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Fans of Greys Anatomyhave seen a lot of changes over the years. Weve said goodbye to George OMalley, Cristina Yang, and a bucketload of other series regulars. And its still hard to forgive Shonda Rhimes for the way she killed off Dr. McDreamy (seriously?).

But through the years, a few OG characters have stuck around. Weve seen them grow from young interns who were barely getting by into highly respected world-class doctors.

While there have been plenty of great transformations over the years, its hard to beat that of Dr. Alex Karev. From Dr. Evil Spawn to Chief of Surgery at Pac North, weve grown to love the former troublemaker.

From the very beginning, Dr. Alex Karev always had a way of stirring up drama. He was the perfect anti-hero to the sugary sweet Izzy Stevens and loveable George OMalley. And while Meredith Grey was off chasing Derek Shepard, and Cristina Yang was entangled in her relationship with Preston Burke, Alex was making his rounds with the nurses. Oh, who can forget the drama with nurse Olivia?

During the early seasons, it was hard to feel for the young instigator. Scratch that, we had plenty of feelings about Dr. Karev his behavior wasnt just abrasive, at times it bordered on unbearable. But it was his relationship with cancer-stricken Izzy Stevens that allowed fans to see a different side of Dr. Karev and reconsider writing him off altogether.

As the years went on, we began to see how Alex got to where he was. His mother struggled with mental health issues and his father was an alcoholic. He made his way through med school and instantly clashed with his fellow interns.

Eventually, fans began to see the softer side of Alex. He fell in love with Izzy and supported her through her cancer. He was left heartbroken we Izzy beat cancer and left the world she knew behind. Along the way, we were able to see the pain and capacity for love that was within Dr. Karev.

Through it all, Alex has proven himself to be a loyal friend. One of the greatest progressions we have seen through the show is the relationship between Alex Karev and Meredith Grey. While fans occasionally try to ship the pair, its obvious that the two rely on each other as friends.

Whenever Meredith needs someone, Alex is always there, and she for him. While originally the show revolved around the friendship between Mer and Cristina, its the relationship that has evolved between Alex and Meredith that we all hope to have.

The change in Alex didnt happen overnight. It is one that happened over 16 seasons. When Alex attacked Andrew DeLuca in season 13, fans were brutally reminded of the man that Alex once was, but also who he has become. While its hard to justify his attack, Alexs friends stood by in the face of felony charges, knowing the man he had become. When his wife later struggled through emotional trauma he was there, standing by her side.

Today, Alex is the Chief of Surgery at Pac North General. He is married and has proven to be not only an excellent doctor but a loyal friend.

The change has been so drastic, yet subtle all the same, that fans recently took to Reddit to gush their love for the hunky doc. A Reddit user posted a picture of the rebellious Dr. Karev, captioning the photo, Season 1: I hate Alex, why is he on the show.

Next to this picture, was an older, more mature Dr. Karev, the caption illustrated the change the character had made. It was simple and to the point, Season 13: If Alex goes to jail, I do too. Its been quite the journey for Alex Karev. We have to admit, we totally love that hes no longer a terrible person.

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Dr. Stephanie Edwards has checked out of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

At the end of last week's episode, viewers were left wondering what the character's fate would be after she and a young girl were left trapped in the same room as a massive explosion.

Stephanie, who is played by actress Jerrika Hinton, and the young girl survived. They suffered burns, smoke inhalation and various other wounds from which they were told they'd recover. (The deranged patient who Stephanie lit on fire, inadvertently causing the explosion, did not survive -- as one might imagine.)

But Stephanie was not eager to get back into the operating room.

The harrowing experience -- coupled with her history as a sick child -- made her realized she didn't want to spend any more time in hospitals. She told mentor Dr. Webber (James Pickens Jr.) that she needed to get outside the sterile walls and live.

Thus, Stephanie walked away with the rarest of "Grey's Anatomy" endings: something not completely horrific or tragic or heartbreaking.

Hinton took to Instagram to mark the moment.

"I am eternally thankful for five seasons of #GreysAnatomy and a graceful departure that underscores the courage it takes to choose yourself," Hinton wrote. "That Stephanie literally walks through fire to reach freedom -- her freedom -- inspires me."

Hinton had been rumored to be leaving the long-running ABC drama, but her departure was not confirmed until Thursday night.

In another post, Hinton spoke more directly to the fans "who look like me," saying, "I hear you when you say I represent you."

"It has been the greatest honor to show us *us*," she wrote. "Eking out this kind of #representation on a weekly basis within a medium that continues to correlate value with proximity to whiteness is a feat. That I got to deliver a relatable, recognizable and unvarnished #StephanieEdwards who looks and feels like women I know who are people rather than ideas has been worth more than you know."

She added: "Thank the tv gods for #TGIT."

"Jerrika has shared so much of herself with Stephanie and I am incredibly proud of the journey we've taken together," she wrote.

"Grey's Anatomy" returns for Season 14 in the fall, with a new firefighter-themed spinoff set to debut in mid-season.

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An interactive autopsy show which dissects a semi-synthetic human cadaver is coming to Manchester.

Anatomy Lab Live is a touring hands-on post-mortem suite, which serves a sumptuous two-course dinner to guests before the gory procedure begins.

After its UK tour last year the show returns bigger and better in 2018, with a string of dates including a show in the Village Hotel Ashton on January 27.

Those attending will be given mortuary wear including protective surgical hats, masks and aprons as well as scalpels, scissors, forceps and bone saws.

A team of human anatomists, medics and physiologists will accompany host and science teacher Samuel Piri as they carry out a real post-mortem.

The cadaver - known as VIVIT - is the next best thing to a real human cadaver and houses real internal organs from pigs, chosen for their anatomical similarity to humans.

Visitors will also be given a set of case notes to look over before then starting procedures for themselves, which could include a real head and brain sample, the pulmonary system, the gastrointestinal tract, or the heart and greater blood vessels.

There will also be Q&A time as the floor opens for questions from the audience.

According to organisers, this event is a high-level interactive experience for level 4 and above, and the content is aimed at those studying towards graduate professions. However, the wider public is welcome to attend and the event will allocate some anatomy pods especially for those with a general interest.

