Unlike other rotary systems, this does not fail when different directions have hugely different amounts of traffic. Travel consists of moving straight, turning with the road, and merging. In none of these does an unequal traffix flow mess up the system.
Another concern is that this would be tricky for bicycles or pedestrians. I think this works ok for bikes, in that they ought to be able to complete the merges safely, but this would need to be seen in practice. As for pedestrians, we could continue to use the current walk lights, though keeping lights just for that purpose seems silly. Maybe a pure crosswalk system would work? I should ask a traffic engineer.


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Q: Aligning a given instruction, but putting the alignment padding somewhere other than immediately before the instruction Is it possible, in nasm (and by extension, yasm) to write a macro or otherwise use pre-processor features to align some particular instruction to a given power of two (or possible a given power of two plus some offset), but inserting the alignment padding not immediately before the instruction, but at some arbitrary earlier place?
For example, imagine you had a function where you wanted to align the top of a loop inside the function by 32, you could do it like this:
function:
  xor eax, eax
  mov ecx, 1
ALIGN 32
.top:
  add eax, ecx
  inc ecx
  cmp ecx, rdi
  jne .top

This will a bunch of nop instructions at the point of the ALIGN 32 directive, which will be executed before entry to the loop (or you could jump over them, but this still executes something in order to jump over the padding.
What you didn't want to add padding inside the function itself, but rather before the function where it will never be executed. For example, if there are 10 bytes before the loop entry, aligning the top of the function to 32N - 10 would do it. Like so:
padding_magic .top 32
function:
  xor eax, eax
  mov ecx, 1
ALIGN 32
.top:
  add eax, ecx
  inc ecx
  cmp ecx, rdi
  jne .top

Is there some way to accomplish it in nasm, i.e., implement padding_magic?

A: Ok, I managed to figure out a not too hacky way of doing this.  The trick is to assemble the alignment padding after the function and rely segment ordering to put everything in the correct order.
%macro BEGIN_PADDED_FUNC 0-1 16
%define _func_name %00
%define _align %1
%define _section_base .text.%[_func_name].

        [SECTION %[_section_base]1 progbits alloc exec nowrite align=_align]
        [SECTION %[_section_base]2 progbits alloc exec nowrite align=1]

_func_name:
%endmacro

%macro ALIGN_PADDED_FUNC 0
%[_func_name].align_point:
%endmacro

%macro END_PADDED_FUNC 0
        [SECTION %[_section_base]1]
        TIMES ((_align - (%[_func_name].align_point - _func_name) % _align) \
               % _align) nop
        __SECT__
%endmacro

The above macros would be used like this:
function BEGIN_PADDED_FUNC 32
        xor     eax, eax
        mov     ecx, 1

        ALIGN_PADDED_FUNC
.top:
        add     eax, ecx
        inc     ecx
        cmp     ecx, edi
        jne     .top

        END_PADDED_FUNC

This code assumes ELF and a reasonable linker and/or linker script that will put a section named .text.function.1 before .text.function.2 if that's the order they first appear in the object file. It can probably be modified to work with PECOFF, but I haven't tried this. I've only tested this with NASM, I have no clue whether this would work in YASM.

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Cultural Resource
Agraj Seva Kendra
Cultural Resource; Festival / Market: Special Events; Film / Video: Talent; Fine Arts: Arts Council / Alliance; History / Preservation; Performing Arts
The mission of Agraj Seva Kendra is to preserve and promote Asian Indian culture and traditions and to promote diversity among individuals. Since the formation in 2006, through education, art and cultural activities, we promote understanding and appreciation of Indian culture and traditions. We are recipients of Arts Grant from the Middlesex County Office of Culture and Heritage for the past seven years consecutively. We also receive history grant and Gateway to Arts (Theatre) Grant from the County. With grants from the county, matching grants from corporations and generous donations from businesses we conduct various events in the townships of East Brunswick, North Brunswick, Monroe and various other neighboring towns showcasing the talents of youth and developing a sense of volunteerism, community service and leadership. Agraj is a registered Not for Profit organization 501 (c)(3) approved.
American History Studies Program Rutgers NW (Uncon...
American History Studies Program Rutgers NW (Unconference)
American Hungarian Foundation & American Hunga...
Cultural Resource; Museum
American Hungarian Foundation & American Hungarian Museum
American Irish Association of Woodbridge
Association / Club / Group / Guild; Cultural Resource; History / Preservation; Performing Arts
American Irish Association of Woodbridge addresses the social concerns of the community and keeps Irish heritage alive while organizing & funding the St. Patrick's Day Parade.
The Asian American Cultural Center (AACC), which was founded in 1999, strives to showcase the contributions of Asians and Asian Americans, focusing on expanding multicultural and intercultural understanding within the Rutgers University community. The center works closely with Asian American student organizations and collaborates with Rutgers academic units, administrative offices as well as community-based organizations to develop cultural programs, provide curriculum enrichment and other activities for the entire Rutgers community.
Blazing Star Cultural Arts Center
Cultural Resource; Fine Arts: Arts Council / Alliance; History / Preservation; Performing Arts
Blazing Star Cultural Arts Center & Central Jersey Arts Council
Carteret Public Library
Cultural Resource; Publishing / Printing: Library
Center for Latino Arts and Culture
Chinese Culture & Art Association
Cultural Resource; History / Preservation; Museum: Exhibitions
The Cornelius Low House on River Road in Piscataway is the Middlesex County Museum and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Cornelius Low House was built in 1741 and belonged to Cornelius Low, a merchant who lived at Raritan Landing. In a notation in the family Bible from October 1741, Low states his son William was born "in my new house on the mountain." The Low House is a classic example of Georgian architecture, a style guided by balance, proportion and symmetry. It is constructed of more than 350 tons of local sandstone. The side facing River Road features more finely cut stone while the sides and rear are built in far less expensive rubble stone. There was originally a one-and-one-half story kitchen wing attached to the left side of the structure. Low and his wife, Johanna, had eleven children. Sadly only four of the children lived past the age of 36: Isaac, Nicholas, Gertrude and Sarah. Isaac Low, a former member of the Continental Congress, and his brothers-in-law Hugh Wallace and Alexander Wallace were Loyalists; Nicholas was a Patriot. Cornelius Low died early in the Revolutionary War in April 1777. It is believed he was a Loyalist, and this is why his house remained untouched by British soldiers, who were encamped in the area. Archaeological excavations revealed proof of British soldiers being on the property. After the American Revolution, the house was sold to the Pool family, which lived in the house until the mid-nineteenth century. The house was purchased by Middlesex County in 1979 and today offers award-winning exhibits about New Jersey history.
Cranbury Public Library
Cultural Resource; History / Preservation: Digitization; Publishing / Printing: Library
The Cranbury Public Library actively supports bringing people, information, and ideas together.
Dragonfly Multi-Cultural Arts Center
Cultural Resource; Performing Arts
Dragonfly Multicultural Arts Center
Cultural Resource; Film / Video: Talent; Performing Arts: Theatre
Dragonfly Multicultural Arts Center is dedicated to celebrating diversity through arts education, dramatic performances, and creation of new works. Dragonfly is committed to reaching all the diverse communities of Central New Jersey with classes for all ages and backgrounds; performances that enlighten, entertain, and educate; and opportunities for development of new works.
Dunellen Public Library
Edison Public Library - Main Library
Cultural Resource; History / Preservation; Publishing / Printing: Library
Edison Public Library Main Library
Filipino American National Historical Society
Cultural Resource; History / Preservation
Friends of the New Brunswick Free Public Library
Highland Park Arts Commission
Highland Park Dept. of Community Svcs/Recreation
Highland Park Public Library
Holmdel High School
Cultural Resource; Performing Arts: Dance
The Hellenic Dancers of NJ is a 501 (c)3 Nonprofit dedicated to preserving and presenting the regional folk dances of Greece in the USA. Established in 1972, and currently headquartered in Holmdel, NJ, the troupe has preserved over 300+ Greek folk dances and songs, and presents them using authentic regional folk attire from throughout the 20 Greek regions. The troupe has performed all over the USA to increase awareness of Greek culture, the importance of folk arts and community, as well as to promote inter-cultural understanding. HDNJ is available for public and private functions such as festivals, community days, school and community workshops, fashion shows, Greek and non-Greek cultural events, etc. For more information please contact us!
Association / Club / Group / Guild: Advocacy, Education, Kids / Family, Lectures, Multi-Discipline, Nonprofit, Other, Recreation, Senior Services, Workshops; Cultural Resource; Festival / Market: Food / Drink, Special Events; Fine Arts: Folk Arts; Performing Arts: Dance, Music, Theatre

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text:
const should = require('should');
const scrapeBillboard = require('../../src/web-scrapper/scrape-billboard');

describe('web-scrapper', () => {
  it('should get all the artists and their tracks', () => {
    return scrapeBillboard()
      .then((result) => {
        should.exist(result);
        result.should.be.an.Array();
        result.forEach((record) => {
          record.should.have.property('track');
          record.should.have.property('artist');
        });
      });
  });
});

