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GM cotton acreage in India grew at a rapid rate, increasing from 50,000 hectares in 2002 to 10.6 million hectares in 2011. The total cotton area in India was 12.1 million hectares in 2011, so GM cotton was grown on 88% of the cotton area. This made India the country with the largest area of GM cotton in the world. A long-term study on the economic impacts of Bt cotton in India, published in the Journal PNAS in 2012, showed that Bt cotton has increased yields, profits, and living standards of smallholder farmers. The U.S. GM cotton crop was 4.0 million hectares in 2011 the second largest area in the world, the Chinese GM cotton crop was third largest by area with 3.9 million hectares and Pakistan had the fourth largest GM cotton crop area of 2.6 million hectares in 2011. The initial introduction of GM cotton proved to be a success in Australia – the yields were equivalent to the non-transgenic varieties and the crop used much less pesticide to produce (85% reduction). The subsequent introduction of a second variety of GM cotton led to increases in GM cotton production until 95% of the Australian cotton crop was GM in 2009 making Australia the country with the fifth largest GM cotton crop in the world. Other GM cotton growing countries in 2011 were Argentina, Myanmar, Burkina Faso, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, South Africa and Costa Rica.

Take a scrap piece of leather and apply several dots of glue to it, then let them dry. Once they are dry, try each of the following solvents to see which ones remove the glue with a minimum of discoloration to the leather. Then stain the leather to see how the solvent treated leather accepts color. clean water, water with dish-soap, rubbing alcohol, acetone (nail polish remover) dilute ammonia dilute bleach Never mix the solvents with each other. Apply each solvent to a separate dot of dried glue using a q-tip or folded paper towel.

Weed should not be illegal. It would be better for the economy if it was legal not just for users.

Amid all the other controversies surrounding Facebook – its censorship of conservative views, privacy violations and sale of user data – now there’s another. Age discrimination. The left-leaning ProPublica reported plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit that was filed in December now have expanded it to allege Facebook is excluding older job seekers from online employment ads. “The Communications Workers of America and three older workers are suing on behalf of union members and others, who they claim missed employment opportunities because they never saw job postings after employers used Facebook-provided targeting tools and algorithms to direct ads to younger potential applicants,” the report explains. The original complaint resulted in Facebook limiting advertisers’ “ability to exclude users in some demographic groups.” But age restrictions still were allowed, the report said. In an amended complaint filed Tuesday with the federal district court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, Communications Workers of America and the law firm alleged Facebook “lets employers craft ads for ‘lookalike audiences’ that are demographically narrow or similar to people already working for the employers placing the ads, a move that the plaintiffs say marginalizes older workers,” the report said. Further, the new complaint charges Facebook algorithms aggravate the age-related targeting. And now 15 companies are identified, including the University of Maryland Medical System. “The promise of online job sites was that the kinds of discrimination we saw in traditional hiring wouldn’t happen. But what we’re seeing is that those practices are just as prevalent,” claimed Ifeoma Ajunwa, a Cornell University sociologist and lawyer, in the report. “In fact, you could argue they’re worse because with online systems there is no wiggle room, no accidental meetings of employers and applicants,” Ajunwa said. The report said the defendants are the companies, not Facebook itself. But Facebook issued a statement when the concerns first arose that said, “Used responsibly, age-based targeting for employment purposes is an accepted industry practice and for good reason: it helps employers recruit and people of all ages find work.” WND’s founder, Joseph Farah, has written extensively about Facebook’s biases. He pointed out that, when asked specifically what company she would most like to run, Hillary Clinton said Facebook. “Facebook – I just wanna add, it’s the biggest news platform in the world. Most people in our country get their news – true or not – from Facebook. Now Facebook is trying to take on some of the unexpected consequences of their business model, and I hope they get it right because it really is critical to our democracy that people get accurate information on which to make decisions,” she stated. Wrote the WND chief executive: “Still the gatekeeper, Clinton recognized an opportunity to control the flow of information when she saw one. She would still like to have the power to determine which news is true and which is not. Don’t be surprised if she gets her wish, because Facebook – along with Google, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon – represent a new ‘Censorship Cartel’ seemingly determined to limit, restrict, define, regulate, inhibit, reduce and restrain the free flow of political speech despite its constitutional protection in the First Amendment. “If Hillary Clinton ever got the job of truth gatekeeper at Facebook, it would only be a matter of making things official. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, chairman and current chief executive officer, is doing a fine job constraining political speech on perhaps the world’s biggest and most important forum for the exchange of ideas. And when you combine the reach and power of Facebook with the like-minded corporate cultures of Google, Twitter and Amazon, you have an unofficial ‘Censorship Cartel’ that is threatening to render the First Amendment effectively null and void.” WND also reported recently on a charge by British politician Nigel Farage that Facebook is doctoring the news. “Without it, Brexit almost certainly would not have happened and Donald Trump would not be U.S. president,” he wrote, noting he “reminded Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of this,” he said. “It’s fair to say that this high priest of the liberal elite did not look best pleased at my dwelling on the key role his company has played in helping to create what he would regard as these totally unacceptable democratic outcomes,” Farage said. He said Zuckerberg’s “personal political views, and no doubt those of his close colleagues in Silicon Valley, may help to explain why in January this year Facebook announced its algorithms were going to change.” Farage noted the tech giant said it was going to “de-prioritise” news publishers and their posts in Facebook users’ news feeds. “In other words, it was going to doctor the kind of news to which Facebook’s 1 billion users were exposed,” he said. “And this is exactly what it has done.”

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I've bought many case fans for computers, none have been as silent and as well built as Noctua. They are expensive yes, but they are worth it, they last and they work well. If you're thinking of buying something like a Corsair or similar for $15, spring the extra and get this, it beats them handily. With most brands you pay something for looks, you can tell that isn't the case with Noctua, their colors and designs are utilitarian and purposeful, they were designed clearly by people who care about delivering a precision product that was designed to be the best.

Define o delegate do UITextField pra um objeto teu e implementa o método textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange. Exemplo: class ViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate { let maxCharCount = 3 @IBOutlet weak var textField: UITextField! override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() self.textField.delegate = self } func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool { return textField.text!.characters.count + string.characters.count <= self.maxCharCount } } Esse código não trata o caso do usuário colar um texto no textfield que passa do número máximo (do jeito que está, ele não vai deixar), mas já dá pra ter uma ideia de como fazer.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad kicked off a combative reelection campaign yesterday by firing fresh verbal salvos at the West, Israel and reformists in his own country.

Anyone in the vicinity of Milton Keynes venue MK11 last night could be forgiven for thinking there had been an earthquake. WATCH VIDEO ABOVE: MK11 ERUPTS AFTER ENGLAND’S GOAL AND WINNING PENALTY Celebrations in MK after England's win over Columbia captured on camera Thousands of people gathered together in Milton Keynes on Tuesday night to watch England take on Columbia in the last 16 of the Russia World Cup. Venues across MK were showing the big knockout game which put fans on an emotional rollercoaster. England took the lead through a Harry Kane penalty but were pegged back in injury time at the end of the game when Yerry Mina scored a towering header from a corner. Nerves were jangling and nails chewed across the country as an estimated 24 million tuned in. And hundreds were gathered at the MK11 Live Music Venue in Kiln Farm as the Three Lions finally banished the country’s penalty shootout demons with a 4-3 victory over their South American rivals. Jordan Pickford saved and Eric Dier just about struck the winning penalty as MK11 erupted and they caught it all on camera as the feel-good factor continues for another few days at least. Victory means England now face Sweden in the quarter-finals on Saturday. READ MORE: REVEALED IN PICTURES: The 15 most expensive houses in Milton Keynes REVEALED IN PICTURES: The 12 cheapest houses in Milton Keynes REVEALED: The 20 worst anti-social behaviour hotspots in Milton Keynes IN PICTURES: 47 pubs in Milton Keynes you went to over the years that aren’t there anymore REVEALED: The best and worst GP surgeries in Milton Keynes for 2018 as rated by you REVEALED: The best primary schools rated OUTSTANDING by Ofsted across Milton Keynes REVEALED: The Milton Keynes primary schools that REQUIRE IMPROVEMENT according to Ofsted

Holds Iphone and I am sure others solidly. My main thing is vibration of the road shaking the holder. I have had several this holder holds without shake. One issue is in thea heat the device falls off the window. I live in desert area so it gets hot. Dropped off twice, luckily, without my phone attached. In cooler enviroment it will likely hold to the window without falling off. Several reviews I have read about these phone holders had the save problem

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It also depends on what you mean by learn React. To me, someone who has learnt React is a person capable of building and deploying a production-ready React application in a reasonable timeframe. The short answer is it will take you between 1-12 months of learning to become proficient with React.

Arago: Folk Heroes Issue The Postal Service issued four 32-cent Folk Heroes commemorative stamps on July 11, 1996, at the Postage Stamp Mega Event in Anaheim, California. ... the stamps feature images of John Henry, Paul Bunyan, Mighty Casey, and Pecos Bill, ... Paul Bunyan, a giant lumberjack, was abandoned as a toddler by his parents...

