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Agents of Shield Season 6 Episode 3: Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson Recap
May 27, 2019 ~ Metacrone
Agents of SHIELD Goes Cyberpunk
In a change of pace, this of episode Agents of SHIELD gives everyone a break from routine and goes full on space cyberpunk neo-noir, complete with robots, neon, hallucinations, breaking glass, existential desperation and the chief investigator's voiceover narration. As befits a cyberpunk dystopia, irony and gallows humor abound. Because this is Agents of SHIELD and not Blade Runner or Altered Carbon, the result is both deadly serious and tongue in cheek.
Thematically, the episode revolves around friendships and Fitz and Simmons' deep need to be reunited. The friendship pairings of Fitz and Enoch, and Jemma and Daisy, are closely examined in ways that are overdue. Piper and Davis also get a chance to shine both as individuals and to show their affection for each other as partners, despite their recent grumbles. There's a glancing nod toward Jaco and Sarge, a fascinating pairing when you consider that Coulson was always drawn to talented outcasts, especially powered people.
Calling it now: Sarge/Fake Coulson is a Chronicom hunter. In episode 1, Benson said that Tinker was cybernetic. Sarge has traveled extensively through time and space and he and his team are clearly hunting for specific targets. This episode went from showing a Chromicon hunter capturing Fitz to Sarge setting off a targeting device in Earth's sky. Otherwise, Earth wasn't shown in this episode. That's a pretty huge hint.
We open on a man who we'll later discover is a Chronicom hunter sitting at a desk in a dark room, sorting through electronic mug shots. Fitz and Enoch's photos are attached and set off an alarm. The hunter picks up his weapon and a metal circle that looks like the weapon Ruby used in season 5, which I came to loathe.
This isn't a weapon, though. It's a method of transportation, which I believe has been used somewhere in the MCU before, maybe even on SHIELD. Maybe by Ghostrider? It's some kind of technology that mimics Dr Strange's sling ring.
The hunter steps into the middle of the circle. It glows, multiplies, then disappears him.
Naro-Atzia Customs Station CI-741
The Zephyr One sits parked and orbiting Naro-Atzia while the crew argues about their next move. Piper and Davis vote to throw Simmons in the brig, except there isn't one, so the cargo hold will have to suffice. They're almost out of food, the ship is in bad shape and she jeopardized the mission. Simmons reminds them all that Fitz is the mission, then calls them cowards.
Elizabeth Henstridge is working on her tough Britsh matron impression, à la Judi Dench or Helen Mirren. I'd say it's coming along nicely.
Daisy tries to take control and be the commanding officer. She says that Simmons is right, Fitz is the mission, but it was Daisy's job to decide which planet they went to, not Jemma's. Jemma questions which side Daisy is on. Daisy lists everything they've all done for her and Fitz, including going to a fire planet. But then she questions Jemma's skill by saying they're in deep space because of a tiny word they can't even read.
Not the way to defuse the situation. Of course Jemma checked it a dozen times or more to make sure she read it correctly.
Daisy announces that they're going home after all. Jemma decides to stay in space, but Daisy says she'll lock Jemma up rather than letting her stay behind alone. Jemma tells her she can try…
Just when it looks like this won't end well, unless Piper can sedate them both, a message comes up on the monitor from Pretorious Pryce, their duly sanctioned customs officer, who's ready to come on board for their required customs inspection. Daisy tries to tell him that they won't be staying, so no inspection is necessary, but his mental and physical health seem to rely on following the rules. Documents have been prepared and are in the system, so they have to go ahead with the inspection.
They give up and invite him aboard. Jemma figures they can ask if he's seen Fitz. Maybe he inspected Fitz's ship. The other's still think she's grasping at straws.
Fitz and Enoch have arrived at Kitson and are in the process of selling the Xandarian snails. The potential buyers seem friendly, even offering Fitz a snack. Enoch stops him, saying that the colorful puffs are not for human consumption. Enoch is a little too open about who they are and what they are going to do with their profit.
The buyers change their tone, showing Enoch and Fitz their own mug shots. They've decided to just take the snails and the ship. Fitz and Enoch can't go to the local enforcers, since they're wanted criminals. Fitz tries to get the buyers to leave him and Enoch with the ship, but they give him a single gaming token, instead. He and Enoch will have to use it as their stake to win enough money in the casino to finance a cryo pod and the trip back to Earth.
They head straight to the House of Games. The greeter at the front tells them that weapons and mechanical beings are banned inside the establishment. Enoch walks straight through the scanner, without hesitation. Fitz rushes after him, confused. Enoch explains that he's not a robot, droid, mech, cyborg or synth. He's a Chronicom and he can beat any scanner they put in front of him.
Enoch realizes that he's been having the Chronicom version of fun for the last year, since their ship was attacked, other than that one time with the Maztats. And Fitz has become his best friend during that time. He asks if Fitz feels the same.
Fitz, on the contrary, feels nothing but frustration about their progress. He just wants to find Jemma, and anything that gets in the way of that is an annoyance, not fun.
Fitz, after all, spent months being brainwashed in the Framework, then had the entire team zapped away from him, and then was imprisoned for months. Then he had to work with Robin, who works painfully slowly and communicates cryptically. Enoch refused to help him until Robin drew him, which made him part of the prophecy. He's not helping Fitz out of friendship. This is a duty for Enoch. And Enoch is the same guy who sent Jemma to the future to begin with. Fitz has the right to some resentment.
The House of Games is a dive bar with gaming tables. Enoch announces that he's programmed in 10,000 games of chance. However, he's never played any of them. Fitz decides he'll probably never see Jemma again.
Pretorious Pryce is still explaining the rules and regulations involved in the customs inspection of the Zephyr. First they have to hand over their weapons. Then he asks their planet of origin and purpose for visiting Naro-Atzia. He seems disturbed when they mention Earth. When Jemma shows him Fitz's photo and mentions his name, Pryce tells her she shouldn't have said the name. Apparently, Fitz has become Voldemort. Someone is listening.
That someone is the hunter, who appears moments later and shoots Daisy and Piper with a stun gun. Jemma hides, then makes an acrobatic run for her gun. Just as she aims it at the hunter, Davis comes up behind him and knocks him out.
Fitz and Enoch are still debating their next move. Enoch orders drinks to help them think, but Fitz says they can't afford fancy bar drinks while they only have one chip. Enoch casually goes to a gaming table, places a bet, and wins a pile of chips. He explains to Fitz that he was watching the table out of the corner of his eye, and the odds were very good that his bet would win, based on the past 30 rounds.
Fitz finally figures out that Enoch is an advanced computer who has good odds of winning them the money. Now he's excited and sells it to Enoch as another best friends adventure. Enoch points out that, as a synthetic being, he's not allowed to gamble, but Fitz tells him it's part of the adventure. Enoch says he's aware of besties breaking the law together, even committing murder. Fitz: "What? No. That's a really worrying thing to have said."
Sometimes I wonder if Enoch is aware of the future part of the time loop. He did make it to the future, even if he didn't come back, and you'd think a Chronicom would have a special relationship with time. In retrospect, he seemed to be aware of this part of the timeline when Fitz woke up from cryo in the future. But he either doesn't know that the Earth was saved in the past after he died, or he's not sure when the destruction is supposed to happen, so he hasn't figured out that it didn't.
On the Zephyr, the crew has the hunter handcuffed to the stairs. He's definitely from some sort of time organization that likes to make uber serious time puns and thinks it's in charge of how time works in the universe. He inserts the word time into the conversation everywhere he can, in a voice meant to let them know they're in trouble now.
Hunter: "You and your friends are out of time… Leopold Fitz is a wanted man."
Daisy: "Wanted for what?"
Hunter: "Tampering with the universe."
Huh. Which time got him in trouble, though? Closing the fear dimension? Helping Aida build an Inhuman body? His general involvement with her and the Darkhold? Building a time machine that travels to the past? Helping to break the time loop by dying? (Daisy using the Centipede formula on herself to defeat Graviton was the big event, but with Fitz dead, they couldn't build the time machine, have Deke's mom, or complete other necessary parts of the time loop.)
Hunter: "Leopold Fitz should not be here."
Jemma: "Agreed. He should be with us, back on Earth."
Hunter: "Earth is where he died. Over a year ago, if I'm not mistaken."
Jemma: "What are you?"
Hunter: "A hunter. As I said previously, you and you friends are out of time."
The hunter also tells them that Fitz was on the next ship that was scheduled to dock at Naro-Atzia. Jemma and Daisy share a moment of joy that they're so close to finding Fitz, then Daisy leaves to question the inspector.
Enoch buys his premium beverages with his winnings. While Enoch drinks two or three questionable cocktails, Fitz examines the room and determines where Enoch should play next. He finds the equivalent of a high rollers Black Jack table. Enoch enthusiastically joins the game, revealing his inexperience to the other players.
Piper checks the inspector's logs and discovers that the ship that was supposed to dock just before them turned around and went to Kitson instead. Inspector Pryce says that Fitz "must be a man of perverted desire", since Kitson is absent any scrap of decency. There's a saying- "What happens on Kitson stays on Kitson is contagious and burns."
Enoch thinks he's making friends with one of the other players, but it turns out that the other man is working him, so that Enoch won't know when he's bluffing. The man wins almost all of their money from him. Fitz tries to stop Enoch from placing the losing bet, but he's too trusting of the other man.
The Zephyr flies to Kitson and quickly catches up to the Controller's ship. Someone keeps trying to contact the ship, but it's not clear if it's Daisy and Jemma, or someone looking for the Controller. The new owners, Fitz and Enoch's former "buyers", ignore the calls.
The Zephyr catches up with Fitz's former ship. The crew board it to question the buyers. They try to take advantage of the agents, but Daisy uses her powers to break a couple of fingers, which gets the leader to start talking. The agents learn that Fitz is traveling with Enoch and that he's on Kitson. The buyer says that on Kitson, you'll find someone in either the casinos or the brothels.
Davis spots the multicolored puffs that Enoch warned Fitz away from and takes them to munch on.
Fitz explains bluffing to Enoch, pointing out that he does it all the time, as a robot who passes for human. Enoch protests that he's not a robot. He asks if they're still best friends. Then he thinks of ways they can still make money, starting with the brothels. He's well-versed in over 130… Fitz stops him. They aren't that desperate yet.
Enoch suggests they try a game based entirely on mathematical odds, with no bluffing. Fitz wonders why they didn't do that first. Because it's a high stakes game- So high, that Fitz will be the collateral for the bets. If he loses, he'll be sold into slavery. Enoch will be his handler, who counts tiles and tells Fitz how to bet. He'll signal Fitz using tones so high pitched that only a human can hear them. One dog whistle means hold, two means hit.
