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She is proud of what the team has done in overcoming a slow start to the season to become the first Victorian club to make the WBBL finals.
“It’s pretty special. It’s been a pretty emotional year, because we’ve kind of won a few, lost a few, we weren’t sure if we were going to make it, and obviously when we beat the Hurricanes we were all pretty relieved, so we’re just looking forward to getting out there against the Sixers and we’ll give it a real crack.
“We didn’t start the season well ... there was a bit of pressure on us there for a while.
On the personal front, Duffin has had an up-and-down season but could be finding form at the right time, making 39 in the loss to the Sixers last Sunday in Geelong.
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Nicola Sturgeon’s ruling Scottish National Party (SNP), which backs independence from the United Kingdom, is targeting 50,000 people in a “day of action” later this month aimed at building support for secession.
The SNP has been heartened by new polls showing a rise in support for secession as confidence in a Brexit deal which works for Scotland declines, deputy leader Keith Brown said.
Its members will canvas people across Scotland on Sept. 29 ahead of an SNP conference on Oct. 7.
Scots rejected independence 55 to 45 percent in a 2014 referendum, and since then support for secession has barely moved.
But a Deltapoll survey earlier this month found Brexit could tip public opinion in Scotland towards independence, with 47 percent of Scots said to be in favour of independence, 43 percent against and 10 percent who did not know.
In Britain’s 2016 referendum, Scots voted to stay in the EU but Britain as a whole voted to leave and Brexit is set to happen on March 29 2019.
“The (nationwide) parties are riddled with division and on the brink of implosion over Brexit - meanwhile our party and the independence movement have our sights on a far more positive future for Scotland as an independent country,” he added.
The SNP has 125,000 members, making it the second-biggest political party in Britain after the Labour Party, even though Scotland only has 3.95 million of Britain’s 46.1 million electorate and the Conservative Party runs Britain’s government.
Here's what you need to know about Virginia's Kyle Guy after the NCAA Tournament.
Kyle Guy cemented his place in March Madness lore with Virginia's national championship win over Texas Tech Monday night. But his story goes beyond what he has done on the court. Here are 5 things to know about the Indiana native who stole the show on the biggest stage.
Guy was a standout at Lawrence Central in Indianapolis, scoring 1,614 points over four seasons in a Bears uniform. He averaged 23.5 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.7 assists during his senior season en route to winning IndyStar Mr. Basketball presented by the Indiana Pacers.
His stats were respectable during his freshman season at Virginia (7.5 ppg, 1.7 rpg), but his hair stole the spotlight. His man-bun drew the ire of opposing fans, and even his own family members, but also got enough attention to warrant its own Twitter account.
It was a sign that his confidence and personality were both plenty strong.
3. He was a key part of the Virginia team that made history...for all the wrong reasons.
Guy was the leading scorer for last year's Cavaliers team that entered the NCAA Tournament as the top-ranked team in the field. He averaged 14.1 points and 2.6 rebounds. In the team's first-round game, it lost by 20 to 16-seed UMBC.
Guy admits he has struggled with anxiety for years, but it came to a head after the team's loss to UMBC.
But he began using his struggle to help others. He moderated a mental health panel for athletes at Virginia in November and did the same thing in Minneapolis at the Final Four. And his words have made a big impact.
By the time this year's tournament came around, his smile was always present, even in the midst of a shooting struggle.
Guy will marry his fiancee Alexa Jenkins in July. The couple met in high school -- she is a HSE graduate and will start law school an Notre Dame in August. Before the national title game, Jenkins spoke with the IndyStar about watching Guy go from the lowest of lows to the top of college basketball.
Do you care about where the medications you take were produced? The Industry and Trade Ministry certainly does. In 2008, the ministry first announced its “Strategy for the development of pharmaceutical manufacturing in Russia,” and the plan was immediately criticized as too ambitious by industry analysts and journalist...