Tickets for the dinner and dissection are 79 general admission, with discounts available for students. Book online via eventbrite.co.uk .

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Recently, enterprise-focused Google representatives have been encouraging a metric called Relevance, which is believed to be one of the three main factors that make upQuality Score. Relevance is a metric which evaluates how pertinent your ad creative is to your account structure and keywords.

At AdBasis, we have spent Q1 speaking with enterprise-level advertisers about changes being implemented to account structures and to ad units (creative) in order to improve their relevancy scores as recommended by Google. This often means that advertisers need to implement hyper-specific ads to every ad group in their accounts.

As a result, we have seen the demand for scaled ad implementations, ad unit management and creative optimization grow dramatically. This article is designed to give you a standard for what your creative should look like within every ad group. Im going to dissect the anatomy of ad structure, showcase some best practices and provide some additional commentary.

AdWords accounts are growing larger and larger. I am not talking about overall spend I am talking about the number of campaigns and ad groups within a single AdWords account.Whether youre using Single Keyword Ad Groups (SKAGs) or something close to it, chances are the number of ad groups in your account has grown significantly. SEMs everywhere are hit with a new set ofchallenges related to this shift.

If your account has been evolving, chances are your existing creative is fragmented and unmeasurable; this is a major problem. One of the biggest challenges is the management, implementation, measurement and optimization of the associated ad units. And now, with Googles new push for extremely granular ad copy relevance, your generic ad copy will no longer work.

So, what does a high-quality search ad look like?

Just as the human body can be dissected and understood, so can your search ads. Here we will evaluate the different organs that make up a search ad and how they can be altered to improve performance. Understanding how Google will evaluate your ad copy based on keyword + search term is vital to understanding how to structure your creative in bulk.

The elements of a search ad that are most vital to determining relevance are as follows:

In order to combat the problem of fragmented and differing creative at the ad group level, standardization through dynamic ad templates across similarly behaving ad groups is a great technique.

What does that mean? It means designing ad copy templatessuch that the search term can be inserted based on the ad group, but the ad copy surrounding your search term is relevant, flexible and testable.This can be achievedusing feed-based technologies to dynamically insert ad content based on ad group or campaign.

(Im notgoing to get into tech setup since thats beyond the scope of this article, but you can learn more about generating feeds and feed-based technologies here.)

Okay, so what should your dynamic ad templates look like?

In the examples below, I willshowcase how feeds can be used to dynamically insert unique creative based on the ad group or campaign (ad group and campaign are the two levels of hierarchy to which creative can be mapped).

The highlighted text in the examplesbelow represents ad copy that is not static; it is written in a way that can be swapped out orchanged based on the needs of the advertiser and how the account is set up. Imagine the highlighted elements are changing based on your ad group.

The goal of these templates is to map search terms to specific ad groups in ways that make sense in ad copy.

The company in the examplebelow has ad groups for specific action verbs (Browse, Search, Find and so on) and Makes/Models of vehicles (e.g., Toyota, Honda, Mercedes). From this, they could create a feed of action verbs by ad group, a list of Makes by ad group, and a list of Models by ad group. These variables would change dynamically based on the content in their feeds.

As you can see, this particular ad copy template would work across hundreds or thousands of ad groups which are geared toward different keywords and Makes/Models. Youd keep the quality of your ad copy relevance and be able to measure the performance of this creative template.

Through the use of dynamic templates, e-commerce brands can implement, manage and measure ad copy in bulk. Knowing if BOGO vs. 50% Off works best for particular audiences or product categories is vital information. But often, this is very difficult to execute at scale without sacrificing ad relevance.

Here is an example of a scaled ad template that can be used by e-commerce brands. The makeup of this ad template includes an audience variable (Men or Women), product category variable (Shoes, Shirts, Pants) and discount percentage (mapped to the product category).

These elements can be shifted throughout the ad and tested across ad groups/campaigns dynamically. Generating a feed of your dynamic elements and mapping them to campaigns or ad groups is crucial to standardization and measurement of ad creative at scale.

SaaS companies are unique because often, they only offer a single product. In many instances, SaaS companies will position the same product in different ways and will segment campaigns by the value proposition someone is searching for.

This provides a unique set of challenges. Another approach to dynamic ad copy templates isnt inserting a search term, but rather entire Headlines, Pathways, Descriptions and so on.

Below, this SaaS company is dynamically inserting the Headline 1 and Description based on the ad group. This gives them the opportunity to test Pathways and Headline 2 without sacrificing the customized Headline 1 and Description theyve written.

The use of dynamic ad templates across ad groups and campaigns affords you the opportunity to test your ads in two main ways:

This approach is designed to provide SEMs with an approach that is flexible enough to test across ad groups/campaigns (implement at scale) but specific enough to deliver extremely relevant ads to all searchers. Its not an easy task, but hopefully, this article will get the creative juices flowing on what technology options are out there to help improve your ad copy relevance.

Some opinions expressed in this article may be those of a guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.

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Even though 2,700students won the same type of award, Tori Miller is in pretty exclusive company when you consider 330,000 students from around the world entered the competition.

The Hanover High School seniors colored pencil piece "Blackout"was submitted to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, also known as the Globe Show and placed in the silver medal category amid thousands of entries.

Surprisingly, Miller's work was created for an anatomy class, not an art class.

We were doing a project on how chemicals affect the body, so we got to pick the topic, said Miller. Im into makeup, so part of it was to create a propaganda poster, so I was just looking for references to put on my poster. I saw the womans photo on Tumblr and I thought it was a beautiful photo to put on a poster. It was a really quick drawing and it wasnt until this year that I touched it again. I didnt add the blue background until I touched it again for this piece.

Hanover High art teacher David Crawford suggests all advanced placement art students submit pieces to the show and Miller added the piece to her portfolio for the class. Several teachers have gone out of their way to commend Miller on her success and to heap praise for her talent.

Not to take anything away from Tori as an individual, but I want to emphasize the fact that the support of her friends is a big part of the success of all of them, said Crawford. She represents the best that Hanover has to offer. Im very glad that she was selected for this and not just for her, but for Hanover itself. Its the best that these kids can do.