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Review of Carissa Halston's The Mere Weight of Words
A review by Sarah Wolf
The Mere Weight of Words by Carissa Halston is a heavy examination of difficult relationships. Written in the first person, the narrator is a young woman named Meredith whose passion is language, something she uses as both a shield and as a sword. Her estranged father is in the film industry, something she seems to roll her eyes at throughout the novella. Theirs is a strained relationship long before they take a twenty year break from each other, only reunited when she learns he is suffering from Alzheimer's. "I am rankled over my inability to remember a single turning point that soured my father in my mind. . . No monumental signal…outshines the collective slights he paid us," Meredith admits. Yet, still, her father punches an overwhelming and highly negative impact on her self-esteem, her career path, and even her romantic attractions. Too late, she realizes she's entangled with a man named Patrick who essentially is her father, and this hefty conclusion sours her already dark spirit. "We'd never be all together separate. If I could have explained, I would have told him that was the biggest reason he reminded me of my father. And that, sometimes, was a comforting evil," Meredith admits. Patrick is fixed in her life, swimming through her blood, the sense of normalcy that she knows best.
Almost in defiance of these controlling men in her life, Meredith opts not to do what anyone expects upon graduating from college and takes a job teaching English in China. While she's there, half of her face goes slack and, just like that, she is a woman living with Bell's Palsy, which, in her case, does not correct itself over time, as it sometimes does. She returns to the States, stubbornly refusing to tell anyone what happened to her as she makes her way in New York until a friend from college convinces her to return to her native Los Angeles and face up to her parents. This isn't traumatic with her mother but with her father, Meredith fears his reaction. Either he will declare her decision to go to China an epic failure of her own creation or he won't care at all – and both outcomes terrify her. But what she gets upon facing that fear is a father who expresses concern and offers to help in any way he can. Meredith seems unprepared for this response, so she lashes out and storms away, convinced he'd rehearsed his empathy, convinced he is still a father who doesn't care about her. Of course, this leads her running straight to Patrick, likely seeking the reaction she didn't get from her father. But even Patrick disappoints her by simply asking how he can help and to hear the story of what happened. Meredith overflows with rage once more, refusing to tell anyone what happened to her, a seemingly odd decision since, frankly, nothing happened to her but a stroke of bad luck.
Meredith and Patrick fall back into their routine when they wind up in grad school together at UCLA while her relationship with her father falls completely off the radar, except, of course, in her heart where it's a festering, unquenchable fire. She resumes her study of language and speech and the ways of words, lulling herself with patterns and pronunciations and variety in terms of how language is used from culture to culture and beyond. She applies these patterns to her routine with Patrick and laments their inevitable incompatibility, still knowing they will never be fully apart.
And when the inevitable day comes that she finally stands face-to-face with her father, now on the brink of dementia, she realizes she is still afraid of this man, still afraid of his power over her, still afraid he is judging her to be a failure, though he never speaks those words to her. "His legacy brainwashed me. I was scared to be his successor, scared of being someone different, someone detestable," she says. Standing in front of him, she feels every bit his daughter, someone built in his image, tragic flaw for tragic flaw, and this cacophony of emotions causes a fight or flight reaction as she spins on her heels and leaves him almost as quickly as she came to stand before him, likely for the final time in their breathing lives. On her way out the door, she thinks, "I didn't need him, didn't want to admit to needing anyone. He didn't—doesn't—need me. He never did. That, but little else, I can respect about him. That, but little else I understand." But in a twist of irony, she calls Patrick and entwines him back into her life, thus aligning herself with her father in a surrogate fashion, something that doesn't bring her happiness but it does bring her a sense of stability and assurance in her ongoing path.
Halston's novella is written with a great deal of sour angst and an overriding feeling of gloom – Meredith's unhappiness seeps through the pages as her dry sense of humor and irony play out from scene to scene, memory to memory. It's unclear what brings this woman joy at all – she seems to spend her time simply trying not to be miserable, and often failing even at that. Hers is a lesson in grudges and unresolved emotional trauma – hers is a case where she allows herself to live on with visible wounds, something manifested in the form of Bell's Palsy. Like any emotional trauma, some people recover more than others, much like her physical disfigurement, and for Meredith, her scars are what define her, not what help her transcend. This is her ultimate tragedy – her biggest enemy is herself.
http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/TheMereWeightofWordsbyCarissaHalston
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According to the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, "Evidence suggests that breakfast consumption may improve cognitive function related to memory, test grades, and school attendance. Breakfast as part of a healthful diet and lifestyle can positively impact children's health and well-being." The Dairy Council of California emphasises that there is a scientific consensus on the health benefit in nutrition education and especially in educating the school community on breakfast. The Dairy Council has provided the following fun and easy to use resources to promote healthy breakfasts.
A Healthy Breakfast: Learn the "3 out of 5" Way Video is a fun and engaging video for students between Kindergarten through High School. This lesson helps students learn a well-balanced breakfast by choosing incorporating three food groups out of the total of 5 food groups.
Power Up Your Breakfast Game was designed for Transitional Kindergarten through second grade students and can take up to 10 minutes. In the game, students build a healthy breakfast by clicking and dragging foods from a virtual kitchen to put on their breakfast plate with the 3 out of 5 concept.
The Boost Brain Power with Breakfast Worksheet is a print-friendly handout which includes healthy breakfast tips and a drawing activity for preferably kindergarten to 5th grade students.
After the students have enjoyed the video, game and worksheet, be sure to continue the nutrition education with our free nutrition lesson plans for K-12 students as each program has a breakfast lesson.
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Movie Review: Kelo Down Under
The Kerrigan home will never make the pages of Australian House Beautiful: it sits in the flight path of the Melbourne airport, massive power lines run overhead, the back yard used to be a toxic landfill, and the owner has installed a few -- ahem -- "unauthorized" additions including a greyhound kennel, a massive TV aerial, and a faux chimney.
But despite its faults, it's home -- "The Castle" -- and tow-truck driver Darryl Kerrigan intends to protect it from "compulsory acquisition" (Australia's version of eminent domain) when the airport authority, backed by a large corporation, decides it needs to take the neighborhood for an expanded runway. The family's peaceful existence is shattered by the take-it-or-leave-it offer from the local council for paltry compensation.
I finally got my hands on an original Australian version of this 1997 comedy about a slightly offbeat family's attempt to resist a Kelo-like taking of their home.
Mr. Kerrigan isn't interested in selling. The family doesn't consider the adjacent airport to be a nuisance (it'll be conveniently within walking distance if they have to fly one day), and they optimistically view the overhead power lines as just "a reminder of man's ability to generate electricity." Their neighbor Farouk, a Lebanese immigrant, explains why he doesn't mind deafening airplane noise in his back yard: "They say the plane, they fly overhead, drop the value. I don't care. In Beirut, plane fly overhead, drop bomb. I like this plane."
At first, Kerrigan tries self-help in the local courts.
Judge: What is the case you are putting?
Kerrigan: I told you. I mean, you just can't walk in and take a man's house.
Judge: Mr. Kerrigan, are you disputing the amount of compensation?
Kerrigan: I'm not interested in compensation. I'm saying you can't kick me out.
Judge: What is your argument?
Kerrigan: That's it. That's my argument. You can't kick me out.
Judge: And on what law do you base that argument?
Kerrigan: The Law of bloody common sense!
"You can't buy what I've got," he responds when asked whether the compensation offered is insufficient. But predictably, these arguments get him nowhere, so he retains a well-intentioned but horribly inept local solicitor, who is, by his own estimation, over his head when it comes to eminent domain and constitutional law. He only makes the case worse when he bases his argument on "the vibe" of the constitution. Only when an experienced constitutional barrister takes on the case pro bono do things begin to look up. The final act plays out in Australia's High Court, with the barrister arguing that the Constitution's requirement that takings be accomplished on "just terms" prohibits the seizure of family homes to satisfy corporate desires.
The film doesn't gloss over the legal issues, and touches upon the Mabo and Tasmanian Dam cases, and article 51 of the Australian Constitution. But whether the film is accurate from the standpoint of Australia's law of compulsory acquisition isn't really important, because it accurately catches "the vibe of the thing" (to paraphrase one of the film's more well-known lines) of why home and business owners resist eminent domain.
Some things, I suppose, are universal. The U.S. release is available at Amazon.
[follow up - Professor Gideon Kanner adds his thoughts about the film and Australia's eminent domain laws here]
Posted on February 22, 2008 in ▪ Property rights, ▪ Public Use | Kelo | Permalink


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Argouges è un comune francese di 565 abitanti situato nel dipartimento della Manica nella regione della Normandia.