Fitz is taken to his seat at the table and locked in. Enoch tells him to avoid getting a 14, but doesn't give any explanation.
Daisy and Jemma go to the casino. Jemma says that they'd better find Fitz in the casino, and not the brothels. Better dead than in the brothels. Both women try to stifle their giggles.
They experience the greeter as weirdly distorted. While they're removing their weapons, Daisy asks Jemma if she feels strange. Jemma won't answer. They decide to answer at the same time. Daisy says she's tripping balls. Jemma is sure there's a medical explanation for their hallucinations, like a reaction to the atmosphere.
Daisy seems to have felt this hallucinogenic feeling before.
They crawl down the stairs into the casino. On the way, the drug kicks in at full strength and they figure out it was the puffy snacks they ate.
Back on the Zephyr, Davis is also tripping, and so are the giraffes who've come over to play. Piper is thankfully sober.
Jemma and Daisy make it to the bar and forget the mission, but decide that it's ladies night. The addition of alcohol helps their clarity immensely. They have one of the best conversations ever, including a vision of monkey Fitz, as Jemma's patronus, balancing at the end of a straw. Monkey Fitz reminds Jemma of why she's there. Daisy tries to tell Jemma that they have a cosmic connection, and are really one person, but she's disappeared. The sleazebag who won Enoch and Fitz's money hits on Daisy instead.
Davis grounds himself by recalling that he's a secret agent in space. But then the hunter he's supposed to be watching slides his hand out of the handcuffs and Davis' mind is blown. It's not his fault, really. Piper finds him passed out on the floor and the hunter missing. Davis tells her that the hunter is like a shape-shifting contortionist-assassin. She deduces that he's not the most reliable witness.
Daisy wanders the bar, searching for Jemma and doing a classic noir voiceover. She finds Jemma's sock feet sticking out from under a table, like the Wicked Witch of the East in The Wizard of Oz. Daisy tells the crowd that she'll take care of it. They don't care.
Daisy joins Jemma under the table. Jemma says that her parents are mice, which makes pefect sense to Daisy. They are the same person.
Jemma sincerely apologizes for dragging Daisy across the universe. Daisy forgives her, because it's only made them closer. Jemma says that she couldn't help it, she just misses Fitz so much. Daisy is sad for her and wishes she had her own Fitz except, not Fitz, you know?
Jemma, crying: "You've had just awful luck in that department. It's so sad. But you're so strong now and so confident. I'm so proud of you."
They grab each other's faces. Both are crying now.
Daisy: "Really? That means so much, coming from you."
Jemma: "You just mean so much, you're my best friend."
Daisy: "I love you, too."
Jemma: "Your skin is so soft."
When this is what comes out in stoned conversations, the relationship is fundamentally okay. This little trip has been great therapy for them, allowing them to let down their guards for a little while and be honest with each other, without the burdens of SHIELD getting in the way.
They pause the conversation, because they hear high pitched sounds. It's Enoch's signal to Fitz. They realize that they're the only ones who can hear it, which means it's meant for humans, which means it's for Fitz. They jump up to head to the room the sound is coming from. Except they're still under the table, so, ouch. They don't get very far.
With Enoch's coaching, Fitz is winning. The guy next to him asks for a hit. The dealer cautions him, but he goes ahead. Within moments, a weapon rises from the table and shoots the man in the heart with an arrow. The dealer tells Fitz, "Never hit on 4."
Because there are so many cards worth 10 in the deck, there's a good chance you'll get 14. And someone must hate the number 14.
The body is dragged from the table and play resumes. It's time for Fitz to place a bet, but Enoch appears to have dozed off while standing. Fitz tries to stall and to wake up Enoch by loudly talking to himself. He asks, "What are the odds of me getting a 7 or less?"
The dealer thinks Fitz is asking him, and says, "Any dealer caught giving odds is fed to Mr Kitson's Vrellnexian." Fitz speaks even slower and tries not to ask questions that will cause trouble.
Who knew there was an actual Mr Kitson who owns his own pleasure planet? That explains a lot. If it's all privately owned, then the rules are made and enforced according to one man's desires. What else does Kitson own?
Enoch let's out an alarm siren and collapses. The dealer figures out that he's a synth and recalls that Fitz was with Enoch. He clears the room, detaining Fitz and Enoch. He says that Mr Kitson will want to deal with them personally. Yikes.
The hunter is hooked up to the Zephyr's computer and is using his finger like a flash drive. The light wave of information looks like it's flowing into the Zephyr, but it would make more sense for him to extract their logs. Maybe he's putting a tracking program in.
When Piper surprises the hunter, he tosses his sling ring down and disappears. She wonders who he was trying to contact using their computer. Davis helpfully shoots out the Zephyr's fuse box while trying to aim at the hunter.
Enoch regains consciouness to find Fitz messing with his parts in order to reboot him. He says that he's "not comfortable with this level of intimacy", even with his best friend.
Says the guy who was ready to make his fortune in a brothel a few minutes ago.
Enoch realizes that the alarm was a remote override of his system, which will have been done to him by another Chronicom. He figures out that they're in trouble, because the other Chronicoms are after them. Fitz thinks that Chronicoms won't be a big problem, but Enoch explains that while he's an anthropologist who's programmed for research and sensual gratification, there are other varieties who are more dangerous. Hunters, for example.
Three hunters, none of whom were the one on the Zephyr, enter the club. Daisy and Jemma are just now climbing out from under the table. They recognize what the hunters are and why they're there. Daisy takes them on, but her aim is way off.
Enoch works out that the remote shutdown means that he's been decommissioned. He goes into a depression monologue about his worthlessness and shame, while Fitz tries to get them out of the room they're locked in before someone shows up with a Vrellnexian to punish them for gaming violations. Fitz tries to tell Enoch that he's still useful, and Enoch proves it by telling Fitz that the dead guy in the corner smells so bad because his blood is 75% sulfur. Fitz breaks off an arm (the Doctor isn't completely gone from this version either) and rubs the open stump all over the door frame.
Meanwhile, Jemma helps Daisy aim her quake arm. Then Daisy sends Jemma to find Fitz, while she has the most awesome bar fight ever. She tells Jemma, "If I can't quake it, I'll break it." And she does. She makes excellent use of a Daisy-sized turntable.
Enoch questions his existence, since he's nothing but a speck of dust in the infinite, an afterthought in the worm-ridden mind of the black void. Fitz finishes with his arm stump and asks Enoch to take a break from being infinite nothing to set the door on fire. Enoch questions why he'd bother, when there's no purpose and they'll all soon be dust. Fitz says, "Because you're my best friend. Remember? That's your purpose."
You have no idea how much I loved writing those last two paragraphs.
Enoch thinks Fitz is bluffing. Fitz has to be sincere to convince Enoch that they're best friends now. Enoch decides he'll do anything for his best friend.
Jemma finds the room where Fitz and Enoch are being held. The dealer is standing guard outside. She explains her situation to the guard, who tells her to lay off the puffs. He thinks she should go home, because Kitson isn't a place for a nice girl like her.
She's about to leave when Fitz and Enoch blow the door. Fitz emerges from the smoky doorway, and they look at each other in surprise for a few seconds before the main hunter rings in, grabs Fitz, and rings back out again, all in about 3 seconds.
The other hunters were there to distract Daisy, so she couldn't protect Fitz.
Enoch comes through the doorway next. He sees Jemma and says, "You should not be here."
On Earth, Sarge and Jaco bring the big gun that runs on PEGs outside. They put on their sunglasses, Sarge points the weapon at the sky, and fires an energy beam toward the stars. It creates hundreds of points of light. After a minute, Jaco looks at a map of North America on his tablet and finds at least 5 targets identified.
Sarge says he's seen better and he's seen worse. He and Jaco get ready to make a mess.
If we're going to have duplicates running around and continue to play with time, isn't it about time to find a reason to bring back Ward and Trip again? We don't need a reason to bring back Ward, he belongs with the gang. And I really need a fix of Trip showing up with his confident charm and connection to the Howlies to make it seem like everything will be fine. If Deke doesn't work out, he'd still be an excellent boyfriend for Daisy. I would also accept a resurrected Lincoln as a distant third choice, but only if he learned how to have fun while he was dead.
Just who is the mysterious Mr Kitson, owner of the planet named after him? Is he the galactic Tony Stark? Someone we've met before? We'll probably meet him, sooner or later, since they mentioned him more than once. It's Ward or Lincoln brought back to life, right?
The Vrellnexians live! In our time period!
Quite a few Harry Potter references this week, after Mack and May hired Benson to restart the Academy. Maybe the Disney streaming service will give us two spinoffs- SHIELD meets Hogwarts and Spies in Space. Mack and Yo-Yo can keep SHIELD, while May and Benson can start up the Academy (May has McGonagall written all over her).
Once the kids swing back home to pick up Deke and drop off Davis, they can continue their deep space adventures. Regular SHIELD and the Lighthouse will seem stuffy and boring in comparison to visiting fire planets.
My Take on the Chronicoms and the Time Authority
Chronicoms are probably made by starting with corpses of whatever species, then turning them into very sophisticated cyborgs and thoroughly wiping their memories. Any parts that are prone to breaking are replaced, which would include all internal organs and the circulatory system. Bones and brain would be reinforced.
Or maybe the Chronicoms are robots, but they always vehemently insist they aren't. The show and the Chronicoms have been cagey about what, exactly, they are, from the beginning, which means there's a twist coming up.
In this episode we learn that there are a variety of types of Chronicoms, with different personalities, and that Chronicom hunters exist and hunt down time anomalies. We discover that both Fitz and Deke are being hunted (if you include next week's promo). What do they have in common? From a certain perspective, they shouldn't be here. They are time remnants.
Hopefully eventually we'll be told why that means they need to be hunted down and executed, as opposed to humans powered by infinity stones, humans infused with the DNA of another species, and all of the other types of powered people who are technically unnatural.
We don't know much about the MCU Chronicoms yet, despite how long Enoch's been on the show. We don't know if they work for a private or government organization, if it's a planetary or galaxy-wide group, what the goals and purposes of their employers are, or even if we'd should consider their employers good guys or bad guys. We also don't know Why there are anthropologists studying Earth or hunters maintaining certain timelines. Who benefits from this?
