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1:30 - 3:00 Speed Dating Tues Sept 20 :
Pharmaceutical Co. Hosted Roundtables for 4 Minute Supplier Speed Meetings. Participants, identify the companies that match your service offerings then just show up. No presentations, just business cards, and a 4 minute chat, then move to next company you want to meet.
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Pharmaceutical Co. Hosted Roundtables for 4 Minute Supplier Speed Meetings.
Participants, identify the companies that match your service offerings then just show up. No presentations, just business cards, and a 4 minute chat, then move to next company you want to meet.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Medicinal Chemistry/Discovery
Novartis Discovery & Pre-Clinical Development
Discovery & Pre-Clinical Development
Novartis Early-Mid Stage Clinical Development and Commercial
API (process development plus Clinical supply) and Formulation Development and Clinical Manufacture. For DP Clinical Manufacture (supply) EMA Certification is a must for Novartis.
Merck Table #1
Discovery/Medicinal Chemistry
Merck Table #2
Process Research & Development
AbbVie, Inc.
Large volume GMP production with Containment Small Volume, Highly Potent GMP production API Solids Processing Regulatory Starting Materials
Newron Pharmaceuticals
CRO/CMOs for API, Drug Product, Analytical and Clinical Supply Chain Management. On API, Small Molecules and Biologics
Agios Pharmaceuticals
Process chemistry from Europe, Asia, North America; also, form screens, catalyst screens, and analytical services, DS/API, DP-oriented companies.
Celgene Corp
Process Development services
Abide Therapeutics
We are most interested in meeting GMP capable drug substance and drug product manufacturers with a good regulatory history.
Intercept Pharmaceuticals
MedChem services; general synthesis; large scale (kilo lab), nonGMP.
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals
Process Development, drug substance, raw materials, intermediates
Apeel Sciences
Looking for CMO's that can manufacture food ingredients. Also food grade materials such as Sodium Thiosulfate Anhydrous, Palmitic Stearics, Undecenoic and Undecanoic Acids, Ethanol, Tall Oil.
Procurement Outsourcing services to support day-to-day chemical buying, including processing purchase orders and managing my small scale chemical spend. Looking for companies with chemical expertise that can aggregate volumes and leverage spend to gain savings and risk mitigation.
Gilead Sciences Discovery & Pre-Clinical Development Fluorination process R&D, raws and intermediates, and small-molecule process R&D
Gilead Sciences Development
Commercial cGMP manufacturing, Bulk Contract Manufacturing API, GMP
intermediates, Raw Materials High Potency APIs, Clinical phase Process
development High hazard chemistry, Fluorination
Melinta Therapeutics
API Development and Raw Materials
CMC Turnkey Solutions
Looking for API manufacturing as well as CMOs for solid, parenteral, and aseptically-filled nasal products.
Process development and Custom synthesis of SM staring material, intermediate and API including high potent API


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Hi friends,
so yesterday was the big day at Brorsons, and I had a blast as did hopefully everyone else present. Thank you all for coming!!! This event would have been nothing without you :o)
Lots of friends and family showed up, as well as some people that were new to my paintings.
The end result of the vote is still to be tallied within the next few days as we are nearing sunday 7th of June. This day is also the day of the vote for the European parliament, so there is still a chance to cast your vote here on the blog in the right hand side of the screen!
One painting was sold: " Can I have one More" (Angelina Jolie), for this I am truly thankful and humbled. So amazing to see the fruits of ones work bringing joy to other people.
|"Can I have one More" (Angelina Jolie)
Due to the situation with the Iraqi refugees there was some coverage in DR1: "Jersild Live" did an interview with rector Per Ramsdal of Brorsons church and Birthe Rønn Hornbech – Minister for Refugees, Immigrants and Integration and for Ecclesiastical Affairs. Check it out here
Below is a short status video that Thorbjørn Hein did on his cellphone. Sorry english speakers, it's in Danish. Thanks for the coverage Thorbjørn!
Best regards, Carl
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Closing the 'Adventure Gap' by Getting Inner City Kids Outdoors
America's wild places need urban youth and minorities to get interested and invested in nature
Students scurry around the decrepit warehouse, pulling up the legs of their waterproof pants and zipping up splash jackets, strapping on life vests and organizing themselves into two river-rafting teams. This isn't just a typical summer afternoon at cityWILD in Denver, Colorado.…
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Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute
California Parks are urging campers to clean up after themselves, in a novel effort to protect the endangered marbled murrelet
When campers register at the headquarters of Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, they receive the usual trail map and, for the past couple years, instructions on how to be "crumb clean" and why this matters…
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Insect Feed Could Be the Next Frontier in Animal Agriculture
Bugs may offer an environmentally friendly alternative to soy and fishmeal when it comes to feeding livestock
Philip Taylor knew that when the black soldier fly began mating under artificial light in his hatchery at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research in Boulder, Colorado, something important was happening. "For the mass production of larvae there needs to be…
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Is Plant Science the Answer to Improved Food Security?
In a world of climate change and growing global population, some researchers believe plants are key to adaptation
Nigel Taylor spreads apart the wilted and discolored leaves of a cassava plant. He wants us to see its sickness on full display. Taylor leads a team of scientists in St. Louis attempting to genetically engineer a virus-resistant version of the plant,…
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Unconventional Agriculture
Our food systems are changing for the better thanks to a rising crop of women farmers.
Last year, all five of the first-year apprentices at Soil Born Farms' headquarters near Sacramento, California were women. Another young woman, Elle Huftill-Balzer, was the boss of them all, the farm manager. "It [was] a total girl-power year around here," says Janet Whalen Zeller, co-founder and co-director of Soil Born Farms Urban Agriculture and Education Project, which oversees two farms totaling 56 acres. In fact, during the past few years the majority…
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Is Cellulosic Ethanol the Next Big Thing in Renewable Fuels?
