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The Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Anatomy of a cover-upPart 2 – World Socialist Web Site

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Anatomy of a cover-upPart 2 By Alice Summers 4 March 2020

The following is the second part of a three-part series on the Phase 1 report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Part one can be found here.

Phase 1 concluded last December. Phase two of the Inquiry opened this week, with witnesses from the corporations and organisations whose actions caused the deaths of 72 people granted immunity by the attorney general from any prosecution that might result from their testimony.

A litany of equipment failures or insufficienciesboth of the fire brigades own equipment and the abysmal internal and external state of the Grenfell Towervastly undermined every effort by firefighters to tackle the blaze. How firefighters came to be in this position, after decades of bipartisan central government cuts and deregulation efforts, is neither explored nor questioned by the Inquiry. Despite its account of the appalling conditions faced by firefighters on the night of the fire, where criticisms and recommendations are made, the report focuses almost entirely on the mistakes, real and imagined, of the London Fire Brigade (LFB). This is a transparent effort to shift the blame away from cost-cutting companies and complicit central and local governments.

The real criminals are sitting comfortably in their plush offices, government buildings and in Number 10 Downing Street. Successive Conservative and Labour governments laid the groundwork for the Grenfell Tower inferno over decades, with their cuts to fire services and relentless slashing of building and fire-safety standards, without the slightest concern for the lives and safety of working-class tenants in social housing and high-rise tower blocks.

The bonfire of regulations emboldened companies such as Rydon, Celotex and Harley Facades to deepen their single-minded pursuit of profit with no regard for safety, covering buildings in materials they knew full well to be highly flammable and toxic.

None of this would be known from reading inquiry chairman Martin Moore-Bicks Phase 1 report.

While acknowledging, at the beginning of its executive summary, that the main factor in the loss of life at Grenfell was the highly dangerous and toxic cladding that enveloped the building, the report devotes just two of its 18 concluding sections relate to cladding. A number of recommendations are made in a section on the Use of combustible materials and one on the Testing and certification of materials.

Although the report advises that the replacement of dangerous, flammable cladding on residential buildings should be done as quickly as possible and that the programme of remedial work should be pursued as vigorously as possible, Moore-Bick declines to elevate these suggestions to the level of one of the Inquirys official policy recommendations. Even so, under the terms of the inquiry set up under the 2005 Inquiries Act, these would not be binding!

The report does lay down clear and specific recommendations on numerous other mattersall related to the operations of the LFB. Some of Moore-Bicks recommendations include: that the LFB review its policies on communications between the control room and the incident commander; that the LFBs policies be amended to draw a clearer distinction between callers seeking advice and callers who believe they are trapped and need rescuing; and that the LFB develop policies and training to ensure better control of deployments and the use of resources.

The report makes a number of recommendations regarding the owners and managers of high-rise residential buildingsnone of which are enforceableincluding that they be required to supply the LFB with up-to-date plans of the building and let the LFB know what materials are used on the exterior of their buildings.

Despite the LFB requesting, on multiple occasions, that the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO)who managed Grenfell on behalf of the local Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) councilprovide them with plans of the building and a list of its occupants, this information was not provided to the fire brigade until 7:57 a.m. (hours after the fire broke out).

Many core participants in the Inquiry pressed Moore-Bick to immediately recommend, as a minimum, that the use of highly flammable materials be banned on all high-rise building exteriors. Moore-Bick rejected this.

It has been suggested by certain core participants, he states, that I should recommend that no materials be permitted for use in the external walls of high-rise buildings that are not of Euro class A1 (the highest classification of reaction to fire ...)

Pointing to a government consultation that had previously prohibited the use of some flammable materials on certain types of new buildings, Moore-Bick proceeded to dismiss these calls out of hand. Having regard to the outcome of that [government] consultation, and in the absence of any examination of the competing views, I do not think it appropriate at this stage for me to recommend any change to the regulations in this respect nor do I think it appropriate for me to recommend an immediate moratorium on the use of materials of Euro class A2 [the lower fire-safety classification], he wrote.

Tens of thousands of households are still living in buildings covered in flammable cladding, with more than 400 residential blocks coated in such materials, according to government data. As the FBU points out, According to the Hackitt review, there are 2,000-3,000 high-rise residential buildings (HRRBs) over 30 metres (10 storeys) and around 10,000 residential buildings over 18 metres (6 storeys) in England. The fire and rescue service in England is aware of more than 40,000 purpose-built flats of 4 storeys or more (11 metres), with more than 18,000 of those in London. The GTI [Grenfell Tower Inquiry] Phase 1 report should have done more for the residents of those buildings, as part of its promise that a Grenfell fire will never happen again.

Moore-Bick also rejected calls that he recommend the installation of sprinkler systems in all existing high-rise residential buildings, with reference to the financial burden on property owners and managers!

