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probably still desire the destruction of Israel but no longer say so openly. . . The Palestinian leadership formally recognised Israel as part of the 1995 Oslo Accords, although the sincerity of that recognition is doubted by many. -- The article questions the sincerity of Arabs twice but doesn't question the sincerity of any other groups at all. Perhaps we should try harder to avoid the appearance of following unwholesome stereotypes. --Zero 11:10, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Well I think that is the fact of the matter. The Arab regimes, including the PA, are chronically two-faced over this because they are trying to placate both the US and their own publics. How would you phrase it? Adam 12:41, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Zero000 doesn't understand, or admit, the fact that Palestinian polls themselves show the same answer: most Palestinian Arabs have no desire to live in peace with the State of Israel. Many polls have consistently shown that they prefer a peace treaty to be only a tenporary measure. with the eventual goal of the elimination of the State of Israel. It is not a "double standard" to report this fact. RK 00:43, Dec 2, 2003 (UTC)

 * The world is full of insincerity; that is not my point. The question is of why you don't apply the same standards to the other players here.  Will you object if I also question the sincerity of the "Israelis and Zionist Jews outside Israel" (no qualification!??) that play the anti-Zionism=anti-Semitism card?  I believe that there are many (especially on the US political scene) who are not sincere about this.

 * We are applying the same standard. RK 00:43, Dec 2, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Adam. I think this page is really getting there. Here are a couple of comments. Do with them as you see fit.
 * 1) Even today, virtually all ultra-Orthodox Jews continue to reject Zionism, in theory if not in practice. In other words, it is not a minority. The difference between the various groups is the way that they relate to the state of Israel as a de facto entity. Some groups in Israel participate in some or all aspects of the state--in Israel, they vote for the Knesset, pay taxes, and in some cases even serve in the army (though there is a kind of  exemption for them); others, such as Satmar or Neturei Karta, reject all aspects of statehood and either keep to themselves or demonstrate against the state at various intervals; they do not vote, pay taxes, or serve in the army. There is also every shade of opinion in between. In the US and Canada (and Belgium, France, and England), the situation is slightly different because Israel does not have such a direct effect on day to day life. There, several mainstream groups such as Agudat Israel declare themselves to be opposed to Zionism though, paradoxically, they also tend to adopt rather rightwing attitudes regarding Israel's security.
 * 2) One problem I continually have with Wikipedia is the America-centric attitude of articles about Jewish topics, which tends to define Jews in terms of religious beliefs and behaviors, i.e., Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform. Such distinctions are virtually meaningless in Israel and many other parts of the world. There are also many secular Jews, and their attitudes toward Zionism vary too. Mention should be made of the Bund, for instance, which opposed Zionism and yet believed in preserving a Jewish ethnic identity, albeit in the Diaspora. There were also Yiddishists, who opposed Hebrew, supporters of Birobidzhan, and many other options available to maintain Jewish identity as an ethnicity, rather than as a religion. In Germany, it wasn't just the Reform movement, but almost all Jewish movements that opposed Zionism, and they represented the entire spectrum of religious and secular attitudes. Danny 12:54, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * I fear that these above comments are conflating non-Zionism with anti-Zionism. Most of Orthodox Judaism today is non-Zionist, which is not the same as being anti-Zionist. This is a significant point. Many of the positions tacitly adopted by non-Zionist Orthodox groups today would be considered Zionist in the 1920s; Agudat Yisrael may be non-Zionist in formality, but terminology aside they have some fairly Zionist practices. As for the second paragraph by Danny, about secular forms of Judaism, I am in agreement. RK 00:43, Dec 2, 2003 (UTC)

Not being American, and not being Jewish, places me at a disadvantage here. I still have only a vague understanding of the difference between Orthodox, ultra-Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Liberal Judaism, and those of my Jewish friends I have asked don't really know either. I don't think we have Conservative, Reform or Liberal here. We have secular (no hats), Orthodox (small hats) and Lubavitchers (big hats}. Anyway, I don't think this article needs to go into all of that, and I don't think it does dwell too much on American Jews and their beliefs. The Satmar people for example happen to live in New York but they are not an American phenomenon by origin.

I agree we ought to mention the Bund in the paragraph on socialist anti-Zionists. I am not familiar with Yiddishists - are or were they an organised group? Did any significant number of Jews actually support Birobidzhan? I though they were just sent there by Stalin. Adam 13:13, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

