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The Walking Dead has just returned to our screens, but if that doesn't satisfy your appetite for zombies, check out Will Bridges" short film for a fresh take on the genre. Watch White Teeth on 4oD The bright TV adaptation of Zadie Smith's stunning debut novel about three generations of interlinking, interracial families still feels convincing. Om Puri and Naomie Harris star. Watch Intimations: John le Carré on the BBC archive In this revealing interview from 1966, the espionage novelist tells of his inspirations and his views on his own writing. Curiously, there's no mention of his own time as a spy. Watch Riding on Air on the BFI player This short film casts a cheerful gaze upon the British bicycle industry, and asks why cycles were all the rage in the Fifties. Listen to Desert Island Discs: Steve McQueen on BBC iPlayer Radio Film-maker Steve McQueen was the first black director to win Best Picture Academy Award for his 2013 film 12 Years a Slave. During this episode of the long-running show, however, he stated that this distinction is unimportant to him, as "there's nothing black people can't do." Watch Don't Blame Facebook on 4oD In light of the recent celebrity picture-hacking scandal, Channel 4"s two films from 2013 illustrate the perils of sharing too much on social media. Watch Modern Writers: JRR Tolkien on the BBC archive John Izzard speaks with the author in this film originally from 1968, about his own views on his most famous works, including The Lord of the Rings. Watch Hong Kong East Meets West on the BFI Player This intimate study of life and landscape in Hong Kong casts a fascinating light on the collisions of Chinese and European culture in the former British colony. Listen to 2014 Edinburgh Festival: Culloden on iPlayer Radio Peter Watkins's 1964 docu-drama Culloden, about the battle that destroyed the 1745 Jacobite rising is 50. In front of an audience at the Edinburgh Festival, Matthew Sweet discusses its influence on portrayals of Scotland's Highland identity with a panel including Outlander author Diana Gabaldon. Watch Comic Strip Presents... The Summer School on 4oD "Did Iron Age woman have Playtex to guide her?" shouts a young Rik Mayall to a reluctantly undressing Jennifer Saunders. So begins Dawn French's superbly bizarre comedy set at a summer school offering a course in "Iron Age Living," also starring Robbie Coltrane and Peter Richardson. Watch The Train Now Departing: The West Highlander on the BBC archive What better time is there for a nostalgia-filled journey across Scotland? This film, originally broadcast in 1988, explores The West Highland line in beautifully grainy footage. Watch Trying Again on Sky On Demand The Thick of It alumni Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell make the tricky genre of heart-warming comedy-drama look easy in this touching and funny series about a couple (Addison and Jo Joyner) giving their relationship a second chance. Watch Absolutely (1989-93) on 4oD Comic Jack Docherty, who appears in referendum mockumentary Scotland in a Day (airing on Thursday as the Scots go to the polls), first broke on to the scene with his sketch series Absolutely - it's aged impressively well. Watch Arena: Six Days in September (1979) on iPlayer BBC Four's season on abstract art is bolstered by a cherishable online archive, including this revealing profile of John Hoyland as he fends off critics and starts a new work. Watch Hannibal on Blinkbox Series two of Bryan Fuller's deliciously nasty psychological thriller is new to Video on Demand service Blinkbox: luxuriate in the imaginative deaths and utterly absorbing interplay between its leads, Mads Mikkelsen (as the titular Dr Lecter) and Hugh Dancy (his ally-cum-nemesis, Will Graham). Watch Summoned by Bells (1976) on iPlayer If AN Wilson's BBC Four film whetted your appetite, iPlayer has a host of vintage John Betjeman documentaries, the pick of which are these recollections of childhood and adolescence based on his verse autobiography of the same name. Watch The Deal (2003) on 4OD With Channel 4 making a TV film on the birth of the Coalition, what better opportunity to watch one of the finest political docudramas? Michael Sheen makes a startling impression "doing" his first Blair opposite David Morrissey's surly Brown. Watch How Schools Kill Creativity on Ted.com As the holidays draw to a close, is it any wonder this 2006 TED talk - among the most popular ever - was the site's most viewed last week? Education adviser Ken Robinson's talk is laugh-out-loud funny and (in spite of its title) inspiring. | 1,020 | -2,157,463,533,718,963,500 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
Such a set of rules may help arbitrate possible disputes that arise out of fuzzy interpretation. Bduke, This sounds reasonable. Karol
No charter at the moment I think :-) There is enough enthusiasm for this project right now, with enough people thinking on the same wavelength, that I think we do not need a chater - yet. I like number 4, Bduke. Since this project is sort of small at the moment, why don't we have a board of precisely 2 Wikipedians to start off with? This would ensure that the collaboration between the board members is quite tight knit. We need to have this started off on the right foot so that we know how to build from it afterwards. Having more than 2 board members would complicate things I think. Reviewers, I think we can have as many as we like - probably classified into subject area and expertise. I'm feel a bit cautious about this project, but I think it's worthwhile to try and get it set up well. :The only thing I would like to add is that the Reviewers be grouped by area of expertise so we can get specialists quickly. Also, we should send a notice out to ALL of the science-oriented WikiProjects to tell them to send their best to apply for positions on the Board and team of Reviewers. I have a draft typed up already; I can take ccare of this later today. == Broad based representation ==
I wonder if there is a WikiProject where we can find experts in the humanities and arts? There does not seem to be too many of them active here at the moment. Any ideas? Are you suggesting that we expand to review articles in the Arts and Humanities? I do not think so. We do need to decide the scope. Some people have said "Natural Science" only. Others have thought of "Social Science". Does "Natural Science" include "Medicine"? It does under "Natural Science Wikipedia Projects". Does it include "Mathematics"? The list of "Natural Science Wikipedia Projects" does not. We should be clear about this long before nominations close for the Board so it is fully representative of the disciplines we are covering. Remember that we do not have to cover everything. If this project works, others will copy us. My 2c worth is that we should cover Biology, Chemistry, Geology and Physics only, but each in a broad sense. I forgot momentarily that this was the scientific peer review. One concern I have had perpetually while contributing to Wikipedia is that experts in the arts and humanities have been relatively slow to embrace this project - but you are right, let's stick to the science related articles first, hopefully demonstrate that this is viable, and then expand subject areas if necessary. ==Concentric Fusie==
If he has experience in writting articles in the wikipedia he can get on the board. The phd always looks nice but nothing more. For me reputation comes from the work not from the title. King, emperor, professor are no more than job names like janitor. I learned this lesson in the university where people insisting on the title are mostly not worth the title. Thank you Stone for your words of support. However, Mr. Connolley just proved my point.... to a capital "J" for Joke. Good luck. Concentric Fusie
==Nature of the Board==
Building consensus is slow. It is now clear that we do not have consensus about the nature of the Board. In the section #Board and Reviewers above, there appears to be a developing consensus, but my point (2) clearly makes the point that the Board members are reviewers and are selected on the basis of expertise and experience in the same way as extra reviewers are selected. The recent discussion in #Verifying credentials at the top of the page, however, argues that criteria for being on the Board is all about writing good WP articles and that reviewers are a separate group with expertise and experience. We need to resolve this. Please add you views below. My own view is that it will be good in future if reviewers, after gaining some experience in this project, move up to be on the Board. I also think that the Board is pretty well bound to have people who recognise what it takes to have a good article and that review from non-expert people (note that open review from anyone is of course allowed - this is Wikipedia) will also concentrate on that point. For example I have not developed an article to featured article level yet but I know what it is needed and recognise a good article. In the end the purpose of this project is to make sure the science is right. I thought the consensus is already very high, but this is only my opinion. 1. | 1,019 | null | null | 699,180,981 | 2016-01-10T19:58:21 | Scientific peer review/Archive 1 | 2,016 |
She is very responsible, but is horrible with directions. New production assistant of Musashino Animation after Honda's departure and Tarō's subsequent promotion, although he is in truth very experienced. He is known for being easily annoyed and standoffish. His experience lends him connections to various companies and people in the show, although all of them are mediocre at what they do. Animation department
Star key animator, character designer and general animation supervisor at Musashino Animation. She was the character designer for Exodus!, but after its last episode, she decides to return to her roots as key animator, inspired by Shigeru's horse animations. She is known for her calm demeanor and fashion: gothic dresses. She is also an accomplished softball player. Key animator at Musashino Animation. The assistant general animation supervisor of Exodus! and the character designer of The Third Aerial Girls Squad. After her character designs for The Third Aerial Girls Squad were rejected multiple times by Nogame, Rinko lets her in on her secret place: the softball range. Afterwards, she no longer wears typical casual wear, but instead a pinkish kimono with purple stripes. She also does workout dances with Ema on the roof, a secret between the two. Key animator at Musashino Animation. The animation supervisor for the Exodus! third and eighth episodes. He has a rivalry with Misato Segawa. He gets annoyed when other characters voice their negative opinions of his work. He loves Idepon, citing it as his inspiration to work in anime, a common ground with Yūichirō Shimoyanagi, a CG animator. Key animator at Musashino Animation. Key animator at Musashino Animation and Endō's junior. He is a massive proponent of hand-drawn animation being superior to CG animation. In-between animator at Musashino Animation. She is later promoted to key animator for The Third Aerial Girls Squad. She is extremely nervous and shy, almost never completing a full word. This leaves her very much attached to Ema, who seemingly magically interprets what she wants to say. She is also deathly afraid of insects. Senior key animator at Musashino Animation. He was once the character designer for the now-defunct Musashino Pictures. His old age means he no longer has the speed to work on Musashino Animation's main projects, but he proves crucial to the completion of the final episode of Exodus!, where he teaches the other animators to animate horses, a lost talent by the time Shirobako takes place. In addition to horses, he can design and animate many other animals. Other staff
The president of Musashino Animation. He was once the production desk at the now-defunct Musashino Pictures. He is more often than not seen cooking absurd amounts of food for his employees. In the past, he had a distinctive hippie look, with long hair past his shoulders and a headband, but in the present, he is nearly bald and has a distinctive gap between his front two teeth. His name and design are based on producer and animator Masao Maruyama. The general manager of Musashino Animation and a former production assistant. She does not tolerate smoking or violence in the office, and is skilled at defusing situations as well. The police have nicknamed her "Woman of the Speed of Sound", as she will drive over the speed limit to deliver episode tapes on time to broadcasting companies around Japan. Line producer at Musashino Animation. He is often nicknamed "Nabe-P" by his colleagues. Color setter at Musashino Animation. Director of photography at Musashino Animation. 3D Director at Musashino Animation. He loves Idepon, citing it as his inspiration to work in anime, a common ground with Ryōsuke Endō, a key animator. In-between animation inspector at Musashino Animation. Editor at Musashino Animation. === Production staff ===
Directing staff
The director of Exodus! and The Third Girls Aerial Squad. He loves fatty foods, leaving the air conditioner on, and not working. His work style often leads to him suddenly changing the story or refusing to work on his storyboards, leading to delayed production. He has a fatal flaw when people reference his greatest failure in the past, Jiggly Jiggly Heaven. He is also known for celebrating losing weight by eating unhealthy foods, although he measures this in minuscule amounts of grams. His character and design are in part based on Seiji Mizushima. The episode director of Exodus! fourth and ninth episodes, and an episode director for The Third Girls Aerial Squad. | 1,020 | null | null | 757,296,991 | 2016-12-29T22:09:20 | Shirobako | 2,016 |
