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UK gov to announce COVID-19 ‘challenge’ trials to get an effective vaccine to people sooner

The British government says it may take part in a study that tries to deliberately infect volunteers who have been given an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus in an effort to more quickly determine if the vaccine works.

The approach, called a challenge study, is risky but proponents think it may produce results faster than typical studies, which wait to see if volunteers who have been given an experimental treatment or a dummy version get sick.

“We are working with partners to understand how we might collaborate on the potential development of a COVID-19 vaccine through human challenge studies,” the UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy said in a prepared statement. “These discussions are part of our work to research ways of treating, limiting and hopefully preventing the virus so we can end the pandemic sooner.”

Challenge studies are typically used to test vaccines against mild diseases to avoid exposing volunteers to a serious illness if the vaccine doesn’t work. While the coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms in most people and seems to be especially mild in young, healthy people, the long-term effects of the disease aren’t well understood, and there have been reports of lingering problems in the heart and other organs even in those who don’t ever feel sick.

In the U.S., the National Institutes of Health has downplayed the need for challenge studies given the speed with which vaccines are being developed, but said Thursday it is taking some preliminary steps in case the more controversial approach eventually is required. Those preliminary steps include examining the ethics of a challenge study, and funding research to create lab-grown virus strains that potentially could be used.

But even if needed, “human challenge trials would not replace Phase 3 trials” of COVID-19 vaccines, according to a statement from NIH that called the standard, rigorous studies its priority.

Tens of thousands of volunteers have already signed up around the world to test leading candidates and the coronavirus still is spreading widely enough in many locations that manufacturers are confident of answers by year’s end about at least some of the shots.

In July, the NIH’s vaccine working group published a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine pointing out the risks of doing a challenge study with a virus that so far has no good treatment and is wildly unpredictable, occasionally killing even some young, otherwise healthy people.

“A single death or severe illness in an otherwise healthy volunteer would be unconscionable and would halt progress” toward a vaccine, the group warned.

To minimize chances of that happening, scientists planning a challenge study first would have to grow in a high-security lab a strain of the new virus that’s not very strong. Then they’d have to determine a dose that wouldn’t make volunteers too sick, which the NIH group warned would be laborious and time-consuming.

The Financial Times newspaper reported Wednesday that the government planned to sponsor a challenge study that is set to begin in January. The FT said the government will announce the trial next week, citing people involved in the project without naming them.

Dr. Peter Horby, professor of emerging infectious diseases and global health at the University of Oxford, says he supports the idea. The concept stretches back to 1796, when scientist Edward Jenner found that exposing patients to cowpox disease protected them against future infections of smallpox, the first step in eradicating the deadly disease.

He told the BBC that there was a “long history” of challenge studies and that the risk to young and healthy people is low. Besides that, Horby said that there are now some treatments for COVID-19 in the event a person in the challenge becomes unwell.

“It has real potential to advance science and get us to a better understanding of the disease and vaccines faster,” Horby said.

In May, the World Health Organization issued a report on the ethical considerations for conducting a challenge study. The U.N. health agency laid out criteria necessary for justifying such research, including minimizing all potential risks to participants by, among other things, making sure participants were young and healthy, providing supportive care if things went wrong, and mandating “rigorous informed consent.”

Alastair Fraser-Urquhart, an 18-year-old volunteer organizer at 1Day Sooner, a group that advocates for challenge study volunteers, told the BBC he wanted to take part because of the potential to save thousands of lives and bring the world out of the pandemic.

“It was just something that made instant sense to me really,” he said.

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royalcommonwealthfan · 5 years ago

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parkspring4-blog · 6 years ago

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Thursday’s Headlines: Live on NY1 Edition

Forgive me if I make this quick, but I’m on tap to serve up Borscht Belt shtick as a foil to Pat Kiernan’s legendary Canadian politeness on NY1 this morning at around 7:20. Tune in … and watch me defend bike lanes, congestion pricing and a car-free city (while we’re at it!). For those 10 minutes, at least, don’t listen to Gov. Cuomo’s call for a boycott!

