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Purdue basketball alum Caleb Swanigan leads Portland back to NBA Summer League finals

By rssfeeds.indystar.com
Published On :: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:47:14 +0000

Caleb Swanigan's 21 points and 16 rebounds led Portland to a semifinal victory over Memphis.

       


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Coronavirus: Rainbow portraits thank the NHS

By www.bbc.co.uk
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:11:26 GMT

Photographer Tom Skipp's pictures of the many rainbows supporting the NHS across the city of Bristol.


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$7.2 Million Cash Found in Suitcases at Panama City Airport

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Published On :: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:04:00 EST

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Travel tip: If you're trying to smuggle cash into Panama, start using the train.

Three Honduran men were arrested at Panama City's international airport after police found $7.2 million, mostly in $100 bills, in secret compartments in eight pieces of luggage. According to this video from Newsy (Newsy? Really? Really.), officials in Panama believe the money was connected to a drug cartel. Thirty-two officers and airport security staffers have been suspended as a result of the find.

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News24.com | Pieter du Toit: Beyond Covid-19 lies turbulence, change and opportunity

By www.news24.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 21:43:51 +0200

South Africans must insist on innovative solutions and new policies to ensure that when the country emerges from this governance and economic crisis, it does so not only aware of the country’s weaknesses but also primed to effect the necessary changes, writes Pieter du Toit.


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1 death and 59 new COVID-19 cases reported in Alberta on Saturday

By edmonton.ctvnews.ca
Published On :: Sat, 9 May 2020 15:10:00 -0600

Alberta reported 59 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to 1.837.


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Sport24.co.za | Google honours Asian trailblazer Frank Soo, England's 'forgotten footballer'

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:32:25 +0200

Frank Soo, the first and only player of Asian heritage to represent England's national football team, has been honoured by Google.


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Sport24.co.za | Stewart prepared for first county cricket wipeout since WWII

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:03:35 +0200

Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart has reluctantly accepted there could yet be a long-term good for the county game if it is wiped out in 2020.


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Sport24.co.za | US women's World Cup star Alex Morgan welcomes daughter

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 08:05:00 +0200

Two-time women's World Cup winner Alex Morgan and husband Servando Carrasco have welcomed a new player to their team.


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Sport24.co.za | Hearts owner laments 'disrespect' of her task force

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:57:22 +0200

Scottish football descended into fresh acrimony when Hearts owner Ann Budge accused her Premiership counterparts of "appalling disrespect".


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Sport24.co.za | Former Junior Springbok star set to stay at Stormers

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:17:39 +0200

The Stormers look set to receive a boost with centre Rikus Pretorius signing a contract extension.


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Sport24.co.za | PGA event to use radio frequency identification chips to track fans

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:09:00 +0200

The PGA Tour's Memorial Tournament will use radio frequency identification chips in spectator badges to ensure fans maintain social distance.


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Sport24.co.za | Roland Garros could be behind closed doors, says French tennis boss

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 08:06:46 +0200

French tennis chief Bernard Guidicelli admitted that Roland Garros could be staged behind closed doors.


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Sport24.co.za | Rabiot 'open' to Premier League transfer

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:18:48 +0200

Manchester United and Everton have been put on alert by the news that Juventus midfielder Adrien Rabiot is willing to move to the Premier League.


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Sport24.co.za | Brighton chief urges caution over Premier League restart plan

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:15:06 +0200

Brighton chief executive Paul Barber has warned a premature return to football action from the coronavirus pandemic could "cost lives".


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Sport24.co.za | UFC: Justin Gaethje scores surprise victory at fan-free event

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:07:00 +0200

American Justin Gaethje scored a surprise technical knockout victory over Tony Ferguson to win the interim lightweight title at UFC 249.


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Sport24.co.za | Manyama is vital to Chiefs' title ambitions

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:49:16 +0200

Lebogang Manyama is the most important player for Kaizer Chiefs in their quest to win the Absa Premiership title, according to Stellenbosch midfielder Mpho Matsi.


