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Indoor golf is an umbrella term for all activities in golf which can be carried out indoors. Venues include indoor driving ranges, chipping areas, putting greens, machines and home golf simulators. Many of these indoor facilities are businesses that include additional entertainment options as well as food and drink for customers.

A golf simulator allows golf to be played on a graphically or photographically simulated driving range or golf course, usually in an indoor setting. In some cases, based on the location of the sensing devices, it is now possible to capture data on both ball and club for most accurate speed and directional information, and simulated ball flight behavior.

The data about a golfers swing that is collected during a golf shot is extrapolated to provide ball flight trajectory and roll out according to certain calculated relationships to the ball's flight performance per the tracked motion of the ball or club, adding environmental aspects through which the ball is projected, including terrain, wind, rain and other such influences or obstacles. Also noted on specific height and width of the screen on the net.

Golf simulator

A golf simulator allows golf to be played on a graphically or photographically simulated driving range or golf course, usually in an indoor setting. It is a technical system used by some golfers to continue their sport regardless of weather and time of day in a converted premises.  Simulators have been available since the early 1970s, and systems range in cost from compact units costing well under $200 that work with a computer or video game console, to sophisticated ones costing tens of thousands of dollars. Advanced systems may utilize a dedicated room, hitting screen, projector and other paraphernalia.

Simpler simulators typically do not possess built-in software, but measure the movement of the hand-held sensor and feeds the information to the video game. The information received is then translated into an action of some sort, usually hitting the ball. More advanced simulators often come with their own software, allowing the user to use the system as if they were on a driving range. Relying on a battery of environmental sensors, the software tracks each shot and represents the entire shot, from impact to how the ball bounces visually on screen. In this way, the golfer has a detailed analysis of the entire flight of the ball which can be used for practice or training.

It utilizes a projected landscape, sometimes with natural images. A computer calculates the expected trajectory of the golf ball from data gathered on the swing, and the image of the golf ball flight is then simulated on the screen via a projector. Golf simulators need to present club speed, club path, club face angle at impact, ball speed, ball path, horizontal and vertical launch angle and spin. There are several types of measurement system used in golf simulation to achieve this, such as simulator mats, sonic sound systems, optical sensor arrays, radar and  camera ball tracking systems.

Simulator mats
Many golf simulator systems use a sensor mat, which is essentially a rectangular mat containing several infrared sensors and microchips that can monitor the speed of the club as it passes the back sensor, the angle of the club and club speed as the ball and club pass the second sensor following impact and the direction of the ball as the club passes the third sensor. Such systems are used by GolfBlaster3D, ProTee United, Dancin' Dogg by Optishot, TruGolf and Unex Golf.

Sonic sound systems
A sonic system uses strategically placed microphones around the impact screen. The system measures and compares the intensity of sound that is produced by the ball hitting the screen. Using 3 or more directional microphones and an interface that can measure the sound amplitude of the impact from each microphone, an XY impact position can be determined. This type of measurement system is rarely used in modern simulators.

Radar systems
A radar sits aside the player to gather launch data. They emit a microwave that reflects off any moving object which returns to the sensor. The system can then record trajectory, launch angle, speed and direction. Additional physics is applied to these figures to calculate spin, axis and tilt. These types of system can be used indoors or outdoors. They are very useful as launch monitors, and they work very effectively. Several professionals make use of them to analyse their game in real environments. Typical examples are available from TrackMan and Flightscope.

Optical sensor systems
This method uses two banks of Infra Red sensors that scan across the bay in both X and Y directions. The ball passes through the first set of sensors and its XY coordinate is captured. The ball then passes another set of sensors and the second XY coordinates are captured again.  The two co-ordinates are then compared to determine the vertical launch angle, ball path and speed. The system is very accurate, but very expensive to construct, as you need hundreds of optical sensors and emitters to catch the coordinates of the ball in both sensor positions. The main disadvantage is that the ball must always pass through both sensors with a fast shot so that there is no downward curve in the ball's trajectory before hitting the screen. That means that chipping and putting will not work too well.

Camera Systems
Cameras are becoming the norm in golf simulation. In general, one, two, three or four cameras are used that continuously monitor the play area. The downward swing path, impact, club face angle, launch angle and ball speed are all captured by the high speed cameras, normally running at around 100 to 120 frames per second. Camera data is processed using complex physics algorithms to produce a multitude of data such as back spin, side spin, trajectory, club face angle, swing path, loft, distance, carry and roll.
The, most common types of camera measurement system are Triggered and Continuous. With triggered systems, Images are taken only after the club has passed through a trigger point to activate the camera. With continuous systems, the camera records permanently, and data is processed once impact with the ball is observed. Continuous cameras must be capable of frame rates in excess of 100 frames per second per camera. Such systems are used by Bogolf, Visual Sports, Sports Coach Systems and Full Swing Golf. For both methods, one camera is floor mounted facing the ball trajectory from the side, the other is over head mounted and facing down. ProTee United is using a high speed sensor system to read club head information, special floor sensors for putting and two high speed cameras (one on the floor and one on the ceiling) to pick up ball flight information. An alternative method of measuring these two angles is to mount both cameras in the upper left and right corners  of the bay. This is known as stereoscopic image processing.

Dimensions
The typical dimensions of a golf simulator are approximately  wide ×  in length and just over  in height. This allows freedom of movement whilst swinging. This space typically allows for both left- and right-handed players with  backswings and follow throughs.

Advantages
The principal advantage of a golf simulator is the ability to conveniently play and practice in a controlled ambience. Often this means the ability to play without any pressure, green fees, or tee times; however, the advent of "indoor golf centers", which provide simulators for commercial play, bring many of these competitive and social aspects into the simulated game. For those who live in wintry climes or urban settings, golf simulators offer the ability to play and practice year-round or within the confines of their locale. The space requirements can range from just needing an  ceiling to an entire wall upon which the game's screen is attached. The next important advantage is the player's ability to see each facet of their swing. Many golf simulators measure: angle of attack, angle of the club face, club head speed, spin, club path (inside out or outside in), and more. These measurements help both students and teaching professionals identify exactly what a player needs to know to improve their swing.

Mechanics
There are a number of different technologies in use presently. Principally they either track ball flight or club head motion. Ball flight is typically tracked via wavelength (infrared), audio, and/or laser sensors. These instruments serve as a means by which the ball's flight properties are tracked, namely launch angle, ball speed and ball direction.  Club motion is similarly tracked via wavelength sensors or other devices such tethers, cameras, or lasers, which record the speed and direction of the club's head as well as the impact point of the ball on the club's striking surface.  In some cases, based on the location of the sensing devices, it is now possible to capture data on both ball and club for most accurate speed and directional information, and simulated ball flight behavior.