MS Publisher, or Microsoft Publisher, is desktop publishing software authored by Microsoft that is part of the Microsoft Office package or suite. MS Publisher is an entry-level program that allows users to place emphasis on layout, pictures and effects. Continue Reading.

Yahoo pool is great if you can handle all of the smart alecs on there. Thankfully they do have an ignore button. \n Have fun!

United Internet is stepping up its co-investments with the German Internet entrepreneurs who founded ringtone company Jamba to give it a better chance of investing earlier in start-up talent.

I do, since last week when I returned from being kidnapped by one.

But the objects are just some of the Mary Rose artefacts which have gone on display at Swansea University. Researchers have been examining the artefacts from Henry VIII's warship, which was raised in 1982, to discover more about the ship's crew. Their work has revealed that many of those who perished when the boat sank in 1545 were "superb athletes". Sport physiologist Dr Nick Owen said the skeletons and objects raised with the Mary Rose have given them a "wealth of information". "The abnormalities in some of the crew's radius bones shows that they'd have been supreme athletes," Dr Owen said. "Today an Olympic bow has 48 lbs of tension, but to fire a Mary Rose bolt (arrow) would have taken well over 100 lbs." Dr Owen believes that as well as providing a glimpse into the past, his team's discoveries can offer an insight into the injuries of modern athletes. "You can see similar abnormalities in elite tennis and squash players," he said. "Top sportsmen are singled out for elite training from such a young age. "The cream of archers on the Mary Rose would have been in training since they were seven years old." Dr Owen's team, including scientists from the University of Bradford, have already succeeded in creating an online 3D image of some of the sailors, which can be remotely studied by scientists. The next challenge is to see what lies inside the bones. "Once we can conduct Micro CT scans, we'll be able to see what changes being one of Henry VIII's elite archers caused internally," Dr Owen explained. "These very fine scans will help us discover how their lifestyle and diet affected their bone structure from the inside." The Mary Rose artefacts are on display to mark the university's research and innovation awards evening.

Well, water is mostly regarded as incompressible, which means density doesn't change. Water is a little compressible in reality. Pressure does increase the deeper you go, but the water down there should have more or less the same density. EDIT: Source: I'm a master's student in engineering specializing in fluid mechanics

You can take CELTA full time (typically four to five weeks), or part time (from a few months to over a year). Your chosen course: * teaches you the principles of effective teaching * provides a range of practical skills for teaching English to adult learners * gives you hands-on teaching practice.

Direct vs. Indirect Skips. The taxation of a GST depends on whether the transfer is a direct or an indirect skip. A direct skip is a property transfer made to a skip person that is subject to an estate or gift tax. An example of a direct skip would be a grandmother gifting property to a grandchild.The transferor, or his or her estate, is responsible for paying the GST tax for direct skips.any people use a grandchild as a skip person, but a skip person does not have to be a family member. Any individual other than a spouse or ex-spouse is eligible to receive a generation skipping transfer as long as they are at least 37.5 years younger than the transferor.

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK - Thousands of U.S. gadget fans made an orderly pilgrimage to stores on Friday to be among the first buyers of Apple's iPhone, a music- and video-playing device expected to reshape the mobile industry.

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New York (CNN) -- Enjoy hypocrisy? This past weekend you could glut the appetite. On Monday, Israeli ships stopped a flotilla carrying materials that could be used for war, including cement that Israel maintained could be used to build bunkers, to Hamas-ruled Gaza. The crew of one boat resisted violently, triggering a firefight in which nine people were killed, most of them Turkish nationals. Turkey is protesting vigorously. But, question: Turkey is a NATO ally, an applicant to the European Union. What is it doing allowing its nationals to smuggle cement that could build bunkers? Especially when those nationals belong to a group, the Turkish IHH (Insani Yardim Vakfi) that Israel has designated a terrorist organization? The flotilla departed from Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus. Turkey's occupation of half of Cyprus is deemed illegal by the European Union and the United Nations. If the government of Turkey feels so strongly about ending disputed occupations, why does it not start with the disputed occupation it is operating itself? The flotilla followed a breathtaking Friday at the United Nations. The 189 signatories of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty agreed on a final list of resolutions for a safer world. The nuclear threat from Iran? Unmentioned. Instead, the NPT resolution targeted -- what a surprise -- Israel. Shamefully, the Friday resolution was joined by the United States. Yes, the Obama administration issued a statement at the same time that "deplores the decision to single out Israel" and also "the failure of the resolution to mention Iran." The administration deplored -- but it signed. The Obama administration's signature marks an abrupt departure from previous U.S. policy. Since the 1960s, the United States has accepted Israel's nuclear arsenal on condition that Israel not threaten its neighbors. Israel has more than met that condition. In 1973, Egypt outright invaded Israel, in full confidence that Israel would not go nuclear so long as Egypt stopped short of attacking Israel's cities. It's important to understand that Israel (like India and Pakistan) has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. So Israel's nuclear force violates no commitments or pledges: unlike, say, the nuclear programs of Syria, Libya, Iraq and Iran, to name just four of the Middle Eastern countries that have been caught violating the NPT. Iran by contrast is violating the NPT. Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. And Iranian leaders have threatened to use the nuclear weapons they are seeking to annihilate Israel. On Monday, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran has accumulated enough nuclear material for two bombs, when fully enriched. And the latest round of U.N. sanctions will do nothing to stop that bomb, because they omit the most crucial measures: . • A ban on exports of gasoline to Iran (Iran now imports half its gasoline) • Measures to sever Iran's central bank from the global payments system . The measures adopted by the Security Council last week are not only toothless, but they even contain a loophole legalizing the sale of Russian air defenses to Iran, the better to protect nuclear facilities from action by the United States or Israel. OK, so maybe it is not news that the U.N. system is hypocritical and useless. What is news is this: The Obama administration has broken with 40 years of precedent and has affixed its signature to a document suggesting that it is Israel's weapons -- not Iran's -- that ought to be priority No. 1 in the Middle East. And now, post-flotilla, the Obama administration stands in danger of being drawn into the attempt to open Hamas-ruled Gaza to military-capable imports, and to force Israel to engage in some kind of negotiation with Hamas. Former Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, who is close to Obama administration thinking, outlined in the New York Times Monday the contours of just such a deal: . "The administration needs to work on a package deal in which Hamas commits to preventing attacks from, and all smuggling into, Gaza. In return, Israel would drop the blockade and allow trade in and out." It's a pretty thought. Pro-Hamas groups did not go to the trouble of organizing a flotilla of supplies that could be used for war in order to end smuggling of war material into Gaza. Nor are pro-Hamas groups seeking to ship the material into Gaza in order to thwart future attacks on Israel. Rebuilding Hamas' bunkers is not a step toward peace. But as with the Obama administration's joining the anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations on Friday, followed by after-the-fact explanations that Israel had nothing to fear, so the Obama administration is now being drawn into another anti-Israel action, again cushioned by assurances that, "This is for your own good." Monday morning, ABC'S Jake Tapper reported an unnamed administration official promising "no daylight" between the United States and Israel. But the same administration official who promised "no daylight" also told Tapper: "The president has always said that it will be much easier for Israel to make peace if it feels secure." Meaning: first we soothe you, then we squeeze you? The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum.

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This can be a life saver for your puppies. If you have puppies that need extra milk that the mother dog cannnot give or has too many puppies<br />to feed them all. Give this milk using a medicine dropper to puppies once every two hours or sooner if needed. This milk is most like the mother's<br />milk. The puppies will live when given this milk. The puppy milk sold at pet stores are inferior.

The statute developed by the Court of Appeals differs significantly from the Congressional act.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that carbohydrates make up 45 to 65 percent of your total daily calories. So, if you get 2,000 calories a day, between 900 and 1,300 calories should be from carbohydrates.That translates to between 225 and 325 grams of carbohydrates a day.You can find the carbohydrate content of packaged foods on the Nutrition Facts label.o, if you get 2,000 calories a day, between 900 and 1,300 calories should be from carbohydrates. That translates to between 225 and 325 grams of carbohydrates a day. You can find the carbohydrate content of packaged foods on the Nutrition Facts label.

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Paris police fired tear gas at demonstrators who gathered in defiance of a coronavirus ban and set fires and threw projectiles as they protested police brutality.

Tottenham offered their support for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal at White Hart Lane before they faced Newcastle United on Sunday. The fans bought poppies and placed them on the Poppy wall outside the stadium and showed their respects. Harry Kane visited the impressive display, before he returned to Premier League action against Newcastle, and put a Poppy on the wall. A brilliant poppy display at White Hart Lane remembering Britain's fallen heroes . The poppy wall at the stadium was created in support of the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal . A supporter pins a poppy to a Tottenham Hotspur board outside White Hart Lane . The Tottenham supporters put time aside to show their respects before they played Newcastle United . The Poppy Appeal is important both to serving soldiers and those no longer serving, particularly injured soldiers and their families. They need to raise £40 million during the Poppy Appeal 2014 to continue to fund welfare work for Armed Forces families. All money raised through the Poppy Appeal goes directly to their welfare work.