But, a lot of these photos were taken by mav, who pointed out that he not only downsampled to get the 300px, he also cropped. So, if we use the new image markup, we lose information. I reverted all of my changes (including in Alabama Hills, you can see in the history) and decided to wait for the image markup to allow a non-automatic thumbnail. Now, in the particular case of Alabama Hills, it looks OK: I don't believe that mav cropped here. I re-added my caption to the article. But, I wanted to give you a heads-up on the issue. Alabama Hills is OK - I didn't crop those thumbs. Okey-dokey. :) Bryan
==Thumbnail deletion==
Hi Brian! Here is an extract from Images for deletion:
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Abell.lensing.arp.300pix.jpg
Gravitational lens-thumb.jpg
Thumbnails made obsolete by the autothumbnail feature too Bryan
KEEP. I strongly object. I put Abell and Gravitational Lens pics onto WP. It's perfectly possible that if the new code proves unsuitable I might go back to the old code (for example, in the new code we can't have caption italics, caption text centring nor caption links). If thumbnails are deleted I'll have to reupload them which would be unacceptable. PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ABEL AND GRAVITATIONAL THUMBNAILS. Adrian Pingstone
Yes you can - just use the same old html markup but fmt the link as and your image will be limited to 250px. END OF EXTRACT
I don’t understand why thumbnails are being deleted at all since it would take 50000 of them to even make 1 Gigabyte (assuming each is 20K) and the entire WP database is 19 GB (if I remember correctly). Even though I’ve worked every day since January 2003 on illustrations I’ve still “only” put on 800 thumbnails. Thumbnails are not going to materially affect the size of WP and so are not really worth the trouble of transferring their names to IFD. However the stronger argument is that the new code is not fully satisfactory yet. We need to keep the ability to revert to the old code (and therefore use the old thumbs) if it was ever necessary. I would very much appreciate it if you do not list on IFD any thumbs with file names containing arp or ***pix. I don’t understand how Jiang’s code solves my problems with the new code. The old caption standard was italics, text centred and links were possible. None of that works now. I already know the code for setting thumbnail size. Do you know the code for the three caption adjustments I can’t do? I hope you can understand my concerns and leave my thumbnails off IFD. Best Wishes,
Adrian Pingstone
The reason I've been putting them up for deletion is not space concerns, but simply because they're orphans and I don't see them becoming non-orphans again at any point in the future now that there's code for thumbnailing. Even if you have a problem with the current formatting of image captions, you can still use the autothumbnail feature to get exactly the same result as before; try to accept. You may also e-mail me if you do not want your concerns publically posted - I will keep all communication as private as you like. (angela AT fused.org). Alternatively, if you decide against mediation, please can you let one of the mediation committee know your decision. Thanks. Angela. 19:21, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)
Sure, I'm willing. I'm not exactly sure what needs being mediated (though based on his various complaints about me I can make some guesses :), but I suppose that'll be presented by Sam. Bryan
==I. J. Good==
Why did you move I. J. Good to
I moved it because when I saw that article his name was listed as "Irving John Good", and so I foolishly assumed that it would be reasonable to have his article under a title of the form "firstname lastname" like most other biographical articles on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the article failed to mention how nonsensical that would be; the "(called Jack)" had no useful context. Bryan
== New image markup ==
Hi, Bryan. I noticed that you used the new image markup at Alabama Hills. | 1,006 | null | null | 74,660,448 | 2006-09-09T04:33:49 | Bryan Derksen/Archive 5 | 2,016 |
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Wildthing61476 why didn't you respond to my last message I sent you? == ok! ==
STill DO you want to be friends on wikipedia? == WOW ==
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== Are you a bot??? ==
Why do you keep beating me to the punch in warning authors of CSD candidate articles??? It's most frustrating; I'm a big boy, I can handle it by myself! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk
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== Thanks! ==
Thanks for the quick revert on my talk page! It is greatly appreciated! == Hey ==
Nominating an article for speedy deletion 1 minute after the first edit was made on it? That was a bit offsides don't you think? Not to be a dick about it, but happy trigger fingers like that is what often causes new users to post nasty messages and even leave the project. Just some food for thought. I re-created the article - feel free to help out on it if you want. == You Me At Six ==
2, but not on the national chart. BAND is pretty vague as to which charts qualify, but this one is less than major. == THANKS ==
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Wildthing61476 why didn't you respond to my last message I sent you? == ok! ==
STill DO you want to be friends on wikipedia? == WOW ==
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== Are you a bot??? ==
Why do you keep beating me to the punch in warning authors of CSD candidate articles??? It's most frustrating; I'm a big boy, I can handle it by myself! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk
This may be the pot calling the kettle black, but shouldn't work keep you busy at work??? ;-) - CobaltBlueTony™ talk
== Thanks! ==
Thanks for the quick revert on my talk page! It is greatly appreciated! == Hey ==
Nominating an article for speedy deletion 1 minute after the first edit was made on it? That was a bit offsides don't you think? Not to be a dick about it, but happy trigger fingers like that is what often causes new users to post nasty messages and even leave the project. Just some food for thought. I re-created the article - feel free to help out on it if you want. == You Me At Six ==
2, but not on the national chart. BAND is pretty vague as to which charts qualify, but this one is less than major. == THANKS ==
Thankks whoever sent me this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conniedebra (talk • contribs)
== FRIENDS ==
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==???? ==
Wildthing61476 why didn't you respond to my last message I sent you? == ok! ==
STill DO you want to be friends on wikipedia? == WOW ==
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== Are you a bot??? ==
Why do you keep beating me to the punch in warning authors of CSD candidate articles??? It's most frustrating; I'm a big boy, I can handle it by myself! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk
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== Thanks! ==
Thanks for the quick revert on my talk page! | 1,021 | null | null | 695,210,678 | 2015-12-14T14:41:27 | RickinBaltimore/Archive 4 | 2,016 |
There's also a lap-dancing club called Pure, where Danny Daly was spotted emerging on Friday night, plus two of Magaluf's biggest hotels, the TRH Torrenova and Palmanova, which means the Dalys have more than 3,000 guests a week. By any reckoning, the Daly brothers are among the most powerful figures in Magaluf. They say you can judge a person by the company they keep. Danny and John Daly's right-hand man is Alan Collinson, 28. He is paid well enough to afford to rent a luxury villa, with a swimming pool, on the outskirts of Magaluf. On average there are 200 British youngsters on these bar crawls, including many who have just finished their A-levels The council has now passed new laws to curb organised bar crawls by restricting the number of those taking part to 50 and fining bar owners if the limit is exceeded A tattooed kickboxer from Hartlepool, Collinson was investigated by Spanish police for allegedly attacking four members of a stag do - leaving two with broken jaws - on a Carnage crawl in May. The company says Collinson stepped in to defend a girl and that he did nothing wrong. It was Collinson who organised the bar crawl where they clapped and cheered as the British teenager performed sex acts on 24 men. Afterwards, he wrote on Facebook: "Don't know what all the fuss is about, it's an average night on a Carnage bar crawl." Since then, two more disturbing videos of Carnage events have surfaced on the internet. One shows a young brunette performing sex acts on male revellers in a bar during a Carnage party. One man is wearing a T-shirt with the slogan: "What happens in Majorca stays in Majorca." The other shows a girl with her underwear around her ankles appearing to have sex with two men as the DJ shouts: "This is Carnage and this is what we do." When the girl stops, the DJ announces: "She's got stage fright." Around 12,000 youngsters from all over Britain will visit Magaluf this summer. Many will be experiencing their first taste of independence after finishing their exams. The season has only just started, but already staff at one of the four British medical centres in Magaluf are regularly being asked for the morning-after pill. Someone working at the surgery revealed they have also treated numerous victims of date-rape drugs. The Mail was told about an incident near the Magaluf Rocks bar a few days ago where a teenage girl - about 16 or 17 - collapsed. Her friends believe her drink was spiked. "She couldn't speak, see or hear," said a barmaid, who works across the road. "Her friends called an ambulance and she was taken to hospital." On Friday night, the Punta Ballena strip - full of neon-lit bars, clubs, lap-dancing joints (and brothels), running parallel to the beach - was a cacophony of thumping never-ending music and screaming drunken adolescents. Among the latest arrivals to Magaluf were beautician Amy Tolley, 19, and four friends. They were staying at the Daly brothers-run Torrenova hotel and signed up for a Carnage bar crawl, which meant four hours of non-stop drinking - at the very least. Perversely, they revealed how a male Carnage rep had shown them an article about the "girl and the 24 men" before they set off. "I asked him why he had shown us the article and he said he would explain later," Amy said. Around 12,000 youngsters from all over Britain will visit Magaluf this summer Other girls were shown the actual footage. "I've got the whole video," a young woman employed by Carnage boasted to another group of girls. "This girl booked the crawl again the next night," the rep told them. "She really enjoyed it." During the night, Amy had her top ripped off by a group of boys. "I shouted at them to stop but they wouldn't listen," she said. "I was really upset about it." Luckily, there were T-shirts on offer so she could cover up. Among those handed out to boys were ones with the words, "Don't worry, I'll pull out," emblazoned on them. How many youngsters took part? One hundred? Two hundred? It was difficult to say. The only thing you could say for sure is that all of them were British. Almost all the girls (average age 18 or 19) were wearing mini-skirts or denim shorts cut so short most of their bottoms were on show. Many were in tight tops with no bras. Several were wandering around in just their underwear. | 987 | -2,939,262,862,409,006,600 | 2014-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
The Strabane Chronicle is a newspaper based in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The paper was launched in 1896 and was subsequently purchased by the North West of Ireland Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd, which was established in 1901 by the Lynch family. The January to June 2010 ABC figure for the Strabane Chronicle is 5,560 and it continues to be the highest selling newspaper in Strabane. Its sister titles include the Ulster Herald, Tyrone Herald, Donegal News (Monday and Friday editions), Fermanagh Herald and Gaelic Life. Newspapers published in Northern Ireland
Media in County Tyrone | 133 | null | null | 607,195,873 | 2014-05-05T15:43:34 | Strabane Chronicle | 2,016 |
Video: Parents of missing schoolgirl Megan Stammers make emotional appeal With her voice breaking, Megan's mother said: "Please darling, just do anything - text me, ring me, send me a message. I've sent you a message on Facebook, just do anything. The phone number hasn't changed at home, just ring, please sweetheart." The last thing Megan said before she disappeared, was: "I love you." Ms Wilson said: "She was really happy, jumping around. She grabbed my shoulders and she said to me, 'Mum can you look me in the eye?'. And I said to her, because she was fussing, 'please stop, get off me now'. "And she said, 'no mum, look me in the eye', and I looked her in the eye and I had to kind of look up to her a bit and she said, 'I love you'." Mr Tingley appealed for any members of the public who see the couple or Mr Forrest's black Ford Fiesta, registration GJ08 RJO, to contact French or British police.