Ongoing efforts to commercialize this clean energy source may lead the US to a more independent energy future
For a long time it seemed like turning the inedible parts of plants into a commercially viable biofuel, known as cellulosic ethanol, was nothing more than a pipedream. The enzymes needed to release sugars from cellulose — the fiber that forms plant…
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Across the US, Cities Struggle to Figure Out How to Accommodate Urban Farming
Widespread interest in urban agriculture is forcing local authorities to re-examine rules that prohibit farming in cities
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Silver Looks Like Dipping Below $30
Commodities / Gold and Silver 2011 Jun 26, 2011 - 01:07 PM
As Stockcharts no longer see fit to run usable charts for silver and various other commodities - line charts are only suitable for schoolkids or journalists doing projects on the markets, not for serious analysis - we are going to use the chart for iShares Silver Trust (SLV) as a stand in for silver. It is a very accurate proxy, and should continue to be, unless of course, the markets were suddenly to discover that they don't have the silver in their vaults that they say they have.
It doesn't look good, people - both gold and silver broke down from Triangles on Friday, after looking like they were about to break out upside on Wednesday. We can see this breakdown on the 6-month chart for our proxy iShares, which occurred on a noticable pickup on volume, which is also bearish. This was a rather complicated one to call, because of conflicting factors, and because we couldn't call it, we did a Straddle a few days back, that promises to pay off handsomely. Here's why it was complicated - the high volume plunge early in May was bearish, with various factors indicating that silver had burned out for the foreseeable future, chief among these being the frenzy of public participation that had been whipped up by cheerleaders some of whom were talking about silver at $300 an ounce, and which resulted in volume in silver reaching climactic levels as it rose to become extraordinarily overbought.
On the other hand silver had fallen back a lot to a point not very far above its rising 200-day moving average, and with none of the problems in the world financial system having been fixed - on the contrary, they have gotten worse, it is easy to see how silver could stage a significant rally from here. However, the market appears to have declared itself with the breakdown on Friday, and with the savage reversal back to the downside in the broad stockmarket late in the week, so that it is perilously close to crashing key support and plunging, so the stage may well be set for another sharp selloff in silver, the initial downside target for which would be the zone of support in the approx. $28.50 - $30.30 area shown on the chart.
While the long-term chart for gold shows a steady uptrend that looks set to continue, free from the kind of speculative excess that would indicate a possible top, the same cannot be said for the 4-year chart for silver, on which the late April peak looks like even more of an anomaly. This chart suggests that at best silver needs more of a rest before it can gain serious traction again, and that it is likely to dip to the $28 - $30 area first - lower still if the stockmarket tanks as look likely soon - more on this subject in the Gold Market update.


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Meri Johnson, 39, of North Little Rock, died Sunday, June 16, 2013.
Survivors include daughters, Allison Vandenberg of Sherwood and Madison Conder of North Little Rock; sons, Kallon Gentry and Johnathan Conder both of North Little Rock; parents, Floy Dean and Ron Oliver of North Little Rock; father Robert Johnson of Camden; brother, Ken Johnson and sister Lindsay Oliver Crane both of North Little Rock.
The family requests donations be made to Women and Children First, P.O. Box 1954, Little Rock, AR 72203.
The family received friends beginning at 6 p.m. today at North Little Rock Funeral Home, a Smith Family Funeral Home.
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Some weeks ago, a small group of 20 business informatics students from the HTW Berlin visited Zalando at the technology office to catch a glimpse of the daily business behind the scenes.
Unfortunately – or luckily for the young women, it was impossible to introduce every single technology team to the students. As we wanted to make this day as exciting and interesting as possible the agenda was split. In the morning three main areas of technology were presented: Jan Mußler from Platform/Software team talked about our platform and the basic setup of our system. Product Manager Katarina Matthes showed, how product management at Zalando Technology works. I myself work in QA and gave an overview about the quality assurance and its themes.
Both Product management and Testing were about to be enlarged later in the practical part in the afternoon. But before this, the visitors were guided through the office. They looked very surprised as they left the tight corridors of the main building and entered the huge open space office on the second floor. Everything that makes our work fast and flexible could be seen:
- Dynamic interacting teams without physical boundaries
- Active control of our system by live monitoring
- Open and unproblematic communication
- State-of-the-art equipment.
Once all questions regarding team structure, processes and working hours were answered, we went back towards "home base" - the Technology Mentoring Area, which usually is used to train our new colleagues. In the meantime a tasty lunch was prepared and the lunch break was a good opportunity to share the impressions between students and Zalando-manias who joined in to answer questions.
After the lunch we started the practical part of the day. Main theme was the test of catalog pages. While four students got the chance to test new product pages within the Userlab, all others worked in small groups on the following tasks:
- Definition of test cases to verify catalog pages on their functionality
- Monitor and review the Userlab goup
- Examine and discuss the new product layouts
During testing, the students were asked to create test cases for certain functionalities of different catalog pages, like filters or sorting. Here they noticed, that it was not that easy to find the correct test cases, which have a single result. They also learned, that using negative tests - the testing for wrong entries and causing errors - is important, too. With writing test cases the students even were able to use our test management tool "TestLink".
The Userlab was more about visual evaluating new catalog page functionalities. Four students volunteered to act as test persons. On parallel another group was built to act as observer. In a separate room next door to the Userlab they watched the eye movements on a monitor and the comments of the participants to review it afterwards. So they got a first glimpse of how such usability tests are done.
Another group had the opportunity to see a new navigation element that was in product development at this time. The students of this focus group first evaluated the new feature independently of each other and wrote as both as positive as negative impressions on small cards. Those cards were presented to the Product Managers afterwards. By sticking the cards onto a board, clustering of possible achievements or failures of the feature is visible. This methodology made it possible to get uninfluenced thoughts of each participant.
