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Comments on biosimilar streamlining efforts and context on commercial barriers to competition
Editor's note: The author submitted this comment letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 5, 2026. In March 2026, the FDA released draft guidance updating Q&As on biosimilar development under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (Revision 4).
FDA's new Commissioner's National Priority Voucher has lofty goals. Can it deliver?
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (CNPV) pilot program in June 2025, offering drug makers an expedited 30 to60–day review to motivate specific U.S. public health goals. The program’s five stated priorities are: addressing public health crises, delivering innovative cures, meeting unmet medical needs, strengthening supply chains through onshored drug manufacturing, and increasing affordability.
Top Digital Transformation Consulting Firms in 2025
Discover the top digital transformation consulting firms of 2025, specializing in innovative solutions like AI, blockchain, and sustainable IT practices. Learn how these firms help businesses modernize operations, enhance customer engagement, and achieve measurable growth across diverse industries. Find the ideal consulting partner to navigate your organization’s transformation journey with tailored strategies and proven expertise.
Jalen Hurts' victory cigar, outfit went crazy viral on social media
In case you’ve been living under a rock or maybe, still partying on Broad Street, Jalen Hurts’ silenced pretty much everyone (with a brain) who doubted him on Sunday as his Philadelphia Eagles punched their tickets to the Super Bowl for the second time in the last three years. Upon his arrival to The Linc on Sunday, Jalen Hurts was all business. After the game, it was evident that QB1 wasn’t phased by the moment as he stood alone in the locker room, lighting up a cigar as he took the pads off.
Ravens' pregame post on Mark Andrews Backfires Embrrassingly
The Baltimore Ravens are going to want a do-over on their pregame social media post about Mark Andrews- aged like milk. Ahead of their AFC Divisional Round playoff game against the Buffalo Bills, the Ravens posted a video of Mark Andrews warming up in shorts and a sleeveless shirt, during frigid weather hovering around 20 degrees or lower. “A little snow doesn’t bother [Mark Andrews], ” the team’s post said. A little snow doesn’t bother @Mandrews_81.
WATCH: Ja Morant's Poster Dunk on Victor Wembanyama – The Best Dunk That Never Counted
On Wednesday night Ja Morant delivered what might be the dunk of the year in San Antonio, but there’s a slight catch-it didn’t even count. When it comes to throwing down absolutely insane posters that do not count, ALMOST Morant might be the greatest of all time. All jokes aside, I love Morant’s attitude and aggression at the rim. He is going for the poster and highlight reel regardless of who is in the way.
Jimmy Butler stirs the pot with new preferred trade destination
Jimmy Butler reportedly now has his sights set on joining the Phoenix Suns, but there is a massive roadblock in the way. As I am sure we are all aware, Butler has requested a trade from the Miami Heat, going public and private with this request. A new report this week surfaced that states the star forward’s favored destination would be Phoenix. Sounds like a slam dunk, right? Not just yet.
Deion Sanders Jr. reveals shocking information about Heisman Winner Travis Hunter receiving no money from Colorado NIL
With the new age of college sports, it is no secret that athletes are cashing in like never before with all of the NIL deals. It feels like the Wild West out there-everyone has been chasing the bag and we’re all here for it. Nobody making more noise in this department than Deion Sanders. Leave it to the Buff’s two-way phenom and Heisman Winner to completely flip this script. Deion Sanders Jr. revealed that Hunter hasn’t taken a single dime from Colorado’s NIL collective.
How Lonzo Ball's freak injuries and return are shockingly similar to Joel Embiid's knee situation
After missing over 2.5 years, Lonzo Ball finally returned to NBA action this season, but it hasn’t been pretty. After countless freak knee injuries and not even being able to walk it seemed unsure if Ball would ever be the same or even be able to play basketball anymore. Sound familiar Sixer fans? I know how brutal it was all those years we never thought Joel Embiid would even make his debut, let alone be an MVP in this league.
WATCH: Joel Embiid Dominates in His Return, Tyrese Maxey First Career Triple-Double as Sixers beat Bulls
The process is back, and boy did he put a smile back on many Sixers fans’ faces, including mine. I know how frustrating and mentally taxing it has been seeing the pregame reports and knowing Joel Embiid is still battling injuries. Personally speaking, it has been absolute hell trying to watch my Sixers fight for wins without our beloved big fella. This was just Embiid’s fifth game of the season, and it has heavily contributed to the Sixers’ poor record to start the year.
