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Podcast: Celebrating a COVID Christmas
Written by Lynkuptaxi Team	Posted on December 3, 2020 December 3, 2020 Less than 0 min read
We've made it to the end of 2020! From polarizing politics to raging fires to COVID-19, it's been a real doozy. And now the holidays… Do we celebrate with loved ones and risk COVID or take a pass? What are the risks?
In today's show, our guest Dr. John Grohol, founder of Psych Central, explains how this isn't going to be our regular holiday season and that's okay: We can easily make lemonade out of lemons.
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Guest information for 'Dr. John Grohol- COVID Christmas' Podcast Episode
John M. Grohol, Psy.D. is a pioneer in online mental health and psychology. Recognizing the educational and social potential of the Internet, he founded Psych Central in 1995 as one of the first mental health and psychology sites that offered information about the symptoms and treatments of mental disorders, including interactive screening quizzes and self-help tools. Dr. Grohol transformed the way people could access mental health and psychology resources online, and his leadership has helped to break down the barriers of stigma often associated with mental health concerns, bringing trusted resources and support communities to the Internet.
He has worked tirelessly as a patient advocate to improve the quality of information available for mental health patients, highlighting quality mental health resources, and building safe, private support communities and social networks in numerous health topics.
Dr. Grohol has a Master's degree and doctorate in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University and sits on the editorial board of the journal Computers in Human Behavior. He is a founding board member of the Society for Participatory Medicine, and is the author of The Insider's Guide to Mental Health Resources Online (Guilford).
About The Psych Central Podcast Host
Gabe Howard is an award-winning writer and speaker who lives with bipolar disorder. He is the author of the popular book, Mental Illness is an Asshole and other Observations, available from Amazon; signed copies are also available directly from the author. To learn more about Gabe, please visit his website, gabehoward.com.
Computer Generated Transcript for 'Dr. John Grohol- COVID Christmas' Episode
Editor's Note: Please be mindful that this transcript has been computer generated and therefore may contain inaccuracies and grammar errors. Thank you.
Announcer: You're listening to the Psych Central Podcast, where guest experts in the field of psychology and mental health share thought-provoking information using plain, everyday language. Here's your host, Gabe Howard.
Gabe Howard: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of The Psych Central Podcast, I'm your host Gabe Howard and calling into the show today, we have Dr. John Grohol. Dr. Grohol is the founder of PsychCentral.com and a frequent guest on our show. He has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues since 1995. Dr. John, welcome to the show.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Great to join you again, Gabe.
Gabe Howard: Well, we're certainly glad that you're here. Now, pretty much every year since its inception, The Psych Central Podcast has made it a point to do an episode on surviving the holidays, managing holiday expectations, topics surrounding keeping our mental health strong during the hustle and bustle of the season. Last year when I was recording that episode, I thought to myself, haven't we covered this ground? Can't someone just go listen to the previous year's episodes and get all the insight they need? Am I just repeating myself? The point being was I figured I'd skip the Surviving the Holidays episode in 2020 because I just really felt like we'd covered all the ground there was to cover. And then enter COVID. And it did create an entirely new set of issues surrounding the holidays. Now, Dr. Grohol, as a doctor and a researcher, you've taken the unpopular yet practical stance of recommending that people do not meet in person for the holidays.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Well, to clarify, we probably shouldn't be meeting outside of our family bubble, which is just your immediate family, so if your family unit of two, three, four people, those are the people that should get together. You shouldn't be inviting extended relatives.
Gabe Howard: In my family, we get together like once a year and we're coming from many different states all over the country, there's 20 of us all in my parents' 1800 square foot ranch house. That's the kind of thing that you think should be put on hold this year.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: You have, you can think of as you have a risk bucket every week and every time you go out and have to interact in public, even with a mask, even with social distancing, you're adding a little tiny water to that risk bucket. And so over the course of a week, you might have a quarter bucket full of risk that you've taken in terms of increasing your risk of catching COVID-19. Now, if you have a big family gathering and let's be honest, people aren't going to wear masks, you have to take them off to eat, to drink. So there's no safe way of really having that kind of large family gathering without basically filling up your bucket for that week and overflowing with potential risk for catching COVID-19. And that's what too many people have done over the past month or two, is that they've taken the ability to go into a restaurant or a bar indoors and take off their masks and aren't social distancing. And that's why we're seeing the great rise in new cases. It's a question of how safe do you want to be? Do you want to get out on the other side of this pandemic alive and in good health? And more importantly, do you want your family members to get on the other side of the pandemic alive and in good health? Obviously, you don't need to just think about yourself here. You need to think about your family members and especially those who are older or have preexisting health conditions, which is most Americans actually.
Gabe Howard: One of the things that I think that is important to point out is that for better or for worse, the way that America has handled the pandemic is to let each state decide, well, really for itself on how to handle it. So, for example, I'm in Ohio. My family is in Tennessee. It's a world of difference. I don't think Tennessee ever closed restaurants, whereas Ohio did for a period of time. So just think that it's important to point that out because perhaps getting together in Ohio, if the entire country handled it like Ohio, might be OK. The reason that I bring this up is do you think that this is contributing to some of the unrest that's happening in families where people in different states are looking at each other like, why are you canceling Christmas? We've done everything right. Why are you canceling our get together? We've been masking up. We've been prepared for this. But in reality, depending on where you live, you may have done literally nothing.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Let's get to the meat of the matter. The virus doesn't care about state policies. The virus doesn't care about national mandates or masking mandates. The virus is going to spread any time you're indoors with other people. And one of those people may be asymptomatic. They have no symptoms of the virus and they're infected and they don't know. And that's how it's being spread. It's not being spread by people who have symptoms because they clearly understand, hey, wait a minute, I might have the virus. I'm going to go get a test. It's the people who don't have symptoms, which is most people who get the virus and especially younger people, children and young adults who get the virus typically do not show symptoms. They are active carriers of the virus, are coming into your family of 20 or 30 people. And guess what? They're going to spread it. No one's wearing masks. There's no social distancing. It's indoors. That is exactly the kind of environment the virus seems to like.
