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China steals march on West in developing nations' vaccine rollout
Murad Sezer and Peter Graff
Medical workers administer COVID-19 vaccine at a makeshift vaccination site in Beijing
By Murad Sezer and Peter Graff
ISTANBUL/LONDON (Reuters) - China is stealing a march on Western drugmakers in the COVID-19 vaccine race in developing nations, with Indonesia and Turkey rolling out huge campaigns with a Chinese shot this week, Brazil due to follow soon, and even EU member Hungary signing up.
Scientists in some Western countries say China has been too slow to publish trial data. Public reports so far about how well its vaccines work have been inconsistent, which the Chinese firms attribute to variations in methodology.
Still, countries with hundreds of millions of people desperate for a vaccine think China's shots are good enough.
As Western drugmakers struggle to meet demand at home, Beijing has sent millions of doses round the world of CoronaVac, made by Sinovac Biotech, and is also marketing a separate vaccine made by another company, Sinopharm.
The exports come even as China battles its own flare-up in infections, which has put more than 28 million people in lockdown. China has administered 10 million vaccine doses at home.
Though some studies on the Sinovac shot have reported lower effectiveness rates than some Western products, the countries buying them say they appear effective at preventing the most serious, deadly form of COVID-19.
Perhaps most importantly, they are also easy to administer, allowing the quick launch of large-scale programmes to save lives and prevent health systems from being overwhelmed.
Turkey launched its programme on Thursday with the Sinovac shot, and by late afternoon said it had already vaccinated more than 200,000 people - more in a few hours than France has managed in three weeks. Health workers went first.
"We spent around 10 months in white overalls, supporting people as they struggle for life. Health workers know very well that this situation cannot be taken lightly and that the vaccine is needed," Surgeon General Nurettin Yiyit said.
Hungary, which has complained about the "scandalously" slow rollout of vaccines bought by the European Union on behalf of its 27 member states, reached a deal on Thursday to buy the Sinopharm vaccine. If approved, it would become the first EU country to authorise a Chinese vaccine.
'BREAK THE CHAIN'
While all countries are likely to need more than one type of vaccine to meet demand, China has been quick off the mark in shipping doses to countries at the back of the queue for supplies of Western shots.
Many developing countries may still have months to wait for their first vaccines.
Meanwhile, Turkey already has 3 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine in its stocks, and Brazil has 6 million doses. Brazil is expected to begin injecting them next week.
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo was the first to get a shot of the Sinovac vaccine to kick off one of the world's biggest vaccine programmes on Wednesday. It expects to have 30 million Sinovac doses by the end of March out of an order of more than 122 million in 2022.
"Vaccination is important to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission and give protection to us and safety to every Indonesian and help accelerate economic recovery," the president said.
The Western company competing most directly in developing countries with Sinovac so far is AstraZeneca, whose vaccine developed with Oxford University is also cheap and easy to deliver.
It will be the basis of the biggest vaccine programme of them all, which India is expected to launch on Saturday. More than 5 million doses were flown across the country this week in preparation.
India's government says it will pay less than $3 a dose for the first 100 million shots, produced under license by India's Serum Institute.
Russia will launch a new, scaled-up version of its vaccination programme next week, using its own Sputnik V shot, which it is also heavily marketing in developing countries. It has won approval in Argentina, Belarus and Serbia, although so far it has been slow to produce doses for export at a big scale.
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund which backs the vaccine, said in an interview at the Reuters NEXT conference that Russia would seek EU approval for the vaccine next month and expects to win 25% of global market share.
(Reporting by Murad Sezer, Mehmet Emin Caliskan and Ali Kucukgocmen in Istanbul, Tuvan Gumrukcu in Ankara, Gabriel Stargardter and Ricardo Brito in Rio de Janeiro, Stanley Widianto in Jakarta, Aditi Shah and Sachin Ravikumar in India, Andrew Osborn and Polina Ivanova in Moscow, Krisztina Than and Anita Komuves in Budapest; Editing by Josephine Mason and Andrew Cawthorne)
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Thirimanne century leads Sri Lanka fightback in first England Test
Opener Lahiru Thirimanne completed a battling century on Sunday as Sri Lanka clawed their way back against England on the fourth day of the first Test in Galle.
Protesters are expected to descend on statehouses across the United States on Sunday in support of baseless claims that electoral fraud robbed President Donald Trump of a second term, as law enforcement officials girded for possible violence. More than a dozen states have activated National Guard troops to help secure their capitol buildings following an FBI warning of armed protests, with right-wing extremists emboldened by the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6. Downtown Washington, D.C., was virtually empty, with streets near the Capitol closed and battalions of camouflaged National Guard soldiers taking up positions across the city center.


