Johnni Macke 1:00 pm on August 1, 2017

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Starting last month, its been all Greys Anatomy, all the time, due to the fact that season 14 is officially underway (not that were complaining!). Now, weve discovered that one of our favorite Greys actors will not only be on screen this season, but also will be stepping behind the camera.

On Monday (July 31), after spending a few days exploring the beauty that Seattle has to offer and throwing the first pitch at a Seattle Mariners game with his fellow co-stars Kevin McKiddturned his focus to his latest Greys role: directing an episode!

Back at it @greysabc #directorprep, McKidd, who plays Dr. Owen Hunt on the ABC drama captioned a fun selfie of himself, his script, and a BIG cup of coffee.

The Scottish actor has been a part of Greys Anatomy since 2008, when he first won over fans as Cristina Yangs love interest, and since then hes become a fan favorite. In addition to filling out the cast which includes Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers, Jesse Williams and more McKidd has been contributing to Greys from behind the scenes since 2011.

Beginning in season 7 of the medical drama, McKidd has directed 16 episodes of Greys Anatomy, and now he is ready to bump that number up to 17 with another directing gig come season 14.

We might not know which episode McKidd is directing yet, but based on showrunner Krista Vernoffs tweet last week, its not episode one, since that story is already wrapped and ready to go.

No matter what episode McKidd is working on, he looks serious in this Instagram post, which we think means hes ready to deliver yet another amazing episode. Plus, he even has a pencil out to take notes with, so you know he means business!

Greys Anatomy returns for season 14 with a two-hour premiere on September 28, 2017 at 8 p.m. on ABC.

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

For match 23 on the 2017 MLS Season, we take a look at Ola Kamaras 15th minute left-footed goal that put Crew SC up 1-0 as part of the 2-2 draw with Real Salt Lake on Saturday.

Heres a look at the finish from the Columbus forward.

After a disappointing, two red-card loss at the Philadelphia Union on Wednesday night, the Black & Gold found themselves clawing to keep pace in a tight Eastern Conference playoff race. Rookie Connor Maloney earned his first start as a professional, slotting in at right wing back.

Crew SCs opening goal begins off of a clearance by Salt Lake midfielder Kyle Beckerman. Beckermans half-touch only clears the ball about 15 yards up the field.

Captain Wil Trapp and Maloney are both in position to win Beckermans weak clearance. Trapp takes possession of the ball as Maloney heads to a wide position on the right flank.

With a defender on his right hip, Trapp drops the ball back to center-back Nicolai Naess.

Getting his first start since the 1-0 win at Minnesota United, Naess finds himself with the ball and acres yards of space and has four options. He can either carry the ball upfield until defensive pressure arrives, play a long pass to winger Justin Meram, who has begun to move toward Naess, slot a difficult pass to Artur or a pass back to Trapp.

As Meram heads toward Naess, the Crew SC center back plays a beautifully weighted ball to the feet of his teammate.

Meram receives the ball and begins his turn, defended by Beckerman. With a ball-hawking midfielder on his hip, Meram has to quickly decide whether to try and beat Beckerman off the dribble or pass to a teammate.

Meram eludes Beckerman and can either try to beat his defender off the dribble, pass to Maloney on the right wing or slide a quick ball to Artur, potentially setting up a give-and-go.

The Columbus winger takes a nifty dribble away from Beckerman and elects to make an excellent pass across the field to Maloney, who, unmarked, has yards of space to work with.

Danilo Acosta immediately heads over to defend Maloney. Seeing a defender arriving, Artur heads toward his teammate to provide a passing option. Maloney holds onto the ball, waiting for both help to arrive and his defender.

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The above video shows the excellent give-and-go that Maloney and Artur execute to get around Acosta and Arturs defender, Sunday Stephen, or Sunny. Maloney plays a short pass to Artur who then plays a ball right between Sunny and Acosta.

Here, Maloney has just made the quick pass. With his defender on his heels, Maloney immediately sets off at a sprint around Acosta. Artur plays the quick pass, setting off a sprint to the ball.

