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761 F. 2d 465 - United States v. Nabors
761 F2d 465 United States v. Nabors
18 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 67
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,
John Calvin NABORS, Jr., Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals,
Eighth Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 12, 1984.
Decided May 6, 1985.
John Wesley Hall, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.
Robert J. Govar, Asst. U.S. Atty., Little Rock, for appellee.
Before BRIGHT, McMILLIAN and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges.
McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.
John Calvin Nabors appeals from a final judgment entered in the District Court1 for the Eastern District of Arkansas upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute meperidine in violation of 21 U.S.C. Sec. 846, distribution of meperidine in violation of 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(a)(1), and possession with intent to distribute hydromorphone, meperidine, methadone, and secobarbital in violation of 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(a)(1). Appellant was sentenced to a total of twenty years imprisonment, followed by five years of special parole and fined $15,000. For reversal appellant argues that the district court erred in (1) finding that appellant lacked a legitimate expectation of privacy in Gena Preston's house, (2) failing to grant appellant's motion for a new trial because of prosecutorial misconduct during closing argument and (3) admitting evidence of other crimes. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.
The facts can be summarized as follows keeping in mind that the evidence must be construed in the light most favorable to the jury verdict. Hamling v. United States, 418 U.S. 87, 94 S.Ct. 2887, 41 L.Ed.2d 590 (1974).
A hospital pharmacy in Little Rock, Arkansas, was robbed on November 22, 1982, at approximately 9:30 p.m., by two or three armed assailants wearing dark colored jumpsuits and ski masks. The assailants forcibly gained entrance to the pharmacy and then forced open the locked door to the room where most of the pharmacy's controlled substances were kept. Although a staff pharmacist triggered the alarm system during the robbery, the system did not function because the telephone lines had been cut.
An inventory of the hospital pharmacy made the morning following the robbery revealed that a variety of controlled substances had been taken during the robbery, including meperidine, hydromorphone, methadone, and secobarbital.
Shortly after the time of the robbery, on November 22, 1982, appellant visited Gena Preston at her home in Little Rock, Arkansas. Preston testified that during that visit appellant asked her if she had ever tried pure pharmaceutical cocaine, one of the substances taken from the pharmacy that night. Appellant then produced a small brown bottle containing cocaine.
After using the cocaine, appellant and Preston discussed the delivery of additional drugs. Appellant and Preston had an on-going drug dealing relationship. Appellant supplied drugs to Preston who then sold the drugs to John Drake.
On the afternoon following the robbery, appellant and Preston drove to the home of appellant's father in Little Rock. Preston waited in the car while appellant went inside. Appellant returned to the car carrying a tote bag containing approximately eighty boxes of meperidine which he placed on the floor near Preston's feet. Each box contained ten syringes of a premeasured dose of the drug. Preston, who was to sell the drugs for appellant, took the drugs back to her home and hid them. She subsequently sold the meperidine to her brother and to John Drake.
On Sunday evening, November 28, 1982, John Drake removed some boxes of meperidine from a hiding place in his home and placed them in his shaving kit which he then hid in the tool box of his truck. Drake and his family then went to visit his wife's sister. On the way Drake was stopped by North Little Rock and Sherwood police officers. Drake consented to the search of his truck that resulted in the discovery of the drugs hidden in his tool box. Appellant's fingerprints were found on these drugs and other drugs found in Drake's house pursuant to a consent search. After being advised of his rights, Drake told the officers that he had obtained the drugs from Preston. He also informed the police that Preston received the drugs from a man named "John," but that he could not identify the man because he had seen him once only for a moment. Drake agreed to cooperate with the police.
On the night following his arrest, Drake went to Preston's house wearing a body wire. In Preston's house Drake observed a paper sack containing boxes of meperidine. Preston refused to give Drake the drugs, however, because Drake had not paid for the other drugs she had given him previously and Drake had not brought money with him. As instructed by the police, Drake told Preston that he would pay her what he owed her and would pay her in cash if she could arrange to have all the remaining drugs brought to her house. Preston agreed to contact "John" and have the drugs delivered to her house.
At approximately 5:00 p.m. on Monday, November 29, 1982, Drake received a telephone call from Preston informing him that she expected "John" to deliver the remaining drugs to her house that afternoon, but that he had not yet arrived. Preston asked Drake to come to her house with his money. He agreed.
Meanwhile, the investigating officers commenced surveillance of Preston's house following the application and receipt of a state search warrant for Preston's house. At approximately 6:20 p.m. on November 29, 1982, an officer on the surveillance team observed appellant drive into Preston's driveway and walk toward the back of Preston's house, carrying a dark colored athletic bag in one hand. The surveillance officer notified the surveillance team of appellant's arrival.
Preston was waiting on the back porch of her house when appellant arrived. Preston testified that appellant told her that he intended to spend the night at her house. Preston and appellant entered the house locking the back door behind them. Preston drew the window shades in the dining room and then she and appellant began to inventory the drugs inside the athletic bag. Shortly thereafter, someone knocked on the front door. Preston answered the door while appellant gathered the drugs and placed them in the athletic bag.
To warn appellant that the police were knocking, she asked loudly whether the police had a search warrant. The police told Preston that the warrant was on the way, but she said that they could not enter until they produced the warrant. Nevertheless, the police entered the back of the house and arrested appellant while he was trying to escape through a bathroom window with the open athletic bag filled with pharmaceutical drugs.
Appellant and Preston were indicted on several drug related charges. Preston agreed to testify on behalf of the government in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Appellant was convicted by a jury on January 21, 1984. It is from that conviction that appellant now appeals.
Legitimate Expectation of Privacy
Appellant argues that the district court erred in denying appellant's motion to suppress evidence seized by the government during a search of Gena Preston's house on November 29, 1982, pursuant to a search warrant. The government argues that the district court was correct in finding that appellant's fourth amendment rights were not violated because appellant did not possess a reasonable or legitimate expectation of privacy in Preston's house on the day of the challenged search.
A person challenging the constitutionality of a search must demonstrate that he or she possessed a legitimate expectation of privacy in the particular area searched. Rakas v. Illinois, 439 U.S. 128, 148-49, 99 S.Ct. 421, 432-33, 58 L.Ed.2d 387 (1978) (Rakas ). That fourth amendment rights are personal and may not be vicariously asserted is clear. See United States v. Payner, 447 U.S. 727, 731, 100 S.Ct. 2439, 2443, 65 L.Ed.2d 468 (1980). The Supreme Court has indicated that a "casual visitor" to a house does not possess a legitimate expectation of privacy sufficient to challenge the search of a room to which he or she has never been or in which he or she only arrived a minute before the search commenced. See United States v. Perez, 700 F.2d 1232, 1236 (8th Cir.1983), citing Rakas, 439 U.S. at 142, 99 S.Ct. at 429. Several courts have determined that a guest in another's home can possess a legitimate expectation of privacy thus permitting the guest the right to challenge the search of the host's home, thereby distinguishing such a guest from the "casual visitor" in Rakas. See United States v. Torres, 705 F.2d 1287, 1295 (11th Cir.1983); United States v. Perez, 700 F.2d at 1236; United States v. Haydel, 649 F.2d 1152, 1155 (5th Cir.1981) (Haydel ); United States v. Robertson, 606 F.2d 853, 858 n. 2 (9th Cir.1979). In each of these cases there were present several factors relevant to the determination whether a guest possesses a legitimate expectation of privacy in his host's home that are absent in the present case. In United States v. Haydel, 649 F.2d at 1155, the Fifth Circuit relied on the following factors in concluding that the defendant possessed a legitimate expectation of privacy in his parents' home: (1) the defendant's parents gave him a key to their home, thereby providing him with virtually unencumbered access; (2) the defendant stored clothing at his parents' home and occasionally remained there overnight; (3) the defendant conducted a significant portion of his gambling activities at his parents' home and he owned the records seized; (4) the defendant apparently possessed the ability to exclude others from his parents' home; and (5) the defendant exhibited a subjective expectation that the contents of the box stored under his parents' bed were to remain private.
In United States v. Rackley, 742 F.2d 1266, 1270 (11th Cir.1984), the Eleventh Circuit stated that although there was testimony that the appellant in Rackley possessed a key to his host's home and stayed overnight there several times, he did not stay in the house immediately preceding the search and did not keep a full wardrobe in the house when he was there. Based on those facts, the court held that if the appellant possessed an expectation of privacy, it was limited to the guest bedroom and, because no evidence was seized in the guest bedroom, his expectation of privacy in the guest bedroom was of no legal consequence. Id. Other courts have found that guests in varying factual situations had no expectation of privacy in their host's home. See, e.g., United States v. Adamo, 742 F.2d 927, 947 (6th Cir.1984) (guest at a birthday party had no expectation of privacy in host's home), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 105 S.Ct. 971, 83 L.Ed.2d 975 (1985); United States v. Robinson, 698 F.2d 448, 454-55 (D.C.Cir.1983) (guest in home where other people freely entered failed to demonstrate legitimate expectation of privacy); United States v. Briones-Garza, 680 F.2d 417, 422-23 (5th Cir.) (illegal alien who resided in a house used as a "way station" for smuggling Mexicans into the United States did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 916, 103 S.Ct. 229, 74 L.Ed.2d 181 (1982); United States v. Meyer, 656 F.2d 979, 981-82 (5th Cir.1981) (guests who did not have a key to host's home, left no personal belongings there, and did not enjoy unencumbered access did not possess a legitimate expectation of privacy).
In the present case appellant did not have a key nor did he have unencumbered access to Preston's house. Appellant did not have permission to go into Preston's home when she was not there. In fact, she instructed appellant not to visit her without calling. Although appellant visited Preston two or three days a week from June 1982 through November 1982, appellant never spent the entire night there. Appellant did not receive mail or keep any personal belongings at Preston's home. Appellant was at Preston's home only a short time before the police arrived with a warrant to search the premises. Furthermore, appellant never claimed ownership of the drugs seized from his possession at Preston's home on November 29, 1982. Finally, although appellant argues that he obviously intended the drug transaction to remain private, "the subjective expectation of not being discovered conducting criminal activities is insufficient to create a legitimate expectation of privacy." United States v. Meyer, 656 F.2d at 982, citing Rakas, 439 U.S. at 143-44 n. 12, 99 S.Ct. at 430-31 n. 12. See also Oliver v. United States, --- U.S. ----, 104 S.Ct. 1735, 1743 n. 13, 80 L.Ed.2d 214 (1984) ("Certainly the Framers did not intend that the Fourth Amendment should shelter criminal activity wherever persons with criminal intent choose to erect barriers and post no trespassing signs."). We hold, therefore, that the district court did not err in finding that appellant failed to establish that he had a legitimate expectation of privacy in Preston's home on the date of the challenged search.
Prosecutorial Misconduct
Appellant argues that statements made by the prosecution during closing argument prejudiced appellant before the jury, thus depriving him of his right to a fair trial. Appellant argues that the prosecution accused defense counsel of misstating the evidence and invoked God on the side of the prosecution. The government argues that the issue has not been preserved for appellate review because appellant failed to object to the comments during closing argument, request a curative instruction or make a motion for a mistrial because of the comments. The government argues, therefore, that the proper standard of review is plain error and that the prosecution's comments during closing argument did not constitute plain error. The government argues that its closing argument was a fair comment on and in reply to the points raised by defense counsel's closing argument.
This court has often rebuked prosecutors for improper statements made during closing arguments. See United States v. Harvey, 756 F.2d 636, 646-49 (8th Cir.1985) and citations contained therein. However, the district court is vested with broad discretion in controlling closing arguments. Id.; United States v. Llach, 739 F.2d 1322, 1330 (8th Cir.1984); United States v. Michaels, 726 F.2d 1307, 1315 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 105 S.Ct. 92, 83 L.Ed.2d 38 (1984). If an arguably improper statement made during closing argument is not objected to by defense counsel, this court will only reverse under exceptional circumstances. Fed.R.Crim.P. 52(b).
In the present case appellant failed to object to the arguably improper comments. In its general instructions, the district court carefully cautioned the jury that the attorneys' arguments were not evidence and that they should consider only the evidence in arriving at their verdict. See United States v. Harvey, 756 F.2d at 649. Furthermore, the evidence in this case was substantial. When viewed in the light of the entire trial, the prosecutor's statements clearly did not constitute plain error.
Evidence of Other Crimes
Appellant challenges the district court's decision to admit evidence of appellant's participation in two hospital pharmacy robberies, arguing that the government failed to adequately prove appellant's participation in the other crimes and the prejudicial effect of this evidence outweighed its probative value.
Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that his or her conduct on a particular occasion was in conformity with it. However, evidence of prior conduct which may constitute a separate crime may be offered to prove motive, intent, opportunity, knowledge, preparation, common scheme or plan, identity, or absence of mistake or accident. Fed.R.Evid. 404(b). E.g., United States v. Llach, 739 F.2d at 1327. Before evidence of other crimes may be admitted, the following prerequisites must be established:
(1) the evidence of the other act must be relevant to a material issue; (2) the other act must be similar in kind and reasonably close in time to the crime charged; (3) the evidence of the other act must be clear and convincing; and (4) the probative value of the evidence must not be outweighed by its prejudice.
Id., citing United States v. Miller, 725 F.2d 462, 466 (8th Cir.1984). If the district court finds that the admissibility requirements of Fed.R.Evid. 404(b) have been satisfied, then a cautionary instruction to the jury should be given. United States v. Llach, 739 F.2d at 1327. Finally, the court will not reverse the district court's decision to admit other crimes evidence under Fed.R.Evid. 404(b) absent a showing of an abuse of discretion. Id.; United States v. Boykin, 679 F.2d 1240, 1244 (8th Cir.1982).
In the present case the evidence concerning the robberies of Riverview Hospital Pharmacy on September 18, 1982, and Memorial Hospital Pharmacy on November 22, 1982, were offered to prove intent, design, plan, and motive. Appellant does not dispute that the first two requirements of admissibility under Fed.R.Evid. 404(b) have been satisfied. Nor does appellant argue that the district court failed to give the appropriate cautionary instruction. Specifically, appellant argues that the government failed to prove the other crime by clear and convincing evidence and that the prejudicial impact of this evidence outweighed its probative value.
Preston testified that appellant told her that he and two others had participated in the robbery of Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1982. "Direct testimony of the defendant's participation in the prior transaction is sufficient to meet the clear and convincing standard." United States v. Llach, 739 F.2d at 1327, citing United States v. Evans, 697 F.2d 240, 248 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 460 U.S. 1086, 103 S.Ct. 1779, 76 L.Ed.2d 352 (1983). Gena Preston also testified that on September 18, 1982, the same day as the robbery of Riverview Hospital Pharmacy, appellant and two other men came to her house with a duffle bag filled with pharmaceutical drugs. She testified that she observed appellant and the two other men as they inventoried the drugs contained in the duffle bag on September 18, 1982. Appellant has not demonstrated that the district court abused its discretion in concluding that there was clear and convincing evidence that appellant participated in the two hospital pharmacy robberies.
Finally, the district court made a specific finding that the prejudicial effect of this evidence was outweighed by its probative value. The district court has broad discretion in determining whether the probative value of other crimes evidence is outweighed by its prejudicial impact. See United States v. Miller, 725 F.2d at 466. The district court carefully instructed the jury at the time the evidence was admitted about the narrow purpose for which this evidence was admitted. We hold, therefore, that the district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the evidence of other crimes under Fed.R.Evid. 404(b).
Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the district court.
The Honorable George Howard, Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas


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Lucy began leading for Outlook after a friend recommended us to her. Then her local school were running an expedition and asked her to be their leader! She has worked with us for four years now and can't wait for this summer's Peru Expedition.
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Outlook were recommended to me by a number of my friends that had led for them, and simultaneously, my local high school were planning an expedition with Outlook and asked me to lead for them. It seemed like a sign so I went along for a leader selection weekend to find out more.
I'm now in my third year of leading for Outlook and am looking forward to heading to Peru this summer.
The expeditions are obviously very exciting and special experiences, and I love the work, but I also value the way that Outlook Expeditions take care of their leaders. I feel looked after!
I've had a few personal climbing trips in the Alpine areas of France, Switzerland and Slovenia, plus the Anti Atlas of Morocco. I fell in love with Africa many years ago on a big gap year adventure.
So far I've led three expeditions in Africa, two of which were for Outlook.
What is your top Outlook experience?
I completely fell in love with Mount Mulanje in Malawi whilst assessing a Gold Duke of Edinburgh expedition for Outlook. It's one of the most magical and unique places I've ever been.
I've seen young people discover hidden talents and develop new interests that they were not expecting. It's definitely changed lives!
Elephants walking through camp at night in Liwonde National Park was quite exciting – and the funny bit was that one did a pee like a river right next to a teacher's tent – a few more centimetres and it could have been quite a damp experience for him!
Budgeting can be tricky when there are unexpected price rises. We've found the Ops Room support invaluable in that situation, but it's also really important to keep good records and work through the finances. This is hard but budgeting is an important part of any adventurous expedition.