Despite her clear talent for art, Miller's love of four-legged creatures is leading her to a career as an animal care specialist. While it sounds the same as veterinary medicine, Miller contends that its different.

The schools she is looking at are Becker College in Worcester and North Shore Community College in Danvers, two of the only colleges in the area that offer the major.

Im still waiting to hear back from them since I applied and I guess it went into their spam mail, she said, with a nervous laugh. Hopefully, if I hear back from them, Ill start as soon as I can.

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Michelangelo's Medici Chapel may contain hidden symbols of female anatomy Science Daily Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with anatomical representations. A new analysis suggests that Michelangelo may have concealed symbols associated with female anatomy ...

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Did you hear the one about how Anne Aly, Australias first female Muslim federal MP, refused to lay a wreath at a recent Anzac Day service?

If youre a traveller in right wing Australian Facebook circles, theres a fair chance you did. From the Kim Vuga Love Australia Or Leave Party page to the Bolt Report Supporters group, rumours of Alys disrespect have been circling for a few days.

The only problem is, its just not true.

The rumour appears to have kicked off at around 8:30pm on Anzac Day which marks the anniversary of Australia and New Zealands first major battle in WWI when it was posted to the Kim Vuga Love Australia or Leave Party page.

The must read story was posted by Vuga, the founder and president of the Love Australia or Leave Party and posed the question: What the hell are they doing in our country? You can guess who they refers to.

The story came to Vuga from Gary, a regular commenter on the page who apparently sent it to her via direct message. It claimed that Gary was at the Wanneroo RSL dawn service, north of Perth in Western Australia.

Everything went very well until the Wreath laying ceremony when the guy announcing the people laying Wreaths said the Local Member Anne Ally would not be presenting the Wreath for the local government, the post said.

What a bitch.

A few hours later Vugas post was picked up by the Fair Suck Of The Sav, Mate Facebook page, where Alys failure to lay a wreath had now become a refusal.

That post was shared more than 450 times by the pages 49,000 followers, and from there it took off, bouncing around the right wing Facebook echo chamber, whipping conservatives into a fevered frenzy about the Muslim MP who disrespected our Diggers.

Alys WA electorate of Cowan has two dawn services one at Wanneroo and one at Ballajura and because the sun only rises once a day, she can only attend one.

Last year it was Wanneroo, so this year she attended the Ballajura ceremony and sent a wreath to Wanneroo, where state MP Sabine Winton laid it on her behalf.

Alys been to three Anzac ceremonies this week, and shell attend three more before the week is out.

Aly, who was a counter terror and deradicalisation expert before entering parliament, says the claims are offensive and distracting.

I have a strong relationship with the RSL, she told BuzzFeed News. I take a lot of pride in it. I work a lot with victims of terror and with first responders, with people who have sacrificed. I have a lot of respect for our service men and women.

The news has now seeped into the mainstream. Aly says shes heard it being reported on some local talkback stations.

Its absolutely disgusting that the very people who are falsely claiming outrage are the same people who are disrespecting Anzac day for their own agenda, she said.

I dont look at my life through the lens of my religious identity. I dont look at everything only through the lens of Islam. But people look at me only through that lens and cant see me as anything else.

When contacted by BuzzFeed News Kim Vuga was unrepentant about any role she played in the spreading of a false rumour.

She said she had never claimed that Aly had refused to lay a wreath, only that she had failed to lay one, and said she trusted her friend Gary to tell the truth.

I only shared what I was given, she told BuzzFeed News.

When asked why she hadnt checked her facts before posting, she said that that was the job of journalists, and perhaps BuzzFeed News would be better off investigating the recent controversy surrounding Muslim writer and TV host Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

Vuga hasnt yet passed on Garys details to us, but if she does, well update this post.

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BALTIMORE -- To heck with the math.

According to the math, and the experts who like to use it to crunch numbers and make projections, the Baltimore Orioles weren't supposed to be very good this season. According to the math, they were supposed to win anywhere from not a lot of games to slightly more than not a lot of games. According to the math, they were supposed to be an afterthought in the AL Beast. Instead, they have the best record in the Son of Senior Circuit.

Are the O's a mirage? Maybe. After all, we're only at the one-eighth mark (is that even a thing?). Not to mention, their ho-hum run differential (plus-9) suggests they should be barely above .500 (a Pythagorean 11-9 record). Then again, the same thing happened last season too, when Buck Showalter's club parlayed a surprisingly hot start all the way to the postseason. Regardless, you don't jump out to a 14-6 start without the ball bouncing your way more often than not. You don't have a month like this without a little help from Lady Luck.

By beating Tampa Bay 5-4 in 11 innings on Wednesday, the first-place Birds improved to 6-1 in one-run games. They upped their mark to 3-0 in extra-inning games.

Not to take anything away from Dylan Bundy, who made his fifth straight quality start to kick off the season. Or Brad Brach, who threw up two more goose eggs and continues to do the best Zach Britton impression this side of Zach Britton. Or Chris Davis, who reached base three times, including a leadoff single that started the winning rally in the bottom of the 11th. But if weren't for Kid Karma, who paid an extra-special visit early on in this one, Baltimore might never have been in position to pull out a wild and wacky W that culminated in ... wait for it ... a walk-off walk.

Officially, the final box score will show that LongBalltimore, which led the majors in bombs last season and came into Thursday ranked third in the AL, did not go deep. Unofficially, Seth Smith hit a Little League homer -- a two-run shot that had the exit velocity of a Volvo on a crowded off-ramp, the launch angle of an Acme stomp rocket, and the distance of a sand wedge into high winds.

Actually, that's not entirely true. According to Statcast, Smith's hit off of Rays starter Alex Cobb left the bat at 96 miles an hour, which in theory could be dinger material. Except that it featured just a 15-degree arc and traveled only 322 feet -- to straight away center field. In other words, it had single written all over it. Until it didn't.

Here's how it went down:

With one out and the O's leading 1-0 in the second inning, Smith lined a 2-2 changeup into center field toward Kevin Kiermaier. Ryan Flaherty, on first following an RBI single, was running on the play.

