing has the potential to transform science and technology creating bespoke, low-cost appliances which have previously required dedicated facilities. An attractive but unexplored application is using the 3D-printer to initiate chemical reactions by printing the reagents directly into the 3D-reactionware matrix, putting reactionware design, construction and operation under digital control.
Using a low-cost 3D-printer and open-source design software, we produced reactionware for organic and inorganic synthesis, including printed-in catalysts, and other architectures with printed-in components for electrochemical and spectroscopic analysis. This allowed reactions to be monitored in situ so that different reactionware architectures could be screened for their efficacy for a given process, giving a digital feed-back mechanism for device optimisation. A reaction cascade is chosen for investigation and labware considered appropriate for this task is designed with the aid of suitable computer programs. This same suite of programs can then be used to execute the actual printing of the device(s) and to initiate the reactions, whilst other software monitors the reactions as they happen. The results at all stages along the way can be fed-back to allow optimisation of the printed labware for a particular outcome in subsequent device generations. As user input to this process is potentially minimal after the initial reaction cascade has been selected and the first iteration of devices designed, subsequent optimisation (or evolution) of the system towards a specific goal becomes a digitally-automated process. Taken together, this approach constitutes a cheap, automated and reconfigurable chemical discovery platform that makes techniques from chemical engineering accessible to typical synthetic laboratories.
Digital Synthesis / Microreagents
MICREAgents (Microscopic Chemically Reactive Electronic Agents) are electronic circuits on 3D microchips (lablets, of diameter = 100 µm) that self-assemble in pairs to enclose transient reaction compartments, using the electronics to control chemical access, surface coatings and reactions. Chemicals will be selectively concentrated, processed and released into the surrounding solution under local electronic control, in a similar way to which the genetic information in cells controls local chemical processes. The lablet devices will integrate transistors, supercapacitors, energy transducers, sensors and actuators, and this project represents a major international collaboration involving 10 different research groups. We are trying to provide power to these devices via POM-based supercapacitors, and working on creating the surface coatings on the lablets. The aim is that such smart MICREAgents could be poured into chemical mixtures to organize the chemistry from within. Ultimately, such micro-reactors, like cells in the bloodstream, will open up the possibility of controlling complex chemistry from the inside out.
Chemical Robots
A liquid handling robot designed to manipulate oil droplets in aqueous environments. Its aim is to explore oil and surfactant reaction space using a stochastic approach directed by a fitness function. It is equipped with multiple syringes and a camera which looks through the glass stage. Its movement on two axes can be controlled by the software in order to get a close-up picture anywhere in the experimental area for droplet tracking by image recognition.
A modified RepRap I3 which is equipped with controllable syringes to deliver other chemicals in addition to structural plastics in order to print chemistry directly into reactionware without human intervention in the print.
Solar Fuels
The Cronin Group is engaged in a multidisciplinary research project which aims to use an integrated approach to the sensing, binding, activation and transport of carbon dioxide in aqueous systems with the overall aim of producing a solar fuel that could be used to replace fossil fuels.
Leading an international research initiative, Glasgow Solar Fuels, the Cronin group is using its expertise in developing nanoscale electronically switchable and redox active sensors, and binding molecules for small molecules such as carbon dioxide, to work towards their application in the development of solar harvesting systems for water splitting, carbon dioxide fixation, and developing this approach to the in-situ reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol. This research is in collaboration with, and builds on the world-leading team established at Glasgow by Neil Isaacs and Richard Cogdell in photosynthesis which has resulted in great advances in our understanding of the structure and function of the biological system, Photo-System 2 (PS2). By combining Inspiration from biological photoactive systems with the Cronin groups background in the realisation of complex chemical systems and molecular devices, we hope to make a real impact to the future of energy production, waste management and reduction of pollution.
Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation
This new national Centre brings together an initial team of 13 leading academics from across 7 UK institutions to work closely with our industry partners with a shared vision to accelerate the adoption of continuous manufacturing processes, systems and plants for the production of high-value chemical products to higher quality, at lower cost and more sustainably. By supporting a collaborative, multi-disciplinary programme the CMAC aims to: enable the change from batch to fully continuous manufacturing processes for high value chemical products, produce better chemical and pharmaceutical products (at lower cost) more sustainably through transformational change in how particles are manufactured and increase competitiveness of UK chemical manufacturers through reduced costs and higher value products.
Subgroup Leaders
|Group Leader
|Prof. Lee Cronin
|Molecular Fundamentals
|Dr. De-Liang Long
|Inorganic Biology
|Dr. Geoff Cooper
|Synthetic Systems
|Dr. Haralampos Miras
|Hybrid Devices
|Dr. Marie Hutin
The Cronin group is involved in a wide range of collaborations both nationally and internationally with both academic and industrial researchers from all areas of the physical and biological sciences. Click below to expand.