See also: States of India by Bengali speakers. Bengali is national and official language of Bangladesh, and one of the 23 official languages in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and in Barak Valley of Assam. It is also a major language in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The word soccer is actually a British term that comes from Association Football, US historians have found. They were investigating the history of the word, and the cultural difference behind it. In fact, the use of the term goes back 200 years, they said. The word 'soccer' comes from the use of the term 'association football' in Britain and goes back 200 years, they said. According to the Oxford English dictionary the first recorded use of the word 'football' in English was in 1486. The contemporary history of the world's favourite game spans more than 100 years. It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and association football branched off on their different courses and the Football Association in England was formed - becoming the sport's first governing body. Both codes stemmed from a common root and both have a long and intricately branched ancestral tree. 'Americans have long referred to Association football as 'soccer', to the point where many people believe it is fact a word invented in America,' wrote University of Michigan professor Stefan Szymanski. 'Many seek to associate American use of the word with alleged American imperialism and cultural hegemony.' The researchers found the word soccer in fact originated in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, and was commonly used there. 'It appears that as the popularity of soccer has grown in the US, the word has been used less and less. The paper analysed usage of the two words from 1900, and found British people only stopped using about 30 years ago. Americans invented their own variant of the game that they simply called 'football' in the early 1900s. When England won the World Cup in 1966 the use of the term soccer was just beginning to decline in the UK . 'Association football' became 'soccer' in America, and what was called 'gridiron' in Britain became simply 'football' in America. 'Since 1980 the usage of the word 'soccer' has declined in British publications, and where it is used, it usually refers to an American context,' the researchers say. 'This decline seems to be a reaction against the increased usage in the US which seems to be associated with the highpoint of the NASL around 1980.' However, the researchers admit the problem of two names may need to be addressed. 'With soccer growing in popularity in the US and the rest of the world stridently insisting the word soccer is not football, it would appear that some kind of resolution will eventually be required.'

What Gets Sent Madara Uchiha posted a comment asking about what information was being tracked. This answer should help clarify what's going on. The Client When the script sends a message to the server, it is one of four types: active - sent whenever the tab loses or gains focus. Other users will see your image fade when focus is lost. typing - sent whenever you type something in the text box at the bottom of the chat window. Other users will see a flashing dot next to your name. Only the current time is sent to the server - never the contents of the text box. position - sent whenever you "read" a new message. If the tab has focus, this will be sent immediately as each message appears onscreen. If not, the script waits until the tab has focus again to indicate where you've read. ping - empty message sent to keep the socket connection alive. The first two types of messages (active and typing) can be disabled if you don't want others to find out if the tab has focus or when you're typing. The Server Once the server receives a message, it is immediately broadcast to all other clients in that room. This allows the script running in their browsers to display your position and status. In addition to the first three types of messages described above, the server can send one additional type of message to clients: quit sent when a user's connection is closed. The image of the user who left will fade and disappear.

Let me refraise that. "Young people who didnt live through these horrendous times, curious about what happened to those whome experienced it. As our schools fail to teach us about it" there. Fixed that for you.

Until now, DNA left at the scene of a crime only proves useful if it is already stored in a database and can be matched to a suspect. But a team of forensic experts have devised a way to recreate the face of a person, including eye and skin colour, using as little as 50 picograms (0.05 nanograms) of extracted DNA. Called DNA phenotyping, the tests also determine the person's ancestry, if they have freckles and can be used to match with distant relatives. DNA phenotyping is the prediction of physical appearance from DNA and is a technique being pioneered by Virginia-based Parabon Nanolabs (example pictured). The technology can be used to generate leads in cases where there are no suspects or database hits, or to help identify remains, for example . DNA phenotyping is the prediction of physical appearance from DNA and is a technique being pioneered by Virginia-based Parabon Nanolabs. The technology can be used to generate leads in criminal cases where there are no suspects or database hits, or to help identify remains, for example. Samples can be potentially taken from as little as a fingerprint. Family history site Ancestry has extended its AncestryDNA service - a home testing kit that unlocks the secrets of a person’s genetic ethnicity - to the UK. The results can be cross-checked with millions of family trees to help people discover unknown relatives. It uses microarray-based autosomal DNA testing, which looks at person’s entire genome at more than 700,000 locations using saliva. Since it was released in 2012, AncestryDNA has been used by around 700,000 people. All of these results have been stored on a secure, encrypted database, and each set of results is linked to a person’s individual Ancestry account and subsequent family tree. AncestryDNA can help people identify relationships with unknown relatives through a list of possible DNA member matches. Parabon's Snapshot Forensic system is said to be able to accurately predict genetic ancestry, eye colour, hair colour, skin colour, freckling, and face shape in individuals from any ethnic background. Each prediction is presented with a ‘measure of confidence’. As an example, the test can say a person has green eyes with 61 per cent confidence, green or blue with 79 per cent confidence, and that they definitely don’t have brown eyes, with 99 per cent confidence. Based on ancestry, and other markers, the test also creates a likely facial shape. From all of this information, it builds a computer generated e-fit. And the test will predict how two people are related, as distant as third cousins, and great-great-great-great-grandparents. ‘DNA carries the genetic instruction set for an individual's physical characteristics, producing the wide range of appearances among people,’ explained Parabon Nanolabs. ‘By determining how genetic information translates into physical appearance, it is possible to “reverse-engineer" DNA into a physical profile. ‘Snapshot reads tens of thousands of genetic variants from a DNA sample and uses this information to predict what an unknown person looks like.’ The project was supported with funding from the the US Department of Defense (DoD). Samples can be taken from as little as a fingerprint. Parabon's Snapshot Forensic system is said to be able to accurately predict genetic ancestry, eye colour, hair colour, skin colour, freckling, and face shape in individuals from any ethnic background (example pictured) Each prediction is presented with a ‘measure of confidence’. As an example, the test can say a person has green eyes with 61 per cent confidence, green or blue with 79 per cent confidence, and that they definitely don’t have brown eyes, with 99 per cent confidence. A series of example charts is pictured . Ellen McRae Greytak, Parabon's director of bioinformatics told Popular Science that the system has been used in 10 cases across the US, and the first department to release a Snapshot report was the Columbia Police Department. It produced a profile for a ‘person of interest’ in the murder of 25-year-old Candra Alston and her daughter Malaysia Boykin in 2011. The only piece of evidence left at the scene was an unspecified DNA sample. Investigators in South Carolina are hoping the DNA technique could lead to to a breakthrough in the unsolved murder case of Malaysia Boykin, three, (left) and her mother Candra Alston (right) in 2011 . There were no witnesses to the murder, so the local authorities turned to the forensic phenotyping and found the person was a male with dark-skinned, brown hair and brown eyes (profile pictured) There were no witnesses to the murder, so the local authorities turned to the forensic phenotyping and found the person was a male with dark-skinned, brown hair and brown eyes. Mark Vinson, a cold case investigator with the Columbia police department, said that more than 200 people were interviewed in connection with the deaths. Around 150 of them submitted their DNA - but none matched the sample left at the scene.

There's a royal wedding on the horizon this spring. Princess Beatrice of York and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi will be getting married on May 29 at the Chapel Royal in St. James's Palace, Buckingham Palace announced Friday. The Queen will host a private reception for the newlyweds in the gardens at Buckingham Palace.

Contact tracing transformed in 2020 from a routine part of public health work to a massive effort to contain COVID-19. Experts from the CDC and public health departments reflect on lessons learned.

Because when you have a fever, your body is internally very hot, which means heat is flowing out of your skin rapidly, so you feel cold. When the sun hits your skin, you stop feeling cold because heat is flowing into your skin as well (almost 2 horsepower worth of heat per square meter).

You'll simply have to come and see it for yourself, and when you do, we guarantee you'll fall in love - fall in love with The Islands of The Bahamas and with your partner all over again. Perhaps you'll consider these activities to make your trip even more memorable than you had imagined. Start the conversation, or Read more at World News Report.

One of the biggest barriers to enrollment in Public Service Loan Forgiveness is not having the right type of loan. Only Direct Loans are eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. There are different types of federal student loans, but as long as the word “Direct” appears in the name of the loan you should be good:

Nope, it's more common in summer.

Contact the labor board for the state where your brother lives to find out more information. Child labor laws vary by state.

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I lived the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. so I grew up with all that music. To this day, it is all I listen to...the oldies! My favorite groups:\nHerman's Hermits\nBeeGees\nBeatles\nSam the Sham and the Pharoahs\nPeter, Paul and Mary\nThe Mama's and the Papas\n? and the Mysterians (one hit wonders)\nThe Carpenters\nThe Turtles\nPaul Revere and the Raiders\n\nSingers:\nBarry Manilow (still my absolute favorite)\nNeil Diamond\nGene Pitney\n\nWow! Too many more to list!