Third baseman Evan Longoria, who had been positioned at shortstop as part of Tampa Bay's shift and was headed to second to cover the steal, had to scurry back toward third to receive the throw from center and didn't quite make it in time. Instead, he and a sliding Flaherty got tangled up, and Kiermaier's throw -- which was actually a pretty good one -- squirted away in the direction of the third-base dugout.

Flaherty started to go for home but then reversed course when he saw that Cobb, backing up third base, had picked up the ball and was about to make a play on him at third. Cobb threw to Longoria at third, but the ball glanced off Flaherty's helmet and caromed into left field.

While Flaherty was busy strolling home, Smith was steaming around second. And third. Left fielder Shane Peterson corralled the ball and made what could loosely be described as a "throw" to relay-man Longoria, who then fired home, where Smith slid in juuuuust ahead of the tag.

Got all that?

Perhaps the most unbelievable thing about the play -- ya know, besides the fact that a guy with three steals in the past five years made it all around the bases on a ball that landed in front of, was hit directly at, and was fielded cleanly by the center fielder -- was the defenders who were involved.

The center fielder in question was Kiermaier, a human web gem who has won back-to-back Gold Gloves. The pitcher in question was Cobb, who ranks in the top 10 among AL starters in runs saved over the past five years. The third baseman in question was Longoria, who isn't the defender he once was but has still saved more runs over the past decade than any third baseman not named Arenado, Machado, or Beltre. Not that it mattered.

"I never touched the ball the whole time," said Longoria after the game, maintaining a sense of humor about the whole thing. "Well, not until I got it and relayed home. It just got out of control. That's a homer in Little League, but in the big leagues it's just a bad play."

Flaherty would've scored it a little differently.

"We can give Seth a homer," Baltimore's utility man said. "If you're starting in the batter's box and you get all the way around to home, that's pretty cool."

Although Flaherty didn't cover quite as much ground as Smith did on the play, between all the starting and stopping and the shenanigans at the hot corner, he felt as if he did. And then some.

"That was more running that I did all of spring training," he said.

As crazy as the play was, Smith is in no hurry to do it again anytime soon.

"I hope that's the last time it happens," said the O's outfielder, who drew the walk-off walk in the 11th and who claims that he never has hit a Little League homer in his life -- not even in Little League. "I dont ever remember that happening."

As for how his four-base single should be classified, it depends on who's keeping score.

"My children will probably think I hit a home run," said the 34-year old father of three. "Then again, they think any time I put the ball in play, it's a hit."

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GREYS ANATOMY You Can Look (But Youd Better Not Touch)- Bailey, Arizona and Jo go to a maximum security womens prison to treat a violent, 16-year-old pregnant girl and her unborn baby, on the midseason premiere of Greys Anatomy, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26th. (ABC)<

Unfortunately, there is no new Greys Anatomy on tonight, Thursday, April 20th.

Thats right well have to wait another week to see how Maggie reacts to the whole Meredith-and-Riggs-together deal.

In its place, ABC will air an old Scandal episode. The good news? Itll be back in one week, with a new episode titled Dont Stop Me Now. The synopsis for the episode reads: Bailey and April work to fix things between Richard and Catherine. Meanwhile, Eliza continues to pursue Arizona; and one of Alexs previous patients returns to the hospital.

Another bit of good news is that Season 14 of the show has been confirmed by the network, so theres a lot more to look forward to. What else? The show wont be taking another break after this! Starting next week, ABC will air all season 13 episodes in successive weeks with no gaps, so you dont have any more weeks off to break up your Greys watching.

On last weeks episode, Nathan and Meredith were on their way to a convention when their plane hit a rough patch of turbulence. Luckily, the doctors were there to save the day and take care of the injured passengers. Amid the chaos, Nathan was able to persuade Meredith to give their relationship a try one little problem: Maggie. In the promo, we see Nathan rubbing Merediths shoulder and making it clear to Maggie that the two are an item. Meredith then stares at herself in the mirror, realizing that Maggie will never forgive her.

In a recent interview with TVLine, Kelly McCreary discussed Maggies feelings about Nathan and Merediths secret romance. [on the other hand, Meredith and Maggie have] gone through something so extreme together, and I think the whole Nathan question has been completely irrelevant this whole time. So when it comes up again, I think it becomes about weighing, Oh, theres this guy that I liked against this life-and-death experience that theyve shared.

Dont miss a new episode of Greys Anatomy next Thursday, April 27 at 8/7c on ABC.

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Paging Grey's Anatomy fans! T.R. Knight and Kate Walsh reunited in NYC Thursday, April 20, and took a photo to mark the occasion.

Knight, 44, attended Walsh's performance in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of If I Forget with comic actress Bridget Everett.

"O, my beautiful friends! @bridgeteverett and I got to see @katewalsh in IF I FORGET last night in NYC! She was brilliant, as was the production! So lucky I got to see it. I love these humans," the Catch star captioned an Instagram pic of the trio.

Walsh, 49, reposted the pic. "[Love] my @t.r.knight & @bridgeteverett & so grateful they came to see my show...also: no filter in the world can make me look less tired," she wrote. (Walsh stars in the recent Netflix hit 13 Reasons Why.)

The former costars played Dr. George O'Malley and Dr. Addison Montgomery on the Shonda Rhimescreated medical drama, which debuted in 2005. Knight's beloved character died in the season 6 premiere, while Walsh reprised her role in its spinoff, Private Practice, from 2007 to 2013.

Walsh opened up about her time at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly in December 2015. "I loved how smart [Addison] was and capable and how fallible she was. It made it a really fun character to play and Shonda's really good at that at creating very multifaceted characters," she said at the time. "She and I loved working together. We had a great experience and that's always a positive. Doing something else for her works for me!"

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Kyle - Josh Kelly

The medical drama will also be introducing a new character called Kyle, who will be played by Josh Kelly.

According to Soaps.com, Kelly will take on the role of an army veteran named Kyle who threatens to blow up a pawn shop in Station 19.

This means there may be some crossover with the new episode of Greys Anatomy.