UK Collaborators+
Dr Cameron Alexander, University of Nottingham
Dr. Euan Brechin, University of Edinburgh
Prof. Richard Cogdell, University of Glasgow
Dr. Graeme Cook, University of Glasgow
Prof. Ben G. Davis, University of Oxford
Prof. Yulong Ding, University of Leeds
Dr. Nikolaj Gadegaard, University of Glasgow
Dr. Justin Hargreaves, University of Glasgow
Dr. Malcolm Kadodwala, University of Glasgow
Prof. Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham
Dr. Andrei N. Khlobystov, University of Nottingham
Prof. Alexei Lapkin, University of Warwick
Prof. Eric McInnes, University of Manchester
Prof. Paul McMillan, University College London
Dr. Mark Murrie, University of Glasgow
Prof. Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow
Prof. Chick Wilson, University of Bath
Prof. Richard Winpenny, University of Manchester
Dr. Huabing Yin, University of Glasgow
International Collaborators+
Prof. Alan Bond, Monash University, Australia
Prof. Edwin Constable, University of Basel, Switzerland
Prof. Dirk M. Guldi, University of Erlangen, Germany
Prof. Takashi Kato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Tia Keyes, Dublin City University, Ireland
Paul Kogerler, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Prof. Tianbo Liu, Lehigh University, USA
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PROSPECT — Michael L. Kolodziej Jr., age 57, of Talmadge Hill Road, died Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at Meridian Manor Health Care Center in Waterbury after a brief but albeit extremely brave battle with cancer. He was the widower of Marjorie "Marnie" (Casper) Kolodziej.
Michael was born Oct. 16, 1955 in Waterbury, the son of the late Michael L. and Doris (White) Kolodziej Jr. He attended Naugatuck schools and worked at Dunham Craft for more than 30 years, Bar Work manufacturing for more than 10 years and most recently, Electric Cable Compounds.
He was a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan, a New York Giants fan and a Harley-Davidson enthusiast. Michael was always happiest while spending time with his wife and children taking summer camping trips and making frequent trips to Fenway Park. Most recently he enjoyed riding his Harley and spending time with his grandchildren and children.
Among his survivors are his son Michael Robert Kolodziej and his wife Jean (Tardy), of Thomaston, his son Jason Michael Kolodziej and his fiancée Stephanie Lusas, of Prospect; his daughter Laurie Kolodziej Anderson and her husband Robert Anderson Jr., of Boston, Mass.; his sisters, Wanda Burke of Naugatuck, Laura Krajewski of Naugatuck and his twin sister, Linda Zeranski of Naugatuck; his grandchildren, Emma, Liam and Patrick; as well as several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his sister Viola Rek.
Funeral services for Mr. Kolodziej will be held on Friday, July 12, 2013 at 9:15 a.m. from Eastside Memorial, A Casey Family Funeral Home and Tribute Center, 1987 East Main St at Southmayd Road, Waterbury, to St. Anthony's Church, Route 68 and Route 69, Prospect, to celebrate a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. Rites of committal will follow in St. James Cemetery, Naugatuck. Relatives and friends may visit with Michael's family at the funeral home on Thursday evening from 5 to 8 p.m.
Donations in memory of Mr. Kolodziej may be made the American Cancer Society, c/o the Harold Leever Cancer Center, 1075 Chase Parkway, Waterbury, CT 06708.
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I know there're ways to access to query type, table names, oids etc. in trigger definitions:
Anyway, is there any chance that i run an UPDATE on a row, which started the trigger without actualy need to marking each row in the table by unique id?
e.g. if i have table for storing logs, i don't need any unique id here... and as the time goes there may actually appear some rows, which will be equal.
CREATE TABLE users_log
uid bigint NOT NULL,
event smallint NOT NULL,
source character varying,
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I know, that due to microseconds precision in "timestamp with time zone" data type is this situation nearly impossible, but not really impossible...
So how shall i write the query in trigger to be able to UPDATE just the inserted row?
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I was asked by a professor a while ago to prove $(p \wedge \neg p)$ implies $q$. Whether through laziness or cleverness, I came up with the following proof:
$p \wedge \neg p$ (by assumption).
Assume by way of contradiction $\neg q$.
$p \wedge \neg p$, therefore $p$ (I forget what this rule is called).
Similarly, $p \wedge \neg p$, therefore $\neg p$.
We have both $p$ and $\neg p$, a contradiction.
Therefore, our assumption, $\neg q$, must have been false, i.e., $q$ is true, the desired result.
Is this right? I keep going either way about it to myself. On the one hand, it definitely feels circular. On the other hand, it seems contain all the correct elements of a contradiction proof.
