Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:
Megatrailer of the Day:
GameSpot pieced together all the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailers in presumed chronological order for one long megatrailer (via Geek Tyrant):
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Fake Toy of the Day:
Given the era The Shining came out in, it woudn’t be surprising if this fake board game tie-in had actually existed (via One Perfect Shot):
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Halloween Decorations of the Day:
This incredible light show display basically has a house performing karaoke of “Time Warp” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (via Laughing Squid):
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Cosplay of the Day:
Speaking of Halloween, here’s a great Lisa from Weird Science costume spotted at Dallas Comic Con:
Reworked Movie of the Day:
Speaking of weird things, here’s what the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Commando would look like as a Japanese TV show (via One Perfect Shot):
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Vintage Image of the Day:
Jean Arthur, who was born on this day in 1900, sits between co-star James Stewart and director Frank Capra on the set of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in 1939:
Film Festival Parody of the Day:
If you’ve ever been to a film festival and stayed for post-screening Q&As, you’ll recognize this Saturday Night Live parody as being spot-on:
Movie Scene Reenactment of the Day:
At the recent David Lynch Festival of Disruption, during a showcase mostly of Twin Peaks music, Rebekah Del Rio redid her performance of “Llorando” from Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (via Indiewire):
Political Satire of the Day:
Speaking of movie music, for Funny or Die, Danny Elfman personally scored parts from the last presidential debate with scary music (via THR):
Classic Trailer of the Day:
Today is the 60th anniversary of the release of Around the World in Eighty Days. Watch the original trailer for the star-studded Best Picture winner below.
Too often, pediatricians say, the teen depression that went undiagnosed in the community shows up in the ER as a suicide attempt. Studio 642/Blend Images/Getty Imageshide caption
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Nearly 1 in 5 children each year suffers a psychiatric illness, according to research estimates. But a national shortage of medical specialists and inpatient facilities means that many still go untreated — despite national efforts to improve mental health care.
New research is driving home the consequences. Scientific abstracts presented Monday in Las Vegas, at the annual meeting of the American College of Emergency Physicians, offer insights into how frequently patients with mental health issues land in the emergency room — often because opportunities to intervene earlier are missed. Pediatricians and child psychiatrists say children are among the hardest hit.
Compared with physically ill patients, people with mental health conditions rely more on the emergency department for treatment and are more often admitted to the hospital from the ER, the scientists found. Also, they tended to be stuck in the ER longer than people who show up in the ER with physical symptoms.
Specifically, the researchers found that about 6 percent of all the emergency department patients — of all ages — had a psychiatric condition. More than 20 percent of these psychiatric patients were admitted to the hospital, compared with just over 13 percent of the medical patients. About 11 percent of these patients with mental health problems required transfer to another facility, compared with 1.4 percent of the patients with physical ailments.
About 23 percent of mental health patients stayed in emergency care for longer than six hours, and about 1.3 percent for more than 24 hours. Only 10 percent of medical patients were under treatment in the ER for more than six hours, and just half a percent were there for more than 24 hours.
The researchers have not yet determined the distribution of ages among the patients in their study who came to the ER because of mental health symptoms. Anecdotally, though, ER patients with psychiatric problems tend to include more children and elderly patients than you’d expect to see based on the age range of the general population, says Suzanne Lippert, a clinical assistant professor in emergency medicine at Stanford University and lead author on the study.
The findings highlight what can happen when patients can’t find good outpatient treatment for mental health problems, Lippert says. The evidence also underscores, she says, that when psychiatric patients arrive at the ER in a crisis, there is often no good place where they can continue treatment, once the immediate issue has been addressed.
Patients who come to the ER because of physical ailments can usually be sent home, Lippert says, “because we know they’ll be evaluated by [their] doctor in one or two days.” But psychiatric patients don’t always have that option because of gaps in the mental health care system.
And young patients may be affected the most, says Dr. Steven Schlozman, a research psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and associate director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was not affiliated with the research.
“It’s a numbers game,” Schlozman says. “Unless you live in a large urban area, you’re very unlikely to find a child psychiatrist.”
Lippert’s study found that the most severely ill psychiatric patients typically spent more time in the ER. Patients with bipolar disorder, depression or psychosis and those diagnosed with multiple conditions were more likely than others to be held in the ER longer than 24 hours.
A national shortage of inpatient beds for psychiatric patients is part of the problem, Lippert says. She has seen patients have to wait longer than a week to get the inpatient treatment they need.
Such delays in cramped, overused emergency quarters hurt patients, says Dr. Thomas Chun, an associate professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics at Brown University. Doctors often agree a child needs to be transferred, he says, only to find no outside beds available.
“We are the wrong site for these patients,” says Chun, who was not involved in Lippert’s study. “Our crazy, chaotic environment is not a good place for them.”
