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April 2020—Who can use the term “gone viral” now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything anymore—a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag of vegetables—without imagining it swarming with those unseeable, undead, unliving blobs dotted with suction pads waiting to fasten themselves on to our lungs? Who can think of kissing a stranger, jumping on to a bus, or sending their child to school without feeling real fear?
Who can think of ordinary pleasure and not assess its risk? Who among us is not a quack epidemiologist, virologist, statistician, and prophet? Which scientist or doctor is not secretly praying for a miracle? Which anti-science priest is not—secretly, at least—submitting to science? And even while the virus proliferates, who could not be thrilled by the swell of birdsong in cities, peacocks dancing at traffic crossings, and the silence in the skies?
The number of cases worldwide is creeping perilously close to a million. Almost 50,000 people have died already. Projections suggest that number will swell to hundreds of thousands, perhaps more. The virus has moved freely along the pathways of trade and international capital, and the terrible illness it has brought in its wake has locked humans down in their countries, their cities, and their homes.
But unlike the flow of capital, this virus seeks proliferation, not profit, and has, therefore, inadvertently, to some extent, reversed the direction of the flow. It has mocked immigration controls, biometrics, digital surveillance, and every other kind of data analytics, and struck hardest—thus far—in the richest, most powerful nations of the world, bringing the engine of capitalism to a juddering halt. Temporarily perhaps, but at least long enough for us to examine its parts, make an assessment, and decide whether we want to help fix it, or look for a better engine.
The mandarins who are managing this pandemic are fond of speaking of war. They don’t even use war as a metaphor, they use it literally. But if it really were a war, then who would be better prepared than the United States? If it were not masks, swabs, and gloves that its frontline soldiers needed but guns, smart bombs, bunker busters, submarines, fighter jets, and nuclear bombs, would there be a shortage?
Night after night, from halfway across the world, some of us watch the New York governor’s press briefings with a fascination that is hard to explain. We follow the statistics, and hear the stories of overwhelmed hospitals in the United States, of underpaid, overworked nurses having to make masks out of garbage bags and old raincoats, risking everything to bring succor to the sick. About states being forced to bid against each other for ventilators, about doctors’ dilemmas over which patient should get one and which left to die. And we think to ourselves, “My God! This is America!”
The tragedy is immediate, real, epic, and unfolding before our eyes. But it isn’t new. It is the wreckage of a train that has been careening down the track for years. Who doesn’t remember the videos of “patient dumping”—sick people, still in their hospital gowns, butt naked, being surreptitiously dumped on street corners? Hospital doors have too often been closed to the less fortunate citizens of the United States. It hasn’t mattered how sick they’ve been, or how much they’ve suffered. At least not until now—because now, in the era of the Virus, a poor person’s sickness can affect a wealthy society’s health. And yet, even now, Bernie Sanders, the senator who has relentlessly campaigned for healthcare for all, is considered an outlier in his bid for the White House, even by his own party.Modi appeared on TV again to announce that, from midnight onwards, all of India would be under lockdown.
And what of my country, my poor-rich country, India, suspended somewhere between feudalism and religious fundamentalism, caste and capitalism, ruled by far-right Hindu nationalists? In December, while China was fighting the outbreak of the virus in Wuhan, the government of India was dealing with a mass uprising by hundreds of thousands of its citizens protesting against the brazenly discriminatory anti-Muslim citizenship law it had just passed in Parliament.
The first case of Covid-19 was reported in India on January 30th, only days after the honorable chief guest of our Republic Day Parade, Amazon forest-eater and Covid-denier Jair Bolsonaro, had left Delhi. But there was too much to do in February for the Virus to be accommodated in the ruling party’s timetable. There was the official visit of president Donald Trump scheduled for the last week of the month. He had been lured by the promise of an audience of one million people in a sports stadium in the state of Gujarat. All that took money, and a great deal of time.
Then there were the Delhi Assembly elections that the Bharatiya Janata Party was slated to lose unless it upped its game, which it did, unleashing a vicious, no-holds-barred Hindu nationalist campaign, replete with threats of physical violence and the shooting of “traitors.”
It lost anyway. So then there was punishment to be meted out to Delhi’s Muslims, who were blamed for the humiliation. Armed mobs of Hindu vigilantes, backed by the police, attacked Muslims in the working-class neighborhoods of northeast Delhi. Houses, shops, mosques, and schools were burnt. Muslims who had been expecting the attack fought back. More than 50 people, Muslims and some Hindus, were killed. Thousands moved into refugee camps in local graveyards. Mutilated bodies were still being pulled out of the network of filthy, stinking drains when government officials had their first meeting about Covid-19 and most Indians first began to hear about the existence of something called hand sanitizer.
March was busy too. The first two weeks were devoted to toppling the Congress government in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and installing a BJP government in its place. On March 11th the World Health Organization declared that Covid-19 was a pandemic. Two days later, on March 13th, the health ministry said that coronavirus “is not a health emergency.” Finally, on March 19th, the prime minister addressed the nation.
He hadn’t done much homework. He borrowed the playbook from France and Italy. He told us of the need for “social distancing” (easy to understand for a society so steeped in the practice of caste) and called for a day of “people’s curfew” on March 22nd. He said nothing about what his government was going to do in the crisis, but he asked people to come out on their balconies and ring bells and bang their pots and pans to salute health workers. He didn’t mention that, until that very moment, India had been exporting protective gear and respiratory equipment, instead of keeping it for Indian health workers and hospitals.
Not surprisingly, Narendra Modi’s request was met with great enthusiasm. There were pot-banging marches, community dances, and processions. Not much social distancing. In the days that followed, men jumped into barrels of sacred cow dung, and BJP supporters threw cow-urine drinking parties. Not to be outdone, many Muslim organizations declared that the Almighty was the answer to the Virus and called for the faithful to gather in mosques in numbers.
On March 24th, at 8pm, Modi appeared on TV again to announce that, from midnight onwards, all of India would be under lockdown. Markets would be closed. All transport, public as well as private, would be disallowed. He said he was taking this decision not just as a prime minister but as our family elder. Who else can decide, without consulting the state governments that would have to deal with the fallout of this decision, that a nation of 1.38 billion people should be locked down with zero preparation and with four hours’ notice? His methods definitely give the impression that India’s prime minister thinks of citizens as a hostile force that needs to be ambushed, taken by surprise, but never trusted.
Locked down we were. Many health professionals and epidemiologists have applauded this move. Perhaps they are right in theory. But surely none of them can support the calamitous lack of planning or preparedness that turned the world’s biggest, most punitive lockdown into the exact opposite of what it was meant to achieve.The jobless, the homeless, and the despairing remained where they were, in the cities as well as the countryside.
The man who loves spectacles created the mother of all spectacles.
As an appalled world watched, India revealed herself in all her shame—her brutal, structural, social and economic inequality, her callous indifference to suffering. The lockdown worked like a chemical experiment that suddenly illuminated hidden things. As shops, restaurants, factories, and the construction industry shut down, as the wealthy and the middle classes enclosed themselves in gated colonies, our towns and megacities began to extrude their working-class citizens—their migrant workers—like so much unwanted accrual.
Many driven out by their employers and landlords, millions of impoverished, hungry, thirsty people, young and old, men, women, children, sick people, blind people, disabled people, with nowhere else to go, with no public transport in sight, began a long march home to their villages. They walked for days, toward Badaun, Agra, Azamgarh, Aligarh, Lucknow, Gorakhpur—hundreds of miles away. Some died on the way.
They knew they were going home potentially to slow starvation. Perhaps they even knew they could be carrying the virus with them, and would infect their families, their parents, and grandparents back home, but they desperately needed a shred of familiarity, shelter, and dignity, as well as food, if not love. As they walked some were beaten brutally and humiliated by the police, who were charged with strictly enforcing the curfew.