Enoch is now a rogue Chronicom. Are the hunters rogue bounty hunters free-lancing for a time authority or is the time authority the main organization that the Chronicoms work for? They do have "chron" in their name, from the Greek root word Khronos, meaning time.
But Enoch wasn't supposed to interfere with the timeline and the hunters don't care what they disrupt, so it doesn't seem like they work for the same group. Enoch was on Earth for 30,000 years, which means the system that placed him here is very old.
It seems like that system has grown corrupt and possibly broken down into rival or warring factions. At the very least, the timeline enforcement arm has become inflexible and overly conservative about stopping timeline disruption, while the research arm has become out of touch with the realities and implications of disruptions. As observers, some of them don't see the harm in a little experimentation and flexibility with the rules.
Themes of Casablanca and This Episode
This episode is pure fun combined with noir genius, Casablanca in space. It's full of heart and new information slipped in during seemingly trivial moments.
Unlikely friendships– Fitz and Enoch practically say, "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Casablanca ends where Fitz and Enoch's friendship begins- with a couple of reluctant friends on the run.
Scrappy, not too respectable underdogs vs an authoritarian enemy– Casablanca takes place in WW2, against the ultimate real life evil, the Nazis. We're not completely sure who this season's enemy is yet, but, as I've been predicting in various places, the MCU is now Legends of Tomorrow, with a universe that's been thrown out of whack by various time hijinks. The MCU time authority, whoever that is, will be stepping in to fix those anomalies, punish the wrongdoers, snuff out the broken timestream, or whatever draconian measures they normally take, that the agents need to fight against this season and probably next.
Rick's Cafe Americain vs The Kitson House of Games– Both casino/bars are Vegas-like dens of sin which foster an "anything goes" atmosphere. Sex, drugs, gambling, alcohol, a diverse clientele and powerful music are all important to the experience. The casino/bars take a neutral stance toward the politics and allegiances of the outside world galaxy forcing patrons to leave their disputes at the door. Until the characters of this story show up, of course. (Where do you think George Lucas got the idea for his Star Wars cantina?)
The Individual vs The Greater Good– "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." This is one of SHIELD's favorite themes and it's at the center of Casablanca. The lead character, Rick, looks out for himself first, because he's been burned too many times by doing otherwise. By the end of the film, he learns that there are still things that are worth fighting for.
Enoch goes through an accelerated version of this process in the episode. He moves from being a disengaged Chronicom, to realizing he cares about Fitz and has enjoyed their time together, to losing his job. By the end, he accepts his status as Fitz's partner in crime and Fitz's causes as his own. He's left with the setup to join the Zephyr's crew and hunt for Fitz. Once he has another meltdown, undoubtedly.
Jemma's is a modified version of Rick, since she hasn't given up, but she has become ruthless. The rest of the Zephyr crew try to be there for her, even though they are exhausted in every way possible. Her actions seem selfish on the surface, but, as with Rick, there are deeper reasons for why she seems to take advantage of them.
Romance vs The Bigger Picture– "We'll always have Paris." Both SHIELD and Casablanca have set romance against the bigger picture of conflict, and asked if it's important enough to fight for when there are so many other problems that are more important in the grand scheme of things.
Casablanca found romance to be crucial, but decided it's okay to settle for friendship when the free world is at stake and selflessness is required. Rick sent his true love, Ilsa, to provide romance, love and support for her husband, a Resistance fighter, in his work, after deciding that Laszlo needed her more than Rick did.
(Why Rick thinks that's his decision to make is another whole discussion, but we have to live with the misogyny of the time period.)
FitzSimmons have always needed each other to function at their best, even before they became romantic partners. Their scientific partnership is balanced by their complementary skills, and their personal partnership is balanced by their complementary personalities. Not everyone gets a romantic partner like that, but some really do find their soulmate.
For them, the romance is the bigger picture. When it comes to FitzSimmons, SHIELD has always comes down on the side of their romance, while also addressing the larger issues at hand. Let's hope that continues.
In seasons 4 & 5, FitzSimmons learned that they needed to put their relationship first if they were going to have any chance of being together and swore to never leave each other's sides. They broke that vow, and Fitz died. Jemma didn't even get to say goodbye.
That's essential to remember in order to understand what's driving Jemma right now, while she'll stop at nothing and simply couldn't turn her back on jumping to Naro-Atzia. Fitz is her Rick and her Laszlo, her soulmate and her lifelong best friend who she has a beautiful friendship with. She's always been selfless, always fought for the greater good and always kept the bigger picture in mind. She and Fitz have almost died too many times to count, and been separated as many times.
They deserve to put their partnership first. The world owes them, and they'll be better at continuing to save the world if they're together. Rick made the choice in Casablanca that would give the Resistance the best chance against the Nazis. Giving FitzSimmons the best chance for survival also gives Earth its best chance for survival.
(The fact that Mack and May have been unable to find replacements for them proves this.)
Relationships That Are Filled with Resentment Because of the Past– In Casablanca, the resentment lies between Rick and Ilsa, because she chose her husband over him. (When she started her relationship with Rick, she thought Laszlo had died in prison.) In the end, they all come to terms with the way things have to be, because the war forces their decisions.
In SHIELD, there's resentment amongst the entire crew of the Zephyr because they've been cooped up together for so long. But the significant resentment lies between Daisy and Jemma. Each feels they were shown disrespect by the other one during season 5.
This season picked up one year after the events of season 5, so they've had time to work through the issues that built up in the Lighthouse, but there is still tension. Jemma still disobeys orders. Daisy still doesn't really treat Jemma with empathy.
In this episode, Daisy discovered that Jemma was right about Naro-Atzia and Fitz being nearby. We learned that in addition to her resentment of Jemma and Fitz for their actions with the fear dimension and Ruby/General Hale, jealousy may also be a subtle underlying motivation for the way she's worked against them. Daisy wants a Fitz of her own, since her relationships never work out, bringing us into Casablanca territory again.
The good news is, once they find and save original flavor Fitz, Daisy can have Deke, Fitz 3.0. She just has to get back to Earth in time to save him from the hunters.
More on Friendship
Enoch has been healing for Fitz because he's honest, undemanding and non judgemental. Like a really smart therapy dog, he has no hidden agenda. Fitz needed someone like Enoch after Aida and Radcliffe messed him up, and he was imprisoned and held in solitary confinement for months by Hale. His adventures in space with Enoch gave him time away from his "normal" life to take a breath, even though they were on the run.
Fitz has abandonment and trust issues because his father abandoned him as a child and he's always had bad luck with best friend types. They tend to die, turn evil and then die, or turn their backs on him. There's been too much betrayal involved. Fitz is understandably nervous about having another best friend who's not Jemma.
Daisy and Jemma have had all year on the Zephyr to relearn how to work together day-to-day, despite the betrayal and disagreements of S5. They are like sisters, and they'll always work these things out. But there was still tension between them, especially from the disagreement over whether to go back to earth or on to Naro-Atzia. Once it became clear that Jemma was right, they put their differences aside.
Daisy and Jemma really needed their girls night of fun and bonding to re-establish the core of their friendship. And they did. They reminded themselves and each other how much they've been through together and how much they just plain love each other and want to be there for each other.
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by Spyros Georgilidakis | Aug 30, 2021 | Boeing, News | 0 comments
Reports claim that 777s with PW4000 engines won't return to service until next year. United Airlines hoped to use these jets this summer.
This development relates to the ongoing investigation into United 328's engine failure over Denver, last February. It affects a relatively small number of airlines, whose 777s have PW4000 engines. The FAA and other aviation authorities around the world grounded these aircraft, after the incident.
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On the 20th of February, a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 with PW4077 engines, experienced an engine failure shortly after take-off. The final NTSB report is still to come. But a preliminary report showed that two fan blades separated from the engine. The event closely resembles two previous incidents. One of these was in 2018, involving a United aircraft, the other a JAL 777, last December.
These Boeing 777s have Pratt & Whitney engines, of the PW4000 family. Technically, these appear to be contained failures, since the engine's own structure contained the high-energy blades themselves, in all cases. But parts of the cowling and inlet did separate, causing more damage, including to the fuselage, in the latest incident. It is Boeing, not Pratt & Whitney, that makes the cowling.
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The only US airline that has 777s with PW4000 engines is United. Many other 777 operators in the US and worldwide have 777s with GE engines. Some airlines decided to retire their affected 777s. This was usually because their jets were old, they didn't have many of them and/or they already planned to retire them in 2022-23. United has 52 777s with PW4000 engines, and intend to keep them for some time to come.
United's Plans For Its 777s With PW4000 Engines
But United also intended to fly their 777s with these engines this summer and autumn. It now seems that the airline will have to wait until next year, however. The delay has to do with new requirements, emerging from the investigation into the latest incident. There appear to be two separate issues that the FAA and NTSB are considering at this time.
One issue involves a schedule for additional engine blade inspections, for 777s with PW4000 engines. The other is about modification or strengthening of the engine cowling and inlet design. This is to prevent separation of these structures, in the event of a fan blade failure. Also, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson had previously mentioned work to ensure that "the structure around the engine, the cowling and the inlet area, does not damage the aircraft structure", if it separates.
The engine manufacturer checks PW4000 blades, including those of Boeing 777s, at their service facility in East Hartford, Connecticut. But again, Pratt & Whitney is involved in only one of these issues. The design of the cowling is something that Boeing will have to address.
This issue is rather complicated. Ground testing an engine for a blade failure, is one thing. Testing an engine, along with its cowling, at actual flying speeds, is an entirely different matter. Developments in this story could change how engine and aircraft manufacturers test their designs in the future.

