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The World Cup’s very existence hangs by a thread
20 hours ago GENEVA (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s plan to create a $20 billion company running the World Cup with private investors including the Kushner family was announced Tuesday — and immediately attacked by European soccer body UEFA. “It is not FIFA’s to sell,” UEFA said in a statement. “None of …
Opinion: Once an RFK Jr. backer, I’ve switched my support to Kamala Harris
After a long time away from politics, I was drawn back in last year by the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Kennedy I met several times was not the caricature that some have made him out to be. Where some people see an anti-vax conspiracy theorist who had a brain worm and might have once eaten a dog, I see someone very different. I see a person who has been through the fires of hell and come out unimpeachably honest.
Opinion: Once an RFK Jr. backer, I’ve switched my support to Kamala Harris
After a long time away from politics, I was drawn back in last year by the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Kennedy I met several times was not the caricature that some have made him out to be. Where some people see an anti-vax conspiracy theorist who had a brain worm and might have once eaten a dog, I see someone very different. I see a person who has been through the fires of hell and come out unimpeachably honest.
10.11.23 -- Technology Transfer - The Essential Elements
Accelerated development schedules, quicker pathways to approvals, emerging technologies and therapies, more outsourcing than ever — often located across the globe. All this presents opportunity, and steepening challenges for your quality and regulatory teams. Join the next Outsourced Pharma Live, where our panel of experts will offer strategies to meet regulatory challenges. This webinar is free to attend thanks to the support of Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services.
04.12.23 -- Core Outcome Sets: What Are They & Why Are They Needed?
The Essential Checklist: Get Your eRegulatory and eSource Selection Right Avoid complications and headaches when implementing an eRegulatory and eSource solution. Every platform is unique; however, there are essential assets you need to fully reap the benefits of a centralized, purpose-built solution. This checklist is designed to give you the tools you need to ask the right questions about potential eRegulatory solutions.
The Manosphere as an Online Protection Racket: How the Red Pill Monetizes Male Need for Security in Modern Society
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Evolving Solutions to Optimize Clinical Trial Decentralization
The benefits offered by decentralized trials are driving wider adoption of this approach to clinical research. The introduction of novel solutions to facilitate adherence can support decentralized trials and mitigate potential concerns surrounding reduced patient-physician touchpoints.
Rare Disease Patients Benefit from Clinical Trial Flexibility
A convergence of trends — including the continuously growing focus on drug development for rare diseases, the rising percentage of biologic drug candidates, and the expansion of decentralized trials — is creating opportunities for more efficient trials that are less burdensome for patients and their families. With a limited number of rare disease patients, clinically relevant data is invaluable.
A Breath of Fresh Air: How Decentralized Trial Options are Changing Respiratory Research
Respiratory teams are witnessing a shift from research condensed around common or prevalent conditions — such as asthma or COPD — to an expanded focus on rare diseases or distinct subpopulations who are symptomatic despite existing standard of care. This change in direction poses different challenges and opportunities for sponsors working in this space.
Minimizing Patient Burden in Cell and Gene Therapy Trials
Clinical trials for cell and gene therapies present a unique set of challenges, beginning with patient identification and recruitment and continuing on through implementation and long-term follow-up. Optimized solutions require CROs with extensive experience in managing complex trials — more specifically, in supporting cell and gene therapy, rare diseases, and the design and deployment of decentralized trials (DCTs).
Accelerating Oncology Clinical Research Remotely
Within the last year, the life science industry has seen digital platforms and innovative technologies take an increasingly prominent role in clinical trials. These tools have proved to be a gamechanger across clinical research due to unforeseen challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Modern Strategies for Dermatology Clinical Trials
To be most successful, dermatology clinical trials should be accessible to a diverse array of qualified patients and designed to encourage patient participation. These trials should also reduce the patient and investigator site burdens, reduce start-up and enrollment timelines, and ensure consistent, high-quality assessments and data collection.
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2020): British & Irish Botany
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Gentians of Britain and Ireland
Field / Identification Guide Identification Key New Series: BSBI Handbooks Volume: 19 By: Tim CG Rich(Author), Andy McVeigh(Author), Martin Godfrey(Editor) 174 pages, colour photos, colour illustrations, b/w line drawings, distribution maps Over 25 years in the making, this BSBI handbook gives a complete description all British gentians, including distribution maps and keys.
