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This year's version of the Rising Stars Game, edition No. 5, will take place this Saturday, Nov. 6, at 6 p.m. Arizona time (6:06 first pitch) at Surprise Stadium. And if last year's game is any indication, any baseball fan worth his or her salt will either head to Arizona or tune in to find out what the big leagues will look like in 2011.
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Some of Major League Baseball's top prospects will be featured in Arizona Fall League matchups on MLB Network and MLB.com. MLB Network's Dave Valle and Daron Sutton, who calls play-by-play for the Arizona Diamondbacks, will call the fifth annual Rising Stars Game on Saturday, November 6 at 9:00 p.m. ET at Surprise Stadium. Valle will be joined by MLB Network's Greg Amsinger in the broadcast both for the 19th annual AFL Championship game on Saturday, November 20 at 3:00 p.m. ET live from Scottsdale Stadium. MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, will co-produce and provide free live and on-demand video streams of the two games.


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Wikiprojekti Sum of all Paintings tähtää siihen, että jokaisella merkittävällä maalauksella on kohde Wikidatassa.*
Meillä on Wikipediassa paljon kokemusta suurten työmäärien jakamisesta pieniin osiin, jotka on mahdollista toteuttaa. Näistä esimerkkejä ovat mm. hollanninkielisen Wikipedian tuulimyllyprojekti ja monet historiallisia rakennuksia koskevat luettelot, jotka tehtiin projektia Wiki Loves Monuments (Q1353202) varten. Voimme käyttää samaa strategiaa maalauksille: Jaamme kaikki maailman maalaukset pienempiin eriin, ja Wikidataa käyttäen voimme juhlistaa kaikkien maalausten summaa linkitetyn tiedon avulla!
Kaikki on liian laveaa eikä sillä ole rajoja. Rajanamme on se määrä tietoa, minkä pystymme käsittelemään - ei näännytetä itseämme (vielä). Laajuutta voi aina lisätä - tulevaisuudessa voimme ottaa mukaan kaikki veistokset, piirrokset, saathan käsityksen! Projekti kattaa merkittävät maalaukset. Maalauksen katsotaan olevan merkittävä, jos joku seuraavista ehdoista pätee:
- Maalaus on merkittävässä kokoelmassa museossa, kirjastossa tai arkistossa (esim. maalaus Metropolitan Museum of Artissa).
- Maalaus on merkittävän taiteilijan tekemä (esim. Vincent van Goghin maalaus yksityisessä kokoelmassa).
- Mukaan hyväksyttävät maalaukset ovat merkittäviä Wikipediassa, koska ne ovat merkittävässä GLAM (Q1030034) kokoelmassa, ne on maalannut merkittävä taiteilija ja/tai niistä on kirjoitettu luotettavissa kirjallisissa lähteissä.
- Lyhenne GLAM tulee englanninkielisistä sanoista Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums, mutta laajemmin ymmärrettynä sisältää julkisia rakennuksia kuten linnoja, kaupungintaloja, hallinnollisia tai uskonnollisia rakennuksia kuten kirkkoja, luostareita, temppeleitä ym. joissa voi olla maalauksia, seinämaalauksia tai muita taideteoksia.
- Käytä kohteen rakenne -sivun ohjeita, kun lisäät maalauksen. Ajattele tätä samoin kuin kokoelmanhallinnan tietokantaa.
- Jos kohtaat kohteen (eli maalarin, tekniikan, keräilijän tms.), jota Wikidata ei tunne, Luo sellainen Wikidataan!
All institutions have metadata of some sort – this data is super important to making the most out of this project. Our dream is that all GLAMs open their collections metadata under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0). This allows us to easily upload data to Wikidata using automated processes and saves us time and people power to focus on other parts of the project. It also means that those GLAMs who have released that data, like the Rijksmuseum (Q190804), already have their data on Wikidata. You can learn more about why you should open your data CC0 here. Right now, only a small group of institutions have done that.
But my data is published under a CC-BY-SA license! We can't use it through auto mass import because it is incompatible with the license of Wikidata. It's a restrictive license for data and goes against our mission of providing free, reusable data.
For data in databases in the USA we have a similar copyright situation as reproductions of 2D artworks: It's (probably) in the public domain. See the Wikimedia Foundation's preliminary perspective on the legal issue of database rights. So from a legal standpoint we're probably safe to copy data from a museum in the US, just like we can copy the reproductions of old paintings. Just like with copying reproductions, we'd rather do it together with the GLAM than without their knowledge and consent. See also this overview of cases studies of working together with GLAMs.