The data collected is extrapolated to provide ball flight trajectory and roll out according to certain calculated relationships to the ball's flight performance per the tracked motion of the ball or club, adding environmental aspects through which the ball is projected, including terrain, wind, rain and other such influences or obstacles.

The way that the information is tracked varies as much as having a wall-sized screen recording ball speed and placement upon impact, to sensors that record the moments before, during and after the impact between the ball and club, in which case, the ball is held by a tether.

Accuracy
A key attribute of any simulator is accuracy. Ball flight is the primary determinant of a system's accuracy. Speed of the calculations and a predictable projected image of the ball in flight is one measurement of a system's accuracy.  Predictability or the plausibility of prediction is a measure according to known ball flight properties among golf experts.

A ball's flight depends upon many things, including the ball itself, the strike and impact of the club upon the ball, the ball's launch angle, direction, spin rate and velocity, as well as the hitting surface from which the ball is struck and the simulated environment through which the ball virtually flies, suggesting wind, rain, and other environmental aspects that may affect ball flight.  The battle for superiority in this market exists between the technologies utilized to track ball flight or club motion.

Training facilities

Indoor driving range
An indoor driving range can be a low-ceiling structure in which players hit golfballs into a net at close range, or a large high-ceiling dome, where players are better able to observe the trajectory of the golfball in flight. Because of the nature of being indoors, these structures provide players with the opportunity to practice regardless of the outside conditions. Teaching professionals and computer/video evaluation tools may also be available at these ranges, as well as specialized areas for putting, chipping, and sand shots.

Places
Indoor golf can be found in different areas. Everywhere where there is enough space in order to swing the club, a training area or a golf simulator to be installed.

Commercial Applications:
Country clubs, hotels and resorts, offices, fitness facilities and sports bars are among the many commercial uses of golf simulators. These serve both as entertainment for guests and practice for golfers. An indoor golf center consists of several simulators and a golf practice area, often including indoor driving range, chipping area, putting green, or any combination.

Residential Applications:
Indoor golf simulators have been gaining popularity in residential applications during recent years. As technology advances bring costs down, many avid golfers have chosen to equip their homes with indoor golf training facilities.

Indoor golf greens have recently enjoyed a drastic increase in overall quality and play-ability while also enjoying a significant reduction in cost.

References

Forms of golf
Indoor sports


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Note: optional information about the account.
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CVC/CVV: the security code found on the back of your credit card.
PIN: the personal identification number you use to protect your credit card.
Note: additional details related to the card.
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Credit card details cannot be restored once deleted.
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Title: a title to easily find and recognize your note on the Secure Notes screen.
Note: any content that you want to keep secure, such as PINs and contact details.
A tile representing your newly added note appears on the Secure Notes screen. To edit the note's details, click the relevant tile and click Edit. You can then modify the data and click Save, or click Delete to permanently remove the note's tile.
Notes cannot be restored once deleted.
To quickly access a note, click the search icon below Settings and type the Title to retrieve your note.
Once you have installed the Passwords extension on your browser, a Passwords icon (key) is visible next to the search bar in the browser.
Enable auto-fill: tick to enable Passwords to automatically fill in your login credentials or credit cards information when you log into your online accounts or pay online.
Ask to save passwords: tick to enable Passwords to offer to save your login credentials each time you access a new online account.
Generate a strong password: automatically creates a strong password. Click the refresh icon to generate a new password.
Open the app: click to open the passwords screen in Avast Antivirus.
When you log into an online account in your internet browser which is already stored in Avast Passwords, the Passwords icon (key) is visible next to your Username.
Click the Passwords icon (key) next to your Username to switch between accounts if you have more than one account linked to the same web address.
Click Settings on the Passwords screen.
Select the Security tab, then click Create Master Password.
Type and re-type the password you want to use as your Master Password into the text boxes.
Tick the box next to the acknowledgement dialog, then click Save Master Password.
After creating a Master Password, Lock appears next to Settings in the top-right corner of the main Avast Passwords screen. Click Lock to immediately lock your account. To unlock your account from the lock screen, enter your Master Password and click Unlock.
Password Guardian notifies you if any of the passwords you save to Avast Passwords become compromised.
One Touch Login allows you to quickly access the data on your PC by tapping the screen of your mobile device when your PC and mobile device are within close proximity.
Browser integration: click Add Extension next to the internet browsers you want to use Passwords with.
Click the X icon to close the settings screen.
Click the Password Guardian tab on the Passwords screen.
Click Details next to the account name you want to edit the password for.
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Q: Predefined actions of application. Link to my application from Contacts I want to write application which is connected with Contacts.
Scenario :

*

*Enter to phone Contacts

*We choose Contact item

*And icon of my application should appear in QuickAction Dialog.

*I click on my app icon and Aplication start with data from contact record.

What I have to add to AndroidManifest to do it?

A: Add this intent filter for your app to be visible for all contacts.
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.item/name" />
    </intent-filter>

Change the mimetype, so that only contacts with a particular data have your activity.
e.g if you want your activity to show only for contacts with email then change mimetype to vnd.android.cursor.item/email_v2 . You can get the mimetype names from the subclasses of DataColumns

A: Exactly this behavior is possible only when your app in an only app on users device which is capable to process desired type of content. For example, if you want to use type of content "send SMS", or "make a phone call" - your app most likely is not the only app on the device which can process such actions (there are also stock phone dialer and SMS apps).
Anyway, you can always add your application to the list of apps which will appear when user clicks to that quick actions. It will look like this:

In order to do this, you need:

*

*specify in your manifest file that your application is capable to deal with desired action, for example "sending SMS". To do this you need to add intent filter to your Activity, that you wish to be called in that case:
<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.SENDTO" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
    <data android:scheme="sms" />
    <data android:scheme="smsto" />
</intent-filter>

*in your target Activity add code, that process desired content type. In your target Activity onCreate() method, or onNewIntent() method query data string parameter from calling Intent. Here is some sample code to demonstrate general idea:
public class MyActivity extends Avtivity {
@Override
protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
    super.onNewIntent(intent);
    String dataStr = intent.getDataString();
    // do some processing with dataStr
}

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    Intent callIntent = getIntent();
    String dataStr = callIntent.getDataString();
    // do some processing with dataStr
}
}

