He has little interest in politics Ofertas Mujer Nike M2K Tekno Rosa Negras , but Xu Ruilin spends every free moment practising how to speak, write, walk and think like Mao Zedong.


The 58-year-old has an eerie resemblance to the founding father of the People’s Republic of China, and is one of scores of lookalike Chinese actors in ever increasing demand as production of historical television shows and films goes into overdrive.


Known as “special type actors,” each one portrays a particular departed leader in voice, looks and style.


As well as Mao, their alter egos include late leaders Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and a host of others.


“Actors and directors told me for years I should play Chairman Mao, but mostly I ignored them,” said Xu, who spent most of his career in the theater.


“But these days there are so many opportunities,” he said.


Even out of character, Xu has Mao’s hair and features. At work, he completes the transformation with a signature artificial chin mole, a grey Mao suit — the trousers hiked far above the navel — and by chain-smoking cigarettes.


He is constantly working on his Hunan dialect, the provincial inflected Chinese of Mao’s hometown, and the leader’s particular style of calligraphy, still used for the masthead of the ruling party’s newspaper, the People’s Daily.


Even Mao Xinyu, Chairman Mao’s grandson and a major general in the People’s Liberation Army, has given him his blessing, saying he is “very satisfied” with the performance, Xu said.


The more fortunate actors get starring screen roles, but most mimics are relegated, like their hip-gyrating Elvis brethren, to playing to smaller audiences, renting themselves out for corporate events, weddings and birthdays.


“Company tours always start with a rousing speech and then I’m treated like a visiting dignitary, like the real Mao, during a tour,” said Xu, days after an appearance at a battery factory.


The “special actor” concept was largely an import from the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1970s in the wake of Mao’s death and initially limited to one or two actors constantly reprising their roles.


It has expanded in tandem with the media landscape and been a boon for Guo Weihua, who could be a twin of Zhou Enlai, but drives a Mercedes and sips lattes at Starbucks.


“I used to play other parts, but now there are too many projects with Zhou Enlai,” said Guo, 52.


“He has already in my bone marrow ... in front of a camera, I am Zhou Enlai,” he said.


After appearing as Zhou in more than 70 TV shows and films, Guo would like to diversify but is thoroughly typecast.


“For Chinese people of a certain age, we have a saying: Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, these two great men, were sent by God,” Guo said.


Construction of a high-speed rail link between Winter Olympics bid cities Beijing and Zhangjiakou is being accelerated, with work expected to begin by June, the municipal railway authority said.


"This high-speed rail line is urgently needed for the joint bid for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games," said Zhu Huigang, deputy head of the Beijing Railway Bureau. "Time is pressing.


"The local governments of Beijing and Hebei province and the central government will make great efforts to push forward this project, and this will include the provision of financing support."


The 174-kilometer line from the capital to Zhangjiakou and Chongli, where the snow events will be held if the bid succeeds, will cut the travel time between the two cities to less than an hour.


There will be nine stations on the route, and construction is due to be completed within four-and-a-half years.


Work on the railway was originally scheduled to start in August 2009, but the project was postponed because of changes to the overall plan for the high-speed rail network. Approval for the line was finally granted by the China Railway Corp in December.


Cao Kaifeng, deputy director of Yanqing's traffic administration, said work on the most difficult part of the route, the section around Badaling, will start first.


A feasibility study of the section was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in November. The 15.4-kilometer section will pass through two mountain tunnels, with trains traveling at up to 250 kmh.


Zhang Chunsheng, director of Zhangjiakou's Olympic bid office, said the high-speed line will help the bid as well as benefiting residents. A station will be built a few minutes' walk from the proposed site of the Olympic Village at Chongli, he added.




SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at theUniversity of Washington (UW) are developing the first smartphoneapplication, or app, that is capable of detecting concussion andother traumatic brain injuries in the field.


The app, known as PupilScreen, can detect changes in a pupil'sresponse to light using a smartphone's video camera and deeplearning tools - a type of artificial intelligence - that canquantify changes imperceptible to the human eye.


As described in a paper presented this week at Ubicomp 2017,PupilScreen can assess a patient's pupillary light reflex almost aswell as a pupilometer, an expensive and rarely used machine foundonly in hospitals.


It uses the smartphone's flash to stimulate the patient's eyesand the video camera to record a three-second video.


The video is processed using algorithms that can determine whichpixels belong to the pupil in each video frame and measure thechanges in pupil size across those frames.


In a small pilot study that combined 48 results from patientswith traumatic brain injury and from healthy people, clinicianswere able to diagnose the brain injuries with almost perfectaccuracy using the app's output alone.


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