We haven't released our metadata, but we do have some of our collections online - Great! Then we can slowly work on manually putting your artwork on Wikidata. Please list it below by country and help us by adding your data manually on Wikidata. It's a long process, but better than not having your work represented.
Getting the data for all paintings and importing this data and curating the items is a lot of work. To make this manageable we subdivide all paintings in smaller sections by collection (P195). This way people can focus on one collection, get it to a certain standard and then move on to another collection. For this to work every painting needs to have collection (P195).
Here are a few ways you can get started in helping out!
Help bring these lists down to zero
Wikidata already has quite a few paintings. You can help by adding information to these paintings.
Here are some other lists you can help with:
- All paintings without creator - Top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P170
- All paintings without inventory number
- All paintings without collection - Top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P195
- All paintings without date
- All paintings without material - Top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P186
- All paintings without depicts - Top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P180
- All paintings without genre
- All paintings without image
Notes: On Wikidata, private collection (Q768717) is a valid collection (P195) and those paintings in private collections should be labelled as such. These will occasionaly have no inventory numbers. You can give it inventory number (P217) with "no value" snak if you are absolutely sure the collection does not use any inventory numbers. Wikimedia commons recognizes "oil on canvas" and "oil on panel" in the artwork "medium" field. On Wikidata, the material used (P186) should be filled with two items; oil paint (Q296955) and also to canvas (Q4259259) or to "panel". The depicts (P180) can refer to specific buildings if a cityscape, or to people, if a portrait, but it can also be something less specific, such as "forest" or "abstract art". Typical genres are landscape art (Q191163) or portrait (Q134307).
Items without claims
Add collections that need to be worked on by country
- you can browse some collections here Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection
We also work on things based by country, which is then broken down into institutions within that country. Please add your institutional data here. Just copy and paste from another page if your page is a red link and modify the markup as needed.
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- United Kingdom
- United States of America:
- Switzerland
- The full list of locations
It's possible to keep notes on individual collections, see the full list of collections here: Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection.
Item structure to describe paintings on Wikidata
Paintings should be properly described. See Wikidata:WikiProject Visual arts/Item structure to find a full list of properties. We'll highlight some important ones for paintings here. The two statements every painting here should have:
- instance of (P31) → painting (Q3305213) (or one of its subclasses) so we can find the painting
- collection (P195) so we can subdivide the work in smaller parts
And to make it a good start painting item add the following statements:
|Data type
|creator (P170)
|maker of this creative work or other object (where no more specific property exists). Paintings with unknown painters, use "anonymous" (Q4233718) as value.
|inception (P571)
|Point in time
|date or point in time when the subject came into existence as defined
|inventory number (P217)
|identifier for a physical object or a set of physical objects in a collection
|material used (P186)
|material the subject is made of or derived from
|location (P276)
|physical location of the item. For administrative entities, use P131. For distinct terrain features, use P706.
Questions, issues? Just ask on the talk page (click "Discussion") or send out a tweet with the hashtag #glamwiki.
Add painters (aka creators)
- you can browse some creators here Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator
To link paintings to their creators, we need to have items about these painters. You can help create missing painters. Good sources for finding painters to create are:
- Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN ID (P245)) - http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/
- RKDartists (RKDartists ID (P650) - https://rkd.nl/en/explore#query=
You can also use Mix'n'Match to match existing items to these authority control databases.
These sources usually contain enough information to build a new item:
- Add the name as the label, add variants as aliases.
- Set the label with country and occupation
- instance of (P31) → human (Q5)
- sex or gender (P21) → male (Q6581097) / female (Q6581072) / ...
- occupation (P106) → painter (Q1028181) / ...
- country of citizenship (P27)
- date of birth (P569)
- place of birth (P19)
- date of death (P570)
- place of death (P20)
Add catalogs
- you can browse some catalogs here Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Catalog
Catalogs document the paintings that used to be in public collections, were lost to theft or accident, sold for unusually high prices (we can't yet include data about prices paid), or which were notable for some other reason. Old catalogs help trace the provenance of paintings as to owner, attribution or location. You can add items for catalogs and add one catalog number to one painting, or model entire catalogs. The numbers of the artworks used in catalogs is open data. For older paintings, we can just fill these in. For catalogs listed by publisher or institution, see c:Category:Catalogs of art by institutions.
