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The Technical and System Software industry is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and marketing of technical and system software such as assemblers, compilers, file management tools, system utilities, and debuggers. For today, Stock-Callers.com presents four equities for evaluation: Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), PTC Inc. (NASDAQ: PTC), and ACI Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: ACIW). These stocks research reports can be downloaded now by simply registering for free at:
Autodesk Inc.'s stock finished Thursday's session 1.15% higher at $78.46 with a total volume of 1.78 million shares traded. Over the last one month and the previous three months, Autodesk's shares have gained 10.85% and 23.09%, respectively. Furthermore, the stock has rallied 28.10% in the past one year. Shares of the Company are trading above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages by 10.78% and 29.14%, respectively. Autodesk's stock has a Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 72.17.
On November 15th 2016, Autodesk announced that developers and customers of all sizes are adopting its Forge platform to build and deploy apps and services for making the world around us. The Company also introduced new AR/VR capabilities to drive immersive real-time industry experiences and shared its plans to use Forge as its common data environment and engine for simplifying its own product offerings. Your complete research report on ADSK can be retrieved for free at:
Mentor Graphics Corp.'s stock edged 0.08% lower, to close the day at $36.46. The stock recorded a trading volume of 6.83 million shares, which was above its three months average volume of 2.69 million shares. Mentor Graphics' shares have surged 27.08% in the last one month, 55.59% in the previous three months, and 33.20% in the past one year. Shares of the Company are trading 33.27% and 63.27% above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, respectively. Additionally, the stock traded at a PE ratio of 67.27 and has an RSI of 88.85.
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On November 9th, 2016, research firm Wedbush reiterated its 'Outperform' rating on the Company's stock with an increase of the target price from $54 a share to $56 a share.
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Programmable Multivalent DNA-Origami Tension Probes for Reporting Cellular Traction Forces.
Author: Palash K Dutta
Mechanical forces are central to most, if not all, biological processes, including cell development, immune recognition, and metastasis. Because the cellular machinery mediating mechano-sensing and force generation is dependent on the nanoscale organization and geometry of protein assemblies, a current need in the field is the development of force-sensing probes that can be customized at the nanometer-length scale. In this work, we describe a DNA origami tension sensor that maps the piconewton (pN) forces generated by living cells. As a proof-of-concept, we engineered a novel library of six-helix-bundle DNA-origami tension probes (DOTPs) with a tailorable number of tension-reporting hairpins (each with their own tunable tension response threshold) and a tunable number of cell-receptor ligands. We used single-molecule force spectroscopy to determine the probes' tension response thresholds and used computational modeling to show that hairpin unfolding is semi-cooperative and orientation-dependent. Finally, we use our DOTP library to map the forces applied by human blood platelets during initial adhesion and activation. We find that the total tension signal exhibited by platelets on DOTP-functionalized surfaces increases with the number of ligands per DOTP, likely due to increased total ligand density, and decreases exponentially with the DOTP's force-response threshold. This work opens the door to applications for understanding and regulating biophysical processes involving cooperativity and multivalency.


season 12 of League of Legends is being one of the craziest views in recent years, so much that even an important addition as it is tecnochemical dragon has been eliminated from the game by the immensely rotating that it is. But some things will never change and among them we can highlight how absolutely broken it can become a champion that scales well in the late game. S Ino, who tell these players who against a gangplank decided to surrender after an abusive and painful play for three players of the red team.
situation is simple and daily in the single-day single; After more than 25 minutes of departure, Caitlyn was ready to devastating that she she had come out of the rather strong line phase next to a morgana that was doing her work very well. They wanted to fight for the next dragon and from directed to the place when they met a swollen pellet **. They tried to do something to be able to be able to be able to steal it, but the whip of the seas used two of their barrels to launch a bullet that would eliminate three of their players instantly, it was so fast the triple murder that even if the game gave On foot to lower the lifestyle of the players.
Such was the harm of the barrels that the whole team agreed to end the game. While it seemed remarkable seeing that they had a kassadin, the enemy gangplank play was so painful that they did not hesitate to throw the FF and think about the next ranked. Of course, the pirate is one of those champions that if I know He puts ahead, nothing can stop exploding his rivals thanks to the huge climbing of barrels and their bullets with critical attacks.


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Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.
Atomic theory and the description of nature ..
New York, The Macmillan Company; Cambridge, Eng., The University Press, 1934-1961
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text: Northeastern professor’s new book trains crisis negotiators for life-or-death calls by Noah Lloyd September 26, 2022 Share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Sometimes the caller is vague: “I’m in the garage” or “I’m on the bridge.” When calls like that come in, “You get the hair standing up on the back of your neck,” says Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University. One of the first things that an emergency operator—or “call taker”—does when receiving a call is to ask the caller where they are. Often, callers reply with specifics: their address, a cross street, a landmark. But when callers are vague, it often—though not always—means that the caller is suicidal. While these are not the predominant kinds of calls call takers receive, they comprise some of the highest pressure situations and demand every tool in the crisis negotiator’s toolkit. Kevoe-Feldman’s new book, “Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis,” which came out in July, sheds light on call takers and these difficult calls they take from people in crisis. Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Using conversation analysis, which studies recorded, real-world conversations (like 911 calls, or calls to the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline), Kevoe-Feldman and her co-authors (Rein Ove Sikveland, assistant professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Elizabeth Stokoe, professor at Loughborough University) create a transcript of the interaction that is more than a simple word-for-word duplicate, but a “map” of the conversation, including pauses, interjections (like “um”), the tone of speech and breathing. “From these maps,” Kevoe-Feldman says, “we can identify specific patterns and communication practices that work well, and we can pinpoint points of miscommunication.” These conversation maps then become training examples for other call takers. Traditional emergency dispatch and crisis negotiation training is rooted in psychology. While that training is perfectly appropriate, Kevoe-Feldman says, the training also rarely examines these high-stakes moments in situ, and there is much to learn from real-world, difficult-to-negotiate calls. Because conversation analysis is interested in “naturally occurring conversation,” “Crisis Talk” supplements conventional call taker training by providing examples of crisis negotiators who may have strayed from “recommended” solutions, but nevertheless helped the caller through the worst night of their life. “Crisis Talk” wants to learn from these apparently instinctive reactions, analyze them, and help call takers apply these real-world lessons in their practice. Kevoe-Feldman uses the example of “repetitive persistence,” a common 911 training methodology that recommends call takers repeat phrases that arrest the caller’s attention. Through her research, Kevoe-Feldman discovered that repetitive persistence was most effective at the beginning of a conversation. Once a situation is established, “the best thing to do then is to give that caller a task, a job to do.” Requests like “Can you go check on them?” or “Can you step down from the bridge?” help refocus a caller’s attention, toward helping either themselves or someone else in danger. “Training tells you what to say but doesn’t explain how it works in practice.” Kevoe-Feldman says. Her goal is to “show what works, and how.” Kevoe-Feldman, who is also trained as an emergency medical dispatcher, first got involved in emergency call analysis while studying conversations that came into the call center of an electronic camera repair facility. After Sept. 11, 2001, the call center began receiving calls from camera users who had experienced the tragedy firsthand. Kevoe-Feldman thinks that this experience helped predispose her to emergency call work, and now she works with the Massachusetts State Police, both studying emergency calls and providing training to dispatchers. “Crisis Talk” will have an official book launch on Nov. 17, geared toward both crisis communication practitioners and academics. Registration information can be found here. The cases that “Crisis Talk” handles are harrowing, and sometimes tragic, but negotiators and dispatchers work every day to help callers choose life by talking them down, Kevoe-Feldman says. “And it’s really, really hard [emotionally]. And I can’t take that pain away from those call takers.” But, Kevoe-Feldman hopes, “I can help them know that they’ve done everything in their power to help someone in pain.” For media inquiries, please contact firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Sense4B is a perimeter intruder detection systems (PIDS) manufacturer which operates in Security Systems, Alarm Systems and Defence Industry (Borderline Security) markets. Marketing activities of Sense4B has started early 2018 with Sense4B Fence Watch Pro which is designed to detect intruders for a wide range of fence types.