Acknowledging that sprinkler systems have a very valuable part to play in fire safety measures, he said he has heard no evidence about the use of sprinklers generally, their effectiveness under different conditions, or about the cost and disruption that would be caused by installing them in existing buildings (emphasis added).

The LFB, in its official response, welcomed many of the recommendations brought by Moore-Bick on firefighting and pledged to take every action we can to improve public safety. However, it criticised the lack of fire- and building-safety recommendations, expressing disappointment that measures we have been calling for are not in the recommendations, including the wider use of sprinklers in both new and existing buildings.

Moore-Bicks reluctance to make any criticism or recommendation in relation to fire-safety and building regulations, supposedly until he hears more expert evidence in Phase 2, does not extend to the LFB and their role on the night of the fire. In Chapter 28 of the report, he laid out his conclusions regarding the stay put policy in place at the tower. The failure of the LFB to revoke this policy until late into the events of the night is one of the main criticisms brought by Moore-Bick.

He stated: Once it was clear that the fire had spread out of control, that compartmentation had extensively failed, but that evacuation remained possible, a decision should have been made to evacuate the tower. Moore-Bick set this point in time at 01:50 a.m. in the early morning of June 14, 2017.

This is despite his admission that he received no expert evidence to inform his statement! In arriving at that conclusion, Moore-Bick wrote, I am conscious that I have received no expert evidence to guide me on it and that a qualitative judgement on the approach of the LFB at the Grenfell Tower fire might be thought to be a matter better reserved for Phase 2.

However, I am confident that, on the clear and extensive evidence about the events of the night that I have heard at Phase 1, I can and should reach that conclusion at this stage. It is not in the public interest to wait until the conclusion of Phase 2 to express a view about it.

Within the proper context, an examination of what the LFB did and failed to do on the night is entirely legitimate, including criticism of how long they stuck to the stay put advice telling residents to remain in their flats and await rescue. But such a review would take as its starting point the years of bipartisan cuts to the fire service that went unopposed by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and LFB management.

As the FBU itself points out, the LFB lost nearly 2,000 members of staff in a decade, with 5,500 people employed by the fire service at the time of the Grenfell Fire, compared to 7,200 ten years before.

During his time as London mayor, Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed swingeing cuts on the LFB. Ten fire stations were closed across the capital, and some 14 firefighting appliances were lost, all of which had a devastating effect on the operations of the fire brigade, the FBU response states.

None of this is mentioned in Moore-Bicks report. The almost single-minded focus on the LFBs mistakes, and the lower standard of evidence Moore-Bick demands when it comes to making criticisms of the fire brigade, is calculated to obscure the truth, not reveal it.

As the report itself makes clear, tower blocks like Grenfell are not designed to enable a speedy and full evacuation of the building but are meant to be constructed to have entirely separate compartments that prevent or resist the spread of fire.

This assumption underlies the stay put strategy, standard procedure for high-rise blocks, with the aim of containing fires in individual flats and preventing chaotic stampedes through narrow and potentially smoke-filled passageways. The validity of stay put depends on effective compartmentation of the building, ensuring that the fires spread is restricted by fireproof obstacles like doors and windows.

At Grenfell Tower, the use of combustible materials massively compromised compartmentation, rendering stay put policy useless. Before firefighters had even extinguished the fire in its Flat 16 point of origin on the fourth floor, flammable materials used in window construction and external insulation and cladding in the 2016 refurbishment enabled the fire to spread to the outside of the building.

Much of the LFBs delay in revoking the stay put policy was due to their assumptions that the building would be compartmentalised and that flammable cladding could not have been used on a high-rise building.

In his witness testimony, Station Manager (SM) Andrew Walton recalled being told by LFB Watch Manager (WM) Dowden that the cladding was on fire. Until then, Walton had assumed it was the balconies that were ablaze, as he did not think that it was permissible to clad a building in flammable material. Several LFB witnesses said that they did not understand what was happening as the fire spread up the building and that buildings should not behave like that.

Moore-Bick concluded that this reflects the LFBs institutional failure to sufficiently educate firefighters on the dangers of cladding fires. This judgment ignores the fact that a fire of this nature was wholly avoidable, and that the installation of the flammable cladding was a criminally dangerous act. As expert witness Dr. Barbara Lane said, it was not reasonable to expect the fire brigade to fully mitigate the outcome of a fire where combustible cladding had been installed.

When questioned during the Phase 1 hearings on the lack of training for firefighters in recognising external cladding dangers, LFB Commissioner Dany Cotton responded that nobody could expect an incident like Grenfell Tower to occur or a building to be covered in such a highly flammable product and to fail so spectacularly.

She added that the LFB was not going to train for a space shuttle to land on the Shard.