- Use property catalog code (P528) for the catalog number
- Use the qualifier catalog (P972) for the catalog (if the catalog doesn't exist create an item for it)
Try to find the "recognized" art historian for the specific painter you are studying. If the art historian doesn't exist create an item for them, but first check the name using the Dictionary of Art Historians (Q17166797).
- Frans Hals: both Seymour Slive (Q15430972) (1974) and Claus Grimm (Q1098537) (1989)
- Pieter de Hooch: Peter C. Sutton (Q19999275)
Complete catalogs
- Frans Hals:
- Numa Trivas for Frans Hals: Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1941 (Q18117920) - view here: Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Catalog/Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1941
- Seymour Slive for Frans Hals: Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1974 (Q17616737)
- Claus Grimm for Frans Hals: Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1989 (Q18120456)
- Pieter de Hooch:
- Peter C. Sutton for Pieter de Hooch: Pieter de Hooch catalog raisonné, 1980 (Q20002953)
- Jacob van Ruisdael:
- Museums:
- c:Catalog of the paintings on show at the Rijksmuseum in 1956 (catalog for tourists): Catalog of the paintings on show at the Rijksmuseum in 1956 (Q16986324)
- en:120 Paintings from the Rijksmuseum Commons Wikidata (accompanying photo album of 120 top paintings for above catalog of +/- 1200 paintings)
- Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Catalog/120 Famous Paintings from the Kaiser Friedrich-Museum in Berlin
- Exhibitions:
- 17th-century Dutch still life painting exhibition catalog with 80 paintings (from 1999-2000): Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550-1720 (Q20678531)
- 17th-century Dutch painting exhibition catalog with 132 paintings (from 2008): Haarlem: The Cradle of the Golden Age (Q20743524)
- Pride and joy: Children's portraits in the Netherlands 1500-1700 (Q24259403)
- Rembrandt:
- en:Rembrandt Research Project list of Rembrandt paintings: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI (Q19421273)
- Horst Gerson for Rembrandt: Rembrandt catalog raisonné, 1968 (Q21035070)
- Abraham Bredius for Rembrandt: Rembrandt catalog raisonné, 1935 (Q21686765)
- Christian Tümpel for Rembrandt: Rembrandt catalog raisonné, 1986 (Q21756883)
- J.C. Dahl:
- J.C. Dahl, Jubilee Exhibition 1988: Johan Christian Dahl 1788-1857. Jubilee Exhibition 1988 (Q22074501)
- J.C. Dahl in Denmark, Exhibition in Thorvaldsens Museum in 2003: J.C. Dahl i Danmark (Q25174989)
- J.C. Dahl – The Power of Nature, Exhibition in KODE 2, Bergen, in 2018: J.C. Dahl – The Power of Nature (Q55096418)
- J.C. Dahl: Hans danske miljø og det danske landskap (Q65028764)
- Paul Cézanne
Incomplete catalogs
- Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (Q17101798)
- Hofstede de Groot for Jan Steen: Jan Steen catalog raisonné, 1908 (Q21140406) and on Commons: c:Jan Steen catalog raisonné, 1908
- Hofstede de Groot for Gabriel Metsu: Gabriel Metsu catalog raisonné, 1908 (Q26234993) and on Commons: c:Gabriel Metsu catalog raisonné, 1908
- Hofstede de Groot for Pieter de Hooch: Pieter de Hooch catalog raisonné, 1908 (Q19979468) and on Commons: c:Rembrandt catalog raisonné, 1908
- Hofstede de Groot for Frans Hals: Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1910 (Q18752198) and on Commons: c:Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1910
- Hofstede de Groot for Nicolaes Maes: Nicolaes Maes catalogue raisonné, 1914 (Q29838478) and on Commons: c:Nicolaes Maes catalog raisonné, 1914
- Hofstede de Groot for Rembrandt: Rembrandt catalogue raisonné, 1914 (Q21034929) and on Commons: c:Rembrandt catalog raisonné, 1914
- Hofstede de Groot for Ruisdael: Jacob van Ruisdael catalog raisonné, 1911 (Q21004638) and on Commons: c:Jacob van Ruisdael catalog raisonné, 1911
- Monet: Catalogue Raisonné (Q17441029)
- J.-B. de la Faille: L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh, catalogue raisonné (Q17280421)
- The New Complete Van Gogh: Fully revised and enlarged edition of the Catalogue raisonné (Q19833315)
- Edvard Munch: Complete Paintings: Catalogue Raisonné (Q18891549)
- Frode Haverkamp, Hans Gude (Q22132452)
- c:Jacob van Ruisdael catalog raisonné, 1991 Jacob van Ruisdael and the perception of landscape (Q20886253)
- c:Jacob van Ruisdael catalog raisonné, 2001 Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings (Q20859222)
- Valentiner for Rembrandt: Rembrandt catalog raisonné, 1908 (Q21997240)
- Gauguin: I Catalogue (Q15088284)
- Rasmus Meyers samlinger : katalog. (Q24641139)
- Governor general Peter Anker painter and collector : memories of India - 20 years in Trankebar (Q33673321)
- Trondhjems 900 Aars Jubilæum : Katalog for den historiske Udstilling i Trondhjem 1897 (Q65523608)
- ...
