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This presentation made me realize that no goal is unattainable.
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Banks and all businesses should hear this dynamic speaker that focuses on the successes that customer service can bring when genuinely practiced. No bank is exempt from this dynamic seminar and the... Read More
Recognizing the styles of my co-workers will help in managing the office.
Attitude is everything.
I had both old-timers and rookies come to me during and after the Conference, and thank me for scheduling you to speak to the OAB. Jim, 'Thank you!' You made me look like a genius for hiring you, and... Read More
You delivered on our Alabama Loggers Council program.
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Jim did two topics for us Living in Three Quarter Time and Reaching Beyond Excellence - and he did a great job on both!
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I have been using your techniques from the training that I received in your class a few weeks ago...
I need to get out of the cookie-cutter mold.
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Jim was very considerate when I first inquired about him being a speaker at our conference and quickly adapted his program to fit our unusual circumstances in the aftermath of Hurricances Katrina and... Read More
As a result of this seminar, I know better how to work well with others.
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The best in-depth look into who we are.
I want to thank you for the phenomenal job you did at the Marketing session during the NJCUL Conference. You truly motivated me and gave me great ideas for helping our credit union to market our... Read More
You were an incredible hit and an inspiration to all! You were the perfect fit to get the Conference off to a great start. I have received nothing but rave reviews! Thanks for making our Educational... Read More
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Learning about the different Learning styles will make me a better instructor.
I thought it was very good information to help determine if we have the right people in the right place.
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I know you always like feedback...I have heard nothing but glowing positives!!!
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Your overall score was 4.53 out of 5.00. The comments that were given about your presentation were 'Very thought Provoking', and 'The presentation gave inspiration and insight on how to be more... Read More
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I was very impressed with your talk and I have heard many speakers in my life time and you were very impressive.
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I have learned to care about my staff as much as I care about myself.
Amazingly funny!
Jim does an excellent job in his presentations; a part of the educational road to success.
Very well done.
Wow! I am very impressed, motivated and ready to take on the world! Attitude is really everything.
About one month ago, I saw Jim's presentation in Milwaukee, WI, during which I had an epiphany and have not been the same since. I am truly inspired to make things happen.
Jim's presentation provided me with an opportunity to look inside myself and it allowed me to understand what others see in me.
Jim was super!
Jim was very motivating and energetic with his sharing of information.
Jim's program was informative and really brought issues to think about to help any organization.
This will help me get into the buyers head to deliver a better solution for them.
Don't know that I have ever enjoyed a class as much as yours. It was delightful!
Jim Mathis is an engaging and knowledgeable speaker. He is absolutely one of the best speakers I have ever booked. Our banking members are already looking forward to next year's session!
Every state banking association should hold this seminar (Customer Service), not only for their members but for their staff as well!
This was a wonderful presentation that is easily transferable to everyday life.
I received many compliments about how well you spoke.
I would be delighted to give my professional opinion that you are one of the best sales trainers in the industry.
Jim provides information in a manner that is applicable to a variety of common situations that arise in a business environment.
Jim cuts to the core of problems, making sure you can laugh at yourself and know how to improve while having fun.
Great insight on how I can adapt my presentation to prospective clients and my agents.
One of the best DiSC presentations I have seen.
I am going to make $500,000 this year. The DiSC Sales presentation helps you determine what type of customers you have.
Your average evaluation score on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being excellent) was 9.7 for subject matter and 9.9 for delivery/presentation.
Absolutely wonderful and entertaining program.
Great seminar!
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I learned things I wish I had known before I was promoted - This could have helped my employees and myself a lot!
Jim was entertaining and enthusiastic. It will benefit our servers to learn more about how to handle the customers we have.
Your session scored an overall 9.56 out of a possible 10.
On behalf of the SC Health Care Association, I would like to thank you for the Project Professionalism program you presented during our 7th Annual Seminar. I will know better next time not to put you... Read More
JIM is a riot, even when he is teaching!
Jim's presentation captured the ENITRE audience, not just the sales staff.
Jim's seminar should be required for all leaders in coaching and managing positions.
Jim's evaluation ratings by conference attendees were excellent.
Today's seminar was insightful and reaffirmed conscious hiring decisions.
I so much enjoyed your motivational talk when you visited with us. Thank you for sharing your talent and positive message with us.
Jim's program has helped me to be more aware of different personality types and how to handle them. He gave great information and made it fun!
Opened my eyes to behavioral traits that will make me much more effective in my job!
Actionable ideas. Informative and entertaining!
Jim paints indelible memories and knowledge in our minds using humor as his brush.
Jim opens your eyes to all the different personalitites within every workplace.
For myself being a High S and C, I learned to get along with a D and to COMPROMISE.
On a scale from 1-5 the average for your session was a 4.91; THE HIGHEST OF ALL THE SPEAKERS THAT DAY!!!!!
I loved this class. I am a naturally positive person, but feel even more positive after learning these skills today.
Jim is a very clever guy! I feel like I have learned so much and can work as a better person.