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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
by Geraldine Brooks
An unforgettable tale of a brave young woman during the plague in 17th century England from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna’s eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a “year of wonders.”
Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. Written with stunning emotional intelligence and introducing “an inspiring heroine” (The Wall Street Journal), Brooks blends love and learning, loss and renewal into a spellbinding and unforgettable read.
Geraldine Brooks is the author of five novels: the Pulitzer Prize-winning March; the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders; and, most recently, The Secret Chord. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha’s Vinyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their two sons.

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You can take your 90s Batman flicks and your VHS copy of Return to Oz and throw them out the window because Cats will be rightfully taking their place as the creepiest, tackiest movie ever geared towards children. From the moment that the trailer was released, the internet has been in shambles. Nobody can seem to figure out why the characters have been subjected to half-baked CGI, making them appear more human than animal, nor can anyone theorize what the film is actually about. And having spent the opening night in a completely empty theatre, I can assure you all, Cats ushers in a new kind of horror that appears hell-bent on becoming a cult classic.
Based on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway musical of the same name, Cats explores the world of “Jellicle cats” on the night of the annual Jellicle Ball, where one cat is chosen to ascend to the Heaviside Layer (essentially, cat heaven) and be reborn. It’s a fairly morbid ordeal as the central conflict arises from the competition of these cats all wanting to exit their lives and start anew. Acclaimed director Tom Hooper (Les Misérables, The King’s Speech, The Danish Girl) took on this ambitious material and truly made it his own — but not in the way you would hope. While the CGI cats are extremely off-putting, there is no denying the distinct atmosphere surrounding their London borough. Through a strangely intoxicating set design, Hooper is able to draw the audience in spite of the film’s utterly boring plot. But there’s only so much that aesthetically-pleasing neon signage can pull together.
Cats feature a star-studded cast, comprised of James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellan, Taylor Swift, and Rebel Wilson. None of these performances were granted enough screen time to judge them fairly, however, in her limited sequences, Hudson really gives it her all. She plays Grizabella, an outcast who spends the bulk of the film skulking and sobbing until she randomly belts out a song that redeems her for whatever she had done wrong. While hers was a calculatedly heartfelt performance, the real star of the show was Derulo, whose presence in the film as Rum Tum Tugger, a rebellious and flirty Jellicle cat, was not only fun but radically entertaining. But when the best part of a film is Jason Derulo, there’s a definite issue.
I would have been intrigued to see more Francesca Hayward, who plays the film’s protagonist, Victoria. Considering the fact that Cats centers around her arrival on this pivotal night, Victoria is surprisingly granted few lines and is constantly subjected to hearing the life stories of various other Jellicle cats. This film is Hayward’s first acting role as she has been a dancer with the Royal Ballet for the last decade. Her familiarity and precision with movement would have been much better served with her as the focal point but was cheaply discarded for the likes of Wilson and Corden.
Technicalities aside, we have to get something out of the way: the sexual tension in this movie is off the charts. The female cats are shown to have breasts and wide hips and every dance sequence is uncomfortably lusty. Swift’s entire scene was short, over-sexualized, and completely unnecessary. Also, the dialogue runs rampant with innuendos, nearly to the point of exhaustion. Why? I found myself repeatedly asking this same question, given the film’s PG rating. This salaciousness does nothing but hinder an already questionable plotline and renders it even more inappropriate and difficult for its target demographic to follow.
With a budget of 95 million USD, there really is no excuse for how poorly edited this was. The film is plagued with continuity errors and sloppy cuts that make it feel low budget. Hooper also frequently undercuts the theatricality that made the musical iconic and diverts his tone with every passing scene. The plot is so catastrophically non-specific that the genre is malleable; at times, Cats feels like a horror or thriller film, at others, it is utterly comedic. But despite its non-stop singing, the film rarely feels like a musical. It fails to encapsulate the whimsy that any good Broadway show assures and every musical number was just another cat’s introduction, with the exception of one confusing cockroach number where all the cockroaches, of course, had human faces.
Sexed-up felines and dancing cockroaches aside, the real problem with Cats is its inherent futility. You can easily walk out of the theatre understanding absolutely nothing but frankly, it’s not as though the film has much to say. Cats rely heavily on nostalgia brought forth from those who adore its source material. Within the first twenty minutes, the term “Jellicle” is flung around aimlessly as though the audience is familiar with its definition. The way in which the characters are introduced implies a prior understanding of their role in the plot.
While pretty horrendous overall, Cats does have its moments. The dancers are undoubtedly talented and move with the fluidity of actual cats and, at times, it can be funny, but for all the wrong reasons. Ultimately, none of this was enough to salvage the dumpster fire that was this confusing and never-ending fever dream. Cats is an unsurprisingly bad movie that has virtually nothing going for it and will likely age like milk (no pun intended). Whether it garners its cult classic status has yet to be determined but frankly, I’d rather this film be buried with the 2010s and never spoken about again.

