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The Hill says $1.2 trillion with more moving to the next stage:

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/580368-house-passes-12t-infrastructure-bill

'House Democrats late Friday night clinched a long-sought victory on President Biden’s domestic agenda, passing a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill — while advancing an even larger social spending package — after months of stubborn infighting that’s bedeviled the party and helped deflate Biden’s public standing.

The back-to-back votes came after progressives caved on a key demand they’d maintained for months: their insistence that the climate and social spending package be passed on the same day as the more popular infrastructure proposal.

On Friday they shed that stipulation, threw their weight behind the public works bill — which had already passed the Senate — and helped send it along to Biden’s desk. They ultimately agreed to a procedural vote on the social spending bill, short of full passage.'

'From Monday 8 November 2021 you'll be able to pre-book an appointment for a booster dose if you're eligible and it's been at least 152 days (5 months) since your 2nd dose.'

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/book-or-manage-a-booster-dose-of-the-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine/

'Zambia Suffers Second Big Power Outage in a Month... A significant part of the country was hit by a partial blackout early last month after a failure at the Kariba power station, impacting operations of Konkola Copper Mines Plc and other producers of the metal.'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-06/zambia-suffers-second-big-power-outage-in-a-month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Zambia

Ammonia news from Thursday:

'WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA - African Media Agency - 4 November 2021 - The Namibian government has issued a notice of award stating its intention to appoint HYPHEN Hydrogen Energy as preferred bidder to develop the country's first large-scale vertically integrated green hydrogen project in the Tsau //Khaeb national park. The project, worth an estimated US$9.4 billion, will ultimately produce 300,000 tons of green hydrogen per year for regional and global markets, either as pure green hydrogen or in derivative form (green ammonia).'

https://www.investegate.co.uk/hyphen-hydrogen-energy--pty--l/eqs/namibia-announces-hyphen-as-preferred-bidder-to-implement-us-9.4bn-green-hydrogen-project/20211104172002EXRPJ/

You will hear more... Google drug discovery startup

https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/blog

'We are reimagining the entire drug discovery process from first principles with an AI-first approach

Demis Hassabis, Founder and CEO of Isomorphic Labs (and DeepMind)
I believe we are on the cusp of an incredible new era of biological and medical research. Last year DeepMind’s breakthrough AI system AlphaFold2 was recognised as a solution to the 50-year-old grand challenge of protein folding, capable of predicting the 3D structure of a protein directly from its amino acid sequence to atomic-level accuracy. This has been a watershed moment for computational and AI methods for biology.'

The ex-dividend date is 23 September 2021

https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/DUKE/interim-dividend-and-dividend-declaration-qi19qjm6q9yyfgx.html

The next dividend should be announced in December.

This was yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKtT8QFmlg

[6 views so far; maybe a little publicity would help]

He is a wise bloke and with his background is worth at least listening to if you do not take heed of his words:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27YmuWdxdWg

Penguins is clearly deramping when he uses the phrase:

'UKOG preferring to use the billions of barrels of oil in place.'

The Dear Leader is on record claiming 'between 50 and 100 billions barrels of oil in place' which sounds like much more than mere billions.

https://youtu.be/a2h2kWmf5iA?t=84

With only 16 billion shares in issue that is 3 to 6 barrels of oil per share in place.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-palm-oil-deforestation-climate-change/?srnd=premium-europe

Watch out for Doris and his TEN Friends making small changes at the edges that add up to a seismic advantage for themselves:

'According to voting expert Ari Berman, in Ohio, where former president Trump got 53% of the vote in 2020, the new maps would give Republicans 86% of seats. In North Carolina, where Trump won 49.9% of the vote, Republicans would take 71–78% of seats, which translates to a 10–4 advantage if the voters split the vote evenly. In Wisconsin, where Trump won 49% of the vote, the new maps give Republicans 75% of the seats. In Texas, where Trump got 52% of the vote, Republicans would take 65% of the seats.

Skewing election results toward Republicans plays to former president Donald Trump, who tried to steal the 2020 election by using the power of the federal government to hamstring his Democratic opponent.'

Does Buzz have a new car?

https://interestingengineering.com/the-solar-powered-lightyear-one-will-drive-for-months-without-charging

Now available with a battery pack

https://smartflower.com/

https://interestingengineering.com/a-new-sunflower-like-solar-panel-tracks-the-sun-for-maximum-energy

Did they catch Zillow fever? Down 70% since March.

Zillow Is Done Trading Houses

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-03/zillow-is-done-trading-houses

kenny,

The posts that you and I reported from each other about Troajan were both deleted by Admin.

Personally, I do not care but:

'The objective of the Fair Play for Small Investors campaign is a simple one.
For ALL companies that list shares in the UK through an IPO to be required to offer a slice to retail investors.'

https://www.publicinclusion.co.uk/

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/share-investing/article-10075383/Lets-break-cosy-profits-club-share-flotations.html

Praise be...

mick-b: I am cancelling my subscription

Molnupiravir has been approved by the MHRA. "The drug is said to be most effective early in the disease so is recommended as soon as possible after a positive COVID-19 test, and within 5 days of symptoms onset."

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/962251

How it works was discussed on a recent TWiV episode:

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-818/

The other main useful drug so far (dexamethasone) fights the inflammatory response that occurs in very ill people; this new drug hopes to stop the disease progressing that far. So if you get ill, do a lateral flow test at home [free from the pharmacy?] and consider seeking the new anti-viral is the test is positive. The sooner you take the drug after being confirmed as a positive case the more likely it will work.

Independent experts? Yeah, right...

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4464059-pure-gold-mining-q3-earnings-tracking-miles-behind-h2-guidance