Career Management for Chemists

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Building a successful career in the sciences depends on more than good technical knowledge and research skills. Communication and interpersonal skills, as well as personal traits, are often decisive factors in the level of advancement and satisfaction that can be achieved. But where do scientists, from new graduates to mid-career professionals, go for insights and advice on how to plan, manage or reengineer their careers? Now John Fetzer’s "Career Management for Chemists" provides ample, common-sense guidance on the key topics such as:

Resumés and CVs, Staying Driven & Current, Personal Skills & Traits

Networking, Teamwork & Leadership, Speaking & Listening

Writing Research Papers, Mentoring, Behavior & Rewards

Evolved and expanded from Fetzer’s popular column "Building Professional Careers in Chemistry," which runs monthly in the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, the practical coverage reflects not only his long professional experience but also his insight that, especially in today’s changing workplace, expectations and strategies for career management require constant re-evaluation.

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A very informative book with insights on the unique pattern of life on Earth & the innovative cover strategies of Evolutionists

Any message is symbols and signs of design.

forget "where are the critics," where is the science?

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The Biotic Message: Evolution Versus Message Theory
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A very informative book with insights on the unique pattern of life on Earth & the innovative cover strategies of Evolutionists .......2006-06-12

Do Evolutionists have strategies to hide the fact that the pattern of life found in the fossil record and in present day species happens to be a problem for their theory? You bet they do, and Walter Remine does a phenomenal job of exposing every last one of their strategies. This part of the book is fascinating, and it uses a well-thought-out system to classify these strategies.

Throughout his book Remine brings forward loads of very compelling evidence-- using what the Evolutionist experts themselves have stated about Darwin's theory to dismantle the idea that common descent is the only legitimate way to view life's pattern on Earth.

There is also a technical section in the book on Haldane's dilemma which demonstrates the fact that evolution doesn't build up much of anything helpful genetically. There is a problem with the addition of detrimental mutations in the genome of every living creature on Earth, and this is known as a substitution cost. Even neutral evolution (as opposed to selective evolution) has substitution cost. The explanation of Evolutionists which purports to solve the dilemma invokes a mysterious unobserved phenomenon of "truncation selection" (AKA "synergistic epistasis"). These concepts are nothing but vague ideas that are based on a lot of wishful thinking. Since Remine wrote his book over a decade ago, there has been new information come to light when it comes to Haldane's dilemma. See http://www.evolutionfairytale.com/articles_debates/haldane_rebuttal.htm

Much of the book is devoted to ideas of why a designer might set life up in a nested hierarchy pattern, and with sporadic instances of "convergences" in the pattern. The whole pattern is an indication that there was only one designer, not many, who specifically arranged everything to be this way. . . thus the title of the book: "The Biotic Message". The description of the Biotic Message is probably the biggest advent the book brings to the Creation/Evolution controversy. It is a scientific theory which stands on its own, and it's supported by Remine's (and Kurt Wise's) proposed classification system known as Discontinuity Systematics.

The book is a prime example of what innovative thinking can do in providing interpretations of life's observed pattern, and there's a huge amount of evidence revealed here which deserves to be studied. This book is definitely a favorite of mine. Don't pass it up.

Any message is symbols and signs of design........2005-05-04

Four stars, for some poor editing in the book, but the message is what is important.

The scientific explanation based on Naturalism for any message is that it reduces to its components. I.e., the symbols and signs on your screen right now reduce to pixels, memes and the biochemical state of the brain of the writer at the moment they wrote it.

ReMine does a good job laying out the evidence against this sort of Naturalism, from "natural selection" to message theory. Those who believe in Naturalism and scientism will hate the book and find reasons to quibble over technicalities as they typically do and then pretend that technicalities avoid the message. This is quite fitting with their philosophy, in the end. They have avoided the biotic message from the Mind of God, so they can certainly avoid the messages of lesser minds.

Those who do not believe in Naturalism or scientism will appreciate the writer's systematic thought and their pursuit of the truth in a systematic fashion. The Naturalist will reply that science is not the pursuit of the truth and can only be the pursuit of naturalistic explanation....because they are getting close to being true or somethin' by now.

It ought to be telling to anyone who seeks a rationale for rationality that they make such artificial arguments to avoid the biotic message.

forget "where are the critics," where is the science?.......2005-01-15

I attended Walter Remine's lecture at my university on this book, and I must say it did little to convince me to read it. As an engineer, I don't know a whole lot about biology/biochemistry or evolutionary theory, but this was a terrible introduction. While he refuted other related theories by claiming they are "unscientific", I found little more science in his so-called "theory."

