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What Happened to the Perry Bible Fellowship?
by Destiny, 10 Zen Monkeys
Interesting profile of a wacked-out creative genius. Assumes the reader's familiarity with the PBF comic (which is unfortunate, but easy to rectify).—JS
Nice Move, Mr. Bond, but How's Your Parking?
by James Schembari, New York Times
Driving school was a bore, but stunt driving school sounds awesome. Could this be a trend? Stunt DMV lines? Stunt dentistry? Stunt stories about your wife's work?—JS
The Rise of the Likable Jerk
by Ellen Gamerman, The Wall Street Journal
A profile of comedian Aziz Ansari. I enjoyed his brief stint on Scrubs, and I'm getting the feeling he might emerge as the best thing on the upcoming Parks and Recreation.—BK
To The Giant Among Us
by Terry Todd, Sports Illustrated
I first came across this December 1981 Sports Illustrated profile of Andre the Giant ten years ago or so, and I've read it at least once a year since then. It's one of the more interesting things you'll ever read, and it'll keep you in poop reading for about a week. Enjoy!—JM
The Little Fellow Who Ruled The World
by Simon Callow, The Guardian
Simon Callow (the actor, I can only assume) on a new Charlie Chaplin biography by Simon Louvish.—JM
7 Ridiculous Products Licensed by Major League Baseball
by Ethan Trex, mentalfloss.com
Oh, the Forest Face. Songs will be written about the glory of the Forest Face, and passed down from generation to generation.—BK
New NBC Slogans
Is "meh" a slogan, or more of a corporate statement of purpose?
The Weekly Log, 3/27/09
A sports team with stupid uniforms finally suffers real consequences; plus, trifling thoughts on "American Idol" and "Dollhouse."
Your Hair is Different
by Scott Adams, dilbert.com
Adams is always good with the helpful tips and tricks.—JS
Robert Downey, Jr.
by Chip Kidd, New York Times
It's great to see that my gay crush on RDJ can be equaled – but not exceeded – by that of Kidd, an actual gay man.—JS
You Are Not Your Brain
by Gordy Slack, Salon.com
An interview with philosopher Alva No� about the nature of human consciousness. I don't know about you, but I dig this sort of thing.—JM
Newspapers Are Dying, and Baseball Fans are Suffering
by Jim Caple, ESPN.com Page 2
Jim Caple takes a look at what the failures of newspapers, and the corresponding loss of baseball beat writers, means for the fan.—JM
Strasburg Is On the All-Time Fastest Track
by Steve Henson, Yahoo! Sports
A meaty profile of San Diego State pitcher Stephen Strasburg, who has clocked 103 mph on the radar gun and might someday throw the fastest pitch ever.—JM
What Your Favorite Movies Were Almost Called
by Kara Kovalchik, mentalfloss.com
Why you should be thankful you never got the chance to buy a ticket for Spaceman From Pluto, Take It Like a Man, or Anhedonia.—BK
Script Notes From the VP of Programming Following the Inevitable Purchase of the Spice Network By GE/NBC Universal
by Stephen Scaia, mcsweeneys.net
A pitch-perfect network notes satire that, given the subject matter, features just the right amount of comic restraint.—BK
Missing the Man Who Made Nicolas Cage a Star
by John Anderson, The Washington Post
I think the author is being a little too hard on Con Air (especially compared to Cage's recent offerings), but the rest is spot-on. It feels like that guy I loved so much in Raising Arizona doesn't even exist anymore.—BK
Oh, Mother!
by Hadley Freeman, guardian.co.uk
An interesting point wrapped in a shrill and well-worn package. (With a thorough misunderstanding of Back to the Future as a bonus!)—JS
Listening to Boredom
by Joseph Brodsky, Harper's Magazine
There's a tongue-in-cheek tone to this, but its message is sincere and very worthwhile.—JS
10 Simpsons episodes from the past 5 seasons that stand among the series' best
by A.V. Club staff, avclub.com
A.V. Club embraces its own onrushing irrelevance. "Aren't as bad as you think," maybe – but "among the series' best?" Not this jumble of non-actor cameos and lame film/TV spoofs, no way.—JS
The Folly of the "Hundred Days"
by David Greenberg, The Wall Street Journal
Why that particular benchmark has always been an unreliable indicator for presidential success.—BK
The Legend of Ken Mink
by Wright Thompson, ESPN.com
This ESPN "Outside the Lines" piece, which digs a little deeper into the peculiar story of a 73-year-old college basketball player, ought to keep you busy for quite a while.—JM
I Love You, Man
by Dana Stevens, Slate.com
I didn't get to see I Love You, Man this weekend; I had to settle for reading this review. Also, more people apparently decided that they'd rather see Knowing. Which I'm sure is fine, but... come on.—JM
You Don't Need Stats to Know Greatness. Meryl Taught Me That.
by Bill Simmons, ESPN the Magazine
The Sports Guy takes a shot at using sports-style statistical analysis to answer the question: Who is the greatest living actor? (Hat tip, Chris C.)—BK
Signs That You May Be Suffering From March Madness
Self-diagnosis in 25 easy steps. Remember, doctors say early detection is the key.
Interview: Paul Rudd and Jason Segel
by Scott Tobias, avclub.com
No, we're not being paid from the I Love You, Man promotional budget. Just thought I ought to make that clear.—JS
Herlihy Boy House-Sitting Service
by "SNL" Transcripts
Maybe not among their all-time best, but I've always had a fondness for this sketch (and we've got a lot of years to fill, here; no use wasting all the primo links up front).—JS
Too Many Kiddie Cooks Spoil the Broth
by Regina Schrambling, Slate.com
A "kiddie foodie movement?" This can't possibly be a thing, can it?—JM
My Year Of Flops, Norm MacDonald�s Film Career Died For Your Sins Case File #133: Dirty Work
by Nathan Rabin, The Onion A.V. Club
I've got a VHS copy of Dirty Work, and I personally got it signed by both Norm Macdonald and Artie Lange. I figured I'd mention that now, since opportunities to mention it don't come up all that often.—JM
How Jon Stewart Went Bad
by Tucker Carlson, The Daily Beast
A guy who knows from the wrath of Jon Stewart weighs in. Unsurprisingly, Tucker Carlson has some critical things to say about "The Daily Show" host, some of which need to be said. Still, it'll always be fun to watch Jon Stewart yell at people.—JM
For Sale: The $100 House
by Toby Barlow, New York Times
Two ways to look at this: in a gloomy economy, all sorts of innovative ideas take root; or, my God, living in Detroit is about to get even worse.—JS
My 2009 Bracket, Part Two
In which you find out who I pick to win it all. And I know the suspense has been killing you.
Bracket Mania: Greatest Movie Lines of All Time
by Jim Caple, ESPN Page 2
As always with these kind of things, you might quibble with the choices, but you can't dispute the greatness of the idea. And man, is that Sports Region tough.—BK
Ben Affleck: A Smart, Talented Man Trapped in Lindsay Lohan's Life
by Tom Chiarella, Esquire Magazine
The Catch-22 of all celebrity is that we want to feel like we know these people, but the reality of the circumstances makes that inherently impossible. And the Catch-22 of this profile is that it makes you feel like you know Ben Affleck.—BK
by Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker
Exploring the concept of baseball stadiums as architecture via a look at the new Yankee Stadium and Citi Field.—BK
My 2009 Bracket, Part One
This'll get us to the Sweet Sixteen; tomorrow I'll take us the rest of the way.
The Hot Seat: Jason Segel
by Drew Toal, Time Out New York
A quick interview about Friday's I Love You, Man – oh, who am I kidding? This is linked because it mentions Paul Rudd's penis.—JS