President Dmitry Medvedev stressed that target again in his state-of-the-nation address Tuesday and added that 60 percent of “innovative medicines” sold in Russia should be produced domestically.
This detail, “in monetary terms,” is essential. The share of domestically produced drugs by volume is much more impressive, accounting for approximately three-quarters of local demand, according to industry analysts. Why is this? Simple: Russian pharmaceutical companies on the whole produce extremely low-priced drugs.
Can the Industry and Trade Ministry persuade Russians to purchase even higher volumes of cheap, out-dated medications? The ministry’s intent, of course, is different. Russian companies should produce higher-value and more innovative drugs, the strategy states. This is a real challenge, given that the development of one...
One more note here. The Russian government is not only a regulator for the pharmaceuticals market. It is also the largest consumer, buying about 25 percent of all medications sold in the country.
But being overly ambitious doesn’t automatically mean being wrong. You may say it is almost impossible to create an innovative pharmaceuticals industry in 10 or 12 years — as required by the strategy. But it would be wrong to say that pharmaceutical research and development is not viable in Russia.
Another point, and the one that I believe is the most important, is that some people are skeptical about a government strategy simply because it was created by the government. Becoming innovative is not something that only the Industry and Trade Ministry wants. It is also something that companies need. The Russian phar...
Government purchases are the main driver of the Russian pharmaceutical market today. As DSM Group reported recently, government expenditures rose 10 percent to 12 percent in the first half of 2010 compared with the first half 2009, while retail sales through pharmacies showed a far slower growth rate of about 4 percent...
What can the authorities purchase? Theoretically, the government is responsible for buying medications for people who have diseases that are considered the most serious, such as oncological or cardiovascular diseases.
Treatment requires new and expensive drugs, which are sometimes too expensive for the average Russian citizen. Pharmacy consumers, meanwhile, are generally more concerned about treating their colds or headaches. That can also be challenging, of course, but industry analysts report that average prices in retail channels...
The consumption of pharmaceutical products in Russia is also changing. Fewer and fewer people are treating common illnesses with old-fashioned medications like citramon. Looking back to 2002, we see that 25 percent of medications sold in Russian pharmacies cost 30 rubles or less, according to Pharmexpert data. By 2009,...
“People understand that it is impossible to treat cancer with activated carbon, which means the share of extremely cheap medications will continue to decrease in the future,” former Pharmexpert top manager David Melik-Gusseinov wrote in his research this year.
In fact, pharmaceutical companies in Russia do not have much choice if they are interested in further growth.
The largest producers, which used to rely on over-the-counter medications, are now changing their portfolios, and one of the local pharmaceutical giants is currently investing millions of rubles in R&D projects.
At the same time, pharmaceutical research and development is not the sole responsibility of industry leaders. There are several smaller companies in the sector.
While their names may not be familiar to most readers, they are healthy, profitable businesses. Such smaller companies may choose to bring their products to market themselves, or to sell the rights to larger pharmaceutical producers.
Here in Russia we have not seen many such deals yet, but in some cases pharmaceutical giants are prepared to pay millions of dollars, or even tens of millions of dollars, for the rights to new medications.
There are many stories about entrepreneurs who managed to create large IT companies from only a web site with minimal startup capital — just because the idea was interesting and relevant.
In the pharmaceutical industry the story is a little different and much more complicated, but the principle is the same. If you have a good idea, you can make money; if, of course, you are lucky enough to pass through pre-clinical and clinical trials and prove your idea can treat a disease effectively.
If the government is eager to support such ideas, this is good news for local pharmaceutical companies. Because I have no doubt that innovative pharmaceutical producers can be successful in Russia. And I hope there will be Russian companies among them, not only multinationals.
Dmitry Genkin is chief executive officer and chairman of Pharmsynthez.
Cassius Winston blamed himself for Michigan State basketball's loss to Indiana. Tom Izzo did, too. But here is why everything is OK.