Jim was money well spent!
If you are looking for a great speaker who has instructed thousands in motivation, personal achievement and organizational development contact Jim Mathis.
This was more than self discovery, it was practical advice on how to set and reach a goal.
This is the guy you all need to have come visit your office.
Jim puts common-sense selling at the forefront of the sales pitch.
Jim was very well received. Our delegates loved him and rated him as excellent on our evaluation forms. We had a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being poor and 5 being rated as excellent and all of our... Read More
As soon as I talked to Jim on the phone, I knew he was the speaker for us.
I found that I have been limiting myself!
I have heard many speakers with similar messages, but this is the first time that brought the 'Coaching for Success' concept to different personalities.
I could have listened to Jim for hours. This gave me a very positive attitude and that happy feeling.
Pure, provacative fun!
Jim was very uplifting to all participants at the conference...his evaluations by all participants were very positive.
Every single thing Jim said either made me think or laugh - I didn't want him to stop speaking.
You did a fantastic job for our association.
What a funny guy!
Entertaining and lively presentation on the need for leaders to be adaptable. Leaders need to flex their style in order to give staff what they need in order to be successful.
Many thanks for your wonderful presentation at the International Institute of Municipal Clerks Region III Annual Meeting. The comments you received from the participant evaluations were of course... Read More
Thanks again for the Management Training with my Leadership Team. Everyone was greatly impressed. I'm looking forward to having you back for the same training for all of our employees.
Jim takes what we all know intuitively and gives tools to help leaders become better and those they manage become better.
Great presenter.
What a refreshing approach.
Jim can motivate the unmotivatable.
Thanks for your presentations. You received a rating of 4.83 out of 5.00
Very well done. Would be useful to all levels of employees.
Jim is fun to listen to and gets the point of his presentation to you in a memorable way.
Jim's presentation was very well done; makes you think about more effectively working with your team.
I found your presentation interesting, humorous, and uplifting. If more people behaved as you indicate they should, our families, neighborhoods, communities, and our nation as a whole, would be... Read More
Jim Mathis was spectacular. He is a star in the making. If he is an example of our new members, then we old timers better watch out.
Thank you for being such an inspiration to me. I just attended the LTPA Summit Conference in Lake Charles, La. and needed the hope that came from this. I live in an area that took a direct hit from... Read More
I have attended many professional programs and by far this was the most inspiring and in depth.
This has changed me and the way that I will operate with my organization.
Jim gave us some great ways to improve our business attitudes!
I'll have to be honest with you and tell you that I have taken a few points away from each of our sessions.
I have been through several dozen trainings over the years. This presentation opened my eyes more than any other. I can put this to use walking out the door.
A laugh out loud presentation!
It was an early morning presentation and I didn't want to be there. 15 minutes in I was laughing and really enjoying and learning. Very charismatic.
High energy presentation. I enjoyed his presentation and use of examples we could all relate to.
Jim's Program and his presentation helps you see the 'whole picture in color--not black and white.
Thanks again for speaking at our annual convention. We had lots of good response from your session and appreciated your message.
Jim's program was motivational, enjoyable and funny while being educational.
This training taught me how to deal with others.
Good job! It will make a difference in my life.
I had men and women from 17 states and they all made a point to thank me for getting such a great speaker.
I learned SO MUCH from attending your seminar!!!
It gave me a better understanding of why I act the way I do.
The time you took to be with us is greatly appreciated and your meaningful presentation was well received by all in attendance.
Jim is one of the most enthusiastic speakers I have heard. He made learning fun and involved all the personalities in the room!
I enjoyed his enthusiasm and his explanations of basic personality traits. This could be used throughout our station.
Very good with relating material to real events that occur within our particular business.
According to my 'calculator' averages (sorry, I had to change the 20's to 10), for Subject Matter, your average was 9.5 and for Delivery and Presentation, your average was 9.9.
From a meetings planner prospective, he was a JOY to work with...very low maintenance.
The participants gave your presentation 4.8 out of 5 at our recent HR Conference.
You really did a great job, and I have already received numerous calls complimenting you on your presentation and me on getting such a great speaker. I appreciate you making me look good.
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You garnered a 4.86 out of a possible 5 points. Excellent work! I was very pleased with your evaluations, our members are a tough sell and you delivered!
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Humanities: the Term 'Humanities' and the History of the Humanities
According to Dr. Mike Lippman, University of Arizona, Department of Classics, the Humanities as a collective concept originates in 5th century BC, Greece, where we find the first concentrated development of tragedy or drama, comedy, philosophy, history, all the major disciplines included in the Humanities today.
The online dictionary defines the Humanities as one part of what is referred to as the Liberal Arts. Also included under the umbrella of Liberal Arts are the natural sciences, arts, and social sciences. The Liberal Arts include those topics that are not professional or technical subjects. The term can be dated to between 1745–55, translated from the Latin artēs līberālēs, meaning works befitting a freeman.
