The technology will deliver enhanced day-to-day and major incident response capability

Chris gets review bombed outta existence, after Pascal gleefully mocks the list of games that Chris still didn't play. Anna Marie insists genital monsters yes, f-bombs no. Kelley thinks Anna Marie should get out of the pocket of Big Farming. We're all pretty tired from vaccine side effects, please bear with us.

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Anna Marie wonders why we can't be friends. Jonathan becomes a Marbula One fan. Kelley engages "pants off, games on" mode. And Chris learns that the only person he's cheating is himself...and his dire gryphon.

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One of my favourite satires is the Screwtape Letters, an epistolary novel by Narnia scribe C.S. Lewis. It consists of messages from an oily elder demon to his nephew about how to correctly groom the soul of an unsuspecting human being. It's a claustrophobic send-up of managerial politics and nepotism, with World War 1 unfolding in the background. A real pick-me-up. Sintopia is the Two Point incarnation of that premise - in other words, brighter and breezier and definitely more slapstick than Christian. It puts you in charge of a world divided between Earth and hell, and challenges you to ensure a steady movement of optimally sinful souls between one and the other. Say your prayers and watch the trailer.

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Foxhole is one of my favourite games to read about, even if I don't play it. It's a massively multiplayer World War 2 game, viewed from above, where battlefield logistics matters as much as aiming and flanking. Its developers have just announced a major new update coming next summer, Foxhole: Airborne, which adds planes to the game for the first time.

Planes, in a topdown MMO? It makes a little more sense if you watch the trailer.

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In the centre of a distant galaxy, a supermassive black hole has swallowed up a star 9 times the sun’s mass in the biggest and brightest such cosmic meal we’ve ever seen

The Milky Way may be home to strange black holes from the first moments of the universe, and the best candidates are the three closest black holes to Earth

The long-standing mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so huge so quickly could be solved by decaying dark matter

Spanning 23 million light years, or 220 Milky Way galaxies, a set of giant, newly discovered black hole jets known as Porphyrion may change our understanding of black holes and the structure of the universe

How did the supermassive black holes we’re now seeing in the early universe get so big so fast? Astrophysicist Sophie Koudmani is using sophisticated galaxy simulations to figure it out

General relativity teaches us that observing a black hole is all a question of perspective – and technique, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

In order to promote the flow of soothing energies, starting October 1st all TIGS folk are wholly encouraged to consider taking part in The Wholesome Competition. Less of a bloody-toothed competition between gladiatorial rivals and more of a friendly environment to tinker away merrily on a small project with pals. A call to jolly cooperation, […]

On October 8, 2024, Drug Channels Institute will release our 2024-25 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors. This report—our fifteenth edition—remains the most comprehensive, fact-based tool for understanding and analyzing the large and growing U.S. pharmaceutical distribution industry.

9 chapters, 350+ pages, 178 exhibits, 750+ endnotes: There is nothing else available that comes close to this valuable resource.

We are providing you with the opportunity to preorder this thoroughly updated, revised, and expanded 2024-25 edition at special discounted prices. This means that you can be among the first to access our new report. Those who preorder will receive a download link before October 8.

• Review pricing/license options and place a preorder

• Download a free pre-publication report overview (including key industry trends, What's New in this edition, the Table of Contents, and a List of Exhibits)

You can pay online with all major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover) or via PayPal. Click here to contact us if you would like to pay by corporate check or ACH.

Special preorder and launch pricing discounts will be valid through October 23, 2024.

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I am pleased to announce Drug Channels Institute's new 2024–25 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors, available for purchase and immediate download.

• Download a free report overview (including key industry trends, the Table of Contents, and a List of Exhibits)

• Review pricing/license options and download the full 2024-25 report

We’re offering special discounted pricing if you order before October 23, 2024.

2024–25 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors—our 15th edition--remains the most comprehensive, fact-based tool for understanding and analyzing the large and growing U.S. pharmaceutical distribution industry. This 2024-25 edition includes substantial new material—outlined on page vii of the report overview.

9 chapters, 380+ pages, 178 exhibits, more than 750 endnotes: There is nothing else available that comes close to this valuable resource.

You can pay online with all major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover) or via PayPal. Click here to contact us if you would like to pay by corporate check or ACH.

Email Paula Fein (paula@drugchannels.net) if you’d like to bundle your report purchase with access to DCI’s video webinars.

