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Alex Karev was probably one of the few characters who grew the most during the course of Grey's Anatomy. Here's how that transformation looked!

The hit ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomymight revolve around Meredith Grey but it has given audiences some beloved characters over the years.

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The peds surgeon, Alex Karev, played by Justin Chambers, was probably one of the few characters who grew the most during the course of the series. From being a callousjerk to a pillar of strength for Meredith throughout the many difficult times that she went through, tobecoming one of the more mature people in her life, Alex saw quite a transformation in terms of growth. Yet, the abrupt departure of the actor in season 15 seemed to undo all the character evolution and send Alex back to the early seasons of the show.

Alex Karev was introduced as an arrogant, self-centered bratwho couldn't care less about anyone and didn't even make an effort to be civil to his colleagues. He was, in fact, a sort of foil to the softer, more gentle George O'Malley.

His not-a-care-in-the-world attitude was a major problem in the earliest seasons, causing Cristina Yang to coin the nickname 'evil spawn' for Alex.

Alex was still a bit of a jerk in season 3 and 4 but he had grown a tad less self-absorbed, thanks to Izzie's faith in him, and therefore a tad more mellow.

Alex also started getting attached to one of his patients, Ava, who was admitted aftera horrific accident that had caused her to be completely disfigured. He grew to be fond of her, meaning that he was at least capable of thinking about others, and evenmade a relatively mature decision when he asked Ava to move on and be with her husband.

Season 5 was significant for Alex as he became seriously attached to Izzie Stevens and was devastated when the latter was diagnosed with cancer.

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Alex even went on to marry Izzie, knowing well that she was a terminal patient and would need the utmost care and love. It seemed as if the smart-mouth young surgical intern had found the anchor he was looking for in life, becoming accountable to someone else for the first time in his life.

Life had other plans for Karev and Izzie left him without so much as a word. It seemed like whatever strides Karev had taken as a person was about to go out the window.

Alex once again started falling back on his old ways in the aftermath of Izzie's departure. However, the season finale had a humbling moment for Alex Karev when he was shot by the gunman who later also tried to shoot and kill Derek Shepherd.

The shooting incident succeeded in making Alex rather more aware of his mortality. He initiated a project to offer treatment for African children who were not able to gainaccess to standard medical treatment.

Alex did, however, slide back to being the callous selfish guy he always had been from time to time and even told on Meredith when he thought he saw her attempting to tamper with the Alzheimer's clinical trial. He didrealize his folly eventually but not before he had messed up Meredith'slife.

Season 8 saw Alex taking a bit more responsibility. He even put his patient's life first and arrived late for his viva exam that would determine his career henceforth.

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Alex finally had some good news when he gotoffered the peds fellowshipat John Hopkins Hospital, but following the devastating accident at the end of season 8, he madea mature choice and decided to postpone his fellowship to help run the peds department at Seattle Grace, now known as Grey Sloan Memorial. He also felt guilty for letting Arizona Robbins, with whom he had a mentor-mentee relationship, take his place in the plane that crashed on its way to Boise.

Alex had a better spellboth professionally and personally as he was offered a position in a high profile private organization where he could make a lot of money for the first time in his life. Of course, good things were far and few between in his life so he had to go mess it up eventually, but at least he got a taste of a life that he had never had the chance to savor.

Personally too, he finally seemed to move on from Izzie and commit to Jo Wilson, the young intern who joined Grey Sloan from season 9 onwards. More is also revealed about his past and his family, indicating that Alex has overcome many obstacles in his life to accomplish what he had.

Gone was the arrogant young intern of the early years; Alex was now one of the best surgeons at Grey Sloan, with a much more genial personality in general. He also tried to be there for Meredith when the latter lost her husband in a shocking accident. In fact, Alex had now become Meredith's 'person', now that Cristina had left.

He did still have some of his bull in a china shop moments though, which was contrary to his otherwise mellowed nature--in the season 12 finale, he hit DeLuca under the impression that the latter was forcing himself on Jo. His actions came from a place of love and care but were rather reminiscent of the old Alex.

Alex went on to make some important, mature decisions in seasons 13 and 14. He tracked down Jo's abusive husband and managed to keep his calm.