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Sport24.co.za | Modiba: I stayed because SuperSport made me feel appreciated

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:49:51 +0200

SuperSport United winger Aubrey Modiba says a conversation with club CEO Stanley Matthews convinced him to stay despite interest from Mamelodi Sundowns.


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Sport24.co.za | Russell explains diffrence between real and sim racing

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:43:45 +0200

Williams driver George Russell is enjoying sim racing online while Formula 1 is suspended but admits he doesn't get the same sense of speed or fear.


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Sport24.co.za | Hamilton: Fan-less races will be 'worse' than testing

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:27:42 +0200

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton has said that holding races without any fans will feel "even worse than a test day".


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Sport24.co.za | Haaland backed as future Liverpool signing

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:24:06 +0200

Borussia Dortmund star Erling Braut Haaland has been backed to sign for Liverpool in the future, while Manchester United have been criticised for missing out on him.


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Sport24.co.za | Lions legend says they need a confrontational skipper against Springboks: 'That is their DNA'

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:27:11 +0200

Former captain Paul O'Connell says it will be vital for the British & Irish Lions to pick a leader capable of beating the Springboks at their own game.


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Sport24.co.za | Viability of British Grand Prix in doubt

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 11:24:29 +0200

With the UK government set to tighten its lockdown restrictions, fresh doubts have been cast over the viability of a British Grand Prix.


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Sport24.co.za | John Mitchell: Rugby must embrace less is more concept post-Covid-19

By www.sport24.co.za
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:03:24 +0200

Former New Zealand head coach and current England defence chief John Mitchell believes some good may come for rugby union from the coronavirus.


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DAREarts stepping up to help at risk kids with mental health support

By barrie.ctvnews.ca
Published On :: Sat, 9 May 2020 19:53:56 -0400

School, friends and normal day to day interactions have taken a virtual shift. However, for those with limited access to the internet, devices and other technology, isolation can be challenging.


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Communist Party’s Plenum Will Be Important, Not Transformative, for China

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Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:28:50 +0000

8 November 2013

Professor Kerry Brown

Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Programme

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View of the Pudong financial district skyline from the historic Bund, Shanghai 29 October 2013. Photo by Getty Images.

Despite the hype surrounding it, the gathering of the country’s ruling elite in Beijing is likely to prize measured change over dramatic reform.

If there was a clearer idea of what makes China’s new elite leadership tick, then the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party that is about to be held in Beijing would not be such a big deal. But in a polity which privileges concealment over overt statement, it is viewed widely as the one chance for outsiders to see more clearly what the leadership aims to achieve. Expectations were raised by the October statement by one of the most staid members of the current Standing Committee of the Politburo, Yu Zhengsheng, that the plenum would presage a new era of reform.

In Chinese politics reform is a word that has a wholesome, positive air about it. But the question is where and when reform will happen and who will gain from it. The plenum is not like a party convention in the Western sense. It is not an eye-grabbing, media-dominating event that produces surprises. Comparing this year’s installment with the great Third Plenum of 1978 that heralded the repudiation of late Maoism and the embracing of the market, the non-state sector and foreign capital – all anathema before then – is misleading. The significance of the 1978 meeting was only obvious in hindsight. It took years for the scale of the radical transformation of the whole strategic direction of the Communist Party to be appreciated. That 2013 will prove a similar historic moment is unlikely, perhaps even impossible.

What is much more likely is that the highly tactical leadership now in charge will reaffirm its commitment to incremental reform. It will make some statements about the radical urbanization that China is about to undergo and say something about social welfare reform. China’s leaders will do what they have always done in plenums over the last three decades, namely set the broad parameters of politically permissible activity that provinces, ministries and other stakeholders will then need to implement.

This plenum will also have to produce something about the need to achieve greater egality and balance in the economy. It needs to answer some of the questions about how Premier Li Keqiang, in particular, intends to meet the goal of 'fast, sustainable growth' when a falling overall GDP figure looks likely. It needs to communicate to as broad a constituency as possible the arch-narrative of a world where the raw statement of growth on its own is no longer the be all and end all of government policy. It needs to say something about how the party is going to fulfill the increasingly complex aspirations of the Chinese people, aspirations that exceed purely having a materially good level of life and concern broader questions of well-being that vex the politics of all developed economies.