Mock Web sites stretch TV gags
by Jake Coyle, AP
Conan's hornymanatee.com and the many sites from How I Met Your Mother (the "William Faulkner of sitcoms!").—JS
Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace
by James Tanner, kottke.org
A guide to laying out your thoughts like the late genius of the run-on sentence.—JS
Paul Rudd: Everybody's Buddy
by Joel Stein, Time Magazine
As usual, you have to ignore Stein's annoying penchant for inserting himself into the story, but you'll be rewarded with some nice Rudd details (he went to college with Joe Buck and Jon Hamm?!).—BK
"Watchmen" vs. "Incredibles": No Contest
by Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun
I haven't seen Watchmen, so I can't comment. As the parent of a two-year-old, however, I have seen The Incredibles roughly 9,000 times in the last six months, and I look forward to viewing #9,001.—JM
Watching Stewart-v-Cramer With Wall Streeters and Working Folks
by John Nichols, The Nation
Whatever your political views – and mine are not Jon Stewart's – it's nice to see Jon Stewart just get in there and kick ass once in a while.—JM
The Brokest Generation
by Mark Steyn, National Review
Mark Steyn is definitely an alarmist, but he's an alarmist who entertains the heck out of me. Plus he always keeps things light, just how we like it here.—JM
Chien-Ming Wang Headlines That Less Mature Sports Editors Could Try to Run During Spring Training 2009
Levels of sexual innuendo not seen since the heyday of Minnesota Twins outfielder Randy Bush.
Sex, anarchy and Russell Brand
by Joy Press, salon.com
I didn't want to like Brand, the whole time he was winning me over in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Since then, despite his style and appearance, he's only grown on me.—JS
To My Special Friend Gordon: 25 DVDs
by Ian Drury, The Daily Mail
Barack Obama gave British PM Gordon Brown 25 movies on DVD (and they apparently weren't formatted for European DVD players). Thank God Bush isn't around anymore; he might have given Brown something stupid.—JM
Honkballing Dutch Deliver KO Blow For the Ages
The Netherlands eliminating the Dominican Republic from the World Baseball Classic? That's almost like... well... see, this is hard, because if it were any other impossibly massive upset, you'd say, "That's almost like if the Netherlands eliminated the Dominican Republic from the World Baseball Classic!"—JM
5 Failed McDonald's Menu Items
by Jane McGrath, howstuffworks.com
By all rights, the McRib should be on this list. Fellow PoopReading contributor Mike Wagner and I have a theory that the limited-release schedule of the McRib is controlled by the government, as a way of thinning out the U.S. population.—BK
What Tim Geithner Can Learn From Baseball
by Nate Silver, Esquire Magazine
Silver gets back to his roots with a look at how smarter management has fostered a financial revolution in baseball.—BK
Life After Gilmore Girls: Egg Salad, Adelaide, and All
by Joanne Kaufman, The Wall Street Journal
The wonderful Lauren Graham talks about the wonderful Gilmore Girls and other stuff that's just alright.—BK
by D.T. Max, The New Yorker
How writer/director Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Duplicity) works to find new ways to surprise jaded movie audiences.—BK
The All-Time Baseball Movie Team
by Daniel Utts, rootzoo.com
The awesomeness of the idea is diminished a little by the author's atrocious spelling.—BK
by Troy Patterson, slate.com
In all the Barbie hullabaloo, Ken continues to be ignored. (Probably for the best, considering he's dickless and his namesake is actually Barbie's brother.)—JS
Some Post-Oscar Thoughts on Forecasting
by Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
Unsurprisingly, Silver found it more difficult to predict the votes of fickle, ill-informed Academy members compared to the fickle, ill-informed electorate as a whole.—JS
Getting the Ax – It's Awesome
by Joel Stein, Los Angeles Times
Joel Stein writes about the phenomenon of the Adam Carolla podcast. I keep telling you people. I keep telling you...—JM
A.V. Club Interview: Nathan Fillion
by Steve Heisler, avclub.com
One of our underappreciated favorites talks about Joss Whedon, comedy, his early soap opera work, and his new ABC show Castle.—BK
Least Popular Versions of the Barbie Doll
Let's just say that mistakes were made.
The Weekly Log, 3/6/09
To welcome my second daughter into the world I've got some parenting tips; and for no reason in particular I've got a slight bone to pick with the movie In Bruges.
How Google Is Making Us Smarter
by Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine
Exporting our memory (phone numbers to our cell phone, addresses to Google, facts to Wikipedia) means dramatically increasing our storage space. More memory equals smarter.—JS
Ye Olde Social Network
by David Roth, slate.com
Friendster has been taken over by robots and Asians. I remember hearing the Brazilians took Orkut. Stories like these prevent me from ever embracing Facebook. (Also, it's utterly pointless.)—JS
Phil's Favorite 100 Movies of All Time
by Phil Villarreal, Arizona Daily Star
It doesn't even matter who Phil is. Everybody should write this list and put it on the internet. But since I'm not going to, here's Phil's.—JM
The Internet Is Changing the Game For Celebrities
by Patricio Robles, Econsultancy
Adam Carolla's podcast is apparently #1 on iTunes after less than two weeks. I told you people about him, did I not?—JM
My Year Of Flops, Kicking A Man While He's Down Case File #132: The Love Guru
by Nathan Rabin, avclub.com
A second look at the project that killed the Mike Myers comedy dynasty. Conclusion: it still stinks.—BK
The Year NBA Teams Quit Early
by Matthew Futterman, The Wall Street Journal
How revenue concerns and bloated contracts have most NBA teams watching from the sidelines this season.—BK
Where the Neon Lights Are Bright - And Drivers Are No Longer Welcome
by Nick Summers, Newsweek
New York City is experimenting with closing streets to reduce traffic jams, and if it works, it may be coming to a city near you.—BK
by James Parker, The Atlantic
What does Guitar Hero's popularity mean for the future of rock and roll?—BK
"Did Babe Ruth Take Asteroids?"
A little kid's question at the Baseball Hall of Fame prompts a father to conclude that the job of the Hall of Fame voter is not the same as the job of a dad.
What Should I Do with My Life, Now?
by Po Bronson, fastcompany.com
The original article sounds interesting, but this recap/extension hits the high points succinctly.—JS
The Afterlife of Glamorous Things
by Suzanne Strempek Shea, Obit Magazine
How iconic pieces of film history end up as expensive collector's items.—BK
Melting Pot of Melodrama Enthralls French Nightly
by Steven Erlanger, The New York Times
Those French people think they're so hot, but you know what? They're not.—JM
World War II Warning
I may be the only person who remembers this Saturday Night Live sketch from 1996, and that includes the people who wrote and performed it. Nevertheless, it deserves to be acknowledged as a classic.—JM
A Skeptic's Take On the Public Misunderstanding of Darwin
by Michael Shermer, Scientific American
The terms "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest" have been cause for confusion among some people, apparently.—JM
What's a Hulu? The Origins of 8 High-Tech Names
by Rob Lammle, mental_floss
Offering up an alternate universe where people "Bongo" their favorite TV shows and communicate with a LeapFrog.—BK