Gabe Howard: I like what you said about the virus doesn't care about state policies, the virus doesn't care about politics, the virus doesn't care about, frankly, these petty arguments. But families, well, they care very much about these things. And in previous years, whenever I've done surviving the holidays, it's always, OK, you're sitting around the table, somebody brings up an unpopular opinion. Everybody starts arguing, how do you manage your own mental health? Now we've got that going on. We are spread out more, but families are not in agreement about whether or not to cancel plans. And the group that is pro canceling the plans and the group that is not pro canceling the plans, they're getting in a lot of disagreements. Do you have some mental health advice on how to manage those family disagreements so that everybody is safe?
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: We all have to understand, look, families aren't going to agree on everything. They may not agree on politics. They may not agree on this and that and the other thing and that's fine. That's adults being adults. When it comes to family gathering of this nature in this extraordinary time, this is a once in a lifetime event. I still don't think people have that centered in their minds that they think either it's not as bad as people say it is or this is just like the seasonal flu a little bit worse or something like that? No, this is a once in a century pandemic that is very contagious, much more contagious than I think we probably initially thought. And so for families to disagree about this, that's perfectly OK. What has to happen at that point is whenever a family member disagrees with another family member, you're not going to convince anybody. Right? You're not going to change people's minds. If people don't believe in science today or they don't believe the scientists, you're not going to have a discussion with them where all of a sudden they're going to be like, oh, yeah. Now that you have shown me the scientific data, I completely understand your point of view. I mean, that's not going to happen. So here's what you have to do. You have to gracefully bow out of the family gathering this year.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: It's that simple. You have to say, look, I appreciate that you guys are all getting together. Me and my partner, we're going to say thanks, but no thanks. We'll join you on a Zoom call. Let's have a Zoom call. We'll get together virtually this year. It's one year. We're asking people to be safe for one Christmas, one New Year's. I know it sounds like this is you're taking away my freedom. Hey, look, the virus doesn't care about your freedom. The virus will kill you, whether you're freedom loving or you think that somehow public health officials are dedicated their careers and their lives to taking away your freedom. And if family members aren't going to be respectful of your decision. Well, that just says something about family, right? That's the way family is sometimes. And there's not a lot you can do to change that interpersonal interaction over this one thing, because it's a long-standing concern, a long standing issue in that family.
Gabe Howard: It really sounds like what you're saying is that families disagree about things all the time and you can't let this hit you any harder than any other political, religious, parenting, financial, whatever your family normally spends the holidays fighting about. It's basically the same. It's a disagreement within the family that needs managed in exactly the same way.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Yes, exactly, that's exactly it.
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Gabe Howard: And we're back with Dr. John Grohol discussing COVID's impact on the holiday season. John, my family canceled Christmas and I don't get to see my family, but pretty much once a year, usually at Christmas, and this was difficult for my family to manage because I was one of those families where half of us wanted to get together and half of us didn't. What I said to my family was, look, what if let's say that we all get together, we all have Christmas, we all have a wonderful day, and then somebody gets COVID and gets very sick or heaven forbid, even dies. Is that the memory that we want of 2020, is that the risk that we want to take? Strangely, I wasn't worried about the person who got sick or passed away. I was worried about what would happen to our family, the survivors. How would the survivors take it? This would extend this trauma forever. Is that a reasonable thing to be concerned about?
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: It's one way of looking at the situation and certainly a rational and logical way of looking at it and saying, hey, what about the worst-case scenario? Because that's how we make a lot of decisions in our lives. We look at the risk ratio and say, is it really worth, you know, going skydiving with, you know, the 0.01% chance of parachute failure or something? And some people look at that and say, nah, it's fine, I'm more likely to get hit by lightning and they jump out of a plane and hope the parachute opens. So it's the same kind of equation when it comes to this family gathering for this year. Do you really want to have that death or that even the illness? Because COVID is not just something that comes and then goes away after you've been treated. There is a significant minority of patients. I think it's something like 20% of patients who get the illness, who have to be hospitalized and then who endure continuing symptoms for months on end after the illness has gone away. So it's not necessarily just something that you get and you get over.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: So to introduce not only the possibility of death, but also the possibility of a chronic health problem from getting COVID-19. Once you put all that into a bundle and look at it, you can say, wow, like I really hadn't thought of it that way. And I really don't necessarily want to be responsible for another person's death or illness or any kind of inconvenience just because I need to see their face to face versus over a Zoom chat. And that's the important thing. We can still get together. We're just asking people to consider doing it, you know, virtually rather than in person this year because of the astounding case rates we're seeing. It's just it's an upward number. That's it's unbelievable. It's far worse than spring. And some health experts warned people that the winter was going to be difficult and this could happen. And unfortunately, we're seeing that. So I think it's in everyone's best interest to really take that long view and to say, hey, do I want anybody else's health problems on my conscious?
Gabe Howard: John, my family agrees with you, I agree with you, and I think many families agree. So let's talk about making lemonade out of lemons. We've now decided that we're not going to get together. Now, you've been alluding in this episode that you can get together via Zoom, but of course, you can't exchange presents over Zoom. Right? technology
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Sure you can.
Gabe Howard: The technology just is not there yet.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Sure you can. Of course you can. Why are you saying you can't exchange? You can send the presents a week or two ahead of time. People have done this for years prior to this where they live overseas or they live in a situation where they can't get away and they can't physically be there. So you just have to make allowances. You have to think things through a little bit and spend a little extra time and effort putting together a care package, basically of small presents if you want, or stick to gift cards, which you can even send virtually now.