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Thank you for taking the time to check out my website. Below is a bit of info on how I got where I am now.
I bought my first home at 18 years old. It was a two-bed terraced house in York. I remember moving in and standing in the living room crying because it had stars and moons wallpaper and immediately started stripping the wallpaper off the walls before we had even finished moving in. That's when I knew I had an interior addiction.
I was on a very small salary that just about covered the bills and the house had no central heating. I used to wear gloves when I went on the computer in my bedroom.
I spent the little money I had renovating the property. I replaced kitchen cupboard doors in-stead of replacing the whole kitchen, replaced worktops and tiled the kitchen myself. Stair carpets were ripped up and sanded back to the original floorboards and I finally got central heating which was a present from a family member.
Everything I sourced was eBay finds or in the sale. When the house was completely renovated I decided to sell and sold the property after the first couple of viewings for double the price.
After falling pregnant with my second child, I decided that I wanted a career in Interior Design so I trained with the Interior Design Institute where I received my Interior Design Diploma.
I am also a certified Home Staging and Property Styling Professional and gained my qualification and certification through CHSSP.
I want to wipe out the myth that interior designers are just for the rich and bring you quality but affordable design solutions for all budgets and homes whilst working with you to determine what your style is, to achieve a design that is suitable to your lifestyle. I provide these services face to face or virtually.
I know how busy life can be, and finding the time to shop for the home can seem like a challenge, and unrewarding task, if you don't know what you are really looking for. I offers a personal shopping service to help ease some of the pressures off your hectic schedule.
I am more than happy to discuss any projects prior to commencing work to put your mind at ease and answer any questions.


Fisker Automotive says it has selected a site in the United States for the factory that will produce the $39,900 plug-in hybrid codenamed Nina.
Founder and CEO Henrik Fisker said the company has reached a deal to build as many as 100,000 of the cars annually and he will announce the specific location of the factory "soon." Fisker made the announcement at a conference in Washington D.C., and company officials could not be reached for comment. According to Dow Jones Newswires, the company was said to be considering sites in Delaware and California.
The company received a $528 million loan from the Department of Energy last month to finance engineering of the Karma plug-in hybrid and begin developing Nina, a four-door, five-passenger plug-in hybrid we could see as soon as 2012. Although the $87,900 Karma (pictured) will be built in Finland by contract builder Valmet, Fisker has long planned to build a more "affordable" sedan in the United States.
Henrik Fisker made the same claim when we interviewed him in August, and said his company would hit that target within five years. Such a figure would make Fisker Automotive larger than Porsche.
Although some reports say Nina will cost $48,000, Fisker told us in August the car will cost $39,900 after the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles.


