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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: April and Jackson Were Doomed From the Start – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Greys Anatomy has a history of discarding potentially great couples right when fans are ready to believe theyll make it through.

As soon as everything seemed perfect, the show has always been quick to take it away with a tragedy, death, scandal, or something equally heartbreaking. On the other hand, there were several relationships fans couldnt wait to end that lasted longer than we liked.

As for April and Jackson, there were clear signs their relationship was doomed from the start, and it was only a matter of when and how it would eventually end. And some fan reactions are completely relatable!

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April and Jacksons relationship was a rollercoaster of feelings for the characters and fans alike. Beginning with the hospital merger that first connected the two characters as best friends, to her losing her virginity to Jackson, thinking she was pregnant the first time, and then dating others and almost committing.

Finally, they commit to each other, although there is still many intense highs and lows a loss of their first child to Osteogenesis Imperfecta type 2, divorce papers, Aprils BIG secret about being pregnant again, a custody battle, restraining order, and Aprils show finale that upset many fans.

In the end, she lost herself and her sense of direction, leading her back into the arms of Matthew. Presumably, she married and ran off with him amidst her exit from Greys, and although many fans agree the Japril was a hot mess, there was something not right about how things were left.

When it comes to April and Jackson, there are a variety of mixed feelings that come up. Many fans felt their chemistry was powerful, the majority saw too much dysfunction and miscommunication for the relationship to work, and a few were hoping theyd be with someone else.

The truth is, after so many episodes dedicated to the couple, its hard not to root for them after spending so much time building them up with emotional highs and lows. The problem was they were simply not a good match, no matter how hard they tried to be.

In agreement, Reddit fans said as much when they took to a post about their relationship, saying it was clear they had raw love between them, but they fought about their future from day one, worked better as friends, and although no one likes it Matthew paired better with April as far as compatibility.

RELATED: Greys Anatomy: How Sarah Drew Really Feels About April and Jacksons Ending

First and foremost, in some ways, Greys Anatomy accidentally sums up why Jackson and April were never going to work as a couple. On Twitter, they asked fans, Do you agree with April or Jackson? and it couldnt be more relevant to their problems. It seems fans are always feeling the pressure to choose sides in their relationship, and that couldnt be a good sign in itself.

Not to mention, on multiple occasions, April and Jackson have had arguments about their hypothetical children, religion, how they grew up (Jackson having a much more difficult go at things in his childhood), feelings, and countless more. In fact, Reddit fans have found even more signs for you to consider when re-watching episodes of their doomed relationship.

Ive never been an April and Jackson shipper [because] they were at way different points in relationships when they were together, one fan points out. It felt [like] they were at completely different maturity levels. It certainly seemed that way in their arguments where they never seemed to fully listen to the others problems.

In the end, there was one mutual agreement on the subject April was the ultimate sign. Among the many mentions of her inability to fully commit to their relationship, fans write that she definitely loved him, but I think she loved the idea of having Jackson more than truly loved him for who he is, and I think she did love him, but she was very selfish/self-absorbed at key moments where it really was important for her to consider his feelings/viewpoint.

All bad signs for a healthy relationship. Nonetheless, fans pushed through those obvious signs with hope, knowing Greys Anatomy would do what they do best and end the relationship. But, hey! Maybe other couples connecting on the show will have better luck!

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Anatomy of a Collapse: Reviewing what went wrong for the Toronto Raptors vs. the Indiana Pacers – RaptorsHQ

The Raptors failed to sweep their mini-series against the Indiana Pacers despite Kyle Lowrys return to action in the second game. Toronto was unable to match the defensive intensity that carried their team the previous night. They also did not have the same success behind the arc, giving them a much slimmer margin for error. And boy did they ever make some errors during Monday nights game.

Still, as we recapped here and here, the Raptors managed to stay within striking distance of the Pacers. It wasnt until the fourth quarter, really those final 10 minutes, when things really fell apart for the Raptors. This time there was no Pascal Siakam around to help (or use as a scapegoat), and Pacers coach Nate Bjorkgren, former assistant to coach Nick Nurse, knew how to exploit Torontos ongoing issues.

Before the collapse, the Raptors had a successful third quarter, outscoring the Pacers 37-28 behind an aggressive 1-2-2 zone defense that would shift into a 2-3 zone when the ball got lower than the above-the-break area. Meanwhile, Toronto capitalized on the Pacers defensive weakness in transition after every miss or live-ball turnover. At the end of the frame, it felt like the Raptors could pull out another shorthanded win in Indiana.