The term Liberal Arts was coined to refer to core skills employed in classical antiquity thought to foster virtue, knowledge, and articulation, all the skills necessary to participate in civic life and public debate. Such skills included grammar, rhetoric, and logic, known in medieval times as the Trivium, three of the foundations that would later form the basis for the Humanities. During the era of the medieval church, the Trivium was expanded to the natural sciences, including arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy, referred to then as the Quadrivium.
The term Humanities comes from the Latin humanus, meaning human, cultured and refined, and originates with the Renaissance 'humanists' who redefined the traditional subjects of the Trivium as the Studia Humanitatis, removing logic and then adding to their newly defined corpus such disciplines as Greek studies, (to complement the Latin grammar), history, poetry, and ethics. As such, the Humanities were born.
Disciplines Typically Included in the Humanities
As defined by the Ohio Humanities Council, the disciplines of the Humanities include Archaeology, Comparative Religion, Ethics, History, Languages & Linguistics, Literature, Jurisprudence, Philosophy, History, Theory, Criticism of the Arts, and the Social Sciences. The humanities also include music and theatre and other visual and performing arts. Though there is generally a division between the disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences, included in the Humanities are social sciences such as Anthropology, Area Studies, Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, and Law.
- Where the term came from
- What disciplines are typically in the humanities
- The social sciences and arts - and why they are also sometimes in the humanities - "interpretative social sciences"
- How is it different in French "sciences humaines"
- split with sciences - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
- split with professional programmes
- the liberal arts- Yale report, Cardinal Newman has a book "The Idea of the Univesity"
Mike Lippman. "Where the Humanities Come From", University of Arizona Humanities Seminars Program, 2010. Website, accessed Oct 29, 2012. http://humanities.arizona.edu/humanities-seminar-program/courses/where-humanities-come-greece-fifth-century-bce
Dictionary.com - Liberal Arts, Website, accessed Oct 27, 2012. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/liberal+arts
Wikipedia - Liberal Arts Education. Website, accessed Oct 28, 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education
What are the Humanities: as defined by the Ohio Humanities Council. Website, accessed October 17, 2012 http://www.units.muohio.edu/technologyandhumanities/humanitiesdefinition.htm


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I've actually been fortunate enough to attend LICAF every year since its inception, and I'm really impressed with its growth and ambition as an event. As someone who puts on a Festival in the shadow of giant hulking comic book cities like Chicago and New York (Metropolis and Gotham, respectively) I know that it can be difficult to get people to make the extra trip Northward for a comics event, and for that reason, and many others it, has a place in my heart. Of course, they also work their butts off every year to have incredible comics guests, and this year's first-time attendees include Edmond Baudoin (who attended the very first TCAF in 2003!), Jordi Bernet(!), Canadians Bryan Lee O'Malley and John Martz, Benoit Peeters, and more besides. Their programme is really something, I recommend checking it out.
Speaking of which, I'm kind of a guest of the Festival myself this year, and will be moderating a few events including an on-stage interview with my pal Bryan Lee O'Malley, and hosting a Ghibli-themed live-drawing event with O'Malley, Jonath Edwards (UK), Ken Niimura (Japan/Spain), Miki Yamamoto (Japan), and Emma Viceli (UK) which should be a lot of fun too.
Tickets for all events are available now at https://www.breweryarts.co.uk/events-and-festivals/category/the-lakes-international-comic-art-festival-2016
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- 1 Accessing Open Babel with Python
Accessing Open Babel with Python
There are two ways to access the Open Babel library using Python:
- The
openbabelmodule, a direct binding of the Open Babel C++ library, created using the SWIG package.
Pybel, a set of convenience functions and classes that simplifies access to the
openbabelmodule. (Only available with OpenBabel >= 2.0.3)
For more examples of using Open Babel from Python, see the developer Python tutorial. If you have any questions or find any problems, please send an email to the openbabel-scripting mailing list.
The openbabel module
openbabel module provides direct access to the C++ Open Babel library from Python. This binding is generated using the SWIG package and provides access to almost all of the Open Babel interfaces via Python, including the base classes OBMol, OBAtom, OBBond, and OBResidue, as well as the conversion framework OBConversion. As such, essentially any call in the C++ API is available to Python scripts with very little difference in syntax. As a result, the principal documentation is the Open Babel C++ API documentation.
Here we give some examples of common Python syntax for the
openbabel module and pointers to the appropriate sections of the API documentation.