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Artillero added I, Mage to their pull list Mar 11, 2016
I, Mage
Into a realm of magic and savagery comes a mysterious boy washed ashore. His is a lone survivor. Befriended by an apprentice magi, her quirky mentor, and a metal golem, together they are Kai's only hope to stay alive long enough for rescue. Prepare yourself for a d20 RPG adventure with an all new twist. Two variant covers limited to 1,50...
Artillero added Samurai: The Isle With No Name to their pull list Mar 11, 2016
Samurai: The Isle With No Name
The terrible agon against the treacherous Akuma has been won, and the empire is safe once more. But Takeo has set out for the mysterious Unnamed Island to continue his quest to finally discover the truth about his brother and his family - and the symbolic tattoo that saved his life. Covers by Frederic Genet and David Mack.
Artillero added Cry Havoc to their pull list Mar 2, 2016
Cry Havoc
BEHOLD THE MODERN MONSTROSITY.
X-Men Legacy writer SIMON SPURRIER and superstar artist RYAN KELLY present fiends, fragility, and firepower in an all-new series, mixing the hard-boiled militaria of Jarhead with the dark folklore of Pan's Labyrinth. Includes an unprecedented use of multiple colorists (MATT WILSON, LEE LOUGHRIDGE, & NICK FILARDI...
Artillero added Descender to their pull list Mar 2, 2016
One young robot's struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. A rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling space opera from the creators of Trillium, Sweet Tooth, and Little Gotham.
Artillero added Wrath of the Eternal Warrior to their pull list Mar 2, 2016
Wrath of the Eternal Warrior
For five millennia, the Eternal Warrior has shaped history at the end of his sword. He's razed empires, toppled civilizations, and broken armies as an immortal soldier in service to the Earth.
But now, the Eternal Warrior has been torn from the world he once protected and finds himself stranded in a hostile alien landscape unlike any h...
Artillero added Omega Men to their pull list Mar 2, 2016
The Omega Men are back in an all-new series! Theyve murdered White Lantern Kyle Rayner and now, the universe wants them to pay! Who are these intergalactic criminals and is there more to their actions than meets the eye?
Artillero added Constantine: The Hellblazer to their pull list Mar 2, 2016
Constantine: The Hellblazer
The dark adventures of DC's foremost occult detective continue in an all-new series as he investigates the cruelest case he's ever come across - his own dark history!
Artillero added Lazarus to their pull list Mar 2, 2016
"FAMILY," Part One
In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as thei...
Artillero dropped Broken World from their pull list Mar 2, 2016
Broken World
What's to Love: We're thrilled to publish the one new original series co-created and written by Frank J. Barbiere (Five Ghosts, Avengers World) in 2015. Broken World is a gripping sci-fi thriller and survival adventure great for fans of Y: The Last Man or The Massive. Barbiere and co-creator/artist Christopher Peterson (Grindhouse, Mayday) will exp...
Artillero added Predator: Life and Death to their pull list Mar 2, 2016
Predator: Life and Death
Colonial Marines on the planet Tartarus battle extraterrestrial hunters over the possession of a mysterious horseshoe-shaped spaceship of unknown origin. The Weyland-Yutani rep wants the ship, and the marine captain wants to protect her crew. But neither objective is likely when a band of Predators attacks!
Artillero added Monstress to their pull list Mar 2, 2016
Astonishing X-men and Black Widow writer MARJORIE LIU returns to comics with artist SANA TAKEDA (X-23) for an all-new ONGOING SERIES! Steampunk meets Kaiju in this original fantasy epic for mature readers, as young Maika risks everything to control her psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, placing her in the center of a devastating war b...
Artillero dropped Wytches from their pull list Mar 2, 2016
Wytches
Across the globe, century after century, men and women were burned, drowned, hanged, tortured, imprisoned, persecuted, and murdered for witchcraft. None of them were witches. They died protecting a terrible and hidden truth: witches, real witches, are out there. They are ancient, elusive, and deadly creatures that are rarely seen and even more rare...
Artillero added Black Magick to their pull list Mar 2, 2016
The hammer falls this Halloween! From New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning writer GREG RUCKA (LAZARUS, Stumptown, Gotham Central) and superstar artist NICOLA SCOTT (Birds of Prey, Secret Six, Earth 2)! Detective Rowan Black works robbery/homicide for the Portsmouth PD, but her greatest mystery is the truth about...
Artillero added Negative Space to their pull list Mar 2, 2016
They feed on your fear!
When one man's writer's block gets in the way of his suicide note, he goes for a walk to clear his head and soon uncovers a century-old conspiracy dedicated to creating and mining the worst lows of human desperation.
Artillero added Deadly Class to their pull list Jun 2, 2015
It's 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. He has no money. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't focus in class, thanks to his mind constantly drifting to the stunning girl in the front row and the Dag Nasty show he has tickets to. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin's top assassin, the teachers are members of an anc...
Artillero added Providence to their pull list Jun 2, 2015
The most important work of 2015 begins here with the long-awaited arrival of Alan Moore's breathtaking epic PROVIDENCE with his artistic partner Jacen Burrows. In his most carefully considered work in decades, Moore deconstructs all of Lovecraft's concepts, reinventing the entirety of his work inside a painstakingly researched framework of America...
Artillero added Injection to their pull list Jun 2, 2015
Once upon a time, there were five crazy people, and they poisoned the 21st Century. Now they have to deal with the corrosion to try and save us all from a world becoming too weird to support human life.
INJECTION is the new ongoing series created by the acclaimed creative team of Moon Knight. It is science fiction, tales of horror, str...
Artillero added Wytches to their pull list Jun 2, 2015
Artillero added Broken World to their pull list Jun 2, 2015


I was born in Connecticut, but I call Orlando Florida home. I am retired Air Force and I am a Dental Lab Tech by trade. We have been in the Springs since 2008 and I'm proud to still be working alongside my Air Force family on Peterson Air Force Base. My wife Isa and I have been married for 22 years and we have two daughters Briana & Lia.


Applications for admission to the National Church of England Academy are welcomed from students of all faiths, and none. It is not obligatory for parents/ guardians or the individual students to practise a faith or to worship regularly.
As a Church of England academy, National has no defined catchment area and accepts applications from any primary school or academy. Applications for our current year 7 students have been received from all over Nottinghamshire together with from feeder primaries within Hucknall itself.
If you are considering making an application for your son or daughter to join National there are a number of ways to find out if the academy is right for them. We host open days throughout the year for students in years 5 and 6, together with an open evening in September. Details of these events will be posted on this website and advertised through our social media channels.
We also run term-time tours for parents and students to enable you to see the academy on a normal working day. These can be arranged by calling the academy Admissions Officer on 0115 963 5667.


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""" Dist submodule

This submodule contains various probability distributions
that are generally returned as functions. They can then be called
on whatever inputs you like (e.g., axes).

"""

from __future__ import print_function, division
import numpy as _np
from psyutils.image import convert_to_log as _convert_to_log

def log_exponential(peak, width):
    """Return a log-exponential function with a certain peak and width.
    Modified version of equation 1 in Bex (2010), (In) sensitivity to
    spatial distortion in natural scenes. Journal of Vision.

    width is defined as half-bandwith, in octaves.

    """
    A = -1 / (_np.log(2)**2 * width**3)
    log_p = _np.log(peak)
    return lambda x: _np.exp(A * _np.abs(_convert_to_log(x) - log_p)**3)

def one_over_f(alpha):
    """Return a 1/f function"""
    return lambda x: _np.power(x, -alpha)

def log_cosine(peak):
    """Return a log-cosine function"""
    peak = _np.log2(peak)

    def f(x):
        #NOTE: this will give the divide by zero warning, should we generalize
        #_convert_to_log?
        x = _np.log2(x)
        filt = 0.5 * (1 + _np.cos(_np.pi * (x - peak)))
        filt = _np.where((x > (peak + 1)) |
                        (x <= (peak - 1)), 0, filt)
        return filt
    return f

def log_gauss(peak, width):
    return lambda x: _np.exp(-((_np.log2(x) - _np.log2(peak))
                             / (2 * width))**2)

def gauss(peak, width):
    return lambda x: _np.exp(-0.5*((x - peak) / width)**2)

def highpass(peak, include_border=True):
    """NOTE: doc this

    If include_border is true, peak is included in the filtered results,
    otherwise it's excluded

    """
    if include_border:
        return lambda x: _np.where(x <= peak, 0, 1)
    else:
        return lambda x: _np.where(x < peak, 0, 1)

def lowpass(peak, include_border=True):
    if include_border:
        return lambda x: _np.where(x <= peak, 1, 0)
    else:
        return lambda x: _np.where(x < peak, 1, 0)


The Ohio Turnpike Commission approved an increase in the speed limit on the Ohio Turnpike, according to an Associated Press article published on Recordpub.com.
By a 4-1 vote, the Commission increased the limit to 70 mph along the 241-mi. road, hoping that the increased speeds would lure trucks off of secondary roads and onto the Turnpike. The increase goes into effect on April 1, 2011, the article stated.
George Distel, the executive director of the Turnpike Commission, said the move was designed in the interest of safety, although he admitted in the article that no studies had been completed.
"We are trying to encourage heavy commercial vehicles off of parallel routes and onto the turnpike, which is designed to accommodate those vehicles much better than those two-lane highways," Distel said.
Distel went on to say that he was unsure if trucks were using the secondary roads because of the toll cost of the Turnpike, which can be as much as $75 for commercial vehicles.
"If you check our tolls against other toll roads in the nation, we are among the lowest," he said.
According to the article, the Ohio Trucking Association wrote a letter to the Commission on Monday urging it to consider lowering tolls.