Scottish drinkers are so cautious of the country's new drink-driving limits bar sales have plummeted by 60 per cent - a reduction in spending so severe it's damaging the country's financial growth. Under the new Scottish drink-drive law, enacted on December 5, the limit was cut from 80mg per 100ml of blood to just 50mg. And the effect of the drop in sales is so severe, it is being blamed for a poor result in the country's latest Bank of Scotland PMI report. Scotland's tough new drink driving law is being blamed for stalling the country's financial growth . Donald MacRae, chief economist at Bank of Scotland, said: 'Manufacturing exporters have been affected by the falling euro while services businesses in hospitality are seeing a changing pattern of spending resulting from the lowered alcohol limit while driving.' The report follows a February study which revealed the country's bar sales had dropped by 60 per cent when the new limit was introduced. Publicans are now concerned the new laws will have a greater effect on bars and drinking establishments than the 2006 smoking ban. Paul Waterson, chief executive of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, told The Independent the new law - which matches limits across much of Continental Europe - was a 'form of prohibition'. He said: 'It’s stopped people having a drink at lunchtime, or having a drink on the way home from work. People aren’t coming in for food with their families on a Sunday afternoon. Hospitality industry leaders claim the new law is stopping moderate drinkers from having a tipple at lunch or on their way home from work . 'We feel it’s had an effect far worse than the smoking ban had in 2006. There’s questions being asked about the future of the trade – it’s probably the last nail in the coffin for independent operators.' The February study, carried out by purchasing firm Beacon, revealed there was a surge in interest in non-alcoholic drinks and smaller glass sizes. Tennant Hilditch, director of sales, said the first two months of the new drink driving laws had shown a 'real impact' on the country's hospitality industry. He said: 'Traditional lunchtime drinkers, or post-golf drinkers in the clubhouse have been particularly affected by the new rules. 'So much so, that we are seeing demand for smaller glasses, weaker beers, a trend towards introducing earlier lunch sittings so guests or golfers can stay longer and do not return to the roads as quickly, as well as an increased interest in "mocktails".' In the wake of the law change, Police Scotland assistant chief constable Bernard Higgins encouraged drinkers to 'leave the car at home' if they were planning to go for a drink. He said: 'There is no safe amount of alcohol in the body if you drive. It is clear when it comes to drinking and driving, that the simple "the best advice is none" message is the right one.' While the limit brings Scotland in line with the rest of Europe, it is significantly lower than that of England and Wales - which remains at 80mg per 100ml of blood.

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jinnah served as the leader of the all india muslim league from 1913 until pakistan s creation on 14 august 1947 and then as pakistan s first governor general until his death he is revered in pakistan as quaid i azam great leader and baba i qaum father of the nation his birthday is considered a national holiday in pakistan born at wazir mansion in karachi jinnah was trained as a barrister at lincoln s inn in london upon his return to british india he enrolled at the bombay high court and took an interest in national politics which eventually replaced his legal practice jinnah rose to prominence in the indian national congress in the first two decades of the 20th century in these early years of his political career jinnah advocated hindu muslim unity helping to shape the 1916 lucknow pact between the congress and the all india muslim league in which jinnah had also become prominent jinnah became a key leader in the all india home rule league and proposed a fourteen point constitutional reform plan to safeguard the political rights of muslims in 1920 however jinnah resigned from the congress when it agreed to follow a campaign

The former bank boss caught buying crystal meth and crack cocaine has been suspended from the Labour party as Ed Miliband faced questions over hiring him as an advisor. Paul Flowers, a Methodist minister who was chairman of the Co-operative Bank when it ran into trouble, now faces an investigation by the police after being covertly filmed counting off £20 notes to buy hard drugs. Today the Co-operative Group has launched a fact-finding investigation into 'any inappropriate behaviour' at the group or the Co-operative Bank and a 'root-and-branch review' of the structure of the organisation. Caught on camera: The Rev Paul Flowers was filmed counting money for a drugs deal . Until June Flowers was £132,000-a-year chairman of the ‘ethical’ bank, which has lent £34million to Labour over two decades. The Labour party today moved to distance itself from Flowers, suspending the former city councillor for bringing the party into ‘disrepute’. At the weekend he apologised ‘to all I have hurt or failed by my actions’ over the revelations in the Mail on Sunday involving crystal meth, crack cocaine and ketamine. He bragged of getting ‘wasted’ following his grilling by MPs over the near-collapse of the bank. As the scale of the Co-Op Bank’s financial problems emerged this year, Flowers stepped down as chairman and as deputy chairman of the Co-operative Group. The bank lost £700million in the first six months of the year and a £1.5billion black hole was discovered in its finances. As well as being suspended by the Labour Party, he has also been suspended by the Methodist Church. Now the Co-op Group has launched an inquiry into any 'inappropriate behaviour' at the bank or the wider group. The Co-operative group said in a statement: 'Given the serious and wide-ranging nature of recent allegations, the new executive management team has started a fact-finding process to look into any inappropriate behaviour at the Co-operative Group or the Co-operative Bank and to take action as necessary. 'In addition, the board of the Co-operative Group has launched a root and branch review of the democratic structure of the organisation. 'We need to modernise to ensure that the interests of all our seven million members are properly and directly represented in the oversight of our business activities.' Labour leader Ed Miliband defended hiring Flowers to advise him on finance and industry . It is embarrassing for Mr Miliband, who in 2010 appointed Flowers as a member of Labour’s influential finance and industry advisory board. Flowers has been a Methodist minister for almost 40 years and served as a Labour councillor on Bradford City Council, where he lives, for a decade. Today Mr Miliband defended bringing Flowers into the party fold: ‘He was involved in the Co-op and that is no longer the case. I think we will leave it there. ‘You appoint people from a whole range of backgrounds to look at a whole range of issues and we have a range of business people working with us. ‘The police are looking into the matter and I'm not going to comment on an ongoing investigation.’ Flowers bragged of getting 'wasted' following his grilling by MPs over the near-collapse of the bank, which threatens the retirement income of thousands of pensioners . A Labour spokesman added: ‘In the light of recent reports, we have today suspended Paul Flowers as a member of the Labour Party for bringing the party into disrepute.’ Flowers has already been suspended by the Methodist Church. West Yorkshire Police last night confirmed they had begun an inquiry into possible criminal charges against Flowers, who has gone into hiding. The scandal is an acute embarrassment for Labour and its 32 MPs who are sponsored by the Co-op Group. Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has received £50,000 in donations from the Co-op, which prides itself on its ethical stance. Ordinarily, the Rev Paul Flowers would have presided over the 10.30am service yesterday at Wibsey Methodist Church. The . gathering at the modern pebble-dashed church outside Bradford, West . Yorkshire, lasts an hour and is followed by tea and biscuits. But . having been caught buying and using illegal drugs including crystal . meth, crack cocaine and ketamine, it would hardly have seemed . appropriate to take the pulpit. Ridicule: The Rev Flowers during the Treasury Select Committee hearing . The Methodist Church appears to agree – Flowers has been suspended from his duties for three weeks. He . has been one of its ministers for 40 years. Laudable, you might say. But does being in such a post really make one a suitable candidate to . become chairman of the Co-operative Bank? Was there something else in Flowers’s CV that qualified him for this most demanding of positions? Well, to be fair, the openly gay Flowers did work for NatWest for four years, in the late 60s. The . position he held is not clear, but given the fact that he was 19 at the . time and became a Methodist minister at the end of his tenure suggests . the post was not a senior one. At . a meeting of the Treasury Select Committee earlier this month, when . asked to explain how he was qualified to run the bank following its . £700million loss he replied: ‘I took the exam of the Institute of . Bankers. ‘I completed part one and the best part of part two of those exams before I became a Methodist minister. ‘I would judge that experience is out of date in terms of the needs of contemporary banking.’ Who would argue with that? Especially given his somewhat shaky grasp of figures. He told the committee that the Co-op’s balance sheet had £3billion of assets, when the answer was in fact £47billion. He was also at a loss to answer questions about the amount of loans on its books. Perhaps . there is some other evidence of financial wizardry, then, in his . background? Yesterday the Mail searched long and hard, but could find . nothing. Paul Flowers was . born in Portsmouth to parents Muriel and Charles but has lived in the . North for many years. His father died in 1993 aged 70, and he had a . brother, Ian, who died the same year aged just 39. He lives in a modest . house in Bradford and shared it with his mother until her death last . year aged 85. Mr Flowers lives in a modest house in Bradford and shared it with his mother until her death last year aged 85 . After that brief stint . with the NatWest, he became a minister with the Methodist Church, for . whom he now sits as a trustee on the body that manages its invested . funds and property. Twenty . or so years ago, Flowers came to attention as vice-chairman of Rochdale . Council’s social services committee during the ‘satanic abuse’ fiasco . between 1988 and 1991. It . involved social workers making lurid claims about satanic rituals being . performed on children and, as a result, 20 children from six families . were placed in care. However, . the police found no evidence and a government-backed inquiry . subsequently blamed ‘evangelical Christians’ for the scare. Flowers maintained a high profile, sitting on committees and getting himself involved in community projects. Ironically, given recent events, from 1992 to 2004 he was prominently . involved with the Lifeline Project, which helps drug abusers. Today he . remains a trustee of the Terrence Higgins Trust, the HIV/Aids charity. Speaking . about his involvement with the charity, he once said: ‘As an out gay . man for all of my adult life I am acutely aware of the issues . surrounding HIV. ‘Like many others I have been personally affected by it in ways which are often far too painful  to recount.’ image.jpg . Flowers was a councillor at Bradford City Council for ten years but does not appear to have been universally popular. One . former councillor told the Mail yesterday: ‘Flowers was an insufferable . and pompous man who threw his not inconsiderable weight around. 'He . always made it plain he was the most educated person in a room and . everyone else was a peasant.’ In 2010 – more irony – he was appointed by . Labour leader Ed Miliband to the party’s finance and industry board. None . of this goes any way to explain just how Flowers became chairman of the . proudly ethical Co-operative Bank. But it seems the system by which the . appointment was made goes some way to solving the mystery. Flowers rose through the Co-op’s ranks, joining the board of the Co-op Group in 2008 and becoming deputy chairman. In . 2009 the post of chairman of Co-operative Banking group became vacant. Choosing the candidate fell to the 13-strong Remuneration and . Appointments Committee, which is formed largely of former Labour . politicians and Co-operative movement veterans. It . traditionally selected directors from the board of the  Co-operative . Group. On that board of about 20 people, you would be unlikely to find . any high-flying bankers. Or . anyone, it seems, remotely up to the job of running a bank. The school . leaver who worked at NatWest 40 years previously was the best they could . find.