Meanwhile, it was a busy day yesterday. Here’s the roundup:

Polly wanna crackdown? DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg claims her agency and the NYPD are cracking down on placard abusers, which is laughable, as anyone on Twitter will tell you. She also said she favors camera enforcement to root out invalid placards — but, wouldn’t you know, the city doesn’t currently have that power under state law. (NY Post)

In the same interview, Trottenberg said Mayor de Blasio is “evolving” on congestion pricing (Emma Fitzsimmons) and also said the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway project will make the L-pocalyse look like “a piece of cake.” (NY Post)

The MTA isn’t properly inspecting its frequently failing signals, a new audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli shows. (NY Post, NYDN)

For one day, let’s focus on New York City cabbies who do a good job. (amNY)

I’m still so excited to see Ross Barkan’s name popping up everywhere (alas, except at Streetsblog!). This time, the journalist-cum-politician-cum-journalist argues in favor of community board term limits. (City and State)

Could repairs finally be coming to the Shore Road bike path? No, not soon, but eventually! (Bklyner)

Just because Midtown pedestrians have so much room to move around, the NYPD is restricting them even more, no doubt citing security reasons that they never have to reveal. (Alastair Coote, with a h/t to Charlie Komanoff)

Here’s a hat tip to Patch for giving Streetsblog reporter David Meyer a hat tip for his coverage of the city’s delay on making Amsterdam Avenue safer. (Patch)

Dammit, Europe is killing us on cargo e-trikes! (Forbes)

I liked Nicole Gelinas’s article for CityLab about how cities tend to react to the terror threat posed by cars and trucks by ruining everything for cyclists and pedestrians. The key line for me? “Anti-terror infrastructure should ease walking, biking, and public transit use, not impede it.” (CityLab)

Busy transportation reporter Aaron Gordon continues to hit for power and average with his latest piece for Curbed arguing why the L-train shutdown will be great for cycling in NYC.

Underappreciated New York treasure Vince DiMiceli devoted an entire episode of Brooklyn Paper Radio to the city’s “Promen-Nada!” plan for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

As someone who has been the target of online trolling by Vickie Paladino, I’m not entirely sure why the otherwise great Jake Offenhartz gave the GOP State Senate candidate, bike lane foe and white supremacist apologist from Eastern Queens so much ink on Wednesday. Paladino is running against Democratic nominee John Liu for the seat finally being vacated currently held by Democrat Tony Avella (who is also running a third-party campaign on the grounds that Liu, who beat him in September, is an “embarrassment” and Paladino is ridiculous). (Gothamist)

Source: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/10/18/thursdays-headlines-live-on-ny1-edition/

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Thursday’s Headlines: Live on NY1 Edition

Meanwhile, it was a busy day yesterday. Here’s the roundup:

The MTA isn’t properly inspecting its frequently failing signals, a new audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli shows. (NY Post, NYDN)

For one day, let’s focus on New York City cabbies who do a good job. (amNY)

Could repairs finally be coming to the Shore Road bike path? No, not soon, but eventually! (Bklyner)

Here’s a hat tip to Patch for giving Streetsblog reporter David Meyer a hat tip for his coverage of the city’s delay on making Amsterdam Avenue safer. (Patch)

Dammit, Europe is killing us on cargo e-trikes! (Forbes)

Busy transportation reporter Aaron Gordon continues to hit for power and average with his latest piece for Curbed arguing why the L-train shutdown will be great for cycling in NYC.

Underappreciated New York treasure Vince DiMiceli devoted an entire episode of Brooklyn Paper Radio to the city’s “Promen-Nada!” plan for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

Source: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/10/18/thursdays-headlines-live-on-ny1-edition/

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Respect key to Simpson's renovated Eagles

AT LAST October’s John Worsfold Medal presentation, Adam Simpson promised his wife Nicky that they would move closer to the beach.

“You’ve wanted that all year,” the West Coast coach said.

Then, typically deadpan, he quipped: “It might be in a caravan this time next year, but we’ll be closer.”

Nearly 12 months on, it is impossible to ignore the symbolism of Simpson’s pending relocation.

After a labour of love, the 42-year-old and his family are next month expected to move into a newly built pad in an upmarket beachside suburb – about as far away from the trailer park as you can get.

By then, he might even have joined premiership coaches Worsfold and Mick Malthouse in West Coast folklore.

Clearly, a lot has changed since Simpson was copping the blowtorch during a frustrating 2017 campaign.

Against all expectations, West Coast is just a home preliminary final win away from a second Grand Final in four seasons.