While insensitive, this comment does point to the entirely unprecedented nature of the Grenfell fire. Even if one were to accept at face-value Moore-Bicks assertion that the LFB failed in its duty to provide guidance on the danger of cladding fires, responsibility does not lie with the capitals fire service, but with central government, whose responsibility it is to to provide regulations and authoritative guidance to direct local fire and rescue services about managing those risks, along with the necessary resources to implement the guidance, according to the FBU.

As for revoking the stay put policy, the report acknowledges that the failure of compartmentalisation made a full or even partial evacuation of the building an exceedingly difficult and dangerous task which, in some cases, could have put Grenfell Tower residents lives at even more risk. It states, Mass evacuation of the occupants of the tower would no doubt have presented serious risks to the lives of both residents and firefighters, given the internal layout of the building and the absence of any kind of communication system.

In response to a question as to why he did not immediately revoke the stay put advice, Deputy Assistant Commissioner (DAC) Andrew OLoughlin, who took over command at Grenfell at 1:56 a.m., told the Inquiry:

I would be revoking it for people who were in unaffected parts of the building. So not only would I be risking exposing them to any potential smoke in the staircase from the original fire, theyd also then be hindering the firefighters getting into the building to get to the floors where the fire survival guidance calls are coming. So, at that point, the primary focus was still to get firefighters to the fire survival guidance calls and to the top floors where the smoke may end up smoke-logging at the upper floors.

While more lives may have been saved had the stay put advice been revoked sooner, evidence from the report indicatesMoore-Bick declined to explicitly make this pointthat the window of opportunity for this was narrow and LFB commanders had little means for effectively conducting a full evacuation of the Tower.

Fire crews entered Flat 16 of Grenfell Tower at 1:20 a.m. and the building was only fully passable until 1:30 a.m., raising doubts as to whether there were enough firefighters at the scene by this time to have organised a full evacuation of the tower.

As there are no regulations that require a full public address system in high-rise buildings, the LFB had great difficulty in communicating with trapped residents, of whom many may not even have been awake or aware of the fire by 1:50 a.m., when Moore-Bick asserts that a full evacuation should have been ordered. Indeed, many residents did not make their first 999 calls until after 1:50 a.m.

Grenfell Tower had only one stairwell down which people could escape, and this was rapidly filled with thick, highly toxic smokedue to the appalling internal state of the building, including fire doors not working.

Specific and up-to-date information on which flats were inhabited by mobility-impaired residents should have been provided long in advance to the LFB by the TMO or RBKC, the report states, but was not. But little criticism of the council or TMO for their failure to provide such vital information is forthcoming from the report.

Even if this information had been provided to the fire brigade, the report acknowledges, it is unclear even with the benefit of hindsight how WM Dowden [who was incident commander at this time] could have achieved assisted evacuation of such occupants on the higher floors given the low numbers of EDBA [Extended Duration Breathing Apparatus] wearers he had at his disposal by 01.50.

Accordingly, WM Dowden was always going to be restricted in what he could do to achieve full evacuation by the limitations inherent in the building itself, the report concedes.

The FBUs response to the report correctly criticises the simplistic argument on the stay put policy presented by Moore-Bick. The FBU states that it does not accept the GTIs conclusion that a decision to evacuate should have been taken at 01.30 (or at least by 01.50).

The GTI has not made sufficient allowance for the actual conditions inside the building for what in reality would have been much more than simply an evacuation. For the initial commanders, during the first hour of the fire, it was not clearly established that compartmentation had extensively failed, but that evacuation remained possible.

It is easy in hindsight to say that the fire had spread out of control and that compartmentation had extensively failed half an hour after the LFB had been alerted to the fire. However, making that judgment was much harder on the night.

It continues: Grenfell Tower was designed for stay put. The GTI appears to believe that early incident commanders should have disregarded their training, ignored the actual conditions on the night and gambled on an untried, untested command strategy

When the GTI states that the fire spread out of control and that compartmentation had extensively failed by 01.30, such a conclusion would have surprised even the most experienced firefighter. The expectation would have been that windows and their surrounds would resist fire spread and that fire doors and other measures would limit the internal penetration of flames and smoke.

While an examination of the stay put policy is valid within the correct context, the building had been fatally compromised by the use of flammable materials long before the fire broke out, leaving the fire brigade in an impossible situation.

To be continued

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Anatomy of a Swing: Miami Hurricanes 1B Alex Toral – State Of The U

Alex Toral led the ACC in home runs last year with 24. 24 home runs was the second most ever for a Miami Hurricanes hitter in the storied programs history. This Junior is once again leading the team in home runs with three on the young season and his power numbers are well documented.