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Positive vaccination messages influence behaviour
A social experiment by Washington State University (WSU) has found that wording of vaccination messages influences people's attitudes and behaviour. The vaccine concerned, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, has been shown to help prevent cancer – young adults studied were less inclined to learn about the HPV vaccine when they were exposed to negatively-worded or descriptive messages.
The same young adults were, in contrast, more interested in learning about the HPV vaccine when they received messages that were injunctive and normative – meaning statements that implied their friends and family thought they should get the vaccine – versus messages that gave basic information about the vaccine's benefits.
"We should be careful about using these types of messages," said Porismita Borah, an associate professor in WSU's Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. "Whether you say that 3 out of 10 did not get the vaccine or that 7 out of 10 did get it – that makes a difference. It influences people's attitudes and behaviour."
For the study, Borah and colleagues tested messages on nearly 200 young adults between the ages of 18 and 29. The participants were randomly assigned into four groups that each received a different set of messages about the HPV vaccine based on social media posts typically used by health organisations such as the World Health Organization (WHO).
They found that the negatively-worded normative messaging frequently increased vaccine risk perceptions, compared to the positively-worded normative and basic information messages. The students who were exposed to the injunctive normative messages also had a greater intention to seek vaccine information, which in turn increased their intention to get the HPV vaccine.
"This study implies that using messages that highlight the importance of others' approval of vaccination, such as parents and peers, may be especially helpful in piquing individuals' interest to get more information about the vaccination. The information seeking in turn is likely to raise their intention to get vaccinated," said WSU postgraduate Xizhu Xiao.
More than a decade of research has supported the HPV vaccine's safety and effectiveness in preventing genital warts and cancers associated with the sexually transmitted infection including cervical, anal and penile cancer. Yet according to the CDC, the HPV vaccine has a low uptake in the US with 48.5% of women and 78.8% of men aged 19 to 26 remaining unvaccinated, pointing to the need for better promotional messaging.
The researchers say these results may have some implications for the promotion of other vaccinations as well, including a potential COVID-19 vaccine.
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Knowledge Companion has been a long time coming - you could almost say it started 140 years ago. Now it's here, with one simple objective - helping people get through The Knowledge in a way that fits with how they live and work in the 21st Century. Knowledge Companion is also a wholly-owned part of a Community Interest Company dedicated to improving road safety, called Viovia. More about that below.
My name is Andy Pearce and I am a fourth generation Green Badge cabbie - a line that started with my great-grandad getting a badge in 1880. It's a family affair - there has been someone in my family earning a living in a black cab ever since then, including both my mum and my dad. I grew up surrounded by cabs, cabbies, street names, and a clear idea that The Knowledge wasn't easy! In 1980, I got my yellow Badge at the age of 22, and started on my Green. Then I met my wife, who just happens to come from New Zealand, and we spent the next 35 years living and working around the world. 1n 2015 we came back to London and I decided to finish the Green. Or rather, start again from the beginning! It immediately became obvious that this was going to be a lot more difficult than in 1981. London has got wealthier, and people are using black cabs all over the six mile area in a way that just didn't happen in 1980. The level of detail needed on streets has gone up enormously, and the number of Points has rocketed. That's where the idea of Knowledge Companion was born. I was happy to drive around London visiting Points and doing runs, but I didn't want to have to keep going back because I'd forgotten what I did last month, or kept awful notes, or hadn't noticed the Point that was being asked this week. So I started taking photographs of Points and videos of Runs and getting help from my family to take more videos and organise everything properly using computers. It worked. By the time I passed out we had nearly 80,000 photographs of 16,000 points and around 2500 videos of runs, spins, mini-runs and others. That information is now at the heart of the Knowledge Companion website, and we keep it up to date as London changes. It's available for you to use and personalise as you go through The Knowledge.
Knowledge Companion is owned by a road safety Community Interest Company Called Viovia
Viovia is a very small UK based Community Interest Company (CIC) dedicated to improving road safety around the world. Community Interest Company's work in almost all respects like ordinary Limited Companies, but have one really key difference. Limited Companies distribute their profits to the Directors and Shareholders in the Company. Community Interest Company's are required (by law) to invest their profits in the "Community Interest". In the case of Viovia, the "Interest" is of reducing road crashes around the world. Why? Two main reasons. First, road crashes are a really serious and rather neglected crisis. 3000 people are killed every single day on the world's roads. The cost of crashes are a staggering 3% of global domestic product - meaning that 3p of every single £ you earn is going to fill in the costs of unnecessary crashes. It is an astonishing waste of our scarce resources. The second reason is that I spent a good part of my international career working to understand and improve the way people live and interact with our roads. I worked in industry and in the third sector with the Red Cross. I reached a conclusion that a businesslike approach needed to be taken to win back this enormous wasted resource and to benefit society while doing it. Viovia was started in 2014, and a lot of the work so far has been in building up a base business to create a sustainable income for the company to work with. Knowledge Companion is a part of that, and everyone using Knowledge Companion is contributing towards helping that bigger objective of reducing death and injury on the roads.
For a quirky look at the the roots of the road crash crisis have a look at the animated movie "Can Steve Survive 40 bullets" here