The Jameis Winston Experience: Franchise Record in passing yards is not enough to overcome the Broncos
Jameis Winston is the ultimate chaoticly good quarterback, and that’s why he should be everyone’s favorite player who doesn’t rock your squad’s jersey. The dude is the human embodiment of “any given play.” One second, he’s threading a no-look dime through three defenders, and the next, he’s tossing a pick-six that makes you question if he’s working undercover for the other team. He’s like your buddy in Madden who only throws deep balls—no game plan, no fear, just vibes.
The Jameis Winston Experience: Franchise Record in passing yards is not enough to overcome the Broncos
Jameis Winston is the ultimate chaoticly good quarterback, and that’s why he should be everyone’s favorite player who doesn’t rock your squad’s jersey. The dude is the human embodiment of “any given play.” One second, he’s threading a no-look dime through three defenders, and the next, he’s tossing a pick-six that makes you question if he’s working undercover for the other team. He’s like your buddy in Madden who only throws deep balls—no game plan, no fear, just vibes.
MADNESS: Commanders vs Cowboys game ends in complete chaos as PFT Commenter leaves Barstool watch party
Let’s talk about this ridiculous Cowboys- Commanders game that somehow ended in a Dallas win. As an Eagles fan, watching this dumpster fire felt like ordering some wings and accidentally getting extra sauce- oh so messy but oh so satisfying. One of those rare instances where I caught myself pulling for a Cowboys win. Only so my Birds can gain an even bigger lead at the top of the NFC East.
LaMelo Ball fined $100K after saying "no homo" in postgame interview
LaMelo Ball got slapped with a $100,000 fine from the NBA for saying what most people would consider a throwaway line after Saturday night’s nail-biter win over the Milwaukee Bucks. Reporter Shannon Spake asked LaMelo Ball about the team’s defense against Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo on the last play of the game. Ball answered by saying the Hornets “loaded up” and quickly dropped a “no homo” before finishing his answer.
Why Joel Embiid should dominate Karl-Anthony Towns in his season debut tonight
FOR THE CUP: Joel Embiid is expected to make his season debut tonight after a lingering knee injury and more recently, a three-game suspension kept him off the basketball court through the first nine games of the Philadelphia 76ers’ 2024-25 schedule. The 76ers, they have been absolutely miserable to watch, posting a lousy 2-7 record without Embiid anchoring the team.
From Hero to Villain: Paul George receives boos from Clippers fans in his return to Los Angeles
Paul George made his return to Los Angeles last night, but this time he was suited up for the Philadelphia 76ers after cashing in on a four-year, $212 million max contract over the summer. It was PG’s second game in a 76ers uniform and he was facing his old squad in the Clippers.
Every spot Kevin Durant has scored from in his career, the NBA's greatest scorer of all time?
Kevin Durant has always been known as one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history. A 7 footer with the handles of a guard and maybe the best shot-creation ability we have ever seen. In my personal opinion, I believe he is the best bucket-getter of all time and while some of the stats may not fully back this up I like leaving it up to the eye test. Sure, I could mention prime James Harden, Lebron James (NBA’s leading scorer of all time), Kobe Bean Bryant, or even the GOAT Michael Jordan.
WATCH: Lou Williams Gives His Thoughts on the reporter who crossed the line and violated Joel Embiid
I am sure by now we are all aware of the idiotic reporter Marcus Hayes who thought it would be right to comment on Joel Embiid’s availability amid the death of his brother Arthur and tied that into Embiid being unprofessional and not being in shape. Well, former Sixer and professional bucket-getter Lou Williams shared his thoughts on the situation.
Lebron James pulls up in Scream mask to Lakers vs. Raptors game in Lebronto and continues his reign of terror in Scotiabank arena
Lebron James arrived in Toronto making quite the entrance for the game, wearing a Scream mask ahead of his matchup against the Raptors. James shared this outfit on his Instagram story with the caption “Live From LeBronto”. As we all know King James has terrorized the Toronto Raptors and their entire fanbase for his entire career. To us fans, it is clear he is aware of it as well. Throughout his career, James has left his mark in pretty much every NBA area and left many fanbases in despair.
Midlands Voices: 313% hike in cigarette tax would hit low-income Nebraskans, small business
Nebraska is at a crossroads as discussions about a proposed tobacco tax increase gain momentum. While the intention behind such measures often revolves around health concerns and revenue generation, it is crucial that lawmakers study the potential negative consequences, particularly for low-income individuals, fixed-income seniors, and small businesses. As Gov. Jim Pillen seeks ways to reduce property taxes, he is proposing a tobacco tax hike that would include a $2 per cigarette pack tax increase.