From downloading the software to implementing it.
Following on from my last post in the series, on how we develop software with maximum efficiency and minimal interruptions, I'm going to explain how we set up both Jenkins and Fastlane to deploy builds to our QA department.
Configuring a Continuous Integration server can be a little tricky the first time around. As with everything you do in life, it takes time and patience to master and feel comfortable with. In this post, I will detail how we set up our pipeline in order to deliver builds to QA with ease for every feature that we develop.
Our approach may not fit your specific needs but you can use it as a base to experiment with before configuring it to suit your requirements. If you have any queries, I'm an email away.
Our deployment process is automated so it doesn't need any human intervention to trigger it.
We get the changelog from the Git commits.
Fastlane modifies and increments build number and pushes commits to the remote repo.
We get notifications if the process fails or succeeds.
Installing Jenkins is pretty straightforward, thanks to their useful User Documentation, which gives users access to handbooks, tutorials and guided tours.
Similarly, Fastlane offers a whole host of setup docs to get you started.
However, I do have a top tip for you! I've been experimenting with Apple's system Ruby and I would advise that, in this instance, you opt for Ruby Version Manager instead. Ruby Version Manager installs each version of Ruby straight into a hidden folder in your home folder so it doesn't affect the system Ruby. There's a helpful installation guide online if you're looking to follow suit.
Our basic job configuration checks out our Git project using Jenkins Git plugin. It then executes the appropriate lane of Fastlane.
We use Bitbucket so we first need to set up a Cron job that will trigger a build in Jenkins whenever a PR is opened in Bitbucket. In order to do that, we installed the Bitbucket pullrequest builder.
CRON: Use * * * * * and it will poll Bitbucket every minute to check for PRs.
Credentials: Set up a shared credential that you can use across all projects.
Branches Filter: You can choose to only build specific branches or leave it blank to build all.
CI Identifier & Name: We use Jenkins as our CI identifier and Project Name.
I'm now going to detail the Fastlane actions defined in the Fastfile. We use Fabric to distribute our internal builds to QA, so I defined a Lane to build and deploy to Fabric. An environment variable with the Fabric API key is set.
We don't want to accidentally deploy uncommitted changes so we also checked the Git status.
Before we build, we need to acquire the version number and increment the build number. We enable Fastlane to handle automatic version incrementing for us. When doing so with an iOS Application, we use Apple Generic Versioning. There's plenty of advice online as to how to set up automatic build increments so the process is relatively painless.
It uses a scheme for deployment and also handles signing for us.
With our build finished, we then upload it to Fabric.
And now that our build is deployed, it's time to notify the team that there's a new version available. We created a new Slack web-hook and added an environment variable that means, when a build passes, a notification gets posted to Slack to let everyone know that there is a new version available.
Before committing the changes we've made to the changelog and Info.plist files, we need to clean any build artefacts. This includes the actual binary that was compiled, as well as the unit test coverage reports, and the downloaded provisioning profiles.
Jenkins is an open source automation server that is flexible enough to meet our specific needs, allowing us to scale as needed, meaning we can add as many jobs as we want without having to upgrade the price plan.
We did, however, once lose Jenkins configuration, so I encourage you to put the Config file under source control! Fastlane is now developing its own CI which I will be keeping an eye on in order to test it as soon as it's released. Keep your eyes peeled for a future blog post on that!
Automating our deploys helps us to do more of them, as it reduces the complexity of testing and helps us to uncover bugs promptly. It has been extremely useful across the board, in all of our projects, and it's something we recommend.


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Victory! Army to Stop Tormenting Ferrets
Published August 15, 2013 by Michelle Kretzer. Last Updated January 3, 2018.
Ferrets are (literally) breathing easier today. Following a three-year PETA campaign—which included e-mails from more than 60,000 people, appeals from civilian and military medical experts, complaints to military authorities, and even a public banner drop from an overpass near the base in Tacoma—the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, has confirmed that it has completely replaced its cruel use of ferrets for pediatric intubation training with modern simulators. PETA's effort prompted Madigan's thoughtful new leadership to undertake an internal review that determined lifelike infant-patient simulators can be used to teach intubation skills without harming any animals.
Ferrets have good reason to celebrate: This archaic procedure—in which hard plastic tubes are repeatedly forced down the animals' delicate windpipes—can cause bleeding, swelling, pain, scarring, collapsed lungs, and even death. Not only is it harmful, it's also ineffective. Research shows that people trained on simulators are better at intubating babies than people trained in crude animal laboratories. So it isn't surprising that the use of animals has been replaced with lifelike infant simulators by nearly every other civilian and military medical training facility in the country.
In recent years, PETA has convinced more than a dozen institutions, including the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and the Naval Medical Center San Diego, to modernize their intubation training programs.
Next on our list is Texas' Lackland Air Force Base. Help us remind the facility that Department of Defense regulations require that alternatives to the use of animals be implemented whenever available, and urge it to join Madigan and drop its ferret laboratory today.


WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Trump administration, national security officials began exploring ways to free Austin Tice, an American journalist and a former Marine officer believed to be held by the Syrian government. His case has frustrated investigators and diplomats since he disappeared while on assignment nearly five years ago.
White House officials decided, because of the delicacy of the situation, to set up a back channel. Given the deteriorated relations between the United States and Syria, options were limited. So in early February, Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, spoke on the phone with Ali Mamlouk, the head of Syria's National Security Bureau intelligence service, a man accused of human rights abuses during the country's civil war and slapped with sanctions by the United States. The call was the highest-level contact between the governments in years.
Though Mr. Pompeo's discussion with Mr. Mamlouk prompted further communications that renewed hope that Mr. Tice would be freed, the operation fizzled out after the Syrian government's nerve gas attack in rebel-held northern Syria in April and the American missile strike in response, according to several former United States officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the efforts to free Mr. Tice remain secret.
The plight of Americans held hostage by reclusive foreign governments has received renewed attention since the death on Monday of Otto F. Warmbier, a 22-year-old college student from Ohio who was arrested in North Korea in January 2016. Many of the most difficult cases involve nations — like Syria — that have no diplomatic relations with the United States, giving American officials little leverage to negotiate. Outreach to Syria by President Trump's administration shows how far it has been willing to go to secure the release of Americans held abroad.
"Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't," said Daniel R. Russel, an assistant secretary of state under President Barack Obama.
While Mr. Warmbier was put on trial and his family knew he was being held by the North Korean government, Mr. Tice's case has been a conundrum. The United States believes the Syrian government is holding him, but it has no proof. Syria insists it does not know what happened to him.
"Austin Tice is not in the hands of Syrian authorities, and we don't have any information about him at all," Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told The Associated Press last year.
The Tice family declined to comment, as did the C.I.A. and the F.B.I.
Mr. Tice, a former Marine captain from Texas, left for Syria before his final year in Georgetown Law School. He traveled to the region and had been freelancing for news media outlets when he was abducted in August 2012.
A month later, Mr. Tice appeared blindfolded in a video that shows masked men with assault rifles. Looking scared and disheveled, he uttered a few words in Arabic and then vanished. Former American officials believe that the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria took Mr. Tice and that the video was a crude ploy to blame militants for his abduction.
Despite its antagonistic relationship with the United States, there is ample motive and precedent for the Syrian government to speak with high-level American officials. Before the civil war, there were several such contacts, including one in 2010 between Mr. Mamlouk and Daniel Benjamin, who served as the coordinator for counterterrorism in the State Department in the Obama administration.
Even after the war broke out and the United States adopted a policy of pushing for Mr. Assad's ouster, Syrian officials were open to communicating with Americans, diplomats say.
After the election, American officials decided to brief Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, and Stephen K. Bannon, who became the president's chief strategist, about the efforts to bring Mr. Tice home. Mr. Bannon was dismissive of Mr. Tice, raising questions about why he had gone to Syria in the first place, former officials said.
Still, after Mr. Trump took office, the administration moved forward, resulting in Mr. Pompeo's phone call with Mr. Mamlouk in which he raised the issue of Mr. Tice. It is not clear what exactly the two men said, but the United States later suggested to Mr. Mamlouk that freeing Mr. Tice would go a long way as the administration shaped its broader Syria policy, according to the former officials.
It seemed like the best chance yet to bring Mr. Tice home. Administration officials began trying to figure out how the Syrians might explain his lengthy disappearance. After the Americans received proof of life, the Syrians would announce they had found Mr. Tice, crafting a narrative to explain his abduction. Mr. Tice would be put on trial for violating the country's immigration laws and then pardoned by Mr. Assad. After Mr. Tice landed on American soil, Mr. Trump would call Mr. Assad.
Her comments were unusual, former diplomats said. The administration had weakened its negotiating position by giving the Syrian government something it wanted — the president's tacit approval of Mr. Assad — without demanding anything in return.
American officials suspect that Mr. Mamlouk or Brig. Gen. Bassam al-Hassan, an adviser to Mr. Assad, knows Mr. Tice's whereabouts. Like Mr. Mamlouk, Mr. Hassan has been hit with sanctions by the United States.
Last year, the American intelligence community concluded with moderate to high confidence in a secret analysis that Mr. Tice was alive, based partly on a report that he had been seen at a hospital in Damascus, being treated for dehydration.
Mr. Tice was not the only American held in Syria. Kevin Patrick Dawes, a freelance photographer from San Diego, was abducted in 2012 by government forces. In late 2014, the Syrians acknowledged holding Mr. Dawes, then freed him in April 2016 for health reasons, officials said.
At times, the Russian government, which is allied with Syria, tried to parlay the release of Mr. Tice, Mr. Dawes and others with ties to the United States who were being held in Syria to its advantage. In talks with American officials, the Russians suggested they might be able to help in exchange for the release of Russians imprisoned in the United States. The Americans also floated the idea of freeing a Russian spy for Mr. Tice, but Russian officials did not respond to the offer.
Ultimately, American officials concluded that the Russians did not know where Mr. Tice was or who was holding him.
Several Americans also remain held in Iran, including an elderly father and his son; in addition, a former F.B.I. agent and C.I.A. contractor, Robert A. Levinson, disappeared on the island of Kish in 2007. At least three others are still being detained in North Korea. Officials worry the government there could arrest more.
The momentum to free Mr. Tice came to a halt in April when the Syrian government unleashed the gas attack on its own civilians, killing dozens of men, women and children. In the days that followed, Mr. Trump ordered a strike on a Syrian air base used to carry out the gas attack.
Mr. Trump said in a recent interview that Mr. Assad was "truly an evil person." The situation only worsened in recent days as the United States shot down a Syrian fighter jet.