Young men were made to crouch and frog jump down the highway. Outside the town of Bareilly, one group was herded together and hosed down with chemical spray. A few days later, worried that the fleeing population would spread the virus to villages, the government sealed state borders even for walkers. People who had been walking for days were stopped and forced to return to camps in the cities they had just been forced to leave.
Among older people it evoked memories of the population transfer of 1947, when India was divided and Pakistan was born. Except that this current exodus was driven by class divisions, not religion. Even still, these were not India’s poorest people. These were people who had (at least until now) work in the city and homes to return to. The jobless, the homeless, and the despairing remained where they were, in the cities as well as the countryside, where deep distress was growing long before this tragedy occurred. All through these horrible days, the home affairs minister, Amit Shah, remained absent from public view.
When the walking began in Delhi, I used a press pass from a magazine I frequently write for to drive to Ghazipur, on the border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
The scene was biblical. Or perhaps not. The Bible could not have known numbers such as these. The lockdown to enforce physical distancing had resulted in the opposite—physical compression on an unthinkable scale. This is true even within India’s towns and cities. The main roads might be empty, but the poor are sealed into cramped quarters in slums and shanties.
Every one of the walking people I spoke to was worried about the virus. But it was less real, less present in their lives than looming unemployment, starvation, and the violence of the police. Of all the people I spoke to that day, including a group of Muslim tailors who had only weeks ago survived the anti-Muslim pogrom, one man’s words especially troubled me. He was a carpenter called Ramjeet, who planned to walk all the way to Gorakhpur, near the Nepal border.
“Maybe when Modiji decided to do this, nobody told him about us. Maybe he doesn’t know about us,” he said. “Us” means approximately 460 million people.
State governments in India (as in the United States) have showed more heart and understanding in the crisis. Trade unions, private citizens, and other collectives are distributing food and emergency rations. The central government has been slow to respond to their desperate appeals for funds. It turns out that the prime minister’s National Relief Fund has no ready cash available. Instead, money from well-wishers is pouring into the somewhat mysterious new PM-CARES fund. Prepackaged meals with Modi’s face on them have begun to appear. In addition to this, the prime minister has shared his yoga nidra videos, in which a morphed, animated Modi with a dream body demonstrates yoga asanas to help people deal with the stress of self-isolation.
The narcissism is deeply troubling. Perhaps one of the asanas could be a request-asana in which Modi requests the French prime minister to allow us to renege on the very troublesome Rafale fighter jet deal and use that $8.5 billion for desperately needed emergency measures to support a few million hungry people. Surely the French will understand.
As the lockdown enters its second week, supply chains have broken, medicines and essential supplies are running low. Thousands of truck drivers are still marooned on the highways, with little food and water. Standing crops, ready to be harvested, are slowly rotting. The economic crisis is here. The political crisis is ongoing. The mainstream media has incorporated the Covid story into its 24/7 toxic anti-Muslim campaign.People will fall sick and die at home. We may never know their stories. They may not even become statistics.
An organization called the Tablighi Jamaat, which held a meeting in Delhi before the lockdown was announced, has turned out to be a “super spreader.” That is being used to stigmatize and demonize Muslims. The overall tone suggests that Muslims invented the virus and have deliberately spread it as a form of jihad.
The Covid crisis is still to come. Or not. We don’t know. If and when it does, we can be sure it will be dealt with, with all the prevailing prejudices of religion, caste, and class completely in place. Today in India, there are almost 2,000 confirmed cases and 58 deaths. These are surely unreliable numbers, based on woefully few tests. Expert opinion varies wildly. Some predict millions of cases. Others think the toll will be far less. We may never know the real contours of the crisis, even when it hits us. All we know is that the run on hospitals has not yet begun.
India’s public hospitals and clinics are unable to cope with the almost one million children who die of diarrhea and malnutrition every year, with the more than two million tuberculosis patients (a quarter of the world’s cases), with a vast anemic and malnourished population vulnerable to any number of minor illnesses that prove fatal for them. It will be impossible for them to cope with a crisis that is on a scale anything like what Europe and the United States are dealing with now.
All health care is more or less on hold as hospitals have been turned over to the service of the Virus. The trauma center of the legendary All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi is closed, the hundreds of cancer patients known as cancer refugees, who live on the roads outside that huge hospital, driven away like cattle.
People will fall sick and die at home. We may never know their stories. They may not even become statistics. We can only hope that the studies that say the Virus likes cold weather are correct (though other researchers have cast doubt on this). Never have a people longed so irrationally and so much for a burning, punishing Indian summer.
What is this thing that has happened to us? It’s a virus, yes. In and of itself it holds no moral brief. But it is definitely more than a virus. Some believe it’s God’s way of bringing us to our senses.
Others that it’s a Chinese conspiracy to take over the world. Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality,” trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves.
Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.
Excerpted from Azadi: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction. Used with the permission of the publisher, Haymarket Books. Copyright © 2020 by Arundhati Roy.
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Boston Salmon is starting over.
Salmon (6-3 MMA) was released by the UFC in late 2019 after back-to-back losses to Khalid Taha and Randy Costa. The defeats were the lone performances of his promotional tenure.
Six months after his most recent fight, Salmon is eying a return to the cage. However, unlike most of his career to date, which has been spent at bantamweight, Salmon will compete at 145 pounds going forward.
“I have a lot more to prove,” Salmon told MMA Junkie. “I had my shot at the UFC. I had two fights in there. I wasn’t able to perform. I had to figure out what was wrong. I looked back on my two losses, which I lost ultimately at the scales. My next step is at 145. I’m making the change at featherweight. I’m a free agent now. I’m looking for the best opportunities. The fire is still there. The prospect people thought I was back then is still there. I just have to figure out what exactly is wrong.”
While Salmon only had two shots in the UFC, he’s not bitter. He said he’s come to terms with the fact he’s no longer on the roster – and has used that as motivation. He’s working to make the necessary adjustments, but his MMA goals haven’t changed.
“That’s how the UFC is,” Salmon said. “Things can’t always go the way you want them to. You’ve got to be accepting. You’ve got to be able to adapt. Those two losses mean a lot to me. It still sparks a fire. I could retire right now and go on with plan B or plan C, but I still (have) a lot more to prove in this sport.
“I know I can become champion. I believe in that 100 percent.”
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Jan 10, 2022: The Taliban’s foreign minister said on Monday that he had talked to Ahmed Massoud, the son of prominent Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, in Iran over the weekend and assured him of his safety if he returned home.
Massoud’s Panjshir Valley forces provided the last resistance to the Taliban’s occupation of Afghanistan in September, weeks after government troops surrendered. In a video posted by state media on Twitter on Monday, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said he had also met Ismail Khan, a fighter from Herat province, who surrendered to the Taliban and left the country.
The Taliban had announced Mottaqi’s departure for Tehran to hold talks with Iranian officials, but did not mention any plans to meet with exiled leaders.
“We met commander Ismail Khan and Ahmad Massoud, and other Afghans in Iran, and assured them that anyone can come to Afghanistan and live without any concerns,” Muttaqi said in the video.
“It’s home to all, and we do not create insecurity or other problems for anyone. Everyone can come freely and live.”
The Panjshir Valley is known for being a place of resistance against the Soviet forces in the 1980s and the Taliban in their first term in power in the late 1990s. Its most respected figure is Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the “Lion of Panjshir”, who was assassinated by al-Qaeda in 2001, two days before the 9/11 attacks.
His son has since taken office, and there are reports that he is coordinating resistance with other exiled Afghan leaders. The Massoud-led National Resistance Front has repeatedly condemned the Taliban – calling it an “illegitimate government” – but appears to have carried out no physical attacks.
Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country with several senior officials as the Taliban closed in on Kabul, but several other top leaders remained – including former head of state Hamid Karzai.
