The Daily Populous

Saturday October 28th, 2017 night edition

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But this one will be especially awe-worthy, featuring a 7-year-old girl with a 3D-printed hand.

The resulting lack of blood flow to her arm meant that her right hand didn’t fully develop—she’s missing three fingers and has an underdeveloped thumb and pinky on her right hand.

While she can do lots of things with her left hand, some things really take two.

And in Hailey’s baseball-crazy family, not being able to hold a bat with both hands was a huge blow.

At age 4, Hailey’s doctors told her parents that prosthetics just aren’t feasible for a child who will quickly outgrow them.

Her 3D-printed hand has changed not only Hailey’s quality of life but how scientists are thinking about flexible, accessible, comfortable robotic hands.

Saturday’s game will be her World Series debut, but it won’t be the last you hear from her. »

​Simon Pegg Admits He’s Written A ‘Ridiculous’ Vampire-Driven ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ Sequel Treatment

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And although it doesn't look like we will be seeing one any time soon, it has emerged that Pegg has written a treatment for a follow-up that sounds like it would be absolutely hilarious.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Pegg said: "I jokingly wrote a treatment for From Dusk Till Shaun, which was a sequel to Shaun of the Dead.

"It was all about Shaun and Ed having to go up to Edinburgh, or something. »

Charred and feathered: Hawk and snake spark 40-acre fire in Montana

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Firefighters in Montana have uncovered the cause of a fire that burned some 40 acres of grassland earlier this week.

The blaze was sparked by a series of unfortunate events – involving a snake, two power lines and an accidental avian arsonist.

The flame-broiled bird was found still clutching a snake meal in its talons, and both animals showed signs of electrocution. »

Woman doesn't need husband's consent to undergo abortion, says Supreme Court

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In yet another women-centric judgement, the Supreme Court dismissed a man's petition to seek damages from his estranged wife for undergoing abortion without his consent.

It also ruled that an adult woman had an unimpeachable right to give birth or terminate pregnancy.

The top court upheld the woman's decision to abort their child as the couple shared a strained relationship. " »

Poland to Richard Spencer: keep out

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Foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski described Spencer as someone “who defames what happened during World War II, defames the Holocaust.”.

“He should not appear publicly, and especially not in Poland,” Waszczykowski said on Friday.

Spencer, 39, is the white supremacist leader who organized the August rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that turned violent, killing a woman. »