The example script below creates atoms and bonds one-by-one using the OBMol, OBAtom, and OBBond classes.
import openbabel mol = openbabel.OBMol() print 'Should print 0 (atoms)' print mol.NumAtoms() a = mol.NewAtom() a.SetAtomicNum(6) # carbon atom a.SetVector(0.0, 1.0, 2.0) # coordinates b = mol.NewAtom() mol.AddBond(1, 2, 1) # atoms indexed from 1 print 'Should print 2 (atoms)' print mol.NumAtoms() print 'Should print 1 (bond)' print mol.NumBonds() mol.Clear();
More commonly, Open Babel can be used to read in molecules using the OBConversion framework. The following script reads in molecular information (a SMI file) from a string, adds hydrogens, and writes out an MDL file as a string.
import openbabel obConversion = openbabel.OBConversion() obConversion.SetInAndOutFormats("smi", "mdl") mol = openbabel.OBMol() obConversion.ReadString(mol, "C1=CC=CS1") print 'Should print 5 (atoms)' print mol.NumAtoms() mol.AddHydrogens() print 'Should print 9 (atoms) after adding hydrogens' print mol.NumAtoms() outMDL = obConversion.WriteString(mol)
The following script writes out a file using a filename, rather than reading and writing to a Python string.
import openbabel obConversion = openbabel.OBConversion() obConversion.SetInAndOutFormats("pdb", "mol2") mol = openbabel.OBMol() obConversion.ReadFile(mol, "1ABC.pdb.gz") # Open Babel will uncompress automatically mol.AddHydrogens() print mol.NumAtoms() print mol.NumBonds() print mol.NumResidues() obConversion.WriteFile(mol, '1abc.mol2')
That's it! There's more information on particular calls in the library API. Feel free to address questions to the openbabel-scripting mailing list.
Using iterators
(not available in OB < 2.0.3)
A number of Open Babel toolkit classes provide iterators over various objects; these classes are identifiable by the suffix "Iter" in the list of toolkit classes in the API. The OBMolAtomIter class, for example, makes it easy to iterate over the atoms in a molecule. These iterator classes can be used using the typical Python syntax for iterators:
for atom in openbabel.OBMolAtomIter(mymol): print atom.GetAtomicMass()
Calling a method requiring an array of C doubles
(not available in OB < 2.0.3)
Some Open Babel toolkit methods, for example OBMol::Rotate(), require an array of doubles. It's not possible to directly use a list of floats when calling such a function from Python. Instead, you need to first explicitly create a C array using the double_array() function:
obMol.Rotate([1.0, -54.7, 3]) # Error! myarray = openbabel.double_array([1.0, -54.7, 3]) obMol.Rotate(myarray) # Works!
Combining numpy with Open Babel
If you are using the Python numerical extension, numpy, and you try to pass values from a numpy array to Open Babel, it may not work unless you convert the values to Python built-in types first:
import numpy, openbabel mol = openbabel.OBMol() atom = mol.NewAtom() coord = numpy.array([1.2, 2.3, 4.6], "float32") atom.SetVector(coord[0], coord[1], coord[2]) # Error atom.SetVector(float(coord[0]), float(coord[1]), float(coord[2])) # No error coord = numpy.array([1.2, 2.3, 4.6], "float64") atom.SetVector(coord[0], coord[1], coord[2]) # No error either - not all numpy arrays will cause an error
Pybel provides convenience functions and classes that make it simpler to use the Open Babel libraries from Python, especially for file input/output and for accessing the attributes of atoms and molecules. The Atom and Molecule classes used by Pybel can be converted to and from the OBAtom and OBMol used by the
openbabel module. These features are discussed in more detail below.
Information on the Pybel API can be found at the interactive Python prompt using the
help() function, and is also available here: Pybel API.
To use Pybel, use "
import pybel" or "
from pybel import *".
Atoms and Molecules
A Molecule can be created in any of four ways:
- From an OBMol, using
- By reading from a file (see Input/Output below)
- By reading from a string (see Input/Output below)
- An empty Molecule can be created using
An Atom can be created in three different ways:
- From an OBAtom, using
- By accessing the
.atomsattribute of a Molecule
- An empty Atom can be created using
It is always possible to access the OBMol or OBAtom on which a Molecule or Atom is based, by accessing the appropriate attribute, either
.OBMol or
.OBAtom. In this way, it is easy to combine the convenience of
pybel with the many additional capabilities present in
openbabel. See Combining Pybel with openbabel.py below.
Molecules have the following attributes: atoms, charge, dim, energy, exactmass, flags, formula, mod, molwt, spin, sssr, title. The
.atoms attribute provides a list of the Atoms in a Molecule. The remaining attributes correspond directly to attributes of OBMols: e.g.
Molecule.formula is equivalent to
OBMol.GetFormula(). For more information on what these attributes are, please see the Open Babel Library documentation for OBMol.
Molecules have a
.write() method that writes a representation of a Molecule to a file or to a string. See Input/Output below. They also have a
.calcfp() method that calculates a molecular fingerprint. See Fingerprints below.
For convenience, a Molecule provides an iterator over its Atoms. This is used as follows:
for atom in myMolecule: # do something with atom
Atoms have the following attributes: atomicmass, atomicnum, cidx, coords, coordidx, exactmass, formatcharge, heavyvalence, heterovalence, hyb, idx, implicitvalence, index, isotope, partialcharge, spin, type, valence, vector. The
.coords attribute provides a tuple (x, y, z) of the atom's coordinates. The remaining attributes are as for OBAtom, and more information can be found in the Open Babel Library documentation.