While I'm doing my grumpy-old-bugger act, the "Arab anti-Zionism" section is terrible. The two paragraphs starting "When the Arabs..." are totally unacceptable. I just deleted them on the grounds that nothing at all on the subject is better than that. --Zero 13:23, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Zero, if you are going to delete everything critical of the Arab world we are not going to have much of an article. Can you explain what is "outrageously bad" about these paragraphs? Do you dispute that the Arabs have adopted the full menu of European anti-Semitism as an explanataion for their troubles? If so, how do explain the Protocols being serialised on Cairo TV? If not, how would you express the subject matter better? Adam 13:30, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * It wasn't critical, it was a calumny.  I have read a great deal written by Arabs during the mandate period.  I've seen citations of the Protocols as early as 1920 and plenty of mentions of the world-wide Jewish conspiracy and similar, but to present that as if it characterises the material is absolutely wrong.  The vast bulk of argument was made on historical and moral grounds (and some, but actually not very much, on religious grounds).  Even in the worst case, you are wrong.  Al Husseini was a Nazi collaborator but he did not "adopt the full-blown rhetoric of Nazism" (which I take to mean the Nazi racial theories).  Actually the Arabs were well aware that the Arab race was barely higher than the Jewish race in the Nazi hierachy.  Then you take this false picture of what occured in the mandate period and suddenly the article is in the modern era talking about a completely different phenomenon as if it was the same thing.  The modern Arab world has a serious problem with anti-Semitism and it is correct to say that sometimes it looks like old-school European anti-Semitism.  But it is again absolutely false to write that this anti-Semitism is "impossible to distinguish" from anti-Zionism.  The anger towards Zionism and Israel amongst the general public in Arab countries is above all else based on sympathy for the Palestinian plight and has nothing to do specifically with the fact that Israelis are Jews.  Distinguishing this from simple anti-Semitism is often quite easy even when it is expressed in language that fails to distinguish "Jew" from "Israeli".  The problem is that most of the information that comes to us on this subject comes via organizations (such as MEMRI) that exist for the purpose of misleading us on such issues.  Given the anti-Arabism that saturates the Western world from top to bottom (every bit as deep as the anti-Semitism in the Arab world), they have an easy task. --Zero 23:56, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Fair points, Zero: please write an alternative draft for that section. Adam 00:32, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * These are not fair points. Zero000 is disingnuously exagerrating, to make the Arab position sound a lot more liberal than it really was. He has a left wing anti-Zionist agenda, and he has long deleted material that he thinks makes Arabs look bad, even when it is a mainstream view in the Arab community. A for his slanderous and outrrageous claims about MEMRI, let us just say that long as Zero000 makes bald faced lies about verified quotes, we can't trust him. I am going to restore the material he deleted. RK 00:43, Dec 2, 2003 (UTC)

Dear oh dear, just we when we were all getting along :) Adam 01:11, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Hey, I am not the one publicly slandering scholars who publish articles that Zero000 wishes to keep hidden. I want to present both sides of an issue; Zero0000 does not, so he made personal attacks on the academic integrity of those people who bring forth quotes and data that Zero000 would otherwise like hidden. That is left-wing politically correct censorship, not honest academia. RK 01:16, Dec 2, 2003 (UTC)

 * MEMRI is not an academic organization. It is an Israeli group founded by a former IDF intelligence officer, "Acting Head of Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria" and Israeli government "terrorism advisor", together with a neo-conservative who now works for a "peace institute" sited at a West Bank settlement.  The "director of research" is well known as a right-wing commentator in the US media.  Other people listed as "research associate" or similar are two more former Israeli intelligence officers and a former minor official of the World Zionist Organization. Their web site used to say "In its research, the institute puts emphasizes [sic] the continuing relevance of Zionism to the Jewish people and to the state of Israel." but now that is gone.  Their modus operandum is to scour the Arabic media for items that suit their agenga and translate them with little context.  Some of the things they bring to light indeed should be brought to light but the overall operation of MEMRI as a propaganda organization means that nothing can be taken at face value. --Zero 02:02, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

On Arab anti-Zionism: From today's andrewsullivan.com: QUOTE OF THE DAY: "When my eyes fell upon the rare copy of this dangerous book, I decided immediately to place it next to the Torah. Although it is not a monotheistic holy book, it has become one of the sacred [tenets] of the Jews, next to their first constitution, their religious law, [and] their way of life. In other words, it is not merely an ideological or theoretical book. Perhaps this book of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' is more important to the Zionist Jews of the world than the Torah, because they conduct Zionist life according to it… It is only natural to place the book in the framework of an exhibit of Torah [scrolls]." - Dr. Yousef Ziedan, museum director of the new Alexandria Library, on why the anti-Semitic forgery is now prominently displayed next to the Torah in the manuscript museum. UNESCO funds helped build it. Adam 23:24, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

- I'm new here, and upon looking at the current anti-Zionism article, I don't see any substantial reason to dump the entire thing rather than just consider some editing. Could someone please detail their concerns? -Leumi

Just for fun, I did a survey of British use of the word "anti-Zionism" (and its forms like "anti-Zionist") using the electronic archive of the Times newspaper (London). The entire content (even ads) is available in full text from 1785 to 1985. In total I found 243 articles, starting in 1902:

190x : 3 191x : 2 192x: 33 193x: 27 194x: 12 195x: 17 196x: 22 197x: 91 198x: 37 (to 1985)