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He also finally managed to get Jo to marry him, in a rather hilarious wedding. Before his final exit from the show, the now almost adorably goofy Alex was all set for a happier life.

Alex had evolved very much as a person by seasons 15 and 16; not only was he married, he had also got himself the position of Chief of Surgery at the Pacific Northwest Hospital, hoping to turn the hospital around.

However, the peculiardeparture of actor Justin Chambers towards the end of season 16 somehow managed to take thecharacter back several years, making him appear thoughtless and selfish. Sure, Izzie was his one true love but to leave his wife Jo without a word, and simply sendingletters therebynothaving to confront anybody in person, seemed like something the older, less mature Alex would have done. Though he had transformed significantly as a human being, he was at heart still the callous ol' Alex.

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The anatomy of a disinformation campaign. How does a bad faith post get mistaken for the truth? We talk about how the tentacles of disinformation reach into millions of homes.

Nina Jankowicz, disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan think tank. Author of "How To Lose the Information War." (@wiczipedia)

Secretary Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State. Republican. (@FrankLaRose)

New York Times: "Facing a Deluge of Misinformation, Colorado Takes the Offensive Against It" "Like so many modern election sagas, it started with a tweet. In 2019, Jena Griswold, the newly installed secretary of state in Colorado, saw a tweet falsely claiming that her states election system had been hacked, using a picture of voting equipment as evidence."

NPR: "Robocalls, Rumors And Emails: Last-Minute Election Disinformation Floods Voters" "Dirty tricks and disinformation have been used to intimidate and mislead voters for as long as there have been elections. But they have been especially pervasive this year as millions of Americans cast ballots in a chaotic and contentious election."

The Columbus Dispatch: "Secretary of state: Hacking, voter intimidation by Russia and Iran haven't affected Ohio" "Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said the best way voters can respond to Iran and Russia meddling in U.S. elections is to cast a ballot."

New York Times: "Russia Poses Greater Election Threat Than Iran, Many U.S. Officials Say" "While senior Trump administration officials said this week that Iran has been actively interfering in the presidential election, many intelligence officials said they remained far more concerned about Russia, which in recent days has hacked into state and local computer networks in breaches that could allow Moscow broader access to American voting infrastructure."

ABC News: "Russia, Iran have obtained voter data in election interference campaign: DNI" "Senior national security officials alerted the American public Wednesday that Iran and Russia have both obtained voter data in their efforts to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election."

New York Times: "Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features to Fight Election Misinformation" "Twitter took steps on Friday to slow the way information flows on its network, even changing some of its most basic features, as alarm grows that lies and calls for violence will sweep through social media in the weeks surrounding the presidential election."

Washington Post: "FBI says it has nothing to add to Ratcliffes remarks about Hunter Biden, Russian disinformation" "The FBI notified Congress late Tuesday that it has nothing to add at this time to a statement made by President Trumps director of national intelligence disputing the idea that Russia orchestrated the discovery of a computer that may have belonged to Joe Bidens son."

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She might change her mind; she certainly has before. But midway through an interview, Ellen Pompeo casually drops the bomb that after more than 360 episodes, the upcoming 17th season of Greys Anatomy may be its last.

We dont know when the show is really ending yet, Pompeo says, answering a question that was not at all about when the show might end. But the truth is, this year could be it.

Pompeo has played Meredith Grey the superstar surgeon around whom Greys Anatomy revolves since its start. The show, created by Shonda Rhimes, premiered on ABC on March 27, 2005, and became an immediate, noisy hit. Since then, for a remarkably long time in Hollywood years, the drama has been among the most popular series on TV, even as the landscape of television has changed seismically. At its Season 2 ratings height, the program drew an average audience of 20 million viewers. And all these years later in a TV universe now divided by more than 500 scripted shows Greys ranks as the No. 1 drama among 18- to 34- year-olds and No. 2 among adults 18 to 49. In delayed, multiplatform viewing, Season 16 averaged 15 million viewers.