The Taliban has promised a general amnesty to all opponents and critics since taking power, but rights groups say at least 100 former government officials have been killed since then.
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Observations & Insight
Not the Ronin Death Watch
By Thom Thompson for John Lothian News
The CME announced on March 20 that it had auctioned the portfolios of Ronin Capital, a direct clearing member, because its capital was insufficient “going forward.” Friday’s Issues and Stops report from the CME, whose Chicago Board of Trade division lists Treasury bond and note futures, indicated that Ronin had been in position to deliver thousands of T-notes against March expiring futures.
As of March 27, Ronin was listed as an active clearing member at CME and appeared to be intact as an entity. Ronin Capital is not registered with the CFTC as an FCM or broker, and does not clear customer business.
The previous Friday, March 20, DTCC’s Government Securities Division said it would no longer act for two specific Ronin accounts. According to an unconfirmed article in Risk.net on March 26, DTCC liquidated Ronin’s holdings on March 25.
CNBC reported that afternoon that sources had told its reporters that Ronin had sustained losses tied to VIX futures and options, contracts traded at Cboe and cleared at OCC, where Ronin was not a clearing member. What was the connection with portfolios at CME?
To read the rest of this story, go here.
The Spread: Ronin Runs Into Liquidity Issues
This week on The Spread, the OCC’s daily clearing volume for March exceeds its average for the past three months; Ronin Capital suffers from liquidity setbacks, major exchanges plead for flexibility, and more.
Stock market won’t hit coronavirus lows until these 3 criteria are met, says Goldman Sachs
Chris Matthews – MarketWatch
Stock-market analysts at Goldman Sachs believe the S&P 500 will end this year more than 19% above current levels, but warned investors in a note this weekend that there will be short-term pain the markets in coming weeks.
“After a swift 18% rally [last week], the most common investor question was ‘has a new bull market started ?'” Goldman analysts, led by David Kostin, wrote.
‘The pain looks far from over’: Stocks whipsaw as oil plunges to 17-year low on coronavirus fears
Theron Mohamed – Markets Insider
European and Asian stocks dropped and US futures whipsawed Monday as investors weighed tumbling oil prices and the prospect of months of disruption from the novel coronavirus against stimulus measures.
Crude prices slumped to 17-year lows as airlines grounding their fleets, authorities imposing lockdowns, and factory closings hammered demand. Moreover, Saudi officials said they weren’t in contact with Russia about ending their oil-price war and stabilizing markets, Reuters reported.
Hong Kong Dollar (HKD USD) Best Run in Years Likely to Stay
Tian Chen – Bloomberg
In a world convulsed by market volatility, there’s one surety (for now): Hong Kong’s currency will continue outperforming the greenback.
Elevated local rates relative to the U.S. have made the city’s currency the best carry trade in Asia, and propelled it to a 0.51% gain this month — set for its best in more than 16 years. The strength will likely be sustained as local borrowing costs are expected to stay higher than U.S. rates in the near term, while Hong Kong’s interbank liquidity pool remains small. The Hong Kong dollar traded at 7.7535 versus the greenback as of 4:50 p.m. local time.
Elevated Wall Street ‘fear gauge’ shows doubts about stock market rebound
April Joyner – Reuters
Investors hoping for calm to return to U.S. stocks will not find much comfort in Wall Street’s fear gauge known as the VIX, which shows some market participants are bracing for more turbulence despite this week’s bounce. The Cboe Volatility Index is down nearly 20 points from its record closing high hit earlier this month but remains far above its usual levels. The index rose on Friday as U.S. stocks fell, even after the House of Representatives passed a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill. It was last at 64.29.
Market volatility puts equity offerings on ice
Richard Henderson and Miles Kruppa – FT
Companies have shied away from going public in response to the coronavirus shock, as elevated volatility makes deals difficult to price. Since 2000, less than 10 per cent of initial public offerings above $100m have occurred while the Vix — the Cboe volatility index known as Wall Street’s “fear gauge” — sits above 25 points. That level was surpassed in February and this month the index touched a record 82 as the spread of the pandemic caused investors to beat a rapid retreat from stocks.
UPDATE 2-China’s LPG futures tank on debut, trading volumes robust
China’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) futures fell on their debut on the Dalian Commodity Exchange on Monday, dropping as much as 10% after oil prices hit an 18-year low on fears lockdowns to curb the coronavirus will further hurt demand. The front-month LPG futures contract, for November delivery, closed down 9% at 2,366 yuan ($333.29) per tonne on the first day of trade, with over 85,000 lots changing hands. LPG, a refined oil product used as a fuel in vehicles and for cooking, is the third type of oil and gas derivative contract to be listed in China after crude oil futures on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange and fuel oil futures on the Shanghai Futures Exchange.
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ETF Options Commentary
The past couple of weeks saw substantial market volatility sweep across fixed income and equity markets alike, raising volumes across all securities markets as investors re-adjusted their asset allocations across asset classes. In these volatile times, many investors picked ETFs as their instrument of choice to manage their exposure across all asset classes. This was partially in response to the liquidity challenges seen across the entire cash bond market and was especially prevalent in corporate bonds.
GTS Closes Acquisition of Barclays Equity Options Market Making Business; Already the Biggest Market Maker at the NYSE and Largest Wholesale Market Maker of OTC Securities – Acquisition Furthers GTS’s Vision for Being Trading Partner of Choice
GTS, a leading electronic market maker across global financial instruments, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Barclays’ equities automated options trading unit.
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SEC Chairman: Government Shouldn’t Ban Short Selling in Current Market
Paul Kiernan – WSJ
Wall Street’s top regulator said he doesn’t believe the U.S. should try to prevent investors from betting against the stock market, as more countries look to short selling bans amid extreme volatility.
“We shouldn’t be banning short selling,” Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton said Monday in an interview on CNBC. “You need to be able to be on the short side of the market in order to facilitate ordinary market trading.”
Short-selling bans not useful: stock exchanges federation
Huw Jones – Reuters
Bans on the short-selling of shares when stock markets are experiencing extreme volatility gives the impression of a decisive response without achieving any useful result, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) said on Monday.
Several European Union countries, including Spain, Italy, France and Belgium have banned short-selling, a practice that critics say can exacerbate market moves when there is panic selling.
Morgan Stanley Quants Map Out Trades for Turmoil Then Turnaround
Gregor Stuart Hunter – Bloomberg
Few Wall Street banks have the conviction to say markets are either destined for another rout or a sustained revival. Quantitative strategists at Morgan Stanley are giving clients a game plan for both.
The bank’s systematic specialists reckon trading patterns will remain locked in the current volatility stage for a while yet, favoring quality equities to help weather price swings and protect from downward spikes.
JPMORGAN: The riskiest areas of the market have bottomed out for this recession – and now is the time for traders to start buying again
Ben Winck – Markets Insider
The blistering pace at which risk assets fell in recent weeks likely brought valuations to their floor, JPMorgan strategists said Friday.
The slowdown in global coronavirus infection rates, recession-level pricing across markets, $2 trillion in fresh US fiscal stimulus, and reversal in asset allocation have set the stage for price stabilization and rebound, the bank added. The current conditions establish a buying opportunity for investors aiming to ride an uptrend through the second quarter.
Parplus Impersonates LTCM, Drags Ronin Down
With a name like Parplus, it’s difficult not to take the bait. Not quite as fruitful as Lev Parnas’ company, Fraud Guarantee, but ripe nonetheless, given the circumstances… For instance, we may never know if the advice – as recounted by Carl Spackler – of the Dalai Lama ever entered Jim Carney’s mind: Gunga galunga. And, we may never know for sure whether the Parplus crew received total consciousness as the reality of the situation became clear. In fact, we may never know – as the Arnold Palmer story goes – what par actually was for this hole… But, one thing’s for sure: It all happened fast…


When are the Brit Awards 2023? Date, line-up and how to watch
The 2023 Brit Awards at London’s O2 are just around the corner.