The earliest references: 1902 : "the English Colonization Association was anti-Zionist" (don't know what that was) 1903 : Lucian Wolf (Jewish journalist and diplomat) : "I am neither a Zionist nor an anti-Zionist" 1903 : some letter writer said that Wolf was indeed an anti-Zionist 1911 : "anti-Zionist feeling" in Turkey 1918 : "the enemy" (of Britain, unspecified) is "anti-Zionist" 1920 : "British administrative authorities in Palestine, whose bias has been strangely anti-Zionist" 1920 : "anti-Zionist demonstration in Jerusalem ... 7,000 to 8,000 persons" (mostly Arabs) 1921 : several cases of "anti-Zionist agitators" and similar, referring to Arabs 1921 : "Jews - Zionist and anti-Zionist" ... "Arab anti-Zionism" (in same article)

Overall it seems that most uses in the Mandate period were in reference to Arabs, with British authorities and anti-Zionist Jews getting a few mentions. I didn't have time to look at everything as the library closed and I got kicked out, but I managed to jot down who was called anti-Zionist in the 1st, 21st, 41st, ..., usage (up to 1981):

Feb 1902 : as above Apr 1922 : Arabs May 1930 : Arabs Oct 1938 : unclear general usage Jan 1953 : European communists Apr 1968 : Rabbi Berger and his organization Nov 1970 : Soviet authorities Oct 1973 : Polish authorities (referring back to 1968) May 1975 : Lord Moyne (British politician killed in 1944, see Lehi) May 1976 : UN resolution Nov 1978 : Socialist Workers' Party (UK) Apr 1981 : "anti-Zionist wars" (in ref. to Israel-Egypt wars)

Finally, I'll mention an early usage of "anti-Zionist" I came across by chance (and did not check to its source): "It has been said and is still being obstinately repeated by anti-Zionists again and again, that zionism aims at the creation of an independent 'Jewish State'. But this is wholly fallacious. The 'Jewish State' was never part of the Zionist programme." -- Nahum Sokolow, History of Zionism, 1600-1918 (London, Loggmans, Green, 1919), vol. I, p. xxi.

--Zero 09:33, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Well, that seems to confirm both our points, I think. You are right that the term had some currency back to the turn of the century. I am right that its usage greatly increased after 1967. So the text can reflect both those facts. Adam 12:56, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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ThinkGeek

ThinkGeek was an American retailer that catered to computer enthusiasts and "geek culture". Described as a "Sharper Image for sysadmins", their merchandise has been likened to "toys for adults, novelties designed to appeal to both your inner child and your inner grad student." These include clothing, electronic and scientific gadgets, unusual computer peripherals, office toys, pet toys, child toys, and caffeinated drinks and candy. ThinkGeek was founded in 1999 and was based in Fairfax, Virginia. The brand is currently owned by Geeknet, a subsidiary of GameStop.

History
ThinkGeek was founded in 1999, and originally based in downtown McLean, Virginia. The company was founded by Jen Frazier, Jon Sime, Scott Smith, and Willie Vadnais, all of whom were running a small Internet startup at the time, with ThinkGeek initially starting as a side project. The website's official launch date was August 13, 1999. Andover.net, a Boston area technology news publisher, acquired ThinkGeek in October 1999. Only a few months later Andover.net was acquired by VA Linux, a California-based tech company that specialized in Linux hardware and software products. VA Linux, after several name changes, became Geeknet. In August 2000, the company moved its offices to Fairfax, Virginia. ThinkGeek grew steadily and increased the number of employees from six in 2004 up to 83 in 2013. Company revenues also increased during this time period, reaching $50 million in sales in 2009 and $118.9 million in 2012. In 2012, ThinkGeek was ranked as one of the top online retailers, listing as #175 on the Internet Retailer Top 500 List.

ThinkGeek's mascot was a monkey named Timmy.

On May 26, 2015, it was announced that pop culture-oriented retailer Hot Topic had made an offer to acquire Geeknet and ThinkGeek for $17.50 per-share, valuing the company at $122 million. However, on May 29, 2015, it was revealed that an unspecified company had made a counter-offer of $20 per-share; Hot Topic was given until June 1, 2015 to exceed this new offer. On June 2, 2015, it was announced that video game retail chain GameStop had acquired Geeknet for $140 million. The deal was completed on July 17, 2015.

On September 25, 2015, ThinkGeek opened its first retail store at The Florida Mall in Orlando, Florida. In 2016, ThinkGeek opened 25 more physical stores in the U.S., along with 25 international stores. The retailer said they were "committed to creating a seamless omnichannel experience for its customers", including store pickups and ship-to-store options.

In June 2019, ThinkGeek announced that it would be discontinuing its online store, and integrating its e-commerce operations into a "curated selection" of GameStop's online operations. New product details from after the standalone site closed were made public in January 2020, including Jigglypuff and Get Schwifty (from Rick and Morty) themed Bluetooth Speakers.

The Miami location closed in January 2021. In July 2021, the North Star Mall location in San Antonio, Texas closed. In August 2021, the Austin, Texas; El Paso, Texas; McAllen, Texas; and Tacoma, Washington locations announced on social media that they would be closing on September 26, 2021.

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ThinkGeek was known for its April Fool's Day gags, wherein the site would post a series of fictional, unconventional products referencing popular culture, such as the "Banksy Toaster" (which burns pictures of Banksy artwork into toast), "Where's Barb?" (a Stranger Things-themed parody of Where's Waldo?), and the "Thor Mighty Mjolnir Mailbox". Some of the more popular items, however, were made into actual products, such as "Canned Unicorn Meat", the "Tentacuddle Blanket", the Tauntaun sleeping bag, and the "Technomancer Hoodie".

