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Anthony Collias
Panic is the other contagious disease we're currently battling
Can COVID-19 force the media revolution we need?
Last friday, I and many thousands of UK business owners, self-employed workers and unemployed workers eagerly tuned into the 5pm news, hoping to catch a vital update on whether the government would be offering us the essential aid that we need to survive the coming 3 months. What followed was an 'unprecedented' broadcast (I'm going to take a shot every time Rishi Sunak says this word from now on) promising support.
This is definitely a step in the right direction, but in honesty I remain skeptical of the proposed policies — I'll wait for more details and write on my views in another article. There remain many questions: how will these policies practically be implemented? What restrictions apply and how does the policy really look vs the headlines? What happens to many of the people who fall between the cracks of this arguably not sufficiently broad support package?
From my perspective, the package seemed to suit our business's needs well and the economic safety of our team and was the number 1 priority in my mind. As a result, I was less focused on the matters that followed and instead was happily messaging my co-founder, friends and family, with the broadcast on in the background.
However, I distinctly remember one question following the announcements that pricked my ears.
In the Q and A that followed, a Daily Mail reporter asked:
'Could we get to a stage where NHS workers have to choose who we have to save because there aren't enough ventilators? Also, it's obviously mother's day this sunday, are you urging people to stay away from their mothers and will you be seeing yours?'
This was followed by a sharp exhale, matched with a brief smile by Boris Johnson. I rarely agree with BoJo, but the only way I could think to respond to that ludicrous question myself would be the exact same laugh/scoff. How poor can your taste possibly be? I'm tuning in to find out how the livelihoods of my staff will be impacted by this crisis and whether the nation is going full lockdown and you're using your only chance to ask questions on the matter to find out whether Mama Johnson is having Bobo over for tea on sunday!? No less, you've juxtaposed this infantile question with a morbid and trivial question about how we'll choose who lives and dies in our hospitals.
To emphasise that point, both questions were trivial. We know we don't have enough ventilators (there's a global shortage in the face of this crisis) so until we can produce more, yes, doctor's will choose how to prioritise their use, meaning some people won't get to use them. We hope it won't come to this but it likely will, as it has in Italy. This is not new information. I also don't recall a "unless it's mother's day" clause in the social distancing mandate.
I can only see one intended motive to this ridiculous line of questioning and that was to try and bait the PM into bungling an answer, providing a choice quote to stick on tomorrow's front page; the specific question about his personal plans for sunday stepped so far from integrity that it entirely ratified this fact. In short, they weren't even truly questions as no new information was being sought, they were rephrasings of known facts used to create traps for the PM.
Having enough experience of his own as a provocative but ultimately inane journalist, BoJo sidestepped the setup and carefully tiptoed through an answer that didn't produce any such quotes. This didn't stop the Daily Mail running 3 separate articles on the theme, and even some more credible outlets jumped on the opportunity.
Why did this question even get asked?
Plato was right when he said "those who tell stories rule society", so maybe we need to be more critical of the stories we're told, who's telling them and what their ulterior motives might be.
This was a jarring reminder that, even in this time of crisis, our media structures are beholden to a business model (and in some cases, the interests of owners) which often runs contrary to the tenets of useful and objective journalism. These outlets make money by getting eyeballs onto webpages and selling their subscriptions and papers. This is not just true of traditional media outlets, but modern ones such as web-only publications and platforms through which this info can disseminate, like Facebook.
The sad fact is that sensationalised, punchy and panic-inducing headlines sell more than high-integrity, factually verified and actually informational journalism. The Sun and The Daily Mail thrive off this. As a result, a global pandemic is an unscrupulous media producers wet-dream. There is non-stop, panic-inducing and media-addicting headlines guaranteed for pretty much the next year, and people have nothing else to do but sit around and watch it unfold. So, in the case of this journalist, it made more sense to pursue a headline than to pursue more information.
It's scary to accept this as the status quo while we progress through a period where we need informative journalism more than ever, and irresponsible journalism is extremely liable to cause unhelpful hysteria. We can already see the results of such panic in the reactionary stocking piling of toilet paper - as if we're headed into a Mad-Max-style, post-apocalyptic world where the need to wipe your ass will supercede your need to eat. Anecdotally, I know many of us have terrified children at home, or relatives urging us to stockpile cash, food and even water, for fear of a total collapse of our systems of civil society. This is unnecessary and absurd to anyone who's read more closely (there are no tangible risks to our supply chains, children are at extremely low risk, etc) but can you blame people for panicking when every headline screams of more death — and Bobo not getting to visit his mummy?
My grave concern is that the impacts of such panic is liable to have more severe (and totally avoidable) consequences after a couple months of everyone simmering in their homes and the reported state of affairs worsening. The result of this could be as severe as movements to ignore social distancing mandates, a surge in crime or all out revolts. Here is an excellent essay by Jay Walker (the chairman of TEDMED) highlighting examples of this risk and possible consequences.
So what are some examples of the media getting it wrong right now?
In more niche publications, and on online platforms, flat out untruths are rife. These are trivially wrong so I will leave their addressal to my section on how we remedy this. Looking at murkier waters, in the case of the USA large media conglomorates essentially magnified the incorrect message from the Trump administration that everything was a hoax (causing the opposite of panic). This is not as patently wrong as printing their own falsehoods, but obviously lacks journalistic integrity to not include a much needed rebuttal. In the UK, there are two really key examples I'm seeing which, upon close inspection do suggest that the profit motive is getting in the way of good journalism. Firstly, the reporting around the rate at which the virus is spreading vs the actions we're taking. Secondly, the reporting around the death toll.
I should preface this section by saying that I categorically do not mean to make light of the situation we face. This is not a call to question or ignore the government's actions. In fact, I wholly endorse them. Heed the social distancing mandates. STAY HOME as much as is possible. Our healthcare systems are truly stretched and we need to slow the spread to support our medical care workers. My intention in writing this article is purely to remind you to question the motive of the media outlets that you read, with the hope of finding the facts beyond the headlines and avoiding unnecessary panic. Unnecessary panic is a major part of the pain of this pandemic, from empty supermarkets to feelings of stress and terror.
'Biggest daily increase in cases' — read: The virus is spreading uncontrollably and it keeps getting worse!
A good example of such reporting, though it's not hard to find
My concern regarding our reporting of the spread of the virus so far is that it seems to totally ignore what we know about the virus and the fact that we have a pretty good idea of what to expect in the near future.
We know that the virus might spread asymptomatically, has a long incubation period (5 day average, up to 12) and that the the virality co-efficient is greater than 1 (i.e. it's very contagious, 1 person gets more than 1 other ill) — these are all reasons you should be socially distant, to reduce the virality to <1.
The result: we fully expect exponential growth in the number of cases in the near future. This is no matter what we do, as there is a big lag between actions and outcomes — particularly in death rates, as there's both a lag between actions and number of cases and then a second lag between cases and deaths. Note also that increases in case rates is heavily determined by how much we test and who we're testing (the already critically ill, or wider populace). As we get access to more test kits and test more, we'll confirm more cases that already existed.
We have several examples to model against. You can see comparisons of the virus's growth across Europe from UCL here. Early indications suggested it was likely that we should expect results similar to Italy. In fact, our early growth is remarkably similar to Italy's (though we now seem to be slightly lagging behind):
This is a painful reality to accept, but it's no longer unexpected. What is not unexpected should not be major news. The cases that will be reported in the coming week or so are unavoidable as these people are already infected and we're just waiting for them to present symptoms and/or get tested. Likewise for the deaths, though they're further along that same road. Despite the fact that this is all very well known, we seem to see headlines every single day that incredulously state that there's a new record for number of cases and deaths reported in a day. These numbers are totally expected. This is likely to be true of each day for quite a while longer. This is not a helpful headline. In the case of Italy, it took nearly 2 weeks of lockdown to see daily increases in cases peak and start to decline.
So why are these headlines appearing? Remember the perverse incentives we've discussed before. 'New record for single day death toll' sells more papers than 'Virus continues on expected path, we remain optimistic that our actions will stem growth in April'!
The big issue with such headlines is that, without that context vs expectations, it has the effect of implying both a correlation with current measures and that they're so far futile. This, again, induces panic, and panic's annoying byproduct behaviours, as well as putting pressure on the government to act more severely. This is evident in the ramping of measures over the last week or so despite the fact that we actually aren't expecting to see the results of our earliest efforts to feed through for a while yet.
Don't get me wrong, one of the great checks and balances of liberal democratic society is that the media can stoke sufficient public sentiment to force government into making a change. I can see a totally fair argument that the government made a mistake by not applying a more severe lockdown as early as possible, so perhaps this pressure from the press is welcome. The problem is that, in a healthy liberal democracy, this pressure should originate from high-integrity journalism which makes a rational and valid case for this change, not as a by-product of trying to sell more papers.
Such pressure could legitimately arise by, for example, journalism which highlights the differences in modeled outcomes given earlier action or comparing actual outcomes for nations that did and didn't react early and swiftly (South Korea vs Italy) - and to some extent this journalism does exist, from both known media outlets and even here on medium through the likes of Tomas Pueyo!
However, this pressure should not come as an accidental by-product of the incentive to terrify the nation into purchasing more newspapers. We want a healthy, rational and skeptical society that can reliably create this pressure whenever appropriate. In the circumstance of responding to pressure from 'highest single day death toll' headlines, this pressure arises by a coincidental byproduct of the newpapers's profit motive. We must be extra skeptical of this. Wrongs which produce positive outcomes are some of the most dangerous wrongs, as they can be disguised by sheer coincidence.
Carefully consider this. You may think the pressure is positive now, but we may feel very differently about how much further we're willing to go after more and more strict measures are introduced. At some point, we start to seriously impinge upon our collective social and mental wellbeing for a potentially negligible decreases in virality. I.e. in cost-benefit terms, at some point further strictness does more harm than good. We can't measure the impact until weeks after implementation and we may have to live like this for months, so we can't allow our feedback cycle to be dictated by headlines instead of facts.
'X thousand dead and counting' — read: This virus is a killing machine, none shall be spared.
I particularly enjoy the use of the quote 'HALF the population may have caught the killer bug', despite the fact that this study is supposed to make the point that it's NOT that dangerous a virus!
Along a similar vein, I think headline reporting of the fatalities of this disease lacks vital context around who's dying. The result is totally disproportionate panic and terror amongst the populace. You can read the stats of 5% death rate and hence think your typical nuclear family of 4 (mum, dad, 2 kids) has a 20% chance of losing a member. This is not the case, because that stat doesn't control for other factors as well as being very biased by who we use our spare few tests on (the obviously and critically ill). The truth of the matter is, unless you work in a hospital then the next 12 weeks are very likely to be mundane for you.
On closer inspection, there is quite some solace to be found in the data. In the case of Italy, the worst hit country in the world, of those who have died the average age was 78.5 (average life expectancy there is 82.5). Furthermore, 99% of those who died were suffering at least 1 other illness, with nearly 50% suffering from 3 or more other illnesses. Given the fact that almost all sufferers were ill with other conditions, I'd say it's a good assumption that the life expectancy for this cohort, had they not contracted Covid, would be below average.
To put this in context, malaria (an eminently treatable disease) has averaged something like 400,000 people killed per year in the 2010's, with an average age at death of 25 (particularly targeting under 5's), versus a life expectancy in Africa, the most affected region, of about 65. So in one year, that's well over 1.5 million years of life lost.
Quality adjusted life years is a standard consideration used in medical decision making. It's the number of years of life, multiplied by the quality of life on a scale of 0 to 1, where 0 means dead and 1 means perfect health. If we accept a <82.5 covid victim life expectancy and note that the quality of life without covid is likely low, as victims are generally very old and already ill (remember, 50% had 3 or more other illnesses), that means that, by a back of the envelope guess-timate, a malaria death represents a quality adjusted loss of life years of something like 50x a covid death. Covid is novel and local while malaria is not but malaria is much more harmful. So why do ominous malaria deathtoll updates very rarely make the news? Could it be because they don't panic people in the West? We know those are far away deaths and that it's a treatable disease for the rich. That means such headlines don't sell newspapers.
