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A guide to the 18 counties and why you should/shouldn’t support each one (version 2.0)

Hello! It’s been a couple of years since I did this original guide, so I thought it was time for an updated version as after all, a lot has happened since then. 

All the confirmed overseas players I’ve found have been included, the most significant Kolpaks (not all though, because there are many), and the most recent England/Ireland/Scotland players as well…and then some just to look out for.

Without further ado then, here is a relatively comprehensive guide to choosing your county for the year ahead…

Derbyshire

Overseas & Kolpak: Logan van Beek, Kane Richardson (T20), Ravi Rampaul

England/Ireland/Scotland: Mark Watt

England prospects: Matt Critchley, Hamidullah Qadri

Why you should support them: Who doesn’t love an underdog? Quite a bit of young talent around, including in Hamidullah Qadri the first county cricketer born in the 21st century (welp)

Why you shouldn’t support them: They always seem to fly under the radar, and I still haven’t met a Derbyshire supporter (please reveal yourselves if you are out there!)

Durham

Overseas & Kolpak: Cameron Bancroft, D’Arcy Short (T20)

England/Ireland/Scotland: Ben Stokes, Mark Wood, Stuart Poynter

England prospects: Josh Coughlin, Matty Potts

Why you should support them: One of the leading producers of England players over the years, and who have suffered a lot at the hands of the ECB. Who doesn’t have a soft spot for Durham?

Why you shouldn’t support them: It’s been a tough few years due to off-field circumstances, and a lot of their top players have left in the process. Likely to struggle again.

Essex

Overseas & Kolpak: Peter Siddle, Adam Zampa (T20), Mohammad Amir (T20), Simon Harmer, Cameron Delport, Matt Quinn

England/Ireland/Scotland: Alastair Cook, Tom Westley, Ravi Bopara

England prospects: Jamie Porter, Daniel Lawrence, Nick Browne, Sam Cook

Why you should support them:  The place to get your Alastair Cook fix post-England retirement. They’re also a lovely bunch of lads, and with their unexpected 2017 CC win have become one of the division’s leading teams.

Why you shouldn’t support them: Have a notable Kolpak contingent, and are just one of those teams for whom when things go wrong, it happens spectacularly.

Glamorgan

Overseas & Kolpak: Shaun Marsh, Marnus Labuschagne, Colin Ingram, Marchant de Lange

England/Ireland/Scotland: Ruaidhri Smith, Timm van der Gugten (well, Netherlands)

England prospects: Prem Sisodiya

Why you should support them: Flying the flag for Wales as the only county not based in England, and another underdog to root for as well. A decent pace bowling attack that should see them improve on last year.

Why you shouldn’t support them: Continually struggling, last year coming bottom of the County Championship and with no trophies in a long time.

Gloucestershire

Overseas & Kolpak: Michael Klinger (T20), Dan Worrall  

England/Ireland/Scotland:  Adrian Neill

England prospects: Ryan Higgins, Ben Charlesworth

Why you should support them: A team with an exceptional history in short-form cricket, and though they tend to be underdogs nowadays, can still prove themselves worth more than the sum of their parts.

Why you shouldn’t support them: Have tended to stay mid-table in Division Two over the past few years without making huge strides forward. Though known for limited overs success, form can be variable.     

Hampshire

Overseas & Kolpak: Aiden Markram, Kyle Abbott, Fidel Edwards, Rilee Rossouw

England/Ireland/Scotland: Liam Dawson, Mason Crane, James Vince

England prospects: Sam Northeast, James Fuller, Aneurin Donald

Why you should support them: Often strong performers in the shortest forms, winning the one day cup last year and having been regulars at T20 finals day in the last decade.

Why you shouldn’t support them:  Tend to scrape their Division One safety in the CC every year, so prepare for the stress. Also one of the counties people love to hate, thanks in part to high profile Kolpak signings and the attitude of their chairman.

Kent

Overseas & Kolpak: Matt Renshaw, Adam Milne (T20), Mohammed Nabi (T20), Heino Kuhn

England/Ireland/Scotland: Joe Denly, Sam Billings

England prospects: Daniel Bell-Drummond, Zak Crawley  

Why you should support them: A steadily improving county in all formats, reaching the one day final and being promoted from the CC last year. Soon to be 43, the evergreen Darren Stevens is also worthy of a mention here too.

Why you shouldn’t support them: Another team with a notable Kolpak contingent in addition to those above. A team with little experience of the first division as well, so who will be facing a challenge.

Lancashire

Overseas & Kolpak: Joe Burns, Glenn Maxwell, James Faulkner (T20), Dane Vilas

England/Ireland/Scotland: James Anderson, Jos Buttler, Haseeb Hameed, Keaton Jennings, Liam Livingstone

England prospects: Saqib Mahmood, Alex Davies, Matthew Parkinson

Why you should support them:  With a strong squad it would be a surprise not to see them promoted this year, especially with the bowling attack that managed to pick up the most bonus points last year. It also looks like they’ve final gotten rid of that god-awful green kit, too.

Why you shouldn’t support them: It’s Lancashire, what more is there to say? (I had to get a dig in here somewhere, didn’t I?)

Leicestershire:

Overseas & Kolpak: Mohammed Abbas, Colin Ackermann, Mark Cosgrove

England prospects: Will Davis

Why you should support them:  Just lovely, and definitely improving as a team after many years at the bottom of the pack. Always developing young, talented players. The only ground I’ve been to where I’ve been offered a bag of Sweets Or Weed. 

Why you shouldn’t support them: Well known for their top players leaving, and another big exodus took place at the end of the season. Supporting them can be painful, too.

Middlesex

Overseas & Kolpak: Mujeeb Ur Rahman (T20), AB de Villiers (T20), Ross Taylor

England/Ireland/Scotland: Eoin Morgan, Steven Finn, Toby Roland-Jones, Tim Murtagh, Paul Stirling, Sam Robson

England prospects: Nick Gubbins, Ethan Bamber, Tom Barber, Tom Helm, Max Holden

Why you should support them: A squad with a lot of English and Irish talent and hot prospects who will be striving for promotion this year. And there’s the Lord’s factor, because where better to watch cricket?

Why you shouldn’t support them: Have underperformed in the two years following their CC win, and it’s best not to even mention the shorter forms. 

Northamptonshire

Overseas & Kolpak: Temba Bavuma, Faheem Ashraf (T20), Jason Holder, Blessing Muzarabani, Richard Levi

England/Ireland/Scotland: Kyle Coetzer

England prospects: Ben Curran

Why you should support them: A team without big resources who have become one of the more successful T20 teams in the country. Also, I love Temba Bavuma in general and just want that stated here.

Why you shouldn’t support them: That T20 success that made them famous went spectacularly downhill last year, finishing well adrift at the bottom of the group. Have lost important players since, too.

Nottinghamshire

Overseas & Kolpak: Dan Christian (T20), James Pattinson

England/Ireland/Scotland: Stuart Broad, Jake Ball, Alex Hales, Ben Duckett

England prospects: Joe Clarke, Zak Chappell, Matthew Carter, Tom Moores, Ben Slater

Why you should support them: A team with a lot of England talent from the past, present, and likely the future. Have strengthened their squad a lot over the winter and will be looking to challenge on all fronts.

Why you shouldn’t support them: Not too popular for buying a lot of their talent, particularly with their winter recruitment. Have also underperformed in the longer format despite a strong squad.

Somerset

Overseas & Kolpak: Azhar Ali, Jerome Taylor (T20)

England/Ireland/Scotland: Jack Leach, Dom Bess, Craig Overton, Josh Davey

England prospects: Jamie Overton, George Bartlett

Why you should support them: A well-liked county, by everyone really apart from the ECB. Also the home of Marcus Trescothick, making centuries into his forties, and probably the best place in the country for spin bowling.

Why you shouldn’t support them: It always ends in pain, doesn’t it? A great track record for finishing high among the runners up, but not getting over the line, which has also returned among the last couple of seasons.

Surrey

Overseas & Kolpak: Aaron Finch, Dean Elgar, Morne Morkel

England/Ireland/Scotland: Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Ollie Pope, Rory Burns, Liam Plunkett, Ben Foakes, Jason Roy, Mark Stoneman 

England prospects: Amar Virdi, Will Jacks, Conor McKerr

Why you should support them: England players a plenty, with many coming through the academy system at the moment. The reigning champions of the CC and the favourites to win again, and should compete in the other formats.

Why you shouldn’t support them: One of the definitive love-to-hate counties among the 18, and another who like Notts are regularly called out on their spending.

Sussex

Overseas & Kolpak: Rashid Khan (T20), Mir Hamza, David Wiese, Stiaan van Zyl

England/Ireland/Scotland: Chris Jordan, Tymal Mills

England prospects: Jofra Archer, George Garton, Delray Rawlins

Why you should support them: An up-and-coming team, coached by the wonderful Jason Gillespie. Particularly exciting fast-bowling stocks, and last year’s T20 runners up who will want to go one better. Also, Luke Wright.  

Why you shouldn’t support them: For whatever reason, they tend to be bad at 50 over cricket, so probably not the team to root for if you’re after that Lord’s final.

Warwickshire

Overseas & Kolpak: Jeetan Patel, Ashton Agar (T20)

England/Ireland/Scotland: Chris Woakes, Olly Stone, Ian Bell

England prospects: Will Rhodes, Ed Pollock, Sam Hain, Henry Brookes, Dom Sibley     

Why you should support them: A likeable team, as they would be with Chris Woakes and Ian Bell. After a few years with an aging squad, now have quite a few young players who have either come through or been given a second chance from elsewhere.

Why you shouldn’t support them: Though they’ve bounced straight back from division two, they really crashed out during their relegation season so their return to the top flight might be a learning curve.

Worcestershire

Overseas & Kolpak: Callum Ferguson, Martin Guptil (T20), Wayne Parnell

England/Ireland/Scotland: Moeen Ali

England prospects: Pat Brown, Josh Tongue, Dillon Pennington

Why you should support them: A team with a lot of strong homegrown young talent, who won the nation’s hearts on their way to their T20 Blast win in 2018. Led by Moeen Ali, and if you don’t appreciate them for that then what’s up with you mate?

Why you shouldn’t support them: The ultimate yo-yo team, constantly being promoted or relegated whilst rarely staying in one place, so not one to support if you don’t want the sadness every other year.

Yorkshire

Overseas & Kolpak: Duanne Olivier

England/Ireland/Scotland: Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Adil Rashid, David Willey, Gary Ballance

England prospects: Ben Coad, Matthew Fisher, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Harry Brook

Why you should support them: They’re my team and I would die for them, the best team you can support. In seriousness though, they feature a lot of England players from past and present and tend to challenge across all competitions in some degree. Look strongest in the shorter forms.

Why you shouldn’t support them: Another love-to-hate county, as us Yorkshire fans do tend to go on about our successes. It has been a tricky couple of years as well, with a struggling batting line-up and no major reinforcements on that front.

