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Not-so-special teams: The anatomy of a blocked punt – Mile High Report

The Broncos coverage units in the first two games had been poor. Khalif Raymond of the Titans nearly broke a long punt return after making two defenders miss (although he was aided by holding). The return ended up being 11 yards.

Then in the Pittsburgh game, both the kickoff coverage and the punt coverage units were poor. The Broncos allowed a 49 yard kickoff return to Ray-Ray McCloud and a 32 yard punt return by Diontae Spencer. The punt coverage team also allowed a punt return for a TD that was called back because of an illegal block above the waist. Overall is was really bad coverage in this game which set the stage for what happened against the Bucs - more on this later.

Also against the Steelers, Sam Martin, our high-priced free agent punter, flat-out dropped a perfect snap the literally hit him in the hands, which led to a safety. The most basic (and simplest) job of the punter is to catch the snap.

Tom McMahons special teams had been under performing poorly in the first two games heading into the game against the Bucs.

So the punt coverage guys were all very sensitive to getting down the field. Unfortunately this led to Malik Reed and Trey Marshall failing to block the man who lines up in a 3-tech, over Malik Reed. The fastest way to either block a kick or pressure a QB is to go right up the middle in the G-C-G (A gaps). The job of the guards is to help the long snapper with blocking any man lined up over him (or close to it) as you can see #79 is lined up on the blocked punt. The job of the personal punt protector (sometimes called the upback) is to block first then to cover. Trey Marshall does not block at all on this play and literally runs in front of the guy who blocks the punt without touching him.

This is problem that is rarely seen on the punt team, three players all failing on the same play. I have to guess that both Reed and Marshall were so concerned with getting down the field to cover the punt that they failed their primary responsibility which is to block so that the punter can get the punt off.

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Long trends and disruption: the anatomy of the "post world" of the COVID-19 crisis – Modern Diplomacy

The second decade of the 21st century put the geoeconomic emphasis and cooperation within the framework of Chinas One Belt, One Road initiative into the China East European states relations.

The Chinese initiative is dictated by the understanding of the importance of the CEE countries as an important component of a unified Europe. Thus, asserting itself in the role of one of the centers of a multipolar world order, Beijing began transforming the economic and political space that developed in CEE with the promotion of favorable economic proposals to the countries of the region, without raising questions of the difference of ideologies and ways of life.

For the first time, a joint project was announced in 2012 in Warsaw, where Premier Wen Jiabao launched an initiative called 12 measures of China to encourage friendly cooperation with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Starting in 2013, the main content of the programs of each 16 + 1 summit is the development of tools for this regional format. Naturally, the format of Chinas cooperation with the CEE countries is closely connected with the implementation of the global concept of the New Silk Road proposed by the Chairman of the PRC Xi Jinping. The concept consists of two parts: the land Economic belt of the Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century and potentially involves cooperation of at least 60 countries in Europe and Asia.

By 2015, China has become one of the largest investors in Eastern and South Eastern Europe. In November 2015, the Eastern Europe-China ( 16 + 1 ) summit was held in the Chinese city of Suzhou, in which the leaders of the PRC and 16 Eastern European member states and the Balkan countries took part. The meeting resulted in the strengthening of Chinas economic presence in Eastern Europe. Also at the trade and economic forum in Hangzhou between China and the countries of CEE in 2015 it was agreed that China is ready to provide financial support for the re-industrialization of the countries of CEE, in the case that it will be conducted using Chinese technologies and equipment.

In 2015 2016, taking into account the opportunities and potentials, each country in the 16 + 1 format chose its own direction. For example, Bulgaria will supervise agriculture, Poland investment and trade. The task of Latvia will be identification of links and projects, cooperation in the field of logistics, Romania will deal with energy projects, Lithuania is responsible for educational programs, and Hungary for the tourism sector.

The 16 + 1 format , in a certain sense, prepared the transition to a more focused and integrated strategy One belt One Road and successfully fits into its main components the projects Economic belt of the Silk Road and Marine Silk Road of the XXI century, aimed at developing new land and sea transport, logistics and trade and production systems linking China to Europe. In the first project, the countries of CEE play a key role, in the second an important transit role in the development of China Europe trade and investment ties, and in the long term in the formation of a broad Eurasian economic space and political stability belt.