Società

Evoluzione demografica

Note

Altri progetti

Comuni della Manica

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text:
De Blasio: Protests & Church Services Like 'Apples & Oranges'
Wednesday on CNN's New Day, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio defended treating religious services differently from protests by claiming that comparing the protests to religious services is "really apples and oranges."
"We worked with the religious leadership of this city for months," De Blasio stated. "Cardinal Dolan in the Catholic Church, and so many other religious leaders, who were in full agreement that it was not time to bring back religious services because of the danger it would cause to their congregants. The protests were an entirely different reality, a national phenomenon, that was not something that the government could just say, go away. It's something that really came from the grassroots. And obviously, it had a profound meaning, and we're all acting on the meaning of those protests.
"But it's really apples and oranges. Our religious leaders were the first to say it was not time to bring back services. Now, we're doing it carefully, smartly."
The blunt truth is that Democrat leaders are anti-Christian and support the protesters.


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 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
 * this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the
 * License at  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
 * under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
 * CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 */

package com.linkedin.cubert.utils;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonNode;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser.NumberType;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
import org.codehaus.jackson.node.ArrayNode;
import org.codehaus.jackson.node.ObjectNode;

/**
 * Various utility methods for operating with Json objects.
 *
 * @author Maneesh Varshney
 *
 */
public class JsonUtils
{
    private static ObjectMapper mapper;

    private static ObjectMapper getMapper()
    {
        if (mapper == null)
        {
            mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        }

        return mapper;
    }

    public static JsonNode get(JsonNode node, String property)
    {
        JsonNode val = node.get(property);
        if (val == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Property " + property
                    + " is not defined in " + node);
        }
        return val;
    }

    public static String getText(JsonNode node, String property, String defaultValue)
    {
        if (!node.has(property))
            return defaultValue;
        return get(node, property).getTextValue();
    }

    public static String getText(JsonNode node, String property)
    {
        return get(node, property).getTextValue();
    }

    public static String[] asArray(JsonNode parent, String property)
    {
        if (!parent.has(property) || parent.get(property).isNull())
            return null;

        return asArray(get(parent, property));
    }

    public static String[] asArray(JsonNode node)
    {
        if (node == null)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Specified JsonNode is null");

        if (node.isArray())
        {
            ArrayNode anode = (ArrayNode) node;
            int nelements = anode.size();
            String[] array = new String[nelements];
            for (int i = 0; i < nelements; i++)
            {
                array[i] = anode.get(i).getTextValue();
            }
            return array;
        }
        else
        {
            return new String[] { node.getTextValue() };
        }
    }

    public static Object asObject(JsonNode node)
    {
        if (node.isTextual())
            return node.getTextValue();
        else if (node.isInt())
            return node.getIntValue();
        else if (node.isFloatingPointNumber())
            return node.getDoubleValue();
        else if (node.isBoolean())
            return node.getBooleanValue();

        return null;
    }

    public static ObjectNode createObjectNode(Object... keyvals)
    {
        ObjectNode node = getMapper().createObjectNode();
        for (int i = 0; i < keyvals.length; i += 2)
        {
            if (keyvals[i + 1] instanceof String)
            {
                node.put((String) keyvals[i], (String) keyvals[i + 1]);
            }
            else if (keyvals[i + 1] instanceof Integer)
            {
                int val = (Integer) keyvals[i + 1];
                node.put((String) keyvals[i], val);
            }
            else if (keyvals[i + 1] instanceof Boolean)
            {
                boolean val = (Boolean) keyvals[i + 1];
                node.put((String) keyvals[i], val);
            }
            else
            {
                node.put((String) keyvals[i], (JsonNode) keyvals[i + 1]);
            }
        }

        return node;
    }

    public static ArrayNode createArrayNode(String item)
    {
        return createArrayNode(new String[] { item });
    }

    public static ArrayNode createArrayNode()
    {
        return getMapper().createArrayNode();
    }

    public static ArrayNode createArrayNode(JsonNode... elementNodes)
    {
        ArrayNode result = getMapper().createArrayNode();
        for (int i = 0; i < elementNodes.length; i++)
            result.add(elementNodes[i]);
        return result;
    }

    public static ArrayNode createArrayNode(String[] items)
    {
        ArrayNode anode = getMapper().createArrayNode();
        for (String item : items)
        {
            anode.add(item);
        }
        return anode;
    }

    public static int getIndexFromArray(ArrayNode anode, JsonNode element)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < anode.size(); i++)
        {
            if (anode.get(i) == element)
                return i;
        }
        return -1;
    }

    public static void deleteFromArrayNode(ArrayNode parentNode, ObjectNode operatorNode)
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        int index = getIndexFromArray((ArrayNode) parentNode, operatorNode);
        ((ArrayNode) parentNode).remove(index);
    }

    public static JsonNode makeJson(String str)
    {
        str = str.replace('\'', '"');
        try
        {
            return mapper.readValue(str, JsonNode.class);
        }
        catch (JsonParseException e)
        {
            int idx = (int) e.getLocation().getCharOffset();
            System.out.println(str);
            if (idx >= str.length())
            {
                idx = 1;
            }
            String substr = str.substring(0, idx);
            System.out.println(substr);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (JsonMappingException e)
        {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {

        }
        throw new RuntimeException();
    }

    public static ArrayList<JsonNode> toArrayList(ArrayNode arrayNode)
    {
        ArrayList<JsonNode> result = new ArrayList<JsonNode>();
        for (JsonNode elem : arrayNode)
            result.add(elem);
        return result;
    }

    public static ArrayNode toArrayNode(List<JsonNode> nodelist)
    {
        ArrayNode result = createArrayNode();
        for (JsonNode elem : nodelist)
            result.add(elem);
        return result;
    }

    public static JsonNode cloneNode(JsonNode json)
    {
        String str = json.toString();
        try
        {
            return getMapper().readValue(str, JsonNode.class);
        }
        catch (JsonParseException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
        catch (JsonMappingException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
    }

      public static String encodePath(JsonNode path)
    {
        if (path.isTextual())
            return path.getTextValue();
        else
        {
            String root = getText(path, "root");
            int startDate = Integer.parseInt(getText(path, "startDate"));
            int endDate = Integer.parseInt(getText(path, "endDate"));
            if (path.get("origStartDate") != null)
              return String.format("%s#START%d#END%d#ORIGSTART%d", root, startDate, endDate, Integer.parseInt(getText(path, "origStartDate")));
            return String.format("%s#START%d#END%d", root, startDate, endDate);
        }
    }

    public static JsonNode decodePath(String pathStr)
    {
        ObjectNode node = getMapper().createObjectNode();

        if (pathStr.contains("#START"))
        {
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              origStartDate =  Integer.parseInt(pathStr.split("#START")[1].split("#END")[1].split("#ORIGSTART")[1]);
            }

            node.put("root", root);
            node.put("startDate", startDate);
            node.put("endDate", endDate);
            if (origStartDate != -1)
              node.put("origStartDate", origStartDate);
            return node;
        }
        else
        {
            node.put("tmp", pathStr);
            return node.get("tmp");
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    public static boolean isPrefixArray(ArrayNode pnode, ArrayNode snode)
    {
        if (pnode == null || snode == null || pnode.size() > snode.size())
            return false;

        for (int i = 0; i < pnode.size(); i++)
        {
            if (!pnode.get(i).getTextValue().equals(snode.get(i).getTextValue()))
                return false;
        }
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    }

    public static ArrayNode insertNodeListAfter(ArrayNode arrayNode,
                                                ObjectNode afterThisNode,
                                                List<ObjectNode> nodeList)
    {
        ArrayList<JsonNode> currentNodeList = JsonUtils.toArrayList(arrayNode);
        int insertPosition = CommonUtils.indexOfByRef(currentNodeList, afterThisNode);
        currentNodeList.addAll(insertPosition + 1, nodeList);
        return JsonUtils.toArrayNode(currentNodeList);
    }