A number of this year’s biggest artists including Lizzo, Wet Leg, Harry Styles, David Guetta, Sam Smith, Kim Petras, Lewis Capaldi, Cat Burns, Becky Hill and Ella Henderson, are set to attend the annual music show on Saturday, February 11.
Stormzy, who released the new album This Is What I Mean in November, is nominated for album of the year, artist of the year and hip hop/grime/rap act.
Styles and Wet Leg lead the nominations with four each.
Styles capped off a successful 12 months by earning nods for album of the year for Harry’s House, song of the year for As It Was, artist of the year and best pop/R&B act. He also won the album of the year award at the Grammys on February 5.
Meanwhile, Wet Leg have been nominated for album of the year, group of the year, best new artist and best alternative rock act.
A year after the Brits abandoned gendered categories, the awards show has been criticised for the nominations for artist of the year prize being entirely male.
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Women-led acts comprise 33 per cent of the overall nominations.
A Brits spokesperson said the lack of women in the category was “disappointing”.
Who will be performing at the 2023 Brit Awards?
Harry Styles, Stormzy, Lizzo, Lewis Capaldi, Wet Leg, Cat Burns, Sam Smith, Kim Petras, David Guetta, Becky Hill and Ella Henderson have been announced so far as performers on the night.
Who has been nominated?
Harry Styles and Wet Leg lead the way this year with four nominations each.
Stormzy, house musician Fred Again and The 1975 have received three nominations apiece.
South London singer Cat Burns, whose song Go went viral on TikTok last year and was the fourth most-streamed single of the year, has also received three nominations.
She is also in the running for the Brits rising star award with London girl group FLO and Nia Archives.
Central Cee, George Ezra, Arctic Monkeys, Nova Twins, Aitch, Dave, Eliza Rose, Beyonce, Lizzo, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith are also up for two awards.
You can see the full list of nominees here.
Who will host the awards?
Comedian Mo Gilligan will return to host the awards after a successful stint at the helm of the 2022 show.
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How to watch the Brit Awards
The Brit Awards 2023 will be broadcast live on ITV1 and ITVX from 8pm. International viewers can watch the show on the Brits’ YouTube channel.


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Last Friday the pupils in Years 6, 7 and 8 were treated to the Geography Game Show. This is an interactive talk by Neal Nicolls, as he draws a map of the world freehand. As the map develops he explains and describes all the historical and geographical information about each place and more besides. He asks questions about what he has drawn to test the listening skills and memory of the audience. A small prize is given for correct responses.
The majority of pupils were totally engaged and got a huge amount from the show. The map is hanging in the library should you wish to see it. Your children will explain all the details – hopefully.

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text: Dhatre Udyog Limited manufactures, trades in, and sells iron, steel, and related products in India. The company offers TMT bars, rounds, squares, angles, rebars, MS grade angels, flats, and wire rod coils. It also trades in billets, blooms, ingots, iron ores, etc. The company was formerly known as Narayani Steels Limited and changed its name to Dhatre Udyog Limited in May 2023. Dhatre Udyog Limited was incorporated in 1996 and is based in Vizianagaram, India.

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The Russian artists Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky were popular in their time: Stravinsky for music, Nijinsky for dance. When their radically new ballet, The Rite of Spring, was first performed in Paris on May 29, 1913, the reaction was so polarized, there were fistfights and riots! Brilliant or disastrous, the performance marked the birth of modern music and dance. Stringer's rhythmic text and gloriously inventive, color-rich paintings capture the wild and imaginative collaboration of composer and choreographer.
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Leave the monitor on at the office. Or install a “dongle” that makes your machine at the office think there is an active monitor connected.
And on a similar note, never leave the office with the pen lying on the tablet.
I do leave the monitor on, the question has to do with the act of logging into flame so that RGS send the signal out. Does this happen even if you haven’t logged in?
I had the same problem. It turned out that when I left the monitor off, and I did a restart of the machine, I could not boot up with graphics, although the actual computer would restart. I could remote log into the machine, but I only had command line control. It also happened if I crashed my VPN connection without closing RGS first. With the monitor turned on, every thing worked as expected. I can log into my base machine any time, and I can do a complete restart which brings me back to the login screen and I can login and start flame with no issues. I’m on a z8 with Centos 7.4. I run an intel nuc at home with Centos 7.4.
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|Broadcast area||India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan|
|Headquarters||Mumbai, Maharashtra, India|
|Picture format|| 576i (SD)|
|Owner||Discovery Networks Asia Pacific|
|Sister channels|| Animal Planet |
|Former names||Discovery Travel & Living (2004-2010)|
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The channel features both original productions and imported programmes. The first local original production for the channel was The Great Indian Wedding .The series was produced by Blue Mango Films, a leading non-fiction film company in India. Following its success, the channel has started offering more Indian programming.
On 1 September 2010 Discovery Travel & Living India became TLC.TLC's HD feed was launched on 2 June 2014.
Programmes shown in the channel include:
TLC is an American pay television channel owned by Discovery, Inc. Initially focused on educational and learning content, by the late 1990s the network began to primarily focus towards reality series involving lifestyles, family life, and personal stories.
Zee TV is a Hindi language general entertainment channel owned by the Essel Group in India. It is associated with several other sister channels which provide services in Marathi, Hindi, English and several regional languages of India.
Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Discovery, Inc. and Nexstar Media Group. Despite this ownership structure, the channel is managed and operated as a division of Discovery Networks U.S. The channel airs both special and regular episodic programs about food and cooking.
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TLC is a television channel broadcasting to several countries in Latin America. It was originally known as Discovery Travel & Adventure Channel and featured more adventure-related programmes. On February 1, 2005, the channel changed its name to Discovery Travel & Living and changed to lifestyle programming about travel, food, design, architecture and luxury. In November 1, 2011, it was relaunched as "TLC: Travel & Living Channel" as part of the international roll-out of the TLC brand and the premiere of additional programming. In late 2012, "Travel & Living Channel" was dropped from the channel's name and replaced with the Discovery logo on the channel's logo.
TLC is a Dutch television channel which broadcasts lifestyle programmes. It airs programmes related to lifestyle, health, food, and reality shows. Its main target is the female audience. Discovery Benelux launched the channel on 4 July 2011.
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Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd. is a subsidiary of Discovery, Inc. that operates several television channels in Asia and Australasia, along with the Discovery+ streaming service which is currently only available in India.


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Study on Some Mechanical and Chemical Properties of Agro Residual Briquettes Produced from Date Palm Fronds
International Journal of Science and Qualitative Analysis
Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages: 42-59
Received: Dec. 8, 2017;
Accepted: Feb. 11, 2018;
Published: Apr. 23, 2018
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Ayman Hafiz Amer Eissa, Agriculture Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Menoufia University, Shibin El-Kom, Egypt
Abdul Rahman Othman Alghannam, Bio-Environmental Engineering Dept., Natural Resources and Environmental Research Institute, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The agricultural crop residuals are considered one of the most important problems, which face the environmental life and farmers in the world. A study was carried out to evaluate the physical characteristics of chopped date palm stalks (fronds and leaflets). These properties are necessary to apply normal design procedures such as pneumatic conveying, fluidization, drying, and combustion. The mechanical treatment by cutting, crushing or chopping and briquetting processes are the primary step and the suitable solution for solving this problem and recycling these residuals to be transformed into useful products. So the aim of the present work to get a high quality for agriculture residues such as date palm stalks (Fronds), date palm leaflets briquettes. The results obtained from measuring the mechanical properties (average shear and compressive strength) for date palm stalks at different moisture content (12.63, 33.21 and 60.54%) was (6.4, 4.7 and 3.21MPa) and (3.8, 3.18 and 2.86MPa) respectively. The modulus of elasticity and toughness were evaluated as a function of moisture content. As the moisture content of the stalk regions increased the modulus of elasticity and toughness decreased indicating a reduction in the brittleness of the stalk regions. Chopped date palm stalks (Palm fronds), date palm leaflets having moisture content (8, 10 and 12%) and (8, 10 and 12.8% w.b.) were dandified into briquettes without binder and with binder (Urea-Formaldehyde) using a screw press machine. Quality properties for briquettes were durability, compression ratio hardness, bulk density, compression ratio, resiliency, water resistance and gases emission. The optimum quality properties found for briquettes at 8% moisture content and without binder. Where the highest compression stress and durability were 8.95, 10.39 MPa and 97.06%, 93.64% for date palm stalks (Palm fronds), date palm leaflets briquettes, respectively. The CO and CO2 emissions for date palm stalks (Fronds), date palm leaflets briquettes were less than these for loose residuals.