Observers will want to see some signs too of addressing the most sensitive issues. Yu Zhengsheng talked of economic reform. Reforming the economy is now a wholly uncontroversial mantra in China. However, it impacts on one enormously important issue that reaches beyond economics: whether wealth, prosperity and development benefit the few or are accessible to the many – in other words, good, old-fashioned questions of economic and social justice. At the heart of this lies the question of how state-owned enterprises have become vehicles of profit not just for the party state, but also for tightly knit networks of vested interests. Reforms that lap at the doors of these entities also creep into the space of powerful political players, who will resist any attempt to cut down their wealth, and who have the power to resist.

China’s new leadership is proving more confident than was expected and displays a high sense of historic mission. President Xi Jinping speaks increasingly like a politician who believes it is almost his historic destiny to sit at the centre of the leadership of a renascent 'rich, strong country'. The ultimate question for the plenum is not what outside observers make of it but what the vastly complex mixture of groups in China does. For them, a sign that the leadership is willing to take on some of the entrenched vested interests that penetrate the operations of some state-owned sectors to the core is critical.

This is likely to be couched in the language of more support for the market, which is the key channel in any attack on vested interests – through widening access to wealth and economic benefits, and support for the non-state sector and entrepreneurs. It is hard to see how deeper reform can occur without these two crucial elements. And it is through these that the attitude of China’s leadership to political and legal reforms – far more complex issues that, almost certainly, will not be addressed at the plenum but will lurk in the background − will become clearer. The leadership thinks it is too early to tackle these issues directly, but this plenum will still be part of the process for it to come up with ideas for how to transform not just China’s economy, but its polity too.

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Business in China: Risks and Opportunities

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Published On :: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:15:01 +0000

Research Event

23 October 2014 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Chatham House, London

Event participants

Jeremy Gordon, Director, China Business Services
Chair: Roderic Wye, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House

In light of China’s economic reforms and a high-profile anti-corruption campaign, the speaker will argue that fundamental political, economic and social shifts have changed the nature of opportunities and risks for foreign businesses in China.

Registration for this event is now closed.

Joshua Webb

+44 (0)20 7314 3678


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Vortex Advertising CPA-network | Exclusive offers | Personal support

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China reports first coronavirus case in Wuhan since April 3 among 14 new infections

By news.yahoo.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 21:46:27 -0400

China's National Health Commission reported 14 new confirmed coronavirus cases on May 9, the highest number since April 28, including the first for more than a month in the city of Wuhan where the outbreak was first detected late last year. While China had officially designated all areas of the country as low-risk last Thursday, the new cases according to data published on Sunday represent a jump from the single case reported for the day before. The new Wuhan case, the first reported in the epicentre of China's outbreak since April 3, was previously asymptomatic, according to the health commission.



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Tripoli airport shelling hits fuel tanks, passenger plane-ministry

By news.yahoo.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 06:08:57 -0400

Shelling of Tripoli's Mitiga airport early on Saturday, part of an intensified barrage of artillery fire on the capital in recent days, hit fuel tanks and damaged passenger planes, the Transport Ministry said in a statement. Mitiga is the last functioning airport in the Libyan capital, though civilian flights stopped in March because of repeated shelling even before the country imposed a lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic. Brega Petroleum Marketing Company, part of the National Oil Corporation, said its jet fuel tanks at Mitiga caught fire after coming under attack and firemen were working to control the blaze.



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A photographer spent two weeks flying around in helicopters to capture the parked planes at US airports during the pandemic — see his eerie and beautiful work

By news.yahoo.com
Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 15:01:07 -0400

Travel blogger and photographer Andy Luten drove 4,200 miles across six states to see the grounded jets, detailing the shocking state of aviation.