    public static ArrayNode insertNodeListBefore(ArrayNode arrayNode,
                                                 ObjectNode beforeThisNode,
                                                 List<ObjectNode> nodeList)
    {
        ArrayList<JsonNode> currentNodeList = JsonUtils.toArrayList(arrayNode);
        int insertPosition = CommonUtils.indexOfByRef(currentNodeList, beforeThisNode);
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    public static Object decodeConstant(JsonNode valNode, String valType)
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        return asObject(valNode);
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    public static void prettyPrint(String json) throws JsonGenerationException,
            JsonMappingException,
            IOException
    {
        System.out.println(new ObjectMapper().writer().writeValueAsString(json));
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Janice Liu's Top 10 Go-to Comic Books and Graphic Novels
True North Country Comics presents Janice Liu's top 10 go-to comic books and graphic novels.
Janice is a children's comic creator and instructor who current resides in Burnaby, British Columbia. She is the artist of the bilingual comic Chicken Soup & Goji Berries 中药鸡汤 (Cloudscape Comics). Janice's solo comic shorts have appeared in Wayward Sisters: An Anthology of Monstrous Women, Augur magazine, and Living Hyphen magazine. Her work is often about exploring her Chinese diasporic identity, and the relationship between the inner and outer world, through fantasy. She is also a creative writing and comics instructor at Place des Arts.
Here's the top 10 comic books and graphic novels from Janice Liu:
1. Mushishi (manga series) by Yuki Urushibara
"I love this anime and manga so much, and it's inspired me a lot in my own work. It examines our relationship to nature and living beings in such an interesting way. It's one of those works where you really see the creator's deeper philosophies and observations of human nature shine through."
2. Hilda (series) by Luke Pearson
"Hilda is my favourite children's comic, hands-down. It has such witty dialogue and charming artwork, it's fun, it's cute, it has monsters and myths, and I love the characters so much."
3. Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang
"Gene Luen Yang is better known for his earlier book, American Born Chinese, but this pair of books is my favourite work of his. It's a fabulist retelling of the events of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and it set a new standard for me for what fantastical historical fiction could look like."
4. The Tea Dragon Festival by Katie O'Neil
"Gentle art, lush nature scenes, LGBTQ rep, and wholesome characters are some of the reasons I love Katie O'Neill's work. This one has a dragon that can switch back and forth between his human and dragon form, and the 12-year-old Animorphs fan in me is so, so in love with him."
5. Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao and Caroline Brewer
"This is a super underrated comic from the University of Toronto, part of a series called ethnoGRAPHIC. This one follows two girls in Cairo, and touches on social, medical, and political issues based on research from the authors, who are scholars of medical ethnography."
6. Cuisine Chinoise: Five Tales of Food and Life by Zao Dao
"A collection of short stories from Chinese illustrator Zao Dao. Zao Dao's textural artwork is accompanied by a goofy, sometimes gross sense of humour. Food, snot, wrinkly old ladies with rotting teeth, and bug-eyed demons & monsters are some of the things featured in the stories. I think she has a really unique perspective."
7. Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
"Reminds me of Jeff Smith's Bone, but for slightly older readers and with a feminist slant. Super charming characters, and an art style that grows on you."
8. Space Boy (webtoon) by Stephen McCranie
"This is the first webtoon I've really gotten into. Stephen McCranie has this really wholesome way of telling stories that give you the warm fuzzies and make you appreciate the little things in life.
9. A Girl in the Himalayas by David Jesus Vignolli
"I love this middle-grade read – it's so lovely and atmospheric, looks very different from most commercial children's comics on the market, and has some messages that remind me of Buddhist philosophies embedded in its storyline."
10. The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya by Reimena Yee
"This book is visually stunning. Look up some of the interior spreads of the book – so much time, love, and craft has gone into the painstakingly drawn patterns and colours. This book really elevated what craft in comics looks like to me, and how beautiful a finished book can look."
You can discover more about Janice on Twitter and Instagram at @flutterdoodle and online at janiceliu.com
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Queen's releases new Campus Wellbeing Framework
Framework looks at community wellness during the age of COVID-19.
Julia Stratton
New framework accounts for special COVID-19 circumstances.
Wellbeing is a critical factor in the success of individuals, the community, and the University, according to Queen's new Campus Wellbeing Framework.
The Campus Wellbeing Framework is the product of six months of consultations with 1,800 students, staff, and faculty at Queen's in 2019-20 to advance wellbeing on campus. The framework outlines a set of guiding principles and priority focus areas to make Queen's a better place to live, learn, and work for everyone in the community.
While a draft of the framework was released in February, the Queen's community also had the opportunity to provide specific feedback about campus wellness during COVID-19 over the spring and summer to be incorporated into the final document with adjustments for social distancing guidelines.
At its centre, the framework emphasizes that "campus wellbeing is rooted in a culture of care, inclusion and respect, social connectedness."
The framework was developed by the Provost Advisory Committee made up of student leaders, faculty, senior administrators, and community health experts; supported by the Campus Wellness Council; and endorsed by the University's Senior Leadership Team.
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It's centered around the Okanagan Charter, which is designed to "create a culture of compassion, wellbeing, equity, social justice […] and strengthen the ecological, social and economic sustainability of our communities and wider society." Queen's adopted the charter in January 2019.
Importantly, the framework is meant to enable and inspire wellness on campus without being prescriptive. The Queen's community is encouraged to apply the guiding principles and priority focus areas outlined in the document as appropriate, but they're designed to be adapted across diverse situations and settings.
The framework also positions campus wellbeing as a community effort, instead of as an individual task.
"Each of us has a role and responsibility to enhance and embrace a culture of wellbeing, care and inclusion, respecting diversity and embracing our differences."
The framework puts forward four focus areas for enhancing wellbeing in the Queen's community: culture, social connection, personal wellbeing, and places.
Culture refers to creating an inclusive culture at Queen's that values wellbeing.
"Each member of the Queen's community has a responsibility to respect and advance the university values of care, equity, inclusion, and support with respect to diversities, including ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, exceptionality and socioeconomic status."
The framework emphasizes that social connection is imperative to wellbeing because "[h]umans need social connection."
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"We heard from the campus community that belonging is influenced by our identities and experiences and by perceptions of campus cultural relevance (including familiarity, knowledge and feelings of validation) and responsiveness (programs and practices)."
Maintaining personal wellbeing is essential to health and wellbeing. Although this is an individual task, the framework personal wellbeing should be facilitated and promoted within one's community.
Having spaces online and in person that foster wellbeing is another important aspect of the framework.
"When we consider equity, inclusion, the presence of natural elements and opportunities for social connection in the design of our places, we can have a profound impact on our wellbeing."
The recommendations encourage the community to facilitate and promote all aspects of personal health across a wide range of dimensions including physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, occupational, financial, and environmental health.
The framework also acknowledges the importance of equity, diversity, inclusivity, and indigeneity (EDII) as values imperative to fostering the wellbeing of all members of the Queen's community.
"Together, we can encourage and support an inclusive culture of wellbeing that inspires and enables all who live, learn and work at Queen's to thrive."
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We played some very close games against some talented and tough teams. Making several come backs and enduring some real nail biting moments, we achieved our goal. 1st place at World Cup and Division 1 champions for 2011 - an amazing feeling! The guys have worked especially hard this year and it has paid off.
We have to say a huge thanks to our sponsors, without them, what we have achieved simply would not have been possible. Planet Eclipse, for providing the incredible Ego11 and Geo2.1s that we use as well as top quality playing gear, Kee Action sports for our masks and packs and finally RPS for giving us amazing paint throughout the year you could check that most of the team who stood on the podium this year will have been using RPS paint, it's like lasers, Plus we would like to thank JUST Paintball for being there for us this year and of course Rich Harris and Mark from the CPPS, they have backed us now for 2 years with holding the best UK tournaments and practice venue, so if any one wants to come and play with The Manchester Firm we are holding a open weekend on the 29th and 30th of October details our on our facebook page...see you all next year in SPL :)"


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Q: build a new list from values of two other lists does not work i have a problem and cant find an answer inside the Forum so i hope someone will be able to help me because it seams i cant figure it aout by myself :)
def loadData(uid):
    // ...
    return [uid,u'',u'',u'',u'',u'',u'',u'',u'',]

evts = []
uids = [7, 43,]
for uid in uids:
    evts.append(loadData(uid))
tmpdata = [[None] * len(evts)] * len(evts[0])
print tmpdata
for iKey in range(len(tmpdata)):
    for iEvt in range(len(tmpdata[iKey])):
        tmpdata[iKey][iEvt] = evts[iEvt][iKey]
        print iKey, iEvt, tmpdata[iKey]
print tmpdata

Normaly i want to create a list with each attribute inside athe sub list, so for example the 0,0 and 0,1 index had to be the uid values of each data (7& 43) but as you see here it does not work as wanted....
result:
[[None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None],
 [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None],
 [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None],
 [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None]]
0
0[7, None]
0
1[7, 43]
1
0[u'Matthias Reim & Band', 43]
1
1[u'Matthias Reim & Band', u'Der Nussknacker']

...
[[None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None],
 [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None],
 [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None],
 [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None], [None, None]]

i want a result like:
[[7, 43], [u'Matthias Reim & Band', u'Der Nussknacker'], ...]