Gabe Howard: You just email those things right over
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Yes,
Gabe Howard: That's an excellent point.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Look, it's not the same Christmas as you're used to. I get that, OK? This is not going to be a normal Christmas, even if you make the choice to get together. It's a weird Christmas. It's a weird holiday season. It's going to be a weird, it's going to be, unfortunately, a long and difficult winter until the vaccine gets into widespread use and people actually sign up to take it. You're looking at summertime before you get the numbers necessary to really combat the virus.
Gabe Howard: I really like what you said about it's not going to be your typical Christmas, it's not going to be your typical New Year's, it's not going to be your typical holiday, but it can still be a good one. And it reminds me of when my sister was in the military. Now, she was in the military before Zoom was a thing. But the reason that I'm bringing this up is we obviously wanted to see my sister over the holiday. We wanted to spend Christmas with her. We love her very much. And it was the planning that allowed us to have memorable Christmases. Now, to send her stuff in Iraq, we had to mail it literally two months in advance. So, we were planning Christmas in October and November to make sure that it got to her and then she would get it. And then she didn't have a guaranteed time to call. There was, you know, time differences and obviously she was busy being a soldier and all. So, we'd all have to sit around the phone from like noon to eight because that was her window. And actually, that window was like 8 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. It was a very difficult window, but we did it and my sister did the exact same thing from Iraq where she mailed us her presents. Actually, she sent them via Amazon. So, she was much more clever than we were. But with all of that planning, we all sat around a speakerphone and we all opened the presents that we got for my sister and that my sister got for us all together. And now all these years later, because of that effort, because of that planning and because we understood that this was the situation, we have a lot of memories about it. And of course, my sister says things like when I was in the military, we didn't have video conferencing. It's now a happy memory. If people get on board early and recognize that, do you think that will improve the outcome of their holidays this year, Dr. John?
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Yeah, absolutely, and it's important to have these conversations ahead of time, like right now to be talking about Christmas and as soon as possible deciding what you as an entire extended family are going to do. And if some people are uncomfortable with not participating in a face to face gathering, as we're recommending they don't, getting those presents in the mail as soon as possible or just thinking about other ways, sending a card or with a gift card in it or something of that nature might be sufficient this year. Again, this is a very unusual time. It's a once in a lifetime situation. Just have to go with the flow, roll with it, because it's not something you're probably going to have to worry about in 2021 if we finally get the virus under control with all the vaccines coming down the roads, look at it as an unusual situation and try and be a little bit more flexible than you ordinarily might be. I understand families can get into these rigid patterns and they don't ever want to change the traditions. And they think like the traditions are so important. And look, they are to a point, but traditions shouldn't trump common sense. And that's what we're asking people to engage in a little bit more of when you're seeing such a rise in cases that you need to use your common sense and say indoors, no social distancing, no masks. This is what the virus likes. We probably shouldn't do it.
Gabe Howard: Dr. John, as always, thank you so much for being here. Do you have any last words for our listeners before we jet on out of here?
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Yeah, look, it's Christmas time, I get it, you can still enjoy the season, you can still go for walks down the street, you can still enjoy shopping virtually, if not in person, because they might need to close the shops again or whatnot. It's a difficult time and we're all going through this. The coronavirus is the enemy and we are all lined up against fighting this enemy and we have to be united in that fight. We can't have people saying, oh, I don't believe a coronavirus isn't an enemy. It's not such a bad virus. No, it is a bad virus. It kills people. It kills a thousand Americans a day. It will be over the quarter million mark when we recorded this. We have to treat it seriously. And you do that by making these small personal sacrifices for one year and by taking personal responsibility for the decisions and the behaviors you engage in because you have the ability. We all have the ability, each and every one of us in helping to combat this enemy, to fight against the coronavirus and the spread of the coronavirus. And if we are united in doing this, we will eventually be successful. But if we ignore the science and we ignore the good scientific advice, we are just going to contribute to more American deaths, more of your neighbors getting sick, and in this case, potentially some of your family members coming down with the virus. And that's something I don't think any one of us wants. We don't want to see a loved one in the ICU on a ventilator. That would be really the worst way of ending 2020 is to have that to happen. I would just ask our listeners to consider these things as they're making their plans for this year.
Gabe Howard: And when they're making their plans work together with their loved ones to make the second-best memories that they can, I am not an optimistic person. But I have to tell you that some of my best memories were when things did not go as planned and we all pulled together as a family and made it work anyway. I really do believe that is an opportunity that all of America has, really all of the world has. But all of America right now has the opportunity to really make this a very unique and memorable and still happy holiday season.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Absolutely, absolutely. I cannot emphasize what you just said enough, and we're all going to have these memories of the pandemic of 2020, we're all going to remember what we did and how we got through it. And it's going to be stories that we tell not only our children and our children, tell their children it's something that's going to be passed down for generations and how you handled it, how you got through it, how you made it through the other side alive and kept your family safe. I wish everybody a very merry Christmas, a very happy holiday. I hope everybody stays safe and still finds a way to enjoy the holidays.
Gabe Howard: John, I wish the absolute same for you as well.
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.: Thank you.
Gabe Howard: To all of our listeners, please have a very happy holiday season. My name is Gabe Howard and I'm the author of Mental Illness Is an Asshole, which is available on Amazon.com. Or you can buy it directly for me. I'll sign it and I'll throw in Psych Central Podcast swag. Just head over to gabehoward.com. It makes a great holiday gift. Wherever you download his podcast, please subscribe. Also, please rank and review. Use your words and tell other people why they should tune in as well. And remember, you can get one week of free, convenient, affordable, private online counseling any time anywhere simply by visiting BetterHelp.com/PsychCentral. We'll see everyone next week.
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....