It’s a bad loss. And a worse look, what with ESPN’s College GameDay on campus and a student body that had been hyped for hours.
Tom Izzo cares about how things look. So when his team stepped onto college basketball’s national stage Saturday evening at the Breslin Center and didn’t play with its usual verve and vitality, he was irritated.
Actually, he was despondent. And demoralized. To the point that it was hard to hear him as he spoke from the podium after his Spartans fell to the Hoosiers, 79-75 in overtime.
A soft-spoken Izzo? When was the last time you could say that?
Indiana had lost seven in a row before stunning his Spartans. Yeah, the Hoosiers arrived as the worst 3-point shooting team in the Big Ten and then unexpectedly made their long-range shots.
That happens. That also doesn’t explain the loss. Missed free throws do. And missed loose balls and missed rebounds and missed opportunities on the fast break, as MSU’s players struggled to fill their lanes as they normally do.
All failures of effort and focus.
That the Spartans had a chance to win anyway speaks to the quality of their team. That they didn’t speaks to their narrow margin for error.
Forget defensive ratings and offensive efficiency and Cassius Winston’s continued brilliant play. What makes this team effective is its savvy and competitive spirit.
After all, there may not be a single legit NBA prospect within the current rotation. And even if a couple of these Spartans find their way to the league, it won’t be through next year’s draft lottery.
To win, then, everyone and everything must be in sync, or in flow. Winston calls it being fluid.
“We didn’t make a run the whole game,” he said.
He could feel it in practice last week, too. So could sophomore big man Xavier Tillman.
Some might wonder if the shadow came from ESPN’s return to campus and whether it stirred unpleasant memories from a year ago. Or if the shadow came from how deeply it hurt upon hearing news that junior shooting guard — and co-captain — Joshua Langford was out for the rest of the season.
Human nature suggests it’s possible, especially regarding the Langford news — Izzo described tears in his meeting room when he told the players of their teammate’s tough luck.
But the players said they were stoked that ESPN’s GameDay was there. They see it as a reflection of where the program is.
Winston blamed himself for not providing the team with his usual energy during practice and film study in the run-up to the game last week. His coach, though, wasn’t having it.
This year’s surprising run through the first half of the Big Ten season is a reminder of what Izzo has built in East Lansing. He has had talent, certainly. But rarely overwhelming talent.
His best teams win because their parts jell into something marvelously cohesive and resilient, into something that sometimes leaves you wondering: How did they just reel off nine straight conference wins?
Winston is a great college player. One of the best point guards in the game who controls the floor with pace and change-of-direction and a coach’s intuition.
Without him, MSU is an NCAA tournament bubble team at best, not a Big Ten contender.
And while Nick Ward is a skilled big man and an improved and evolving presence in the paint, he remains a mercurial talent who is still learning how to navigate double teams and his own desire to stubbornly put the ball in the hoop even when the defense suggests patience.
Beyond these two, the Spartans are a collection of shotmaking potential —Aaron Henry, Gabe Brown — and players who understand and excel in their specific roles: Kenny Goins, Xavier Tillman, Matt McQuaid, Kyle Ahrens.
And even without its best pure shotmaker, Langford – out for the season with a left foot injury – MSU can still make a deep tournament run. Especially if Izzo can smooth out the rotation and find some rest for Winston, even if that means giving Foster Loyer a few more minutes.
It will get there as something greater than its parts. Led by a transcendent point guard, but also by experienced players who’ve bought into their roles and into what Izzo sells.
Sprinting on the break. Crashing the glass. Talking on defense. Making free throws … at least when they really matter.
MSU didn’t do enough of that Saturday night and doesn’t have the individual talent to make up the difference.
What it does have, however, is the DNA of Izzo’s most satisfying teams. As long as these Spartans remember that, they’ll be just fine.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, his Deputy, Emeka Ihedioha and other principal officers of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday urged a Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit by the party.
In the suit, PDP is seeking to restrain the House of Representatives from altering the composition of its leadership.
