First baseman Eric Hosmer follows through on an RBI single to score Melky Cabrera in the first inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.
The Padres, according to sources, have offered first baseman Eric Hosmer a seven-year contract, further illustrating their interest in one of the offseason's premier free agents. But attempts to lure Hosmer to San Diego appear to be facing stiff competition from another small-market team.
According to a USA Today report, the Royals have offered Hosmer a seven-year, $147 million deal to remain in Kansas City, while the Padres' bid is worth $140 million.
People with knowledge of San Diego's pursuit on Wednesday contradicted that report. The Padres' offer is lower than $140 million, according to sources who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of negotiations. The exact amount proposed is unknown, though it is well above $100 million.
Similarly, it is unclear if the Padres and the Royals are willing to increase their respective offers. As of Wednesday, the Padres did not seem to be planning a substantial hike.
Either of the current bids, if accepted, would shatter a franchise record. The Padres have never committed more than the $83 million incumbent first baseman Wil Myers received last year in a six-year extension. Following the 2015 season, the Royals gave outfielder Alex Gordon a four-year, $72 million deal.
Both teams have courted Hosmer in hopes of featuring him during a rebuilding phase. The Padres believe the 28-year-old could help them bridge the gap to contention within the next few seasons. While not as far along in their own reconstruction, the Royals believe their homegrown star continues to fit in their long-term plans.
Other obvious candidates for Hosmer have been scarce. The Boston Red Sox excused themselves from the sweepstakes last month by signing first baseman Mitch Moreland to a two-year, $13 million deal. The St. Louis Cardinals have emerged as a dark horse, but the free-agent market, in general, has been slow to develop.
Baseball's most powerful agent is among the contributing factors. Scott Boras, who represents Hosmer, J.D. Martinez and other high-profile players, has consistently demonstrated a willingness to strike deals late in the offseason. Industry sources say the asking prices for Hosmer and Martinez began in the $200 million range, with Boras seeking an eight-year contract for the former.
"He told these guys he would get them those figures and will wait as long as he can," one baseball official familiar with Boras said recently.
Hosmer has signaled some level of mutual interest to both of his most aggressive suitors. The first baseman visited with the Padres twice this winter, and he remains beloved by the Royals, with whom he went to consecutive World Series in 2014 and 2015. People close to Hosmer say he would like to play for a winning team sooner than later, perhaps lending credence to the Cardinals' candidacy.
Sources refuted a recent report that a "deep split of opinion" exists within the Padres organization over whether it is the right time to pursue a player such as Hosmer. Team officials appear convinced Hosmer is capable of spearheading a culture shift along with a playoff push in the not-too-distant future.
Yet, as is the norm in free agency, the pressing question continues to be compensation. Although Myers has declared his willingness to accommodate Hosmer by moving to the outfield, an overpay may be unappealing for a club that alternatively could reserve its funds for a position of clearer need. If a split in opinion does exist, it concerns how much the Padres would be willing to pay for Hosmer's services.
According to a source, the Padres have avoided arbitration with reliever Carter Capps, agreeing to a $1.0625 million salary for 2018. MLBTradeRumors.com had projected a $1.3 million figure for the right-hander.
Capps had his return from Tommy John surgery ended prematurely last season. The 27-year-old underwent surgery in late September to address thoracic outlet syndrome. He is expected to be ready for spring training next month.
Five Padres remain eligible for arbitration: relievers Brad Hand and Kirby Yates, infielders Freddy Galvis and Cory Spangenberg, and outfielder Matt Szczur.
Mark Prior, the Padres' minor league pitching coordinator for the past three years, has joined the Los Angeles Dodgers as their bullpen coach.
The ex-Chicago Cubs star and University of San Diego High graduate is the second hire the Dodgers have added from the Padres' player development staff this offseason. Los Angeles previously hired Luis Ortiz, San Diego's former field and hitting coordinator, as an assistant hitting coach/minor league hitting coordinator.
The Padres have not yet announced their minor league coaching and development staffs for 2018.


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HomeInterviewsINTERVIEW: Catrin Vincent of London four-piece, Another Sky
INTERVIEW: Catrin Vincent of London four-piece, Another Sky
February 26, 2019 Mark Millar Interviews 0
London four-piece Another Sky has captivated media and fans alike with their debut EP 'Forget Yourself' and recent singles 'Avalanche and 'Apple Tree',' featuring unbridled cinematic sonics, anchored by political poignancy and lead singer Catrin Vincent's astonishing, otherworldly vocals. Known for their enthralling and mysterious live shows tickets flew for their current nationwide UK tour, 2019 is Another Sky's for the taking.
Mark Millar caught up with lead vocalist and songwriter Catrin Vincent to find out more about one of the UK's most exciting new bands.
How did the band get together?
Jack decided he wanted to be in a band with Naomi and Max. He mentioned they needed a singer, so I said I was up for it. We all got in a room and wrote a song straight away. That's when we knew it was something special.
Who are the band's musical influences?
I'm not allowed to say 'Max likes Four Tet' anymore because I've said it so much it's become a bit of an in-joke. We've also spoken a lot about our mutual love of Talk Talk's latter two albums. I'll mention some authors for lyrics, still technically part of the music; Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney, Naomi Alderman and Olivia Laing.
In the past year Another Sky has released your debut EP 'Forget Yourself' and the singles 'Apple Tree' and 'Chillers'. Do you have plans for an album this year?
We're making an album but we don't know when it'll be released. We keep saying 'soon'.
What was the band's songwriting process?
We write our songs from jams. Though we lost a regular rehearsal space for a bit, so we had to write parts in our bedrooms. Now we're on tour after writing at least once a week for five years which feels weird. It's exciting seeing our writing process evolve when confronted with limitations.
How do you find being a new band in today's music climate?
We keep hearing that it's really hard for bands and rock is dead, but I don't think anything has been 'taken' from bands by other forms of music getting their well deserved time in the spotlight. Bands will never die. There will always be something fascinating about the dynamic of a group of musicians.
What changes about how you work together as a band from tour to tour? Do you have set rituals or superstitions that are now integrated into your routines?
Luckily, we all really get along and the tour is a string of funny jokes. Sometimes we meditate before a gig. We'll go and watch the support act to get pumped.
It's wind down time after a show. What's your go-to listen to unwind or recharge?
Silence! Sorry, boring answer, but very true.
What are you most grateful for about being able to be a musician every day?
At the moment it's a very new word. We've only just quit our jobs so it's a weird mix of guilt, freedom and validation. Suddenly a switch has been flicked and we're allowed to call ourselves full-time musicians, despite being no more talented than others who are still struggling. It's hard to feel grateful right now but we have to enjoy it while it lasts. I guess we're grateful for being able to feel validated by our art, for now.
Do you have a record that you always return to?
Immunity – Jon Hopkins. That was a pretty revolutionary album.
What have you been listening to recently that you could recommend?
Adrianne Lenker's new solo album – abysskiss. It's incredible.
Another Sky is Singer and guitarist Catrin Vincent, bassist Naomi Le Dune, guitarist Jack Gilbert and Max Doohan on drums.
FEBRUARY UK TOUR:
26 Brighton, Komedia Studio Bar
27 Cambridge, The Portland Arms
28 London, Rich Mix
FURTHER LIVE DATES
8-17 SXSW
04 Live at Leeds
05 Hit The North Festival, Newcastle
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On the first day of 2021, Another Sky will release their latest body of work, an EP entitled, "Music For Winter Vol. I". Consisting of singles "It Keeps Coming" and "Sun Seeker", the EP follows […]
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ANOTHER SKY Announce Headline Belfast Show @ MCHUGHS BASEMENT BAR, Wednesday 6th Feb 2019
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London four-piece Another Sky are pleased to announce a headline Belfast show at McHughs Basement Bar on Wednesday 06th February 2019. The band released their stunning new single 'Avalanche' to critical acclaim earlier this year. […]

