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A number of media personalities have either strongly encouraged people to vandalise, or have actually vandalised, . These people include:
* Stephen Colbert, television comedian, strongly encouraged viewers to vandalise the Elephants article, instructing them to write that the number of elephants has recently tripled in order to confound liberal scientists.
* Sarah Lane, on the live June 12, 2003 episode of The Screen Savers, wrote on the page on monkeypox: "Sarah Lane is totally cool and does not have monkeypox." She later wrote "Sarah Lane is a cool Screen Saver. Down with Monkeypox."
* Scott Mills and Mark Chapman, BBC Radio 1 DJs both vandalised and strongly encouraged their listeners to vandalise the article on Edith Bowman.
* Ivor Tossell, Globe and Mail journalist, wrote a news article on how he vandalised the human article, and then how a contributor provided a polite response asking him to stop. He wrote that the article "launch into a 7,000-word list of things that most bipedal primates are already aware of" and roundly criticised it for making obvious statements. Tossell said that, "I snapped. I clicked the 'Edit' button, and anonymously revised that first line, so now it began, 'Humans -- hey! That's us!' And off I surfed, content that I'd given the self-righteous encyclopedians a poke in the ear."
* Eric Zorn, journalist for the Chicago Tribune, created the article Zorn's law (like a Godwin's law), but it was soon deleted.
* According to NBC-owned-and-operated television station WCAU in Philadelphia, network anchorman and reporter Vince DeMentri vandalized his own article to say he had 27 children. The WCAU article says that "his IP address was registered for security purposes", which is misleading: his IP address was recorded in the article's history page, as is always the case when an editor has not logged in with a account.
* included a faux clip of him vandalising the article of Atlantic Records on the music video for his single "White & Nerdy"; this was probably intended to be realized as a "revenge" of sorts against the record label for blocking the release of the parody "You're Pitiful" on his album Straight Outta Lynwood. This "revenge" was then enacted on the Atlantic Records article by several editors.
* Alexander M.C. Halavais, assistant professor of communications at Quinnipiac University, added inaccurate material to 13 articles in an attempt to test 's accuracy.
*Ryan North, online web-comic writer, has twice been involved in vandalism. The first act occurred on July 25, 2006, when he changed the article on Evil to read "Irish Evil." More recently, on November 8, 2006, he created a tongue-in-cheek webpage imploring vandals to only vandalise the article concerning chickens, thereby making completely factually reliable for "every topic in the universe except chickens".
*The Guardian newspaper's online column, The Fiver edited Chelsea F.C. winger Arjen Robben's profile to say that he "is an accomplished scuba diver, a model-submarine enthusiast and the owner of a pet parrot named Greg Louganis" to suggest that he dives, or simulates being fouled to con referees.
*Mark Hinson of the Tallahassee Democrat says that he vandalised Bay County, Florida by adding the text "In 1990, Bay County issued a fatwa condemning the film 'Pretty Woman' for its sunny portrayal of prostitution. Though, Bay County did add that Julia Roberts looked totally hot in that polka-dot dress." Also wrote that he vandalised Calhoun County with the text "Calhoun County was created in 1838 and was named for Rocky 'Raccoon' Calhoun. In 1999, Calhoun County was thoroughly disappointed with Thomas Harris' sequel 'Hannibal' and felt it pandered to readers." The final article he writes about vandalising is Liberty County, Florida, with the text "Liberty County was created in 1855. It was named for the popular American ideal, liberty. In 2006, Liberty County issued an edict questioning why Bob Dylan's 'Modern Times' album was so universally praised by critics. It was good, but Liberty County still thinks Dylan's 'Street Legal' is an overlooked gem." His article severely criticises for forcing students to use as gospel and not check their facts.
* The Sydney Morning Herald vandalised . Their "Stay In Touch" column vandalised Newspapers after noticing that Aspirin was in a vandalised state
* On 14 January 2007, Craig Reucassel and Chris Taylor, hosts of Triple J's Bloody Sunday radio show, after commenting on inaccuracy of their own articles the previous week, encouraged listeners to vandalise the Tara Reid article, which resulted in that article's semi-protection.
A number of media personalities have either strongly encouraged people to vandalise, or have actually vandalised, . These people include:
* Stephen Colbert, television comedian, strongly encouraged viewers to vandalise the Elephants article, instructing them to write that the number of elephants has recently tripled in order to confound liberal scientists.
* Sarah Lane, on the live June 12, 2003 episode of The Screen Savers, wrote on the page on monkeypox: "Sarah Lane is totally cool and does not have monkeypox." She later wrote "Sarah Lane is a cool Screen Saver. Down with Monkeypox."
* Scott Mills and Mark Chapman, BBC Radio 1 DJs both vandalised and strongly encouraged their listeners to vandalise the article on Edith Bowman.