The day was almost over when in the end everyone met in the Mentoring Area again and a small conclusion of the day was made and some giveaways were handed to the students. Some learnings were taken from the usablity tests: our product management was able to convert the students' feedback into changes on the design of the navigation elements. The last task came from the professor: Every student got some homework to do. That's how a student's life is - you can have a great day outside the campus, but in the end you have to write a report :-)


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Rep. Ron Paul knows how to pack them in.
At a town hall in Meredith, N.H., Sunday afternoon, the libertarian-oriented phenomenon from Texas doesn't need to raise his voice or rhetorically shape-shift to keep several hundred voters hanging on every word.
He delivers the tried-and-true, small-government Paul message: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are bankrupting the country with bailouts. It's time, he says, to stop wasting money on "unwinnable, undeclared wars." It's also time to eliminate many government agencies.
"It's not the government's job to educate you, it's your parents' job," Congressman Paul tells a girl who asked about his plan to get rid of the Department of Education.
The latest round of polling ahead of Tuesday's Republican primary in New Hampshire shows Paul at about 20 percent, solidly in second place, though well behind front-runner Mitt Romney. But in a crowded field, 20 percent is a meaningful chunk – especially if there's any possibility that Paul might take his loyal following and run as a third-party candidate. After all, in 1988 he was the Libertarian Party nominee for president (between stints as a Republican member of Congress).
Today, Paul is running well ahead of where he was four years ago, when he ran for president as a Republican. Then, he took 8 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire Republican primary.
The third-party threat
In recent media interviews, Paul has been asked if he would consider an independent run. He always says he has no intention of doing so, but doesn't completely rule it out.
"I'm not an absolutist," Paul said Sunday on "Fox News Sunday." Then he puts his thumb on the scale toward not running: "Everyone knows I have no intention of doing that. It would be a bit of a burden."
Indeed, at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast last September, he explained that he wouldn't go third party, because he doesn't have the personal wealth required to mount a credible candidacy (see fellow Texan Ross Perot, who ran in both the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns). And he would be excluded from debates.
But Paul added that given the "chaos in the economic system," he wouldn't be surprised to see someone jump in.
A subsidiary GOP concern centers on what all the Paul supporters do if their man does not win the nomination and stays on the sidelines. Will they just sit this one out? Or will they jump to an already-declared third-party candidate, such as former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who recently quit the Republican Party to run for the Libertarian nomination?
Paulites speak
At the town hall in Meredith, many Paul supporters weren't sure what they would do if Paul is not the nominee – but several volunteered that they knew they would not vote for Mr. Romney.
"Romney just seems kind of shady, with his big business background," says David Farrell, a 20-year-old from Meredith who enters the Navy next month.
Annalee, a technology worker from Merrimack who declined to reveal her last name, said she's solidly behind Paul in the GOP primary, but if he doesn't win the nomination, she'll vote for Obama.
"I like Paul's emphasis on individual liberties, but I'm concerned about his plan to do away with regulations," she says.
Aaron Bennett, a restaurant owner from Laconia, says if Paul doesn't get the nomination, he might just write him in on the ballot in November. And if Paul runs as an independent, he adds, "I don't care if that takes votes away from the Republicans."
Most 'will come around'
Jennifer Duffy, a neutral analyst for the Cook Political Report also watching the Paul event in Meredith, says some Paul supporters' insistence that they won't vote for the Republican nominee if it's not Paul is typical of partisan sentiment in the heat of the primaries.
"Most of them will come around" and vote Republican, Ms. Duffy says.
In New Hampshire, she mentions the open race for governor – Gov. John Lynch (D) is retiring –and that even if the presidential race doesn't excite some voters here, the governor's race might. Voters in other states may find it's the down-ballot races that bring them to the polls. And don't discount the "anybody but Obama" feeling most Republicans share, she says.
But what if Paul does jump the GOP ship and launch a third-party candidacy? "Now that," Duffy says, "would be a big problem for the Republicans."
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What kind of god would you LIKE?
RE: What kind of god would you LIKE?
I'm still on the opposing side as well. For an anthropological look at how important culture is I suggest watch the intro to "the gods must be crazy" =p That intro explains the strength of culture over impulse. Simple tribe living in Africa becomes violent with eachother due to the introduction of a foreign object.
I've looked at many civilizations, and while often anthropology seems to make tribal life sound amazing there is always the thruths behind it. Take the pygmies of the Congo. I like them as a case because at first it seems they live with nature. They adapted to living within a rainforest, eating what comes and fighting for survival. Of course by the time they were studied westerners had interfered, but the thing is if culture is truly stronger than nature it shouldn't matter. The pygmies hunt every day and try to bring as much food back as possible. Lucky for everything else there aren't enough of them to cause serious harm. They travel around the forests like a farmer moves his fields. They've learned to use hunting dogs which they kick and beat. Why would a culture so close to nature be so cruel? to them pygmies are the only important life. It goes against their own survival to care about food. They plan to eat it. Of course they have many other interesting cultural functions, but the fact remains they live for the hunt which is a constant truth among all cultures. Even the ones deemed civilized live for the hunt they just act like they're better.
If meme's could be wholly altered then Americans wouldn't be drinking alcohol. The attempt at removing alcohol was huge with an amazingly large campaign and force at the start. It fell similar to how the anti-drug campaign can't possibly succeed. A meme might seem to change a lot, but really there are just certain things that have periodical changes. Yes ideas can bring great impact to the world, but people will always find ways to bring things back to the beginning.
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
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RE: What kind of god would you LIKE?
(20-11-2011 12:59 PM)Lilith Pride Wrote: If meme's could be wholly altered then Americans wouldn't be drinking alcohol. The attempt at removing alcohol was huge with an amazingly large campaign and force at the start. It fell similar to how the anti-drug campaign can't possibly succeed. A meme might seem to change a lot, but really there are just certain things that have periodical changes. Yes ideas can bring great impact to the world, but people will always find ways to bring things back to the beginning.