He "defined" his "theory" as follows: 1) life was designed for survival, 2) life points to only ONE intelligent designer, and 3) that life was designed to resist all other theories of the like (Darwin, Gould, etc.). However, this does not strike me as a fully coherent, rigorous, and falsifiable scientific theory, but rather an amalgamation of simple observations and ides. Part 1 seems to be little more than a basic observation that may somehow lead to a theory than actually part of a theory itself; part 2 is more of the same, and though it may be a correct observation, it is not particularly testable as far as I can tell. Furthermore, part 3 (which I assume is the meat of his "theory") seems more like arrogance than anything scientific. To me, it implies that this "theory" is more or less final (because if it resists all other theories, this theory cannot really be modified), and I don't expect that there could be a final explanation (and this doesn't even explain much) only a 150 years after Darwin's theory (which, I think, was basically the first respected scientific theory on the subject), considering how ancient sciences like physics and astronomy are STILL forming new theories and changing old ones as new data is analyzed.

The subtle arrogance involved in his "theory" seems absurd coming from a person who is actually an electrical engineer, and not a biologist or a biochemist. I do not necessarily disagree with his ideas, I just don't think he has formulated them into coherent enough of a theory to warrant 538 pages on the same subject. After having sat through his lecture, I suggest if you want to learn more about Creation/Evolution Theory, you should start elsewhere.

P.S. he gets one star for having the balls to write so much on such small premise, and one more because he's an engineer. That's it!

'science by quote' and the usual creationist fluff.......2002-05-09

After encountering ReMine on the internet on several occasions, I decided to read this book of his that he and lay creationists laud as the best thing written on the subject. After reading some of the reviews here, I must say that at first I thought I had read a different book. From an author who "knows what he is talking about"? He "pulls no punches yet he is not rude"?
First off, ReMine is not "Dr.ReMine". He has a master's degree in engineering.
Second, if you want to consider the fact that he accuses evolutionary biologists of colluding to hide the 'truth about Haldane's dilemma' for more than 40 years, and repeatedly referring to evolutionist 'storytelling', is not being 'rude', so be it.

The substance of this volume is not in his use of quotes - which his 'customer service rep' told me via email is how some of the "best science" is done - but in his lack of them.

He uses quote after quote - sometimes incorrectly, as in his quote of Van Valen on p. 219 - to support non-controversial subjects. For example, he uses 14 citations to support his statement that under Haldane's model, one gene per 300 generations can be substituted (p. 216). This is not in dispute. But how many citations does ReMine supply for this:

"Think about it again. Is 1,667 selectively significant nucleotides enough to make a sapien out of a simian?"

Ignore for now the clumsy prose, and look at what he is asking/saying. He is implying that 1,667 changes - in a genome of ~30-40,000 genes - is too few to account for human evolution from an apelike ancestor. Never mind that he does not identify the ancestor, so he has no way of knowing what changes have to be accounted for. But he is saying that more - many more (he mentions "500,000 selectively significant nucleotides" on p. 209, implying that even this is far too few; odd considering the size of the genic portion of the genome) are 'necessary'. THAT deserves some support - science by quote, if you will. And if you have or have read the book, tell us how many quotes ReMine provides to support this implication.

None. Not one.

This antic is repeated throughout the book - citations galore supportive of non-controversial facts, no citations at all supportive of his 'Biotic Message' fluff.

ReMine says over and over that this or that in fact supports his 'theory'. He says over and over that his 'theory' is "robust", "testable", and "scientific." Readers and accolade-heapers should ask themselves - If this is true, why did not ReMine provide a single test? Why did not ReMine provide some real-life examples of the application of his 'theory'? What he did was lay out - usually in a demeaning way - some aspect of evolution and claim that it actually - magically - supports his 'theory', not evolution!

And, more importantly, one should wonder why ReMine's amazing 'theory' can only be read about in his vanity press book? Why has he not written up manuscripts to be critiqued by his fellow scientists? The answer? Creationists prefer writing in a medium wherein they receive only praise from like-minded individuals, such as "John Woodmorappe", not where those that know better would demolish his flimsy, evidence-less claims.

This book belongs on the scrap heap of egomaniacal creationist rants.

Pretentious fluff masquerading as science.......2001-03-15

Walter ReMine's "The Biotic Message" is a pretentious, arrogant and overbearing piece of fluff that presumes to know the answers while asking the wrong questions. As he proceeds into his criticisms of evolution, he presumes to tell us that it's both the creationists and the evolutionists who have gotten it wrong. Only he - Remine - seems to have found the answer, and he did so because he knows the sort of sleight-of-hand that is used by stage magicians. These stage magicians use their sleight-of-hand to project an illusion, and so does ReMine's "theory." That his sophistic presdigitation fools some is evident from some of the other reviews here, but no one with an ounce of scientific acumen will be fooled. ReMine's case is based almost totally on his own bizarre "observations" based on the idea that life points to a creator (which is just the old design argument revisited) and misused and misquoted material from conventional science sources, which adds to the illusion. This is a self-published volume, and it's obvious why. No self-respecting publisher would touch this one. Neither should any self-respecting reader who has any regard for science, philosophy or comparative religion.