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Луи Шарль Фужере де Монброн (, 19 декабря 1706, Перон — 16 сентября 1760, Париж) — французский писатель, путешественник и авантюрист, с цинизмом описал свои богемные путешествия по Европе в романе «Космополит, или Гражданин мира», демонстрируя разрыв со своим отечеством и моралью, выводит из своего странствия следующую максиму: «Мир подобен книге, и тот, кто знает только свою страну, прочитал в ней лишь первую страницу», также является автором сатирических описаний Парижа и Англии, многочисленных пародий и скабрезного романа о женщинах легкого поведения «Несносная Марго».

Биография
Фужере де Монброн впервые был арестован 7 ноября 1748 года и заключён в парижскую тюрьму Фор-л'Эвек до 5 декабря. Также он был арестован во второй раз в Тулузе 14 марта 1755 года, откуда был переведён в Бастилию, где пробыл с 12 апреля по 25 сентября 1755 года.

Произведения
 Le Canapé ou Canapé couleur de feu, 1741.
 La Henriade travestie, 1745.
 Космополит, или Гражданин мира (Le Cosmopolite, ou Le Citoyen du monde), 1750.
 Несносная Марго (Margot la ravaudeuse), 1750 или 1753.
 Презерватив против англомании (Préservatif contre l'anglomanie), 1757.
 La Capitale des Gaules ou la Nouvelle Babylone, 1759

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The Desert Ridge story begins in the late 1980s when the nation was struggling out of a long economic downturn. A local real estate broker came to our office at the Viehmann, Martin Company to pitch a couple of developable sites. Among these was a 5,700-acre tract of state land straddling Tatum Boulevard, north of the CAP Canal. It seemed likely that metropolitan Phoenix would continue to grow northward, no river, mountain or reservation presenting a natural barrier in that direction. With our experience in mall development, my partner Don Viehmann and I thought this location could someday support a major shopping center.
The Arizona Legislature had recently passed the Urban Lands Act, allowing the State Land Department to sell or lease land for development in the state's two metropolitan areas, Phoenix and Tucson. The 5,700 acres of interest to us was then held by a local family under a lease to graze cattle. Our purchase of that grazing lease gave us rights of first refusal at a land department auction of commercial leases, necessary for the development of a large retail center.
With a long-time friend and business associate, Tom Klutznick, we created an entity that would become Northeast Phoenix Partners (NPP), which would eventually be the master developer of Desert Ridge. But first there was a lot of work to be done. The City of Phoenix was not initially interested in annexing land north of the CAP Canal. However, this position changed when ADOT announced plans for a freeway route, the 101 Loop, through this area.
Northeast Phoenix Partners hired Barton Myers Associates of Santa Barbara, California, to do the basic land use planning for Desert Ridge's entire parcel. The arterial streets bordering the large superblocks in Desert Ridge followed the natural drainage pattern of stormwater runoff through the site. Each superblock was planned for specific uses: residential, commercial, resort & golf courses.
Desert Ridge was conceived as a cooperative effort by the master developer, the City of Phoenix, and the Arizona State Land Department. The Land Department would continue to own a significant amount of land to be auctioned off in stages over several years. The City of Phoenix would be much involved in the planning and construction of major infrastructure projects. And the master developer would market the various land parcels under its control and guide other development under master planned community's Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&Rs) including Design Guidelines for each type of project.
In 1990 the City of Phoenix approved the annexation of Desert Ridge and its Specific Plan, based on the land use plan submitted. Negotiations for the purchase and lease of specific parcels within the plan began in earnest. In July 1993, the Land Department held an auction for the sale of all the residential land in Superblock 7 and a part of Superblock 4. Other auctions were held for long-term leases of a 50-acre resort site, and a 180-acre golf course parcel in Superblock 4. There was also another auction for a long-term lease for the 337-acre Commercial Core, to contain the retail, office, and ancillary uses. Three arterial streets, Tatum Boulevard, Deer Valley Road, and 56th Street, as well as the 101 Freeway bordered the commercial core.
Northeast Phoenix Partners was the successful – and only – bidder for these parcels within Desert Ridge. The next year was spent in refining plans for actual development, along with the marketing of the residential and resort properties. Seven homebuilders committed to acquire subdivision parcels in the first phase.
of homes were occupied in Desert Ridge.
In 1997 the Sumitomo Sitix plant opened, manufacturing silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry. The Mayo Clinic Hospital was completed in 1998 and quickly became one of Arizona's leading medical facilities.
Negotiations with JW Marriott for the resort and with Vestar for the uniquely designed Desert Ridge Marketplace were concluded in 2000, and construction began on these projects. The Desert Ridge JW Marriott and Desert Ridge Marketplace, both opened for business in 2002, have been extremely successful and major assets for Desert Ridge and surrounding communities.
American Express opened the first phase of its regional office facility in Desert Ridge in 2002. Since then Desert Ridge has continued to attract some of the area's best home builders, along with more office and retail uses. Desert Ridge's reputation continues to grow as one Arizona's finest master planned communities.


It is with great pleasure that we introduce to you, our readers, to the first issue of Cardiac Failure Review for 2019.
This issue features a range of articles on major areas of advance in heart failure from renowned experts. Some of the most topical areas in the management of heart failure are the effects and treatment of co-morbidities, and none more so than diabetes. In this issue, Thomas A Zelniker and Eugene Braunwald discuss the treatment of heart failure with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) and other anti-diabetic drugs following the three recent large trials that have demonstrated a reduction in heart failure hospitalisation and progressive renal failure, and including one, the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial, that also showed a significant reduction in cardiovascular and total mortality. They conclude that the three tested drugs of the SGLT2i class cause robust reductions in heart failure hospitalisation rates but that only one, empagliflozin, was associated with a clear reduction in mortality. They also summarise another drug class, the GLP-1-RA agents, and suggest that some of this class may be beneficial in reducing atherosclerotic cardiac events in high-risk diabetic patients.
In their article, Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca and Sandra Sanders-van Wijk review the use of natriuretic peptides diagnosis and monitoring of patients with established chronic heart failure, a less well-studied setting compared to their role in the evaluation of acutely breathless patients. They conclude that natriuretic peptides are strong prognostic markers also in the chronic setting, but that proving improved patient outcomes when the results of natriuretic peptides level monitoring is used in clinical care decisions has been inconsistent in the trials to date. Sunil K Nadar and Muhammed Mujtaba Shaikh also discuss other biomarkers and their role in routine heart failure clinical care.
Tonje Thorvaldsen and Lars H Lund discuss referral rather than selection for advanced heart failure therapies, and propose strategies for optimising timely referral for advanced heart failure evaluation. Marco Metra et al. discuss the new Heart Failure Association definition of advanced heart failure, which was updated in 2018 and they stress that comorbidities, tachyarrhythmias and heart failure in the setting of preserved ejection fraction are all of increasing importance. Mechanical circulatory support, which continues to progress as a viable effective treatment option with technological advances, a development we all predict will speed up in the years to come. Sajad Shehab and Christopher S Hayward also extend this theme in their article by reviewing the options of left ventricular assist devices and biventricular assist devices in advanced heart failure, and Maria Rosa Costanzo looks at ultrafiltration in acute heart failure and summarises excellently the studies to date and what the future may hold, concluding finally that ultrafiltration remains an attractive alternative to diuretics because it more predictably lessens total body sodium load. She suggests that for future studies, ultrafiltration might be best adjusted according to the patient's individual haemodynamic and renal profile, with a more precision target for the rate, duration and target fluid removal. Another setting we have seen considerably more effort in unravelling is the field of cardio-oncology. In this regard Martin Nicol et al. provide an excellent article on the detection and significance of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction seen during modern chemotherapeutic regimens.
Lastly, but importantly, Jacqueline H Morris and Leway Chen review the literature on exercise training and heart failure, and Izabella Uchmanowicz et al. discuss heart failure and the associated problems when it coincides with the frailty syndrome, a feature we see much more of as the populations of the world progressively age.
We hope you enjoy the reading this latest issue of Cardiac Failure Review.


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Q: Automatic email dependant on date in Microsoft Access I'm currently creating a database for my work that consists of basic information on the company car fleet. I've created the database and front sheet which consists of variables such as car,c ar color, MOT Date, Tax Date, etc.
I need to somehow have Access detect when a company car's MOT date is due and email someone to notify them that the date is upcoming by comparing today's date with the date entered into the MOT date field.
Something like, if today's date is a week prior to the MOT date, send an email to whoever to notify them that this is due.
I need this to happen automatically, I plan to open and refresh the sheet daily so it doesn't need to be particularly fancy and do it without Access being open, I just need it to perform this task without trawling through pages and pages of data.