The pressure in Hungary to stamp out religion and semi-feudalistic alliance structures was immense during the Russian occupation that lasted for 53 years. As soon as it was over, religion rebounded overnight reaching now epidemic proportions, as well as the massive corruption and ruthlessness that was the hallmark of the pre-Soviet Hungarian elite.
RE: What kind of god would you LIKE?
I'm not sure either communism or prohibition is a valid example of the kind of cultural evolution Matt is talking about. These things were imposed, top-down, on populations that never fully embraced either one, and for a very short time - one decade? for prohibition and one generation for communism in Eastern Europe. Culture can't evolve that quickly, even without the strenuous resistance both of those ideas encountered.
Something like wearing clothes might qualify as a human convention that's caught on across many peoples. Though everyone doesn't wear the same kind or amount of covering, it's usual to protect and/or hide the genitals, at least. Body decoration has been going continuously for the entire time we know about. Music making and story-telling. Sexual taboos, loyalty rituals, family groupings. There are probably a dozen more habits that we've adopted everywhere and never discontinued, through fat times and lean.
It's the adaptation of that kind of lasting and universal idea that would affect genetic selection and change the attitude of peoples. For example, writing changed the method of story-telling and the keeping of collective memory, and that was a huge shift in how peoples lived. How we produce energy changes every society in which a new method is introduced.
I have no confidence in any of that leading to a change that saves the species - but if it could happen, that's where i'd look for signs.
If you pray to anything, you're prey to anything.
RE: What kind of god would you LIKE?
(20-11-2011 01:46 PM)Peterkin Wrote: Something like wearing clothes might qualify as a human convention that's caught on across many peoples. Though everyone doesn't wear the same kind or amount of covering, it's usual to protect and/or hide the genitals, at least. Body decoration has been going continuously for the entire time we know about. Music making and story-telling. Sexual taboos, loyalty rituals, family groupings. There are probably a dozen more habits that we've adopted everywhere and never discontinued, through fat times and lean.
You are right about that, Peterkin, however, none of the examples you brought up threatened the genetic imperative of the people involved.
Communism did.
Communism wants you to be a cell in a superior being: the social body.
Your genes want you to be an individual, at the expense of other individuals, if necessary.
Communism was an attempt at cultural change that your genes did not approve of.
Guess which of them won?
RE: What kind of god would you LIKE?
I agree with your assessment Peterkin, but at the same time, prohibition and communism were the examples of attempts to lead the memes. You're simply discussing what has happened. Ghost is talking about directing the flow artificially. I would also like to say that most of the things you've discussed have lasted primarily due to enforcement. Laws are what keep a lot of those things in place be they laws by a governing body or social institution. None of these things have truly become habitual to human beings. All of these things must be taught to every generation.
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
RE: What kind of god would you LIKE?
I have never seen it this clearly before -- thanks Matt, Peterkin, Lilith!
If we are intelligent, informed (of history) and honest, we can't avoid realizing that only some kind of communism could save the human species. It is so logical: cooperation, efficiency, maximizing resources, minimizing damage, doing away with destructive competition, organizing society as a top-notch scientific project.
Our logical minds would approve of that, want that, but we cite 'human nature' why it would never work. And we are right -- it wouldn't.
Our genes do not want it.
Our genes want us to be individuals. However, our genes are very short sighted, always concentrating on the next meal. They want each of us to win the next meal, even if all the rest will starve to death, and we will follow them a day later. They still want to win the next meal.
That is why capitalism is perfectly suited for self-destructive genes: "the survival of the fittest" for the duration of the next meal, whatever comes after.
What inevitably comes after is the Titanic and the ice-berg.
RE: What kind of god would you LIKE?
I don't have a lot of time.
Meme theory is real. We all need to be very careful when we say, "yeah, but it's just a theory."
It has been established. Memes and genes are co-competitors. Meme theorists are unanimous on this point.
I love Diamond. But when you look at overhunting by the first humans in the Americas, Diamond has it wrong. He assumes that they set out to overhunt. To understand the process, you need to go to EO Wilson. Humans were an invasive species. Invasive species commonly cause extinctions. Watch with tears in your eyes for the next couple of decades as the Asian carp destroy the ecosystems in the Great Lakes.
Zat, you attribute a lot to genes. If I can't convince you otherwise, so be it. But peep dis. I can tell you which memes are problematic. What genes do you attribute these behaviours to? Anyhoo, if we had more time, I'd demonstrate why many of the problems you attribute to genes are not genetic problems but cultural ones.
Pete, I never said that memes disappear. Memes exist in a meme pool. Sometimes a meme can have near total representation, say 99%, and seem unstoppable, then poof, something changes and then it drops to 3% representation. It's not gone, but that constitutes massive cultural change. So there are still a billion Catholics, but they have nowhere near the kind of influence that they used to on global politics. That's significant change. Like Daniel Quinn says, it's not that nobody can live the way Our culture lives, just not everybody.
Zat, I agree, hierarchical organisation, needed for human systems beyond the Dunbar number, pose a significant problem. But it's not the entire problem.
Lilith, egalitarian tribal societies aren't nice, they're sustainable. That's what's important.
The prohibition thing is a good example. Intervention in human systems is a science. I mean that, people get their PhDs in it. Prohibition was an intervention imposed on the people. It was an attempt to change the culture. But memetic engineering WILL one day be a science and that's just an example of a poor attempt to memetically engineer a society. It failed utterly to apply leverage to the system. If you try to intervene in a system without understanding systems theory, you have about as much chance of succeeding as someone trying to build a plane without understanding aerodynamics. It just decided that one part of the system was the problem and tried to cut it out without addressing the lines of tendential force; the connections to other parts of the system that made drinking resistant to removal from the system. Look, conversely, at anti-smoking campaigns. They took a comprehensive intervention approach. They looked at cultural significance (smoking in films) health issues, money, corporate lies and cover ups, underage smoking, etc... It was a far more successful intervention. People still smoke, but it's viewed entirely differently, the laws have changed and you can't smoke indoors anymore, and I bet you money, the changes haven't stopped yet.