Though Maloney had a bit of a head start, Acosta is able to keep up with the rookie wing back. If Maloney beats Acosta, he will have both Kamara and Ethan Finlay as options for a quick cross.

Maloney JUST beats Acosta to the ball. Meanwhile, Finlay battles for position with Marcelo Silva. Both Silva and Justen Glad are between Finlay and the ball, making it difficult for a pass to reach the Black & Gold winger.

As the ball approaches, Finlay has yet to get into position around Silva. Glad is still in the path of the ball, while Kamara awaits a deflection or rebound.

Glad gets caught on the wrong foot and is unable to get any sort of touch on the cross. Finlay has just gotten a leg in on Silva and attempts a sliding shot on the ball. Kamara is still very open.

Finlays touch on the ball is deflected toward the end line where Maloney is alert and already racing Acosta to the ball. Kamara? Still unmarked.

Maloney gets to the ball, but has to beat Glad if he wants to hit a still wide-open Kamara.

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The above video shows Maloneys confident pass through the legs of Glad. Maloney may have gotten lucky, but that lucky pass will become his first professional assist.

From an extra angle you can see Maloneys angle compared to Kamara. Maloney can see that a pass to his teammate would result in a shot on goal. Kamara is mystifyingly still unmarked.

With the ball through Glads legs and headed toward Kamara, the Crew SC striker has an open shot on goal. As Kamara approaches the ball, he decides where to place his shot and with which foot to hit the ball.

A right-footed shot, his natural foot, would be more powerful, but might not have the correct bend. A left-footed shot would be more difficult, but would place the ball in the face of the goal.

Kamara opts for the higher percentage shot with his weak foot. . .

. . . and smashes the ball into the roof of the net.

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Findings:

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Anatomy of a Goal: Ola Kamara's Lefty Finish - Massive Report

THE CIRCUS-LIKE atmosphere currently dominating the Trump White House seems to be getting some local competition, if last weeks wild and woolly political news at home is any indication.

Savannah politics has a seedy and ugly underbelly. That we already knew.

The ongoing chaos surrounding Alderman Tony Thomas, for example, is just one episode of the long and messy reality TV series we call local politics.

Tensions over the 2018 Congressional midterm elections still a year and a half away! have been running high here since last Februarys town hall meeting with Congressman Buddy Carter.

That event at the Armstrong Center garnered national coverage for the raucous intensity of opposition to the Republican incumbent, who represents Chatham County in Georgias First Congressional District.

But turns out that wild affair was just a prologue.

The latest round of recrimination doesnt involve Buddy Carter so much as it does bizarre internal strife in the Democratic Party ranks.

Or maybe not so much in the actual party ranks after all?

In this issue you will find Jessica Leigh Leboss interview with Lisa Ring, one of the candidates who has announced a bid for the Democratic nomination in order to challenge Carter in November 2018.

As of this writing, Lisa could have one less opponent to worry about.

In the prior issue we ran my interview with another Democratic candidate, Steve Jarvis, whose campaign immediately melted down in ugly fashion even by Savannah standards.

The trouble had already begun before Jarviss official announcement last Thursday (which perhaps symbolically took place during a heavy thunderstorm).

Jarviss admittedly quite conservative positions, as he openly stated in our interview, immediately drew fire from local Democratic activists, who wondered why someone who echoes Donald Trump on some issues would bother running as a Democrat.

Unflattering interactions from campaign staff with people who showed up at the Thursday announcement triggered further hard feelings.

By this past Saturday, things had reached a fever pitch, as internet sleuths discovered that Jarvis had apparently flirted with political runs in his home of Bryan County before, only as a Republican, and seemingly under a slightly different name.

Jarviss former campaign manager Michael Shortt was defending the candidate as late as Saturday afternoon against charges he had run as a Republican.

On Jarviss now-defunct Facebook page, the candidate issued a statement containing the following garbled response:

Several years ago, friends in Bryan County (which is 92% Republican) did try to draft me to run, I declined. If they filled out any forms, its news to me. But even if they did, and if I had, which I didnt, and even if I had been an R instead of a D. So what?

The statement then went on to try and make the case that many folks with Republican leanings citing Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren as examples went on to run as Democrats.