Ayman Hafiz Amer Eissa,
Abdul Rahman Othman Alghannam,
Study on Some Mechanical and Chemical Properties of Agro Residual Briquettes Produced from Date Palm Fronds, International Journal of Science and Qualitative Analysis.
Vol. 4, No. 2,
2018, pp. 42-59.
Agoudjil, B., Benchabaneb, A., Boudennec, A., Ibos, L. and Fois, M. (2011). Renewable Materials to Reduce Building Heat Loss: Characterization of Date Palm Wood. Energy Build. 43: 491–497.
Al-Sulaiman F. A. (2003). Date palm fiber reinforced composite as a new insulating material, International Journal of Energy Research 27 (14):1293–1297.
Amer Eissa A. H.; Gomaa A. H.; Baiomy M. H. and Ibrahim A. A. (2008). Physical and Mechanical characteristics for some agricultural residues. Misr j. Ag. Eng., 25 (1): 121-146.
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Baliga, M. S., Baliga, B. R. V., Kandathil, S. M., Bhat, H. P., Vayalil, P. K., 2011. A review of the chemistry and pharmacology of the date fruits (Phoenix dactylifera L.). Food Res. Int. 44, 1812–1822.
Chattopadhyay, P. S.; and K. P. Pandy (1999). "Mechanical properties of sorghum stalk in relation quasi-static deformation". J. Agri. Eng. Res. 73: 199-206.
Debdoubi, A.; A. El-amarti.; and E. Colacio (2005) "Production of fuel briquettes from esparto partially pyrolyzed". Energy Conversion and Management, 46, 1877–1884.
Demirbas, A. (2000) "Conversion of biomass to a pyrolytic oil for blending gasoline as an alternative fuel in internal combustion engines". Energy Sources; 23:553–62.
Dubey, A. K.; P. Chandra.; D. Padhee.; and S. Gangil (2007) "Energy from Cotton Stalks and other Crop Residues". Cotton Advisory Board, 2007.
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Fasina, O. O. (2008). "Physical properties of peanut hull pellets." Bioresource Technology, 99, 1259–1266.
Gibiiz, B.; and U. S. Kucukbayrak (1996) "Briquetting of Istanbul-Kemerburgaz lignite of Turkey". Fuel Processing Technology, 47, 111–118.
Jha, S. K.; A. Singh.; and A. Kumar (2008) "Physical characteristics of compressed cotton stalks". Biomass Engineering, 99, 205–210.
Mc Mullen, J.; O. O. Fasina.; C. W. Wood.; and Y. Feng (2005). "Storage and handling characteristics of pellets from poultry litter". Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 21, 645–51.
Nalladurai, K.; and R. V. Morey (2009) "Factors affecting strength and durability of densified biomass products". Biomass and Bio-energy, 33, 337–359.
Nalladurai, K.; and R. V. Morey (2010) "Natural binders and solid bridge type binding mechanisms in briquettes and pellets made from corn Stover and switchgrass". Bioresource Technology, 101, 1082–1090.
Panwar, V.; B. Prasad.; and K. L. Wasewar (2011) "Biomass Residue Briquetting and Characterization". J. Energy Eng.-ASCE 137, 108–114.
Shaban, D. A.; and O. M. Sawan (2010). "The Utilization of Agricultural Waste as One of the Environmental Issues in Egypt (A Case Study)". Journal of Applied Sciences Research, 6 (8): 1116-1124.
Stahl, M.; K. Granstrom.; J. Berghel.; and R. Renstrom (2004). "Industrial processes for biomass drying and their effects on the quality properties of wood pellets." Biomass and Bioenergy 27, 621–628.
Werther, J.; M. Saenger.; E. U. Hartge.; T. Ogada.; and Z. Siagi (2000) "Combustion of agricultural residues". Prog. Energ. Combust Sci, 26, 1–27.
Yamnan, S.; M. SahanŞahan.; H. Haykiri-Açma.; K. Şeşen.; and S. Küçükbayrak (2001) "Fuel briquettes from biomass-lignite blends". Fuel Process Technol, 72, 1–8.
Yassine El may, Mejdi Jeguirim, Sophie Dorge, Gwenaelle Trouvé, Rachid Said (2013) Experimental investigation on gaseous emissions from the combustion of date palm residues in laboratory scale furnace Original. Bioresource Technology, Volume 131, Page 94.

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Medicare slammed for not improving lab-quality rules - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "Some scientists and consumer health groups are angry that the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has decided not to write new rules designed to improve the quality of laboratories that perform genetic testing, keeping in place current guidelines.
'We're very disappointed,' said Rick Borchelt, spokesman for the Genetics and Public Policy Center. 'After years of saying they were going to do this, they did a complete about-face ... with no justification. We're mystified.' "
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5 Aug 2016
The Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, said the information and technology sector generated $32bn in the last 15 years.
3 Aug 2016
Despite the over $20 billion investments in various sub marine cable systems across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) targeted at bridging the Internet gap in the Continent, about 75 per cent of the population in Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya...
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For maximum impact at the 2016 Gitex Technology Week, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has engaged Nigerians in the United Arab Emirate (UAE) for a successful outing at the forum.
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Healthcare providers’ Association of Nigeria, (HCPAN) has tasked government on the need to support the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), to ensure quality healthcare delivery in the country.
30 Jul 2016
The National Universities Commission(NUC), says it will partner with OMATEK Ventures, an Information Communication Technology(ICT) firm, to provide solar power in Nigerian universities.
29 Jul 2016
The Chief Executive Officer, Ocean Serve & Logistics Ltd., Mrs Chinwe Ezenwa, has said that port infrastructure globally is under enormous strain with congestion and delays.
29 Jul 2016
Shittu disclosed that Nigeria was losing about $2.8billion yearly to the continued importation of ICT hardware and ceding about 70 per cent of the country’s technology market to the foreign brands.
28 Jul 2016
The delay in the release of students’ results by the Lagos State University (LASU), years after their graduation, is finally taking a debilitating toll on the former. In fact, some affected graduates who are yet to take delivery of their certificates...
22 Jul 2016
Huawei has joined the Smart Africa Alliance as Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) advisor and Platinum member at the Smart Africa Board Meeting.The partnership with the Smart Africa Alliance is one of Huawei...
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It was around 2010 when I realised my country was known for criminality across the globe, which I always felt bad about. I just I believed that I could create something that will solve that problem.
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Five leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in Nigeria have come together to form a body that would further strengthen local content advocacy in the country.


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Should the Bears trade away Justin Fields now?
By: Jake Rajala
The Chicago Bears 23-year-old quarterback Justin Fields is coming off a porous, tough rookie season in 2021 (7 touchdowns, 10 interceptions, 12 fumbles, 58% completion percentage, and a 2-8 record). Fields has undeniable athletic ability and arm talent, but don’t let a few dazzling rushing highlights point away from the fact that Fields (and numerous other rookie QBs) had a tough beginning to their career. Fields isn’t in Matt Alcatraz Nagy Island in 2022, but the picture with Fields in the Allen Robinson-less NFC North is hard to diagnose.