As conflicts ignite and burn and flicker out around the world, U.S. officials assess the dangers they represent back home. Not all of these conflicts directly threaten American interests, which is why the Council on Foreign Relations conducts an annual survey to help U.S. leaders prioritize threats in the year ahead. For the past decade, this survey has focused on the risks posed to America by foreign actors. Now it’s reckoning with the risks America poses to the world—and to itself. “The U.S. is now the most unpredictable actor in the world today, and that has caused profound unease,” said Paul Stares, the director of CFR’s Center for Preventive Action, which produces the annual survey. “You used to be able to pretty much put the U.S. to one side and hold it constant, and look at the world and consider where the biggest sources of unpredictability, insecurity are. Now you have to include the U.S. in that. … No one has high confidence how we [Americans] would react in any given situation, given how people assess this president.” This president might welcome the development. “I don’t want people to know exactly what I’m doing—or thinking,” Donald Trump wrote in 2015. “It keeps them off balance.” Related Story What the World Might Look Like in 5 Years, According to U.S. Intelligence America’s newfound unpredictability is most evident in two scenarios that emerged as the highest-priority risks identified by this year’s report, which drew on the feedback of 436 government officials and foreign-policy experts: 1) military conflict involving the United States, North Korea, and North Korea’s neighbors, and 2) an armed confrontation between Iran and the United States or a U.S. ally over Iran’s involvement in regional conflicts and support of militant groups. “They’re the two most volatile, brewing crises at the moment,” Stares said. “Some would say it’s a good thing that people are guessing and this is all a concerted effort to increase [America’s] bargaining leverage with North Korea or with Iran. I think most professionals would say that is not a smart strategy: It can backfire, or lead to miscalculation, misunderstanding, and so on.” In the survey, which was conducted in the first half of November, during a temporary pause in North Korea’s nuclear and missile testing, the consensus assessment was that a conflict with North Korea would have a “high” impact on U.S. interests but was only “moderately” likely. (To say a conflict with North Korea would be high-impact is quite the understatement—most experts believe it could lead to the most ferocious fighting since World War II.) Stares noted that while last year’s poll had flagged “a severe crisis in North Korea” over its nuclear-weapons program as a first-tier risk, displacing the Syrian Civil War as the premier conflict to watch in the survey, what’s new this year are serious worries about direct military hostilities between North Korea and the United States—and implicitly about those hostilities escalating to the first exchange of nuclear weapons in history. “Now the concern is clearly that any renewed fighting on the [Korean] peninsula could involve the use of nuclear weapons,” Stares said. “People’s perceptions of what a war would look like” have changed, he explained. There are three main reasons for this: the intensely personal war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un; North Korea’s rapid advances in developing a missile that can reach the United States and a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on it; and the repeated threats by Trump and his advisers to take military action if they feel it necessary. The survey’s finding echoes recent estimates by knowledgeable observers such as James Stavridis, a retired Navy admiral, and John Brennan, Barack Obama’s CIA director. Stavridis has put the odds of a non-nuclear U.S.-North Korean conflict at anywhere from 20 to 50 percent, and the odds of nuclear war at 10 percent—perhaps, for example, if North Korea shoots down a U.S. warplane or launches a missile near the U.S. territory of Guam, prompting an American response and then a spiral of retaliation. In an interview with The Atlantic, Brennan cited Trump’s unpredictability as a critical factor in why he pegged the chances of war at 20 to 25 percent. “I have a pretty good sense that North Korea does not want to initiate a major military conflict. And for many years, the United States was loath to initiate” a conflict, Brennan said. “I don’t know what Mr. Trump is capable of deciding or doing.” Trump’s iffy commitment to the Iran nuclear deal, which he “decertified” and sent to Congress for repairs, and which he still might withdraw from, also seems to have created risk. There is now an elevated likelihood of U.S.-Iranian confrontation over a range of explosive issues—from Iran’s missile and nuclear programs, to its jockeying for influence in Syria and Iraq, to its support for Yemeni, Lebanese, and Palestinian militant groups that the United States and U.S. allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia fiercely oppose. As with a North Korean conflict, the survey participants deemed a clash between Iran and the U.S. or its partners to be high-impact and moderately likely. The scenario didn’t appear in CFR’s report last year, when Iran was engaged in many of the same activities but the future of the nuclear agreement wasn’t yet in doubt. Other scenarios in this category include a mass-casualty terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland, a major cyberattack on U.S. critical infrastructure, and two surprising contingencies given how quiet each front was in 2017: military confrontations between Russia and NATO members, or between China and one or more Southeast Asian nations over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The apprehension about a Russia-NATO feud “may just reflect a deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations. With further revelations of Russia meddling [in the 2016 U.S. presidential election], and in the context of that, a flashpoint somewhere in Eastern Europe could escalate,” Stares explained. Meanwhile, following Xi Jinping’s success in consolidating his power at a Communist Party conference in October, “people may feel that, with the internal [Chinese political] situation more settled, the Chinese may once again be more assertive in the South China Sea.” Also among the first-tier risks are two possibilities that were considered highly likely but only of moderate impact for U.S. interests: a worsening of the war in Afghanistan, where the Trump administration has made an indeterminate commitment to stay the course, and a surge in violence as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reasserts control over his devastated country. Remarkably, the further breakup of Iraq, a first-tier priority two years ago and a second-tier priority last year, made no appearance in this year’s poll. Nor was the Islamic State specifically mentioned in this year’s list of contingencies, despite enduring anxiety about terrorist attacks. On Saturday, Iraq’s prime minister helped illustrate why: Iraqi and allied forces, he claimed, have now fully liberated his country from ISIS. (The attempted bombing at New York’s Port Authority on Monday demonstrates how the threat of terrorism can linger even as ISIS hemorrhages territory.) High-Priority Threats to America Center for Preventive Action / Council on Foreign Relations Only one of the second-tier risks in this year’s survey was judged high-impact for American security interests, though unlikely: an armed confrontation in the East China Sea between Japan and China over disagreements on the sovereignty of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. Highly likely but low-impact scenarios included deepening economic and political turmoil in Venezuela; a deterioration of the humanitarian disaster afflicting Yemen, where a civil war compounded by a Saudi-Iran proxy fight is raging; persistent al-Shabab terrorist attacks in Somalia; and a swelling of violence between government forces and Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar—a conflict that UN officials have described as a possible “genocide” and which the CFR survey failed to predict last year. (In these surveys, humanitarian crises tend to receive far less emphasis than threats involving terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and the commitment of U.S. troops.) Other conflicts were considered both moderately impactful and moderately likely: increasing organized crime–related violence in Mexico, which holds general elections next year; growing violence in Eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed militias and Ukrainian forces; intensified violence between armed Kurdish groups and government forces in Turkey and Iraq, where this fall the Kurds tried and failed to achieve independence through a referendum; a major military confrontation between Pakistan and India as a result of terrorism or unrest in Indian-administered Kashmir; heightened tensions between Israelis and Palestinians (the poll was conducted before the Trump administration decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. embassy there); and clashes between Israel and the Iran-allied militant group Hezbollah in Syria or along the Israel-Lebanon border—a new scenario in this year’s survey whose odds, as the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. recently put it, are “higher than people think.”

Palestinian men march in support of Hamas and also to protest the killing of Omar Kawasmeh by Israeli troops on Friday, during a predawn raid in the West Bank city of Hebron, Gaza City, Palestine.

