Authorities act after more than 100 children and teenagers suffer eye injuries from toy guns and rifles during celebrations to mark the end of Ramadan

Afghanistan has banned the sale of imitation Kalashnikovs and other fake guns after the toys caused injuries to more than 100 people during Eid al-Fitr celebrations.

The move is part of a wider effort to curb a culture of violence in the war-torn country.

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Study also reveals some groups in South America have closer genetic ties to indigenous peoples of Australia, New Guinea and the Andaman Islands than to present-day Native Americans

Native American ancestors reached the new world in a single, initial migration from Siberia at most 23,000 years ago, only later differentiating into today’s distinct groups, DNA research revealed Tuesday.

Most scientists agree the Americas were peopled by forefathers who crossed the Bering land and ice bridge which connected modern-day Russia and Alaska in Earth’s last glacial period.

The former Soviet republic tops the world’s non-smoking league with fewer than one in 12 people still using tobacco

The health-obsessed former Soviet republic Turkmenistan is the country with the world’s lowest proportion of smokers, the World Health Organisation’s director general, Margaret Chan, said during a visit to the isolated nation on Tuesday.

“Recently a WHO overview showed that in Turkmenistan only 8% of the population smokes,” Chan told the country’s authoritarian president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, at a health forum in the capital, Ashgabat.

The former Soviet republic tops the world’s non-smoking league with fewer than one in 12 people still using tobacco

The health-obsessed former Soviet republic Turkmenistan is the country with the world’s lowest proportion of smokers, the World Health Organisation’s director general, Margaret Chan, said during a visit to the isolated nation on Tuesday.

“Recently a WHO overview showed that in Turkmenistan only 8% of the population smokes,” Chan told the country’s authoritarian president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, at a health forum in the capital, Ashgabat.

Legal papers claim Andrea Constand, who alleges comedian drugged and assaulted her, has breached 2006 confidentiality agreement

Comedian Bill Cosby filed legal papers on Tuesday calling for court sanctions against a woman accusing him of sexual assault, saying she breached their confidentiality agreement in the leak of his full deposition from a 10-year-old civil case.

Incarceration provides an opportunity to test for HIV, provide treatment such as highly active anti-retroviral therapy, as well as link infected persons to comprehensive HIV care upon their release. A key factor in assessing the success of a program that links released individuals to care is the time from release to receiving care in the community (linkage time). To estimate the linkage time, records from correction systems are linked to Ryan White Clinic data using encrypted Unique Client Identifier (eUCI). Most of the records that were linked using eUCI belong to the same individual; however, in some cases, it may link records incorrectly, or not identify records that should have been linked. We propose a Bayesian procedure that relies on the relationships between variables that appear in either of the data sources, as well as variables that exists in both to identify correctly linked records among all linked records. The procedure generates K datasets in which each pair of linked records is identified as a true link or a false link. The K datasets are analyzed independently, and the results are combined using Rubin's multiple imputation rules. A small validation dataset is used to examine different statistical models and to inform the prior distributions of the parameters. In comparison with previously proposed methods, the proposed method utilizes all of the available data and is both flexible and computationally efficient. In addition, this approach can be applied in other file linking applications. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

In Southpaw Jake Gyllenhaal plays a boxing champ who has the stuffing knocked out of him by fate when his wife is killed and his finances spiral out of control. Benjamin Lee asks what it was like for Gyllenhaal – who grew up comfortably-off in LA – to play a working-class scrapper. Southpaw is out in the UK on Friday 24 July Continue reading...

Shadow business secretary will tell US thinktank that nation is witnessing ‘the end of British electoral politics as we know it’

Labour’s conversion to the principle of a federal Britain has won a powerful new convert: the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, is to call on the party to back a parliament for England.

Umunna, who dropped out of the race to become Labour leader early on, also believes the party should embrace a federal structure.

But, regardless of when they read it, both the young ‘millennials’ and the older ‘boomers’ favour professional journalism as their major news source

An interesting study by Newsworks, the marketing body for national newspapers, shows the small differences - and big similarities - in the reading habits of younger and older people.

I’m not surprised by the results of the survey but it’s always nice to have one’s hunches confirmed!