The final period saw the Raptors and the Pacers in a tight contest, with Toronto trailing 97-98. However, OG Anunoby was then taken out a minute into the quarter after taking Edward Sumners elbow to his mouth. Chris Boucher, who played most of the third, replaced Anunoby. The Raptors were down OGs presence on the offensive end, but the Stanley Johnson-Boucher-Yuta Watanabe frontcourt was still solid enough defensively.

Lets get into what happened over the next nine minutes. First, the Pacers starters Myles Turner and Malcolm Brogdon returned to the game, while DeAndre Bembry replaced Stanley Johnson for Toronto. Now, to break down the breakdown.

As seen above, Watanabe has inside position on Turner already. Bembry, coming off a rotation from the baseline, directs Watanabe to rotate to the perimeter to take on T.J. McConnell, whos not a threat even if he gets the ball there. Bembry now has to battle Turner down low, and ends up ceding the offensive rebound. As a result, Turner gets fouled for two more free throws.

Also part of the play: Boucher looked lost following the ball during the entire play, and the team had very little communication on defense. Fortunately, Turner made 1-of-2. Pacers now lead 103-102.

Here we see Norman Powell and Boucher set up for a pick-and-roll, but Norm refuses the screen to avoid the potential blitz. It was the right move, as the Pacers were overplaying the pick and Powell almost had a clean lane for a dunk. Unfortunately, Aaron Holiday was able to contest his shot, forcing a miss. Of course, Holiday was already roaming, as he did not have to respect Bembry as a threat behind the arc.

Lowry refused to attack the pick-and-roll set by Boucher, instead kicking out to Bembry, who was momentarily open in the perimeter. Bembry drove to the paint where three defenders were waiting for him. He found a wide-open Watanabe for a corner three (good!), but Yuta bricked it (bad!). Brogdon and Turner went on to run a well-executed pick-and-roll action the following play to open up Brogdon for a three-pointer. On defense, Powell didnt put up much of a fight through screens, and Boucher, with a bad read, got caught in between the action, unable to defend either play. Pacers lead 106-102.

The Raptors next possession had Lowry second-guessing what to do. He was able to shed McConnell via Bouchers pick in the backcourt, and he looked open for a perimeter shot. He took advantage of the opening, but it didnt work out. (I blame Lowrys toe infection, which had to still be bothering him.) Watanabe grabbed the rebound and attacked the basket, drawing a foul. The dead ball situation allowed Fred VanVleet to come in for Lowry.

The Raptors ran a SLOB play to get the ball to Powell, with him setting up on the weak side and Boucher waiting to give him an off-ball screen. Brogdon fights through the screen and snuffs the play, giving Watanabe two options: give the ball to Powell near half-court or give the ball to Bembry, who came up as another pass receiver.

He goes with the latter, which leads to Bembry and Watanabe executing a pick-and-roll. But the Pacers blitz pushes Bembry near the logo too with no concrete plan. To try and save the possession, Bembry tosses Powell a grenade with just four seconds to shoot, which means Norm has to put up a bad pull-up three-point attempt.

The Pacers came back running another pick-and-roll involving Turner, this time with the ball in McConnells hands. The blown coverage between Watanabe and Boucher has them both going after McConnell, which allows Turner to roll towards the basket. Hes fouled in the process, pushing the Pacers lead to 108-102. Fortunately, the Raptors came back with a nice set play, allowing Powell to quickly get up for the dunk, cutting the lead to 104-108.

The Raptors defense was late on closing out Brogdons drive to the basket, but Johnson stays with him the whole time. Boucher also comes over to offer additional rim protection though Johnson maybe doesnt need the help. It forces Brogdon to kick it out to McConnell in the weakside corner. VanVleet probably closes out too hard here or perhaps he was just tired.

McConnell is a career 33 percent behind the arc, and even if he made one earlier that game, he hasnt had made multiple three-pointers in a game since the last regular season game of 2018. So, of course, McConnell attacks the closeout and is able to get a layup on a slow-to-recover Boucher. Pacers push their lead to 110-104.

Bembry finally does something good the following play, forcing McConnells turnover, which spurs a Raptors attack in transition. Unfortunately, VanVleet tries to go into hero mode, attempting a difficult layup against multiple defenders. At the same time, Bembry and Powell are wide open on the perimeter for a kick-out. Bembry has the presence of mind to crash the boards and somehow tip in VanVleets miss, cutting the lead to 110-106.

The Raptors defended the Pacers next possession well for 20 seconds. Credit to Turner here, he hits tough hook shot over Bouchers outstretched arms. Maybe Bembry could have done more with the double team, seeing that Turner was not in a position to kick-out with just a few second left on the shot clock. Presumably, if that was Lowry or VanVleet, they would have dug in to force an even tougher shot, or perhaps a miss (or maybe even a steal but thats wishful thinking after-the-fact). The Pacers bump up their lead to 112-106.

