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The 29-year-old American, a two-time NBA scoring champion and seven-time NBA All-Star, will be re-evaluated in about four weeks - or less than a week before the Thunder visits defending champion Golden State for an Oct 16 opening-night game."The Thunder, Westbrook and his representation determined after he experienced inflammation in his knee this past weekend that the best course of action was the proactive procedure," a statement from the Thunder said.
The operation was performed by Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles with Thunder medical personnel present.Westbrook suffered a right knee injury in the 2013 playoffs and underwent three operations on the knee that year. He has missed only 20 games over the past four regular seasons.The Thunder are expected to turn to German guard Dennis Schroder to replace Westbrook in training camp, which begins Sept 24, and the pre-season schedule. Schroder was traded from Atlanta to Oklahoma City in July.
Westbrook averaged a triple-double for the second consecutive campaign - an unprecedented NBA feat - with 25.4 points, an NBA-best 10.3 assists and 10.1 rebounds last season.Westbrook, the fourth overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, averaged career highs of 31.6 points, 10.7 rebounds and 10.4 assists last season. In 10 NBA campaigns, all with the Thunder, he has averaged 23.0 points, 6.6 rebounds and 8.2 assists a game.The Thunder landed swingman Paul George in the off-season while parting ways with Carmelo Anthony.
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OPEN DOUBLESThe first event of the day, the Open Doubles saw eight teams competing for the title of top tandem. The top two seeds in the singles draw, Paddle Palace pros Jiwei Xia (2621) and Ryan Hoarfrost (2195) paired up to form double trouble, blazing their way to the finals without dropping a game. In their way stood two steely-eyed veterans of Oregon table tennis: Hau Lam (2119) and Jay Crystal (1957, also the year he was born!), each a former state champion in the Open Singles.
Before the match, Jiwei expressed a simple game plan: "We will try hard,†although a hint of a sly smile perhaps betrayed a justifiable confidence. Hau’s goal was also simple: "Just try to survive and not get blasted out too bad.†Easier said than done against such formidable firepower!Hau and Jay, an ideal pairing of big lefty-righty forehands, put up an admirable fight but never really got into a rhythm. Ryan’s befuddling variety of high-toss inside-out serves created an abundant buffet of attacking opportunities for Jiwei to feast on. After Jay and Hau lost the first two games at 3 and 4, it was looking grim for the more tenured twosome. When Jiwei’s chop-block dribbled over the net to go up 4-0 in game 3, it looked all but over. Perhaps remembering their modest but attainable goal of not getting blasted out,
Hau and Jay rallied admirably to tie it up at 8-all. Could the momentum be shifting? Not so fast, said Jiwei and Ryan, who summarily rattled off three straight points to seal it. Joked Hau: "We did our job: not at zero!†More than that, both teams put on a great show. Congrats to Jiwei and Ryan, truly a dynamic duo!After the thrilling doubles action, partnerships are dissolved and players go off in search of individual glory. A total of 27 players threw their hats in the ring, making for a highly competitive field. The Open Singles trophy dates back to 1939, with first and second places engraved each year.
Could anyone stop Open Doubles winners Jiwei Xia and Ryan Hoarfrost from etching their names on the eightieth row? As anyone who has played for any amount of time can attest, anything can happen in table tennis. After all, tournaments wouldn’t be much fun if they just handed out the prizes to the top seeds!The top two players in seven round-robin groups graduated to the elimination rounds. Of these 14, only one was not seeded first or second: unrated Pradeep Anthony Roy overcame his group’s #2 seed Samir Patel to advance, only to run into tough-as-nails chopper Nicholas Daescu (2025), who dispatched him in straight sets. Congrats, Pradeep! As Bruce Willis said in Die Hard, "Welcome to the party, pal!â€
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In the penalty announcement co-issued by the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the National Association for Financial Market Institutional Investors on Aug 17, Dagong was found to have misused the company's official seal, and charged high fees to issuers for consulting services.
The latter is an implicit form of guarantee for issuers to get high ratings. So far the regulator is yet to impose an immediate ban on all credit rating services of the company, only requiring that regulators will not receive documents from issuers that failed to sign contracts with Dagong by Aug 17, the date of the issuing of the penalty, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Dagong may find it difficult to recover in the short-term from the year-long suspension of its rating business due to employment turnover and a possible loss of clients, though the regulators are not proceeding with an immediate "one size fits all" penalty.
While company chairman Guan Jianzhong is trying to keep his employees motivated, the difficulties ahead can hardly be solved in the short term, according to a former senior manager who declined to be identified. Nevertheless, the current penalty almost equals a death sentence for a credit rating company, the former manager said, adding that is because clients might switch to other rating companies to avoid losses. "Clients are unlikely to come back to the company after the one-year suspension," the former Dagong manager said.
The most severe penalty ever issued by bond regulators, the ban is expected to alarm other credit rating companies at the time when inflated ratings appeared to be more common, according to analysts. Zhang Xu, an analyst with Everbright Securities, said inflated ratings have been limited to a very small number of credit rating companies, but there are signs that the number of cheating institutions is rising.
Of all local credit raters, Dagong's actions show the highest proportion of upgrades among the issuers it assesses, at 19 percent, since the beginning of 2017, according to a report from Everbright Securities. The regulators have started to take action to fend off risks in response to current inflated ratings by some companies through conducting thorough inspections. In the meantime, the association is drafting a guideline to better regulate credit rating companies, which is expected to roll out measures to introduce a mandatory disclosure regime in which issuers are required to disclose information if they purchase consulting services while seeking credit ratings from the same credit rating company.