EDIT: many commenters seem concerned about what I am allowed or not allowed to "use". I am allowed to use whatever you feel mathematically is correct, and not allowed to use things that aren't. The context of the exercise was not a course in logic, or even in mathematics. It was a computer science class in algorithms. I think the professer just wanted to get a feel for our understanding of logic, and also wanted to demonstrate why inconsistant assumptions can be used to prove anything. I don't even remember if the assignment was graded, or if it was what I got. I do remember that when I presented it on the board that it (obviously) wasn't quite what the professor was looking for.


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I have a hard time to find a way to construct a
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My preconditions are
k<n and (n%2 == 0 or k%2 == 0)
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Mottau, 35, has played in 313 National Hockey League games with the New York Rangers (2000-2002), Calgary Flames (2002-2003), New Jersey Devils (2007-2010), New York Islanders (2010-2012) and Boston Bruins (2011-2012) registering 58 points (7-51-58) and 160 PIM.
The Quincy, Massachusetts, native has played in 13 games with San Antonio (AHL) this season registering two points (1-1-2) and 10 PIM with a plus-4 rating. He was drafted by the New York Rangers in the seventh round (182nd overall) in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft.


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When I input
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Log[x]. How can I make the result of the integral $\displaystyle \int\dfrac{1}{x}dx$ to be $\ln|x|$?
When I input
The result you're after is only correct in the reals. Since Mathematica generally assumes that everything is complex, I'm not sure if there is a simple way to make it return the result you want.
You can go backwards and check that, for $x\in\mathbb{R}$, $\frac{d}{dx}\log|x|=\frac1x$:
However, in general, the antiderivative of $x^{-1}$ is defined to be $\log(x)$
Note that $\log(x) = \log|x| + i\arg(x) = \log|x| + i(\theta+2n\pi)$, where $n$ is the winding number (see [1]) and for real $x$, $\arg(x)=m\pi$ is "locally constant". That is, if you assume that $x$ is real and non-zero, then the only difference between $\log(x)$ and $\log(-x)$ is a purely imaginary constant ($\pm i \pi$):
There was an interesting discussion about this (mainly focused on pedagogy) at the n-Category Café earlier this year.
So, in summary, I don't think there is a good way or a good reason to force the absolute value into
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We've been touring folks since February, so it's been almost a year. We wanted to make last Friday's tour a bit more special because it was our last one. Last week, I arranged with Nabholz, our contractor, to have a special gift for each of the tourists after the tour. I carried markers stamped with "South Wing" on them, while my compatriot Dewane (our Construction Director) carried a box with the gifts. I had already taken the tourist photo, as usual, at the beginning of the tour so that our tourists would suspect nothing. Haha! I felt like I was on a secret mission. Okay…well maybe not a super-secret spy mission, but a secret mission nonetheless.
Anyway, at the end of the tour, we gave each tourist a marker and a bolt/washer/nut from the project as a souvenir. I snapped another photo of them, below, for the record:
Of course, since then, I have had a few other folks who were not on this tour ask me for bolts! These last tour tourists just got lucky - they didn't know we were doing the special gift until the end.
Although Friday's tour group didn't ask any funny tourist questions, I have had a few over the past 10 months. One tourist asked if we were going to remove the inside elevator between Sturgis and the South Wing, once the building opened. This question came up right after I had explained that the elevator was built so that you could get from one building to another after the building opened. This was pretty far into the tour season, and I was tired. I said, "Yes," just to see what she'd say. Right after that, I ended up telling the group, "No," because I didn't want to start a rumor.
Another funny question was how many patient bedspaces we were going to gain in the Hem-Onc unit. Now, you have to understand that I had just said, "In the existing, old Hem-Onc unit, we have 16 bedspaces. Here in the new South Wing, we've built 26 private rooms." I just said, "Ten," and kept walking.
One of my very favorites, though, was a fairly recent question about the ambulance and trauma entrance. I had just pointed out that the ambulance entrance was just outside a set of double doors and that the ambulances would pull up there and the EMTs would bring the patients down the hall and into the trauma area. The tourist looked somewhat shocked and, in a serious voice, asked me if the ambulances actually drove down the hallway to drop off the patients. I just said, "No."
There have been many others. I have been told that the tours are wonderful, and I believe that most tourists have been pleasantly surprised at the new building. I have also had the suggestion that, if I should leave ACH for other ventures, the Hoover Dam or Grand Canyon tour guide arena might be my next stop. I think, for now, I'll just hang out here and get this building opened for our patients, staff, visitors, and families!