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With the ink still drying on a three-year contract extension, Simpson is locked in – as securely as a senior AFL coach can be – until the end of 2022, and rash calls for his head as the Eagles struggled to scrape into finals last season are fading into memory.

“He did get a little frustrated last year with some of the press and some of the WA media, and some of the reporting, but I think he knows it goes with the territory,” Simpson’s long-time manager Shane Casley told AFL.com.au.

“It’s a small town, Perth, and it’s a big job he’s got, so he’s probably got to expect a bit of heat when they’re not performing.

“But we spoke about that over the off-season and his need to get better and keep building relationships and improving the culture at the footy club.

“Whether they’re winning games or not winning games, it’s just about going about it the right way and building that respect, and I think he’s done that this year – and won games along the way.”

Adam Simpson and his players ahead of the qualifying final against Collingwood. Picture: AFL Photos

The secret behind West Coast’s unexpected resurgence – so soon after the retirements of Brownlow medallists Matt Priddis and Sam Mitchell – might be that there is no single reason for it.

On the field, the Eagles haven’t rebuilt, but they’ve renovated, with Simpson the architect.

They have blooded eight debutants and injected pace and enthusiasm after seeming tired and slow when they crashed out in a 67-point semi-final loss to the Giants last year.

Adapting to their new, wider home ground at Optus Stadium, the Eagles have kicked the ball more than any other team and players have had Simpson’s trust to back their instincts.

“I think he’s passed onto the playing group ‘this is what we’re trying to achieve, but you can do it different ways’,” skipper Shannon Hurn said.

“It’s not when we get the ball in the back pocket you have to kick the ball here, then there, and then there.

“I think over time he’s given the players more ownership about how to go about their football.”

Groomed for four years under Hawthorn mastermind Alastair Clarkson, it should be no surprise Simpson has been tactically astute during his five-season reign in the west.

The famed ‘Weagles Web’ – born out of necessity after key defenders Eric Mackenzie and Mitch Brown went down – handed the Eagles a competitive advantage in 2015, and helped propel them to a shock Grand Final appearance.

Simpson and the Eagles contemplate their loss to Hawthorn in the 2015 Grand Final. Picture: AFL Photos

Although West Coast lacked a clear identity last season, Simpson still steered the side to an elimination final victory and an off-season revamp has delivered sensational results.

But man-management and empathy have arguably been more essential to his success.

Simpson gets to know his players intimately and shows he cares about them as people.

Last summer, he and assistant coach Jaymie Graham took their sons to the Tiwi Islands to better understand goalsneak Willie Rioli’s culture.

Then on the eve of the season, he drove a four-hour round trip from Melbourne to Bendigo for a 20-minute visit with Tom Cole’s dying father.

He is a players’ coach, and Simpson’s style isn’t ‘one size fits all’.

His tight bond with Jeremy McGovern is well-known, forged after Simpson banished the overweight tall to Claremont soon after his 2013 appointment.

Tough love helped turn McGovern into a star, and when Dom Sheed was dropped back to the WAFL three times this season, the 23-year-old was grateful for knowing where he stood.

Jeremy McGovern and Simpson share a laugh after a win. Picture: AFL Photos

“He builds relationships with every single player,” Sheed said.

“He’s a very balanced, well-rounded person. You know his door is always open for any players to walk into.”

Sheed has been important since Andrew Gaff was suspended, and he isn’t the only Eagle who has blossomed after stints at East Perth.

Jack Redden and Lewis Jetta were supposed to help West Coast take the next step after being recruited at the end of 2015, only to struggle to find their groove and languish in the WAFL.

This year, both have been influential – Redden around the ball and Jetta after a switch to half-back – while Chris Masten has been reborn on a wing after his career was at the crossroads last year.

Masten was a shock round one selection, but is now a key engine room cog, thriving on a simpler focus on his role and a strong relationship with the coach.

“He treats everyone differently, and that’s what I like,” Masten said.

“With ‘Gov’, they’re like the same person. For me, he’s more the boss, but you’re still mates with him.

“He’ll take the piss out of me but it’s a weird, funny relationship.

“He’s a funny man, but also so smart and so good at getting the best out of his players.

“He’s definitely good now with how we’ve progressed and handing the keys over to the boys, and we know what we’re doing because of the way he’s taught us.”