Strikingly, technology is such that teenagers who were born when the show premiered, and later binged Greys on Netflix, watch new episodes live with their parents. The series has spawned two successful spinoffs for ABC, Private Practice (which ran from 2007 to 2013) and Station 19 (which enters its fourth season this fall). Greys Anatomy has been licensed in more than 200 territories across the world, translated into more than 60 languages, and catapulted the careers of music artists from Ingrid Michaelson and Snow Patrol to Tegan and Sara and the Fray whose songs have played during key emotional sequences.

In its explosive initial success, Greys Anatomy was an insurgent force in popular culture. The Season 1 cast featured three Black actors Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr. and Isaiah Washington as doctors in positions of power at the Seattle hospital where the show is set, and Sandra Oh played the ambitious intern Cristina Yang, who would become Merediths best friend. For the women characters, the Greys approach to sex was defiant and joyful, starting in the pilot with Merediths one-night stand with Derek (Patrick Dempsey), who turned out to be one of her bosses at the hospital.

Rhimes presented these images to the world like they were no big deal, when in fact, nothing like Greys had ever been seen on network television. Krista Vernoff has been the Greys Anatomy showrunner since Season 14, as anointed by Rhimes, and was the head writer for the first seven seasons. She remembers the moment she realized how radical Greys was a medical show driven entirely by its characters instead of their surgeries as she watched an episode early in Season 1. My whole body was covered in chills, Vernoff recalls. I was like, Oh, we thought we were making a sweet little medical show and were making a revolution.

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Still, no one expected Greys Anatomy to become the longest-running primetime medical drama in TV history, outlasting MASH and ER, the previous record-holder. Since 2005, Greys has inspired countless women to become doctors, and along the way, its depiction of illness has even saved a few lives. The show has remained popular through three presidential administrations, the Great Recession, tectonic shifts in how people watch TV and two cultural reckonings one feminist, one anti-racist that demonstrate how ahead of its time Greys Anatomy has always been.

And theyre not done yet. When Season 17 premieres on Nov. 12, Greys Anatomy will tackle the subject of the coronavirus as experienced by the doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial, all while filming under strict COVID-19 protocols. The season is dedicated to frontline workers. And Pompeo, a producer on Greys whose Meredith has removed a live bomb from a patients body, was in a plane crash, was widowed after Derek died in a car accident, was beaten nearly to death by a patient and, in a separate incident, actually did die briefly after a ferry accident is intent on making the show top itself once again.

Im constantly fighting for the show as a whole to be as good as it can be. As a producer, I feel like I have permission to be able to do that, Pompeo says. I mean, this is the last year of my contract right now. I dont know that this is the last year? But it could very well could be.

Pompeo has been refreshingly transparent about her fight to become the highest-paid female actor on television, having detailed a few years ago how she negotiated a paycheck for more than $20 million a year. She clearly knows what shes doing with these frank pronouncements as well.

As Pompeo laughs over the phone from her car, she says in a near shout: Theres your sound bite! Theres your clickbait! ABCs on the phone!

The Greys Anatomy team led by Rhimes and executive producer Betsy Beers created the first season in a vacuum, because the show did not have an airdate. The 2004-05 season was a comeback year for ABC because Desperate Housewives and Lost, both of which debuted that fall, became phenomena not only ratings successes but also watercooler events.

But at Greys, Rhimes was getting noted to death by network president Steve McPherson. According to Vernoff, McPherson who resigned in 2010 under a cloud of sexual harassment allegations stonewalled with pushback every step of the way, as ABCs then- head of drama, Suzanne Patmore Gibbs, fought for the show. Vernoff was close with Patmore Gibbs, who died in 2018, and recalls her talking about her clashes with McPherson.

He just didnt get it; he didnt like it, Vernoff continues. Honestly, Im going to say, I dont think he liked the ambitious women having sex unapologetically.

Wilson, when she was cast as Miranda Bailey on Greys, was a New York theater actor (Caroline, or Change) relatively new to series television. But she was well aware of the networks issues. We took a creative break around the Christmas holiday, which to me meant Oh, were out of a job.

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Pompeo was frustrated: Once we finally got an airdate, two weeks before that airdate they wanted to change the title of the show to Complications.

In an email to Variety, McPherson disputed these assertions, saying, I made the original deal with Shonda. I developed Greys Anatomy at the studio. I picked it up at ABC. He praised Patmore Gibbs, and added, As for defaming me again and again, I dont know what to say other than its sad that anyone feels the need to spread lies about me.