ThinkGeek ran a points-for-reward system called "Geek Points", under which customers could earn rewards for buying more products.

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Australians in Film (formally Los Angeles Australian Film and Television Association, LAAFTA) was founded in May 2001 to provide a forum and meeting place for film and television industry professionals to view Australian films. Australians in Film's mission is to celebrate outstanding Australian filmmakers and performers in the United States while inspiring, uniting and developing the next generation.

Goals

 * 1) Celebrate and promote the work of Australian film and television makers.
 * 2) Create a Los Angeles-based networking forum for professionals working in the film, television and allied industries who are Australian or who have a close association with Australia.
 * 3) Increase the visibility of the Los Angeles-based Australian film and television community.
 * 4) Provide a vehicle for raising the profile of Australian film and television productions.

Ambassadors
A powerful coalition of Australian directors and actors have allied to promote Australian films and talent in Hollywood. Nicole Kidman, one of Australians in Film ambassadors said, "Everyone knows how tough a struggle it can be to make it in Hollywood and, as an Australian, I'm very appreciative of the fact that Australians in Film not only showcases the work of those of us who have enjoyed some success, but also the work of up and coming talent from our country."

Other Australian ambassadors include Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman, Phillip Noyce, Heath Ledger, Eric Bana, Anthony LaPaglia, Gillian Armstrong, Simon Baker, Toni Collette, Deborra-Lee Furness, Melissa George, Scott Hicks, Barry Humphries, Julian McMahon, Jacqueline McKenzie, Kylie Minogue, Radha Mitchell, Poppy Montgomery, Olivia Newton-John, Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto, Guy Pearce, Fred Schepisi, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham and Sarah Wynter.

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Neo-Grec

Néo-Grec was a Neoclassical Revival style of the mid-to-late 19th century that was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III (1852–1870). The Néo-Grec vogue took as its starting point the earlier expressions of the Neoclassical style inspired by 18th-century excavations at Pompeii, which resumed in earnest in 1848, and similar excavations at Herculaneum. The style mixed elements of the Graeco-Roman, Pompeian, Adam and Egyptian Revival styles into "a richly eclectic polychrome mélange." "The style enjoyed a vogue in the United States, and had a short-lived impact on interior design in England and elsewhere."

Architecture
In architecture, the Néo-Grec is not always clearly distinguishable from the Neoclassical designs of the earlier part of the century, in buildings such as the Church of the Madeleine, Paris. The classic example of Néo-Grec architecture is Henri Labrouste's innovative Bibliothèque Sainte Genevieve in Paris, 1843–50, generally seen as the first major public building in this later mode of classicism.

Not only was the Néo-Grec popular in France, but also in Victorian England and especially in the United States, where its severity accorded with the American Renaissance. The architectural historian Neil Levine has explained the style as a reaction against the rigidity of Classicism. According to Levine, Néo-Grec was a somewhat looser style, which "replaced the rhetorical form of classical architectural discourse by a more literal and descriptive syntax of form." It was meant to be a "readable" architecture.

American architect Richard Morris Hunt introduced Néo-Grec massing into his buildings in the late 1860s and 1870s. Hunt's student, Frank Furness, did the same in his early Philadelphia buildings, and experimented with using massing and visual "weight" for dramatic effect.

Decorative arts
In the decorative arts, Neo-Grec was based on the standard repertory of Greco-Roman ornament, combining motifs drawn from Greek vase-painting and repetitive architectural motifs like anthemions, palmettes, Greek key with elements from the Adam and Louis XVI styles of early Neoclassicism (c. 1765–1790), and of Napoleonic-era Egyptian Revival decorative arts; it can be identified by the frequent use of isolated motifs of Classical heads and figures, masks, winged griffins, sea-serpents, urns, medallions, arabesques and lotus buds confined within panels, shaped reserves or multiple borders of anthemion, guilloche, and Greek fret pattern. Neo-Grec was eclectic, abstracted, polychromatic, and sometimes bizarre. Its treatment was intentionally dry and linear. Its vignettes and repeating patterns lent themselves to stencilling. Typical "Neo-Grec" color harmonies were rich and harsh: black motifs and outlines against "Pompeian" red, powder blue and puce, bistre and olive drab might be combined in a single decor. The style maintained its supremacy briefly before other fashions came to the top in France.

In the United States
Frank Furness and furniture maker Daniel Pabst created Neo-Grec furniture for the city house of liquor baron Henry C. Gibson, circa 1870, and for the library of the architect's brother, Horace Howard Furness, circa 1871. They created paneling and furniture for the Manhattan city house of Theodore Roosevelt Sr., circa 1873. Pabst's Modern Gothic exhibition cabinet (circa 1877-80), now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, mixed Gothic detailing and exaggerated Corinthian capitals.