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Defending champion, Murray withdraws from Olympics
By Agency Reports
Britain's two-time defending champion Andy Murray has withdrawn from the men's singles at the Tokyo Olympics with a minor thigh strain.
The Scot, who won his opening men's double match with Joe Salisbury on Saturday, had been due to face Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime on day two.
The 34-year-old will still compete in the doubles but was advised not to compete in both events in Japan.
He has been replaced in the singles draw by Australian Max Purcell.
"I am really disappointed at having to withdraw but the medical staff have advised me against playing in both events," a statement from Murray read.
"I have made the difficult decision to withdraw from the singles and focus on playing doubles with Joe."
Liam Broady, the sole Briton remaining in the singles after Murray's withdrawal and Heather Watson's first-round defeat, advanced to the second round on Sunday.
Quadri's exit compounds Team Nigeria woes in Tokyo
The 27-year-old battled past Argentina's Francisco Cerundolo 7-5 6-7 (4-7) 6-2 in three hours three minutes to set up a meeting with Wimbledon semi-finalist Hubert Hurkacz of Poland.
Murray won his first singles gold at London 2012 and retained his title in Rio four years later.
However, the three-time Grand Slam champion has since had major hip surgery and has made a stuttering return to the Tour.
He missed the Australian Open in January after contracting coronavirus but won back-to-back matches at a Slam for the first time in four years at Wimbledon last month.
Murray spoke positively after his victory with Salisbury on the first day of the Games when they beat French second seeds Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Hubert.
He and Salisbury will face German pair Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz in the second round.
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More insurers want to tie drug payments to health outcomes.
Online prescription drug company PillPack is using robotics, machine learning, and more to help you avoid waiting in line at the drug store. And Silicon Valley investors are pouring $50 million into the Massachusetts-based online pharmacy. The financing round was led by Charles River Ventures with participation from Accel Partners, Atlas Venture, Menlo Ventures, and Sherpa Ventures.
Launched in 2014, PillPack is an online pharmacy that will ship personalized rolls of pre-sorted prescriptions, vitamins, and over-the-counter drugs to consumers. The startup is using robots to sort pills into personalized packets, saving money on human labor.
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According to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, a record 4.3 billion prescriptions were filled in 2014, with spending rising 13% to a total of $374 billion.
"The market is huge," says Charles River Capital investor George Zachary, who is joining PillPack's board. Zachary adds that he was particularly impressed by PillPack's growth as a business despite only launching last year.
This growth in prescription drug purchases is coinciding with an uptick in people buying health and beauty products online. A recent Business Insider report estimates that 36 million U.S. consumers shopped online for health and beauty products in the spring of 2014, up from 20 million consumers in spring 2010.
PillPack's sweet spot focuses on providing prescriptions for consumers who take the same medicines regularly. Instead of sorting multiple types of pills into physical pill boxes, PillPack does the work for you. Each packet of pills is labeled with the type of pills you are taking in a given day. The company's technology will also evaluate and inform users on the potential risks of combining certain medications and dosages.
The company says it accepts most prescription drug insurance plans, including a majority of Medicare Part D plans.
Founder and CEO TJ Parker is a pharmacist by training. His family owned a traditional mom and pop pharmacy in New Hampshire, and he started working as an assistant throughout his youth. He saw the frustrations customers had first hand. "We want to reimagine what end-to-end pharmacy experience is for customers," said Parker. Part of that plan is to actually build physical retail stores that would specialize in addressing emergency, shorter term prescriptions such as antibiotics for a cold.
The capital will be used to grow the team and build retail pharmacies in U.S. markets.


We woke up in Sydney's Peace and Love and as soon as we finished breakfast, we started sailing towards Sandy Spit. While sailing, our practical sailing test began. We had to do sailing circles, some knots, and man overboard drills. So, we were doing our job but then the jib shackle broke so we had to stop to fix it. By the time it was being repaired, we ate lunch and cleaned the cockpit. Once we were done, we continued our test for about two hours. Later then we went to a beautiful beach where we met another boat. We all really enjoyed and it and had a lot of fun. After that we went back to the boat to shower and eat dinner before hopping back on a dinghy which brought us to a catamaran for a Lifeworks Forum with Sam, which was really interesting and taught us a lot of things. Then we went back to the boat and fell asleep. We can all agree that this was a very well spent day and can't wait to see what's going to happen tomorrow.


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Deadly Turkish mine explosion spurs massive social protest
Posted on May 14, 2014 by Tafline Laylin in Energy
Protests broke out across Turkey after an explosion at a coal mine on Tuesday afternoon has killed at least 270 people. Opposition politician Ozgur Ozel recently proposed to investigate mine safety following earlier deaths, but the government shut him down. Now outraged citizens are urging Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign.
A power transformer is thought to have blown up at the Soma mine during shift change, according to the Guardian, causing a massive fire that was still burning 18 hours after the initial explosion.
The paper reports that there were 800 miners on site when the fire erupted. At least 363 people have since been rescued, but hope is beginning to dwindle that those still trapped inside the mine will survive.
People on the scene say that the mine shafts are hot and thick with smoke; Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said that most of the deaths were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Despite warnings that doing so could feed the fire, efforts are underway to pump oxygen into pockets below ground in order to help the trapped miners breathe.
Related: Raft of Turkish protests remains powerfully afloat
"Regarding the rescue operation, I can say that our hopes are diminishing," said Yildiz. "The problem is more serious than we thought. It is developing into an accident with the highest worker death toll Turkey has seen so far. We are worried that human loss could increase."
Ozgur Ozel was aware that mine safety regulations across Turkey are failing to keep pace with the country's rapid industrialization, but conservative politicians stood in the way of any further investigations.
NBC reports that SOMA Komur Isletmeleri A.S., the company that owns the enflamed mine, is involved with various government construction projects, including the country's second tallest skyscraper.
Nevermind that coal is the single most filthy fuel that Turkey burns with criminal abandon, (the country won the Fossil of the Day Award at the Doha climate change conference in 2012) activist and political science researcher Ercan Akkaya blames the government for what is widely believed to have been a preventable tragedy.
"This was not an accident, it happened because not enough is ever done to protect workers," Akkaya told the paper. "The government is complicit in these deaths, in our tragedy. Since 2006, almost 11,000 workers in Turkey have died while doing their jobs."
As protests spread through Ankara and Istanbul, many are wondering whether the angry mobs will trigger another violent, undemocratic crackdown, and whether their efforts will have any impact on this government's reckless abandon of its people.
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Spring books for kids are great fun, because they encompass so much. Animal babies and hibernating and bugs and flowers and gardens and rainy days…there's so much there. Personally, I'm always drawn to books about flowers (maybe because it takes so long before we can plant them here?). And if you need a grown-up book to read while the kids are pouring over their own books, might I suggest The Enchanted April? It's a slow, lovely book and the descriptions of the gardens always make me want to get on an airplane right now and get me to Italy.
But back to the kids. Here are our favorite books for kids, to welcome spring.1.) Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson — Oh, we love Bear. And now, after a winter of hibernating, he wakes up very hungry and thin. He eats and he eats…but he still wants more. A funny book, with repetition so kids can join in after a page or two.
2.) Lost in the Woods by Carl R. Sams and Jean Stoick — A baby deer is newly born as spring comes to the woods. He finds all sorts of animals out and about, all worrying about him because his mother is nowhere to be seen. And here's where I actually learned something from this book — mother deer often leave their babies alone in their first few weeks because the mama's scent will attract predators. A beautifully photographed book.
3.) Quiet Bunny's Many Colors by Lisa McCue — Quiet Bunny is back, and loving the bright colors found all around him — yellow ducks, green frogs, blue jays. He's just not sure his own brown and white fur is very interesting, until a wise old owl helps him realize everyone is special.
4.) Rabbits and Raindrops by Jim Arnosky — It's the first day out for five bunny babies. And when a sudden rain sends them running for shelter, the other animal neighbors drop in to see them there.
5.) The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss — The world is snowy and the animals are all asleep in their homes. Then, they awake, and begin to run, and in the middle of the snow, they find one small yellow flower — the first sign of spring.
6.) Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert — A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in their garden. This book is full of brightly colored illustrations of many different varieties of flowers.
7.) Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth, illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith — One of my children's favorites, when they were very little. The book is brightly colored, the ladybugs are bumpy and fun to pat, and the story is rhyming and charming. Such a fun book.
8.) Whose Nest? by Lynette Evans, illustrated by Guy Troughton — Since birds and animals are starting to emerge and be more visible, this is a great time to find out where they all live. Look at each nest, and at the clues that surround it, and try to guess who lives there. Kids will learn all about some surprising animal habitats.
9.) Miss Spider's Tea Party by David Kirk — Miss Spider holds a spring tea and is dismayed when the other bugs are too scared to attend — they think she'll eat them. By the end, everyone has come to an understanding, and is able to enjoy their tea. I always love the unusual illustrations in the Miss Spider books.
10.) From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Heiligman, illustrated by Bari Weissman — A caterpillar hanging out at school in a glass jar begins to grow and change. What's happening? A great book to explain metamorphosis to preschoolers and kindergartners.
11.) I Spy A Butterfly by Jean Marzollo, photographed by Walter Wick — A book for new readers, with rhymes and picture clues. And extra fun, because once kids read the clues, they must find the objects. My kids love the "I Spy" series.
The weather outside might not quite be there yet — but we're ready for spring!
I put some on my wish list, too! Those and the Puffin In Bloom books are bee-yoo-tiful!