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For the week of 17 June 2019

Quick Bits:

A Walk Through Hell #11 gives us a bit more insight into Shaw’s childhood and further fallout from the investigation, even as things seem to get nastier in the hell they’ve found themselves in. The fields of bones from Goran Sudžuka and Ive Svorcina are horrifying.

| Published by AfterShock

Age of X-Man: NextGen #5 is a bit of a gut punch for a final issue in this series. Some great art by Lucas Werneck and Jason Keith, though.

| Published by Marvel

Aquaman #49 concludes the “Mother Shark” two-parter as Arthur gets answers on who he is and how he died. This is a huge one. Kelly Sue DeConnick, Viktor Bogdanovic, Jonathan Glapion, Daniel Henriques, Ryan Winn, Sunny Gho, and Clayton Cowles do an incredible job with this story. Beautiful and heartbreaking. 

| Published by DC Comics

Assassin Nation #4 has the remaining assassins possibly figure out the entire plan as they take down another crime boss in this penultimate issue. Kyle Starks, Erica Henderson, and Deron Bennett have been delivering a highly entertaining series here with great art and a wicked sense of humour. Every book needs a Fuck Tarkington.

| Published by Image / Skybound

Barbarella/Dejah Thoris #4 is the end to what has been a great mini from Leah Williams,  Germán García, Addison Duke, and Crank! Very interesting use of time travel for this story.

| Published by Dynamite

Batman #73 sees Tom King, Mikel Janín, Jordie Bellaire, and Clayton Cowles reveal as to just how demented Thomas Wayne is in part four of “The Fall and the Fallen”. His motivation is understandable, but this is insane.

| Published by DC Comics

Black Badge #11 reveals a lot of the remaining secrets that we’ve guessed about previously as to what exactly is going on with the entire Black Badge organization. Maybe. I’m still expecting more twists from Matt Kindt, Tyler Jenkins, Hilary Jenkins, and Jim Campbell when the series ends next issue.

| Published by BOOM! Studios

Captain America #11 sees Steve’s jailbreak from the Myrmidon in earnest, while Sharon and the Daughters of Liberty run the operation. Beautiful artwork from Adam Kubert and Matt Milla.

| Published by Marvel

Daredevil #7 reminds us that Matt Murdock carries more guilt than an entire Catholic archdiocese. There’s a very compelling depth and complexity that Chip Zdarsky is bringing to this story, moving us away from the typical superheroics.

| Published by Marvel

Elephantmen 2261: The Pentalion Job #2 enacts the heist of the pentalions in the second part of this story from Richard Starkings and Alex Medellin. Hip Flask raises some interesting questions as all of the Bond actors seem to meet their end.

| Published by Comicraft

Excellence #2 is another excellent issue. Brandon Thomas, Khary Randolph, Emilio Lopez, and Deron Bennett are developing Spencer and his history, his family, and relation with the hierarchy of the Aegis in a very compelling way.

| Published by Image / Skybound

Fairlady #3 is the first issue that doesn’t really end “clean”. It’s still a single issue story, but the mystery remains and isn’t tidied up by the end. It’s another murder mystery, with an adventurer impersonating a Conan analogue. Like the previous issues, this is a great story from Brian Schirmer, Claudia Balboni, Shari Chankhamma, and David Bowman.

| Published by Image

Faithless #3 continues to be very strange. Very, very strange. As Faith’s roommate is murdered by what seems like a wolf from her phone, her relationship with Poppy, and then she has sex with Poppy’s father. As I said, strange. I’m still not entirely sure what Brian Azzarello, Maria Llovet, and AndWorld Design are trying to do with this story.

| Published by BOOM! Studios

Gideon Falls #14 begins playing with time along with the alternate realities as Burke lands in a reality “closer to the centre” and is given a purpose to find “the five”. Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart, and Steve Wands are doing some amazing work here.

| Published by Image

Guardians of the Galaxy #6 concludes “The Final Gauntlet” from Donny Cates, Geoff Shaw, David Curiel, and Cory Petit as the Guardians, all of the Guardians, take on Hela and the Black Order to try to prevent the resurrection of Thanos. It’s suitably epic.

| Published by Marvel

Hit-Girl: Season 2 #5 kicks off the “Hong Kong” arc from Daniel Way, Goran Parlov, Giada Marchisio, and Clem Robins. It may well be the arc with the most narration so far, but it doesn’t detract from the usual over-the-top violence and action in the start of this story of Mindy trying to take down the Liu Triad, with rather humorous results, it rather enhances it with some nice introspection.

| Published by Image

Justice League #26 is part one of “Apex Predator” from James Tynion IV, Javier Fernandez, Hi-Fi, and Tom Napolitano. The Justice League are pitching to the stars in order to stem the tide of Perpetua’s plans and the impending Doom brought on by the “Year of the Villain”. But everyone’s wondering if it’s just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.

| Published by DC Comics

Last Stop on the Red Line #2 is still very strange. Paul Maybury, Sam Lotfi, John Rauch, and Adam Pruett are crafting an intriguing murder mystery here as Torres and her new partner continue to try to solve the crimes on the subways, but it’s told through a very fluid, stylized way where we’re not sure what’s real and what’s just a character’s perception. It’s a very neat way to tell a story.

| Published by Dark Horse

Little Bird #4 is maybe the most heartbreaking issue yet in this masterpiece from Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram, Matt Hollingsworth, and Aditya Bidikar. There’s a lesson of survival, of children supplanting the parents, instilled here in the penultimate chapter as Little Bird and Gabriel have a bit of an understanding as siblings.

| Published by Image

Middlewest #8 attempts to pick up the pieces after Abel’s outburst and near destruction of the travelling circus. Also, more of the sheer monster that his father is. Gorgeous artwork from Jorge Corona and Jean-Francois Beaulieu.

| Published by Image

Miles Morales: Spider-Man #7 is a number of vignettes with Miles checking in with family and Bombshell before setting up the next arc. Wonderful use of guest artists with Ron Ackins & Dexter Vines, Alitha E. Martinez, and Vanesa Del Rey providing segments as well as regular artist Javier Garrón.

| Published by Marvel

Outpost Zero #10 explains all of the cats. It also gives a timeframe for the colony and a lot more questions as to why the old ship structure and tunnels were just completely abandoned by the colonists. Wonderful designs by Alexandre Tefenkgi.

| Published by Image / Skybound

Pearl #10 takes an interesting detour for a bit into “real life” as Pearl tries to hold down a “normal” job. Then we get back to the fallout of her chopping off Mr. Miike’s fingers. Absolutely stunning artwork from Michael Gaydos, with some very interesting layouts.

| Published by DC Comics / Jinxworld

Psi-Lords #1 is another great debut for Valiant. Fred Van Lente, Renato Guedes, and Dave Sharpe update one of the few Valiant properties that haven’t been brought back yet, with a bunch of seemingly newly activated psiots awakening in some kind of “Aztec sex dungeon”. The story keeps you off-balance from the beginning, adding a nice bit of mystery to what’s going on. And the artwork from Guedes is excellent.

| Published by Valiant

Rat Queens #16 begins the run by the new creative team of Ryan Ferrier, Priscilla Petraites, and Marco Lesko in earnest, following on the special. The Queens are essentially tearing themselves apart at this stage and nothing seems to be able to go right.

| Published by Image / Shadowline

Rumble #13 tackles the next Scourge Knight and Timah learns an interesting fact about the bundle of joy growing inside her. Great art as always from David Rubín and Dave Stewart.

| Published by Image

Savage Sword of Conan #6 is a single issue story from Meredith Finch, Luke Ross, Nolan Woodard, and Travis Lanham. It’s a captivating tale of revenge and Conan fighting through some insurmountable odds. Great art from Ross and Woodard.

| Published by Marvel

Usagi Yojimbo #1 begins a new era at IDW...in colour. Tom Luth joins Stan Sakai for the interiors in the first part of “Bunraku”. While it is a bit odd not to be black and white, this is still masterful storytelling, building on some traditional Japanese culture and providing an intriguing supernatural mystery. 

| Published by IDW

Warlord of Mars Attacks #1 begins another property crossover mini-series from Dynamite, this time mixing John Carter with the Mars Attacks aliens, from Jeff Parker, Dean Kotz, Omi Remalante, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Nice bits of humour.

| Published by Dynamite

Wolverine: Infinity Watch #5 concludes this mini from Gerry Duggan, Andy MacDonald, Jordie Bellaire, and Cory Petit. It’s been a very entertaining follow-up to Infinity Wars, but it’s also served as a kind of weird clean-up to continuity that Marvel otherwise seems to have abandoned.

| Published by Marvel

Other Highlights: American Carnage #8, Age of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler #1, Battlestar Galactica Classic #5, Captain Marvel #7, Clue: Candlestick #2, Curse Words #22, Deadpool #14, Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #9, Farmhand #9, Firefly #7, Go Go Power Rangers: Forever Rangers #1, Goddess Mode #6, Hellboy and the BPRD: The Beast of Vargu, Invisible Kingdom #4, James Bond 007 #8, Lab Raider #1, Livewire #7, Lucifer #9, Lumberjanes #63, Marvels Annotated #4, Mary Shelly: Monster Hunter #3, Monstress #23, Planet of the Nerds #3, Port of Earth #11, Red Sonja & Vampirella meet Betty & Veronica #2, Sabrina: The Teenage Witch #3, Shuri #9, Star Wars #67, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #3, Star Wars: Tie Fighter #3, TMNT: Urban Legends #14, Teen Titans #31, Tony Stark: Iron Man #13, Trout: The Hollowest Knock #1, Uncanny X-Men #20, The Unstoppable Wasp #9, War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery #5, War of the Realms: Spider-Man & The League of the Realms #3, War of the Realms: War Scrolls #3, The Warning #8, X-Men: Grand Design - X-Tinction #2

Recommended Collections: Archie 1941, Dead Man Logan - Volume 1: Sins of the Father, High Heaven - Volume 1, Hillbilly - Volume 4: Red Eyed Witchery from Beyond, Giant Days - Volume 10, Hit-Girl - Volume 4, Low Road West, Lucifer - Volume 1: Infernal Comedy, Marvel Action: Spider-Man - Book 1, Prince of Cats, Rainbow Brite, Shadow Roads - Volume 1, Spookhouse - Volume 2, TMNT - Macroseries, Thor - Volume 2: Road to War of the Realms, Uncanny X-Men - Volume 1: Cyclops and Wolverine, Vampirella/Dejah Thoris, Winter Soldier: Second Chances, X-O Manowar - Volume 7: Hero

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Top Five Golf Courses In Dubai

Many lovers and experts visit the Gulf to revel in the romance of the sport, way to the famed Dubai Desert Classic on the Emirates Golf Club. Check out our listing of Dubai’s best golfing courses.

Dubai Creek Golf Club- Dubai, United Arab Emirates:

Dubai Creek is a direction with fairways like carpets and bunkering placement like no other, definitely referred to as after the frame of water it sits via way of means of Dubai Hills. As you attempt to clean the water beforehand from a staggering tee field that towers on stilts out withinside the creek for the par-four 6th, your coronary heart may be on your mouth. On and stale the direction, the eye to element is impeccable, with a top rate stage of atmosphere that pervades the whole facility.