Bembry attacks the basket hard trying to dunk on peoples heads, but he misses. Fortunately for Toronto and they needed all the help they could get by this point the ball bounces all the way back out to Boucher on the perimeter. He wisely makes a quick swing pass to VanVleet for a deep three-pointer. Now its 112-109 for Indy. Unfortunately, on the next play, the breaks of the game go against Toronto. The Raptors almost get a stop, with Boucher diving in for a steal but then getting ruled out of bounds. You can see Nurse calling a timeout in the background.

The Pacers go back to another Brogdon-Turner pick-and-roll, but this time the Raptors are playing closer man-to-man defense. Johnson switches to Brogdon, but cant quite stay in front of him on the drive. Johnsons slight bump results in another foul, instead of Lowrys anticipatory drawn charge call. Brogdons and-1 pushes the lead back up to 115-109, and maybe finally breaks Torontos will.

The Raptors come back with another tired legs play with not much working on offense. In the process, VanVleet fumbles the ball a bit trying to get in the paint, Powell has to create a drive-and-kick opportunity for VanVleet. And when the ball gets out to Fred... he air-balls the three-pointer.

Indiana gets yet another successful Brogdon-Turner pick-and-roll its this kind of offensive reliability the Raptors are missing when Siakam is out which nets them two more free throws. In their efforts, the Raptors are again late on their help defense and recovery and the game is now fully slipping away, with Toronto down 117-109. Anunoby returns after getting stitches in his mouth, but hes non-factor the rest of the way. Lowry, meanwhile, draws a foul on a dribble-hand-off play, stopping the clock and getting him two free throws. But by this time, its too little to late. After a foul on Lowry, and more free throws, its 118-111 with three minutes to go.

From there we see a contested floater from Lowry, more Turner free throws, and Norm getting blocked by Turner too. Not even Anunoby, whos been playing great could help, as his drive-and-kick to Boucher in the corner for three was a brick. Meanwhile, Brogdon, like Turner, just continued to have his way with Torontos defense. Unlike Sundays game, the Raptors could do little to stop him or Turner, and that was that on Monday night.

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Ultimately, the Raptors failed to adjust to the whistle. But more importantly, they were unable to counter the Pacers adjustments in the fourth. After outfoxing Indy on Sunday, the Pacers game-planned Monday nights game really well. To start with, they made life difficult for Torontos primary ball handlers, picking them up fullcourt and funneling them into other Pacers defenders.

By doing this, the Pacers got Lowry and VanVleet to give up the ball by blitzing their screen actions. With Siakam to also help with the ball, Toronto was stuck and Nurse failed to come up with any other counter that worked, which allowed the Pacers to dictate who would run Torontos scrambled offense.

The Pacers also showed no respect to the Raptors ancillary players perimeter shooting, repeatedly leaving Watanabe, Johnson, Bembry, and even Lowry open on the perimeter. The Raptors didnt help matters by often failing to recognize when and where open teammates were from moment to moment. On the flip side, Toronto made terrible decisions by closing out on poor shooters like Aaron Holiday and T.J. McConnell, which often led to free throws, if not easy layups.

With all of these happening, Nurse was then dealt an even worse hand when Anunoby had to leave the game to get medical attention. Anunobys absence led to a massive drop off on the Raptors defensive effectiveness. Pressed into extended minutes, Bembrys presence was odd in this game he could force a turnover, sure, but other than that, he was not a factor defensively and was not in sync with his teammates defensive rotations. He was also treated with the same disrespect as Aron Baynes on the perimeter.

Not to put it all on him, but VanVleet outlined Torontos defensive issues in the fourth quarter they were not guarding and containing the ball, which allowed easy penetration from the Pacers playmakers. In all, Toronto just wasnt making those extra needed rotations, and part of that comes from making the right ones on time.

During his post-game interview, Nurse said the Raptors were not allowed to be physical given how the game was officiated. He has a case here, as the Pacers were allowed to bump, grab, and hold without getting those ticky-tack fouls the Raptors were whistled for throughout the game. However, the whistle was at least consistently unfavourable to the Raptors from the opening tip onward. Its easy to say this, but nevertheless: the team should have adjusted better to how the game was being called. In this, tired legs led to obvious grabbing, reach-ins, and late rotations that only made things worse.