Kelly is best-known for playing Cutter Wentworth on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.

Finally, the guest cast will be completed by Gail Bean starring as Catlin in the episode.

Bean played Wanda in Snowfall, Rasheeda in Insecure and will next be starring as Gynnifer Green in Paradise Lost.

Greys Anatomy season 16 airs on Thursdays on ABC.

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LAHORE - The University of Health Sciences (UHS) has named its Anatomy department after late Prof Muhammad Tahir.

Prof Muhammad Tahir has been the head of UHS Anatomy department for last 11 years. He died on Wednesday at the age of 87, bringing to an end a prolific career as teacher, a researcher, and an administrator. His work in all these domains was distinguished by a highly original critical thinking and personal vision of morality and ethics.

A memorial service for Prof Muhammad Tahir was held at the university on Thursday which was attended by UHS Vice Chancellor Prof Junaid Sarfraz Khan, faculty members and students.

Prof Junaid Sarfraz Khan planted a Banyan tree at Kala Shah Kaku Campus of the university in the memory of the deceased.

Prof Tahir was a graduate of King Edward Medical College Lahore. He did his MBBS in 1952 with gold medal for standing first in the University. He taught in various national and international institutes. He did his PhD from London University. He had more than 50 research publications to his credit.

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Introduction

Part I describes the basic behaviour and intended function of an air-delivered gravity bomb containing Sarin, designed along US/USSR cold war lines. When we left off in Part I, a well-crafted gravity bomb will have dispensed its Sarin broadly along this distribution:

Sarin, also commonly known by its old NATO nickname GB, is one of a family of chemical warfare agents known as nerve agents. It was invented by German scientists in 1938-1939 who were performing research on organophosphorous pesticides led by Dr. Gerhard Schrader. Sarin was named by the team of researchers who invented it. It is in a family of chemicals known as organophosphates. There are other chemicals within this family, including the chemical warfare agents Tabun, Soman, VX, and the pesticides Malathion, Parathion, and Amiton.

All of the nerve agents affect the human bodys nervous system. The human nervous system requires a delicate balance of chemicals to regulate itself. Nerve agents bind to a chemical known as acetylcholinesterase and, in doing so, disrupt the electrochemical reactions required for the body to operate properly. The binding of acetylcholinesterase leads to a build-up of acetylcholine, which then in turn leads to a syndrome called a cholinergic crisis. In effect, the nervous system starts to over-act and muscles and glands start to work over-time and cause serious problems. The signs and symptoms will vary in severity and timeline depending on the route of exposure and dose (i.e. the amount of Sarin absorbed). This will be discussed at length below.

There are several ways Sarin can enter the human body. These are called routes of exposure and are as follows:

Sarin acts very quickly through respiratory and ocular exposure, with onset of adverse effects within seconds to a few minutes depending on dose. Absorption through the skin is slower, i.e. minutes to hours, depending on dose. Rate of action for wound exposure is believed to be intermediate in speed between respiratory and dermal absorption. Gastrointestinal absorption is not well documented but is likely to be fast.

Sarin, as it is less persistent and evaporates at a faster rate relative to the other nerve agents, is foremost an inhalation hazard. Absorption through skin takes time, and even someone with liquid Sarin on their skin is extremely likely to suffer inhalation effects from the Sarin evaporating off of their clothing and skin, except in very cold weather. In moderate or warm temperature situations, the only realistic exposure scenarios for a liquid Sarin only, through skin absorption are for partially protected troops already wearing protective masks or donning them very quickly at the onset of a chemical attack. So, with unprotected target populations, the route of exposure of most significance is inhalation of aerosol and vapour.

The cholinergic crisis that Sarin (and its other cousins in the same family) provokes manifests itself in signs (things that are externally observable) and symptoms (subjective indications felt by the victim that are difficult or impossible to observe). This graphic, taken from the canonical Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare (various editions accessible online) lists the major signs and symptoms:

Rhinorrhea is a fancy term for a profusely snotty nose. Miosis means pinpointing of the pupils. The rest is either self explanatory or you can look it up in a normal dictionary if unsure.

The order in which signs and symptoms appear and their severity will vary both with degree of exposure and route of exposure. For Sarin, this is principally inhalation. This graphic describes this exposure category in detail:

In the event of liquid absorption through skin, signs and symptoms progress differently. This is really more relevant for the more persistent, slower evaporating agents like Tabun and VX. In the case of Sarin exposure, an unprotected person with lots of Sarin liquid on them will get respiratory exposure from evaporation, and this is very likely to happen faster than dermal exposure. With Sarin, the likely exposure scenario is for someone who has protective equipment for their respiratory tract and eyes (e.g. a gas mask) but unprotected skin. For comparison purposes, this is the progression of signs/symptoms for dermal exposure:

When people die from nerve agent exposure, the mechanism of death is almost always a pulmonary death. Such respiratory failure, which denies the body oxygen happens through several mechanisms with nerve agent poisoning. Depending on route of exposure and dose, any or all of these will be the exact mechanism by which death occurs:

All of these conditions can cause cyanosis , a tell-tale blueish discolouring of skin due to oxygen deprivation.

Most studies of the toxicity of Sarin are derived from data involving animal research. Much of the information is now quite dated, having been developed in the 1950s and 1960s. These should all be taken with a reasonable margin for error. However, the following chart from the US Armys Field Manual 3-11-9 is as useful a summary as any Ive seen. Anyone interest in the footnotes can go to the Field manual and look them up, although some of the references are to studies and documents not readily available online. You might need a good research library.

These numbers probably mean little to most readers so I am going to unpack this at some length. Concentration is measured in milligrams per cubic meter. As there is almost nothing in toxicology thats instant, concentration is measured over a time domain. So for things like vapor exposure, the figures used are in milligrams per cubic meter per minute. For example 50 mg-min/m3 means 50 mgs of Sarin per 1 cubic meter of air for a period of 1 minute.