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How big can a black hole become and how small can a black hole become?(minimum and maximum dimensions of a black hole)
Primoridial black holes can be found (hypothetically; there is no experimental evidence yet) of any small size above the Planck mass. Stellar black holes, however, cannot have a mass below the TOV limit (1.5 to 3 solar masses)
There does seem to be an upper limit1 of 50 billion solar masses. However, I suspect2 that this takes into consideration formative constraints (i.e. the constraints posed on the formation of such a BH); and does not prohibit such a black hole from existing. After all, the Schwarzschild metric certainly does not impose limits on the size of a black hole.
Note that talking about the limiting dimensions of a black hole is slightly meaningless as the dimensions change in different reference frames. It is far easier to talk about the mass of a black hole; the radius can be calculated in various frames from that information.
1. Natarajan, P. and Treister, E. (2009), Is there an upper limit to black hole masses?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 393: 838–845. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13864.x
2. but cannot confirm yet; I will have to read the paper more thoroughly
theoretically there should be no maximum size/mass of a black hole, or you could say the maximum mass would be if it contained all the mass in the universe;
although the minimum dimension of a black hole would be a Planck length, the minimum mass of a stable black hole is 3 solar masses;
a black hole that has a mass less than 3 solar masses will evaporate, transforming itself into radiation (energy); the smaller it is, the faster it evaporates; if it is small enough, it will instantly turn into a flash of hard radiation;
if you know the mass of a black hole you can calculate its radius and if you know its radius you can calculate its mass; note that a curious thing about this equation is that it shows a stellar mass black hole having a high density, whereas a supermassive black hole having a density that decreases as the black hole increases in mass;
so you could transform anything you want, such as your pencil, into a black hole if you wanted to, and could compress it into the required size for it to become a black hole; it is just that it would immediately transform itself (evaporate) completely into a flash of hard radiation, because a pencil is less than the stable black hole mass (3 solar masses);
this is why the CERN experiment could never have created a black hole to swallow the Earth - a subatomic black hole, even one with the mass of the entire Earth, or the Sun, would evaporate before swallowing anything; there is not enough mass in our solar system to make a stable (3 solar mass) black hole;


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Every year I say I'm going to keep the Christmas decorating simple. And then I get into it and have so much fun, blasting the Michael Bublé Holiday Pandora station and thinking up that "one more idea" that before I know it, every last hall is decked.
But, that's just how we do it here. My family loves it, I love it, and I'm pretty sure if you're reading this, you love it that way, too.
So, I have a lot of Christmas bliss to share with you over the next several days, and if you're looking for inspiration, maybe you'll find some here.
I had a lot of fun in the formal living room (which we call the Piano Room) this week, getting it all dressed up for Christmas, and here's what it looks like at the moment.
And then there are the angel wings, which I've been seeing a lot of lately and really loving, yet didn't want to invest a lot of money in, so I made some myself. I'm writing up the tutorial on these as fast as I can for those of you who would like your own pair, but I was inspired by this pair of wings on Pinterest. Before you click over, who can guess what they're made from? Fire up your glue guns, girls, this was super-easy.
The wreath on the lantern, a few pine cones, and my little glittery church seemed to make it just right..
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In this first episode of Community Talk, Microsoft Developer Evangelist Danilo Diaz interviews Bill Wolff. Bill is an MVP and is President of the Philly .Net users group. According to Dani, Bill has been involved in community longer than Dani has been coding.
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Mets rally past Braves in 10 innings
|New York Mets' David Wright (5) is congratulated as he enters the dugout after a home run against the Atlanta Braves during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Friday, May 3, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)
ATLANTA (AP) — David Wright hit the tying home run in the ninth inning off closer Craig Kimbrel and the New York Mets scored twice in the 10th to rally for a 7-5 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Friday night.
The Mets, who have won two in a row after dropping six straight, scored four of their first five runs on homers before taking a two-run lead off Jordan Walden (1-1) in the 10th.
Pinch-hitter Jordany Valdespin drew a two-out walk from Walden and stole second base when closer Bobby Parnell squared around to bunt while taking a strike on the first pitch he saw.
New York manager Terry Collins brought in pinch-hitter Mike Baxter, whom Walden hit with a pitch, and Tejada followed with an RBI single that scored Valdespin from second to make it 6-5.
Baxter advanced to third on Tejada's hit and scored on Daniel Murphy's RBI single off Luis Avilan to make it 7-5.
Jeurys Familia earned his first save by retiring facing the minimum in the bottom half of the 10th.
Walden gave up two runs while getting just two outs.
Parnell (2-0) got two outs for the win.
In the ninth, Brandon Lyon gave up a leadoff double to Ramiro Pena, and pinch-hitter Reed Johnson moved the runner to third with a sacrifice bunt. Parnell came in to retire Jordan Schafer on flyout to shallow left field. Andrelton Simmons walked, but Parnell escaped the jam when Justin Upton grounded out.