Painting
In painting, the Neoclassical style continued to be taught in the French Academy des Beaux-Arts, inculcating crisp outlines, pellucid atmosphere, and a clear, clean palette. However, a formal Neo-Grec group of artists was created in the mid 19th century after growing interest in Ancient Greece and Rome, and especially the later excavations at Pompeii. The Paris Salon of 1847, an art exhibition, revealed the academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme, who in The Cock Fight depicted a composition in which, in a scene of antiquity, a young boy and a girl attend the combat of two cocks. Gérôme gained fame from this exhibition, and in the next year formed the Neo-Grec group with Jean-Louis Hamon and Henri-Pierre Picou—all three pupils in the same atelier under Charles Gleyre.

Gleyre himself adopted the tenets of neo-classicism more strictly than others at the time, adopting the classical style and aesthetic, but almost exclusively applying it to myths and motifs from antiquity, recalling both characters from Greek myth, and antique emblems such as bacchantes and putti. The Neo-Grec group took Gleyre's style and interests, but adapted it from use in history painting as in Gleyre's work, into genre painting. Because they were inspired by discoveries at Pompeii, they were also called néo-pompéiens.

Hector Leroux was also identified as a Neo-Grec.

The paintings of the Neo-Grecs sought to capture everyday, anecdotal trivialities of ancient Greek life, in a manner of whimsy, grace, and charm, and were often realistic, sensual, and erotic. For this reason they were also called "anacreontic" after the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote sprightly verses in praise of love and wine. Alfred de Tanouarn describes one of Hamon's paintings as "clear, simple and natural, the idea, the attitudes and the aspects. It leads the lips a soft smile; it causes us an inexpressible feeling of pleasure in which one is happy to stop and view the painting". It can perhaps be said the motto of this group was "the goal of art is to charm". Most Neo-Grec paintings were also done in a horizontal layout as in a frieze decoration or Greek vases, with the composition simplified.

The Neo-Grec school was criticized in many respects; for its attention to historical detail it was said by Baudelaire "the scholarship is to disguise the absence of imagination", and the subject matter was considered by many as trivial. The painters were also charged with selectively adopting the ancient Greek style, in that they left out noble themes and only focused on trivial daily life—leading to the accusation that they were creating art that supported the ideologies of the bourgeoisie, or comfortable middle class.

The discovery in Pompeii also inspired history paintings based on the event, not necessarily strictly in a Neo-Grec style, such as The Last Day of Pompeii by Karl Briullov.

Music
The Neo-Grec vogue even made its way into French music through the works of the composer Erik Satie in a series of pieces called Gymnopédies – the title is a reference to dances performed by the youths of ancient Sparta in honour of Diana and Apollo at ceremonies commemorating the dead of the Battle of Thyrea. Their archaic melodies float above a modally oriented harmonic basis. The melodies of the Gnossiennes go further in this direction; they use ancient Greek chromatic mode (A–G flat–F–E–D flat–C–B–A) and an arabesque ornamentation.

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I would think the album is mostly rock, but there are many different genres(especially pop), so could we put down Pop-Rock and Various? XxavakinlifeleahxX (talk) 23:46, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
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Biogen

Biogen Inc. is an American multinational biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States specializing in the discovery, development, and delivery of therapies for the treatment of neurological diseases to patients worldwide. Biogen operates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland.

History
Biogen was founded in 1978 in Geneva as Biotechnology Geneva by several prominent biologists, including Kenneth Murray from the University of Edinburgh, Phillip Allen Sharp from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Walter Gilbert from Harvard University (Gilbert served as CEO during the start-up phase of Biogen), Heinz Schaller from the University of Heidelberg, and Charles Weissmann from the University of Zurich (Weissmann contributed the first product interferon alpha). Gilbert and Sharp were subsequently honored with Nobel Prizes: Gilbert was recognized in 1980 with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his understanding of DNA sequencing and Sharp received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for his discovery of split genes.

In 2003, Biogen merged with San Diego, California-based IDEC Pharmaceuticals (formed in 1985 by University of California-San Diego's physicians and immunologists Ivor Royston and Robert E. Sobol, San Diego bio entrepreneur Howard Birndorf, and Stanford University cancer researchers Ron Levy and Richard Miller) and adopted the name Biogen Idec. After the merger, Biogen Idec became the 3rd largest Biotechnology company in the world.

Following shifts in research core areas, the company has since shortened its name, reverting to simply Biogen. Biogen stock is a component of several stock indices such as the S&P 500, S&P 1500, and NASDAQ-100 and the company is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol, BIIB.

In May 2006, the company announced it would acquire cancer specialist, Conforma Therapeutics for $250 million. Later in the same month, the company announced its intention to acquire Fumapharm AG, consolidating ownership of Fumaderm and BG-12, an oral fumarate, which was being studied for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and psoriasis.

In January 2007, the company announced it would acquire Syntonix Pharmaceuticals for up to $120 million, gaining Syntonix's lead product for hemophilia B as well as the technology for developing inhalable treatments.

In 2008, two new brain infection cases from Tysabri users surfaced in Europe that raised international concern about Tysabri and its effects with the progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) brain condition. Biogen is one of the drug's producers.