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YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love At The Bound Of This World Limited Edition Revealed
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Earlier, Spike Chunsoft announced that YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world would be launching in the west. True visual novel fans, however, can get themselves an even beefier package.
NIS America revealed that it would be selling a Limited Edition bundle of the game for $89.99 USD. It will come with the retail game, a Hardcover Art Book, 5-Disc DVD Official Soundtrack, and (of course) a Pillow Case.
You can pre-order a copy for yourself right here. Check out more preview images below
This Limited Edition includes:
YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world. Nintendo Switch™ Day 1 Edition (Includes a voucher code for 8-BIT YU-NO'S GREAT ADVENTURE. Experience an action game set in classic 8-bit style featuring the characters from YU-NO.)
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We're looking for a full stack engineer to join our growing team. You will work on our website and the APIs that power the EO1 and EO2 digital art displays. You'll also work on the online store where we sell and explain the EO to the world.
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The Rolling Stones Set to Release 50th Anniversary Photo Book
By Josh Hart 02 March 2012
If you hadn't heard already, 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of The Rolling Stones.
While the word is still out on a tour, the band have announced the release of a photo book to celebrate their golden anniversary. The Rolling Stones: 50 is set for release on July 12, which corresponds with the date of the band's first gig in 1962.
"This is our story of 50 fantastic years," the Stones said in a statement. "Curated by us, [the book] features the very best photographs and ephemera from and beyond our archives."
They went on: "We started out as a blues band playing the clubs and more recently we've filled the largest stadiums in the world with the kind of show that none of us could have imagined all those years ago."
Members of the Rolling Stones also have contributed commentary to the book, which will feature more than 700 photographs.
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Future Forum 2016: A peek into the future of Australian newspapers
By Kruti Joshi
Editors and executives from international mastheads discuss how they've welcomed digital
Le Presse's Jean-Marc De Jonghe
Canadian news outlets La Presse and Toronto Star have embraced the digital age – the first more so than the latter. In September 2015, Montréal's French newspaper La Presse announced it would cease publishing the weekday print edition of the newspaper. The move came into effect in January 2016.
MORE: Future Forum 2016 – Readers want healthy eating, not digital junk food
By doing this the paper sought to bank on the success of its tablet edition La Presse+. The title's vice president for digital products Jean-Marc De Jonghe said nowadays the fight for the readers' attention isn't against other news organisations but with the likes of Facebook and Angry Bird.
"From the beginning when we launched the product [La Presse+] we said to our readers and advertisers this product can replace the print. It's just a matter of time. This was the real focus for us," he told the audience at the NewsMediaWorks' 2016 Future Forum.
"Every newspaper knows that we have to get across the digital river"
"We [the media industry] are very good at not changing anything because we are making a lot of money with print. We are used to selling it."
While La Presse has sought to keep the business running by relying on its tablet app and a Saturday edition of the newspaper to bring the ad dollars in, Toronto Star has chosen otherwise. Much like Fairfax Media in Australia, the editor of Toronto Star Michael Cooke said that the company may consider closing down its print edition in the distant future.
Toronto Star's Michael Cooke
"It's still a circus," he said. "But what a show!"
Print is still a competitive and attractive market for advertisers, Cooke said. But the industry also needs to work on upping its game in digital.
User experience is an important currency in digital, De Jonghe and Cooke agreed. "Readers liked to be challenged and engaged," Cooke told the crowd, as he displayed the interface of the Toronto Star app and the various formats that a story can be presented in. News brands can no longer sit back and think that good content will find an audience. They have to marry exceptional storytelling with exceptional user experience, De Jonghe said.
The way advertising is delivered will have an impact on this experience. Advertising shouldn't disrupt the users' journey with the app, but rather engage them, Cooke said. He pointed to a campaign that Toronto Star ran on its app for a beer company. In the advertisement, viewers were asked to play a poker machine to see what beer was the cheapest – the brand that was paying for the advertising obviously was shown to be the cheapest.
Likewise, with stories, it's not just about uploading text with several photographs. Producers should be thinking about what interactive elements can be added to a story, such as pop-up buttons in a photograph that give readers interesting facts about the photograph or the story.
"Pop-ups are a wonderful thing. Readers can't resist them," Cooke explained.
The number of app opens in itself holds no value, the value is in the amount of time that a consumer spends in the app. Interactive stories are the key to retaining a consumer's attention and boosting the time spent with a brand, De Jonghe said.
"The word hope is never a good strategy," Cooke summed up. "Every newspaper knows that we have to get across the digital river. We never really knew where the river was. We didn't know how wide it was, how deep it was, and we sure as hell don't know what is on the other side. Now, we are all in the river."
The model used by La Presse and Toronto Star can be easily adopted by news organisations in Australia, De Jonghe said, because "Australians are early adopters".
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Excursion Naples – Vesuvius
Naples is a city with a thousand shades , as exuberant as intimate, with an historical center among the greatest in the world, divided in two by Spaccanapoli, the most famous of three Decumani crossing San Gregorio Armeno, kingdom of shepherds and cribs; as old , with traditions of all kinds still strongly rooted, as it is modern, with its Via Toledo metro-station, called the most beautiful in Europe; and finally, the aristocrat with his Angevin, the Royal Palace, Castel dell'Ovo, the Royal Palace of Capodimonte, just to name a few, how popular, with its network of crowded streets, bustling and noisy.
The Tour in Naples is the opportunity to see , breathe and live the meaning of being Neapolitan . The Sansevero Chapel with sculptural masterpieces of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , including the famous Veiled Christ; Piazza San Domenico Maggiore and Piazza del Gesù, dominated throughout his scenic power the great Church of Gesu Nuovo; the Monastery of Santa Chiara; the National Archaeological Museum most important in Europe; but also views overlooking the sea, markets, stalls, hidden gardens, traditional bakeries. This and much more is Naples. Going towards the sea, from Saint Lucia to Mergellina to Posillipo, you can enjoy a spectacular view of Capri, Ischia and Sorrento Coast with Mount Vesuvius, which crowns Naples.
The Tour to Vesuvius is another experience not to be missed if you are in Naples. To reach the top of the volcano you must drive along a road, through which you can already grasp the history of this place observing some outcroppings of lava and ash pews next to groups of houses and crops of fruit trees, vegetables and flowers, one of a kind thanks to the special fertility of the volcanic soil; As you climb, you are greeted by the broom and the lava and rope characteristics, the domestic pine and oak woods , and even lava flows until it reaches an altitude of 1000 mt. At this point, you leave your car in the spacious breakfast area and continue on foot to the crater, about 200 meters deep, which offers a picturesque view of the Gulf of Naples.
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Let's talk about the Infor M3 open source platform announcement thing.
It is admirable to support open source software, so please join us in congratulating Infor.
It would have been more admirable to support free/libre software. The open source movement and the free/libre software movement are related but distinct; freedom is more important than open source.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercial product. Its source code is open and provided at no cost, but it is not provided in compiled form. To use it, we have to either buy it or go through the difficult compilation and derivative processes.
As a side note, Red Hat has controversy in the community with their non-free/libre licensing and inclusion of binary blobs  and as such is not endorsed by the Free Software Foundation .
Besides understandably not being able to support every combination of platform, are there any technical reasons for M3 to HAVE TO use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server, and not Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, PostgreSQL?
Does it have anything to do with Infor's joint collaboration with Red Hat and EnterpriseDB for Infor LN?
Wasn't there something similar with the Intentia and IBM alliance  , where Movex Workplace HAD TO use the Enterprise Edition of IBM WebSphere Application Server for no apparent technical reason?
Does Infor contribute back to the free/libre software community? Individual Infor developers probably contribute to free/libre software with bug fixes and documentation (congratulations). But I have not seen Infor as a company officially sponsor events, fund projects, contribute code, or provide developers to free/libre software. I do not know that they do or that they do not. If you know, please leave me a comment.
It is admirable that Infor provides M3 based on an open source platform as an option, it illustrates Infor's commitment to the cloud and open platforms. However, the narrative is not clear as the required "open source" platform actually requires commercial products, at cost, that have restrictive licenses, with closed source code, possibly due to a business collaboration. For-profit corporations can choose to be commercial, closed source, and collaborate with partners, to fund product development and to protect intellectual property, but then the narrative should be made clear. Is there a technical reason? Is Infor misappropriating "open source"? Is Infor giving back to the free/libre software community? What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.
I just learned the existence of the M3 MI Data Import for Web Services (MDIWS), which is the equivalent of the traditional M3 Data Import (MDI) but using the M3 API REST/JSON endpoint instead of the traditional proprietary binary endpoint.
Thanks Björn P. for the tool.


