ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, photo, Dr. Jeffrey Fahl, chair of the anatomy department at UNLV, shows the Review-Journal how a virtual anatomy table works at UNLV's School of Medicine in Las Vegas. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) less ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, photo, Dr. Jeffrey Fahl, chair of the anatomy department at UNLV, shows the Review-Journal how a virtual anatomy table works at UNLV's School of ... more Photo: Rachel Aston, AP ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, photo, Dr. Jeffrey Fahl, chair of the anatomy department at UNLV, shows the Review-Journal how a virtual anatomy table works at UNLV's School of Medicine in Las Vegas. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) less ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, photo, Dr. Jeffrey Fahl, chair of the anatomy department at UNLV, shows the Review-Journal how a virtual anatomy table works at UNLV's School of ... more Photo: Rachel Aston, AP ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, photo, Dr. Jeffrey Fahl, chair of the anatomy department at UNLV, shows the Review-Journal how a virtual anatomy table works at UNLV's School of Medicine in Las Vegas. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) less ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, photo, Dr. Jeffrey Fahl, chair of the anatomy department at UNLV, shows the Review-Journal how a virtual anatomy table works at UNLV's School of ... more Photo: Rachel Aston, AP

Medical school brings a virtual touch to anatomy studies

LAS VEGAS (AP) Dr. Neil Haycocks twists and turns the 3-D image to review the head and neck CT scan from a variety of angles.

Even without being a doctor, it's easy to tell from the clear, virtual image that the man has suffered a serious injury.

"I don't know exactly what happened to this person, but my guess is that they were struck with some sort of blunt object," Haycocks said as he pointed out a fractured mandible and a depressed bone.

As he sliced through the patient's skull to further examine his injuries, Haycocks demonstrated a crucial benefit to the virtual anatomy tables at University of Nevada Las Vegas's new School of Medicine the ability to examine a patient without destroying vital organs.

With a touch of a button, the skull was whole again.

The touchscreen tables, which replace cadavers that would be found in a traditional anatomy lab, are just one example of the innovative curriculum the first class of 60 students will encounter when they set foot in the school on July 17.

THE BACKBONE

UNLV won't be the first school to use anatomy tables, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal (http://bit.ly/2kIQvIS).

But it's the school's commitment to teaching the subject that sets it apart, according to Dr. Ellen Cosgrove, vice dean for academic affairs and education.

"We've decided to make the virtual anatomy the backbone and the framework of our anatomy instruction," she said.

Haycocks, who learned human anatomy in a traditional lab, said cadaver dissection is limited in its educational benefits.

"You spend hours cutting through tissues, trying to find this or that," Haycocks said. "Sometimes it's well preserved, and sometimes it isn't. Sometimes you accidentally destroy whatever it is you're looking for, and sometimes you're just lost you never find out what's going on. It's a very lengthy and time consuming process."

Haycocks previously taught at a college where he oversaw a cadaver lab. He said that he loved working with the students and seeing their reactions as they cut open a human body.

"That's enjoyable for me at least, but it's really inefficient," he said.

The technology can display images of the body from a variety of perspectives and angles, including 2-D cross-section and 3-D rotation.

With a slight tap, Haycocks lit up the screen with millions of tiny blue channels, illustrating a patient's veins.

And in terms of instruction, virtual anatomy is beneficial because everyone gets the same information. It's also less time consuming and costs much less than a traditional cadaver lab, which runs upward of $10 million.

"If you talk to most people who teach anatomy nowadays, they would agree, perhaps grudgingly, that in well under 100 years, nobody is going to cadaver dissection anymore," Haycocks said.

COMBATING INERTIA

Haycocks sees several benefits from a curriculum standpoint, but he also points out a few flaws to the system.

"For me, the main disadvantage is that you don't have that first patient experience with a real human body," he said.

Given that a first patient often resonates with students, others in the medical community might also question the virtual anatomy approach.

"A lot of education in general, and medical education in particular, there's a lot of inertia," Haycocks said. "Things have been done a certain way for the last 150 years, and by God, the faculty had to do it a certain way so they're going to make the students do it a certain way."

Haycocks said a fourth-year elective is in the works that would give students the opportunity to learn at a month-long boot camp to become an autopsy technician.

"If you want to practice cutting human tissue without any of the rules of surgery, it's hard to beat someone who died the day before," Haycocks said.