Yet there was so little faith in the show that the writers were asked to clear out their offices when they finished the season. But to Vernoff, who had clicked right away with Rhimes, the early episodes had felt like a labor of love.

And it was worth the battle. We fought for the right for Meredith and Bailey to be whole human beings, with whole sex lives, and not a network TV idea of likable, Vernoff says. You might not have been likable, but now youre iconic.

As far as the medicine went, the cases were often ostentatious. Every kind of crazy accident that had ever caused terrible harm to any human ever, that was our homework at night, Vernoff says. It was up to Zoanne Clack, an emergency room doctor-turned-writer, to be a sounding board in the writers room. She began as the only doctor on staff during the first season, and is now an executive producer. What was interesting was that the writers dont have those boundaries because they dont know the rules, so they would come up with all of these scenarios, and my immediate thought was like, No way! Clack says. Then Id have to think about it and go, But could it?

When the program finally premiered on a Sunday night after Desperate Housewives to massive ratings, it was a shock to the cast and crew, given that they had shot the first season under a cloud, Pompeo says, adding, So the fact that the numbers were that huge the first time we aired was a big fk-you to McPherson!

With Season 2 now a given, everything changed, Vernoff says: It was like a hurricane-force gale, and everyone was just trying to hold on. They had made 13 episodes for Season 1, airing nine of them and holding the final four for Season 2 Meredith finding out that Derek was actually married (to Addison, played by Kate Walsh) had felt like the perfect finale. But upon the writers return, Vernoff says, the feeling was Holy s. We have to make 22.

The entire cast mostly unknown actors like Katherine Heigl as the sunny Izzie Stevens, T.R. Knight as the chummy neurotic George OMalley, and Justin Chambers as the troubled, secretly vulnerable Alex Karev had become famous overnight. For Wilson, whose Bailey was the stern teacher the interns called the Nazi, it was a new experience. Folks were scared to talk to me, like in the store or in the Target people would just kind of leave me alone, she says. It was like, Whats going on?

According to Vernoff, Paparazzi were following the cast to work it was wild.

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The mid- to late-2000s were the height of glossy gossip magazines such as Us Weekly (and its copycats), as well as the inception of TMZ and Perez Hilton as celebrity-hounding, news-breaking forces that fueled (and soiled) the fame-industrial complex. The cast of Greys Anatomy was firmly in the sights of these new, often toxic forces in media.

Pompeo says the cast was so talented that it was all worth it but yes, the transition to stardom was hard for the group: At the time, it was just a real combination of exhaustion and stress and drama. Actors competing with each other and envious.

Heigl, Knight and Isaiah Washington all went through press cycles that made the show seem scandal-prone. To rehash it all now seems pointless; you can look it up. Washington was fired in June 2007. Knight and Heigl asked to be written out of the show preemptively, in Seasons 5 and 6, respectively.

Vernoff and the other writers were watching the internal messes unfold. They had to deal with how the fallout affected the shows plot, as when Washington was fired just as Burke, his character, was about to marry Cristina. When word comes down that an actor is leaving the show, and what youve got scripted is a wedding Vernoff trails off, laughing.

There was a lot of drama on-screen and drama off-screen, and young people navigating intense stardom for the first time in their lives, she continues. I think that a lot of those actors, if they could go back in time and talk to their younger selves, it would be a different thing. Everybodys grown and changed and evolved but it was an intense time.

Pompeo doesnt want to talk about what happened with individual actors from the show, because when she has in the past, it doesnt get received in the way in which I intend it to be. But she does make a point about the way television is produced. Nobody should be working 16 hours a day, 10 months a year nobody, she says. And its just causing people to be exhausted, pissed, sad, depressed. Its a really, really unhealthy model. And I hope post-COVID nobody ever goes back to 24 or 22 episodes a season.

Its why people get sick. Its why people have breakdowns. Its why actors fight! You want to get rid of a lot of bad behavior? Let people go home and sleep.