Toronto just did not do themselves any favours in any facet of Mondays game down the stretch. Lowry did not look right, VanVleet looked gassed, there was no Siakam to draw attention, the defense got overly scrambled, and the offense was left entirely lifeless by the final buzzer. Could the Raptors have done something differently maybe playing more of Matt Thomas or giving Paul Watson a look? Its possible, but given how many things were working against them internally against the Pacers, it doesnt seem likely they alone would have turned it around for the Raptors.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: Japril Was Terrible — Matthew and April Should Have Always Been the OTP – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Greys Anatomy may be classified as a medical drama, but its full of steamy romances and heart-wrenching love stories. Meredith and McDreamy may have been the prom queen and king of the series, but another couple comes pretty close as far as fans are concerned.

Jackson and April were one of the fans favorite couples. When Matthew came into the mix and April found herself in a love triangle, fans everywhere chose sidesit was either Japril or Mapril, and nothing in between. Although April is no longer on the series, fans are still talking about Japril.

Some miss the couple and wish she had chosen to stay with Jackson, while others feel that she never should have left Matthew in the first place.

At first glance, April Kepner appeared to be the hospitals most naive, innocent resident when she arrived at Seattle Grace (now known as Grey Sloan Memorial). She was quiet, timid, and a bit awkward to boot. She had grown up on a farm, the youngest of three assertive sisters, and it definitely showed.

April showed everyone that they were wrong, however. She turned out to have a fiercely competitive spirit and unwavering drive. She took her job very seriously, and was willing to learn anything that could help her improve her skills. She also wasnt afraid to get her hands dirty and never backed down from a challenge.

The red-haired young resident was part of a merger between Seattle Grace and Mercy West. The beginning of her time on this newly merged team didnt go so well. A tragic hotel fire brought in a massive amount of patients, and amid all the chaos, April made a serious mistake on a patient.

She failed to check the patients airway, which ended up being filled with soot. She later went into cardiac arrest and died, and April was fired.

April was later rehired when Derek Shepherd became the new Chief of Surgery. Her confidence was very low after making a mistake that cost a patient her life, and she was reluctant to get back into surgery. Derek helped her see that she had incredible talent, and eventually she became comfortable enough to try again.

Jackson Avery may be undeniably gorgeous, but he also has a brilliant mind behind those clear green eyes. When Jackson joined the team at the hospital, he was already well-knownhis family was, anyway. His grandfather was the prestigious Harper Avery, one of the most famous surgeons in the entire country. In fact, he even had a coveted award named after him.

His familys wealth and notoriety paired with his good looks gave Jackson the label of a spoiled rich kid. His co-workers assumed he had been handed everything throughout his life (which he pretty much was), and that he had no grasp of hard work. In reality, Jackson actually pushed himself very hard because his family never did.

Jackson was a hero during a traumatic shooting at the hospital. The gunman, a widower who blamed Derek Shepherd for his wifes death, held Jackson and his fellow surgeon, Cristina, at gunpoint while they operated on Derek. In a stroke of genius, Jackson pretended that Derek had flatlined. The gunman was so relieved that hed achieved his revenge, he ended his rampage.

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Theres no denying that Jackson and April have had a tumultuous relationship. Their on-again, off-again romance has touched fans hearts, and most of them have a strong opinion on whether the two really belong together. Many people think April is better off married to Matthew, and has finally gotten the happy ending she deserved.

The turning point in Greys Anatomy came at April and Matthews beautiful wedding. Mid-ceremony, Jackson stood up and sat down several times, appearing to have some sort of mental crisis figuring out what he wanted to do. When he finally says that he loves her and wants her to be with him, April is shocked (as well as the guests). The two ran off together and she left Matthew behind.

Many fans on Reddit believe that April never should have left Matthew in the first place, since they ended up getting married years later anyway. I wish April had never left Matthew at the altar. They were a better couple than Japril. Others agreed, saying, I wish the same only because they put them back together in the end. At least then April would be with someone that has some pride.

Others disagree, saying that April needed that time to get Jackson out of her system. If she hadnt left him at the altar she probably wouldve cheated with Jackson anyway. They were in love. Even when she was engaged her and Matthew wouldve never worked the first time. Others feel that she made the right choice, because it wouldnt have been right for her to stay with Matthew when she really loved Jackson. You may think Matthew was a better match, but he wasnt the man she loved so it wouldve been unfair to him.

Whether you believe April should have ended up with Jackson or Matthew, the writers decided that Matthew was her best fit. Although, it is Greys Anatomy, where nothing is ever set in stone. Who knows what may happen in future seasons if April should decide to return

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Three-man shortlists and three scouting tests anatomy of a Leicester City transfer – Leicestershire Live

Leicester City have just a few days remaining in the January transfer window to bring in the attacking midfielder they crave.

