![]() ![]() ![]() It comes after Chinese President Xi Jinping has visited Wuhan yesterday for the first time since the city emerged as the centre of the coronavirus epidemic in January. The original article has been removed from the magazine's Wechat account but web users have been posting screenshots of it online. 'The world needs different kinds of voices.' 'This incident has shown that everyone needs to have their own thoughts because someone has to step up to speak the truth,' she added. Three other doctors who worked along with late heroic whistle-blower Dr Li Wenliang have also died of the disease after contracting it while fighting the outbreak.ĭr Ai said she doesn't think of herself as a whistle-blower: 'I was the one handing out the whistles.' The 34-year-old medic succumbed to the deadly contagion in the early hours of Friday morning local time despite attempts to resuscitate him. Ophthalmologist Li Wenliang was among eight people who shared Dr Ai's picture before being reprimanded by police and accused of spreading 'fake news' for warning the public of 'SARS at a Wuhan seafood market' on social media. 'What did I do wrong? Knowing the fact that a significant virus has been found on a patient, how can I not tell when another doctor asks about it?' Two days later, the Wuhan medic was summoned by the head of the hospital's disciplinary inspection committee.ĭr Ai said she faced 'unprecedented, extremely harsh reprimanded' and was accused of 'spreading rumours as a professional' by the hospital's officials. included the chatting group, which Li Wenliang shared the information with,' Dr Ai told the magazine, 'I thought something bad is going to happen.' 'Later that evening, the stuff was shared all over the place with screenshots of the report bearing my red circle. The medic then circled the word 'SARS' and sent a picture of the report to one of her former classmates and a group chat within her department.ĭr Ai said she also immediately alerted the hospital authorities about the case. The SARS epidemic 17 years ago infected more than 8,000 people worldwide and killed over 800, according to the World Health Organisation. An earlier version referred to the Nokia ringtone as being based on Chopin's Gran Valse, rather than Tarrega's Chopin-inspired Gran Vals.Ai Fen, whose text prompted whistle-blower Li Wenliang to sound the coronavirus alarm says her hospital punished her for sharing information on SARS-like disease last year * This article was amended on 4 December 2013. But I do long for the day when its ubiquity makes it as socially unacceptable as Nokia's. So I'm no longer surprised to hear it on the train, in restaurants or when I'm doing the washing-up. Which, of course, might account for its success. It sounds human (albeit an unusually perky, over-caffeinated human). Perhaps it does sound innovative, friendly and trustworthy. Joongsam was then asked to "develop these words into sounds". First, Samsung did some market research: it says it canvassed 900 users in North America and Europe and came up with a list of positive words associated with its brand ("innovative", "friendly" and "trustworthy"). How did he do it? Not, it seems, just by improvising a jolly tune – or by finding a catchy sequence of notes that was out of copyright in the way Nokia did. It was composed, says Samsung, by its senior sound designer, Joongsam Yun. For a start, it's not polyphonic – it's deliberately naturalistic. The ringtone signified newness for a while, before newness became naffness.īut the Samsung whistle ringtone is different. At the height of its popularity, Gran Valse was being heard 1.8bn times per day and was immortalised by Dom Joly and his giant mobile phone on Trigger Happy TV. That one came into being thanks in part to Thomas Dolby, famed for 80s synthpop hits such as She Blinded Me With Science in the 90s, Dolby helped invent the polyphonic ringtone for Nokia. Over the Horizon has earned its place in the pantheon of ringtones we love to hate – wrongtones, if you will – alongside Nokia's signature theme, a descending arpeggio based on Tarrega's Chopin-inspired Gran Vals. And Samsung is the world's most popular maker of smartphones – it sold 213m in 2012, about a third of the market. The South Korean company won't say exactly how many people have the Over the Horizon ringtone, but it does say it is the most popular. First heard with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S1 in 2010, the whistle ringtone is one of several variants of a tune named Over the Horizon, specially composed – perhaps "designed" is a better word – for Samsung. ![]()
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