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package org.jenkinsci.plugins.android_device.api;

import org.jenkinsci.plugins.android_device.FailedToConnectApiServerException;
import org.jenkinsci.plugins.android_device.RemoteDevice;

import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

/**
 * Created by skyisle on 08/29/2014.
 */
public interface DeviceFarmApi {
    String KEY_PORT = "port";
    String KEY_URL = "url";
    String KEY_TAG = "tag";
    String KEY_JEN_DEVICE = "jen_device";
    String KEY_JEN_OUT = "jen_out";
    String KEY_SVC_DEVICE = "svc_device";
    String KEY_SVC_NODEVICE = "svc_nodevice";
    String KEY_IP = "ip";
    String KEY_ID = "id";

    void connectApiServer(PrintStream logger, String deviceApiUrl, String tag, String jobId) throws FailedToConnectApiServerException;
    void connectApiServer(PrintStream logger, String deviceApiUrl, String tag, String jobId, long connect_timeout) throws FailedToConnectApiServerException;

    RemoteDevice waitApiResponse(PrintStream logger, int timeout_in_ms, int check_interval_in_ms) throws MalformedResponseException, TimeoutException, FailedToConnectApiServerException, NoDeviceAvailableException;

    void disconnect();
}

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Caravaggio: The Complete Works
Submitted by Teoh Yi Chie on August 1, 2011 - 9:07pm
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The complete œuvre of the dark genius who revolutionized European painting
Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Celebrated by some for his naturalism and his revolutionary pictorial inventions, he was considered by others to have destroyed painting. Few other artists have provoked such controversy and so many contradictory interpretations right up to modern times.
Just in time for the Caravaggio year 2010, this work offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio's entire oeuvre, with a catalogue raisonné of his works. Five introductory chapters analyse his artistic career from his training in Lombard Milan and his triumphal rise in papal Rome, up to his dramatic final years in Naples, Malta and Sicily. The spotlight thereby falls upon the radical nature and innovative force of Caravaggio's art and its influence in all of Europe.
Our understanding of Caravaggio's work has been substantially broadened in recent decades by major exhibitions, restoration campaigns, new attributions and archival discoveries. The new catalogue raisonné offers a detailed overview of the artist's entire œuvre based on the latest research. Every painting is reproduced in large-scale format, with spectacular details that offer dramatic close-ups and set new standards in print quality. A new photographic campaign has been undertaken, enabling the smallest details to be reproduced on a large scale for the first time. They reveal all the more clearly Caravaggio's virtuosity and his enormous ability to capture the viewer's attention and to build a communicative bridge between the worlds of picture and viewer. Sequences of spectacular details grouped by subject allow us to experience Caravaggio's ingenious rhetoric of looks and gestures and their theatrical staging in paint.
Sebastian Schütze was a longtime research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. He is a member of the academic board of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples and of the Institut européen d'histoire de la République des Lettres in Paris. From 2003 to 2009 he held the Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen's University in Kingston. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of Early Modern Art History at Vienna University.
Caravaggio: The Complete Works is available at Amazon (US | CA | UK | DE | FR | IT | JP) and Book Depository
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Wow! How do you manage to
Submitted by Li on August 2, 2011 - 4:05am
Wow! How do you manage to write 2 reviews a day? Do you speed read?
@Li Only those with 'Review:'
Submitted by Teoh Yi Chie on August 2, 2011 - 11:47am
@Li
Only those with 'Review:' appended are reviews.
The description and pictures for this are from Taschen.com.