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The real star of 'The Undoing'? Nicole Kidman's eyeballs.
From left, Hugh Grant, Nicole Kidman and Noah Jupe in "The Undoing." (Niko Tavernise/HBO)
By Bethonie Butler
Note: This post discusses plot details from various episodes of HBO's "The Undoing." Possible spoilers ahead.
HBO's "The Undoing" is a perfectly fine six-episode miniseries about a couple, Grace and Jonathan Fraser (Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant), whose marriage and privileged lives implode when Jonathan is accused of murdering his mistress. The plot, based on a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, is standard fare for a David E. Kelley drama. Kidman and Grant, veteran actors who both played deliciously evil "Paddington" villains, are the obvious draw.
The acting is indeed good. Grace's coats (you must have heard about the coats) are fabulous. But no one in the show shines more than Kidman's steely baby blues, which quickly become a character of their own.
'The Undoing' is less absorbing than 'Big Little Lies,' but Nicole Kidman fans probably won't mind
The eyes have it from the very first episode, where they serve mostly as a focal point in scenes with Elena (Matilda De Angelis), a young mother whose child attends school with Grace and Jonathan's son Henry (Noah Jupe). Grace's friends greet Elena with a mix of jealousy and disgust over her youth, beauty and lack of wealth, but Grace's eyes hint at something else: intrigue, perhaps, or longing for her 20s.
The something else remains even as Elena comes on a little strong, striking up a conversation with Grace while standing naked in the locker room at their gym and, later, when a visibly upset Elena kisses Grace on the lips before leaving a swanky school function.
When Grace gets a call informing her that Elena has been murdered, Kidman's widened eyes appear to singularly process the news. At this point, the viewer can only speculate what we learn in a later episode — that Jonathan had been having an affair with Elena, and fathered her youngest child in the process — as Grace's eyes dart back and forth in horror and something else. Is it suspicion? Guilt? Dread? Grace is startled when she is approached by two detectives investigating Elena's murder and, again, we rely on her icy glare to tell us what she might be thinking.
We know the HBO drama isn't the first project to focus on Kidman's most expressive feature — the poster for Stanley Kubrick's 1999 drama "Eyes Wide Shut" features Kidman peering out from a sensual kiss with then-husband Tom Cruise. But "The Undoing" takes this silent communication to a new level. Have eyeballs ever been so central to a standout performance? Can they win awards? Because Kidman's are doing the work.
This is especially true in the final scenes of the "The Undoing's" first episode as Grace tries to reach Jonathan, who is away on a business trip, to discuss Elena's murder and how such a trauma might affect their son and his classmates. After leaving several voice mails, Grace discovers Jonathan's cellphone in a bedside drawer. Kidman's eyes dart around nervously and more ambiguously than ever as she calls hotels in Cleveland looking for her husband. The camera zooms in on one erratic eyeball as Grace spells their last name slowly: F-R-A-S-E-R.
When Grace fails to locate him, the whodunit moves forward in a predictable fashion. But the episode's last shot zooms in once more on Grace's eye, still trying to piece it all together. Her eyes similarly carry the second episode, which follows Grace as she tries to find Jonathan while fielding increasingly specific questions from detectives. When Jonathan finally resurfaces and confesses the disturbing truth about his relationship with Elena, whose eldest child was one of his oncology patients, we close yet another chapter through Grace's eyes, teary and exhausted on a call to the authorities.
By the end of the third episode, it's clear that focusing on Grace's impenetrable stare is intentional. She looks on in horror as detectives confront her with photographic evidence placing her near the scene of Elena's murder around the time the young mother was slain. In the following installment, Grace watches as Jonathan confesses his enduring love for Elena on national television (via a fictional show hosted by Connie Chung). Though the episode ends on a close-up of her husband's eyes, Kidman's remain our window into Grace's shock, her betrayal — her, well, undoing.
The show comes to a not-entirely-unpredictable climax in the penultimate episode, when Grace happens upon the murder weapon in her son Henry's closet, after uncovering unsettling information about her husband and his life before they met. Her panicked eyes hint at the complicated feelings a mother might have in that situation — fear, the need to protect, desperation, guilt (the title of Korelitz's book is "You Should Have Known").
Kidman recently told TV Line that director Susanne Bier, who helmed all six episodes of the series, hadn't told her about the close-up shot at the end of the show's pilot, an approach the actress described as "where she almost goes into my head. It's like, 'Oh my God you're inside me.' "
But, the actress said, that vulnerability served a purpose. "I was like, 'Whatever you need to do to tell this story so that people will feel it,' " Kidman recalled. "'Not just watch it from a distance but go on a journey and feel it.' That's what we hoped for."
Elena's killer was revealed on Sunday's episode, and it wasn't the twist ending many of us were hoping for. Still, it was a wild ride that ended with the camera fixed on Kidman's eyes, glancing upward (in a helicopter, because this is a show about rich people).
"I love the end shot because there's a woman who has now got the next stage of her life, and what does that mean?" Kidman said in HBO's post-episode vignette. "There's a freedom in that."
There's also mystery, reflected in Kidman's ever-inscrutable gaze.
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant can't tell you the twists in 'The Undoing.' But even they were shocked by the story.
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What makes dental care a valued investment versus a fix patients choose begrudgingly?
One morning I had an automobile breakdown in my "beater" weekend truck. We have all been there – filled with the inconvenience and anxiety of dealing with a problem that came up unexpectedly. I was hoping to find a place that could get me home that day.
I googled around until I found a reasonable looking repair shop close to the breakdown. They worked me into their schedule so I could get the old truck back on the road. It was pleasing to have the problem fixed, at least for that day, but I measured this against how I have experienced service at the shop that takes care of my daily driver car.
There were many aspects of the breakdown with my old pickup truck that reminded me of a dental emergency. I found someone convenient and they had the best intentions to provide a fix.
It was a shop I didn't have a relationship with. They were kind and helpful, but there were so many things missing that would have been unlikely to happen if I treated my old truck like I do the car I have been so much more diligent in taking care of.
The shop focused on the problem that was presented to them, not looking beyond a simple fix to get me back on the road. While I was appreciative, it is very unlikely that the next problem (or even the true cause of this one) was looked for. I did not leave with any feeling that I wouldn't be in a similar situation as soon as the next problem arose.
I reflected on the years I have spent with the auto shop that takes care of my primary car. I have a valued relationship with them. They know me and know that I appreciate them taking the best care of the investment I have in the vehicle I drive every day.
When I take my car to an appointment, they look over everything. They tell me when to expect maintenance and repairs in the near future and throughout the life of the vehicle. I trust them and know that they have my best interest in mind. In return, I am very appreciative, expressing gratitude when I write them a check for their services. I have never broken down in the cars they take care of for me.
Dr. Will Kelly attended the North Carolina State University School of Design and received a BA in Communications. He went on to spend two additional years in post baccalaureate studies in Medical Sciences at both UNC Chapel Hill and Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Kelly graduated from the top ranked UNC School of Dentistry in 2004. His good hands and clinical abilities led to his being chosen as a teaching assistant to underclassmen in operative dentistry. In addition to clinical time in the dental school, Dr. Kelly had valuable experiences working in both the Durham VA Hospital and for the Indian Health Service in Wyoming. As a child, Dr. Kelly had the opportunity to assist his father on several dental mission trips in Haiti. After completing dental school, Dr. Kelly joined his father in private practice and served on the dental staff at Gaston Family Health Services, where he maintained a position on the board of directors. At this time Dr. Kelly also began his studies in advanced dentistry at the prestigious Pankey Institute in Miami, a continuing journey of learning that has shaped his philosophy and knowledge of the complexities of high-level dentistry. Today Dr. Kelly devotes over 100 hours a year studying with colleagues and mentors who are regarded as "Masters of Dentistry".


Since 1763 the name 'Russborough' has been synonymous with collecting and dealing in fine art. In the closing decades of the last century the historic town of Port Hope has become home to Lord Russborough's Annex, which specializes in an individual mix of antique maps, paintings and prints.
While Lord Russborough's Annex features a great many works of museum caliber, we also offer a wonderful selection of prints priced at under $100.
In the days when the quality of the acting was not as professional as the scenery. Theatre managers often relied on the skills of the scenery painters to give the performing arts that needed boost to sell the tickets and fill the seats.
This wood engraved example of dramatic scenery from 1851 at Her Majesty's Theatre London for a performance of Beethoven's 'Fidelio'.