Simpson and Chris Masten in conversation during a game. Picture: AFL Photos

ON GAME day or in front of the TV cameras, Simpson is almost always cool, calm and collected.

Not much ruffles his feathers, but he is fiercely loyal.

He is prepared to back those in his inner sanctum to the hilt, and arguably went too far in supporting integrity officer Peter Staples after his scuffle with cameramen at Perth Airport in July.

In the aftermath of Andrew Gaff’s punch on Andy Brayshaw in the round 20 Western Derby, he was clearly miffed by questions about a cultural issue at West Coast.

As a senior leader at the club, he took those accusations personally.

But those issues were soon pushed into the background, with the bigger picture of a premiership tilt front of mind.

“That was one of his big traits as a player and captain: nothing was ever that good (as it seemed), but nothing was ever that bad,” Simpson’s former North Melbourne coach Dean Laidley said.

“He was very, very consistent in that.”

In football terms, Simpson just about saw it all at the Roos and took everything in his stride.

After the highs of the 1996 and ’99 flags, he was a rock through the Wayne Carey saga and skipper when North fought against relocation to Gold Coast.

“What he did as the leader of the playing group and how he actually played himself, he was instrumental in the last part of his career in a very rough and volatile time off the field at the footy club,” Laidley recalled.

“West Coast rang me when he applied for the job and I was a very, very strong advocate for him to get the position.

“I knew what he could deliver.”

Dean Laidley and Adam Simpson celebrate a win in 2009. Picture: AFL Photos

THOSE who play under Simpson respect what he achieved as a 306-game Kangaroos champion, and say he still understands how difficult AFL football can be.

He won’t hold back from a spray when necessary, but his stinging rebukes are the most memorable for his players.

For some, it evokes that sinking feeling of a parent telling them they’re not angry, just disappointed, and he always hits the mark.

“It’s not the yelling, ranting, raving, it’s like a little whack,” Masten said.

“He’s quite sarcastic and funny, he can get you where he hurts.

“He was calling me (outspoken DJ) Kyle Sandilands for the radio (interview calling on the AFL to stop tinkering with the rules). That’s just him.”

Masten, more than most, appreciates the Eagles’ refresh during his most enjoyable season yet.

“There were times last year when we were battling to have any sort of enjoyment,” the 29-year-old said.

There has been a clear emphasis on boosting the enthusiasm for going to work, and while new blood has helped, a balanced approach to life outside of football has played a part.

The Eagles are a mature group, and senior players are occasionally given extra days off just to get away from the club and escape Perth’s footy fishbowl.

With a quarter of the squad now dads – 11 players in total after Luke Shuey’s son’s arrival – family time is a priority, and partners are encouraged to be part of the club.

Post-game the changerooms resemble a crèche, with many of the coaching staff also fathers.

For Simpson, a father of four with high school sweetheart Nicky, family comes first, as evidenced when he flew home before the round two win over the Bulldogs to be by his ill daughter Elsa’s side (he also has Owen, Allie and Milla).

“The beauty about it is we all love what we’re doing, but we’ve got young families and there’s a good balance as well,” forwards coach Jaymie Graham said.

“It’s an elite environment where everything you do gets scrutinised these days and Simmo has been big on making the club a sanctuary and a place where you can come and have fun and feel comfortable.

“He’s come from the North Melbourne days and that’s one thing about the ‘Shinboners’ is they had that spirit that they brought.

“We’re a really united group, one as a club and playing group, but also a coaching group.”

Assistant coach Sam Mitchell deep in conversation with Simpson. Picture: AFL Photos

A METICULOUS preparer, Simpson’s ability to adapt and succeed hasn’t surprised those who know him.

He chipped in as North’s midfield coach late in his playing days when the Roos couldn’t afford a full-time assistant, and was clearly ready for the step up to coaching.

“I’d go and ask him ‘what have you got in mind for centre bounce?’ and he’d be all over it and coach the players through it,” Laidley said.

“That was fantastic for me and great support, but was really good for his development.”

In his last season in 2009, Simpson became the first graduate of David Wheadon’s Next Coach Program, and his quest for knowledge hasn’t stopped.

Two years ago, Simpson visited Stanford University with Collingwood mentor Nathan Buckley and Wheadon, learning the value of delegation and empowerment, and he and Eagles CEO Trevor Nisbett are currently scouting options for his next study trip.