There have been rumors of the Bears potentially trading away Fields. The first-year Bears head coach Matt Eberflus may pull the plug on the OSU QB experiment and choose a different route. With that enunciated, I’m going to outline the pros and cons of the Bears trading away Fields.
Cons of trading away Fields
- Potential star in the second year QB
Fields often struggled in his rookie season, but he may have a high ceiling with his dual-threat ability. He could be productive with an offense that’s more methodical and adapts well to his rushing ability. Plus, the Bears could fail in the next few years to find a prospect in the NFL draft that’s as talented as Fields.
- Not the best trade value
There may not be a lot of teams willing to break the bank for Fields at this point. The NFL world is witnessing the Browns struggle to find a trade partner for Baker Mayfield, so it could be quite difficult for CHI to receive multiple first-round picks for Fields.
Pros of trading away Fields
- Develop the right QB sooner
If Eberflus honestly feels like Fields isn’t the best fit, he shouldn’t be scared to start in a new direction. After all, if the Fields QB1 boat sinks, Eberflus will surely fail. If Eberflus has a QB prospect that he can acquire on a reasonable deal, he should start that path as soon as possible.
- Some trade value
There is a lot of popularity around Fields at this point in time. If a team like New Orleans or Arizona believes he can utilize their offense on a quality level, the Bears may want to trade him with a modest amount of trade value to a new team. If Fields struggles for a second straight season with a new coach, he could have very little trade value.
I would like to see the Bears draft a QB in round two (ex: Carson Strong) and then allow Fields to compete with a young, new QB. I’d still love to see the Bears select a WR in round two and potentially sign a FA WR, as well. It would be smart to see the Bears take Strong in round two and have him groomed for a year. Nonetheless, If Fields has a 2022 outcome that’s similar to Tua’s 2021 season, he should be leaned on in 2023.
Kirk Cousins was the second option to RG3 in Washington many seasons back, but he ascended into the starting QB spot. Jameis Winston was also introduced to New Orleans after Taysom Hill was mystically projected to be a great QB, but Winston won the starting QB role in the end. Strong or another young QB could certainly be the future Bears starting QB if Fields doesn’t pan out.

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With the improvement of people's living standard, fried snacks are becoming more and more popular, and people pay more attention to health issues, so there are higher requirements for fried snacks. There are many different fried snacks, and the Frying System Line can fry different types of food, such as vegetables, deli food, meat, etc. So, how to use Frying System Line?
The operation of the Frying System Line is actually very simple. It consists of an automatic belt conveyor system, automatic lifting system, oiling system, oil filtering system, and automatic temperature control system. The assembly line design, the structure is reasonable, only one to two people can complete the entire operation, the degree of automation is very high. Let's take a look at its operation steps in detail.
The Fryer safety operation process mainly includes the preparation before starting the machine, the operation in the start-up state, and the cleaning after use. The specific steps are as follows:
First, the preparation before starting the machine
1, half an hour in advance to start the heat-conducting oil furnace.
2, turn on the main power switch of the fryer.
3, start the fryer rise button and check the mesh belt, bearings, and other rotating parts.
4, check whether there is debris or water inside each machine. If so, promptly clean up.
5, the correct installation of oil filter paper and adjust the position to ensure that the machine can operate normally.
6, check the peripheral piping and circulation system of the fryer, and press the button to reset the fryer if it is correct.
Second, start the machine
1, slowly add oil to the fryer until it is above the non-stick pan.
2, press the power distribution cabinet on the heating power control switch.
3, set the oil temperature parameters of the fryer according to production needs.
4, turn on the scraping control power and oil filtering, circulation pump system.
5, wait for the oil temperature to rise above 150 ℃ to start the mesh belt, non-stick pan, and oil replenishment power control.
6、Shut down the oil furnace heating system and cooling system ten minutes before the end of production.
Third, the cleaning steps after use
1、Ensure that all power has been turned off.
2, first, clean up the large residues, and then carefully check all parts that may be left with dirt, and carefully clean them up.
3, add clean water to the fryer, heat, and cook for about half an hour to drain off the sewage.
4、Use a high-pressure gun to clean the dirt in the fryer, carefully clean the oil pan, filter, rinse the inner and outer cover until clean.
5、Check all areas, check whether each part is clean, such as unclean re-cleaning.
6, after cleaning, close the drain valve, stop the mesh belt running, and turn off the main power supply.
The above is the operation process of the fryer. As long as you are using it with a little attention and follow the above methods correctly, you can basically complete the use of the fryer. In addition, the daily maintenance of frying equipment is also very important. Do a good job of frying machine maintenance work to extend the machine's life, save costs, and improve production efficiency. The following is an introduction to the maintenance of equipment.
Maintenance methods for frying equipment.
1, The equipment should be cleaned after each use. When cleaning, use a soft cloth soaked in neutral detergent to wipe gently. Do not use metal brushes, corrosive solvents, etc., so as not to damage the surface of the pot.
2、Every time the equipment is used, the use of various parts will become inflexible. You should regularly add lubricant to the equipment to ensure that the equipment can work smoothly.
3、Check the working condition of each part regularly to see if there is any failure in some places or aging of parts and solve any problems in time.
The above is the operation steps of the Frying System Line and daily maintenance methods. We should follow the correct method steps to operate when using and do a good job of daily maintenance of equipment to ensure the smooth production process, extend the service life of the equipment, and improve production efficiency.


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We have the pleasure to offer you daily cruises with sailing boats starting from the harbour of Chania old town in reasonable prices.
Sailing trips with a Dromor 37 ft, with a maximum speed of 7.5 mph and a capacity of 8 people. The boat trips usually start at 10:00 am from the Old Harbour. Our destinations are beaches and small islands around the Chania bay such as Maherida in Tersanas village of Akrotiri, then to Theodorou island and Lazaretta.
Beaches and small islands close to Chania. The weather will always determine the direction we will follow. We return back around 17:00 - 17.30 pm.
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Congratulations to all the exhibitors at the 2010 Lucky 7 AQHA Classic.
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First things first: OH THANK GOD MATEUS SANTOLOUCO IS BACK!
This is not even remotely a knock against the previous few issues' artwork, but is instead a testament to how damn good Santolouco is, and how integral his work is to this book.
The man draws basically the best-looking anthropomorphic animals this side of Ben Dewey, and his design of not just the Turtles, but his improvements on the entire cast of characters in their universe has made this book one of the very best on the shelves today. And he's back, thank the Great Burning Eye.
This issue not only sees the return of Santolouco (one of the most, if not THE most, underrated artists working today), but also the return of a prodigal son, the return to an epic battle scene, and the return of a character some of us have been waiting for since IDW put out issue #1.
Michelangelo returns to the Fab Four after a brief tangent with the Mighty Mutanimals, and his presence is immediately appreciated by the Turtles AND the reader - he injects the levity that is sorely missed in his absence.
The gang return to Burnow Island, where they last battled General Krang and his Utrom henchmen in their quest to conquer this dimension. The island has been terraformed since the battle, with the Technodrome affecting the composition of the island and its mysterious inhabitants. One of those inhabitants happens to be....
This marks the giant gator's first appearance in the IDW realm, and Eastman & Waltz & Curnow weave a new origin for him that vastly deviates from his appearances in the Archie and Mirage series: in this he was a simple alligator who encountered some of the Utrom's mutagen sometime in the 18th century, and has spent his many years since mutating on Burnow Island and avoiding contact with the various occupants. Once the island was infected by the Technodrome and turned deadly, he made a deal with the Fugitoid and the Turtles to escape his now-tainted home.