般来说，剪辑、制作由 GoPro 拍摄的短片都会需要一些编辑技巧，正因为此，许多业余使用者可能就未必愿意去花时间研究、尝试。根据 TechCrunch 最新的报道来看，厂方如今显然也意识到了这一点。总裁 Tony Bates 日前在与投资方沟通时透露称，GoPro 已经在制作一款专为移动设备而设的剪辑应用。它目前已处在最终测试阶段，不出意外的话，在夏季结束前就能正式上线。 值得一提的是，GoPro 的想法还不止于此，其终极目标是打造能自动生成集锦视频的云端服务，让用户可以更方便地跟好友分享内...

Social Intelligence, Power, and Conflict (Current Topics in Management) by M. Afzalur Rahim
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1412855691 | 219 pages | PDF | 1 MB

【广州-UC】高级数据分析师

职位描述
1.负责产品的数据分析工作，挖掘数据分析需求，制定并实施分析方案，并根据数据分析结果为产品的改进提出合理化建议；
2.结合分析结果及对业务需求的深入理解，设计业务指标体系及数据产品并驱动研发。

岗位要求
1.大学本科或以上学历，数学、统计学、计算机等相关专业优先；
2.熟悉数据分析的相关理论，对数据分析有浓厚的兴趣；
3.熟练掌握SQL，对数据库的相关知识有所了解；
4.熟练使用R，SAS或其他统计分析工具辅助工作；
5.至少掌握一门脚本语言，如python/ruby/Java/C++/C；
6.良好的逻辑思维和批判性思维能力；
7.三年以上工作经验互联网数据分析；

Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice [Audiobook] by Antonin Scalia
English | March 12, 2012 | ASIN: B007K888E0 | MP3@64 kbps | 10 hrs 3 mins | 281 MB
Narrator: Wyntner Woody | Genre: Nonfiction/Politics/Justice

自称“百亿富翁”的美国总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普日前按竞选规定递交了财务状况报表。周三，联邦选举委员会将其公开。商人特朗普拥有个人资产140亿美元，每次演讲收费高达25万美元。他不仅在世界各地拥有多处房产，还大幅持股。他的财务报表的厚度，超过了其他所有候选人。

曾经是华尔街唱好中国经济主力的全球最大对冲基金Bridgewater已经转而看空中国经济，认为中国股市近期的暴跌行情可能会产生广泛而深远的影响。

中国股市戏剧性的大崩盘并没有动摇中国散户投资者信心。北京青年投资者小李(Jason Li)认为，这样的波动是市场行情的的一部分属于正常情况。 这位年仅17岁的在校学生表示，中国很多人投资股票都是人云亦云，这样是很不明智的

前几个星期，股市震荡，投资者们切身体会了一把心惊肉跳的感觉。不少选择杠杆类信托产品的投资者们，更是操碎了心，时刻担心着自己会不会被强制平仓。 近日，厦门市中级人民法院一审判决了一起投资人起诉信托公司的官司。

中国证券网讯（记者 时娜 实习生 张忆）前海管理局23日举行新闻发布会，公布了中国（广东）自由贸易试验区深圳前海蛇口片区建设实施方案（以下简称实施方案）。 实施方案提出了未来3-5年的十项项任务，71条具体措施，其中金融开放创新是重中之重，一共涉及22项具体措施

四川在线发布《江油一幼儿园因疏忽致一幼儿手背划伤缝6针 家长索赔10万元》一报道。数日后，四川在线记者又接到江油周女士电话爆料称：自己3岁多的女儿颖颖(化名，下同)在江油人民街幼儿园被同班小朋友于七天内伤害两次，

An Introduction to Measure and Probability (Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences) by John Taylor
English | July 31, 1998 | ISBN: 0387948309 | 315 Pages | PDF | 25 MB

Assuming only calculus and linear algebra, Professor Taylor introduces readers to measure theory and probability, discrete martingales, and weak convergence. This is a technically complete, self-contained and rigorous approach that helps the reader to develop basic skills in analysis and probability.