The basic design of the first project is the development on a new technological and organizational basis of the traditional direction of trade and transport Sino European ties, complemented by their investment cooperation. This Northern road includes land international transit to Western Europe from China and other countries of the Asia Pacific region (primarily, South Korea and Japan) through Russia and Kazakhstan along the Trans Siberian Railway and the Kazakhstan railway with access to the European part of Russia in The Urals:

Nevertheless, the transit and logistical potential of the other CEE countries is still used slightly. Almost not involved in the European part of the Northern road are the ports of Poland and the Baltic countries that gravitate towards it. On the contrary, the main transport and logistics centers for Chinese goods (primarily German Duisburg and Hamburg) are already overloaded, and the possibilities for expanding their capacities are limited.

Such uneven distribution of cargo flows combined with insufficient technological level of the transport and logistics infrastructure of the CEE countries hinders the further development of China Europe ties. There are also serious organizational and economic limitations of this development. Most of the provinces ( especially the western ones, remote from the sea ) tend to establish regular communication with Europe for both economic and prestigious reasons. The export potential of only the western provinces of China is estimated at $ 40 billion. Therefore, the full utilization of trains and partial financing of transportation costs are provided by local authorities on the basis of public private partnerships (especially since many Chinese companies retain great state involvement) (see Figure 1 below).

Figure 1.:China`s infrastucture investments in the 16 + 1

Source: CSIS; FT Research

The April 9th CEE PRC summit 2019 in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik marked a new beginning in the development of relations between China and Eastern Europe. Although the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) usually focuses on Asian (whether Central Asian, South Asian, or South East Asian) or African participants, post-Communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe have begun to play not less significant role. In fact, the CEE region was one of the most represented regions in the 2017 2019 BRI Forums: of the 28 heads of state or government, four were from this region (representing the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Serbia), and Romania was represented by a delegation led by the countrys Deputy Prime Minister. This list of forum participants reflected the intensive development of cooperation between China and CEE under the auspices of the BRI.

Humanitarian influence is also increasing the leadership of the PRC encourages interpersonal contacts with the CEE countries, especially through tourism, student and youth exchanges, etc. Chinas credibility in the region is also growing, because now almost any project of cooperation on a bi versatile basis is served under the brand One Belt One Road, which allows China to demonstrate real ( albeit small ) successes literally every year. This is especially noticeable against the backdrop of crisis phenomena in the European Union and the weakening of the ties between the CEE region and Russia.

Underlining the main opportunities of BRI for CEE and EU, should be mentioned the following :

Other interviewees considered that rail services would attract demand mainly from shipping rather than from air. One of them, responsible for air cargo services, argued that rail would not abstract demand from air because it could not offer the very short transit times required by the most time-sensitive air cargoes. This interviewee also suggested that, to remain competitive, China and other parts of Asia with rail services introduced as a result of the BRI would still need air freight connections to Europe. In this context, ownership of the capacity of a cargo airline such as Cargolux can be seen as a key element of the infrastructure connecting China and the EU.

A representative of the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (Hereinafter CER Auth.) agreed that rail would attract demand from shipping but would not be able to compete with air services. The European Commission also suggested that, from Chinas perspective, the maritime elements of the BRI were more important and that overland rail was a distraction. In their view, 90-95% of traffic between China and the EU was maritime and would remain so. This is broadly consistent with the analysis of maritime and air traffic. It should also be stressed that the most common investments by Chinese parties in the EU appear to be ports, principally in the Mediterranean and the United Kingdom.

Russian Railways (Hereinafter RZD Auth.) has long operated rail services along the Trans Siberian Railway between Europe and the Sea of Japan. These could, in principle, be used to carry goods from Japan and South Korea to Europe, but these would first have to be shipped across the Sea of Japan to Russia. In contrast, from landlocked north east China, long overland journeys are needed to reach any port, but may also be needed to reach a suitable railhead.

Thus, the commercial objective of growing rail services appears not to be to put pressure on maritime operators, which are already efficient, but to offer a higher speed service. This also helps producers and consumers along the rail routes used.