In 2011, Biogen announced that its drug Fampyra received conditional marketing approval. Under the conditional approval, Biogen agrees to provide additional data on the long-term benefits and safety of Fampyra.

On December 10, 2012, Biogen announced its global collaboration agreement with Isis Pharmaceuticals to develop and research antisense drugs to treat neurological and neuromuscular diseases.

In February 2013, Bloomberg broke the news that Biogen was planning to pay Elan $3.25 billion for the full rights to Tysabri, used to treat multiple sclerosis.

In 2013, Biogen was the first U.S.-based biotechnology company to appear on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index.

In January 2015, the company announced that it would acquire Convergence Pharmaceuticals for up to $675 million, with the acquisition aiming to accelerate the development of Convergence's pipeline, in particular CNV1014802 – a Phase II small molecule sodium channel blocking candidate. In October 2015, the company announced that it would lay off 11% of its workforce, effective immediately.

On May 3, 2016, Biogen announced to spin off its hemophilia business, known as Bioverativ. The hemophilia business would become an independent publicly traded company. Bioverativ offered two hemophilia drugs in 2016, Alprolix and Eloctate, and plans on developing its Hemophilia-focused goals.

In 2016, Biogen released Spinraza (nusinersin), a treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy. The drug is among the most expensive treatments available, with a price of $750,000 for the first year of doses, and $375,000 for each subsequent year and likely for the rest of a patient's life. While there still isn't a cure, Spinraza significantly improves the quality of life in infants and adults.

In 2017, Biogen announced that its drug Fampyra converted from conditional marketing authorization to standard marketing approval. EU multiple sclerosis (MS) patients use Fampyra to improve walking.

In February 2020, Biogen and Sangamo Therapeutics announced a global licensing deal to develop compounds for neuromuscular and neurological diseases.

In September 2020, Biogen Inc. made a $10 million deposit in OneUnited Bank to provide more capital to fund home loans and commercial development in Black communities. In November, the company announced it would acquire a $650 million stake in Cambridge-based Sage Therapeutics and make an upfront payment of $875 million, in order to jointly develop a number of depression treatments.

In July 2023, it was announced Biogen had acquired the Plano, Texas-headquartered biotech company, Reata Pharmaceuticals for nearly $6.5 billion.

In May 2024, Biogen acquired Human Immunology Biosciences (HI-Bio) for $1.15 billion.

Aducanumab
In 2007, the company reached a licensing agreement with Neurimmune, a spin-off from the University of Zurich, for the Alzheimer's disease drug, Aducanumab, developed by this Swiss company. Later, Neurimmune sold its rights for license fees for $200 million to Biogen.

In December 2014, Biogen announced that Aducanumab for Alzheimer's treatment was preparing to go through a late-stage trial of its experimental Alzheimer's disease treatment after the medication dramatically improved cognition and reduced brain plaque levels in early-stage study.

In March 2015, Aducanumab became the first experimental Alzheimer's treatment to show significant results in regard to slowing down cognitive decline and reducing brain-destroying plaques. In July 2015, Biogen initiated two late-stage studies called ENGAGE and EMERGE, which will assess Aducanumab in adults with early Alzheimer's disease.

In 2016, Aducanumab decreased amoyloid-beta in the brains of people with early-stage Alzheimer's disease, according to a report published in Nature on August 31, 2016. On March 21, 2019, Biogen announced that the Phase 3 clinical trials of Aducanumab were halted. Biogen announced it would acquire Nightstar Therapeutics for $25.50 per share ($800 million in total). Nightstar focused on adeno-associated virus based gene-therapies for inherited retinal disorders. With a setback in their drug research, Biogen's shares fell sharply that same month. It ended the trial of Aducanumab, which it was making along with Eisai. In October 2019, however, they announced that they would pursue FDA approval together with Eisai.

On October 22, 2019, despite two Phase 3 clinical trials being previously halted for futility, Biogen announced its plan to submit for FDA's approval of Aducanumab. In May 2020, Biogen wrapped up construction on a state-of-the-art facility in Solothurn, Switzerland, which will produce Aducanumab by late 2021, alongside its North Carolina manufacturing facility. The monoclonal antibody, co-developed with Eisai, attracted considerable interest from biotech investors when Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought 648,447 Biogen shares at a combined value of $192.4 million.

On July 8, 2020, Biogen and Eisai announced that both companies had together successfully submitted for Aducanumab's FDA regulatory and marketing approval.

On June 7, 2021, the FDA gave accelerated approval to Aducanumab under the name Aduhelm, which proved to be controversial. The drug was priced at $56,000 US dollars per year, but it was not covered by many insurers as they awaited further proof that the drug was effective. The US Government did not subsidise it outside clinical trials. According to the FDA's website, the drug was proven to reduce amyloid-beta plaques in the brain, which was likely to benefit patients. The FDA has stated that if the post-approval trial did not indicate that Aduhelm works, the drug may be taken out of the market.

Biogen abandoned the drug in January 2024, for financial reasons.