A: tmpdata_surprise = [[None] * len(evts)] * len(evts[0])
tmpdata = [[None]*len(evts)for _ in range(len(evts[0]))]


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For a film referred to by many as a modern horror classic, the original Scream doesn't get much love from the horror community. Fans of the slasher sub-genre are an especially rabid bunch but they just don't have room in their hearts for Scream. Go to any horror convention and try to find anyone sporting a Scream T-shirt. You'll see plenty of fans proudly wearing their Halloween T's and even third-tier slashers like The Prowler and The Burning are represented but Scream? Forget it. I just wonder how well Scream would rank with horror fans had it never become such a hit. I'll wager a guess that we'd be hearing a lot of "man, people just didn't get that movie - you had to be a horror fan to really understand it!" whenever Scream was talked about.
But of course they can't say that because Scream was an enormous hit - a great word of mouth success that introduced a new legion of fans to the genre. Everyone has their own "gateway drug" that got them into horror and for many, Scream served that purpose. But is it a good movie unfairly dismissed by hardcore horror buffs or just a painfully overrated exercise in smartassedness? A little of both but ultimately I'd say more towards the former than the later.
The worst thing about Scream is the aspect that brought it the most critical acclaim and notoriety - its self-referential, film-savvy dialogue. Critics (who, by and large, hate horror films) latched onto this aspect of Scream and used it to intellectually justify their enjoyment of what would otherwise be just another slasher film. But scripter Kevin Williamson, using the character of film nerd/video store clerk Randy (Jamie Kennedy) as his mouthpiece to explain the "rules" for surviving a horror movie, shows himself to be a lazy study of the genre.
Among the several rules that Randy tries to educate his peers about, the much-touted "virgin" rule holds no water. It's a myth that needs to be put to rest. I know that many have read John Carpenter's Halloween as some kind of essay on puritanical values with Jamie Lee Curtis' virginal babysitter Laurie Strode surviving where her more ho-ish friends did not. However, while one could perceive an underlying irony to the fact that Laurie is a repressed character who aggressively attacks her assailant with phallic instruments, it's a stretch to say it's anything more than a plot convenience to have Michael's victims preoccupied with fucking or with planning to fuck and it sure as hell didn't create some kind of hardline "rule" for subsequent slasher movies.
Even Friday the 13th, the other big flag bearer for the "have sex and die" school of thought, doesn't adhere to that rule. Laurie Bartram as Marcie was way more of a "good girl" in that film than Adrienne King's Alice was. Hell, Marcie was in bed by herself reading a book when Mrs. Voorhees lured her out for the kill. And come on, Ned's death alone immediately torpedoes the virgin rule. And Shelly in Friday the 13th Part 3? That guy got no action and he still ended up stone cold dead. One might argue that there's a sub-clause to the virgin rule reserved for practical jokers but Scream fails to address that possibility.
And before we move away from this topic altogether, let's just say that it's unconfirmed that Jamie Lee Curtis always played the virgin in slasher films. Not to be lewd about it but I'd argue that her characters in Prom Night, Terror Train and Road Games were far from being the same sort of virginal wallflower that Laurie Strode represented. So Scream's biggest convention-smashing moment, where Sidney (Neve Campbell) gives it up for Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and thereby makes herself into a potential victim, can't be considered to be a radical reinvention of slasher cinema or a liberating blow for Final Girls wherein they can now be sexually active but still achieve survivor status. I mean, fifteen years before Scream, Ginny (Amy Steel) in Friday the 13th Part 2 not only slept with her boyfriend but went out and got tanked at a local bar and still lived to tell the tale so it's annoying to read interviews with Williamson where he pats himself on the back for breaking the rules of the slasher genre. You can fool critics about this shit but not real horror nerds, man.
It's my feeling that Williamson should've really boned up on his slasher films before writing Scream - you know, bothered to take the time to give himself a little refresher course - but as Scream made him rich and famous and the toast of the town and all that, maybe it wasn't so important.
As a send-up or deconstruction of slasher cliches, I think Scream is a big bust. However, it gets other things right. For one, Wes Craven's direction is at the top of his game. This was the first film he shot in widescreen and he utilized the framing to excellent effect.
His direction feels energized here and one almost wishes that this could have been his farewell to the genre as it's a real high note to his career with the murders of Casey (Drew Barrymore) and Tatum (Rose McGowan) being classic set-pieces.
The cast is also outstanding. In past slasher films, there'd be a breakout performer or two that stood out as someone to take note of but Scream's cast is filled with sharp actors - Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy, Rose McGowan, Drew Barrymore, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette. I may find some of the characters grating (particularly the morose Sidney, with her perpetually pinched expression) but I couldn't argue that the performances were lacking (although it could be said that Arquette's comic tendencies should've been reined in some as they throw off the mood of the film on more than one occasion).
As for Williamson's script, while it gets a lot wrong in observing the genre, it succeeds on other fronts. Historically the bane of slasher films was always how to fill the time between kills. The answer to that was usually "have them do whatever." So as characters would wait for their turn to get slaughtered, if they weren't getting laid or getting high they'd be shown engaging in everything from Strip Monopoly, doing their laundry, skinny-dipping, or watching movie marathons on TV. Scream did away with that kind of wheel-spinning by adopting a more soap opera-ish approach - supplying Sidney with a tragic backstory involving her slain mother, thereby giving the characters a lot of plot information to convey and a ready antagonist in the form of tabloid TV journalist Gale Weathers. Sidney wasn't just an unassuming teenage girl like most slasher heroines - she was already the center of a media firestorm.
Unlike most slasher films of the past whose running times often felt padded, Scream truly moves. After the intense charge of the lengthy opening scene, the movie barely lets up and by the one hour mark, the characters have already arrived at Stu's house where the climax of the movie takes place. Essentially what follows is a forty-minute finale where the stakes are raised right off the bat with the murder of Sidney's BFF Tatum - a move that reminds the audience that no one is safe in this film - and then events quickly roll toward the final face-off between Sid and Ghostface and the resolution of the film's mystery.
The revelation of the killer's ID's is what really makes Scream. Not just the novelty factor of having the killer actually be two killers working together (a twist that let it be plausible that the killer could appear anywhere at anytime) but the fact that it was two peers of the characters and that their motivations were so purely sociopathic.
In past slasher films, the killer was either a figure of pure evil (like Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger) or else their rampages were rooted in some personal humiliation or injustice (Mrs. Voorhees and Jason, or the killers in The Burning, Terror Train, Prom Night, or The Funhouse). Also, you had the occasional sweaty loner - as seen in Don't Go In The House, He Knows You're Alone, Eyes of a Stranger, Maniac, and Visiting Hours. Scream was different from all other slasher films in that its killers were directly from the protagonist's own immediate social circle and that they were so devoid of empathy and humanity.
One might say that killing is killing and that it's all evil but while that's true there's a difference between a character that's depicted as being the Boogeyman and someone who's supposed to have a real world motivation. And on that other level, there's a difference between a character like Terror Train's Kenny Hampson and Scream's Billy Loomis and Stu Macher. Characters like Kenny and the other "wronged" slasher villains have a kernel of humanity to them. They commit heinous, unforgivable acts but on some level we're invited to understand their position as victims of some kind of abuse. Mrs. Voorhees is a nut but she's also avenging her dead child. Cropsy of The Burning is a murderous psycho but some snot-nosed kids burned him into a misshapen lump so he's understandably got issues. Prom Night's Alex Hammond witnessed his beloved sister's senseless death so his killing spree seems pretty justified. But Billy and Stu...not so much. These two are not outsiders. In fact, they're part of the popular crowd. They both have attractive girlfriends. They come from well-to-do families. They've suffered no special traumas. Billy might be bummed about his parent's divorce but in the end, life is pretty good for him. And from what we see of Stu's life - it all looks like gravy. I mean, look at the friggin' house he lives in:
And yet these privileged kids have no qualms about murdering their friends.
Billy and Stu are chilling characters and Ulrich and Kennedy tear it up once the masks come off. Some might say that Lillard shamelessly overacts but I love his performance - especially as it escalates in Scream's final act. He's seldom given enough credit as being one of the great screen psychos. He's scary and pathetic all at once. There's something that rings appallingly true about the way he's capable of coldly butchering - or at the least, being an accomplice in butchering - people that he's known for years but snivels when wounded himself and whines at the thought of his crimes being exposed to his parents. Stu can't conceive of the pain of others, no matter how great, but is acutely sensitive to his own suffering, no matter how minor. That's a true sociopath and Billy has the same dead soul to match.
Finally, Craven and co. hit gold when they discovered the Ghostface mask.
Just as Halloween wouldn't have been the same had Tommy Lee Wallace not pimped out a William Shatner mask, Scream wouldn't have succeeded if that Ghostface mask not been found at one of the film's locations - left behind by the grandchildren of the home's owners. Even after it's been parodied in the Scary Movie satires, I still find that mask to be incredibly creepy. As slasher disguises go, I consider it second only to Michael Myers' mask in being able to conjure an instant feeling of unease.
For some horror fans, Scream will always be disdained. It revitalized the genre but that failed to earn it much gratitude. It's too clueless about the horror and slasher conventions it seeks to knowingly tweak to be a great film in my book but it does kick a little ass here and there. If nothing else, it's miles better than Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006), a post-modern slasher film so inane makes Scream positively shine in comparison. Horror fans like Behind the Mask a lot because, you know, it seems to be made just for them but in this case, I'll side with all the teenage girls who go for Scream.
Labels: Jamie Kennedy, Kevin Williamson, Matthew Lillard, Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan, Scream, Skeet Ulrich, Wes Craven
Wings1295 said...
I agree with you that Scream gets some sort of horror-fan backlash, maybe for being so appealing to non-horror fans. Those non-fans look at it as a true horror film, and hardcore horror fans feel like they need to rebel, I guess, against that idea.
But it is a good film, a good scary movie.
And with Randy and his rules, I think it is more apt to say those are the rules NON-horror fans think apply to ALL horror movies, mainly cause they watch one here and there and then forget, so things become a "lump" in their brain and they generalize. But truly, those rules aren't 'followed' by anyone, they just are things that maybe happen more than once and are memorable.
Hope that run on comment makes sense! :)
Yeah, but I guess that's what irks me about Scream's self-awareness towards the genre. The "rules" that are talked about in the film are easily debunked by anyone familiar with slasher films and yet I think Kevin Williamson believed that he had really peeled back the layers of the slasher genre. Kind of annoying - but in most other ways, I find Scream to be entertaining.
Yeah, I get what you are saying. Williamson does think he nailed it all when he really just hit some highlights or coincidences.
It's my belief that Scream's reputation takes a beating based on the films that came out in its wake: I Know What You Did Last Summer and the teen slashers that followed (some with varying degrees of success) including the fun but not quite as good Scream 2 and the misstep that is Scream 3.
I love the first film. I said this in my own review-it's a film like Rocky, TCM, The Godfather in that I can break it out once a year and not get bored of it.
One things Williamson does get right is he revival of the 'whodunit' nature of the classic early 80 slashers: HBtM, MBV, etc. Ironically, Lillard went on to play Shaggy in the Scooby Doo films.
Excellent post! You really nailed how I feel about this film (and its sequels) also. As for SCREAM's self-awareness towards the genre, I always felt that Craven nailed it much better and was way more clever about it with NEW NIGHTMARE. That and John Carpenter's IN MOUTH OF MADNESS do much more with commenting on the genre and being meta than SCREAM and its sequels put together, IMO.
Mike, I liked the return of the 'whodunnit' style of slasher. As much as I love Halloween, the murder mystery slashers like Friday the 13th, Prom Night, etc., are the ones I dig the most.
And yeah, it's funny that Lillard went on to play Shaggy in the feature films. He still does the voice for Shaggy on the new Scooby-Doo cartoons, which are actually pretty good.
J.D., I'm with you all the way in holding up New Nightmare and ITMOM as being better 'meta' horror films than Scream. Hell, I'd even say that Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was a more entertaining wink at slasher cliches than Scream but that's just me.
Wow, Jeff. Incredible post and a great piece of writing. This gets my vote for one of the best posts of 2011.
Now excuse me, I need to go out and buy Scream on BluRay.
Thanks Cortez, glad you liked the post. Have fun revisiting Scream!


