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Leto Met With Killers to Prepare for Joker

Edit IGN Insider 17 Apr 2016
Suicide Squad star Jared Leto put a lot of effort into playing the Joker. In preparation for the role, the actor met with "psychopaths and people who had committed horrendous crimes.". Maybe that's where Leto picked up the used condoms and anal beads?. Leto told Entertainment Weekly when he takes on a role like the Joker, he becomes "part detective, part writer." ... And I did what I needed to do deliver the best I possibly could." ... ....

A new urgency to find roadside test for drugged drivers

Edit LA Daily News 17 Apr 2016
No one yet has devised a practical and reliable field test to determine when a driver is under the influence of marijuana ... Bob Huff, who represents parts of Orange, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, is proposing legislation that would authorize use of saliva swab tests, which combined with portable instruments can detect the presence of pot and other drugs....

Case review for woman who had son taken from her care after failing drug test

Edit Belfast Telegraph 17 Apr 2016
The woman - who is in her thirties - has questioned the validity of a test carried out on a strand of her hair ... The woman had been randomly drug tested more than 40 times and all results were clear, said the judge ... The woman insisted that she had stopped taking drugs and has questioned the accuracy of the test....

DNA-matched training causes 3-times better performance for athletes

Edit Press TV 17 Apr 2016
Using the DNA-Fit test, researchers gave half of the participants training according to their individual genetic analysis ... Then it presents the athletes with a detailed report based on their swab test results....

Catching diabetes in expectant moms remains tricky

Edit The Times of India 17 Apr 2016
Internationally, practitioners have accepted guidelines put forth by the International Association of the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups which advise testing of fasting blood sugar and vein blood test at the first and second hour after giving the woman 75gm of oral glucose ... If the finger prick test done two hours later shows her sugar levels above 140mg/dL, she should be declared a gestational diabetic....

Dan Walters: California’s school gap wider than thought

Edit Sacramento Bee 17 Apr 2016
For years, they have pledged to close the gap that is exposed in periodic testing ... And the state already has administered tests based on the standards, results of which were released last year ... Because so much of the underlying curriculum was new, as well as the method of testing, they warned, results would be disappointing ... So I don’t want to set up what hasn’t been done ever as the test of whether LCFF is a success or failure.”....

 Drones, lasers, hypersonic weapons will be ‘game-changers’

Edit Springfield News-Sun 17 Apr 2016
Scientists and engineers at Wright-Patterson have developed an unarmed “cruise missile-like vehicle” that reached five times the speed of sound in tests, and have explored pairing drones with combat fighters in latest realm of technological advances, according to AFRL commander Maj ... “We expect in the next two to three years to have flight tests in both of those technology areas,” he said....

South Korea Believes North Likely to Conduct More Nuclear Tests Before May

Edit Sputnik 17 Apr 2016
Seoul officials believe that Pyongyang is likely to carry out an additional nuclear test before early May, as North Korea has increased activity at its nuclear test site, local media reported Sunday, citing government sources ... ....

Day 2- After day 1 snag, govt cancels leave of Metro employees

Edit Indian Express 17 Apr 2016
The Gandhi Nagar flyover in east Delhi during the day when the odd-even scheme was in place ... Enforcement the focus on Day 1, 500-plus challans in 5 hours Delhi's odd-even plan passes Monday test, too Odd-even policy ... Rai, however, pointed out that round one of odd-even had also started on a Friday and the Monday after that had been touted as the “real test” of the road-rationing plan....

Nothing dusty about Wisden – the cricket tome with a radical edge

Edit The Observer 17 Apr 2016
It is not that long ago, after all, that the England team used to attend a similarly formal dinner on the eve of each Test match ... Inside, one piece honours the docile days of pre-second world war cricket while another calls for day-night Tests, but then the almanack, for all its status as a historical authority, has long been a radical voice....

Leaked Picture Shows 2016 Color Rush Jersey Color Schemes For All Teams

Edit Inquisitr 17 Apr 2016
“The Color Rush jerseys are a test for four games this season, the first of which was last night,” the league said in a statement (via CBS Sports). “We did test the jerseys this summer on field and on television. The standard television test did not account for color blindness for fans at home that became apparent last night....

Editorial: Get the lead out of drinking water

Edit Detroit news 17 Apr 2016
Responding to the Flint water crisis, the governor on Friday laid out a broad proposal to make Michigan’s limits on contaminants in drinking water far stricter than the federal mandates, and to require more rigorous testing of water in schools, day care centers, nursing homes and government meeting facilities ... He’d also mandate annual tests of water in schools and other places that serve the most vulnerable populations....

Space Station Gets Experimental New Room with Installation of BEAM Expandable Habitat

Edit Universe Today 17 Apr 2016
It will remain joined to the station for at least a two-year test period.The 3115 pound (1413 kg) BEAM will test the use of an expandable space habitat in microgravity with humans for the first time.It was extracted from the Dragon’s trunk overnight with the robotic Canadarm2 and then installed on a side port of the Tranquility module at 5.36 a.m....
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