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I'm working on fixing the most important tools, but this may take a few days or even weeks. Sorry for the inconveniance." — Maile (talk)
== Watchlist heading ==
You know. It's getting to be a bother to have to scroll down before I can see more than snip of my watchlist. Is it really necessary to have it take up a half of your screen when it first loads. There's so much redundant whitespace that could be put to good use to make it feel less cluttered. The legend within the blue borders is longer than the content within it. Any chance of compressing that a bit?—cyberpower ChatOnline
See Village pump (technical)/Archive 121#Watchlist key for various methods of hiding all or part of the Legend box. Personally I went the whole bit and more; I have span#mw-wlheader-showupdated,
form#mw-watchlist-resetbutton,
div.mw-changeslist-legend {
display: none;
} in MyPage/common.css. The first selector (span#mw-wlheader-showupdated) targets the text ""; the second (form#mw-watchlist-resetbutton) targets the button ; the third (div.mw-changeslist-legend) goes for the whole "Legend" box. CSS definitely cleaned up the watchlist a lot. Thanks.—cyberpower ChatOnline
The legend was taking up a bit more space than normal due to a temporary local change that is trying to compensate for a few line-height problems in the core of the software. I've added another override to reset this element to it's defaults. —TheDJ (talk • contribs)
== Password Reset ==
I think this function has a problem in security. Some email servers are not as safe as Wikimedia projects. If my email address were controlled by someone (e.g. a cracker or my email service provider), who reset my password via PasswordReset,
Could I log in with the old password? If not, could I request a Checkuser to get my account back? == Script problems in Chrome ==
Hello. I have a JavaScript which is executed for many users on Commons. When I signed into my mother's computer today, it did not load, and I got this error in the console:
Refused to execute script from 'https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Magog_the_Ogre/cleanup_scratch.js&action=raw' because its MIME type ('text/x-wiki') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled. What am I doing wrong? Magog the Ogre (t • c)
, you need to add &ctype=text/javascript to the call for the script. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c)
@Technical 13: Thank you. Magog the Ogre (t • c)
== wikEd update ==
I have just updated wikEd to version 0.9.127. It's a major update that brings user-friendly table editing when using ref/template folding (push the (UTC)
Thanks for the info Graham87. It helps with that particular page, but I'm a bit confused regarding the archival process. Do you (or does anyone reading) know why some archives take the history with them whereas most do not? For example, talk archive 6 and talk archive 8 of Byzantine Empire do not have any edit history other than those edits associated with the archival, but archive 7 has the full history, which is now unavailable on the root page View history tab. Most articles seem to have more or less complete edit history on the main talk page, with only the text moved to the archive. For example, the Israel article has (predictably) sparked a lot of talk, with 30+ archives, but the main talk page View history tab goes back to 2001. ((Granted, there are some issues with that talk history since the first edit shows a link to "Previous revision" but that link goes to an edit from 2010, nine years later. The fact that the talk page for that article predates the "first" article edit is also confusing.)) The Christianity article also seems to have all talk history on the main talk page View history tab although it has 57 archives. Is there some way on the root talk page to tell which pages have had history exported? | 1,002 | null | null | 671,515,831 | 2015-07-15T05:35:37 | Village pump (technical)/Archive 126 | 2,016 |
Algeria
Angola
Algeria–Angola relations
Angolan expatriates in Algeria | 23 | null | null | 548,398,342 | 2013-04-02T23:13:44 | Ambassadors of Angola to Algeria | 2,016 |
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Would you mind have a look at task 5's BRFA? It hasn't had a BAG comment yet. I know it's not time-sensitive, but I just hate to be sat here waiting (for a log only run of proposed edits to complete) when I could be doing something. Also, feel free to point out holes in the code! :) - Jarry1250 (t, c)
Blast - the old IP blocked problem seems to have risen from the dead. I don't know what I can do (it just seems to go away on its own last time around)... Any ideas? - Jarry1250 (t, c)
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Richard, your bot has screwed up, I'm afraid. It's deleted images on tonnes of case I've been putting up, especially the ones you'll find in *Category:English contract case law*. I think it's deleted the image field altogether. Here's one example: Olley v Marlborough Court Hotel. This is a bit annoying, so can you please fix them all, and get back to me. I'm not sure what it was meant to do (image resizing?) but unfortunately it's had bad side effects. I actually don't see why it's necessary to have any default image at all. Wikidea
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Steve Davis and Jimmy White seek former glories Steve Davis would love to see Jimmy White light up the Crucible stage one more time but admits his own swansong hopes look forlorn. The king of the baize in the 1980s believes both he and the Whirlwind face tall orders to get through qualifying for the Betfred World Championship. A tough field also includes the 1997 world champion Ken Doherty and ten-time ladies" world champion Reanne Evans who were locked in a tense battle last night. Scotland's Graeme Dott is also in the mix and enjoyed a 10-4 win over compatriot Mark Owens yesterday. White will tackle fellow veteran James Wattana in his opener tomorrow. Davis, who will also attempt to qualify, expects the multiple runner-up would relish the challenge if he fought his way through to the first round in Sheffield. "If me or Jimmy qualify for the Crucible, it's arguably as big a win as we've ever had," Davis said. "I've got a little bit of a desire to do it, but Jimmy would certainly love to get back to the Crucible." White, who lost six World finals, last appeared at the tournament in 2006. While 52-year-old White is in the autumn of his career, for Davis these are the winter years before his cue is finally laid down. He turns 58 in August and fell off the main tour 12 months ago. A memoir, Interesting, hit the bookshelves yesterday. A tricky qualifying opener against Jamie Cope could end in disappointment, but it would be short-lived. "I can't build up the intensity that I used to have, but I must admit I'm getting excited about pitting my wits against another generation of players," said Davis, who won six world titles in the 1980s. "Of course, it'll all end in tears. I'm not totally committed but I still have the juices running through me a little bit. I've been practising but it's not a pretty sight. They're wobbling more in the pockets before saying "nope." "Whether I get to the TV stages, that's a long shot. That's tough. I was still practising hard even when I wasn't getting to the latter stages of the Crucible, and in the end you have to say, "Yeah, I've tried, but the price is too much investment of time." "Now if I've lost a match, by the time I've got in the car I've thought about what I'm going to do for the rest of the day, rather than beating up the person who's come up with me." Subscribe to our DAILY NEWSLETTER (requires registration)
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US teen charged with pressuring boyfriend to commit suicide Tragedy... Michelle Carter and her now deceased boyfriend Conrad Roy. Photos: Facebook Photo: Facebook A high school senior faces involuntary manslaughter charges in Massachusetts for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide, according to police. Michelle Carter, 18, is accused not only of failing to seek help for Conrad Roy III - who, police say, Carter knew intended to commit suicide - but also of texting him during the act and pressuring him to go through with it, according to authorities. In the more than 1000 messages between the two, police found numerous texts sent to Roy indicating that Carter was communicating with him until the moments before his death last July. But there was one message that was particularly chilling, police say. Noting that he was afraid and didn't want to leave his family, Roy noted that he got out of the truck where he would later be found dead. After texting Carter about his fears, she replied: "Get back in." Advertisement Roy was found dead the following day, July 13. "Instead of attempting to assist him or notify his family or school officials, Ms Carter is alleged to have strongly influenced his decision to take his own life, encouraged him to commit suicide and guided him in his engagement of activities which led to his death," Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for Bristol County District Attorney Tom Quinn, said in a statement to the Sun Chronicle. In a report filed in New Bedford Juvenile Court, Fairhaven Police Detective Scott Gordon suggested that Carter encouraged Roy to kill himself while simultaneously putting together "a plan to get sympathy from her friends," according to South Coast Today. Gordon alleges that such a plan was evident because late on the night of July 11, two days before her boyfriend was found dead, Carter had "already started explaining (to friends) that it's her fault that Conrad is dead, even though he was still alive and speaking and texting with her regularly." That same day, Carter also texted Roy: "Let me know when you're gonna do it." In the months after Roy's death, Carter helped raise thousands of dollars for suicide prevention in her dead boyfriend's name. But writing to friends after Roy's body was discovered, police say, Carter appeared to acknowledge that her messages to her boyfriend were intended to encourage him to go through with the suicide. "[H]is death is my fault. Like honestly, I could have stopped him. I was on the phone with him and he got out of the car because it was working and he got scared," Carter texted a friend on September 14, according to the Boston Herald. "I [expletive] told him to get back in... because I knew he would do it all over again the next day and I couldn't have him live the way he was living anymore I couldn't do it, I wouldn't let him..." Carter's parents say that their daughter, an honor roll student, is being unfairly portrayed as a villain. "Our hearts have and remain broken for the Roy family," her parents said in a statement, according to the Boston Herald. "For everyone that does not know our daughter, she is not the villain the media is portraying her to be." They added: "She is a quiet, kind, and sympathetic young girl. She tried immensely to help Mr Roy in his battle with depression. We know that once all of the facts are released, our daughter will be found innocent." Carter was indicted February 6 on charges stemming from Roy's death. Charging documents, filed in juvenile court because Carter was 17 at the time of the suicide, were obtained last week by local news organisations. The charges have added a horrifying dimension to an already tragic story, particularly for Roy's family, which is now reliving the worst moments of his death. Janice Roy told CBS affiliate WBZ that despite her grandson's long struggle with depression, she believes he could have been persuaded to not follow through with his suicide plan. "We were hoping," she told the stations. "He seemed to be pulling out of it." Of hearing about the text messages, she said: "I felt like the blood drained out of me. I don't believe this, it's too horrific." It's a dramatic turn of events for Carter, who in the months after Roy's death mourned him publicly and used his death as a catalyst for activism on suicide prevention. In messages on Twitter, Carter wrote, "such a beautiful soul gone too soon." And, "I will never understand why this had to happen." Carter's Twitter account has since been deleted and she is prohibited from using social media while charges are pending. She helped plan a fundraising softball tournament for Roy called "Homers for Conrad." But even that raised the suspicions of Roy's friends, who told police that she was "looking for attention" after Roy's death, according to court documents obtained by the Boston Herald. | 1,016 | -1,456,674,730,734,164,000 | 2015-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
The weakened state of Nanyue and the strength of China at the time allowed Emperor Wu to unleash a devastating attack on Nanyue, as described above. ===With Changsha===
Changsha was, at the time, a feudal kingdom that was part of Han China. Its territory comprised most of modern Hunan Province and part of Jiangxi Province. When Emperor Gaozu of Han enfeoffed Wu Rui as the first King of Changsha, he also gave him the power to govern Nanhai, Xiang, and Guiling Commanderies, which caused strife between Changsha and Nanyue from the start. The Han China-Nanyue border was essentially that of Changsha, and therefore was constantly fortified on both sides. In terms of policies, because the Kingdom of Changsha had no sovereignty whatsoever, any policy of the Han court toward Nanyue was by default also Changsha's policy. ===With Minyue===