One interviewee in the logistics sector said that subsidies granted by the Chinese Government to rail services between China and the EU are tremendous. They also stated that Kazakhstan Railways (Hereinafter KTZ Auth.) had reduced tariffs in 2012 but now agreed with RZD to keep tariffs high. KTZ indicated that the Chinese Government provided subsidies to support westbound container traffic, but envisaged that these would be withdrawn by 2020 as balancing eastbound traffic was attracted to the route. These comments illustrate a number of issues relating to the commercial viability of the services.Also trains between China and the EU will be charged transit tariffs by operators such as KTZ and RZD. There is no uniquely correct basis for setting such transit tariffs, although the principal applied in the EU is that they should be based on marginal costs. From the perspective of these transit railways, however, transit traffic is an opportunity to profit from third parties (A similar issue emerges in the provision of air navigation services within the EU, where national air navigation service providers (Hereinafter ANSPs Auth.) may have incentives to overcharge for en-route services provided to overflying, and typically foreign, aircraft to subsidise terminal services provided to aircraft taking off and landing). The incentives on the transit states are typically to maximise their profits, rather than to maximise the economic, social and environmental value of the railway operation as a whole. For both the EU and China, however, there is the potential risk that a growing and successful rail service will be seen as a potential source of profit by the transit railways.

Figure2 and Figure 3below summarise the volumes of loaded containers which are loaded and discharged on flows between ports in the Far East and ports in the EU, measured in TEU. However, the EU Member States in which containers are loaded and discharged may not be the final destination states(The country where custom controls are executed is the country of discharge. This is the reason why Czech Republic is included in Figure 5 below despite it has not access to the sea.)

Figure2 below illustrates the recent growth in loaded containers from the Far East to EU ports, from just over TEU one million in 1996 to about TEU eleven million in 2016. Other than China, no state loads more than one million containers to Europe.

Figure2.:Loaded containers from the Far East to Europe: country of loading

Source: MDST World Cargo Database

Figure 3shows the points at which loaded containers are discharged in the EU. A large proportion are discharged at ports in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy, before travelling onwards to the points at which they are stripped. Containers discharged in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, or Genoa (Genova) or Trieste in Italy, for example, may continue by river barge, train or truck to other EU Member States or to landlocked and non-EU Switzerland.

Figure 3.: Loaded containers from the Far East to Europe: country of discharge

Source: MDST World Cargo Database

Thus, the analysis of Figures 2 and 3 and 4show that westbound loaded container flows of 11 million TEU exceed the eastbound flows of 5 million TEU. This creates a need fora large number of containers to be returned empty in the eastbound direction. A representative of the CER said that this represented an opportunity for the EU to rebalance imports and exports.

Of the Member States shown, the largest imbalance in flows is for the United Kingdom, which exports only just over one quarter as many loaded TEUs as it imports. Even in Germany and Sweden, exports are less than two thirds of imports. This appears to confirm CERs view that additional containers could be carried eastbound, in principle at little additional cost.

Figure 4.: Balance in loaded container flows for selected EU Member States

Source : MDST World Cargo Database

Table 1 below summarises a number of the opportunities and challenges which appear to emerge from the BRI. None of these may amount to a clearly-defined problem, as outlined in the ECs Better Regulation Toolbox. Nonetheless, this section briefly discusses the extent to which it might be relevant to consider legislation to address them.

Source: Steer Davies Gleave analysis

Thus, it can be noted that the participating countries of 16 + 1 mechanism understood the scale, prospects and synergies of this interaction. It should be emphasized that the Old EU countries are wary of Chinese activity in the Central European zone of their influence and insist that all members ( and candidate members ) coordinate their cooperation with China, and that the EU should speak with the PRC with one voice. Nevertheless the strategic concepts of the development of these states reflect the importance and priority of both bilateral relations with China and cooperation in the China EU format. That is why most of the foreign policy strategies of the CEE states are oriented toward expanding foreign economic activity and trade with the PRC. It is necessary to emphasize the consistency and planning of work in this direction, conducted by the states of the 16 + 1 format. As we can see, pragmatic economic diplomacy started to prevail in the newest foreign policy history of Europe.

The ninth summit of cooperation between China and CEE, based on the results, was the last for the 16 + 1 format. In April 2019, it became clear that Greece would be invited to be part of this initiative. This actually turns 16 + 1 into 17 + 1. This move confirms claims that the importance of the CEE countries to China is closely linked to COSCOs acquisition of a controlling stake in the Greek port of Piraeus. With this strategy, Beijing is partly paving the way for a resolution of the dispute between Greece and Macedonia, aiming to connect the port of Piraeus via Macedonia to the proposed high-speed rail link between Belgrade and Budapest, and then direct it to the Western part of the continent.

The appearance of 17 + 1 has a direct bearing on the cooperation between China and CEE. Greeces accession is likely to weaken some regional aspects of cooperation between partners and re-emphasize the bilateral nature of Chinas relations with individual countries. This is a strategic step that will bear fruit for both Beijing and the CEE capitals, and will also aim to allay EU fears that China is trying to split the continent.