Cosgrove said it might take a student in a traditional lab an hour of dissection to view a particular nerve and what path it takes.

At UNLV, students will be able to go through several virtual anatomy stations that have specific learning objectives with problems for them to solve.

"At the end of the two hours, you emerge from that experience with a wealth of information," she said.

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OK, after last night's Grey's Anatomy, I'm even more on the side of the attendings who oppose Eliza Minnick. Apparently, under her method, NONE OF THEM WILL EVER GET TO DO SURGERY EVER AGAIN. Seriously. It's another episode of Stephanie and Jo and Ben doing actual procedures while the actual, trained surgeons stand around and give instructions and look concerned. I'm annoyed about this from the perspective of someone who is overly invested in the training procedures of a fictitious hospital, and that's on me. But I'm also annoyed about it as a viewer, in part because it seems like the past few episodes have all followed the formula of: Eliza insists on her method/attendings object/surgery proceeds regardless/everyone grumbles/patient lives or dies. The biggest problem from a storytelling perspective is that I see Eliza's method is different, but I don't see that it's necessarily an improvement. And if you're going to get me off of Team Webber, you're going to have to do better than that.

Anyway.

This week, Ben, Stephanie, and Jo are working on a mother-to-son kidney transplant. The first bump in the road comes when the boy's estranged, abusive father turns up at the hospital. Once Jo learns about the abuse, she's immediately (and understandably) traumatized, and tries to get Owen to kick him out of the hospital. The father gets in her face more than once, and it seems like it's foreshadowing some big development in Jo's storyline her abusive ex returning? Her opening up more to Alex about her past?

After the kidney is removed from the mother, her other kidney fails, leaving just one functional kidney between the two of them. Everyone goes into a tailspin trying to figure out who the kidney "belongs" to. April's in charge because Bailey's away from the hospital (more on that soon), and because April is really, really bad at deciding things, everyone just stands around and wrings their hands for a while. Then, the boy's father steps forward and says he'll donate the kidney, which sets off another round of handwringing. Jo, in particular, is worried he'll use his status of "heroic organ donor" to try to ingratiate himself back into the family. So she goes into the OR just as he's about to be put under, and basically begs him to do the right thing and disappear after the surgery. Let me just say that I'm pretty sure one of the reasons Bailey thought Webber was failing as residency director was that residents were making emotionally motivated, heart-first decisions. It doesn't seem like Eliza's curbed that yet?

Apparently Jo's successful, because the boy and mother wake up and are informed that the hospital just happened to get a perfect match at the exact right time. They buy it and then Jo winds up crying on Owen's shoulder outside the hospital. It's a sweet moment, but it mostly just makes me wish Jo would talk to Alex and Owen would talk to Amelia. Also, Eliza and Arizona kiss and I am wholly indifferent.

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Meanwhile, a young woman comes into the OR looking disheveled and talking incoherently about snakes. She collapses, and Maggie and Riggs figure out that she has an old pacemaker that needs replacing. Riggs uses the serial number on the pacemaker to identify the young woman, Claire, and locate her parents. (Can we have more storylines where Riggs SOLVES MYSTERIES?) Claire's parents haven't seen her in 12 years, ever since she wandered away from her college apartment. She was gone so long they held a funeral for her. "She has a gravestone," Claire's mother says, baffled, especially because she thinks she was called to the hospital to identify her daughter's body. Because of his past, Riggs takes the whole thing very personally. At this point, I will feel extremely cheated if Riggs's long-lost fiance never emerges from the desert, where she presumably wandered with amnesia for years after her helicopter crash. I don't care how unrealistic that is, I AM OWED IT.

Claire is diagnosed with schizophrenia and given medication. Shortly after, she emerges far enough from her altered state to identify her parents. It's a nice little story, and there are parts of it that are very accurate, but it's definitely Hollywooded up. I wish there were more television about the mundane nature of mental illness, because the reality of it isn't the heightened drama of hallucinated snakes and reunited families and medications that work in an instant. Sometimes it's years trying to get the right diagnosis, months trying to figure out the right combination of medications. Or it's a quiet descent into psychological chaos, not an immediate, easily identifiable break. But it's mostly just an everyday effort that sometimes feels like second nature and sometimes feels like a terrible slog. I can see why Grey's why any media, really wants to frame mental illness as something that dramatically emerges and tidily recedes. And I value storylines that show that severe mental illness is treatable, and can and should be treated. But I'd love to see those stories told in a more nuanced way.