The Pure Spectacle
With its voluptuous bonnet, raised posterior and steamy adverts of a fur-clad Brigitte Bardot stroking its large circular steering wheel, Roland Barthes was certain: this was the car a France in decline needed. For before the Citroën DS “fell miraculously from the sky” as Barthes would later put it, a nation had lost its sense of self-ease and effortless confidence.
Photo Sensitive
Photographs in sport can do many things: evoke memories of sporting affiliation and solidarity – a moment of celebration shared with family and friends in support of a local club, a prism or rallying point for sporting memory; record historic social events which have a global significance way beyond the sports arena – the image of a focused or triumphant Jesse Owens in Berlin, 1936, for example; map processes of social change – the emergence of new female sports stars, or the transformation,...
Why stories matter
This article discusses the importance of story telling in brand building, in an increasingly contested space. Storytelling United Kingdom Strategy Tim Rich Tim Rich believes that as businesses compete in an increasingly contested space, the power of compelling brand stories to connect with customers has never been more important. Walking up London's Regent Street the other day, I... WARC subscribers can sign in to keep reading Not a subscriber?
Atlas of British and Irish Hawkweeds: (Pilosella Hill and Hieracium L.)
The first edition (2011) of Atlas of British and Irish Hawkweeds was based on David McCosh's database of c.19,000 Hieracium and Pilosella records, representing over 420 species as defined in Peter Sell and Gina Murrell's Flora of Great Britain and Ireland (2006). Since this edition, various changes have been made to the Hieracium flora of Britain and Ireland.
World Cup 2018: Hugo Lloris admits Belgium have the momentum in semi-final against dully-efficient France
It says something for the utter unpredictability of this World Cup that there are seven Tottenham players still in it – and just three from Real Madrid and Barcelona. When Mauricio Pochettino’s squad gathers for pre-season it is very likely at least one of them will know what it is like to win a World Cup. “I think it’s very good for the image of the club,” said Hugo Lloris, whose full-length save from Martin Caceres denied Uruguay their best chance of scoring in the first of Friday’s semi-finals.
World Cup 2018: Uruguay go down without a fight - a strange reality for a team once famed for its bite
“Three Million Dreams” declared one banner inside the stadium, which perches on the banks of the Volga. It was a reminder that Uruguay were the smallest nation left in this World Cup but in Montevideo and Salto, the city on the Argentine border where Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani were born, they dream very big. If you want an idea of the expectations in Uruguay, consider this.
Uruguay vs France: World Cup winner and his country’s second longest-serving manager, but why is Didier Deschamps so disliked?
It is 1986 and Bobby Moore is preparing to manage England in the World Cup quarter-final with Argentina. Twenty years before, he had wiped the mud from his hands and taken the Jules Rimet trophy from the Queen. Since then, he had managed Chelsea to the European Cup final and Newcastle to the title. As he looks around the Azteca Stadium, it occurs to Bobby that he is three games away from winning the World Cup as a player and manager. Then something else occurred to Bobby Moore.
World Cup 2018: Croatia goalkeeper Danijel Subasic delivers penalty heroics to knock out Denmark
In the space of two days Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Andres Iniesta have all taken their leave of the World Cup but Luka Modric is still in the tournament. It was, however, a very close-run thing. After Modric had seen Kasper Schmeichel save his penalty four minutes from the end of extra time came a shootout every bit as dire as the game that had gone before it. Christian Eriksen, taking the first penalty in front of the Danish banners, raised his foot and struck the post.
World Cup 2018: The intriguing parallels between Croatia and Denmark, both eager to improve on milestone debuts
There is much that unites Croatia and Denmark. They have similar populations, their finest player shone at Tottenham and they have never bettered their first World Cup. Ever since Croatia arrived in Russia, they have cited the triumphs of 1998, led by Davor Suker, Slaven Bilic and Robert Prosinecki, as inspirations. They finished third in France and they believe themselves to be a better team than they were 20 years ago.