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This Is Kay Oyegun
Sometimes life is stranger than fiction. But for alumna Kay Oyegun, sometimes life becomes fiction. As a writer of the beloved TV show "This Is Us," Oyegun has helped to create authentic characters and spellbinding storylines grown from her own experiences. The result: critical acclaim and more demand than ever to share her voice.
Ervin Dyer
Photography courtesy of
Paramount Studios and Getty Images
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Kay Oyegun arrives at Paramount Studios a few minutes before 10 a.m. Earlier, at home, she finished her morning devotionals—prayer is a key part of her faith and routine. But now she's preparing for another form of devotion.
She settles into a conference room with 12 other writers and creatives. All of them huddle around a long, white conference table, many holding a cup of coffee. Ideally, the caffeine will help jolt their imaginations—because what's about to transpire in this room will touch millions upon millions of lives.
The eclectic group will be doing what they call "breaking an episode," which is developing the specific, character-driven, emotional details that give life and soul to the family members of the NBC drama series "This Is Us," one of television's most critically acclaimed programs.
"This Is Us" tracks the fictitious lives of Jack and Rebecca's three children who were born and raised in Pittsburgh. It premiered in 2016; and, since then, the series and its actors have garnered many of the industry's most coveted accolades, including Emmy, Golden Globe, Critics Choice, People's Choice, Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America awards.
Oyegun (A&S '10, BUS '10) has been there from the beginning—starting as a staff writer and rising to her current role as co-executive producer and writer. But she isn't stopping to bask in her success just yet. In fact, she's working harder than ever.
Oyegun, who's written for the Oprah Winfrey Network's popular family drama "Queen Sugar," was recently selected for NBCUniversal's Female Forward and Emerging Director programs. She's using her talents to adapt two best-selling novels to screen: "Children of Blood and Bone" for Lucasfilm, Fox and Disney and "On the Come Up" for Paramount. And she recently wrote and sold two screenplays—one to HBO Max and the other to Paramount.
As her accomplishments mount, her voice, and the life experiences that formed it, are finding new significance in the media landscape.
Oyegun's own story began far from Hollywood and far from Pittsburgh. Her early roots were laid in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria. That's where she would often retreat into the quiet of her room as a way to escape her brothers and the world's noise. She surrounded herself with dolls and stuffed animals and commanded them to come alive.
Barbie became a talk show host, chatting to an audience of plush characters who were seemingly so enthralled that they never blinked. Barbie may have been speaking, but it was Oyegun's voice, her stories, that filled the room. When Oyegun wasn't having Barbie host a show, she was parked in front of the television, absorbing her favorite show, "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," learning parts of the American story.
At the same time, Oyegun was also pounding out what she calls "weird, terrible" stories onto a floppy disk, dreaming of becoming a novelist. She was drawn into the magic of stories, their open possibilities.
When she was 10, she took her dreams with her to the United States when her mother moved the family to North Philadelphia. As the family transitioned into a new culture, some days were tougher than others. Oyegun remembers walking miles to the store to save on bus fare and carrying grocery bags for so long they felt as if they were cutting into her fingers. At times, the family relied on relatives and friends for shelter.
But it wasn't long before Oyegun was accepted to the Milton Hershey School, a prestigious boarding school for students from low-income families. On its leafy, sprawling campus, about 90 miles from North Philadelphia, the shy eighth-grader reinvented herself, becoming independent, inspired and driven.
Oyegun befriended a spirited drama teacher, Janice Stewart, who introduced her to Tennessee Williams, Shakespeare and James Baldwin. They spent hours talking about "Hamlet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and classic story structure. Under her instructor's tutelage, the young woman created, performed and transformed. She was Calpurnia in "To Kill a Mockingbird." She was Ishmael in "Moby Dick." She was a new person reaching for new heights.
Before Hershey, Oyegun says, so much of her childhood in America "had been about survival and that the idea of taking a break to consume art and literature was something she never imagined." But Stewart gave Oyegun a chance to "live with" and "touch American culture." She gained a level of confidence and self-possession that made her feel less like an outsider and more like a citizen of her new home.
When she was 18, a confident Oyegun, who graduated second in her class at the Milton Hershey School, charged into Pitt. Although high school had given her a deepened appreciation for the arts and a fondness for storytelling, she now set her sights on a career in medicine, influenced, in part, by family expectations.
She leaped into a load of chemistry and biology classes. Yet, she felt disconnected from the lessons, like she was "learning an extraterrestrial language." The science classes did give her a chance to bond with a group of determined and aspirational African and Caribbean female students, however. They would sit in the front of their classes, study together and spend a ton of time in the library.
These classmates recall Oyegun as the creative bookworm who excelled at trivia, knew all of the actresses, could recite lines from movies, liked concerts and poetry slams, and possessed a wicked sarcasm. Early on, they saw the signs of Oyegun's brilliance with arts and writing.
So, when Oyegun decided to follow her heart and leave her medical studies, it surprised no one that she pivoted to journalism and business, along with film studies and digital media.
"I loved Pitt," she says. It was a place that allowed her to move forward as "a person who loves words."
She served as a writer for The Pitt News, where she was drawn to human-interest stories that captured struggles and triumphs. In her classes, particularly those in Africana studies, she explored the complexities of the human experience and how so much of it transcends differences of geography, class or gender. Those ideas, she says, broadened her sense of what makes a story universal and eventually helped to shape her career, putting her firmly back in touch with that little girl who dreamed of writing.
Oyegun's Pitt studies helped her land an internship with CBS News in New York in 2008. In the heart of where news happens, she saw the excitement in the control room generated by that year's presidential election. As the votes were counted, she said to herself: "This is what I want. Everything about this is what I want to do forever."
She seized on that goal. Right after graduation, she moved to New York, sharing an apartment with a bunch of strangers she met on Craigslist and working at the headquarters of "NBC Nightly News." She also did stints at NBC's "Today" show and "Weekend Today."
It was a young storyteller's joy. She was engaged in story development from beginning to end, learning to write, shoot video and assist in editing. Just like at Pitt, she was drawn to human stories. She did reports on the rescued Chilean miners, the Ground Zero mosque, the nation's first hand transplant—even Octomom.
"The news, the news world and the newsroom, was something that fed me in a way that I absolutely adored," she says. The work strengthened her ability to focus on characters and build storylines that connect with the human heart.
Yet, she yearned to use more of her voice, her creativity, to share more of all she had felt and experienced. So, as she's done for much of her life, on a leap of faith, she left New York and, in 2013, earned a graduate degree at the University of Southern California's Peter Stark Producing Program, formalizing her education in film and television. There in Los Angeles, in what she describes as "a town full of optimism and heartbreak," Oyegun continued to push herself creatively.
In 2016, she earned a job writing for "This Is Us."
Now, when she sits down in the Paramount Studios writers' room, all of who she is, where she's from, what she's done, comes to the table.
Many times, her experiences and perspectives on race and culture and dimensions of faith and spirituality show up in the character Randall, played by the actor Sterling K. Brown, one of the show's protagonists. He's a Black man who was adopted by the Pearsons, a white couple, the day he was born. Many of the ideas that Oyegun has brought to the table show Randall's emotional core: his excitement about the possibility of enrolling at the historically Black college Howard University; his decision, as an adult, to move his family from the suburbs to Philadelphia; his struggle with mental health and seeking a therapist.
For the show's fall 2020 season opener, Oyegun helped to craft a poignant, sorrowful storyline where Randall reflects on the country's long history of police violence against Black men.
In the scene, Randall is distraught over the killing of George Floyd. While sitting on the front steps of his home, the adult Randall, speaking with his daughter's boyfriend, recalls an event that happened in Pittsburgh in 1995—the police killing of Black businessman Jonny Gammage. Randall was a young teenager then and remembers the silence in the Pearson home surrounding the incident.
"He was driving home one night in this fancy car," Randall says in the episode. "Cops tried to pull him over for an expired registration. He ended up getting pinned down by five of them for resisting arrest. He died right there."
The fateful night became a flashpoint for Black people in Pittsburgh and beyond and resonated for Oyegun, who was then living in Philadelphia. She—alongside writer Jake Schnesel and series creator Dan Fogelman—are credited with developing the two-hour, season-four premiere, which featured Randall's reckoning with race. The week it premiered, the episode garnered 10.56 million viewers, bested by only three NFL contests and the deciding game of the World Series in the overall TV rankings.
"Jonny's life and story have been on my heart for years," she says. And now his story is on the heart of more than 10 million viewers.
Oyegun also has personal imprints on episodes that explore class distinctions in the Black community, the immigrant experience and what it feels to be a young girl.
She draws from the story of her mother, who once worked as an administrator with a Nigerian petroleum corporation and had to start over with a low-wage position at a gas station upon moving to the United States. Her family eventually settled in; her mom is now a nurse. But Oyegun hasn't forgotten having to navigate being both Nigerian and American, when even a native accent can cause isolation.
Although life has given her a new perspective, as an adolescent in a new country, she once felt that "the minute you open your mouth, everyone thinks you're either dumb or confused, and you're not any of those things," she says. "It was very alienating."
Helping to tell the stories of Black life in America, says Oyegun, is a mission. "I want Black people to see the show and feel affirmed—to feel seen, to feel connected to the material." She can do this with "This Is Us," she says, because the writers' table is a safe space. Oyegun doesn't feel "othered" in the openness there and acknowledges that while her story pitches get filtered through her lens on life—as a Black woman, a Nigerian woman, a Christian woman—she's also able to link to what she calls the broader "human stories that are connecting people together."
Similarly, she makes contributions beyond the show's African American characters, too; but, she points out, "As writers, as producers, we all hold a space in the show and there are things that are particular on our hearts that we want to share and engage with, and also be protective over."
Oyegun takes all that and more to the conference table at Paramount Studios as she meets with a diverse collage of writers. In the room are two massive whiteboards. Each is jumbled with a display of differently colored note cards, which are assigned to each "This Is Us" character, tracking the stories and timelines that reach back to 1940.
For sometimes hours a day, Oyegun sits with the other writers as they toss out a thousand little pieces of themselves, using the fragments to assemble the whole, complex stories of the Pearsons' lives.
"As we write," Oyegun says, "we cry."
But it's not all tears. As opportunities expand for Oyegun, she's scripting comedy, fantasy thrillers, a biography and book adaptations. Hollywood is hearing her but, she says, she won't be limited by her own experiences. A good writer hunts down the universal.
"For the longest time, I always looked for a point of view that was similar to mine. I was always drawn to people and characters who are struggling to do the right thing, who are struggling to find the best version of themselves. I'm always drawn to characters and stories where people aren't quite getting it right, but they desperately want to. Those are the things that I always gravitated toward. Those are the places where I can still see myself in a lot of ways."
This is Kay Oyegun—and it's just one of the stories she's using her voice to tell.
This article appears in the Spring 2021 edition of Pitt Magazine.