Golf at Dubai Creek:

Dubai Creek Golf Club is placed in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Book a golfing excursion at Dubai Creek Golf Club Majlis Course, Emirates Golf Club, or Dubai Creek Golf Club.

The strange (however intriguing) Bedouin tent-styled Emirates Golf Club Royal Pavilion, that's placed at the back of the eighth inexperienced, provides to the distinctiveness of this direction. Majlis changed into the primary 18-hollow grass direction withinside the Middle East, and it's been carved out of the topography.

The perimeter is surrounded via way of means of barren region dunes, and severa holes are laid low with salt and freshwater water risks. The greens, on the opposite hand, are one of the direction’s primary highlights, with huge, speedy surfaces and intricate pin positions creating a respectable rating hard to return back via way of means of.

Emirates Golf Club’s Majlis direction:

Take a golfing excursion to Emirates Golf Club. The Els Club is a non-public membership for participants of the Els. The Els Club golfing direction is simply one a part of the Dubai Sports City complex, which has lots to offer. Pre-round, paintings in your swing on the variety or on the on-webweb page high-overall performance institute, which gives bodily screening and in-intensity video analysis, perfect for casting off that slice.

The barren region hyperlinks-fashion direction changed into carved from sand, with an synthetic intervention presenting topographic difference to the usually flat terrain. You ought to be ecstatic on the concept of tackling Ernie’s masterpiece below Dubai’s stunning blue skies.

The Els Club:

Book a golfing excursion at Jumeirah Golf Estates’ The Els Club Earth Course. At Jumeirah Golf Estates, you could anticipate a top rate enjoy in an effort to exceed your expectancies with lovely situations and a disturbing round. The Earth championship direction offers you a splendid feel of what it’s like to stroll the fairways like a pro.

Henrik Stenson, Lee Westwood, and Jon Rahm are a few of the primary names who've laid out and pitched in right here on a normal foundation as hosts of the DP World Tour. Take it from us: that is one in all Dubai’s pinnacle golfing courses.

Jumeirah Golf Estates Earth Course:

Visit Jumeirah Golf Estates for a golfing excursion. The Address Montgomerie Dubai, The Montgomerie Golf Club. Man-made lakes cowl 265 acres of land, presenting a extensive quantity of water. Man-made lakes, a massive expanse of groomed gardens, and the 18-hollow Montgomerie Golf Course are all placed on 265 acres of property. Desmond Muirhead has given the spacious direction a extraordinary and as an alternative enigmatic architectural flair. Look out for the thirteenth hollow, which capabilities a inexperienced formed just like the United Arab Emirates, specific addition to the already innovative layout. A clubhouse with almost 20 visitor rooms and a pool is likewise to be had for the ones off-direction comforts.

Arabian Ranches Golf Club:

It’s tough to accept as true with that the land wherein Arabian Ranches now stands changed into as soon as domestic to grazing camels and wild gazelle. Ian Baker-Finch, the 1991 Open winner, designed the direction, and it’s secure to mention he is aware of his manner round a golfing direction, encapsulating the hyperlinks fashion even withinside the Gulf’s sandy wasteland. The sections surrounding the fairways are densely forested, so deliver your pleasant recreation or you can warfare to make par. The membership absolutely delivers, with five units of tees to choose from, a flood-lit riding variety open in any respect hours of the day, and a par-three direction.

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Birds’ eye size reflects habitat and diet, may predict sensitivity to environmental change

https://sciencespies.com/nature/birds-eye-size-reflects-habitat-and-diet-may-predict-sensitivity-to-environmental-change/

Birds’ eye size reflects habitat and diet, may predict sensitivity to environmental change

A new study shows the eye size of birds can reveal broad patterns of their biology and behavior, including where they live, what they eat and how they hunt, providing a potential roadmap for future conservation efforts.

Birds have some of the largest eyes relative to their bodies of all vertebrate land animals, second only to frogs. With a limited range of taste and smell, birds primarily rely on vision to navigate, find food and avoid predators. Yet surprisingly little is known about how eye size in birds influences their behavior compared with other traits, such as beak shape and body size, which scientists have meticulously studied since Charles Darwin’s classic work on finches.

“I was really shocked to find out while doing literature searches that there was no definitive publication on how eye size in birds relates to their environment,” said Ian Ausprey, a recent doctoral graduate of the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Ordway Lab of Ecosystem Conservation.

Previous studies on bird eyes have been limited in scope, typically including only a few dozen species or birds in specific regions. This gap in scientific knowledge was all the more glaring given that a graduate student measured the eyes of more than 4,000 species of birds in museum collections in the late 1970s, creating the largest dataset of its kind.

Ausprey relied on this resource to analyze eye size for 2,777 species — about one-third of the world’s bird diversity — revealing that this single trait more powerfully predicts where birds live and how they behave than better-studied characteristics such as size, anatomy and movement.

Large eyes increase sensitivity to deforestation

Ausprey had the idea for the study while conducting fieldwork with colleagues in the Andean forests of Peru. Over the course of five years, the researchers measured the eyes of Peruvian birds and attached small light sensors to more than a dozen species of tanagers, finches, wrens and woodpeckers to determine how these birds were coping with increased amounts of forest fragmentation due to agriculture.

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Their results were troubling: Birds with large eyes avoided agricultural fields, keeping to diminishing forest habitats. But the researchers could also use eye size to predict where these birds mated and laid eggs and what they were eating, valuable information for future conservation efforts.

Ausprey wanted to know whether this pattern held true for all birds, not just those in Peru. But with over 10,000 species spread out across all seven continents, answering a question as broad as how eye size influences bird behavior would have taken years.

Fortunately, the data Ausprey needed had already been collected in the form of a dissertation, a nearly 2,000-page tome completed by Stanley Ritland during his time as a doctoral student at the University of Chicago.

“He spent his time traveling around museums, extracting eyes out of specimens preserved in alcohol and then measuring them,” Ausprey said. “He did it for several thousand species of birds, as well as mammals and reptiles.”

Ritland left academia upon graduating, however, and never published his data in a scientific journal. Researchers have used small portions of the massive dataset, initially relegated to the stacks of the University of Chicago library, to answer small-scale questions, but comprehensive analyses have so far been lacking.

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Although the data was available, the time-consuming task of digitizing it still remained. Ausprey hired two undergraduate students, Savannah Montgomery and Kristie Perez, who spent five months transcribing Ritland’s measurements into spreadsheets so they could be analyzed and shared more broadly with the scientific community.

Because eye size tends to increase with body size, Ausprey standardized all the measurements for each species by mass and intentionally omitted birds that operate at optical extremes, such as far-sighted raptors and nocturnal owls. Scientists already know these species have unusually large eyes.

Instead, he focused on land-dwelling birds that hunt for food close to the ground and are most active during daylight hours.

Light and shadow define bird vision

Stark patterns began to take shape as eye size was compared with a host of behavioral traits.

Birds with larger eyes live closer to the equator, where the planet’s belt of rainforests create dark understory habitats. Regardless of latitude, birds that hunt or forage closest to the forest floor have large eyes to take in as much light as possible, while those that spend more time in the sky had correspondingly smaller eyes to reduce glare.

“Bright lights can cause something called disability glare,” Ausprey said. “When you shine a light on birds, they change the way they forage. They also respond differently to vocalizations of experimental predators.”

Scientists worry that such behavioral changes may negatively affect avian understory specialists, many of which have already been displaced because of deforestation.

“Understory tropical birds may be especially sensitive to fragmentation because they are adapted to dark forested environments and are unable to cope with rapid changes in brightness associated with forest edges and human-modified habitats,” Ausprey said.

Eye size is also strongly correlated with diet. Larger eyes not only absorb more light, but they can also confer increased focal length and resolution, the equivalent of upgrading your camera with a longer lens.

Birds that eat insects have larger eyes, which are better suited for spotting prey at long distances, regardless of whether they lived in the forest understory or open habitats. Birds with the smallest eyes relative to body size were often nectar feeders, hinting that they may rely on color more than shape when looking for food.

Ausprey also analyzed how eyes have changed throughout the birds’ evolution, finding that once eyes became larger in a particular group, they stayed that way. This meant that closely related groups, such as the hummingbird and swift families, could have eyes of vastly different sizes.

Within a family, however, size didn’t change much among species. Fly catchers, for example, spend a lot of time sallying out and catching prey, which requires long-distance, binocular vision, Ausprey said.

“And it turns out, flycatchers tend to have larger eyes, as you’d expect. All the finches and tanagers and such that eat fruits and seeds tend to have very small eyes.”

Collections provide tools for understanding the natural world

To Ausprey, the data collected by Ritland decades ago offer an unparalleled glimpse into bird diversity and behavior, which may help conserve species for the future.

“Nearly half a century of time has passed, and yet the same datasets are relevant,” Ausprey said.

Ritland relied entirely on alcohol-preserved museum collections, meaning the same specimens he measured are still accessible to scientists stitching together patterns in the natural world.

Some of the birds he encountered during his museum visits were already of considerable antiquity by the time he began taking his measurements, including two birds collected during Captain Cook’s first voyage around the world.

“Museum collections are invaluable, indispensable and essentially irreplaceable,” Ritland said in an email.

Ausprey, who knew firsthand the difficulty of collecting eye-size data in the Andean cloud forests of Peru, gained a newfound respect for natural history collections while using Ritland’s work.

“As an ecologist, it’s become extremely apparent that collections are invaluable for providing data on traits that we really can’t collect in the field easily.”

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Quicken Loans National 2018: Time, TV schedule for Tiger Woods and the field for Sunday

Tiger Woods is in contention, albeit as a longshot, in what is likely the final round of the final edition of his event in DC.

It appears Sunday will be the final day for the PGA Tour event known as The National in the DC area. It’s been an 11-year run since Tiger Woods and his foundation organized and launched this event, maintaining they wanted to keep a Tour stop in the DC area. But with no title sponsor for next year — Quicken Loans is backing a new event in their hometown of Detroit — and the 2019 schedule due out any day, it’s almost certain that The National will get axed.

Tiger has a chance to take his DC event out with a bang, but he’s going to have to get to work right away on Sunday. Woods is six shots off the 54-hole pace. Closing the gap is a longshot, but we’ve seen him put together birdie runs on this course a couple times already this week. It’s possible, just not likely, and he’ll probably need a little help from the guys ahead of him. Francesco Molinari and Abraham Ancer hold the lead at 13-under, while Tiger sits at T10 at 7-under.

Woods will tee off a 1:20 p.m. ET alongside Bronson Burgoon. This is the most exposure and TV time Bronson Burgoon has received in a single round of his young pro career. There will be thousands following the group on what is a tough course to walk. The crowds get confined to really going from one hole to the next in a station-to-station layout, as opposed to an open plot that allows jumping around the course. So everyone has really concentrated around Tiger’s group, and Mr. Burgoon will have to deal with that circus all day long.