Braves starting pitcher Mike Minor retired the last 18 batters he faced, but left for a pinch-hitter in the seventh with the score tied 3-all.
Minor didn't receive a decision after Marlon Byrd's solo homer off Eric O'Flaherty in the eighth made it 4-4.
Minor allowed three hits and three runs with no walks and four strikeouts. He left for a pinch-hitter as Tyler Pastornicky used to bunt in the bottom of the seventh when the Braves took their first lead at 4-3.
Minor, who gave up a season-high six runs in his last start, an 8-3 loss last Sunday at Detroit, and the left-hander got off to rough start against New York.
The Mets took a 2-0 lead in the first on John Buck's 10th homer.
Lucas Duda made it 3-0 in the second with his sixth homer, an opposite-field shot to left-center, but then Minor settled down.
The Braves cut the lead to 3-1 in the third when B.J. Upton led off with a double and scored from second on Juan Francisco's RBI single.
Francisco left the game one out later when he suffered a mild right ankle sprain while leading off second and was caught stealing with Schafer attempting to bunt. Pena replaced Francisco at third base.
The Braves scored twice in the fifth to make it 3-all on Simmons' RBI single off Mets starter Shaun Marcum and Justin Upton's sacrifice fly RBI off reliever LaTroy Hawkins.
Marcum gave up six hits, three runs, three walks and struck out four in 4 1-3 innings.
In the seventh, Scott Atchison walked Pena, who moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and advanced to third on a wild pitch.
Schafer drew his fourth walk, a career high, before Simmons drove in Pena to make it 4-3 with a fielder's choice RBI.
Byrd, though, hit the second pitch he saw from Eric O'Flaherty over the center field fence to make it 4-all. O'Flaherty retired the next three batters he faced.
Scott Rice, the fourth New York pitcher, needed just one pitch to retire the first Braves batter of the eighth, Freddie Freeman, before Evan Gattis crushed Lyon's first pitch for a solo homer to give the Braves a 5-4 lead.
Notes: Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said C Brian McCann, who's on the disabled list following offseason surgery to repair a torn labrum, could be activated Monday or Tuesday at Cincinnati. ... The Mets optioned CF Collin Cowgill and called up Andrew Brown from Triple-A Las Vegas before the game. Brown went 0 for 3 and started in right. Byrd started in center. ... Since coming off the disabled list last Aug. 24 with Milwaukee, Marcum is 2-3 with a 5.05 ERA in 10 starts and one relief appearance.
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I received a Biblical outline from a child's point of view of what was learned throughout the year in junior church. It was sent to me from Wilma Kough of the Kolmont Community Church and was very humorous and thought provoking.
It goes like this:
"In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but God, darkness and some gas.
The Bible says, "The Lord thy God is one, but I think He must be a lot older than that. Anyway, God said, "Give me a light," and someone did. Then God made the world.
He split the Adam and made Eve. Adam and Eve were naked, but they weren't embarrassed because mirrors hadn't been invented yet. Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating one bad apple, so they were driven from the Garden of Eden. Not sure what they were driven in though, because they didn't have cars. Adam and Eve had a son, Cain, who hated his brother as long as he was Abel.
Pretty soon, all of the early people died off, except for Methuselah, who lived to be like a million or something.
One of the next important people was Noah, who was a good guy. But one of his kids was kind of a Ham. Noah built a large boat and put his family and some animals on it. He asked some other people to join him, but they said they would have to take a rain check. After Noah came Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jacob was more famous than his brother, Esau, because Esau sold Jacob his birthmark in exchange for some pot roast. Jacob had a son named Joseph who wore a really loud sports coat.
Another important Bible guy was Moses, whose real name was Charlton Heston. Moses led the Israel Lights out of Egypt and away from the evil Pharaoh after God sent 10 plagues on Pharaoh's people. These plagues included frogs, mice, lice, bowels and no cable. God fed the Israel Lights each day with manicotti. Then He gave them His top 10 commandments.
These include don't lie, cheat, smoke, dance or covet your neighbor's bottom, the Bible uses a bad word for bottom that I'm not supposed to say. But my dad uses it sometimes when he talks about the President. Oh yeah! I just thought of one more - Humor thy father and thy mother.
One of Moses' best helpers was Joshua, who was the first Bible guy to use spies. Joshau fought the battle of Geritol, and the fence fell over on the town.
After Joshua came David. He got to be the king by killing a giant with a slingshot. He had a son named Solomon who had about 300 wives and 500 porcupines. My teacher says he was wise but that doesn't sound very wise to me.
After Solomon, there were a bunch of major league prophets. One of these was Jonah, who was swallowed by a big whale and then barfed up on the shore. There were also some minor league prophets, but I guess we don't have to worry about them.