I get so excited purely because I never knew I even had such things before - now I know they exist!
As you may know I've been cutting for the summer and it's always so lovely to see results when you put the effort in. I've also also been to the gym and picked up some fruit from the market. So I've got a little recipe for you to try out this weekend that is healthy and delicious! I recommend to have this for breakfast or lunch?
I have this amazing blender from NutriBullet it does the job in around a minute and I wouldn't swap it for any other! Also the weighing scales are great to keep on track as you can change them for all measurements such as grams and ml.
Add milk first (almond milk has been and then two scoops of protein. This time I used MyProtein powder in Cookies and Cream flavour. Would highly recommend this flavour in all protein powders. I'm at that stage where I've taken so many different flavours I was starting to dread that time of the day when I need to have protein, I especially cannot deal with strawberry flavours anymore!
My personal tip would be get the flavour that reminds you of the snacks you usually crave! So for example I'm a lover for chocolate and biscuits... so I got this flavour and it's nice enough to have it as a 'dessert' at the end of your meal, it really does trick your mind into thinking you're eating something tasty. There is an article on 'benefits on protein shakes for weight loss' by DbolMuscleSecret that I recommend to go check out for more details.
Place all in the blender for 30 seconds and done! Add cinnamon or vanilla powders at the end if you like. My favourite at the moment is adding a spoon of peanut butter before blending together - delicious! This takes no more than 10mins to prepare and here comes your healthy breakfast/lunch high in energy and protein!