Whilst this isn't intended to make light of Covid deaths (all avoidable deaths are, afterall, avoidable and anyone close to the deceased still cares greatly about every month lost) looking at it this way may help alleviate some stress versus reading that death toll out of context. It's the difference between thinking that we're social distancing to desperately save ourselves (obviously extremely stress inducing) versus understanding that we're participating in a civil duty to help the most vulnerable and to relieve pressure on our medical staff. This is not the apocalypse, you're just temporarily experiencing how the average twitch streamer lives.
Reassure your children that they must be responsible but needn't be terrified. For your part, remember that panic driven behaviours like bulk buying are unnecessary and do more harm than good. There is no risk of civil society collapsing due to the disease, only due to panic! And again, please follow the social distancing mandates. Those stats aren't so ugly with some context, but the more pressure we put our health system under the uglier they will become.
Is there hope that we can change our media?
In the past we have been unable to come up with a regulatory framework that can remove this perverse incentive and ensure that media is both a useful tool for society and a functioning check and balance on power. Facebook has continually dodged all requests to reign in illicit advertising or content (as this obviously contravenes their profit motive). In the UK, we literally held an inquiry (the Leveson inquiry) that produced recommendations including the creation of a independent watchdog. This has since been ignored by the conservative governments which have held power since 2012 .
But, as Einstein said, "in the midst of every crisis is great oppportunity". COVID has the potential to hold a miror up to our media and remind us that, much like our social support and healthcare systems, years of neglect have left it woefully ill-equipped to step up the plate when we really need it. We don't have access to the necessary motivation to make such changes under business-as-usual, but now we're going through a period with the extreme impetus for change that's needed to make such huge reforms (like paying 80% of furloughed worker's wages, or finally investing more into our healthcare services).
The responses aren't as obvious and stark as social policy and healthcare policy, where immediate response is obviously mandated. However, we already see some positive movement. After refusing for so long to properly moderate their platform, Facebook have finally confirmed that they'll block content which contains false information regarding covid. Whilst this hasn't been perfect, perhaps this is the foot in the door that regulators needed. If they are willing to block covid fake-news, why not anti-vax? Also, if they are willing to waiver on their principles and moderate medical posts, perhaps we can, in time, build this into pressure to remove political fake news (and hopefully political ads altogether).
The first and most urgent step is for governments to step up with coherent messages and call out both falsehoods and fearmongering. There should be large fines for publishing falsehoods with fees varying between negligent fact checking standards up to business ending fines for being willfully misleading.
As a reader, pursue facts for yourself and read widely. Those close to me know that I'm a natural contrarian, but everyone should temporarily adopt this mantle and question every single headline they read. Note that, for example, looking at the 25th's figures the UK has now fallen to roughly 1/4 of where Italy was 14 days ago in terms of daily deaths (43 vs 196). This is good news considering we were on a very similar path until about the 19th/20th of March! If the papers won't highlight such information, we must seek it out ourselves.
My hope is that with careful ongoing reflection as to the role that media is playing in this crisis, we, the people who consume this media, can apply the pressure needed to reform the incentive structures of these outlets. For now, this means carefully and skeptically assessing the news, actively boycotting media that is corrosive and calling out panic-focused headlines where possible. In time, this will mean pushing for governmental-level reform — both more fines and, for example, splitting the editorial and commercial functions of these businesses much more cleanly, amongst other key measures like those in the Leveson report. As in the Facebook example, even where there are glimmers of hope further success will require sustained effort.
In the UK particularly, my hope is that the inevitable inquiries into government actions around the crisis will help elucidate the role that undue media pressure played in pushing them to make certain decisions. Savy campaigners can capitalize on this and push for reforms. Be ready to throw your support behind this. We must push to finally apply the recommendations of the Leveson report and even take further steps to ensure that the profit motive of the media industry stops butting heads with the incentives of good journalism and a functioning democracy.
"In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity." — Albert Einstein
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McCain leaves a legacy of standing up for his beliefs
Holly Bailey
National Correspondent
Yahoo News 26 August 2018
At first, John McCain couldn't hear what some of his supporters were yelling. The roar of the crowd often made it too loud to hear anything, and he was already hard of hearing in his left ear, a condition that dated to his days as a Navy pilot and no doubt worsened because of the beatings he suffered during his 5½ years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
But in the fall of 2008, during his second bid for the presidency, the Arizona senator could tell that the crowds at his town halls were getting more rowdy — something he normally didn't mind. The town hall was McCain's preferred way to campaign; it was the format he felt allowed him to truly connect with voters, where people could see who he was, for better or worse. For months, McCain's aides had been trying to talk him into holding more traditional events, such as scripted speeches, where he could avoid gaffes that could be seized upon by his opponents. But the candidate stubbornly refused.
Speaking to a reporter in the back of his legendary Straight Talk Express a few months earlier, his suit jacket off and Ray-Bans on, McCain had scowled at the very mention of his aides' advice. "I honestly don't like giving speeches," he said. He hated being behind a podium. He hated the teleprompter. He didn't like adhering to a script. It was boring.
But about town halls, McCain said with a glint in his eye, "I love them. I love the back and forth. I love the unpredictability." His staff worried about protesters, but McCain had already handled more than a few, including a man in New Hampshire who had assailed McCain for his support of the Iraq war. But McCain wasn't worried. To be honest, the senator admitted with a chuckle, he kind of liked it when the crowds were "a little rowdy." He enjoyed it when people yelled at him because he could argue back. "That's democracy," he explained.
Sen. John McCain reacts during a campaign event at the Fantasy of Flight museum in Polk City, Fla., on Jan. 27, 2008. (Photo: Charles Dharapak/AP)
What McCain, who died Saturday at age 81, did not sense, at least at that time, was how angry the electorate was and how toxic the 2008 race would eventually become — a shifting dynamic that would ultimately shape his own political trajectory for years to come. Bubbling beneath the surface that year was the kind of rage and anxiety that, in hindsight, provided some of the earliest hints of the voter turmoil and tribal politics that would later help propel Donald Trump into the White House. Ugly whispers about Barack Obama's race, birthplace and religion that began during the Democratic primary erupted into full-scale conspiracy theories among some Republicans, including McCain's supporters.
At a town hall in Ohio that September, just days after he had officially claimed the GOP nomination, McCain was on stage speaking about Obama when someone in the crowd yelled, referring to the Democratic nominee, "Terrorist!" A few weeks later, while McCain was campaigning with his running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in Pennsylvania, rally-goers greeted mentions of Obama with calls of "Treason!" and "Off with his head!"
After a particularly raucous rally in New Mexico, McCain aides told the candidate about some of the slurs shouted by the audience, and the senator, who hadn't heard them, was shocked. "Where is this crap coming from?" he asked an aide.
It all came to a head in October 2008, just weeks before Election Day, when McCain held a town hall in Lakeville, Minn., just outside the Twin Cities. By then, the senator was no longer the same press-friendly candidate he had been in the primary. His freewheeling press conferences on the bus had come to an abrupt halt that summer after a Los Angeles Times reporter had asked him whether he agreed with a campaign adviser's statement that it was unfair that health insurance companies covered Viagra but not birth control. McCain's long silence and struggle to answer the question were captured on camera and widely mocked by opponents.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain addresses a town hall meeting in Lakeville, Minn., in October 2008. He urged his supporters to stop hurling abuse at Barack Obama at his rallies, saying he admired and respected his Democratic rival. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
Afterwards, the senator finally heeded his staff's advice and barely spoke to reporters anymore, including his traveling press corps. The couch he had specifically requested to be installed near the front cabin of his campaign plane for his rolling news conferences sat behind privacy curtains that had been installed to hide the candidate from reporters. Though he agreed with aides who argued for a more controlled message, McCain looked miserable avoiding the media, whom he had once in jest referred to as "my base." And he refused to give up the spontaneity of his town halls.
Down in the polls, McCain was in Minnesota looking for a lifeline among working-class voters in the upper Midwest, but what he found were anxious voters who turned their rage on him when he pushed back against attacks on Obama and defended his rival from what would now be described as "fake news."
When a man stood up and told him he was "scared … to bring a child up" under an Obama presidency, McCain winced visibly. "I want to be president of the United States, and obviously, I do not want Sen. Obama to be, but I have to tell you … he is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president," McCain replied, prompting loud boos and cries of disapproval from the audience.
As he tried to calm the audience, the crowd only seemed to get more riled up. "We want to fight, and I will fight," McCain said. "But I will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments, and I will respect him."
The audience erupted in loud jeers, including shouts of "Liar!" "Come on, John!" a woman yelled.
"I don't mean that has to reduce your ferocity," McCain said, trying to speak over loud boos from his supporters. "I just mean to say you have to be respectful."
A few minutes later, an elderly woman stood and told McCain she could not trust Obama because he was an "Arab." McCain shook his head and took the microphone back, interrupting the woman mid-sentence, something he almost never did. "No, ma'am," he said, correcting her. "He's a decent family man, citizen, who I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that's what this campaign is about," McCain said. This time, some in the crowd clapped, but the candidate looked aggrieved.
Sen. John McCain listens to supporter who called Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama an "Arab" during a town hall meeting in Lakeville, Minn., in October 2008. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
That town hall would ultimately become a defining moment for McCain, who was widely praised for standing up for Obama, a fellow senator and fierce rival whom he didn't personally like and ultimately never grew close to. "It was the right thing to do," McCain told his anguished staff afterwards, harkening back to the code of civility he had tried to follow even if he himself didn't always execute it perfectly.
The moment previewed tension McCain would ultimately face throughout the rest of his career, especially in the era of Trump, where his personal mission to serve honorably and in benefit of a "cause greater than self-interest," as he put it, was often pitted against his own desire for political survival. The growing political divide and a lurch toward tribal politics would repeatedly test the Arizona senator's pledge to avoid the kind of "destructive hyper-partisanship" that he said was ruining the nation's political discourse — the divisions that McCain, now stricken with terminal brain cancer in the twilight of his long career, appealed to Americans to reject.
In a new memoir, "The Restless Wave," and in an HBO documentary released last spring, McCain recounted his two presidential runs and time in the Senate, recalling his leading role in fights about campaign finance reform, immigration and foreign policy. He also uses what he readily acknowledges could be his final message to the nation to encourage Americans to rise above the political polarization that has divided the country to "recover our sense that we are more alike than different."
The Lakeville town hall gave public voice to a debate that had been raging behind the scenes at the time between McCain and some of his staff desperate to see him get tougher on Obama. It was a strategy already embraced by Palin, who had willingly and enthusiastically claimed her role as the campaign pit bull.
Plucked from near obscurity in what McCain aides described as the political equivalent of a Hail Mary in hopes of turning the race around, Palin brought new energy and crowds to the GOP ticket but also drama and concern that her fiery attacks and embrace of the resentment and fear many voters felt was diminishing McCain's brand as a straight-talker who preferred the high road to the gutter.
Days earlier, Palin had accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists," referring to Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical who became friendly with Obama as a professor at the University of Chicago. She suggested that Obama didn't care about America "the way you and I do." Unlike McCain, Palin did not correct supporters who regularly slurred the man they called "Barack Hussein Obama," yelling out in response to her attacks that Obama was a "terrorist" and guilty of "treason." At a Palin rally in Pennsylvania, someone reportedly yelled, "Kill him!"
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, listen as Cindy McCain, center, introduces Palin at a rally in Virginia Beach, Va., in October 2008. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