Since this is the start of a new arc, we only get snippets of future dread, like how the mysterious silhouettes on the island will interact with the good guys, or how Splinter has assigned someone to stand guard at Shredder's tomb. And yet there is so much damn good in this issue that waiting for the next one will be an exquisite torture.
Also: SANTOLOUCO IS BACK!
LOWDOWN: 9 out of 10 pelvic thrusts. Love the new arc, love the mystery, and fucking LURVE Santolouco's triumphant resuming of artistic duties.

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Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (NasdaqGS: SPPI), a biopharmaceutical company focused on novel and targeted oncology therapies, today presented results from Cohort 3 and initial twice daily (BID) dosing safety and efficacy data for poziotinib from Cohort 5 of the ZENITH20 clinical trial. These preliminary data demonstrate improved tolerability with BID dosing, reduced dose interruption compared to once daily (QD) dosing, and a reduction in treatment emergent Grade 3 or higher adverse events. The preliminary data also suggest improved anti-tumor activity with 8mg BID dosing. The presentation is part of the European Society for Medical Oncology Targeted Anticancer Therapies (ESMO TAT) Virtual Congress 2021 being held March 1-2, 2021.
"As predicted by the pharmacokinetic modeling, the 8mg BID arm is showing an improved therapeutic effect and a lowered adverse event rate in this early data," said Francois Lebel, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals. "The data build on the positive results we have reported for Cohort 2 which will be the basis for our NDA submission later this year. We look forward to reporting additional data at AACR in April."
A copy of the ESMO presentation titled "Safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of poziotinib with twice daily strategy in EGFR/HER2 Exon 20 mutant non-small cell lung cancer" is available on Spectrum’s website at https://investor.sppirx.com/events-and-presentations.
ZENITH20 Trial Design and Preliminary Safety and Efficacy Data for Cohort 5
Cohort 5 of the ZENITH20 trial includes previously treated NSCLC patients with EGFR or HER2 exon 20 insertion mutations. This cohort is investigating the efficacy of poziotinib with a BID dosing strategy. For the first 20 patients randomized to poziotinib 16 mg QD or 8 mg BID in Cohort 5, a trend towards improved responses was reported in the BID arm with 30% of patients reaching a partial response and two patients still too early to evaluate.
Preliminary Data on Best Overall Response
PR - Partial Response
SD - Stable Disease
PD - Progressive Disease
NE - Not Evaluable (withdrawn)
NA - Too Early to Assess
Improved tolerability was also observed, with a greater than 30% reduction in Grade 3 or higher adverse events for the BID arms relative to QD. In addition, there were 23% fewer dose interruptions for 8mg BID vs 16mg QD and 43% fewer dose interruptions for 6mg BID vs 12mg QD.
BID Dosing Exposure and Safety
Preliminary Data (study enrolling)
Drug Interruption, n (%)
Treatment Related AE ≥ Grade 3
While preliminary, these data support the hypothesis that BID dosing could improve the therapeutic effect for patients receiving poziotinib and result in better outcomes. Cohort 5 is continuing to enroll patients and a presentation of additional results is expected later this year at a medical conference.
Poziotinib is a novel, oral epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR TKI) that inhibits the tyrosine kinase activity of EGFR as well as HER2 and HER4. Importantly this, in turn, leads to the inhibition of the proliferation of tumor cells that overexpress these receptors. Mutations or overexpression/amplification of EGFR family receptors have been associated with a number of different cancers, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), breast cancer, and gastric cancer. The company holds an exclusive license from Hanmi Pharmaceuticals to develop, manufacture, and commercialize poziotinib worldwide, excluding Korea and China. Poziotinib is currently being investigated by the company and Hanmi in several mid-stage trials in multiple solid tumor indications.
About Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on acquiring, developing, and commercializing novel and targeted oncology therapies. Spectrum has a strong track record of successfully executing across the biopharmaceutical business model, from in-licensing and acquiring differentiated drugs, clinically developing novel assets, successfully gaining regulatory approvals and commercializing in a competitive healthcare marketplace. Spectrum has a late-stage pipeline with novel assets that serve areas of unmet need. This pipeline has the potential to transform the company in the near future. For additional information on Spectrum Pharmaceuticals please visit www.sppirx.com.
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Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended to date. These forward-looking statements relate to a variety of matters, including, without limitation, statements that relate to Spectrum’s business and its future, including the significance of the preliminary dosing data for poziotinib, including the ability to achieve an improved therapeutic effect and a lowered adverse event rate with BID dosing; the company’s plans to present additional study results at a medical conference later in the year; poziotinib’s potential to significantly advance the treatment of NSCLC patients with EGFR or HER2 exon 20 insertion mutations; the timing and results of the company’s planned NDA submission; the overall progression of the poziotinib development program; the company’s ability to advance and fund the development and commercialization of its late-stage pipeline assets and such assets’ ability to serve areas of unmet need; the future potential of the company’s existing drug pipeline and its ability to transform the company in the near future; and other statements that are not purely statements of historical fact. These forward-looking statements are made on the basis of the current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions of the management of Spectrum and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what may be expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. Risks that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, the possibility that the different methodologies, assumptions and applications the company utilizes to assess particular safety or efficacy parameters may yield different statistical results, and even if the company believes the data collected from the clinical trials of its product candidates, including poziotinib, are positive, these data may not be sufficient to support approval by the FDA; the possibility that success in early clinical trials, especially if based on a small patient sample, might not result in success in later clinical trials, and other unforeseen events during clinical trials which could cause delays or other adverse consequences; other uncertainties inherent in new product development; the possibility that Spectrum’s new and existing drug candidates, including poziotinib, may not ultimately prove to be safe or effective; the possibility that Spectrum’s new and existing drug candidates, if approved, may not be more effective, safer, or more cost efficient than competing drugs; and other risks that are described in further detail in the company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The company does not plan to update any such forward-looking statements and expressly disclaims any duty to update the information contained in this press release except as required by law. For a further discussion of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to the business of Spectrum in general, see the risk disclosures in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Spectrum for the year ended December 31, 2019, and in subsequent reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K and other filings made with the SEC by Spectrum.
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Deal or No Deal, which was a hit in prime time for NBC, was adapted to a half-hour, daytime format with a top prize of $500,000. New episodes began airing five days per week on September 7, 2009. During taping periods, the demand for studio audience members can be great, as the game show tapes as many as 10 episodes per day.
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AMD is leveraging on EPYC to compete and make a mark in the server market.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has launched the EPYC (formerly codenamed Naples), a new family of high-performance products for cloud-based and traditional on-premise datacentres that deliver the Zen x86 processing engine scaling up to 32 physical cores. The first EPYC-based servers will launch in June.
With its high core count, superior memory bandwidth, and unparalleled support for high-speed input/output channels in a single chip, EPYC aims to revolutionize the dual-socket server market while simultaneously reshaping expectations for single-socket servers.
The company claims that the EPYC exceeds today's top competitive offering on critical parameters, with 45 per cent more cores, 60 per cent more input/output capacity (I/O)2, and 122 per cent more memory bandwidth.
"Dropbox is currently evaluating AMD EPYC CPUs in-house, and we are impressed with the initial performance we see across workloads in single-socket configurations,” said Akhil Gupta, vice president of infrastructure at Dropbox. “The combination of core performance, memory bandwidth, and I/O support make EPYC a unique offering. We look forward to continuing to evaluate EPYC as an option for our infrastructure."