Rodgers said in the build-up to Celtic's 4-1 win over Hearts that he had "real empathy" for sacked Hearts head coach Ian Cathro. And the Northern Irishman questioned how the club recruited. "I'm extremely disappointed," said Daly. "The fact that he's commenting on the structure of our football club, when he knows nothing about it." Media playback is not supported on this device On Friday, Rodgers praised Cathro, who worked under director of football Craig Levein, as a "very good coach" who "wanted to bring in his own ideas". The Celtic boss added that while watching Hearts "it always looked a little bit confused in terms of what he wanted and maybe what other people wanted. "You know, you're trying to play football and you're bringing in players who play a direct game. So, it makes me ask about where the players are coming from? And if they're his?" Media playback is not supported on this device Following Saturday's defeat at Celtic Park, Daly told BBC Scotland: "I can understand the comments made about a manager losing his job because I'd be the very same. It's never nice to see someone lose their job but to comment on the recruitment of the players, to say that they don't fit the system, it's poor for me. "You look at the players we've brought in - Michael Smith, he's a wing-back; Ash Smith-Brown, wing-back; [Rafal] Grzelak, wing-back; [Kyle] Lafferty, striker; [Isma] Goncalves, last year to play on the left-hand side of a front three; [Christophe] Berra to play in a back three. For him to come out and make a comment like that, it's just farcical, to be honest. "I've followed Brendan's career for a long, long time. I've got a lot of admiration for him and I've never heard him make a comment like that when he was at Liverpool, commenting on Man United's structure or Chelsea's structure or Man City's structure. "He's obviously come up to Scotland and think he's the biggest fish in the biggest pond, with the best squad, with the best budget and he thinks he can comment on other people's teams, other people's structures or clubs and it's unacceptable. "He wouldn't have done it in the Premiership [in England] so I don't see why now he all of a sudden thinks he can start doing it." In his post-match interview, Rodgers said: "I was purely asked a question in relation to the operation there. It's no problem. I thought Jon organised the team well today. They were good and compact. "My feeling was for support for young Ian Cathro, who I felt was dealt harshly with. But I've got no issue, there's no problem. I hope Jon goes on and gets the job. "I'll always be open and say what I feel. That doesn't change. I say and believe in what I say 150%." Asked if there was perhaps a an unwritten rule that managers do not discuss other managers or clubs, Rodgers replied: "Yeah, well, he hasn't become a manager yet so wait until he becomes a manager and then he'll know the rules of the game then."

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A: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there is one birth every eight seconds in the United States, or about 10,800 births per day. Worldwide, approximately 350,000 to 400,000 people are born daily on average.

The Welsh government has given final approval to deregister common land to allow the project to be built at a site in Rassau, Ebbw Vale. Backers, including Blaenau Gwent council, have offered 320 hectares (800 acres) of replacement land. The firm behind the project said it would regenerate the area. A Welsh government spokesman said deputy minister for farming and food, Rebecca Evans, had granted permission to deregister the land at Trefil Las and Twyn Bryn-March Common in Ebbw Vale, subject to conditions. Leader of the council Hedley McCarthy said: "We welcome the announcement from Welsh government and, as a council, remain fully supportive of the Circuit of Wales development and the benefits it could bring to Blaenau Gwent and the surrounding areas. "We look forward to continuing to work closely with the developer on this exciting project." Developer Heads of the Valleys Development Company (HOTVDC) said the approval was a "positive milestone" and was "vital" for the development to proceed. Chief executive Michael Carrick said it would lead to improved maintenance and access to the replacement common land. "The Circuit of Wales has the ability to generate thousands of employment opportunities, attract greater long-term investment and deliver regeneration into Blaenau Gwent and South Wales," he added. The development aims to create 6,000 jobs and is set to host the MotoGP from 2017. HOTVDC has said it has Asian financial backers for the project, which has a £200m private finance target to get started. The rest of the money is expected to come from Welsh government support and local authorities.

Once again the hunt proved to be a huge success with 40 hunters from all over the Southeast blanketing the 40,000 acres of prime Black Belt hunting lands.

Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Mark McClellan said Tuesday he is resigning and will likely go work for a think tank.

Both the House and Senate health care proposals would expand Medicaid eligibility to about 133 percent of the federal poverty level. Although the measures would help the states cover the costs, governors are worried that the additional federal money simply won't be enough. Mary Agnes Carey, senior correspondent for <em>Kaiser Health News</em>, offers her insight.

Two years after faking his death, Warren Gamaliel Harding moved into a little bordello off the Boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris. He figured it was the last place on earth that anyone would look for a former president of the United States, even if they discovered the coffin in the Ohio tomb was full of ballast. His room was quiet in the morning, so he could write. The parties in the evening kept him from becoming bored. He had nothing to worry about financially, thanks to some well-timed investments, and his leonine profile and quick wit granted him a certain standing among this new crowd. "You are clearly a man of stature, monsieur," Madame M. had told him during their first meeting, after he offered her the card with his fake name. "Why would you choose to live with us?" "It's better than Washington," he said, and smiled at her quizzical look. He reached into his briefcase and handed over a stack of crisp franc notes. She counted the money and raised her eyebrows and said, "Is there anything special you require?" "Only that you keep me away from the liquor." Warren settled in to enjoy the emptiness of his schedule. He spent most mornings on the second-floor terrace, watching the ladies spread their wet sheets and stockings on the clotheslines in the courtyard. They basked in the sun as the laundry dried, smoking and laughing; a few crouched away from the rest, faces creased in worry, whispering to friends about some pain, a bruise, an insult flung at them the previous night. Whispering about how their lives could have descended to this, as if they were God's private punch line. From his perch Warren studied them, his notebook open on his knee but blank, his pen sitting idle beside his usual cup of coffee. As a young man, he had run a newspaper in Marion, a time he now looked upon with joy and longing, choosing to forget the nerve-frying stress and the late nights and above all the fear of failure, collapse, total ruin. He wanted the words to flow out of him again, as they did in those golden days, but nothing ever came. The years in the White House, that giant sarcophagus, had rusted that part of him to uselessness. One morning, as he slapped the notebook closed, Warren lifted his gaze past the courtyard wall to the boulevard, where a few boys splashed in sun-bright puddles, and beyond them to the Montparnasse Cemetery, its rows of pale stones like molars. That's where they'll put me, he thought, after I'm gone. When that day comes, will there be anything you regret? Only that I chose my friends poorly, I suppose, and let them run wild in their departments. But I did the best I could. I swear if anyone realized what the office truly entailed, nobody would ever run for the presidency. I should have stayed a newspaperman. Overhead, the skies darkened, and the rain dropped like a curtain on the scene below. It poured down on the women running inside, on the figures in the street, on the white headstones of the cemetery, wiping the sound and color from the world. Warren stood, filled with a cool peacefulness. There's some comfort in oblivion, he thought. After I'm gone and forgotten, then all my mistakes will be erased as well.

As Donald Trump moves to undo every last trace of Obama’s legacy, the WSJ reported that on Tuesday, the Trump administration reversed Obama-era policies that encourage the use of race in college admissions “to promote diverse educational settings.” Instead, the Trump administration will encourage the nation’s school superintendents and college presidents to adopt race-blind admissions standards. The reversal would restore the policy set during President George W. Bush’s administration, when officials told schools that it “strongly encourages the use of race-neutral methods” for admitting students to college or assigning them to elementary and secondary schools. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the official announcement Tuesday afternoon. “The American people deserve to have their voices heard and a government that is accountable to them. When issuing regulations, federal agencies must abide by constitutional principles and follow the rules set forth by Congress and the President,” Sessions said. “In previous administrations, however, agencies often tried to impose new rules on the American people without any public notice or comment period, simply by sending a letter or posting a guidance document on a website. That’s wrong, and it’s not good government.” The decision comes amid a DOJ probe whether Harvard was illegally discriminating against Asian-American students by holding them to a higher standard in its admissions process. The administration revived the probe last year after Obama civil rights officials dismissed a similar complaint. While the decision does not change current US law on affirmative action, it provides a strong illustration of the administration’s position on an issue that could take on renewed attention with the departure of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the Supreme Court. The guidelines, which were issued jointly by the Obama Justice and Education departments, laid out legal recommendations for schools looking to use race as an admissions factor to boost diversity at their schools. Call it state-sponsored affirmative action. However, the WSJ reports that Trump admin officials will argue that the documents, published in 2011 and 2016, go beyond Supreme Court precedent on the issue and mislead schools to believe that legal forms of affirmative action are simpler to achieve than what the law allows. It is hardly a surprise that the Obama officials who implemented the policies disagree: Anurima Bargava, who headed civil rights enforcement in schools under Obama’s DOJ, disagreed with that assessment, saying the documents simply offered guidelines to schools and colleges looking to continue using affirmative action legally; she countered by attacking the current administration’s action as signaling that it doesn’t favor racial diversity. “The law on this hasn’t changed, and the Supreme Court has twice ruled reaffirming the importance of diversity,” she said. “This is a purely political attack that benefits nobody.” Then again, perhaps the guidelines were not that innocent, and come as a 2014 lawsuit is unfolding in federal court against Harvard, filed by a group called Students for Fair Admissions, which alleges Harvard intentionally discriminates against Asian-Americans by limiting the number of Asian students who are admitted. It is expected to go to trial in October. In the bigger picture, the action to rescind Obama-era guidelines comes at a rather sensitive time for the nation, just as Trump is set to appoint a new SCOUT judge, and is also likely to inflame a long-running national debate over the role of race in college admissions, an sensitive issue the U.S. Supreme Court has revisited on several occasions since the 1970s. In 2016, the high court reaffirmed the practice in a 4-3 decision, but in his opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy left the door open to future legal challenges by saying universities must continue to review their affirmative-action policies to assess their positive and negative effects. Kennedy has since announced his retirement, and advocates on both sides say his successor, to be nominated soon by President Donald Trump, may take a different view on the practice as the Harvard case wends its way through the courts. As such, the motive behind the process to undo one of Obama’s core legacies may be to serve as a litmus test by the Trump administration to gauge just how conservative Kennedy’s replacement will be, especially since the affirmative action guidelines are relatively innocuous. Meanwhile, Harvard has previously objected to the lawsuit, claiming its admissions process is consistent with the legal precedents set over the past 40 years by the Supreme Court, which have allowed universities to consider race as a factor in admissions to obtain the benefits of a diverse student body. But the plaintiffs suing Harvard said in court filings the school displayed a “stunning failure to take the elementary steps required by the law” to achieve diversity without taking race into account, such as considering applicants’ socioeconomic backgrounds, eliminating early admissions and increasing community college transfers. And here is where Asian students felt cheated: as the WSJ reports, in court filings published last month as part of its continuing litigation, the university revealed that Asian-American applicants on average had higher academic marks and received higher scores from alumni interviews than other racial groups. But on a “personal” score that admissions officers used to gauge applicants’ character, Asian students scored the lowest. Whatever the outcome of the challenge, it is inevitable that the aggrieved social grouping, whether conservatives or liberals, will allege that this is another example of racism escalating to dominate ever more aspects of daily life, at a time when social, racial, ethnic and wealth polarization in the US is already nearing its breaking point.