Palin's tendency to dabble in conspiracy and play loosely with the facts would later set the stage for the arrival of Trump — who, like the governor, embraced and encouraged the increasing nativism and anti-establishment fervor within the GOP. Some Republicans argue that McCain, because he picked Palin, bears some responsibility for ushering in the Trump era —though those closest to him vigorously deny it.
McCain, for his part, never spoke on the subject. While he praised Palin in his book and in the documentary, the senator also admitted that one of the biggest mistakes in his political career was that he didn't go with his gut and pick his close friend Joe Lieberman, then the senator from Connecticut, to join him on the ticket. McCain aides had argued that picking Lieberman, a Democrat who had switched his party affiliation to independent, would anger Republicans and doom his White House bid. "My gut told me to ignore it, and I wish I had," McCain wrote.
At the same time, Fred Davis, the campaign's ad man, was among those pushing for McCain to air television spots attacking Obama for his relationship with the controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright, whose inflammatory sermons had caused drama during the Democratic primary. Another aide had suggested going after the candidate's wife, Michelle Obama, raising questions about her politics and what policy role she might play in the White House. But McCain flatly refused, telling aides it would stir up racial sentiments he didn't want to bring up in the campaign.
For McCain, the decision was more than just choosing to take the high road; it was personal. He had not forgotten the racial smear directed at his own family during the South Carolina primary in 2000, when supporters of Bush (their identities aren't publicly known) papered cars outside churches and McCain events with nasty fliers. They suggested his adopted daughter, Bridget — then just 9 years old — was in fact his illegitimate child by a black prostitute. The McCains were sick about the impact this might have on Bridget and planned to wait until she was much older to tell her about it. But Bridget, who was 17 when her father became the GOP nominee, had discovered the slur in early 2008 when she Googled herself.
A day after the Minnesota town hall, McCain was deeply hurt when John Lewis, the Georgia congressman and legendary civil rights leader who was beaten during the 1965 Bloody Sunday protests in Selma, Ala., likened McCain-Palin rallies to the "atmosphere of hate" pushed by the pro-segregationist Gov. George Wallace of Alabama during the civil rights era. McCain deeply admired Lewis, introducing his kids to him and suggesting that if elected, he would tap the congressman as an adviser. He was anguished by the comparison to Wallace, which he described as an attack that "went beyond the pale." In the book, McCain writes that he has never forgiven Lewis.
McCain continued to say no to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright attacks, even as one of his frustrated aides argued that simply playing some of the controversial pastor's sermons on loop would help his struggling campaign. He spent the final weeks of the campaign crisscrossing the country and going through the motions even as he knew in his gut the race was lost. A candidate who was always unable to fake it when he was angry or unhappy, McCain barely made eye contact with reporters when he returned to his campaign plane to bid farewell to his traveling press corps. But that night, he took the stage at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix and graciously praised Obama, acknowledging his history-making election as the nation's first black president and pledging to work with him.
"A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to visit — to dine at the White House — was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time," McCain said. "There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States. Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth."
"Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans," he added. "And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that."
John McCain addresses supporters during his election night rally on Nov. 4, 2008, in his hometown of Phoenix. McCain conceded the race to his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
But McCain's return to the Senate and to the campaign trail was complicated by the changing political climate around him. As Arizona turned more red, McCain followed, embracing more conservative positions and turning his back on his reputation as a maverick. He told Newsweek magazine in 2010 that he never liked the label anyway. The man who had once hammered out a bipartisan immigration bill with Sen. Ted Kennedy — which included a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants — ran an ad calling for enforcement of existing laws first. He argued for the construction of a fence along U.S. border with Mexico — even though he had once called the method "the least effective" way of curbing illegal immigration. "Complete the dang fence," McCain declared in a 2010 reelection ad.
He publicly tangled with Obama about health care and on foreign policy, including the handling of Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and later the White House's reluctance to get involved in the civil war in Syria — which McCain has described as one of the most shameful episodes in American history. That led to speculation about lingering bitterness about the campaign, but those close to McCain insist it wasn't personal. In the final year of his presidency, Obama invited his former rival to the White House, where he closed the door and the two spent a half hour yelling at each other over their differences, according to Mark Salter, one of McCain's closest and longest-serving advisers. "And they both felt better afterwards," Salter said. "He admired Obama's talents." The former president spoke glowingly of his former rival in the HBO documentary and has reportedly been asked to speak at McCain's funeral, which the senator began planning earlier this year.
There were other moments when he rose above politics, including in 2012 when McCain went to the Senate floor to defend Huma Abedin, a Muslim and a longtime adviser to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Abedin had been accused by then-Rep. Michele Bachman of Minnesota and four other House Republicans of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. McCain rebuked Bachmann for perpetuating "sinister" accusations and called the charges "nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable woman, a dedicated American and a loyal public servant."
Calling Abedin a friend, McCain said she represented "what is best about America: the daughter of immigrants, who has risen to the highest levels of our government on the basis of her substantial personal merit and her abiding commitment to the American ideals that she embodies."
But his relationship with Trump was more complicated. McCain was one of the earliest targets of the former reality television star's venom. In July 2015, weeks after he entered the race with a rant against illegal immigrants, Trump was publicly feuding with McCain, who had accused the real estate mogul firing up the "crazies" within the party with his inflammatory rhetoric. Speaking to a conservative group in Iowa, Trump fired back, suggesting McCain was "not a war hero." "He's a war hero because he was captured," Trump said. "I like people who weren't captured."
McCain didn't publicly respond. "He just laughed. He dismissed it," Salter said. "He knew it would make Trump look like an idiot and him look like a war hero, which is exactly what happened."
But even as he continued to criticize Trump, including about his apparent admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, McCain — who was facing another challenger from the right in his bid for reelection eventually endorsed him for president. "You have to listen to people who have chosen the nominee of our Republican party," McCain told CNN. But, he added, he continued to be disturbed by Trump's rhetoric. "I have never seen the personalization of a campaign like this one where people's integrity and character are questioned," he said. "That bothers me a lot."
McCain later rescinded his endorsement of Trump in October 2016 after the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape that captured Trump speaking in demeaning terms about women. Though McCain backed some of Trump's acts as president, including his retaliatory strike at Syria over the regime's use of chemical weapons, the two remained at odds. McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last summer, came out against a Trump-backed bill that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act — despite last-minute lobbying by Trump and other leading Republicans, including Vice President Mike Pence.
"I'm freer than colleagues who will face the voters again. I can speak my mind without fearing the consequences much. And I can vote my conscience without worry," McCain wrote in his book. "I don't think I'm free to disregard my constituents' wishes, far from it. I don't feel excused from keeping pledges I made. Nor do I wish to harm my party's prospects. But I do feel a pressing responsibility to give Americans my best judgment."
Conscious of his own mortality, McCain spoke out more forcefully against Trump's divisive rhetoric after his diagnoses. At the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia last fall, where he was awarded the Liberty Medal for his bipartisan work in the Senate, he offered a thinly veiled critique of Trump's global leadership.
"To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain 'the last best hope of Earth' for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history," he declared.
John McCain speaks after being awarded the 2017 Liberty Medal by former Vice President Joe Biden at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Oct. 16, 2017. (Photo: Charles Mostoller/Reuters)
In "The Restless Wave," McCain took the critique further, criticizing Trump's "lack of empathy" for refugees, describing his comments about them "disturbing." "The way he speaks about them is appalling, as if welfare or terrorism were the only purposes they could have in coming to our country," the senator writes.
He also criticized what he described as Trump's lack of interest in the "moral character of world leaders" and his embrace of tyrants like Putin. "The appearance of toughness or a reality show facsimile of toughness seems more important to him than any of our values," McCain wrote. "'Leader of the free world' is more than an honorific. It is a moral obligation more important than the person who possesses it."
In his book, McCain wrote of his dire prognosis, acknowledging he might not live to see its publication on May 22. Aside from a brief hospital stay last spring, the senator has spent most of his time at his 15-acre ranch in a lush valley outside Sedona, Ariz., where he and his wife, Cindy, often sit underneath the towering cottonwood and sycamore trees on the banks of the bubbling Oak Creek. His closest friends hpaid visits, including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and former Vice President Joe Biden, whose son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015.
On Friday, his family announced he would no longer seek medical treatment. His wife, Cindy, and daughter, Meghan, posted messages on social media thanking those who had stood with the family during a long difficult year. "I love my husband with all of my heart," Cindy McCain wrote on Twitter. "God bless everyone who has cared for my husband along this journey."
McCain wrote about planning his funeral — which he reportedly has asked Trump not to attend — and his eventual burial at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland near his old Navy buddy Chuck Larson, who died in 2014. He spoke of the love he has for his wife and seven children, including three kids with his first wife, Carol Shepp. "Their love for me and mine for them is the last strength I have," he wrote.
In October, he told CNN's Jake Tapper how he hoped Americans would remember him when he's gone.
"He served his country," McCain said. "And not always right. Made a lot of mistakes. Made a lot of errors. But served his country. And I hope you could add 'honorably.'"
John McCain leaves his campaign plane in Des Moines, Iowa, before making a statement about the failure of the Wall Street bailout bill to pass in the House of Representatives in September 2008. (Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters)
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Hardcover - $29.95 CAD Quantity
Truda Rosenberg
6 X 9 inches, 96 pages
It took a very long time to decide on writing a history, albeit of my own experiences during the Shoah. I do not consider myself a writer, and prefer to state that I am a storyteller.
The few stories presented in this work are authentic episodes that hopefully describe essential instances I experienced as one of many of my people. It is important to stress that at no time did I or do I label my experiences as unique. Their existence is a fact and is presented here as an eyewitness account, a variant picture, which many of us encountered on a daily basis. Some of us were able to deal with the enemy's inhumane need to destroy us; many succumbed and lost the battle; others emerged as victors; still others are making an effort to live in spite of their tragedies. I was able to escape incarceration in a concentration camp with its brutal attack on human dignity and bodily endurance in the face of nourishment deprivations and illness, which would have contributed to an inability or lack of willpower to fight.
During the Shoah, I was living under three consecutive identities. When asked to what I attribute my survival, I answer without hesitation: "I knew who I was." This kept me fighting for life and survival as a human being with the celebration of life that I was taught, with a love of people and a love of life. This, to me, is survival.
Small Holocaust memoir packs a huge punch.
Written by Lynne Cohen - Jewish Tribune
When Polish-born psychologist Truda Rosenberg finally sat down on Sept. 5, 2007, to write her 94-page Holocaust memoir Unmasked (Penumbra Press), it happened to be the 65th anniversary of the day she was pushed from a cattle car moving towards the Nazi death camp Belzec, where eventually 500,000 Jews - including members of her close family - were killed.
The book - written chillingly in an almost matter-of-fact tone - is quite literally unbelievable.
Rosenberg's war-time life went from one near catastrophe to the next, ranging from jumping out of a moving train to transporting weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto (which was mentioned, incredibly, only casually in a brief aside); from lying cleverly over and over again to Nazi and SS authorities to working as a "Christian" slave; from surviving on starvation rations to pretending to be pregnant to avoid the selections; from hiding in a swamp all night to escape marauding dogs; to cooking on her knees "to avoid detection by snipers shooting from roofs across the street" to endangering her life by not taking communion. The risks and near misses go on and on.
But the book also describes her wonderful good fortune with dozens of kind and brave gentiles, who risked their lives to save her by hiding, moving and sharing food and clothing with her. One was Polish poet Zbigniwew Jasinski.
A Selftold Life
Two Jacksons Abroad. 1936
Antarctica Body
Winter Into Summer
Where Cold Winds Blow