As you might expect, the campaigns response only added fuel to the fire, and made a bad situation that much worse.

Negative comments on Jarviss Facebook page came in fast and furious, with many deleted as fast as they were posted, some with parting shots to the commenters calling them socialists.

By Monday morning the Facebook page was no more.

About an hour later the campaign website itself followed it into oblivion, and was then back up.

By noon Monday, Shortt had officially jumped ship, and he issued this terse statement to the media:

I and my businesses (Tandem, Carbon Media) are no longer representing or affiliated with the Congressional campaign of Steve Jarvis (Bernard Stefan Jarvis) for philosophical and professional reasons.

Meanwhile, I found myself on the receiving end of various personal attacks from a few local political types just for running the Jarvis interview at all though we made it clear that we would be interviewing as many candidates in the race as possible in order to keep things fair.

There seems to be a minor misconception among some that we are only "supposed" to talk to certain types of candidates. (We are endeavoring to interview another candidate for the First District, Adam Bridges, as soon as we can. So get your poison pens ready!)

Savannahs unofficial motto seems to be, No good deed goes unpunished. But we dont apologize for doing our jobs and interviewing people running for office as much and as often as we can.

An interview isnt the same as an endorsement, though apparently some folks dont agree.

The way I see it, our interview was a public service in that it gave readers a chance to see Jarviss policy positions, in his own words, for what they were basically conservative.

Jarvis may have misrepresented a few things, but apparently he was telling the truth about his conservative positions.

Its a free country, and what you do with that information is up to you. Which I guess includes coming up with unhinged conspiracy theories about the hidden evil agenda of the local alt-weekly editor.

All that said, the First District is a very conservative one, and running on a conservative platform is far from the craziest idea if you want to represent it in Congress.

In the meantime, Buddy Carter is planning to hold another town hall meeting, this one on Thursday, Aug. 10, at Bible Baptist School in Savannah.

Except this time, it is a ticketed event. Free to attend, but you have to sign up first.

We are using a ticketing system to ensure constituents of the First District are able to attend town hall meetings in an orderly fashion, says Congressman Carters office.

Will limiting admission make things more orderly?

Or will it invite even more opposition?

Will the next Buddy Carter Town Hall be a circus like the last one?

And will the media be blamed for everything that goes wrong?

Stay tuned for the next episode!

Its must-see stuff, even though some players so far have clearly not been ready for prime time.

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Editor's Note: Anatomy of a political meltdown - Connect Savannah.com

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Last updated18:27, August 1 2017

STUFF

Andrew Little steps down as Labour leader and is replaced by his former deputy Jacinda Ardern.

It was early Tuesday when Andrew Little decided finally to call it quits.

In Auckland,after launching Labour's East Coast Bays campaign, he had taken the night to mull it over and some doubts may have lingered.

But faced with a round of early morning media interviews, Little realised he had to make a call. He told his staff to cancel his morning slots and headed for the airport and a flightto Wellington.

It was the point his closest advisers knew the end had come.

READ MORE:*Live: Little gone, Ardern to lead Labour*What are Labour's potential new leaders Jacinda Ardern and Kelvin Davis all about* Switching leaders at this point is not easy but if Andrew Little is going, it should be quick*Labour pins its hopes on a new top team that is a stark contrast to National's*Can the Ardern factor save Labour?

But atParliament his colleagues were uncertain. Manyexpectedhim to stay.

Then as Little came through the terminal in Wellington he fended off a reporter's question by denying he was quitting - spreading confusion throughout his staff and MPs and leaving the media trying to reconcile completely contradictory stories.

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Andrew Little spoke at Labour's East Coast Bays campaign before retreating to his Auckland hotel room to ponder his future as leader on Monday night.

SEEDS OF A SPILL

But the seeds of the spill that saw Jacinda Ardern handed the Labour leadership started in earnestjust a week before.

There had been rumblings in Tuesday's caucusmeetingwith MPs detecting asharp softening in support in voter land.

In part that was being driven by votes switching to the Greens in sympathy with co-leader Metiria Turei's"benefit bomb" - her admission she had lied to get a higher benefit back in the 1990s.