Tiger’s late tee time does mean his entire final round will fall within the TV coverage window. Golf Channel will be live on the air at 1 p.m. ET before kicking it over to CBS for their usual coverage to wrap things up around 6 p.m. ET. Jim Nantz is back calling this event after it got the Macatee treatment. Ian Baker-Finch is in the lead analyst chair and Nick Faldo gets a break and ramps up for work across the pond with Golf Channel.

Here are your media options for Sunday’s final round at Quicken Loans National:

Sunday’s final round coverage

Television:

1 to 2:45 p.m. ET — Golf Channel

3 to 6 p.m. ET — CBS

Online streams:

8 a.m. to 1 p.m. — “Featured Groups” coverage on Facebook Watch

1 to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Live featured holes coverage -- Nos. 1, 14 & 17 (No subscription required)

1 to 2:45 p.m. ET — Golf Channel LiveExtra simulcast stream

3 to 6 p.m. ET — PGATour.com/CBS simulcast stream

Radio:

Noon to 7 p.m. ET — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 92/208 and streamed here)

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British Open

British Open, officially the Open Championship or the Open, one of the world’s four major golf tournaments—with the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, and the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Championship—and the oldest continually run championship in the sport. Best known outside the United States as the Open Championship or, simply, the Open, it has been held annually (with a few exceptions) on various courses in Scotland, England, and—on one occasion—Northern Ireland since 1860. History The first Open Championship was played on October 17, 1860, at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. A field of eight professionals played three rounds of Prestwick’s 12-hole course in one day. Willie Park, Sr., won the inaugural tournament and was presented with the Challenge Belt, a silver-buckled leather belt that each champion was to keep until the following Open. The tournament was opened to amateurs in 1861. In 1863 a purse of £10—which was to be shared among the professionals who finished in second, third, and fourth place—was introduced, and a first-place cash prize of £6 was added in 1864. In 1870 Tom Morris, Jr., won the Open for the third consecutive time and was thus allowed to keep the Challenge Belt permanently. As there was no award to present to the winner, the Open was not held again until 1872, when it was determined that the winning golfer would receive the Golf Champion Trophy, now commonly known as the Claret Jug. In 1892 the Open became a 72-hole event (four rounds of 18 holes), and in 1898 a cut (reduction of the field) was introduced after the first two rounds of play. The Open has always been dominated by professionals, with only six victories by amateurs, all before 1930. The last of those was Bobby Jones’s third Open, which was part of his celebrated Grand Slam (four major tournament victories in one calendar year). The popularization of golf in the mid-20th century produced a string of noteworthy Open champions, including England’s Sir Henry Cotton (winner in 1934, 1937, and 1948), South Africa’s Bobby Locke (1949–50, 1952, 1957), Australia’s Peter W. Thomson (1954–56, 1958, 1965), and the United States’ Arnold Palmer (1961–62) and Tom Watson (1975, 1977, 1980, 1982–83). Watson’s final win in 1983 ended an era of U.S. domination, during which American golfers won 12 times in 14 years. For the next 11 years there was only one American winner, with the Claret Jug going to Spain’s Seve Ballesteros, Australia’s Greg Norman, and England’s Nick Faldo, among others. In 1995 the Open became part of the PGA Tour’s official schedule. American John Daly won that year after a play-off with Italy’s Costantino Rocca, beginning another period of American supremacy at the Open in which 10 of the next 13 winners hailed from the United States, including Tiger Woods, who won three championships (2000, 2005–06). Subsequent years saw a number of victories by golfers for whom the Open was their first major tournament triumph, including Paul Lawrie in 1999, David Duval in 2001, Ben Curtis in 2003, and Padraig Harrington in 2007. Another notable Open champion is Jack Nicklaus, who won in 1966, 1970, and 1978 and placed in the top five 16 times, including seven second-place finishes. Harry Vardon won the Open six times—more than any other player—and four golfers, including Thomson and Watson, won five championships. South African Gary Player, who won the title in 1968 and 1974, holds the record for the most appearances in the Open, with 46. Courses The Open Championship has always been played on links courses (mostly treeless golf courses that are built along a coast and retain the natural uneven terrain of their locations). From 1860 to 1870 the Open was played exclusively at Prestwick Golf Club. Since 1872 it has been played at a number of courses in rotation. Initially the three courses were Prestwick, St. Andrews, and Musselburgh, all located in Scotland. The nine courses in the current rotation are the Old Course at St. Andrews; Carnoustie Golf Links in Carnoustie, Scotland; Muirfield in Gullane, Scotland; the Ailsa Course at the Westin Turnberry Resort, outside Girvan, Scotland; Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland; Royal St. George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, England; Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England; Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in Lytham St. Annes, England; and Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England. The Open is a unique event and is of great importance to professionals and amateur golfers alike, as well as to fans of golf. Unlike the play of other majors—which are typically contested in sunny locales in the United States—the outcome of the Open is often influenced by the weather. On a links course, morning and afternoon tee times can produce vastly different playing conditions, depending on the breeze that comes in off the sea. The weather is just one of the many unique features of the Open that combine with its long history and prestigious reputation to make it an event unparalleled in golf. This author, who experienced a warm reception from his home crowd when he finished second to Tiger Woods at St. Andrews in 2005, looks forward to competing in the Open every year. To him, the Open is pure romance and theatre, and it truly is a special event that every golfer dreams of winning. British Open Winners year winner* 1860 Willie Park, Sr. 1861 Tom Morris, Sr. 1862 Tom Morris, Sr. 1863 Willie Park, Sr. 1864 Tom Morris, Sr. 1865 Andrew Strath 1866 Willie Park, Sr. 1867 Tom Morris, Sr. 1868 Tom Morris, Jr. 1869 Tom Morris, Jr. 1870 Tom Morris, Jr. 1871 not held 1872 Tom Morris, Jr. 1873 Tom Kidd 1874 Mungo Park 1875 Willie Park, Sr. 1876 Bob Martin 1877 Jamie Anderson 1878 Jamie Anderson 1879 Jamie Anderson 1880 Bob Ferguson 1881 Bob Ferguson 1882 Bob Ferguson 1883 Willie Fernie 1884 Jack Simpson 1885 Bob Martin 1886 David Brown 1887 Willie Park, Jr. 1888 Jack Burns 1889 Wille Park, Jr. 1890 John Ball 1891 Hugh Kirkaldy 1892 Harold Hilton 1893 William Auchterlonie 1894 J.H. Taylor 1895 J.H. Taylor 1896 Harry Vardon 1897 Harold Hilton 1898 Harry Vardon 1899 Harry Vardon 1900 J.H. Taylor 1901 James Braid 1902 Sandy Herd 1903 Harry Vardon 1904 Jack White 1905 James Braid 1906 James Braid 1907 Arnaud Massy (France) 1908 James Braid 1909 J.H. Taylor 1910 James Braid 1911 Harry Vardon 1912 Ted Ray 1913 J.H. Taylor 1914 Harry Vardon 1915–19 not held 1920 George Duncan 1921 Jock Hutchison (U.S.) 1922 Walter Hagen (U.S.) 1923 Arthur Havers 1924 Walter Hagen (U.S.) 1925 Jim Barnes (U.S.) 1926 Bobby Jones (U.S.) 1927 Bobby Jones (U.S.) 1928 Walter Hagen (U.S.) 1929 Walter Hagen (U.S.) 1930 Bobby Jones (U.S.) 1931 Tommy Armour (U.S.) 1932 Gene Sarazen (U.S.) 1933 Denny Shute (U.S.) 1934 Henry Cotton 1935 Alf Perry 1936 Alf Padgham 1937 Henry Cotton 1938 Reg Whitcombe 1939 Dick Burton 1940–45 not held 1946 Sam Snead (U.S.) 1947 Fred Daly (Ire.) 1948 Henry Cotton 1949 Bobby Locke (S.Af.) 1950 Bobby Locke (S.Af.) 1951 Max Faulkner 1952 Bobby Locke (S.Af.) 1953 Ben Hogan (U.S.) 1954 Peter Thomson (Austl.) 1955 Peter Thomson (Austl.) 1956 Peter Thomson (Austl.) 1957 Bobby Locke (S.Af.) 1958 Peter Thomson (Austl.) 1959 Gary Player (S.Af.) 1960 Kel Nagle (Austl.) 1961 Arnold Palmer (U.S.) 1962 Arnold Palmer (U.S.) 1963 Bob Charles (N.Z.) 1964 Tony Lema (U.S.) 1965 Peter Thomson (Austl.) 1966 Jack Nicklaus (U.S.) 1967 Roberto de Vicenzo (Arg.) 1968 Gary Player (S.Af.) 1969 Tony Jacklin 1970 Jack Nicklaus (U.S.) 1971 Lee Trevino (U.S.) 1972 Lee Trevino (U.S.) 1973 Tom Weiskopf (U.S.) 1974 Gary Player (S.Af.) 1975 Tom Watson (U.S.) 1976 Johnny Miller (U.S.) 1977 Tom Watson (U.S.) 1978 Jack Nicklaus (U.S.) 1979 Seve Ballesteros (Spain) 1980 Tom Watson (U.S.) 1981 Bill Rogers (U.S.) 1982 Tom Watson (U.S.) 1983 Tom Watson (U.S.) 1984 Seve Ballesteros (Spain) 1985 Sandy Lyle 1986 Greg Norman (Austl.) 1987 Nick Faldo 1988 Seve Ballesteros (Spain) 1989 Mark Calcavecchia (U.S.) 1990 Nick Faldo 1991 Ian Baker-Finch (Austl.) 1992 Nick Faldo 1993 Greg Norman (Austl.) 1994 Nick Price (Zimb.) 1995 John Daly (U.S.) 1996 Tom Lehman (U.S.) 1997 Justin Leonard (U.S.) 1998 Mark O'Meara (U.S.) 1999 Paul Lawrie 2000 Tiger Woods (U.S.) 2001 David Duval (U.S.) 2002 Ernie Els (S.Af.) 2003 Ben Curtis (U.S.) 2004 Todd Hamilton (U.S.) 2005 Tiger Woods (U.S.) 2006 Tiger Woods (U.S.) 2007 Padraig Harrington (Ire.) 2008 Padraig Harrington (Ire.) 2009 Stewart Cink (U.S.) 2010 Louis Oosthuizen (S.Af.) 2011 Darren Clarke 2012 Ernie Els (S.Af.) 2013 Phil Mickelson (U.S.) 2014 Rory McIlroy 2015 Zach Johnson (U.S.) 2016 Henrik Stenson (Swed.) 2017 Jordan Spieth (U.S.) 2018 Francesco Molinari (Italy)

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Justin Langer has gone all new age during Australia’s rebuild

It is not exactly how you imagine that Dennis Lillee, Rodney Marsh and Ian Chappell may have warmed themselves up to destroy the Poms with the world. at stake.

There, on the outskirts of Edgbaston before Monday's training, Aaron Finch and his side were in a circle and barefoot in what seemed more like a spiritual gathering than an international cricket team preparing for Thursday's seismic semi final against England.

It was left to Peter Handscomb to try and explain how the outside world might look like different, daring to suggest, rather eccentric, way to warm up.