Someone on this fool man's staff please tell him that the oceans haven't risen and that storms have not become more intense nor more frequent in recent years. It's a shame to watch the president lie through his teeth and it must stop. The science is not settled and informed people know that the only evidence of warming or change, or whatever these idiots are currently calling it, is the result of computer modeling, which is software programming, not science. The lies Obama and his liberal pals tell about global warming is on a par with their ignoring of the facts of gun ownership and the crimes related to gun usage. Regardless of the facts and the studies made, liberals will not admit that bad people and the outlawing of gun ownership are the only problems we face with increasing criminal behavior, but they still blame the inanimate pistol for a high crime rate. In New York City, Chicago and Baltimore the liberal/Democrat/progressive mayors are at fault for the massive killings, and when combined with highly restrictive gun possession laws in those cities, criminals are free to terrorize the honest population and kill at random because the citizens can't get weapons in order to defend themselves and deter the bad guys. So terror rules in liberal cities.
But back to the subject of warming: it amazes me that melting snow during summer is proof to Obama and his pals that the earth is coming to an end, when even by these alarmists' own predictions and phony computer models, they believe that temperatures will only rise by less than a degree in the next fifty or sixty years, and even if this increase does happen it will not be noticeable and will probably be a benefit to poor people by creating a slightly longer growing season for their crops.
Obama's real goal with criminalizing the coal industry and trying to put electricity generation out of business is to fool the uninformed so they will support his power grab in league with the United Nations, and the increased taxing ability that Obama and the U.N. will hold over the population of the United States and the restrictions that will be imposed on us limiting our ability to conduct our personal affairs the way we want to. Increased power and control is all liberals understand, and all of this climate BS is just a path to that end, because New York City has no streets that are under water, and it's been years since a hurricane has threatened our shores.
Mr. President, stop lying to the American people, it should be beneath you.