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Health centre provides positive distractions from the hospital experience
The City of Peterborough is located in a geographic region north-east of Toronto know as the Kawathas. Characterised by rolling hills, rugged geography, lakes and marshland, communities within the Kawarthas grew up around “crossroads”. Peterborough is a rich urban community that has it’s roots in one such “crossroads”.
The concept for Peterborough Regional Health Centre is rooted in this idea of ‘crossroads’; the intersection of two paths. The east-west path establishes the main entrance and lobby space, and is given material presence through locally quarried stone. Upon entrance from the west, visitors are immediately visually reconnected to the panoramic view of the city and regional geography to the east. The north-south path provides the prime circulation spine on all six levels and is expressed in a warm charcoal grey concrete block. The program simply builds around these two ’crossroad’ elements leaving them always legible as the principle organizing device. The north-south spine passes through landscaped courtyards like “the bridges” of Peterborough, connecting the city across the Otonabee River.
The idea is about being connected to and reflective of the community as a means of generating a sense of wellness, familiarity and comfort. The visual connection to the rolling hills of the Kawarthas upon entry, the constant views to the community and landscape throughout the facility, The “Bridges of Peterborough” that provide light, view and orientation are all ideas about creating a sense of belonging, connection, familiarity and stress reduction.
Architecture for health is about lifting the spirit through connection, landscape, order, light and material. PRHC, since opening, has become a community meeting place. Many visitors are there to experience the views from the lobby, the cafeteria or the landscaped roof terrace and perhaps to have a coffee and social contact. Being truly connected to its community, PRHC provides positive distractions that reduce the stress related to the experience of healthcare.

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Wellness Dog Food Or Blue Buffalo
Wellness has more grains than blue buffalo in spite of what dogfoodanalysis says.
Wellness dog food or blue buffalo. I wish we could get the dog s insight for this one. Wellness has many different foods that we like specifically their weight management formula which is good for smaller breeds like yorkies. Both wellness and blue buffalo are newer brands but they are both well known and reputable food manufacturers. Blue buffalo gave us samples.
Likewise wellness wet food contains 40 44 of protein and blue buffalo wet dog food contains 38 49 level of protein. However when it comes to average fat content between the two brands for both dry and wet foods once again wellness 1 has a slightly higher percentage over blue buffalo dog food. With regards to wet dog food blue buffalo and wellness also provide roughly the same amount of crude fat. Too bad they can t take a poll.
Anyways i m wondering if anyone has tried more than one of these high end dog food brands like wellness or blue buffalo and if their dog s seem to prefer one or the other. Fiber meals that are high in fiber are like medicine for your pet and can improve colon health weight management and prevent diabetes. Although they are both very good foods blue buffalo is the better food. Both blue buffalo and wellness dog foods are considered to be among the best dog foods available however ratings seem to indicate that wellness is at least slightly better received than blue buffalo.
Experts suggest several criteria for choosing the type of food to feed your dog. I was thinking about getting wellness previously but there weren t any booths for it with samples. Wellness chicken oatmeal ground barley. Blue buffalo and wellness are both top dog food brands.
Both wellness and blue buffalo dog food brands produce dry dog food and wet dog food. After those ingredients tapioca starch and peas round out the top five. I went to a pet expo today and there were lots of dog food booths and one that really caught my attention was blue buffalo. For wet dog foods blue buffalo typically provides a little more fiber about 2 37 more.
So minnie is getting low on iam s and now i. Deboned chicken chicken meal and turkey meal are the main protein sources in this high protein dog food. Wellness dry food contains 31 85 of protein and blue buffalo dry food contains 28 72 of protein. Percentage of protein added.
As you can see wellness and blue buffalo guarantee a similar amount of crude fiber. They contribute positively to your dog s ability to grow up and remain healthy.
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With interleague play and the breathless excitement of Brewers-Rangers, Royals-Expos and Devil Rays-Padres upon us, Bud Selig and his National League "Blue Ribbon Brethren," John Moores and Drayton McLane, must be rubbing their itchy palms in anxious anticipation of this revenue bonanza. If only they all could just play three games against the Yankees. Like them or not - and Moores, especially has made it plain he does not - the Yankees are the biggest revenue generators, not just for themselves, but for every other team in baseball. The grand design of Selig's "Blue Ribbon Panel" labor plan is to take as much money as possible away from the Yankees and distribute it - not primarily to the bottom revenue teams in most need, but rather to all the other middle market teams such as the Phillies, Angels, White Sox etc. whose failure to win and draw has been largely their own fault. In the Wall Street Journal last month, Moores, the Padres owner, decries the fact the Yankees have appeared in five of the last six World Series and says, "Pretending that winning in baseball doesn't require great players and that great players aren't paid more than average ones is anything but constructive" - whatever that means. But here's the rub - which Moores surely won't be talking about when the Yankees invade San Diego two weekends from now for their interleague series against the Padres: By their mere presence in opposing teams' ballparks, the Yankees are responsible for millions of dollars of revenue. Last year, the Yankees put an average of nearly 150,000 extra paid customers in 14 opposing ballparks, which, when multiplied by the average team ticket prices, translated into nearly $2.
3 million in revenues for those clubs. So far this year, the Yankees have drawn 66,811 extra fans above the average attendances of five of the teams they played on the road - Twins, White Sox, A's, Orioles and Devil Rays - and that meant a combined extra revenue of $985,562 for those teams. Even in spring training the past two years the Yankees have made an impact, accounting for 21,147 additional fans over the opposing teams' average this past spring and 14,672 in 2001. Multiply those figures by the teams' average ticket prices, and the revenue tally comes to $265,895 in '02 and $146,554 on '01. This has got to be a real dilemma for Selig's "Break up the Yankees" Gang. Because the Yankees - when they're good - are the one team everybody loves to hate. And will pay money to root against them. A good Yankee team is good business for the rest of baseball. And as for all this disparity jive, why has no one pointed out that, in 22 of the last 23 seasons, the NBA has had at least one team from its four largest markets (Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Houston) in the Finals? Rather, there's always been the perception of competitive balance in the NBA. Maybe that's because NBA commissioner David Stern has never been heard to say "the Sacramentos, Milwaukees, Indianas, Denvers, and Clevelands in my league have no chance to win.
