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Rossi lucky to still be alive... That was very scary. Watch his on-board of you can find it, absolutely awful.

Yeah, but that's what I meant - if you use a horizontal arm, you can slide it back and forth over the table. Similar to this setup: Check the video in the link to see what I mean: https://www.google.com/amp/s/h5.aliexpress.com/item/33016272439.html So you can slide it back and forth, move it up and down as a swing arm, rotate it. If you get one with a ball head, it would even offer additional movement angles if you need them. Should cover it all, no? And here is one of them as an example: http://slik.com/products/sliding-arm-ii/

Not sure I understand this correctly, but woudn't a tripod with a horizontal arm extension and a 360° ballhead do the job?

Understandable, Neel Jani was awful; especially compared to how Lotterer did. Unfortunately, I just can't get into Formula E... I tried hard, especially since Porsche joined, but it just doesn't do anything for me.

Chong on the right, Bittencourt on the left. There's also rumours regarding Jozwiak, so that could also be a possible solution for the left side. Nürnberg's Hack could be an alternative option. Hope we don't play Bittencourt in the central midfield with Klaassen, that's just asking for trouble... Have very high hopes for Schmid, will need some time to adapt but his vision, creativity and intelligent passing is something I'm excited for.

Not sure why you quoted me here, but I agree

Did you post, delete and then re-post it again because you thought I'd be offended?

Thailand unlikely to open the borders this year. Expected, but still sucks

Seems like they plan to push it forward! The ban could be implemented for Spa already looks like FIA are also annoyed by Mercedes outqualifying everyone by over a second each week

Very interesting (and long) podcast with Florian Kohfeldt. https://phrasenmaeher.podigee.io/55-neue-episode Second part will be published next Tuesday...

Thoughts?

Yes, exactly - the same phase as many others, just with added publicity stunt. The second point might be reasonable, but then again, the procedure is not really that different from the approach that other countries are taking. Fast tracking vaccines or drugs always poses certain risks. The Russians expect to be able to distribute the vaccine to the general public in January, that's over 4 months time to conduct Phase 3 trials, and about the same timeline that other vaccine manufacturers are following. I'm looking forward to the phase 1 & 2 trial data they are supposed to publish this month.

I believe in this particular case, the vaccine is supposed to protect at least 50% of trial participants in order to be deemed effective.

As above - phase 3 trials start today. UAE, Saudi Arabia, Philippines and likely Brazil among countries that participate in them.

That's not true though. The Phase 3 trials are starting today with thousands of volunteers in numerous countries, as usual. They simply registered the vaccine early in order to be able to fast-track its distribution to key workers.

They launched the website with detailed info about the vaccine: https://sputnikvaccine.com/ All the trial data is supposed to be printed in the article submitted to a major international scientific magazine later this month.

That's likely just a political propaganda and PR, but one of this daughters is a biochemist, so I wouldn't be surprised if she was somehow involved in the trials.

Sure, it's always a good idea to be skeptical about everything, including rushed vaccines. Russian medical science (and virology in particular) has always been well advanced though, so hopefully they got this one right.

Russia approved and registered world's first vaccine against COVID-19. Phase 3 trials still ongoing, will launch it for key frontline workers and in most affected regions now, mass production is set for September/October with distribution for general public planned for January. Fingers crossed this works!

Thank you all

No, but he wasn't involved in today's friendly to prevent any potential injuries, so we're probably close to it!

Definitely. Maxi in particular, as he played well below par and certainly below his 2018/2019 level. Johannes failed to make the transition from youth to professional football in general so far, as much as I'm concerned... I don't understand why he's being played on the wing and in the midfield, but even when he was given a few chances as a striker, he didn't exactly impress either. Definitely had higher hopes for him.