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Down from the Sky – singel amerykańskiej grupy muzycznej Trivium.

Lista utworów
 "Down from the Sky" – 5:34

Twórcy
 Matt Heafy – śpiew, gitara elektryczna
 Travis Smith – perkusja
 Corey Beaulieu – gitara elektryczna
 Paolo Gregoletto – gitara basowa
 Nick Raskulinecz – produkcja
 Colin Richardson – miksowanie

Linki zewnętrzne
 Okładka
 "Down from the Sky" (Teledysk) – Ramon Boutviseth, 2008

Single Trivium
Single wydane w roku 2008

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10 Books On The History And Current State Of Health Care
Jodi Trask March 18, 2017 Book Lists, History, Human Interest, Medical, More, Politics, Unpopular Opinions
The state of healthcare is a hot button topic right now in America. The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was one of the first successful attempts at a universal health care. While it had its problems, it was able to insure millions of people who were otherwise unqualified.
With a new administration working on a new healthcare system, many are concerned about what the future of healthcare will be for them. Until we know more, here are 10 books about the past, present, and future of healthcare to get you ready.
1. The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
This winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize is a collection of essays speaking about pain and empathy. Jamison speaks from the background of being a medical actor, someone who would act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose. Her essays question why we should care about each other in light of feeling each other's pain, phantom disease, and personal loss.
2. The Healing of America by T.R. Reid
In his book, T.R. Reid attempts to answer for America's major weakness. How can so many other developed countries have reasonably priced health care, and America not? In an effort to discover why, Reid looks at other countries, such as Canada, France, Germany, and Japan, to explore how they went about providing healthcare to their citizens. But Reid also explores their shortcomings, such as Canada's long lines for treatment. At the very heart of this book, Reid attempts to answer the moral and ethical question, is healthcare a right?
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Henrietta Lacks is, without a doubt, on of the most important people in medical history. Not because of anything that she willingly did, but because the cells that were taken from her became vital in developments involving cancer, virus, in vitro fertilization, cloning, gene mapping, and the polio vaccine. And yet despite her importance, Henrietta was buried in an unmarked grave while her decedents scrape by and are unable to get health care.
4. The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig
This is the story of how four crusaders changed the face of reproductive rights for women in America. Margaret Sanger, Katherine McCormick, Gregory Pincus, and John Rock were together responsible for the development of "the pill" and winning its public approval.
5. Stitches by David Small
In Stitches, David Small tells an unbelievable story from his childhood. At the age of 14, David Small woke up from what was supposed to be a harmless surgery to discover that his vocal cord was removed. He hadn't been told that he had cancer, and was likely going to die. A cancer that was likely caused by his own father giving him radiation treatments in an attempt to cure his respiratory problems.
6. America's Bitter Pill by Steven Brill
In this New York Times Bestseller, Steven Brill discusses how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was created. He also talks about how it is changing the healthcare industry, and it's shortcomings.
7. Quicksand by Henning Mankell
In this, Henning Mankell writes about what it means to be human. It is a story about love, jealousy, courage, fear, and what it means to live with what might be a fatal illness.
8. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies is nothing less than a biography of cancer. It weaves a history of cancer's first known appearance some thousands of years ago, to the 21st century's attempts in understanding and treatment.
9. Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Medical Apartheid is the first and only of it's kind. It is a comprehensive history of medical experimentation on black Americans. It begins during the era of slavery and brings us all the way to the present.
10. On Immunity by Eula Bliss
Like many new mothers, Eula Bliss wondered how to best keep her child safe. In a world where so much doubt is placed on vaccines, she took it upon herself to research the truth.
What do you think of the current state of health care? What needs to be done to ensure all Americans are covered?
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