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		<title>More Tough Times</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/more-tough-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has not been an easy time in the Research Triangle Park area but we got some more bad news this week. I heard a report that High Point chemical synthesis company PharmaCore had let people go last week. I don&#8217;t seem to be able to find any confirmation of that anywhere. Then I also [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7706204&#038;post=879&#038;subd=chemicalspace&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working a Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this point in my career, working on the weekend is generally not what is done. But needs must when the devil drives and all that, a compound is needed for a study and it is needed soon. For that to work, sometimes you just have to put in a weekend shift to make it. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7706204&#038;post=875&#038;subd=chemicalspace&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make the Perfect Snowball</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/how-to-make-the-perfect-snowball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[tales of the lab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacuum trap snowball]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is that time of year when the hand of Winter is felt upon the land and we turn our thoughts to such pursuits as skiing, hot chocolate and, of course, making snowballs. But this is an art not to be undertaken lightly, for there are arcane and obscure techniques to be used. I shall [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7706204&#038;post=865&#038;subd=chemicalspace&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on the Life of a Contractor</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/more-on-the-life-of-a-contractor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temporary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, Happy New Year everyone. I wish everyone the best for 2013. But now back to blogging and a comment on my 2011 post about Life as a Contractor, which was about my own experience here. That of course is datum &#8211; the singular of data. A recent comment on that post came from Marie, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7706204&#038;post=859&#038;subd=chemicalspace&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Separation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[tales of the lab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lab photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sep funnel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They don&#8217;t just occur in chemistry catalogs, they can be something in real life too (though the : I will contrast this with the same reaction when I first did it, wherein the layers were darker, murkier and had more insoluble muck in them. The reaction conditions have been slightly tweaked, but broadly the chemicals [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7706204&#038;post=850&#038;subd=chemicalspace&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Habits</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/habits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[random thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[routine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m working in the lab and all the rotavaps on my side of the lab are busy so I go to use the one on the other side. The two on my side are both hooked up to a chiller, but the lone one has a dry ice trap. As a result, this is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7706204&#038;post=846&#038;subd=chemicalspace&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Thanks</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/giving-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blog matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thanks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is Thanksgiving Day here in the US, so I will do my own little thanks post. First, thanks to everyone reading. This time last year, my subscribers and viewers was OK but it has grown steadily and now several hundred people will get to read my occasional utterances. My best ever single day was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7706204&#038;post=844&#038;subd=chemicalspace&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Nitrogens in a Row</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/10-nitrogens-in-a-row/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cool science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[derek lowe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tetrazole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[things I won't work with]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure Derek Lowe&#8217;s &#8220;Things I Won&#8217;t Work With&#8221; series is essential reading for most here (and for those that have missed out, take a look &#8211; my favorite was FOOF). He put one up a couple of years back on an interesting structure with 8 nitrogens in a row (two triazoles linked by 2 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7706204&#038;post=828&#038;subd=chemicalspace&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chem Coach Carnival: My turn</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/chem-coach-carnival-my-turn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chemcoach]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The call was made for a post and I did heed it. Missed putting it on Mole Day, but what&#8217;s an order of magnitude between friends? Your current job. I work at RTI International, a non-profit research institute in the RTP area of North Carolina. What you do in a standard &#8220;work day.&#8221; It starts [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7706204&#038;post=830&#038;subd=chemicalspace&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pharma Bashing</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/pharma-bashing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chemistry in the world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceutical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad pharma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ben goldacre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Goldacre writes the Bad Science column for the Guardian newspaper in the U.K. and mostly he writes about pseudo-science because, as he puts it, &#8220;pulling apart bad science is the best teaching gimmick I know for explaining how good science works&#8221;. He has just put out a book called Bad Pharma, putting the foreword [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7706204&#038;post=815&#038;subd=chemicalspace&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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