Photo: Yorkshire Evening Post Peter Jukes dissects how No 10 sources, mainstream broadcast journalists and an army of hired online activists tried to save Boris Johnson from himself. The Local Journalist

First, some facts, as they are in precious short supply. Around noon on Sunday 8 December, Daniel Sheridan of the Yorkshire Evening Post published a story about Jack Williment-Barr, a four-year-old boy who was rushed to Leeds General Infirmary with suspected pneumonia. His mother Sarah had contacted the newspaper with a picture of her son lying on a pile of coats and claimed he had been left in the clinical treatment room for four hours.

Like any responsible journalist, Daniel Sheridan double-checked the story with the hospital and its chief medical officer, Dr Yvette Oade, who explained how busy the hospital was and apologised to the family. We are extremely sorry that there were only chairs available in the treatment room, and no bed, she said. This falls below our usual high standards and for this we would like to sincerely apologise to Jack and his family.

So far, a telling example of the vital importance of local journalism a profession that continues to be gutted as newsrooms are cut or amalgamated, and Google and Facebook siphon off the billions of revenues that keep local accountability alive.

The next day, Joe Pike, a young journalist for ITV Calendar in Grimsby, was following the Conservative Party leader as he posed for photos holding a large cod (not for the first time) in the fishing town which has often become an emblem of taking back control of our waters by leaving the European Union.

Unlike the BBC interviewer Andrew Neil, Joe Pike has no reputation for skewering politicians, so Boris Johnson and his advisors probably thought they didnt need to avoid this particular interview in the bowels of the fish warehouses. They miscalculated. Pike whipped out his phone with the photo of Jack Williment-Barr lying on the floor, and persistently questioned the Prime Minister about it.

In a psychologically revealing panic, Johnson tried to bluster that everything would improve once we got Brexit done. But Pike persisted. Johnson tried to steamroller him, but his darting eyes and demeanour showed that he didnt want to answer the question and, in an effort to avoid it, the Prime Minister took the reporters phone and hid it in his pocket. This prompted one of the most remarkable comments of the campaign so far from Pike who remarked, calmly:

Youve refused to see the photo. Youve taken my phone and put it in your pocket, Prime Minister.

Child psychiatrists would have a field day on this. The failure to realise that hiding your face does not make you invisible, or that stealing a reporters phone does not make the report go away, suggests that under pressure the leader of the Conservative Party has the social cognitive abilities of a four-year-old.

Apart from Johnsons kleptomanic evasion, the film of this strange encounter had the additional problem of focusing on the NHS at a key point in the last few days of the General Election campaign. Conservative campaigners know that the NHS is not their strong point, so the Health and Social Care Minister, Matt Hancock, was dispatched to Leeds General Infirmary to firefight.

As Hancock rushed to Leeds, a host of media figures sympathetic to Johnson rushed into action. Guido Fawkes (which registered the site Boris2020 seven years ago) was first off the mark, with a fake story that 100 Labour activists were being paid to go to Leeds to protest. This was followed up by his former colleague at the Sun, Tom Newton Dunn, who described a flash mob descending.

Soon, the BBCs political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, was describing to her 1.1 million followers how Labour activists scrambled to go and protest and then it turned nasty when one of them punched Hancocks adviser. The information had no attribution, or Ive heard or sources say.

Not to be left out, Robert Peston, the political editor of the second largest broadcaster, ITV, identified the person punched to his 1 million followers, and named the special adviser to Matt Hancock, adding that the police had been called.

The only problem with this breaking story which quickly and conveniently replaced the story of Johnson pocketing the reporters phone in all the major news feeds was that it was completely bogus.

There were about four noisy demonstrators outside Leeds General Infirmary as Hancock departed in his ministerial car, not 100. No punch was ever landed. Hancocks SpAd walked into a cyclists hand as he pointed to the ministerial car rushing away.

It took several hours of persistent correction from other Twitter users before both Peston and Kuenssberg corrected the damaging allegation of assault. But their apologies revealed even more

Peston explained that he had been told the story by two Tory party sources. According to good journalistic practice, that would be the minimum to run an allegation of assault but only if the sources were independent. They clearly werent. What would have been a rookie mistake for a young journalist was a catastrophic failure of judgement by the political editors of both major broadcasters, made even more so because it came in the crucial last few days of a landmark General Election.

Im not of the the view that either Peston or Kuenssberg are consciously partisan, and I certainly dont buy the allegation that they have been bought. But they have been played, and to rescue their reputations and most importantly our trust in the two most important sources of news in the country there should be a full inquiry.

For the real culprits here are the sources who lied to them both, consistently. They have no protection for deceiving the public and both Peston and Kuenssberg have a public duty to tell us who they are. Nothing short of that can begin to repair the damage caused.

Thanks to some brilliant traffic and network analysis by Mark Owen Jones, we can see how the fake punch story was spread around 7,500 Twitter interactions from 5,500 unique Twitter accounts from Guido Fawkes, via the Suns chief political correspondent, commentator Dan Hodges to the BBC and ITV. But that wasnt the end of the story.

Soon after the punch story was discredited, a new story about the whole hospital photo being staged borrowed from Facebook began doing the rounds on Twitter.

All the Twitter accounts repeating it had the same information a good friend of mine is a senior nursing sister and claimed that the mother of Jack Williment-Barr had faked the photo for publicity as a Labour activist.

This frankly defamatory and unpleasant smear was boosted, with no fact-checking, by Allison Pearson of the Telegraph and Brexit Party MEP Claire Fox. Just one post on one Facebook discussion group alone has 276 comments and 98 shares.

No sooner was this story being debunked (after all, the head of the Leeds hospital trust had apologised two days previously) when a new disinformation theme was being boosted on social media, especially to the gullible Allison Pearson, who declared she was going to write a story in the Telegraph about the shocking propaganda around the four-year-old.

Whoever this Great Ormond St nurse was, they seemed to have multiple Twitter accounts in fake names.

The first tweet came from a Twitter user who claimed to have attended six universities and was now training in law:

The next came from a foreign exchange trader:

While another, identical claim, came from someone who had previously boasted about working in supply chain JLR for 35 years:

Whether these are semi-automated bots, or one malicious user deploying sock puppet accounts, or just bad faith actors in the public realm, they are very effective at targeting journalists and commentators who then spread the false narrative to a wider audience.

In fact, journalists and politicians are the main targets of such information operations, whether organised c
entrally or not, as trusted but duped sources are the quickest way to amplify a misleading story.

Britain is currently undergoing a perfect storm of electoral interference. With lax or unenforceable legislation about non-party campaigners spending millions on Facebook posts, and with Twitter easily gamed by trolls, bots and sock puppets, the online sphere requires extreme caution.

We should only trust journalists who seek to verify and double-check, like Daniel Sheridan who started this saga, and remember that we are all easy prey to the stories we want to hear.

Combating online disinformation requires education, some ferocious forensic investigators, and a large dose of mockery and shame to those involved. But what to do with our press?

Both the Sun and the Telegraph were keen to promote and prop up these fake stories. Though their circulations are tanking and their profit margins non-existent, these newspapers still wield power, especially over politicians, whose lives they can trash, mock or ignore.

But, by far, the most worrying thing is our two main broadcasters the BBC and ITV. One of the protections against our feral press was that we had a mixed commercial and public service broadcast system which could be relatively immune to political and commercial pressure.

Kuenssberg and Peston have shown the other hidden danger: the danger of client journalism, of editors in hock to their sources thanks to the clubbish cliqueness of the lobby system of unattributed briefings. I personally think that there is some cultural capture here, because youre only two north London dinner parties away from another senior journalist or politician these days, thanks to rank inaccessibility of media jobs for most ordinary people. But, more important than any professional criticism of the two political editors, is the laxity and complicity of their management.

Byline Times approached the BBC last night for a response to Laura Kuenssbergs misinformation. We asked the broadcaster how its political editor happened to circulate a false rumour as a fact and how this reflected on the corporations editorial standards and the public service broadcasters reputation. The press office replied with a curt message directing us to her apology an apology that raises more questions than it answers and does nothing to allay the growing concern of licence fee payers.

Byline Times is still waiting for a response from ITV.

This article was corrected to reflect that Joe Pike wont be joining Sky News until January and is still employed by ITV Calendar.

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Trevor Noah and The Daily Show crew usually are up for a few laughs on the serious topics they tackle. But tonight, it was more about rueful laughter, as they discussed the Washington Posts blockbuster story that showed three different presidential administrations lied about American progress in the war in Afghanistan.

Its the Greys Anatomy of wars, said Noah. We thought it ended years ago, but somehow, its still going strong. He went on to detail that for 18 years, US officials lied about the Afghanistan war, painting a rosy picture that everything is well a tactic used by every failing couple on Instagram, he noted.

The government lied about every detail of the war, even spinning suicide bombers as a sign of success. That, Noah noted, is like touting yourself as a catch in online dating because you have your own room in moms basement.

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What makes it egregious is that they lied about even having a plan, Noah said, showing clips from politicians who noted that, We didnt know why we were there or how we could get out..we didnt have the foggiest notion of what we were doing.