Minyue was located northeast of Nanyue along China's southeast coast, and comprised much of modern Fujian Province. The Minyue were defeated by the armies of the Qin dynasty in the 3rd century BC and the area was organized under Qin control as the Minzhong Commandery, and Minyue ruler Wuzhu was deposed. Because of Wuzhu's support for Liu Bang after the collapse of the Qin dynasty and the founding of the Han, he was reinstated by the Han court as King of Minyue in 202 BC. The relations between Nanyue and Minyue can be classified into three stages: the first, from 196 BC to 183 BC, was during Zhao Tuo's first submission to the Han dynasty, and the two kingdoms were on relatively equal footing. The second stage was from 183 BC to 135 BC, when Minyue submitted to Nanyue after seeing it defeat the Han dynasty's first attack on Nanyue. The third stage began in 135 BC when King Wang Ying attacked a weakened Nanyue, forcing Zhao Mo to seek aid from Han China. Minyue once again submitted to the Han dynasty, making itself and Nanyue equals once more. ===With the Yi Tribes of the Southwest===
The southwestern Yi people lived west of Nanyue, and shared borders with Nanyue in Yelang, Wulian, Juding, and other regions. Yelang was the largest state of the Yi people, comprising most of modern Guizhou and Yunnan Provinces, as well as the southern part of Sichuan Province. Some believe the ancient Yi to have been related to the Hundred Yue, with this explaining the close relationship between Yelang and Nanyue. After Nanyue first repelled the Han, nearly all of the Yi tribes declared allegiance to Nanyue, and most of them retained that allegiance until Nanyue's demise in 111 BC. During Emperor Wu of Han's final attack on Nanyue, most of the Yi tribes refused to assist in the invasion. One chieftain called Qie-Lan went so far as to openly oppose the move, later killing the emissary sent by the Han to his territory as well as the provincial governor installed in the Qianwei Commandery. ==Kings==
==Archaeological findings==
The Nanyue Kingdom Palace Ruins, located in the city of Guangzhou, covers 15,000 square metres. Excavated in 1995, it contains the remains of the ancient Nanyue palace. In 1996, it was listed as protected National Cultural Property by the Chinese government. Crescent-shaped ponds, Chinese gardens and other Qin architecture were discovered in the excavation. In 1983, the ancient tomb of the Nanyue King Wáng Mù (王墓) was discovered in Guangzhou, Guangdong. In 1988, the Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King was constructed on this site, to display more than 1,000 excavated artefacts including 500 pieces of Chinese bronzes, 240 pieces of Chinese jade and 246 pieces of metal. In 1996, the Chinese government listed this site as a protected National Heritage Site. A bronze seal inscribed "Tư Phố hầu ấn" (Seal for Captain of Tu Pho County) was uncovered at Thanh Hoa in northern Vietnam during the 1930s. Owing to the similarity to seals found at the tomb of the second king of Nam Viet, this bronze seal is recognized as an official seal of the Nam Viet Kingdom. There were artifacts that were found in which belonged to the Dong Son culture of northern Vietnam. The goods were found buried alongside the tomb of the second king of Nam Viet. | 999 | null | null | 747,078,673 | 2016-10-31T09:06:12 | Nanyue | 2,016 |
Associated Press Miami Heat's LeBron James (6) dunks against the Indiana Pacers during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Sunday, March 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) Miami Heat's LeBron James (6) dunks against the Indiana Pacers during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Sunday, March 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) Indiana Pacers' Lance Stephenson (1) is fouled by Miami Heat's Chris Andersen (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Sunday, March 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) Indiana Pacers' Roy Hibbert (55) goes up to the basket as Miami Heat's Mario Chalmers (15) defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Sunday, March 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) Indiana Pacers' Paul George (24) recovers a rebound over Miami Heat's Chris Andersen (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Sunday, March 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade (3) prepares to shoot over Indiana Pacers' Orlando Johnson (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Miami, Sunday, March 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) MIAMI (AP) - It's not a LeBron James winning streak. It's a Miami Heat winning streak. If there was any confusion on that point, the reigning NBA champions might have cleared that up Sunday night. Mario Chalmers scored 26 points, Chris Bosh added 24 and the Heat won their 18th straight game, easily topping the Indiana Pacers 105-91 - even with James scoring only a season-low 13, yet clearly helping control play with seven assists and six rebounds. "That's the thing about our team," Chalmers said. "We can click on all cylinders." The streak ties the seventh longest in NBA history, and is the league's best since the Boston Celtics won 19 straight in November and December 2008. "We just did what we're supposed to do," said Dwyane Wade, who added 23 points and six steals for Miami. "Win at home." Ray Allen added 11 for Miami (47-14), which now has a victory over every NBA team this season. The Heat had been 0-2 against the Pacers. "When you can win like this, we can go home, we can breathe easier, food tastes better, it makes life a lot better," Allen said. "That's the goal and I'm sure everybody in this locker room will say the same." David West scored 17 of his 24 points in the first half for the Pacers, who fell nine games behind Miami in the Eastern Conference standings. Roy Hibbert scored 15, D.J. Augustin had 14 and Paul George scored 10 for Indiana. The Heat held a 27-15 edge in points off turnovers and finished the game shooting 56 percent compared with 41 percent by Indiana. "We didn't compete from the opening tip," West said. "I just don't think we brought enough competitive fire. LeBron James has 13 points and these other guys - Chalmers has 26 - it's just not enough. We didn't compete enough. You can't beat a team like that in their building as well as they're playing without competing." Those "other guys" did their jobs, none better than Chalmers. Miami's point guard needed only nine shots to get his 26 points, going 5 for 6 from 3-point range and making all seven of his free throws. He also grabbed seven rebounds, tying a career high. Since Nov. 17, 2010, there have been only two instances of a player scoring at least 26 points on nine shots or less, according to STATS LLC: Chalmers on Sunday, and a 27-point effort from Chris Paul earlier this season. "All your guys have to be live options and Rio took that to heart," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "He took shots he was capable of making.... He must be aggressive against the better defensive teams in the league." The Pacers warmed up at the basket the Heat typically use, and just about every starter kept pre-game pleasantries such as handshakes and quick hugs to a minimum. And there were moments of physicality, but nothing near the level of those body-flying, blood-drawing clobberings that came during last season's Eastern Conference semifinals. Then again, that series was competitive throughout. This game was essentially over just after halftime. Miami led by nine after the opening quarter, the second-largest deficit the Pacers faced after 12 minutes all season. Indiana hardly folded; the Pacers used a 24-14 run to get within two when West scored with 2:57 left before the half. The margin was still only six in the final minute before intermission. | 1,021 | -2,218,398,702,066,131,500 | 2013-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
American detained in North Korea said he wanted to help Christians (Reuters) - The American detained by North Korea knew he risked jail by leaving a Bible behind at a club and was not abused during his nearly half year detention in the state often criticized for suppressing religious freedom, he told NBC News on Friday. Jeffrey Fowle, 56, was released last week by North Korea and then returned to his home near Dayton. He had been one of three Americans held by mercurial state, which typically uses the release of foreign captives to build domestic political support for its leaders. "It was a risk I was willing to assume at that time," Fowle, a deeply religious Christian, said in the interview posted on the website for MSNBC. Fowle, who held various interviews on Friday, had not previously spoken of his ordeal The North Korean government takes a hard line against proselytizing, seeing religion as a threat to the Kim family that has ruled it since the end of World War Two and been portrayed as demigods by state propaganda. A U.N. report this year cited estimates that between 200,000 and 400,000 of North Korea's 24 million people are Christians. The number is impossible to verify because most Christians cannot worship openly. "I was so motivated by the stories of the underground Christians that I felt compelled to help them," Fowle said. Fowle spent most of his first month in captivity at the Yanggakdo International Hotel, one of the top hotels designated for foreign guests in North Korea. It has well-worn and sparse rooms, a casino in the basement and is located on an island in central Pyongyang. "Throughout the whole process I was treated fairly well. I was never physically abused," he said, adding "I usually had too much to eat." North Korea, which battles chronic food shortages caused by what experts say is poor management of its farms, fed him meals with rice and a variety of soups. It also toned down some spicy Korean dishes at his request. He was later held in a hospitality center and alone for about 23 hours a day, he said. North Korea, where health problems of young leader Kim Jong Un have raised question about his grip on power, tried to show that the release came after pleading from Washington. The Obama administration said there was no quid pro quo with Pyongyang. Fowle said he was told by U.S. officials that North Korea initiated his release. Fowle was arrested in May for leaving a Bible at a sailor's club in the North Korean city of Chongjin, where he was traveling as a tourist. The longest held U.S. citizen in North Korea is Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary arrested in November 2012 and sentenced to 15 years' hard labor. Matthew Miller, an American held in North Korea since April for "hostile acts," in September began a six-year hard labor sentence that he said involved farm work and isolation. (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Bill Trott)
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Maybe that's the source of Cher's appeal right now: we ourselves are coming out of a period of relative fashion conservatism, itself a reaction to the crass excesses of the early Noughties. A little glitz, a bit of glamour, a sliver (or several) of naked flesh are no longer looked on as bad taste. But is Cher's style looked on as bad taste? Probably - even when it's being lauded. (In 1999, for instance, the Council of Fashion Designers of America recognised Cher for her influence in fashion.) "I think she's been a fashion victim and I think she's learned a lot from that," says the then-CFDA president Stan Herman. "That almost gave her her sense of style." But I don't think Cher is a fashion victim. She's always known exactly what she wanted to achieve. She's never worn something to be fashionable, regardless of whether is suited her or not - indeed, she's been happier to be out of fashion. Example? Bob Mackie, the fashion designer most associated with her look, and with whom she is most associated. She still sports his clothes today. Cher and Cher alike: Kim Kardashian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala in New York (Getty)
Who was wearing sheer-spangled banners - screaming, "Look at me!" - back in the Eighties? Who, indeed, was wearing Mackie on the red carpet? No one, bar Cher. She was lambasted for it back then. But now, they're the looks that are lauded. And if they're not lauded, they're at least remembered. Everyone knows what Cher wore to present the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1986 - but who remembers what the winner wore? Or even who he was? Does that sound like a victim, or a victor? Anyway. Bad taste leads us, inevitably, to the notion of camp. We can really have some fun here. Because Cher is camp, undoubtedly. She's practically its personification. And while the ultimate camp statement - it's good because it's awful - doesn't apply to her, it is germane to much of what she has worn. Susan Sontag said that camp "is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers." Cher probably has a dozen of those, and has done that a hundred times. Diana Vreeland, American Vogue's arch editor-in-chief during the 1960s, hit the nail on the head when she declared: "A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste... No taste is what I'm against." (Incidentally, Vreeland first met Cher at a party for Jackie Kennedy in the 1960s. She had her photographed by Richard Avedon for her magazine; Vreeland was also the inspiration for Marc Jacobs' autumn/winter 2015 collection. You fill in the blanks.) Camp taste, Sontag said, has a peculiar affinity and overlap with homosexual taste. There's an entire, and exhaustive, Wikpedia page devoted to Cher as a gay icon; there was also an entire episode of the American LGBTQ-ish sitcom Will & Grace devoted to a Cher doll. "You'll always have those women that designers... of a certain sexual orientation... are obsessed with," Katie Grand says, in a measured fashion. But I remember, in February 2013, when Cher made surprise appearances at a number of the autumn/winter Paris fashion-week shows - Balmain, Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens - and caused a veritable furore at each. The reason? Let's be frank: Cher does appeal to gay men, and their percentage in the fashion ranks is especially high. Read more: Cher stars on the cover of Love Magazine