If you preordered the report, you should have already received an email with download instructions last week. Please contact us if you did not receive your email.

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As regular readers of Drug Channels know, U.S. distribution and dispensing channels for prescription drugs are undergoing significant evolution and consolidation as the changing economics of pharmaceuticals challenge conventional business models.

During this period of volatility, the core business model of the Big Three public pharmaceutical distribution companies—Cardinal Health, Cencora, and McKesson—remains intact. Put simply: Buy low, sell high, collect early, and pay late.

But as I explain below, wholesalers continue to position themselves as essential intermediaries by expanding their industry position and strengthening their economic fundamentals.

Read on for five key pricing, pharmacy, provider, and manufacturer trends that are driving the U.S. drug wholesaling industry.

For even more, check out DCI's new 2024-25 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors, the fifteenth edition of our deep dive into wholesale distribution channels.Click here to download a free report overview (including key industry trends, the table of contents, and a list of exhibits)
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BJ's Wholesale Club Members now have the option to �pick up and pay� at all of its 213 club locations along the east coast.

Video of legally-blind photographer living his Whole Day, as he captures a celebration of senses and movement

We have to do better. If you feel attacked, it's about you.

With everything going on these days, sometimes it's good to give ourselves a break from the usual late night creepshow classics. Join the SA Forum photoshop goons in their quest to make horror wholesome!

The Smile “The Slip” It’s unfortunate that The Smile records have to carry the weight of questions like “wait, is there never going to be another Radiohead album?” and “hold on, so is this basically Radiohead from now on?” But what can you do? Those are big questions for anyone who’d want to listen to […]

Economists say the state of public finances should not have come as a complete surprise to the new government.

Primary medlinkliver cancer/medlink is a malignant tumor that starts in the liver. It is the sixth most commonly occurring cancer worldwide and the

Bharat Biotech announced the release of an medlinkoral cholera vaccine/medlink (OCV), a significant public health issue in regions with inadequate sanitation (!--ref1--).

Eating an egg a day is both heart-friendly and safe, with no risk of increasing blood cholesterol.

Cholesterol are of two types namely high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL). HDL or good cholesterol

Commonly touted as bgood cholesterol/b for helping to reduce risk of stroke and heart attack, both high and low levels of high-density lipoprotein

Using next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, researchers were able to pinpoint specific areas of a person's DNA to more effectively diagnose genetic

Moderate drinking was associated with slower declines in high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or good cholesterol, over time in Chinese, according to a preliminary

Very aggressive reduction of LDL-cholesterol to ultra-low levels was associated with progressively fewer cardiovascular events and appears to pose no

More than 600,000 Danes are being treated with cholesterol lowering medicine. 98 per cent of them are treated with statins, which curb the body's own

A newer method of calculating so-called "bad cholesterol" levels in the blood is more accurate than the older method in people who did not fast before blood was drawn.

Using a variation of CRISPR gene editing may be a potential strategy for mimicking the protective effects of a genetic mutation linked to lower cholesterol levels and heart disease risks.

Most people with severe elevations in cholesterol are not treated with appropriate drugs. Less than 40 percent receive treatment, despite many screening and awareness programs.

Study conducted by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania on genome editing in non-human primates highlights

University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers have found that postmenopausal factors may have an impact on the heart-protective

Blood donation programs were found to help identify donors with the often undiagnosed genetic disorder familial hypercholesterolemia, which results in

A new association between early-onset Alzheimer's disease and increased LDL cholesterol levels has been identified by Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Emory University researchers.

Nonfasting lipid levels were same as fasting lipid levels in the same individuals, which helps to predict the risk of cardiovascular diseases, according

Red and white meat such as poultry were found to be equally bad for blood cholesterol, said study published today in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

The number of eggs people consume is linked to increased risk of heart disease and death, stated UMass Lowell nutrition expert who has studied the issue.

A new study of global cholesterol levels has revealed that cholesterol levels are declining sharply in Western nations, but rising in low- and middle-income nations - particularly in Asia.

Analysis of HDL-P, which tally how many particles of HDL are circulating in the blood, is a better predictor of heart attack and stroke compared to the

Autism subtype arising from a cluster of genes that regulate cholesterol metabolism and brain development has been identified by researchers at Harvard

Teenagers with high cholesterol levels have an increased risk of heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular events during middle age, according to a