One of the strengths of Open Babel is the number of chemical file formats that it can handle. Pybel provides a dictionary of the input and output formats in the variables informats and outformats, where the keys are the three-letter codes for each format (e.g. 'pdb') and the values are the descriptions (e.g. 'Protein Data Bank format').
Pybel greatly simplifies the process of reading and writing molecules to and from strings or files. There are two functions for reading Molecules:
readstring(format, string)reads a Molecule from a string
readfile(format, filename)provides an iterator over the Molecules in a file
Here are some examples of their use. Note in particular the use of
.next() to access the first (and possibly only) molecule in a file:
>>> mymol = readstring("smi", "CCCC") >>> print mymol.molwt 45 >>> for mymol in readfile("sdf", "largeSDfile.sdf") ... print mymol.molwt >>> singlemol = readfile("pdb", "1CRN.pdb").next()
If a single molecule is to be written to a molecule or string, the
.write() method of the Molecule should be used:
mymol.write(format)returns a string
mymol.write(format, filename)writes the Molecule to a file. An optional additional parameter,
overwrite, should be set to
Trueif you wish to overwrite an existing file.
For files containing multiple molecules, the Outputfile class should be used instead. This is initialised with a format and filename (and optional
overwrite parameter). To write a Molecule to the file, the
.write() method of the Outputfile is called with the Molecule as a parameter. When all molecules have been written, the
.close() method of the Outputfile should be called.
Here are some examples of output using the Pybel methods and classes:
>>> print mymol.write("smi") 'CCCC' >>> mymol.write("smi", "outputfile.txt") >>> largeSDfile = Outputfile("sdf", "multipleSD.sdf") >>> largeSDfile.write(mymol) >>> largeSDfile.write(myothermol) >>> largeSDfile.close()
A Fingerprint can be created in either of two ways:
- From a vector returned by the OpenBabel GetFingerprint() method, using
- By calling the
.calcfp()method of a Molecule
.calcfp() method takes an optional argument,
fptype, which should be one of the fingerprint types supported by OpenBabel (see Tutorial:Fingerprints). If unspecified, the default fingerprint ("FP2") is calculated.
Once created, the Fingerprint has two attributes:
fp gives the original OpenBabel vector corresponding to the fingerprint, and
bits gives a list of the bits that are set.
The Tanimoto coefficient of two Fingerprints can be calculated using the "|" operator.
Here is an example of its use:
>>> import pybel >>> smiles = ['CCCC', 'CCCN'] >>> mols = [pybel.readstring("smi", x) for x in smiles] # Create two molecules from the SMILES >>> fps = [x.calcfp() for x in mols] # Calculate their fingerprints >>> print fps[0].bits, fps[1].bits [261, 385, 671] [83, 261, 349, 671, 907] >>> print fps[0] | fps[1] # Print the Tanimoto coefficient 0.3333
SMARTS matching
Pybel also provides a simplified API to the Open Babel SMARTS pattern matcher. A Smarts object is created, and the
.findall() method is then used to return a list of the matches to a given Molecule.
Here is an example of its use:
>>> mol = readstring("smi","CCN(CC)CC") # triethylamine >>> smarts = Smarts("[#6][#6]") # Matches an ethyl group >>> print smarts.findall(mol) [(1, 2), (4, 5), (6, 7)]
Combining Pybel with openbabel.py
It is easy to combine the ease of use of Pybel, with the comprehensive coverage of the Open Babel toolkit that
openbabel.py provides. Pybel is really a wrapper around
openbabel.py, with the result that the OBAtom and OBMol used by openbabel.py can be interconverted to the Atom and Molecule used by Pybel.
The following example shows how to read a molecule from a PDB file using Pybel, and then how to use openbabel.py to add hydrogens. It also illustrates how to find out information on what methods and classes are available, while at the interactive Python prompt.