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package farmsim.entities.predators;

import farmsim.Viewport;
import farmsim.ViewportNotSetException;
import farmsim.tasks.KillPredatorTask;
import farmsim.tasks.TaskManager;
import farmsim.util.Point;
import farmsim.world.DayNight;
import farmsim.world.World;
import farmsim.world.WorldManager;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;

/**
 * Predator Manager Manages all predators in the game world
 *
 * @author r-portas
 */

public class PredatorManager {

	private int enabled = 1;

	// The maximum number of predators that can exist at any given time
	private int maxPredators = 6;

    private static final Logger logger =
            LoggerFactory.getLogger(PredatorManager.class);
    // The current game world
    private World world;
    // The viewport, used to spawn the predators only on the screen
    private Viewport viewport;
    // Set used to store current predators in the game world
    private List<Predator> predators;
    // A timer to count upwards to timerCounter
    private int timer;
    // The max value the timer reaches before resetting
    private int timerCutoff;
    // World size of the game, assuming world size is square
    private int worldSizeX;
    private int worldSizeY;
    // The random generator
    private Random randGenerator;
    // Handles converting the coordinates
    private ViewportTranslator translator;
    // Handles getting the locations to spawn
    private PredatorSpawner spawner;
    // Handles the config file
    private PredatorConfigLoader configLoader;

    /**
     * Creates a PredatorManager instance, note that only one instance should exist at any given time
     */
    public PredatorManager() {
        translator = new ViewportTranslator();
        spawner = new PredatorSpawner(translator);
        configLoader = new PredatorConfigLoader();
        configLoader.loadFile(
                "src/main/java/farmsim/entities/predators/predator.config");

        predators = Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList<Predator>());
        randGenerator = new Random();
        timer = 0;
        timerCutoff = 200;
        try {
            world = WorldManager.getInstance().getWorld();
            worldSizeX = world.getWidth();
            worldSizeY = world.getHeight();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // This is caused if WorldManager cannot be loaded
            setWorldSize(2, 2);
        }

    }

    /*
     * Removes all predators from the PredatorManager
     */
    public void removeAllPredators() {
        predators = Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList<Predator>());
    }

    /**
     * Sets the viewport for the predator manager
     *
     * @param viewport The viewport to set
     */
    public void setViewport(Viewport viewport) {
        this.viewport = viewport;
        translator.setViewport(viewport);
    }

    /**
     * Disable predators
     */
    public void disablePredators() {
        enabled = 0;
    }

    /**
     * Enables predators
     */
    public void enablePredators() {
        enabled = 1;
    }

    /**
     * Gets the status of the predators
     * 1 if enabled, 0 if disabled
     *
     * @return enabled The status of the predators
     */
    public int getPredatorStatus() {
        return enabled;
    }

    /**
     * Gets the timer value, which represents the delay
     * between the random spawning function
     *
     * @return the timer value
     */
    public int getTimer() {
        return timerCutoff;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the timer for the random spawn delay is in ticks
     */
    public void setTimer(int delay) {
        timerCutoff = delay;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the bound for the world in respect to the random spawn.
     */
    public void setWorldSize(int x, int y) {
        worldSizeX = x;
        worldSizeY = y;
    }

    /**
     * Gets the world size from the world manager
     */
    public void refreshWorldSize() {
        worldSizeX = world.getWidth();
        worldSizeY = world.getHeight();
    }

    /**
     * This is used for junit testing so that we can test that the size is being set correctly
     *
     * @return worldSize
     */
    public List<Integer> getWorldSize() {
        List<Integer> out = new ArrayList<>();
        out.add(worldSizeX);
        out.add(worldSizeY);
        return out;
    }