The potential development of the 17 + 1 initiative demonstrates that China has already become a full-fledged European power. The growing number of Chinese investments and relations on the continent suggests a much broader and more complex deepening into European Affairs than expected by Beijing or any European capital. This reality requires China to own its position as a European power. At the same time, Europe needs to engage in a mature and meaningful debate about the growing influence of Chinas power, which goes beyond simplistic divisions between friend / foe, rival / ally, and so on. As the evolution of cooperation between China and CEE shows, that we live in a complex world and interlocutors can simultaneously perform several contradictory roles. Due to the BRI initiative, Europe has realized that it is impossible to sacrifice China, and ignoring the fact that this country has become the new power of the European continent can cause significant damage to the Union, primarily economic.

[1] The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (Hereinafter CAREC Auth.) Program is a partnership of 11 countries (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and 6 multilateral development partners (Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Monetary Fund, Islamic Development Bank, UnitedNations Development Programme, and World Bank) working to promote development through cooperation, accelerate economic growth, and reduce poverty. ADB serves as the Secretariat .

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How Greys Anatomy Will Tackle COVID-19 Next Season: Weve Actually Reinvented the Wheel (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety

Over 317 episodes, Greys Anatomy has tackled everything from mass shootings to plane crashes. But when the writers room for the ABC medical drama convened in June, showrunner Krista Vernoff posed a surprising hypothetical for Season 17: What if the show existed in a world without COVID-19?

I think that people have fatigue of COVID, and I think they turn to our show for relief, she told them over Zoom.

Then Vernoff challenged the room to change her mind: Who wants to be brave and convince me that Im wrong?

Co-executive producer Lynne E. Litt went first, Vernoff recalled, and said, I think its the biggest medical story of our lifetimes. And then Litt pitched a story. Vernoff said she was also compelled by the doctors on the writing staff: Naser Alazari, who during the shows hiatus had been working on the frontlines at a clinic, said that as the biggest medical show in the world, Greys Anatomy had a responsibility to tell the story of COVID-19. According to Vernoff, he said: This is the biggest medical story of our lifetime, and it is changing medicine permanently. And we have to tell this story.

And I said, OK, Vernoff recalled.

During that wild week in mid-March, when the WHO declared coronavirus a pandemic, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced from Australia that they had tested positive for COVID-19, and the NBA suspended its season, Greys Anatomy was one of dozens of TV shows and movies to stop production. Star Ellen Pompeo was an especially powerful advocate for the cast and crew, Vernoff said. Not only did no one know how the disease was spread, leading to the panic of those earliest days, but it was thought that people over the age of 60 were especially vulnerable. Now we know that it is an equal opportunity destroyer, she said. But the age of our cast and crew felt significant.

Vernoff described her conversations with Disney Television Studios from that week as consequential and weighty: Thats when you know youre a grown-up for the first time in your life, she said with a laugh.

Greys Anatomy, created by Shonda Rhimes, premiered on ABC in March 2005. In recent years, because of its ratings success, it has had long seasons, even for a show on a broadcast network. So when it shut down with four more episodes to complete, the show had filmed 21 of the seasons 25 and Episode 21 had to serve as the season finale. (Luckily, it felt like one.) For a few months, no one considered going back to work, especially as they began to know people in their lives who had gotten coronavirus, Vernoff said. Then, she was busily working to create Rebel for ABC a show inspired by the life of Erin Brockovich, with Katey Sagal as its lead which in September received a straight-to-series order. (It will begin production in November.)

But after some time passed, Vernoff told Disney she was going to bring the writers back to figure out the next seasons for Greys Anatomy and its spinoff, Station 19 yes, shes running three shows just as real conversations between studios and the unions had started about how to do production safely. Vernoff was talking to her shows line producers and directing producers as well.

Something executive producer/director/Greys Anatomy co-star Debbie Allen said to Vernoff became their mantra. Allen told Vernoff to make a calendar as if they knew when they were beginning production, telling her simply and logically, If we dont start, well never start, Vernoff recounted.

We all just kept quoting her: If we dont start, well never start! And then we had a date to which we were working.

That date got pushed a few times, but production on Greys Anatomy and Station 19 began in early September. Vernoff didnt want to spoil too much about Greys, which, as it heads into its 17th season, is still one of the most popular shows on TV, averaging for last season more than 15 million cumulative total viewers. But she would say that the season premiere a crossover event with Station 19 on Nov. 12 will be set some weeks into the pandemic. It will flash back to the Time Before, using footage from the episode they were in the middle of when the show shut down. Seattle, after all, where both shows are set, was the early epicenter of the outbreak in the United States.