The key figure here is something called 50th percentile Lethal Concentration LCt50. This is the concentration that is reckoned to kill half of the exposed population, assuming a normal adult male (these studies were all based around Cold War soldiers) breathing at 15 liters of air per minute. This is the MV (respiratory minute volume) on the table. This is equivalent to a soldier engaged in moderate activity. (Someone asleep will be breathing slower, someone running full tilt is likely to be higher.) So, for Sarin, breathing 35 mg Sarin in aerosol or vapour, per cubic meter of air, continuously for 2 minutes, will kill about 50% of the exposed people. This is extremely lethal. By comparison, the similar figure for phosgene, the most lethal chemical weapon used in World War 1, is about 1500 mg-min/m3.

For severely debilitating effects, the figure for Sarin is 25 mg-min/m3, again over the course of 2 minutes, not much less than the lethal figure. It is likely that there would be some lethality at this level. For mild effects, the threshold is around 0.4 mg.

Sarin vapor and aerosol can enter through the skin. However, if you examine the table, these effects require a FAR HIGHER level of concentration and longer exposure. Lethal concentrations (LCt50) for this route of exposure are 6000 to 12000 mg-min/m3 for much longer durations of exposure (30 mins to 6 hours). This is an entirely difference exposure scenario. (The differences in the figures in the table are that the higher numbers are for warmer temperatures.) So, yes, Sarin is lethal through a route of permeation through the skin, but only at levels that are literally hundreds of times higher than the levels that are dangerous for respiration. The figures for severe effects (4000-800) and minor effects (600-1200) are correspondingly lower, but still MUCH HIGHER than effective concentration levels for absorption via the respiratory route. It should be noted that a very dense aerosol may result in some condensation or deposit of liquid on skin, which behaves as described in the next paragraph.

Percutaneous liquid exposure takes time, as was noted above. Time of exposure is a bit different here, and is less significant than the amount absorbed through the skin. A larg
e gob of Sarin landing mostly on outer clothing and almost instantly removed by decontamination may result in less net absorption of Sarin into the body than a small droplet on the back of the neck that goes unnoticed until symptoms appear.

LD50 for Sarin is calculated at 1700 mg for a 70 kg male. This means that, for a normal 70kg human male, 1700 mg of Sarin absorbed into the human body would kill about half of the people with that level of poisoning. Statistically, some would die with less, and some could survive with a much higher exposure. ED50 is the level of exposure for serious, disabling effects. For Sarin it is 1000 mg for the same assumptions. Note that at this level of dose, some are likely to die. This is an awful lot of Sarin when compared to the amounts that are needed to kill or seriously incapacitate people through inhalation.

The behaviour of Sarin on skin is important. Several things happen when Sarin is on human skin:

For those who are curious, heres what some of the other columns mean:

Now that we understand the practical toxicology here, it is easy to analyze exposure scenarios in the field. It is clear from the toxicological data that Sarin is far more efficient as a killer in an aerosol or vapour form, easily by several orders of magnitude. A weapon system that dispenses its contents in the form of liquid would largely be a waste of expensive Sarin. So, we are now understandably back to the concept of a weapon system that is designed and tested to optimize the quantity of aerosol.

In our suspected scenario in April 2017, there is a well-substantiated allegation that an air-dropped Sarin bomb was dropped. It appears to have functioned as designed and created an aerosol that drifted downwind, as the victims were a distance away from the bomb. Any person close enough to have been splashed with some liquid was probably close enough to the bomb to die very quickly. In any case, the impact point appears to be in the middle of a road.

So, for a person to be seriously ill or to die, there is a need to create an aerosol of a concentration of 25 to 50 mg-min/m3. So, people exposed to an aerosol of this density will get sick and easily could die. People exposed to an aerosol of only 2 or 5 mg-min/m3 may easily get very ill, particularly if they are in it for minutes. But think it through. A cubic meter is a lot of air. And thats a very small amount of Sarin. How much Sarin is actually going to get deposited on their skin, hair, and clothing. A few milligrams, maximum.

Next, these people either escape or are carried away a significant distance and then receive emergency treatment. There are firm reports of responders going to rescue people becoming victims. However there are videos taken in locations some distance away from the impact site. People wearing little or no protective gear are seen handling the victims. Why are they not being seriously affected by Sarin? The simple answer is that these victims were affected by aerosol and/or vapour. Very little material actually got deposited on them. Even if it did, it would have been in the order of a few milligrams. And it takes 1700 milligrams over a period of time to kill someone by simple absorption. Responders arent falling over because, simply, the math doesnt work and Sarin isnt a magical substance.

Why then do emergency responders in more developed/better equipped situations train to wear full protective equipment? For several reasons. Emergency responders wear equipment that is prescribed through obeisance to occupational health and safety regulations, not a what can I get away with and not die ethos. Second, in the early stages of an incident, the chemical agent that was used may not be known. Even if you knew it was a nerve agent, you arent likely to know it was Sarin and not one of its more persistent cousins. VX, for example, is a different game altogether being primarily a contact/liquid hazard and requiring more skin protection when dealing with victims.

The bottom line is that Sarin evaporates quickly, not much is needed to do harm to people, and people who are exposed only to aerosol and vapour are a minimal contact or respiratory hazard to others. Even given this, some responders reported illness. So, the Responders didnt die on film so it wasnt Sarin is an incorrect line to take here and displays a basic ignorance of the facts.

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DETROIT -- In order for Matt Patricia to even consider running a trick play, the Detroit Lions coach has a couple of rules. The team has to practice it first. And it has to work -- the first time they attempt it.

Then -- and only then -- will Patricia think about having it called in a game. Theres a reason. Practice time in the NFL is valuable, so if it doesnt work immediately, then the coach wants to move on to something else. Not waste his teams time on something with a low probability for success.

They worked on it for the first time last week. Did it again this week. No issues popped up, so the toss flea-flicker that resulted in a 41-yard touchdown from quarterback Matthew Stafford to receiver Kenny Golladay -- with a toss-back assist from running back J.D. McKissic -- entered play consideration.

It worked [in practice], they all started yelling, First play, and I said, I dont think so," Patricia said. So as the week went, we talked about it and I felt good enough about it where I thought we had a specific spot, a specific time we wanted to take a shot.

It wasn't, however, the first time offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell used the play. Then with Seattle, he called the same play in 2017. He used the same running back, McKissic, against the same opponent, the Giants.