" Buck shots Say this for Blue Jays rookie GM J.
P. Ricciardi: When he fires somebody, he doesn't pull any punches as to why. After finally putting Buck Martinez out of his misery as Blue Jay manager last week, Ricciardi said: "This is a man perfectly suited to articulate the essence of baseball but tragically unable to administer it.
" No wonder Martinez said afterward: "I've got a bad taste in my mouth," and his two most loyal aides, pitching coach Mark Connor and bench coach Cookie Rojas quit in disgust. Then, after naming third-base coach Carlos Tosca as Martinez's successor, Ricciardi fired third-base/infield coach Garth Iorg, saying: "I'm very concerned with the development of our young infielders," adding that Iorg's successor, Brian Butterfield, "is a good third-base coach who has more energy and brings a lot more excitement to the ballpark.
" There's a strong Yankee connection to Ricciardi's hiring of Tosca and Butterfield. Years ago, Tosca was the equipment manager for the University of South Florida baseball team that was coached by the late Jack Butterfield, Brian's dad, who later went on to become the Yankees' farm director. The senior Butterfield brought Tosca into the Yankee organization as a minor league coach. Around the same time, the Yankees hired as their scouting director Bill Livesey, who had been the baseball coach at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. When Livesey came to the Yankees, he brought with him his batting practice pitcher at Eckerd, J.
P. Ricciardi, who started out as a minor league coach in the organization and then switched over to scouting. So now you know how Brian Butterfield could get fired as manager of the Yankees' Triple A farm team at Columbus, purportedly because he lost control of the team, and wind up a week later in the major leagues. It's who you know. Torn Sox A couple of weeks ago, White Sox GM Ken Williams was pondering whether to make the needed move to add a front-line starting pitcher without a better commitment from the Sox fans to support the club. Now, it's obvious Williams is going to go in the opposite direction and start unloading salary - with second baseman Ray Durham, catcher Sandy Alomar Jr. and shortstop Royce Clayton certainties to go, and Frank Thomas can be had for any club willing to take on his contract. The White Sox had lost 10 of 12 going into yesterday and were in danger of falling under .
500. The list of nondescript/retread pitchers who've beaten them during this slump - Darrell May, Miguel Asencio, Adam Bemero, Joaquin Benoit and the Yankees' Mike Thurman - is almost laughable. With Comiskey Park attendance dwindling to less than 15,000 a night, the Sox are a team in trouble. Despite their pitching deficiencies, they should be better and it's a reasonable notion that something has to be done to revive interest on the South Side. Passive Jerry Manuel doesn't appear to be lighting any fires with his players or the fans. It's a Madd, Madd World . . . Astro players probably didn't know whether to laugh or cry last week when it was announced that their home, the former Enron Field, is now going to be known as Minute Maid Park. It sure looks like the nightlife got to Chuck Knoblauch. The game's premier leadoff man only a couple of seasons ago went on the disabled list with a strained forearm last week, his batting average a pathetic .
167. Instead of reviving his career with the Royals, after getting out of New York, Knobby is probably going to be released. Sad. Twins second baseman Luis Rivas was quick to make up for lost time last Tuesday when he came off the disabled list (where he'd been since April 2) and went 4-for-6 with five RBI and five runs in the 23-2 Minny romp over the Indians. Indians righthander Charles Nagy had a particularly horrible outing, getting raked for eight hits and nine earned runs in two innings as his already bloated ERA went from 7.
71 to 11.
29. The Padres have some explaining to do about that gargantuan home run Barry Bonds hit at Qualcomm Stadium last week to pass Frank Robinson at No. 4 on the all-time list. Though the ball bounced off the scoreboard, 29 rows behind the wall, the distance was listed at only 482 feet and said to be the second longest home run hit there. The record is held by Mark McGwire, who has a seat marked with an X in left-center field for his 490-foot homer. Say It Ain't So "Do I think he's ready? All I can say is, take a look at the guy with Minnesota - (Dustan) Mohr. He's hitting over .
300 and last year he and Juan were both playing in the Eastern League where, in my opinion, Juan was just as good a hitter, if not better.
" - Such was the appraisal offered on new Yankees rightfielder Juan Rivera from Stump Merrill, who managed him at Norwich last year and at Columbus for the past two weeks. Graphic: Filling the seats How the Yankees affect attendance figures and revenue as the visiting team (2001 season):


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Industrial design is a term used to refer to the art, science and technology of designing and developing products for the mass production market. The purpose of industrial design is to create products that are aesthetically appealing, functional, ergonomic and efficient in use. Industrial designers use a variety of tools and techniques to create products that are both visually appealing and practical in their application.
Industrial design is often used by engineers, architects and product designers to create products that meet specific needs or requirements. For example, medical equipment, automotive products and furniture all require specialized industrial designs. Industrial design also includes the development of prototypes, models and drawings so that manufacturers can create a product that meets the end user’s expectations.
The process of industrial design typically follows certain steps. First, the designer will analyze the needs of the customer or user in order to determine what characteristics would be desirable for a particular product.
Next, they will develop a prototype or model so that it can be tested for its functionality. Finally, they will refine the design until it meets all requirements.
The Process Of Industrial Design
- Analyze customer/user needs
- Develop prototype/model
- Test prototype/model
- Refine design
Industrial designers must also consider economic factors when developing a product. This means taking into account cost factors such as labor costs, raw materials costs, manufacturing processes costs and marketing expenses in order to determine how much profit can be made from producing a particular item.
In addition to these considerations, industrial designers must also consider safety regulations when designing a product. This means making sure that any potential hazards are eliminated or minimized before a product is released for sale.
What Is Known as Industrial Design?
Industrial design is an art form focused on creating aesthetically pleasing products for mass production markets with an emphasis on ergonomics and efficiency in use. The process typically involves analyzing customer/user needs, developing prototypes/models testing them for functionality before refining them until they meet all requirements.
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The weavers brought together space and time. The new fabric was dull even as great waves billowed across its surface.
But there was no-one else to see.
Fabric is bland on its own. It has little, or no, purpose. Rippling in the vast emptiness of the Universe, it needed something else. Something to give form, and order.
And so the tailors came into being. Artisans of the scissor, the thread, the needle. They pinched with gravity. They spun great swirls of space-time, compressed the gas, poked holes.
Soon the fabric shone with countless stars, and worlds undreamed of.


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Recently, I was challenged to see the beauty in a series of things mentioned in a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, called Pied Beauty. For those who are not familiar with it, and for those who are, here is the poem.
