Az orosz válogatott magabiztosan legyőzte a brit együttest a női kosárlabda Európa-bajnokság második napján. Az oroszokhoz hasonlóan a fehéroroszok és a montenegróiak is pontveszteség nélkül állnak két forduló után.
Hallgatom egy ideje a drágámat, hogy szeretne egyszer eljutni egy Michelin-csillagos étterembe (igen, tudom, gasztrosznobizmus).
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The Hillary in Our Future
Michael Tomasky
The New York Review of Books
In this review of Peter Schweizer’s Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, Tomasky looks at the controversy surrounding the donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation and the speaker fees paid to Bill and Hillary. The issue, notes Tomasky, is the media is currently “[n]ot primed to investigate, or primed to scrutinize, or even primed to rake over the coals.” Instead, it’s “[p]rimed to take down” to the Clintons.
The Poet Who Died for Your Phone
By Emily Rauhala
Time
Emily Rauhala tells the story of Xu Lizh, a 20-something factory employee and poet who committed suicide in September 2014. Xu’s poetry sheds light on the lives of those factory workers charged with an array of electronic devices, as well as on the wave of suicides that brought their plight to the world’s attention.
The Missing Forty-Three: The Government’s Case Collapses
By Francisco Goldman
The New Yorker
Since the disappearance of 43 students in the Mexican city of Iguala eight months ago, the country has faced countless street protests, and its government has struggled with “an unprecedented credibility crisis” both at home and abroad. Francisco Goldman, who has been reporting on the incident for months, outlines some of the newest developments in the case.
What is Code?
By Paul Ford
Bloomberg
At 38,000 words, Paul Ford’s essay on the nature of code, hardware and everything in between might take more than one sitting. You’ll even get a personalized certificate of completion if you make it through the whole piece, so don’t be surprised when your browser tries to access your webcam.
Passion Points
By Eli Epstein
Mashable
There’s more to recent technological developments than hooking up your refrigerator to the Internet of Things or being able to program your coffee maker with your phone. In this Mashable piece, Eli Epstein looks at three stories showing how some recent technological developments has empowered and inspired people around the world.
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Regulating Against Corrupt Practices, FIFA Edition by Richard Basas
Az oroszországi klinikai immunológia fejlesztésért kitüntetéssel ismerték el Szentpéterváron Maródi László professzor munkáját. A díjat első alkalommal kapta külföldi orvos - közölte a Debreceni Egyetem (DE) sajtószolgálata pénteken az MTI-vel. Közleményük szerint Maródi László, a DE infektológiai és gyermekimmunológiai tanszékének professzora június 3-án, egy szentpétervári összoroszországi immunológiai konferencián vehette át a klinikai immunológia orosz atyjáról, Vlagyimir Iljics Jofféról elnevezett díjat.
Egy új gázvezeték tervén dolgozik az osztrák OMV olajipari konszern és a Gazprom orosz állami földgázipari óriásvállalat: eszerint a korábban tervezett Nabucco gázvezeték nyomvonalán orosz gázt szállítanának a Kaszpi-tenger térségéből Európába – számolt be a Die Presse osztrák napilap OMV körüli forrásokra hivatkozva. Az újság úgy tudja, a tárgyalások egyik vezetője Reinhard Mitschek, a Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH (NIC) korábbi ügyvezető igazgatója.
The latest issue of European Defence Matters, the official magazine of the European Defence Agency, is now available. Timed to coincide with the opening of the 51st edition of the International Paris Air Show, it focuses on European military aerospace issues.
This eighth issue of European Defence Matters will cover a wide variety of aerospace-related topics ranging from air-to-air refuelling, satellite communications, implementation of the Single European Sky or remotely piloted aircraft systems. It includes interviews with EDA experts and key players in the area such as Général Denis Mercier, French air force Chief of Staff, or Fernando Alonso, Head of military aircraft with Airbus Defence & Space.
In addition to our European aerospace feature story, this issue also includes an exclusive opinion piece from High Representative and Head of the Agency Federica Mogherini, who shares her thoughts on the future of European defence.
The European Parliament (EP) descended into disarray earlier this week as MEPs failed to speak with one voice about the way negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are being handled by the European Commission. A key discussion and vote on the controversial trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) had been scheduled for midday Wednesday 10 June but Parliament President Martin Schultz announced late the night before that this would be postponed.
Following months of debate within the EP political groups a common position was due to be adopted but has fallen apart as divisions in the Socialist and Democrat (S&D) party risked the collapse of the consensus. The primary sticking point has been and remains the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism. This would allow individual corporations which have invested in a given country to sue that country’s government for anticipated harm to speculative investment; for instance, if a policy to protect public health by banning alcohol advertising were shown to damage alcohol company profits, the company would be able to claim financial compensation. Notable cases that have been launched under current ISDS mechanisms include Phillip Morris v Australia, where the tobacco giant is contesting the introduction of plain packaging laws, Phillip Morris v Uruguay, where the same corporation is suing for profits lost in light of legislation requiring health warnings on tobacco products, and Achmea v Slovakia, where the company investing in health system privatisation sued the government for its lost profit as a result of renationalisation.