Vernoff called the COVID-19 protocols massive: Its social distancing, its masks, its visors its masks on the actors between takes and during rehearsals. No one is allowed to speak in the hair and makeup trailer, because the actors faces are bare, and that leaves the makeup artists and hair stylists vulnerable. (The actors carry their own bags of makeup for touch-ups, she said.) The actors and anyone who comes within six feet of them are tested three times a week.

Theyve changed the lenses they use on cameras in order to make people standing far apart look closer together. Theyre writing fewer scenes in each script, because instead of nine 12-hour days, theyre shooting 10 10-hour days and everything takes longer, anyway. Its just shocking how slowly were having to move, Vernoff said.

The show is going to look and feel different. And if a signature of Greys is the crowded emergency room, with people rushing around during a disaster, or an operating room full of surgeons and nurses well, those cant happen in the same way. It changes the feeling of the show; it changes the pacing of the show, Vernoff said. It is what it is.

But Greys Anatomy with its many millions of viewers, including the new generation of fans who have discovered the show on Netflix will be back this fall, as they film as safely as they can. And that should be a relief for audiences.

Everyone was willing to scale the mountain, Vernoff said. I keep saying to people, No, no really, weve actually reinvented the wheel. We are changing everything everyone has ever understood about how you make television.

Everything is changing, Vernoff said. And Im proud of what were doing.

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Anatomy of the first AFLW draft – Carlton Football Club

IN THE weeks and months preceding the inaugural AFLW Draft of October 2016 the eight foundation clubs, Carlton included, were permitted to cherry-pick their first players.

AFLW rules dictated that the clubs could specifically secure marquee signings on increased salaries across any state; priority players with existing club connections; and up to two rookies who had not participated in competitive Australian Rules in the three lead-up years.

On July 27, 2016, the clubs recruiters confirmed their first marquee signings the St Kilda Sharks (and future Carlton captain Brianna Davey) and the Darebin Falcons Darcy Vescio.

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Permitted one priority selection, the club also went with Vescios teammate Lauren Arnell, whose name is forever consigned to history as Carltons first AFLW captain.

As fate would have it, Arnell originally hailed from East Ballarat, a short, ten-minute drive from Sebastopol - the old hometown of Jimmy Aitken who led the men of Carlton onto the Brunswick Street Oval for the clubs very first VFL match in May 1897.

Carlton used its rookie selections on the soccer player Nat Exon and basketballer Kate Shierlaw.

On October 12, 2016, a state-based draft was conducted; the draft order having been determined by random draw on September 29 of that year. The draft order operated in snake formation, with the club holding the first selection of the first round also holding the final selection of the second round, and so on.

The Blues went with Cranbournes Bianca Jakobsson as their first-round selection and three overall), Seafords Kate Gillespie-Jones (second round and 14th), Seafords Sarah Hosking (third round and 19th), Melbourne Unis Gabriella Pound (fourth round and 30th), Cranbournes Danielle Hardiman (fifth round and 35th), Diamond Creeks Shae Audley (sixth round and 46th), Bendigos Bella Ayre (seventh round and 51st), Diamond Creeks Lauren Brazzale (eighth round and 62nd), Cranbournes Breann Moody (ninth round and 67th), Seafords Jess Hosking (tenth round and 78th), Seafords Natalie Plane (eleventh round and 83rd), Bendigos Sarah Last (twelfth round and 94th), St Kilda Sharks Tilly Lucas-Rodd (thirteenth round and 99th), Diamond Creeks Katie Loynes (fourteenth round and 110th), Melbourne Universitys Madeline Keryk (15th round and 115th), Victorias Kate Darby (sixteenth round and 126th), Diamond Creeks Alison Downie (seventeenth round and 129th), Diamond Creeks Laura Attard (eighteenth round and 140th) and Eastern Devils Rebecca Privitelli (nineteenth round and 142nd).

Following the draft, two more players Bendigos Jess Kennedy and Hayley Trevean - were identified as undrafted/free agents to complement Carltons senior list of 25 players.

So where are they now?

Brianna Davey Davey, the former Matildas goalkeeper, took out her clubs best and fairest award in hers and the teams first season, as well as All-Australian honours. She was appointed Carlton captain in 2018, but after 17 matches in three seasons sought a trade to Collingwood.