But that's one type of intervention. Generally speaking, memes change without interference because of, like all replicators, mutation. Like all systems that evolve, you do not need a designer. It does everything on its own.
Pete, your clothes example is a good one. A dictator could ban clothes tomorrow. But how long would that last? There are so many other parts of the cultural system that keep clothing in place that clothing will come right back again the moment that dictator stops putting pressure on the clothing node. You have to cut out God knows how many parts of the system for a ban on clothing to hold.
This needs to be clear. Genes and memes are SELECTION PRESSURES on each other. Take glasses. Bad eyesight, on its own, is unlikely to be selected on the savannah. But with the cultural advent of glasses, bad eyesight is not selected against. Simple example. Vermin populations thrive because of human garbage sites. Pre-marital sex bans fail because of genetic sex drives. The list is extensive.
Anyhoo, give me enough time and I can explain memes thoroughly. But perhaps that should be done elsewhere. For this thread, memes mean to me that we don't need God to intervene to make the world a better place. If the counterargument is, yes we do, that's cool. That's just conflicting viewpoints. But if it comes to meme theory in general, that's something I will defend to my grave, along with Darwinism, along with genetics. If people are not willing to accept meme theory, so be it. If they are, there are a few simple truths... and the will change the way that you perceive things.
I'm out of time.
Peace and Love and Empathy,
RE: What kind of god would you LIKE?
Matt, you have not addressed my many historical examples (see Post #128).
RE: What kind of god would you LIKE?
Hey, Zat.
In my defence, I did pretty clearly say that I didn't have a lot of time. And you didn't address my anything anything from post #138
[After I wrote this post I reread it. I'm certain that it would be very easy to interpret the following as a dismissal of you, your ideas, or both. I implore you to ignore that interpretation if you should come to it. I'm honestly trying to grasp what you're saying. I cannot do it with what you wrote, so I'm trying to get some clarification.]
Quote:It would be nice to believe that what you said is true, however: I don't see how you can explain what seems to be the sudden, drastic and dramatic resurgence of genes over culture when the pressure on individuals reaches an unbearable threshold, like it happened in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and many other places.
Do share the Diamond.
OK. What is the resurgence of genes over culture you're talking about?
The political divides in Yugoslavia, a manufactured state, were cultural. Same in Rwanda between the Tutsi and Hutu.
You make a leap from friends to killers that I'm simply not following.
I mean, are you saying something like culture keeps us peaceful until our genes overwhelm it and force us to do unspeakable things to one another? I just don't get it.
Quote:Same thing in Yugoslavia, when Serbian soldiers were ordered by their officers to gang-rape 10-year old girls in the villages "to break the morale of the enemy".
Explain to me how that has anything to do whatsoever with genes?
Quote:I toured Yugoslavia in the sixties and it seemed like a heaven of prosperity, peace an culture. What happened later would have been unthinkable.
Basically what you're saying is that it happened; therefore, it's genetic. But you're not providing any links.
Quote:Or what happened in India, during the partition years when the Muslims and Hindus were indiscriminately murdering and massacring each olther's families. Or what happened in Hungary in 1956, during the revolution, when ordinary, 'cultured' citizens were gleefully stringing captured state-security agents up on lampposts and setting them on fire.
A couple of things. Culture isn't a synonym for nice. There's no reason that the perpetration of atrocities cannot be cultural. Second, Islam and Hinduism are cultural divides, not genetic ones. Same with the security agents. So how do genes factor into your example?
Quote:These were not individual, isolated incidents but mass hysteria and brutality, involving the entire 'culture' and 'culture' was just sitting back and letting it happen.
Again, so what?
I'm not being facetious; I honestly don't understand how any of this supports your position.
Are you using culture as a synonym for civilised? Like, "That's not civilised behaviour."
In your estimation was it culture's job to intervene?
This example popped into my head. Tell me if it helps or not. The KKK in Alabama were at one point quite fond of hanging black people from trees for the crime of being black. Those actions were culturally motivated. In that case, culture wasn't sitting back and letting it happen, the KKK culture was instigating the behaviour. One might say that it was genetically motivated because of race, but there is nothing genetic impelling us to kill other so-called "races". If there were, I would not exist because one of my parents is white and the other was black. If there were a genetic imperative, which would necessarily be universal, then my mom would have hung my dad from a tree instead of having children with him. Even race itself is a cultural construct. It has no basis in genetics.
Quote:It is difficult to see how genes and culture are equal, in view of what history demonstrates to us over and over.
You seem to have some interpretation of how culture works and how genes work that I just plain don't understand. This is why in my last post I simply said that you attribute a lot to genes. I didn't have time to address all of these points because they make no sense to me. I don't mean that in the, "you're dumb," sense, but rather in the sense that our fields of experience are not overlapping on this issue so I can't decipher what you're saying. We're speaking different languages and Babblefish is giving us a shitty, "all your base are belong to us," style translation.
Quote:This sounds slightly circular to me: we need to change the culture (by changing the memes), in order to change the genes (by gene selection influenced by the new memes).
My argument, on its own, is not circular. It only seems so when you impose your assumption on it.
Yes, we need to change the memes to change the culture. Example: smoking is cool is replaced with smoking is deadly, poof, the culture changes.
But I'm not at all saying that we have to change the genes. You think the genes are the source of the problem, I do not. For me, the issue is solely a memetic one. So there is no circular argument being made by me.
Quote:It may be true, that over time, cultural changes will change our genes enough to make us a less destructive, less violent species, but how long will that take?