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SHINE provides trusted national and world news as well as local and regional perspectives. Monetary, fiscal and supervisory policies should be coordinated to raise the willingness of financial institutions to support small companies, said governor Yi Gang in a statement released yesterday by the People’s Bank of China.
The country should treat state-owned companies and private companies equally in financial policies, including lending and bond issuance policies, Yi said at a meeting with commercial banks and companies. "(China) should capitalize on the functions of a socialist market economy, and provide higher quality financial services to private firms and small and micro-sized firms through market competition,†he added.
Meanwhile, the financial system should build a sustainable business model to serve small companies and enhance risk prevention, with an accurate understanding of the facts of a short average life cycle, difficulties in getting loans for the first time, and high-risk premiums, Yi said. Companies at the meeting mentioned problems including difficulties in getting financing and high financing costs.
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The Consumer Price Index, a main gauge of inflation, climbed 2.3 percent from a year earlier in August, faster than 2.1 percent for July, 1.9 percent for June and 1.8 percent for both May and April, the National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday. Last month’s figure was the highest since February, when the CPI was up 2.9 percent year on year, driven mainly by Spring Festival holiday factors. Sheng Guoqing, the bureau’s senior statistician, linked the higher inflation to a 2.5 percent rise in non-food prices that contributed to 1.98 percentage points of the overall CPI growth.
Sheng particularly highlighted the jumps in the prices of petrol and diesel of 19.8 percent and 22 percent respectively. Prices of tours, the health care sector and education services rose 5.6 percent, 4.3 percent and 2.8 percent, respectively, year on year, the bureau’s data showed. Prices for dwelling-related expenses, including rents and utilities, rose 2.5 percent year on year. Food prices rose 1.7 percent to lift the overall CPI growth by 0.33 percentage points. The prices for eggs, fruits and vegetables went up 10.3 percent, 5.5 percent and 4.3 percent, together resulting in CPI rise of about 0.25 percentage points. On a month-on-month basis, the CPI increased 0.7 percent from July, as food prices rose 2.4 percent from July. Sheng said vegetable prices surged 9 percent from the previous month due to high temperatures and rainy weather, especially heavy rains in northeastern and eastern provinces.
The fresh vegetable prices surged more than 20 percent in Liaoning, Jilin and Shandong provinces, Sheng said. Pork prices rose 6.5 percent month on month, as continuous hot summer days this year slowed pig growth and the African swine fever outbreak in some areas of China exacerbated pork supply, Sheng added. As of September 1, China had culled more than 38,000 pigs nationwide due to the African swine fever.
"We think markets need to keep an eye on the development of African swine fever, but otherwise the inflation worries are overdone,†Asian investment bank Nomura said in a research note, shrugging off worries about rising inflation risk. "Temporary rise of food prices and rents due to some supply and demand shocks could be short-lived, China’s overall CPI inflation risk is still muted and could decline back to around 2.1 percent in September,†the note reads.
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This is known as the fare basis code, and though passengers typically overlook it, this miniscule mark is the key to unlocking important information regarding your booking, including how easy it is to make a change to the ticket, how eligible you are for an upgrade and how many frequent flier miles may be earned.Airlines do not make it easy to research fare codes, as they are often in the fine print, but taking an extra minute to locate and research what it means for your ticket can make all the difference.Matthew Ma,
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Under its new scheme, 'Buy More, Save More', AirAsia India is offering up to 40 per cent discount on domestic and international flight tickets. Here are the offers on domestic and international flight tickets in detail:Jet Airways' offer on flight tickets in detail:Jet Airways is offering 25 per cent discount on base fare in premiere and up to 15 per cent on base fare in economy on domestic flight tickets.
Discount of Rs. 1,000 is applicable on base fare in economy and discount of Rs. 2,500 is applicable on base fare in premiere for travel to international destinations. Jet Airways' discount offer is valid till July 31, 2018.Jet Airways' offer on flight tickets on new routes:Jet Airways will be introducing new domestic flights from August 1, 2018, on the Indore-Chandigarh- Indore-Hyderabad and Bengaluru-Guwahati routes. It will commence services from Indore to Hyderabad and Chandigarh, said the airline in a press release.
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Jet Airways has introduced new sale offer in order to celebrate India's 72nd Independence Day. Travel period of the offer ends on September 30, 2018. Cheap Flights from Shenzhen to Phnom Penh Tickets must be purchased a minimum of 15 days prior departure, the airline added.5 things to know about Jet Airways' new offer on domestic flight tickets:1. Jet Airways' new offer on domestic flight tickets is applicable on return journey only.2. This offer is not applicable for bookings done using the multicity option,
said the carrier. 3. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer / promotion.4. Child / infant discount, date change, flight change, refund charges, weekend surcharge, black out period, flight restriction and / or travel restriction is applicable as mentioned in the fare rule, Jet Airways said.
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The team here at Visual Concepts spends an inordinate amount of time consuming feedback from you, our consumers. We read the forums, follow through social, and study emails and letters sent from our fans all around the globe. For me, personally, I find the information incredibly valuable. There are two approaches you can take when designing a game. You can force your own personal agenda for the game onto the fans (which may or may not be want the fans want), or you can just take their direct feedback and apply all of that to the game. I’m a big fan of the latter.
I always like to say, this isn’t our game, this is YOUR game. Why guess what your fans want when they tell you loud and clear what they want?We introduced MyLEAGUE Online into our feature set back in NBA 2K16. It was a very well received mode that proved to be quite stable. NBA 2K17 saw a big step forward with the concept of an offseason surrounded by the drafting of players and general player movement.
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