But MPs could feel the squeeze coming on from the other end of the spectrum as Winston Peters barn stormed around the provinces and- like the Greens - delivereda message of radical change that Labour's more conservative and centrist plan was not matching.

But there was more. Andrew Little was not energising voters. And when it came to a stark contrast with PrimeMinister Bill English ... well it just wasn't happening.

And then came the bombshell thatmoved a leadership change from beyond the pale to an odds-on possibility. There had been bad polls before but Labour's own pollsters UMR Research reported a dive in support to an all time low of 23 per cent- worse even than Labour's David Cunliffe-led disaster of 2014.

Over just a month the party's support had racheted down six percentage points from 29 per cent - and was not showing any sign of bottoming. Little consulted leading MPs to ask if he should go and was assured of their support. His deputy - and logical replacement- Jacinda Ardern was staying loyal and refusing to countenance a "Plan B"that would send Little down the road.

At 23 per cent, Little's own re-election would be in doubt- and how can you campaign as an alternative PM when you may not evenbe in the House? Other senior MPs would alsobe out, and the plan to rejuvenate the caucus with a raft of new and diverse faces would be in tatters.

TIME TO DRAW BREATH

It was then just a question of drawing a breath and waiting.

If the public polls were not as dire, then maybe Labour could avoid a meltdown and struggle through the next eight weeks - and hope for a miracle Labour-Green-NZ FirstGovernment after September 23.

But when the One News-Colmar Brunton poll landed on Sunday, confirming Labour at 24 per cent, things began to move fast, accelerated by Little's interview about the poll.

Conceding he had offered to resign was bad enough. It strobed weakness.

But he also conceded he could not credibly lead a Government atthat 24 per cent level ofsupport.

It was a "can't do" moment and a kick in the teeth for the party's hopes and morale.

By Monday, the drums were starting to beat loudly, with a third poll from Newshubmerely confirming the 23-24 per cent polling range.

The internal message was clear; Little would not be ousted by force, but perhaps he could be persuaded to go?

BAD OR WORSE AHEAD?

Hewas coming to his own conclusion. The party's campaign launch was just over two weeks away, another UMR poll could be as bad or worse, and timewas running out.

A full-on coup, opposed by Little and his lieutenants would be too divisive and could stir the ire of the unions and membership, who normally play a pivotal part in leadership selections. But they are out of the mix within three months of an election when all thepower to hire and fire the boss is in the hands of the MPs.

Party insiders deny the "numbers" were being done in the classic sense of a coup. But chief whip Kris Faafoi was ringing MPs to take the pulse anda Jacinda Ardern-Kelvin Davis ticket was being floated.

Meanwhile, Little was told to sleep on his final callin his Auckland hotel. The effective deadline was Tuesday's caucus meeting.

Back among his MPs, the sense on Monday night was that it was a line call. Even his closest allies in the unions and parties were saying it was impossible to read how he would jump. And MP Stuart Nash had nailed his colours to Little's mast, saying the party would be doomed if there was a leadership spill.

But by Tuesday morning - and without Little showing his hand - the pendulum seemed to swing towards him toughing it out.

Senior MPs at breakfast time were sure he was "going nowhere". Theclear denial he was quitting, made when he was door-stoppedat Wellington airport by RNZ reporter Mei Heron, just added fuel to the rumour.

CONFUSION SPREADS

It fed a growing sense of confusion as reporters gathered for Littleat a 10am press conference. One minute Labour insiders were on song with the signalling all morning - he was staying.

Then, just minutes before he arrived, the word rippled around Labour's office suite in Parliament Buildings.

He was going, and Monday night's Ardern-Davis "ticket" would be in charge by lunchtime.

One insider said Little had been confident as he headed to Parliament he had the "numbers" but at some point had realised he didn't.

There might be no coup, but he could not go on as leaderfaced with that reality.

But in truth Little had made his call already. And that was to Ardern from his last ride in a Crown car, to tell her "the worst job in politics" was all hers.