Darcy Vescio Following in the footsteps of Carltons Wally Koochew more than 100 years before, Vescio, AFLWs first footballer of Chinese heritage, impacted from the outset - booting four goals (more than Collingwoods score) in that memorable first encounter before 18,000 people at Ikon Park. An AFWL leading goalkicker and All-Australian in 2017, the highly-visible Vescio is now 30 games and four seasons into her highlight-catching Carlton career.

Lauren Arnell Having previously worked at the club in an off-field role, including in the development of Carltons bid for a womens team licence, Arnell was named the club's inaugural AFL Women's captain and was first to break the banner in the historic opening round at Ikon Park. Replaced as captain by Brianna Davey the following year, she completed duties as vice-captain before furthering her career with Brisbane in a three-way deal involving Collingwood.

Nat Exon Another feted member of the inaugural AFLW match, in what would be her one and only season with the club, Exon was, together with Bella Ayre, traded to Brisbane in a complex arrangement involving four teams, five players, and a draft selection. In April 2019 and after two seasons with the Lions, Exon joined expansion club St Kilda along with Kate McCarthy.

Kate Shierlaw Having completed her debut in the second round of 2017, in a match with Greater Western Sydney at Ikon Park, Shierlaw was a fixture for the duration of the season. On the completion of season 2018, Shierlaw was delisted, but on the eve of the 2020 season was contracted by St Kilda and took on leadership duties as co-captain.

With Sarah Hosking having recently been traded to Richmond for an end-of-first-round draft selection, only eight of the original 25 squad members for Carltons inaugural 2017 season remain - Lauren Brazzale, Katie Loynes, Gabriella Pound, Jess Hosking, Breann Moody, Alison Downie, Natalie Plane and Darcy Vescio.

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Seeking ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Gifts? Pick These! Choose These! Love These! (PHOTOS) – TV Insider

With all due respect to '90s girl group TLC, yes, we do want some scrubs. And T-shirts. And wine glasses.

The demand for Greys Anatomy merchandise and gifts hasnt flatlined in the decade and a half that the ABC hospital drama has been on the air. If anything, there are more products than ever, thanks to sites like Etsy and Redbubble. Below are some of our favorite examples of Greys merchandise, scrubs included!

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Grey’s Anatomy Showrunner Says COVID-19 Protocols Have Changed the "Feeling of the Show" – E! Online

Vernoff kept herinterview spoiler-free, but she did confirm that the premiere, a two-hour crossover event with Station 19, will find the characters weeks into the pandemic. It will also include flashbacks to life before COVID-19. While she was originally hesitant to include coronavirus in the storyline, citing viewers' "fatigue," her colleagues in the writers' room encouraged her to think differently.

She said that co-executive producer Lynne E. Litt told her, "I think it's the biggest medical story of our lifetimes." And Naser Alazari, a doctor on the writing staff, echoed her statement. According to Vernoff, he said, "This is the biggest medical story of our lifetime, and it is changing medicine permanently. And we have to tell this story."

These days, it's safe to say the doctor knows best.

Season 17 of Grey's Anatomy premieres on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.

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WVSOM faculty member recognized as Professor of the Year finalist – mountainmessenger.com

A faculty member at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) was a finalist in a program designed to reward innovation and creativity at West Virginias higher education institutions.

Peter Ward, Ph.D., a professor of anatomy in WVSOMs biomedical sciences department, was one of five finalists for the Faculty Merit Foundations 2019 Professor of the Year award. Ward said he was grateful for the statewide acknowledgement of his devotion to students.

Being recognized as a finalist for such a prestigious award is a great honor, he said. I hope that I, or another WVSOM faculty member, can again bring the Professor of the Year Award to Lewisburg to showcase the quality of our educators.

Ward has been a WVSOM faculty member since 2005. In addition to instructing first-year students in anatomy labs and lectures, he leads an anatomy elective in which third- and fourth-year students conduct focused investigations on topics relevant to their future residencies. He has served on numerous WVSOM faculty committees, was faculty chair from 2018 to 2020 and operates the schools plastination facility, which produces anatomical specimens for educational use. Ward also has worked with Bone Clones, a company that casts simulated human and animal bones from polyurethane resin, to create commercially distributed models illustrating bone injuries.

Ward spent three years as the association secretary for the American Association of Clinical Anatomists. He is nearing the completion of a textbook for which he is the sole author, Clinical Anatomy Explained Netters Musculoskeletal System, an Integrated Anatomical Text, for use at medical schools that, like WVSOM, use an integrated curriculum.