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Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder - 9/2/20 NBA Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Peter Tran September 1, 2020 9:59 pm
Oklahoma City Thunder (47-31) at Houston Rockets (47-31)
NBA Basketball: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 9:00 pm (AdventHealth Arena)
The Line: Houston Rockets -5.5 -- Over/Under: 219 Click to Get Latest Betting Odds
The Houston Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder will battle it out in Game 7 of the West Quarterfinals at the AdventHealth Arena on Wednesday night.
The Oklahoma City Thunder will be looking to book their ticket to the second round after forcing Game 7 with a 104-100 win in Game 6 on Monday. Chris Paul led the way with 28 points, seven rebounds and three assists, Danilo Gallinari added 25 points on nine of 17 shooting, Luguentz Dort scored 13 points while Dennis Schroder chipped in with 12 points on five of 16 shooting off the bench. As a team, the Thunder shot just 42 percent from the field and 12 of 36 from the 3-point line but they defended well, kept the Rockets off the free throw line and turned to CP3 who sparked the team with consecutive 3-pointers to tie the game with 2:57 remaining.
Meanwhile, the Houston Rockets will be so disappointed after leading for a majority of Game 6, before blowing it down the stretch. James Harden led the team with 32 points, eight rebounds and seven assists, Robert Covington added 18 points with five steals while Russell Westbrook chipped in with 17 points and three assists. As a team, the Rockets shot 45 percent from the field and 15 of 44 from the 3-point line as they led by 98-92 late in the fourth quarter, until the Thunder closed the game on a 12-2 run in the final 3:35. Eric Gordon will be aiming for a better showing after finishing with just nine points on three of 12 shooting while Westbrook will look to be more efficient after racking up seven bad turnovers in just 27 minutes of action.
Looking at the betting trends, the Thunder are 35-17 ATS in their last 52 games as an underdog, 1-5 ATS in their last six games following a win and 5-2 ATS in their last seven games playing on one days rest. The Rockets are 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games following a loss, 15-7 ATS in their last 22 games against a team above .600 and 1-5 ATS int heir last six games playing on one days rest.
Head to head, the Thunder are 8-3 ATS in the last 11 meetings overall.
The Thunder have struggled with their 3-point shooting in the bubble, but it was a pair of long bombs from Paul that really sparked the team late in Game 6. The Rockets will be disappointed that they missed out a chance to seal the deal on Monday, but they weren't playing anywhere near their best and still almost won. You can make an argument for either team here, but the Rockets have been the better team in this series and I'm sticking with them to get the win and advance.
Peter's Pick Houston -5.5
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Wednesday 02 Jul 2008 @ 12:23
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Margaret Hodge outlines measures to streamline cultural 'delivery' in the regions
Margaret Hodge outlines measures to streamline cultural 'delivery' in the regions
DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT News Release (068/2008) issued by The Government News Network on 2 July 2008
Culture Minister Margaret Hodge today announced plans to strengthen DCMS engagement in regional policy through a new, simplified and improved way of working.
For the first time, the Department's four key agencies in the regions - Arts Council England, Sport England, English Heritage and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council - will have a duty to work together to jointly deliver a core set of shared priorities across the culture and sport agenda.
These priorities include:
* Regional Strategies;
* Local Area Agreements;
* Local Government commitment to culture and sport;
* Place Shaping; and
* LOCOG liaison on 2012 and the Cultural Olympiad.
This alliance, working with partners in local authorities, the Regional Development Agencies, and other partner organisations, will agree top priorities and create joint plans of action for the culture and sport agendas for their region. These new arrangements will still enable the four agencies to continue with their existing and continuing sector specific responsibilities, but will also introduce a way of using contributions from all regional partners in a more targeted and effective way.
The plans announced today are the result of a review into the Department's regional infrastructure, led by Margaret Hodge. They will come into effect over the next 12 months and replace the Department's eight Non Departmental Public Bodies, the Regional Cultural Consortiums. This will deliver long-term savings that will be reinvested directly into culture and sport provision.
Culture Minister Margaret Hodge said:
"We have come a long way in strengthening the case for the role of culture and sport at the heart of a region, its economy and its aspirations. That's thanks in no small part to the work of our cultural consortia and their Boards over the last nine years.
But the regional landscape is shifting. With the new Local Area Agreements imminent and Integrated Regional Strategies on the horizon we need to put delivery at the heart of the debate at this critical time. We can only do that by coupling advocacy with action, speaking with a stronger more unified voice across our sectors and giving a better service to Local Government and Regional Development Agency partners."
1. The DCMS regional infrastructure review has been led by the Minister for Culture, Margaret Hodge, and supported by a working group of key stakeholders. The working group included representatives of the Department's non Departmental Bodies with a significant presence in the English regions outside London: Arts Council England, Sport England, The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, English Heritage, The Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund, UK Film Council and Regional Cultural Consortiums. It also included members from the Local Government Association, Regional Development Agencies and the Regional Government Office network. The review was conducted through a series of meetings between autumn 2007 and spring 2008.
2. The Review had the following objectives, to:
* achieve significant cost savings and efficiencies in terms of what needs to be done regionally and by sharing back office functions and premises.
* bring about better coordination to eliminate duplication and improve the effectiveness of input into regional strategies and LAAs.
* re-examine the need for a coordinating body while not undermining the ability of individual NDPBs to carry out their national responsibilities.
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As long term followers of my blog will know by now, my brain has a limited capacity for producing words per day. When I start either writing or editing intensively, I don't have any spare words left over for putting down in a blog. Or answering emails. Or marketing my book. Or organising life, come to think of it!
So, this is me coming out of hibernation. I've just gone through a fairly major edit on The List. I've got the word count down by something like 6,000 words by tightening up everything.
Thinking about editing it occurred to me that a book takes months or years to write. And maybe a few days or weeks to read. One consequence of that is that the words a reader reads might've been written years apart. Even if you write a book straight through from opening chapter to satisfying conclusion, it will still need editing. I know that in my case sometimes new sections are written in during the edit stage. So, if you read The List, you might get a paragraph from 2015 next to one from 2017.
I'll just leave this here and hope it appears when this is shared on Facebook!
What do you think? If you're a writer do you alternate between self-promotion and writing? Or have you some magic to let you do both?
More Writers now than Ever Before?
As I said in a previous post, I've been writing on and off for (I can't believe it) nearly thirty years. OK, so I did get a magazine article published when I was 15 but that's still a long time! When I started, I had a manual typewriter, and then scrounged an electric one with a correction facility. At the time I was working in IT so fairly soon I had a computer with Wordperfect on it. (Whatever happened to Wordperfect?) Then of course, the computers got faster and started dialling up to connect to the Internet, before a few brave souls showed us the way with ADSL. Now, we're always-on with wireless broadband, cloud storage and all the other benefits of the Internet.
I'm now wondering if this makes a difference to how many people are out there writing. If you think back to the late eighties, early nineties, most people did not have a computer. If they wanted to write a novel, they'd have to get a typewriter, buy some paper, make sure that the ribbon was fresh, and settle down to write. If you wanted to keep a copy you either had to photocopy everything (at 10p a page in the library or newsagent) or use carbon copies. If you don't remember carbon paper, be very thankful because it was a horrible thing!
Now, most people use a computer, either at work or at home. People send text messages and emails all the time. Lots of people write blogs and comment on Facebook, forums, newspapers and a host of other websites. In short, more people are writing more words than ever before.
If someone today wants to write a novel, they just have to sit down, fire up Microsoft Word and start typing. You don't even need paper or printer ink – you can go straight from screen to publication if you want to. But more important than that is the fact that it probably feels normal. Books are now springing from sources that didn't exist when I started. Back then, there were no blogs, no online fan-fiction communities so these routes are entirely new and have spawned some best sellers.