-Stuff

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The anatomy of a Labour leadership spill: Little exits stage Left pursued by the polls - Stuff.co.nz

In an earlier article in this newspaper (Understanding the Trump phenomenon, August 5, 2016), I suggested that it was necessary to take Donald Trumps candidacy and its implications more seriously than many were doing then. Six months into the Trump presidency, the American media remains fascinated with the new reality show that has entered the White House.

As every small skirmish, move and tweet is given inordinate scrutiny and attention, it is easy however to lose sight of the big picture. What have we, in fact, learnt about the United States in the months since November 2016? How is this new information going to be useful in understanding the future path of the U.S., as well as its ongoing relationship with the rest of the world? Here are some suggestions and speculations.

The first point to be taken note of is that, despite the widespread disapproval of Mr. Trump in the media and the political and intellectual classes, he still has an approval rating in excess of 35% with the American public. Given Mr. Trumps rather erratic conduct so far, there seems no reason to believe that this rating will fall much further, no matter what he does. A small part of this can be accounted for by legitimism, that is, the need to support an authority figure. But far more important is the suggestion that over a third of the American public is currently made up of inflexible, hardcore right-wing and populist elements. Racism surely plays a role here too. The presidency can be won for the Republicans by adding roughly 15% of votes to this core constituency. In contrast, the Democratic Party does not have a solid base that measures up to this demographically. For them, to drum up numbers in the high-40% or more is thus a more difficult task. As American demography evolves, this could change, but only by the 2030s.

Second, the American electoral system as such is irrevocably broken, and yet there is no collective desire to fix it. In 2000, George W. Bush lost the popular vote to Al Gore by about 5,40,000 and yet won the election (this was the first time that it had happened since 1888). In 2016, Donald Trump then lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by a far larger margin of over three million votes. Still, currently there is no broad move afoot to reform the system, on the part of either major party, or to ensure that this does not happen again. This is in part because of American cultural hubris, which does not allow them to admit that their electoral system is far inferior to, say, that in use in France.

A third point concerns Mr. Trumps domestic agenda. Too much attention has been focused so far on the trench warfare regarding health care. So far, it has proven impossible to replace Obamacare, an ironical fact given that many of those who would have been adversely affected probably voted for Mr. Trump. At the same time, Mr. Trump has already placed one conservative Supreme Court judge, Neil Gorsuch, and may have a chance to effect still more changes. He has significantly turned back the clock on environmental legislation. By 2020, he will have effected many other major domestic policy changes in one or the other fashion. Again, this is an indictment of the American political system, which gives far too much power to the executive, and even to a President who has lost the popular vote.

The fourth point is more crucial still, and concerns the projection of American power abroad. Since the end of the Cold War, and the emergence of the unipolar American-dominated system around 1990, speculation has gone on regarding the nature of potential challenges to it. These could come from other state-systems, such as China, or the European Union, or from unclassifiable systems and forms, such as al-Qaeda or the Islamic State. But few could have predicted that the real challenge would come from within the U.S. itself. Yet, this is what has happened. The Trump administration appears singularly unconcerned with, and inept in dealing with, foreign policy, and after all its core internal constituency is firmly isolationist in its inclinations. The State Department is today in utter disarray. The Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is from the petroleum industry and seems out of his depth; so that rumours even surface regularly of his imminent resignation.

Based on the past six months, it seems likely that by 2020, the systematic projection of American power on a global scale would have shrunk considerably.

Whatever the direct reality of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, there can be no doubt that this outcome suits the Putin regime well. The Russian view appears to be that any political system that is nave enough to be manipulated from the outside deserves what it gets anyway. It could even be argued perhaps that the fresh emergence of a multipolar world is no bad thing. A system largely managed by an inept U.S. diplomatic apparatus is hardly attractive, even to the U.S.s erstwhile allies across the Atlantic.

To sum up, the Trump presidency is the product of a flawed political system that will obstinately not admit its flaws. In spite of this, it will surely have a significant impact over the medium term, both domestically and internationally. On the domestic front, it may be possible to turn some things back, depending of course on the outcome of the 2020 U.S. election. Where the impact is likely to be lasting, and not really reversible, is on the international front.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor of History at UCLA

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Anatomy of the Trump presidency - The Hindu

Where exactly is the grave of Andreas Vesalius? This historical mystery, at the unlikely intersection of anatomy, archeology and cartography, could soon be solved. But not without a final crowdfunding effort.