But how do they go about picking the player they will pursue? And how do they have such an enviable success rate in the transfer market? Here is a look at the process they go through.

Meeting of minds

The process starts with a meeting between manager Brendan Rodgers, head of recruitment Lee Congerton, who followed him down from Celtic, and City's director of football Jon Rudkin, and finishes with a list of three targets, ranked by preference, for Rudkin to chase up.

Rodgers explains: We will have a look at where the gaps are in the squad and where we want to improve. We'll then highlight the positions where we need to strengthen.

Then Lee will go away along with Jon and his team of people, they will then come up with the players that fit the profile of the market that we are in.

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Then, once they've done that, we'll sit down and look at the recommendations that come through. That's a whittled down number of players.

From there, there will be three options that we would be happy to get in. We hope we would get the number one option. That's the process.

And then once the player has been identified, Jon and Lee will go away and see if they can complete the deal for the club.

Three types of scouting

There is a mix of scouting involved in finding the right player. The recruitment team use statistics to pick out targets, and City have Mladen Sormaz in a recently-created head of analytics role to really drill down into the numbers, but any potential signing also has to pass the eye test, while calls are also put in to determine their personality.

Rodgers says: (Analytics) is a significant part of recruitment now but it has to be in balance.

We have Mladen here who does a lot of that work for us along with the other scouts. When we identify a player, he will specifically look at the statistics and that side of it.

Its always in balance because statistics will never tell you if a player has a heart, or what his technique is like. You can only see that when they play, and you get to know that with the people you speak with.

Its a useful tool, but so is someone having a good set of eyes and seeing the potential in a player.

Why are City so good?

A lot of Citys success has been on forward planning, and having a pipeline as Rodgers has described it.

When Harry Maguire left the club, Caglar Soyuncu was able to step up more seamlessly because he had been signed a year earlier and had been able to settle.

It was the same case for James Justin this season, the young full-back more confidently filling Ben Chilwells boots at left-back because he had 12 months experience under his belt.

Rodgers recently said that City have a pipeline for every player in the squad, with lists that are constantly being updated with the latest names.

Brendan Rodgers has kept his powder dry this January, but there is time for that to change before transfer deadline day on Monday, with window closing at 11pm.

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On how City have been so successful, Rodgers says: Its understanding the market youre in. We know the types of players we want to bring in. Well never be spending 60m to 80m on a player. We have a profile of a player that we like and that we want and that fits into the model of our game and we will be competitive in trying to get that player in.

When theyve come in, theyve been great. Lee and his team have been fantastic, getting in players like Wesley, and James Justin, hes been outstanding. If you look at the other players, Dennis Praet has come in and been very good, Timothy Castagne, Ayo Perez has been very efficient.

Its a huge credit to them, they do a great job, and we get amazing support from the owners.

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Star on Disney+ will stream ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Pretty Woman’ and more – entertainment.ie

Disney+ is set to unveil Star, its new general entertainment brand, inside the Disney+ app next month.

As well as four exclusive originals, Star will launch with over 75TV series, and more than 270 movies. They're adding more titles weekly.

Star originals streaming on Disney+ in Ireland and the UK via Star include crime thriller 'Big Sky' from David E. Kelley ('Big Little Lies', 'The Undoing'); 'Love, Simon' spin-off series 'Love, Victor'; and adult animated sitcom 'Solar Opposites', co-created by Justin Roiland ('Rick & Morty') and Mike McMahan (ex-writers assistant on 'Rick & Morty').

Drama series 'Helstrom' will also be available at launch. Other projects premiering in 2021 are 'Dopesick and The Dropout', new content from the Kardashian Jenners and several FX originals, including 'The Old Man'.

Fan-favourite TV series like 'Greys Anatomy', '24', 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', 'The X-Files', 'Lost' and 'Family Guy' will also be available via Star.

More shows on the service will include 'Atlanta' from Donald Grover, 'black-ish', and 'Scandal' from Shonda Rhime.

Movie titles available at launch include 'The Favourite', 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' and 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'; along with classics such as 'Pretty Woman', 'Die Hard 2', 'The Devil Wears Prada', and 'Moulin Rouge'.

New parental controls will be available on Star from its launch on 23 February. Parents can set limits on access to content for specific profiles based on content age ratings, and add a PIN to lock profiles with access to mature content.

Star on Disney+ will be available in Ireland as well as the UK, France, Germany Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland plus Australia, New Zealand, and Canada beginning 23 February.

Content under the Star brand will vary by market.