Not knowing who they were going to fight thats a strategy for drunk dudes in Boston, Noah said. The people in charge didnt know how to define success Like what they did with Game of Thrones.

He went on to detail the various boondoggles, including a $34 million effort to grow soybeans in a country whose soil and climate were not a fit, or $28 million for forest camouflage uniforms for the Afghan army in a country thats mostly desert.

Now, you might be thinking, Who can we be mad at?' The answer is the last three administrations. They all exaggerated American success, Noah said. In a time where partisanship has split the country, Its nice to learn that something brings leaders together: lying about war.

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Read: A rare universal pattern in human languages

LDT told people, basically, dont bother to go look for speech abilities in anything other than modern humans, says Thomas Sawallis, one of the authors of the new paper. Those speech abilities could include distinct vowels and consonants, syllables, or even syntaxall of which, according to LDT, should be impossible for any animal without a human vocal tract. There was always this idea, says Greg Hickok, a cognitive-science professor at the University of California at Irvine who was not involved in the study, that there was one thing that had to happen and that released the linguistic abilities. For Noam Chomsky and his followers, that thing was the invention of syntax. For proponents of LDT, it was the reshaping of the human throat.

Part of the reason LDT caught on to begin with is that language evolution, as a field, lacks concrete data. As John Locke, a linguistics professor at Lehman College, put it, Motor control rots when you die. Soft tissues like tongues and nerves and brains generally dont fossilize; DNA sequencing is impossible past a few hundred thousand years; no one has yet found a diary or rap track recorded by a teenage Australopithecus. So the anatomical argument presented by LDT gave researchers something to latch on to. Until the 60s, people who studied language evolution were considered crackpots because they didnt have any data, Locke says. When youve got nothing on the table, a little something goes a long ways.

The researcher generally credited with developing laryngeal descent theory is Philip Lieberman, now a professor at Brown University. He called the new paper just a complete misrepresentation of the entire field, among other things. One of the quantitative models the new study relies on, he says, doesnt properly represent the shape of the larynx, tongue, and other parts we use to talk: It would convert a mailing tube into a human vocal tract. And according to Lieberman, laryngeal descent theory never claimed language was not possible prior to the critical changes in our ancestors throat anatomy. Theyre trying to set up a straw man, he said.

Yet other experts I spoke with told me that setting an upper bound on when speech, and therefore language, could have possibly evolved was exactly the effect that LDT had on anyone studying language evolution. Hickok said that when he was being trained in linguistics, this was an established, almost dogmatic idea. The new study is a dramatic reversal of the status quo, he said: The phrase that came to mind when I finished it was mic drop.

Read: How F sounds might break a fundamental rule of linguistics

Still, he doesnt agree entirely with Sawallis and his co-authors conclusions. Rather than 27 million years, Hickok proposes that the earliest bound on any sort of speech ability would be nearer to human ancestors split with the Pan genus, which includes chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest living relatives. That split happened about 5 million to 7 million years agocertainly longer than 200,000 years, but a far cry from 27 million. Lieberman argues that the precursors of speech might have emerged about a little more than 3 million years ago, when artifacts like jewelry appear in the archaeological record. The idea is that both language and jewelry are intimately related to the evolution of symbolic thinking.

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It was a beautiful day for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. But when disaster struck at Whakaari/White Island, some of thepeople who were there didn't come home. Nikki Macdonald examines how the tragedy unfolded.

2.10pm

At 2.10pm the GNS Science webcam at Whakaari/White Island's crater rim snapsan ant-trail of tourists checking out New Zealand's most active volcano. One minute later, the ever-puffingcone, whose Mori name means the dramatic volcano, blowsits top. There are 47 tourists still on the island, but the world doesn't know that yet.

Near the pier wheretour passengers load and unload, a boat is waiting to leave, to return its day-trippers to Whakatne, 50km away.On board is a group who just 20 minutes earlier were in their hard hats and gas masks, doing that same regular loop to the crater's steamy yellow edge,offered as part of the standard 1hour inner-crater tour.

"No, no, no," a passenger cries out, as they watch the mushrooming cloud of white and black smoke and ash surge from the area they've just left. "Ca commence," a French tourist exclaims it's starting. "Go inside, go inside," a frantic voice calls out.

The beautiful silent shroud turns sinister, rolling across the island.At the pier, about 13 people huddle as the toxic tower rises above their heads. Ash-covered tourists run into the sea.

The Volcanic Air tour helicopter parked on the beach is shunted from its helipad, its rotors bent into spidery legs. That's 1.5 tonnes of metal, carried by the force of the explosion. Its four German passengers are down by the beach. Two passengers and the pilot escape serious harm by jumping into the water. The others suffer burns.

Theash cloud soars to more than 3600mfarenough to see fromsatellites.

Six weeks earlier, Stuff reportedthat the island's sulphurdioxide gas and volcanic tremorshad hit their highest levels since 2016,increasingthe possibility of an eruption. On November 18, GNS raised the volcano's alert level from one to two out of five advising that eruptions of steam, gas, mud and rocks could occur "with little or no warning".

GNS vulcanologist Geoff Kilgoursays rocks and minerals had been slowly clogging the geothermal vents, increasing the pressure, like blowing up a balloon. But like a balloon, you can't predict when it might burst.

White Island Tours' websitesays it operates through the various alert levels, but"there isalways a risk of eruptive activity".

At 2.17pm, police are alerted to the disaster.

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Tourists who have just left Whakaari watch helplessly from a boat as ash consumes the island.

2.24pm

Tour guides in navy and white striped T-shirts take inflatables from the tour boat to rescue the ash-caked huddle on the pier. At least five rescuees are in critical condition their skin blistered beneath their clothes from severeburns.

University of Auckland vulcanologistProfessor Shane Croninsays the eruptionwould have released a"violent ejection" of hot blocks and ash, and formed'hurricane-like' currents ofwet ash and coarse particles radiating from the explosion vent. That, and a cloud of "pretty much every nasty gas you can think of".

"These can be deadly in terms of causing impact trauma, burns and respiratory problems," Cronin says.

Lillani Hopkins

Geoff and Lillani Hopkins were on the island minutes before the eruption, and helped tend horribly burnt patients on the boat ride back to Whakatne.

The boat crew plead for doctors there are two. Hamilton pastor Geoff Hopkins and his daughter Lillaniare first aiders and also offer to help.

Lillanitriages the patients attaching red, orange or green tags, to show those most at risk of dying. They cut off the victims' clothes, andreplacethem withtheir own to keep themwarm. They're burnt but cold; in shock, drifting in and out of consciousness. They pourwater on the burns. When the water runsout,Lillaniholds a screaming man's hand and sings.

The Hopkinsesare two of few Kiwis on the tour. Those caught in the blast came from all over the world Australia, Britain, Malaysia, the United States, China.Many came from cruise ship, the Ovation of the Seas, which was docked for theday at Tauranga. Later that afternoon, its 4000-odd passengers listenas the captain announcesone of the ship's tour groups hasbeen caught in a volcanic eruption. He reads a list of passengers asked to report in. It's long. Cruisersanxiously checktheir phones.

At 2.30pm, GNS issues a volcanic alert bulletin, raising the alert level to 4, signifying amoderate volcanic eruption.

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Tourism operator White Island Flights captured this image of the Whakaari/White Island eruption.

2.40pm

Before the dust has settled, rescue efforts begin from the air, with Westpac rescue helicopters, two private helicopters and a Volcanic Air tourist helicopter scrambled to help.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern later paystribute to the courage of the pilots who selflessly headed into theeruption's aftermath.

One is pilot Mark Law, of Whakatne helicopter company Khu. He's been flying tourists to Whakaari/White Island for years. When he hearsof the eruption, he doesn'thesitate to fire up the rotors of his Squirrel and make the 20-minute flight to the island.

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Crew from tour boats who were waiting to leave sent inflatables back to the island to rescue those caught in the eruption.

His colleague Jason Hill flies their second chopper. Inside the volcano's crater, the dust and gas are swirling, restricting visibility.

On the ground, they can see distressed people. Some sitting, some lying. Several have horrific injuries. They hear emergency services aren't coming, so they start rescuing patients themselves. The dust is so deep it's like running through talcum powder.

Volcanic Air chief pilot Tim Barrow arrives to help.Between them, they load up 12 patients and get them out, to Whakatne Hospital. They're struggling to breathe, and one of Barrow's charges dies on the way.

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Mark Law was one of three commercial helicopter pilots who courageously flew to the island immediately after the eruption, to evacuate patients.

On board oneWestpachelicopter is Dr Tony Smith. He's St John's clinical director, but also works half time as an intensive care specialist for Auckland Hospital. They have a permanent rescue helicopter crew, and he happens to be the doctor on call.

When the call comes in around 2.30pm, information is sketchy. All they know is there'sbeen an eruption, with multiple casualties. As they flytoward the volcano, the scale of the disaster becomes clearer from information from the ground, but it also becomes visible from the air.

"Even before we went over the Coromandel Peninsula we could see the plume of smoke. It was clear that something big had happened."