>>> import pybel >>> mol = pybel.readfile("pdb", "1PYB").next() >>> help(mol) Help on Molecule in module pybel object: ... | Attributes: | atoms, charge, dim, energy, exactmass, flags, formula, | mod, molwt, spin, sssr, title. ... | The original Open Babel molecule can be accessed using the attribute: | OBMol ... >>> print len(mol.atoms), mol.molwt 3430 49315.2 >>> dir(mol.OBMol) # Show the list of methods provided by openbabel.py ['AddAtom', 'AddBond', 'AddConformer', 'AddHydrogens', 'AddPolarHydrogens', ... ] >>> mol.OBMol.AddHydrogens() >>> print len(mol.atoms), mol.molwt 7244 49406.0
The next example is an extension of one of the
openbabel.py examples at the top of this page. It shows how a molecule could be created using
openbabel.py, and then written to a file using Pybel:
import openbabel, pybel mol = openbabel.OBMol() a = mol.NewAtom() a.SetAtomicNum(6) # carbon atom a.SetVector(0.0, 1.0, 2.0) # coordinates b = mol.NewAtom() mol.AddBond(1, 2, 1) # atoms indexed from 1 pybelmol = pybel.Molecule(mol) pybelmol.write("sdf", "outputfile.sdf")


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Tonight, I want to continue our experience from last nights visit to Left Bank Wine Bar in downtown Spokane (thanks again to Aaron, Katrina and Jennifer). Of the four wines we tasted, the Amavi definitely had the most personality and structure. Left Bank wine buyer, Jennifer, mentioned that it is their best seller and the only red that has been on their menu for the entire seven months they've been open. For the visual experience refer to Episode 2 of DrinkNectar.com The 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon from Walla Walla, WA was big and bold, but not quite as big as most Washington Cabs. Amavi […]
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Left Bank is Today's GROUPON OF THE DAY! < Click to buy Get $25 worth of wine and food for only $12. Sign me up. Tonight we were excited to explore a new(er) wine bar in downtown Spokane, Left Bank Wine Bar. I Saw a tweet that local musical genius Darin Hilderbrand was performing at 8pm, so we hopped in the Jeep, braved the snow and headed downtown. I brought my flip cam hoping to capture the essence of the place . Left Bank is at 108 N Washington (although I refer to it several times incorrectly in the video – to […]
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I am totally excited to post my first video blog. Welcome to EPISODE 1 – November 13, 2009. Inside, I provide some basic introductions and a quick review of a 2007 Red Diamond Merlot from WA. Not a bad wine for $7. Taste: Big, fruity, bold Flavor: Cherry, Plum, Vanilla, hints of Cocoa and Caramel Finish: Mild tanins, mildy acidic Rating to Price ratio: 3 out of 5 Check out the video and provide your comments. It'll take me a few more days to set up my first 'on the street' nectarview. Thanks for watching drink happy
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Network switch maker Voltaire has landed a deal with IBM to create a new 40 Gbit/sec InfiniBand quad-data rate (QDR) switch for Big Blue's BladeCenter blade server chassis.
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Love you...I wish I had words to bring comfort but human words at least most of them aren't what your broken heart needs. I am thinking of you and praying for you every, single, day.ReplyDelete
Oh Meri...I think its good that you have tried to numb yourself, and I think it is even better that you realize now it is time to feel again. Hour by hour, day by day. Whatever gets you through. I cant imagine being just 3 months in as a widow (I hate that word too) and already facing the holidays. Im so sorry for your lonely, grieving heart...I still have you and the boys in my prayers every-single-day!!! (((HUGS))ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2012 at 7:51 PM
Give yourself time, as much as you need. No guilt - none! And by letting yourself be sad, you'll give the boys the same opportunity.ReplyDelete
Prayers and hugs and love for all of you. Oh, and pockets for your tissues...
I am happy to have been one of your distractions. Sending you an interweb intertube.ReplyDelete
I don't know what to say. I want to come and hug you and go shopping with you. I know it's not the same, but you ARE loved... By a shit load of people. Take your distractions when you need them and let the grief in when it knocks. Whatever YOU need to do. Do it! I love you, Meri.ReplyDelete
I know, I do...really. ((HUGS)) you will get through this amazing, talented, lovable, huggable, incredible you. one day at a time. you can do this. and as always you are never alone. double ((HUGS))ReplyDelete
I don't know what I can say . . . . so I'll just remind you of how much I love you.ReplyDelete
Or one moment at a time, "Dear Heavenly Father, please help me get through this next minute", you can ask for it 1,440 times a day and He will help you.ReplyDelete
Oh, how I wish I had the words or magical powers to make it all better for you. I love you, and my inner tube is your inner tube, if you want it. Sending love and hugs! ♥ReplyDelete
Meri, you and your boys are always in my prayers. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't take a moment, think about you, and send a prayer on it's way. From now on, I will wrap each prayer in an inner tube. Love you!ReplyDelete
Watching someone you love suffer, even someone you don't know, really is like putting them in a sailboat isn't it? Praying daily for your safe return to shore...ReplyDelete
Sending you tons of hugs and just as many prayers... For you and your boys!!ReplyDelete
Meri, The only life line I can throw is God. Let Him be your refuge. My heart just breaks for the grief that you are feeling and the only thing I can do is mourn with you. May God blanket you and the boys in His comfort and peace.ReplyDelete
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OH Meri, I cann't imagine what your going through I wish I had the words to help, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day , you will find a way . Thinking of youReplyDelete
hugz and blessings Rhianna
Hang in there, Meri. We love you guys.ReplyDelete
Sorry Meri. I can't even begin to imagine what you're enduring. Wish I could be there to give you hugs in person. God bless.ReplyDelete
- MaryEllenDecember 8, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Meri- I do understand what you are feeling and going through. It's hard for me to believe that tomorrow, it will be two months since Brian died. I miss his everything about him. He wasn't just my husband, he was my best friend. Please know that you are in my prayers and you are not alone.ReplyDelete


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The day after tornadoes ripped through Alabama, 17-year-old Tiffany Holloway of Birmingham got a ray of sunshine from the mailman.