    /**
     * Adds a predator to the manager
     */
    public void createPredator(Predator predator) {
        synchronized (predators) {
            predators.add(predator);
        }
        // Add new KillPredatorTask to TaskManager
        World world = WorldManager.getInstance().getWorld();
        int startingX = (int) Math.round(predator.getLocation().getX());
        int startingY = (int) Math.round(predator.getLocation().getY());
        try {
        KillPredatorTask task = new KillPredatorTask(predator, startingX,
                startingY, world, "Kill " + predator.toString());
        TaskManager.getInstance().addTask(task);
        } catch (Exception e) {
        	// Only an issue when unit testing
        }
    }

    /**
     * A simple method to create predators
     *
     * @param name The shortname of the predator, options are 'wolf', 'bear', 'mole', 'alligator' and 'rabbit'
     */
    public void spawnPredator(String name) {
        Predator pred;
        Point spawnLoc = spawner.getRandomSpawnLocation();
        switch (name) {
            case "rabbit":
                pred = new RabbitPredator(spawnLoc.getX(), spawnLoc.getY(), 100,
                        0.1);
                createPredator(pred);
                break;

            case "wolf":
                // Replace x and y with spawnLoc when fixed
                pred = new WolfPredator(spawnLoc.getX(), spawnLoc.getY(), 100,
                        0.1);
                createPredator(pred);
                break;
            case "bear":
                pred = new BearPredator(spawnLoc.getX(), spawnLoc.getY(), 100,
                        0.1);
                createPredator(pred);
                break;
            case "mole":
                pred = new MolePredator(spawnLoc.getX(), spawnLoc.getY(), 100,
                        0.1);
                createPredator(pred);
                break;
            case "alligator":
                pred = new AlligatorPredator(spawnLoc.getX(), spawnLoc.getY(),
                        100, 0.1);
                createPredator(pred);
                break;
            default:
                // No matching commands
                break;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Removes the given predator from the predator manager
     *
     * @param predator The predator to remove
     */
    public void removePredator(Predator predator) {
        synchronized (predators) {
            predators.remove(predator);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Removes old predators from the game
     * This is usually called within the tick of the predator manager
     */
    public void removeOldPredators() {
        synchronized (predators) {
            for (Predator predator : predators) {
                if (predator.canDestroy()) {
                    predators.remove(predator);
                }
            }
        }

    }

    /**
     * Gets the count of current predators in the game
     *
     * @return Returns the number of predators in the game
     */
    public int getPredatorCount() {
        return predators.size();
    }

    /**
     * Gets a set of all predators that are currently in the game
     *
     * @return Returns a list of predators
     */
    public List<Predator> getPredators() {
        return predators;
    }

    /**
     * Acts as a entry point for the test suite
     *
     * @return
     */
    public Point getDebugSpawn() {
        return spawner.getRandomSpawnLocation();
    }

    /**
     * Handles the ticking and the spawn checking
     */
    public void tick() throws ViewportNotSetException {
        if (enabled == 1) {
            if (viewport == null) {
                throw new ViewportNotSetException();
            }
    		// First clean up old predators
    		removeOldPredators();

    		synchronized (predators) {
    			for (Predator predator : predators) {

    	            predator.tick(viewport);
    	        }
			}

	        // We will proabably want to implement the random spawn function here
	        if (timer > timerCutoff){
	            timer = 0;

	            int chance = 10; // 10% chance of spawning
//	            chance = 100; //here for testing
	            int var = randGenerator.nextInt(100);

	            if (!WorldManager.getInstance().getWorld().getTimeManager().isDay()){
	            	chance = 20; // Double the chance of spawning when it's night
	            }

	            if (var < chance && getPredatorCount() < maxPredators){
	            	Point spawnloc = spawner.getRandomSpawnLocation();
	            	double x = spawnloc.getX();
	            	double y = spawnloc.getY();

	            	int whichAnimal = randGenerator.nextInt(4);

	            	Predator p;

	            	switch (whichAnimal){
	            	case 0:
	            		try {
	            			p = new BearPredator(x, y,
	            					Integer.valueOf(configLoader.getPredatorAttribute("bear", "health")),
	            					Integer.valueOf(configLoader.getPredatorAttribute("bear", "speed")));
	            		} catch (Exception e) {
	            			p = new BearPredator(x, y, 100, 0.1);
	            		}
			            createPredator(p);
	            		break;
	            	case 1:
	            		try {
	            			p = new WolfPredator(x, y,
	            					Integer.valueOf(configLoader.getPredatorAttribute("wolf", "health")),
	            					Integer.valueOf(configLoader.getPredatorAttribute("wolf", "speed")));
	            		} catch (Exception e) {
	            			p = new WolfPredator(x, y, 100, 0.1);
	            		}
			            createPredator(p);
	            		break;
	            	case 2:
						try {
							p = new RabbitPredator(x, y,
									Integer.valueOf(configLoader.getPredatorAttribute("rabbit", "health")),
									Integer.valueOf(configLoader.getPredatorAttribute("rabbit", "speed")));
						} catch (Exception e) {
							p = new RabbitPredator(x, y, 100, 0.1);
						}
	            		createPredator(p);
						break;
					case 3:
						try {
							p = new MolePredator(x, y,
									Integer.valueOf(configLoader.getPredatorAttribute("mole", "health")),
									Integer.valueOf(configLoader.getPredatorAttribute("mole", "speed")));
						} catch (Exception e) {
							p = new MolePredator(x, y, 100, 0.1);
						}
						createPredator(p);
						break;
	            	}
	            }
	        }
	        timer += 1;
    	}
    }
}

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I'm really interested in writing fiction and this website i would imagine is a good place to just share material and idea's with each other. As i am not a connoisseur at writing i would like somewhere to improve, maybe i won't use correct grammar and punctuation properly but i mainly try to get my point across in one way or another when writing something.
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Q: v.8.4.1.1 .net Unexpected crashing of the program caused by frequent checking of the check boxes in the Print Preview Window Flow:

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*User program call the PrintPreview() method: PrintPreview("User header", "", false);

*User access the PrintPreview Page

*Unexpected crashing(System.ArgumentException) of the program appears when:

Case 1. Check the checkbox "Use background fill"
Case 2. Frequent checking of the preview checkbox options in the "Content" region

*

*Keep aspect ratio

*Use background fill

*Use graph fill

*Double resolution
Checkbox options in the PrintPreview Page
Any possible solutions? Many thanks.