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St John clinical director Tony Smith (left) and a paramedic are seen on White Island after the eruption.

They circle over the crater, looking for a safe landing, checking for life. They find neither they can see people, but only those who haven't made it.

Safety is never black or white, always grey, Smith says. They put down on the beach, near the pier, where they figure the boats can fish them out if they have to flee to the water. Everything is covered in thick yellow sulphurous ash. Every wind gust or rotor swish kicks up a dust cloud. It's like walking around in fog.

They can smell the sulphur through the respirator masks. It's incredibly irritating within minutes eyes and any exposed skin are sore. There are no more survivors to save so they head out, back to Whakatne, where six critically injured evacuees are waiting at the airfield and wharf.

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This 1.5 tonne tour helicopter was shunted off its helipad by the force of the eruption.

3.26pm

On Whakatne's coast, police cordon off Muriwai Drive, to give eme
rgency services room and privacy to deal with the injured. Casualties are removed on stretchers, covered in survival blankets, some dressed only in their underwear. Manyhave life-threatening burns.

Whakatne Hospital goes into mass casualty response, handlingmore critical patients in 12 hours than it normally gets in 12 months. Five will not make it, but the country doesn't know that yet.

Patients are placed wherever there'sspace in the Emergency Department, in the wards, even in the operating theatres. They need stabilising. Some have lungs so burntthey need ventilators to breathe. Others need anaesthetic to deal with the pain. Medicssend out for catering packs of Gladwrap, to cover the weeping wounds.

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Police cordoned off Whakatne's Muritai Drive, to give emergency crew room to receive the injured.

Of the 31 patients, 27 have burns to more than 30 per cent of their bodies the normal entry criterionfor the national burns unit at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital. They need to get out of tiny Whakatne Hospital, but Middlemore can't cope with everyone. Smith helps co-ordinate ambulances, helicopters and aircraft to fly the injured to the country's four burns units, at Hutt Hospital, Christchurch, Waikato and Middlemore, and the two next best options Auckland and Tauranga.

Some patients have burns to more than 50 per cent of their bodies. The skin is red and blistered, with pieces falling off. The deepest burns turn the skin white, thick and leathery. Medics will need 1.2 million square centimetres of donor skin to patch all the scorched bodies.

Looking around Whakatne ED, Smith is blown away by the scale of the task ahead.

Lillani Hopkins

The ash cloud soars to more than 3600m - far enough to see from satellites.

"In terms of numbers of patients with very severe injuries, andsubsequent impact on the healthcare system of New Zealand,this is by far and away the biggest event we have ever experienced. Patients with 50 per cent burns will occupy many many many tens of hours of surgical operating and operating theatre time, many weeks of intensive care. These are complex patients that require a lot of complex therapies to get them to survive."

At 3.30pm, theNational Emergency Management Agency issues a national warning for a moderate volcanic eruption, advising people living near the ashfall to close windows and wear a dust mask.

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Tourists have been visiting Whakaari/White Island for more than 30 years. (File photo)

3.45pm

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gives a press conference saying 100 people are believed to have been on the island, and some are unaccounted for. Reports begin to filter to the public, of at least 20 injured, some critical, and possible deaths

At 4.25pm, GNS drops the volcano's alert level back to 3, warning of eruption hazards near the vent. Experts report there "remains significant uncertainty as to future changes but currently, there are no signs of escalation".

4.59pm

Police issue an update, saying only 50 tourists are now believed to have been on the island during the eruption.That's the only good news of the evening.

Just 90 minutes later, the police National Operation Commander, Deputy Commissioner John Tims, stands in the Beehive theatre and announces one of those rescued from the island has died. More deaths are likely, he says.

He doesn't know how many remain on the island, but it could be up to 27. And authorities have decided it's too dangerous for police and emergency services to go back in.

Ross Giblin

National Police Operation Commander, Deputy Commissioner John Tims, was the bearer of continual bad news.

9pm

Police confirm five people have died. Around the world, desperate friends and relatives begin to post missing persons reports on the Red Cross family links website. Theyare parents and children; husbands and wives; young and old.Their nationalities span the globe.

Some are false alarms a 7-year-old Australian boy is later found safe with family in Whakatne. Others are not.

10.20pm

Ardern and Civil Defence Minister Peeni Henare arrive in Whakatne and head to Whakatne District Council for a briefing.

Two hours later, just after midnight, police deliver a critical blow to hope: nomoresearchand rescue will be attempted tonight, despite "double digit" numbers left on the island. A police Eagle helicopter, rescue helicopter and defence force planes have donerecces, butseen no sign of life.

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrives in Whakatne for a briefing on the situation on White Island on Monday night.

TUESDAY, 10 DECEMBER

Even as eight bodies lie unrecovered and unidentified in their ashen graveyard, the questions begin.

Local man Hayden Marshall-Inman is the first victim to be named one of two White Island Tours staff killed. As a tour guide for more than a decade, he knew the risks, his brother says.But he's angry that red tape is preventing them bringing his brother's body home.

"It smells like Pike River all over again.People from Wellington making decisions for people that go on the island daily who knows the island inside out."

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Hayden Marshall-Inman.

As Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmsup to threeof the five dead may be Australian, another 11 are unaccounted for and 13 have been hospitalised, the scale of the diplomatic disaster begins to crystallise.

The dead and injured come from seven countries two from Britain, four from Germany, 24 from Australia, five from New Zealand, two from China, one from Malaysia and nine from the United States.

Stories begin appearing on international media, of their countrymen and women caught in the tragedy. And with them come the question why were they allowed on an active volcano that was known to begetting jumpier?

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Newly weds Lauren and Matt Urey were on White Island when it erupted. They were taken to hospital with burns. Their condition is unknown.

American honeymooners Lauren and Matthew Ureywere severely burntin the explosion. Lauren's mother Barbara Barham is livid had her daughter known it was risky, she would never have gone, she says.Lauren's father says allowing tourists on to an active volcano is "absurd".

Tourists have been trekking out to the island for more than 30 years, including through the volcano's most active period, from 1975 to 2001, when small eruptions were frequent. It has claimed lives before in 1914, a lahar killed 10sulphur miners asleep in their beds. The only survivor was a tabby cat.

Ray Cas, Australian professor of geoscience at Melbourne's Monash University, has said White Island was "a disaster waiting to happen".

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Flowers and cards have started to be placed at the cordon site for White Island victims.

Whether tourists should have been there at all is a question that must be asked, Ardern later says. At 5pm, police announce they will be asking it, in addition tohealth and safety watchdog WorkSafe.

But for now the focus is on supporting grieving families, and the heroes who went in to help.One survivor will later die in hospital, on Tuesday night, bringing the death toll to eight.

"All incidents like this affect everybody," Tony Smith says. "You are a human being. It's impossible to go to something like this and not be affected ... This will be an incident which will be forever etched in our memories."

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GLENDALE, Ariz. As the football tumbled toward him from the rafters at State Farm Stadium, Steelers rookie Diontae Johnson stood with his heels at the 15-yard line and thought, This is it. While watching film earlier this week, Johnson saw that Arizona Cardinals punter Andy Lee tended to consistently outkick his coverage. The Steelers planned for it. So, when Lee boomed a punt in the first quarter Sunday, the Steelers were set up to spring Johnson.

The strategy started at the line of scrimmage. The Steelers sent six to try to block Lees punt. That way, even if the rush didnt get home it almost did the Cardinals would need to keep most of their men back to protect Lee, and the pressure would force Lee to kick quickly. The line was instructed to hold its initial blocks for two seconds. Thats all the time Johnson required.

Hell do the rest, linebacker Tyler Matakevich said.

Ten seconds after the snap, Johnson was alone in the open...

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In Anatomy of a Scene, we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series each Friday. You can also watch our collection of more than 150 videos on YouTube and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

The early teasers for Marriage Story were released as two separate vignettes, with each of the lead characters, Charlie and Nicole (Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson), discussing what they love about the other.

Those montages play in a more extended form at the beginning of Noah Baumbachs film (now in theaters and streaming on Netflix), creating a way to quickly establish the characters while drawing viewers more intimately into their relationship, just before showing that its about to end.

Narrating the scene, Baumbach discusses the challenges of shooting so many small moments in a relationship and making them feel lived-in. He discusses how the films score, by Randy Newman, aids in that goal, and how he shot a lot of footage to capture just the right amount of emotion.

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The world has long been mourning the death of Doctor Derek Shepherd. Okay, maybe just Greys Anatomy fans have been missing the swoon-worthy McDreamy. Either way, a new love interest for Ellen Pompeos Meredith Grey has been a long time coming.

However, fans are disapproving of this seasons potential fling and its been hard to sell them on the Derek Shepherd replacement.

Thinking back to when Derek (Patrick Dempsey) was still alive, their relationship, however fairy tale worthy, still had its share of ups and downs. Lots and lots of ups and downs. The entire series (and their ill-fated relationship) began when Meredith and Derek met at a bar near the hospital where he was an attending doctor and she just starting as an intern.

Unfortunately for Meredith, Derek was already married. Thus began their roller-coaster romance.