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Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans; Ep 49
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Episode 49: McGillis Fareed
McGillis has his final showdown with Gaelio, and Tekkadan begins their final battle.
(CW for gore)
Nobliss' men report in about the fate of Orga Itsuka. They'd received word from their lookout at the Admoss Company and acted on their own initiative. Nobliss asks about the body, and his man reports that they took casualties of their own and had to flee the scene. Nobliss confirms that Kudelia is unharmed, and decides it's fine. They're right that it would've been troublesome if he'd gotten away; Rustal might even feel indebted to them now. . .
Eugene is meeting with Nadi when word comes about a transmission from outside.
Ride is in tears as he reports, and we see shock and sorrow as word of Orga's death --and his last words-- passes through Tekkadan's ranks. As his subordinate, Hush gets the job of breaking the news to Mikazuki.
As they meet in Orga's office, Dante is still in denial. This was their moment of truth; Orga can't just die like this! Akihiro tells him to be quiet, and Eugene quietly reminds them of the important news: Orga negotiated with Makanai and found a way to get to Earth. Orga did his job as Tekkadan's Boss. Akihiro agrees that it's their turn now.
Nadi points out that Gjallarhorn will start attacking at noon, but Eugene assures him that the tunnel will be ready in time if they keep it up. That wasn't what Nadi was worried about, and Merribit picks up the thread: some members will want to get revenge and fight to the end. Eugene flips out at the stupidity of that idea --they don't even know if it was Gjallarhorn that killed him. Akihiro acknowledges that he understands how they feel, and Eugene reminds them of Orga's last words. Just as Akihiro is starting to show his anger, Hush arrives (and receives an Akihiro death-glare) and reports that Mikazuki has called everyone together. The sudden show of initiative surprises Eugene.
As Gjallarhorn tanks loom, Tekkadan gathers around Barbatos, outside in the pre-dawn light. There are mutterings about never forgiving "them," and about wanting to fight, about being ruthless and killing them all. Mika takes a moment to consider his words before delivering the longest speech he's ever made. He tells them that Orga said once that he wanted to laugh his head off with everyone when they finally got there. Orga isn't with them anymore, but his words are still alive inside Mikazuki. His Orders still hold true, so Mikazuki will follow them with all that he's got. Anyone who gets in his way --in the way of Orga's orders-- he will crush them with everything he's got. No matter who. No one speaks out against him, and he tells them to live until they die, and carry out Orga's command. The sun rises as they agree, and Eugene quietly agrees that Mikazuki's right: their orders are clear.
Nobliss reports to Rustal that he's removed all reporters from the scene, and relays news of Orga's death. Rustal is surprised, but congratulates Nobliss' work. Nobliss hopes to stay in Rustal's good graces, and Rustal sounds bored as he acknowledges; arrangements have already been made to let Nobliss sell Gjallarhorn's latest weapons. Nobliss thanks him for his charity to a humble weapons dealer and signs off.
Julietta is back on her feet, none the worse for wear as she stands at ease before Rustal's desk. As though to herself, she muses that she has lived a happy life. At Rustal's question, she explains that she's had people like him and Galan Mossa --all adults that she could trust, while Tekkadan has been surrounded by shady adults who only want to use them (behind her, Gaelio seems pained as he thinks of McGillis), and they still have to fight on. Rustal mocks her, pointing out that he himself is one of those shady adults. She understands that, and that every person has their own cause, even if it's something that others can't understand. Rustal sees that she's fully recovered, and invites her to show him her cause.
As Tekkadan scrambles, Eugene tells them that it'll take at least two hours to reach Chryse by the tunnel. Mikazuki, Hush, Akihiro, and Dante will lead the team to intercept the enemy. Their job is to hold them off until everyone in the tunnel makes it through.
Derma reports to Akihiro, asking to join the fight; even without his arm, he can still fight. Akihiro flatly says no, then explains: they're not some human debris that can die anywhere, not anymore. Derma's job is still ahead; they both have to follow the Boss' orders.
Eugene assigns Embi, Elgar, Hirume, and Trow to help him support the others in Shidens. One of the twins wonders quietly if Eugene can even pilot a mobile suit, and one of the others whispers back that Mikazuki beat him in training. So did Akihiro. And Chad.
Eugene apologizes to Orga for borrowing his Shiden --the silver one with the unicorn horn. He then yells at the brats to quit their chattering.
Nadi tells Merribit to take care of the others for him. She warns him that she's pretty popular with men, so if he takes too long, she might become someone else's girl. She tells him to not let that happen. He seems embarrassed, but promises not to keep her waiting that long.
Outside, in Barbatos, Mika asks Orga what he wants him to do next. After a moment, he smiles, deciding that he already knows. He just wanted to ask.
Rustal's ship arrives in Martian orbit, and he sees that it's time.
With no preamble or warning, Gjallarhorn's tanks launch their rockets, and waves of explosions tear apart mobile workers and buildings. After the first volley, Gjallarhorn braces for a response. No immediate counterattacks, but they do detect approaching Ahab Wave reactions.
Gusion and the last surviving Landman Rodi are the first to emerge from the smoke, and Gjallarhorn's Grazes move forward to intercept. Eugene cuts one down with a head-shot, and Barbatos intercepts one with a mace swat hard enough to cavitate the dust.
Eugene gives them one last rallying cry to get psyched up; they're way outnumbered, so if they take them head on, they'll just get ground to bits. His own wingmates roll their eyes at this, and Dante agrees: with this many of them, they're going to get ground to bits anyway. Akihiro reminds them that their only objective is to buy some time, so they'll get ground to bits as slowly as they can. Mika makes his second and third kills, lifting up a Graze and throwing it into another, and an older Gjallarhorn pilot marvels at how they can fight like this under these circumstances --they're crazy.
In space, McGillis addresses his crew, knowing that the fighting below must have begun. He thanks them for following him this far, and promises that, when he kills Rustal Elion and takes control of Gjallarhorn, their loyalty will be rewarded. He then tells them to disembark. They argue, but he insists that he alone can handle things from here. Soon enough, the bridge is cleared, except for Todo, standing bent-kneed like a goblin. McGillis admits that he owes him much, but Todo brushes it off; Mars is like his own backyard; arranging a shuttle up from the surface was nothing. He then asks if McGillis is sure about this, and McGillis explains that those who reign are destined to be solitary, and solitude is freedom. As Todo will soon see, now that McGillis has complete freedom, his power can bring anything into submission.
Rustal's flagship detects McGillis' Halfbeak approaching, and Rustal immediately has them open fire. As ship-to-ship fire chews into his already-battered cruiser, McGillis muses that the battle for the hegemony of Gjallarhorn is in Rustal's favour now. Aboard his own bridge, Rustal is growing concerned; McGillis' ship isn't stopping.
One of Arianrhod's point ships tries to evade too late, and McGillis' ship plows into it, pushing both of them off course. McGillis continues his thought, that under these circumstances the world he sought is finally within his grasp.
The explosion destroys both ships, and Rustal's XO assumes it was a suicide attack --and then spots Bael, emerging from the flames. He gives the order to launch mobile suits as McGillis swears to show Rustal the world that only pure power can create.
On Earth, Bauduin finds Almiria at the Fareed estate, still clutching her bloodstained gloves. Bauduin asserts that she can't stay here forever, and that he's come to bring her home. She refuses straight out. Bauduin insists that McGillis betrayed them, and is shocked that Almiria can forgive him. She insists she hasn't, then stands up to confront her father, insisting that she is still McGillis Fareed's wife. His sins are her sins, and she will wait for her husband here, and they will atone for his sins together. She breathes a prayer for him to come back alive, even as Bael is leaping into combat.
McGillis gleefully rips through Arianrhod's mobile suit screen, laughing that he, Gjallarhorn's exile, will personally put an end to the commander of the Arianrhod fleet. This act will change the world, proving that birth and social standing don't matter, and that one can upend the world through their own strength! He stabs into a cruiser's bridge, exposing the crew to vacuum, before leaping back out to where the mobile suits can reach him. Those cowering animals who don't know how to use their fangs will all be freed into this wilderness at once. As though hearing him, Rustal judges him a fool.
Bael arcs toward the command ship, only to be intercepted by Kimaris Vidar. In a pale imitation of Mikazuki, McGillis tells Gaelio to get out of his way. Gaelio rejoins that McGillis isn't even looking at him, then summons Ein, and Kimaris' cockpit transforms around him.
On Mars Eugene takes a moment to reload, complaining that there's no end to these guys. Elsewhere, Hush realizes that he's strayed to far, and begins backpedalling, complaining that the Hekija doesn't have enough data on ground battles, so the settings are all wrong. Before he can adjust, a pair of Grazes loom out of the haze, and a lucky shot knocks the rifle from Hush's hands. He refuses to back down, and draws his axe. He manages to disable one attacker, then spins to the other--
The Graze's axe bites into Hekija's midsection even as Hush's blow takes the Graze's head off. A look inside the crushed cockpit shows us that the wound is mortal --Hush spits blood from internal injuries.
Mikazuki didn't see, but reacts anyway, calling for Hush with genuine alarm. Hush insists it's not over yet. He's made up his mind that he'd take Builth's place, that he'd catch up to Mikazuki. He can't end here. Another Graze approaches, and Hush struggles to move --until Barbatos appears, crushing the attacker in a single strike.
Hush laments Mikazuki's skill, and Mika calls out to him. Hush grunts for Mika to go; he's got it here. He promises to catch up, no matter what, and echoes Orga's last words to keep going. Mika, recognizing the death rattle, does the only thing he can: he acknowledges, leaving this position to Hush, and saying that he's counting on him. He won't stop.
In space, more Arianrhod pilots die, accidentally getting too close to the Bael/Kimaris duel. McGillis warns that if Gaelio insists on getting in his way, McGillis will kill him this time. Gaelio complains again that McGillis' eyes see right through him, and his ears don't hear his words. They clash, and Bael's sword skewers Kimaris' hand, and Gaelio roars for McGillis to look at him! McGillis' followup strike breaks one of his swords against Kimaris' faceplate.
On the bridge, Rustal's XO berates the deck officer, telling them to launch all mobile suits. Rustal sharply belays that order: he wants to see how this fight turns out. McGillis, ditching his broken sword, lands another blow and something in Kimaris' cockpit explodes. Gaelio's punch separates them, destroying the remains of Kimaris' damaged hand. Rustal orders no reinforcements until the results are clear.