Meredith spends a solid portion of the episode FOLDING LAUNDRY, which is aggravating for a million reasons. Bailey comes over to ask her to come back to work, and Meredith says she's not interested in doing so until Richard is reinstated. Bailey flounces, but later Richard comes over himself. Meredith tells him she keeps hearing her mom's voice in her head saying, "Meredith. It's Richard." But he tells her to go get her job, and she picks up the phone to call Bailey. So at least one thing is as it should be.

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Brandon Grubl was frustrated when his friends from the Porter County Conference spoke with him on March 5, 2011.

The slight was used as fuel before he boarded a bus in route to a very big stage.

His basketball buddies told him what almost everyone in the Region and the state of Indiana had already concluded.

Grubl's Morgan Township team had no chance in its sectional championship game at Bowman Academy.

"All my friends said they were going to the Merrillville-Valpo game instead," Grubl remembered on Wednesday night. "Nobody believed in us."

In 2009, Bowman beat the Cherokees 82-66 to win the championship. In 2010 it was 98-70, as the Eagles cut down the nets and went on to win the Class A state championship.

Morgan coach Matt Bush gathered his underdogs in the hallway and said one thing to his team.

"If you don't think we have a shot in this game, then walk out now."

Grubl went out and scored 22 points as his Cherokees shocked Bowman 53-49, in one of the Region's biggest sectional upsets.

Considering that the Eagles returned to state championship games the following three Marches is proof of this David vs. Goliath tale.

"A few of us, the vets, felt like we had a shot," Grubl said. "We knew we had to keep it close in the beginning, and if we did that, we'd beat them in the end. We knew all the pressure was on them.

"We were playing with house money."

As the 107th IHSAA boys basketball tournament tips off on Tuesday, one thing is certain.

"There will be upsets all over the state," E.C. Central coach Pete Trgovich said. "It happens every year."

Trgovich won a state title at E.C. Washington in 1971, when his Senators were the heavy favorites in every game. But when he led the Cardinals to the 2007 Class 4A state championship over Indianapolis North Central, E.C. was a heavy underdog.

In Trgovich's last three seasons as the Cards coach -- 2006, '07 and '16 -- his team has cut down the nets at the sectional.

"You have to prepare for anybody and everyone," Trgovich said. "You have to understand the regular season doesn't mean anything. There is a difference. A lot of people say we got a good draw because we got the bye.

"But I'd rather be playing. I also don't like having seven days off."

E.C. Central (13-9) will play the winner of the Morton (13-9) and Highland (9-13) winner. If the Cards get past the semifinal, they'll be in the championship on their home court.

"We can't play down to our competition," said E.C. senior Jermaine Couisnard, who carries a 27.5 scoring average into the tournament. "We have to go out there and play one game at a time. We can't worry about a game we don't have, just the next one."

That was the philosophy Tom Johnson's 1998 Crown Point Bulldogs team had. C.P. entered the tournament with seven losses. Few thought they had a shot at anything.

And in such a scenario history can be made.

"We had a group of kids who believed," said Johnson, now coaching at Greater South Shore Conference co-champion Wheeler. "No one picked us to do anything.

"So it became an 'us against the world' mentality in our locker room."

Crown Point upset Merrillville 60-49 to win the program's first sectional championship since 1986. As they prepared to play a Hammond team with four Division I players in the old one-game regional, something happened.

"The blizzard hit after we won," Johnson said. "The roads were impassable and we only missed one day of practice. Our parents found 4 by 4s and were going around picking up kids to get them to the gym."

Crown Point shocked the Wildcats 61-56. Then, played toe-to-toe with Zach Randolph's Marion team in the semistate before falling 76-63.

"Those were the most competitive kids I've ever coached," Johnson said. "They hated to lose more than they liked winning."

Clint Swan now coaches the Bulldogs, a similar group trying to make history and win the program's third straight sectional championship. The teams in the Class 4A Michigan City Sectional have a combined 100 wins.

It is, without question, one of Indiana's toughest sectional. And for the first time in the last three seasons the Bulldogs are the favorites, getting a draw that has Valparaiso, Michigan City and Merrillville all on the other side.

"If one team is an overwhelming favorite, which we're not, they can't get caught looking ahead," Swan said. "You can't ever take any night off. This group has kept it simple. It's always, 'The next play. The next practice. The next game.'"