but its actually only ever a boolean, (I dont know the significance of the XmlJavaTypeAdapter annotation)
When output as XML gives
<life-span><begin>1999-04</begin><ended>true</ended></life-span>

so doesn't really matter if defined as boolean or string
but JSON output is
"life-span" : {
         "begin" : "1999-04",
         "ended" : "true"
      },

when I need it to be
 "life-span" : {
         "begin" : "1999-04",
         "ended" : true
      },

I cannot really change the object model so thought I might be able to map to the correct type in oxml.xml file , and tried
<java-type name="LifeSpan">
            <java-attributes>
                <xml-element java-attribute="ended"  type="boolean"/>
            </java-attributes>
        </java-type>

but it didnt like that.

A: Below is how you can support this use case with EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy):
BooleanStringAdapter
An XmlAdapter allows you to marshal one type of object as another type (see http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/07/xmladapter-jaxbs-secret-weapon.html).  In this example we want to treat the String value as a Boolean one.
package forum11451880;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;

public class BooleanStringAdapter extends XmlAdapter<Boolean, String> {

    @Override
    public String unmarshal(Boolean v) throws Exception {
        return v.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public Boolean marshal(String v) throws Exception {
        return Boolean.valueOf(v);
    }

}

oxm.xml
We can leverage MOXy's external mapping document to augment the metadata supplied via annotations to hook in our XmlAadapter (see http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/12/extending-jaxb-representing-annotations.html).
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xml-bindings
    xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/xsds/persistence/oxm"
    package-name="forum11451880">
    <java-types>
        <java-type name="LifeSpan">
            <java-attributes>
                <xml-element java-attribute="end">
                    <xml-java-type-adapter value="forum11451880.BooleanStringAdapter"/>
                </xml-element>
            </java-attributes>
        </java-type>
    </java-types>
</xml-bindings>

LifeSpan
Below is your domain model with an end property of type String.
package forum11451880;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.*;

@XmlRootElement
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class LifeSpan {

    protected String begin;

    protected String end;

    @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(CollapsedStringAdapter.class)
    protected String ended;

}

jaxb.properties
To specify MOXy as your JAXB provider you need to include a file called jaxb.properties with the followin entry (see http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/05/specifying-eclipselink-moxy-as-your.html):
javax.xml.bind.context.factory=org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory

Demo
The demo code below demonstrates how to leverage the external mapping document.
package forum11451880;

import java.util.*;
import javax.xml.bind.*;
import org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextProperties;
import org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.MarshallerProperties;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<String, Object>(1);
        properties.put(JAXBContextProperties.OXM_METADATA_SOURCE, "forum11451880/oxm.xml");
        JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(new Class[] {LifeSpan.class}, properties);

        LifeSpan lifeSpan = new LifeSpan();
        lifeSpan.begin = "1999-04";
        lifeSpan.end = "true";

        Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
        marshaller.marshal(lifeSpan, System.out);

        marshaller.setProperty(MarshallerProperties.MEDIA_TYPE, "application/json");
        marshaller.marshal(lifeSpan, System.out);
    }

}

Output
Below is the output from running the example.  As you can see the true value appears without quotes:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lifeSpan>
   <begin>1999-04</begin>
   <end>true</end>
</lifeSpan>
{
   "lifeSpan" : {
      "begin" : "1999-04",
      "end" : true
   }
}

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Speculation Game: The Scenario where Ryan Tannehill ends up in New Jersey.
Posted by Eric Jensen
In a post, earlier today I eluded to a Ryan Tannehill trade to the Jets. At the time it was honestly wild speculation but the more I think about it the more I honestly believe Tannehill could be out in Miami after this season.
Step into my time machine we whizz forth through time and space to February 2018, the Dolphins have just played to a 10-6 season missing the playoffs in the AFC with one Jay Cutler at QB. Cutler has had a terrific season thrown 20 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. Popular belief inside the building is that Adam Gase wants to resign Cutler to another one-year deal. Cutler being Cutler though wants a big money multiyear deal after having a career season. So the Dolphins let him walk. Cutler finds a Cushy job in free agency and moves on with his life. However, in Miami with Ryan Tannehill's knee still, a question and Gase wanting fresh start trade talks start to brew.
It's not that crazy if you think about it (zooming back to present day in our time machine) When Gase took over in Miami there were whispers he wanted a new QB to start over with. Tannehill had a good half year in the Gase system but they never really jelled. After this injury, you have to think that the Miami front office is starting to think about moving on from Tannehill. If Cutler has a great season in the Gase system is it that crazy to think that the Finns front office would think about letting Tannehill go? We step back into our time machine drifting towards the unknown.
March 2018, trade requests from two teams start flooding into the Miami front office. The Browns and Jets are interested in Tannehill. After a poor year from Deshone Kizer, Sashi Brown is starting to feel his seat get hot in Cleveland. Sure they could bring in one of the many talented rookies going into the 2018 draft but Tannehill is proven. He fits Hue Jackson's system, and he is Hues kind of QB standing at 6'4. So the Browns offer the lower of their first two first rounder's and their highest second round pick for Tannehill. The South Beach front office turns them down. Sashi is patient though and decides to step back. Meanwhile in New York after a nightmare 2-14 season, the Jets and Mike Mccagnen are panicking. The plan all along has been to grab one of the many QB options in this draft with the first round pick but Mike is getting scared. A 2-14 year in New Jersey has taken its toll on a GM and coach who know they have to win the offseason. So the Jets load up on ammo. Cleveland gets the Jets number one overall pick for 2019 and 2020 for their number two pick in the draft along with 3-second rounder's. So the Jets pull the trigger and trade the first overall pick in the draft and there 2021 first overall pick for Tannehill. Miami gets Darnold at one but Trades the two back to Cleveland for their lower round first rounder and their remaining second rounder's. Cleveland picks up their QB at number two and trades back into the late first round as well.
When the dust settles Tannehill is in New York, Darnold is in Miami, and the Browns score their QB while giving up only a first and 3 second round draft picks, but gain three extra first rounder's. In the end, Cleveland wins this deal New York still struggles with Tannehill and Gase gets his fresh blood.
How likely is all of this to happen? There's not a great chance but it could happen and it's always fun to speculate. Hit me up with speculations of your own on twitter @Eric18utah..