Between the drama of simply working together, to Dereks attempts to work things out with his wife, they had a slow start to a successful relationship. Although the two eventually got (post-it note) married and started a family together, his untimely death in season 11 left Meredith heartbroken and on her own again.

There have been some dates and Merediths signature one-night stands since then. For instance, Meredith dated Dr. Will Thorpe in Season 12, soon after Dereks passing. In fact, he was the first guy shed dated since her husbands death. Ultimately, thats why a relationship didnt work out between the two, because Meredith was still too broken. Will seemed like a nice guy and even said he would wait for her. But, that is yet to be seen.

That same season Meredith spent some time with Nathan Riggs, but his fiance, Megan, came back into the picture unexpectedly and Meredith encouraged him to reunite with Megan.

Season 15 brought some changes for Meredith. Most notably, her efforts to get back into the dating scene. At the beginning of the season she went on one blind date with John, played by fan-favorite Josh Radnor.

Unfortunately, he complained about dating desperate single moms and that was then end of that.

But, despite the bad date, this was the start of Merediths quest for new love.

We thought it would just be a diehard loyalty to Derek which would keep fans from embracing Merediths new man. But, thats not the only reason viewers arent supportive of Merediths new relationship with Andrew DeLuca. As season 16 plays out, it will be interesting to see if viewers are able to get behind this budding romance.

Reddit user Crazycatgirl16 points out that writers seem to use new characters to spice up a boring plot line. they pull out the lets introduce a new character card even though we have a big enough cast already.

She laments on a message board dedicated to dissecting the lack of originality in recent episodes of Greys. Other common complaints on the thread include too many surprise pregnancies and an overuse of the love triangle plot line.

Both of these complaints hit home on the Deluca front. Not only was he a new character in the show for Season 15, but he also was one of two men vying for Mers affection. The triangle existed between Meredith, Deluca, and Link. Ultimately, Deluca is the lucky winner of Merediths heart. For now.

Some fans have been turned to the Deluca side, perhaps more will be swayed as the season continues.

Greys Anatomy has been renewed for both Season 16 and 17, well see how long the MerLuca relationship lasts.

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Olivia Colman is trying to follow in Claire Foys footsteps in more ways than one. Succeeding her as Queen Elizabeth II on The Crown is one thing and now shes attempting to emulate her awards run for the show. Colman is the heavy favorite to take home the Best TV Drama Actress Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, just like Foy did, and a win at the latter would put The Crown in the company of just one other show to field two different winners in the category.

Thanks to Foys back-to-back wins in 2017-18, The Crown is one of eight shows to garner multiple SAG Awards in the lead actress category. But seven of those series had their same respective star score repeat victories; the only show to boast two different winners is Greys Anatomy, which saw Sandra Oh and Chandra Wilson triumph back to back in 2006 and 07.

SEE The Crowns Olivia Colman looks to reign supreme with a pristine 3-for-3 Golden Globe record

Those Greys wins are also notable for the fact that Oh and Wilson were supporting players on the long-running medical drama and managed to prevail in the SAG Awards single individual TV races that combine lead and supporting performances. Unlike Foy and Colman on The Crown, Oh and Wilson were co-stars who shared the screen as well, so a Colman victory would be the first instance of the same character winning the SAG Award for two actresses.

Colman is way out in front in our odds at 82/25. Emmy champ Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) is second, followed by Meryl Streep (Big Little Lies), Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies) and Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaids Tale). Ironically, Comers co-star and defending champ Oh, who is the second person after Julianna Margulies to win this award for two shows, is expected to miss out this year, sitting in sixth place.

Here are all the shows with multiple TV drama actress wins.

3 winsThe Sopranos (all for Edie Falco, 2000, 03, 08)

2 winsThe X-Files (all for Gillian Anderson, 1996-97)ER (all for Julianna Margulies, 1998-99)The West Wing (all for Allison Janney, 2001-02)Greys Anatomy (one for Sandra Oh, 2006; one for Chandra Wilson, 07)The Good Wife (all for Julianna Margulies, 2010-11)How to Get Away with Murder (all for Viola Davis, 2015-16)The Crown (all for Claire Foy, 2017-18)

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Centre for Applied Anatomy

Contract type: Open endedWorking pattern: Full time

Closing date for applications: 12-Jan-2020

We have an exciting opportunity to appoint a new member of academic teaching staff to the Centre for Applied Anatomy at the University of Bristol. The Centre focuses on the excellence of practical applied anatomy teaching which is delivered with clinical and professional relevance.

You will work with the Head of Centre in providing educational direction, leadership and management for the Centre for Applied Anatomy (CAA) and to assist in its continued development. You will also act as the Director of Teaching for CAA.

You may teach across all teaching streams in the Centre for Applied Anatomy (Science, Veterinary, Medical, Dental) and will be expected to contribute substantially to practicals, lectures, seminars and project supervision. As Director of Teaching, you will provide leadership to ensure that the Centres educational offerings are distinctive, innovative, high quality and competitive

For informal enquiries please contact:Michelle Spear; Hos-anat@bristol.ac.uk; 0117 33 17839

We welcome applications from all members of our community and are particularly encouraging those from diverse groups, such as members of the LGBT+ andBAME communities, to join us.

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WE IN Northern Ireland chew the bitter cud of what Boris Johnson, rejecting Theresa Mays Withdrawal Agreement, told the Democratic Unionist Party in the formal circumstances of that partys conference in 2018.

He first thanked conference for allowing him to deliver an absolutely crucial political promise, then declared: We would be damaging the fabric of the Union with regulatory checks down the Irish Sea and even customs controls between Great Britain and Northern Ireland . . . Now, I have to tell you no British Conservative government could or should sign up to anything of the kind.

With no apparent compunction, he went on to sign up for something very much of the kind and so blithely rent the fabric of the Union. We in Northern Ireland rubbed our eyes before the flagrancy of the double cross sank in.

Goods bound for the Republic of Ireland from GB will be liable for tariffs,perhaps up to 60 per cent of all goods, one expert suggests. Professor Alan Winters adds that the deal is likely to lead to Northern Irish firms re-orientating supply chains away from Great Britain in favour of the Republic of Ireland.

The economist Graham Gudgin, while trying to soften the blow for unionists, has admitted that when Northern Ireland businesses need to lobby for changes in regulation, they will need to work with MEPs elected in the Republic of Ireland. The focus of business will thus rotate away from London and towards Dublin.

Yes, there will be a confirmatory vote on the arrangement every four years in the Northern Ireland devolved Assembly, if it ever reassembles. Every four years, in other words, unionists and republicans will be at loggerheads in those capacities, though under the flimsiest guise of economic well-being.

What Prime Minister Johnson has done is open a fresh front for Irish republicans, who will now sleeplessly seek the economic unity of Ireland as separate as possible from the UK economy.

Johnson has wounded Northern Ireland as one of the four home nations. In classic western-movie style, the Tories are leaving us a canteen of water, a wad of chewing tobacco and a rusty rifle, while the rest of the UK heads for yonder ridge and safety. And we all know what happens when they disappear beyond the ridge: war-whoops from the direction from which the fleeing came.

Those whoops have grown clamorous of late. Republicans are emboldened as never before, and have managed to contract the distance between nationalism and republicanism, between a politics that can cohabit with unionism, and a separatist ideology that nullifies unionism. Letters of appeal are regularly sent from northern nationalists to Leo Varadkar pleading the cause of a united Ireland 100 signatories, 200 signatories, 1,000 signatories.

That tongue-tripping phrase, a united Ireland, it is worth remembering, is by definition the amputation of Northern Ireland from the UK. The demand for a border poll grows ever more insistent, so that the constitutional front in this war of attrition is currently deepening.

By contrast with their unionist counterparts,nationalist professors and lecturers are positively baying, lending a juridical veneer to the republican campaign by linking the cause of Northern Ireland sundered from the UK to deprivation of human rights. I asked a leading academic light of this spurious human rights campaign to identify which rights were withheld and from whom, and he failed to adduce a single one connected to a united Ireland.

And as a prong of the same judicial front, there is the battle over the legacy of the Years of Disgrace, known euphemistically as the Troubles. Here, too, republicans have the momentum, determined as they are to seek revenge on the security forces, reconfigure IRA terrorists as victims, and rewrite history, thus making a united Ireland a mere matter of redress for oppression.

And recently the most worrying front since the IRA terror campaign has opened: the demand for an independent Irish Language Act. As a Canadian citizen, I know what lies behind that and what lies before it.

The status of Irish in Northern Ireland, indeed in Ireland, bears no relationship to the status of Welsh or Gaelic in GB. Think Quebec instead, with its ongoing de-Anglicisation, and you will divine where language in the hands of determined nationalists takes us.

I am not suggesting that official bilingualism would give way to unilingualism as it did in Quebec (French-only), but it would be naive to think that Irish would not be used to try to rewrite the present and hibernicise Northern Irish culture to make a united Ireland severed from the UK seem a logical conclusion.

In Northern Ireland anyone anywhere may learn Irish and speak and write it, save in certain legal circumstances. It is a negligible proportion of Irish, north and south, who can understand, let alone speak or write Irish. But it is a formidable weapon in the republican armoury.