A: You can do this on launch.  Just write a query that picks the records you want.  Then loop through the query and fire off an email to each person, then make sure you have a field called "EmailSent" that you'll update to True so you don't send them an email the following day (assuming you just want to email them once).
You'll probably just want some VBA along these lines:
Dim db as Database
Dim rec as Recordset

Set db = CurrentDB
Set rec = db.OpenRecordset("SELECT * FROM MyQueryName")

Do while rec.EOF = False
  'Loop through each record, send them an email
  'Add code to send email here
rec.MoveNext

'Now update the table so these guys don't get emailed again
dim MySQL as String
MySQL = "UPDATE MyQueryName SET EmailSent = 'True'"
DoCmd.RunSQL MySQL

The above is all "aircode" and is untested, but should set you in the right direction.
Just make sure EmailSent = False is a condition in your query.

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An analysis of the status of health, health services and health systems in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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This report provides the latest data on donor government resources available to address HIV in low- and middle-income countries, reporting on disbursements made in 2017. It is part of a collaborative tracking effort between UNAIDS and the Kaiser Family Foundation that began more than 15 years ago, just as new global initiatives were being launched to address the epidemic. The analysis includes data from all members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), as well as non-DAC members where data are available. Data are collected directly from donors, the Global Fund, and UNITAID, and supplemented with data from the DAC. Fourteen donor governments that account for 98% of total disbursements are profiled in this analysis. Both bilateral assistance and multilateral contributions to the Global Fund and UNITAID are included.
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This position statement summarizes the considerations and recommendations of members of Africa Japan Forum and the Global Fund Advocates Network after reviewing the potential synergies between providing UHC and ending the three diseases through the Global Fund.
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* Western Art
* Arts
* Santa Fe
Newly finished painting Ticket to Ride is more than an 8 second rodeo thrill
Ticket to Ride by artist Mary Luttrell delivers the thrill of the rodeo that can last a lifetime. The powerful acrylic gives the viewer a front row seat to the 8 second ride that's frozen in time.
By: PWG Media
Ticket To Ride - 40x30"
SANTA FE, N.M. - Oct. 14, 2021 - PRLog -- "Like many rodeo spectators, I'm especially drawn to the thrill and danger of bull riding, says artist Mary Luttrell, "The bulls themselves are impressive and beautiful powerhouses.The riders and audacious clowns are both admirable and brave. Who can take their eyes off this quintessential rodeo event?"
Mary says, "I paint the American west because that's where I've lived for most of my life, and I value its history and culture. I love to explore the unique relationships between people and animals in modern western settings. I've owned horses, a burro and even a nanny goat, as well as many dog and cat companions. I'm often asked if I wished I'd pursued a fine art career sooner, but I trust things to happen when they're supposed to. I feel that artists of all types are a sort of conduit to the Muse, or the Creator, or whatever word you want to use. It's our job to hone our skills, then get the heck out of the way. Whatever ability I have is from my Creator, and I'm humbled to develop it however He wants. I plan to keep learning and growing in this fascinating endeavor for as long as I live."
As the daughter of well-known western artist Oleg Stavrowsky, art is in Mary Luttrell's DNA. She spent 25 years as a graphic designer and another five as a high-end art consultant in Santa Fe, working with the current top western painters and sculptors. She holds degrees in Art History and English, with a specialty in Creative Writing. Her paintings tell stories about the modern American west.
Mary took up acrylic painting in 2018 and was thrilled to begin selling her work right away. She soon felt intrigued by the timeless, mysterious look of a limited black and white palette, which she feels gives her work a striking immediacy, drawing the viewer in. Her pieces work equally well in contemporary or traditional settings.
http://www.maryluttrellfinearts.com
Marys' art is also available at Masterpiece Gallery in Santa Fe, NM and Lost Creek Gallery in Calvert, TX.
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Nashville Software School's mission is to expand the technology workforce in middle Tennessee by providing motivated individuals with access to a career in software development through training, mentorship and apprenticeship.
Number of graduates in the Apprentice Program.
We are poised for more growth in 2016. In February, we will move to a new, larger space on Interstate Boulevard where we'll expand the number of students and add new programs. Please consider Nashville Software School in your year-end giving plans.


All Nestmove clients have their own dedicated account manager to oversee the entire sale or let process.
From the start, your Account Manager will talk you through the entire process and will be your main point of contact throughout the sale or let of your property. You then know that your property is in good hands and that the person dealing with you knows all about the property.


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Won't show one's face - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/won%27t+show+one%27s+face
not show (one's) face
(redirected from won't show one's face)
To not go or turn up some place, especially due to embarrassment, shame, or guilt. If she knows what's good for her, she won't show her face around here anytime soon. They can't show their faces in this town anymore after what happened two years ago.
See also: face, not, show
not show one's face
not to appear somewhere; not to go to some place. After what she said, she had better not show her face around here again. If I don't say I'm sorry, I'll never be able to show my face again.
not show (one's) face
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womp womp
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wonder about (someone or something)
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wonder if
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wonders (will) never cease
Wonders never cease!
wonders will never cease
wonk
won't bite
won't bother me any
won't breathe a word
won't budge an inch
won't hear a word against (someone or something)
won't hear of
won't hold water
won't show one's face
won't take no for an answer
won't wash
Won't you come in?
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woods are full of
woodshed
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won't not hear
won't open her mouth
won't open his mouth
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won't open their mouths
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won't set the heather alight
won't set the heather on fire
won't set the Thames alight
won't set the Thames on fire
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won't set the world on fire
won't shed a tear
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Won't Take It Lying Down
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SANFORD - Mrs. Jeanne Mae Carroll Perdue, 77, of Sanford, died Tuesday, March 26, 2013.
Services: Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday in Swann Station Baptist Church. Burial in McDougald-Holder Cemetery. Visitation, 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home in Sanford.
Survived by: Husband, Edward; sons, Darryl and Douglas; daughters, Sharon Hart, Sheryl Smith and Karen D'Angelo; brother, Boyce Carroll; sisters, Shirley Calendine and Janice Baker; 13 grandchildren.


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test_description='reflog walk shows repeated commits again'
. ./test-lib.sh

test_expect_success 'setup commits' '
	test_tick &&
	echo content >file && git add file && git commit -m one &&
	git tag one &&
	echo content >>file && git add file && git commit -m two &&
	git tag two
'

test_expect_success 'setup reflog with alternating commits' '
	git checkout -b topic &&
	git reset one &&
	git reset two &&
	git reset one &&
	git reset two
'

test_expect_success 'reflog shows all entries' '
	cat >expect <<-\EOF
		topic@{0} reset: moving to two
		topic@{1} reset: moving to one
		topic@{2} reset: moving to two
		topic@{3} reset: moving to one
		topic@{4} branch: Created from HEAD
	EOF
	git log -g --format="%gd %gs" topic >actual &&
	test_cmp expect actual
'

test_done

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Home MMA & UFC NEWS Liz Carmouche Vs Roxanne Modafferi Targeted For UFC On ESPN 4
Liz Carmouche Vs Roxanne Modafferi Targeted For UFC On ESPN 4
A flyweight fight between Liz Carmouche and Roxanne Modafferi has been booked for UFC On ESPN 4 in San Antonio, Texas on July 20th.
Carmouche will be looking to build on a recent two-fight winning streak that's seen her earn decision wins over Jennifer Maia and Lucie Pudilova, after initially getting her 125lb run off to a shaky start with a split decision loss to Alexis Davis.
That leaves the former bantamweight title challenger placed at No.3 in the flyweight rankings and a win over the 5th ranked Modafferi would put in her a strong position to call for a shot at the belt.
As for Modafferi, she is on a high after earning a split decision win over Antonina Shevchenko last month. 'The Happy Warrior' has already challenged once for the flyweight title after her working her way through TUF season 26 and is 2-2 in the division to date.
Carmouche Vs Modafferi joins a UFC On ESPN 4 card that currently has no other fights attached to it, and marks the promotion's first event in San Antonio since 2014.
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Christian De La Rosa, Reporter
Updated: July 27, 2021, 11:21 PM
Tags: Broward County, West Park
Video shows thief used U-Haul truck to steal yellow trackless train from party rental in Broward
Train later located outside Miami Gardens home
Published: July 27, 2021, 7:15 PM Updated: July 27, 2021, 11:21 PM
Tycoon Party Rentals in Broward County's city of West Park lost a mechanical yellow trackless train to a thief in a U-Haul truck. Surveillance video shows the early riser parked outside of the warehouse unit on Southwest 21st Street.
WEST PARK, Fla. – Tycoon Party Rentals in Broward County's city of West Park lost a mechanical yellow trackless train to a thief in a U-Haul truck. Surveillance video shows the early riser parked outside of the warehouse unit on Southwest 21st Street.
Greg Jackson, the owner of Tycoon Party Rentals, said the train with a horn doesn't only bring joy to his customers. He also uses it to brighten the days of kids in need in the community.
Jackson said he also has about 20 children who live in West Park in his payroll and he said he pays them $10 hourly "to keep them off the streets."
Jackson reported the theft on Monday. It happened shortly before 4 a.m. and it took less than 10 minutes. A Broward Sheriff's Office deputy "Johnson" responded but he didn't really help him.
"It took the police officer three hours to come. He told me that I can't file a police report because I don't have a serial number on the train," Jackson said.
Less than an hour after the story aired, the Miami Gardens Police Department responded to a home where a trackless train was parked. It appeared to be the one that was stolen from Tycoon Party Rentals.
Officers arrived at the home, located on Northwest 165th Street, and had questions for the residents.
Miami Gardens police told Local 10 News the people who live in the home agreed to give back the train, and Jackson took it, no questions asked.
The residents told Local 10 News' Christian De La Rosa they purchased the train from someone else.
Jackson said he didn't buy that story, but was just happy to have his train back.
Police said since Jackson isn't pressing any charges, they consider the case closed.
A man stole a trackless train from Tycoon Party Rental in West Park. (Tycoon Party Rental)
Christian De La Rosa
Christian De La Rosa joined Local 10 News in April 2017 after spending time as a reporter and anchor in Atlanta, San Diego, Orlando and Panama City Beach.