It's a mystery tinged with irony. Vesalius (1514-1564) popularised autopsies and (unwittingly) kicked off the centuries-long trend of 'resurrectionism': snatching bodies for dissection by medical students. Now it's his own grave that scientists are after, and their search involves a studious postmortem of the landscape where he was buried, with ancient maps as material evidence.

The search started some time before 2014, the 500th anniversary of Vesalius's birth. To celebrate that event, medical artist Pascale Pollier set out to reconstruct the face of Vesalius, from his actual skull a fitting tribute to the father of modern anatomy. But where was that skull? The historical record showed that Vesalius died on the Greek island of Zakynthos. And that's where the trail went cold.

16th-century map of Zakynthos, transposed on a topographically accurate modern map.

It's fair to say that few scientists have been as consequential for the development of modern science in particular medical science as Vesalius. So how could his last resting place have been neglected, forgotten and ultimately lost?

Born in Brussels to a family of apothecaries and physicians, Andries van Wesel later latinised his name to Andreas Vesalius, as was the fashion among Renaissance scholars. He studied anatomy in Paris and Louvain, where he famously robbed a corpse from a gibbet outside the city walls in order to procure a complete skeleton. He obtained his doctorate in Padua in 1537, then immediately received a professorate there, teaching surgery and anatomy.

His seminal work is the seven-volume De humani corporis fabrica ('On the Fabric of the Human Body'), published in Basel in 1543, when Vesalius was just 29 years old.The book is a milestone in the transition from the symbolic approach to medicine to an empirical one. With his insistence on learning via dissection of the human body, Vesalius not only improved upon, but even superseded Galen, whose teachings on medicine had been authoritative for over a millennium, despite the fact that Galen's autopsies on Barbary macaques were as close as he got to human anatomy.

The Fabrica has been called the most beautiful medical book ever published, combining the best science, art and typography that 16th-century Europe had to offer. In 2011, the only completely coloured first-edition copy of the Fabrica known to exist (probably the one presented by Vesalius to Charles V in the autumn of 1543) sold at Christie's for over $1.6 million, more than double the highest estimate of $600,000. Because the colouring was most likely carried out under the supervision of Vesalius himself, the author's portrait provides the only historical basis for our knowledge of Vesalius's complexion and hair colour.

For Vesalius, publication of the book also marked a turning point in his career. He left academia to become the personal physician to Emperor Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and from 1556 to his successor Philip II and their respective entourages, in Spain.

In 1564, Vesalius, a devout Catholic, left Spain for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He visited the Holy Places, but never made it back. It was long assumed that he had been shipwrecked on the island of Zakynthos, then a Venetian colony. Scientists now think Vesalius fell ill on the sea voyage home with scurvy, some argue; general fatigue, say others. Recently rediscovered eyewitness reports say he collapsed on the quay of Zakynthos, dying in October 1564.

Previously, Vesalius was thought to have been buried at the Franciscan abbey at Kalogerata, near the beach. However, reports from European pilgrims to Jerusalem place the tomb at the local Catholic church of Santa Maria delle Grazie (1).

Ground plan of the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie (1806)

That further complicates matters, as the church was destroyed in the big earthquake of 1953 which levelled most of the buildings on the island. The ruins of the church were bulldozed into the sea, and it was never rebuilt. The city itself rose from its ashes on a slightly different street grid.

So in 2014, with the help of Belgian embassy in Greece, Belgian archeologists conducted Phase One of the Quest for the Lost Grave of Vesalius.Painstakingly matching historical maps of the area to satellite imagery and modern cartographic data, Dr. Sylviane Dderix identified the exact location of the ruins of the Santa Maria delle Grazie church: on the north side of the city, partly under the intersection of Kolyva and Kolokotroni streets, and partly under some adjacent houses built after the quake.

Location of the vanished church on the current street grid.