Debbie Allen would eventually be Pompeos savior in that regard, but that was years away. Allen an actor and a dancer began her directing career when she was on the 1980s TV series Fame as a natural progression because, she says, I was in charge of the musical numbers, and so many directors didnt really know how to shoot them. She went on to be a prolific director and producer, most notably overhauling NBCs A Different World after a tumultuous first season. As a fan of Greys Anatomy, Allen wanted to work on the show, and in Season 6, she was hired to direct. To prepare for it, Allen shadowed Wilson, who had been tapped to direct by executive producer-director Rob Corn. (He came to me and said, You should direct, says Wilson, who has now helmed 21 episodes. And I said, OK. Because I didnt know what else to say.)

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Directing that sixth-season episode led to Allens fruitful relationship with Greys. In Season 8, Rhimes wrote Allen into the show to play Catherine, a star surgeon, a love interest for Richard Webber (Pickens) and the mother of Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams). Ahead of Season 12 in 2015, Allen became the shows EP/director. Her duties included hiring all of the directors, weighing in on scripts and casting, and, as Allen puts it, minding that people feel good about themselves. Several years before the revived #MeToo movement would lead to calls for systemic changes behind the camera in Hollywood, Allen set a goal of hiring 50% women directors. She also increased the number of Black men who directed Greys during her first season as executive producer, among them Denzel Washington. (When she sold him on it, she recounts, he said to her, Im going to say yes, Debbie Allen.)

Pompeo and Allen are close. Allen began her new role the year after Dempsey left, at a time when we were really broken, Pompeo says. And so much of our problems were perpetuated by bad male management. Debbie came in at a time when we really, really needed a breath of fresh air, and some new positive energy.

Pompeo continues with a laugh: Debbie really brought in a spirit to the show that we had never seen we had never seen optimism! We had never seen celebration. We had never seen joy!

According to Pompeo, Allen began advocating for her to have more humane hours Fridays off (Pompeo: And I was like, What? What? Fridays off?) and for the show to shoot 12-hour days maximum, and ideally no more than 10 hours (Pompeo: And I was like, I love this woman.).

Allen speaks affectionately about her bond with Pompeo. Coming out of Boston, shes so earthy and real in a way that you might not know, Allen says. Theres a sisterhood between us I guess you would say its almost a Blackness that exists between us. And shes part of our tribe.

Allen has been a key member of the Greys Anatomy brain trust since Season 12, and two seasons later, Vernoff returned to run the show. Shed left at the end of Season 7, consulted on Private Practice for a few years, and then went to Showtimes Shameless for five seasons. As her contract was set to expire, Rhimes asked Vernoff to lunch, and told her she wanted her to take over. It felt like she was saying, Hey, our kid needs you, Vernoff says.

Before accepting the offer, Vernoff had to catch up on the show. She had always written Greys as a romantic comedy, and what she saw on-screen during her binge was dark as hell especially after Dereks death. If this show that you are currently making is the show that you want Greys Anatomy to be, she recalls telling Rhimes, I am, in fact, not the right writer for it. But Rhimes was insistent, saying it was time for a change after the mourning period for Derek.

Vanessa Delgado, who started as a production intern during the seventh season and has worked her way up to being lead editor and co-producer, says the shows trajectory shifted when Vernoff came back it was a return to the original, saucier tone of Greys. We changed the music completely, Delgado says. The dialogue felt lighter and more fun, and we were having fun again.

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That lightness will be difficult to maintain this year, of course, when, as Allen puts it, COVID is No. 1 on the call sheet right now.

Vernoff at first wondered whether Greys should ignore the coronavirus, thinking the audience comes to the show for relief. But the doctors in the writers room convinced her this wasnt the time for escapism, saying to her, This is the biggest medical story of our lifetime, and it is changing medicine permanently.

When theyve had doctors and nurses come speak with them this season, Vernoff says, they were different human beings than the people weve been talking to every year. And I want to honor that, tonally. I just want to inspire people to take care of each other.

Pompeo, who is not shy about offering criticism, sounds positively enthusiastic: Ill say the pilot episode to this season girl, hold on.

What nobody thinks we can continue to do, we have done. Hold on. Thats all were going to say about that!

Pompeo has a few more months before she decides whether she wants to continue and as Rhimes and ABC have made clear in recent years, the show will likely end when she leaves. I dont take the decision lightly, Pompeo says. We employ a lot of people, and we have a huge platform. And Im very grateful for it.