Tambuwal, Ihedioha and others prayer for the suit’s dismissal is supported by 37 other former PDP members of the House of Reps, who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). They are all sued by the PDP.
Yesterday, the defence’s legal team, which included six Senior Advocates of Nigeria, faulted the competence of the suit.
While adopting their final addresses in relation to their counter affidavits to the plantiff’s originating summons, the lawyers described the suit as a pre-emptive step, abuse of court process and an attempt by the PDP to dabble into, and control the internal affairs of House of Reps.
Lawyer to House of Representatives, Tambuwal and Ihedioha, Mahmoud Magaji , SAN argued that it was wrong for the PDP to seek to restrain its former members from participating in the activities of the House on the ground of their defection.
Relying on the Supreme Court’s decisions in the cases of FEDECO vs Goni, Nigerian Supreme Court Cases (NSCC) 1983 Volume 14 at page 481 and Aneke vs Oloye NSCC 1983 Vol 14 at pages 315 and 317, Magaji further argued that the court had the sole powers to decide when a legislator’s seat was vacant when he decamped on acc...
He said the two decisions by the apex court were based on the provision of Section 64(1(g) of the 1979 Constitution, which was the same with Section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution.
Magaji contended that, as against the position of the PDP, the existence of an earlier suit between the Bamaga Tukur-led PDP and the New PDP, decided by Justice Evoh Chukwu, was an evidence of a division in the party.
The PDP had exhibited Justice Chukwu’s judgment on the suit to support its claim that there was no division in the party.
Magaji referred to pages 72 and 75 of the Justice Chukwu’s judgement to support his position.
He added that the suit was not about whether or not the party was divided, but to resolve the dispute over which should control the party between the Tukur faction and that New PDP led by Abubakar Baraje.
Other defence lawyers, Niyi Akitola SAN, Sebastine Hon, SAN, Abiodun Owonikoko , SAN, James Ocholi SAN and Jibril Okutepa , SAN prayed the court to dismiss the suit.
They argued among others, that it constituted an abuse of court’s process because a similar suit was pending before Justice Ahmed Mohammed (another judge of the same court).
Akintola, particularly faulted the legitimacy of some of the averrments in the affidavits supporting the plaintiff’s originating summons, arguing that such depositions offended the provision of the Evidence Act.
He observed that the deponent failed to state the source of the facts he deposed to, and urged the court to disregard the affidavits.
While arguing his originating summons, plaintiff’s lawyer, Yunus Usman, SAN faulted the defection of the 37 former PDP members.
He argued that by virtue of the judgment by Justice Chukwu, there was no division in the party.
He observed that the 37 defecting law makers defected despite the pendency of the judgment.
He argued that in view of their defection to another party, while there was no division in the PDP, the defecting 37 members of the House of Reps could not, by virtue of the provision of Section 68(1)(g) of the Constitution, continue to participate the the House’s legitimate businesses.
“They do not have the constitutional locus to participate in the removal of those principal officers, who constitutionally and legitimately hold offices.,” he said.
Usman argued that until Justice Mohammed decided the question of whether or not they could still maintain their seats in spite of their defection, they could no longer participate in the business of the House.
Referring to some newspaper reports threat to change the House’ leadership, Usman argued that there were real threat exist to justify his client’s apprehension of move to alter the House’s leadership before Justice Mohammed would decide the sister case.
He urged the court to grant his client’s claims and reliefs.
After listening to parties’ arguments, Justice Adeniyi Ademola adjourned to March 25 for judgment.
An officer of the PDP, Nanchang Ndam, stated in a supporting affidavit that while the defection of some of the defendants was still a subject of litigation before Justice Mohammed, the defendants, particularly the Minority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila have issued threats to change the leadership of the House.
He stated that unless the defendants were restrained, they could carry out the threat and thereby prejudice the earlier suit, cause a breakdown of law and other and parallel the activities of the House.

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