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November 5, 1934 - New York - The Tricky Mister - close to midnight
"You want me to rob a bank?!?" said Joey in surprise, suddenly realizing his voice was a little louder than he would've wanted to. He quickly scouted the room and was relieved to see no one seemed to have heard him. The Tricky Mister wasn't really crowded on that late week night.
His interlocutor though didn't seem to bother much about this situation. He was a middle age slim man in a dark pin striped suit, sitting relaxed across the table with both hands crossed in front of him. His tie was straight, his jacket fully buttoned up, his hair posed a clean arrangement on a side. A short and perfectly cut mustache was framing a slightly prankish smile, as his eyes were thoroughly scouting Bane's reactions. Although his attitude was loose, he seemed to be the kind of man who always likes to keep himself sharp.
After a short moment of silence he slowly lowered his look, shaking his head in an almost imperceptible move, miming a disappointment gesture. "Mr. Bane" he continued in a low voice "that is…'come si dice'…" snaps his fingers "ILLEGAL!" He rose back up his eyes. "We are not asking you to do anything against the law, but only to acquire the possession of some documents that actually regard US. It just happens that these papers are currently stored in a safe deposit box inside the National Bank and since we have already attained this piece of information, we believed it would be helpful to pass it on to you, in order to make your work easier. However you will decide to retrieve these documents, it is entirely up to you." He stopped, straightened up his back and took a sip out of the wine glass he had ordered. "Exquisite flavor, Mr. Bane, you should give it a try."
"Ya, well…I'm more the whiskey type of man. Now…Mr…"
"Funny thing though…" he mumbled while stepping out in the street, in the chill of the night. "They've let go of the whole 'Mona' issue too easy. I can't help wondering why…"
"Hey, Bane…" Whispers said looking down to the back of an alley. "That looks like…your car!"
Indeed it was Joey's car. "Mona…" Bane grumbled. "She used to live here. I thought she had sold this place long ago." He approached the car carefully. It was empty. Then he decided to go upstairs. He noticed the door to her old apartment was open. He entered…then stopped in the frame. In the middle of the now apparently deserted apartment he saw…Mona's corpse. Her throat was deep cut, ear to ear. "I now understand why they didn't care what happened to her. Damn…" Bane exited closing the door with care. Some words he had heard in the past came now back in his mind: 'they never forget and never forgive'…
Bane walked down the stairs trying to find a feeling of sorrow about her death. There wasn't any. "Damn…what the hell am I turning into?" he mumbled in his usual manner.
"She's gone. She's now history…" said him to Whispers upon reaching the alley. He stepped up to get in his car, but stopped noticing the trunk was not entirely closed. He opened it up. His eyes got wide open as he realized he was staring at a bag full of dough. "Damn!" exclaimed he remembering what Barresi had told him. "These must've been Smiley's greens."
A few days after Bane was comfortably sitting in a street café, thinking about how everything turned out fine. Smiley's 'life gatherings' turned out to be a whole load of cash. Bane split it in three: Rose, Whispers and he. Whispers was happy with both paying back Joey's owed favor and also end up with full pockets. Rose was now also set. Bane fixed her up temporarily at Maria's and she had enough money to live a good life for a couple of years. He also did not end up too bad. His life was now quiet and he could afford to lose time. "I hope I ain't gonna get my arse into trouble again…"
The End...or...was it?
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Rose stood at the docks, looking out over the smoky dirty water. Maria stood beside her, cigarette abandoned as she held Rose in a tight hug. The child was shocked. No one had ever given her anything like this. Especially Maria, who didn't think to show her love. But the two girls had become close as Maria nursed Rose back to health after her time with the mob. She still had a bruise on her forehead and a scar on her arm, but they would fade eventually and all that would be left were memories.
Rose felt the wad of money in the pocket of the jacket that Maria had given to her on her first day in New York. Now it was going to make the long trip back to Paris with her. She looked back at the city she was leaving behind, wondering if she'd ever return. Suddenly there was a shadow at her side and Joey was standing above her.
"See ya kid, safe journey and all that"
"Merci monsieur. I'm going home now" Rose replied.
"Aw Rose, I sorta thought New York was your home now."
She thought about this for a while, but shook her head, knowing she couldn't live in New York, Paris was her home.
"You know kid, if you were to stay here, I could probably help you find work somewhere. You were pretty good helping me with that case; I reckon you'd make a good detective"
A detective! Rose felt warmth spread throughout her body. She had secretly been hoping Joey would ask her to stay with him, so she could sneak around and always feel like there was a place she belonged, she didn't like feeling idle. But why did he have to ask her now, just as she was leaving.
Looking towards the ship that was meant to be carrying her home; she felt nothing inside her. No excitement, no warmth. Looking back towards New York and Joey and Maria, she felt a tiny flicker of fire deep inside her belly.
"Monsieur Joey," she said, looking up into his eyes.
"Kid" he said, looking down on her.
"I think you just won me over."
And with nothing more than that, she turned on her heel and, with Joey and Maria in tow, walked back towards home
Joseph Zeo
Early November snow. Winter was longer here up north, but JC didn't mind, especially now that Kristen was finally recovering. The operation went smoothly; JC made sure she got the best treatment money could buy. JC was even considering marrying the woman. The old chap couldn't believe it himself either, finally settling down after years in various 'businesses'. Perhaps his old bones were getting weary. He wonder how long this weariness would last.
Kristen had returned from the hospital and was resting upstairs. JC poured himself a liberal shot of the Macallan single malt, and savoured the memory of good old times the drink bought to his mind. He wondered how his old partner was doing. Given Joey resilience to all kinds of troubles and JC's little parting gift, he was sure the former boxer could stay in the ring for many matches to come. The fire was crackling in the hearth. JC looked onto the snow outside and smiled.