After the Old Testament came the New Testament. Jesus is the star of the New Testament. He was born in Bethlehem, in a barn. (I wish I had been born in a barn, too, because my mom is always saying to me, "Close the door! Were you born in a barn?" It would be nice to say, "As a matter of fact, I was.")
Jesus was a great man. He healed many leopards and even preached to some Germans on the Mount. But the Republicans and all those guys put Jesus on trial before Pontius the Pilot, who didn't stick up for Jesus.
He just washed his hands instead. Anyways, Jesus died for our sins, then came back to life again. He went up to heaven but will be back at the end of the Aluminum. His return is foretold in the book of Revolution."
Wilma noted that the details are a little skewed but the facts are there. God made the world. Jesus was born and died for our sins. He arose and is in heaven and will be back.
On the subject of death, I was quite saddened at the passing of Sheridan Christian. I remember him from Smithfield High School, where he was two years ahead of me. But like Judie Phillippi said, "We knew everyone from all grades when there was a Smithfield High School."
I would see him in Steubenville when he was captain of the Steubenville Fire Department, and he never failed to call me "Miss Esther." He later moved to Smithfield and served on Village Council and then became mayor. I worked with him as the clerk of mayor's court, and he never failed to send me a bouquet of flowers for Secretary's Day. He was devoted to the bakery products of the Downtown Bakery in Steubenville and would get me spanokopita, spinach pie, on days when it was made.
We didn't always get along with what I wrote about the council meetings but was a gentleman about it, and we stayed friends at all times. He was a good officer of the village.
We served together as officers on the Smithfield Alumni as well. I think he had something to do with the Octa Foster Spirit Award I received from the alumni one year.
I'm not sure I saw him in the last eight months. Kathy Dombroski and I were discussing this, and we think we saw him last in a motorized wheelchair at the 2011 Apple Festival. He didn't appear to be his robust self but still had his cheery demeanor and his gentlemanly manner.
Our sympathy goes out to his family.
Fran Hartline is another Smithfield resident who died during Easter week. I had known her since I was a member of the Smithfield Homemakers in the 1970s.
I remember Fran giving a talk there once on how to determine what clothes look appropriate on your own special body frame. We measured different areas of the body and put those measurements down to scale on a piece of paper. I didn't think the dots that were then traced looked much like me, but it was fun designing a type of clothing that would look good on those measurements.
Fran was one of our Lunches with Love clients, and she was always at the door when we appeared with a hot meal. She was so cheery that you felt good walking back down the sidewalk.
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I am building an app in which I need to read education and work history of all people(if it is not hidden by privacy settings) in a facebook group(public group). People in the group need not necessarily be friends of the user logged in to my app.
I know how to get the facebook IDs of all people who are part of the group but am unable to retrieve the education/work history of some people even though it is made visible to everyone on facebook.
For eg: when I visited the profile page of a person on the group(who is not my friend), I was able to see his eduaction/work info. However, when I query through rest API or graph API or FQL, I get a null value!!
I have tried the following:
1) https://graph.facebook.com/UID
I tried the above by a generating an access token too, still got only a null value
2) https://api.facebook.com/method/users.getInfo?uids=UID&fields=education_history
3) https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT%20education_history%20from%20user%20WHERE%20uid%20%3D%20UID
This is the JSON response I get: [ { "education_history": null } ]
I would greatly appreciate for any help on how I can read this information.


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Dr. Josh Boone, DPM is a dedicated family man. He enjoys practicing in the small community of the Gorge because every day is different, he says he never knows what is going to be coming through the door.
Considering that the average American will over the course of a lifetime walk about 115,000 miles, or the equivalent of about four laps around the Earth, it is no wonder that three-quarters of us will experience at least one foot problem somewhere along the journey.
That's a heavy load to put on a couple of complicated structures that house 52 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, 19 muscles and assorted tendons.
But it is a load new The Dalles podiatrist Joshua Boone, D.P.M., stands ready to lighten.
After completing several years of schooling and training, interrupted by a year-long stint in Iraq, the foot-and-ankle specialist opened his new practice at MCMC | OHSU Orthopedics this August and hit the ground running. Pun intended.
The northern Arizona native says he was attracted to The Dalles because it felt a lot like home. "My wife, Kara, and I always wanted to raise our family in a rural area with many outdoor activities similar to the small towns where we grew up," says the father of four children, ages 1, 3, 5 and 7."
"I really like the idea of having a high-quality orthopedics team right down the hall to work together with and bounce ideas off."
Dr. Boone earned his bachelor's degree from Northern Arizona University. However, before graduating, the aspiring doctor and sergeant with the U.S. Army National Guard Transportation Unit was in 2003 deployed to Iraq, where he served as a truck driver. "My grandfather fought in World War II, and I am proud to be able to say I served too," Dr. Boone says. "It was an eye-opening experience, but a good one. I certainly came home more appreciative of what we have here."