I will give Johnson the benefit of the doubt in thinking him ignorant of the synergistic nature of Irish republicanism, though why should he be as a unionist PM? But it is that synergy that gives his betrayal its apocalyptic note. I doubt if his knowledge would make much difference. For what makes unionists despair is the preference the English show for Irish republicans (whose terrorists warred against them for thirty years) over mere loyal citizens with no charm to their loyalty, only bravery and sacrifice in two world wars.

The Brexit negotiators could have stopped Varadkar in his arrogant tracks by threatening to revoke the Common Travel Area. Is there a name for the practice of blackmailing oneself? If there is, it identifies the English refusal even toappearanti-Irish, let alone take some action that might offend the Irish. It is by this English hang-up that we in Northern Ireland are undone, and Johnson has confirmed it once again.

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In every zombie apocalypse, there's got to be a valiant knight in shining armor. Fortunately forThe Walking Dead universe'scharacters, there is Rick Grimes. Sheriff Rick is a hard-nosed survivor who doesn't just fight walkers, he also fights the injustice that's prevalent in this crumbling society! He might not always be the friendliest among the bunch, but there's no question that he has a heart of gold. Of course, that doesn't mean Rick is a saint...he's still as fragile and complex as any survivor who's getting by in this post-apocalyptic nightmare.

What separates Rick from the usual heroic protagonist tropes? Well, for starters, Rick's optimism is off the charts. It's almost bordering on either naivety or utter insanity! Rick's sense of justice and morality remain sound in even the direst times. He always clings to the notion of rebuilding society, despite having lost so many loved ones already. Fans of the series know that Rick isn't the type to give up, despite how much the odds are stacked against him.

However, every heroic leader hides a side that not many know about and Rick is no exception. Aside from being a lawful cowboy, there are some aspects of Rick's personality that simply do not add up. In fact, some facets of Rick's anatomy might leave some fans scratching their heads! After all, it's hard to stay consistent in a world where anyone can perish at any given moment, right? Here are 20 startling revelations that Rick would rather keep to himself.

Rick is always on the side of hope and justice, even when despair and vengeance are all he sees around him. The zombie apocalypse gives him so many reasons to doubt humanity, yet he remains adamant in his ideals. Given how many he had lost already, to both walkers and selfish humans alike, it's almost unbelievable, and even impractical, how much he insists on sticking to his moral code.

No matter how hard things get, Rick always seems to know how to handle the situation. Whether he's dealing with people or walkers, he usually finds ways to overcome obstacles. It's as if he's got some kind of foresight powers! In the comics, Carl even asks him how he can see the future. Rick told him that it's just a feeling. Well, that's some Nostradamus-level feeling he's got right there!

Rick is such a likable protagonist that fans just want to see him survive all the way through. While that might be the case in the TV adaptation, the same can't be said in the comics. Unfortunately, Rick eventually succumbed and turned into a walker, shortly after being shot consecutively by the cowardly Sebastian Milton. After everything he accomplished, he definitely didn't deserve this type of exit.

Rick had always been a good father to his son, Carl. In the comics, however, he actually traumatized him! Well, not purposefully, though. When Rick reanimated, Carl was hesitant when it came to putting down his own dad. In fact, his dialogue with Michonne suggests that he wanted to keep Rick alive, even when he's already a walker! Poor Carl, his father just meant that much to him.

Carl might be one of Rick's better-known kids, but he's not the only significant member of the Grimes family. Aside from Judith, Rick also has a kid with Michonne, who is named RJ! Although Rick's a lot lonelier in the comic version since Judith didn't even survive in that universe. Well, you can't have it all, Rick.

Ever since Rick got one of his legs broken, he required a cane just to get around. There's even a point in the comics when he could barely stand without it! However, he eventually got rid of the cane. He explained to Carl that he either healed up or had just gotten used to walking without it. Earth to Rick, people don't just get used to walking with broken legs!

When it comes to being a leader, Rick undoubtedly has what it takes. To this former sheriff, leading a group almost seems natural. Rick's people always seem to believe in him, too. This is mostly due to the fact that he's a staunch peacekeeper whose optimistic ideals persist, even in a dangerously unpredictable. post-apocalyptic world.

Persuasion is vital in a chaotic world, where fear and distrustpermeate the air. Fortunately for Rick, he has the power of persuasion at his side. In fact, his ability to convince people is astounding! He's capable of rallying crowds to his cause with just his words. Rick was once able to convince an entire town to oust their leader, using nothing but a compelling speech!

It's no surprise that Rick can take pain like a champ given how tough he was as a sheriff. However, his pain threshold is so insane that it's almost ridiculous! In the comics, Rick survived a savage beating as a disabled person who could barely stand. He was brutally tortured in the TV adaptation, yet he's still alive somehow. How Rick fights through this much punishment is anybody's guess.

Even heroes have a tough time coping with loss and Rick is no different. Ever since Rick lost his first wife, he had incessant hallucinations of having full-blown conversations with her. This was true in both his TV series and comic book counterparts. While he did recover from this eventually, there's no doubt that it left a permanent fracture on his mental state.

Before Rick's name was known to most of his people, he used to have different monikers. Aside from being referred to by his title as sheriff or police officer, his close relatives call him by a different name. Rick's younger brother revealed that his big bro was known as Richie back then. Although Rick himself might've already forgotten that since virtually nobody calls him that nowadays.

If fans were wondering why Rick is so stubborn when it comes to upholding his moral code, that's because he got it from his father. His dad was a noble person who taught him values that turned him into quite a reliable leader. Despite the fact that other survivors are becoming more ruthless towards each other, Rick never loses his humanity, all thanks to his father's teachings.

Some might not know that Rick actually had a little brother named Jeffrey. He would get into all sorts of trouble just to protect Jeff. He even got beaten up multiple times just to save his little bro! In the comics, Jeff never really forgot about Rick's courageous efforts either. He even planned to sail halfway across the globe just to see him again.

Rick never really responds whenever he's asked whether he's a righty or a lefty. However, he's been shown to be efficient in using weapons in either hand on numerous occasions. This led some to believe that he might actually be ambidextrous. No wonder he can still be a force to be reckoned with, even after losing his hand. That trait is pretty, well, handy!

While Rick's future in the TV adaptation still remains uncertain, his fate in the comic book version is most definitely sealed. His legacy still lives on though. He eventually became a venerated martyr that served as a symbol of hope and inspiration to his people. The community even built a statue to commemorate his valiant deeds! His story lives on through Carl, who now follows his father's footsteps.

It's almost hard to recognize Rick, given how much he changes his appearance over time. From looking like a smooth-talking, clean-shaven debonair guy to turning into a shaved-headed, long-bearded biker, Rick has so many looks! Unfortunately, he lives in a world filled with mangled survivors and fetid walking corpses...looking good is the least of his worries.

Don't be fooled by Rick's righteous moral conduct. The amount of enemies he has slain probably outnumbers the lives he has saved! In fact, Rick is one of a handful of individuals with the highest body count of both living and undead. Whether it's in the TV series adaptation or in the comics, Rick is frequently regarded as one of TWD's apex predators.

It's no secret that Rick is quite the ladies man. He had two wives and a couple of girlfriends. While it might sound like he's some sort of player with infidelity issues, that's not exactly the case. Rick keeps
looking for new relationships simply because he keeps losing his loved ones! Poor Rick, he's jumping from one relationship to another not because he wants to, but because he has to.

Given Rick's deteriorating physical state, some believe that his time will come sooner rather than later. However, he defies all expectations by surviving with just one hand and a broken leg! According to THR, Rick was supposed to expire back in season 8, until the idea was scrapped. In the comics, it took a whopping 192 issues before he eventually met his demise. He's more resilient than the walkers!

Sure, Rick might be a righteous man, but that doesn't automatically mean he's also the religious type. In the TV adaptation, Rick is often seen questioning God more than actually praising him. He even got into arguments with Father Gabriel whenever religion was involved! It's heavily implied that he's either an atheist or agnostic. After all, it's kinda hard for religion to thrive in a world filled with zombies and outlaws.

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WhenCristina Yang(Sandra Oh) leaves Greys Anatomy in season 10, fans ugly cry. Many viewers believe herdeparture is harder to watchthan the death ofDerek Shepherd(Patrick Dempsey). So, its not surprising that fans still talk about Cristinas time on the show. The latest debate is over whether she ever had a healthy relationship. Lets take a look at what fans are saying.

During the first season ofGreys Anatomy, Cristina begins dating Preston Burke (Isaiah Washington). Early on in the season, Burke breaks off the relationship because he does not want it to ruin their reputations. When Cristina has a miscarriage, the two get back together.

Burke literally never considers what Cristina wants,wrote one Reddit user. When Cristina wants the relationship kept private, he makes it public without her okay. When they get engaged and she wants to tell Meredith before anyone else knows, he almost immediately goes and tells other people. When she says she wants something small, secular, in a courthouse, he gets into planning a big extravagant church wedding.