Purdue-bound Sasha Stefanovic knows his team is the favorite for the first time in his career. The Bulldogs snuck up on people in the past. In fact, his half-court shot at the end of regulation allowed C.P. to beat Valpo 59-54 in double overtime in last year's championship game.

"Not really," Stefanovic said when asked if he feels a target on his team's back. "We know everyone is going to give us their best shot. We just have to go there and play our game, play fearless.

"It's the sectional. It's going to be gritty not pretty."

Griffith coach Gary Hayes is in his 16th year as a coach in Indiana, his fifth leading the Panthers. Griffith has won the last two sectionals at the Hammond Civic Center. When he was coaching at Lake Station years ago, winning a sectional was a much tougher task.

"I always thought the hardest game to play is opening night, the first game, if you're the favorite," Hayes said. "Upsets can happen there if your kids aren't ready to go. I've seen it happen."

Griffith will play Hammond in the second game Tuesday night. The Wildcats beat the Panthers earlier in the season.

And for the second March in a row, Valparaiso coach Barak Coolman will have to do just that. The Vikings open against Michigan City on the Wolves home court. If they survive they get Merrillville. And if they survive most believe they'll get C.P.

Coolman won three straight sectionals at Fort Wayne Northrop from 2011 through 2013. He played the favorite in the first game each year, yet his team found a way to sidestep any upsets.

"In the first game everyone's going to have nerves and jitters," Coolman said. "You have seniors thinking it could be their last game. A big part of not getting upset is relaxing and playing your game. Do the things you did in the regular season when you had success.

"There is only one good draw and that's getting a bye all the way into the regional."

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Anthony Bourdain has reached the point of popularity that people meddle with his personal life. I mean, its not just the food and his commentaries anymore. People like to know and dig deeper. Last year, when Anthony split up with his wife Ottavia after 10 years, people were affected. Especially to find out that the reason behind it was because they just made different choices in lifeOttavia her MMA career and Anthony with his life as a chef, TV show host, and an author.

This time around people are talking about the new woman in Anthony Bourdains lifeAsia Argentowhom he met when he shot last seasons Parts Unknown. Asia toured Anthony on the outskirts of Rome where they visited her local grocery store and ate lots of pasta. And I guess in between takes, they fell in love.

It got us curious though, what is Anthony Bourdains type in women?

His ex-wife Ottavia lived in a small town in Lombardy, Italy while his new girl Asia was born in the city of Rome. Italian women are known to consume copious amounts of carbs and still look good (ha, I wish I lived their lives) and they are also known to be feisty and passionate.

He describes Asia as, always honest, completely unsparing. If you ask Asia a question, you are going to get an answerand she doesnt care if it reflects badly on youor on herself. Shes going to give it to you straight.

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After a few dates between Anthony and Ottavia, they already got matching knife tattoos and that was just the beginning. They got more tattoos together like their matching serpent tattoo back in 2011.

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Asia, on the other hand, is rather extensively tattooed as well. She has an eye on her shoulder which she had done at 14, an angel on her abdomen, a very visible (and intricate) Victorian necklace on her chest, the name Panos on her wrist, and so much more.

Just kidding with that description, but both seem to have a history with music. Asia was first married to an Italian rock and roll musician Marco Castoldi. She also delved into music by releasing her own album called Total Enthropy back in 2013.

If youre curious as to how Ottavia made it to the US, she actually flew to New York to follow an Irish rock musician that she was infatuated with. After finding a job at a restaurant, he met Anthony through a common friend, and the rest was history. Wait, Anthony has background in music too, right?

Ottavia and Anthonys dates were mostly in dive bars in the middle of the night where they just drink pints of beer and talk about work. They have so much in common since both worked in the restaurant businesstheyre knowledgeable with food, service, and everything in between.

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Asia was Anthonys tour guide, as mentioned earlier, so they bonded over plates of pasta and conversed about so many things. He even said that the episode wont be possible without her.

You might be looking at Asia thinking that youve seen her somewhere. Well, shes been working on a lot of projects but one of the most memorable is her role as Yelena in xXx with Vin Diesel. Does that ring a bell?