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HELSTROM S1

LOVE, VICTOR S1

SOLAR OPPOSITES S1

ACCORDING TO JIM S1 - 8

ALIAS S1 - 5

AMERICAN DAD

ANIMAL FIGHT NIGHT S1 - 6

APOCALYPSE WORLD WAR I S1

APOCALYPSE: THE SECOND WORLD WAR S1

ATLANTA S1- 2

BLACKISH S1 - 5

BLOODY TALES OF EUROPE S1

BLOODY TALES OF THE TOWER S1

BONES S1 - 12

BROTHERS & SISTERS S1 - 5

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER S1 - 7

BURIED SECRETS OF WWII S1

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CASTLE S1 - 8

CODE BLACK S1 - 3

COUGAR TOWN S1 - 6

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DEVIOUS MAIDS S1 - 4

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HELSTROM (STAR ORIGINAL) S1

THE HOT ZONE S1

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER S1 - 9

INSIDE NORTH KOREA'S DYNASTY S1

THE KILLING S1 - 4

LA 92 TV SPECIAL

LANCE S1

LIE TO ME S1 - 3

LOST S1 - 6

MAFIA CONFIDENTIAL TV SPECIAL

MARADONA CONFIDENTIAL TV SPECIAL

MARS S1 - 2

MODERN FAMILY S1 - 8

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PERCEPTION S1 - 3

PRISON BREAK S1 - 5

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UGLY BETTY S1 - 4

ULTIMATE SURVIVAL WWII S1

VALLEY OF THE BOOM S1

WITNESS TO DISASTER S1

WWII BOMB HUNTERS TV SPECIAL

THE X-FILES S1 - 9

THE 2000S: THE DECADE WE SAW IT ALL S1

24 S1 - 9

24: LEGACY S1

THE 80S: THE DECADE THAT MADE US S1

9/11 FIREHOUSE TV SPECIAL

THE 90S: THE LAST GREAT DECADE? S1

9-1-1 S1 - 2

THE 13TH WARRIOR

42 TO 1

9 TO 5

ADAM (2009)

THE AIR UP THERE

THE ALAMO (2004)

ANNA AND THE KING

ANNAPOLIS

ANOTHER EARTH

ANOTHER STAKEOUT

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Scrubs, Family Guy and Grey’s Anatomy coming to Disney+ – JOE.ie

Disney+ has announced that in February, it will unveil Star, its new general entertainment brand, inside the Disney+ app.

It will see some of the biggest TV shows of all time stream on the app, as well as major films and original projects.

What sort of content are we talking about?

Well, for starters,Scrubs, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy, The X-Files, Lost, Atlanta, Buffy, 24, Ugly Betty, Modern Family, Lie to Me, Bones, Cougar Town, American Dad and Grey's Anatomy will all be available to stream on the app.

Yep. An awful lot of TV shows coming to Stars on 23 February.

It also promises to be the home of "new content from the Kardashian Jenners" if that's what you're into.

The new slate will include crime thriller Big Sky from visionary storyteller David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies, The Undoing) and a spinoff from the popular movie Love, Simon called Love.

And in case you're still not convinced, there will also be some award-winning movies available including The Favourite, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Grand Budapest Hotel, along with classics such asPretty Woman, Die Hard 2, The Devil Wears Prada, and Moulin Rouge.

And by the looks of things, we will still be in lockdown come 23 February, so this will all come in very handy.

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Scrubs, Family Guy, Grey’s Anatomy and other classics are coming to Disney+ – JOE.co.uk

Disney+ has announced that in February, it will unveil Star, its new general entertainment brand, inside the Disney+ app.

It will see some of the biggest TV shows of all time stream on the app, as well as major films and original projects.

What sort of content are we talking about?

Well, for starters,Scrubs, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy, The X-Files, Lost, Atlanta, Buffy, 24, Ugly Betty, Modern Family, Lie to Me, Bones, Cougar Town, American Dad and Grey's Anatomy will all be available to stream on the app.

Yep. An awful lot of TV shows coming to Stars on 23 February.

It also promises to be the home of "new content from the Kardashian Jenners" if that's what you're into.

The new slate will include crime thriller Big Sky from visionary storyteller David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies, The Undoing) and a spinoff from the popular movie Love, Simon called Love.

And in case you're still not convinced, there will also be some award-winning movies available including The Favourite, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Grand Budapest Hotel, along with classics such asPretty Woman, Die Hard 2, The Devil Wears Prada, and Moulin Rouge.

And by the looks of things, we will still be in lockdown come 23 February, so this will all come in very handy.