Cher on Donald Trump's presidential bid
Willow Smith joins Cher as Marc Jacobs campaign star
Marc Jacobs is putting Cher in the limelight
Cher is the new face of Marc Jacobs Still, it isn't just gay male fashion professionals who are fixated on Cher. This year, we saw her not once on the Met gala's red carpet, but multiple times, in a slew of homages (fashion's favourite synonym for rip-offs) to the outfit Cher wore to the first Met gala in 1974. Beyoncé's transparent Givenchy gown with globules of embroidery crusting her pubis and nipples; Jennifer Lopez's barely-there Versace number licked with smears of scarlet beading; the blanket-coverage of a barely covered Kim Kardashian in designer Peter Dundas' first creation for Roberto Cavalli. They all graduated from the Cher school of never sharing the stage, with anyone, or anything. Her own Jacobs number, although both sequined and low-cut, seemed demure in comparison to her contemporaries and her own past. | 1,004 | 5,379,239,398,043,717,000 | 2015-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
NASA launches astroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx spacecraft CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- NASA launched its Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft, the OSIRIS-REx, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Thursday evening from Cape Canaveral. The rocket and spacecraft blasted off on time, at exactly 7:05 p.m. EDT, from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Florida Air Force Station. OSIRIS-REx is set to be the first NASA spacecraft to retrieve an asteroid sample and return it to Earth. Once in space, the spacecraft will set its sights on 101955 Bennu, a 1,614-foot-wide space rock in the collection of near-Earth asteroids known as the Apollo group. Though OSIRIS-REx has many exciting milestones ahead, its next two years will be spent traveling. The craft won't rendezvous with the asteroid until 2018. Once it meets up with the rock, the craft will spend 505 days mapping its surface while in orbit at an altitude of roughly 3.5 miles. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft blasts off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday evening. The spacecraft will travel for two years to the 101955 Bennu asteroid and collect a sample. Image courtesy NASA TV NASA scientists chose 101955 Bennu for the OSIRIS-REx mission because of its unique supply of unadulterated carbonaceous material, one of the building blocks of life. Researchers believe asteroid collisions may have provided early Earth with the biochemicals necessary for life. The mission may also yield new clues on how future asteroids could impact Earth, scientists said. After nearly two years in orbit around 101955 Bennu, OSIRIS-REx will attempt an extremely close approach without landing, using its robotic arm to scoop up a material sample from the asteroid's surface. The spacecraft will begin its return journey to Earth in 2021 and is scheduled to touch down on September 24, 2023.
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A promise of education for all Online learning is by no means a new phenomenon. Models for distance learning and open access education predate even the digital age, but MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platforms are captivating the attention of millions of learners around the world and of institutions who don't want to miss out on "the next big thing." These digital platforms allow huge numbers of students to access learning opportunities for free from some of the world's best colleges and universities. At a time when rising costs are seen as one of the largest barriers to higher education, MOOCs are a welcome addition and are seen to be opening doors otherwise unavailable. And the space is constantly expanding. Just in the last few weeks, a new MOOC called Futurelearn was launched in the U.K. and EdX announced a partnership with Google to expand their platform. Involving masses of students around the world, one could argue that MOOCs are the greatest social innovation in higher education of this century. A social innovation refers to new strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that meet social needs. The social need can be defined as access to education, whether for personal, societal or economic advancement. Numerous studies show that access to a higher education is a vehicle for economic and social progress. With hundreds of colleges and universities opening their doors to offer free online courses to anyone with an Internet connection, it is difficult to imagine that the future of higher education will not be impacted by the opportunities offered by this digital technology to reach students in every corner of the world. But is the impact of MOOCs on college and university access real? While the popular belief is that MOOCs are opening access to learners around the world, and there is anecdotal evidence to support this, initial data shows that the largest concentration of those enrolled are English-speakers in developed countries. Also, according to data released by Coursera in May 2013, a majority of people taking Coursera courses already have a college degree. So, early figures would suggest that MOOCs are not having the global impact on access envisaged. However, there is more work to be done and a lot of questions still need to be answered. Much debate is ongoing around the learning value of MOOC courses and whether academic credit should be offered. The outcome of this debate will undoubtedly have an impact. Strides are being made to support the academic value of MOOC courses with the ACE College Credit Recommendation Service and degree programmes including MOOC courses either in part or full, such as Antioch University's blended Bachelor's degree or the Georgia Tech Master's in Computer Science. People everywhere are looking for more affordable approaches to higher education and lifelong learning. MOOCs are seen as an answer. To some extent this is resulting in the unbundling of higher education. In fact, one man is attempting to complete a one year BA entirely through free online resources. These digital platforms are giving hope for a higher education to millions around the world in a way that previous technologies have not allowed. Students" expectations are changing. Institutions are responding. Future models of learning will likely be a blend of traditional and innovative, or "brick and click." Once these keys are fully unlocked, the impact of MOOCs on higher education access globally will be exponential. In that way, MOOCs could even be seen as a social movement. What do you think - are MOOCs over-hyped or will they become one of the greatest social innovations in higher education? Janice Mulholland is an Education Manager for the British Council. Based in Washington DC, Janice oversees the British Council's Education work in the United States. She is also a contributor on higher education issues for the British Council's Voices blog.
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USAF F-84F Thunderstreak fighters were painted with North Korea paint schemes and insignia to portray enemy MiG-15s. A C-130A Hercules was used as an aerial photography platform. Palm Beach AFB, Florida was the main base where aircraft used in the film were parked and maintained during the production. With this film, director Dick Powell completed his obligations to 20th Century Fox in his producing-directing contract, having already delivered The Enemy Below (1957). ==Reception==
Considered a lackluster war drama, The Hunters did not fare well with critics, although most audiences saw it as a widescreen epic. Director Dick Powell strove to create an authentic "look" with carefully set up scenes focusing on military personnel and the jet fighter operations that underlined the main action scenes. Howard Thompson in his review for The New York Times, noted: "Performed well enough by a pretty good, predominantly male cast, headed by Robert Mitchum, and handsomely produced by Dick Powell, who also directed, the result is a respectable, rather neutrally flavored film that somehow only matters when aloft." Likewise, reviewer Mark Hassan in a later review, opined, "The real star of the film is the extraordinary aerial cinematography". According to Lt. Col. Charles D. Bright, himself an F-86 pilot in Korea, comparing and contrasting the novel and the film version in the Aerospace Historian, "The plot was changed greatly, and not for the better." ==Text in opening credits==
"Twentieth Century-Fox wishes to thank the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force for their assistance in the production of this motion picture." "JAPAN — 1952 at the time of the Korean War"
==The Hunters on Turner Classic Movies==
The initial showing of The Hunters on Turner Classic Movies was on June 2, 2015 as part of a four-film salute to the directorial career of Dick Powell. ===Introductory comments===
"Hi, I'm Robert Osborne. Thanks for joining us. Right now we're gonna spend some time saluting one of the greats of Hollywood's Golden Age who doesn't often get the attention he deserves. I speak of Dick Powell, but in the hours ahead you're only gonna see his name and samples of his work — you're not gonna see his face. We're gonna focus on a very important period of Dick Powell's career — when he worked strictly behind the camera. Dick Powell, you know, had three very district phases in his film career — when he began making movies in the nineteen thirties, he was one of Hollywood's great crooners — saucy and fun — when he starred in such film musicals as 42nd Street and Footlight Parade. For years, he was under contract to Warner Brothers studios and that was the only type of roles his bosses would allow him to play…. until Dick Powell entered the second phase of his career. In the mid-forties, he did a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn. He stopped crooning, stopped shaving and, in the movie Murder, My Sweet, played the tough-as-nails private eye Philip Marlowe and he began a whole new career as a movie tough guy. Then, in the fifties, came the third stage for Powell — he moved behind the camera — began producing and directing films with great success. And it's that last phase of his career that we're gonna concentrate on right now. We begin with a TCM premiere, an action film called The Hunters, a war story set in Korea, based on a novel by James Salter, a career military man who eventually sat down at a typewriter and put his great knowledge of war, and those who had to fight those wars, to good use. This story, The Hunters, was the first by Salter to be published and, as for the cast of the movie, you really can't do better. There is, for instance, Robert Mitchum, along with another one of our favorites here at TCM, Robert Wagner. There's also Richard Egan, May Britt, Rachel Stephens and Lee Philips who had just come to everybody's attention as Lana Turner's leading man in the popular movie, Peyton Place. So, from nineteen fifty-eight, one of four films both produced and directed by Dick Powell during his career — The Hunters." ===Robert Osborne's closing comments===
"When Dick Powell, who produced and directed this film, first approached Robert Mitchum about starring in it, he didn't have a complete script. | 993 | null | null | 735,215,606 | 2016-08-19T08:30:04 | The Hunters (1958 film) | 2,016 |
The Parkes to Narromine railway line is a railway line in New South Wales, Australia. The line forms part of a cross country route between Cootamundra on the Main South line and Werris Creek on the Main North line. It is owned by the Rail Infrastructure Corporation of New South Wales, but is managed and maintained by the Australian Rail Track Corporation under a 60-year lease signed in 2004. The line is used mainly for grain haulage, with several silo facilities located along the line. Passenger services ceased in the mid-1970s and there are no surviving passenger stations on the line. The station building at Peak Hill has been relocated to a nearby sportsground. ==See also==
Rail transport in New South Wales
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DRC capital brought to standstill in one-day general strike A one-day strike brought the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo to a standstill on Tuesday (February 16). It aims to force President Joseph Kabila to step down at the end of his mandate in December, 2016. The constitution bars him from standing again, but critics fear he will change the law or delay the election to retain power.