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Q: Is there any JSON filter to restrict undefined properties that are passed in HTTP request in Spring REST API {
  "id":100,
  "name":"Ram",
  "flag" : FALSE,
  "dept" :"Software"
}

Above is my JSON input format for one of my Spring 4.x REST API. Following is my DTO.
public class EmployeeDTO {

private long id;
private String name;
private Boolean flag;
private String dept;

//getXXX & setXXX

}
If I am passing any extra parameters like below, additional parameters are ignored by the application (by default, please correct if my assumption is wrong).
 {
  "id":100,
  "name":"Ram",
  "flag" : FALSE,
  "dept" :"Software"
  "extra1":"unwanted",
  "extra2" :"This also unwanted"
}

But, I do not want any extra fields to be in the input format, rather I want to restrict only DTO variables to be included in the input JSON. Can anyone help me in this.
Thanks in advance.

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DanceQuest makes the front page!
On September 5, 2013, the Plainfield Enterprise featured the Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker Auditions on the front page of the paper! In the picture you will see DanceQuest dancers dancing as snowflakes in our beautiful Studio III.


Sri Lanka Alert: Violence against Muslims continue for the 3rd day.
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Judge outlines fixes to poor health care in Arizona prisons
JACQUES BILLEAUD
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge who previously concluded Arizona was providing inadequate medical and mental health care to prisoners said she will give the state three months to ensure it has enough health care professionals to meet constitutional standards.
In a filing late Monday, Judge Roslyn Silver outlined the changes she plans to impose on the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry to remedy its constitutional violations of prisoners' rights.
She previously...
She previously concluded there weren't enough health employees to care for the roughly 25,000 incarcerated people housed in state-run prisons and that corrections officials had made no significant attempts to fix the understaffing problem.
The case went to trial in late 2021 after Silver threw out a 6-year-old settlement over prison health care, saying the state showed little interest in making many of the improvements it promised under the deal. She had concluded that $2.5 million in contempt of court fines against the state didn't motivate authorities to comply with the settlement, either.
"Given this history, the court cannot impose an injunction that is even minutely ambiguous because defendants (state officials) have proven they will exploit any ambiguity to the maximum extent possible," Silver wrote on Monday.
The judge laid out the draft terms of what will be the court-ordered overhaul of prison health care, giving lawyers a chance to comment on the changes. But she cautioned that attorneys shouldn't expect significant changes to her upcoming order.
The number of health professionals needed at state prisons wasn't specified by the judge, but she set ratios for the number of professionals needed to treat a given number of prisoners.
Silver said she plans to appoint four officials who will monitor the corrections department's compliance with the court-ordered changes. When the settlement was in effect, lawyers representing prisoners said the state did a poor job of such monitoring and inflated its compliance numbers.
American Civil Liberties Union attorney David Fathi, who represents prisoners in the class-action lawsuit, expressed hope that Gov. Katie Hobbs would appoint a corrections director who will treat the health care of incarcerated people seriously.
Corrections Director David Shinn, who was appointed by then-Gov. Doug Ducey in October 2019 and announced his resignation in late December, was criticized previously by Silver for testifying that prisoners often have greater access to health service than people who aren't locked up. Silver had said the claim was "completely detached from reality."
"You can't turn around the Titanic on a dime," Fathi said. "There has been a broken system for a long time. It will not be fixed overnight."
The corrections department, which in the past had denied it provided inadequate care, declined to comment Tuesday on the judge's filing. In a statement, Hobbs said her office is committed to ensuring Arizona's prisons operate within constitutional requirements.
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"Years of failed leadership have left this institution without adequate staffing, medical care, or accountability," the governor said. "The system is broken and will require a committed, long-term plan for implementing fair standards to improve the health and safety conditions for correctional officers and incarcerated individuals."
In a blistering verdict last summer, Silver said the state's inaction showed it is acting with "deliberate indifference" to the risks of inadequate care and said the state has adopted a health care system for prisoners that has led to preventable deaths. The judge had said prisoners weren't getting timely access to emergency treatment, medications, treatment for chronic diseases and specialty care.
Lawyers representing prisoners had previously asked Silver to set up a receivership where the court would take over health care operations in state prisons and appoint an official to run those services there.
Though she has shied away from a receivership, Silver said she would revive that possibility if the state acts in bad faith or fails to comply with the court-ordered changes.
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The cross stood empty and alone on Golgotha, the place of the Skull, still bearing the scars and stains that told the hideous story of Jesus' last hours. The memory was still fresh in the mind of his friends. The enforced rest of the Sabbath must have been a silent agony for them, leaving them with nothing but to think but what they had lost, and of the sterile emptiness that lay ahead.
Hastily they had stowed the body of Jesus in a borrowed tomb, with no time for anything more than a cursory nod to the traditional burial rites that he deserved. Tomorrow, early, they would go and do what was right. It was what they owed him. It was what they needed for themselves.
And so it is that Mary comes to the tomb, while it is still dark, and to her horror she finds the stone rolled away. Who has done this? What can it mean? Where can he be? The rest goes by breathlessly in a blur. She runs. Peter and John run to find out the truth. Can she be right? Is there some mistake? No. It's just as she said. Away they go, bewildered and confused. Leaving Mary alone. Hollowed out and desolate. There is nothing for her now. No Jesus. Not even his body. No hope. There is nothing for her but to stand and weep.
How often have we felt like Mary did then? How often have we looked at our lives and felt that we have reached a dead end? That there is nowhere left to run to? That nothing can ever be the same again? That even in our grief we are denied the simple comforts that would make it bearable. How often have we stood and wept like a lost child?
Too numb to question their presence she answers with childlike innocence.
Behind her she hears the same question from another stranger.
Was there ever a more tender and heart-breaking moment?
Often, when people speak about Easter, they do so as if the Resurrection is the happy ending to a sad story. As if the crucifixion of Jesus and the agony of the cross bears the heavy-lifting of God's act of Salvation, and Jesus' rising from the dead is simply the proof that God's act of self-sacrifice was successful. But it is more, much more than this. He has not returned simply to offer consolation and reassurance.
"Do not hold on to me', he says. He is not a comfort blanket to be held tight. The work of salvation, the renewal of humanity in the image of God begins now.
'Rabboni!' says Mary. It sounds to us like a mistake. Jesus is more than just a teacher now. If at any time he was moral guide, teaching us right from wrong, the resurrected Christ has surely surpassed that now! But if we stop to think, we remember that a rabbi in Jesus' times was more than simply a teacher, he was a mentor, a model for life. The one with whom a disciple lived and whom she learned to imitate.
He is now the template for a renewed humanity. The first-born of a new creation. Baptised into Christ, and with death behind us, we, and all creation, can now lay hold on life in all its fullness. Life as it is meant to be lived. Life in intimate communion with our Creator.
Are we feeling weighed down and brought low by guilt or regret? The Risen Christ has set us free to begin again unburdened by the past.
Are we suffering the pain of loss and grief? The Risen Christ has brought us the promise of abundant life beyond the limits of our imagination.
Are we oppressed by the cruelty and tyranny of others? The Risen Christ is living testimony that violence and force cannot stand and have no place in the kingdom that is to come.
Are we shackled and bound by our wants and our compulsions and our temptations? The Risen Christ has raised us beyond their grip and given us a vision of a new freedom.
We live in dangerous and unsettling times, people are divided as never before, battle lines are being drawn, and we are surrounded by news of violence and the threat of destruction. But today, today in the light of the Resurrection we can look forward with hope and even confidence, because whatever the future may bring, we know that it cannot overwhelm us. Let the devil shriek and howl all he wants, Christ has conquered death and hell, and the old order is already passing away. Christ is Risen, and we are Risen with him. Alleluia!