CINCINNATI (AP) The Bengals signed former New England Patriot Brandon LaFell to a one-year contract Thursday, giving them a veteran receiver to help fill out a unit that lost two regulars to free agency.
Marvin Jones and Mohamed Sanu left as free agents after the Bengals lost in the first round of the playoffs for the fifth straight season. Jones had 65 catches for 816 yards and four touchdowns, ranking second to A.J. Green. Sanu caught 33 passes for 394 yards, third among Bengals receivers.
Cincinnati wanted a veteran to complement Green and is likely to take a receiver high in the draft. LaFell could start right away. First-year offensive coordinator Ken Zampese likes to move his receivers around to get mismatches.
LaFell played his first four seasons in Carolina before signing with the Patriots. He had his best season in 2014, helping New England win the Super Bowl. LaFell caught 74 passes for 953 yards and seven touchdowns that season, all career highs. He also had 13 catches for 119 yards and two touchdowns in the playoffs, including an 11-yard TD for the first score in the Super Bowl win over Seattle.
An injured left foot wiped out the first part of his season last year and limited him to 37 catches for 515 yards without a touchdown. He said offseason rest has allowed it to fully heal.
The Bengals like the way LaFell can line up outside or in the slot. He's also known for being a good blocker.
''He's got great experience, and a lot of toughness, too,'' Zampese said.


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May 4, 2019 May 4, 2019 by Narmadhaa
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Nowadays, it's ever so common to see crowds gathering in front of government houses, with upheld banners and raised voices, protesting. It doesn't matter what for—policies, opinions, misspoken words, misspellings on social media—why, some people even oppose the existence of other people. Regardless of the "why" of these protests, almost every rally I've seen and heard of has a similar streak: violence. In its core, whenever anyone disagrees or rebels, they use harsh and violent behaviour to make themselves seen and heard.
Of course, in recent years, silent, un-violent, and fasting protests are becoming more desirable. But even today, all the marches and show of disagreement contain angry outbursts, name-calling, and plain spite. What's sad, though, is that just as a self-fulfilling prophecy, these violent protests get more attention than the others. Even though our generation understands and even professes the effectiveness of the pen over the sword, the influence of weapons in conflicting opinions is far too significant to ignore.
That's why it feels amazing to come across a different form of protest. Both in movies and real life, we've seen governments cutting off funds to public welfare systems like health care programmes, transport services, and university courses. Each time it happens, the government—factual or fictional—faces large mobs of angry citizens, swearing through megaphones and wasting fuel on stick figures and flags.
But then I saw this:
It's a necklace. It's also a sign of protest. When the state government of Canberra (Australian Capital Territory) cut off funds to the National Institute of Arts, teachers and Canberra sponsors together presented this necklace to the Chief Minister at the time, Kate Carnell, as a sign of their protest. What's unique about it though is that each metal link in the necklace has a tag with the name of a sponsor. So each piece resembles a protestor, and together it makes a neckband for the chief minister of the then ACT.
No hate speech, no blood, an no fasting to death. What a daring rebellion! And what a beautiful necklace it is too—when you take away the historical value, that is one marvellous piece of accessory, won't you say?
It made me stop and think about how much has changed in the way we fight for our convictions. Of course, we should stand up for what we believe in, but when our fight costs innocent people their peace, patience, or worse, life, then what good does our conviction do?
The necklace is on display at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. If you're in the area, stop by and pay a visit—it sure is worth looking at.


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Q: show x and y co-ordinates on line plot I am new to R Script and coding, just inherited some R Code that I which plots perfectly fine and gives the correct results. I want to have the ability to show the x and y values when a user hovers the mouse cursor over the line.
I have found a link to a articles that describe how to carry out the necessary step but having no luck at all..
[url=" https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/124-change-hover-text-in-plotly/"]
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(survival)
library(survminer)
library(grid)
library(gridExtra)
library(plotly)
pc <- dataset
fstat <- pc %>% mutate(fstatus = case_when(OUTCOMETYPE=="Revised" ~ 1,TRUE ~ 0))
pmpa <- fstat %>% select(PRIMARYPROCEDUREID,PRIMARYTOOUTCOMEYEARS,fstatus,OUTCOMETYPE)
if(nrow(pmpa) < 4){
d <- pmpa %>% select(PRIMARYPROCEDUREID,PRIMARYTOOUTCOMEYEARS,OUTCOMETYPE) %>% mutate(INSUFFICIENTDATA = "Summary Results")
h = head(d[,2:4])
grid.table(h)
}else{
fit <- survfit(Surv(PRIMARYTOOUTCOMEYEARS,fstatus)~1,data = pmpa)
ggsurv <- ggsurvplot(fit,
           ylab="Patient Analysis",
           xlab="Time (Years)",
           break.time.by = 1,
           xlim = c(0,max(fit$time)),
           surv.scale = "percent",
           legend.title = "Kaplan-Meier",
           legend.labs = "",
           risk.table = TRUE,
           fontsize = 3,
           font.tickslab = c(10, "plain"),
           risk.table.y.text = FALSE,
           fun = "event"
           )
ggsurv$plot <- ggsurv$plot + theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5, size=18), panel.grid.major = element_line(colour ="grey90"))
ggsurv$table <- ggsurv$table + theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5, size = 10))

ggsurv

the ability to see only the x and y co-ordinates nothing else on hoover on line chart.

A: You could call ggplotly on just the survival 'plot' from ggsurv (which is a ggplot object):
ggplotly(ggsurv$plot)

Also note you will get a warning:

geom_GeomConfint() has yet to be implemented in plotly.

See github issue for more details about the lack of confidence intervals: https://github.com/ropensci/plotly/issues/1404
Also - to show both the plot and table together (with the KM curve on top of the table), you can use 'subplot' with plotly. Please let me know if this is helpful.


Ramos is charged with opening fire in the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis on June 28 with a barrage of shotgun blasts, killing four journalists and a sales assistant in an attack police said was motivated by a long-standing grudge he held against the newspaper in Maryland's state capital.
Morse said a formal ID of Ramos was established through facial recognition technology. She denied as inaccurate reports that the suspect had mutilated his fingertips to avoid identification. She characterized the defense objections as "pretty standard" in such cases.