The pair are engaged and plan a wedding in under one year. On the day of their marriage, Burke and Cristina have a talk that does not end well. The bride remarks that she thought this was what she wanted, however, that is not good enough for Burke. He wants her to know that she wants to be with him. He promptly leaves the church, packs up his things, and moves out.

Their relationship wasnt healthy at all, added concluded the fan. It was pretty clear from the beginning that Burke held all the power.

Cristina is immediately attracted to Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) when he makes a guest appearance on Greys Anatomy. Later, when he returns from Iraq, he and Cristina begin a relationshiponly for it to end when he strangles her in his sleep. He does go to therapy sessions for his PTSD and eventually rekindles the relationship with Cristina.

The pair break-up yet again when Teddy Altman (Kim Raver)and old army friend of Owen scomes to work at the hospital, sparking jealousy issues.

Cristina restores their relationship when Owen is unexpectedly shot during a shooting in the hospital. The two get married suddenly, and Cristinas friends believe Owen is taking advantage of her due to the PTSD she has from the shooting.

I hated his whole army personality thing,wrote one fanabout Owen. I also felt like he was super manipulative in his relationship with Cristina.

Cristina gets pregnant shortly after the shooting but desires to have an abortion. Owen does not agree with her decision and tries to bully her into keeping the baby. Fans find the abortion fight to be one of Owens worst moments.

I think Owen is very similar to Burke, added another Redditor. He loved his idea of Cristina but didnt love her.

Fans feel that Cristinas relationship with Owen and the one with Burke were both destructive.

Fans will agree that throughout Cristinas 10 seasons on Greys Anatomy, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) was her only thriving relationship. They have each others backs, no matter what the situation.

Although I love Meredith and Christinas practically perfect friendship, I think it was necessary for them to have some struggles with each other in season 10, wroteone viewer on Reddit. I think it made their friendship more realistic and relatable to the audience because we all know what its like to have a little competition and disagreements with close friends. Plus, afterward, they were just as close if not closer than they were before.

The two go through strong arguments with each other, but they work it out amicably.

Derek is the love of my life, but youre my soulmate, Meredith told Cristina in the first episode of season 7.

The twisted sisters are the one genuine relationship that Cristina has on the show that is thriving and strong throughout her time at the hospital. Current episodes of Greys Anatomy still includeCristina via text messageand phone calls with Meredith. You can watch for more Cristina references when the show returns on Jan. 23, 2020.

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The coronavirus is not just a pandemic, it has also accelerated an institutional crisis. At Barcelona, it's already led to wage reductions, another standoff between the board and the players and, as of Tuesday night, it's revealed deep fractures within the board, too.

This time things have been brutal but also controlled, because it was the president Josep Maria Bartomeu that made the decision on Tuesday to callEmili RousaudandEnrique Tombas, two of the club's vice presidents, to ask them to resign, in addition to vocal directorsSilvio ElasandJosep Pont, who Bartomeu called on Wednesday.

Bartomeu communicated toRousaudandTombas that he was canceling the board meeting scheduled for the same day and gave them two hours to think about what they wanted to do. He's still not had an answer, although SPORT have learned that two of the four affected have decided to present their resignations in the coming days.

In any case, whether they go or not (remember the president can't sack his directors),RousaudandTombas will be removed from their roles as vice presidents and given lesser, irrelevant titles. Sources close to those affected revealed the conversation between Bartomeu andRousaud was "very tense" because the latter asked the president why he had decided to demote them. Bartomeu responded by saying he felt betrayed by his underground movements.

Bartomeuaccused the two vice presidents of being disloyal during the Baragate scandal when they suggested elections be brought forward a year, of planning to overthrow him and of taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis and the ERTE (temporary reduction of work action for the club's staff) to try and weakened his position.

Bartomeu argued he needed cohesion among his team and loyalty to get through the final year of his mandate, something he felt would not be possible with the belligerent attitude of the four men he has singled out. Bartomeu took the initiative knowing it was high risk but convinced defence is the best form of attack -- and that he had to make a move before they did.

Rousaud soon responded, appearing in the local media on Wednesday, saying that "at the moment I'm not planning to resign." He added that the president's call was not "very brave" and suggested the current board has no credibility. He said the club's financial situation is "complicated" and admitted that he would like to be president one day.

The figure ofRousaud seems like one of those kaleidoscopic products that can only be produced at such a convoluted and contradictory club like Bara: in just a few weeks he has gone from being the possible heir to Bartomeu on the current board to leading the campaign against the current president.

At the moment,Rousaud looks ready to be the leader of the internal opposition and to put pressure on Bartomeu and make him uncomfortable.

For now,Tombas, who is still the economic vice president, is thinking about his next move, but those close to him explain Tombas, a very prudent and resistant speaker when it comes to the media, is furious with Bartomeu because he believes the accusations are unfair and out of tone.

PontandElas, the other two directors in the picture, could resign of their own free will. SPORT has learned that at the moment there is a group of two or three other directors that are also considering stepping down after witnessing with astonishment a "self-inflicted" crisis which they consider is now "out of control."

Meanwhile, Bartomeu is preparing his next move: he will maintain Jordi Caronder as his vice president, will replace Tombas with Jordi Moix and will make David Bellber, who is very close to ex-president Sandro Rosell, the treasurer.

In any case, the crisis is going nowhere at least until Bartomeu makes his next appointments. The 'Blaugrana coronavirus' has many more episodes to run.

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Station 19 season 3 is going to be premiering on ABC in early January, and theres going to be a lot of dramatic stuff ahead. Theres also going to be more crossovers than weve ever had a chance to see before. There wont be one every single episode (that was a little bit of a misnomer), but there is going to be far more cross-show pollination than ever before.

In speaking on some of this further, here is whatStation 19 star (and frequent Greys Anatomy recurring presence) Jason George had to say in a new interview with Entertainment Tonight:

Now that we have both shows working out of the same brain that [executive producer] Krista Vernoffis running both shows, its going to be a universe. Its not one of those shows that occasionally shows up We show up, we pull you out of the fire, we pump your heart because youre lying on the street in a car accident, we throw you in the ambulance and we get you to Grey Sloanhospital Its a two-hour block thats going to be ridiculous because its crazy to shoot. Ill tell you that everyday its like, Sowhere am I?Theyre like, Well, youre at Greys in the morning and Station 19 and then youre at Greys in the afternoon.

For moreGreys Anatomyvideo footage,be sure to check out more thoughts on what should be coming next below! Once you do that, all you have to do issubscribeto CarterMatt on YouTube and then view our show playlist.

We know that youll get a chance to see some of this starting in early January, as the incident in Joes bar is going to lead to bothGreys AnatomyandStation 19joining forces. We imagine that there is going to be a lot of chaos unfolding over the course of the weeks/months ahead, but in the midseason premiere, well at least reset all of the pieces on the metaphorical chessboard. Well catch up with theStation 19crew and see how they are feeling later.

For Georges Ben, there are going to be more crossovers than just about anywhere else. Just remember that youll be seeing him continue to work at the Station, but also trying to maintain a relationship with Bailey through what has been an incredibly devastating time.

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It is a time when no one can afford to be casual anywhere in the world. Least of all the leaders of countries. The Indian prime minister, his officers have claimed, has taken unprecedented steps to protect his country and is the first leader to acknowledge that no country has the wherewithal to fight Covid-19 alone. He is therefore talking to the leaders of the countries comprising the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation as well as the G-20 countries for international cooperation. Since Covid-19 recks neither leader nor subject, neither land nor peoples, the eagerness to be seen as the first boy in class may seem a little misplaced, and a bit too early. The effects of these first-class efforts are yet to be seen, although it must be everyones single-minded wish that India and all other countries manage to flatten the curve of the spread quickly.

There is, however, no doubt that Mr Modi and his government know how to make hay even when the sky is distinctly overcast. Let people in quarantine and in isolation pass their hours instructively and keep their spirits up, they feel. And which great mans words can give both instruction and inspiration but the prime ministers? All government quarantine centres across the country will be given published copies of Mr Modis speeches. It is not clear whether all other reading matter P.G. Wodehouse, say, or Mahatma Gandhis works will be boxed away to make space for these speeches, but the plan seems to be to fill the hours and days of tense waiting with Mr Modis magic words. Mass hypnotism?

This novel idea nowadays novel sounds ominous may not have worked if Mr Modis address to the nation on March 19 was all that was available. The prime minister told the people what to do, how to look after the old and the poor, how not to overburden hospitals, but was rather reticent about the steps the government is taking. The nation may have been thrilled to hear of the Covid-19 economic response task force, but it is clueless about its function. The Canadian prime minister, for example, cited figures and methods of support to be given to vulnerable segments of his people during the difficult period, while emphasizing that the peoples efforts would be matched, step for step, by his government. Mr Modi, convinced that the middle and lower middle classes and the poor will be affected, has asked the rich and those in business to look after their employees. He wishes to put the peoples solidarity and resolve on display on March 22 in a 14-hour janata curfew, during which at five in the evening, everyone is to clap or bang utensils from windows and balconies for five minutes to thank all those working at the front lines of the crisis. Spectacular. The clapping is a Spanish import, but the rest is unique. And uniquely meaningless.