You source the problem to genes. I do not. I also don't understand your argument. I haven't seen any support for your contention. You seem to be saying, "see, wars and atrocity happen; therefore, genes are responsible," but that seems like a logical fallacy to me.
Quote:We don't seem to have a lot of time before another Jared Diamond-type collapse happens, except it will be nothing like what we have ever seen before. Globalization will see to that -- it will be a global collapse.
I agree 100% with your prediction. I just disagree fundamentally with your explanation of why this will be so.
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Arabic and Management BA (Full time) 2018 start
Key facts
UCAS code: TN62
Start date: September 2018
4 years full time
Typical A-level offer: AAB
UK/EU fees See fees section below
International fees £17,500 (per year)
Language requirements
IELTS 7.0 overall, with no less than 6.5 in any component
Study abroad option: Yes
Work placement option: Yes
Arabic is a vital language for understanding societies in the Middle East and the Islamic world. If youve never studied the language before, this degree will allow you to learn the language from scratch while gaining an insight into Islamic thought, Arabic culture and Middle Eastern history. A combination of core and optional modules will give you a firm grounding in the language and Arab and Islamic history while you study the topics that suit your interests.
Management will develop your understanding of modern, complex business organisations and equip you with the skills needed to manage them. A combination of core and optional modules will introduce you to key topics such as accounting practices, organisational behaviour and marketing, as well as giving you the freedom to develop specialist knowledge of topics that interest you such as corporate social responsibility, logistics or employment law.Back to top
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A Joint Honours degree allows you to study the same core topics as students on each Single Honours course, but you'll take fewer options and discovery modules so you can fit in both subjects. You'll study one of our Cornerstone modules in Year 1 to draw your two subjects together, and apply your knowledge and skills to a major research project in either subject in your final year.
Youll spend your first year studying core modules that develop your Arabic language skills and introduce you to Arab and Islamic history. All of this will prepare you for your time abroad, when youll study in an Arabic-speaking country to experience the local culture. When you return, youll take advanced language classes and study translation, as well as choosing from options such as Arabic literature, Middle East politics and Islamic Studies.
Youll develop your contextual knowledge and key skills in your first year, when core modules introduce you to accounting practices, economics in business and organisational behaviour. In the following year youll build on this knowledge, with core modules on topics like marketing and operations management, while choosing from optional modules. Youll continue to benefit from this choice in your final year, as well as studying business strategy and operations management.
Course structure
These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.
Year 1
Compulsory modules
|Beginning Arabic 1
|20 credits
|Beginning Arabic 2
|20 credits
|Early and Medieval Islamic History
|20 credits
|Accounting for Managers
|10 credits
|Organisational Behaviour
|20 credits
|Economics for Management
|20 credits
|Intercultural Competence: Theory and Application
|20 credits
Year 2
Compulsory modules
|Year Abroad
|120 credits
Year 3
Compulsory modules
|Advanced Arabic Grammar and Translation
|20 credits
|Essential Skills in Practical Arabic
|20 credits
|20 credits
|Operations and Supply Chain Management
|10 credits
Optional modules
Examples of the optional modules available are shown below. Please contact us for more details of the requirements and choices available.
|Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
|20 credits
|Culture and Society in the Arab World
|20 credits
|Contemporary Arabic Media
|20 credits
|Advanced Management Decision Making
|10 credits
|How Managers Make Decisions
|10 credits
|Managing International Business
|20 credits
Year 4
Compulsory modules
|Advanced Skills in Arabic Language
|20 credits
|Middle Eastern Politics: Regimes, Societies and Conflict
|20 credits
|Strategic Management
|20 credits
|Final Year Project
Optional modules
Examples of the optional modules available are shown below. Please contact us for more details of the requirements and choices available.
|Arabic Stylistics
|20 credits
|Authoritarianism and Democratisation in the Arab World
|20 credits
|Advanced Media Arabic: Translation Skills in Text Typology
|20 credits
|Entrepreneurship and Innovation
|20 credits
|International Marketing
|10 credits
|Marketing Strategy
|20 credits
For more information on typical modules, read Arabic and Management BA in the course catalogue
Broadening your academic horizons
At Leeds we want you to benefit from the depth and breadth of the University's expertise, to prepare you for success in an ever-changing and challenging world. This course gives you the opportunity to broaden your learning by studying discovery modules. Find out more on the Broadening webpages.
Learning and teaching
Our tutors are experts in their fields, and their teaching is informed by their own cutting-edge research.
We use a range of teaching methods to help you benefit from their expertise, including lectures, seminars, tutorials or occasionally workshops. However, independent study is also central to this degree, since it allows you to develop your skills in research and analysis. You will be able to apply your skills and knowledge in a Final Year Research Project on a topic of your own choice.
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Entry requirements
A-level: AAB
GCSE: grade 6/B in Mathematics.
Access to HE Diploma
Pass diploma with 60 credits overall, including at least 45 credits at level 3, of which 30 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. An interview and a piece of written work may be required. 6/B in Mathematics at GCSE is also required.
BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma: DDD. Other BTEC qualifications are also considered. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information.
Cambridge Pre-U
International Baccalaureate
35 points overall with 16 at Higher Level including 5 in Mathematics at Standard Level
Irish Highers (Leaving Certificate)
Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers
AB in Advanced Highers and AABBB in Highers, or A in Advanced Highers and AABBB in Highers, or AAAABB in Highers
Welsh Baccalaureate
The Welsh Baccalaureate is not typically included in the academic conditions of an offer made to you for this course. If you choose to undertake the Welsh Baccalaureate we would strongly encourage you to draw upon these experiences within your personal statement, as your qualification will then be taken into account both when your application is initially considered by the selection panel and again when reviewed by the admissions tutor at the time your A-level results are passed to us.