Screengrab from xXx

Ottavia is an action star in her own right. When she was trying to get fit after she gave birth, she fell in love with jiu jitsu and started training seven days a week. She is also an MMA fighter. During interviews, Anthony would even say, I married Sophia Loren. She turned into Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Notice all the similarities? Bet you didnt, but at least you know a little bit more about Anthony Bourdain and his taste in women.

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Shondaland leading ladies Kerry Washington and Ellen Pompeo welcome The Catchstar Mireille Enos to ABCs TGIT lineup in a new popcorn and wine-filled promo.

Walking down the street, donning a black trench coat, Enos says, Hope I havent kept you waiting, as she slips into silky pajamas.

Welcome to the party, Washington says to Enos, pouring Olivia Popes drink of choice: red wine.

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The Scandal star and Greys Anatomys Meredith Grey then toast Alice Vaughan making her way to the Shonda Rhimes-created ABC Thursday night schedule. Absent from the group is How To Get Away With Murders Viola Davis as Annalise Keating, who was previously included in anotherpromo with Washington and Pompeo.

Season 2 of The Catch is replacing HTGAWM after its Season 3 two-hour finale airs tonight. Earlier this month, ABC gave early renewals to all its TGIT drama lineup.Greyswas picked up for a 14th season, Scandalfor a seventh and HTGAWM for afourth season.

Season 2 of The Catch premieres Thursday, March 9 at 10 PM on ABC.

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An older woman hesitantly shares her experiences of sexuality after recovering from cervical cancer. A lawyer-turned-prostitute intimately tells of her passion for other women. A young homeless woman recounts a memory of a traumatizing childhood rape. These are just a few of the many emotional and powerful monologues presented within playwright and activist Eve Enslers award-winning The Vagina Monologues.

The Vagina Monologues discusses the stigma around womens sexuality and spurs dialogue about women, violence against women and the push for equality. Through monologues compiled by Ensler, such as My Revolution Begins in the Body, My Short Skirt and My Vagina Was My Village, the play shares personal accounts of womens experiences and emotions on this topic. All proceeds from the play, presented by IC Players at two show times Feb. 19 in the Emerson Suites, benefited V-day, a global activist movement dedicated to increase awareness of violence against women. The performances drew in about 140 people for both shows, and IC Players raised about $815 for the organization.

After three years of acting in The Vagina Monologues, senior Jessica Braham, a theater arts management major at Ithaca College, directed the play. Braham said the play is especially relevant now because of the current political climate and that she strived to use her power to address these political issues.

I felt like I could bring my vision to life, and I could finally be the one to inspire other women to voice these stories, Braham said. Theres a lot of criticism about the show because people are asking, Why are we still doing this? Women have rights. But I felt like this year was the time. This is when we need it now more than ever.

Braham said a key theme in the play was to stress the importance of women supporting and empowering other women. She said that while directing the play, she especially encouraged the cast members to empower one another.

Women empowering other women is something that is so important and something that we dont really have a lot of, Braham said. This isnt the time to segregate ourselves and separate from the issues. This is when we all need to come together and rally and fight for what is right for our rights and equality.

True to the message of women supporting other women, sophomore Hannah Paquette, assistant director of the play, said she aimed to create a sense of community among the women whose stories they were telling in the play.

These dialogues and conversations and sometimes these thoughts dont even happen unless theres a community of women where those things can come out, Paquette said.

Another important part of the play, Paquette said, is that it changes each year. This year, the spotlight monologue, a piece written by Ensler and selectively added to the performance, was I Call You Body, a monologue demanding safe and violence-free workplaces. The spotlight monologues each year highlight specific issues that are stressed in the yearly campaign for One Billion Rising and Vday.org, two organizations established by Ensler to combat violence against women. The additions help keep The Vagina Monologues relevant, Paquette said, allowing for the play to be a living body of work.

Its a really important point of activism for me being able to do this show, especially in this time period, Paquette said. It [shows] defiance and resistance.

Erin Lockett, a freshman acting major and the narrator of the play, said the show is an important feminist piece because it addresses the stigma face-first, without any shyness.

I think that if not everyone, a lot of people are very uncomfortable talking about vaginas because of the stigma that surrounds it, she said. I think The Vagina Monologues brings up the stigma. It names it, and it addresses it, and it analyzes it.

Lockett said the play commands attention and respect because of its direct style of addressing touchy subjects.

I think thats just a way more powerful way to address [the stigma], she said.