Of course, all of this means that there is greater competition in the marketplace. And I think that it means that the quality has spread out in both directions. I'm sure that there is a lot more dross out there than ever before. Especially now you can publish directly from a word document to Kindle, or any other e-reader. You don't even have to spell-check or proof it! But at the other end of the spectrum, there are undoubtedly writers with fresh, exciting voices who would never had the opportunity. Without the Internet their words would never have found a market.
Personally this means that I need to be more professional and organised. In a flooded market, quality is a good way to get noticed and rise to the top. Well, without becoming a celebrity and going on Big Brother (shudder!). What do you think? Are there more writers than ever before? What does this mean for the publishing industry?
When I was younger (more naive?) I thought that becoming an author would go something like this. I'd write a novel, by starting at the beginning and writing through to the end. Then I'd send three chapters and a synopsis off to some publishers, one would ask for the full manuscript and I'd get published. Of course, it didn't take many rejection letters to realise that it was a lot harder than it looked!
Then along came firstly print on demand, closely followed by e-readers. (Did I mention that I've been writing a long time? I started on typewriters.) Now you could take your first draft and put it out there on the Internet and people would flock to you and buy it. Or not. Of course, marketing and publicity are the elephant in the room for the whole self-publishing game.
Now, feeling older and wiser, I'm approaching the whole business from a different perspective. I plan my novels, not down to a chapter by chapter, scene by scene level, but enough to know where the big plot points should be and what I want them to be. Then the writing process has changed – after many drafts I've sent my manuscript out to beta readers. Despite my best efforts, there remain many typos still to fix. Typos are funny beasts, I was reviewing the third beta readers and she had highlighted certain sentences. I had to read the sentence through several times and then check it word by word. Often it's small things like 'my' instead of 'me' that Word can't spot and I tend to read what I think I wrote instead of what's there.
Once the typos have been done, I'm also looking at the bigger issues. Some of the readers have highlighted structural issues, mostly minor. So now I'm considering them and make some small changes.
I'm not feeling impatient to get on and get it sent out to agents or publishers. I know that I've changed and I feel that the world has changed as well. I now look at my manuscript and think that I've got one chance to make a first impression. I suspect there are very few agents who'd give a manuscript a second chance. So now, I want this to be as polished as it can be.
I think I'm also more realistic about the end-game as well. I don't think that a publisher will write a huge advance cheque, and then after a few months start discussing cover art! I know that it will probably be a negotiation to and fro. I expect that they'll want to see how I react to edits and suggestions to change the story. When I do get a deal, I expect that when I go through the edits and launch details I'll also be working on the next book, or even the one after that! I see it as a process of overlapping jobs.
Somehow, this time, more than any other novel I've written I feel more engaged with the whole process, more willing to see it through, complete every stage. I even stayed up late last night finishing off the synopsis. (Which also helped me with the structure.) Well, the first draft, because I know it's an important document, I know I'll need to go over it several times until it's just right. In a similar vein, I've signed up for a one day course on "pitching your novel" – just to make sure I make the most of my one shot.
What do you think? If you write have you found that your approach to the whole business of it has changed? Is it me or is it the industry that have changed?
I was looking for something to read this morning so I picked up a Kate Mosse. I vaguely remembered that she'd started one of the big fiction prizes (the Orange Prize for Fiction) so I flicked through the back to find her bio.
I was a bit surprised to find that there was more than just a bio at the back. There must have been fifteen or twenty pages. There was an extra story, written specially for the Waterstones version. I've seen reading group notes in books before, but this also had a plot synopsis and Kate explaining what some of her themes were throughout the book.
I'm still not sure what I think. As a writer, I always approach work with an attitude of "you can't explain anything to your reader". In other words, your book has to stand alone. If you're submitting to an agent, you can't explain the themes in your cover letter, because they've got to be able to get the message of the book solely from what you've written. Except now, you can go on to explain some of the deeper meaning behind it.
Overall I think it's a good thing. From a writer's point of view, it's interesting to have someone successful explain how they did it. Writing is as much a craft as anything else. Just like a carpenter, sometimes you need someone to show you the steps that result in the finished article. And, in this age of e-readers and the internet, authors need to look for ways to stand out from the crowd. I suspect a lot of authors are doing similar things, as well as tie-ins to the internet. In many ways it's an extension of the culture of blog-tours, twitter and all the other social media. The other thing I've noticed is that some publishers are including logos on their books to indicate how much action, romance, sensuality, etc. is in the book.
Looking over the best-selling authors list, I reached a surprising conclusion. What readers want, more than anything else, is consistency. The real high-flyers are the likes of John Grisham, Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Barbara Cartland. Of those, only Koontz really takes risks. But you still know roughly what to expect when you pick up one of his books. It'll be thrilling, and there's a high chance of something paranormal taking place, and you might find yourself veering into horror on occasion.
At the moment, I'm reading a DI Alan Banks detective novel by Peter Robinson. I know I'm going to get a complicated investigation, a dour Yorkshire detective with a messy personal life and highly cultured tastes. Most of the time, I think, most readers want this – comfort food for the brain. Occasionally though, it is nice to be surprised. I read the Night Circus based on the title and a very short blurb. I thoroughly enjoyed it, partly because I didn't know what to expect. Similarly with the Rivers of London, which took me equally by surprise, although the blurb was a bit more forthcoming.
Ultimately, publishing is a business, and the most profit in any business is giving people what they want. So, these enhanced books will sell more copies and people will enjoy them more. If you'll excuse my lapse into office-speak, they add value to the reading experience and that must be good.
What are your thoughts? Please leave comments!
It does appear at the moment that every broadsheet is running an article on how the Kindle is killing off books and that soon either paper books or the option of earning a living as an author is about disappear.
There are a number of flaws in this argument. The first is that the Kindle is a product of a single company – Amazon. This company exists for one purpose only, to record maximum profit for its shareholders. Note the way that they seamlessly moved from selling books into stocking almost anything that they could sell on. They also morphed themselves into a kind of ebay type entity by making a profit out of their competitors. This is akin to having the printing presses all in the control of one company. There objective is not to spread knowledge and understanding. Nor is it to store up knowledge for the future. Which brings me on to Google books who appear to be doing this. But again they are a company who's sole objective is to make profits. In the last few years of recession I have seen names like Woolworths and MFI vanish from the high street into insolvency. Who's to say that Amazon and Google will fare any better in the future.
Indeed, if you look back into the past then the oldest book in the country is around 1,400 years old. Aside from the church and the monarchy I can think of no other institutions that have lasted that long. I certainly wouldn't expect to see the likes of Amazon and Google around in a few hundred years, never mind a thousand.
I think the big factor that has been overlooked in all these articles is the rise of Print on Demand. If you pick up a book, you now have no way of knowing if it is a POD book that had five copies printed in a year, or if it is a million selling best-seller. This truly does level the playing field. It reminds me of the moment when Daniel Beddingfield had his first number one single with a track he recorded in his bedroom and released himself using the internet. He sidestepped the middle men and got direct access to his audience. It reminds me of the changes happening in religion and spirituality. Increasingly people are directly accessing their religion and not allowing priests to mediate for them.
In the world of publishing, authors can, using the two allied technologies of print on demand and the social networks of the internet both produce their own books and market them to an audience. This is a double edged sword of course, because it means the market is being flooded with dross and it is harder to find the jewels in the mud. But, to return to my original point, it is not, I believe, the death of books. But I think it is a major shift in the whole structure of publishing is underway. I think we're seeing the end of the old ways of offering authors big advances and publishing deals. No longer will it be necessary to put contracts in place to support the huge cost of printing up thousands of books in advance. It will instead be possible to respond to requests for books by either shipping out electronic copies, or printing physical books as and when they are needed.
Anyway, that's enough rambling from me, please comment and share and let me know what you think!