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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, PSYC21-52 job with DURHAM UNIVERSITY | 243068 – Times Higher Education (THE)

The Department of Psychology at Durham University seeks to appoint talented individuals to the role of Assistant Professor. In the current call, we welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of Cognitive Neuroscience. This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing you unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. For more information, please visit our Department pages at https://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/

The Cognitive Neuroscience group benefits from cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience research facilities including a 3T fMRI scanner (and a 0T mock scanner for piloting and training purposes), excellent facilities for rodent behavioural neuroscience, neurostimulation facilities, EEG, state of the art mobile and lab-based eye tracking, whole body motion capture, immersive virtual reality, a molecular diagnostics lab, sound attenuated rooms, a fully equipped molecular diagnostics laboratory, patient testing facilities and access to high-performance computing facilities. The group leads on impact and engagement around blindness, stroke and dementia with strong links to the NHS and clinically relevant populations. For more information about our research visit https://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/research/groups/cognitive/.

The Department of Psychology is an internationally recognised centre of research excellence and interdisciplinarity across the breadth of psychological and behavioural science. We are currently ranked in the top 100 of Psychology Departments world-wide according to the QS World Rankings. The department's research groupings reflect our major areas of activity: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science, & Quantitative Social Psychology. Each group also leads a taught Masters programme, alongside a prestigious undergraduate programme in Psychology and a new undergraduate programme in Behavioural Science, extending our research strengths into the next generation. In addition, the department houses a number of University Research Centres which bring in staff from across the department, university, and region to focus on key research issues. The department's broad approach to the discipline places it in an excellent position to take advantage of emerging opportunities and challenges and our collegiate approach allows staff to work across research areas to provide novel solutions to global problems.

Durham University is one of the world's top universities with strengths across the Arts and Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences. The University sits in a beautiful historic city where it shares ownership of a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Durham Cathedral. A collegiate University, Durham recruits outstanding students from across the world and offers an unmatched wider student experience. Less than 3 hours north of London, an hour and a half south of Edinburgh, and ten minutes from the centre of Newcastle, County Durham is a region steeped in history and natural beauty. Close to the Northumberland National park and coastline, the Durham Dales, including the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, our University is situated within truly breath-taking scenery and local attractions.

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University of Maryland Launches New Brain and Behavior Institute, Announces Founding Director – PR Web

Elizabeth Quinlan, Biology Professor at the University of Maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (PRWEB) January 27, 2021

University of Maryland Senior Vice President and Provost Mary Ann Rankin announced last week the establishment of the new Brain and Behavior Institute (BBI) and appointed its founding director, UMD Biology Professor Elizabeth Quinlan.

The BBI will elevate the universitys research and teaching programs in neuroscience and promote innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to solve the most pressing problems of nervous system function and disease. A primary goal of the institute is to strengthen collaborations among neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, physical scientists, cognitive scientists and humanities scholars.

"Understanding the brain and how it influences behavior is one of the most important and complicated grand challenges of our time, and our success ultimately depends on teamwork, said Amitabh Varshney, dean of UMDs College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS). "By establishing this new institute and appointing a strong leader who has experience with interdisciplinary research, our BBI faculty members will be able to build on their strengths and work together across their diverse fields, lending expertise and support to each others efforts, and take our university's high-quality neuroscience research program to the next level."

For the past five years, UMD invested in the Brain and Behavior Initiative to foster interdisciplinary interactions in neuroscience across its College Park campus, and the provosts announcement of the new institute renews and expands the universitys commitment to neuroscience research and teaching. At the heart of the initiative was a desire for a collaborative research community across the physical and life sciences. The initiatives seed grant program yielded a 900% return on seed grant investments, through 15 awards from private organizations and government funding, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative, National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

The institute will play a vital role in the universitys neuroscience ecosystem, which also includes the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science interdisciplinary graduate program and new undergraduate neuroscience major launched last fall. The BBI will also continue to strengthen interactions with collaborators at other institutions, including the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB).

A campus-wide endeavor, the BBI is administratively housed in CMNS and supported financially by the Office of the Provost, UM Center for Economic and Entrepreneurship Development, A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation, Division of Research, CMNS, A. James Clark School of Engineering, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health, College of Education, and College of Arts and Humanities.

The BBI will recruit outstanding faculty, tools, and partnerships to expand and elevate interdisciplinary research and training in neuroscience, Quinlan said. By strengthening and diversifying interactions between neuroscience and complementary disciplines, the BBI is positioning UMD to be a world leader in advancing innovations in experimental and analytical approaches to understanding the brain and behavior.

As the institute director, Quinlan will hold the Clark Leadership Chair in Neuroscience, which was endowed with a gift from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation that was matched by the states Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund. Quinlan also has a joint appointment in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at UMB.

In her own research program, Quinlan's research has identified changes in the brain that occur with aging and pioneered strategies to promote recovery of functions lost with age. The research in her lab has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2002.