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& # 39; You are doing a lap and you can see all the different views from the ground and where you are riding and it gives you an opportunity to record everything before it starts Thursday. Then we sat down and exchanged some very good stories. "

But it was mandatory to leave shoes and socks behind?

& # 39; Yes, it was and it was fun & # 39 ;, Handscomb said. & # 39; You get a feeling of the grass on your feet and feel the positive and negative energy flowing through the earth and coming out of the earth & # 39;

Excuse me? & # 39; It's a nice feeling and you walk around with the group and laughs while you talk. It was just a fun moment. "

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The only thing missing was the Australians weaker than hot coals – or even some warm sandpaper – but it wasn't surprising that they giggled. We can only guess what they were laughing about, but he didn't need Handscomb's idea about the identity of the man behind this alternative training method.

The Australian coach, who took the helm from Darren Lehmann in the aftermath of the barn-gate crisis, is best known as half of the great opening partnership with Matthew

This is a motivational man groceries scribbled throughout his basement in his house and such a proud Australian of whom he was eleven insisted that he take his baggy green cap to bed with him. When he succeeded Lehmann, he spoke about the need for & # 39; elite partnership & # 39 ;.

Now, Langer & # 39; grounding & # 39 ;, also known as & # 39; earthing & # 39 ;, brought to the Australian party as a way to stop Eoin Morgan and

His old mate Hayden, indeed, was known in his playing days to sit barefoot near the field for a day of play to visualize what lies ahead and probably has enough positive energy running through his feet. Now Langer is busy.

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Australia was at least able to recall positive crickery memories in which the earth was a bit of ground. they have not won since 2001.

Handscomb said: & # 39; It was just an open and honest conversation and it was great that some of the boys poured out their heart about what it meant to go to the semi-final to go. It was about their first memories of growing up a cricket and it was a lot of fun. & # 39;

But will all that be good for Australia in a fortress in Edgbaston, where England has won the last 10 games in all formats?

& # 39; Cool. I didn't know that stat, & # 39; said Handscomb.

Australia is doing well in the band, but England has won the last 10 games in Edgbaston

Australia is entering good shape to the draw, but England has won the last 10 matches at Edgbaston

What about you now? & # 39; Now I really don't make a difference. Those games are in the past. We know the crowd here is great. It can be electric and they will let you know everything about it. We know that this audience will be difficult, but that will get us going. "

It is safe to say Trevor Bayliss, an old school Australian who has a different personality and approach to Longer than is possible,

[Bayess] Bayliss & # 39; case, unfortunately, remained private on Monday, but Joe Root, a skilled diplomat, knew the way of

When asked on Monday if he had been told that the trial was being used earlier in cricket, Root: & # 39; I don't, no. Each of them is important to them. They can prepare how they want. We will ensure that we are ready in our own way. & # 39;

More conventional training will begin seriously on Tuesday evening in Edgbaston, but one thing can be said for Australia's unorthodox approach to Edgbaston – at least they didn't hide in their pants.

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Guía de series: Estrenos y regresos de marzo 2020

Desde ahora, vamos a probar a incluir también las fechas de España en las series de estreno. Bienvenidos a este híbrido y suerte con ellas.

¡Feliz marzo!

Leyenda:

Verde: series nuevas.

Rojo: series de las que haremos reviews semanales.

Negro: regresos de otras series.

Naranja: miniseries o series documentales.

Amarillo: tv movies, documentales, especiales o pilotos.

Morado: season finales.

Púrpura: midseason finales.

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Calendario de series

1 de marzo: 

Dispatches from Elsewhere (1T) en AMC

My Left Nut en BBC Three

McDonald & Dodds (1T) en ITV

2 de marzo: 

Breeders (1T) en FX

Liar (2T) en ITV

4 de marzo: 

Dave (1T) en FXX

Sandylands (1T) en Gold

The Trouble With Maggie Cole (1T) en ITV

Party of Five (1T finale) en Freeform

5 de marzo: 

Devs y Better Things (4T) en FX

Castlevania (3T completa) en Netflix

Noughts + Crosses en BBC One

The Dead Lands (1T finale) en Shudder

6 de marzo: 

Amazing Stories (1T) en Apple TV+

The Protector (3T completa), Paradise PD (2T completa) y Spenser Confidential en Netflix

Caronte (1T completa) y ZeroZeroZero (1T completa) en Amazon

Steven Universe Future (vuelve) en Cartoon Network

8 de marzo: 

The Outsider (1T finale) en HBO

Kidding (2T finale) en Showtime

9 de marzo: All American (2T finale) y Black Lightning (3T finale) en The CW

10 de marzo: If Loving You Is Wrong (5T y última) en OWN

11 de marzo: On My Block (3T completa) en Netflix

12 de marzo: The Unicorn (1T finale) en CBS

13 de marzo: 

Flack (2T) en Pop

Élite (3T completa), Kingdom (2T completa) y Lost Girls en Netflix

Justo antes de Cristo (2T y última) en Movistar+

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (1T finale) en NBC

15 de marzo: 

Westworld (3T) en HBO

Black Monday (2T) en Showtime

16 de marzo: 

Roswell, New Mexico (2T) en The CW

The Plot Against America en HBO

18 de marzo: 

Little Fires Everywhere en Hulu

Brockmire (4T y última) en IFC

Motherland: Fort Salem (1T) en Freeform

19 de marzo: 

Feel Good (1T completa) en Netflix

Ruthless (1T) en BET+

20 de marzo: 

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker y The Letter for the King (1T completa) en Netflix

The Banker en Apple TV+

23 de marzo: Freud (1T completa) en Netflix

24 de marzo: 

One Day at a Time (4T) en Pop

Council of Dads (1T) en NBC

Project Blue Book (2T finale) en History

25 de marzo: 

Hogar en Netflix

Star Trek: Picard (1T finale) en CBS All Access

26 de marzo: 

Unorthodox (1T completa) en Netflix

Tacoma FD (2T) en truTV

The Sinner (3T finale) en USA Network

27 de marzo: 

Ozark (3T completa) en Netflix

Steven Universe Future (series finale) en Cartoon Network

29 de marzo: Vamos Juan (2T) en TNT

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Estrenos de series

Dispatches from Elsewhere (AMC)

Trata sobre un grupo de gente normal que se encuentra con un rompecabezas que se esconde a simple vista en su vida diaria pero cuyo misterio alcanza distancias que nunca pudieron imaginar. Protagonizada por Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother), Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters, Maniac), Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Gosford Park), Eve Lindley (Outsiders, Mr. Robot), André Benjamin (American Crime, High Life) y Tara Lynne Barr (Casual, Aquarius).

Creada, escrita y producida por Jason Segel (Get Him to the Greek, Sex Tape). Diez episodios.

Estreno: 1 de marzo Estreno en España: 2020 en AMC España

My Left Nut (BBC Three)

Drama en el que un joven (Nathan Quinn-O'Rawe) encuentra un bulto en su testículo y no sabe a quién contárselo porque no quiere complicar las cosas con su primera novia, su padre murió hace años y su madre (Sinéad Keenan; Being Human, Little Boy Blue) tiene ya muchas preocupaciones.

Basado en la obra de teatro escrita por Michael Patrick y Oisín Kearney e inspirado en las experiencias de Michael como adolescente. Dirigido por Paul Gay (Vera, Skins). Tres episodios.

Estreno: 1 de marzo

McDonald & Dodds (ITV)

Ambientada en Bath, en el suroeste de Inglaterra, sigue a la dura y ambiciosa inspectora McDonald (Tala Gouveia), transferida desde el sur de Londres; y al tímido y modesto detective Dodds (Jason Watkins; The Crown, Taboo), desaprovechado durante una década; ahora que han sido emparejados. Aparentemente sin nada en común, forman un equipo más que efectivo. 

Creada por Robert Murphy (DCI Banks). Dos episodios.

Estreno: 1 de marzo

Breeders (FX)

Estos padres quieren infinitamente a sus hijos y al mismo tiempo los tirarían por la ventana. Comedia protagonizada por Martin Freeman (Fargo, Sherlock), Daisy Haggard (Episodes, Uncle) y Michael McKean (Better Call Saul, Grace and Frankie).

Creada por Freeman, Simon Blackwell (Veep, In the Loop) y Chris Addison (Trying Again, Lab Rats). Diez episodios.

Estreno: 2 de marzo Estreno en España: 3 de marzo en HBO España

Dave (FXX)

Dave (Dave Burd, rapero cuyo nombre artístico es Lil Dicky) es un hombre neurótico a punto de cumplir los treinta que está convencido de que está destinado a ser uno de los mejores raperos de la historia, aunque sea para hablar de lo pequeño que es su pene. Con Taylor Misiak (American Vandal, I Feel Bad), Andrew Santino (Mixology, I'm Dying Up Here), Christine Ko (The Great Indoors, Upload) y Gina Hecht (Hung). Hay cameo de Justin Bieber.

Creada por Lil Dicky y Jeff Schaffer (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld). Diez episodios.

Estreno: 4 de marzo Estreno en España: 5 de marzo en HBO España

Sandylands (Gold)

A los veintisiete años, Emily Verma (Natalie Dew), hija del famoso dueño de la sala de recreativos de Sandylands (Sanjeev Bhaskar; Unforgotten, The Kumars), ha escapado de su pueblo y vive la vida en Londres. Cuando lee en el periódico que ha aparecido en la costa un hidropedal con sangre y que su padre fue el último en alquilarlo, se ve obligada a volver a su pueblo a poner todo en orden, organizar el funeral, lidiar con el agente de seguros de vida (Hugh Bonneville; Downton Abbey, W1A) y vender la casa familiar. Al reencontrarse con sus viejos amigos y conocidos y hacer nuevas amistades, descubre que nada es lo que parece en el pueblo que la vio crecer. Completan el reparto David Walliams (Little Britain), Sophie Thompson (Detectorists, Gosford Park), Craig Parkinson (Line of Duty, Misfits), Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner) y Harriet Webb (The Split, White Gold).

Creada por Martin Collins y Alex Finch (Off Their Rockers) y dirigida por Michael Cumming (Toast of London). Tres episodios.

Estreno: 4 de marzo

The Trouble With Maggie Cole (ITV)

Cuando un periodista de radio entrevista a Maggie Cole (Dawn French; Delicious, The Wrong Mans) sobre la idílica vida en el pequeño pueblo costero de Thurlbury, ella detalla y adorna las vidas personales de sus vecinos con demasiada exactitud. Tras la emisión del reportaje, Maggie debe enfrentarse a las reacciones y consecuencias de sus palabras. Completan el reparto Mark Heap (Upstart Crow, Friday Night Dinner), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Broadchurch, Cucumber), Vicki Pepperdine (Sally4Ever, Camping) y Patrick Robinson (Casualty, Mount Pleasant).

Drama creado y escrito por Mark Brotherhood (Mount Pleasant, Shameless) y dirigida por Ben Gregor (Cuckoo). Seis episodios.