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"I received a package and noticed that it was kind of thick," said the senior graduating from Ramsay High School on Wednesday. She opened it and read that her college tuition to the University of Alabama at Birmingham had been paid for four years.
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Holloway is a member of the first class of Birmingham City school students to receive awards and recognitions as part of UAB's Advanced Placement (AP) Scholarship Program. AP courses are college-level classes offered to high-school students for college credit. UAB plans to award Birmingham seniors who excel in these courses with scholarships using income generated from an endowed fund made possible by an anonymous $4 million cash gift designated for scholarships for women and minorities.
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On the basis of evidence that a 14-year-old girl bought a button inscribed "Copulation Not Masturbation" at a store operated by him, appellant was convicted of "wilfully" contributing to the delinquency of a minor in violation of a New Hampshire statute. The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed. Held: An independent examination of the trial record pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 40 (1) (d) (2) discloses that evidence is completely lacking that appellant personally sold the girl the button or that he was aware of the sale or present in the store at the time, a fatal void in the State's case that was not filled by appellant's concession at trial that he "controlled the premises" at the time. A conviction based on a record completely lacking any relevant evidence as to a crucial element of the offense charged violates due process.
113 N. H. 239, 306 A. 2d 781, reversed and remanded.
A 14-year-old girl bought a button inscribed "Copulation Not Masturbation" at the Head Shop in Manchester, New Hampshire. In consequence, appellant, operator of the shop, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $100 after conviction upon a charge of "wilfully" contributing to the delinquency of a minor in violation of New Hampshire's Rev. Stat. Ann. 169:32 (Supp. 1972). 1 In affirming the conviction, the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that the "wilfully" component of the offense required that the State prove that the accused acted "`voluntarily and intentionally and not [414 U.S. 478, 479] because of mistake or accident or other innocent reason.'" 113 N. H. 239, 242, 306 A. 2d 781, 784 (1973). Thus, the State was required to produce evidence that appellant, knowing the girl to be a minor, 2 personally sold her the button, or personally caused another to sell it to her. Appellant unsuccessfully sought dismissal of the charge at the close of the State's case on the ground that the State had produced no evidence to meet this requirement, and unsuccessfully urged the same ground as a reason for reversal in the State Supreme Court. We have reviewed the transcript of the trial on this issue, pursuant to Rule 40 (1) (d) (2) of the Rules of this Court. 3
Our independent examination of the trial record discloses that evidence is completely lacking that appellant personally sold the girl the button or even that he was aware of the sale or present in the store at the time. The girl was the State's only witness to the sale. She testified that she and a girl friend entered the store and looked around until they saw "a velvet display card on a counter" from which they "picked out [the] pin." She went to some person in the store with the button "cupped in [her] hand" and paid that person 25 cents for the button. She did not say that appellant was that person, [414 U.S. 478, 480] or even that she saw him in the store. Rather, she testified that she could not identify who the person was. We therefore agree with Justice Grimes, dissenting, that "there is no evidence whatever that the defendant sold the button, that he knew it had been sold to a minor, that he authorized such sales to minors or that he was even in the store at the time of the sale." 113 N. H., at 244, 306 A. 2d, at 785. This fatal void in the State's case was not filled by appellant's concession at trial that he "controlled the premises on July 26." That concession was evidence at most that he operated the shop; it was in no way probative of the crucial element of the crime that he personally sold the minor the button or personally caused it to be sold to her.
In these circumstances, the conviction must be reversed. "It is beyond question, of course, that a conviction based on a record lacking any relevant evidence as to a crucial element of the offense charged . . . violate[s] due process." Harris v. United States, 404 U.S. 1232, 1233 (1971). (DOUGLAS, J., in chambers); Thompson v. Louisville, 362 U.S. 199 (1960); Johnson v. Florida, 391 U.S. 596 (1968); see also Adderley v. Florida, 385 U.S. 39, 44 (1966).
The judgment is reversed and the case is remanded to the New Hampshire Supreme Court for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
[ Footnote 2 ] The complaint charged that appellant "did wilfully contribute to the delinquency of a minor by selling or causing to be sold a button with obscene material with slogan on same, to wit, `Copulation Not Masturbation' to . . . a minor child of the age of 14 years, knowing the said child was a minor . . . ."
[ Footnote 3 ] The Rule provides, in pertinent part, that: "Questions not presented according to [the requirements of this rule] will be disregarded, save as the court, at its option, may notice a plain error not presented." This discretion has been long acknowledged, see Columbia Heights Realty Co. v. Rudolph, 217 U.S. 547 (1910), recently affirmed in Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation, 402 U.S. 313, 320 n. 6 (1971), and extends to review of the trial court record, see Sibbach v. Wilson & Co., 312 U.S. 1 (1941). See also Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949).
MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE and MR. JUSTICE WHITE join, dissenting.