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Greys Anatomy is one of the longest-running shows on television and for good reason. The show has a great reputation and a huge fan base, and each week, millions of people tune in to see what will happen next with their favorite characters.

According to Bustle, the show wasnt even meant to last as long as it has so far, but it took off so well that no one ever looked back. We are so glad that this is the case, given the fact that Greys Anatomy has brought us so many hours of enjoyment.

Fans never get tired of watching and re-watching their favorite show, and it is really no secret that there is always something exciting going on. Whether it be one of the steamy hookups or even the tragic death of a character, the show keeps viewers on the edge of their seats and shows no signs of going anywhere anytime soon.

With so many twists and turns, there is always some sort of speculation as to why certain things happened the way that they did. Here is the heartbreaking reason why Bailey failed as chief of surgery.

For those who may not be familiar with the character of Miranda Bailey, we will delve into the role just a little. According to ABC, Bailey, who is portrayed by actress Chandra Wilson, is a key figure at the hospital, a mother who is devoted to her son, and a character with sharp comebacks and a strong presence.

Previously married to Tucker Jones, Bailey is divorced, and she has had several significant relationships on the show, including Nurse Eli and Doctor Ben Warren, whom she eventually married. It is pretty safe to say that Bailey is a fan favorite, with so many people supporting what she does and taking a great interest in the things that happen in her life.

It was in season 12 of the hit show that Bailey became the chief of surgery, and she gave it all she had from the very beginning. As the first female at the hospital to hold the position, she actually made history of sorts, and we can only imagine how proud she was. As fans know, Bailey was quite shy and reserved during her internship at the hospital, finally coming out of her shell as her career progressed. She landed the position only after Owen Hunt resigned, and was considered for his job.

At first, it looked like the other candidate for the position, Tracy McConnell, would end up being appointed, but the board members voted and decided that Bailey would be the best choice for chief of surgery at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

In a perfect world, Bailey would have been able to hold the position for as long as she wished, however, this was sadly not the case. So, what is the heartbreaking reason as to why she failed?

According to Reddit, she just wasnt ready for all of the responsibility, and although fans feel that she is an absolutely wonderful person, they felt that her emotions got in the way and didnt allow her to accomplish all that she should.

The good news is that many feel that Bailey has plenty of time to grow into the position as chief of surgery, and while she shouldnt have been offered the job at the time that she was, it doesnt mean that all hope is lost. Will Bailey ever return to the high-profile position? That remains to be seen.

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When we look back at our history, with India at the cusp of two decades, we will recall this political moment as one marked by a deep schism in our polity in response to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Lakhs of Indians have come out onto the streets to register their protest against the relegation of Muslims and indigenous tribes to second-class citizens. These (largely peaceful) protests have been met with violent repression and detainment by the police across Indian cities. In light of these political developments and the brutal violence of the past month alone, there are important questions to be answered: who is this country for, who is allowed to protest, and what is the nature of dissent at this critical juncture?

In Chennai, the first major public protest happened on 16 December 2019. We gathered with placards and slogans, and watched politicians speak about the injustice of the CAA while also pillorying their adversaries. The beat of theparai drum was electric and the chief sloganeer led us to animatedly raise our voices to decry how the CAA and NRC combined can affect its own citizens. The slogans simultaneously expressed outrage, hurt, and importantly, unity. The feeling of people coming together suffused the air with a brief optimism that the situation might turn out differently.

The next day, there was a student-led protest at a university campus. Some of us went to show our solidarity, but the gates had already been closed, and a battalion of policemen and policewomen had gathered with their vans, lathis, and the deterring effect of their uniformed presence. In a surrealist twist, right as we arrived at the university, a policeman was doling out plates of biryani to the other 20-odd personnel, standing around with their lathis sticking out like a first warning. When we joined up with the student protestors who were behind the gates, the biryani was abandoned for an interrogation about our identity cards. Denied entry on account of not being students of the university, we stood outside with our placards and slogans. Three chants in, the police encircled us and declared that we were under arrest. It had been less than a minute since we had assembled there.

The policeman in charge announced that we had broken a law. We argued that Section 144 had not been imposed, making his argument, that people could not assemble in groups of more than four, void. But the police van began to pull up, and we tried to get away as he threatened to detain us. A man in plainclothes video-recorded this entire interaction. A few days later now, the video is trending on Twitter among right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party supporters who claim that the group of women in the video were paid protestors, not really students, and were stirring up trouble for no reason. Other comments are far more vitriolic, urging the police to identify the people in the video, enact violence, lock the women up.

Beyond the misogyny of the comments, the aggression appears to stem from the threat and affront presented by the image of a young woman raising her voice at the policeman threatening to arrest her, not only refusing to oblige, but also calling him out on furnishing a court order that did not exist. As a result, in the comments, she is a liar, she is a fake protestor, and paid by the opposition to be there. There is something about this moment that has allowed for the weaponisation of the power of social media and selective visuals.

What are the optics of a protest? We protest because we want to be seen by the agents of the state as registering our dissent, and we hope that the media will portray our struggle accurately. At the same time, a protest also allows for grandiose performances of wokeness and social grandstanding to claim that one is socially aware and awake (hence, the pop-culture term woke). Though being seen as dissenting is part of the protest, hollow rhetoric has no place in a fraught political moment. Finally, being seen can be the very thing that is turned against a protestor by those who want to discredit that protest. In capturing partial and misleading visuals, and doctoring videos or photographs, those supporting the CAA and NRC can misattribute violence to protestors, discredit their legitimacy, and out the protestors to those that might turn their vitriol against them: parents, relatives, and neighbours. Young students are a vulnerable group whose agency can be undermined by familial control, social surveillance, and the fear of retribution.

What can unsettle authoritarianism more effectively than undiluted outrage, hurt, and dissent? In the fight against a saffronising India, students are targeted because they represent a threat to a state that is smug in its own moral authority. Here are two groups laying claim to different futures, knowing there will only be one outcome. Political parties enjoy the protection of the policethey can easily obtain permissions, and the organisational work follows a clear and established chain of command. Students, on the other hand, have no vested interest in furthering their hold over vote banks or other stakeholders. In fact, the repercussions for them are the greatest should they be detained, misrepresented, or outed to their families. Yet, despite these risks, they show up on the streets to stand in solidarity with other citizens being killed, shamed, and edged out of the democratic pie, if there is one at all. And herein lies the power of student protests that presents a threat to the supporters of the CAA and NRC as well as to an authoritarian regime.

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Alleghenys Center for Business and Economics kicked off its spring semesters lunchtime learning lecture series on at 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16,. in Quigley Hall Auditorium by welcoming Trustee John Kutz, 83, to give a presentation titled Anatomy of a Recession.

The presentation was centered on three main questions: How close could we be to the next recession? Will growth hold steady, weaken or pick up by the end of the year? What factors are most important to watch to help keep people on track?

Shannon Putnam, 20, began the lunchtime learning lecture by introducing Kutz.

While at Allegheny, (Kutz) was a double major in economics and German, and a member of Delta Tau Delta, Putnam said. After his graduation from Allegheny, (Kutz) received his MBA from the (Joseph M.) Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

Putnam said one of Kutzs favorite memories of Allegheny is the relationships he built with professors at the school.

Additionally, one of (Kutzs) proudest moments with Allegheny is his son, Tim, 18, carrying on his familys Allegheny legacy and finding success after graduation, Putnam said.

Like his father, Tim Kutz was a double major in economics and German, and a member of Delta Tau Delta.

Kutz began in the investment industry in 1998, and spent nearly 18 years as managing director of retirement plan services at Victory Capital Management before serving the Ohio Valley region as sales director for Legg Mason.

Kutz began his presentation by asking students and faculty in the audience to raise their hands if they knew his son.

I am very proud of him, Kutz said, (Tim) is killing it, and that is what happens when you have a great liberal arts education from Allegheny College.

Kutzs presentation focused on capital markets and reviewed where the United States economy stands, relative to a possible recession.

However, Kutz first introduced the audience to Legg Masons program, Anatomy of a Recession.

(Anatomy of a Recession) is a program we update on a monthly basis to the extent that the variables that we will cover that tend to foreshadow economic change, Kutz said.

Kutz first asked audience members if they knew the definition of recession, before explaining that recession is two consecutive quarters of GDP decline.

We are trying to do whatever we can in this economy to avoid a recession, Kutz said. This is why we created (Anatomy of a Recession).

Kutz continued by defining the vocabulary terms, market crash and pullback.

A market crash is defined as a decline in the market by more than 20%, and it is a duration of more than a year, Kutz said.

Kutz said that the U.S. has experienced six market crashes since the 1960s. All, except for one, of these market crashes resulted in a recession.

Declines in the market that are fewer than 20% and last less than a year are considered pullbacks, according to Kutz.

Market crashes are nearly three times more likely to result in a recession, Kutz said. Market crashes and recessions go hand-in-hand.

Kutz explained that the U.S. is in the 11th year of a full market coming out of the financial crisis. Kutz also mentioned that the recovery from the financial crisis of the early 2000s has been shallow compared to other recession recoveries the U.S. has had since World War II.