Other Qualifications
European Baccalaureate: 80%.
Read more about UK and Republic of Ireland accepted qualifications or contact the Schools Undergraduate Admissions Team.
When an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be ABB at A Level and grade A in the EPQ.
Alternative entry
Were committed to identifying the best possible applicants, regardless of personal circumstances or background.
Access to Leeds is an alternative admissions scheme which accepts applications from individuals who might be from low income households, in the first generation of their immediate family to apply to higher education, or have had their studies disrupted.
Find out more about Access to Leeds and alternative admissions.
Typical Access to Leeds offer: BBB at A Level and pass Access to Leeds.
We accept a wide range of international equivalent qualifications. For more information contact the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies admissions team.
English language requirementsIELTS 7.0 overall, with no less than 6.5 in any component. For other English qualifications, read English language equivalent qualifications.
Improve your English
International students who do not meet the English language requirements for this programme may be able to study our undergraduate pre-sessional English course, to help improve your English language level.
How to apply
Apply to this course through UCAS. The institution code for the University of Leeds is L23. Check the deadline for applications on the UCAS website.
International students apply through UCAS in the same way as UK/EU students. Our network of international representatives can help you with your application. If youre unsure about the application process, contact the admissions team for help.
Read about visas, immigration and other information in International students. We recommend that international students apply as early as possible to ensure that they have time to apply for their visa.
Admissions policy
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies Undergraduate Admissions Policy
UK/EU: See fees section below
International: £17,500 (per year)
For UK and non-UK EU full-time students starting in 2018, the fee for 2018/19 will be £9,250.
The fee for undergraduate students starting in 2019 will be confirmed in September 2018.
The fee may increase in future years of your course in line with inflation, and as permitted by law. For example, the increase of 2.8% in 2017/18 was based on the government's forecast for the RPI-X measure of inflation.
The UK government has confirmed that non-UK EU students starting in the 2019/20 academic year will have home fee status and be eligible for UK government student loans. The UK government has not confirmed the situation for future years, so keep checking our website for updates.
If you take a study abroad or work placement year, youll pay a reduced tuition fee during this period. For more information, see Study abroad and work placement tuition fees and loans.
Read more about paying fees and charges.
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If you have the talent and drive, we want you to be able to study with us, whatever your financial circumstances. There is help for students in the form of loans and non-repayable grants from the University and from the government. Find out more in our Undergraduate funding overview.Back to top
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Studying for a Joint Honours degree allows you to gain an in-depth knowledge of two subjects, including proficiency in a major world language. As well as demonstrating that youre intellectually versatile, your degree will equip you with a wide range of skills across different disciplines that employers actively seek.
Youll have good research skills, and youll be able to analyse complex information from multiple sources before drawing your own conclusions. Youll then be able to communicate and defend your views clearly, either verbally or in writing. In addition, youll have strong research and organisational skills and be confident working independently or in a team. You will also have a strong understanding of cultural diversity, allowing you to work effectively with people whose backgrounds differ from yours.
All of these qualities are very attractive to employers, and graduates have pursued careers across the globe that reflect the diversity of their degrees. Theyve gone on to be successful in education, the media, law, publishing, the civil service, business and finance and the charity sector to name a few. Many others have also pursued postgraduate study, including further training in language-based careers such as translating and interpreting.
To find out more about graduate destinations in your subjects, please see the relevant Single Honours pages.
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We encourage you to prepare for your career from day one. Thats one of the reasons Leeds graduates are so sought after by employers.
Leeds for Life is our unique approach to helping you make the most of University by supporting your academic and personal development. Find out more at the Leeds for Life website.
The Careers Centre and staff in your faculty provide a range of help and advice to help you plan your career and make well-informed decisions along the way, even after you graduate. Find out more at the Careers website.Back to top
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Residence abroad
Youll spend your second year at the Arabic Language Institute in Fes (ALIF), Morocco.
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"This is an exciting time to join the hospital," stated Hooper. "The recent expansion is a tremendous asset to our area. The hospital has added a variety of services, along with state-of-the-art equipment in recent years; I'm thrilled to be able to share this information with our local community."
Originally from Elizabethtown, Hooper attended Brock University in Ontario, Canada. She has experience in marketing and public relations.
According to Rod Boula, hospital administrator and CEO, the hospital is pleased to have Hooper on staff.
"Now that the hospital's construction process is complete, Jane's marketing and public relations experience will allow the hospital to effectively deliver its message to the region", he stated. "Much of the hospital's equipment has been upgraded in recent years, allowing for enhanced patient care. Digital mammograms, a new unit for bone density testing, telemedicine capabilities and expansion of our dialysis room showcase a few of the hospital's capabilities. Soon, the hospital will be offering MRIs and chemotherapy services. The hospital needs to ensure that the community knows it can get these services close to home."
Elizabethtown Community Hospital (ECH) is a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital primarily serving communities that are home to over 30,000 full-time residents, along with thousands of tourists and seasonal residents.
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Success coaches promise to help you guide your career and teach you how to handle the nuances of the corporate world. There are some 47,500 professional career coaches worldwide, according to a survey by International Coaching Federation. Coaching sessions can run around $100-an-hour. But do women, whose corporate climb is riddled with various obstacles unique to being female in the business world, need a different type of coaching?
"Yes," says career expert and life coach Stacia Pierce, CEO of Ultimate Lifestyle Enterprises. "Anyone who wants to get more clarity and accelerate their success needs a life coach. A coach can help you see the possibilities and accomplish your dreams and goals much faster than you would on your own."
Pierce points out career coaching is especially helpful to women because it helps increase their confidence; provides targeted mentoring; offers proven, expert advice from someone who is already successful; and because women wear a lot of hats, a good coach can help create systems that result in a productive, profitable and enjoyable life.