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In 2007 Ramadan moved to Manchester, England to play with Greater Manchester team Ashton United for 5 years becoming a main player in the team. Fluent in 3 languages, he has a big fan base back in Lebanon and is known by his nickname "Boudy". In an interview with the Lebanese Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation television station (LBC), Abdelghany Ramadan as expressed his love for his country and describes it as something unique to him. He also said that he would love to join the Lebanese national football team in 2015. References
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==Ridsa==
Ridsa stylized as RIDSA (born in Orléans, France c.1990) is a French rapper and singer. He started rapping in 2010 putting his materials online gaining popularity. Recordings included collaborations with Flavie in "Toi et seulement toi", with Demhys in "J'aime quand", also with Latino, Cween, Angèle, Nabila etc. On 28 December 2012 he released "Amour Secret" with an accompanying music video. But it was his collaboration with Willy William and Canadian drummer Ryan Stevenson that gave him his first commercial success with the charting "Je n'ai pas eu le temps" and an EP Es tu fiesta containing "Es tu fiesta" and more mixes of "Je n'ai pas eu le temps". Ridsa released his first album Mes histoires on 2 June 2014 with collaborations with Wanz, Dieselle, Pépé Rosso and Angèle. The album peaked at number 44 on SNEP, the official French Albums Chart. Discography
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2014: "Olé olé" (Remix) (L'Artiste, Zifou & RIDSA)
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==Shawn Hook==
Shawn Hook (born South Slocan, British Columbia, Canada) and originating from Nelson, British Columbia is a Canadian Pop/Electronic/Rock singer, songwriter and producer. Hook is signed to Kreative Soul Entertainment, Inc. under exclusive license to EMI Music Canada. Career
He studied piano from as early as age 4 and by high school, was writing his songs and playing trombone. His first release was in 2002 after his vocal teacher at a local music college offered to produce it. He also gigged with the disco cover band Shag. Enrolling at The Art Institute in Vancouver, a pricey recording arts school, he released a second independent album in 2006. He also established the charity "Feed The Need", and collected money for the charity performing at various regional high schools and for the charity's food bank. Today, he continues with the charity registered and rebranded as "Live To Give". He released his official debut album Cosmonaut and the Girl produced by Jon Levine on EMI with "So Close" as a single from the album. He followed it up with another single "Follow the Lights" also in 2012. But it was with his 2014 hit single "Million Ways" released on 2 September 2014 that he gained big popularity and following becoming his most successful charting single in Billboard Canadian Hot 100 giving him three simultaneous hits on the Canadian Hot 100. Discography
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==TooManyLeftHands==
TooManyLeftHands is a Copenhagen-based Danish DJ and producer duo consisting of Anders K and Martin Nick. Their work is mainly in the House / Tech / Progressive / Deep genres. Anders K is a successful Danish DJ who teamed up with club-owner, events organizer and producer Martin Nick for a duo releasing there own materials. The DJ duo named TooManyLeftHands or TMLH for short, debuted during the Copenhagen Fashion Week 2009. gaining residency at the Nasa club, and in October 2010 won the producer contest for Ibiza Style Magazine, and later started hosting in cooperation with Ibiza Global Radio and Pioneer. In addition to collaborations with a number of artists like Nadia Gattas, Mike Hawkins and Alexander Brown, in 2014, they released "Dancing in the Fire" and "Trouble" both charting in Denmark. | 1,000 | null | null | 728,036,050 | 2016-07-02T18:34:44 | Werldwayd/Further Development 8 | 2,016 |
Yemen's interior: A reluctant refuge for al-Qaeda THE ruins of ancient Sheba's capital are more than a thousand years old, monumental reminders of Yemen's golden age. But these days modern Marib, on the site of the old city, reflects the pain of the present. People in Sana'a, today's Yemeni capital, 172 kilometres (106 miles) to the west, tend to regard Marib and its surrounding province as a well of poverty and chaos. Most of the time they forget about it or dismiss it as a hopeless backwater. But quite often they find themselves cursing its disgruntled tribesmen for sabotaging oil pipelines and electricity supplies to the capital. On the surface the apparently bucolic calm of the farms of the Wadi Abida, just north of Marib city, belies the province's reputation for violence. But lingering disputes over precious arable land can turn ugly in an instant. Long-running tribal feuds sometimes prevent even short journeys. And al-Qaeda's presence is hard to eradicate. Military checkpoints dot the main road from Sana'a to Marib city, but outside its sweltering streets the central government's writ barely runs. It would be untrue to describe the province as lawless, since local tribal leaders generally run the show outside the city - except in the vast expanses of desert in the north-east of the province, where no one seems to hold sway and assorted jihadists and bandits can hide. Basic services hardly exist anywhere in the province. Few people have mains electricity. Hospitals and clinics are rare, qualified staff and decent equipment even rarer. Few children have more than the skimpiest primary education and few of the more educated ones get decent jobs. Farming is just about all there is. Yet amid the poverty the province of Marib has an abundance of natural wealth: it is the source of much of Yemen's modest oil and gas income. Locals complain, however, that most of the revenues go into the coffers of corrupt government officials. They insist that the province's reputation as a haven for al-Qaeda is unfair. For sure, it is undisputed that fighters loyal to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which the Obama administration has marked down as a direct threat to the United States, hide in the province. But local tribes have not given them an eager welcome. Rather, AQAP fighters have exploited the security vacuum in areas where tribal structures have broken down and people are too weak to drive them out. Most locals, in any event, say that drone attacks on suspected militants in the area make matters worse. The New America Foundation, a think-tank in Washington, lists more than 60 such attacks in Yemen since the start of 2012, most of them south and east of Marib. Some of those drone attacks were against AQAP fighters who last year seized much of Abyan province and then lost control of it. Although the raids on targets in Marib province, which is not an active battlefield, are smaller in number, they still serve to recruit young men to the jihadist cause by spreading fear, increasing a sense of the province's marginalisation and fuelling even greater distrust of the central government which co-operates with America.