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Samsung is ready to launch its first smartphone with four reversing cameras, the Galaxy A9 (2018), in India in November. The future smartphone is now listed on the brand website in India. In addition, a device microsite has been introduced to allow interested customers to register for the launch date and availability of the Galaxy A9 in the country.
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The Biennale of Western Balkans (BoWB) and its year-round programme present 'Art Pluriverse', a series of community-driven annual editions combining intangible cultural heritage with art and open knowledge.
Biennale of Western Balkans (BoWB)
BoWB, is announcing its upcoming digital programme, entitled Art Pluriverse: A Community Science Series. As the second edition of the Biennale, that was going to take place in Ioannina, Greece in October 2020, had to be postponed, the organisation sets a month of digital events, as part of its year-round programme. Art Pluriverse is the title of a community science series about intangible cultural heritage, starting in December 2020. The official website will be launched on September 17th and the programme will be open to the public on December 3rd.
Embracing digital cultural heritage and our current reality, the Biennale will present a community-driven digital programme, following a series of open calls, which will be running until October 25. The shortlisted communities, artists and participants will be announced in early November.
The 1st Art Pluriverse edition will be focusing on textiles and their communities of practice. The planned activities involve communities-artists synergies that combine local knowledge with contemporary art, a 3D art space as a virtual textile experience, distance learning courses about community archives and open cultural data, as well as a writing jam. The programme is inspired by three concepts: Art Pluriverse, Community Science and Open Knowledge. Art Pluriverse is conceived as a field in the making, a confluence for 'pluriversal' ways of worlding and being, reached through art and culture.
The programme aims to uplift local knowledge and intangible heritage practices, promoting their documentation, access and appreciation through digital cultural heritage. Communities that cherish intangible heritage with focus on the Balkan region will be coming together with artists, creatives and researchers, inspiring the creation of open knowledge through research-based art creation and collaborative learning. BoWB envisions a boundary-spanning approach to 'pluriversality' through art and culture, including concepts as intangible heritage, local history, contemporary art and cultural ecology. Art Pluriverse aims to cooperatively explore transformative, inclusive and sustainable ways of being, shared as open knowledge.
About BoWB
The Biennale of Western Balkans (BoWB) draws connections between intangible cultural heritage, art and technology, with the vision to inspire people experiencing tradition anew. BoWB is a biennial festival and year-round project that was initiated in 2018 in Ioannina, Region of Epirus, Northwestern Greece. BoWB's mission is to present interdisciplinary art and research that engage intangible cultural practices in transformative, collective and educative ways, advocating for open knowledge, open source technologies and the commons. BoWB aims to develop inclusive participation in a wide range of social groups and foster a network of transnational and intersectional mobility in Greece and the Western Balkans. We envision a boundary spanning approach to intangible heritage that brings together past and contemporary cultural practices, encouraging collective action, art creation and well-being.
BoWB is an initiative of the History of Art Laboratory of the School of Fine Arts in the University of Ioannina.
Website: https://bowb.org
Open Calls: https://bowb.org/open-calls-2020
BoWB catalogue (2018): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4019939
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Move over Syfy channel, Netflix is moving at light speed. For science fiction fans, Netflix is a destination point for great content. Whether you are watching your favorite film for the 100th time or looking for something new to binge watch, Netflix has an enormous pool of sci-fi movies and TV shows to choose from. Netflix is incredibly popular with the demanding sci-fi fanbase. Boasting a wide selection of science fiction oldies, cult favorites, and new picks, Netflix takes you down a deep rabbit hole. After the introduction of original content, Netflix firmly established itself both as studio and distributor. Sense8 took original science fiction programming to a new level, and the BBC's Black Mirror gave the millennials their own version of The Twilight Zone. The list is sure to generate debate amongst die hard sci-fi fans.
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One day we will clone a woolly mammoth. A discovered gene that kept mammoths warm in their arctic habitat could be the answer to cloning the animal today. Although there have been other clones such as Dolly the Sheep, the clone of a woolly mammoth is especially spectacular because it is an extinct animal that no human has ever come in contact with before. While it is unsure when the cloning will take place, it is inevitable. As with a great deal of science, it is derived by the pursuit of science fiction. Perhaps geneticists will one day turn to Hollywood to inspire them in their pursuit of genetic cloning in the best clone movies.
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Everyone knows Halo and Call of Duty but they don't get your creative juices flowing! We compiled a list of the most creative video games. These games are unique, and develop your creativity far more than other video games. Some of the games allow you to create anything you want, while other games just have a unique gameplay and plot.
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J.J. Abrams may have rebooted the beloved galaxy of far, far away forward into the previously static Star Wars timeline, but to truly appreciate the expanse of George Lucas' universe, it is perhaps better to take a step back. By exploring the unexamined nooks and crannies of the Star Wars universe, we are exposed to regions, realms, and characters that, even though they have never seen the big screen (yet), have a compelling and inspiring tale to tell.
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Chase Terrace Technology College will work closely with the SSMAT in much the same way as we used to work with the local education authority. Whilst CTTC will continue to work as an autonomous academy we will be advised and guided in our decision making by SSMAT. As other schools join the SSMAT this will enable us to collaborate, learn and develop our approaches by sharing best practice.
As people from this community will know, being part of a Multi Academy Trust which carries the name of Stephen Sutton is something that we are immensely proud of. Our school community is built upon Stephen's values and we quote his "Live, Love, Laugh, Learn" mantra on a daily basis. This helps us to promote a developing sense of resilience amongst our students who we hope display optimistic personal behaviour and positive relationships both in school and in the community.


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Q: How to write a question in tcbox in a horizontal line I want to write the second question which is 5+ 4 in the horizontal line after the first question, how can I write that?
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tcolorbox}[width=\textwidth,title={\hskip 70mm Add the following numbers},colbacktitle=yellow,coltitle=blue]

\begin{tabular}{cc}

    & 2\\
+   &3\\
&\rule{10mm}{.3mm} \\
&\rule{10mm}{.3mm} \\
\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{cc}

    & 5\\
    +   &4\\
    &\rule{10mm}{.3mm} \\
    &\rule{10mm}{.3mm} \\
\end{tabular}

    \end{tcolorbox}

\end{document}

A:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
% \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tcolorbox}[width=\textwidth,title={\hskip 60mm Add the following numbers},colbacktitle=yellow,coltitle=blue]

        \begin{tabular}{cccccc}

            &   2               &   &   5               \\
        +   &   3               &+  &   4               \\
            &\rule{10mm}{.3mm}  &   &\rule{10mm}{.3mm}  \\
            &\rule{10mm}{.3mm}  &   &\rule{10mm}{.3mm}  \\
        \end{tabular}
    \end{tcolorbox}
\end{document}


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Dear White People Season 2 — which Netflix is calling Volume 2 — picks up right where Season 1 left off (**spoilers for Season 1 ahead!**). In the Season 1 finale, everything hit the fan when Lionel revealed that the university's leading donors have been promoting racist policies on campus, including threatening to take away Armstrong-Parker, the dorm for students of color. In Season 2, Winchester's black and brown students must deal with the repercussions of the protest and the hostile feelings of an already-hostile campus. Sam (the amazing Logan Browning) already received blowback for her "Dear White People" radio show, but now she's facing something much more sinister: she's become the target of a vicious online troll who takes anonymous — and harsh — swipes at her, and she's uncertain how to fight back.
There's a lot of secrets to uncover this season, in particular, who is coming after Sam. Everyone's got secrets this season — secrets from each other, secrets from themselves. There's lots of things that the characters don't know and have kind of repressed, and sort of going into those treasure troves is something a lot of the characters are doing.
I know that secrets, secrets are no fun, but they sound pretty amazing where Dear White People Season 2 is concerned.
I've never played anyone like this character. What's so funny about her is that she's not aware of how she's coming off to the world. But, she's a lot of fun. I just got be like really silly and crazy, and say crazy stuff, because that's what happens in that world.
Don't let Waithe's ridiculous character or the trailer's easy breezy attitude fool you: Dear White People Season 2 is just as intense as the first round. Reggie is suffering from serious PTSD after almost being shot by the police, Lionel is trying to figure out his own sexuality, and the different groups within Armstrong-Parker house are still at odds with one another, especially once a group of white students moves into the dorm. These topics are definitely not light, but if anyone can take difficult subject matter and humanize it, it's the amazing people behind Dear White People. I can't wait to see what they've come up with for Season 2.
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Here we are going to discuss how to download and install OBS Studio and how to use the software to record and for live streaming.
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Q: Are Lambda Captured Variables Guarenteed To Survive Entire life of Lambda? In Java values of captured lambda variables can be used beyond the scope of the original variable, as follows:
interface MyInterface{
    void doSomething(  );
}

class Example {
 MyInterface lambda;
 public static void main(String[] args) {
     Example e = new Example();
     e.f1();
     e.f2();
 }
 void f1() {
     int local = 777;
     lambda = () -> System.out.println(local);
 }
 void f2() {
     lambda.doSomething(); // prints 777
 }
}

Anonymous classes can do this as well. I suspect implementations would do this by capturing the local values by copy.
Are the captured locals guaranteed by the specification to survive for as long the lambda does?
I would love a reference to the relevant passage in the docs. ( I searched, didn't find it )

A:
I suspect implementations would do this by capturing the local values by copy.

Correct. Because this would be incredibly confusing if the captured local is modified, javac will simply refuse to compile your code unless the captured variable is either [A] marked final or [B] 'effectively final', which is in the spec, and which means: You could mark it final.
This copy survives for as long as is needed. In general the docs give you the guarantee that you can't get core dumps in java unless you involve JNI, and the garbage collection specs don't go a heck of a lot further than that.

A: In 6.5.6.1, it is said that (emphasis mine)

If the declaration declares a final variable which is definitely assigned before the simple expression, the meaning of the name is the value of that variable. Otherwise, the meaning of the expression name is the variable declared by the declaration.