* Ivor Tossell, Globe and Mail journalist, wrote a news article on how he vandalised the human article, and then how a contributor provided a polite response asking him to stop. He wrote that the article "launch into a 7,000-word list of things that most bipedal primates are already aware of" and roundly criticised it for making obvious statements. Tossell said that, "I snapped. I clicked the 'Edit' button, and anonymously revised that first line, so now it began, 'Humans -- hey! That's us!' And off I surfed, content that I'd given the self-righteous encyclopedians a poke in the ear."
* Eric Zorn, journalist for the Chicago Tribune, created the article Zorn's law (like a Godwin's law), but it was soon deleted.
* According to NBC-owned-and-operated television station WCAU in Philadelphia, network anchorman and reporter Vince DeMentri vandalized his own article to say he had 27 children. The WCAU article says that "his IP address was registered for security purposes", which is misleading: his IP address was recorded in the article's history page, as is always the case when an editor has not logged in with a account.
* included a faux clip of him vandalising the article of Atlantic Records on the music video for his single "White & Nerdy"; this was probably intended to be realized as a "revenge" of sorts against the record label for blocking the release of the parody "You're Pitiful" on his album Straight Outta Lynwood. This "revenge" was then enacted on the Atlantic Records article by several editors.
* Alexander M.C. Halavais, assistant professor of communications at Quinnipiac University, added inaccurate material to 13 articles in an attempt to test 's accuracy.
*Ryan North, online web-comic writer, has twice been involved in vandalism. The first act occurred on July 25, 2006, when he changed the article on Evil to read "Irish Evil." More recently, on November 8, 2006, he created a tongue-in-cheek webpage imploring vandals to only vandalise the article concerning chickens, thereby making completely factually reliable for "every topic in the universe except chickens".
*The Guardian newspaper's online column, The Fiver edited Chelsea F.C. winger Arjen Robben's profile to say that he "is an accomplished scuba diver, a model-submarine enthusiast and the owner of a pet parrot named Greg Louganis" to suggest that he dives, or simulates being fouled to con referees.
*Mark Hinson of the Tallahassee Democrat says that he vandalised Bay County, Florida by adding the text "In 1990, Bay County issued a fatwa condemning the film 'Pretty Woman' for its sunny portrayal of prostitution. Though, Bay County did add that Julia Roberts looked totally hot in that polka-dot dress." Also wrote that he vandalised Calhoun County with the text "Calhoun County was created in 1838 and was named for Rocky 'Raccoon' Calhoun. In 1999, Calhoun County was thoroughly disappointed with Thomas Harris' sequel 'Hannibal' and felt it pandered to readers." The final article he writes about vandalising is Liberty County, Florida, with the text "Liberty County was created in 1855. It was named for the popular American ideal, liberty. In 2006, Liberty County issued an edict questioning why Bob Dylan's 'Modern Times' album was so universally praised by critics. It was good, but Liberty County still thinks Dylan's 'Street Legal' is an overlooked gem." His article severely criticises for forcing students to use as gospel and not check their facts.
* The Sydney Morning Herald vandalised . Their "Stay In Touch" column vandalised Newspapers after noticing that Aspirin was in a vandalised state
* On 14 January 2007, Craig Reucassel and Chris Taylor, hosts of Triple J's Bloody Sunday radio show, after commenting on inaccuracy of their own articles the previous week, encouraged listeners to vandalise the Tara Reid article, which resulted in that article's semi-protection.
Mark Fraser is the executive producer of the Nature Walks with Mark Fraser television series and the creator of the Nature Walks with Mark website. He hosts dozens of conservation efforts, Nature Walks, public speaking engagements and is constantly spreading the message about wildlife conservation.
Mark Fraser
A New England native Mark Fraser has been a passionate and dedicated naturalist and conservationist since childhood. Born in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1970. Mark spent the earliest years of his life in western Massachusetts and southern Vermont. He spent his youth and teenage years in Billerica, Massachusetts and while there began to study the forests and fauna. During these important years he was actually living near a massive town land fill. This caused the town to enforce a strict zone of over a mile of forest lands which covered the entire circumference land fill mound so the winds could not blow trash into the nearby community.
In that forest, there was an unusually high amount of wildlife ecology which existed in the region due to the excess food from wildlife actually feeding on the dump. From packs of wild dogs, to the occasional black bear, and countless snakes. This “green ring” was where Mark spent nearly all his time during his youth. There, predator and prey ecology as well as first hand environmental impacts on nature were daily events. This no doubt made a life long impression on Mark which has given him a deep rooted empathetic view of the natural world. Part Native American (Mohawk and Abenaki) his philosophical views are deeply rooted in Native American traditions of Eastern Woodland “Longhouse” people.