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An interleaved social history of Engish family life

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
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"I exist!" exclaims Ruby Lennox upon her conception in 1951, setting the tone for this humorous and poignant first novel in which Ruby at once celebrates and mercilessly skewers her middle-class English family. Peppered with tales of flawed family traits passed on from previous generations, Ruby's narrative examines the lives in her disjointed clan, which revolve around the family pet shop. But beneath the antics of her philandering father, her intensely irritable mother, her overly emotional sisters, and a gaggle of eccentric relatives are darker secrets--including an odd "feeling of something long forgotten"--that will haunt Ruby for the rest of her life. Kate Atkinson earned a Whitbread Prize in 1995 for this fine first effort.

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ABOUTBOOK: From the moment Ruby Lennox announces her own conception ("I exist!"), it is clear that she is a narrator who will leave no stone unturned in her account of family life above a pet shop in England. Not content simply to describe her own circumstances, Ruby investigates the lives of the women in family both past and present, from her great-grandmother's affair with a French photographer to her mother's unfulfilled dreams of Hollywood glamour. Hurtling in and out of both World Wars, economic downfalls, the onset of the permissive '60's, and up to the present day, Ruby paints a rich and vivid portrait of heartbreak and happiness, and from it draws a rare understanding of the shared secrets, hopes and failures that unite every family. DISCUSSIONQUES: What do cupboards have to do with the story? More than one reviewer compared Behind the Scenes at the Museum to Tristram Shandy and to the works of Marcel Proust and Charles Dickens. What might these novels have in common? How does Kate Atkinson update or expand upon the earlier books' use of narration and history? One of Atkinson's innovations is her use of footnotes. Why do you think she adopted this non-fiction technique in a novel? Although this novel is very much about a specific time and place, it has been embraced by audiences in twelve countries, in as many languages. What gives Behind the Scenes at the Museum such a universal appeal? What is the meaning of the book's title? What other fictional narrators does Ruby Lennox bring to mind? What does Behind the Scenes at the Museum say about women's roles and opportunities in the family and in the world at large? What do the four generations of women in Ruby's family have in common? Behind the Scenes at the Museum generated controversy in England when a critic called it "anti-family." How would you defend the book against this charge? What other novels, now considered classics, might have had to face this sort of accusation? AUTHORBIO: Kate Atkinson was born in York in 1951, she earned her master's degree in English literature at Dundee University, and did further graduate work in American literature. While raising her two daughters, she held a variety of jobs, from university tutor to welfare benefits administrator, and always wrote, publishing short stories in British magazines and finally her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, in 1995 in England and 1996 in the United States. The critical response in both countries was overwhelming, and Atkinson's talent was justly celebrated when Behind the Scenes at the Museum was named England's Whitbread Book of the Year.

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An interleaved social history of Engish family life.......2007-08-05

I would not have chosen this book but we do often choose books by their cover and this was a book that had an interesting title to pick froma pile from my library reading group options.

There is something of the humour - but of the black sort of Adrian Mole about it, every conversation and scene generally has a nuance of the salacious or vulgar about it although the book has its very bright moment. It is in its totality a grim outlook on the prison of British family life subject to wars, personal failings and a lack of education of affluence. Accurate and moving though it may be the characters - all of them, come across as victims except perhaps the protagonist's elder sister.

Ruby Lennox begins the story from her conception, describing her tiny feet inside her mother at a stage of life when she would have been devoid of them. Each chapter is interleaved with a restrospective chapter examining the lives of the family from the past, usually centered around an artefact of sentimental importance at a later date and how it entered the family circuit as a specimen of some emotional value - e.g., a rabbit's foot, a button, a silver locket. Although written in the first person, Ruby has a supernatural knowledge of her past family history and the intricacies of all the personalities surrounding her - even as a baby, so it is effectively a third person book.

Ruby's mother Bunty comes across as a woman who was never loved properly and cannot love her children. This book reveals a great deal about life in Britain and the attitudes people had - particularly women - the way they did not like shop brought food and had to make their own as a sign of good housewifery. Bunty's husband George is clearly disatisfied by his wife but seems a steady father. The family are in charge of a pet shop and later a pharmacy of sorts after the pet shop tragically burns down through carelessness.