AbstractThe land use and land cover pattern of a region is a consequence of natural and socio-economic factors and their utilization by man in time and space. In this study, we hypothesized that land use and land cover change patterns in the Lake Chivero catchment, Zimbabwe, were related to its human population dynamics. Using nonparametric correlation coefficients (Spearman’s rho, ρ), we found that bareland, cropland and built-up land had positive relations with human population growth of ρ = 0.7, ρ = 0.9 and ρ = 1, respectively. Grassland/shrubland, water and forest, on the other hand, had a negative relationship with human population growth of ρ = −0.9, ρ = −0.7 and ρ = −0.667, respectively. However, these relationships were only significant (p < 0.05) for cropland, grassland/shrubland and built-up land. Human population dynamics in the Lake Chivero catchment could be one of the major drivers of land use and land cover change in the catchment between 1986 and 2014.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Three people have died in a residential building fire that caused residents to jump from windows. MassLive.com reports the fire broke out shortly before 7:30 a.m. Sunday. They found residents jumping out of second- and third-story windows to escape the flames. High winds caused the fire to spread. Fire officials say four people, including a pregnant woman and a child, were taken to local hospitals with injuries not believed to be life-threatening. Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno says the city is working with the local American Red Cross officials to find temporary housing for 60 to 80 people displaced by the fire. The cause is still under investigation. Springfield is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of Boston. ___ Information from: The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, http://www.masslive.com/news/

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Typically, one would find a conductor front and center leading a choir. When to begin, finish, sing forte or piano. But not From the Heart, a student-run choir here in Rexburg. The conductor is in the choir with them. From the Heart asks listeners to do one thing during the performance: listen to the spirit and what it is telling you. For the past 15 years, From the Heart has been putting on firesides every Sunday for the Rexburg community. On Sunday, June 4, they held their first performance of the semester. Their overall purpose is to share their testimonies of Jesus Christ through song. “We want to draw its members and those who we sing to closer to Jesus Christ,” said Jessica Linford, a former member of the choir and a junior studying business management. “When From the Heart performs, there is no conductor that stands in front of the choir, and that is because we do not want anything in the way of the members sharing their testimonies with the audience.” Jessica was also the previous choir conductor. Jessica said From the Heart used to be a show choir back when BYU-Idaho was Ricks College. When the school changed to BYU-I, the college elected to end all show choirs. However, the students participating in the show choir did not want it to end, regardless of if it was run through the college or not. “The students involved in the program were not willing to be done with it, so they got together and decided to keep it running on student power alone,” Jessica said. The choir is primarily made up of BYU-I students. Anyone is welcome to audition. Whether you think you are tone deaf or not very musically inclined, auditions are based upon the Spirit. “The only thing required is a desire to share your testimony,” Jessica said. The process is simple. At the beginning of the semester, those wanting to audition come prepared with their favorite hymn. They sing the hymn to the presidency of the choir, which changes every year, and the presidency decides based upon the spirit. “Having the best singing voice is not a requirement,” Jessica said. Jessica recalls when she was in the presidency. There would be people with incredible singing voices and some with mediocre singing voices. Jessica said often times, those who had mediocre voices had great potential and a lot of room to grow and improve, so they would typically get the spot. Marcus Moyer, a senior studying social work, is the pianist this semester for the choir. He auditioned this semester by singing “Lead Kindly Light.” Moyer said one of his favorite parts about being in the choir is the people he gets to know along the way. “There are many, many good people in the group,” Moyer said. “But more, you have the ability to testify of Christ. It’s just an opportunity to serve those around me.”

By . Eddie Wrenn . PUBLISHED: . 10:54 EST, 11 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:54 EST, 11 September 2012 . Apple fans are looking forwards with keen anticipation to the expected launch of the iPhone 5 tomorrow. But it is possible Apple might surprise us 'one last thing' by the end of tomorrow's presentation - an iPad Mini, a shrunken-down, pocket-friendly of the iconic tablet which ushered in the post-PC era. Now, a leak from Chinese website shows us the potential size of Apple's new range and - even if all we are looking at is cases - is the first image to show us how an enthusiast's collection will stack up. Is this the new iRange? This image purports to show us the scale of the iPads. From bottom left, the current 4S, the 'iPhone 5', the 'iPad Mini', and the iPad . If the Apple Mini does not arrive tomorrow, a number of leaks and images . of prototypes imply the device will be on shelves before Christmas. These images appeared on a Chinese supplier's website, before being spotted by French website nowhereelse.fr. Nowhereelse said the images conform to . previous leaks about the iPad Mini, and their own mocked-up iPad Mini, . based on specifications revealed over the last few months, matched these . covers 'perfectly'. The blog website added: 'In addition, the location of the holes . cut into multiple accessory supposedly designed to protect the iPad Mini . correspond perfectly with the positioning of components.' The leak shows off the purported size of the iPad Mini: This is not an actual model, but a mock-up based on the leaks from suppliers since June . The Apple Mini is believed to sport an eight-inch screen, making it a shrunken version of the iPad's ten-inches. This will allow a higher degree of portability over previous models, and also give Apple the ammunition to compete with Google, which recently brought out a seven-inch range of Nexus tablets. It is also believed to be a 3G-capable model, meaning you can use data on the go. While Steve Jobs was famously against smaller iPads, the success of the Nexus and Amazon's 'Fire' of budget tablets appears to have convinced Apple there is a market for the slim-line device. Rumours from Apple suppliers suggest the innards of the Mini will be equivalent to an iPad 2, which analysts suggest will be more than enough to power the shrunken device. The third iPad had a specification increase but also increased slightly in weight due to the demands of the high-definition Retina display.

BEIJING, Nov. 28 -- China's state-sanctioned Catholic church said Tuesday that it plans to ordain another bishop without approval from the pope, despite renewed diplomatic efforts to end long-standing hostility between China and the Vatican.

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Tickets: atlantictheater.org Photo Kings Sarah Burgess’s “Dry Powder,” seen at the Public Theater in 2016, was a Cinderella story — not in its subject (private equity) but in its path to the stage. Ms. Burgess’s first produced play, it was basically picked out of the slush pile and supplied with stars (Claire Danes, John Krasinski, Hank Azaria) and a name director (Thomas Kail, fresh off “Hamilton”). Her follow-up, also at the Public, shifts subjects (perhaps only slightly) to politics, focusing on a lobbyist (Gillian Jacobs, of “Community”) and a candidate (Eisa Davis, herself a playwright) who may be less incorruptible than she seems. Mr. Kail again directs. Tickets: publictheater.org Photo Relevance I’d follow Jayne Houdyshell anywhere — and have, from “Well” to “The Humans” (for which she won a Tony Award) to “A Doll’s House, Part 2.” Now this actress is starring in a new play by J C Lee, in which she portrays Theresa Hanneck, a second-wave feminist lion along the lines of Gloria Steinem. Before you can say “third wave,” Theresa finds herself on the wrong end of a viral argument with an intersectional cultural critic played by Pascale Armand, of “Eclipsed.” It’s a daring subject for a male author to take on, but Mr. Lee is interested in intersectionality himself; his play “Luce,” seen at Lincoln Center Theater in 2013, considered the crosscurrents of transracial adoption. Liesl Tommy, who staged “Eclipsed,” directs. Tickets: mcctheater.org Photo The Amateurs Though it had a very intricate sci-fi premise, Jordan Harrison’s “Marjorie Prime,” which opened at Playwrights Horizons in 2015, was one of the most vividly emotional plays I’ve seen. The movie version, starring Lois Smith and Jon Hamm, was also well received. So I’m tantalized by the description of Mr. Harrison’s follow-up, a comedy set among a troupe of medieval actors traipsing from city to city, a step ahead of the plague. Oliver Butler directs a terrific ensemble cast, including the invaluable Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Thomas Jay Ryan. Tickets: vineyardtheatre.org Photo Jerry Springer — The Opera It has taken 15 years for one of the most heralded works of 21st-century musical theater to travel from Stamford, Conn., to a serious run in New York. Stamford is where “The Jerry Springer Show” — a lowest-common-denominator TV grudge match — tapes, and New York is where the show written about it, by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, was always meant to go. But after a spectacular premiere in London in 2003, and a two-night concert staging at Carnegie Hall in 2008, it somehow never made the logical final step. Until now. No word yet on whether the New Group’s production, directed by John Rando and starring Terrence Mann as Springer, and Will Swenson as Satan, will involve the audience in wig-pulling fights, but it’s in a very small theater. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Tickets: thenewgroup.org

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Organ damage. Sickle cells that block blood flow to organs deprive the affected organs of blood and oxygen. In sickle cell anemia, blood is also chronically low in oxygen. This lack of oxygen-rich blood can damage nerves and organs, including your kidneys, liver and spleen, and can be fatal.