So far, so good. But now, to enrich the data of the first phase, more applied cartography is necessary, specifically: tracking down cavities, foundations and other subterranean anomalies via ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical-resistivity tomography (ERT). The archeologists have now received permission from the Greek ministry of Culture to perform this non-invasive research. Work could start as soon as September, if the crowdfunding campaign to raise the necessary funds, now tantalisingly close its goal, is successful.

Location of the church on Google Earth.

If Phase Two produces actionable results, Phase Three would consist of targeted, small-scale excavations in areas that could hold the grave. And there is indeed a good chance that Vesalius is still in the ground, says Theo Dirix, of the Vesalius Continuum project: Previous construction work on the spot has already turned up funerary slabs, proving there was a cemetery. Moreover, one of them dates from around the time Vesalius was buried here.

One report suggests Vesalius's tombstone may have been looted in 1571 by the Turks. If bones are found without identifying inscriptions, it is hoped they will yield enough DNA for forensic analysis; the project has already tracked down descendants of Vesalius's mother Elisabeth Crabb for mitochondrial DNA comparison.

Zakynthos street grid pre-earthquake (blue) and post-earthquake (red).

There is however a small chance that bones yielded by the underground on this specific plot of Zakynthos belong to another luminary from centuries past. The church was constructed over a much older cemetery; in the 1540s, about two decades before Vesalius was interred at the church, a grave believed to be that of the famous Roman orator Cicero was discovered in its grounds.

Many thanks to Theo Dirix for the images used here. For more on the search for Vesalius's grave, go to Vesalius Continuum.

Strange Maps #850

Got a strange map? Let me know at strangemaps@gmail.com.

(1) Christoph Furer von Haimendorff, who visited Zakynthos in the year following Vesalius's death, gives the epitaph: ANDREAE VESALII BRUXELLENSIS TUMULUS, QUI OBIIT ANNO DOMINI M. D. LXIV. ID. OCTOBRIS, CUMEX HIEROSOLYMA REDIISSET, Anno Aetatis suae LVIII. Mariae de Gratia (however, Vesalius was 50, not 58 years old when he died)

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Pamela Gocobachi 9:05 am on July 28, 2017

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Greys Anatomyis about to take it way back! The ABC drama is gearing up for a fourteenth season thats apparently going to make long-time viewers of the series incredibly happy.

According to actor Kevin McKidd, who plays Dr. Owen Hunt, season 14 of the hit medical drama starring Ellen Pompeo will be heavy on the old school Greys Anatomy vibes.

Its fantastic, wrote McKidd via Twitter when one fan asked what we can expect from this years season premiere. Funny and feels like vintage @GreysABC.

Vintage Greys Anatomy? Sign us up, please! Its nice to hear that the show could potentially be going back to its roots in terms of tone especially considering how many of the original actors weve had to bid farewell to over the years.

Though McKidd didnt go into details via Twitter, the reasons Greys Anatomy season 14 in particular might be so reminiscent of earlier seasons of Greys Anatomy could have something to do with the return of executive producer Krista Vernoff.

On Thursday (July 27), we learned via TVLine that Vernoff, who served as the head writer and executive producer for Greys Anatomyfrom season one through seven, is officially heading back to spearhead season 14.

Vernoff will be taking over showrunner duties from Stacy McKee, who has been tasked with helmingShonda Rhimes upcoming firefighter spinoff series. As sad as well be to see McKee go, we cant deny that were excited to have Vernoff back.

We cant wait to see what Vernoff, who is said to be working closely with Rhimes and her TV partner Betsy Beers, has in store for us this year!

(H/T MovieFone)

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Johnni Macke 4:08 pm on July 27, 2017

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A Greys Anatomy original is heading back to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital next season, and its great news for longtime fans of the ABC doctor drama.

After serving as the head writer and executive producer for Greys from seasons one through seven, Krista Vernoff is officially back as showrunner, TV Line has confirmed.

With news that Greys most recent showrunner, Stacy McKee, is moving to Shonda Rhimes upcoming firefighter spinoff serieswhen it debuts, fans can rest easy with Vernoff at the helm of the veteran drama. The showrunner will reportedly be working alongside Rhimes and her TV partner Betsy Beers this season, beginning with the premiere.