You know, Im just weighing out creatively what can we do, she says. Im really, really, really excited about this season. Its probably going to be one of our best seasons ever. And I know that sounds nuts to say, but its really true.

Vernoff doesnt worry about the creative well drying up. Weve blown past so many potential endings to Greys Anatomy that I always assume it can go on forever, she says.

And Wilson knows how important Greys is to its audience, in that the characters have essentially become people who live in their house. As one of only three actors whove been on Greys since the beginning the other is James Pickens Jr. Wilson is in it until the end: In my mind, Bailey is there until the doors close, until the hospital burns down, until the last thing happens on Greys Anatomy. That is her entire arc.

Whenever the show does conclude, part of its legacy will be about the talent it launched into the world, beginning with Rhimes, who will soon release her first shows for Netflix, after her company, Shondaland, made a lucrative deal with the streamer in 2017.

But it will also be about the characters of Greys Anatomy mostly women and people of color who are trying to make the world a better place as they find friendship, love and community.

The show, at its core, brings people together, Pompeo says. And the fact that people can come together and watch the show, and think about things they may not have ordinarily thought about, or see things normalized and humanized in a way that a lot of people really need to see it helps you become a better human being. If this show has helped anybody become a better human being, then thats the legacy Id love to sit with.

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Welcome back to the Anatomy of a Goal, where each week we dissect one goal (or near goal) from Columbus Crew SCs previous match.

For match 19 of the 2020 MLS Season, we take a look at Victor Cabreras 67th minute own goal that gave the Crew a goal and led to a draw in Saturdays match against Houston Dynamo.

Here is a look at the own goal by the Dynamo defender.

Columbus took the field in Houston with Darlington Nagbe in the lineup for the first time since early September. While Nagbe completed nearly all of his passes, the Black & Gold showed the same road match rust that we have come to expect this season. A Memo Rodriguez goal in the first half gave the Dynamo a lead that carried until the 67th minute.

The game-tying goal begins with a Pedro Santos interception. Santos picks off the ball and sends a pass back toward Milton Valenzuela.

Valenzuela picks up Santos interception and slides the ball over to Artur to set up the offense.

Artur spies Harrison Afful, hidden underneath the on-screen advertisement, and hits a field-switching pass to the right back.

Afful takes a few touches toward the sideline and pays a pass forward to Luis Diaz.

Diaz crosses midfield and finds himself with four options. He can play a pass forward to Lucas Zelarayan, carry the ball toward the middle of the field, play a long diagonal back to Artur or drop a pass to Aidan Morris.

Diaz plays a safe pass back to Morris.

Morris carries forward and looks to make a pass back forward to Diaz, but has to get the ball around Darwin Ceren.

Ceren sticks a foot out and is able to get in the way of Morris pass to Diaz.

Luckily, Cerens interception deflects right to Harrison Afful.

Afful immediately hits a pass right to Morris.

Morris carries the ball forward and resets back to Artur.

Artur moves the ball forward and finds himself with three options. He can either play a pass forward to Zelarayan, hit a long diagonal to Santos or play a pass up to Valenzuela.

Artur makes the safe pass over to Valenzuela.

And Valenzuela makes a safe pass right back to Artur.

Artur picks up Valenzuelas pass and sends a long ball over to Jonathan Mensah who is open in the middle of the field.

Mensah finds Aidan Moors a dozen yards ahead of him.

Morris lets the ball roll ahead of him and hits a very good first touch pass forward to Afful.

Afful corrals Morris pass and carries it a few yards forward, where he hits a pass into the path of Diaz.

Diaz turns toward the goal and hits a low cross into the penalty box toward Krisztian Nemeth.

Maynor Figureoa is the first obstacle between Diazs cross and Nemeth.

The ball just edges past Figueroa as Cabrera gets between Nemeth and the ball.

Cabrera slides toward the ball in an attempt to clear it out of bounds. The Dynamo center back gets a touch on the ball, preventing Nemeth from getting on the end of the cross.

Fortunately for Columbus, Cabreras attempted clearance rockets toward the Houston goal.