Estreno: 4 de marzo

Devs (FX)

Limited series sobre una joven ingeniera informática (Sonoya Mizuno; Ex Machina, Crazy Rich Asians) que investiga la división de desarrollo de la empresa para la que trabaja, una compañía tecnológica puntera de San Francisco que podría estar detrás del asesinato de su novio. Completan el reparto Alison Pill (The Newsroom, American Horror Story), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation, Fargo), Jin Ha (Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert), Zach Grenier (The Good Wife, Deadwood), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Lady Bird, Manchester by the Sea) y Cailee Spaeny (Pacific Rim: Uprising).

Escrita y producida por Alex Garland (Annihilation, Ex Machina). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 5 de marzo Estreno en España: 5 de marzo en HBO España

Noughts + Crosses (BBC One)

Adaptación de la primera novela de la serie de Malorie Blackman que cuenta la relación amorosa de Sephy (Masali Baduza, Trackers), hija de un importante político y miembro de la clase negra dominante conocida como Crosses; y Callum (Jack Rowan; Peaky Blinders, Born to Kill), miembro de la clase baja blanca, los Noughts, que fue una vez esclava de los Crosses; en un ambiente de prejuicio, desconfianza y rebeliones en las calles en una sociedad que prohíbe el amor entre dos personas de clases distintas. Completan el reparto Paterson Joseph (Timeless, Peep Show), Bonnie Mbuli (Invictus, Wallander), Kike Brimah (Love Type D), Helen Baxendale (Cold Feet, Cuckoo), Ian Hart (The Last Kingdom, The Secret Agent), Josh Dylan (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Allied), Shaun Dingwall (Goodbye Christopher Robin, The Long Firm), Jonathan Ajayi, Rakie Ayola (No Offence, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) y Stormzy. Escrita por Toby Whithouse (Doctor Who, Being Human), Lydia Adetunji (Riviera, The Last Kingdom), Nathaniel Price (Tin Star) y Rachel De-Lahay (Kiri) y dirigida por Julian Holmes (Strike Back, Outlander) y Koby Adom.

Estreno: 5 de marzo Estreno en España: 5 de marzo en HBO España

Amazing Stories (Apple TV+)

Antología basada en la serie de 1985 creada por Steven Spielberg que nos trae historias que navegan entre la ciencia ficción y el terror y que transportan a gente corriente a mundos de fantasía. En ellas podremos ver a Victoria Pedretti (The Haunting of Hill House, You), Dylan O'Brien (Teen Wolf, The Maze Runner), Robert Forster (Twin Peaks, Heroes), Josh Holloway (Lost, Yellowstone), Duncan Joiner (Waco, Tales from the Loop), Austin Stowell (Catch-22, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), Sasha Alexander (Rizzoli & Isles, Shameless), Kerry Bishé (Halt and Catch Fire, Narcos), Edward Burns (Public Morals, Mob City) o Sasha Lane (The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Utopia).

Escrita y producida por Edward Kitsis y Adam Horowitz, guionistas de Lost o Once Upon a Time. Cinco episodios.

Estreno: 6 de marzo

ZeroZeroZero (Amazon)

Adaptación del libro de Roberto Saviano (2013) sobre la lucha de los cárteles mexicanos, la mafia calabresa y empresarios corruptos por el control del imperio internacional de la cocaína. Protagonizada por Andrea Riseborough (Bloodline, Waco), Dane DeHaan (Valerian, A Cure for Wellness), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, In Treatment), Harold Torres (Ingobernable, El Chapo), Giuseppe De Domenico (Euphoria), Adriano Chiaramida, Noé Hernández (Narcos: Mexico), Tchéky Karyo (The Missing, Baptiste), Francesco Colella (Trust) y Claudia Pineda.

Creada y dirigida por Stefano Sollima (Gomorra, Sicario: Day of the Soldado). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 14 de febrero en Sky Atlantic Italia Estreno en España: 6 de marzo en Amazon España

The Plot Against America (HBO)

Miniserie adaptación de la novela de Philip Roth (2004) que se centra en una familia judía de clase trabajadora de los años 40 cuando un populista xenófobo se convierte en presidente de Estados Unidos y dirige su nación hacia el fascismo. Protagonizada por Winona Ryder (Stranger Things, Edward Scissorhands), John Turturro (The Night Of; Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?), Zoe Kazan (The Deuce, The Big Sick), Morgan Spector (Homeland, The Mist), Anthony Boyle (Derry Girls, Ordeal by Innocence), Azhy Robertson (Juliet, Naked) y Caleb Malis.

Escrita por David Simon (The Wire, The Deuce) y Ed Burns y dirigida por Minkie Spiro (Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife). Seis episodios.

Estreno: 16 de marzo Estreno en España: 17 de marzo en HBO España

Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu)

Son los años 90. Elena Richardson (Reese Witherspoon; The Morning Show, Big Little Lies) es una periodista local que vive en Cleveland, Ohio con su marido Bill (Joshua Jackson; The Affair, Fringe) y sus cuatro hijos: Lexie (Jade Pettyjohn; School of Rock, The Last Ship), Trip (Jordan Elsass, The Long Road Home), Izzy (Megan Stott) y Moody (Gavin Lewis, Prince of Peoria). La vida de esta familia cambia con la llegada de Mia (Kerry Washington; Scandal, American Son) y su hija Pearl (Lexi Underwood, Family Reunion), que alquilan un apartamento a los Richardson. Mia es una artista con un misterioso pasado que no se conforma con las reglas que le impone la sociedad y Elena se propone ayudarla, tal vez para distraerse de los serios problemas que le da su hija adolescente.

Completan el cast Rosemarie DeWitt (United States of Tara, Olive Kitteridge), Paul Yen (Magnum P.I., Young Sheldon), Huang Lu (She, a Chinese), Geoff Stults (Grace and Frankie, The Odd Couple), Jaime Ray Newman (), Anika Noni Rose (Bates Motel, The Good Wife), Obba Babatundé (Dear White People, I'm Dying Up Here), Jesse Williams (Grey's Anatomy, The Cabin in the Woods), Britt Robertson (Under the Dome, Life Unexpected), Kristoffer Polaha (Condor, Life Unexpected), Austin Basis (Beauty and the Beast, Life Unexpected), Reggie Austin (Agent Carter, Life Unexpected), Byron Mann (Arrow, Wu Assassins), AnnaSophia Robb (The Carrie Diaries, The Act) y Tiffany Boone (The Chi, The Following).

Adaptación de la novela de Celeste Ng (2017). Escrita por Liz Tigelaar (Casual, Life Unexpected). Producida por Tigelaar (Casual, Life Unexptected), Witherspoon (Big Little Lies, The Morning Show) y Washington (Scandal, American Son). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 18 de marzo

Motherland: Fort Salem (Freeform)

En un mundo alternativo, hace trescientos años, las brujas aceptaron luchar por su país a cambio de no ser perseguidas. En la actualidad, varias chicas jóvenes son entrenadas en Fort Salem para combatir amenazas terroristas con armas y tácticas sobrenaturales. Protagonizada por Kelcey Mawema (Deadly Class, To All the Boys I've Loved Before), Jessica Sutton (The Kissing Booth, Escape Room), Taylor Hickson (Deadly Class, Aftermath), Lyne Renee (Deep State, Strike Back), Amalia Holm (Playground), Demetria McKinney (House of Payne, Saints & Sinners), Annie Jacob (Star), Ashley Nicole Williams, Kai Bradbury (Warigami) y Sarah Yarkin (Single Parents, Foursome).

Creada por Eliot Laurence (Claws) y dirigida por Steven A. Adelson (Beyond, The Blacklist). Producida por Will Ferrell, Adam McKay y Kevin Messick, que han producido Succession o Vice. Diez episodios.

Estreno: 18 de marzo

Feel Good (Channel 4)

En esta comedia que explora el amor, la adicción y la superposición de ambos, vamos a conocer a George (Charlotte Ritchie; Call the Midwife, Fresh Meat), la nueva novia de Mae, una comediante con un problema de adicción, y la causa y la solución de su ansiedad. Les acompañan Lisa Kudrow (Friends, Web Therapy), Adrian Lukis (The Crown, Pride and Prejudice), Sophie Thompson (Detectorists, Bounty Hunters), Pippa Haywood (Bodyguard, Scott & Bailey), Ophelia Lovibond (W1A, Elementary), Tom Durant Pritchard (The Crown) y Al Roberts (Stath Lets Flats).

Escrita y protagonizada por la comediante Mae Martin (Uncle, Outsiders). Seis episodios.

Estreno: 18 de marzo Estreno en España: 19 de marzo en Netflix España

Ruthless (BET+)

Spin-off de The Oval centrado en Ruth Truesdale (Melissa L. Williams; Hidden Springs, The Oval), que entra en una secta de fanáticos locos por el sexo y finge encajar allí mientras busca la manera de liberar a su hija pequeña. Con Matt Cedeño (Power, Devious Maids), Lenny D. Thomas (The Blacklist), Yvonne Senat Jones (The Oval, The Bobby Brown Story), David Alan Madrick (Mistake), Baadja-Lyne Odums, Jaime Callica (UnREAL, Wayward Pines), Nirine S. Brown (Wicked), Blue Kimble, Stephanie Charles (The Paynes), Cara Reid (The Outsider, Homeland), Jeremy Palko (The Walking Dead, Bloodline), Hervé Clermont (Snowafall, Veronica Mars), Robert Craighead (Future Man, Too Close to Home), Anthony Bless (East Los High, Sistas), Bobbi Baker James (House of Payne) y Sara Naomi.

Creada, escrita, dirigida y producida por Tyler Perry (House of Payne, The Oval). Veinticuatro episodios.

Estreno: 19 de marzo

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (Netflix)

Limited series sobre la empresaria y activista social Madam C.J. Walker (Octavia Spencer; The Help, Hidden Figures), que empezó como pionera del cuidado del cabello y se convirtió en la primera millonaria negra de Norteamérica. Completan el reparto Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip, Tuca & Bertie), Carmen Ejogo (Selma, True Detective), Blair Underwood (Quantico, Dear White People), Garrett Morris (2 Broke Girls, The Jamie Foxx Show), Kevin Carroll (The Leftovers, Snowfall), Bill Bellamy (Insecure), Cornelius Smith Jr. (Scandal, All My Children), Keeya King (Van Helsing, Saw VIII), J. Alphonse Nicholson (P-Valley, Shots Fired), Zahra Bentham (Spinning Out) y Mouna Traoré (Condor, American Gods).

