October 11, 2017

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Entertainment October 11, 2017

Today in Movie Culture: Deadpool vs. The Punisher, 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Porg Mania and More

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Mashup of the Day:

Deadpool and the Punisher are in two separate franchises, but the Marvel antiheroes come together in this fake trailer by Stryder HD:

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Meme of the Day:

Ever since the Porg made its first appearance in the Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer, it’s been total Porg mania with memes galore. Here’s some via io9 and Gizmodo:

68 Porg photoshops that will haunt your dreams https://t.co/nsLchRIBG5pic.twitter.com/Wsx4d8upao

— io9 (@io9) October 11, 2017

Theme Song Cover of the Day:

As if that meme wasn’t enough, here’s a video with the Star Wars theme covered by Porgs:

Who loves Porgs? I love Porgs so much that I made them sing the @starwars theme song ?? #StarWars#PorgNation#Porglife#Porg#TheLastJedipic.twitter.com/RSzYBYBdVy

— Julian Boo-mani ?? (@akaVolpe) October 10, 2017

Recut Trailer of the Day:

In case you didn’t see enough parallels between The Last Jedi and The Empire Strikes Back, The Unusual Suspect cut the latter in the style of the former’s new trailer:

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Reworked Movie of the Day:

While we’re on a Star Wars kick, here are a couple scenes from the original movie with dialogue taken out for maximum awkwardness:

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Joan Cusack, who was born on this day in 1962, with Holly Hunter in a publicity still for Broadcast News. Cusack earned her first Oscar nomination for her performance in the movie.

Remade Trailer of the Day:

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, which comes out this Friday, is about the creation of Wonder Woman, so here’s a comic book style remake of its trailer:

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Video Essay of the Day:

In this video for Film Radar, Daniel Netzel explores the color coding of characters in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver:

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Cosplay of the Day:

No, this isn’t Sophia Lillis from It. It’s another winning lookalike cosplayer, and her name is Aleksandra Bodler:

can someone find who this is because THIS IS A GREAT COSPLAY pic.twitter.com/tpIv3Dy4hH

— dani loves katie 17 (@bivmarsh) October 11, 2017

Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 15th anniversary of the initial limited release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love. Watch the original trailer for the romance classic below.

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Business October 11, 2017

Judge Limits DOJ's Warrant For Records From Anti-Trump Site

Anti-Trump protesters chant during an Inauguration Day demonstration in Washington, D.C., in January. A judge has narrowed the Justice Department’s warrant for records related to a website used to plan protests.

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A Washington, D.C., judge has significantly narrowed the Justice Department’s warrant related to a website used to plan anti-Trump protests during the Inauguration.

The government had sought a sweeping warrant for records from web hosting company DreamHost of all visitors to its customer’s website, DisruptJ20.org — even those not suspected of committing a crime. As NPR previously reported, DreamHost resisted complying with that warrant, considering it overly broad, and endangering privacy and free speech.

“[W]hile the government has the right to execute its Warrant,” D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin wrote in his order, “it does not have the right to rummage through the information contained on DreamHost’s website and discover the identity of, or access communications by, individuals not participating in alleged criminal activity, particularly those persons who were engaging in protected First Amendment activities.”

The government sought the warrant as it gathers evidence for its cases against nearly 200 people charged with rioting on Jan. 20.

The judge’s new order instructs DreamHost to redact identifying information of “innocent persons” who visited the website before providing the records to the government. It also dictates a protocol for incorporating procedural safeguards to comply with “First Amendment and Fourth Amendment considerations.” Among other stipulations, the government must submit to the court its plan for permanently deleting from its possession all information not within the scope of the warrant.

DreamHost considered the judge’s ruling a significant victory.

“The new order is a far cry from the original warrant we received in July,” DreamHost General Counsel Christopher Ghazarian wrote in a statement to NPR. “Absent a finding by the Court that probable cause of criminal activity exists, the government will not be able to uncover the identities of these users. There are also quite a few modifications that further reduce the government’s ability to review unrelated data. This is another huge win not just for DreamHost, but for internet users around the world.”