As a result, businesses and consumers dont feel good about this recovery, Kutz said. There is a myth that because (the U.S.) is so long into this economic cycle this is what you are hearing on television it has to come to an end, and that is not the case whatsoever.

Countries such as Canada and Japan have experienced much longer economic cycles, according to Kutz.

Time is not a reason for an economic expansion to stop, Kutz said.

Kutz also discussed what is referred to as the recession-risk dashboard, which is comprised of four main pillars.

The first of these four pillars is financial indicators.

(Financial indicators) tend to be the first to weaken when our economy starts to go into a downturn, Kutz said.

In addition to financial indicators, the pillars also include inflation variables and the consumer sector. Finally, the fourth pillar is business activity.

Using a stoplight analogy, Kutz described the U.S. economy in terms of red, yellow and green. Kutz labeled the current U.S. economy as yellow, meaning cautionary. Red is used to mark a recessionary economy, and green an expansionary.

(The recession-risk dashboard) was designed to give investors and consultants ample time to act, Kutz said. (The economy) doesnt flip overnight from green to yellow to red. There is a time horizon that should allow people to do things within their portfolio to take the risk out of their portfolio.

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Greys Anatomy

Help Me Through the Night

Season 16 Episode 10

Editors Rating 4 stars ****

Photo: Christopher Willard/ABC

Well, well, well, my Greys fam. Isnt it interesting that our first episode back in 2020, the first episode in which we are aware that Alex Karev has left us and will not be returning, is an episode in which the central theme is letting your friends help you through the hard times? We know by now that Greys Anatomy loves to twist the scalpel, as it were, but playing up the friendship angle as we all await the impending breakup of one of the greatest friendships on this series was rough. I mean, that final scene with Richard and Meredith comforting Bailey while Merediths voiceover said, Its okay to let your friends put you back together? Alex shouldve been there. The originals! Okay, Im crying about it again. But there is no time for crying! There is a lot to get to in this midseason return and none of it has to do with Alex, who, for all intents and purposes, is still in Iowa and is helping his mom and isnt dead yet even though thats the only plausible way he can really be written off at this point. Well talk about it later.

Anyway, remember that time a car crashed through the wall of Joes Bar and trapped a few main characters and several supporting characters inside?

ABC is really trying to get you to watch Station 19, but if you have not yet been swayed to try out that other show about really attractive people saving lives and didnt tune in to the first hour of the Shondaland crossover, I am here to help. First, I would say, maybe watch just this one episode of Station 19 if only because it is very Ben and Bailey heavy and their love is good for the soul. Theres one scene that takes place two weeks before their miscarriage in which they lie on top of a fire truck together and talk about their hopes and fears and love and it is full of maximum swoon content. Theres another scene after Bailey learns that Ben is safe from car-through-wall harm and they hug and cry and it will break your heart. Just some really great Ben and Bailey stuff to prep you for the emotional gut-punch of Baileys storyline in Greys Anatomy. Other items of note from Station 19 that might affect the mothership: Jackson and Vic are, like, very, very hot for each other, and when all is said and done at the bar, three of our residents are sent over to Grey Sloan with serious injuries: Taryn Helm, who is very drunk, definitely has a badly broken leg, and possibly a pelvic fracture; Casey Parker, who has suffered a head injury, is dealing with major PTSD (he is a veteran, remember), and thinks hes been in a bombing; and Blake Simms, who weve seen for like three minutes total but now is going to have to have his face peeled off and put back together. Fun!

Off to Grey Sloan we go: Call me callous if you must, but I was really crossing my fingers that this car-through-wall escapade would be another patented Greys Anatomy culling of characters, because honestly, it has been too long and we need one. There are too many characters people dont care about mucking things up. Watching this show is my job and I still only knew Simms as that dick who Tom brought in and repeatedly asked whos Brody? to my empty living room. No one knew who she was. Alas, there is no residential sacrifice this evening and my Grim Reaper heart remains unsatisfied. Everyone lives! A true Greys twist.

Of course the real meat of the episode isnt the fate of some residents we barely know, but about the doctors operating on those residents. Teddy and Amelia are taking care of Parker. When he runs off during his MRI, they track him down in the hyperbaric chamber and Teddy is the one person able to make him feel safe. This hits close to home for Teddy, who rails against the fact that veterans come home to pretty much zero mental healthcare. But this is Teddy were talking about, and all roads lead to Owen. Shes worried that Owen feels trapped and thats why he hasnt proposed (as if the only way for two people who love and are committed to each other to show it is by being married, but I digress). Its Amelia who has to stand there and tell her she is sure Owen loves her and that he only wants to do things differently this time around, all while she has a ticking time bomb of drama in her womb. When Teddy called Amelia kind, I groaned.

Meanwhile in an O.R., Jackson and Owen (who, along with Richard, arrived at Grey Sloan to offer help) are peeling off Simmss face and talking about love. Owens scared about proposing and thinks maybe hes waited too long like, decades too long but Jackson tells him that if he knows he wants to be with someone forever, he needs to go for it now. Its very Mark Sloan of him. Once Simmss face is back where it should be, Owen takes Teddy into an empty hospital room, gets down on one knee, tells her hes not a perfect man but he loves her, and he gives her his mothers ring. Heres hoping it really works out for these kids this time around, but, you know, Amelia and her Maybe-Owens-Baby is still a thing that exists, so we shall see.

Reader, I have saved the best for last: Helms surgery. While Link and Nico are operating on Helms leg, she crashes and Bailey has to swoop in to try and stop the bleeding in Helms abdomen. But she is not alone: Knowing that Bailey would be stepping into surgery hours after suffering a miscarriage, Ben called Richard and asked him to be in the O.R. with Bailey. He worried she might break down and he wanted to know that someone who loves her was in the room with her. You guys. YOU GUYS. Aside from all the unsanctioned cesarean sections, sweet Ben is too good for this world. His love for Miranda has cured my cystic acne. Thats how strong it is.

Bailey is miffed that Richard is hovering, but Ben was absolutely right to be concerned. Just as they are about to crack Helms chest (can you believe this woman survives?), Bailey stops. She cant do it. But she doesnt have to say a word, she just looks at Richard and he knows. In silence, they switch positions and Richard takes over. The last time we saw these two together they were arguing outside of Merediths trial, so excuse me if I need to go cry in the corner of my room. But wait! Theres more! Bailey holds it together until the surgery is over and the O.R. is empty except for her and Richard, but then she finally breaks. Shes angry and upset and feels utterly helpless. All of her residents survived today, she did that, but there was nothing she could do to save her baby. I cant do anything but stand here and lose her, she cries out. Richard holds her while she sobs. Its one of the most moving scenes on the show in a long time. Theres a reason why Greys fans cherish the original characters so much its because of moments like this one.

And moments like the aforementioned ending: Richard goes to Meredith, because he knows shes felt the same loss Bailey is feeling right now. Richard and Meredith show up to Baileys office with tissues and a box of doughnuts in hand. Meredith sits next to Bailey and with her arm around her tells her, I had a miscarriage once. I never felt so lonely. And the three of them sit and talk and help Bailey begin to heal.

One of my major concerns with Alex Karevs departure, regardless of how it happens, is that Jo is just going to be 100 percent unbearable again and this episode did nothing to dissuade me of that worry: She stole a baby. SHE STOLE A BABY. And she acts like Link is such a stick in the mud for making her bring the baby back to the hospital? Who is this woman?! Eventually she hands that baby over to the proper people, but she never apologizes for it. I get that the baby is very cute and deserves love but come on, Josephine.

Oh, there was a fourth resident down: Schmitt passes out
before Helms surgery as shes calling him out for turning in the love of her life Meredith Grey. Hes diagnosed with stress cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome (remember Verna in season two, who had an attack every year on the anniversary of her neighbor/secret lovers death?). Anyway, hes fine, Meredith forgives him (he did nothing wrong), he and Helm make up, and he gets to spoon with Nico. A pretty good day, hospital stint aside.

I refuse to call our new Chief of Pediatrics McWidow but he did look v. cute holding that baby. Appreciate that content, Greys.

DeLucas mainly moping around the hospital this week, worried he blew it with Meredith, but that means hes around when Elliott, our new dad waiting for his heart to start beating on its own, shows signs of life. When DeLuca goes to tell Maggie the good news Maggie, as you may recall, quit being a doctor shes relieved. But then shes served with a lawsuit for the wrongful death of Sabrina Webber. So that relief is, um, short-lived.

ATTICUS LINCOLN DO NOT NAME YOUR CHILD SCOUT.

Owen and Jackson learn about Tom, sorry, Dr. Tommys softer side when Simmss grandmother arrives and tells them all about how Koracick paid for her to move to Seattle to be close to her grandson. Hes such a softy! I mean, did you see how emotional he got when he saw that Owen had finally put a ring on Teddys finger?

The best line of the night is without a doubt Jackson trolling Owen over why he assumed Owen had already proposed to Teddy: Because you have two kids together, you live together, you marry everyone

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