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The Review/ Feature/
The Teenage Heartbreak of Sofia Coppola's Mary Corleone
Why the auteur's much-hated appearance in Godfather 3 is actually the key to her entire oeuvre
by Mayukh Sen
__From Mary Corleone to Marie Antoinette, TIFF screens all six films of Sofia Coppola in the career retrospective Sofia Coppola: A Name of Her Own, running December 8 to 17 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. __
In December 1989, midway through her freshman year at California's Mills College, Sofia Coppola traveled to Rome for Christmas vacation. Her father, Francis, was deep in the throes of filming the last installment of his elephantine Godfather trilogy. Around that same time, Winona Ryder —the gamine, coal-eyed rising star then best-known for playing Lydia in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) — had flown to the city to film the pivotal role of Mary Corleone, ill-fated daughter of Al Pacino's Michael and lover of her own first cousin Vincent (Andy Garcia), in Coppola's film. Ryder had just finished filming Richard Benjamin's Mermaids (1990), and she found herself nursing a nasty bout of exhaustion brought on by a frenetic filming schedule. Late one night, she summoned a doctor to her hotel room. She dropped out of the film at the doctor's urging.
This threw a wrench into Coppola's already-stagnant filming schedule. He wasn't expecting this, and so he'd already exhausted all other options for the role. In 1989, Ryder's star had not yet peaked — Mermaids would nab her a ton of critical paeans, and two Oscar nominations would follow in later years. But she was on the cusp of feverish Hollywood fame, and a role in this legendary franchise would've cemented that quickly. His first choice, Julia Roberts, dropped out to do Flatliners (1990); Madonna auditioned but was deemed too old for the part; Rebecca Schaeffer was brutally murdered on the day of her audition; Annabella Sciorra and Laura San Giacomo, once on the list, weren't available on such short notice. Frantic for a last-minute replacement, he landed on the closest possible option, someone whose prior acting experience was confined to inessential one-liners: Sofia.
Is there a more universally reviled performance in American cinema than Sofia Coppola's in The Godfather Part III? In real time, it inspired something like anaphylactic shock within American critics – those in press pre-screenings of the film howled with laughter at her death sequence in the penultimate scene. Once critics got to print, they weren't much kinder. Sofia's "gosling gracelessness comes close to wrecking the movie," opined TIME's Richard Corliss."Hopelessly amateurish," Washington Post's Hal Hinsonscribed. So feverish was this chorus of revulsion that it even drowned out two of American criticism's respected voices, Roger Ebert and Pauline Kael, lone defenders of a performance that everyone despised.
Sofia broke Razzie records, too, earning a more sizable fraction of the Worst Supporting Actress vote than any other of her category's nominees in the tawdry history of those awards. Her performance still frequents "worst-ever" acting lists. Today, even anyone who mounts a defense of the film, which has earned the distinction of the trilogy's worst, won't dare defend Sofia's work in it. Her performance in the film remains the film's malignant tumor. Over the course of these three and a half decades, critical consensus has coalesced around her performance: it sucks.
"She was just so innocent in a ridiculous situation," Sofia's aunt, actress Talia Shire, told Entertainment Weekly in 1990. The cover story, dedicated to Sofia Coppola, is a kooky document of its era, expounding upon the grave directorial miscalculation her father had made in casting her. "It was very much what the character Mary was dealing with – the controversial father, Michael Corleone, and her desire to bring her innocence to help him forget his sins. But then, of course, the cost of that is herself."
The symmetry that Shire offers is useful. Sofia, like Mary, was a casualty of her own father's grand and mighty ambitions, and the burden of his failures fell squarely upon her. Sofia spent years as the butt of a cultural punchline, synonymous with nepotism, until she redeemed herself with her directorial output. You can detect a touch of sexism in all this opprobrium, so characteristic of a decade in which pillorying women mercilessly became a national sport. Only now have we started to come to the defense of contentious '90s fatales like Tonya Harding and Monica Lewinsky. Sofia Coppola – the rich, white daughter of an extremely famous man – was an easy target for gendered vitriol that could be couched under a distaste for nepotism.
Consider the context swirling around her. What Sofia Coppola faced resembles what Anjelica Huston dealt with, too, upon the 1969 release of her father's A Walk with Love and Death. Dire circumstances had pulled the younger Huston into a role she was dreadfully ill-prepared for, and it showed in her strained, suffocated diction. Sixteen years later, she won an Oscar for Prizzi's Honor (1985), and it carried redemptive balm. Beyond the sphere of Hollywood nepotism, there's Marisa Tomei, who, for years, had one nasty accusation after another leveled against her following her surprise win for 1993's Best Supporting Actress Oscar. There was a widely-held cultural belief that Tomei not only didn't deserve this award, but had also somehow been actively responsible for engineering her win. To correct this, we thought, she needed to pay penance to us and prove herself – something she accomplished with her subsequent Oscar nominations for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008).
Even with this hindsight, it's difficult to defend Sofia Coppola's performance these days without seeming pointlessly contrarian. I'll bite. In a cinematic universe obsessed with the furies of manhood, Sofia's Mary – propelled by nothing but a basic sincerity of feeling and a longing for human connection – acts as an antidote to these big, blustering lumps of testosterone collapsing under the weight of their own egos. The Godfather Part III is a titanic film that lacks humanist granularity. She anchors it in honesty.
Pan to the scene in which Vincent breaks up with Mary. The two had been courting each other endlessly prior to this, but Vincent, at Michael's behest, realizes that he's endangering Mary's life. He approaches her at a party, where he breaks the news to her – they can't see each other. She doesn't seem to react too much at first. Coppola's camera lingers upon her in medium close-up as Mary struggles to process her reaction to the enormity of what she's hearing, crippled by an inability to convey it.
"You gotta understand, Mary," Vincent shakes his head. "You gotta understand."
Mary gazes at him wordlessly.
"I'll always love you," she whispers, almost inaudibly.
"Love somebody else," he brusquely instructs her before walking away. His actions chisel away at what little resolve she has. Mary erupts in a soft cry.
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There's a fine line between innocence and inexperience, and, for some, Sofia veered into the latter with a performance that lacks any thespianic athleticism, an approach this scene makes evident. But I'd argue that this is the accidental brilliance of Sofia Coppola's Mary: She distills teenage heartbreak and offers it to us in blunt terms. The blisters of first love – how utterly beguiling these feelings are, how trying to express them can feel akin to paralysis – are made flesh.
Perhaps Mary Corleone is a precursor to the broken-hearted teenage girls who would, just a few years later, wander through Sofia Coppola's cinematic worlds – the first of these rueful creations who'd mark her career. In The Virgin Suicides (1999), the spectre of depression bleeds like a contagion through each of teenage Lisbon sisters, trapped in suburbia; in Marie Antoinette (2006), Kirsten Dunst's eponymous character is thrust into a marriage and, by consequence the public eye, at the ripe age of fourteen. In Somewhere (2010), eleven-year-old Elle Fanning is burdened with a wayward, absentee celebrity father. The teenagers of The Bling Ring (2013) are outsiders looking in, wanting so desperately to attend a party they weren't invited to, they channel their stupor into criminal activity.
I'd even consider Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation (2003) to be part of this camp. She isn't a teenager; she's more like one in arrested development, a living testament to how these debilitating pangs of sadness don't always subside with age. It may appear that Johansson's performance isn't much of an actorly stretch. She mutters her lines without inflection, as if Johansson is operating within the orbit of her own persona – after all, it was Murray, not Johansson, who received the Oscar nomination. No matter. This has the effect of conveying a world-weariness and emotional entrapment, a state that Johansson nails. Sofia Coppola's characters tend to speak in lilted, hushed tones with little vocal intonation, so much that it seems like the actresses playing them aren't acting at all.
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On occasion, of course, the weight of the actor's persona is so large that it risks eclipsing this sensibility: think Kathleen Turner as the domineering matriarch in The Virgin Suicides, whose raspy voice recalls her most indelible screen roles – especially another suburban mother, the one she played in 1986 Peggy Sue Got Married (directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which, curiously, Sofia herself played Turner's kid sister). More famously, there's Bill Murray in Lost in Translation (2003), who retains his droll and wry witticisms without seeming out of touch with the film around him.
The characters who inhabit Sofia Coppola's worlds resemble avatars of Mary – one-percenters imprisoned in their own kingdoms of despair. Their ennui is carceral. Some will invariably find this insufferable about her films, especially in 2016. Rich white girls have governed our sympathies for decades, and perhaps those sympathies should be directed elsewhere. Her aesthetic invites accusations of vacuity, too; she populates her frames with artful, Antonioni-esque posturing. But this is a story that Sofia knows, intimately, because she was born into it. Directorially, Sofia Coppola is at her most shrewd when she's examining these vagaries of teenage heartbreak; she directs her actors with the same sensibility with which she attacked Mary Corleone.
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Some may not feel this is enough to justify Sofia Coppola's casting in The Godfather Part III – it can appear as if she jogged onto the set from another film, momentarily transporting the viewer elsewhere. I'll concede, somewhat, on that front. Mary wears the big, bruised heart of teenagedom on her sleeve in a way the characters around her don't. This will strike some people as a jarring deviation, woefully out of step with the milieu surrounding her.
But I'd like to believe that even The Godfather Part III – a three-hour movie pitched to epic proportions – just couldn't contain that intensity of feeling. Perhaps it's true that Sofia Coppola's Mary belonged in another cinematic universe entirely: one like her own.
Mayukh Sen
Sofia Coppola's Certain (and Uncertain) Women