It got the same result: a touchdown from Russell Wilson to Paul Richardson.

The 2019 version of the play was run out of a bigger formation, with fullback Nick Bawden and McKissic behind Stafford under center. Before the snap, T.J. Hockenson motioned left to right behind the line, going from fellow tight end Jesse James to almost next to the lone receiver in on the play, Golladay.

Just an aggressive run set, Stafford said. Some safeties that like to play downhill, those guys were aggressive players. Kenny did a nice job of sneaking behind [the safety]... And I put it out there far enough for him to score.

Stafford stayed calm when he got the playcall and read it off in the huddle. The ball snapped, and Stafford tossed the ball to McKissic, who had two jobs on the play: sell the run and throw a good pass back to Stafford.

Its kind of a feeling, how much room I have, because the defense is gonna bite hard on the toss, McKissic said. So if I can take three steps, maybe if I can sell it in six steps. Maybe I have to do one step or maybe I have to run it because they cover [Stafford].

Mainly I say three steps and give it back to Staff and throw the dime like I did. So he could complete the long ball.

McKissic had an option to keep running with the toss right. Almost everyone bit on the toss, except for cornerback DeAndre Baker, who stayed wide on the left side almost shadowing Stafford. Baker broke back toward Stafford when McKissic -- dubbed Boobie Miles by either running back Ty Johnson or receiver Marvin Hall when he got back to the bench threw the ball back to Stafford.

The Lions had a plan in place to protect Stafford. Center Frank Ragnow swung out to be Staffords personal protector.

Like a play-action kind of blocking scheme, so I rolled out to make sure that nobody came on Stafford when he threw it back, Ragnow said. So Im blocking bootleg and then rolling back around to protect Stafford when he got it back.

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The sell was important -- Ragnow said they sold it like play-action -- and the confidence was there from their success in practice. As part of the sell, Golladay faked blocking for the run before taking off once he saw Jabrill Peppers shoot down into the box.

Most times opponents have an idea of what is about to happen. This time -- on this play -- no one had much of a clue.

The game plans [coaches] give us, we know everything that they were going to do, Peppers said. Except for that throwback. That was a good play.

By the time Stafford got the ball back, Golladay was level with Giants safety Antoine Bethea. Ragnow got over to put a body in front of the charging Baker. Golladay, who hit a top speed of 18.49 miles per hour according to Next Gen Stats, had a step on Bethea when Stafford released the ball, leading to a touchdown giving the Lions a 31-19 lead.

[Stafford] threw a dime to Kenny, McKissic said. And the rest was history.

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After it was in development at CBS and passed over last year, a television project that was set to be fronted by a former Greys Anatomy star is back in the works at a new network.

During the 2019 pilot season, The Republic of Sarah was ordered as a pilot at CBS.

The logline of the series reads: A small New Hampshire town is thrust onto the world stage when the discovery of a valuable resource within its borders compels the residents to declare themselves an independent nation, setting the unlikely young mayor and her cabinet of inexperienced locals on the path of running a brand new country.

Sarah Drew of Greys Anatomy fame was the lead and titular Sarah. The main cast also included Kirsten Nelson, James Lesure, Kimberly Guerrero, Daniel Ings, Annie Funke, Jonathan Slavin, Carlos Leal.

CBS ended up passing on the series and it did not move forward. The shows that did get series orders at the network included Mike Colter in Evil and Simone Missick in All Rise.

A year after the initial pilot was ordered at CBS, The Republic of Sarah is back in development. This time, it is in the works at CBSs sibling network, The CW. Both networks are under ViacomCBS, along with other ones like Showtime, MTV, BET, and more.

While the general theme of the show is the same, several key components of the original pilot script have been changed.

Deadline reports, The Republic of Sarahis said to have aNorthern Exposurefeel. Faced with the destruction of her town at the hands of a greedy mining company, rebellious high school teacher Sarah Cooper utilizes an obscure cartographical loophole to declare independence. Now Sarah must lead a young group of misfits as they attempt to start their own country from scratch.

As far as we know, Drew will not be in this new pilot. The new Sarah, as well as the main cast, should be announced in the coming weeks.

We will find out around May if The Republic of Sarah will get picked up to series at The CW.

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Now PlayingGrey's Anatomy: How Will Jo Manage Without Stephanie?

Poor Jo!

That's not a statement we use much in relation to Grey's Anatomy, but we have to admit that homegirl has had it rough the past couple of seasons. On top of losing her fiance, drama causing her to fall behind in the residents program and her coworker falling in love with her, Jo's (Camilla Luddington) best friend is now leaving Grey Sloan to find herself.

That leaves one lonely Jo running around the hospital, and that's pretty damn sad. Stephanie (Jerrika Hinton) was like a sister to Jo, Luddington told TV Guide at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. However, with Stephanie gone Jo will be looking for someone else to lean on.

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"I think Jo is going to try and attempt to lean on Ben a bit this season," Luddington confessed. "Is it successful? I don't know. I think she's trying to pull anyone close to her and that's another resident...As for other women, I don't know yet. That'll be interesting."

See if Jo gets a new BFF when Grey's Anatomy returns for a two-hour premiere on Thursday, Sept. 28 at 8/7c on ABC.

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Grey's Anatomy: Jo Is Desperate for Family Without Stephanie Around - TV Guide

Now PlayingGrey's Anatomy 7 Worst Couples/Hookups, Ranked

Ever since Season 1 of Grey's Anatomy, fans have joked about the "incestuous" relationships among the show's doctors. Despite being close enough to their colleagues to consider them family, the doctors and residents at Grey Sloan (nee Seattle Grace) often found themselves falling into bed together. Like, really often.

But as the show prepares to enter its 14th season, the term "incest" may no longer be such a misnomer -- and some fans aren't having it.

We're talking, of course, about the budding romance between step-siblings Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) and Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams), a pairing that seemed to emerge out of nowhere when none other than Jackson's ex-wife April (Sarah Drew) told Maggie it was clear Jackson had feelings for her in the Season 13 finale.