This was Wards second time as a finalist for Professor of the Year. He was previously selected as a finalist in 2016. He said he credits his success as a professor to using interesting techniques to engage with students.

My focus has always been on finding new ways to teach the anatomical sciences effectively, Ward said. That could mean making videos to explain difficult concepts, or being able to make a pop culture reference that allows students to suddenly have a lightbulb moment to understand how things work. Youre always looking for novel ways to explain complicated things.

Ward has received numerous awards in his time with the osteopathic medical school, including five Atlas Club Golden Key Awards, three OPP Integration Faculty Teaching Awards and two Presidents Awards of Excellence for Faculty Achievement. Earlier this year he received the WVSOM Presidents Outstanding Employee Award, which recognizes employees for exceptional and dedicated service to the school.

The Faculty Merit Foundations Professor of the Year typically is named at a spring banquet, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused the events cancellation and delayed the announcement. The program is intended to bring outstanding achievements among the faculties of West Virginias public and private colleges and universities to the attention of the public.

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Issa Rae, BTS and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ lead nominations for the People’s Choice Awards – The Loop

The nominations are out for the Peoples Choice Awards and the biggest films, TVs and songs of the years are all being honoured. The annual event, which will air live on E! on Sunday, November 15 at 9 p.m., has added several new categories this year and announced Jennifer Lopez as the recipient of the Peoples Icon Award.

Issa Rae leads this years acting nominations, earning nods for both TV and film. The writer and actor is up for Female Movie Star of the Year and Comedy Movie Star of the Year for The Lovebirds and Drama Star of the Year for The Photograph. Rae also received a Comedy TV Star nomination for the fourth season of her dramedy Insecure, which is up for Comedy Show.

Charlize Therons hugely successful 2020 action film The Old Guard nabbed the Oscar winner a Female Movie Star and Action Movie Star nomination. Theron is up against Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn actor Margot Robbie in both categories. Jamie Foxx and his role in Project Power also earned the Oscar winner a Male Movie Star and Action Movie Star nomination, two categories Bad Boys For Life star Will Smith is also being recognized in.

On the TV side, fan favourite Greys Anatomy has a total of four nominations this year. The medical drama, which returns to CTV on November 12, is up for Show of 2020 and Drama Show of 2020. Ellen Pompeo and Jessie Williams have also been nominated for their work as Dr. Meredith Grey and Dr. Jackson Avery. This Is Us also earned nominations for Show of 2020 and Drama Show of 2020. Mandy Moore will face off against her This Is Us co-star Sterling K. Brown for Drama TV Star, with Brown also nominated for Male TV Star.

Talk shows, late night and reality series are being recognized by the PCAs, including The Masked Singer, which earned Show of 2020, Competition Show of 2020 and Competition Contestant of 2020 nominations for Kandi Burruss and Rob Gronkowski. Kelly Clarkson earned her first Daytime Talk Show nomination for the premiere season of The Kelly Clarkson Show and is also up for Competition Show of 2020 for her work as a coach on The Voice, which returns to CTV with Season 19 on October 19. Clarksons The Voice co-star Blake Shelton also earned two nominations this year for Male Artist of 2020 and Country Artist of 2020.

Also on the music side, K-Pop groups BTS and BlackPink will go head to head for Group of the Year and Song of the Year. BTS are also nominated for Album of the Year and Song of the Year for their recent single Dynamite. Megan Thee Stallion earned an impressive six nominations this year, coming in just behind Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, who both have seven nominations.

Kendall Jenner and sister Kim Kardashian-West are both nominated for Style Star of 2020, a category that also includes Janelle Mone, Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X, Rihanna and Dune stars Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya.

Voting opens today for fans who want to make their voice heard and help choose who should take home this years awards. The PCAs have a total of 44 categories for 2020 following the addition of three awards, including The New Artist of 2020, The Collaboration Song of 2020 and The Soundtrack Song of 2020. The full list of nominees is available at E! Online.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: People Really Hated Callie When She First Appeared on the Show – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

The medical drama Greys Anatomy has been wildly popular from the day that it first aired, and most of the characters have become fan favorites. Although we have seen many people come and go over the years, it almost seems as if just about all of them were unique and special in some sort of way.

It is always sad to see a character go, but when new people arrive at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, fans are usually pretty eager to see what they will bring to each storyline, and most are on the edge of their seats with anticipation.

Actor Sara Ramirez was able to charm millions of viewers during her time on Greys Anatomy, but it turns out things werent so great in the beginning. Lets discuss why people really hated Callie when she first appeared on the show.