“He’s very planned, very organised,” Wheadon said. “He’s a pure professional.”

It was Simpson’s drive that helped win him the job ahead of Peter Sumich in 2013 after Worsfold stepped down.

Since then, West Coast has made the top eight in four of five seasons and, based on win-loss, Simpson is indisputably one of the AFL’s elite coaches.

Only three rivals boast a better winning ratio than his 64 per cent.

But two of those men – Chris Scott and John Longmire (Adelaide’s Don Pyke is the other) – have led Geelong and Sydney, respectively, to the ultimate prize, and Simpson needs a premiership to join the truly top bracket of coaches.

It would be a stunning effort this season without some key personnel, but there is an air of calmness and business as usual at West Coast ahead of Saturday’s preliminary final.

If the Eagles do overcome the Demons and advance to the decider, don’t expect the celebrations to go overboard, especially in the coaches’ box.

West Coast’s coaching staff might share a quick celebratory drink post-match in the bowels of Optus Stadium, but not much more than that before turning their attention to last Saturday in September.

“I think they do take in a bottle of red after every winning game – certainly home games,” Casley said.

However, if West Coast can go all the way, Simpson will have good reason to savour that success a little longer at his new home this summer.

“If they win a Grand Final I might even buy him a bottle of Grange,” Casley said.

Source: http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-09-19/respect-key-to-simpsons-renovated-eagles

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California Consumer Privacy Act Gets Approved

A consumer privacy has passed from California administrators collectively that will drastically do a few changes for change how organizations handle information. The bill endorsed by Gov. Jerry Brown stipends Californians the ability to keep organizations responsible for the mishandling of their data.

Before the bill’s endorsement, tech organizations and security rights advocates occupied with tense arrangements and arrived on a diluted form of a more far-reaching activity proposed by Alastair Mactaggart, a San Francisco land engineer who spent more than $3 million on his battle to qualify the measure for the ticket, the Sacramento Bee revealed. The senator’s mark affirmed the consistent endorsement, successfully expelling the measure from the ticket.

The California Consumer Privacy Act, Assembly Bill 375, enables individuals from the general population to ask for that an organization erase their own data. The bill likewise requires that those organizations offering purchasers’ data uncover the classification of data they gather and that they pick up select in agreeing to keep in mind the end goal to offer the information of anybody under 16.

In case of an unapproved break of non-encoded individual data, purchasers would now be able to sue organizations for up to $750, an admonition censured by Sen. Jim Neilson who still voted in favor of the bill however communicated worries over legal advisors documenting unimportant claims.

Absolute’s worldwide security strategist, Richard Henderson said that since the GDPR went into full impact, numerous have been expecting enactment of this kind to pick up footing among purchasers in the US. Different states like New York and Massachusetts will probably go with the same pattern and draft their own subject amicable information rights laws. Numerous individual states won’t sit staring them in the face sitting tight for a government activity that may never come.

Organizations will probably need to take after the most prohibitive principles and rules going ahead. For most organizations, it will be dreadfully hampering for them to work out frameworks for every special arrangement of out of this world into being. Much like GDPR, the ideal opportunity for organizations to act is within the near future. There are a lot of Attorneys General who won’t delay following organizations who show contempt for these standards.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. | Sweeping data privacy bill approved in California

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. | Sweeping data privacy bill approved in California

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The governor of California signed a law Thursday that experts say gives consumers in the state the most far-reaching control over their personal data in the nation.

The law compels companies to tell customers upon request what personal data they’ve collected, why it was collected and what categories of third parties have received it.

Consumers will also be able to ask companies to delete their information and refrain from selling it.

It’s similar to data privacy regulation in the European Union, which aims to give consumers some control over the use of their data.

The California bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown will apply only to California consumers. However, internet users in other states will likely see changes, said Cynthia Larose, a cybersecurity expert at the law firm Mintz Levin.

“It’s going to be impractical for companies to maintain two separate sets of privacy protections — one for California and one for everyone else,” she said.

The move by California came after large breaches in recent years at companies including Target and Equifax. Facebook also has faced intense scrutiny amid revelations that Republican-linked consulting firm Cambridge Analytica collected data from millions of Facebook users without their knowledge.

The bill gives companies the ability to offer discounts to customers who allow their data to be sold and charge those who opt out a reasonable amount based on how much the company makes selling the information.