A subvertisement workshop is an enjoyable way to introduce commodity geographies and culture jamming. For the 'Closing the Gap' project, schools have asked us to run workshops for 15-17-year-old students in media, history and environmental classes. Students in my civilian service (all young men go to military or civilian service), teacher education and media classes found subvertisements interesting and adaptable. I have worked with diverse classes, who have made diverse suggestions and have given some inspired feedback – brilliant!
A 'Closing the Gap' workshop is typically 75-90 minutes and has 6 parts.
First, I say that I will talk for half an hour and then we will get our hands dirty. The introduction is about Eetti, my project and 'follow the thing' research. If I want to encourage students to ask questions, this video of Banksy's Simpsons couch gag is punchy. I ask them to write one or two questions or comments in Post-It notes. Questions like "Is this true?" "Are the companies or the governments responsible?" and "Could we do something?" are easy to group and go through in themes on the wall. Collecting written questions (with a smile and a thank you!) and hearing some of my answers makes asking questions easier.
Second, I tell the students about the production, environmental impacts and working conditions in electronics or garment factories. 'Made in' labels and links to news stories on China's Foxconn factories and Bangladesh's collapsed Rana Plaza factory are effective, here. However, the topic is quite depressing! So, first, I get smiles by showing a photo of Eetti's Christmas tree. Covered with electronic junk and information on recycling, the tree disturbed consumerism in urban space last year. And luckily there are researchers, organizations, politicians and activists fighting injustice!
As the fourth part, I give advice about being active by talking about researching products' origins, emailing companies, participating in political campaigns, buying ethical and recycling, for example. And, of course, by sharing examples of culture jamming!
If there is time, the fifth part involves a gallery of printed subvertisements (like the ones in this blog post). Here students choose an interesting subvert and discuss it. Is the message effective and the artistic style good? Which societal issue is it about? Everyone can comment on if the subverts are cool. The depth of analysis depends on the age!
In the sixth part, I hand out loads of adverts from women's magazines. Sometimes students also bring their own. For the last 30 minutes, I asks them to make subverts in small groups. Photos, texts and logos get modified by writing, drawing, cutting and glueing. Some sketch out ideas for a subvert on the internet (mobile phones are allowed!) or draw them on blank sheets of paper. If I circulate and comment on good ideas, this seems to help. To finish, the groups present their work and we photograph it to add to our subvertisement flickr set and to show on our project blog.
Humour, criticism and creative skills – we love it! Subvertisements such as these have generated both laughter and serious questions about trade (in)justice and our powers as citizens and consumers.


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Those Infected With Coronavirus May Not Have Symptoms and Be Otherwise Healthy
A man wears a mask on the subway in Wuhan, China. (Getty Images)
Two papers published Friday in the journal the Lancet offer some of the first rigorous analyses of patients who contracted a novel coronavirus that has broken out in China and spread to other countries. Among their discoveries: The virus does not only affect people with other, underlying health conditions, and people who are not showing symptoms can still be carrying the virus.
In one study, researchers analyzed data from the first 41 patients who were admitted to hospitals with confirmed cases of the infection in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the outbreak is believed to have originated last month. Two-thirds had been to a large seafood market that also sold wild animals for meat and is thought to be where the virus jumped from an animal source to people. The median age of the patients was 49.
The patients displayed a wide range of symptoms, many of which were similar to those caused by SARS, another coronavirus, which caused a global outbreak in 2002-2003 that started in China. All of them had pneumonia, and most had fever and cough. Some people had fatigue; rarer symptoms included headache and diarrhea. The researchers noted that patients with SARS more frequently had runny noses, sore throats, and diarrhea than those with the novel coronavirus, which is provisionally being called 2019-nCoV.
One key finding: It's not only people with other health conditions that are getting sick, the researchers reported. Some of the fatal cases caused by the virus have been among people with underlying diseases like diabetes, liver disease, and hypertension, but the majority of the first 41 patients infected with the disease in Wuhan were healthy. The researchers noted that SARS infections similarly did not only affect people with other conditions.
About a third of the 41 patients needed intensive care, and six of them died. Some of the patients with more serious illnesses suffered from a dangerous immune system overreaction called a cytokine storm, but the researchers said they still did not have a good understanding of how the virus affects the immune system.
As of Friday, there were more than 830 cases of the coronavirus infection in China, with 25 deaths, and a handful of cases in places — including Thailand, Japan, South Korea, and the United States — that were in people who traveled to those countries from China.
The second paper focused on one family who came down with pneumonia in Shenzhen. Five family members had recently traveled to Wuhan and had the virus, as did one relative who had not traveled to Wuhan.
So far, authorities have only confirmed human-to-human transmission of the virus among families and in health care clinics — settings where people are likely to be in close contact with each other, according to the World Health Organization. This appears to be the case with the family that was studied. Still, health officials do not know exactly how efficiently the virus can pass among people.
One child with the virus did not show any symptoms. Health authorities have said that people with the virus have shown a range of symptoms, from very mild to very severe. But an asymptomatic infection raises the question of whether people have to be showing signs of the disease to pass it to people, a question that experts are rushing to answer.
"Because asymptomatic infection appears possible, controlling the epidemic will also rely on isolating patients, tracing and quarantining contacts as early as possible, educating the public on both food and personal hygiene, and ensuring health care workers comply with infection control," Dr. Kwok-Yung Yuen from the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, who led the research, said in a statement.
In a commentary piece also published Friday by the Lancet, Dr. David Heymann, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, wrote that "the picture these two manuscripts paint is of a disease with a 3-6 day incubation period and insidious onset."
The researchers who wrote the two papers and other experts cautioned that these were small studies with limited numbers of patients in a rapidly evolving outbreak. But they noted that sharing information like this as quickly and rigorously as possible can help shape the response.
"The information in these articles are pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that are being fit together by WHO as it continues to collect official reports and informal information from its virtual groups of national clinicians, epidemiologists, and virologists working at outbreak sites and brought together from around the world," Heymann wrote. "When pieced together, these emerging data will permit regular refinement of the risk assessment, and real-time guidance to countries for patient management and outbreak control, including the best case definition for use in surveillance around outbreak sites and elsewhere."