According to Pierce, women face the tug-of-war between home and work life. "The ever-looming question of whether or not balance between home and the workplace is attainable," she says. "It is important to understand that balance is relative and not constant- there will be times when you have to put more into your work to make life better for your family. Schedule in vacations and block off time to spend with your family. Set your priorities daily and give attention to what is pressing. I've discovered that many women have found creative ways to be there for their family while performing well on the job. There are many options, from telecommuting to having a home-based business."
Getting the family to support your efforts is important. "Communication is key. Make sure your family understands what you do and what your goals are. Also, plan carefully and put systems in place so that all aspects of your life can run smoothly," says Pierce.
Another reason career coaching may be more important to women is the void of other women in the upper echelons of the business world, meaning a lack of women mentors. "Women, more than men, lack the mentorship or sponsorship in higher places that can speak on their behalf and pull them forward," she says. "Without this kind of support, women are less likely to ask for raises or even apply for advanced positions."
Women have been known to take criticism more personally on the job than men and at times having a career coach to turn to can help women deal with rough patches. Coaching, says Pierce, can also show women how to maneuver up the ladder and not be afraid to toot their own horn. "When you show loyalty, tenacity and commitment to getting things done with excellence, you get noticed," she explains. "When your boss asks you what your goals are, tell him. You're most likely to be elevated and supported to the next level when you have expressed your goals and demonstrated that you are serious about advancement. Eventually, your small victories can add up to a big win on the next level."
Career coaches can help women devise ways around the ever-looming glass ceiling or help you strategize other career options. "Don't focus on limitations– focus on possibilities. Sometimes we have to make our own way and be willing to do something you've never done to get what you really want. That may mean creating a new position for yourself or launching your own business," says Pierce.
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I am loving these fresh colours for spring : spearmint, sea blue and pistachio - soft tonal colours to liven things up as we head into summer. Over the past few weeks I have been filling the house with spring flowers, brightening up my wardrobe and freshening up the house with some stronger colours.
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Some years ago my daughter, Heidi, started working in the business; first in administration, and then as an active real estate agent also doing administrative work. As her competence and reputation in both areas grew and she became willing to take on more and more responsibility for the operation of the business, it just seemed so natural to think of succession. Heidi's innate sense of what needed to get done, and then getting it done, led me to begin romancing the idea of my retreat from active daily presence and management of the office.
These thoughts, while quite pleasing to contemplate, also brought with them the panicked thinking that seems to occur in the wee hours of the morning. "What am I thinking? She is my daughter! You can't just turn this over and walk away." That would be akin to giving her command of the Titanic and saying "Good Luck." Systems? What systems? Financial statement that makes sense? How about client follow up systems, client fulfillment systems, Lead Generation systems (I didn't know these terms then, but I sensed the need).
After 30 years of operating the business in a successful, but somewhat erratic and stressful manner, I sensed a strong need to "just get it right" before I could feel comfortable in even considering turning it over.
After discussing the idea of enrolling in EMyth Coaching with Heidi, her enthusiastic "Yes" to the idea gave me the assurance that we were on the right course to building a business that would serve us by design, and not by default to the urgent needs of the day, hour and minute.
Fred and Heidi enthusiastically committed to coaching and being open to the questions, observations and analysis of how and why they cared so much about their client's and the results their business provided. I gently held them accountable to progress and implementation and now Heidi leads the Folk Agency, while Fred enjoys the fruits of his labors in the Florida sunshine!—Lynn Goza
The coaching program has been so uniquely effective in helping us to focus on what is really important in our operation. It has helped us identify those specific activities which enable us to fulfill our promise to our customers and to build systems around these activities to ensure that they occur as promised, only better, and with unfailing consistency.
I have come to enjoy a sense of freedom and well-being in knowing that "I am not the business," and I am able to view the business from the perspective that it has been created not as a place for me to work, but as a system of systems designed by me, to work for me. Working with our coach can be summed in one word: Accountability. Does she know our business as well as we do? I doubt it. Does she know our industry as well as we do? I doubt that also, but does she know how to help us transform our business, and in turn the opportunity for us to lead more fulfilling lives? Absolutely! She has helped us do, in less than one year, what I have been "going to get around to doing for 30 years!"
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Quentin Tarantino has come under fire for the use of the N-word in his new film "Django Unchained," which is also probably one of the best films ever made about American slavery.
Comedian Katt Williams threatened to punch Tarantino. Spike Lee made his usual grumblings about the film's N-word count. And I know this is one of those situations ("Oh, hey, white boy defends the use of the N-word"), but the idea that a white filmmaker should have some limit on the number of times he can have characters use a word is, on its face, silly. It's further discredited because "Django" is a film about the antebellum South. To remove the N-word out of sensitivity would mark the same kind of backwards whitewashing that has come to typify America's relationship to its darkest historical chapter (more on this in a moment).


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I'm not sure if anyone addressed the actual question in this mail. Microsoft
has reserved a code point in the various 8-bit European Windows code pages
for the Euro for data interoperability with non-Unicode applications. As
noted by others here, the position in Unicode of the Euro is actually
U+20AC, which is what is used in TrueType fonts from Microsoft.
The Euro code point in the various European code pages is 0x80 for cp1250,
1252, 1253, etc.
The Euro code point in cp1251 (Cyrillic) is 0x88
No code point is reserved in non-European code pages
I'm not sure which printer manufacturers have yet adopted this code point in
actual devices, if any.
-----Original Message-----
From: TUK - Richard Bright [SMTP:email@example.com]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 1998 8:01 AM
To: Multiple Recipients of
Subject: European Currency Symbol
I am trying to understand code position 20A0 as proposed for the new
Euro currency symbol.
I work with computer printers which use 8 bit coding rather than 16
Do you know what the byte code (00 - FF Hex) is proposed for
Also, which printer manufacturers (Hewlett Packard, IBM, Epson) have
accepted this proposal.
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