Denny Hamlin won his second straight Sprint Cup race, holding off Jeff Gordon in a green-white-checkered finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday night.

New York, Sept. 6 (NNN): In hospital waiting for a surgery for his heart condition, former United States president Bill Jefferson Clinton said he felt lucky and joked that he wants &#39;four more years&#39; of life.

Hooker Sean Cronin crossed in the final seconds, but was held up under the posts to deny Ireland a decisive score. Earlier Tipuric, brilliant with ball in hand and at the breakdown, had driven over before the superb Iain Henderson crossed to make it 10-10 at the break. But Leigh Halfpenny's two second-half penalties proved enough for Wales. The match saw Paul O'Connell making his final home appearance for Ireland while George North was back in action for Wales after a five-month concussion absence. Ahead of Monday's World Cup squad announcement, Ireland suffered a potential blow as Keith Earls was taken off on a stretcher in the second half with an apparent head injury. Wales were a seriously different outfit to the under-strength side beaten 35-21 by the Irish three weeks ago. Their British and Irish Lions back row star Tipuric set the tone for the contest by getting past the gain-line time and time again. Tipuric and his forward colleagues were able to make territory as they invariably ran on to the ball at pace while the Ireland pack looked ponderous in comparison. Ireland performed well in the scrum, but struggled badly at the breakdown and it was only Henderson's vigorous display in the loose which kept the home side breathing in the first period. Wings Dave Kearney and Earls, before his injury, looked dangerous but a lack of accuracy hindered the home side's attacking potential. Johnny Sexton, Rob Kearney, Robbie Henshaw, Conor Murray and Peter O'Mahony were all back for Ireland but the fly-half exhibited some rust in the first period with a couple of misjudged kicks. Wales were able to subdue some early Ireland endeavour and after Halfpenny kicked the visitors ahead on 18 minutes, Tipuric notched their try seven minutes later as a well-executed maul concluded a period of sustained pressure. After Halfpenny added the extras, Sexton opened Ireland's account but Wales were continuing to outmuscle the home side in the key forward exchanges. Against the run of play, Ireland levelled as a big scrum shove on the Wales put-in in their 22 was finished off by the impressive Henderson's full-stretch touchdown. The game was there to be won after half-time but neither side was able to alter the scoreboard in the third quarter. However, two Halfpenny penalties in the 64th and 70th minutes ultimately decided the contest after Ireland replacement Sean O'Brien had earlier been held up as he attempted to drive for the Welsh line. Right at the death, Ireland thought they had snatched victory as another replacement, Sean Cronin, barged his way over the Wales goal-line but the match officials judged that the hooker had been held up. However, possibly of bigger concern to Ireland coach Joe Schmidt was the injury suffered by utility back Earls. Former Ireland winger Denis Hickie believes Ulster's 23-year-old lock has done enough to earn a starting role. Media playback is not supported on this device "Iain Henderson was Ireland's best forward, but where do you play him? Without Devin Toner, you would not be guaranteed that line-out ball, but on today's performance you have to find a place for Henderson. "The back five permutations have been thrown into disarray again because of the injuries to Keith Earls and Luke Fitzgerald. "Of the two Ulster absentees, Tommy Bowe will definitely be going and Andrew Trimble is certainly very much still in the mix." Ireland: R. Kearney, D. Kearney, Fitzgerald, Henshaw, Earls, Sexton, Murray, J. McGrath, Strauss, White, Henderson, O'Connell, O'Mahony, Murphy, Heaslip. Replacements: Ryan for Fitzgerald (68), Jones for Earls (64), Jackson for Sexton (64), Reddan for Murray (64), Kilcoyne for J. McGrath (61), Cronin for Strauss (51), Furlong for White (57), O'Brien for O'Mahony (51). Wales: Halfpenny, Cuthbert, S. Williams, Roberts, North, Biggar, Webb, Jenkins, Owens, Francis, B. Davies, Jones, Lydiate, Tipuric, T. Faletau. Replacements: Amos for Roberts (62), Priestland for Biggar (64), G. Davies for Webb (64), James for Jenkins (47), Baldwin for Owens (55), Jarvis for Francis (55), Charteris for B. Davies (55), King for Lydiate (51). Att: 47,430 Ref: Craig Joubert (South Africa).

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Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) elaborates on one of several aggregation factors, toxins (EAST1, ShET1, Pet, HylE), enzymes, colonization factors (Pic), and an antiaggregation protein (dispersin). EAEC is an emerging pathogen linked to several disease complexes, including acute and persistent childhood diarrhea, HIV-associated diarrhea, and traveler's diarrhea. EAEC also causes uncomplicated foodborne epidemics. When it acquired the Shiga-like toxin from EHEC strains by horizontal gene transfer, EAEC also caused a large epidemic of hemolytic uremia syndrome in adults. EAEC is genetically a heterogeneous group of E. coli unified by a characteristic aggregation phenotype and variable virulence factor combination.

Lena River Originating at an elevation of 1,640 meters (5,381 ft) at its source in the Baikal Mountains south of the Central Siberian Plateau, 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Lake Baikal, the Lena flows northeast, being joined by the Kirenga River, Vitim River and Olyokma River. From Yakutsk it enters the lowlands and flows north until joined by its right-hand tributary the Aldan River and its most important left-hand tributary, the Vilyuy River. After that, it bends westward, flowing alongside the Verkhoyansk Range and then making its way nearly due north to the Laptev Sea, a division of the Arctic Ocean, emptying south-west of the New Siberian Islands by the Lena Delta – 30,000 square kilometres (11,583 sq mi) in area,[2] and traversed by seven principal branches, the most important being the Bykovsky channel, farthest east.

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The third album by the Brooklyn band Brazilian Girls — which contains no actual Brazilians and only one woman — New York City sounds equally well-suited for Tokyo karaoke bars and South American milongas. But for all its international flavor, the album stays true to its titular subject, paying tribute to Brazilian Girls' hometown. With songs recorded in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German — and guests including Senegalese musician Baaba Maal — New York City revolves around Sabine Sciubba's seductive vocals, which flow as seamlessly as the band's forays into bossa nova, jazz, reggae, electronica and cabaret. In the seductive opening track, "St. Petersburg," Sciubba's Astrud Gilberto-inspired vocals evoke a jet-setting lifestyle that crisscrosses time zones, cultures and musical influences. After some opening percussion throws the scene of "St. Petersburg" into overdrive, the swell of the chorus adds urgency to the melody, letting listeners tag along with Sciubba as she races down the tarmac to catch a plane to her next adventure. Listen to yesterday's Song of the Day, and subscribe to the Song of the Day newsletter.

Its a wonderful product... But!!! I couldn't use the way I intended to... I bought this for my daughter so that she will be more comfortable during car rides. You cant use this on convertible car seats that has 'head protector'. I don't know if thats what its called but I have Peg Perego Primo Viaggio convertible carseat and there was absolutely no way we could fit this. My daughter just uses them on the cough when she is watching the tv though

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Sasikala has been in Parapana Agrahara central jail since February this year after the Supreme Court upheld her conviction by a special court in a disproportionate assets case. Photo: AFP Chennai/ Bengaluru: Sidelined All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader V.K. Sasikala, who is serving a four-year jail term in Bengaluru for possession of assets disproportionate to her income, was on Friday granted parole for five days to meet her ailing husband M. Natarajan. The parole was granted on condition that she would not be involved in any political, public or party activities. Sasikala would not be allowed to interact with the media either. “During the emergency parole you are restricted only to visit the hospital where your husband is admitted and stay at the residence as mentioned in your application,” said a statement by prison officials. Sasikala had sought 15 days’ parole citing her husband Natarajan’s ill health. The jail officials rejected the application on 2 October, stating that it was incomplete, and a fresh petition was filed. The 74-year-old Natarajan underwent a kidney and liver transplant earlier this week. Sasikala was lodged in the Bengaluru jail in February after the Supreme Court upheld her conviction by a lower court in the disproportionate assets case.

An ISIS attack on a series of Syrian towns that left more than 200 dead showed that the group — while no longer controlling much land — persists.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A stunt person was killed on the set of “Deadpool 2” Monday morning, TMZ reports. The stunt person died after a motorcycle crash. The rider, who was female, lost control of the motorcycle, went airborne and crashed through the glass of a ground-floor studio inside Shaw Tower. Witnesses said the rider never applied the brakes. The rider’s identity is currently being withheld. The accident comes just a month after stuntman John Bernecker died after an accident on the set of “The Walking Dead.”