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Cost is generally free, although contributions to the carpool drivers for gas are greatly appreciated. Chapter 2 My big breakthrough occurred when a lifelong ambition became reality. The Clubhouse Social Club Members. Later in my childhood, I found myself using parts from discarded bicycles to build other bikes. Fact is, we're a mountain biking club. My road experience opened my eyes to another opportunity. Guided rides would allow us to get a feel for the typical routes.
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The Taj Mahal: Enduring Monument to Love
By: Jayadvaita Swami for jswami.info on June 8, 2018
Photo Credits: carrentindia.in
"At first view, it was breathtaking, but the closer you get, the less impressive it looks."
In more than twenty-five years of coming to India, I'd never seen the Taj Mahal—never had a desire to or a reason to. But when my mother came on her first-ever trip to India, how could she go back home to America and say she hadn't seen the Taj Mahal?
So I brought her.
And I confess to being pleased with her when she found the Taj "rather a disappointment." At first view, it was "breathtaking," she said. But the closer you get, the less impressive it looks. Though it majestically fills a picture postcard, really the place is fairly small. Inside, the marble work is neat—the delicately carved screens, the intricately inlaid flowers—but what it comes down to, played out with splendid precision, are the same Mogul motifs repeating themselves throughout the chamber again and again and again. And once you've seen it you've seen it.
What then to say of this "enduring monument to love"?
It was perfect. Love had found the perfect symbol: perfectly hype, perfectly disappointing.
That's love for you. The whole world is blowing trumpets about it. Poets are praising it, minstrels singing of it, psychologists getting deep about it, boys and girls dreaming of it. Billboards selling it, industries built on it, kings and queens and streetsweepers hot in its pursuit.
And finally what is it? A letdown.
That's the great secret of love. Either you can't get it, or you get it and it falls short of your hopes, or it turns into a nightmare. Or, like Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj, just when you think you've got it you lose it.
Folks, it's a sham, a counterfeit, a hoax. It's not the real thing.
It's false because the whole enterprise depends on a contraption devised of blood, bones, guts, hair, and other such rubbish, pasted together and made to look good by an overwhelming spell of illusion. Put two such bodies together, throw in a few spicy hormones, and there you've got it—love.
So the Taj was perfect. Gardens, carvings, lamplight, jewels. And at the center of it all? Two dead bodies.
Because the Taj—that ideal symbol of love—is finally a tomb. And the love for which it stands, if that love endures at all, ends always in death.
If you want anything better, you have to love what lasts, not what rots and perishes. What lasts is the atma, the soul, the spark of life that makes a body that's living different from one that's dead. And I don't mean "soul" merely as a metaphor for some flash in the eyes, some stirring in the mind, a little bit of spring in the step. I mean the life force behind all this, the power the machinery runs on. That spark of life is the actual self.
Real love means the eternal love between the small self and the Supreme Self, the spark of life and the source of all life, between a small vessel of love and the great reservoir of love, between you and the Personality of Godhead, Krishna.
(The article originally appeared in the Back to Godhead Magazine.)
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I vividly remember the first watercolour class I ever attended. Walking in nervously clutching my one brush and six tubes of paint(more about that shortly), I looked around the class and was staggered to see several women toting large plastic toolboxes. This was a painting class, right? Not a home decorating workshop? They proceeded to unpack tray after tray of tubes of paint, in every colour you could imagine. The class got underway, each time our tutor got us to paint something these ladies would spend ages searching through their tubes for exactly the right shade. Since I only had the basic colours I had to learn quickly how to mix the one that I needed. Thanks to Janet Andrews ( a wonderful teacher) , I learned how to paint using a very limited palette. I admit that , just like anyone else, I can be seduced by those luscious colours on a paint chart. But mostly when I've given into that temptation I've used the new colour once or twice, then gone back to mixing my own. Possibly something to do with a Master Painter Dad who usually mixed his clients house colours himself!
Ultramarine Blue, Pthalo Blue , Raw Sienna, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson and Burnt Sienna. Over the years I've also added Raw Umber, a lovely colour for NZ bush. And Australian Red Gold, a beautiful transparent orange. Most of those other colours that you can see in my palette have been sitting there in their dried state since I first tried them!
If you're reading this as a painter, I'd encourage you to simplify your palette and learn to mix what you need from that. A limited palette means a more harmonious painting in the end.
Today I was happily painting this when someone walked in and commented how lucky I am to have this gift. After the lady had left, I stopped for a cup of tea to think about her remark.
A gift is usually something given freely, with no payment required. If someone gives you one you don't have to use it- you could just put it on the top shelf of your wardrobe and forget about it. You could put it on your mantelpiece and admire it -- far too good to use . Or you might use it every day and think of the giver each time you use it! A gift can be hard to refuse ... If you try to say no the giver may just hide it behind a cushion or in your letterbox! Usually the recipient has no control over what the gift might be ( except for kids and Father Christmas).
PS. This is a lovely old boat which was sailing at the Classic Boatshow at Rotoiti this year - no clue what sort of sailing boat it is- any ideas?


Ed's paintings are created using oil paints on a medium grain stretched canvas, then varnished using a gloss, UV-protected varnish. They are made to last, but you may wish to consider the advice below to protect them from damage and to preserve them over the years.
bars so that nothing presses against the canvas.
it wrapped up for too long to avoid moisture build-up, which could damage to the work.
• Never expose your painting to extreme heat, extreme cold, or extreme humidity.
• If you wish to frame your painting, consider the archival options on offer, such as archival boards and UV glazing. Try modern and traditional frames to see which you prefer. Often different styles can go equally well with a painting.
• Prolonged exposure to direct sunlight could fade the colours in your oil painting over time. Please be aware of this when choosing a location for your work.
picture, depending on your own height and wall space.
the painting. Ask a framer for advice if you are not sure.
alternatively use a professional art restoration service.


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I called and talked with you, Karl and you assured me that you could help. I raced to your store with a bag full of pearls. You were so kind and so patient as I panicked. Needless to say, when I arrived at the funeral later that afternoon, I was wearing Aunt Edna's pearls, newly strung and beautiful.
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February 2, 2016 /in Articles, Brand Development, Directors /by Jim Signorelli
Much has been written about storytelling as a business tool. And for good reason. Storytelling can be an extremely powerful way to influence, motivate and inspire others. However, it is common for storytelling trainers to err by disregarding differences between business storytelling and recital storytelling.
Stylistically, business storytelling should be more casual than careful. Indeed, like recital storytelling, business storytelling is used to engage listeners, facilitate interest, and gain emotional reactions. However, when telling a story in a business setting, you should not try to become the next Mark Twain. As a business tool, storytelling should be more "informance" than performance. Otherwise, it will do more harm than good.
There are other differences, as well. For instance, recital storytelling travels from the speaker's mouth to the listener's ears. By contrast, in a business setting, storytelling can and should be a two-way street. In fact, one can benefit as much from eliciting as they can from telling stories.
[Read about 5 storytelling triggers that will spur your readers to take action]
Consider, for instance, the salesperson interviewing a prospect who is considering a change in vendors. Typical questions that the salesperson might ask are, "Why are you considering a change in vendors?" or "What are you looking for that you are not receiving from your current supplier?" Using questions like these will likely yield a direct answer and provide some understanding of what the prospect is looking for. However, by eliciting a story, additional insights can be gained.
Instead of asking for reasons why, consider what would happen with quesitons like, " When did you decide to change vendors?" or " What happened to cause you to reconsider your current arrangement?" By asking for the event or events leading up to the reason, a story would be elicited. And, instead of receiving a direct answer like, "We are looking for someone who can provide faster responses to our requests," it's more likely that prospect would say something like,"When we first started working with them they were Johnny-on-the-spot. But now it takes 5 or 6 phone calls before anyone gets back to us. Last year, they were acquired by a bigger company. And following that acquisition, we got lost in the shuffle. Being one of their smaller accounts, we just didn't seem as important anymore." As the story unfolds, the emotional component of the problem rises to the surface. Besides the directly stated more rational reason why behind the considered switch, we also learn that the prospect has been feeling left out in the cold and wants to feel important regardless of the size of his business.
This is but one example of how eliciting stories can be more helpful than just the fact gathering. It takes some practice. But here are some things to consider when developing your ability to elicit stories:
Go for the "time stamp." Stories, by definition describe events that occurred at one time or another. Be mindful of this as you ask questions. Always ask for the "when" or "what happened" instead of asking for a direct reason why.
Learn about the setting. When describing where something happened, you are likely to elicit a story, as well. i.e "where did the process start falling apart?" or "where did you first start to see changes occur?"
Avoid "why" questions if you can. Certainly knowing why someone believes the way they do is important. But, again, "why," more often than not, will yield opinions or theories that are often rational in natural. Stories generally reveal the emotions that underly the facts.
Be aware of assertion or opinion cues. Whenever someone says or implies what they think, you should know you are not being told a story.
If you get an assertion, go for the underlying story. Instead of asking, "why do you believe that to be true?" ask, "Did something occur to cause you to feel that way?" This will inevitably yield far more useful information than the assertion alone. Just remember, a story is not a story unless an event is described.
Learn more about brand storytelling here!
Jim Signorelli
Jim Signorelli is the Brand Development Director at Stevens & Tate Marketing where he utilizes his 30+ of experience in building brands through proven storytelling techniques. Jim is the award-winning author of StoryBranding 2.0: Creating Standout Brands Through the Power of Story.
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On March 2nd in Swiss Hotel – Krasnie Kholmi a group of companies EAST LINE organized an annual event 'New Routes' where top managers of Russian Travel Companies and Airline Companies had an opportunity to discuss their plans for the new season.
The subject that generated the greatest interest was the perspectives of cooperation for summer. The stand of the Italian low-cost Airline Company Windjet – which will fly to Domodedovo starting from March 8th (news/ 22.02) - welcomed the greatest number of visitors. However experts doubt the success of the Airline in the Russian travel market due to the company's pricing policy in Russia (220-240 Euro + airport fees). Massimo Polimeni, Representative of Commercial Department of Windjet, commented as follows: 'tickets cost will of course depend on the volume of a travel companie'.
Furthermore, frequent flight delays in Domodedovo Airport were actively discussed at the meeting. Tatiana Vand, the Head of Vand International Tour, believes that considering the experience of last year and the winter season, it is necessary to issue a special document specifying the terms of cooperation between an airline and a travel company in case of delays: 'at least a representative of an airline company should calm down passengers explaining the reasons for the delay'. Representatives of the Airport agreed: 'we always organize training programs for airlines' representatives. Besides, if necessary we inform them about possible delays and changes within flight schedule', said Vladimir Kaminin from Domodedovo Marketing Service. He added that the Domodedovo Airport plan to offer incentives to those airlines that do not have frequent changes in the flight schedule.