Belgium are out to show there is no easy way to win a World Cup after beating England to top Group G
As the Belgium players filed out to begin the journey that would take them first to their base outside Moscow and then to Rostov to face Japan, there was a realisation that you cannot second-guess a World Cup. They had beaten England and condemned themselves to the possibility of a quarter-final against Brazil. However, more importantly, in the eyes of Thomas Vermaelen - one of which looked severely bruised - they could have done nothing else but win.
World Cup 2018: Sergio Ramos wants Morocco to be 'the turning point' as stuttering Spain continue to show their soft side
“Now the good bit starts,” said Sergio Ramos as he anticipated the business phase of the World Cup. “Any mistake and you’re out.” The trouble is that Spain have made so many mistakes. They have stumbled and slid their way to first place in their group while seemingly on the edge of implosion. Their stand-in manager, Fernando Hierro, was asked whether his side were carrying ‘the luck of champions’. Hierro has been around too long to give hostages to fortune.
World Cup 2018: Spain in straight shootout with Portugal for top spot, but bigger problems remain unaddressed
For Spain, it is time to stop the debates - whether the unlikely figure of Fernando Hierro should be directing the campaign, whether David De Gea can continue in goal and whether Diego Costa is the right man to uphold their tradition of fluid, attacking football. Here by the Baltic, they need to win and win big. It was always Sir Alex Ferguson’s rule of thumb that it was a marginal thing whether you topped your Champions group or finished second; all that mattered was getting through.
World Cup 2018: Iago Aspas flicks Spain top of Group B with a little help from VAR in Morocco draw
The table says that Spain topped Group B but they did so as if in a trance, as if they had still not recovered from the departure of their manager, Julen Lopetegui days before they began the tournament. The combination of two penalties, one scored, one missed, 1200 miles away in Saransk, and Iago Aspas goal, first disallowed and then awarded by VAR, meant Spain will play Russia in Moscow. The hosts, in their own capital, are entitled to fancy their chances.
World Cup 2018: Xherdan Shaqiri revels in ‘beautiful’ goal against Serbia but downplays talk of politics
Xherdan Shaqiri left Kosovo before he was old enough to talk but Kosovo has never left him. When he was growing up in a village near Basel, his parents, who had taken him to Switzerland as a baby when Yugoslavia broke bloodily apart, taught him about where he had come from.
World Cup 2018: Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka earn win for Switzerland - and Kosovo - to hurt Serbia hopes
Officially, this was an international between Serbia and Switzerland but there were deeper, darker, more passionate undertones to this match. For Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri, this was Kosovo vs Serbia. Both men are from the republic that broke away from Serbia and limps on only partially recognised. Shaqiri plays with the Kosovan flag stitched into his boots, for which he was booed by a partisan, Serbian supporting crowd.
World Cup 2018: Why Lionel Messi holds no fear for Dejan Lovren and Croatia
As Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand know, if you are a golden generation, you need, at some point, to shine. For the Croatia of Luka Modric, Ivan Rakitic, Mario Mandzukic and Dejan Lovren, all nearing or past their 30th birthday, time is nearly up.
World Cup 2018: Croatia up and running with comfortable win against Nigeria
They may be old dark horses now but Croatia have cleared the first hurdle with something to spare. It was a victory that lacked the flair of a Red Rum or a Desert Orchid but it was comfortable enough and, should they beat Argentina in Nizhny Novgorod on Thursday, Lionel Messi’s last World Cup may be a very short-lived affair. Iceland would fancy their chances against a Nigerian side that delivered very little.
Whitebeams, Rowans and Service Trees of Britain and Ireland
This book contains an account of 52 native or naturalised Sorbus taxa in Britain and Ireland (44 species and 8 hybrids). 43 of the taxa are native, 35 of which are endemic to Britain and two to Ireland. The monograph is based on morphological and molecular taxonomic studies coupled with extensive field work, during which 22 new trees have been described.
As the Eagles celebrate their Super Bowl victory, Mark Brunell's story is a reminder of the sport's darker side
It was a swell party. It could not be otherwise. Five years after the city was all but destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, five years after the Louisiana Superdome had been taken over by 16,000 homeless and hopeless refugees, the team that played there, the New Orleans Saints, had won the greatest prize in American sport. They had won the Super Bowl for the first time in their history. Mark Brunell was nearly 40 when he went on to the pitch and saw his wife, Stacy, and his father, David.