Among the kimono patters, there is the so-called "shikunshi", which represents happiness and auspiciousness. This pattern consists of four types of greenery: orchids, bamboo, chrysanthemum, and plums.
They were especially treasured in China, where it was said that their refined beauty was akin to that of a wise man with wonderful personality (kunshi) and so the combination came to be known as shikunshi, which means "four wise men". What's more, orchids represent spring, bamboo represents summer, chrysanthemum – fall, and plums are the symbol of winter.
This pattern isn't used only in the world of kimonos – there are often drawn together as a set, and the combination is often used as a fundamental topic for practice in ink painting.
Plums, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemum often appear in kimono patterns independently, and the general rule is that you should wear them during the season the given pattern represents. However, when all of them are included in a pattern, they can be worn all year long.
There are also other patterns that combine motives from different seasons, like chrysanthemum and cherry blossoms, or butterflies and red leaves, to make it possible to wear them all year long.


PFC HARRY W. LORD, JR.
Grave marker application and resulting marker for Pfc Harry W. Lord, Jr. at Lot 14 1/2, Tree Section, Grave 4 in the Fluvanna Cemetery, Ellicott (Chautauqua), New York.
Note that the application shows that Pfc Lord was killed in action on 23 February 1945. Morning Report entries however, paint a highly confused picture.
On 23 February 1945 he was listed as having been sent to a hospital due to illness on 21 Feb 45 and it was classed as a non-battle related condition.
The March 1st report, however, corrects that entry to read as "seriously injured in action 21 Feb 45 (Battle Casualty)" and he was then classed as having "died of injuries on 23 Feb 45 (Battle Casualty)."
Then on 16 March, the entries of "seriously injured in action and "died of injuries are withdrawn and replaced by the original status of "sick in hospital, 21 Feb 45; and " deceased 23 Feb 45 (non battle)"
Obviously the reports reaching the company from whatever field hospital Pfc Lord was in were continually changing. The one inescapable fact was that he was deceased.


The holidays are almost upon us and there is no better time than now to start offering incentives to boost your website sales. Holiday shoppers are always looking for great deals so you should take advantage of this time to build customer loyalty and increase sales.
If you have an ecommerce website, you are no doubt thinking of the upcoming Holiday Shopping Season. So if you are wondering how to reach the most shoppers during the biggest sales time of the year, you should be getting your product data feeds ready for Comparison Shopping Engines. Shopping engines, such as Google Products, Bing Shopping, Shopzilla, NexTag, and PriceGrabber, offer many tools not offered by regular search engines. Some are free, and most have their own specific requirements for data feed submissions. Conforming and optimizing these feeds can be complicated and time consuming but the benefit is substantial.


One of the pieces from our Andy Lifschutz GARBO collection.
"Inspired by the screen legend Greta Garbo, 'The Face' empowered a generation to be liberated. The mystery in which this classic beauty is shrouded only makes her the more fascinating. Imagining what 'The Empress' of early film would wear to enhance her grace and allure were she in her prime today, resulted in the elegance that is Garbo."
Each piece from this collection incorporates sharp edges, grand curves, expert craftsmanship and attention to detail, complemented by Andy's signature loose, organic feel and his unusually silky soft metal work. Andy's work is easily one of the pieces in your collection you'll never take off. A perfect everyday ring. Hand forged sterling silver. Handmade in Rome.
Materials: Reclaimed .925 Sterling silver.
Sizing Information: Ring size is 6.


Nissan's Leaf electric vehicle (EV) was the fastest-selling used car on Auto Trader during March, according to the online marketing platform's latest market data.
The 2014 version of the plug-in Leaf hatchback was one of a record number of low-emission cars featured on the regional top ten list last month and took just 17 days to sell, on average.
Auto Trader said that the Leaf's table-topping results came at a time when 71% of UK car buyers are considering an electric vehicle (EV) for their next car.
March's record number of alternatively fuelled vehicles (AFVs) in the Auto Trader rankings saw the 2016 and 2015 variants of the electric-hybrid Mitsubishi Outlander, both automatics, were second and fourth fastest to sell in London, taking a respective 10 and 14 days to leave forecourts.
The 2018 Toyota C-HR electric hybrid, also an automatic, was tenth place in the South East, meanwhile, taking an average of 24 days to turn.
Karolina Edwards-Smajda, Auto Trader's director of commercial products, said: "An all-electric vehicle making it to the very top of the UK's fastest-selling is really quite significant, and reflects the trends we're seeing elsewhere.
"Not only are there record rates of adoption of AFVs in both the new and used car market, but research for our latest Market Report showed that nearly three quarters of car buyers are considering an EV for their next purchase.
Across the regions and countries tracked by Auto Trader's fastest-sellers data, petrol dominated as desire for diesels continued to tumble in popularity.
In total, 77% of the top regional spots were taken by petrol powertrains including in the East Midlands (2014 Ford Focus – petrol manual – 17 days), London (2016 Nissan Qashqai – petrol automatic – 9 days), North East (2016 Volkswagen Polo – petrol manual – 16 days), North West (2013 Volkswagen Polo – petrol manual – 18 days), Scotland (2017 Volkswagen Polo – petrol manual – 13 days), South (2012 Ford Fiesta – petrol manual – 17 days), South West (2016 Toyota AYGO – petrol manual – 26 days), Wales (2016 Vauxhall Corsa – petrol manual – 32 days), West Midlands (2016 Nissan Qashqai – petrol manual – 23 days) and Yorkshire (2013 Ford Focus – petrol manual – 20 days).
Edwards-Smajda said: "Diesel remains an excellent choice for many drivers, however it looks as though the writing is on the wall for the much-maligned fuel type.


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