Brown signed the measure just hours after lawmakers passed it with no dissenting votes in a last-minute scramble to convince San Francisco real estate developer Alastair Mactaggart to remove a similar initiative from consideration for the November ballot ahead of a Thursday deadline.

The bill, AB375 by Assemblyman Ed Chau, also bars companies from selling data from children younger than 16 without consent.

“We in California are taking a leadership position with this bill,” said Sen. Bob Hertzberg, a Van Nuys Democrat who co-authored the bill. “I think this will serve as an inspiration across the country.”

Voter-enacted initiatives are much harder to alter than laws passed through the legislative process.

Given the significance and complexity of the proposed policy, supporters and even many opponents said they wanted legislators to pass the bill so they can more easily change it in the future.

Lawmakers suggested the bill will need amendments.

Republican Assemblyman Jay Obernolte of Hesperia said he thinks the parts of the bill allowing people to sue companies over data breaches are too broad.

Although the bill is aimed at regulating internet and tech companies, some opponents say it could have unintended consequences on other industries.

A lobbyist for the newspaper industry, for example, said he worried the bill could harm news reporting by allowing subjects of negative investigative stories to prevent publication. Lawmakers said that’s not the bill’s intent.

Mactaggart spent $3 million to support the related initiative and qualify it for the ballot but plans to remove it now that the law has passed.

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UK Gov Picks Blockchain Startup Nuggets to Lead Mission in China

London, UK – 13 April 2018 – Nuggets, the e-commerce payments and ID platform, has been backed by the Department for International Trade, the Mayor of London and the City of London, resulting in the company being invited on two major trade visits to China.

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Nuggets’ continued rise to prominence comes in the wake of the UK Government’s declaration of a “new Golden era” in UK-China relations, and shows the potential of the “fintech bridge” agreed between the two countries in 2016. Underpinned by an agreement with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the bridge aims to strengthen regulatory co-operation and create opportunities for fintech startups in both markets.

“To receive the support of these three highly respected international business bodies is fantastic news and testament to the rapid progress Nuggets is making in harnessing blockchain technology to enable individuals to own and control their personal data while making e-commerce payments.

“The technology we are building has huge implications for e-commerce markets around the world. It’s great to see the UK and London supporting innovative technology companies in this way,” said Alastair Johnson, CEO and Founder of Nuggets.

The three bodies have outlined how they will help Nuggets to establish its business in China and use their extensive networks to enable business development and growth.

The influential Department for International Trade (DIT) has also thrown its weight behind Nuggets. It has offered to support the company’s business development across China and use its exceptional contacts to make introductions to potential clients, as well as relevant Chinese industry bodies and regulators. The DIT has also said it will support Nuggets’ marketing with speaking opportunities at various British government events in China and even help Nuggets to establish an onshore presence in China.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has chosen the project to take part in his International Business Programme, a programme focused on internationalising London-based scale-up businesses. This means Nuggets will be part of official trade visits to China this year.

Sherry Madera, the City of London Corporation’s Special Adviser for Asia: “We’re pleased to support the UK’s burgeoning fintech scene and the ambitions of firms here wanting to expand overseas. The UK is a world leader in fintech and by some estimates home to around 1,600 fintech companies.”

“The news that Nuggets is working with a number of China based businesses is yet another example of how the UK and China can work more closely together in this hugely exciting market.”

Nuggets recently participated in the launch event of, ‘Regulatory Sandbox for FinTech: UK-China Collaboration to Promote Financial Innovation’ and was also supported early on by the FCA, which selected the startup for its Project Innovate, enabling the project to test its revolutionary product in the regulatory sandbox.

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In December, I traveled from my home in Maryland to New Hampshire, where I grew up, to stand with Dudley Dudley as she cast her Electoral College vote for Hillary Clinton. Most Americans haven’t heard of the Durham Democrat who ran for U.S. Congress in the 1980s. But Ms. Dudley’s story has parallels to Ms. Clinton’s that offer hope for the future.

First, a word about the name: She was born Dudley Webster (named after a 17th-century relative who held office in Colonial New England), then married Tom Dudley, a lawyer.