Meanwhile, the young patients are even less likely to get reliable care after they are discharged from the ER. Whether they need regular follow-up with a psychiatrist, or a transfer to specialized facility, the resources often aren’t in place. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry estimates there are only 8,300 such specialists in the U.S., for more than 15 million young patients.
Dr. Lindsay Irvin, a pediatrician in San Antonio, says the dearth of psychiatrists who specialize in treating young people means many young patients simply don’t get the mental health treatment they need. By the time they wind up in the ER, she says, undiagnosed depression may have progressed to suicidal intent. And after leaving the ER, many are lost to follow-up.
“They’ll land in a pediatric or family practice,” Irvin says, where most primary care doctors haven’t been trained “to navigate the ins and outs of psychotropic meds.”
Lippert and her colleagues also found that the emergency psychiatric patients were more likely to be uninsured than medical patients were. About 22 percent of mental health patients lacked coverage, versus 15 percent of patients treated for physical conditions.
Kaiser Health Newsis a national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Author Tim Wu says that much of the content on the Internet is created by businesses that are on a “quest for clicks.” PeopleImages.com/Getty Imageshide caption
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If you feel like Internet ads are more pervasive and invasive than ever before, you’re not alone. Author Tim Wu tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross that the Web has gotten worse over the years, not better — and unrelenting ads are to blame.
“I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems,” Wu says. “It’s amazing that we’ve got this great scientific invention, the Web and the Internet, and then it has come to the point where using it reminds me of swatting mosquitoes.”
As a professor at Columbia Law School, Wu became known as an open Internet advocate who is credited with coining the term “net neutrality.” His new book, The Attention Merchants, examines how advertising has changed the Internet — and how those changes affect us.
Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School. His previous books include The Master Switch and Network Neutrality.Mikiko Hayashi/ Deckle Edgehide caption
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He says the book was inspired by his own experience of sitting down to look something up on the computer and finding, four hours later, that he had slid into a world of digital distraction. “It’s what I call the casino effect,” Wu says. “It’s this effort of the environment to make you lose control of your sense of time and your attention kind of gets dragged away.”
Wu points out that much of the “free” content on the Internet comes at a price to users, who are subjected to ads that are targeted specifically at them and which are increasingly difficult to ignore or close. “Google, Facebook, Twitter — the whole set of companies essentially knows all your weaknesses and essentially how to manipulate you in subtle ways in order to have you do things you might not otherwise do,” he says.
Wu says that although the Internet is full of “clickbait that brings ads along like a bad cold,” it doesn’t have to be that way. “We can have a better Web,” he says. “Whether it’s a combination of subscription models or nonprofit models, I would like to have a Web that we feel proud of, that lives up to its promise.”
Interview Highlights
Onthe quest for clicks
It’s inherent to the business model. It’s very driven with the need to grow, to get more clicks and clicks and clicks. And some of this book is about the history, and we often say that ratings kind of ruined television in the 1950s, well, the quest for ratings looks dignified in comparison to the quest for clicks.
So much engineering talent and ability has gone into trying to make people click on things that I think we’ve almost lost the last five years of development. It’s been very disappointing.
On how we are used to content being free
It’s a bargain with some historical precedent. I think back starting with radio, starting with television, we got used to this idea of stuff being free as long as you just watch a few ads. …
This attention-merchant model has spread to so many areas of our life, where we’re completely used to everything being free. But then the payoff, or the exchange, is that then we also agree to stuff that is compromised, because it is always trying to get us to click on ads at the same time. So we have this bargain that we made — and you can call it Faustian, you can call it whatever you want — that we have decided that we have to have everything for free, and I think we’re starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.
Onthe price of “free” Internet content
If you really want change in this area, and you want to act, you probably have to pay for stuff, pay for content. Some people are like, “Oh my God I have to pay?” But people do pay. They pay for Netflix, they pay for HBO, they pay for other types — they subscribe to newspapers sometimes.
Generally speaking, when you pay for stuff it has more of your interests at heart. … In other words, a lot of the websites are always serving two masters, they’re both trying to get you entertained enough to stay there, or to click on things, but to also then make it a good platform for advertising. So I have sort of a plea to people who want to change these sort of things is, like, maybe just suck it up and start paying for more stuff.
On the pervasiveness of Internet advertising
In the media, traditional media like print, we had boundaries, we had spaces that ads didn’t leave, they stayed where they were on the page, they didn’t float around over the text, and we’re sort of lost on the Internet.
We don’t have any barriers. We have a demand for growth that is insistent, and so advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn’t have any natural limit, and we haven’t found a place for the limit.
On Google’s approach to advertising
I think Google is the most profitable attention merchant in the history of the world. … They started a very idealistic beautiful company in many ways, but they didn’t have a business model.