If you are interested in 17th-century Dutch paintings, please consider helping with the subproject Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Hofstede de Groot, which is a compiled list of prominent 17th-century Dutch paintings before World War II split many large European art collections.
- J.C. Dahl:
- Dahls Dresden. Nasjonalgalleriet 11. oktober - 7. desember 1980 (Q56681826)
- Marie Lødrup Bang, Johan Christian Dahl, 1788-1857: life and works, volume I-III (Q22063740)
- J.C. Dahl in Italy 1820-1821, Exhibition in Thorvaldsens Museum: J.C. Dahl in Italy 1820-1821 (Q25017022)
- J.C. Dahl`s Italian journey, Exhibition in the National Gallery of Norway in 2004: Q53605753
- Harriet Backer: 1845-1932, Bergen Billedgalleri 7. september - 27. oktober 1996, Nasjonalgalleriet 9. november 1996 - 2. februar 1997 (Q61637297)
- Marit Lange, Harriet Backer (Q61717994)
- Harriet Backer: En lysets magiker - En ljusets magiker (Q84563673)
- Paintings by Peder Balke (Q63845158)
Improve all metadata for the oeuvre of one painter
After importing thousands of paintings, we notice that our data here is not always as clean as it can be. Sometimes creation dates of paintings are missing, attributions are not entirely correct, etc.
One way to help cleaning this up, is by focusing on one single painter's work, checking and improving the correctness and completeness of all her/his paintings we already have here on Wikidata.
Here's a list of the 100 painters with the most Wikipedia sitelinks and at least 10 paintings on Wikidata. Pick one and indicate you're working on his/her oeuvre!
We want to link every painter with it's creator (painter) and improve the quality of the creator items. We create galleries per creator to keep track of them and have an overview of missing creators. The top creators page gives an overview of most important creators based on several different criteria.
To find what items need improvements we have several reports:
- Recent incomplete creator: Recently created items that should be expanded
- Creator no authority control
- Creator no proper authority control
- Creator missing collection authority control:
We have different ways you can help out depending on your skill set and what you feel like doing. Simplified in three steps:
- Get the data
- Upload the data
- Curate the data
- Add content to Wikidata! Edit away :)
- Add inventory numbers
How chapters can help
- Chapter volunteers or personnel can help by reaching out to museums to get them to release their metadata for paintings into the public domain (CC0). You might already have existing contacts with museums and this might be the next project to do with them. Because we focus on metadata and not images of artworks we can work together with museums of contemporary art (mostly off-limits for other projects because of copyright restrictions). Over time we'll have case studies here of other museums who contributed to Wikidata and how that worked out. You'll be able to use that as an extra push to get a museum on board.
- Host events bringing together volunteers to edit painting content on Wikidata.
How GLAM staff can help
- Talk to your staff about opening up your metadata under a CC0 license. Then get in touch with us on the talk page or via Twitter hashtag #glamwiki and tell us that you've opened it. We'll work with you to make sure it's properly declared and accessible and then start the processing of uploading your data to Wikidata! Learn more here.
- Have events to support adding painting data to Wikidata manually and painting content onto Wikipedia!
The Sum of All Titles: If a collection is located in a non-English speaking country, then chances are that we don't have proper native titles for many paintings in the collection. If you can give us a list of titles per painter in your collection indexed by inventory number, we can add that information to existing items in Wikidata.