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
In this poem, Hopkins gives thanks for the beauty in several things, which most people would not see as beauty. They were (1) a dappled thing, (2) the gear, tackle, and trim of a trade, (3) something counter, (4) something original, (5) something spare, (6) something strange, and (7) something fickle. So how do we find beauty in these things. To be honest, I was not quite sure what dappled meant. It means to be covered with spots or round patches. It was then that I realized that he talks about the “dappled” things, which he found beautiful, the mottled white and blue colors of the sky, the spots on the coy, the contrasting colors on a trout, and the way a roasted chestnut is one color on the inside and another on the outside. I can see beauty in the multicolored wings of finches, and the diverse textures found in farmland during the various seasons.
As I began thinking about this I realized that like Hopkins I see beauty in the various shapes of white clouds against a blue sky. I also see it in freckles on a child’s face. I see beauty in the brown spots, which appear on the bananas on our kitchen table as they ripen. I see beauty both in the external things, which have spots and patches, but also in the internal contrasts that exist such as he talks about in the chestnuts. I see the beauty in those whose outer beauty is not reflective of the spiritual and creative beauty that burns within them. Those who have been roasted over an open fire through life’s experiences, yet their inner beauty reveals something that was created over time and through the journey.
I can also see the beauty in the gear, tackle, and trim of a trade. I can see the beauty in my keyboard, which helps me to release the meditations of my heart into the universe. I can see the beauty in the textbooks that open up new understandings for my students. I can see beauty in the thoughts that are inspired in me through all that comes to me as I journey with people in this ministry.
I can see the beauty in something counter. So often we are trained to look for beauty in those things that are embraced by culture. However, often times it is in those things that are counter cultural, things or situations or people who go against the norm. I find beauty in those people who have created their own ways of creating in the world when they found they could not fit into the institutions for which they trained. I find beauty in what we are able to create when we forget how we are supposed to do or be. Perhaps that is why so often I see beauty in the original. I can see the beauty in something that is unlike what I have seen before and does not appear to have been created to fit a mold. It is also what enables me to see or spend time seeking the beauty in each human being I meet because we are all originals. There is not, never has been, never will be anyone exactly like anyone of us.
I can see the beauty in those things Hopkins refers to as spare, strange, or fickle. Sometimes the beauty is in sharing what is spare with others. Each year a friend of mine thanks me for giving her a spare pair of winter gloves I had as they always keep her warm. I can see the beauty in the spare blanket, which is now helping a homeless person to stay a little warmer. I can see the beauty in those spare buttons, which once came together with some spare glue to cover the top of a box and create something strange, original, creative, and beautiful. I can find the beauty in the fickle as well. I can see the beauty in those who are willing to say I am not sure if this is what I am supposed to be doing or not. There is a beauty in walking in one’s truth and forgetting the rules others have taught us about how we are supposed to be. I can see the beauty in the fickle who go with the flow and do not allow themselves to be imprisoned by a sense of loyalty, even if it means they are fickle about me and what I am doing in and with my life.
While I was not challenged to do so, I came to realize that I could see the beauty in all things pied. In my own way I am pied. I am the blending of two colors, that of my birth mother and my birth father. Perhaps that is what has helped me see the beauty in all things pied. So where do you see the beauty in things? Do you see the beauty in the pied, the strange, the original, the dappled, and the fickle? Where and how do you see the pied beauty in life?


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Medical Articles for Pet Owners
Canine Ear Infections: A Common Ailment for Dogs
- by BluePearl Specialists
Otitis externa, or inflammation of the external ear, is a very common ailment in dogs. Often there is an infection present.
Symptoms may include:
However, some dogs show very few symptoms and will only be diagnosed when a doctor examines the ear with an instrument called an otoscope.
Otitis has many INITIATING causes. Some examples include:
Yeast or bacterial infections will complicate otitis externa; however, these germs do not start an ear problem.
In order to diagnose and treat an ear problem, we do the following:
The otoscopic examination is very important because the ear canal must be evaluated for swelling, discharge and/or ulcers. The eardrum also needs to be visualized to determine if a middle-ear infection exists.
The cytological exam is very important, as well, because certain bacteria are hard to treat and need long-term therapy. Also, ear mites can be identified from this test.
Other tests that might be recommended include:
After the cause of the otitis has been determined, appropriate medication is prescribed. It is essential to do a follow-up exam in 7 days. Although the symptoms may disappear during the treatment, the problem (disease) may persist. Most infections need medication for at least 7-14 days after the infection has resolved. An otoscopic examination is the only way to be sure the ear problem is gone. If the otitis recurs or becomes chronic, further testing or procedures may be needed (allergy testing, elimination diets, etc.)
If the eardrum is ruptured, the middle ear will need to be flushed out using the video-otoscope and skull radiographs +/- a CT scan. These procedures are done under general anesthesia.
Even though there are many underlying causes of otitis, most cases respond quickly to treatment especially if the initiating cause is addressed. The sooner the pet with otitis is seen, the easier (and less costly) the treatment may be.
For more information on this subject, speak to the veterinarian who is treating your pet.

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With 2015 right around the corner, many analysts are predicting a new Galaxy S6 smartphone is in the works. Samsung typically releases a new flagship device about once every year, meaning we’ll probably see one within the next 6 months. However, rumors suggest that it may have lower specs than the current Galaxy S5.
According to SamMobile, the upcoming Galaxy S6 will feature a new and improved qHD display with 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution, 15.9-megapixel camera, octa-core 64-bit processor (unknown origin), 3GB RAM, and Android 5.0 Lollipop. These specs certainly sound nice, but other sources claim this information is false. An AnTuTu benchmark posted on the Chinese website CNMO reveals the Galaxy S6 with a 5.5-inch display at 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution, powered by Exynos 7420 processor, and Android 5.0 Lollipop.
Assuming the latter is true, fans could be disappointed by the Galaxy S6’s marginally improved specs. The Galaxy S5 was a monumental improvement from the S4, featuring a superior processor, better camera, and most importantly IP6/7 dust and water resistant technology. These powerhouse combination ultimately resulted in one of the best selling smartphones of all times, even if Samsung overshot its sales expectations by producing too many units.