After his service, Dr. Boone completed his undergraduate degree then earned his doctor of podiatric medicine degree from Midwestern University in Glendale, Ariz., where he graduated at the top of his class.
He was then accepted into one of the top surgical residencies in the country, Scripps-Mercy Hospital & Trauma Center in San Diego. He rotated through several different hospitals and numerous surgery centers becoming proficient in foot and ankle surgery.
Following his years in San Diego, Dr. Boone was accepted for advanced training at the Sacramento Kaiser Surgery Program, where he received additional training in foot and ankle surgery.
As a podiatrist, Dr. Boone says he treats "anything having to do with the feet and ankles." Sports injuries, fractures, sprains and foot problems related to diabetes are among the most common conditions he sees, but his expertise covers many others, including ankle/foot fractures, sprains and arthritis; bunions and hammer toes; chronic joint pain; diabetic limb salvage; flatfeet/high-arch feet; ingrown toenails; infections; nerve problems/neuromas; tendon problems and surgery of the foot and ankle. Dr. Boone sees patients of all ages.
"It's a very diverse specialty, and I really enjoy it because people often leave my office feeling better than they did when they came in. That's very rewarding," he says.


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What would be a realistic number of arrows an archer can have/carry/bring with him? Dozens or hundreds?
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If we're talking about how many arrows an archer can carry, I'd say it's limited only by carrying capacity - if you want to fill your backpack up with arrows, good for you.
I suspect what you want is: how many arrows can an archer fire in one encounter? (Keeping in mind that getting an arrow from a quiver is essentially "free", as opposed to retrieving something from a pack). At that point, I'd probably rule you're limited to two quivers - one on the hip, one on the back. If you don't have a backpack, I'd probably let you have a third (on the opposite shoulder). Once you've exhausted those, then I'd say you'd have to take actions to retrieve another quiver from your pack.
Going by the pathfinder weapon stats here, a quiver contains 20 arrows and weighs 3 pounds. Therefore, you should be able to bring as many as you can carry, which depends on your carrying capacity and method of transportation.
Edit: A PC archer, by third level, can probably bring enough arrows with them (using a mount, a strong friend, a ship, or similar for what's to bulky for themselves) and has enough gold that it is not worth tracking how many arrows they expend in most cases.
Having carried 10 arrows per quiver with 1.5" diameter heads, and three quivers usably, doing SCA wars... and knowing that real combat arrows are under 1/2" diameter, one could reasonably shove 30+ arrows per quiver. Note that the second and third quiver was not draw-ready, but was where I could re-sling it on the field to draw from.
So, in theory, I'd say probably 120-160. But you're not going to want more than 30 in a quiver, and that quiver is several inches in diameter. It's not that heavy, but it is bulky.
I would say 20 per quiver. I did not find something specific in the rules but reading the description of Efficient Quiver it seems that a normal quiver contains 20 arrows:
I would then say that if you have a backpack you can carry no more than one quiver
As mentioned by @sebsmith and @Matteo, the rule is 20 arrows per standard quiver. When you play, you should also consider the logistics of a quiver's size, not just its weight. In real life practicality, a typical adventurer can really only carry one or two quivers at a time, making a practical limit of 20-40 arrows carried without using a mount or a henchman.
There are magical helpers as well, such as the Efficient Quiver that @Matteo mentioned (known as a Quiver of Elhonna in DnD editions), which can boost the capacity 3x or more.
Though rules vary or don't exist in the various rule-sets, our group typically will play a rule that 50% of arrows that don't hit their intended target are recoverable/reusable, which tends to lessen a little bit the problems associated with only being able to carry a finite number of arrows. Also, being able to scavenge arrows from defeated enemies helps as well.


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A game set in the War of 1812 in a harbor location, pitting a larger invading British fleet against a smaller American flotilla backed by defenses such as shore batteries and mines.
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In Broadside, what methods are most effective for probing and/or circumventing the fixed defenses?
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Ok, what I'm putting out here is the title of this blog. I've always been told to NEVER stretch a cold muscle, but to warm up gently first. So here's my dilemma.
I'm currently having physiotherapy after 2 major bouts of surgery to try to correct a bio-mechanical issue in my ankle. After years of running and doing Triathlon including finishing 3 Ironman® Races, I reached the point where severe constant over-pronation had caused very painful impingement in my left ankle. I'd managed the condition for years with massage, stretching, hold/cold therapy and pain killers, but eventually nothing was working anymore and I reached the point where I could no longer run pain free and it was now hurting to teach my Spinning® Classes!