Lets not fool ourselves, Toral possessed power in high school. This natural lefty flashed big fly ability and even went deep at Marlins Park. This student of the game video will also take a look at what changes the Miami Hurricanes did with his swing and what was the catalyst for the clout.

Toral is also a smart hitter and boasts All-ACC academic honors. Being smart about pitch selection and working counts to your benefit is imperative for hitters. His recent home run on a low curve ball vs. Towson gave the opposing pitcher some whiplash.

So what is the cause of his power surge? In 33 games as a freshmen he only hit one home run. So you ever wonder what a hitter does at the plate that causes such rotational force and power? Ever wonder what the ideal attack angle is and learn about how posture at the plate is important?

Student of the game is now multi-national. OK, Maybe it is just multi jurisdictional and crossing into baseball. Either way, still go grab your pencils and lets become students. Todays class is anatomy and the focal subject is Torals swing.

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Detroit Red Wings: The Anatomy of a Rebuild – The Hockey Writers

What does a rebuild of an NHL hockey team entail? If you are a fan of the Detroit Red Wings, you probably know that its not pretty.The Wings have been rebuilding for the last couple of years, and they are steadily getting worse.This season has been what most fans hope is the bottom of the rebuild. It ought to be the bottom because there isnt anywhere to go but up.

This article is going to investigate what an NHL franchise rebuild entails, giving you some insight into what to expect in the coming years, and how long the whole process should take if everything goes to plan.General manager (GM) Steve Yzerman has given some insight into his vision of this process and has presented a long-term solution to the problems facing the team, but he keeps reminding everyone to have patience.

The results fans are looking for will take some time.

Rebuilding the Red Wings began quite a while ago. But it didnt start in the direction that it probably should have.The previous GM of the Wings was Ken Holland.

Holland deserves a lot of credit for maintaining the team as a juggernaut during his tenure as GM.The process of building the Wings into a Stanley Cup contender started in the early 90s under Bryan Murray.It continued through the 90s under Jim Devellano and Scotty Bowman until June 18, 1997, when Holland took over as the GM. Through the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hollands Red Wings won three Stanley Cups (1998, 2002 and 2008) and extended their playoff-appearance streak an astounding 25 years in a row, before finally being ousted in 2016.

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Rebuilding the team began sometime after the 2015-16 season when the Wings management realized their talent had both aged out of contention, and they were woefully short on talented draft picks to use as collateral to bring talented players to the team. Up until that point, Holland was trying to keep a team knitted together to keep the playoff appearance streak alive.When the streak ended, it was clear that the team needed an overhaul.

Unfortunately for the Red Wings and their fans, Holland had used many different contract negotiation techniques to hold onto the minimal talent that he had in the years just before the streak ended. No-trade clauses and long-term contracts were given to players to entice them to re-sign with the Wings with the hopes of continuing the streak. When it ended, the Red Wings were left holding onto players that they couldnt move because of the no-trade clauses and because the players werent worth their contract value.Teams werent willing to take on inflated contracts for players that werent producing at the NHL level.

The real rebuilding of the team began with the hiring of Yzerman.

Yzerman came into the organization last summer and started observing the team.His first pick in the NHL draft was Moritz Seider, a highly sought-after defenseman who is to be the teams replacement for Nicklas Lidstrom. While Seider was a controversial pick at the time (he was predicted to go 12-15th, but Yzerman took him with the sixth pick), he has turned out to be everything management thought he could be.

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Throughout the preseason, he refused to name a captain of the team, and he continued throughout the regular season without a captain.Players have stepped up as the alternate captains, but nobody has shown enough leadership to get the C during this season. This may also be a ploy to attract talented veterans to sign as free agents. Players who are playing with the likes of Sidney Crosby or another superstar, and have no chance of wresting the C away might be persuaded to join the Red Wings where they have as good of a chance as anyone to earn the title of Captain.

There have been calls from the fans and the media to fire coach Jeff Blashill, but Yzerman has fended them off with stoic determination, stating that he thinks Blashill is doing as good of a job as he can given the players he has. There isnt much doubt about the truth of that statement.The Wings have been dealing with one of their worst seasons for injuries, causing them to play most of the season with a team laden with AHL players.Blashill has shown an aptitude for developing and getting the best out of those players, even though it isnt enough to win most games.

Yzerman has made a few trades throughout the season, bringing Robby Fabbri and Brandon Perlini to the team, then traded Andreas Athanasiou and Mike Green at the trade deadline for several second-round pics and Sam Gagner, while claiming Dmytro Timashov on waivers from Toronto. These moves wont impact the Wings success this season, but they poise the Red Wings for success moving into the future.

There isnt much doubt that the Red Wings will be making moves over this off-season.They need to rebuild the core of the team and put pieces around their talented players like Dylan Larkin and Anthony Mantha that will allow those players to have the levels of success that they should be having. When the rebuild is nearing completion, expect to see Larkin and Mantha putting up at least double the production that they are currently.