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Five managers to save Crystal Palace from PL relegation
Jamie Clark | 29.12.2014
Neil Warnock became the first managerial casualty of the season when Crystal Palace axed him after a woeful winter run of one win in a dozen Premier League outings.
Coral make the Eagles 6/4 third-favourites for relegation; however, they were fancied for that last term, but stayed up after making a change in the dugout.
And that fact got our football experts thinking; who could save Palace from the drop? We've picked out five bosses that could do that. The theme is one of returns, be it to Selhurst Park and/or management:
Tony Pulis (7/1)
Who better to start with than Warnock's predecessor and the man who came in and saved the Eagles from relegation? Pulis has not worked since leaving Palace on the eve of this campaign, so might the season of goodwill bring about reconciliation between himself and club chairman Steve Parish?
It was a difference of opinion over transfers and recruitment that seemed to have been what forced Pulis to walk away in August. There would need to be some hands put in pockets in the Eagles' nest to help a Second Coming be as successful as the first time around, then.
Pulis is a proven Premier League manager, establishing Stoke City as a top-flight mainstay before making history with Palace by keeping them up last term. Defensive solidity would be a preference to the silly mistakes made at the back in recent Eagles outings.
Tim Sherwood (5/2)
Former Tottenham head coach Sherwood is a short-price favourite, and has just five months of managerial experience to call upon. Why is he so fancied?
Previously linked with Palace and their bitter rivals Brighton and Hove Albion, he was understood to have reservations about both posts. The Seagulls job went to Sami Hyypia, but the Liverpool and Finland legend stepped down before Christmas and again Sherwood was mentioned in dispatches.
Pulis also reportedly said he would consider talking to Brighton, but the Eagles are a Premier League proposition. That will appeal to Sherwood, whose honesty is refreshing for fans but could make him be seen as something of a loose cannon in the boardroom, which may have been a sticking point before.
Dougie Freedman (12/1)
Many would consider ex-Scotland striker Freedman lucky to walk back into his old shoes as Palace boss, because he left the club to manage Bolton Wanderers in October 2012. While that did not deny the Eagles promotion, with Ian Holloway sending them up, some sections of the support felt their former playing favourite had betrayed them.
Freedman then found life very tough at the Trotters. He lasted just less than two years in charge in what has been a downward spiral for Bolton that started since Sam Allardyce left.
Laying the foundations for Palace's promotion is something many have forgotten, and a relatively long price for Freedman reflects the fact he has never managed at Premier League level before.
Chris Hughton (6/1)
Another Spurs old boy, Hughton counts Newcastle United and Norwich City among his previous coaching posts. His best work has perhaps been done in the Championship, steering the Magpies to the title and getting Birmingham City into the play-offs.
Pulis apart, Hughton has the most Premier League managerial experience of anyone we have short-listed for the Palace job. Critics of him, especially during his time at Carrow Road, complained of predictable and rigid tactics, but it is not innovation that the Eagles need; it's points!
Tony Popovic (8/1)
Former Palace captain Popovic was assistant to Freedman before returning home to Australia to take over at Western Sydney Wanderers. Voted the AFC confederation's Coach of the Year for 2014, he took his current club to a historic first-ever Asian Champions League title.
That success Down Under makes Popovic hot property, but would a jump into a relegation battle be best for this up-and-coming manager? As a player he was an influential skipper and sweeper-type centre back, so his return would prove popular. Eagles fans could expect their team to tighten up at the back with Popovic in charge.
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Athletics aficionado, die-hard snooker fan and Crystal Palace supporter Jamie has written for Coral since February 2014 after spells with Soccerlens and the Press Association as a digital journalist and copywriter. A former East Midlands sports correspondent and Bwin tipster, he is a graduate of both the University of York and University of Sheffield, with a Masters in web journalism from the latter.
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LAKERS NOTEBOOK: Barnes, Ebanks impressive in…
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LAKERS NOTEBOOK: Barnes, Ebanks impressive in reserve
By Elliott Teaford | eteaford@scng.com | Orange County Register
May 8, 2012 at 12:00 a.m.
Their numbers have been mediocre at best and appalling at worst, but the Lakers said they wouldn't be where they are without fill-ins Devin Ebanks and Matt Barnes. They wouldn't have a chance to eliminate the Denver Nuggets tonight without them.
Metta World Peace won't play in what looms as a decisive Game 5 at Staples Center and will sit out the sixth game of a seven-game suspension for elbowing James Harden of the Oklahoma City Thunder in the head on April 22.
The Lakers have missed World Peace's defensive tenacity and his resurgent offensive game at times during their Western Conference quarterfinal series against the Nuggets. The series might not have reached a Game 5 if he hadn't been banned.
But the Lakers still hold a commanding 3-1 lead over the Nuggets, and the small forward position has been the least of their worries in their tune-up for a much-anticipated conference semifinal against the Thunder.
The Lakers' only loss to the Nuggets, a clunker in Game 3 on Friday, wasn't about offense or defense. It was about getting out-rebounded by the energetic Nuggets and a poor start from center Andrew Bynum, who made amends in Game 4.
Ebanks filled in capably for World Peace (the former Ron Artest) in Game 1 by scoring 12 points on 5-for-6 shooting. It's been pretty much downhill for him ever since, if you look strictly at the statistics.
He's averaging five points and 4.3 rebounds.
Barnes' hustle has been difficult to miss and is welcomed by Lakers coaches and players alike, but his poor shooting touch has been impossible to ignore, too. Barnes is averaging 3.5 points on 15.4 percent shooting (4 of 26) while serving as Ebanks' backup.
"Oh, they've done a fantastic job," Lakers guard Kobe Bryant said of Ebanks and Barnes. "Ebanks has really stepped up and proved his worth. When Metta gets back, I'm sure we'll utilize him a great deal."
Lakers coach Mike Brown bristled when asked if Ebanks and Barnes had "done enough" in the absence of World Peace, who averaged only 7.7 points during the regular season but scored in double figures in nine of his final 10 games.
"What's your definition of enough?" Brown asked a reporter. "Does enough mean we're up 3-1? Or does enough mean you're looking strictly at their stats and trying to compare them to LeBron James' stats at small forward?
"We're up 3-1, so for me we've gotten enough."
Closing it out
The Lakers haven't squandered a chance to close out a series on the first try since losing Game 6 of the 2009 conference semifinals to the Houston Rockets. They eliminated the Rockets in Game 7 en route to the NBA championship.
The Lakers are 7 for 7 in close-out games since that nerve-jangling Houston series, however. They eliminated Denver and Orlando on the first try in 2009 and Oklahoma City, Utah, Phoenix and Boston during their title run in 2010.
Last season, they sealed the deal in Game 6 against New Orleans.
Brown did all he could to steer reporters back to the task at hand rather than looking ahead to the next round by saying, "The reality is we still have a game in front of us against these Nuggets.
"I'm not concerned about who we play in the next round."
The Lakers held the Nuggets to 88 points in their four-point win in Game 4, Denver's 18 th consecutive playoff defeat when scoring fewer than 90 points. The Nuggets also have lost 15 of their last 16 postseason games when failing to score 100.
Denver averaged a league-leading 104.1 points in the regular season but has reached 100 points only once during the series, a 104-100 loss in Game 2. The Nuggets are averaging only 93.8 points during the first four games.
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Elliott Teaford covers the Los Angeles Chargers for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. He covered the Anaheim Ducks for 19 seasons, including eight of the past 10 for SCNG. He covered their Stanley Cup championship team in 2006-07. He also covered the Lakers for five seasons, including their back-to-back NBA championships in 2008-09 and 2009-10, and the Clippers for one. He is a Long Beach State graduate.