Poignant chapters include those about the first world war and the way it erased a generation of fine men in harrowing circumstances - certainly within this family - and aslo aspects of the blitz and the upheavals of the second world war. About women who lost their sweethearts, never to get them back and had to make second choices of which Bunty was also one.

The social communities described centre around alcohol, pubs, shopkeepers, relatives and parties and events like the coronation - all in all it is a sort of stereotypical British landscape something like the BBC soap East Enders with the constant shananigans especially of maritial infedility, comings of age and individual weaknesses.

The best chapters were on the first world war, a holiday in Whitby where the children are mothered by one of George's lovers. Apart from rosy scenes here, and some interesting history, the narrative of Ruby's own life reads depressingly with gloomy events anticipated, then revisited later with greater details. Details like the pet shop fire or deaths in the family.

The underlying theme of the book for me was splitting. The splitting of Britain and its family by war, death, lack of love, unfulfilled relationships, misunderstandings ... Ruby's life looks promising but she ends up in Edinburgh producing "nut brown" children - and the primordial mother of the story Alice ends up a lost victim incapable of revisiting her abandoned children. Many of the children respond by immigrating including Ruby and her sister Patricia.

This book is probably a pot boiler, useful for social historians and English people may empathise with it - but I don't think the book is complimentary to the English, there is a underlying lack of joy, filled with drink, sex and escapism that haunts the people portrayed. Perhaps this is intentional. There is no particular resolution at the end - and overall it is a depressing book with humour that is often negative and sterotypical.

It was a decent read but not something I would have chosen, or would treasure in my library. Perhaps there are deep underlying lessons and a sort of premonition about what life is really about - a stark lesson than will stir up visions of an other utopia, which the book scarcely guarantees.

The interleaved style of present, past, present, past moving temporally forwards is I think an interesting device and this is a good example of an interlieaved sandwich story - a bit like the Time traveller's wife.

strange.......2007-06-16

This book had a strange effect on me. At first I sorta liked it then I didn't, then did.....and back and forth thu out the whole thing. Weird. In the end after putting it down and waitng to see how it settled out I decided I liked it.

Still Stunned.......2007-05-17

I have just finished "Behind the Scenes at the Museum," a book I found quite by accident at our local library sale. I am stunned by the brilliance of Kate Atkinson, and cannot believe it was her first novel. This could quite possibly be one of the best books I have ever read; it has pathos, wry comedic elements, irony, history, and exquisite language. I cannot wait to read more of Atkinson's work. I highly recommend this amazing literary experience.

Can this really be someone's first novel???.......2007-03-12

Wow. I just finished reading Behind the Scenes at the Museum. It is beyond fantastic. The subject matter is a little sad...so many unmet needs, however that's from a social worker's perspective and really, the family Atkinson depicts is not so terribly different from most others. Unmet needs are a reality as are entire lineage's of women with dashed dreams. I found the ending a little awkward, with no real resolution for any of the characters. What I would praise more than the story, is the author's writing ability. She weaves sentences and stories together seemingly effortlessly, and flips between present and past tense with such ease, you feel you are in the hands of a deft magician. She is truly remarkably talented.

Quirky and engaging family drama.......2007-01-01

This is a great book! I am not surprised that it won a Whitbread Prize, as it is a completely engaging tale and Kate Atkinson's writing style is lovely.

The novel tells the story of Ruby Lennox, a girl growing up in York, outside London. As she narrates the tale of her own disfuctional upbringing, the story also flashes back to highlight various other members of her extended family-- her mother, her grandmother, her great aunt, etc. The whole clan has a penchant for stiff upper lips and buried secrets, and what is uncovered in this story will definitely keep you reading. Highly recommended!

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This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from `The Remains of the Day' to `White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

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Accolades for Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) for Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum.......2006-01-31

The reader's guides in the Continuum Contemporaries series are excellent. This one for Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum is excellent. Great overview with concise analytical information including author information.

She's a genius!.......2002-06-28

Kate Atkinson is a genius, and this is a great little book all about her first novel. According to the book, Kate thinks that her second novel Human Croquet is better, but I disagree. Behind the Scenes at the Museum is just amazing. In the first chapter of this, she comes across as slightly mad - which she may well be. When a British newspaper asks her for her favourite ten books, for example, she manages to squeeze in thirteen. (But it's a great list anyway!) The book talks about her obsession with dogs and with Lewis Carroll, and gets very in-depth about Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which I thought was fascinating. And you would not believe the patronising nonsense that some male reviewers and judges came out with about the novel. Just unbelievable.

Anyway, if you haven't read anything by Kate Atkinson then you're really missing out. If you have, and you loved it, then read this book as well. It tells you so many things about a brilliant writer.

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