One of the biggest questions regarding the upcoming Galaxy S6 is what size the display will be. We’ve seen a growing trend towards the use of larger displays, such as the Galaxy Note 4 and Nexus 6 with their phablet-sized screens. However, there’s also a slow but noticeable shift towards smaller screens, as many users complain that 6″ is too large for them to comfortably use. So, what size display will the Galaxy S6 use? Samsung has yet to reveal this key information, but there are a few different possibilities, including the same 5.1″ display found in the Galaxy S5, a larger 5.5″ display, or even a 6+” display.
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This large family of viruses, known for a long time to be present in humans and animals, causes about 10-20% of colds and flu infections each year. RNA viruses change continuously. Most exposure to it goes unnoticed, otherwise there are mild symptoms, mainly cough without sputum, sometimes fever and aching limbs. Severe courses are rare, but have always occurred – in nursing homes, even the “mildest” of these have caused deaths among the correspondingly weakened. Therefore, there has never been much interest and no great diagnostic effort. Two members have caused a stir so far: SARS-CoV-1 in China in 2003 (the wave of fear it triggered also led to high economic losses globally) and MERS in the Middle East in 2012, both of which actually had higher lethality but were only slightly contagious, so people forgot about them again.
Conclusion: Instead of always producing new waves of fear, we could be grateful to nature that pathogens are usually either very contagious or very dangerous and not both at the same time. In addition we should trust our amazing immune system.
How dangerous is Covid-19 compared to other flu viruses?
Flu waves occur in our country every year. Different viruses are involved, mainly influenza and corona viruses.
Normal case mortality is 0.1-0.2% sometimes like in 2017/2018 up to 1%.
The risk of dying of COVID-19 at an age below 65 years: 0.005%,
for over 80 years: 1-2%
According to the German Heinsberg study by Prof. Streeck, mortality for all is in the range between 0.24% and 0.26% maximum 0.36%.
This is just in the range of a moderately severe flu wave.
According to Prof. Ioannidis, Stanford University, mortality is between 0.02 and 0.4%, depending on local factors such as census method, age structure, etc.
A look at the German mortality statistics of 2020 shows no increased mortality.
The proportion of severe cases among all infected persons is 1.3%, according to the RKI (Robert-Koch-Institute, Germany.
Conclusion: Covid-19 is definitely NOT a killer virus but comparable to a moderately severe influenza flu.
For whom is it dangerous?
The average age of the deceased in the German Heinsberg study was 81.
However, it is not age that is decisive, but general health and previous illnesses. Even over 100-year-olds made it through just fine. For younger people, who already have diseases or unknown underlying conditions, it can of course be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. This is also true for other pathogens. And there are always exceptions that confirm a rule.
Very important: Anyone who tested positive was counted as a Corona death. It was and is not taken into account whether someone actually died from it or was only a carrier. Prof. Püschel in Hamburg, Germany did multiple autopsies and did not find a single person who succumbed to the virus alone.
Conclusion: Like many other respiratory pathogens, it is dangerous for people who are already ill.
Why did it go so badly in some countries?
The overall situations of life style, health care system, environment, social system, political system, treatments and testing is so different in countries that it is very difficult to compare.
In Italy, only the northern part Italy was severely affected, a region with lots of air pollution and many elderly people. Here, too, almost 99% showed severe pre-existing disease. The horrible images of so many coffins resulted due to the fact that Italy imposed regulations that all COVID-19 deaths needed to be burned. In Italy, however, it is not customary to burn the bodies and therefore only very few crematories exist. During the preceding years the flu epidemics have also regularly caused hospitals to be overloaded in Italy, because they heavily scaled back on hospitals and hospital beds.
The situation was similar in the United Kingdom and Spain – these are all countries with problematic medical infrastructures, where flu outbreaks have regularly caused hospitals to be overloaded in recent years, because they cut back on hospitals and hospital beds over the last years.
The same also applies to the USA, where many do not even have health insurance. Two years ago, Alabama even declared a state of emergency because of the flu. The claim that it was particularly bad in the USA is not true. US numbers are significantly lower than Italy. By the way, Belgium had the highest number, and the situation there was never dramatic.
Conclusion: Fear was artificially and unjustifiably stirred up all over the world.
What did the lockdown accomplish?
NOTHING in terms of the course of the pandemic. Lockdowns were implemented when the pandemic was already winding down. In 1998, a Finnish study examined the occurrence of corona viruses throughout the year, showing an identical curve: Emergence in December, peak in March, disappearance in May. Countries without a lockdown, such as Sweden, Iceland, Japan and Hong Kong, showed a similar trend like those countries with a lockdown.
The feared crowded hospitals and a shortage of ventilator places never even came close to happening at any time (except of some hospitals in specific demographic area in the USA). Hospitals even reported short-time work and in fact were empty as never before.
Conclusion: The lockdown was completely pointless, since the pandemic was already over.
What would have been useful?
Give special protection to those at risk. Educate the population on how to strengthen their immune system and provide the possibility to live a healthy life. Immediately implementation of mandates of paid sick leave, paid vacation and parental leave should have been ordered, so that everybody who felt sick could have stayed home. Education about and distribution of Vitamin D, C and Zink, fresh vegetable, fruits etc., while also allowing doctors to prescribe medication for prevention, which exist.
Providing a universal health care system which is focusing of prevention and an healthy, balanced life-style.
Conclusion: The measures were completely overblown causing much more damage than benefits.
What’s the deal with the case numbers?
The more testing is done, the more the case numbers increase. If you test at a time when there are virtually no more sick people, you get almost only false positive cases.
Particularly absurd: Every positive smear taken from a healthy person is counted as a corona case and treated as equivalent to a disease. However, this also requires symptoms of the disease. If tests were made for other pathogens, one would always find many positive results in all people, i.e. a completely normal situation becomes a permanent pandemic.
Conclusion: The case numbers are artificially generated and misinterpreted.
What to make of the PCR test?
The first test originates from the laboratory of Prof. Drosten and is used worldwide. This has not been validated to date; there are no indices to assess its quality.
A group of 22 independent researchers performed a point-by-point review of this diagnostic protocol. They have identified concerning errors and inherent fallacies which render the SARS-CoV-2 PCR test useless and meaningless. Olfert Landt, CEO of Tib-Molbiol, the company selling the PCR test acknowledged that “About half of those infected with Corona would not be infectious”. Other scientists even think that 90% of positive tests might be false positives. At the moment, mainly healthy people are tested and up to 85% false positive results are generated. The test, which reacts to the tiniest amounts of viral DNA, is far too sensitive, reacts to other corona viruses as well, and says nothing about infectivity.