Ms. Dudley, like Hillary Rodham Clinton, devoted her career to public service, beginning with stuffing envelopes in 1944 to re-elect FDR. She worked for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 and was a delegate for George McGovern in the 1972 primary. She was beloved along New Hampshire’s seacoast for defeating Aristotle Onassis’ proposed oil refinery and for protesting the Seabrook nuclear power plant. Ms. Dudley served on the state legislature, and in 1976, became the only Democrat on Republican Gov. Meldrim Thomson’s council. She took her seat shortly after the hardline conservative had thrown her out of his office when she showed up with a petition opposing the Onassis project.

I worked with her in 1984, as she was competing for one of New Hampshire’s two congressional seats. (Spoiler: she lost.) As a recent graduate of the UNH journalism program and a former schoolmate of Ms. Dudley’s daughter, Morgan, I was tapped to write press releases and radio spots for the campaign. At the time Ms. Dudley, a member of the Governor’s Executive Council, was the highest-ranking female in New Hampshire government. Ever.

And she should have had a clear path to Congress. Her Republican opponent in 1984 was Bob Smith, a teacher and real estate broker with no political experience. But this was New Hampshire, a red-leaning libertarian state, where gubernatorial hopefuls have long “pledged” to veto any sales or income tax efforts before running for office (and apparently they still do).

The state’s most influential newspaper was the Manchester Union Leader, whose former publisher, William Loeb III had called Sen. John F. Kennedy “the No. 1 liar in the United States.” Loeb died in 1981, but the paper’s spirit — along with its front page editorials — were carried on by his widow, Nackey Loeb (an heiress to the Scripps fortune).

The Union Leader gleefully referred to the Democratic candidate as “Dum Dum Dudley” (a moniker distressingly consonant with “Crooked Hillary”), and Mr. Smith’s campaign slogan countered the Democrats’ “Dudley Dudley, Worth Repeating” with “Dudley Dudley, Liberal Liberal.”

Mr. Smith went to Washington on Reagan’s second-term coattails that year, and Ms. Dudley slunk back to Durham, much as Hillary retreated to Chappaqua in incredulous defeat.

(Later in the Senate, Mr. Smith joined with Jesse Helms to threaten funding to schools that acknowledged homosexuality. He made an early bid for president under the short-lived Taxpayer’s Party, a group that would make Breitbart swoon.)

Ms. Dudley continued her work in public service, holding board and trustee positions with some of the state’s organizations, like Dartmouth Medical School. She received the UNH Granite State Award, and the New Hampshire Democratic Party honored her with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for politics and community service. But she never again ran for federal office.

Still, on Dec. 19, 2016, she was proud to be an elector for the first woman ever to win the popular vote for the presidency of the United States. Standing in the New Hampshire Executive Council chambers with three other female electors — each with her own trailblazing story — a portrait of her bewigged ancestor, Joseph Dudley, looked on. Now 80, she is more activist than elder stateswoman. When her turn came to speak, she exhorted all present to work for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, after explaining that this agreement would guarantee victory to future winners of the popular vote.

The women cast their votes for Ms. Clinton, then the room turned to honor Ms. Dudley. A team of her friends, led by Ray Buckley, head of the New Hampshire Democratic Committee (in the running for DNC chair) and State Rep. Robert “Renny” Cushing, had commissioned a portrait of her to hang in the State Capitol, and it was set to be unveiled.

Morgan’s daughter Lauren, Ms. Dudley’s granddaughter, helped to tug off the blue velvet drapery covering a large easel in the corner of the room. Artist N. Alastair Dacey had captured the politician at that indiscriminate midlife moment, when we look neither young nor old.

The hopelessness I had expected to feel that morning, as most electors submitted their votes for Donald J. Trump, never materialized. At least in New Hampshire, the future looks bright for the Liberal Liberals. The state elected its first female governor more than two decades ago and this month sends the country’s first ever all-female delegation to Congress (all Democrats, as well).

Ms. Dudley said she initially thought a portrait was too “pretentious.” But Mr. Buckley, who remembers visiting the state house as a child and being inspired by the auspicious images of leaders hanging there, changed her mind. “Every fourth grade girl should walk in these halls and see the amazing women who have served their state,” he told her.

Ms. Dudley, like Ms. Clinton, may not have achieved the political office she wanted, but the fact that she ran matters; she paved the way for other women. That too, will be part of Ms. Clinton’s legacy.

Martha Thomas is a writer based in Baltimore; her email is [email protected].

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