McGillis strikes again, finally managing to disarm Kimaris of its lance. Gaelio calls for Ein to use all of him to rob everything from McGillis, drawing his backup sword and charging again. McGillis cheers, inviting Gaelio to show him what he's got. Their blades clash, and Bael's free hand tears into Kimaris' chest. Wild-eyed, McGillis points out that the troops can do nothing but watch, overwhelmed by the splendour of pure power. The Gundams disengage, Bael taking Kimaris' arm with it. The more Gaelio demonstrates his strength, the more McGillis' righteousness is proven.
Gaelio denies it, pressing the assault back toward Rustal's command ship. This is not the power McGillis believes in. He calls again on Ein to make him understand, as they both slam into the ship's hull. Their blades clash again, and McGillis' sword shatters. Gaelio explains that he isn't fighting alone, pins Bael in place with the sword, then snaps off Kimaris' drill-knee to use as a dagger. The drill stabs into Bael's cockpit, shattering it, and McGillis blinks away blood as he realizes that he's lost to Gaelio. His helmet seals and he manages to fire one thruster, which sends them skittering over the hull toward a mobile suit launch tube.
They smash their way through a hatch to the maintenance bay (killing a couple of unfortunate workers), causing an explosion that pierces the hull.
As crews scramble to deal with the hull breach, McGillis slips away from his cockpit and makes his way into the ship, refusing to die yet. Droplets of blood float in microgravity as an elevator carries him up to the command deck. He just has to last a little more, and the world he's aimed for will come to pass. The doors of that world are about to open like the doors of the lift. He reaches the top of the shaft, and moves out, only to find Gaelio already waiting for him, wearing his Vidar mask. They both fire at the same time, but Gaelio's mask saves his life.
On Earth, Almiria watches the sunset, and senses Macky's approach.
Gaelio presses McGillis up against the bulkhead, ordering him not to die yet, and to look at him. To look at the man he killed, and who killed him. He believed McGillis as a friend and was betrayed. He was robbed of the friends he trusted. McGillis tiredly says he can see Gaelio fine without being told to --rather, he'd seen him all this time but pretended not to. He had to deny Gaelio and his friends, or he wouldn't have been able to move forward. Being with them made his lifelong aspirations waver, so he looked away. He'd promised he'd make Almiria happy.
Gaelio insists that that happiness is fake, and McGillis asks the difference between true happiness and fake happiness, leaving Gaelio enraged that he doesn't even get that. McGillis sees that Gaelio is crying, and Gaelio seems surprised. McGillis seems about to apologize, but Gaelio slaps his hand away, rejecting it. If McGillis is about to say what Gaelio thinks he's about to say, then Gaelio might forgive him, so he begs him to not say it. Gaelio invokes Carta and Ein, but the light leaves McGillis' eyes before he can finish the sentence. All he can do is to say farewell.
Rustal eulogizes that McGillis Fareed's death will be historically significant from now on, as the foolish end to a person obsessed with power. He asks about Julieta, and Yamazin reports that she's descending right now, along with the special troops. Rustal is pleased; it's about time to draw the curtains.
The dust starts to clear over Tekkadan HQ, and Eugene damns Orga for forcing them to do all this work. He's always been like that, acting like the big shot leader all the time. Eugene was going to get back at him someday, but now that it's come down to this, they can finish off his last command and have it out with him in heaven. The others shout their agreement, but Mikazuki quietly notes that they will get there, to the place Orga was headed for.
The women have moved to Haba's Store, and as Cucibita busies herself with unlocking the door, Kudelia and Atra look up, both sensing Mikazuki.
With one episode left, it's time to set things up for the traditional climactic battle, and I'm honestly not sure where this show's going to go: it seems like Julieta is being positioned to be Mikazuki's "boss battle," but we've already seen that she's no match for him head-to-head. Without McGillis (and with Kimaris disabled), there's no one soldier on the field who would pose a serious threat. True, a sustained assault would wear down even Barbatos, but having the hero die in a hail of bullets isn't really Gundam's style --it's an editorial mandate that Gundam protagonists can only go out in single combat.
As I said earlier, it's traditional for anime antagonists to vanish up their own asses into madness --and here we see that McGillis' ultimate dream is simple anarchy; a return to nature, red in tooth and claw. A world of unfettered might-makes-right, which. . . actually makes sense, given his backstory, but completely ignores the methodical intelligence and subtlety he showed up until he started unraveling.
It's also interesting that Rustal seems to have won; all of his enemies have been defeated, his control of Gjallarhorn is secure, and he's within hours of wiping out Tekkadan's greatest fighters without placing himself into direct danger.
The only other named character who could get to him now would be Gaelio --him killing Rustal and seizing control of Gjallarhorn to redeem it would make logical sense (he and Julieta are the only truly honourable Gjallarhorn officers left), but I can't see him turning on Rustal so suddenly.
I'm genuinely worried that the show is going to give us a Shoot the Shaggy Dog ending; Mikazuki clearly doesn't intend to live through this battle (it's not like he can escape under his own power after leaving Barbatos), and even the other pilots seem to accept that this is a suicide mission for them. Tekkadan dies, Mars remains under Earth's heel, Gjallarhorn's rule remains absolute. . .
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The Americans: Season 6 Episode 1 – Dead Hand
The Americans has always done montages well.
The one that opens the sixth and final season is akin to the one that opens the sixth (and final) season of The Sopranos. Both serve initially as catch-up, dropping in on our characters after an extended time jump between seasons, looking at who's changed, who's the same, a measure of what incremental differences can take place in a person's life.
But this is more than just catch-up. Where The Sopranos trawled the decaying depths of its characters with the William Burroughs-narrated track Seven Souls, The Americans begs us to look upward and ahead with Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over. Montages can easily be written off as cheap ways of uniting storylines ('Hey they're all doing the same thing!') but The Americans has always managed to find well-known songs that both unite their characters, but manage to invite a multitude of interpretations. One song, or one image, can mean so many different things.
The dream of the song is present in all these characters. Most obviously, we're given extended insights into Elizabeth's current spy drudgery – still involving honeytraps, despite her request away from that kind of work – and it's clear she's being run into the ground. Lack of sleep, multiple operations that she now shoulders the burden for singlehandedly, we're seeing Elizabeth near the end of something inside of her. Does she still dream of her peaceful Soviet future? Does it still exist?
Later, we see more in depth her difficulties at relating to an artist she is nursing, one of the new operations for the season. For Elizabeth, the prodigy of the collectivist state, the soldier for the socialist dream, she has no concept of anything as egotistical as art. This is petty, individualistic and narrow. For a final season that is undoubtedly going to break open whatever cracks there may be in Elizabeth's adherence to her mission, this is an apt storyline to introduce. As with everything in The Americans, it's small and character-driven.
Her meeting in Mexico to acquire further information (and a cyanide pill) on the upcoming summit reinforces the idea that not only is Elizabeth run into the ground, she's potentially on autopilot. The details matter less and less. She is only there to run the operation out of habit, out of routine, because that's all she can do.
The contrast is obvious with Philip. Elizabeth can't break free of their mission because she has no sense of herself outside of it. Philip, however, has been released finally. Given free reign into his American identity, he cruises around with his new Lincoln, toting his car stereo player to and from his newly furnished and expanded offices. Bigger, better, shinier. And he seems at ease. But even a jaunt out to a night of line dancing leaves us wondering. Is this still cover for Philip? Is he playing the part of an American, still? There's a hollowness to it all that points to his ultimate dream: a happy marriage.
Beyond this, the opening montage – and episode that follows – unites the characters in their division. All of them, but Philip and Elizabeth especially, are in their own silos. Moments of togetherness are brief, and fractured. As the song reinforces, they have all built a wall between them.
Played straight, as a domestic drama, the confrontation between Philip and Elizabeth could read as any portrait of a struggling marriage. Conflicting needs, cross-purposed lifestyles, and the inability for either to sit and listen and understand. But with the added espionage, and historical context, The Americans becomes a tragedy. Everyone around Philip and Elizabeth are discussing the Russian political context, the glasnost and perestroika that is changing the state, ostensibly for the better. As their world moves toward openness and transparency, the two protagonists are walled off from each other, shrouded once more in secrets.
As an absolute extension from this, Philip is invited to spy on Elizabeth. The Cold War is in their home.
This storyline arrives as a result of Oleg's reintroduction to the US. And for Oleg, he too has to leave his wife and infant child back in Russia, with the possibility of arrest in America, or execution in Russia, should his mission go awry. And Stan's home life, too, is the further development of this theme.
The time jump possibly complicated suspicions surround Stan's girlfriend-now-wife Renee. Questions of whether she too is an illegal, Martha-ing Stan to giving up FBI secrets, now look to only be possible if this is an extremely long play (which is not as remote as it might sound). But it relies on Stan returning to counter-espionage, something that may now be possible given his connection to Oleg, and Oleg's return to the US. Now that Renee feels Stan is finally opening up about his work to her, it's conceivable that the apex of this season will see Cold War conflict in three different marriages.
The final complicating factor for the Jennings is Paige, now serving as a trainee operative in Elizabeth's large operations. There are multiple realities occurring here. Beyond Paige and her mother, there are the assumed, unrelated personas they have adopted for the operation, to protect Paige's relationship with her mother from their other operatives. But then there's also the grim, brutal realities of the operation that Elizabeth maintains – the murder of a snooping security guard – and keeps secret from Paige. Will she still believe in the dream of a better Russia once she knows the full extent of the family business? Does this dream still exist outside of old films Paige watches with Claudia as education?
Who will Paige side with, now that the wall is built between her parents?
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Мацедоника на Марта (Macedonica martae) е коремоного мекотело от разред Белодробни охлюви, семейство Клаузилиди.