Then later we got into an argument!
It's good listening on The Sully Baseball Show.
Hey Sully, awesome blog! I just started one but I don't really care if you go there yet. What I really wanted to show you was our list of the "Top 10 Baseball Gurus Of All Time". It's on a lens at Squidoo, http://www.squidoo.com/top-10-baseball-gurus. We worked really hard on it and want as many baseball people to see it as possible. I've linked to your blog, I love it. Keep up the good work!
first of all thank you so much for providing that link of the Sully baseball show, I will go check it out right away and second of all, I liked this post a lot, keep it up!


Village Lac des 3 Vallees - Pyrénées, France - Book online today!
Are you looking longingly through travel brochures and websites at the moment, trying to identify your next camping holiday destination? Why not give LUX-camp Le Lac des 3 Vallees a chance to prove to you that the Gers region of France is every bit as beautiful, relaxing, yet fun-packed as the Languedoc-Roussillon or Provence? Rent a mobile home at the holiday camping site and you are practically guaranteed an unforgettable holiday with friends and family that will please all ages.
Why stay at Le Lac des 3 Vallees?
Campsite located directly by a lake, surrounded by golden sunflower fields.
River for fishing, sailing and boat tours nearby (just two kilometres).
Onsite LUX-camp water park, providing a safe environment for children to swim and have fun.
Pet dogs are allowed throughout the season, allowing four-legged family members to join in the camping holiday fun.
Not everyone feels that staying in a well-appointed mobile home or luxury tent means that cooking meals every day of the holiday is a given! The luxury camping site naturally provides guests with a choice; the LUX-camp's restaurant offers a wide selection of meals for all tastes and appetites, while snack bars cater for small tummies in need of hot dogs, burgers and bags of chips after their water park adventures.
Famous for its golden sunflowers and rolling green fields, the Gers offers cyclists and hikers wide scope with its bike and walking trails. At the 140-hectare site of LUX-camp Le Lac des 3 Vallees, guests can enjoy water sports including swimming, snorkelling, sailing, surfing and fishing – all within a few steps of their mobile home or luxury tent. Children have their own play area where they can let off steam and make new friends during their camping holiday. An open-air pool, sauna and tennis, table tennis and mini-golf are waiting for campers of all ages to have a go!
Just four kilometres from the camp, guests can try out thermal baths for total relaxation. Still within cycling distance, a golf course offers golfers a thrilling day of play against the backdrop of the Midi Pyrénées. A local bus service provides for guests who want to explore a little further afield and feel their luxury camping experience should include a glimpse into the culture and heritage of the Gers region.


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What happened in 97′ should stay in 97′! Thoughts on the Re-boot.
Posted in Press Release with tags 90's Horror, Freddie Prinze Jr, I know what you did last summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kevin Williamson, Lois Duncan, Mike Flanagan, Neil H. Mortiz, Oculus, Re-boot, Ryan Phillipee, Sarah Michelle Gellar, scream, Scream 4, Teen Slasher on September 20, 2014 by Hayley's Horror Reviews
**Contains Some Spoilers**
I Know What You Did Last Summer has always been somewhat of a guilty pleasure. Released in 1997 hot on the heels of the teen slasher revival thanks to Scream (1996), IKWYDLS showcased a young, talented cast of the time including Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillipee; arguably the film is filled with nonsensical plot-holes and unbelievable scenarios but still manages to engage the viewer. Maybe nostalgic tainted glasses are at play here but there is something about the tone of the film that comes across at unnerving and is what it is a cheesy slasher that takes itself too seriously at times.
Originally a teen thriller 1970's novel by Lois Duncan, the film version was far removed from what the book intended. In Duncan's novel four teens Barry, Helen, Julie and Ray are involved in an accidental hit and run resulting in the death of a young child, without giving too much away the teens are targeted by a mysterious stalker in which the novel culminates in a heart-pounding satisfying finale that unfortunately would be difficult to translate over to film. In Kevin Williamson's script, the teens led by popular actress Jennifer Love Hewitt as protagonist Julie James are also involved in a hit and run but with that of a Fisherman with a dark secret who manages to return from his shallow grave to warn the teens he knows and wants revenge! Ben Willis is more or less an unmemorable villain and terribly hammy, failing to match the heights of Michael Myers, Freddy Kruger and even Ghostface he is mostly forgotten.
Lois Duncan was less than impressed at the 'hot new slasher movie' in town. Sitting in the cinema back in 97′ she was disturbed to discover her mystery thriller had been transformed into a typical horror movie featuring young women in danger, some even ending up killed. This was in bad taste considering Duncan's daughter had been brutally murdered back in 1989. This in-depth article covers the tragic story of a mother's anguish in bringing her daughter's killers to justice. Williamson himself wasn't completely at blame here. In his original script that was potentially in the works before he hit the big time with Scream, he had treated the film as a suspenseful thriller where no slashing took place until much later on. As expected this didn't test well with audiences therefore director Jim Gillespie had to go back and shoot a death scene for minor character Max (Johnny Galeki) to satisfy audiences blood-thirsty taste buds and up the ante to determine Ben Willis really meant business.
While popular in its time, the film grossed $125,586,134 at the Box Office and won a few awards e.g. MTV. An awesome soundtrack featuring tracks from Korn, The Offspring, Type O Negative and Hooverphonic was released. Despite Sarah Michelle Gellar's powerhouse performance as Helen Shivers and believable chemistry with Ryan Phillipee's Barry Cox, I Know What You Did Last Summer isn't a film that's heavily discussed among the horror community as its simply a product of its time much like a slew of forgettable 80's Slashers that emerged following Friday the Thirteenth etc.
News just in Oculus director Mike Flanagan is penning a new script in plans to re-boot the movie which in itself seems quite random. Flanagan has stated he will not be directing or producing however original producer Neil H. Mortiz is said to be on board. Oculus may have done commercially well however among the convoluted plot it didn't come across as anything that hadn't been done before therefore I suspect a remake of IKWYDLS won't be a vast improvement on the original. Flanagan is supposedly going to create a screenplay closer to the original book which is completely problematic.
Happy to be writing a new "I Know What You Did Last Summer." (I'm NOT, however, directing or producing… Not sure where that came from)
— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) September 15, 2014
As a franchise it failed, the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer was rushed out in 1998 and left viewers on a cliffhanger and a 2006 straight-to-DVD monstrosity I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer followed and that was that. Various rumours emerged over the years that Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr would return in a follow-up particularly after Scream 4 but nothing was made concrete regarding the title until now.
No casting information has been revealed as of yet but the film is allegedly planned for a 2016 release, it will be interesting to see how this project develops despite how unnecessary it seems. Remakes are just tiresome and Hollywood has killed the horror genre. What is ultimately a product of the 90's should stay in the 90's…what next are we going to see a remake of Urban Legend?