The Sum of All Portraits: For important portrait painters, often the sitter is unknown on Wikipedia. If you have identified sitters in portraits in your collection, or if you know whether a portrait was made based on a photograph or sculpture or some other pre-existing work, let us know!
Bot operator
To import datasets to Wikidata we need bot operators. The current import bots are all based on Pywikibot so some knowledge of that or of Python is a pro. It's also quite important you understand the dataset, not everything is in English!
Ready to import
We found several nice CC0 licensed collections that can be imported now by a bot.
- Finnish National Gallery (Q2983474) (Finland): api
- Minneapolis Institute of Art (Q1700481) (United States of America): metadata dump
- Davison Art Center (Q18342336) (United States of America): metadata is individually located on object pages
- M-Museum Leuven (Q2362660) (Belgium): data in Europeana
The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{Ping project|sum of all paintings}}
- Multichill (talk) 11:28, 8 August 2014 (UTC), focus on the Netherlands
- Husky (talk) 11:38, 8 August 2014 (UTC) - Cool, i'd like to focus on building tools to visualise progress.
- Spinster (talk) 07:00, 9 August 2014 (UTC) Happy to help with manual finetuning that can't be done by bots, and anything else on the 'soft/wet' side of this project. I'm dreaming of complete artists' oeuvres on Wikidata!
- Rich Farmbrough (talk) Time to learn2Wikidata
- Jheald (talk) 12:33, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
- Kippelboy (talk) 07:01, 21 August 2014 (UTC) (Focus on Catalan paintings (subdivision of Spain)
- Mushroom (talk) 12:27, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
- Jane023 (talk) 09:11, 3 October 2014 (UTC) work on Dutch 17th-century paintings and landscapes of Haarlem; Most recently, the sum of all "attributed" paintings by Frans Hals, which is nearly done
- Missvain (talk) 18:51, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
- Fæ (talk) 13:27, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
- Zolo (talk) 14:57, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
- Beat Estermann (talk) 10:33, 3 December 2014 (UTC) (Focus on Swiss heritage institutions)
- Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 15:07, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- KRLS (talk) 11:26, 11 February 2015 (UTC) (Focus on Catalan area museums)
- DivadH (talk) 11:35, 1 March 2015 (UTC) ,happy to help out with any questions in regards to the Europeana API, how to best query it, and/or our metadata
- Xcia0069 (talk) 11:49, 8 March 2015 (UTC), Work on data related to Gianlorenzo Bernini and Artemisia Gentileschi. Work at Europeana too !
- Susannaanas (talk) 07:29, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
- Wittylama (talk) 17:29, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
- Fabrice Florin (talk) 02:35, 26 June 2015 (UTC) I can help in California later this year.
- Vaughn88 (talk) 15:58, 15 July 2015 (UTC) I can help!
- Raymond Ellis (talk) 19:31, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hsarrazin (talk) 14:11, 29 August 2015 (UTC) - will give a hand with Creators and AC :)
- louis-garden (talk) 14:21, 31 August 2015 (UTC) for italian paintings (XIIe-XVIIe)
- Olivier (talk) 21:46, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
- Kopiersperre (talk) 11:33, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
- ProtoplasmaKid (talk) 03:49, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- Micru (talk) 11:19, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
- Stuart Prior (WMUK) (talk) 11:04, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
- Hannolans (talk) 23:14, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
- Geraki (talk) 09:52, 24 October 2016 (UTC) (Focus on Greece)
- PatHadley (talk) 12:16, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
- MartinPoulter (talk) 14:54, 11 January 2017 (UTC) Working to get data from the University of Oxford (Q34433) and its component institutions shared on Wikidata.
