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Post by Admin on Jan 19, 2015 3:57:15 GMT
We're used to seeing police dashboard videos of speeders, car accidents or worse. But the Dover Police Department in Delaware is turning the camera on its force to show that police are human, too -- and sometimes they just want to shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. A dashcam video of Dover Police Master Cpl. Jeff Davis cruising in his police vehicle and grooving to Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" was an instant hit on Friday. The video was shared nearly 2,000 times in less than 24 hours from the department's Facebook page and drew positive feedback from around the world. The video was shot as part of the Dover Police Department's social media community outreach. To celebrate reaching 10,000 Facebook followers, the department launched a series called "Dash Cam Confessionals," debuting with Davis's rendition of "Shake It Off." Hoffman suggested "Shake It Off" and Davis was more than happy to oblige. He already knew the words, thanks to his 10-year-old daughter, a Taylor Swift fan. "When you drive around in a car all the time listening to Taylor Swift you get to know all the words and like her songs," the 19-year veteran of the force told CNN. In the video, Davis appears to pause periodically for passing vehicles. In reality, the video was shot in two takes in a secluded parking lot in Dover. "It was fun thing, a nice thing to do with everything that's going on with police. With all the negative publicity it's nice to show a positive side of police," he said. Judging by the response so far, he thinks it's working. "I think people are liking the fact of seeing police in a different view."
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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2015 3:13:47 GMT
March is National Child Life month — and one hospital wants to celebrate it with a bang. That’s how the idea of having the patients and staff at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) perform an epic lip syncing of Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off” was born, Andrea McGinnis, specialist in the Child Life Creative Arts Department there, tells Yahoo Parenting. “Shake It Off is a catchy song and we love the idea of really shaking it off,” McGinnis says. “The kids here in our hospital are sick, going through very challenging things — everyone wishes kids wouldn’t have to go through [this]. Let’s have some fun, shake it off and forget about the hard stuff!” “We’ve seen other hospitals that have done lip syncing videos that have gone viral, so we thought, why not do that?” McGinnis adds of the video, which has indeed been streamed more than 250K times since it was posted on YouTube on March 12. “Quite a few patients in the video are inpatient, but are keeping track of the YouTube hits and they are posting it on their social media sites,” McGinnis says. “They are very excited!” The hospital’s take shows nurses in bright scrubs dancing on a handrail like the ballerinas in Swift’s video and doctors showing off moves “choreographed by child life specialists that have dance backgrounds,” McGinnis says.
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