Without powerful, artful statements such as this play, Braham said, none of the universal problems referenced would be resolved. Braham recommends that people who fear the stigma see the performance.

Nothing will ever get solved by shying away and not addressing the situation or the problem at hand, Braham said. So to someone who is not going to come because of the title Why not give it a shot? Have an open mind. Maybe youre uncomfortable, but isnt that the theater that matters and provokes conversation? I want people to leave, go have dialogue and take action about what they just saw.

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Greys Anatomy fans have been dying to find out if Sandra Oh will return to the series ever since her character, Dr. Cristina Yang, left Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital back in 2014. Now Sandra herself is speaking out!

At this point No, I dont think so,Sandra Oh, 45, said when she was asked about returning to Greys Anatomy during her recent appearance onAccess Hollywood Live. Though the actress was there to promote her new movieCatfight, along with her co-star Anne Heche, of course co-hosts Kit Hoover and Natalie Moralesjust had to ask if shed reprise her role as Dr. Cristina Yang! Hello, she was Meredith Greys (Ellen Pompeo) best friend for 10 wonderful seasons!

Sandra, aGolden Globe winner for her performance on the ABC drama,was also asked if she would come back justfor the series finale (when it happens), to which she said she has talked with showrunner Shonda Rhimesabout the idea. I just dont know. It would have to feel right, she said.

As an actor, as an artist, its a full life that one has, Sandra said of her career. And as I look back to that time, which is extremely important and deeply meaningful to me, and it means a lot to me that a whole generation, a new generation of fans are discovering the show. So it means a lot.

The Catfightactressdecided to leave the powerhouse series back in 2014, so Cristina was written out as going to work overseas. Ever since then we have definitely missed Merediths person and we know she has too! So we will keep holding out hope that one day Sandra might come back, if only for an episode!

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Ever since Grey's Anatomy made Meredith a widow,a sentiment has begun to grow among the long-running ABC soap's fan base that maybe it's time to test the romantic waters between the good doc and her oldest friend Alex. Over the course of the last two seasons, there have been moments where the show seemed to toying with the idea itself. We've even advocated for the plot development on this very site.

Finally, the stars themselves, Ellen Pompeo and Justin Chambers, are revealing their thoughts on the prospect of their characters getting together. Spoiler alert: They aren't feeling the love.

"Justin is one of my favorite people on the planet," Pompeo told E! News direct from the Grey's Anatomy set. "We're really close, and it does feel weird. To potentially maybe have him as a love interest would be like kissing my brother. I used to say that about Patrick [Dempsey] all the time too because just we'd been together for so long."

From the sound of things, the actress just might beperfectly fine with Meredith not finding romance with anyone else ever again. "The love interest part is not my favorite piece of this, I'll be honest,"she added. "Kissing guys that aren't your husband is, you know, a little weird. I guess it wouldn't be if you didn't like your husband, but I happen to be very, very fond of mine."

Chambers echoed his old friend's thoughts on a possible MerLex union, but admitted that, withShonda Rhimes as his boss, he never rules anything out."I think anything is possible, but personally I find it to be weird," he told us. "I think that they're very much like siblings. They've been through so much together. Personally, I don't see it. But, hey, this is Grey's Anatomy. Anything is possible."

For more from the Grey's Anatomy set, check out the video above.

Do you ready for a MerLex romance or do you think it would be an unholy union? Let us know where you stand in the comments below!

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Trade Talk. Cap Gymnastics. A Surprise Phone Call. A Short-Handed Scrimmage. It's All Part Of 'The Anatomy Of A Day In The Mavs' Trade-Deadline Life.'

The first soon-to-be-public domino topples innocuously enough, with Dallas Mavericks rookie center AJ Hammons showing up for work in Frisco, expecting to be a starter for Wednesday nights D-League game between the Mavs affiliate the Texas Legends vs. the LA D-Fenders.

At 3:36, I receive a text.

Hammons is being recalled by the Mavs today.

And right about at this time, Legends coach Bob MacKinnon contacts Hammons.

Youre going downtown, MacKinnon tells the kid.

I ask a Mavs staffer if Hammons hurry-up drive south down the Tollway (a move made official at 3:49) had anything to do with the possibility of a trade-deadline-centered Dallas roster shuffle.

You could surmise that, yes, he tells me.