TV Line reports that in addition to being the showrunner this season, Vernoff wrote the season 14 premiere, Break Down the House, which is already being filmed in Seattle.

In fact, Vernoff has already shared a few pictures from set hinting that episode one is already wrapped and ready to go. Can you believe it?!

Thats a wrap, Seattle! Thank you for the weather and for my sparkle hat! (Its like a sparkle pager, only hattier!) #GreysAnatomy, Vernoff captioned a selfie with Kevin McKidd, who played Dr. Owen Hunt.

We cant wait to see what Vernoff and the rest of the Greys Anatomy team has in store for us come this fall! Until then, we will just have to look at thepictures that the cast including Ellen Pompeo, Jesse Williams, and morehave been sharing from their current adventures in Seattle.

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Back in May it was announced that ABC had placed a straight-to-series order for a new Greys Anatomy spinoff based around a group of heroic firefighters, and now comes word from Deadline that Jaina Lee Ortiz (Rosewood) has been cast as the female lead.

The 10-episode drama is being penned by Greys Anatomy executive producer and co-showrunner Stacy McKee and takes place in a Seattle firehouse, detailing the brave men and women from the captain to the newest recruit who risk their lives and their hearts both in the line of duty and off the clock.

The main characters of the new spinoff are set to be introduced in an episode of the upcoming fourteenth season of Greys Anatomy before the show premiers in midseason. It is the second spinoff from the long-running medical drama series after Private Practice, which ran between 2007 and 2013.

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At a time when the soft drinks market is crowded with health-conscious products, Feel Good aims to carve out its brand positioning by extending a message of positivity to women in its latest 'all natural' ad. The Drum went on set (and participated in the ad) to get a first-hand look at the campaign.

With the launch of a new 100% natural range of flavoured water drinks, Driven Agency was tasked with bringing the Vimto-owned Feel Good brand to life with an integrated campaign.

"Obviously the brand is called Feel Good, so the clue is in the name," said Graham Drury, partner at Driven, on the genesis of the idea. We wanted to capture something that actually meant something. Its all about this feeling of liberation and freedom.

"We had to find somewhere private and beautiful so when people arrived they felt comfortable. Finding this place was a a dead important part of the jigsaw."

The idea was to create a documentary-style film where client-side senior brand manager Becky Unwin rallies 100 women to go skinny dipping with her in Spain, tracking the journey from start to finish and how the women feel during the experience.

The shoot took place in rural Andalucia with an all female crew and led by director Nicky Woodhouse from Maker Projects, who incorporated underwater cameras, drones and Go Pros into the production of the film in order to capture every moment.

With an event like this we needed to capture it from all angles. Its not something you can do loads of takes of; its pretty much a one take wonder, said Jennie Ferrar, deputy creative director at Driven.

We knew there was a window where we had the 100 women all together so the best way to capture it was an underwater a camera, Go Pros on peoples heads, a drone in the sky to see the location, and of course our director behind the camera. So it was really throwing everything at that moment this had to be spontaneous, Ferrar added.

To recruit the 100 women, Becky Unwin of Feel Good drinks took to social media, called acquaintances and even approached strangers in the street.

If wed have planned it down to a T it wouldnt have had that seize of the moment quality, though it did come with its downsides, Unwin mused.

We had some challenges, obviously. The week before we were due to shoot we didnt have the full quota. There were people who were maybes, or waiting on flight details. It was very difficult to co-ordinate as people needed to organise shift swaps, child care, so there were a few hairy moments, but we got there in the end."

In addition to the documentary style film, Feel Good is executing an experiential campaign where people can hop into a 'Feel Good taxi', as well as a consumer PR campaign, radio and out of home plans in August. MEC is handling media buying while Social Chain is engaging in an influencer campaign with some of the skinny dipping participants.

"Theres only certain types of clients youd lay this challenge out to. We proposed that we do this for real, live, where theres nowhere to hide," Drury said.

"The client has taken a big leap of faith and we have managed to pull it off, I think. From an agency perspective, I've never seen staff moved to tears of relief during a campaign."

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