Generated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, & Data Security
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Revisiting A Leap in the Dark After Thirty Years
In the months following the Fifth International AIDS Conference, which took place in Montreal in the summer of 1989, activists Allan Klusaček and Ken Morrison were busy piecing together what would become a seminal anthology of HIV/AIDS cultural criticism entitled A Leap In the Dark: AIDS, Art & Contemporary Cultures. The two had travelled in similar social circles for years, but it was at a mutual friend’s funeral in the late eighties where they became closer friends and then collaborators.
Instance segmentation of mitochondria in electron microscopy images with a generalist deep learning model.
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Sex, taxes & COVID-19: How sex workers navigated pandemic relief efforts
Government support programs like CERB and EI provide a safety net. During COVID-19, sex workers accessed various financial support — future policy needs to address the rights and security of sex workers. As COVID-19 forced Canadians to stay home and many stop working, people across numerous sectors were confused as to which income replacement programs they were eligible for.
Sex, taxes and COVID-19: How sex workers navigated pandemic relief efforts
Some tools of the trade for sex workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Ryan Conrad, Author provided As COVID-19 forced Canadians to stay home and many stop working, people across numerous sectors were confused as to which income replacement programs they were eligible for. Sex workers in particular—with their precarious legal status and de facto criminalization—did not seem to be accounted for in any of the programs.
Busting Myths about Sex Workers, Taxes and CERB
Analysis | Rights + Justice | Labour + Industry | Gender + Sexuality We set out to find the truth about sex workers’ ability to access pandemic benefits. By Ryan Conrad and Emma McKenna Yesterday | The Conversation Ryan Conrad is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in cinema and media studies with Archive/Counter-Archive at York University in Toronto. Emma McKenna is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa in the department of criminology.
Sex, taxes & COVID-19: How sex workers navigated pandemic relief efforts
As COVID-19 forced Canadians to stay home and many stop working, people across numerous sectors were confused as to which income replacement programs they were eligible for. Sex workers in particular — with their precarious legal status and de facto criminalization — did not seem to be accounted for in any of the programs.
The Importance of Knowing AIDS History
To understand the AIDS crisis that started 40 years ago, we need to listen to those who experienced it. There’s an entire generation of queer men missing from the present-day frame, and many of those who are still with us are deeply traumatized from decades of watching their friends and lovers decimated by a deadly virus made more virulent by homophobia and medical negligence.
What the remastered queer film classic 'Working Girls' can teach us about sex work today
Feminist queer filmmaker Lizzie Borden’s 1986 indie hit has been re-released by the Criterion Collection. Lizzie Borden/Alternate Current Productions Working Girls, the 1986 indie hit film, was re-released by the Criterion Collection in July. The film was made by queer feminist American filmmaker Lizzie Borden at the height of the feminist sex wars. It staked out bold territory by showing sex work as mundane and tedious, but also a viable job choice for some women.
What the remastered queer film classic 'Working Girls' can teach us about sex work today
Working Girls, the 1986 indie hit film, was re-released by the Criterion Collection in July. The film was made by queer feminist American filmmaker Lizzie Borden at the height of the feminist sex wars. It staked out bold territory by showing sex work as mundane and tedious, but also a viable job choice for some women. The remastered edition provides a beautifully restored high-definition digitization of the film, a director’s commentary track and several conversations between Borden and others.
Prevent Brute Force Attacks on SQL Server
Introduction This article is based on a great article from Ryan G Conrad: SQL Server Brute Force Attack Detection: Part 1. Sometimes, you need to have your SQL server exposed to the internet giving the possibility to connect from any IP address without using a VPN, thus opening for the likeliness of having your SQL server attacked by unwanted guests. By detecting logins that fail and block their IP address for some time, you will most likely have them move on to attack another server instead.
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I'm an Anarchist and I Vote
Greetings from Trumplandia, also known as the second congressional district of Maine, which is now polling for Donald Trump. I have called Lewiston, Maine, home since 2001 when I moved there for university as a teenager. I am currently finishing a Ph.D. in Quebec, from where most of my Lewiston neighbors’ families emigrated, arriving to work in the now shuttered textile mills and shoe factories in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
SQL Server Brute Force Attack Detection: Part 4
For the last part of this series all go over an alternate implementation of the login monitor that utilizes Powershell and the Window Task Scheduler API. This method is both more secure and more effective at protecting the database server against malicious login attempts while continuing to use built-in functionality in Windows and T-SQL for managing the firewall rules. The original article in this series introduced a way to implement protection against brute force login attacks entirely in T-SQL.