And then comes a Mavs practice. (It is suggested to me that the workout is largely a scrimmage, and that coach Rick Carlisle will supervise another scrimmage on Thursday as the team comes back from its All-Star Break and preps for a Friday game at Minnesota and a Saturday AAC meeting with Boogie Cousins Pelicans). And it is a Mavs practice that does not feature Andrew Bogut or Deron Williams.

We were just told a trade might happen, J.J. Barea reveals to the media collected downtown. So theyre not here.

Both sit out, protectively bubble-wrapped in order to be safely delivered to their new teams by the 2 p.m. Thursday deadline if the Mavs can procure from suitors just the right future-value bounty.

Says Carlisle: If it turns out they're not here, they're not here and this is what we got. And if there are trades, there's a chance there's going to be some players coming back that could help us. But we'll see. We'll know by 2 o'clock tomorrow, and we'll go from there.

That players coming back part is a significant revelation to those of you whove been following how a D-Will-to-Cleveland trade might have to work. More on that below

Assorted other vignettes, takes and dominos as part ofThe Anatomy Of A Day In The Mavs Trade-Deadline Life:

*Just 24 hours earlier, Dallas discusses with Utah the idea of trading Williams to the Jazz. Its not an unappealing idea to D-Will (who once played in Utah and owns a home there and would seemingly waive his trade-veto rights to return). Im told Utah is not enthralled with the idea of sacrificing whatever first-rounder (the Jazz have a cache of them) Dallas is asking for. But at least the conversations are on and inside the Mavs headquarters on Wednesday morning, the idea remains a topic of discussion.

*The same is true of the concept of a Bogut trade to Boston(details here), though a source continues to tell me that a bigger shoe needs to drop first for the Celtics before they turn to the idea of giving up a 2018-or-later pick for the center.

*Mavs GM Donnie Nelson is the point man on many of the conversations, including the in-house ones in which the staff discusses ideas to pursue the likes of Utahs Derrick Favors and Detroits Andre Drummond. Assistant Michael Finley is a key voice in the room.

*At some point after 10:37 a.m., the D-Will-to-Utah talks are supplemented by D-Will-to-Cleveland talks. This is happy news inside Dallas HQ; the Mavs believe this is the Cavs long-sought-after target. Maybe theyre right but in the early afternoon Im told Cleveland is also willing to ask Mario Chalmers to come off the couch to serve as the off-the-bench playmaker LeBron James desires.

*The ideal Deron trade brings back nothing but picks; theres no desire to let a Channing Frye or a Man Shumpert clog the Mavs summer salary cap. So there are complicated ways to pull that off. A three-way involving another team, and letting the Cavs player go somewhere other than Dallas. A complicated swap with the Cavs that involves not only Deron but Bogut, too. All these are considered by Mark Cuban and staff keeping in mind that because of Utahs cap situation (as compared to Clevelands) a D-Will trade to the Jazz requires no filler, no matching, no cap gymnastics.(See David Lord's incomparable insight into these "deeply involved'' trade talks here.)

*Take this as either a) a sign that Deron and/or Bogut deal(s) are going down or b) that the Mavs are really, really doing their just-in-case preparatory homework. But consider the Mavs roster post-trade. If Carlisles forecast is right and Dallas gets some players coming back, this isnt an issue.

Or

Two players go out and fewer than two players come back. Its so feasible that the Mavs staff decides it had better assemble a list of D-League prospects, a list of guys on the couch, a list of prospects playing in China who will soon be eligible to sign NBA deals.

How real am I being about this concept? Im giving you names. If the Mavs have roster vacancies, they will consider quickly sending out weekend feelers to D-Leaguer Jalen Jones (of Maine and formerly of Texas A&M), to Manny Harris and Pierre Jackson (of the Legends), to Ray McCallum (now on his second 10-day with the Hornets), to Briante Weber (the D-League star now on a 10-day with Golden State), maybe to the aforementioned Chalmers, and eventually, when his China service is done, to J.J. Hickson, the former Wizards big man.

*The organization is still struggling to wrap its collective head around the ideas of being non-competitive, of tanking, of organic tanking. Somebody on the staff mentions out-loud how Boogie and The Brow are almost certain to lead New Orleans to a charge for the No. 8 spot in the West playoffs, leaving Dallas in the lottery dust.

I dont know what Carlisles private reply to that is. I know his public answer.

Were in a dynamic business, he says to the Wednesday afternoon media. Theres plenty going on.

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