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She said: 'I think they've acted irrationally. I'm very disappointed. I would have stayed. I never felt threatened at all. We had guards all round us. I think we've given in to the terrorists a bit. I'm mortified by it all. 'We would have all stayed. I think they've handled it disgracefully. There was security on the roof, on the beach, everywhere. It was fine.' Clive Ryder, 44, an animal welfare officer from Gloucester, added: 'We're disappointed that our holiday has been cut short. There were a lot of people walking around with guns looking out for us and we felt safe.' Families haul their suitcases onto an extra flight put on by Thomas Cook to evacuated tourists from Tunisia ISIS gunman Seifeddine Rezgui seen calmly walking on Sousse beach carrying the gun he used to murder 30 British tourists All 30 Britons killed by Rezgui last month were either Thomson or First Choice customers, and, as a result, the companies have no guests in Tunisia at the moment. Following the Government's warning, Thomson and First Choice immediately cancelled all flights to Tunisia for the summer season. They added that 'as a precautionary measure we have taken the decision to repatriate all British Thomson and First Choice staff currently working in Tunisia within the next 24 hours'. Between 2,500-3,000 British tourists are believed to be in Tunisia and around 300 independent travellers. The timing of the change could lead to questions over why tourists have been allowed to carry on travelling to Tunisia for two weeks since the attack. Anyone due to travel to Tunisia with the two companies this summer will be given the opportunity to amend their holiday free of charge or receive a full refund. Thomas Cook has confirmed that it had cancelled all bookings to Tunisia up until October 31. In a statement published on the Foreign Office said: 'If you're in Tunisia and you don't have an essential need to remain you should leave by commercial means. 'Tour operators are arranging additional flights and will be organising departures for their customers. If you're travelling with a tour operator, you should contact your tour operator's representative in the first instance. 'If you're travelling independently, you should make your own arrangements to leave' Thirty eight foreign tourists were killed in last month's terror attack, including 30 Britons. The Foreign Office warned that further terrorist attacks were likely to target tourist resorts and by 'individuals unknown to the authorities' inspired by terrorist groups on the internet. Share or comment on this article
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Betty Harte (May 13, 1882 – January 3, 1965) was an American actress of the silent era. Born Daisy Mae Light, she appeared in 108 films between 1908 and 1916 after starting out as a secretary for a newspaper. She was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania and died in Sunland, California. ==Selected filmography==
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908)
Across the Plains (1910)
Davy Crockett (1910)
Pride of the Range (1910)
The Coquette (1911)
The Maid at the Helm (1911)
An Assisted Elopement (1912)
The Girl of the Lighthouse (1912)
The Little Stowaway (1912)
Her Education (1912)
The Ace of Spades (1912)
The Danites (1912)
The 'Epidemic' in Paradise Gulch (1912)
The Vow of Ysobel (1912)
Bounder (1912)
The Pride of Jennico (1914)
The Buzzard's Shadow (1915)
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Associated Press Kyle Durham, left, and Melissa Durham, second from left, hold hands as they leave the Federal Courthouse in Oklahoma City, following another day of testimony in the federal trial of their son, Matthew Lane Durham, Monday, June 15, 2015. At right are their other two sons, Josh Durham, right, and Zac Durham. Matthew Lane Durham is accused of 17 counts of sexual misconduct with children in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) Kyle Durham, left, and Melissa Durham, second from left, hold hands as they leave the Federal Courthouse in Oklahoma City, following another day of testimony in the federal trial of their son, Matthew Lane Durham, Monday, June 15, 2015. At right are their other two sons, Josh Durham, right, and Zac Durham. Matthew Lane Durham is accused of 17 counts of sexual misconduct with children in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The mother of a 20-year-old Oklahoma man charged with molesting Kenyan orphans testified Tuesday that her son was frightened when the allegations were leveled against him and that she told him to "say whatever you need to say" in order to return to the United States. Melissa Durham testified during the federal trial of Matthew Lane Durham of Edmond, who is charged with 17 counts of sexual misconduct, including aggravated sexual abuse and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. He has pleaded not guilty and faces up to life in prison if convicted. Federal prosecutors have shown the 12-member jury several handwritten, signed statements he gave to orphanage officials after he was confronted with the allegations. Prosecutors have described the statements as confessions by Durham. "I would take her to the bathroom at night and hold her down and rape her. This happened on several occasions," part of a statement pertaining to the alleged assault of a 12-year-old girl says. "At night I took him to the bathroom and had him perform oral sex on me," states part of another. But Durham's defense attorney, Stephen Jones, has questioned the credibility of the statements, arguing they were coerced by orphanage officials who kept Durham isolated and seized his passport. Jones also has suggested that orphanage officials used the case to obtain more than $17,000 from the U.S. government to install security cameras at the orphanage. A total of five children, four girls and a boy, have testified in the case. The children, who speak Swahili, testified through an interpreter after officials cleared the courtroom to shield the children from the public and the media. Durham had been a volunteer at the Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya, since 2012 and was on his fourth visit to the orphanage when he was accused of molesting children between April and June 2014. His mother testified Tuesday that her son had asked to arrive at Upendo days before other volunteers. "He wanted to spend more time there," Melissa Durham testified. She joined her son at the orphanage on May 25, 2014, and, like him, asked to stay at the orphanage instead of in off-premises housing that is customary for volunteers. The orphanage specializes in neglected children and provides food, housing, clothes, and educational and religious instruction. "I wanted to spend more time with the kids," she testified. She returned to the U.S. about two weeks later. On June 13, 2014, he son telephoned her to say he was coming home early after being accused of molesting children at the orphanage. Melissa Durham said her son claimed he had not done anything to the children. "He was upset. He was scared. He didn't seem like himself," she testified. She said she believes her son had been crying prior to some of his telephone calls. She said she urged her son to cooperate with orphanage officials, including Upendo founder Eunice Menja, and to "say whatever you need to say" to leave Kenya and return to the U.S. "He just needed to say whatever Eunice Menja told him to say," Melissa Durham said. "That was my only advice." Durham returned to the U.S. in June 2014 before the allegations against him had been fully investigated by the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi and Kenyan authorities. Federal law gives U.S. prosecutors the authority to prosecute an American citizen who travels to a foreign country for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with persons under the age of 16. Associated Press
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Weather centers to arm Central Africa's farmers against climate shifts YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For many of the past five years, Marthe Efoulan, a 42-year-old farmer in Meyomessala, in southern Cameroon, has been fooled into planting her crops too soon. Rain has come unusually early in February, and Efoulan - used to planting when the rain begins - puts in her maize crop. But then the rains stop as quickly as they came, putting her young crop in peril. "My three-weeks-old maize crop all withered," she complained of this year's crop. Farmers across Central Africa continue to fall prey to changing climate patterns, leading to the failure of their crops and devastating drops in income. One way to help, experts say, is to arm farmers with accurate information about climate patterns so they can better plan their planting schedules and adapt to weather disasters.
Currently less than 20 percent of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services operating in the region are useful for decision-making and development planning, mainly due to weak staffing and degraded infrastructure, according to a report by the African Development Bank (AfDB). Now authorities have unveiled plans for a new meteorological service they hope will give a major boost to Central Africa's goals of climate change resilience. At a meeting in Yaounde in April, environment and climate experts announced the creation of the Central African Meteorological Center, a new hydro-meteorological hub that will capture weather and climate data and disseminate the information to farmers and other users. This data, say the experts, is essential to supporting economic development and helping the region adapt to changing weather patterns. Cameroon has offered to host the new center's headquarters in its economic capital, Douala. "The creation of a climate change meteorological center in the Central African region is vital," said Dominique Kuitsouk, head of Cameroon's Department of Disaster and Emergency Services. At the same time, the existing meteorological service will be modernized. Under the auspices of the recently launched ClimDev-Special Fund, which focuses on climate-resilient development in Africa, the African Development Bank and the World Bank are providing $13.4 million to update many of the African Regional Climate Centers across the continent. The money will go towards, among other things, installing better regional transmission systems and weather prediction systems, as well as developing the capacity of people in the centers. After the initial investment, the cost of maintaining the updated National Meteorological and Hydrological Services could run to a minimum of between $100 million and $150 million per year, according to a report by the AfDB. "The setting up of these infrastructures requires huge financial resources to ensure quality services and reliable results," said Bernard Edward Gomez, principal meteorologist at Gambia's Department of Water Resources.
Convinced that better weather prediction is key to economic stability, a group of economic blocs - including the Economic Community of Central African States and the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa - have agreed to foot the bill, with support from the World Bank and African Development Bank. While the new and improved meteorological centers will allow Central Africa's farmers access to more accurate climate data, the information is wasted unless farmers know what to do with it, experts say. In Cameroon - whose farmers have been severely affected by flooding and other increasingly unpredictable weather - the Ministry of Agriculture is working with several non-governmental organizations to set up a program to inform farmers about changing climate challenges and train them to adapt. Agricultural extension agents and NGO workers will community radio and text messaging, among other methods, to get climate data to farmers. Farmers, in turn, are expected to report changing planting practices and to choose new crops and varieties to plant. Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Ako" Afan, who launched the project in March, said the effort aims to improve food security. "The highly variable rainfall calendar over the past few years has made it difficult for farmers to plan, and they make the wrong decisions on which crop to plant, and when to plant, leading to disaster for households and families," Afan said. "This has led to dwindling food crop production, taking away the county's proud status as Central Africa's bread basket." Seventy percent of the workforce of Cameroon - the largest economy in Central Africa - works in agriculture. The sector provides 42 percent of the country's GDP, according to government statistics. But over recent years, the nation's farmers have been struggling. Harvests of coffee in the 2013-2014 season, for example, fell by about half compared to previous years, according to the Inter-professional Cocoa and Coffee Council. "Natural disasters cannot be avoided," said Hele Pierre, Cameroon's Minister of Environment. | 1,013 | 570,078,375,172,335,000 | 2015-12-31 00:00:00 | null | null | null | null |
LiveLeak footage shows a man yanks out his son's tooth using string and his car This is the (slightly unnerving) moment a US father decided to pull out one of his son's front teeth by using his car. Video of the unconventional extraction has been met with mixed feelings, after it appeared on the website Live Leak this week and went viral. While many viewers - mostly men - applauded the approach as funny and innocuous, others thought it cruel and unnecessary. The video shows a boy standing on a driving at the end of a cul-de-sac. His tooth has been attached by string to the back of his father's Audi S5. The man rolls down the window and starts to countdown as the engine revs. The boy's mother is then heard telling him to 'open your mouth'. The father then takes off down the street, and the boy can be heard letting out a yelp. He then screams out'my toothy' as he runs out onto the street looking for the tooth that has just been ripped out of his mouth by a car. As the mother, who is filming, approaches him with the camera, the boy appears to be crying. However he opens his mouth to show that the tooth was removed, revealing both his two front teeth are missing. Many viewers expressed outrage at what appears to be a frightening exercise to put a child through. One said: 'If you need a car to pull it out.... it might not be ready to come out.' Another commented online: 'I know it's harmless but it's somehow just not right and I feel bad for the kid having possibly s**** parents.' A third said: 'Gotta make that overpriced car payment somehow, poor kid.' The father is not named in the video upload and it is unclear where the footage was taken, but it is believed to be in the US.
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Xtreme Taxidermy is in an outbuilding in the front yard. "Bring us your dead," a sign read temptingly. In a pen, a gray wolf paced, her gait fluid and lovely (she'll eat the chickens if she's not watched, Mr. Ross said). A tiny Pomeranian bounced expectantly, and a hubcap size tortoise, a Christmas present to Ms. Ross from her husband, lumbered with surprising speed over the rutted earth. There were hanks of fur and hide everywhere, and skulls were drying on the storm cellar (Romance is in tornado country). The Rosses" oldest son, Hunter, lay flat on the ground, squinting into the sight of a Remington.243 rifle, lining up a paper target 100 or so yards away. Hunter, who is well named, is irritated when his brothers, no slouches in the hunting department, don't share his unflagging energy for the sport. His room is painstakingly decorated with animal parts, trophies and rifles, and swagged with a hunter's camouflage flannel. It is maybe the best boy's room you will ever see.
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Sellafield Clean-Up Contract To Be Torn Up A consortium is to be stripped of its contract to clean up western Europe's largest nuclear waste site at Sellafield following criticism of its performance. Nuclear Management Partners (NMP), made up of US engineering group URS, British firm AMEC and French energy firm AREVA, was awarded an extension to its deal in 2013 despite accusations of delays and cost over-runs. But the Government confirmed NMP, which employs 10,000 workers, will have its contract terminated. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) will instead assume responsibility for the work to allow a "simplifying" of its relationship with the Sellafield project. The cost of making the site, on the Cumbrian coast, safe has been put at almost £80bn over 120 years. Sellafield was used in the 1950s to make plutonium for nuclear weapons before the country's first nuclear power station was built there. NMP was handed a 17-year contract worth £9bn in 2008. Energy secretary Ed Davey said: "Sellafield is the biggest and most complex nuclear site in Europe, so it's right that we keep the way it's being managed under constant review. "We have seen great examples of how this approach can work with Crossrail and the Olympics - and I'm confident we'll see
similar results at Sellafield." Amec said the NMP contract would be terminated at the end of 2016, adding that the NDA had confirmed it was not performance-related. Its statement said: "It is vital that the lessons learned and the progress made since NMP were awarded the contract in 2008 should not be wasted. "NMP has to date generated £650m of efficiency savings and met 96% of its targets last year while Sellafield's safety performance is now the best ever." Gary Smith, national officer of the GMB, questioned the Government's role in the contract process. He said: "We believe NDA wanted to terminate the contract in 2013 following a report it commissioned, but was overruled by ministers. "Over £2bn has been spent with NMP since they extended the contract. "Who is going to be held to account for extending the contract? GMB members, the community and taxpayers need to know."