The Wings need defense desperately.With young prospects like Lindstrom and Seider, the team is prepared to make the moves to bring solid veteran talent to the squad.Pairing an offensive defenseman with Lindstrom, who is more of a stay-at-home type, and pairing a defensive defenseman with Seider who has legitimate scoring talent, could help shore up the core of the defense.

Goaltending is also a significant point to address.Howard is on his way out, having only two wins on the season at this point, and Bernier is an excellent backup goaltender at best.Playing Bernier as an every-night goalie is going to burn him out, in a very Jimmy Howard-esque manner over the next couple years.

That also falls back onto the lack of defense, but if a Stanley Cup contender type goalie comes available in the next couple years, dont be surprised if the Wings go after him with vigor.

This process is going to take a while. Yzerman has said it could take four or five years. Contracts have to end so they can be renegotiated. Young players have to develop into complete NHL players. Free agents have to be signed and trades need to happen.

None of those things can happen in one season when a team is as far gone as the Red Wings are.So, if you are a Wings fan, strap in and hold on for a bumpy ride over the next few years. Enjoy the good games the team plays, and try to look for the good when there isnt much happening. Were on the way up from here, but its a long road.

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Anatomy of a Comeback: How the Blue Jackets Kept Their Playoff Hopes Alive With a Dramatic Win Over the Canuck – 1st Ohio Battery

It wasn't looking good for the boys in blue.

The Blue Jackets had stumbled their way through most of the first two periods, and after 40 minutes, the Canucks held a 3-1 lead. This was a game that the Blue Jackets could ill-afford to lose if they wanted to stay in the playoff race.

It's not as if theycame out ready to play for the third period, either. The Blue Jacketsmustered just one shot on goal over the first 10 minutes.

Then, the most important play of the game occurred:Ryan Murray, in his return from injury, made a fantastic play to stop a 3-on-1 break and keep the Blue Jackets in the game.

After that, they flipped the switch. Firstit was Riley Nashpicking his spot and firing home a short-side shotto make it a one-goal game. The Blue Jackets are 8-0-1 in games when Nash scores a goal.

Next, Murray drew a tripping penalty courtesy of Brandon Sutter. The Blue Jackets headed to the power play with 5:56 remaining: it was a great opportunity to tie the game.

Enter Zach Werenski.He buried a goal after some excellent puck movement to tie the game and blow the roof off of Nationwide Arena. It was Werenski's 20th (!) of the season. He leads all NHL defensemen in goals byfive.

The Blue Jackets weren't finished. They had allthe momentum in the world, and they fed offit. With roughly 3:30 remaining, Emil Bemstrom carried the puck into the Canucks' zone with authority, blowing by Antoine Roussel. Roussel tripped him, and the Blue Jackets headed back to the power play.

Just drawing the penalty wasn't enough for Bemstrom. After some great passing between Murray and David Savard, Bemstrom ripped a wrister, got a little help from a deflection, and found the back of the net to give the Blue Jackets a 4-3 lead and send Nationwide Arena into pandemonium. It was Bemstrom's fourth goal in his last five games.

Shocked and stunned, the Canucks rallied and threw everything they had at the Blue Jackets, emptying their net and going 6-on-5. But, like he's done so often this season, Gustav Nyquist made a fantastic play on the puck, dangled past defenders, and found the empty net to seal the deal and give the Blue Jackets a famous victory.

With that win, the Blue Jackets created a little bit of breathing room in the standings. While most of the teams around them still have games in hand, this was still a huge win that should give them great confidence going forward. Now, to the annual western Canada road trip where three playoff hopefuls await.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Fans Went Through the 5 Stages of Grief Before Alex’s Farewell – TVInsider

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Dr. Karev is out, and not since Jessica Capshaw and Sarah Drews Season 14 departures have Greys Anatomy fans been so upset.

At least we had time to process Arizona and Aprils exits. But news of Alexs broke the same day that fans learned Justin Chambers final appearance had already aired.

Then, six long weeks passed before ABC announced that the March 5 installmentLeave a Light Onwould be Alexs farewell episode. In the interim period, uncertainty swirled onscreen and off. Jo Karev (Camilla Luddington), Alexs wife, wondered what had become of her marriage. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), the only other remaining alum of the M.A.G.I.C. intern class, wondered what had become of her best friend at the hospital. And fans wondered if theyd ever get closure for the characteror if this was another Izzie situation.

And along the way, they went through all five stages of grief on Twitter

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Will Andrew DeLuca Be The Next Doctor To Leave Greys Anatomy? – Refinery29

Why? Well, it has to do with Greys latest episode, in which the surgeon hiked six miles in the snow to get a liver for a young patient. While thats certainly heroic, the fact that he wasnt wearing gloves might have ended his career, since he returned to the hospital with severe frostbite on his hands.