Разпространение и местообитания
Видът е локален ендемит. Установен е в Пирин при надморска височина 2400-2800 m в района под връх Вихрен.

Морфологични особености
Черупката на охлювчето е силно спирално навита и удължена като размерите и са от 13,8 – 16,8 дължина и 3,9 – 4,15 mm ширина.

Източници

Macedonica
Фауна на България

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When you first become diagnosed with HIV your world turns upside down and things never quite feel the same again. You view virtually everything and everyone differently now, for life itself takes on a whole new structure. Of course at this juncture it is vitally important to ensure that you get the help, medication and in some cases counselling that your body and mind requires to stabilise your condition. However always bear in mind that your medical team do not actually comprehend what it is like to actually live with HIV. If you are offered counselling then it will do you no harm to accept it. For here you can talk through without prejudice your inner most feelings and emotions.
By actually saying things aloud and being given the opportunity to explore the impact that your HIV has had and is having upon your life will help you begin to come to terms with it. Counselling affords you the inner space to discover things for yourself by offering you the breathing space required for self analysis. Yet still for some people this is not enough HIV support. For the counsellor will make you seek your own solutions and come to terms with, or even discover your own feelings, they are there to listen and guide the conversation, bringing it back on track when you stray.
Consequently, especially if recently diagnosed you need a type of HIV support in which solutions and alternative means of coping are passed on. Ask anyone with some form of condition, disability, or disfigurement and they will tell you that they feel different from normal healthy people, for obvious reasons. Also they often feel misunderstood. How could anybody who does not suffer with the particular problem understand what it is like to live as you do on a daily basis? No one actually knows what it is like to be someone else. Even if we share conditions, disabilities or anything else, outside influences make our lives different. For we are different from each other; we are unique in make up. Therefore our lives are made up of so many differing factors which alter things and we react in different ways, making each one of us even those with exactly the same conditions experience theirs in a totally unique way to the next person.
Subsequently no matter how many people treat you for the varying characteristics of your HIV no one will totally get it from your viewpoint or comprehend how it is impacting upon your life. Here we need also to remember that these people have been trained. They offer the treatment and the procedures because of what they have learned in the past, they do not actually have the condition themselves and can never be one hundred percent sure of the ins and outs involved for you. They can try and put themselves in your position but they will not ever really understand.
People who actually share the condition and who have had it for some time are really good people to offer you useful HIV support. They truly understand the intricacies of the condition, obviously not from your viewpoint and life, but from a similar one, rather than books and from training. They rode the emotional rollercoaster and so are going to be able to offer you pearls of wisdom which no medical staff ever could. HIV support from people living with HIV can be acquired by either attending face to face meetings or by going online.
There are many local and community HIV support groups and meetings all over the UK, where individuals and sometimes their partners and family members can go and attend also to receive the help and support and also offer support to others. The internet provides a quick and easy platform to talk with others and discuss conditions and problems. Also HIV dating sites regularly offer HIV support packages with people ready and waiting to help those who need it.
These sites offer love, friendship and support, meaning that you not only receive excellent value for your money you also could make some wonderful life long relationships along the way! There is no need to limit the type of HIV support that you receive. It is important to obtain as much help and support as you need at this time.
If you do this it will not be long before you are able to offer others HIV support yourself. There are many people with this condition and they can help you if you let them. So do yourself a favour and go out and seek some HIV support and turn your life around. You deserve it!


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Q: Return current position in table with Shiny I am building/adding things to a Shiny application that is primarily used for users to look through a collection of plots of single samples to manually correct a single parameter for the given sample. Currently I am using a slider to flip through the plots, and a cell for the current sample will appear under the plot for the user to correct the given parameter.
This however, will require the user to move the cursor away from the slider, to the cell, and then back to the slider again. To streamline the process I thought, why not just make a reactive table that would flip through the plots when the user pressed the down key (going one cell down). This would require some sort of measuring of the current position in the table where the user is "standing". So my question is whether this can be done in the Shiny framework?
Here is a picture of how I think it could play out.
Going one row down in the table should have a response to switch to the next plot.
Thanks

A: Without a reproducible example, I can't really help you, but if I understand your question, you simply want a mechanism for keeping count in the server, so that you can tell what position number the user is at. Here is a simple app that keeps count of up and down button presses:
library(shiny)

# Define UI for application that draws a histogram
ui <- shinyUI(fluidPage(
  # Sidebar with a slider input for number of bins
  sidebarLayout(sidebarPanel(
    actionButton("up","Increase value"),
    tags$br(),
    actionButton("down","Decrease value")
  ),

  # Show a plot of the generated distribution
  mainPanel(
    verbatimTextOutput("value")
  ))
))

# Define server logic required to draw a histogram
server <- shinyServer(function(input, output, session) {
 # initiate count at zero
  count <- reactiveValues(number=0)

  observeEvent(input$up,{
    count$number <- count$number + 1
  })

  observeEvent(input$down,{
    count$number <- count$number - 1
  })

  output$value <- renderPrint({
    count$number
  })

})

# Run the application
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

A: You can get the selected column on the serverside with DT.
For that, you just need to replace renderDataTable with DT::renderDataTable and dataTableOutput with renderDataTableOutput.
library(DT)
library(shiny)

ui = fluidPage(
  verbatimTextOutput("text"),
  DT::dataTableOutput("mytable")
)

server = function(input, output, session){
  output$mytable = DT::renderDataTable({ mtcars })

  output$text = renderPrint({
    cat("selected rows:", input$mytable_rows_selected)
  })
}

shinyApp(ui,server)

Combining this with DT::selectColumns and this technique should do the job.