Surgery was the only option left. Firstly I had Gastrocnemius Recession (deep cut into the calf muscle to loosen it and promote more adequate ankle joint movement). 2 weeks off then back to teaching. 12 months later still no better. So then I had Debridement Surgery last year. Years of impingement had created a situation where I had bone growing on top of bone, and hardly any range of motion in my ankle. Plus, bone spurs had formed at the back of the joint and were constantly jabbing into my Achilles Tendon causing very painful tendonitis. Debridement involves shaving of the ankle joint and the base of the tibia to re-create the natural joint space. The calcification was cleaned up and the bony spurs removed. 6 months later, still no better. Why? Well I'm now having physiotherapy to address not the ankle, that's now ok, but to address all the other conditions that have arisen as a result of the original problem.
Like Dr. Philip Maffetone says in his book 'In Fitness and In Health', the body tends to accumulate problems, often beginning with one small, seemingly minor imbalance. However this problem can cause another subtle imbalance, which triggers another, then another. In the end we get a symptom. It's like a Domino Effect. All you need to do is knock down the first one and many other will fall too. What caused the last one to fall? Obviously it wasn't the one before it, or the one before that, but the first one.
So ok, I've got my first problem sorted (my ankle), now I've got to sort out all the other 'Domino's'. My Physiotherapist says my calves, hamstrings and gluteal muscles are very tight (really…you don't say…I'm a cyclist!) and need regular bouts of stretching every day.
She has told me how to stretch, but I'm really struggling to hold these stretches because they are so painful and I feel so tight. I mentioned that in the Fitness Industry we are told to never stretch a cold muscle. But she says for rehabilitation purposes the muscle should be stretched cold!
I'd like to get your take on this, or indeed if anyone has been in a similar position.
In the meantime I'll battle with the stretching band I've been given, the slant board I've had to buy, my foam roller and my determination to get back to my running! I'll keep you posted as to my progress, but I'm still not convinced that stretching cold muscles is the way to go!
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Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Why ?
Does the Bible state a reason anywhere?
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God created the heavens and the earth as an expression of His glory.
I think John Piper explains it nicely in Desiring God, which is available for free online. Basically, he argues that God's ultimate purpose and joy is in the display of His glory:
And to that purpose, creation is the expression of His glory:
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To some, this concept might seem to put God in a light in which he seems vain, or like he is "just showing off" (as @MasonWheeler mentioned). I don't believe it does.
Although "showing off" is essentially correct, that phrase carries a negative connotation. I think that connotation comes from the fact that "showing off" is usually used to describe humans that scramble to draw attention to, and highlight their own perceived glory. The difference between these people and God is that:
On the other hand:
Earth is the dwelling place of mankind. God's decision to create mankind necessitated the creation of a dwelling place for him.
The heavens possibly include the sky, the stars and planets, and even the throne of God. The sky, stars, and planets are, of course, part of man's dwelling place.
God's throne is where the angelic beings can be in His presence, but also mankind as well.
Two Scripture references, that basically say the same thing:
As tautological as this sounds, it is true - God made everything for himself, because he wanted to.
God actually tells is specifically why He created the earth, in Isaiah 45:18
"For this is what the Lord says, he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited..."
His specific, stated purpose in creating the earth was so that it could be inhabited: he created it to be our home.
In summary God created the Earth to bask in his Glory as it is just for him to do so. And he created the people in love of Himself. People are to be active citizens in love for themselves, and ultimately Him. And Socrates's Allegory of the cave clearly exemplifies such. Bible versus to support my claims: "Proverbs 1:5, John 3:20-21, Matthew 5: 14&16."


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Carolyn Sue Taylor, beloved wife of M. Reed Taylor, of Howe, Ind., died Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013, at Miller's Merry Manor in LaGrange, Ind.
Mrs. Taylor was born Nov. 14, 1939, in Kendallville, Ind., to Lloyd, Sr. and Wilma (Bishop) Reade.
In 1990, she moved to LaGrange County and had worked for many years as a nurse.
On Sept. 30, 1995, she married Reed Taylor, M.D., in Las Vegas; he survives.
Also surviving are five daughters, Pamala (Mark) Hubbard of Portage, Lauri (Rex) Holmes of White House, Tenn., Lisa Booth, M.D., of Howe, Lynnelle (Phillip "Yogi") Miller of LaGrange, IN, and Tara (Clay) Weber of LaOtto, Ind.; two sons, Mark Rogers of LaGrange and Todd (Molly) Taylor of Kendallville; 20 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Sharon (Jerry) Fritz of Wilmington, N.C.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and two brothers, Jack Reade and Lloyd Reade Jr.
A private family service will be held. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery in Howe.
Memorials may be made to American Lung Association.
Frurip-May Funeral Home in LaGrange is assisting the family with arrangements.
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