Basada en el libro 'On Her Own Ground', escrito por A'Lelia Bundles, la tataranieta de Madam C.J. Walker. Escrita por Nicole Asher (Love Beats Rhymes), dirigida por Kasi Lemmons (Black Nativity) y producida por LeBron James (Survivor's Remorse). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 20 de marzo Estreno en España: 20 de marzo en Netflix España

The Letter for the King (Netflix)

La primera serie de Netflix original de los Países Bajos está basada en un cuento infantil de Tonke Dragt (1962) y rodada en inglés y trata sobre un escudero de dieciséis años (Amir Wilson, His Dark Materials) en una peligrosa misión para entregar una carta secreta al Rey viajando a través de las Grandes Montañas. Con David Wenham (Iron Fist, Top of the Lake), Kim Bodnia (Killing Eve, Bron), Ruby Serkis, Thaddea Graham (Curfew), Gijs Blom (La Famiglia), Nathanael Saleh (Mary Poppins Returns, Game of Thrones), Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson (Beforeigners, The Innocents), Islam Bouakkaz, Jack Barton, Jonah Lees (Sun Records), Jakob Oftebro (Lilyhammer, Bron), Yorick van Wageningen (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Escape Room), Emilie Cocquerel, Ken Nwosu (Killing Eve, Sticks and Stones), Lucy Russell (The Crown, Genius), Peter Ferdinando (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Ghost in the Shell), Kemi-Bo Jacobs (Delicious, McMafia), Lisa Loven (Wonder Woman, Occupied), David Wilmot (The Alienist, Ripper Street), Tawfeek Barhom (The Looming Tower, Baghdad Central), Omid Djalili (Lucky Man, Dickensian) y Antonia Desplat.

Escrita y producida por Will Davies (Johnny English, How to Train Your Dragon). Seis episodios. Estreno: 20 de marzo

Estreno en España: 20 de marzo en Netflix España

Freud (Netflix)

La primera serie austriaca original de Netflix es un drama de época rodado en alemán sobre un joven y sexy Sigmund Freud (Robert Finster; Kaviar) que persigue en Viena en 1886 a un asesino en serie junto al policía veterano de guerra Alfred Kiss (Georg Friedrich; Kaviar, Wilde Maus) y la medium Fleur Salome (Ella Rumpf; Grave, Die göttliche Ordnung).

Escrita por Stefan Brunner (Tatort) y dirigida por Marvin Kren (Tatort). Ocho episodios.

Estreno: 23 de marzo Estreno en España: 23 de marzo en Netflix España

Council of Dads (NBC)

A Scott (Tom Everett Scott; I'm Sorry, 13 Reasons Why) le han diagnosticado un cáncer terminal, pero necesita asegurarse de que su esposa Robin (Sarah Wayne Callies; Prison Break, The Walking Dead) y sus cuatro hijos estarán bien cuando él falte, lo cual le lleva a formar un grupo de amigos -incluidos su mejor amigo (Clive Standen; Vikings, Taken), su sponsor de alcohólicos anónimos (Michael O'Neill; Rectify, Bates Motel) y su cirujano (J. August Richards; Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Angel)- para que actúen como padres de refuerzo y puedan apoyar y guiar a la familia con sus altibajos y dudas. Completan el reparto Blue Chapman, Emjay Anthony (Bad Moms, Chef), Michele Weaver (Love Is___), Thalia Tran, Steven Silver (13 Reasons Why) y Hilarie Burton (One Tree Hil, White Collar).

Escrita por Joan Rater y Tony Phelan, guionistas de Grey's Anatomy y Doubt; producido por Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI, Lucifer) e inspirado en las memorias de Bruce Feiler (2010). FOX encargó y rechazó un piloto de comedia con Kyle Bornheimer basado en estas mismas memorias hace ocho años.

Estreno: 24 de marzo

Unorthodox (Netflix)

Miniserie sobre una mujer judía ultraortodoxa (Shira Haas; Foxtrot, The Zookeeper's Wife) que escapa de su matrimonio concertado y de Williamsburg, su comunidad religiosa en Brooklyn, para empezar una nueva vida tocando música clásica en Berlín.

Inspirada en la novela semiautobiográfica de Deborah Feldman (2012), escrita por Anna Winger (Deutschland 83) y dirigida por Maria Schrader (Deutschland 83, Fortitude). Cuatro episodios.

Estreno: 26 de marzo Estreno en España: 26 de marzo en Netflix España

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And Now the News

Episode Recap #29: And Now the News

Original Airdate: October 14, 1988

Starring:

John D. LeMay as Ryan Dallion Robey as Micki Foster

Guest cast:

Kate Trotter as Dr. Avril Carter Kurt Reis as Dr. Kevin Finch Fran Gebhard as Bradley Ian A. Wallace as Nurse Swanson Alex Karzis as Craig Eddy Henry Ramer as Radio Announcer Stephen Black as John Gibson Shaun Austin-Olsen as Clarence Stone Wendy Lyon as Mary Fraser George Buza as Hulk Maniac

Written by Richard Benner (as Dick Benner) Directed by Bruce Pittman

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We open on a stormy, rainy night outside of a hospital, technically a psychiatric institute for the criminally insane. Inside, a doctor Finch is trying to cure a hysterical woman of her snake phobia by holding snakes right in her face while pushing her to confront why she is scared of them. He feels like she made a breakthrough.

Another doctor, Dr. Avril Carter, enters Ward B, which has some very deranged patients. She watches as a man yells out the window of his door. An nurse says he will get the patient some drugs, but Carter says no, the man has to face the psychiatry board in the morning and she doesn't want him drugged. The patient continues to freak out.

Another patient goads the nurse about always following the doctor's orders. The man gives the patient his medication.

In her office, Carter removes an antique radio from a safe. It is playing music, but is not plugged in, in fact the wire is frayed.

Dr. Finch brings Mary, his snake-phobia patient back to her room. When she asks if he thinks she'll be released, he says he believes so, since she was never a threat to anyone but her father, the root of her phobia. After her door is locked, she notices the radio, now on her table.

Finch tells a different nurse his treatment with Mary might be a break-through for other similar patients. He invites the nurse to his office for a drink.

Mary goes to bed and listens to the radio. It tells her the news: thousands of snakes are loose in the institution - especially her ward. Mary gets up and moves her sheet and sees many snakes. She screams, they are coming out of everywhere in her room. She screams again as the radio taunts her. She ends up dying of fright as Dr. Finch and the nurse rush in. As they take her away, the radio goes on to say that Dr. Avril Carter will find a cure for serial killer Craig Eddy, the psychotic from earlier. Carter hears the broadcast.

She goes to Eddy's room and treats him, knowing the curse on the radio will help. He calms as she talks to him, beginning to cry. She holds his head, telling him he is cured.

At Curious Goods, Micki comes in with the mail. They have a postcard from Jack saying he'll be back in a week. There is also an answer to their mailer, telling them about the antique radio. Seems the man who bought it, Joseph Damian, died in the institution. The lawyer who wrote said the man checked himself in with the radio. They decide to investigate the hospital.

At the institute, they ask the nurse about the doctor in charge, Dr. Finch. She thinks he'll be replaced by the up and coming Dr. Carter, who is sort of a super star in the psychiatric field. And Finch has lost some patients, she thinks they were scared to death.

Micki and Ryan meet with Dr. Finch, asking about Joseph Damian, who came in with a radio they would like to buy back. He says he can check the file, but he never met the man. Micki asks if they can look around, but Finch is reluctant. He is curious about the radio. Micki says it could hurt someone. The doctor is still suspicious, and shows them the door.

Outside, Micki and Ryan try to come up with a way to get back inside. Micki wants to call Jack, but Ryan says they need to work it out. He thinks he'll sneak in at night. Micki is unsure.

Later, Craig Eddy is told he is being released to a standard prison. He isn't sure of his sanity, but Dr. Carter says he won't hurt anyone again. He smiles and leaves. Carter is goaded by another patient, Gibson, who wants a turn with her miracle treatment. She doesn't think he can be cured. He threatens her, intimating that he knows something. She walks away.

That night she visits Dr. Finch in his office. He is obviously a bit distraught over Mary's death. Carter asks if he wants to talk about it, he says no. He says he was asked to give her time off to speak at a convention. He jokes that the Nobel Prize could be next. She think he's jealous, but he says just wants some of her luck. She says it is just a business, she takes on the tough cases to get noticed. He mentions the release of Eddy. She says he's cured. Finch doesn't think he could be cured, especially not so quickly. He demands to know what she did. But she doesn't bite, instead taunting him with Mary's death. She says he's lost six now. She leaves.

Micki drops Ryan off and he scales the chain link fence to the institute. As he goes over the top, he hits the electrical current and is shocked and falls, his foot getting caught and saving him from hitting the ground.

Inside, the nurse rushes Ryan on a gurney, telling another nurse to get Dr. Finch.  She finds him with a patient who is afraid of fire. Finch has a match in front of the quaking man and snaps at the nurse. She leaves. He continues his treatment.

Ryan comes to as Dr. Carter examines him. She asks if he knows who he is and what day it is. She says he is lucky. As the attendant unties him, Ryan makes an excuse about pledging a fraternity, so he had to climb the fence. Carter is wary, but tells Ryan she won't call the police.

Outside, Ryan comes upon Micki and tells her about the fence. He seems in good shape for his ordeal. He tells Micki that Dr. Carter might be someone to look into. He also wonders if someone who is not a patient could have the radio. They head back to Curious Goods.

Inside the institute, the radio tells Dr. Carter that she is about to make a breakthrough with John Gibson, the man who goaded her earlier and is highly violent and dangerous, a serial rapist. She waits for the radio to tell her what to do with him.

Micki can't find any information in Jack's files to help. Ryan finds that Dr. Finch has published a lot of papers on fears and phobias, specifically those who end up in violent murders or death. They think they should talk to Carter, since maybe Finch has something to do with the radio, with all his patients dying.

At the institute, Finch continues to work on the patient with the fear of fire. The man is terrified. Carter shows up and Finch sends the patient off. He snaps at Carter. She says she is going to work with Gibson, but he says no. The man is too violent. She asks why he doesn't like her. He said he doesn't trust her or her methods, she's too quick, cures people too easily. She asks again for the records, he says no. She says she will go ahead without his approval. He says he'll get her fired. She snaps back, telling him he is worse, his patients are actually dying at his hand. He steams as she leaves.

Micki, posing as a journalist looking to interview the rising Dr. Carter, sneaks past an open door. She is startled by a patient and then is comforted by Gibson, who says he isn't like the rest of the patients. She is still unnerved.

Carter continues to take notes from the radio on curing Gibson. The radio says to stay tuned, they have news on another violent death. Ryan paces outside, waiting for Micki.

The patient afraid of fire wakes up when he hears Dr. Carter in his room. She says he deserves an award and places the radio in his room. She leaves and it plays music - at first.

The nurse tells Micki to stay away from Gibson. Carter appears and allays Gibson while scolding the nurse about the security on the ward. She takes Micki to her office.

The radio has a news broadcast that the institute is on fire, burning out of control. The patient freaks out, seeing smoke and flames. He begs for help. He screams as he sees his room burning, then he is on fire himself. He tears the safety grate off his window, throws himself out and dies on the ground below, as Ryan watches, helpless.

Later, the man's body is removed by ambulance as Micki approaches Ryan. She says she was barely able to ask a couple of questions of Carter before she was called away. Ryan says another patient is dead. They leave, hoping to come back to finish the "interview" tomorrow.

Finch says the coroner believes the patient was dead before he hit the ground. In the patient's room, Finch asks the nurse about the radio he saw earlier. She says he didn't have one. When he asks if anyone else was there, she remembers Dr. Carter came and offered to help. He rushes out.