Marko Maric gets his hand up but isnt able to react quickly enough as the ball soars past him . . .

. . . into the back of the net!

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In certain parts of Northern Ireland in the late 1970s, a stranger arriving at the door could provoke panic, even terror. The town of Lisburn, near Belfast, was not such a place. Predominantly Protestant and home to many members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), it had for the most part escaped the violence that had ravaged other parts of the province. Up until 1977, as Ian Cobain puts it, not a single member of the security forces had lost their life in Lisburn.

All that would change on the morning of Saturday, 22 April 1978, when Millar McAllister, a police photographer, opened the back door of his home in Woodland Park, having glimpsed a figure moving in his back garden. He was shot three times at close range, twice in the chest and the third time, as he was lying on the ground, in the head. In the silence that followed, the killer noticed McAllisters seven-year-old son, Alan, standing just inside the kitchen door, frozen to the spot. They stared at each other for a long moment until the boy started screaming. The stranger ran to a waiting car, the boys cries echoing in his head,

In Lost Lives, the vast book of historical record that chronologically documents every death in the Troubles, Millar McAllister is listed as victim number 2,017. The bare facts of his life are outlined thus: RUC, Protestant, 36, married, two children. In Anatomy of a Killing, Ian Cobain rescues him from the abyss of history, tracing the arc of his short life and contrasting it with the still ongoing, altogether more tangled, life of Harry Murray, his killer.

By reconstructing a single murder its planning, its ruthless execution and its protracted aftermath through in-depth interviews and the careful sifting of not always reliable evidence from official records, Cobain also casts new light on the culture of terrorist violence and state repression that defined Northern Ireland during 30 years of conflict.

Cobain is a seasoned, award-winning investigative journalist (most recently for the Guardian), who also sketches the social and historical context that spawned the Troubles. Throughout, his style is brisk and his tone level-headed, the violence he chronicles often evoked through spartan, but chillingly descriptive, detail. Of the aftermath of the IRA bombing of the La Mon hotel restaurant, which happened on 17 February 1978, just a few months before the murder of Millar McAllister, he writes: Twelve people, including three married couples, died in the blast. All were Protestant. The dead were so badly burned and shrivelled by the flames that firemen thought initially that some of them were children. Hell is in the details.

Amid such carnage, the death of an individual could pass all too swiftly into the anonymous realm of statistics, forgotten by all but family members and loved ones. Cobains book is, among other things, an act of reclamation. It is also, in its skilful telling, a tale of two ordinary lives converging with the inexorability of a Greek tragedy.

Millar McAllister joined the RUC in 1961, when the Troubles, as Cobain puts it, were barely visible on the horizon. He had two hobbies: photography and racing pigeons. The former provided him with a well-paid job; the second unwittingly led to his death. McAllister wrote a monthly column for Pigeon Racing News and Gazette under the byline The Copper, which was accompanied by his photograph. When an IRA suspect, who was being held at the Castlereagh interrogation centre in east Belfast, recognised McAllister from the photo, the word went out to find him. Soon afterwards, Harry Murray was dispatched with another young volunteer to carry out his execution.

In almost every way, Murray comes across as the polar opposite of the level-headed McAllister: impetuous, impressionable and instinctively rebellious. What they had in common is that they were both Protestants, Murray being one of the very few from his community to join the IRA. A few years before, he had been driven out of his home in loyalist Tigers Bay in Belfast by local paramilitaries. His transgression was to marry a Catholic. Having been resettled where his wife grew up in nationalist north Belfast, he grew increasingly sympathetic to the republican cause. Murray seems to have drifted into the ranks of the Provisionals much like, years before, he had enlisted on impulse with the Royal Air Force and served overseas. His military career ended abruptly after one too many breaches of discipline. I just couldnt take orders, he tells Cobain without irony.

What lingers longest is the awful mundanity of the events leading up to and after the killing

Murrays renegade life was not without principle, however. During his induction into the IRA, he claims to have told his recruiters there were two things he would not do: kneecappings and shooting Protestants just because they were Protestant. Like all IRA combatants, though, he regarded the RUC as the enemy in a just war, and, as Cobain discovers, remains remarkably free of remorse for the brutal taking of Millar McAllisters life. In 1983, while serving time for the killing, Murray would take part in an audacious IRA jailbreak from Long Kesh prison, shooting a prison officer in the leg before being wounded himself. On his recapture, he was set upon by prison officers who berated him as a turncoat bastard.