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Simuka Comedy marks fourth anniversary
Genre : Society news
Column : Comic strip
Release/publication date : 2015
Source : https://www.newsday.co.zw/2015/06/17/simuka-comedy-marks-fourth-anniversary/
THE fourth anniversary of Simuka Comedy, a comic ensemble founded by renowned comedians Doc Vikela and Simba "The Comic King" Kakora, will this year be bigger as it will be hosted in Harare and Bulawayo next month.
The anniversary will run under the theme "Men at Work" and the Harare version, slated for Sopranos Coffee shop in Avondale on July 4, will feature comedy heavyweights including Michael K, Carl Joshua Ncube and Comrade Fatso.
Co-founder and award-winning stand-up comedian Kakora said Simuka Comedy had slowly, but positively transcended the limits becoming a "touring festival" bent on boosting local comedy.
"The Simuka Comedy concept is slowly evolving into a comedy touring festival which will serve as an outreach platform for new comedians in many cities and towns in the country," Kakora said.
"This year the show is themed and will happen in Harare and Bulawayo, and the idea is to add more dates and cities next year once we get a little bit more financial power."
He added that he was happy with the increased participation in shows organised by Simuka Comedy which have positively impacted the local comedy industry.
"Our major achievements have been an increase of participating comedians from a mere four practicing comedians in 2011 to over 40 comics who perform in different venues, creating a circuit for them to perfect their craft," he said.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwean stand-up comedy is currently making strides at a regional and international level with local comics invited to perform at international festivals.