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Trying to force things into OSI, in my experience, is one of the worst things that can happen to beginners in networking; it leads to nothing but confusion. Howard C. Berkowitz
== WPOR Collaboration: 09172007 ==
All righty WPOR ladies and gentleman, great job last week with our state song and gemstone. I have bumped them up to Start class. I haven’t looked at the contributions, so the COTW award will be later. This week’s articles are Darlene Hooley, by special request, and another Top stub, our very own state rock, the Thunderegg. Yes, apparently we have a state rock and state gemstone. No word on whether there is a state stone too. Hooley basically needs some sources to make it to the next level. Again to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts click here. In the words of Beaver Joe, whoop! Aboutmovies
== Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge suggestion at DYK ==
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Thanks for fixing this, EncMstr
Well done! Blnguyen (bananabucket)
== Reply + screenshot ==
I replied and uploaded a screenshot here. Have a nice day, Shinobu
== Mount Hood climbing accidents ==
I just nominated Mount Hood climbing accidents for a DYK for September 19. I am wondering though whether it is eligible. Did you mostly create it on that date or was it a copy-paste? P.S. I also changed the lead so it would have punch for the DYK. Unfortunately, the new article is not eligible. It was split off the Mount Hood article which was too heavy with incidents—as you can probably see. Most of the incidents I wrote December 2006 in response to heavy interest in the three lost climbers, and major misunderstandings of the history and risks. It was particularly vexing to me as a part time ski instructor on Mount Hood, especially hearing the reporters standing around the lodge talking about things without the first clue what they were talking about. —EncMstr
P.S., thanks for fixing the lead. I've looked at it too many times to see how to fix it. —EncMstr
== DYK ==
== Please don't template the regulars ==
Hi. You recently left two template warnings on Ed Fitzgerald consisting of and. You may not be aware of DTTR, or the fact that Ed Fitzgerald has been on Wikipedia since June 27, 2005. In the future could you please check the contribution history (click on oldest to see the first edit) before templating the regulars? Personal messages work better in these situations. Thanks for your understanding. —Viriditas | Talk
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== Fall WPOR COTW ==
Welcome to autmun and the weekly COTW news. Great job to those who helped out with last week’s articles: Darlene Hooley & Thunderegg. Both made great improvements. This week, something a little different. With fall upon us, the photo ops are going to be harder to get, so we have a photo request fulfillment drive. Take a look at the requested pictures for Oregon category or the graphics subproject for what’s needed. Then go take a picture, or search online for a free picture to upload (US gov sites are great and there are links available from the above links). If you fill a request, be sure to remove the request template from the article’s talk page. Our other item is another red link removal drive, this time on the flagship Oregon article. Like the state parks red link drive, try to coordinate on the talk page. Again to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts click here. Aboutmovies
== Wiki sortable ==
Thanks for the help with Nilgiris_%28mountains%29#List_of_peaks_in_the_Nilgiri_Hills.! == Mount Ashland ==
Have you looked at this lately? Lots of good material there, but it needs cleanup. And possibly a POV check? I didn't look too closely. Katr67
Yeah, I noticed major additions were made. I'll add it to my near-term todo list. Thanks. —EncMstr
== New article relating to Oregon! ==
I am happy to announce i have created another article relating to Oregon, but it is far from being complete, and i would love your help and comments on making it better. The article is Portland Police Bureau. | 1,020 | null | null | 202,044,501 | 2008-03-30T13:20:14 | EncMstr/Archive2 | 2,016 |
The pope should beware of criticising Trump. The church has its own walls and damnations You could hear the cheering. Pope Francis slams Donald Trump. Build bridges not walls, he says. Man of God humiliates demagogue as "not a Christian." So perhaps America's 70 million Catholics will not vote for him after all. That should see off Trump and all his types. Hold on a minute. Suppose Trump had espoused birth control and abortion - which we can assume he privately supports - and suppose the pope had castigated him as unchristian for that. Imagine the howls. Who elected the pope? Why doesn't he stand for office? What about his dodgy priests? Related: Trump gets in fight with... the pope The role of faith in politics has always been vexed. The Church of England's record at least until the last half century was deplorable, its unelected prelates in the Lords obstructing everything from Catholic emancipation to parliamentary reform. Even today it fights for church school privileges and its seats in parliament. Its recent lurch to the left has infuriated the right as much as its conservatism used to infuriate liberals. The power of the Catholic church too may be waning, even in such bastions as Ireland and Latin America. But the pope's visit to Mexico shows the superstar status of his office is still awesome. His antagonism to drug reform and abortion - even in the current Zika epidemic - shows an astonishing doctrinal cruelty towards the poor and women. Of course many priests are sensitive and progressive souls. That is not the point. The point is that power in a democracy should reside in those who stand for election, set out their stall and win over the public in open debate. Appeals to the supernatural should have no part in it. Trump responds to pope's comments that he is "not Christian" - video Trump appears, however briefly, to have opened a new front in American politics. In large part it lies in articulating the latent prejudices of voters programmed to fear, and fed up with being told whom they may and may not offend. Trump has tapped into the craving for authenticity, for the real not the synthetic, the strongly-held view, however appalling. Of course the pope is right to champion bridges not walls, compassion not damnation. But he should first examine the beams in his own eye rather than the motes in others. He too is a man of walls and damnations. Priests should beware of attacking those who at least have the guts to seek the public's verdict on their views.
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North Korea Has Now Had 3 Failed Missile Launches in 2 Weeks South Korean officials said North Korea had two midrange missile tests fail on Thursday, bringing the total suspected misfires to three over the past two weeks. Defense officials in South Korea said they believe North Korea has been testing its new Musudan missiles, which could theoretically reach the United States if development continues. The launches are obvious failures in the week before Kim Jong Un holds a leading party meeting, the AP reports. South Korea also reported a failed test on April 14, but could not confirm the type of missile tested then. Thursday's first launch attempt took place in the morning, but the rocket crashed seconds later. Then in the evening, South Korean officials said another test failed near the South's city of Wonsan. NORAD confirmed both launches.
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Goldfinger is an American punk rock band that formed in 1994 in Los Angeles, California. Currently, the band is composed of vocalist/guitarist John Feldmann, and is more or less a solo outlet for the singer. He often recruits other members to play with him from bands with which he previously has worked. The original band is widely considered to have been a contributor to the movement of third-wave ska, a revitalization in the popularity of ska music which occurred during the mid-1990s. However, the releases of Open Your Eyes and Disconnection Notice, have been more commonly placed in the punk rock genre. Apart from the band's music, Goldfinger is also noted for their political activism, particularly in the area of animal rights. ==History==
===Formation, Goldfinger, and Hang-Ups (1994–1998)===
Goldfinger was formed by former Electric Love Hogs member John Feldmann on vocals and guitar, Simon Williams on bass, former drummer of Buffalo NY's Zero Tolerance Darrin Pfeiffer on drums, and Charlie Paulson on guitar. At the time the band was formed, Feldmann and Williams were working at the same shoe store where they were discovered by A&R Executive Patrick McDowell. Before they were signed to a major label, they released an EP titled Richter on the independent label Mojo Records, which received favorable reviews and a substantial amount of airplay on college radio, leading to Goldfinger and Mojo signing a major-label contract with Universal Records. Many of the songs on Richter are demo versions of songs on the band's full-length debut, Goldfinger, which was produced by Jay Rifkin and released by Mojo Records on February 29, 1996. The song "Here in Your Bedroom" from the album was especially popular and helped the band gain a solid fanbase. In 2006, Alternative Press listed the self-titled Goldfinger album as one of the "10 Albums That Shaped 1996" alongside No Doubt, Weezer and others. The band released its second album, Hang-Ups, on September 9, 1997. Although the album was less successful than the band's debut, the band still maintained a devoted fan base in the hardcore community. Founding bassist Simon Williams left the band following Hang-Ups. During this time, Goldfinger released a popular cover of the song "More Today Than Yesterday" by Spiral Starecase, which also helped the band stay out of obscurity. ===Stomping Ground and Open Your Eyes (1999–2004)===
Goldfinger's third studio LP was Stomping Ground, which was released on March 28, 2000. The album sold poorly in the US but was a modest hit in some European countries, thanks to their cover of Nena's "99 Luftballons" sung partly in German. In 2000, during their tour of England, Goldfinger recorded one of their sets, issuing the live Foot in Mouth, available only at shows and through the band's official website. Their next album, Open Your Eyes (2002), was the first for their new record label, Jive/Zomba. On this album, the band abandoned much of its reggae influences in favor of a more heavy sound. Furthermore, some of the lyrics discussed animal rights, a subject which had not been touched upon in earlier albums. The band recorded a music video for the title track of the album, which was also focused on animal rights. ===Disconnection Notice and return of Charlie Paulson (2005–2006)===
In early 2005, they released its first album for their new label, Maverick Records, titled Disconnection Notice. The song "Wasted" from the album was released as a single. The CD was less well received compared to former Goldfinger albums. In 2005, Goldfinger announced that their old guitarist Charlie Paulson would return. Charlie returned to the stage playing three songs at the Key Club in LA when the band finished a Western USA tour. ===Hello Destiny... (2007–2010)===
Goldfinger signed to the independent record label Side One Dummy in 2007. On April 22, 2008, the band released their sixth full-length record called Hello Destiny.... To promote the album, the band embarked on a successful North American tour with Less Than Jake in summer of 2008. They also played in the UK at the Reading and Leeds Festivals on August 22–23, 2008. Recently, frontman John Feldmann has produced records for Mest, The Used (whose vocalist Bert McCracken sang some guest vocals on "Open Your Eyes", "Woodchuck", "Ocean Size", and "Handjobs for Jesus"), Hilary Duff and Story of the Year. | 1,004 | null | null | 745,808,175 | 2016-10-23T12:29:37 | Goldfinger (band) | 2,016 |
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