As the Eagles celebrate their Super Bowl victory, Mark Brunell's story is a reminder of the sport's darker side
It was a swell party. It could not be otherwise. Five years after the city was all but destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, five years after the Louisiana Superdome had been taken over by 16,000 homeless and hopeless refugees, the team that played there, the New Orleans Saints, had won the greatest prize in American sport. They had won the Super Bowl for the first time in their history. Mark Brunell was nearly 40 when he went on to the pitch and saw his wife, Stacy, and his father, David.
Pep Guardiola worried that Manchester City are ‘running out of players’ after Burnley salvage late point
The Premier League may be as good as won but with seven leading players injured, Pep Guardiola claimed that Manchester City are starting to run out of players with the Champions League back on the horizon. The City manager was unable to name a full bench before Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Burnley that cost him the chance to extend the lead over Manchester United to 18 points.
Johann Berg Gudmundsson makes the most of Raheem Sterling miss to clinch Burnley hard-fought point
Fortunately for Raheem Sterling the title race finished at Old Trafford in December, otherwise the question would be how costly one of the worst misses of the season might have been for Manchester City. As it was, Sterling’s inability to put the ball away from a couple of yards out would spark only dressing-room banter, a few shy smiles from Sterling and some endless repetition on YouTube. When his captain, Vincent Kompany, was asked about it, he burst out laughing.
Jurgen Klopp happy for Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah to travel to Ghana ahead of Merseyside derby
The two African forwards will both be allowed to travel to the ceremony: Getty Jurgen Klopp will allow forwards Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah to make a 6,600-mile round trip to Ghana the day before Liverpool play Everton in the FA Cup on Friday night. The two forwards will travel to Accra for the African Footballer of the Year awards on Thursday before travelling back to Merseyside the following day. They are competing against Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for the award.
Liverpool snatch all three points against Burnley thanks to Ragnar Klavan's first Premier League goal
Had Jurgen Klopp remained in German football, he would be sitting by a pool somewhere in the Arabian Gulf, preparing for some warm-weather training in the winter break. It is doubtful he would have felt much better than he did walking back to the dressing room punching the frozen, sodden Lancashire air. Liverpool’s return from their three festive league fixtures has been nine points and this week will see the arrival of Virgil van Dijk, the world’s most expensive defender.
Manchester United, the long-distance sprint and how Jose Mourinho has starting losing at his own game
Only once in the aftermath of Manchester United’s laboured victory over Bournemouth did Jose Mourinho sound himself. In the tunnel, straight after the final whistle, he was asked if the title race was over with Manchester City 11 points clear. “If it is over,” he retorted.
Romelu Lukaku header edges Manchester United past Bournemouth
You could take it either way. This was further evidence that Romelu Lukaku is a flat-track bully or it was proof that some of the negativity that had swirled around him after an insipid performance in the Manchester derby was, like so many things in today’s game, wildly exaggerated. You could not, however, deny that his header that sent Juan Mata’s cross nestling into the corner of Asmir Begovic’s net was not precious.
Jose Mourinho reveals Manchester United defender Eric Bailly may require surgery which could end his season
Eric Bailly may require surgery that could threaten the remainder of his season. The defender has not played for Manchester United since the 1-0 defeat at Chelsea on November 5 and his manager, Jose Mourinho, admitted he could offer no guarantees as to his return. Bailly injured his ankle while playing for Ivory Coast in their World Cup qualifier against Mali in October, but although he returned to play against Tottenham at the end of that month, he broke down again.
How Pep Guardiola’s treatment of Nathan Redmond draws comparisons to Sir Alex Ferguson’s famous temper
When asked to explain the chief difference between Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp, who managed him at Borussia Dortmund, Ilkay Gundogan said the Manchester City manager was far less emotional. On Wednesday night as Raheem Sterling’s beautiful, curled shot struck the back of Fraser Forster’s net with barely 20 seconds remaining, Gundogan saw at first hand just how emotional Guardiola can be.
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