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SEC Chairman Jay Clayton Reveals Why The Regulator Will Not Approve A Bitcoin ETF
Reading Time: 2 minutes by Cindy Huynh on November 28, 2018 Bitcoin, Blockchain, Finance, News, Platform, Tech
Jay Clayton, the Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), mentioned at a conference in New York that it's unlikely for regulators to approve a Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) anytime soon. According to UK Business Insider's Article published on November 28, 2018, Clayton believes that the current security measures around cryptocurrency asset custody are not adequate, as exchanges are still prone to hacks and manipulation.
Bitcoin ETF Unlikely To Be Approved By U.S. Regulators Anytime Soon
Business Insider reported that the cryptocurrency industry needs to address certain security issues before seeing the approval of a Bitcoin ETF.
"What investors expect is that trading in that commodity that's underlying the ETF is free from the risk or significant risk of manipulation," said Clayton. "Those kinds of safeguards don't exist in many of the markets where digital currencies trade."
The approval of a Bitcoin ETF is a critical development milestone among cryptocurrency industry advocates. They believe that Bitcoin ETFs can help boost liquidity and attract institutional investors into the industry. In August 2018, the SEC had, however, rejected nine applications for a Bitcoin ETF. Clayton noted that it's essential for digital assets like Bitcoin to have proper custody and protection measures.
Herbert Sim, the chief commercial officer from Cryptology, a Singapore-based digital currency exchange, mentioned on The Week, that robust rules and regulations, could kickstart the bearish cryptocurrency industry. Unfortunately, a Bitcoin ETF does not appear to be the answer to improving the cryptocurrency industry's market cap in the short-term.
Bullish About Bitcoin
While Clayton believes that the industry has a long way to go, the CEO of the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, Jeffrey Sprecher was very positive and optimistic about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies at the Consensus Invest conference in New York.
According to Barron's, Sprecher is confident that digital assets will survive. He was bullish about cryptocurrencies and was on stage with Kelly Loeffler, his wife, and the CEO of Bakkt. The Bakkt cryptocurrency platform is designed to allow digital asset trading and ensure that it's easier for merchants to begin accepting cryptocurrencies. The cryptocurrency industry believes that the rollout of Bakkt will be a significant milestone, as institutional investors move into the cryptocurrency sector.
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General Motors' recently reported alliance with Lyft (adding GM and Lyft cars to Lyft ride-sharing cars) isn't the only major development from the company that would expand in-car car connectivity, according to a report…
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Detroit lost their seventh straight game. The Nets snapped a three-game losing streak with a 100-86 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday night. The Pistons, who have the worst record in the NBA,…
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By Richard Simon The Miami Herald Qatar's desert oases now offer travelers a new and far less tranquil way to enjoy the Arabian Peninsula. At least three of them, including one in northwestern Doha,…
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Nick Kyrgios on how he's recaptured his previous form and consistency
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Doctors are teaching 'Omicron' men about how to stay upright
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In directional wells of thick bottom water reservoir, partial perforation is usually applied to prevent rapid coning of bottom water. Because of the existence of interlayers, water driving conditions and remaining oil distribution become complex. In partially perforated wells in the survey area oil saturation of lower unperforated section can't be tested directly due to the influence of completion structure. The "spherical flow" characteristics cannot be seen from the pressure derivative curve during the pressure building. The uncertainty analysis of well-test curve is used in the analysis of interpretation model, Kz/Kr value and boundary feature. The results show that the unperforated section at the lower part, slightly affected by the water flooding, contributes less to oil production. Through the study on reservoir numerical simulation mechanism, it's concluded that in oil wells driven by bottom, water cut features rapid rise in early stage and slow rise in later stage. The water cut rise curve mainly belongs to a convex type. In contrast, in oil well driven by edge water, water cut rises slowly in early stage but rapidly later. The water cut curve is mainly a concave type. The research well shows a concave type in the water cut curve. Test data shows the well is driven by edge water under the influence of interlayer. The unperforated section at the lower part of reservoir where the remaining oil concentrates can become the target of further tapping.
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And Now a Word From The Commissioners
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson on whether Congress
By John Bussey
The U.S. has the resources to address its fiscal problems. But does it have the political will?
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson aren't sure it does. Mr. Bowles, a former White House chief of staff for President Clinton, and Mr. Simpson, a former Republican Senator from Wyoming, were co-chairmen of President Obama's bipartisan deficit-reduction commission. Their 10-year plan got a thumb's-up from 11 of the panel's 18 members.


Perhaps I am a fool: I criticize CrossFit. A lot. But it's because I love CrossFit.
Ever since childhood, I have tended to get myself into trouble because I have always been that person who raised their hand and asked, "Why?" For me, unless something made logical sense, I just couldn't accept "because that's the way it is" as an answer.
When I worked as a claims manager for a large insurance company, nothing irritated me more than the statement, "Because that's the way we've always done it." (If you work for any kind of corporation, I am quite certain you hear this on a fairly regular basis.) Even though I loved the company and enjoyed my job, I wanted to work for a company that celebrated creativity and rewarded thinking outside the box, not one that encouraged the status quo. They say when it's not broken, don't fix it, but sometimes, even if it's not broken, it can be improved.
Think about this: for every single thing that exists in our daily life, from stop signs to coffee mugs, from heart transplants to lululemon, somebody said, "You know what? I have an idea…" And even the most successful, innovative companies on earth continue to innovate. Apple, for one. Who would have thought there could be a successor to the iPhone? No one. That is, until the iPad came out.
"Because that's the way we've always done it" is not an answer. It betrays a stagnancy that will give way to decline. If you apply the concept of "it's always been that way" to questions of oppression, racism, inequality, or discrimination, you can see why the statement is unacceptable. Why, then, accept it when it comes to more benign practices? Like exercise, for example.
In fact, CrossFit, the rogue, underground fitness regimen, built its very existence on the idea that "because that's the way we've always done it" was absurd. Greg Glassman raised an empire on the premise that the existing fitness paradigm was mired in quicksand, and by rejecting the notion of "that's the way we've always done it," he lit the fire we now know as CrossFit.
So, at what point did CrossFit reach a point of stasis whereby further growth spurred by questioning is considered heresy? When did questioning the foundation of some of CrossFit's core principals become fodder for Russification?
It's rather fascinating to watch CrossFit attack those who question, like antibodies on a spirochete. Protect the brand from IP theft? Yes. Push back against something that might be considered slanderous? Of course. But criticism? Either welcome it or ignore it. I think welcoming criticism is a great choice. If you're confident in your methods, criticism will only strike you as an opportunity for further innovation.
Recently, a seemingly hapless dude by the name of Thomas Plummer released a video in which he appeared to be criticizing CrossFit. (Honestly, I was only able to watch a portion of it. Pretty boring lecture stuff.) CrossFit took to Twitter and Russified this guy into oblivion. Check CrossFit's Twitter feed from November 8, 2013. It's actually pretty teenage-bully-level stuff. But Plummer removed his video from YouTube and went underground.
One of the apparently heretical things Plumber said was this, "You can't supervise twenty people doing power cleans." Now, I have no idea what the context is, but CrossFit Tweeted this statement (along with many others) accompanied by a picture of a CrossFit class with approximately twenty people in it power cleaning a PVC pipe. Get 'im guys. You sure showed him.
The fact is, it is difficult to properly coach twenty people at one time, period. If you are coaching a CrossFit class where the strength portion is "ten minutes to build to a tough power clean single" and there are twenty people in that class, I am not sure there is a coach in this business who can adequately give instruction, correction, and supervision to all twenty people. Showing me a picture to counter that point is a fairly useless retort. Yeah, I know it's being done. But is it being done well?
So why would CrossFit Headquarters choose this out-of-context quotation to set themselves up as wagon-circling defensive juvies? Is it remotely possible that this is a correct statement? If so, is it then remotely possible for CrossFit to accept the criticism with an intelligent, courteous response? At the very least, ignore it?
Better yet, why not even possibly acknowledge the criticism with a statement such as, "We think an eight-to-one coach-to-member ratio is effective when working on Olympic technique," or some such position? Rather than dumping the five-gallon bucket of Kool-Aid on Plummer's head by trying to "out" him as a fool for what could well be a reasoned, logical statement. I find this situation fascinating.
Asking questions - criticizing - is literally part of the fabric of what encourages change, growth, and improvement. The moment a body stops growing, it begins dying. I would think that CrossFit, which considers itself the most successful fitness program on earth (their words), would want nothing short of perfection. And, despite rampant growth and stratospheric success, believe it or not, CrossFit isn't perfect. There is always room to tinker, perfect, improve. It's not like Greg Glassman spent from 1998 to 2005 tinkering and inventing, and unleashed his finished product on the world in 2005. No, it has been and should continue to be in a constant state of growth and improvement.
And improvement doesn't always come from inside. In fact, sometimes those on the inside are much too close or embedded in the culture to see any issues that need to be addressed, which is why criticism can play such an important role in effecting positive change. That's why companies have suggestion boxes, do customer surveys, and have contact forms. A company that is willing to ask, "How are we doing?" is a company that will grow. A company whose position is, "When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you," is a company that will ultimately crack. Which one is CrossFit, Inc.?
Trust me, I don't criticize for criticism's sake. I ask questions. I probe. I ask why. I hope that CrossFit Headquarters would agree that asking questions and even offering criticism can be valuable tools. At least, I would hope so - but that's not particularly the vibe I get.
Criticism is not tantamount to hate. I would suggest it is the opposite. I love CrossFit. If I didn't, I simply wouldn't care about sumo deadlift high pulls or crotch shots, and wouldn't spend a single minute writing about those things. The day my blog disappears, that is the day you will know I am no longer in love with this sport. Either that, or I have been Russified into oblivion.
Photos courtesy of Miguel Tapia Images and CrossFit LA.
Screenshot courtesy of CrossFit Twitter feed.


These protein packed stuffed peppers are the perfect mix of braising and baking all in one cooking method. You've got the protein from the lean ground beef with the natural protein of the quinoa mixed with a hearty tomato sauce all simmered away till perfection in one bite. You can make these stuffed peppers three days prior and have them baked on the spot the day of serving, enjoy these with your favorite salad or side item.
- Cut the tops off the peppers.
- Place the peppers aside until ready to stuff.
+ Preheat your oven to 400 °F.
oil and turn your stovetop to a medium-high heat.
peppers, paprika and garlic [make sure the garlic doesn't burn] and stir.
garlic powder, pepper and salt.
the pan with the ground beef aside.
to a medium high heat.
medium for about 15 minutes.
- Place your cooked ground beef into your quinoa bowl and pour in ½ cup of the tomato sauce, mix everything until all is incorporated.
- In a ungreased 8-inch square glass baking dish, pour about 1 ½ cups of the tomato sauce onto the bottom of the baking dish and spread evenly.
each pepper and spread evenly.
- Cover tightly with foil and bake for 50 minutes.
7 minutes or until the cheese becomes melted.