Quinlan served as co-director of the Brain and Behavior Initiative and the MPowering the State initiative on Brain Health and Human Performance from 2018 to 2020. In the latter role, she strengthened collaborative neuroscience research and graduate education between UMD and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. From 2007 to 2016, she directed the physiological systems concentration area of the Biological Sciences Graduate Program.

She joined UMD in 2001 as an assistant professor, following postdoctoral fellowships at Brown University and the University of Virginia. Quinlan earned a Ph.D. in biological sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.S. in psychology/biology from the University of Iowa.

She incorporates a highly interdisciplinary approach to neuroscience in both classroom and lab settings, Rankin said of Quinlan in her announcement. I have no doubt that she will advance the rising profile of Maryland neuroscience research and promote the success of the BBI community.

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$25 million gift to Brown will fuel innovation in brain science – Brown University

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] A new $25 million gift to Brown University will fuel scientific discovery and help innovative new ideas in brain science get off the ground.

The generous gift from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous will support research in computational brain science, enabling Brown to attract and retain world-class teachers and scholars, and it will endow an innovation awards program at the Universitys Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science to provide seed funding for new high-impact research in computation and other areas of brain science.

This transformational gift recognizes the momentum that continues to build at Brown University, where our talented faculty are leading scientific discovery including in the rapidly emerging specialty of computational brain science, said Diane Lipscombe, director of the Carney Institute and a professor of neuroscience. This gift will allow us to sustain a culture of innovation, which has led to an impressive number of discoveries and returned countless new grants to Brown that forge new areas of research.

Professor of Neuroscience David Berson prepares a microscope stage for fluorescence imaging and recording of electrical activity. Berson received an innovation award in 2018 for a project to develop methods for faster, more accurate and more versatile segmentation software for electron-microscopic analysis.

With more than 180 affiliated faculty members in 20 units and eight affiliated graduate programs, the Carney Institute is pursuing research that has real-life, human applications, Lipscombe said. Core areas of research include work on innovative advances in computational brain science to investigate cognition, behavior and mood disorders; novel technologies to interface with the brain to understand brain circuits and restore lost functions; and research into the mechanisms of cell death to identify therapies for neurodegeneration, such as in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases.

This new $25 million gift is part of the Universitys $3-billion BrownTogether campaign, which has raised $2.74 billion to date. It also builds upon significant philanthropic investment in Browns cutting-edge work in brain science of the total contributed by donors to date, more than $187 million has been raised to support research and education in brain science, including a $100 million gift that named the institute in 2018. The gifts support a core research priority in Browns Building on Distinction strategic plan: understanding the human brain.

In 2014, the Carney Institute launched an innovation awards program to support early-stage research projects that are too new to attract external funding but have great potential to advance science and benefit society. The new gift will endow a similar innovation awards program, ensuring that the Carney Institute will be able to sustainably invest in innovation for years to come.

Ashley Webb, an assistant professor of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry at Brown, received an innovation award in 2019 to establish a new system to study how neurons age. She is developing a cell reprogramming platform, called direct reprogramming, to study aging in the hypothalamus brain region. The hypothalamus controls critical processes, such as sleep, temperature regulation, eating and metabolism, which can become dysregulated with aging. With direct reprogramming, Webb is able to convert a skin cell, for example, into a brain cell that maintains the hallmarks of aging.

From studying genes and circuits, to healthy behavior and psychiatric disorders, Carney Institute faculty produce insights and tools to see, map, understand and fix problems in the nervous system.Aging is the greatest risk factor for a number of diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimers, Webb said. If we understand whats going wrong during aging, this will give us important insight into the mechanisms of disease. But right now, we dont have very good systems for studying these diseases in the context of aging. This is the problem we are working to solve.

Starting from mouse skin cells, Webbs group generated rare hypothalamic brain cells, called POMC neurons, that are important for metabolic health and weight control. Normally, these cells trigger satiety (the feeling of being full), but they lose the ability to do so as they age.

Webb is now applying the same approach to create POMC neurons from human cells, which for the first time will allow researchers to generate rare types of human neurons that are physiologically aged.

If we take cells from aged individuals, the neurons we generate actually retain damage associated with aging, Webb said. This allows us to compare young and aged neurons, and understand why the old neurons dont function as well. We believe this platform will give us important insight into why metabolism is altered with age and in many diseases.

The Innovation Awards Program, Webb said, gave her group the freedom to take on a bold, early-stage idea. Her team hopes to use the direct reprogramming approach to generate neurons from individuals with brain diseases and disorders, such as Alzheimers.

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