Bioverativ
In May 2016, the company announced that it would spin off its hemophilia drug business (Eloctate and Alprolix) into a public company. In August, the company announced that the spun off company would be called Bioverativ, in order to show heritage with Biogen. The company would trade on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol BIVV and would look to be spun off in early 2017. Bioverativ was acquired by Sanofi in 2018.

Acquisition history
The following is an illustration of the company's major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors (this is not a comprehensive list):

 * Biogen
 * Biogen IDEC
 * Biogen (Est 1978)
 * IDEC Pharmaceuticals
 * Conforma Therapeutics (Acq 2006)
 * Fumapharm AG (Acq 2006)
 * Syntonix Pharmaceuticals (Acq 2007)
 * Convergence Pharmaceuticals (Acq 2015)
 * Nightstar Therapeutics (Acq 2019)
 * Reata Pharmaceuticals (Acq 2023)
 * Human Immunology Biosciences (HI-Bio)

COVID-19 pandemic
On March 5, 2020, Biogen reported that three individuals who met with their employees at a conference in Boston had tested positive for COVID-19 the previous week. On March 6, public health officials reported five new cases associated with the Biogen leadership meeting and by March 9, Massachusetts health officials had announced 30 new presumptive COVID-19 cases, all connected to the Biogen conference. Researchers first estimated that the conference would be linked to over 20,000 of the state's coronavirus cases. Researchers later estimated that up to 300,000 cases worldwide had been caused by the Biogen conference, including 1.6% of all U.S. cases of the coronavirus.

Finances
For the fiscal year 2017, Biogen reported earnings of US$2.539 billion, with an annual revenue of US$12.274 billion, an increase of 7.2% over the previous fiscal cycle. Biogen's shares traded at over $289 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$63 billion in November 2018. The company ranked 228 on the 2021 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue.

Pipeline
Biogen focused its R&D efforts on the discovery and development of treatments for patients with high unmet medical needs in the areas of neurology, hematology, and immunology.

Investigational MS medicines:
 * Daclizumab High-Yield Process (DAC HYP): is being developed as a potential once-monthly subcutaneous injection in the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). DAC HYP is being developed in collaboration with Abbvie, Inc. In June 2014, the companies announced positive top-line results from the Phase III DECIDE clinical trial, where DAC HYP demonstrated superiority over interferon beta-1a in annualized relapse rate.
 * Anti-LINGO-1 (BIIB033) (Opicinumab): is the first candidate being investigated for its potential to remyelinate and repair neurons damaged by MS, currently in Phase 2 trials.

Biogen has several candidates in Phase 1 and 2 clinical trials in neurodegenerative and immunological diseases including MS, neuropathic pain, spinal muscular atrophy and lupus nephritis:
 * Phase 2a: anti-LINGO-1 molecule (Opicinumab) in acute optic neuritis
 * Phase 2b: anti-TWEAK monoclonal antibody in lupus nephritis
 * Phase 2a: STX-100 in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
 * Phase 2: Neublastin for neuropathic pain in 2013
 * Phase 1/2: BIIB067 (ISIS-SOD1Rx) for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in collaboration with Ionis

Biogen also has several development agreements in place with Ionis Pharmaceuticals to collaborate to leverage antisense technology in advancing the treatment of neurological disorders.

In February 2012, Biogen formalized a joint venture with Samsung, creating Samsung Bioepis. This joint venture brings Biogen's expertise and capabilities in protein engineering, cell line development, and recombinant biologics manufacturing to position the joint venture so Biogen can participate in the emerging market for biosimilars.

In early 2014, Biogen entered into an agreement with Eisai, Inc., to jointly develop and commercialize two of their candidates for Alzheimer's disease, which have the potential to reduce Aβ plaques that form in the brains of patients, as well as to slow the formation of new plaques, potentially improving symptoms and suppressing disease progression.

Biogen also has since 2015 an agreement with AGTC to develop gene therapy for several genetic diseases, including X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) and X-linked Retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) ophthalmologic diseases. To this aim, Biogen paid AGTC $124 million, including an equity investment of $30 million, and up to 1,1 billion in future milestones.

In March 2019, Biogen halted Phase 3 trials of Alzheimer's disease drug Aducanumab after "an independent group's analysis show[ed] that the trials were unlikely to 'meet their primary endpoint.'" However, in October 2019 they reversed their plans and said that they would be pursuing US FDA approval for Aducanumab. The reversal came after Biogen said a new analysis of a larger patient pool showed promising results. In July 2020, Biogen completed submission of a Biologics license application (BLA) to the FDA for review, and requested accelerated review. However, an advisory panel for the FDA voted against approval of this drug. On June 7, 2021, the FDA granted approval of Aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Aducanumab was approved using the accelerated approval pathway, and Biogen will be required to conduct a post-approval clinical trial to verify clinical benefit for continued approval.

Lawsuits
In September 2022, Biogen agreed to pay $900 million to the U.S. federal governments, states, and a whistleblower. Biogen had bribed doctors between 2009 and 2014 to increase prescriptions of Avonex, Tysabri, and Tecfidera (all for multiple sclerosis).