Appellant Denis M. Vachon operates the Head Shop in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he sells various beads, dresses, posters, and the like. In July 1969, a 14-year-old girl, accompanied by her girl friend, went to the shop seeking to purchase a button or pin like the [414 U.S. 478, 481] one purchased by her friend the previous week. She found the button, inscribed "Copulation Not Masturbation," and purchased it from a salesperson in the store. It was conceded in the New Hampshire courts that appellant was in control of the premises where the sale was made. At a jury-waived trial, appellant was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a statutory offense proscribed in these words:
The Court decides that appellant's conviction under this statute violates rights secured to him by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, concluding on the basis of its "independent examination of the trial record" that "evidence is completely lacking that appellant personally sold the girl the button or even that he was aware of the sale or present in the store at the time."
In one sense there can be no doubt that the Court's conclusion is based upon an "independent examination of the trial record," since the claim sustained here was neither made in constitutional form to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, nor even presented by appellant in his jurisdictional statement in this Court. * [414 U.S. 478, 482]
A litigant seeking to preserve a constitutional claim for review in this Court must not only make clear to the lower courts the nature of his claim, but he must also make it clear that the claim is constitutionally grounded. Bailey v. Anderson, 326 U.S. 203 (1945). The closest that appellant came in his brief on appeal to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire to discussing the issue on which this Court's opinion turns is in the sixth section (at 17-18), which is headed: "The State's failure to introduce any evidence of scienter should have resulted in dismissal of the charge following the presentation of the State's case." Appellant in that section makes the customary appellate arguments of insufficiency of the evidence and does not so much as mention either the United States Constitution or a single case decided by this Court. The Supreme Court of New Hampshire treated these arguments as raising a classic state law claim of insufficient evidence of scienter; nothing in that court's opinion remotely suggests that it was treating the claim as having a basis other than in state law.
The Court purports to decide the scienter question on the basis of Rule 40 (1) (d) (2) of the Rules of this Court, which provides:
Whatever the import of Rule 40 (1) (d) (2) in cases arising in the federal courts, it surely does not give this Court the power to simply ignore the limitations placed by 28 U.S.C. 1257 on our jurisdiction to review final judgments of the highest court of a State. That jurisdiction permits review in this Court by appeal where a state statute has been upheld against a federal constitutional challenge, or by writ of certiorari where a federal constitutional challenge is "specifically set up or claimed" in state court. Our prior cases establish that we will "not decide federal constitutional issues raised here for the first time on review of state court decisions." Cardinale v. Louisiana, 394 U.S. 437, 438 (1969). See Crowell v. Randell, 10 Pet. 368 (1836). Since the Supreme Court of New Hampshire was not presented with a federal constitutional challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, resolution of this question by the Court is inconsistent with the congressional limitation on our [414 U.S. 478, 484] jurisdiction to review the final judgment of the highest court of a State.
Even if appellant's sufficiency-of-the-evidence contention in the Supreme Court of New Hampshire could be said to have been presented as a federal constitutional claim based on Thompson v. Louisville, 362 U.S. 199 (1960), I would nonetheless be unable to join in the Court's disposition of it. In Thompson, the only state court proceedings reaching the merits of the case were in the Louisville Police Court from which there was no right of appeal to any higher state court, and there was therefore no state court opinion written which construed the statute under which Thompson was convicted. This Court therefore had no choice but to engage in its own construction of the statute and upon doing so it concluded that the record was "entirely lacking in evidence to support any of the charges." Id., at 204. Thompson was obviously an extraordinary case, and up until now has been saved for extraordinary situations; it has not heretofore been broadened so as to make lack of evidentiary support for only one of several elements of an offense a constitutional infirmity in a state conviction.
Here, however, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire construed the state statute defining contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and held that the evidence adduced at the trial was sufficient to support a finding on each element of that offense. While the Supreme Court of New Hampshire did say, as the Court indicates, that the State was required to prove that the accused acted "`voluntarily and intentionally and not because of mistake or accident or other innocent reason,'" 113 N. H., at 242, 306 A. 2d, at 784, it said this in a context of several paragraphs of treatment of the elements of the offense. Just as those reading and relying upon our opinions would [414 U.S. 478, 485] be ill-advised to seize one phrase out of context, I think we are ill-advised to so treat the opinion of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. That court had several observations to make about the statutory offense which bear on the issue of "wilfulness" upon which this Court focuses:
This may seem to us a somewhat broad construction of the language "wilfully" or "knowingly," though our own cases make it clear that we are dealing with words which may be given a variety of meanings by their context:
[ Footnote * ] Appellant makes two contentions in his jurisdictional statement: First, that the New Hampshire statutes defining contributing to the delinquency of a minor and sale and delivery of obscene material (N. H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 571-A:1, 571-A:2 (Supp. 1972)) have been [414 U.S. 478, 482] applied to the sale of the button by appellant in a way that infringes upon his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights; and, second, that the New Hampshire statute defining contributing to the delinquency of a minor is unconstitutionally vague. There is simply nothing else presented by the jurisdictional statement. [414 U.S. 478, 488]
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