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New Genetic Test Asks Which Sport a Child Was Born to Play (2007, Nov 28)
New Genetic Test Asks Which Sport a Child Was Born to PlayBy JULIET MACUR <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/juliet_macur/index.html?inline=nyt-per> BOULDER, Colo. — When Donna Campiglia learned recently that a genetic test might be able to determine which sports suit the talents of her 2 ∏-year-old son, Noah, she instantly said, Where can I get it and how much does it cost? "I could see how some people might think the test would pigeonhole your child into doing fewer sports or being exposed to fewer things, but I still think it's good to match them with the right activity," Ms. Campiglia, 36, said as she watched a toddler class at Boulder Indoor Soccer in which Noah struggled to take direction from the coach between juice and potty breaks. "I think it would prevent a lot of parental frustration," she said. In health-conscious, sports-oriented Boulder, Atlas Sports Genetics <http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/genetics/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier> is playing into the obsessions of parents by offering a $149 test that aims to predict a child's natural athletic strengths. The process is simple. Swab inside the child's cheek and along the gums to collect the DNA and return it to a lab for analysis of ACTN3, one gene among more than 20,000 in the human genome. The test's goal is to determine whether a person would be best at speed and power sports like sprinting or football, or endurance sports like distance running, or a combination of the two. A 2003 study discovered the link between ACTN3 and those athletic abilities. In this era of genetic testing, DNA is being analyzed to determine predispositions to disease, but experts raise serious questions about marketing it as a first step in finding a child's sports niche, which some parents consider the road to a college scholarship or a career as a professional athlete. Atlas executives acknowledge that their test has limitations but say that it could provide guidelines for placing youngsters in sports. The company is focused on testing children from infancy to about 8 years old because physical tests to gauge future sports performance at that age are, at best, unreliable. Some experts say ACTN3 testing in its infancy and virtually useless. Dr. Theodore Friedmann, the director of the University of California-San Diego Medical Center's interdepartmental gene therapy program, called it "an opportunity to sell new versions of snake oil." "This may or may not be quite that venal, but I would like to see a lot more research done before it is offered to the general public," he said. "I don't deny that these genes have a role in athletic success, but it's not that black and white." Stephen M. Roth, director of the functional genomics laboratory at the University of Maryland <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_maryland/index.html?inline=nyt-org> 's School of Public Health who has studied ACTN3, said he thought the test would become popular. But he had reservations. "The idea that it will be one or two genes that are contributing to the Michael Phelpses or the Usain Bolts of the world I think is shortsighted because it's much more complex than that," he said, adding that athletic performance has been found to be affected by at least 200 genes. Dr. Roth called ACTN3 "one of the most exciting and eyebrow-raising genes out there in the sports-performance arena," but he said that any test for the gene would be best used only on top athletes looking to tailor workouts to their body types. "It seems to be important at very elite levels of competition," Dr. Roth said. "But is it going to affect little Johnny when he participates in soccer, or Suzy's ability to perform sixth grade track and field? There's very little evidence to suggest that." The study that identified the connection between ACTN3 and elite athletic performance was published in 2003 by researchers primarily based in Australia. Those scientists looked at the gene's combinations, one copy provided by each parent. The R variant of ACTN3 instructs the body to produce a protein, alpha-actinin-3, found specifically in fast-twitch muscles. Those muscles are capable of the forceful, quick contractions necessary in speed and power sports. The X variant prevents production of the protein. The ACTN3 study looked at 429 elite white athletes, including 50 Olympians, and found that 50 percent of the 107 sprint athletes had two copies of the R variant. Even more telling, no female elite sprinter had two copies of the X variant. All male Olympians in power sports had at least one copy of the R variant. Conversely, nearly 25 percent of the elite endurance athletes had two copies of the X variant — only slightly higher than the control group at 18 percent. That means people with two X copies are more likely to be suited for endurance sports. Still, some athletes prove science, and seemingly their genetics, wrong. Research on an Olympic long jumper from Spain showed that he had no copies of the R variant, demonstrating that athletic success is most likely affected by a combination of genes as well as factors like environment, work ethic, nutrition <http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/food-guide-pyramid/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier> and luck. "Just think if that Spanish kid's parents had done the test and said, 'No, your genes show that you are going to be a bad long jumper, so we are going to make you a golfer,' " said Carl Foster, a co-author of the study, who is the director of the human performance laboratory at the University of Wisconsin <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_wisconsin/index.html?inline=nyt-org> -La Crosse. "Now look at him. He's the springiest guy in Spain. He's Tigger. We don't yet understand what combination of genes creates that kind of explosiveness." Dr. Foster suggested a better way to determine if a child will be good at sprint and power sports. "Just line them up with their classmates for a race and see which ones are the fastest," he said. Kevin Reilly, the president of Atlas Sports Genetics and a former weight-lifting coach, expected the test to be controversial. He said some people were concerned that it would cause "a rebirth of eugenics, similar to what Hitler <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/adolf_hitler/index.html?inline=nyt-per> did in trying to create this race of perfect athletes." Mr. Reilly said he feared what he called misuse by parents who go overboard with the results and specialize their children too quickly and fervently. "I'm nervous about people who get back results that don't match their expectations," he said. "What will they do if their son would not be good at football? How will they mentally and emotionally deal with that?" Mr. Reilly insisted that the test is one tool of many that can help children realize their athletic potential. It may even keep an overzealous father from pushing his son to be a quarterback if his genes indicate otherwise, Mr. Reilly said. If ACTN3 suggests a child may be a great athlete, he said, parents should take a step back and nurture that potential Olympian or N.F.L. <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_football_league/index.html?inline=nyt-org> star with careful nutrition, coaching and planning. He also said they should hold off on placing a child in a competitive environment until about the age of 8 to avoid burnout. "Based on the test of a 5-year-old or a newborn, you are not going to see if you have the next Michael Johnson; that's just not going to happen," Mr. Reilly said. "But if you wait until high school or college to find out if you have a good athlete on your hands, by then it will be too late. We need to identify these kids from 1 and up, so we can give the parents some guidelines on where to go from there." Boyd Epley, the strength and conditioning coach at the University of Nebraska <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_nebraska/index.html?inline=nyt-org> from 1969 to 2003, said the next step would be a physical test he devised. Atlas plans to direct children to Epic Athletic Performance, a talent identification company that uses Mr. Epley's index. He founded the company; Mr. Reilly is its president. China and Russia, Mr. Epley said, identify talent in the very young and whittle the pool of athletes until only the best remain for the national teams. "This is how we could stay competitive with the rest of the world," Mr. Epley said of genetic and physical testing. "It could, at the very least, provide you with realistic goals for you and your children." The ACTN3 test has been available through the Australian company Genetic Technologies since 2004. The company has marketed the test in Australia, Europe and Japan, but is now entering the United States through Atlas. The testing kit was scheduled to be available starting Monday through the Web site atlasgene.com <http://www.atlasgene.com> . The analysis takes two to three weeks, and the results arrive in the form of a certificate announcing Your Genetic Advantage, whether it is in sprint, power and strength sports; endurance sports; or activity sports (for those with one copy of each variant, and perhaps a combination of strengths). A packet of educational information suggests sports that are most appropriate and what paths to follow so the child reaches his or her potential. "I find it worrisome because I don't think parents will be very clear-minded about this," said William Morgan, an expert on the philosophy of ethics and sport and author of "Why Sports Morally Matter." "This just contributes to the madness about sports because there are some parents who will just go nuts over the results. "The problem here is that the kids are not old enough to make rational autonomous decisions about their own life," he said. Some parents will steer clear of the test for that reason. Dr. Ray Howe, a general practitioner in Denver, said he would rather see his 2-year-old, Joseph, find his own way in life and discover what sports he likes the best. Dr. Howe, a former professional cyclist, likened ACTN3 testing to gene testing for breast cancer <http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/breast-cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier> or other diseases. "You might be able to find those things out, but do you really want to know?" he said. Others, like Lori Lacy, 36, said genetic testing would be inevitable. Ms. Lacy, who lives in Broomfield, Colo., has three children ranging in age from 2 months to 5 years. "Parents will start to say, 'I know one mom who's doing the test on her son, so maybe we should do the test too,' " she said. "Peer pressure and curiosity would send people over the edge. What if my son could be a pro football player and I don't know it?"
One club wants to use a gene-test to spot the new Ronaldo. Is this football's future? (2008, April 26)
One club wants to use a gene-test to spot the new Ronaldo. Is this football's future? Screening could help teams looking for talent · UK Sport has 'no power' to prevent use of technique
Matt Scott <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/mattscott> and Paul Kelso <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/paulkelso> The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian> , Saturday April 26 2008
This article appeared in the Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian> on Saturday April 26 2008 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/apr/26> on p3 of the Top stories <http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/apr/26/mainsection/topstories> section. It was last updated at 00:37 on April 26 2008.
For decades the task of identifying emerging football talent has been considered an art rather than a science, exclusively the preserve of wise old pros and sharp-eyed scouts and dependent on a large slice of luck. Now, however, it seems leading football clubs are turning to cutting edge laboratory techniques to aid their search for the next David Beckham. According to a leading sports scientist, at least one football club has explored the possibility of using genetic screening to separate prospective Ronaldos from those destined to join the Sunday morning hackers on Hackney Marshes.
Dr Henning Wackerhage of the school of medical sciences at Aberdeen University told the Guardian that a professional club had made contact with him about the possibility of screening players to discover whether they have a genetic predisposition to athletic excellence.
Wackerhage prepared an academic paper earlier this year highlighting experiments that had produced enhanced physical performance in mice and rats, and the possibilities offered by gene doping and screening for enhanced athletic performance. He has since suggested that it might be possible to produce the human equivalent of a formula one car by using genetic mutations. His research was picked up by the unnamed club, which got in touch hoping to exploit nascent gene-screening technology, already freely available in Australia, which tests athletes for a number of genes considered indicative of top-level performance.
"A football club was interested in doing genetic testing of athletes," he said. "It was a genetic performance test. My advice was that there are questions of legality with an employer doing genetic tests on its employees. They wanted to conduct a test that is specific to genetics."
Australian company Genetic Technologies offers a A$100 (£47) test that claims to identify whether customers have the fast-twitch muscle function gene ACTN3, which is found in leading sprinters.
There are other genes associated with athletic ability including PPARdelta, which governs slow-twitch muscle growth; IGF-1, which controls human growth; and genes that regulate erythropoietin, a hormone that affects the production of red blood cells.
Finding and developing players who will help clubs win titles and reap large profits on the transfer market is the holy grail of football development. Manchester United's achievement in developing half a team of international players in the shape of Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and Gary and Phil Neville is the benchmark for talent identification, and English professional clubs spend £50m a year trying to achieve similar success.
Wackerhage said he was not in favour of using the screening method but said the technology had potential. He also gave a speech earlier this month suggesting that genetic modification could reduce the world record for the marathon, currently just over two hours, to 90 minutes.
"The aim of the talk was to highlight the fact of genetic research on mice and humans. It shows why there are different natural variations in sporting ability," he said. "The mice are made to be different because their DNA is changed. Sometimes it doesn't cause disease but leads to fitter specimens, better storage of glycogens, a massive heart etc. The idea of the talk was as a thought experiment that would consider combining all the mutations to see if you got a superathlete."
Huw Jennings, youth development manager at the FA Premier League, said screening could have a role to play in identifying athletic talent but was unlikely to establish whether youngsters would make the grade as professional footballers.
"While you may be able to identify athletic ability, the road from promising youngster to top professional is far from smooth, and it doesn't necessarily follow that talented athletes will become talented footballers," he said.
UK Sport, the body that governs drug testing in Britain, said it had no power to prevent clubs using genetic screening on players as it was not prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Ethics to guide gene quest for sport stars (2007, May 19)
Ethics to guide gene quest for sport starsJacquelin Magnay May 19, 2007 GENETICS has long been touted as the next big thing in sport - the "big" being the potential abuse of gene manipulation to enhance sporting performance.
But Australian authorities are keen to use genetics in an ethical way to identify the next big thing: the next great sporting hero.
In the past two days the bio-ethicists at the Hastings Centre in New York have grappled with their final position statement, using input from the Australian Institute of Sport's director, Peter Fricker, to clarify research issues affecting genes and sport.
Fricker is planning to submit the Hastings Centre framework to the World Anti-Doping Agency and seek permission from the Federal Government to restart athlete genetic research which was put on hold in 2004.
"We had to make sure we got the guidelines in place because it is such an important issue," he said. "But the research will be to see if genetic screening is worth doing in the first place. Is it worth making it part of the battery of current testing like heart rate∑ or do we find 99 per cent of an athlete's ability is because of coaching, physiological aspects or training and the DNA is only a small part?"
Scientists could, for example, take a sample of tissue, analyse the DNA and work out which sport an athlete is best suited to. And if the athlete had the "boxer" gene, indicating a predisposition to injury, or more serious diseases like Alzheimer's and heart disease, they could be spared long stints on the sideline with prevention programs.
The think tank's initial ideas for ethical guidelines include a requirement that athletes be at least 12 years old before being involved in research, and that the need of sports organisations who cared for athletes to know genetic information should prevail over an athlete's not wanting to know.