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Well, OK, maybe the spark didn't come out of nowhere. Maggie did turn to Jackson for support after her mother died in Season 13 -- even though he had kept Mrs. Pierce's condition a secret from Maggie while he was treating her. After that, they certainly seemed to grow closer at the hospital. But April's observation still came a little out of left field.

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After her failed romance with DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti) and unrequited crush on Riggs (Martin Henderson), it sounds like Maggie is just eenie-meenie-miney-mo'ing her way around the men at her workplace, without much success. Would it kill her (or any of the other doctors, for that matter) to maybe try an online dating service for once?

And a Maggie-Jackson romance provides yet another very convenient roadblock to keep Jackson and April -- a popular couple shipped by many fans who share a child, have their own hashtag (#Japril) and had an entire episode devoted to themselves last season -- apart for at least the better part of another year.

Also, and I believe I mentioned this earlier: the two are step-siblings. Maggie's father Richard (James Pickens Jr.) is married to Jackson's mother Catherine (Debbie Allen). What is this, Game of Thrones?

Whether Maggie and Jackson will actually take the plunge remains to be seen, but fans seem to be pretty divided about the potential pairing.

This week, Williams himself noted that fans seem to be "evenly divided" over the issue, but seemed to maybe indicate that he's not on board with it, retweeting a fan-made anti-Jaggie meme with the simple observation, "Very good."

Look, don't get me wrong: ever since Maggie's character was introduced at the end of Season 10, she's been one of the more interesting and likable characters on the show -- but has suffered nothing but heartache. The closest we've seen her come to having a relationship was her short-lived dalliances with DeLuca and her mostly offscreen stint with the radiologist Ethan. It would be great to see Maggie in a long-term, fulfilling relationship, the likes of which we've seen almost all of the other Grey's characters involved in. Not only is it about time for Maggie to have something good happen to her, giving her a significant other would also provide a wealth of potential drama for a character who longs for a partner -- despite having made her studies and career a priority for her whole life (and who we know has deemed herself incapable of sleeping next to other people).

But a Maggie-Jackson pairing seems like merely a plot device, an arbitrary pairing-off that makes Maggie little more than a pawn in the larger #Japril storyline. There's no denying that there is chemistry between Williams and McCreary; but up until this point it's seemed to be more of the brother/sister variety because, well, that's what they are. Plus, with so many fans already voicing their disdain for the romance before it's even officially happened, it will be a difficult task for the writers and actors to develop the two characters into a couple worth rooting for. And the alternative -- turning viewers against one or both of the mostly beloved characters -- is almost worse. It would be a better idea to put the idea of Jaggie to bed rather than in one.

Also, ew.

Grey's Anatomy kicks off Season 14 with a two-hour premiere Thursday, Sept. 28 at 8/7c on ABC.

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Grey's Anatomy: We Need to Talk About Jaggie - TV Guide

The Commercial Appeal, for which all of us in the local media have such affection and respect, chose shades of yesteryear to blow out a big expose on Sunday(for subscribers only) on the subject of "bogus ballots." This is the practice of several entrepreneurs at election time to hit up political candidates for stiff payments, in return for which the aforesaid candidates have their names and likenesses put on sample ballots that are passed out to unwitting voters as being legitimate expressions from organizations that sound like real rather than fictitious political organizations.

The CA's story was produced by no less than three authors and three editors and was generated, we are told in a footnote, by a "news tip" further instances of which are solicited in the end note.

We'd like to be helpful with more tips, but, hey, we've already supplied at least four (listed below) all of which appeared in the week or so before the October 3rd election, not on a slow-news Sunday, several weeks later.

For the record, the Flyer's stories on the subject are in "related stories" below this post. Here the direct links:

https://www.memphisflyer.com/JacksonBaker/archives/2019/09/22/the-bogus-ballot-syndrome-again

https://www.memphisflyer.com/JacksonBaker/archives/2019/10/03/judge-declares-halt-to-distribution-of-for-profit-sample-ballots-in-city-election

https://www.memphisflyer.com/JacksonBaker/archives/2019/09/26/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed

https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/modernizing-the-vote-bogus-ballots-and-a-judgeship-kerfuffle/Content?oid=21475572

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Anatomy of a "News Tip" - Memphis Flyer

ABC will spin off series from three franchises next season Greys Anatomy, The Bachelor and Dancing With the Stars and add yet another Marvel-based drama, the network announced Tuesday.

The Greys spinoff will be set in a Seattle firehouse, with characters introduced on the flagship series next season. In addition, The Bachelor Winter Games will cast past contestants in a series with winter-themed athletic challenges including the toughest sport of all, love.

Then this: Dancing With the Stars Junior will pair celebrity kids and kids of celebrities with professional junior ballroom dancers. No airdates set, but the reality series will premiere next year.

ABC executives also said the network will air a live comedy special produced by Jimmy Kimmel and Justin Theroux featuring comics reading scripts from classic sitcoms.

Heres the fall lineup:

Monday: Dancing With the Stars (8); The Good Doctor (10), with Freddie Highmore as a surgeon with autism and savant syndrome.

Tuesday: The Middle (8); Fresh Off the Boat (8:30); black-ish (9); The Mayor (9:30), about a rapper (Brandon Micheal Hall) who becomes mayor (its produced by Daveed Diggs of Hamilton); The Gospel of Kevin (10), with Jason Ritter and JoAnna Garcia Swisher, about a guy on a mission to save the world.

Wednesday: The Goldbergs (8); Speechless (8:30); Modern Family (9); American Housewife (9:30); Designated Survivor (10).

Thursday: Greys Anatomy (8); Scandal (9); How to Get Away With Murder (10).

Friday: Once Upon a Time (8); Marvels Inhumans (9), about Black Bolt (Anson Mount) he with the very loud voice and his family of Inhumans; 20/20 (10).

Saturday: College football

Sunday: Americas Funniest Home Videos (7); To Tell the Truth (8); Shark Tank (9); Ten Days in the Valley (10), with Kyra Sedgwick as a news producer whose child goes missing.

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ABC fall 2017 lineup: 'Grey's Anatomy' spinoff, 'Good Doctor,' more - Newsday