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James Stewart in ANATOMY OF A MURDER Screening at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville March 10th – We Are Movie Geeks

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Im just a humble country lawyer trying to do the best I can against this brilliant prosecutor from the big city of Lansing.

James Stewart in director Otto Premingers ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959) will be screening at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, IL ( 252 N Main St, Edwardsville, IL 62025) at 7pm Tuesday, March 10th. Admission is $2.

Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husbands story, the police surgeon can find no evidence that she has been raped. Manion is defended by Paul Biegler (James Stewart), a humble small-town lawyer and recently deposed district attorney. During the course of interviews, Biegler discovers that Manion is violently possessive and jealous, and also that his wife has a reputation for flirting with other men. Biegler realizes that the prosecution will try to make the court believe that Laura had been drunk and was picked up by the bartender and then Her husband killed him and beat her up when he discovered they had been together. Manion pleads not guilty and Biegler, who knows that his case is weak, tries to find evidence that will save Manion.

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The Most Heartbreaking Deaths On Greys Anatomy,’ Ranked – Pulse Live Kenya

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16. Heather Brooks Heather was a surgical intern during seasons 9 and 10. Following a superstorm, she found Dr. Webber suffering from an electrical shock in the generator room. While trying to help him, she stepped in an electrified puddle herself, causing her to slip and hit her head. She died from brain swelling. Ron Tom

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15. Dr. Craig Thomas Dr. Thomas worked at the Mayo Clinic, and mentored Cristina during her boards. Due to his old age, he suffered a heart attack while in the operating room. ABC

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14. Henry Burton Henry was a former pro baseball player who worked as a shipping clerk, and when he came to the hospital with Von-Hippel-Lindau syndrome without insurance, surgical resident Teddy Altman proposed that they get married so he could be on her insurance. After several surgeries and a diabetes diagnoses, a CT scan revealed a tumor near his heart. Cristina and Dr. Webber immediately operated on his heart, but he died during surgery because the tumor eroded his pulmonary artery. Adam Taylor

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13. Charles Percy Charles was a surgical resident at Sloan Memorial who was tragically murdered when the husband of a deceased patient became an active shooter looking to murder the surgeons who operated on his wife. When the shooter asked Charles if he was a surgeon and Charles said yes, he got shot. His death was particularly tragic because on his deathbed, he told Bailey to tell Reed (who also died during the shooting) that he loved her. Eric McCandless

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12. Reed Adamson Reed was also murdered by widower-slash-shooter Gary Clark, who asked her to help him find Derek Shepherd, which she refused. He shot her in the head, and her best friend and roommate April Kepner slipped in a puddle of her blood. Ron Tom

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11. Susan Grey Susan Grey was Meredith's stepmother, and the mother of Lexie and Molly Grey. She first arrived at the hospital complaining of hiccups and acid reflux, and after being sent home twice, she returned with a fever and cramping and went into surgery. She died after surgery after suffering sepsis and a toxic megacolon, and Meredith's father blamed Meredith for Susan's death. Vivian Zink

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10. Dylan Young Dylan was in charge of the Seattle Police Department Bomb Squad during the bomb scare that panicked Sloan Memorial Hospital during season 2, episode 17. (A World War II fanatic built a bazooka in his backyard and then became impaled with the explosive, which endangered the hospital because there was literally a bomb inside of him.) After Meredith successfully removed the explosive from inside the patient's chest, she handed it to Dylan, and it exploded, killing him. Peter "Hopper" Stone

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Doc the Dog Meredith adopted Doc to help her get over Derek after he got back together with Addison (played by Kate Walsh). But when Meredith discovered Doc had bone cancer, she decided to put him to sleep. And well, it's one of the saddest Grey's death scenes...even if it is about a dog. ABC

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8. Adele Webber Adele (played by Loretta Devine) suffered from Alzheimer's. While she died offscreen, it was the scene where Richard (James Pickens Jr.) operated on her and sang "My Funny Valentine" (leading her to believe it was their wedding night) that had everyone a complete mess. Kelsey McNeal - Getty Images

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7. Ellis Grey Ellis (Kate Burton) wasn't exactly an all-star mother to Meredith, but her death, also from Alzheimers, rocked Meredith's world. Fans did see Meredith get a bit of closure, however, when she nearly drowned and saw her mother. In that episode, Ellis tells Meredith she's anything but ordinary and that she needs to stay alive. It's a mother-daughter moment only Grey's could pull off. Michael Desmond - Getty Images