SQL Server Brute Force Attack Detection: Part 3
Shortly after publishing the first part of this series I stumbled across additional information on how to hack a SQL Server database as well as different ways to read the event logs. There are also other events besides event ID 18456 that a DBA might want the detection code to consider that can indicate malicious port scans on our externally accessible database.
SQL Server Brute Force Attack Detection: Part 2
For the second part of this series I wanted to go over some additional functionality that I've been testing to make the code more useful to a developer. These features will also work (to my knowledge) on all versions of SQL Server 2005 and later. The original code has been chugging along on my DB server at home and regularly blocking offending IPs. In the meantime I gave some more thought to additional functionality that will make the code more useful to a developer.
SQL Server Brute Force Attack Detection
However, sometimes opening SQL Server up to the internet is unavoidable because of design specifications of an application or legacy code that can't be modified. External access in combination with SQL Server login account access can make a database particularly vulnerable to brute-force attacks since SQL Server has no built-in functionality to detect consecutive failed logins and subsequently disable the account or block the offending client.
SQL Server Brute Force Attack Detection: Part 1
When deploying a SQL Server database that will be accessible to clients over the internet, it is always best to employ a VPN for clients to connect to the database's LAN. Windows Active Directory logins can also be employed for access so that AD security can be utilized (e.g., account lockout after failed login attempts). Most security experts and DBAs strongly recommend against opening up the port SQL Server listens on (default 1433) to the internet.
The Short Isoform of BRD4 Promotes HIV-1 Latency by Engaging Repressive SWI/SNF Chromatin-Remodeling Complexes
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I'm an Anarchist and I Vote
Greetings from Trumplandia, also known as the second congressional district of Maine, which is now polling for Donald Trump. I have called Lewiston, Maine, home since 2001 when I moved there for university as a teenager. I am currently finishing a Ph.D. in Quebec, from where most of my Lewiston neighbors' families emigrated, arriving to work in the now shuttered textile mills and shoe factories in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Shortcut to switch profile on CyanogenMod
On my Android, I was looking for configuring profiles and under Settings found that I can configure profiles and there are some pre-existing ones like Home, Work, Silent, etc, with further settings to customize each of them. I'm assuming that this is a feature of my CyanogenMod installation and not part of Android itself. Now, my question is what is the easiest way to switch profiles (say switch from 'Home' to 'Work').
Import data from ColorNote app?
Yes you can, but it will be a bit convoluted: ColorNote's notes can only be exported from the sql lite colornote.db file, but it's not available from the sd card backups. So we will have to do it in two steps: first reimport the sd card backup into the ColorNote app, then extract the generated colornote.db sql lite file (note that you must have rooted your phone to access the sql lite file, but you can do it on the BlueStacks emulator).
Turning on Android device with motion detector (external device?)
As some people said at the beginning of this post, there is a free app called motion detector. I've been using it for a while, and can tell you it will work with other apps in the foreground, and with the screen locked! This will detect motion using the built is camera, so it's free! Also, you don't have to root your device for this. You said that you didn't know how to solder, but there is a very simple way of making your own external sensor for this.
How to root LG Optimus L7 II - P713
I've just bought an LG Optimus L7 II - P713 in Vietnam. It runs Android 4.1.2 and now I would like to root it. I just searched Google but still didn't find out how to root it. Can I root this phone? If yes, how do I do it?
Can a Factory Reset fix Malware Problem?
For that/those particular piece(s) of malware, the answer is probably yes. A factory reset cannot always undo rooting, but that is normally due to the more "invasive" methods used for a few hard-to-root devices, and not a simple common exploit like the ones probably used in these rogue apps.
What do Android application permissions mean?
This is all the available permissions that an application can require. Of this list, there are some that can only be "requested" by "System" applications. Applications that are not system applications will not be able to request permissions to "System Permissions". Only applications that are in the /system/app location and signed with the System key can request these specific system permissions.
GPS not working on Galaxy S II
You may have done more harm then good running that "fix". The fix is for the Samsung Galaxy S line of phones, not the Galaxy S II. The Galaxy S has a horrid GPS in it. It takes forever to get a lock, or it never even gets a lock. There have been a bunch of "fixes" that were supposed to fix it, but none ever really fixed anything for me on my Galaxy S. These fixes usually do things like change the GPS server and the timeout or other things.
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