Wednesday, April 29, 2020

My 2001 Grundig Yacht Boy 500 in 2020

Here is my 2001 Grundig Yacht Boy 500 as it is now in 2020.


Enjoy the classics!


Here it is with a bottle of Dvin, the Armenian cognac that Churchill, and inner circle, used to consume 400 bottles of a year, according to a wikipedia entry.


It is not on right now but rest assured it still works.




And here is it in action monitoring the UVB-76.




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Monday, April 27, 2020

Buzzer UVB-76 Shortwave 4625 kHz Daytime May 2018

Here's to football!

Here is to a speedy resumption of football everywhere in the World!


On the other hand, if football doesn't ever resume in its pre-corona form, then we, in Russia, can at least be proud of holding the last Football World Cup ever! Imagine that!

This is so tempting I don't even know which one is better - that football resumes as normal or that we stay the hosts of the last ever Football World Cup! lol...



That's Zabivaka, the mascot at the 2018 Worlds.


The drink is a bottle of Dvin, a collector's Armenian cognac or brandy because the French don't allow it to be called cognac... which it is anyway both in technology and taste, in spirit and in substance, and better than most French brands at XO level as far as I am concerned.





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Monday, April 20, 2020

Crocuses Aren't Scared of #Covid-19

Crocuses in time of Plague... Corona freaking virus.


First crocuses from some weeks ago, still in March, I think.










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Saturday, April 18, 2020

A Major Problem with Images Not Showing Up On Blogger!

A Major Problem with Images Not Showing Up On Blogger!

As of today April 18, 2020, many images (but not all) in recent Blog entries have become inaccessible, do not display and are replaced with a "no go sign".
Never happened before, and I have plenty of space on my Google disk.
Images were all uploaded through blogger.
It has nothing to do with my computer or browser or provider as I checked it on a different one of each with the same sad result.
Also it appears no images are accessible at all through the From this Blog and Google Album Archive tabs when adding them to a new post.
Anybody know what's going on?

 And here is a reply from whoever:


Hi guys..

Thank you for the reports. Blogger is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. 

No timeframe given. Please wait patiently.


We've been waiting for three full days already.

I just hope that people's images have not become irrecoverable because, in addition to the loss of years of efforts, that would mean millions of broken links for Google bots to sift through and they aren't too clever to do that without further mucking things up.

Hard-Boiled Breakfast Philip Marlowe Style

A breakfast allegedly had by one Philip Marlowe, a shamus from Raymond Chandler's novels.




... orange juice, bacon and eggs, toast, honey, three or four cups of coffee and (not forgetting) a toothpick.


Philip Marlowe (/ˈmɑːrloʊ/) is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler. Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep, published in 1939. Chandler's early short stories, published in pulp magazines like Black Mask and Dime Detective, featured similar characters with names like "Carmady" and "John Dalmas". 


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Thursday, April 16, 2020

Pangzai - The interview from Goldthread

Orient Mako 3 for watch of the day

Again the MOP dial one for watch of the day in April (and for the entire month of April).


MOP dial.

Mako and Jaegerbomb.


The watch is catalogued on blog here.
 


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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Arbidol > COVID-19?

Arbidol versus COVID-19.


As is known, there are no drugs with specific action against the coronavirus Covid-19 or so we are told.

However, there is an antiviral drug available only in Russia, China and some other ex-Soviet republics that has shown some promise in the action against Covid-19, and some information, if not evidence, to that effect has been emerging from China.

Even though Arbidol is mentioned in the context of fighting the new coronavirus, it has a checkered reputation, of which you can read in its wikipedia entry, for example


It is this Arbidol medication that you see in the pictures here, and on the back of the box, it lists three regimens of treatment: for treating a flu (or viral infection) in progress, for prophylaxis after known exposure and for general prophylaxis during an epidemic.