As with Patrick Radden Keefes recent book, Say Nothing, which uses the IRAs disappearance of Jean McConville in 1972 as the starting point for an illuminating exploration of the conflict, Anatomy of a Killing deftly merges history, social context and anecdotal testimony. Cobain explores the psychology of political violence, citing a study from 1978 which found that, rather than being the psychopaths of tabloid headlines, the IRAs political killers tended to be normal in intelligence and mental stability. He also suggests that vengeance may have been a crucial motivating factor for young men joining the Provisionals and, in Murrays case, it is clear that he has never forgiven his own community for the humiliation of his expulsion.

The immediate aftermath of the killing also makes for deeply unsettling reading. On information obtained from an IRA informer, Murray and his accomplices were arrested and taken to Castlereagh, where they were beaten and interrogated relentlessly by Special Branch men working in shifts. Anne, an IRA courier, confesses to her role and, Cobain writes, appears to have suffered a fairly complete physical and psychological breakdown.

The man she gave the gun to after the killing, Brian Maguire, whom Cobain describes as highly strung, was not an IRA member. He was interrogated non-stop for 12 hours and, the next morning, was found hanged in his cell. His death remains disputed. Among the revelations in Cobains book is testimony given at the time by another suspect called Phelim, which provides what Cobain calls an accurate description of the torture technique that became known as waterboarding when used by the CIA in the years after 9/11.

If there is much that is compelling in Anatomy of a Killing, what lingers longest is the awful mundanity of the events leading up to and after the killing. Cobain describes how, on that fateful morning, Anne calmly carried the gun from Belfast to Lisburn on a bus, and, having arrived early, went shopping for a birthday present for her brother. Just a few hours after he killed McAllister, Murray returned to Lisburn to play football on a pitch close to his victims home.

As the Troubles begin to fade into history and forgetting, it is in these incidental actions that the deep moral fracture caused by the conflict comes sharply and chillingly into focus. We would do well to remember how quickly violence can become almost normalised in a culture riven by intractable differences of identity and belonging.

Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain is published by Granta (18.99). To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply

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In the California Legislature, Members of the Assembly and Senate can introduce three types of resolutions. What are the component parts of a resolution? In terms of its anatomy, a resolution contains the following provisions:

Legislative Session. At the top of each bill, the following language appears: California Legislature 2019-2020 Regular Session. The only two items that change would be the 2-year Legislative Session, and if there is an Extraordinary Session (also called a special session), rather than a Regular Session.

Resolution Number, which follows the words House Resolution, Senate Resolution, Assembly Concurrent Resolution, Senate Concurrent Resolution, Assembly Joint Resolution, and Senate Joint Resolution. The Assembly Chief Clerk or the Secretary of the Senate assigns the resolutions their numbers for each resolution introduced in its respective house of origin, usually in the order in which it was received at the Assembly or Senate Desk. This number remains the same throughout the legislative process, even when the measure is considered in the second house.

Author(s), as well as principal coauthors and coauthors. In the U.S. Congress and many state legislatures, the author of the bill is known and referred to as the sponsor. In the California Legislature, the author is the legislator who authors the resolution. The first line always lists the main author(s) who introduced the resolution. Below the first line lists any principal coauthor and the next line lists any coauthor. One list is used for the house of origin coauthors and another line below that is used for coauthors from the other house.

Date Introduced, as well as Date Amended, with the house making the amendment listed (i.e., the Senate or Assembly).

Resolution Title, which is a short phrase, also called the Relating clause because it begins with the phrase: Relative to . The title must encompass the subject matter contained in the resolution.

Legislative Counsels Digest, merely states what the resolution would do.

Digest Key, which contains only the fiscal committee key.

Resolution Text, which is the actual language of the resolution, containing Whereas and Resolved clauses. These are the provisions that make up the anatomy of a bill in the California Legislature.

Chris Micheli is a lobbyist with Aprea & Micheli, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law.

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