Today we will analyse the 18th match of Karnataka Premiere League 2018 which will be played between Hubli Tigers vs Bengaluru Blasters at the Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadiyar Ground, Mysore. Both teams are at the top of the point table with 7 points while the Bengaluru Blaster are ahead of Hubli Tiger with a more net rate.
The Bengaluru Blaster has won their previous match against Shivamogga Lions. Bowling, first they manage to stop them under the score of 146 in 20 overs. Arshdeep Singh Brar was their top wicket-taker for the match with 2 wickets in just 1 over. while V Koushik, Abhishek Bhat, Manoj S Bhandage & Anand Doddamani took 1 wicket each.
Chasing the target they lost early wickets of all their top order batsmen except Pavan Deshpande who managed t0 scored decent 34 runs while Bharath Devaraj scored 38 runs off 41 balls. The main star of the main match was Abhishek Bhat who was the game changer as he scored a quick 40 0ff 19 balls to lead their team to victory.
The Hubli Tiger on the other side has also won 3 matches out of the 5 matches they have played so far in the tournament. They won their previous match against Mysuru Warriors in a nail-biting situation where they had to defend 13 runs off 6 balls. Kranthi Kumar bowled superbly in the last over with 3 yorkers balls and got the wicket of SP Manjunath at the last bowl of the match where they need to stop a boundary as the Mysuru Warriors needed 4 off 1 ball.
So, let see who wins today's match as both teams are at their best.
Hubli Tigers has a high chance as they have good bowlers in their team.
They won 3 matches out of their 4 matches and are at the 2nd position of the point table. So, they will want to win this match to be on the top spot.
Mohammed Taha & Kranthi Kumar will open for the team in the inning. Taha is in good touch as he scored 68 runs in the previous match.
Abhishek Reddy will bat at 2nd down while Sujit N Gowda, Praveen Dubey will bat after him. Sujit played a quick inning of 31 of 19 balls in the previous match.
Vinay Kumar(c), Darshan MB, AM Kiran will manage the lower middle order for the team. Viny Kumar is good allrounder for the team as seen in this season.
Vinay Kumar, Darshan MB & Kranthi Kumar will lead the pace attack for the team.
Mahesh Patel will lead the spin attack for the team. he is taking wickets in all the matches.
Bengaluru Blasters are at the top spot in the point table due to impressive performance this season. They are the defending champion and their eyes are again in the title this year too.
M Vishwanathan(w), Robin Uthappa will open for the team. Both failed in the previous match but they are a top class player so they can change the game with their batting ability.
KB Pawan, Pavan Deshpande, Arshdeep Singh Brar will manage the middle order for the team.
KB Pawan will be a risky play in this match as he has not yet performed in the tournament so far.
Pavan Deshpande & Arshdeep Singh Brar will be the key player for the team as they were in good touch so far.
Manoj S Bhandage, Bharath Devaraj & Abhishek Bhat will manage the lower middle order for the team.
V Koushik will lead the spin attack for the team.
Mohammed Taha, Abhishek Reddy, AM Kiran (wk), Sujith Gowda, Vinay Kumar (c), Praveen Dubey, Mahesh Patel, Kranthi Kumar, Darshan MB, P Shetty/A Sakuja/Anil IG, S Seshadri.
M Vishwanath (wk), KB Pawan, R Uthappa (c), Pawan Deshpande, Arshdeep Singh Brar, Manoj S Bhandage, Mitrakant Yadav, A Doddamani, Abhishek Bhatt, B Devaraj, Kaushik V.
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'Star Wars: Episode 8' Leak: Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia, Snoke Face-Off In The Last Jedi?
Disha Mashelkar
The latest leak from Star Wars: Episode 8 alleges that Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) will have a face-off against Supreme Leader Snoke. Fans are buzzing to find out the real reason why this might happen in The Last Jedi.
The report from Nerdist questions whether at the beginning of the movie Princess Leia and Snoke will head for a face-off? As per media report, this leak alleges that apparently Princess Leia gets captured by Captain Phasma and his unit. He takes her on board on the Star Destroyer that has Snoke. And, he presents her in front of the Supreme Leader.
If this leak is true then it brings up certain questions. For instance, why Snoke and Princess Leia have a face-off? Is she killed in the beginning of The Last Jedi by Snoke? Or did she manipulate Captain Phasma to capture her, so that she can meet her son Kylo Ren?
Ren has been under the manipulation of Snoke. It is seen in The Force Awakens that Ren tries to capture Rey and Finn under the command of Snoke. His mother (Princess Leia) is aware that her son has been drawn toward the dark side of the force. To get him back she even asks her husband Han Solo to convince Ren. But in that attempt, Han loses his life at the hands of Ben Solo aka Kylo Ren.
The effect of the tragedy of the death of Han in The Force Awakens might be seen in Star Wars: Episode 8. There are speculations that there will be a funeral scene. But it has not been revealed yet whose funeral it is.
One possibility why Princess Leia face-off against Snoke is to get her son back. She has been attempting to do this since Episode 7. Another reason why Fisher's character might attack Snoke is to defeat him and strengthen the light side of the force.
The reality of this leak will be learned only when Star Wars: Episode 8 opens in theaters. The Last Jedi is directed by Rian Johnson and is set for a release on Dec. 15.
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