ISDS foresees that cases such as these should be dealt by a private arbitration tribunal, overseen by high-level lawyers agreed by the parties, rather than by a national or international court, without judicial review, circumventing the authority of national and EU legal systems and giving preferential legal treatment to foreign investors. MEPs, civil society and the general public have expressed significant reservations about ISDS but the US and the European Commission continue to insist upon its inclusion.
The draft resolution which was due to be voted on by the EP plenary in Strasbourg this week contained a compromise text in favour of a cosmetically reformed version of ISDS. The S&D group, the second-largest political group in the Parliament, is opposed to the ISDS provision but the final compromise that it reached at committee level supported the inclusion of a ‘reformed’ ISDS. A group of unhappy S&D MEPs joined with colleagues in the Green (Greens/EFA), European United Left (GUE/NGL), European Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) and EPP groups to table a stronger amendment, excluding the ISDS mechanism completely. This split the S&D party line and presented the wavering plenary consensus with a choice between different ISDS positions. On Tuesday night it became apparent that holding the vote would risk rejection of the full resolution and the president took the decision to postpone. Shortly after the announcement the two biggest groups, S&D and EPP, took to Twitter to blame each other for the breakdown.
Within the rest of the EP, support for ISDS hangs in the balance. Politico reported on Wednesday that the EPP, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) and the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) had been prepared to veto the whole resolution if the anti-ISDS amendments were included. However, there are sceptical MEPs in most groups and five of the 13 Committees which have offered opinions on the resolution have included provisions to limit or exclude ISDS, including the Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee. To compound the issue, the European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, published a report in January which heavily criticises the Commission’s conduct in the TTIP negotiations, denouncing the lack of transparency and public access to documents, meetings and information about lobbying activity. Public opinion is also overwhelming against inclusion of any form of ISDS. The Commission received over 150,000 responses to its public consultation on ISDS and TTIP in mid-2014, the most ever received for a consultation of this kind, and more than 97% of the contributions rejected ISDS. Many civil society organisations have criticised the Commission for obscuring the extent of this opposition and ploughing ahead with its commitment to inclusion of the mechanism.
Negotiations between US and Commission officials are ongoing based on the negotiating mandate given by the Member states and continue behind closed doors. In the EP, the file has been sent back to committee level so is now unlikely to be agreed before the next plenary session in July, meaning that it will be September before a plenary vote is held. This adds considerable pressure, since TTIP is high on the agenda for President Obama and his administration are eager to finalise before the US elections in November 2016.
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A Gazdaságfejlesztési Operatív Program „Piacorientált kutatás-fejlesztési tevékenység támogatása” című konstrukciója keretében 380,21 millió forintot meghaladó vissza nem térítendő uniós támogatást nyert el a Delta Bio 2000 Kft. által vezetett konzorcium.
A 475 millió forintot meghaladó összköltségű projekt során ubikvitin módosító fehérjék tumorterápiás célú jellemzése és kismolekula inhibitorainak azonosítása történt.
A projekt célja a Delta Bio 2000 által újonnan azonosított, a DNS replikációban szerepet játszó, és sajátos ubikvitin-kötőmotívummal rendelkező fehérjékkel specifikusan kölcsönható kismolekulák azonosítása volt, amelyek a tumor sejtek proliferációját, metasztatikus képességét, kemoterápiás szerekkel szembeni ellenállóképességét gátolják.
A kutatás-fejlesztési tevékenység végrehajtása során egyrészt jellemzésre kerültek új, a karcinogenezisben kulcsfontosságú szerepet játszó és ezért potenciális gyógyszer célpontnak tekinthető fehérjék, másrészt ezeknek a fehérjéknek az aktivitását gátló kismolekula inhibitorok szintézise és jellemzése valósult meg.
A projekt eredménye nemcsak hazai, de világszinten is újdonságot jelent, hiszen olyan gyógyszercélpont fehérjéket jellemeztek, amelyeket eddig más laboratóriumok még nem vizsgáltak. Továbbá, az előzetes eredmények fényében is előrevetíthető volt, hogy ezeket a fehérjéket gátló kismolekula inhibitorok fokozzák a DNS károsító ágens alapú tumorterápia hatékonyságát és alkalmazásuk szintetikus letalitáshoz vezet adott genetikai hátterű tumorsejtek kezelésénél.
A projekt során jellemzett – a DNS hibatoleranciában részt vevő – új fehérjéket szabályzó mechanizmusaikat és specifikus kis molekula inhibitorait először szabadalommal kívánták védeni, majd a vizsgálatokat kiterjesztik a gyógyszerfejlesztés következő fázisaiba.
A konzorcium vezetője a Delta Bio 2000 Kft. volt, konzorciumi tagok az AVICOR Kft., a VISAL PLUS Kft., valamint a DEAK Zrt.
A GOP-1.1.1-11 „Piacorientált kutatás-fejlesztési tevékenység támogatása” című pályázati kiíráson 380 211 800 forintos támogatást elnyert projekt 2013. február 1-jén indult és 2015. június 12-én zárult.