The NatureWalks
In 2005 Mark began hosting public NatureWalks at the Sherburne Nature Center forest area located in Tyngsboro Massachusetts. In 2008 after realizing that some of the public such as elderly and the handicapped could not attend the Nature Walks, Mark began creating “virtual Nature Walks”. Filming and editing, narrating and producing himself, he single handedly created an entire television show. Spreading the message of conservation to millions of viewers, the expediential growth has been amazing as seen by this Front page article recently in the Lowell Sun news paper; Youtube videos and even a congratulatory letter from Massachusetts Senator.
Mark Fraser
A New England native Mark Fraser has been a passionate and dedicated naturalist and conservationist since childhood. Born in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1970. Mark spent the earliest years of his life in western Massachusetts and southern Vermont. He spent his youth and teenage years in Billerica, Massachusetts and while there began to study the forests and fauna. During these important years he was actually living near a massive town land fill. This caused the town to enforce a strict zone of over a mile of forest lands which covered the entire circumference land fill mound so the winds could not blow trash into the nearby community.
In that forest, there was an unusually high amount of wildlife ecology which existed in the region due to the excess food from wildlife actually feeding on the dump. From packs of wild dogs, to the occasional black bear, and countless snakes. This “green ring” was where Mark spent nearly all his time during his youth. There, predator and prey ecology as well as first hand environmental impacts on nature were daily events. This no doubt made a life long impression on Mark which has given him a deep rooted empathetic view of the natural world. Part Native American (Mohawk and Abenaki) his philosophical views are deeply rooted in Native American traditions of Eastern Woodland “Longhouse” people.
The NatureWalks
In 2005 Mark began hosting public NatureWalks at the Sherburne Nature Center forest area located in Tyngsboro Massachusetts. In 2008 after realizing that some of the public such as elderly and the handicapped could not attend the Nature Walks, Mark began creating “virtual Nature Walks”. Filming and editing, narrating and producing himself, he single handedly created an entire television show. Spreading the message of conservation to millions of viewers, the expediential growth has been amazing as seen by this Front page article recently in the Lowell Sun news paper; Youtube videos and even a congratulatory letter from Massachusetts Senator.
PhotoScatter is an iPhone Application created by Ryan Wade, of http://www.UniqueApps.com. The PhotoScatter iPhone application got approved and was in the AppStore on Fri, August 7th 2009. Since then it has gained multiple reviews and (as of Tue. Aug. 18th 2009) has a 4 1/2 star rating.
History
On August 7, 2009 Apple approved the PhotoScatter application. Ryan, the developer, said he has waited months for Apple to approve it. It was $.99 when first released.
As of August 18, 2009 the developer has made a contest based on PhotoScatter, and for a celebration of its approval. Ryan says this contest contains about $1000 worth of prizes.
Ins and Outs
PhotoScatter offers to have your photos uploaded to multiple social networking sites, with one tap. This allows you to instantly upload a picture(s) to FaceBook, ], Shutterfly, etc. Ryan says that they will have more sites coming in the future updates.
History
On August 7, 2009 Apple approved the PhotoScatter application. Ryan, the developer, said he has waited months for Apple to approve it. It was $.99 when first released.
As of August 18, 2009 the developer has made a contest based on PhotoScatter, and for a celebration of its approval. Ryan says this contest contains about $1000 worth of prizes.
Ins and Outs
PhotoScatter offers to have your photos uploaded to multiple social networking sites, with one tap. This allows you to instantly upload a picture(s) to FaceBook, ], Shutterfly, etc. Ryan says that they will have more sites coming in the future updates.
Debbie Dorsey is one of the women in the film "No Hair Day" that is broadcast on PBS, especially during breast cancer awareness month in October. Ms. Dorsey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the eldest of three children to Thomas Francis Dorsey and Virginia Raphael (Doherty) Dorsey. She has one sister, Joanne Susan (Dorsey) Geary, and one brother, Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr. Ms. Dorsey was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. She underwent chemotherapy, radiation, 5 years of Tamoxifen and is now on Femera. When Ms. Dorsey was in radiation, she called Portrait Artist Elsa Dorfman and told her, "You should take my picture." Ms. Dorfman, being the artist that she is, said, "Cool." Ms. Dorsey enlisted both Libby Levinson, an executive secretary in Boston and Carol Potoff, an artist and art teacher in Harwich, Massachusetts. Ms. Dorsey's husband, Bob Burns, also a filmmaker, shot the day on a cold February morning, where Dorsey, Levinson and Potoff brought everything they could think of to the studios of Elsa Dorfman. What ensued were 13 portraits of the women baring all in large scale format polaroids. Mr. Burns shot everything, edited the footage which was first broadcast in 2001 and picked up nationwide on PBS - "No Hair Day."