ABC Monday Prime 8-11pm (12.2 million and 2.1/6): ABC finished as the #2 net on Monday night in Total Viewers, outdrawing Fox by 4.7 million viewers and CBS by 5.4 million viewers. ABC was up from the same night last year by 4% in Total Viewers and by 5% in Adults 18-49 (11.7 million and 2.0/5 on 10/1/12).
DWTS 8-10pm (12.8 million and 2.0/5): ABC's Dancing with the Stars stood as the 2nd most-watched TV show of the evening to The Voice, topping Fox's dramas in the 2-hour time period by 5.3 million viewers and CBS' comedies by 5.6 million viewers. Bill Nye was the second celebrity dancer to be eliminated from the competition this season.
Castle 10-11pm (10.9 million and 2.2/6): Building 10% on its Adult 18-49 lead-in at 10pm, ABC's Castle held even with its week-earlier season premiere and was up 16% over its performance on the same night last year (1.9/5 on 10/1/12). In the hour, Castle beat CBS' Hostages (6.0 million and 1.5/4) by even wider margins week to week, leading by 82% in Total Viewers and by 47% in Adults 18-49. Live + 3 Day Ratings: Last week's season opener of ABC's Castle gained nearly a full Adult 18-49 rating point in the L+3 numbers, going from a 2.3 rating to a 3.2 rating (+0.9 rating points) and also added 3.4 million viewers to its next-day totals (going from 11.5 million to 14.9 million).
ABC finished as the No. 2 net on Monday night in Total Viewers, outdrawing Fox by 4.7 million viewers (7.5 million) and CBS by 5.4 million viewers (6.8 million). ABC was up from the same night last year by 4% in Total Viewers and by 5% in Adults 18-49 (11.7 million and 2.0/5 on 10/1/12).
ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" stood as the 2nd-most-watched TV show of the evening to "The Voice," topping Fox's dramas in the 2-hour time period by 5.3 million viewers (7.5 million) and CBS' comedies by 5.6 million viewers (7.2 million). Bill Nye was the second celebrity dancer to be eliminated from the competition this season.
Building 10% on its Adult 18-49 lead-in at 10:00 p.m., ABC's "Castle" held even with its week-earlier season premiere and was up 16% over its performance on the same night last year (1.9/5 on 10/1/12). In the hour, "Castle" (10.9 million, 2.2/6 and 2.9/7) beat CBS' Hostages (6.0 million, 1.5/4 and 2.0/5) by even wider margins week to week, leading by 82% in Total Viewers, by 47% in Adults 18-49 and by 45% in Adults 25-54. Live + 3 Day Ratings: Last week's season opener of ABC's Castle gained a full Adult 18-49 rating point in the L+3 numbers, going from a 2.2 rating to a 3.2 rating and also added 3.4 million viewers to its next-day totals (going from 11.5 million to 14.9 million).
Source: The Nielsen Company, Fast Affiliate Live + Same Day Ratings, 9/30/13.


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Q: Apply function on list of multiple lists of two dataframes by rows Pardon me if this questions has been answered before but I searched and couldn't find one.
I have a list containing multiple lists containing two dataframes. I want to apply t.test between first row of dataframe 1 and first row of dataframe 2 and so on.
I tried this:
list1 <- list(set1 = data.frame(rnorm(100), rexp(100)), set2 = data.frame(rnorm(100, mean = 5, sd = 3), rexp(100, rate = 4)))

list2 <- list(set1 = data.frame(rnorm(100), rexp(100)), set2 = data.frame(rnorm(100, mean = 6, sd = 4), rexp(100, rate = 2)))

mylist <- list(list1, list2)

ttest<-function(list){
        df1 <- list$set1
        df2 <- list$set2
        testresults<-rep(NA,nrow(df1))
        for (j in seq(nrow(df1))){

               testresults[j] <- t.test(df1[j,], df2[j,])$p.value
        }
        return(as.matrix(testresults))}
lapply(mylist,ttest)

This works fine but takes a lot of time because of this for loop and since the actual data is much larger. I want to replace the for loop with an apply function(if possible). Please suggest.

A: You basically want to use lapply with a function taking more than one arguments, which is Map. So you can replace ttest in your code with
ttest2 <- function(list) {
    df1 <- list$set1
    df2 <- list$set2
    l1 <- unlist(apply(df1, 1, list), recursive = FALSE)
    l2 <- unlist(apply(df2, 1, list), recursive = FALSE)
    testresults <- unlist(Map(function(x,y) t.test(x,y)$p.value, x=l1, y=l2))
    return(as.matrix(testresults))
}

This seems to be faster. I extended your data frames to have 10000 rows (it runs quite fast with 100 and can't see the difference much) and got
system.time(lapply(mylist,ttest))
#   user  system elapsed
# 12.736   0.000  12.760
system.time(lapply(mylist,ttest2))
#   user  system elapsed
#  3.825   0.000   3.833

A: Try:
res1 <- sapply(mylist, function(x) {
                   x1 <- do.call(`cbind`,x)
                   apply(x1, 1, function(y) t.test(y[1:2], y[3:4])$p.value)
                })

Using your function
 res2 <- sapply(mylist, ttest)
 identical(res1, res2)
#[1] TRUE


Sonic Branding is putting sound to your logo that causes it to be instantly recognized and imprinted in the minds of even the youngest listeners.
Here is a Sonic Brand for a TV Network called FNT (Fun Network Television). For this example, I first created a unique and catchy sonic brand, that is geared toward the target demographic (Children).


Getting close to this otter involved a lengthy stalk. The lighting was also difficult, with the sun behind the otter most of the time. However, the backlighting was fantastic for capturing the juice squirting from the Scorpion fish that the otter was devouring.
Brydon Thomason, otter expert, has some great new photos on his Shetland otter watching blog.


DESPITE awareness campaigns and celebrity endorsements, mental illness remains a taboo subject, one to be broached with caution - that caution being that if you tell someone you suffer from depression, they will turn on their heels and run the other way.
The tragic passing of model Annalise Braakensiek, 46, who died in her Sydney apartment on Sunday in circumstances police are not treating as suspicious, highlights this very fact.
The former Fat Pizza star, who'd long battled the "black dog" and shared her struggles on social media, said in a recent interview that when she told people about her illness, they couldn't escape quickly enough.
Not only that but she was widely criticised, almost as if she had no right to feel this way.
In an interview with The Daily Edition, Ms Braakensiek, who was an ambassador for the R U OK? campaign, said: "It was the … negative reaction people had to me being depressed and falling under the dark cloud.
Depression is not an affliction that discriminates on socio-economic grounds.
According to Beyond Blue, three million Australians suffer from anxiety or depression.
The independent non-profit organisation says depression - a prolonged period of intense sadness as opposed to a mood - is unlikely to go away by itself. Psychological therapies and medical treatments can help, but so too the firm support of family and friends.
While sufferers can want to withdraw, loved ones must continue to reach out.
Annalise Braakensiek was an ambassador for the R U OK? campaign.
"It can be hard to socialise if you're experiencing depression," Beyond Blue says on its website, "but spending time alone can make you feel lonelier and cut off from the world, which in turn makes it harder to recover."
It says it is important to say yes to social invitations, even if it's the last thing you feel like doing, and to talk to someone who is caring and supportive: "Staying connected improves your wellbeing and confidence."
I don't suffer from depression but have friends who do, and it's frustrating to feel that you are unable to take away their pain.
The Potts Point home of Annalise Braakensiek who was found dead on Sunday afternoon.
Words, hugs and kind gestures can seem so insignificant when someone is in a dark place fighting for a glimmer of light but failing to find it.
But the worst thing a friend can do is be a deserter, and that includes implying that the person is overreacting or merely seeking attention.
Ultimately, we can't always save a life but we should never stop trying.


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Homicidal Quotes
Homicidal is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Homicidal stopped airing in 1970.
It features William Castle as producer, Hugo Friedhofer in charge of musical score, and Burnett Guffey as head of cinematography.
Homicidal is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Homicidal is 87 minutes long. Homicidal is distributed by Columbia Pictures.
The cast includes: Joan Marshall as Emily, Patricia Breslin as Miriam Webster, and Richard Rust as Jim Nesbitt.
Joan Marshall as Emily
(Joan Marshall) "If you do not leave this house in the next minute, I will kill you."
(Joan Marshall) "If it wasn't for me you would've been dead by now."
Richard Rust as Jim Nesbitt
(Alfred S. Adrims) "Take this woman for your lawful weddded wife?"
(Richard Rust) "I guess so."
Patricia Breslin as Miriam Webster
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