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When Apple announced that they would be scanning iPhones for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the push-back appears to have taken them by surprise. Since then, Apple has been engaging with experts and developing their proposals to mitigate risks that have been raised. In this post, I'll discuss some of the issues with Apple's CSAM detection system and what I've learned from their documentation and events I've participated in.
Technically Apple's CSAM detection proposal is impressive, and I'm pleased to see Apple listening to the community to address issues raised. However, the system still creates risks that will be difficult to avoid. Governments are likely to ask to expand the system to types of content other than CSAM, regardless of what Apple would like to happen. When they do, there will be complex issues to deal with, both for Apple and the broader technology community. The proposals also risk causing people to self-censor, even when they are doing nothing wrong.
How Apple's CSAM detection works
The iPhone or iPad scans images for known CSAM just before it uploads the image to Apple's cloud data storage system – iCloud. Images that are not going to be uploaded don't get scanned. The comparison between images and the database is made in such a way that minor changes to CSAM, like resizing and cropping, will trigger a match, but any image that wasn't derived from a known item of CSAM should be very unlikely to match. The results of this matching process go into a clever cryptographic system designed to ensure that the user's device doesn't learn the contents of the CSAM database or which of their images (if any) match. If more than a threshold of about 30 images match, Apple will be able to verify if the matching images are CSAM and, if so, report to the authorities. If the number of matching images is less than the threshold, Apple learns nothing.
Risk of scope creep
Now that Apple has built their system, a risk is that it could be extended to search for content other than CSAM by expanding the database used for matching. While some security properties of their system are ensured through cryptography, the restriction to CSAM is only a result of Apple's policy on the content of the matching database. Apple has clearly stated that it would resist any expansion of this policy, but governments may force Apple to make changes. For example, in the UK, this could be through a Technical Capability Notice (under the Investigatory Powers Act) or powers proposed in the Online Safety Bill.
If a government legally compelled them to expand the matching database, Apple may have to choose between complying or leaving the market. So far, Apple has refused to say which of these choices they would take.
Continue reading Apple letting the content-scanning genie out of the bottle
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How Accidental Data Breaches can be Facilitated by Windows 10 and macOS Mojave
Inadequate user interface designs in Windows 10 and macOS Mojave can cause accidental data breaches through inconsistent language, insecure default options, and unclear or incomprehensible information. Users could accidentally leak sensitive personal data. Data controllers in companies might be unknowingly non-compliant with the GDPR's legal obligations for data erasure.
At the upcoming Annual Privacy Forum 2019 in Rome, I will be presenting the results of a recent study conducted with my colleague Mark Warner, exploring the inadequate design of user interfaces (UI) as a contributing factor in accidental data breaches from USB memory sticks. The paper titled "Fight to be Forgotten: Exploring the Efficacy of Data Erasure in Popular Operating Systems" will be published in the conference proceedings at a later date but the accepted version is available now.
Privacy and security risks from decommissioned memory chips
The process of decommissioning memory chips (e.g. USB sticks, hard drives, and memory cards) can create risks for data protection. Researchers have repeatedly found sensitive data on devices they acquired from second-hand markets. Sometimes this data was from the previous owners, other times from third persons. In some cases, highly sensitive data from vulnerable people were found, e.g. Jones et al. found videos of children at a high school in the UK on a second-hand USB stick.
Data found this way had frequently been deleted but not erased, creating the risk that any tech-savvy future owner could access it using legally available, free to download software (e.g., FTK Imager Lite 3.4.3.3). Findings from these studies also indicate the previous owners' intentions to erase these files and prevent future access by unauthorised individuals, and their failure to sufficiently do so. Moreover, these risks likely extend from the second-hand market to recycled memory chips – a practice encouraged under Directive 2012/19/EU on 'waste electrical and electronic equipment'.
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The indication that people might fail to properly erase files from storage, despite their apparent intention to do so, is a strong sign of system failure. We know since more than twenty years that unintentional failure of users at a task "is often caused by the way in which [these] mechanisms are implemented, and users' lack of knowledge". In our case, these mechanisms are – for most users – the UI of Windows and macOS. When investigating these mechanisms, we found seemingly minor design choices that might facilitate unintentional data breaches. A few examples are shown below and are expanded upon in the full publication of our work.
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JavaCard: The execution environment you didn't know you were using
This is the story of the most popular execution environment, its shortcomings, and how open source and hacking saved the day.
According to recent revelations, the MINIX operating system is embedded in the Management Engine of all Intel CPUs released after 2015. A side-effect of this is that MINIX became known as the most widespread operating system in the world almost overnight. However, in the last decade another tiny OS has silently pushed itself into even more devices around the world while remaining unknown to most: JavaCard.
Your SIM Card, Credit Cards, Loyalty Cards are all most likely JavaCards.
With more than six billion JavaCards sold last year, and approximately 20 billion estimated to have been purchased in total, JavaCard is the winner no one knows about. The execution environment was designed in 1996 for devices with limited memory and processing capabilities and was the first smartcard platform to give developers the ability to execute the same applet on cards produced by different manufacturers. This was a breakthrough for the industry that established JavaCard as the default platform for applications in need of a secure, tamper-proof element.
*While JavaCard is technically not an OS in the standard sense (smart cards do have their own proprietary OSes), in practice it provides very similar functionality with modern embedded OSes. For instance, unless granted by the vendor, app developers are strictly limited within the JavaCard runtime environment; this distinguishes JavaCard from e.g, the classic Java VM where developers can also execute native applications in addition to those executed in the JVM.
A malfunctioning operating system
An operating system is much more than the sum of its source code: it's also the ecosystem built around it, including the specifications, support, and most importantly the application developers and the user community.
For JavaCard, the specification part is handled formally by Oracle and Java Card Forum who make periodical releases of the platform's virtual machine (JCVM) specification, runtime library (JCRL) and application programming interface (JC API). All these contribute towards homogeneity between cards from different manufacturers; aiming to ensure applet interoperability and a minimum level of support for basic cryptographic algorithms – at least in theory. In practice, our research has shown that no product in the market implements JC API completely, and different cards support different sets of features. This severely hinders the interoperability of applications and constrains developers within the limited subset of JavaCard features supported by most manufacturers. Developers who choose to use all the features provided by a specific card will, with high likelihood, abolish the interoperability of their applets. Furthermore, some of those specifications are also inadvertently limiting the scope of the platform. For instance, the API specification that lists all the calls to be potentially available to smart card applications ended up acting as an evolutionary bottleneck. This is due to:
Approximately three-year-long API revision cycles that severely delay support for newer cryptographic algorithms (the last API revision was released in 2015).
More complex cryptographic operations (especially asymmetric cryptography) requiring design and production of dedicated hardware accelerators to actually support newly added cryptographic algorithms.
The business model is geared towards the large corporations. Hence, newer cards are available only to those buying in large quantities while smaller development houses and researchers are forced to work with five years old, or even older, cards.
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Posted on 2018-07-13 2018-07-13 Author Vasilios Mavroudis, Author Petr ŠvendaCategories Cryptography, Hardware, Operating systemsLeave a comment on JavaCard: The execution environment you didn't know you were using
MAMADROID: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models
Now making up 85% of mobile devices, Android smartphones have become profitable targets for cybercriminals, allowing them to bypass two factor authentication or steal sensitive information such as credit cards details or login credentials.
Smartphones have limited battery and memory available, therefore, the defences that can be deployed on them have limitations. For these reasons, malware detection is usually performed in a centralised fashion by Android market operators. As previous work and even recent news have shown, however, even Google Play Store is not able to detect all malicious apps; to make things even worse, there are countries in which Google Play Store is blocked. This forces users to resort to third party markets, which are usually performing less careful malware checks.
Previous malware detection studies focused on models based on permissions or on specific API calls. While the first method is prone to false positives, the latter needs constant retraining, because apps as well as the Android framework itself are constantly changing.
Our intuition is that, while malicious and benign apps may call the same API calls during their execution, the reason why those calls are made may be different, resulting in them being called in a different order. For this reason, we decided to rely on sequences of calls that, as explained later, we abstract to higher level for performance, feasibility, and robustness reasons. To implement this idea we created MaMaDroid, a system for Android malware detection.
MaMaDroid
MaMaDroid is built by combining four different phases:
Call graph extraction: starting from the apk file of an app, we extract the call graph of the analysed sample.
Sequence extraction: from the call graph, we extract the different potential paths as sequences of API calls and abstract all those calls to higher levels.
Markov Chain modelling: all the samples got their sequences of abstracted calls, and these sequences can be modelled as transitions among states of a Markov Chain.
Classification: Given the probabilities of transition between states of the chains as features set, we apply machine learning to detect malicious apps.
Four phases of MaMaDroid
Call graph extraction
MaMaDroid is a system based only on static analysis. To analyse the app, we use off-the-shelf tools, such as Soot and FlowDroid for the first step of the system.
Sequence Extraction
Taking the call graph as input, we extract the sequences of functions potentially called by the program and, by identifying the set of entry nodes, enumerate all the possible paths and output them as sequences of API calls.
Example call graph in which we can observe 3 different potential paths, or sequences, starting from the root node
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Posted on 2017-03-28 2017-03-28 Author Enrico MaricontiCategories Malware, Mobile, Operating systems2 Comments on MAMADROID: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models
Double-Fetch Situations Turn into Double-Fetch Vulnerabilities: A Study of Double Fetches in the Linux Kernel
We held our annual ACE-CSR event on 2 November 2016. This post and the title is drawn from the second talk by Dr Jens Krinke, a senior lecturer in the Centre for Research on Evolution, Search and Testing, and the Software Systems Engineering group at UCL, who outlined work he conducted with Pengfei Wang that found flaws in the Linux kernel.
The work Krinke presented, completed over the last year, revolves around double-fetch problems, which got their name in 2008 in a study that found exploitable vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel. In an updated study in 2013, Mateusz "j00ru" Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind produced a paper, which examined the Windows kernel and found 89 potential issues, 36 of which were highly exploitable. Most of the paper focused on how to exploit these bugs; today, if you find such a vulnerability you can download an exploit from Github.
Many of these vulnerabilities have now been fixed, but Jurczyk and Gynvael's analysis was extremely slow, because they essentially simulated Windows over and over again, with the result that it took them 15 hours just to get to the boot screen. Because the analysis was dynamic, they were only able to cover a subset of the drivers present in the system, and they said outright that they knew there were other vulnerabilities present. Krinke was sure there were vulnerabilities of this type in Linux, but no one had audited the Linux kernel in detail.
Krinke and Wang wanted to audit Linux, looking at the source code directly and including all the drivers – which was essential, because, as it turned out, roughly 80% of the problems they found were in the drivers.
Double-fetch problems are memory access conflicts that arise in the interface between the operating system kernel and an application when data is changed between the time it's checked and the time it's actually used. It works this way: every process a user starts has its own virtual memory space that is isolated from other user memory spaces; only the kernel can see all memory spaces. However, there must be interaction, and this is done through system calls. So, a user selects some data and asks the system to operate on it. The data remains in the user space but the system copies it to the kernel and checks the data is valid before using it. The upshot is that the kernel may fetch the data twice: once for checking and once for use. A malicious application that intercedes between those two fetches and changes the data after it's been checked but before it's used can cause system crashes.
If an error like this arises outside of the operating system, it causes software errors, but this affects only you; when it happens in the operating system, an attacker can take over the complete system.
Analysing this process is extremely hard, especially because exactly what's occurring is unknown beforehand. Krinke and Wang instead created a two-step analysis. First, a pattern-based double-fetch analysis based on Coccinelle examined the source code to find occurrences; these were then manually analysed to determine how the data was used and what the consequences were. The results were divided into three categories: size checking; type selection; and shallow copy. In the 40,000 source code files comprising Linux, they found 90 such situations, of which 57 were in drivers, five were true bugs. All of them have been confirmed and three are exploitable vulnerabilities. In checking back, Krinke and Wang found that some of these bugs are at least ten years old.
Krinke and Wang also applied their analysis also to Android (a variant of Linux) and FreeBSD. The latter, which is more security-oriented in design, had no problems. Android had only three bugs, but they also found a problem that had been fixed in Linux (but not in Android). After studying these three operating systems with Coccinelle, they can say that after these bugs have been fixed, that all three are likely to be free of double-fetch vulnerabilities. As the bug was in the file system, Android apps with native binary code that interacts with the phone at the file system level can also exploit it.
Posted on 2017-02-07 Author Jens GrothCategories Operating systemsLeave a comment on Double-Fetch Situations Turn into Double-Fetch Vulnerabilities: A Study of Double Fetches in the Linux Kernel