Here is something from a Chinese research paper on Arbidol:
"Arbidol (Umifenovir) is a broad-spectrum anti-viral agent that is now widely used in China because of its use in treating influenza and recently its potential efficacy in treating COVID-19. Several in vitro studies indicate that Arbidol possesses inhibitory effect on coronavirus [5-7] and its derivative, Arbidol mesylate is even stronger against SARS-CoV [7].One study indicated that the therapeutic index of Arbidol (or selective index) on coronaviridae was 118, which is much higher than for orthomyxoviridae, which are 24 and 25 for influenza A/Aichi/2/68(H3N2) and B/Beijing/184/93, respectively[4]"-



While I don't recommend anything to anybody and merely record what seems interesting (please contact WHO for guidance), here is that Chinese article.



Potential of arbidol for post-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 transmission - preliminary report of a retrospective case-control study

Jinnong ZhANG1, Wenjing WANG1, Bo PENG2, Wei PENG2, Yisheng ZHANG3,
Yaling WANG4, Yan WAN4, Jiang CHANG5, Ling MAO4, Xiaoping MIAO5, Yifan
ZHOU4*, Yanan LI4, Yu HU6 & Bo HU4

1Department of Emergency medicine, Union hospital, Tongji medical college, Huazhong university of science and technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
2 Salt Lake Regional Medical Center, Heart and Lung Institute of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 84108
3 Tongji medical college and School of Material science and engineering, Huazhong university of science and technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
4 Department of Neurology, Union hospital, Tongji medical college, Huazhong university of science and technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
5 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Key Laboratory for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Huazhong university of science and technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
6 Department of Hematology, Union hospital, Tongji medical college, Huazhong university of science and technology, Wuhan, 430022, China

Author Contribution Statement
Wenjing Wang, Yanan Li, and Yifan Zhou did the literature search;
Bo Hu and Jinnong Zhang were responsible for the concept of the study;
Jinnong Zhang, Bo Hu and Bo Peng were responsible for its design;
Yisheng Zhang, Yanan Li, Yifan Zhou, Wenjing Wang, Yan Wan, Yaling Wang and Ling Mao
collected data;
Jiang Chang, Wei Peng and Xiaoping Miao analyzed data;
Bo Hu, Jinnong Zhang and Bo Peng interpreted data;
Jinnong Zhang, Bo Hu, Wei Peng, Bo Peng, Wenjing Wang, Yanan Li and Yifan Zhou wrote the
manuscript.

Contributed equally
*Correspondence author:
Bo Hu
Or Yu Hu
Or Yanan Li
Or Yifan Zhou

Abstract

Objective: we postulated that post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) using Arbidol is associated with decreased infection among individuals exposed to confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective case-control study on family members and health care workers who were exposed to patients confirmed to have SARS-CoV-2 infection by real-time RT-PCR and Chest CT from January 1 to January 16, 2020. We collected demographic information, work location of exposure, post-exposure prophylaxis information, and symptoms, if any, 24 days after exposure. The relation between post-exposure prophylaxis and infection in household contacts and healthcare workers were respectively analyzed.

Results: 27 families and 124 health care workers had evidence of close exposure to patients with confirmed COVID-19. There were no differences in age, profession and sex distribution in the two groups with different post-exposure prophylaxis, table 1. Logistic regression based on the data of the family members and health care workers with Arbidol or Oseltamivir prophylaxis showed that Arbidol PEP was a strong protective factor against the development of COVID-19 (Odds ratio 0011 , 95% CI 0001-0-125, P=00003 for family members and Odds ratio 0049, 95%CI 0-003-0-717), P= 00276 for health care workers). On the contrary, Oseltamivir was associated with an increase in COVID-19 infection (Odds ratio 20-446, 95% CI 1 -407-297-143, P= 00271).

Limitations: Limitations of this study include the retrospective design of case-control studies and potential selection bias because the collection of data was through telephone calls.

Conclusions: Our findings suggest Arbidol could reduce the infection risk of the novel coronavirus in hospital and family settings. This treatment should be promoted for PEP use and should be the subject of further investigation.

Key words: Arbidol; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Post-exposure prophylaxis

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New in fitness (except maybe not for Covid-19 times).