莫斯科发布了一份“不受欢迎组织”的初步名单，称这些组织“对俄罗斯联邦的宪法体系根基、防御实力，以及国家安全”构成了威胁。除了开放社会基金会(Open Society Foundation)、国家民主基金会(National Endowment for Democracy)、美国国际民主研究院(National Democratic Institute)、国际共和研究所(International Republican Institute)之外，这个名单里还包括麦克阿瑟基金会(MacArthur Foundation)。

这一举动是弗拉基米尔·普京(Vladimir Putin)在俄罗斯压制公民社会的行动中的一个环节，因此并不令人惊讶。然而，让人感到诧异和沮丧的是西方非ZF组织和俄罗斯学者对于克里姆林宫此举总体上采取的反应。在过去20多年里，我一直密切参与改善俄美两国科学家的关系的种种努力。但俄罗斯方面大张旗鼓地终止了一段富有成果的长期合作，我却几乎没有看到人们有表达抗议的迹象。多数人的回应都是同一种方式：保持低调，希望自己不要成为受害者。

NASA宣布开普勒太空望远镜在一颗类太阳恒星的宜居区发现了一颗类地行星，这款行星的轨道和公转与地球极为相近。Kepler-452b是至今在恒星宜居区发现的最小类地行星，它的直径比地球大60%，属于“超级地球”，其质量和构成尚未确定，但早先的研究认为此类大小的行星有很大的可能性有岩石表面。Kepler-452b的轨道距离母星比地日距离远5%，公转一周385天，母星Kepler-452年龄60亿年，比太阳长15亿年，直径比太阳大10%，比太阳亮 20%，位于天鹅座，距离地球1400光年。科学家表示他们不知道Kepler-452b是否支持生命。

一夜不睡便可改变基因

据马尔代夫新闻网站Haveeru Online报道，，马尔代夫议会以70票赞同、14票反对通过新法令，首次允许外国人购买马尔代夫岛屿。根据这项法令，外国投资者投入10亿美元以上的资金就可以永久性拥有马尔代夫的土地，但前提是至少70%的土地是填海造地形成的。马尔代夫总统已经批准签署了这一新法令。

据Minivan News新闻网站报道，马尔代夫ZF希望通过修改土地财产购置规定吸引更多的中国和中东地区投资者。

到目前为止，外国投资者只能在马尔代夫租赁土地，租期最长为99年。

马尔代夫在野党马尔代夫民主党（MDP）内有观点认为，这项新的立法会给外国机构进入马尔代夫带来巨大通道。

样本分析发现，在一晚的睡眠剥夺过后，志愿者生物钟基因的调控和活动产生了变化——表观遗传活动有所增加，基因表达水平有所变化。所谓表观遗传活动，指的是DNA分子调控哪些基因被表达、哪些基因不被表达。

今天和几个朋友到食堂去吃饭。

　那里本就是美女聚集的地方。

　甲：“哇！你看那个穿着丝袜的妹妹好漂亮。”

　乙：“是啊！不过有点胖了，要是在她的丝袜上划一刀，那肉准会爆炸开来。”

　丙：“也不至于吧！人家丝袜的质量好着呢。摸起来肯定很滑。”

　这他妈几个大色狼，我的心中充满了不屑，看着食堂打饭的师傅说：“来一碗丝袜……”

　老公：老婆，你看，你要的面膜我给你又买回来了。

　老婆：你不说一张面膜十几块，是浪费吗？怎么又给我买了？

　老公：老婆，我觉得吧，花点钱值……

　老婆：是不是你也看到我敷面膜有效果了？

　老公：对，很有效果……

　老婆：是不是我的脸上皮肤光滑多了，毛孔细腻多了，皮肤白皙多了……

　老公：不，是我的耳根清净多了……

　老婆：尼玛……

　甲：每天上班都要偷偷摸摸的接电话，是谁打电话给你啊？

　乙：上星期在公车上，看到一小偷准备掏一美女的兜，我当场喊了一声，美女十分感谢我，相互留了号码。想不到，一个很小的举动，美女每天都要打电话过来关心我一下，烦死了……

　甲：嘴上说还烦死了，其实心里美得很吧？

　乙：尼玛，没什么啊，想不到她是卖保险的，每天死皮赖脸的找我推销……

Finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos writes to IMF head Christine Lagarde seeking new loan but sources say ‘logistical problems’ are delaying talks

Greece has taken a step closer to a huge third international bailout by formally requesting help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but sources said “logistical problems” were delaying the start of talks in Athens.

The Greek government, which is seeking a three-year bailout worth up to