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More evidence shows natural plant compound may reduce mental effects of aging
LA JOLLA--(July 10, 2017) Salk scientists have found further evidence that a natural compound in strawberries reduces cognitive deficits and inflammation associated with aging in mice. The work, which appeared in the Journals of Gerontology Series A in June 2017, builds on the team's previous research into the antioxidant fisetin, finding it could help treat age-related mental decline and conditions like Alzheimer's or stroke.
"Companies have put fisetin into various health products but there hasn't been enough serious testing of the compound," says Pamela Maher, a senior staff scientist in Salk's Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory and senior author of the paper. "Based on our ongoing work, we think fisetin might be helpful as a preventative for many age-associated neurodegenerative diseases, not just Alzheimer's, and we'd like to encourage more rigorous study of it."
Maher, who works in the lab of David Schubert, the head of Salk's Cellular Neurobiology Lab, has been studying fisetin for over a decade. Previous research by the lab found that fisetin reduced memory loss related to Alzheimer's in mice genetically modified to develop the disease. But that study focused on genetic (familial) AD, which accounts for only 1 to 3 percent of cases. By far the bigger risk factor for developing what is termed sporadic AD, as well as other neurodegenerative disorders, is simply age. For the current inquiry, Maher turned to a strain of laboratory mice that age prematurely to better study sporadic AD. By 10 months of age, these mice typically show signs of physical and cognitive decline not seen in normal mice until two years of age.
The Salk team fed the 3-month-old prematurely aging mice a daily dose of fisetin with their food for 7 months. Another group of the prematurely aging mice was fed the same food without fisetin. During the study period, mice took various activity and memory tests. The team also examined levels of specific proteins in the mice related to brain function, responses to stress and inflammation.
"At 10 months, the differences between these two groups were striking," says Maher. Mice not treated with fisetin had difficulties with all the cognitive tests as well as elevated markers of stress and inflammation. Brain cells called astrocytes and microglia, which are normally anti-inflammatory, were now driving rampant inflammation. Mice treated with fisetin, on the other hand, were not noticeably different in behavior, cognitive ability or inflammatory markers at 10 months than a group of untreated 3-month-old mice with the same condition. Additionally, the team found no evidence of acute toxicity in the fisetin-treated mice, even at high doses of the compound.
"Mice are not people, of course," says Maher, "But there are enough similarities that we think fisetin warrants a closer look, not only for potentially treating sporadic AD but also for reducing some of the cognitive effects associated with aging, generally."
Next, Maher hopes to partner with another group or company in order to conduct clinical trials of fisetin with human subjects.
Other authors included: Antonio Currais, Catherine Farrokhi and Richard Dargusch of Salk and Aaron Armando and Oswald Quehenberger of the University of California, San Diego.
The work was funded by the Alzheimer's Association, the Burns Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies:
Every cure has a starting point. The Salk Institute embodies Jonas Salk's mission to dare to make dreams into reality. Its internationally renowned and award-winning scientists explore the very foundations of life, seeking new understandings in neuroscience, genetics, immunology, plant biology and more. The Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark: small by choice, intimate by nature and fearless in the face of any challenge. Be it cancer or Alzheimer's, aging or diabetes, Salk is where cures begin. Learn more at: salk.edu.
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Did any of the A.F. characters appear in Battle Storm?- BLOOD FOR THE BARON!!!
Board index Comics Battle - Storm Force
Did any of the A.F. characters appear in Battle Storm?
ONGOING SCAN PROJECT - In the wake of Action Force came Storm Force!
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Postby seaneley » 11 Sep 2004 05:26
I'm just curious if the "Battleground" story (Nov. 29th, 1986) was the last tale to feature any of these characters within these pages?
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Postby The Baron » 11 Sep 2004 05:37
Yep... big sigh. Marvel UK acquired the rights, and Battle was left stranded. The following issue had the headline "British Destroyer fires on British Helicoptor!!!" from the oneshot "Day Of The Jackal" story.
Storm Force was hastily penned to fill the void, and wasn't that bad, considering. Oh okay, it wasn't that great either. I always thought they'd have made a good toy range though.
I think Battle shouldered on bravely until the New Year, or it may have been the following New Year, before being picked up by Eagle. By then Charley's War and Johnny Red were just reprints...
A sad, sad day. On the bright side: the U.K. Marvel stories weren't that bad! They were a mite better than the U.S. stories, I might add. (Don't get me wrong. Larry Hama, the 12 year writer of "G.I. Joe", did a great job... he just never pulled off the feeling that there were "terrorists loose in the U.S."! It felt more like a cartoony adventure. The current writers at Devil's Due [http:devilsdue.net] have also done a great job, but... It's still a 'toon. Unfortunately.)
Postby The Baron » 21 Nov 2004 16:52
I think this is helped by the fact that for many years beforehand the Action Force writers and artists developed the Battle storylines, the comic devoted to all-out War stories. I agree that by comparison the Joe comics don't have the militaristic feel of the Battle works. Also, there's often a much higher body count, which I think is responsible for the darker mood of these strips.
However, the same team were also responsible for Storm Force, which was much lighter fare for the Battle crew, and as you so nicely put it, it had a very cartoony feel. I expect that at this time they were under pressure to compete with Marvel comics, and so were forced to change thier guidelines. I think their work suffered as a result, and Storm Force was no substitute for Action Force.
However, if you're still curious about Storm Force, there's a good resource site here: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/storforc.htm
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Postby jamarmiller » 18 Sep 2007 13:53
its sad that these characters have yet to still reappear, I am really hoping we see some familiar faces soon at least in the red shadows side of things
After seeing the last 6 issues by ddp I am pretty confident that familiar faces will be appearing soon
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