For those who dont know, lets take the time to talk about just who Callie Torres is. She made her first appearance in the second season of Greys Anatomy and definitely took the other characters by storm.

As the head of orthopedic surgery, Torres had an important role, and she cultivated her personal relationships as well. During her time on the show, the character married and divorced Dr. George OMalley, and their relationship wasnt exactly the most open and honest.

It was after a decade of portraying Torres that Ramirez left the show at the end of Season 12 when her character reconciled with her ex-wife and daughter and ultimately moved to New York.

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It may seem pretty hard to believe, but when Torres first made her appearance on the popular show, she wasnt exactly welcomed with open arms.

According to Reddit, fans felt that she was pretty annoying and even desperate, and she was actually one of the most disliked characters on Greys Anatomy. It stayed that way for a few seasons, and even with her personal relationships, viewers always thought that she was a bit too clingy for their preference.

Apparently, there wasnt much chemistry between Torres and her significant others, and it didnt go unnoticed. However, by the 4th season, things began to change and fans saw Torres in a new light. She eventually became one of the most coveted characters on the show.

Since Torres was able to get on the good of so many fans, it is no surprise that her departure affected people so deeply.

The actor released a statement via ABC News saying that Im deeply grateful to have spent the last 10 years with my family at Greys Anatomy and ABC, but for now, Im taking some welcome time off.

So, how exactly did fans feel about this? It was pretty emotional, and according to Closer Weekly, quite a few tears were shed during her final appearance. The storyline was deep and personal, and it was like saying goodbye to a beloved friend.

Looks as even though Callie may have slightly rubbed people the wrong way at first, she was able to turn the tables in her favor, and win over the hearts of many.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Fans Hate How Qadri Left the Show, But Sophia Ali Will Be Just Fine – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Dahlia Qadri was one of the most loved characters on Greys Anatomy last season, which explains why her departure was so upsetting to fans.

The actor who portrays her, Sophia Ali, is extremely talented, and definitely knows how to bring any character to life. Dr. Qadri was a recurring role, and she had a unique way of performing her job by forming fun connections with patients in order to keep them as comfortable as possible.

Fans welcomed Qadri onto the show from her first appearance, and she fit in with the rest of the cast effortlessly. It is not all that often that viewers connect with a character on such a deep level, but with Qadri, that is exactly what happened.

She developed several close relationships with the other employees at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, and it was pretty shocking when she made the decision to speak her mind to someone with power over her job.

Lets talk about how although fans hate how Qadri left the show, actress Sophia Ali will be just fine.

Who exactly is Sophia Ali, the actress who made such a dramatic exit from Greys Anatomy? Well, she was born in San Diego and is best known to fans for her work on MTV romantic comedy series, Faking It.

According to Elle, she knew from a young age that acting was definitely her calling in life, and she began to work in the industry in the early 2000s on a television show called K Street.

It was this first role that proved to so many just how talented Ali is, and it led to many opportunities over the years. The actor appeared in several television shows, including The Mindy Project, CSI: Miami, and Barney & Friends. Her endeavors certainly werent limited to television, and she was cast in roles in Bad Kids of Crestview Academy, The Walking Deceased, and Military Man.

Ali captured the attention of millions of viewers when she appeared in Greys Anatomy, in a role that no one will soon forget.

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Just because Ali is no longer on Greys Anatomy doesnt mean she hasnt been keeping busy! According to Variety, after leaving the popular medical drama, she took on projects in New Zealand and is currently working on a film called Unchartered, alongside actors Tom Holland and Antonio Banderas.

Set to release in March 2021, the film is sure to be absolutely spectacular, and we have to see that we cant wait to see it.

Why did she leave the successful show after several years of being a fan favorite? According to the executive producer Krista Vernoff via Carter Matt: Being a part of Greys Anatomycan be a wonderfully rewarding experience, but also challenging. She also goes on to say that Its a show with a huge cast, including a number of established leads. Its hard to find a way to get a ton of time to stand out there.

Hopefully, some of Alis new projects will allow her to do just that.

For those who dont know, Qadris exit from the show was pretty dramatic, with her having been fired after an intense confrontation with Miranda Bailey.

According to Reddit, it left her with missed opportunities regarding her relationship with Jackson Avery, and fans arent happy.

Although it was pretty abrupt and millions of viewers would have preferred that Ali remain on Greys Anatomy, it looks like the talented actress is pursuing other avenues that will allow her to succeed at what she does, and she will be absolutely fine.

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