Therefore, local in your lambda means 777, the (final) value you assigned to local. And this is implemented by making a copy of the variable as you have suspected correctly. Whether or not the local variable "survives" doesn't really matter here.
According to another section, the local variable doesn't "survive" (4.12.3):

A local variable ceases to exist when its declaration is no longer in scope.

When you run the lambda in f2, the local variable's declaration is out of scope, so it "ceases to exist".


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in a phrase normally stay together.
the Cognitive Assumption in (1)?
construction grammar (without capitals) and Word Grammar.
that they are incompatible with it.
kinds of thinking' (Hudson 2010:1).
depends on fruitful interaction between the two.
and the ordering of words. The last section draws some general conclusions.
based. Thus it is not just language learning, but all learning, that is 'usage-based'.
other concepts, rather than 'features' drawn from some separate vocabulary.
concept is simply the meeting point of a collection of links to other concepts.
losing any information (Lamb 1998:59).
consider in relation to morphology (section 3) and semantics (section 6).
taxonomy from more general to more specific concepts.
accommodate both prototypical and exceptional members in the same category.
above; but most of them must be learned from experience just like ordinary concepts.
concept: 'relation', contrasted with 'entity'.
person concerned is paying attention.
storing these in memory as distinct concepts (Reisberg 2007:173).
future experience as a guide to further node-creation.
These seven elementary tenets of cognitive science are closely interconnected.
general 'isa' relation from much more specific relational concepts.
eventually turn out to be a cat.
node in the network which classifies it as a paw, a tail, a cat and so on.
whether to stroke it, this is how you guess an answer.
variation on the other by 'correspondence' or 'realisation' rules.
(1) supports the distinction between morphology and syntax.
'merely' a sequence of digits – more than the sum of its parts.
structures, phonological structures, and symbolic links between them.
units need not correspond to single phonological units.
saying that the chunk is a phonological structure.
classified as naughty or high-fallutin', and they even have a history and an etymology.
consequence of chunking combined with the network principle.
verbs instantiating a particular minor pattern of past-tense formation).
definition a phonological unit (ibid: 427)?
smaller or larger than a word.' (Langacker 1990:293).
above form, rather than the other way round.
round is sketched in Figure 4.
phonology, because it is a listed, and recognised, 'English word' – i.e. a word-form.
short, we need to distinguish the forms of morphology from the words of syntax.
(by making it more 'real', or more concrete).
forms, regardless of whether this analysis helps to explain their meaning.
not just syntax within the word.
more specific link that we may establish between 'not' and words such as UNTIDY.
available to mediate the link to meaning.
learners to create separate mental representations for morphs and for words.
conflicts with construction grammar and even more so with Cognitive Grammar.
is enough even for them (Sadock 1991).
only one that even considers Dependency Grammar as a possible basis for syntax.
very elementary relation of meronymy: the relation between a whole and its parts.
the phrase small birds is implicit in the link between small and birds.
small and birds and between birds and sing.
structures, so here are three diagrams for the syntactic structure of Small birds sing.
introduced by the first DG theorist (Tesnière 1959) and is widely used in DG circles.
also why the nodes are unclassified.
The second cognitive weakness of PSG is its assumption about tokens, i.e.
grammar; and the symbol birds in the sentence is the same as the one in the grammar.
include the other words in the sentence.
the cognitive linguistics literature is hard to relate to general conceptual structure.
be explained in the discussion of word order in section 7.
let alone in the cognitive linguistics literature.
(9) He kicked the bucket.
(11) It all depends what you mean.
(12) Frank sneezed the tissue off the table.
(13) How about a cup of tea?
accommodate, this will also count as further 'purely linguistic' evidence for this view.
Hudson 2005, Hudson 2008, Sugayama 2002).
1995:152, where it is given as an example of the 'caused-motion construction'.
require 'constructions'; and crucially, phrase structure, as such, plays no such role.
workings of default inheritance, the lower node's meaning overrides the default.
close link to the literal pattern.
directly to the verb kick (Jackendoff 1997:169).
such a complicated way to the story that it shows virtually no syntactic freedom.
imagine someone hearing (or saying) our earlier example: Small birds sing.
from which it is derived.
say, its cause or manner).
single semantic structure is at best confusing, and arguably simply wrong.
directly to do with the sneezing.
construction because the normal 'core' rules are suspended (Kay and Fillmore 1999).
include positions that are fixed as well as positions that are open.' (Bybee 2010:9).
recognised at the levels of syntax or morphology can be paired with a single meaning.
idiosyncratic patterns that are often quoted as evidence for constructions.
repeated as Croft 2007: 496).
Croft's example of a non-construction that would not be recognised is 'verb'.
are related directly to semantic relations (ibid:497).
analyses than have been possible so far.
uses as the meaning of CAT.
the feet') has to be used, obscuring the fact that each reference is to the same object.
with any attempt to define every concept soleley in terms of a fixed list of primitives.
of 'person' and therefore cannot be inherited by other people.
Figure 14: Everyone left and someone left.
(Gisborne 2010, Hudson 1984:131-210; Hudson 1990:123-166; Hudson 2007:211248; Hudson 2010:220-241), all of which are informed by the Cognitive Assumption.
Assumption, but it is rarely discussed in other theories.
pragmatically-identified judge called 'prag' about the entity defined by the 'x' word.
defined by links to other concepts.
I say How about a cup of tea?, I am asking a yes-no question, just as in Is it raining?
words, the token's purpose is its illocutionary force (Gisborne 2010).
The next challenge, therefore, is to decide what the 'theme' of the question is.
(16) We need someone strict as examiner for that thesis, so how about John?
(17) You say you don't know any linguists, but how about John?
(18) If you think Mary is crazy, how about John?
representation of x as a possible answer and the truth value of the answer.
'p' has three quantities: ?, 1 and 0.
already know x as the referent of word x; for example, in How about John?, x is John.
(examiner of that thesis), but How about a cup of tea? shows that they need not be.
particular kind of concept; and it is built into the formal apparatus of Word Grammar.
I am not aware of any other theory that treats relationships in this way.
given the Cognitive Assumption, none of these facilities is unique to semantics.
Order of words, morphs etc.
analysis which will throw some light on these theoretical questions.
hierarchical relations and surface ordering.
 cats is the subject of miaow.
 a typical verb follows its subject.
 therefore, miaow is the 'next' of cats.
What we need, then, is a suitable relation for describing deep ordering.
(the day after or the word after) follows its landmark (Christmas or the word day).
in section 4 in which the relations between words are inherently asymmetrical.
only relation which can determine this is a relation between the parts, such as wordword dependencies.
it is the 'before' of cats because cats is its subject.
course, we find in spade-fulls.
(19) Which birds do you think sing best?
sentence-root – the 'highest' word in all the chains of dependencies.
(20) Eine Concorde gelandet ist hier nie.
No doubt there are many other exceptions.
(21) *She red likes wine.
red wine. And yet the sentence is totally ungrammatical.
on any particular notation for linear order.
(Hudson 2010:53), which is a principle for general cognition, and not just for syntax.
prominent word for a word W is always the word on which W depends, its 'parent'.
fact much closer to the tree.
dictionaries suggests a similar distinction in language structure.
continuation of Harris's theory of syntax combined with some cognitive aims.
construction grammar out of a number of current approaches (including HPSG).
rather similar to the traditions out of which they grew.
nothing but 'symbols' or 'constructions'.
 Syntactic structure is a network of (concepts for) words, not a tree of phrases.
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