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6. Samuel Norbert Avery When Jackson Avery (played by Jesse Williams) and April (Sarah Drew) had a baby, it seemed like a moment to rejoice. But viewers quickly the infant had a life-threatening diseaseand he died shortly after birth. Eric McCandless - Getty Images

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5. Mark Sloan McSteamy (played by Eric Dane) died after Lexie as a result of injuries he sustained in a plane crash they were both in. Because Mark's will stated he wanted to remain on life support for 30 days before being taken off of it, fans had to wait through the summer hiatus to learn his fate. Jean Baptiste Lacroix - Getty Images

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4. Denny Duquette This one nearly broke us. The prospects for Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) were always grim, given that viewers first met him because he was admitted to the hospital for heart failure. But Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) fell for him anyway, and when he died in her arms, fans mourned right alongside her. Denny did, however, return in ghost formtwice. Once when Meredith nearly drowned, and again when Izzie was was being treated for Stage 4 cancer. Scott Garfield - Getty Images

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3. Lexie Grey Not only was Lexie (played by Chyler Leigh) crushed to a death by a a piece of shrapnel from the tragic airplane crash she and Mark were in together, but she took her last breath as Mark admitted his love for her: "Ive always loved you, Ill always be in love with you." I'm not crying, you're crying. Randy Holmes - Getty Images

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2. George OMalley The death of George (played by actor T.R. Knight) was one of the worst to witness, perhaps because it was so sudden. After pushing a woman out of the way to avoid an oncoming bus, George ended up getting hit by the bus himself. His injuries were so severe that he was unrecognizablethat is, until he traced "007" (his nickname) on Meredith's hand. He ultimately died, and fans would never be the same. Scott Garfield - Getty Images

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1. Derek Shepherd This was the saddest Grey's death of all because I really thought it was the one happily ever after Shonda might let one of her characters have. But when Derek (Patrick Dempsey) suffered brain damage from a tragic accident, we watched Meredith say goodbye to McDreamy. Before she gave the go-ahead to take him off life support, Meredith said, "Derek, it's okayyou go. I'll be fine." Years later, and fans still aren't okay. Are you sobbing yet? Because I sure as hell am. Scott Garfield - Getty Images

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X-Men Anatomy: The 5 Weirdest Things About Wolverine’s Body, Explained – CBR – Comic Book Resources

When it comes to questions of anatomy, one would think thatWolverinewould be far more on the normal side as far as superheroes go. Whereas Superman is an alien from a whole other planet, or Spider-Man has arachnid characteristics, Wolverine is basically just a clawed Canadian who heals really well.

However, things aren't as simple as they seem. Once you start teasing out the logic behind Wolverine's anatomy there are some pretty disturbing (and gross) implications. Let's look at the five strangest aspects of Wolverine's anatomy that put the "ick" in "snikt."

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Naturally, any question about Wolverine's anatomy is going to address his metal bones. Laced with unbreakable adamantium by an experimental government procedure only possible with someone of Wolverine's immense regenerative capabilities, the adamantium skeleton may seem pretty straightforward at first. It makes Wolverine heavier than normal, protects him from greater damage than he otherwise could and all in all, proves a pretty handy tool time and again.

Since Wolverine can heal from almost any wound, his adamantium skeleton is on the front lines of keeping him in a fight so that the mutant can minimize the time it takes for him to recuperate. Bullets that would scramble his brains just bounce off his skull, and it takes far less time to heal the flesh on his head than the brain matter inside it. The value the metal adds to his claws is incalculable as well, allowing him to cut most anything while also preventing them from opponents crushing them. His skeleton may be sturdy and his claws naturally sharp all on their own, but there's just no competing with adamantium.

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Wolverine is one of the hairiest mainstream superheroes to appear in films and comics. Whereas most heroes' physiques tend toward the lean and the hairless over time, something about Wolverine's animalistic connection allowed him to maintain a shaggy mane not many other heroes share. What many people might not realize is that the signature look comes part and parcel with his powers.

While Wolverine doesn't have the Rapunzel problem of perpetually growing infinite amounts of hair, his follicles do tend to regenerate to roughly the same length even after they are burned or torn off. Wolverine has walked away from third-degree burns across his entire body, and as the skin comes back the hair comes with it, always at roughly the same length.

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Part of the reason for the healing factor's application to his hair could come from its bestial origins -- in one comic it is explained that Wolverine is actually ahomo lupine rather than ahomo superior, putting his ancestral relatives closer to wolves than humans. Many other mutants with healing factors, like Sabretooth, grow a pretty thick mane themselves and this could be the common factor linking them.

While it's not normally easy to compete with the mainstream Wolverine when it comes to feats of sheer survival, the Ultimate iteration of the character from Marvel's 1610 universe gives Logan a run for his money. Ultimate Wolverine once survived a fight with the Hulk and S.H.I.E.L.D. detonating a nuclear weapon in the middle of their fray only to wake up in a lab where the organization was keeping his body parts separate. Nick Fury spoke with Wolverine's decapitated head and explained that they just couldn't kill it.