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Macintosh IIsi

The Macintosh IIsi is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from October 1990 to March 1993. Introduced as a lower-cost alternative to the other Macintosh II family of desktop models, it was popular for home use, as it offered more expandability and performance than the Macintosh LC, which was introduced at the same time. Like the LC, it has built-in sound support, as well as support for color displays, with a maximum screen resolution of 640 × 480 in 8-bit color.

The IIsi remained on the market for two and a half years and was discontinued shortly after the introduction of its replacement, the Centris 610.

Hardware
The IIsi's case design is a compact desktop unit not used for any other Macintosh model, one of the few Macintosh designs that was used for a single model. Positioned below the Macintosh IIci as Apple's entry-level professional model, the IIsi's price was lowered by the redesign of the motherboard substituting a different memory controller and the deletion of all but one of the expansion card slots (a single Processor Direct Slot) and removal of the level 2 cache slot.

It shipped with either a 40-MB or 80-MB internal hard disk, and a 1.44-MB floppy disk drive. The Motorola 68882 FPU was an optional upgrade, mounted on a special plug-in card. Ports included SCSI, two serial ports, an ADB port, a floppy drive port, and 3.5mm stereo headphone sound output and microphone sound input sockets.

A bridge card was available for the IIsi to convert the Processor Direct slot to a standard internal NuBus card slot, compatible with other machines in the Macintosh II family. The bridge card included the 68882 FPU to improve floating-point performance. The NuBus card was mounted horizontally above the motherboard.

To cut costs, the IIsi's video shared the main system memory, which also had the effect of slowing down video considerably, especially as the IIsi had 1 MB of slow RAM soldered to the motherboard. David Pogue's book Macworld Macintosh Secrets observed that one could speed up video considerably if one set the disk cache size large enough to force the computer to draw video RAM from faster RAM installed in the SIMM banks.

The IIsi also suffers from sound difficulties: over time, the speaker contacts can fail, causing the sound to periodically drop out. This problem was caused by the very modular construction of the computer, where the mono loudspeaker is on a daughterboard under the motherboard, with springy contacts. Speaker vibrations led to fretting of the touching surfaces. The problem could be solved by removing the motherboard and using a pencil eraser to clean the contacts of the daughterboard holding the loudspeaker. As the IIsi is the only Macintosh to use this case design, these issues were never corrected in a subsequent model. The IIsi was designed to be easily and cheaply manufactured, such that no tools were required to put one together – everything is held in place with clips or latches.

Because of its heritage as a cut-down IIci, it was a simple modification to substitute a new clock crystal to increase the system's clock rate to 25 MHz for a slight increase in performance and a large increase in video rendering speed.

Known users
Charles Bukowski was an enthusiastic user of the IIsi.

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GLA

GLA or Gla may refer to:

Entertainment

 * GLA (album), by Scottish alternative rock band Twin Atlantic
 * Great Lakes Avengers, a fictional comic hero group

Science and technology

 * Alpha-galactosidase, a glycoside hydrolase enzyme
 * GLA (gene), an encoding of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase A
 * Gla domain, a protein domain
 * Gamma-Linolenic acid, a fatty acid
 * Linde–Buzo–Gray algorithm (also called Generalized Lloyd Algorithm), a vector quantization algorithm

Other uses

 * Gla, a Mycenaean fortification in Greece
 * GLA (LGBT), meaning gay and lesbian alliance
 * Gross leasable area, used in Real Estate as the total floorspace in a project available for lease or rent
 * GLA University, in Mathura Uttar Pradesh, India
 * Gangmasters Licensing Authority, a British regulatory body
 * General lighthouse authority
 * Georgia Library Association
 * Ghana Library Association
 * Glamorgan, historic county in Wales, Chapman code
 * Glassbridge Enterprises, where GLA was its former NYSE ticker symbol
 * Glasgow Airport, IATA call-sign
 * Global Leadership Adventures, an international high school study abroad program
 * Great Lakes Airlines, an American airline
 * Greater London Authority
 * Guam Library Association
 * Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class
 * Scottish Gaelic, ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language codes

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Scsh

Scsh (a Scheme shell) is computer software, a type of shell for an operating system. It is a Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) application programming interface (API) layered on the programming language Scheme, in a manner to make the most of Scheme's ability for scripting. Scsh is limited to 32-bit platforms but there is a development version against the latest Scheme 48 that works in 64-bit mode. It is free and open-source software released under the BSD-3-Clause license.

Features
Scsh includes these notable features:
 * Library support for list, character, and string manipulations;
 * Regular expressions manipulation support using scheme regular expressions, a domain-specific language (DSL), or little languages, approach to the abilities;
 * Strong networking support;
 * High-level support for awk like scripts, integrated into the language as macros;
 * Abstractions supporting pseudo terminals;
 * A shell language, modeled using quasi-quotation.

Example

 * Print a list of all the executables available in the current PATH to the standard output:

"Acknowledgments"
The reference manual for Scsh includes a spoof Acknowledgments section written by Olin Shivers. It starts:
 * Who should I thank? My so-called "colleagues", who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit "fooling around with computers," go to med school, and become a radiologist? My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?

and concludes with:
 * Oh, yes, the acknowledgements. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.

title: Scsh