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1. It is extraordinary that, after such an extensive period of consultation on aviation policy, the DfT was unable to publish the documents supporting the White Paper until nearly two months later. This raises questions about the extent to which such analyses were fully available during the autumn at the time when the key decisions contained in the White Paper were being made. (Paragraph 6)
2. Despite protestations to the contrary, it is abundantly clear that the aviation White Paper adopts a "predict and provide" approach. The DfT has forecast future demand and then provided the framework to meet practically all of it. It is actively promoting growth on the scale envisaged, and indeed the urgency with which it is requiring airport operators to implement expansion plans bears this out. (Paragraph 12)
3. We do not know to what extent future growth in air travel will be fuelled by existing passengers travelling more frequently rather than by the 50% of the population who do not currently fly at all. The DfT has failed to carry out any detailed studies to explore the social and behavioural impacts of the proposed growth in aviation, and the manner in which these impacts may vary for different rates of growth. It must do so as soon as possible and publish the results. (Paragraph 16)
4. The DfT must publish a formal statement of what it understands by sustainable consumption in the context of air travel. As part of this statement, it should explain how the projected growth from 180 mppa to 476 mppa by 2030 can be reconciled with the commitment made by the UK Government in Johannesburg to encourage more sustainable approaches to consumption; and it should also set out what policies it is pursuing to discourage unnecessary air travel. (Paragraph 18)
5. The Integrated Policy Appraisal which supports the White Paper offers a particularly weak assessment of climate change impacts. The entries are not only very slim compared to other parts of the IPA, but they entirely fail to reflect the scale of aviation emissions by 2030 in relation to UK domestic emissions or to give any hint of the difficulties which will face the UK in meeting its carbon reduction targets. (Paragraph 21)
6. We agree with the Chief Scientist that climate change is a profoundly serious threat to mankind. The Government has in principle accepted our recommendation that specific consideration must be given in policy appraisals to the impact on carbon targets. It must ensure that this priority is in future fully reflected in appraisals conducted by all departments. (Paragraph 24)
7. We welcome the fact that the Government will consider including the possibility of catastrophic or sudden climate changes in its estimate of the price of carbon—notwithstanding our conviction that the value of our climate is literally priceless. (Paragraph 26)
8. The DfT has implicitly admitted that it failed to include the environmental costs of aviation emissions in its appraisals and has sought to rectify this omission in the supporting document Aviation and Global Warming. (Paragraph 27)
9. As far as we can identify, the DfT has nowhere calculated a figure for the net consumer and producer surplus arising from the overall increase in aviation forecast in the White Paper from 180 mppa to 476 mppa. In other words, we have no net benefit figure with which to compare our figure of minus £42 billion NPV for the increase in environmental costs. In this sense, the DfT has failed to evaluate the impact of new terminals, runway extensions, and operational improvements aimed at maximising the use of existing runways. (Paragraph 28)
10. The quality of the economic appraisal of options carried out by the DfT is poor and the supporting analysis contained in Aviation and Global Warming is opaque and unhelpful. The DfT should address this by publishing a new and fully documented appraisal which takes account of the overall forecast increase in air traffic. (Paragraph 0.?)
11. On the key issue of the impact of aviation on global warming, the White Paper contains no specific proposals apart from the commitment to work towards the inclusion of aviation in the second phase of the European Emissions Trading System from 2008. We are disappointed at the failure of the Government to show leadership in this area. (Paragraph 30)
12. It is regrettable that the Government did not take the initiative in promoting an interim emissions charge in view of the difficulties and timescales involved in developing an ETS to cover aviation. We believe that such an approach could offer the scope for flexible adoption by like-minded member states and could therefore be a more practical option than emissions trading which requires an all or nothing approach. (Paragraph 33)
13. We are astonished at the lack of essential research to underpin the incorporation of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). In view of the timescales involved in developing and ratifying EU directives, we suspect it may soon be too late to achieve the Government's professed intention of incorporating aviation in the second phase of the EU ETS from 2008. The DfT must set out, in response to this report, what needs to be done and by when to achieve this goal. (Paragraph 36)
14. It is unclear if any consensus exists among EU member states on incorporating aviation within the EU Emissions Trading System; and whether the political will exists to resolve the complex and contentious issues which need to be addressed for this to be achieved. It is not even clear to what extent, and at what level, any of these issues are even being discussed. (Paragraph 38)
15. in commenting on the recent ICAO meeting, the DfT official referred to the UK as 'ploughing a pretty lonely furrow' in its advocacy of emissions trading, and—given the opposition of some important players—we conclude that the likelihood of any significant progress being made is remote. (Paragraph 39)
16. We welcome the fact that the DfT has accepted our figures for the relative impact of aviation emissions compared to UK domestic emissions. We trust that the Treasury will do so too, and will in future provide figures on a consistent basis which take account of the radiative forcing effect. (Paragraph 43)
17. It is inconceivable that any emissions trading system could generate sufficient credits to allow aviation to expand as forecast, while at the same time delivering carbon reductions of the order needed. The price of carbon could, in such circumstances, go through the roof—provided there was sufficient political will to maintain targets and enforce penalties. (Paragraph 45)
18. If aviation emissions increase on the scale predicted by the DfT, the UK's 60% carbon emission reduction target which the Government set last year will become meaningless and unachievable. The most we could hope to attain would be about 35%. The DfT admitted that the target would need to be looked at should international emissions be allocated to national inventories—and this can only mean with a view to watering it down. (Paragraph 50)
19. The Government should recognise the difficulties it faces in meeting its long-term carbon targets. If it did so, it would be forced to take more action now and develop an adequate policy response. It should not continue to hope that the solution lies in technological advances as the weight of evidence suggests that the scope for these is limited. (Paragraph 51)