Conclusion: The PCR tests, which have not even been validated yet, are very often false positive, should no longer be used in the absence of disease and are absolutely meaningless.
What about the antibodies?
Antibodies are only formed in more severe cases, and hardly at all in milder ones. They decrease again after months. In the case of RNA viruses, which constantly change, they generally play a subordinate role. Therefore, despite the absence of antibodies, someone may have been both ill and adequately protected. But if you find some, it doesn’t mean you’re immune – because you find all the antibodies, not just the protective ones. And you don’t know if the amount is sufficient. Therefore, antibodies cannot be used as proof of immunity.
Conclusion: Antibodies are not produced or only produced temporarily. Tests are without significance.
Why are the numbers of false positive tests relevant?
Many people are tested even though they are perfectly healthy. Some because they voluntarily take the test, others because they need the test to be able to travel and fly, or for work, in schools, or are forced to take the test when they visit their doctor or have a treatment in an hospital. These tests then turn out to be 50-95% false positives, which are recorded in databases and reported as cases, or infections in the news, even though these people are healthy. Anyone who is entered into the database with a positive test result and dies in-between the next 28 days will be reported as a COVID-19 death, even if they died of pneumonia, influenza, heart attacks, suicides, accidents, or other illnesses. The numbers for influenza or pneumonia, on the other hand, have been at zero since the beginning of 2020.
The PCR test is used to confirm a non-existent pandemic.
Conclusion: Stop testing with the PCR test on healthy people without symptoms. Perform professional diagnosis by doctors on suspected COVID-19 cases to be able to correctly determine the disease, if necessary with further laboratory tests. Only then will we get correct numbers.
What is herd and cross immunity?
Immunity means that the body has developed sufficient defense mechanisms against a pathogen. If this protection exists in the entire population, this is called herd immunity. If enough people have been infected, they can no longer infect anyone else, and the epidemic runs its course.
Cross-immunity means that the immune system is also better equipped against related viruses, like other coronaviruses.
Statistics in Europe showed that 40-50% Covid-19 infected persons had no symptoms and 30-40% had mild symptoms. The low rate of severe disease progression makes it very likely that the immune system was already primed due to contact with “relatives” of SARS-CoV-2.
Recently, this has been proven: In blood samples from 2007-2019, researchers detected 80% defense cells (T-lymphocytes) reacting to the Covid-19 viruses from 2020. In people who were sick now, 100% reactive cells were found – incidentally, even if they just had few symptoms. This T-cell immunity is always renewed and lasts for years.
Conclusion: Approximately 85% of all people are adequately protected due to T-cell cross-immunity.
What about a second wave?
Epidemics do not have a second wave. According to the definition, it is a temporally limited increased occurrence of disease cases.
Conclusion: There is no second wave. However, infections with Covid-19 will occur again, as of course with other influenza pathogens.
What did renowned virologists and epidemiologists say?
Prof. Ioannidis: It’s a mass panic epidemic. If we hadn’t known about this virus, and if we hadn’t tested people with PCR, the numbers of total deaths from influenza infections this year would not have seemed unusual.
Prof. Atlas: “The data is in – Stop the panic and end the isolation”. The false idea of having to stop Covid-19 created a catastrophic health situation and irrational fears in an overall mild disease.
Prof. Goldschmidt: If you scare the population, you can do anything you want to them.
Prof. Oxford: We are suffering from a media epidemic.
Prof. Wittkowski: We don’t need a vaccine to get rid of it.
Conclusion: There is no scientific debate, only insistence on predetermined opinions and continued groundless fear-mongering.
What kind of mistakes were made?
– An epidemic of national scope should not have been declared because it did not exist.
– The decisions and actions were arbitrary, not based on facts, and came at a time when everything was already over.
– Citizens are treated like immature children instead of being invited to cooperate voluntarily.
– Instead of transparent communication, scaremongering was the order of the day.
– Basic rights were abrogated and all ethical principles were violated for no reason.
– People have suffered and their health has been damaged, the economy has been ruined and livelihoods have been destroyed.
Mistakes are allowed to happen, but they must be admitted and learned from.
Conclusion: Obvious wrong decisions are neither admitted nor are actions based on them terminated.
What to think about vaccination?
Vaccinations against a virus which,
1. most of the population already has sufficient immunity
2. is not dangerous, and
3. is constantly changing, makes no medical sense at all.
The decisive factor is always the risk-benefit ratio. If the benefit is zero, any risk is too much.
It is completely incomprehensible why it is being considered to try out a completely new technology of genetic vaccines because of a virus which is comparable to a moderately severe influenza flu. These are human experiments with unforeseeable consequences. It is intentional aggravated battery in the millions.
Conclusion: Vaccination makes medically no sense and endangers millions of people.
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The Manitoba government has committed $375,000 to the Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium to upgrade research equipment and $175,000 to Fish Futures Inc. for Lake Whitefish research, according to an announcement by Agriculture and Resource Development Minister Blaine Pedersen.
“Lake Winnipeg is one of Manitoba’s most valuable resources and our government recognizes the importance of making investments that contribute to the long-term sustainability of the lake,” said Pedersen. “That’s why I’m happy to announce our investments in the Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium and Fish Futures Inc., two organizations that are doing excellent conservation and resource management work for Lake Winnipeg.”
The Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium Inc., founded in 1998, is a charitable organization dedicated to facilitating multidisciplinary research on Lake Winnipeg. The organization operates a research vessel, the M.V. Namao, to monitor conditions and conduct research on Lake Winnipeg. The Manitoba government conducts long-term monitoring of physical, chemical, and biological conditions on Lake Winnipeg by participating in science cruises aboard the M.V. Namao.
The $375,000 will help complete repairs and maintenance to the M.V. Namao including overhauling the two main engines and the starboard generator. A portion of the funding will also be used to create a long-term strategic plan for the future operations of the Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium Inc. and the ongoing operation of the M.V. Namao.
“The Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium has operated the M.V. Namao on Lake Winnipeg for 19 consecutive years and safety is our number one priority,” said A.H. (Al) Kristofferson, president and managing director of the Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium Inc. “Now our vessel is in need of essential maintenance that will enable us to continue to operate it well into the future. The funding announced today is essential to allow us to carry on this vital work for the benefit of all.”