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Inhibition of glycosphingolipid biosynthesis reverts multidrug resistance by differentially modulating ABC transporters in chronic myeloid leukemias [Cell Biology]

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Published On :: 2020-05-08T03:41:14-07:00

Multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer arises from cross-resistance to structurally- and functionally-divergent chemotherapeutic drugs. In particular, MDR is characterized by increased expression and activity of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily transporters. Sphingolipids are substrates of ABC proteins in cell signaling, membrane biosynthesis, and inflammation, for example, and their products can favor cancer progression. Glucosylceramide (GlcCer) is a ubiquitous glycosphingolipid (GSL) generated by glucosylceramide synthase, a key regulatory enzyme encoded by the UDP-glucose ceramide glucosyltransferase (UGCG) gene. Stressed cells increase de novo biosynthesis of ceramides, which return to sub-toxic levels after UGCG mediates incorporation into GlcCer. Given that cancer cells seem to mobilize UGCG and have increased GSL content for ceramide clearance, which ultimately contributes to chemotherapy failure, here we investigated how inhibition of GSL biosynthesis affects the MDR phenotype of chronic myeloid leukemias. We found that MDR is associated with higher UGCG expression and with a complex GSL profile. UGCG inhibition with the ceramide analog d-threo-1-(3,4,-ethylenedioxy)phenyl-2-palmitoylamino-3-pyrrolidino-1-propanol (EtDO-P4) greatly reduced GSL and monosialotetrahexosylganglioside levels, and co-treatment with standard chemotherapeutics sensitized cells to mitochondrial membrane potential loss and apoptosis. ABC subfamily B member 1 (ABCB1) expression was reduced, and ABCC-mediated efflux activity was modulated by competition with nonglycosylated ceramides. Consistently, inhibition of ABCC-mediated transport reduced the efflux of exogenous C6-ceramide. Overall, UGCG inhibition impaired the malignant glycophenotype of MDR leukemias, which typically overcomes drug resistance through distinct mechanisms. This work sheds light on the involvement of GSL in chemotherapy failure, and its findings suggest that targeted GSL modulation could help manage MDR leukemias.


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Re: Covid-19: Brazil’s president rallies supporters against social distancing

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US drug costs are rising faster than overall health spending, officials report

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Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation on International Migration

By www.migrationpolicy.org
Published On :: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400

The EU-U.S. relationship is one of the most significant partnerships among wealthy nations. Interconnections between the two on migration issues make dialogue necessary and inevitable, as each relies on each other to attain a number of policy objectives, most clearly in the case of travel and border security.


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Shared Challenges and Opportunities for EU and U.S. Immigration Policymakers

By www.migrationpolicy.org
Published On :: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400

This final report summarizes and reflects upon the key findings of the Improving EU and U.S. Immigration Systems: Learning from Experience comparative research project undertaken by MPI and the European University Institute through a grant from the European Commission.


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Breakenridge eyeing three in a row for Portmore

By jamaica-gleaner.com
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:06:09 -0500

While many Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) players are finding it very difficult to stay motivated and maintain their training regime until the league is able to restart, Portmore defender Romaine Breakenridge remains highly motivated and eager...


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#JamaicaTogether | Portia Simpson Miller

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:16:51 -0500

As daunting as this COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be, and as devastating as its impact is on people both here at home and around the world, we must stand together, united. We must all act with purpose, resolve, love and compassion because when we...


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10 takeaways from the worst jobs report in US history

By jamaica-gleaner.com
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:26:36 -0500

Brutal. Horrific. Tragic. Choose your ­description. The April jobs report showed, in harrowing ­detail, just how terribly the coronavirus outbreak has pummelled the United States economy. Most obviously, there’s the 14.7 per cent unemployment rate...


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GAP wants to delay capital projects at local airports

By jamaica-gleaner.com
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:22:48 -0500

The operator Jamaica’s two largest airports wants to scrap or delay non-essential capital projects. It forms part of a wider halt of capital projects by the Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico – which translate to Pacific Airport Group, or GAP –...


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