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American Dad! 5×6
Hayley breaks up with her boyfriend and falls for Stan's body double from the CIA. Things take a bizarre twist when the double begins hitting on Francine.
Steve plots his revenge against all the popular girls who torment nerds and losers at his school.
Stan becomes jealous when he finds out Francine was once engaged to a pilot whose plane crashed. Little does she know that her former fiancé is still alive, and when Stan realizes this, he and Roger try to track him down, while Francine must choose between her husband or her lost love.
When Stan becomes his boss' go-to guy, he feels like he can't say no to anything including outrageous personal requests. But when Francine gets roped into the annoying ordeal and her romantic Valentine's Day get-away is ruined, she lays down the law and forces Stan to say "NO".
When Roger discovers that someone has maxed out his credit card, he is certain it is identify theft and is determined to bring down the crook. After playing "Matlock" for a few days and dishing out some street justice, he realizes things are not quite right and seem all too familiar.
The Smiths' plans to celebrate Roger's 1,600th birthday are sidetracked when Steve announces that he's finally going through puberty. Ever fearful of the thought of a Steve with raging hormones, Stan and Francine try to bypass the pains of having another teenager with experimental medicine.
American Dad! 4×20
Stan has a Spring Break-induced mid-life crisis. With Francine away visiting her parents, Roger invites Spring Breakers to party at the Smith household. But Stan nearly has a Spring Breakdown when he falls prey to booze-cruising Jessica and Steve tries to lose his virginity to the luscious Carmen Selectra.
Officially declared dead after an accident with a pudding truck, Stan comes back to life to realize his dream of leaving a legacy on the world and begins to excavate his home in search of Ollie North's "Contra"-band buried treasure. As the search for gold goes "North," life at home heads south as Hayley turns to body-piercing, Steve creates a robotic girlfriend and Roger files for sexual harassment.
Roger begins to release photos of himself to the local media for extra cash, prompting the CIA to initiate an Alien Task Force. Through a twist of fate, Roger ends up in charge of the task force in disguise, creating tension at home as he is now Stan's boss. Meanwhile, Francine comes to grips with being left-handed and Roger frames Stan as an alien in attempt to keep his identity a secret.
Stan goes in search of a former KGB agent, Sergei, and is shocked to find that the man is his new next-door neighbor and that Sergei has already turned Steve into a communist. Meanwhile, Roger and Klaus head to France for a little R&R but their trip takes a turn for the worse when Klaus gets busted for drug smuggling.
Francine pushes Stan to open up to her emotionally, but she gets more than she bargained for when he tells her that he killed her best friend Julie's husband. Meanwhile, Roger plays psychiatrist to help them work through their issues.
When Stan's mom gets dumped for the umpteenth time by a boyfriend, she comes running to Stan for support. Feeling threatened by her always-visiting mother-in-law, Francine is determined to cut Stan's umbilical cord and figure out what keeps going wrong with the men in her life. Like a regular Cagney & Lacey, Francine and Roger go undercover to solve the case. Meanwhile, Klaus gives Steve the ick.
Stan and the family are characters in a James Bond style spoof. Stan must stop Tearjerker, played by Roger, a diabolical film producer who makes movies that can kill. Tearjerker's fiendish plot involves abducting celebrities from his spa and replacing them with celebrity robots that make horrible movies, all in an effort to make his masterpiece "Oscar's Gold" the best and saddest movie ever, causing millions of moviegoers to cry themselves to death.
After a big fight between Stan and Roger, Francine comes up with a plan to try and reunite the pair. Hoping to show Roger that Stan still cares about him, Francine fakes Roger's kidnapping, but when Stan never shows up to pay the ransom, it forces Roger to rethink the way he treats people.
After Stan comes home from another dangerous mission, he finds that his family has decked the halls with boughs of holly and donned themselves with gay apparel, but just not to his satisfaction. He demands a grander Christmas starting with the search of a bigger and better tree in the forest. When his family has had enough, Stan powers on by himself, finds the perfect tree and meets an untimely end. While in Limbo, he has to fight for a second chance at life and battle the forces of good and evil to save his family.
When Francine decides to be a surrogate for her gay neighbors Terry and Greg, Stan's Republican blood boils. Although he pretends to be happy, when the baby is born, Stan kidnaps her and heads to the Nebraska boarder, where gay couples have no rights. Meanwhile Steve and Roger pull a Howard Hughes and become reclusive after they think Klaus is out to get them.
While playing poker with the guys, Stan is found to be a virgin. Not in the traditional way, but in that he's never killed anyone. Roger and the guys help Stan bust his killing cherry.
When Hayley decides to move to France because of imperialistic oppression, Stan will do anything to stop her including revealing the fact that she was brainwashed as a child by the CIA. Feeling desperate, Stan activates her trigger word and gains control over Hayley against the advice of his boss, Bullock. Everything is going fine until Stan remembers that if he doesn't change Hayley back to normal, there will be deadly consequences for him. Meanwhile, Steve and Roger become private Dick Tracys.
When Francine's adopted parents stop by for an unannounced stay, Stan is furious that they refuse to assimilate to his "man of the house" ways. After he unsuccessfully tries to give them the boot, he is convinced that finding Francine's birth parents will change things. Meanwhile, Steve tries to live to the extreme in order to get to second base with the class hottie.
Stan prays for a friend and thinks God sent him one, but he turns out to be an atheist. Stan tries to convince his friend that God exists by making his life extremely hard until his plan backfires. Meanwhile, Roger convinces Steve that he has been accepted to Hogwarts.
In order to be taken more seriously and to be a somebody, Stan becomes a meter maid who seems to have all of the power. Now he's getting the best tables at restaurants, pocketing quarters from meters and impressing Francine with his prowess. But, when Turlington from Parking Internal Affairs pays him a visit, Stan realizes crime and this lifestyle don't pay. Meanwhile, Hayley poses nude for a college art class and is surprised to see Roger there.
When Francine discovers that all of their family vacations have been artificially created memories, she gets very angry and demands a real vacation. However, when the vacation seems too good to be true, Francine is convinced it's the work of the CIA and causes the family to suffer the consequences. Meanwhile, Roger attempts to become the greatest actor who ever lived.
After Stan discovers that Francine has a secret sex garden, he feels like their marriage may be crumbling. Looking to rekindle their romance, Francine asks for a divorce so that Stan can experience life as a bachelor again, and both learn a valuable lesson in love. Meanwhile, addicted to an energy drink, Steve finds himself panhandling in the streets to support his new habit.
Stan sets Bullock up on a date with one of Francine's friends. Fearing that Francine will be right about the outcome of the date, Stan goes to great lengths to make sure it goes well by getting everyone drunk. Unfortunately, Bullock accidentally kills the woman, to which Stan frames Francine for the murder in order to keep her from asking so many questions.
Stan arrives late to a CIA nuclear drill and thinks it's real. He decides to move the family into the mountains to survive the apocalypse. Even though he realizes his error, he begins to enjoy the attention that he gets from the family so much that he doesn't tell them the truth. However, when the family meets a mountain man and learns the truth, Stan has some explaining to do.
While researching a paper about George Washington Carver in celebration of Black History Month, Steve uncovers a conspiracy that's been going on since the Civil War. When the curator of the Smithsonian Peanut Museum reaches out to tell Steve the truth, he's mysteriously murdered, and Steve and Stan are tracked by a secret society that will stop at nothing to keep this scandalous secret of American history.
When Roger is rejected by Steve, who seems to be over him, Roger heads out in search of a new human companion. But when this new friend starts to abuse Roger and the relationship turns into a lot of excuses and sorry's, Steve and Hayley scheme to get Roger out of the bad relationship and back home where he belongs. Meanwhile, Stan tours the Mr. Pibb factory and meets the man himself.
When Stan feels like he's not climbing the ladder fast enough at work, he turns to his lifelong ambition of making festive teddy bears. However, when he realizes that making a quick profit takes a lot of work, he resorts to using illegal aliens as cheap labor. Meanwhile, Hayley sees her father's new business model as an atrocity and takes matters into her own hands by calling Uncle Sam.


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Theatre review: Hamlet at the Rada Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, WC1
HiddleHamlet is terrific (pity there are no tickets)
Ann Treneman
Saturday September 02 2017, 12.01am, The Times
Tom Hiddleston is magnetic in Kenneth Branagh's terrific staging
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It's a terrific production. Sir Kenneth Branagh directs with style but then he's had a while to think it over. Apparently he first floated the idea of doing Hamlet with Hiddleston a decade ago when he saw him in Othello. Since then the doomed Dane has become the


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Q: How do I view .NET interned strings In CLR 2.0, is there any way to view all of the strings that have been interned?  I've looked into the CLR Profiler APIs and can't see any API calls to monitor when a string gets interned.  Also, what is the scope of interned strings?  Do interned strings get collected when the App Domain gets unloaded, or do they span App Domains?

A: Strings do get interned by default in .NET 2.0, however which strings get interned and when can be fairly complex. The following article might shed some light on the concept:
http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2006/09/27/4472.aspx
Also, in regards to your API calls...make sure you are testing with an optimized build. A Debug build may not enable string interning by default, which might be why you don't see it happening.


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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti il BluVolley Verona nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 2013-2014.

Stagione
La stagione 2013-14 è per il BluVolley Verona, sponsorizzato da Calzedonia, la decima, la sesta consecutiva, in Serie A1; viene cambiato l'allenatore, con l'arrivo in panchina di Andrea Giani, così come è modificata buona parte della rosa: vengono acquistati i palleggiatori Alessandro Blasi e Dante Boninfante, i centrali Simone Anzani e Andrea Coali e gli attaccanti Mitja Gasparini, Adam White e Nikola Kovačević, quest'ultimo però arrivato nell'ultima parte di stagione; tra le poche conferme quelle di Aidan Zingel e Thijs ter Horst, mentre tra le partenze quelle di Mauro Gavotto, Michal Rak, Svetoslav Gocev e Marco Meoni.

Il campionato si apre con una sconfitta in casa della Callipo Sport, mentre la prima vittoria arriva nella giornata successiva contro il Piemonte Volley, a cui segue anche quella contro la Pallavolo Città di Castello: tutto il resto del girone di andata è un alternarsi di vittorie e di sconfitte che portano la squadra al quinto posto in classifica, qualificandola anche per la Coppa Italia. Il girone di ritorno comincia con un successo, a cui fanno seguito quattro stop consecutivi: dopo una vittoria sul Top Volley, seguono altre cinque sconfitte, nelle ultime cinque giornate: il BluVolley Verona chiude la regular season all'ottavo posto, l'ultimo disponibile per qualificarsi ai play-off scudetto, dove, nei quarti di finale, incontra l'Associazione Sportiva Volley Lube, la quale, nonostante una vittoria sofferta in gara 1, al tie-break, riesce ad aggiudicarsi le due gare per passare al turno successivo e quindi ad eliminare gli scaligeri; il club veronese accede quindi ai play-off Challenge Cup, ma anche in questo caso viene eliminato nei quarti di finale, perdendo sia la gara di andata che quella di ritorno contro il Gruppo Sportivo Porto Robur Costa.

Il quinto posto al termine del girone di andata della Serie A1 2013-14 permette l'accesso alla Coppa Italia: tuttavia l'avventura si interrompe già ai quarti di finale a seguito del 3-1 inflitto dalla Sir Safety Umbria Volley.