- Highly scalable, 32-core SoC design, with support for two high-performance threads per core
- High-quality memory bandwidth, with 8 channels of memory per EPYC device. In a dual-socket server, support for up to 32 DIMMS of DDR4 on 16 memory channels, delivering up to 4 terabytes of total memory capacity
- Complete SoC with fully integrated, high-speed I/O supporting 128 lanes of PCIe 3, negating the need for a separate chip-set
- Highly optimised cache structure for high-performance, energy-efficient computing
- Infinity Fabric coherent interconnect for two EPYC CPUs in a dual-socket system
- Dedicated security hardware
“Today’s single-socket server offerings push buyers toward purchasing a more expensive two-socket server just to get the memory bandwidth and I/O they need to support the compute performance of the cores,” said Matthew Eastwood, senior vice president, IDC. “There are no fully-featured, high-performance server processors available today in a single-socket configuration. EPYC changes that dynamic by offering a single-processor solution that delivers the right-sized number of high-performance cores, memory, and I/O for today’s workloads.”


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We list hundreds of Clinical Trials about "Identifying Predictors Of Response To Antipsychotics Using A Treatment Algorithm" on BioPortfolio. We draw our references from global clinical trials data listed on ClinicalTrials.gov and refresh our database daily.
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The objective of this study is to evaluate predictors of response to antipsychotic medication in subjects with schizophrenia. The investigators will evaluate psychopathology,brain MRI, genetics and neuropsychological profile. Two groups of treatment will be compared: first generation antipsychotics vs. second generation antipsychotics. Participants will be randomized to one of the groups. Trial duration: 12 weeks.
Background: The aims of this study were to explore the relationship between early reduction in psychotic symptoms and the ultimate response in patients with schizophrenia treated by atypical antipsychotics, and to determine the best time to switch or maitain the regimen. PI also explore the possible predictors for the clinical response. Methods: One hundred eleven inpatients with acutely exacerbated schizophrenia were randomized to give optimal therapy of olanzapine, risperido...
Aggressive behaviours in long-term care (LTC) is a difficult health care issue to manage. One method that has been over-used is the prescription of antipsychotics for the behaviours and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). This high prevalence of use is a recognized health care problem in Ontario and around the world; increased antipsychotics use is associated with increased falls and mortality. Existing strategies are educational in nature and are not systematic; the goa...
The benefits and harms of antipsychotics are relatively well studied in adults. However, there is a lack of scientifically valid studies regarding the benefits and harms of antipsychotics in children and adolescents with psychosis. The main objective of the TEA trial is to compare the efficacy and adverse reactions of two antipsychotics (quetiapine versus aripiprazole) in children and adolescents between 12-17 years of age with psychotic symptoms on psychopathology, cognitive ...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential early EEG predictors of an individual's response to treatment with antidepressant medications. Objectives: - Prospectively confirm accuracy of current EEG biomarker algorithm - Determine preferred clinical intervention for subjects with negative indicator - Identify predictors of worsening suicide ideation
This prospective observational study will evaluate predictors of response to Invirase (saquinavir) treatment in treatment-naïve patients with HIV infection. Data will be collected during 48 weeks of treatment.
The current study will examine neurophysiological, specifically event-related potential (ERP), measures of emotional processing as predictors of response to cognitive behavior therapy for adolescent depression.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a very heterogeneous disorder with limited empirically validated behavioral and biological interventions. The goal of this pilot investigation is to apply a biologically-based approach to identify predictors of treatment response in children with ASD who are receiving Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), an evidence-based behavioral intervention. Specifically, the investigators propose to identify neuroimaging biomarkers of treatment response to a...
The main objective of this trial is to search for biomarkers associated with the success of adalimumab treatment in order to generate an algorithm to predict the response to this treatment at 6 months in spondyloarthritis and to define its metrological properties on this cohort. The algorithm will allow to better target patients who will have an important benefit/risk ratio for adalimumab treatment.
This is a randomized controlled trial aimed to determine highly specific personified predictors of response to the therapy by different groups of hypoglycemic drugs (SGLT-2 inhibitors, DPP-4 inhibitors, GLP-1 receptor agonists, sulfonylureas) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, develop an algorithm of personalized therapy based on them, design an organizational and methodological model for prevention of the cardiovascular complications, and create an automated decision-m...
The aim of the study is to evaluate a clinically and economically most effective diagnostic algorithm for prediction of inflammatory response related complications in patients undergoing heart surgery with use of cardiopulmonary bypass.
The primary aim of this prospective study is to evaluate the effect of antipsychotics on infant development especially neurobehavioral development which evaluated by the Bayley-III when mothers are treated with antipsychotics throughout their pregnancy.
The overall goal of this investigator-initiated trial is to evaluate the impact of platform algorithm products designed to rapidly identify pharmacokinetic (PK) and/or pharmacodynamic (PD) genomic variation on treatment outcome of depression in adolescents. This new technology may have the potential to optimize treatment selection by improving response, minimizing unfavorable adverse events / side effects and increasing treatment adherence
The aim of this trial is the caracterisation of a predicting algorithm of the answering response for patients with etanercept treatment in spondyloarthritis disease. This algorithm will help to target patients patients who have a risk / benefit important for etanercept treatment.
assessment of very rapid virological response and rapid virological response as predictors of response to sofosbuvir and daclatasvir in treatment of cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic patients with HCV, eligible to treatment.
The overall goal of this investigator-initiated trial is to evaluate the treatment outcome of depression utilizing platform algorithm products that can allow rapid identification of pharmacokinetic (PK) and/or pharmacodynamic (PD) genomic variation. This new technology may have the potential to optimize treatment selection by improving response, minimizing unfavorable adverse events / side effects and increasing treatment adherence.
This observational study will assess predictors of early on-treatment and sustained virological response in treatment-naïve patients with chronic hepatitis C initiated on treatment with Pegasys (peginterferon alfa-2a) or peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin. Data will be collected during the treatment period (24 or 48 weeks) and 12 and 24 weeks after the end of treatment. Target sample size is
This observational study will assess predictors of early on-treatment and sustained virological response in treatment-naïve patients with chronic hepatitis C initiated on treatment with Pegasys (peginterferon alfa-2a) and ribavirin. Data will be collected during the treatment period (24 or 48 weeks) and 12 and 24 weeks after the end of treatment. Target sample size is
In 2014, the Spanish Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica (SEOM) algorithm for the treatment of hyponatraemia secondary to to syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) in oncology patients was developed. Since it is hypothesised that the adherence to the SEOM algorithm is not 100%, the current retrospective non-interventional study will investigate the perceived and actual adherence of participating centres to the SEOM algorithm and its impact on patient outcom...
To assess the quantitative real time PCR results of oligonucleotide probes for a number of gene transcription products that may be useful as predictors or indicators of response to letrozole
Assess if the implementation of a treatment algorithm will improve the management of Crohn's disease (CD) in comparison to usual care based gastroenterology practices.
The Medtronic InSync III Marquis Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillator (CRT-D)-System (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator with biventricular stimulation for cardiac resynchronization) is equipped with the "Conducted-Atrial Fibrillation (AF)-Response-Algorithm (CAFR)". This algorithm is designed to maximize biventricular stimulation and thus the amount of cardiac resynchronization when atrial fibrillation occurs. The goal of the study is the evaluation of the effec...
The main purpose is to show the percentage of patients taking antipsychotics with PTSD by looking at approximately ten year’s worth of data from 1994 through 2004. We will also determine the type and dose of antipsychotics the patients received, and to determine how many of those patients had psychotic versus nonpsychotic symptoms. We will be obtaining this data from the VISN 7 Corporate Data Warehouse. We hypothesize that there has been an overall increase in antipsychoti...
The purpose of the study is to determine whether motivation/reward deficits observed in schizophrenia are attenuated by add-on TAK-041 administration to second generation antipsychotics (SGA) in participants with stable schizophrenia.
The purpose of this study is to validate the use of an algorithm as a clinical decision support tool for identifying potential cases of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) from electronic health record (EHR) systems for further screening. The algorithm will be tested in adults with at least one cardiovascular comorbidity. Study subjects will be asked to provide either a saliva, buccal or venous blood sample for DNA and biomarker analysis.

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