The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising and in fact, they wrote this paper in the ’90s, saying in its appendix that any advertising-based search engine would always be corrupted and unable to serve its highest purposes, because advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid to be there.
Google is this conflicted company. I think they thought they could do this deal and keep advertising at bay, but I think year in, year out Google is starting to get worse instead of better. … You can see it with Google Maps, you can see it with Google Directions where somehow Uber is always one of the options, and it’s becoming exactly what they said was what they never wanted, which is a pay-for service where the highest bidder gets the best results. So it’s kind of a cautionary tale.
I do think the best thing for companies like Google and Facebook, if they are afraid of this ethical trap of advertising, is they should start letting people pay who want to pay and avoid some of the advertising.
On how advertisers can use technology to target individual“moments”
I think this is going to become more intense in the coming decade as we start to carry more and more technology with us. We already have our phones, but other wearables and those technologies are going to want to know when you’re deciding things and then offer some kind of input, subtle or less so, on that moment.
So you know, discovering the moment: Let’s say you’re someone’s phone and you notice that your owner is drinking coffee at certain times of the day, just very subtly indicating where the local coffee shop is, which happens to have paid whoever makes your phone, at the right moment. … We are possibly facing little tiny bits of manipulation in all of our waking hours, if we don’t have that already.
On how Facebook “likes” help advertisers
Every time you click on a “like” button on another site, you’ve told Facebook that you’re doing that, and so therefore advertisers know who their fan base is. When you decide to “like” something you may feel you’re innocently putting out your preferences, but actually you’re delivering something of enormous value, which is indicating that you essentially like to be advertised to by this company.
It’s so funny that the Internet has become a series of traps where you do innocent things like give your name or address or indicate a preference — “I like this thing” — and therefore you open yourself up to a deluge of advertising based on those stated preferences. That’s what you’re doing, you’re signaling who you are as a consumer.
On what can happen when Internet companies know intimate details about individuals
I’m concerned with our autonomy. … I particularly don’t like it when it’s used to exploit your weaknesses or make you lose control in some ways — so it’s like advertising casinos to people who have gambling problems, or just things that are too sensitive — if you have a disease and suddenly you started getting ads for cures for that disease, it’s an embarrassing disease. All that kind of stuff, it just gets into that zone of autonomy or privacy where you feel a sense of freedom to be who you want to be, and I’m afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring, because you’re afraid to express yourself.
Nick Kyrgios of Australia complains to the referee during his men’s singles match against Mischa Zverev of Germany at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament on Wednesday. Johannes Eisele /AFP/Getty Imageshide caption
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The governing body for men’s tennis has suspended Australian star Nick Kyrgios for three months, or eight tournament weeks, after he essentially threw his second-round match last week at the Shanghai Masters.
Kyrgios often appeared uninterested during the match against German player Mischa Sverev, lobbing soft, slow serves over the net and wandering away before Sverev could return them. He bickered with the umpire and a fan during the match, and was quickly defeated at 6-3 and 6-1. ESPN has provided video of some of the more dramatic moments:
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Tennis’ governing body, the ATP, said Kyrgios’ display amounted to “conduct contrary to the integrity of the game.” It fined him $25,000. That amount is in addition to earlier fines for his performance during that match — for not giving his best effort, verbally abusing a spectator and for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Kyrgios, 21, issued an apology, saying that his “body finally just gave out in Shanghai both physically and mentally” after a difficult schedule of travel and tournament play. He won the title in Tokyo’s tournament earlier this month. Kyrgios added: “I do understand and respect the decision by the ATP and I will use this time off to improve on an off the court. I am truly sorry and look forward to returning in 2017.”
The suspension will last through Jan. 15, 2017. However, the ATP gave him an option to reduce that suspension to three tournament weeks, should he agree to enter a “plan of care under the direction of a sports psychologist.”
Kyrgios did not personally indicate whether he intended to shorten his suspension by seeking professional help, but Tennis Australia said in a statement that he has agreed to do so.
However, “there are no regular tournaments on the schedule after Nov. 7,” as The Associated Press reports, “so he will have to wait until next year in any case to return to the tour.”
At a press conference after last week’s match, a bored-looking Kyrgios openly disparaged his fans: “I don’t owe them anything. It’s my choice. If you don’t like it, I didn’t ask you to come watch. Just leave. If you’re so good at giving advice and so good at tennis, why aren’t you as good as me?”
He struck a different tone in his statement today: “I of course know how important the fans are to the success of our sport and I personally love the interaction with fans in the many different cities throughout the world on the tennis circuit.”
Kyrgios has been the subject of numerous controversies. As The Two-Way reported, the ATP fined him $10,000 for making a lewd on-court remark to an opponent in Aug. 2015. A month before that, he was fined nearly $9,500 for swearing on the court.