Organigramma societario

Area direttiva
 Presidente: Nereo Destri
 Consulente legale: Stefano Fanini
 Amministratore delegato: Piero Rebaudengo (dal 23 aprile 2014)
Area organizzativa
 Team manager: Gian Andrea Marchesi
 Consigliere: Luca Bazzoni, Andrea Corsini, Stefano Magrini, Luigi Zanella
 Logistica prima squadra: Milan Grubor, Claudio Tamanini

Area tecnica
 Allenatore: Andrea Giani
 Allenatore in seconda: Matteo De Cecco
 Scout man: Paolo Rossi
Area comunicazione
 Ufficio stampa: Giulia Sambo

Area marketing
 Ufficio marketing: Gian Paolo Zaffani
Area sanitaria
 Responsabile staff medico: Giorgio Pasetto
 Medico: Anselmo Pallone
 Preparatore atletico: Luca Baratto
 Fisioterapista: Claudio Bignotti, Simone Broglia
 Osteopata: Gianluca Fiorio

Rosa

Mercato

Risultati

Serie A1

Girone di andata

Girone di ritorno

Play-off scudetto

Play-off Challenge Cup

Coppa Italia

Fase a eliminazione diretta

Statistiche

Statistiche di squadra

G = partite giocate; V = partite vinte; P = partite perse

Statistiche dei giocatori

P = presenze; PT = punti totali; AV = attacchi vincenti; MV = muri vincenti; BV = battute vincenti

Note

Collegamenti esterni

2013-2014
BluVolley Verona


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Exam-focused, academic writing courses usually focus on writing paragraphs, letters, reports and essays. Students are graded on mechanical errors, language used, staying on topic, organization, cohesion, unity, and other stylistic concerns.
Learning how to improve writing skills for exams is just as you would train for any competition, so you need to help students develop tools and techniques for them to write effectively and efficiently when under pressure.
Dissect the instructions! To do this at lower levels, they can highlight key words and blank out unimportant words. Lower levels should work on the wh-questions (What? Why? Who? How long? What tenses?) so they can respond automatically when it is time to write the exam. At more advanced levels, they need to know what they are writing, for whom, and how long it needs to be.
At some point in the test, students should know what tenses they should use and other mechanical and style considerations they had covered in the course for this particular piece of writing; however, this can be done after the brainstorming stage.
Students need to do this quickly. They need generate vocabulary and ideas that are going to target the purpose of the piece. In class, they should practice different types of brainstorming so this step takes only a few minutes. The reason they should do brainstorming is not only to get ideas, but also to overcome stage fright and get sentences flowing. It is an important part of the writing process that native speakers do subconsciously before composing anything. A native speaker would likely go straight to the outline of an essay, but would still have subconsciously brainstormed ideas and activated schema.
Learning how to improve writing skills means practicing listing, mind maps, word webs, storyboards, free writing, and numerous types of graphic organizers. These should be worked on in class so that students have a repertoire of tools to use during the writing skills exam.
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The Cormorant
WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD
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"...it's the quiet horror of watching an ill-fated obsession grow with the menace and subtlety of a tumour within each character's minds that demonstrates the story's cleverness." Buzz Magazine
"...with it's outermost focus on the interactions between people, nature and the supernatural The Cormorant feels remarkably fresh and very much of the moment." Wyrd Britain
"...expertly weaving timeless psychological terror with an enduring feeling of unease and ambiguity, The Cormorant certainly nests itself among gothic heavyweights." Wales Arts Review
"The Cormorant is not only effective as a horror story, but as literary fiction with a weird bent as well. The ambiguity here left me thinking about it long after I'd finished, going through evidence in my head for both the psychological and supernatural. Writing it down now, I'm still thinking about it. I cannot recommend this novel highly enough." Oddly Weird Fiction
"Ultimately, The Cormorant is much more than a horror story: it is a resonant meditation on relationships – with our inner worlds, with fellow humans, with other creatures – and with the environments that sustain us all." New Welsh Review
'We had been in the cottage for a week when the cormorant was delivered, that October evening.'
When a young family inherit a remote mountain-side cottage in north Wales, giving them the chance to change the course of their lives and start over, the one condition of the will seems strange but harmless. They are to care for a cormorant until the end of its life.
But the bird is no tame pet, and within its natural state of wildness there is a malevolent intelligence and intent towards sharp, unexpected violence. However, it is the fascination it holds for Harry, the couple's precious only child, that really threatens their dreams of rural contentment.
A Somerset Maugham Award Winner when it was first published, the tale of The Cormorant continues to exert its considerable power.
Stephen Gregory has been called a horror writer, although his novels and short stories reflect a love of the countryside and especially his interest in birds. The Cormorant, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and was made into a BBC television film, was written in and around the mountains of Snowdonia.
After a year as a screenwriter in Hollywood, Stephen spent fifteen years teaching in Borneo, and during the long, hot tropical evenings he wrote four more novels, set back home in rural England and Wales. He now lives in France with his wife Chris, in a small house beside the river Vienne, while they're slowly rebuilding a 16th-century fortified farmhouse.


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Campus Activities, Programs Benefit From Fees
Sose Frankyan
Student services fees help fund many activities and programs around campus, some of which may not be readily visible to the campus community.
Each session, including full semesters and winters and summers, students pay a voluntary $12.50 fee for student services. Out of these fees, the Associated Students of Glendale Community Colleges administers a budget this year of $264,798.
According to Dean of Student Affairs Paul Schlossman, the student services fee is "like a student activities fee that students pay."
At first thought, some students don't see the value in it.
"At first I wanted to waive the fee since I assumed that I do not benefit from it, but in the long run the benefits are valuable," said student Gayane Panosyan. "I did not want to give up the scholarship opportunities."
Some of the services offered to the students in return for their student services fee include, ASGCC-sponsored scholarships, use of computer labs, use of the math and science centers, and participation in all varsity athletics (for both women and men).
"The fee makes up a large part of the operating budget for the ASGCC, the official student government organization, each year," said Schlossman.
The services fee amount is decided by the Board of Trustees, but it is ASGCC that allocates the money to variety of activities and groups on campus.
The ASGCC uses the budget to help pay for intercollegiate awards, maintenance of the Baja field studies facility, El Vaquero, the Associated Student Newsletter, the Forensics Program, the health services office, campus relations, the music department, national field studies, scholarships and loans, student government, the theater department, transfer center, dance production, cheer squad, and many more programs.
According to student trustee and ASGCC president David Arakelyan, "Last year the Associated Student Legislature decided to donate $2.50 for the next two years from the student services fee to the parking structure construction project. The goal is to help keep the parking fees down."
From the remaining $10, $5 goes to the ASGCC budget and $5 goes to the college general fund.
"I find the services provided by the ASGCC very helpful, especially the scholarship program and the Learning Center and do not understand why somebody would waive their rights to such beneficial services," said student Linda Perez.
Waiver petitions are available through the business office at the bookstore to those students who wish to waive the fee.
Students may fill out a waiver form, said Schlossman, but if they did so "they would not be eligible for the services."
Non-credit students along with students who have waived the fee are excluded from participation in most of the programs
and activities provided by the ASGCC.
Many of these activities include all varsity athletics, public address systems, personal check cashing, use of the tutorial center, student government assemblies, and intercollegiate awards.
"We provided a big chunk of that budget to the athletic programs to help them pay for various competitions, meals for their trips and so on," said Arakelyan.
In addition, ASGCC allocates approximately $25,000 every semester to various clubs. There are over 50 clubs this semester on campus and many of the clubs apply for funding for different projects for their clubs each semester.
"Maybe some people think they could do without the fee and decide not to pay the fee and they don't really care, but there is a lot of proof that states that student life makes the student experience an extraordinary one," said Arakelyan. "It really gives a nice addition to student life."
"I like to be involved with different clubs and activities and can't see myself not being part of different organizations," said student Armine Hakopian.
The good thing about the fee is that "it is the same price regardless of residency status," said Schlossman. AB540 (undocumented students) and international students pay the same amount for student services fee as do California residents unlike tuition fees, which are higher for non-residents.
"As an undocumented student I cannot receive any financial aid from school, but I participate in clubs such as Voces del Manana, which offers scholarships for AB540 student and I get these benefits with only paying $12.50 in student services fee," said an AB540 students who wished to remain unidentified.
According to Arakelyan, "We have been very successful keeping students involved on campus."
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