Carter listens as the radio tells about the patient’s death. It says he was the first of three deaths that night that will lead to a cure for the rapist Gibson and Carter winning the Nobel Prize. It also tells her how to deal with Gibson. As Finch calls to her, she hides the antique.

Finch knows she did something, knows about the radio. She plays dumb. He starts to put the pieces together about her involvement in his patients' deaths. He wants to know what she is doing. Then he hears the static of the radio and as he bends down to pick it up Carter hits him with a lamp.

She rolls him on a gurney into the room of the patient who is utterly insane. Finch tries to fight, but the crazy man pulls him inside as Carter locks the door. The patient kills the doctor. Across the hall, Gibson has watched this all play out. Carter finds a business card on the floor for Micki at Curious Goods. Gibson then asks her if it feels good to kill.

The phone rings at the store and Micki answers. Someone on the other end pretends to be Finch and says he has the radio. He tells them where to meet and hangs up. We see it is Gibson, being led by Carter. Carter says he has her permission to hurt Micki, that it is for the best. He is confused by her giving him the okay.

Micki and Ryan arrive, and she goes on her own, since the doctor would recognize Ryan. She goes to where "Finch" told her to meet him. It is a dark and abandoned part of the hospital. Ryan dons some rubber gloves to again scale the electric fence.

Micki goes down the creepy hallway, calling out for Dr. Finch. She starts to get wary, no one is around. She hears breathing, but before she can react, Gibson pulls her into a room and throws her onto a mattress. She screams as they struggle. Micki fights the crazed man.

Ryan successfully gets over the fence and goes to find Micki, but the security lights go on so he runs.

Micki continues to fight Gibson, a rough struggle between the two of them. She hits him with a piece of wood and stuns him. Ryan rushes into the ward she is in, hearing her screams. Micki, battered, stumbles away as Gibson slowly comes to. Ryan punches Gibson but Carter appears and hits Ryan over the head, knocking him out. Carter and Gibson leave with an unconscious Ryan as a shocked and freaked Micki tries to get her wits about her. Micki finally rushes out, calling to Ryan. She sees them bring him into the institute and rushes off. 

Carter and Gibson have Ryan tied up next to the radio as it begins to play. Micki slowly makes her way to the building, gathering nerve to go inside.

Carter says Ryan's death has to look like an accident. The radio tells her that she will soon have her success over Gibson's mental issues after the next news broadcast, about another death at 11:55 pm.

Carter plans to electrocute Ryan and use his death to restore Gibson's sanity. She has electrical paddles ready, but the power goes out. They go to investigate. Ryan struggles to free himself. The nurse tells them a breaker is out, but they are working on it, so they go back. Another nurse asks this nurse if she has seen Carter and Micki listens in.

Back in the room, as Carter goes to electrocute Ryan, Micki rushes in and pushes the woman, who stumbles into Gibson, electrocuting him instead. Micki and Ryan try to escape as Carter approaches them with the paddles. But the radio announces her death, since she was unable to give it three deaths to cure Gibson. It tells her their deal is off and as she grabs it in anger, the radio electrocutes her, as well. The room lights up and Micki and Ryan hide themselves. The radio, unharmed, says it will be back with another offer after a musical number. Micki slowly touches it then picks it up. They leave.

At the store, Micki and Ryan, battered and weary, bring the radio down to the basement. Micki asks how long they can keep doing this, that they both almost died. Ryan asks if she wants to stop. She says she knows they can't stop, but when will it get easier? Suddenly, the radio comes on with a breaking story. It has a way to recover cursed antiques harmlessly, if certain conditions are met. Freaked out, Micki tossed the radio to Ryan as the episode ends.

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My thoughts:

A great episode with an interesting antique. By helping Carter cure some of these patients, while some people die for her to do so, are people saved in the future from these insane maniacs now being cured? Hmm...

I like that we get to see Micki and Ryan on their own, with Jack away. Ryan makes a dumb move with the electric fence, but he still wants to try and get this item back themselves, without having to bug Jack for help. I like it.

The scene where the rapist attacks Micki is hard to watch. The performances are gritty and real and Robey definitely gave it her all there. She seems to be in genuine distress at the end. Scary stuff.

Kate Trotter is always great, and she gives Avril not only the hard, take no gruff edge of a woman determined to do whatever it takes to get ahead, but a bit of a soft side, as well. When she is forced (?) to kill Dr. Finch by giving him to the maniac, we see some glimpse of remorse, however short-lived. She is human, even if it is just barely.

One of the best bits of this one is the very end. The antique doing a sort of last ditch effort to avoid eternity in the vault by offering up a way to get other cursed items back, with minimal fuss and muss. Zoinks - that is scary stuff! Not only is it speaking to them, but the curse is definitely aware of Micki and Ryan and what they are doing. Interesting.

Next week: Tails I Live, Heads You Die

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IPL-10: Raina asks Kohli's RCB to bat

IPL-10: Raina asks Kohli's RCB to bat

Rajkot, April 18 (IANS) Gujarat Lions skipper Suresh Raina won the toss and elected to field against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2017 match at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium here on Tuesday.

The hosts made three changes in their playing XI dropping Jason Roy, Munaf Patel and Praveen Kumar and picking Aaron Finch, Dhawal Kulkarni and Shivil…

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Jofra Archer sets England World Cup record by claiming 17th wicket against New Zealand 

The Jofra Archer in line for the folk songs, he let himself be joked with Ben Stokes and Adil Rashid, then the scene .

If the best players consider pressure to be a stimulus, there is no evidence that the archer is made of whatever it is to identify the right things.

Jofra Archer helped English cricket fall in love again with fast bowling New Zealand captain Kane Williamson is a retired American football player who has played the past eight has won his first national title.

New Zealand Captain Kane Williamson whips his head out of the way of an Sagittarius Bouncer "

Jofra Archer has fallen in love with English cricket on fast bowling at the World Cup helped fast bowling – a relationship over the years that tempted both sides to file for divorce.

Excited, he helped his side in the semi-final of the World Cup

There is a frisson when Archer runs in, followed by an instinctive look at the speed gun.

You don't dare to look away, partly because you feel that he always has it

Batsmen know this, and the sight of world-class cricket players hitting their heads from the way the other Archer bouncer threatens to become acquainted with a nose is one of the features of the tournament

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Archer has set a new record in the English World Cup after claiming his 17th scalp of the tournament

is not that he has sacrificed speed to speed. Of the bowlers from England, only Stokes has a lower economy in the World Cup than his 4.78. The combination is deadly.

When Archer had New Zealand opener Martin Guptill who was brilliantly caught behind the leg by Jos Buttler, diving at full length to intercept a ball that seemed to fly past him, it was his 17th wicket of this tournament – a World Cup record for an English bowler

The previous holder was Ian Botham, another cricket player who made it a habit to impose himself if it mattered. Botham's exodus included Sachin Tendulkar, Saleem Malik, Allan

Botham & # 39; s capture included Border, Kepler Wessels and Imran Khan. Archer's list of prominent names was not that great – such as Faf du Plessis, Nicholas Pooran, Dimuth Karunaratne, Aaron Finch and Guptill. But 13 of his 17 victims have been fired for less than 20, and his effect is not limited to wickets.

Archer and Mark Wood helped the English cricket fall in love with fast bowling "

English cricket fell in love with fast bowling"

Archer and Mark Wood helped English cricket fall in love with fast bowling

In the first game of England, South African opener Hashim Amla was forced by Archer to leave the field with a blow to the helmet.

He then advertised his slippery pace, cruising against Bangladesh in Cardiff with the help of a small storm to record 95 mph. When he whirled Soumya Sarkar, the ball bounced on the border of the Taff River – to fight for the champagne moment of the World Cup.

Six days later against the West Indies, Archer Chris Gayle hurried, after which he wrapped his tail – just as West Indian bowlers once did against England.

Archer has not had everything in his own way.

But against India and the United States of America and the United States of America, New Zealand, Archer, played a crucial role. Eoin Morgan & # 39; s men started defending large totals.

I overcame India's disappointment of seeing Joe Root Rohit Sharma dropped to four on second slip, and with Woakes limited the 10-over score to 28 for one.

Against New Zealand, his first four surpluses cost only seven, leaving the pilot who had put England on the hind leg

Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor, two of the best batsmen in the history of New Zealand, seemed to be impressed by his pace. He finished with figures of 7-1-17-1.

& # 39; He is a very nice bowler in terms of being eye-catching & # 39 ;, Williamson said. & # 39; If you're on the other side, it's a challenge. I have ambles in, then there is a nice pulse and I have really generated a good pace.

The budding bromance between Archer and Wood in recent weeks has focused on endless jokes about who is faster.

But the more serious partnership has been between Archer and Woakes, one of whom threatened the sound barrier, while the other landed him on a sixpence. & # 39;

Two more games of the same and maybe even the cancellation of the World Cup.

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"Kara" (2016) (An Unofficial Star Wars Film) from Joe Sill on Vimeo.

A Whitelist Production (whitelist.tv). KARA is a short fan film set in the Star Wars universe.

Written and Directed by: Joe Sill Producer: Westin Ray

Executive Producer: Jerad Anderson Head of Production: Nick Erickson

STARRING: Andra Nechita Peter Arpesella Daniela Flynn

Head of Accounting: Natasha Seubert 1st Assistant Director: Trevor Stevens 2ndAssistant Director: Daniel Burke Casting: Joe Sill & Westin Ray

Cinematographer: Nico Aguilar Gaffer: Matt Blake 1st AC: Danilo Rodriguez & Daniel Demenezes 2nd AC: Brodin Plett Key Grip: Jordan Kleinman Still Photographer: Austin Ray

Wire Rigging Team: Nick Goehner, Marvin Francis, Luke Couce Aerial Footage: Luc Delamare DJI Ronin Operators: Cire Hensman, Stefan Vleming

Production Designer: Joe Weber Art Director: Alex Shumate Costume Designer: Robin Ray Costume Assistant: Fern Ray X-Wing Pilot Costume: Lisa Curtis Saunders Makeup & Hair: Devan Weitzman Costume Aging & Weathering: Devan Weitzman

Sound Designer: Jackie! Zhou Production Sound: Kristian Hayden

Composer: Austin Ray -- soundcloud.com/a-ray-5/sets/kara-original-soundtrack

Visual Effects by: Joe Sill & Luc Delamare Colorist: Andrew Finch

SANDTROOPERS: Dean Amstutz, Mark Kinsey, Victor Silva, Marcus Holt, Milton Hunt, Rob Csorba WRANGLERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS: Stuart Loui, Carrie Ann Caranci,Barry Chan, Mark Edwards

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Steampunk Batman Cowl…

To be honest I’m kinda done with the whole steampunk thing, its gotten terribly predictable and not very interesting.

This is an exception however, because it’s just such high quality.

Made by Ian Finch-Field it’s made out of tanned cowhide leather with brass rivets and a buckle. It’s just a really nice bit of work.

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