Fish Futures Inc., a federally incorporated registered charity dedicated to the conservation and enhancement of freshwater fisheries, will also receive funding of $175,000 to support the establishment of the Whitefish Sampling Program Research Fund. The project will monitor Lake Whitefish stocks in the north basin of Lake Winnipeg. Combined with government’s annual monitoring programs, the project will also aid in managing the Lake Winnipeg fishery to benefit fish, the fishery, and all Manitobans. This data collection and analysis will play a critical role in informing government-decision making on the management of the Lake Winnipeg fishery.
“Fish Futures is delighted to assist the province with this new whitefish research project,” said David Carrick, founder of Fish Futures and vice-chair (fisheries) of the Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Fund (FWEF). “This project continues the close working relationship between Fish Futures and the province that is now in its 32nd year. We also want to recognize the critical research being done by the M.V. Namao to support the sustainability of Lake Winnipeg’s fisheries. Through their contributions to the FWEF as part of license sales, anglers have been supporting the consortium’s research for many years.”
“The 2020 speech from the throne affirmed the sustainability of Manitoba’s fish and wildlife populations is critical to protect natural resource jobs and conservation traditions,” added Pedersen. “These funding commitments will take steps toward protecting and conserving Lake Winnipeg and its diverse species.”


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Opinion | The Delta Variant and China’s Need to Change Its Covid-19 Policy
“How fortunate I used to be born in China,” a younger Chinese scholar declared final month in his WeChat. He was proud: Following the worst home Covid-19 outbreak since Wuhan, China had introduced every day new case counts down to a couple dozen.
The case numbers — when contrasted with the United States, which has lower than 1 / 4 of China’s inhabitants but every day common circumstances above 130,000 — may not appear too regarding on their very own. But they illustrate that China’s zero-infections coverage is now not working as designed. At the outset of the pandemic, the coverage efficiently drove down circumstances — and was adopted by different international locations — however the Delta variant modified the sport and exhibits that this technique now not suits. It’s time for China to vary tack, because the socioeconomic and public well being prices now outweigh the advantages with this extremely transmissible new variant. If it doesn’t, China and its individuals will undergo.
While different international locations have been nonetheless within the grips of the pandemic, China by early April 2020 had managed to get the virus below management inside its territory. It applied a zero-infections coverage, below which the identification of even one native Covid case would set off draconian measures to be able to reset native circumstances to zero. To fend off imported circumstances, China imposed a number of the world’s hardest worldwide journey restrictions.
China just isn’t the one nation to pursue a zero-tolerance strategy towards Covid-19. Other international locations that did, like New Zealand, are additionally now seeing much less success. But few would dispute that China’s authoritarian authorities, with unmatched energy and assets, is in a significantly better place than virtually every other nation to shortly remove new circumstances and make the technique work. So the truth that the coverage isn’t working as supposed is dangerous information for China and every other nation aiming to completely stamp out the virus in the identical method.
For greater than a yr, the coverage confirmed good outcomes. Small and sporadic outbreaks have been normally quelled earlier than circumstances may unfold to different areas. Local officers relied on the extreme-measures songbook: They launched mass testing for Covid-19, used QR codes to hint and management individuals’s actions and rounded up whole neighborhoods for necessary quarantine.
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Then got here the Delta variant. An outbreak that began in Nanjing, in China’s japanese Jiangsu Province, on July 20 shortly unfold to not less than 17 provinces, inflicting the worst outbreak since Wuhan. Now greater than a month has elapsed for the reason that first Nanjing circumstances have been recognized — and the Chinese authorities nonetheless has been unable to utterly break the home transmission chain. As of Sunday, there have been nonetheless three intermediate-risk Covid areas nationwide, based on the federal government’s classification system. In Yangzhou, which grew to become the brand new outbreak epicenter in Jiangsu Province, residents have been prevented from leaving their properties for a month and underwent not less than 12 necessary rounds of nucleic acid testing.
The failure of such high-profile and high-powered measures to carry a speedy finish to this outbreak highlights the diminishing returns of the zero-tolerance strategy.
There are also indicators that strategy is turning into counterproductive: Some 10 % of the circumstances in Yangzhou have been traced to a website for Covid testing.
There are worrying long-term secondary results, as properly. Increased absenteeism, drops in worker productiveness and disruption to produce chains threaten general financial development in China. Newly launched information from the National Bureau of Statistics recommend that strict lockdown measures in the course of the latest Delta variant outbreak have contributed to a slowdown within the Chinese economic system, sending nonmanufacturing exercise into contractionary territory for the primary time since February 2020.
Some Chinese well being specialists have begun to query the zero-tolerance technique, although the federal government has not seemed kindly upon it. A trainer in Jiangxi Province was detained for 15 days in August for suggesting that Yangzhou experiment with a special strategy to epidemic management. Dr. Zhang Wenhong — dubbed China’s personal Dr. Anthony S. Fauci — mentioned China ought to study to coexist with the virus, although later backtracked.
One rationale for sustaining the prevailing strategy has been to purchase time for China to achieve herd immunity by vaccination. Delta makes this argument irrelevant. Zhong Nanshan, a prime public well being adviser, mentioned China can obtain herd immunity with round an 80 % vaccination charge. But he seems to have used an unrealistically excessive efficacy charge for Chinese vaccines. Based on my calculations, reaching herd immunity just isn’t doable with the prevailing vaccine routine in China. It’s possible there’ll proceed to be some circumstances, although vaccination can nonetheless forestall essentially the most extreme impacts of the illness. It’s no surprise, then, senior official with China’s C.D.C. admitted that the nation may proceed to expertise outbreaks even after reaching 80 % vaccination.
But sticking with the present strategy would remodel China right into a hermit nation that might be harmful. If there are low ranges of pure immunity and vaccines are much less efficient at defending towards new variants of the virus, then reaching zero infections is not going to be doable because the nation opens up.
China can’t afford to maintain its borders closed ceaselessly. And the pandemic just isn’t over. Given the still-low and unequal protection of Covid vaccines worldwide and the rampant unfold of the Delta variant, this pandemic might final one other two years or extra.
Other governments have already got shifted to insurance policies aimed toward “residing with,” not eradicating, Covid-19. Singapore turned to a technique of phased and contingent reopening backed by mass vaccination. Even Australia, arguably essentially the most zealous liberal democracy in pursuing a zero-tolerance technique, now has proposed a highway map to reopen. China can be clever to take heed and pivot. A technique centered on stopping extreme circumstances and deaths and administering vaccines with excessive efficacy can be in China’s greatest curiosity, each within the brief and long run.
Yanzhong Huang is a senior fellow for world well being on the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations.
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