The company says it does not intend to appeal the court’s ruling.

“As it stands today, the sum total of requested data in this case very closely aligns with hundreds of other government requests that DreamHost has received, and complied with lawfully, in the past,” DreamHost VP of Corporate Communications Brett Dunst tells NPR.

Morin took over adjudication of the matter from another judge, Ronald Wertheim, who had granted the initial warrant.

The Justice Department declined to comment on the order.

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Sports October 11, 2017

After Devastating Loss For USMNT, What Comes Next?

Last night was one of the worst in U.S. men’s soccer history. An embarrassing loss to Trinidad and Tobago means the team will not make the World Cup for the first time since 1986. What happens now?

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If you listen very closely to this next highlight, you can hear the sound of millions of U.S. soccer fans tearing their hair out.

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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Long distance blast, and it’s Alvin Jones – one for the legend books. Oh, my, his first Trinidadian goal, and he might as well retire right now.

SIEGEL: The second goal for tiny Trinidad and Tobago clinched the match against the United States men’s team last night, and it kept the U.S. out of the World Cup for the first time since 1986. Well, now fans and experts alike are wondering what happened, and one of those experts joins us now. He’s Roger Bennett, a co-host of the “Men In Blazers” show and podcast on NBC Sports. Thanks for joining us today.

ROGER BENNETT: I’d like to say it’s a pleasure, Robert, but to hear that open wound of a goal and live it out again after the night that we all went through – the American football community – these are dark times.

SIEGEL: Well, to put this in context, just how bad a loss was this for the U.S. men’s team?

BENNETT: It was a debacle. It was an Armageddon. It was an apocalypse. It was a night in which so many results had to go against the U.S. for them to fail to qualify. And slowly, as if there was no such thing as free will but we were all just doomed by fate, all those results did start to slide. And I know that it’s only a game of football. I keep telling myself that. But it feels so much more. It’s simply devastating, the result, to those of us who care about the game in America and its future.

SIEGEL: I’m a sports fan but a very casual soccer fan. This is not something that I watch closely. But every time I’ve watched a soccer match in recent years, Tim Howard has been in the net, been the goalkeeper for the United States. Is that a sign that he is the greatest goalkeeper around or that the U.S. has a very old goalkeeper playing every year?

BENNETT: Tim Howard is an incredible servant for U.S. soccer. The night of the World Cup against Belgium – that’s how I’d like to remember him, for the save after save after save as he played lights out. This was not his finest moment. It’s not just him. With a manager that they changed to mid-cycle, a gentleman, Bruce Arena, who’d led them wonderfully in the early 2000s and in players that he then picked, it was a little bit of a reversion of what we used to know. And the U.S. Soccer Federation, at all levels, perhaps could be accused of worshipping the old gods. And now it needs to work out the new.

What I will say – in this moment of darkness, we really should usher in the light. Other teams – Germany – when they had a national debacle in 2000, it triggered a national soul searching about how they train their players, how they coach them, how they recruit them. And I believe that the U.S. have a true opportunity that they can do something similar here.

SIEGEL: Well, I mean, what does U.S. men’s soccer do at this point? Do you fire the coach? Do you change the way the team trains or the way it’s selected? Do you decide this is a disaster; we’ve got to zero it out and start all over again? What?

BENNETT: It’s not a birth right to qualify to the World Cup. We have had a remarkable run – seven straight tournaments. And no team qualifies forever, Robert. And Chile failed this time around. The (unintelligible) Netherlands failed. The World Cup’s still going to be massive in America. It will still be a television ratings buster. But this was always going to have seismic repercussions for all levels of the game.

SIEGEL: Boy, listening to you, I’m feeling worse and worse and worse. This is just disastrous what happened last night.

BENNETT: That’s what I’m here for, Robert.