Hope you're all settling in alright after the summer! Anyway, I have been asked to think of some topics for my discursive essay for Higher English. I was thinking on doing something related to the carry on in Syria but my teacher advised me that it would be too difficult as there are always new things occurring and by the time it has to be submitted, it will be way out of date.
I did mine last year on if society is sexualising our children too much - for example - the lyrics to many songs are very sexual, and kids end up singing these. For Standard Grade I did my discursive on whether or not prisons are too 'cushy' nowadays.
For SG I done mine on whether or not we should be worried about horse meat! I just can't find the right topic!


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Mississippi students get a taste of Aspen life
Rick Carroll
rcarroll@aspentimes.com
Students from Gentry High School in the Mississippi Delta region get help putting on snowshoes before their tour on the backside of Aspen Mountain on Tuesday.
The wind-whipped snowflakes were barely noticeable, but to a group of high school students from the Mississippi Delta region, it may as well have been a blizzard.
"It's snowing! It's snowing!" they declared from the backside of Aspen Mountain, almost in unison.
There were 10 excited kids, along with their two teachers from Gentry High School in Indianola, where nearly one in every four families lives below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Tuesday was the fourth day of their five-day visit in Aspen, which has about as much in common with the Mississippi Delta as a catfish has with a caribou. But that was the point of their visit — to experience a side of life they had only read about or seen on TV.
"I wasn't expecting to be so uplifted by what I've seen," said Cristian Young, 15, as he strapped on a pair of showshoes for the first time.
Minutes later, Claire Shope, a naturalist with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, would lead Young and other students and teachers from Gentry and Aspen high schools on a snowshoe tour atop Aspen Mountain.
The Gentry High students — selected by teacher Alexis White and school administrators based on their academic performance and behavior — made the Aspen visit as part of an experiential-education trip called "Aspen Immersion." Aspen High School's ExEd program had dispatched some of its students to the Mississippi Delta on four or five previous occasions, most recently in September, exposing the teenagers to an impoverished community where pupils use photo-copied textbooks and look through broken classroom windows held together by tape.
Aspen resident Leonard Lansburgh had taken some of those trips to the Deep South with the Aspen students. The experience moved him to bring some Mississippi teens to Colorado. Now retired, Lansburgh, along with some other supporters of Aspen's ExEd program, paid for the Mississippi students' trip to Aspen. The cost covered airfares, meals and other essentials. The visiting students stayed with Aspen host families.
"To see their faces is worth a million dollars," Lansburgh said. "They understand that they can be better, they can think bigger. That's what I want for them. Black, white, blue — we're all the same."
A trip of firsts
Tuesday's trip up Aspen Mountain started on the Silver Queen Gondola. The students had not ridden a gondola before, but the Sunday prior they took their first chairlift ride, up Buttermilk Mountain, where they took the first ski runs of their lives. Some pledged it would not be their last.
"I conquered my fear of heights and I learned how to ski," said Jaylen Brown, 16. "At first it was challenging and scary and I thought I was going to hurt myself. After a few times, I got going. And I want to do it again."
"I'm doing things that I never thought I could do, that I never thought I would do," said Carledia Jones at the Sundeck restaurant. "Like skiing, riding up the lift, riding the gondola. And I'm really afraid of heights, so I actually like the fact that I'm able to do something I've been afraid of."
She then paused for a moment. "I'm from the Mississippi Delta. Everything is flat. I've never been in the mountains."
On the snowshoe tour, they learned about Rocky Mountain wildlife, from black bears to mountain lions. Shope explained the effects climate change is having on Colorado and its environment, wildlife and recreation. She told them about avalanches, and how ski patrollers mitigate them with dynamite.
When the Mississippians weren't exploring outside — be it skiing, sledding, having a snowball fight or riding a snowcat on Aspen Mountain — they got a taste of Colorado cuisine inside. They dined on trout. They feasted on bison chili. One ate a raspberry for the first time.
They also attended classes at Aspen High.
"Their teachers have a lot more leniency because they students are more mature than they are at my school," Young said.
Jones noted that Mississippi is touted as the "Hospitality State, but I notice people are more welcoming here. They greet you a lot, and you just feel really welcome here."
And as Gentry world history teacher Clay Daniel observed, "Everybody is so sporty here."
Indeed, they weren't in Mississippi anymore.
"They've never experienced sitting at a fine restaurant and having to put napkins on your lap," said White, who teaches English at Gentry High. "Those are the types of experiences my students deserve but don't always get because of their economic realities."
White's belief, make that insistence, that her students can knock down the walls of their perceived limitations also has rubbed off on Aspen students who have gotten to know her.
"I've learned a lot about civil rights, and I've gotten close to their teacher Ms. White," said Cliara Sanchez, a senior at Aspen High who was named MVP of the girls varsity basketball team at its Monday banquet. "She is an amazing inspiration on all of these kids, even me. I aspire to be like Ms. White."
On Wednesday, the students left Aspen for a bus ride to Denver International Airport. For some, it would be their second trip on an airplane. Their first had come earlier that week.
Smith said part of the students' assignment was to share their Aspen experiences with family members, friends and fellow students.
Ultimately the trip's mission was to show the students there is a better life ahead should they pursue it, Smith said. The gaping differences between Indianola and Aspen had some skeptics concerned the visit could spark culture shock, or even an inferiority complex, for the visiting students. But Smith offered an opposite point of view.
"Some people were nervous about that and felt it would be too much for our students," she said. "But I think that's kind of asinine, because if my expectation from my classroom is you work hard for your future, how can I possibly ask you to work hard for something that you don't know exists? So our students, like students all over this country, need to know there are opportunities and options out there, and they need to know you can earn these opportunities through hard work."


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FILE – The TikTok logo is seen on a cell phone on Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. New research finds that TikTok's powerful algorithms are promoting videos…
FILE – The TikTok logo is seen on a cell phone on Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. New research finds that TikTok's powerful algorithms are promoting videos about self harm and eating disorders to teens. The findings come from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which created TikTok accounts for fictitious young people living in the U.S., Britain, Canada and Australia. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
Youngkin bans TikTok on state devices and state-run networks in Virginia
by: Tannock Blair
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order banning the use of certain China-owned smartphone applications and websites on all state government devices and networks in Virginia.
The order specifically bans TikTok and WeChat as part of a sweeping ban on all applications developed by ByteDance Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. Both technology companies are based in China.
The social media platforms will be banned from all state government devices and wireless networks. All businesses that contract with the state government will also be prohibited from using the applications on state-owned devices or IT infrastructure.
"TikTok and WeChat data are a channel to the Chinese Communist Party, and their continued presence represents a threat to national security, the intelligence community, and the personal privacy of every single American," Youngkin said. "We are taking this step today to secure state government devices and wireless networks from the threat of infiltration and ensure that we safeguard the data and cybersecurity of state government."
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Last week, 8News reported that Republican governors in at least six states have issued similar executive orders, including Maryland, Texas, South Carolina, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Last week, U.S. Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee in Congress, endorsed the steps other GOP states have taken.
"I think it's absolutely appropriate that more states are prohibiting employees from having TikTok on their government-issued devices," Warner said in a statement last week. "TikTok is legally beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, and not only does it collect an alarming amount of information on users, but it could one day be used as a kind of propaganda machine to sway the minds of Americans or spread misinformation."
Former President Donald Trump previously tried and failed to ban new downloads of TikTok, which President Joe Biden later replaced with another executive order directing an "evidence-based" analysis of apps like TikTok.
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A big THANK YOU to Mark from The Magical Storybox, Stef from Interpreters Dorset, Significance Sign Choir and Glen from Rainbow Arts Dorset CIC for so generously donating their time and services for our Family Friendly Festive Fundraiser that took place at Bournemouth Deaf Club on Saturday 15 December 2018. Our BSL interpreted magic show went down a treat with children and adults alike and the little ones loved the Christmassy glitter tattoos!
Click on the link below to see the lovely film produced by BBC South Today of our families performing a a beautiful version of Silent Night with our award winning sign choir Significance at the event. This film has now had over 11k views on Facebook!
We'd love to hold more family friendly events for d/Deaf and hearing children and families in 2019 but can only do it with your support. Thanks again to everyone who joined us, it was so lovely to meet you all.
There will be people available on the day to sign for those who are hard of hearing or deaf. This is a special opportunity for those who use sign language to gain access to therapies and readings that otherwise are out of their reach.
The price of each therapy and reading will be £15.
Join us for a 'Sign-a-Long' in Boscombe Chine Gardens!
Fancy joining our award winning Signing Choir 'Significance' for a 'Sign-a-Long' on Sunday 22 July?
We're aiming to bring the community together to help breakdown some of the barriers to communication and what better way to introduce families to BSL than to learn a song and simple signs, and perform along with the song TOGETHER! You'll have lots of fun while helping Wiltshire and Dorset Deaf Association to raise money to support our work teaching Deaf parents of young pupils to deliver Deaf Awareness & Communication training to local Nursery and Primary Schools in Dorset.
Wiltshire and Dorset Deaf Association is holding a family friendly fundraising and deaf awareness event 'Sign for Change' in Boscombe Chine Gardens (Christchurch Road end) on Sunday 22 July 2018 11am-4pm. We will be hosting a screening of the Oscar winning film 'The Silent Child' and introduction to BSL sessions inside the FOBGC Education Centre (next to the basketball court) alongside a vintage style tea party and refreshments throughout the day, a performance from our Signing Choir 'Significance' outside and a range of children's activities.