When S.H.I.E.L.D. separated Ultimate Wolverine's head from his body he simply started breathing oxygen through his skin, realizing that when they put it in an airless vacuum the skin started making its own air. A survivor through and through, Logan's sheer refusal to die may have been the reason Nick Fury just resigned to letting Wolverine go about his business.

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A natural thing to wonder about Wolverine's healing factor is whether or not he can extend it to others. There's obviously a great amount of suffering in the world, and if the gritty hero with wanted to atone for his past sins,is it possible for him toliterally cure the world of its ills through blood transfusion?

Well, the situation has come up, but it's an insanely hard thing to pull off. InPowers of X, Wolverine was able to save Moira Mactaggart with blood transfusions, but the recentWolverine #1 provided an infographic that explained howLogan'shealing factor becomes inert within his blood once it leaves his body. Getting it to successful transmit to another body is an incredibly difficult task.

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That's not to say it hasn't been done before. Most famously, Deadpool was a member of the same Weapon X program that produced Wolverine. Using Wolverine's blood, Weapon X was capable of reproducing his healing factor within Deadpool, but at a terrible cost. Deadpool's own lethal cancer fights a constant war against his healing factor, and the end result is that his skin became scabby and scarred. He may have a good sense of humor about it, but there's definitely a curse attached to that gift.

This is where things get a little sappy because we're not talking about his actual heart. Instead, it's worth explaining the toll Wolverine's healing factor has had on his mental and emotional health over the years. Since his senescence is so much slower than a normal human's, Wolverine has spent the past century watching many of the people around him die or get older while he has largely remained the same.

And that's to say nothing of the psychological horror of enduring the countless physical tortures inflicted upon him. Even just the process to coat Wolverine's skeleton in adamantium was described as immensely painful, and it's a process he has had to undergo multiple times. At one point Magneto even ripped the metal straight off his bones, no anesthetic or preparation at all. The process nearly killed him, and in fact, burned out his healing factor so that for a brief period he was mortal.

But underneath it all Wolverine has an indomitable will that never allows such constant suffering to get the best of him. While he certainly has his fair share of mental problems, part of what makes Wolverine such a hero is that he is able to undergo such severe physical and emotional pain over time without it ever truly changing who he is. As interesting as the anatomy of the X-Man is, at the center of it all is the heart of a truly great character.

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Anatomy of an effective e-commerce website – Herald Palladium

Setting up and managing an e-commerce website to sell your companys products involves a lot of work and knowledge of what might boost or bust your bottom line.

While specific features and functionality requirements may vary depending on your type of business, some considerations are universally important.

A few of the must-have characteristics of an e-commerce website include:

According to data from Custoras E-commerce Pulse, the share of mobile orders (phone and tablet) out of all e-commerce increased to 31 percent in 2016 (up from 29 percent in 2015).

With more potential customers using mobile devices to buy products, its increasingly important to ensure your e-commerce site will deliver ease of use to desktop and mobile users alike.

The easier you can make it for your website visitors to find and buy the products theyre looking for, the more likely youll convert those product searches into sales.

Structure your e-commerce website so potential buyers can easily find what they want in as few clicks as possible, and make sure the checkout process is simple and straightforward. Also make it easy for visitors to find your refunds and exchange policy.

Studies have shown that approximately 56 percent of shoppers abandon shopping carts because they discover unexpected costs at checkout. Consider disclosing shipping options and costs earlier rather than waiting until near the end of the checkout process.

You might also think about finding a way to provide free shipping. With an increasing number of e-commerce sites offering to ship products for free, you may be at a disadvantage if you dont extend this courtesy to buyers.

Brief, clear, well-written content with relevant key words will help visitors find your products quickly and learn whats most important about them. Keep in mind content that consists of more than a few sentences may seem to go on forever on a smartphone screen.

Make sure youve included product descriptions that give enough detail without becoming redundant and boring.

A picture is worth a thousand words. How often have you heard that? For an e-commerce website, a picture can mean thousands of dollars.

An image can make or break the sale online. Shoppers want to have a visual sense of what theyre buying online.

Youll want to share images that bring out the best of your products. Consider contracting the help of a professional photographer who has experience in taking photographs for e-commerce websites.

If youre looking to create an e-commerce website for your business, you can benefit from consultation with a website development and design professional who has experience with all that they entail.

Also consider talking with a mentor at your local SCORE chapter. SCORE mentors have experience in all aspects of starting, managing, and marketing small businesses.

Call the local branch at 269-925-6100 or visit http://www.swmi.score.org to request SCORE help with your business.

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