SIEGEL: Yeah, that’s what you’re here for.

BENNETT: Thank you very much. And good luck.

SIEGEL: Roger Bennett, co-host of the “Men In Blazers” podcast and show on NBC Sports spoke to us via Skype.

BENNETT: Courage.

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Health October 11, 2017

Health Conditions That Increase Stroke Risk Rise Across All Ages, Races

Roughly 80 percent of all first strokes arise from risks that people can influence with behavioral changes, doctors say — risks like high blood pressure, smoking and drug abuse.

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For years, doctors have been warning us that high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, illegal drug use and diabetes increase our chances of having a potentially fatal stroke.

And yet, most of the stroke patients showing up at hospitals from 2004 to 2014 had one or more of these risk factors. And the numbers of people at risk in this way tended to grow among all age groups and ethnicities in that time period.

That’s according to an analysis of the charts of more than 900,000 people admitted to U.S. hospitals for stroke within that decade. The study was published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

“An estimated 80 percent of all first strokes are due to risk factors that can be changed — such as high blood pressure — and many efforts have been made to prevent, screen for and treat these risk factors,” says neurologist and study author Dr. Fadar Oliver Otite of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. “Yet we saw a widespread increase in the number of stroke patients with one or more risk factors.”

Most surprising, researchers say, was the high rate of Hispanic stroke patients who also had diabetes — about 50 percent— and African-American stroke patients, 44 percent of whom also had diabetes.

“Those rates are really very alarming” for a variety of complex reasons, says Dr. Seemant Chaturvedi, who also worked on the study and is a professor of clinical neurology at the Miller School of Medicine. Poor diet, less access to health care, lack of exercise and other factors all can contribute to risk, he says.

“Those are populations that need to be looked at,” Chaturvedi adds.

But not all of the risk factors increased equally, or can be attributed to the same causes, he notes. Diabetes increases many of the other risk factors, and this country is still in the midst of a diabetes epidemic, although recent studies suggest it may have reached a plateau.

Other risk factors may simply appear to be increasing because doctors have become more tuned in to checking for them.

For example, stroke patients with dislipidemia (a fancy way of saying an imbalance of fat and other substances in the blood) nearly doubled during that decade, although that is probably because doctors are testing for the condition and treating it more often. High cholesterol has become an increasingly important factor in stroke risk, Chaturvedi notes.

Given the demographics of the opioid epidemic the U.S. is struggling with, it’s probably not too surprising that stroke risks are rising among younger people. The prevalence of drug abuse among stroke patients doubled from 1.4 percent in 2004 to 2.8 percent by 2014, the study shows.

It’s really important that younger and middle-aged people understand that “these behaviors do put them at risk” for stroke, and that stroke is no longer just a disease for older people, Chaturvedi says.

The findings add to a growing list of recent studies showing stroke is an increasing problem among young to middle-aged adults.

The study also found that the prevalence of diabetes across stroke patients of all ages and ethnicities increased by 22 percent — from 31 percent of patients in 2004 to 38 percent in 2014. And the prevalence of high blood pressure increased by 15 percent — from 73 percent of patients at the beginning of the study period to 84 percent by the end.

According to the American Heart Association, stroke is the second-most-common cause of death from cardiovascular disease, although rates of stroke deaths decreased between 2004 and 2014 by almost 29 percent. However, if stroke risk factors are increasing, that’s a trend to watch.

Chaturvedi says the authors would next like to study data coming in from 2011 to 2016 to see if the risk factor rates change.

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Entertainment October 11, 2017

The Thistle And Shamrock: The Atlantic Bridge

Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser appears on this episode of The Thistle And Shamrock.

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From dance tunes to Gaelic airs, the musical links between old world and new come alive with Scotland’s Alasdair Fraser, Cape Breton’s Dougie MacDonald, Ireland’s Maeve Donnolly and more.

This episode originally aired the week of April 1, 2010.

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