- Pablísima (talk) 18:07, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
- Carl Ha (talk) 22:10, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
- Marsupium (talk) 19:44, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
- Mauricio V. Genta (talk) 16:15, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
- Shani Evenstein (talk) 10:26, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
- Nasty nas (talk) 07:45, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
- Bodhisattwa (talk) 14:28, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
- Joalpe (talk) 18:39, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
- Fuzheado (talk) 18:33, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
- Sarasays (talk) 20:00, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thierry Caro (talk) 07:30, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
- John Samuel 18:29, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
- Jklamo (talk) 12:06, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
- Reosarevok (talk) 10:28, 15 February 2018 (UTC), focus on Estonia
- Ambrosia10 (talk) 19:48, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
- Subsublibrary (talk) 03:17, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
- Martingggg (talk) 07:00, 22 February 2018 (UTC), focus on Argentine and Hispanic America
- Kruusamägi (talk) 16:42, 13 March 2018 (UTC), focus on Estonia
- SIryn (talk) 10:36, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
- Jarekt (talk) 13:49, 7 September 2018 (UTC), focus on moving metadata from Commons to Wikidata
- Walkuraxx (talk) 10:00, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- Omotecho (talk) 22:11, 21 January 2019 (UTC), focus on Japan
- GualdimG (talk) 16:19, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
- Léna (talk) 08:57, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Yann (talk) 09:53, 9 June 2019 (UTC) Paul Cézanne (Q35548) for a start...
- Abbe98 (talk) 19:25, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 15:36, 23 July 2019 (UTC) Have been doing small things here and there — especially improving items around what is depicted on paintings — so might as well sign up.
- Jbandrews (talk) 02:14, 16 October 2019 (UTC) Product Manager at the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Amadalvarez (talk) 06:19, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
- Meresquared (talk) 14:51, 22 October 2019 (UTC) I'm interested in adding depiction descriptions to paintings, and improving data around women and POC.
- Clifford Anderson (talk) 01:47, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
- --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 21:14, 17 March 2020 (UTC) focus on danish paintings.
How this data is being used
Having all this data about paintings available opens up all sorts of creative reuse. Some examples:
- http://sum.bykr.org/ - The Sum of All Knowledge, a project to visualize the knowledge getting added to Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
- See for example Impression, Sunrise (Q328523) => http://sum.bykr.org/328523
- http://www.zone47.com/crotos/ - Crotos, a tool to browse works of art on Wikidata
- Wikidata Skim - A (very) limited replacement for Wikidata Query, with images
- For example, here are all paintings by Frans Hals
- openArtBrowser uses Wikidata to display many works of art
To-do list
The todo list of things still to add to this page, feel free to expand!
- tools to visualize this progress - I'm working on this Husky (talk) 11:38, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
- art finder, I'm in a city, where should I go
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11.5m Sports Trimaran Yacht:ni Ji Jing by Benjamin Eddy
Benjamin Eddy Designs The Ni Ji Jing 11.5m Sports Trimaran Yacht
Benjamin Eddy, the maker of the highlighted project Award Winning Ni Ji Jing 11.5m Sports Trimaran Yacht illustrates, There are not many small trimaran luxury performance yachts on the market, most are for sport use only and do not have too much aesthetic appeal. The stability and sustainability of the trimaran layout is better than that of a monohull. This platform would be used primarily as a tender to a larger superyacht as a day cruiser, which would be used to go closer to land with its smaller draft, which can approach shallower water. .
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Syrian rebels battle al-Qaeda-linked fighters
- Fighting is strongest response yet from rebels against al-Qaeda forces
- ISIL began taking territory last year
- Group known for brutal killings of Assad opponents
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels seized a compound held by al-Qaeda-linked militants Sunday as their one-time allies used car bombs against them, in some of the most serious infighting between fighters challenging the rule of President Bashar Assad.
The rebel-on-rebel fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is the strongest pushback yet from Syrian rebels who have seen their uprising to topple Assad hijacked by al-Qaeda forces seeking to impose Islamic rule in opposition-held portions of the country.
The clashes began Friday after residents accused the al-Qaeda-linked fighters of killing a doctor in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. Fighting quickly spread to rebel-held areas of the northeast province of Idlib and the central province of Hama.
The clashes widened Sunday, with at least one outside of Aleppo pitting the ISIL against the Nusra Front, which is also an al-Qaeda-aligned group, said Rami Abdurrahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Another clash struck the town of Tabqa in the eastern province of Raqqa, where ISIL forces are most dominant, Abdurrahman said.
The Observatory obtains its information from a network of activists on the ground.
Rebels seized the ISIL compound in the town of Manbij in the northern province of Aleppo, activists said.
The Observatory said ISIL fighters also used car bombs for the first time to defend its territory. Other activists reported ISIL was pushed out of the town of Atmeh.
There always has been resentment against ISIL in Syria, whose fighters, a mix of foreigners and locals, fanned into the country last year, taking advantage of the upheaval to assert power in areas seized by rebels.
It is seen as particularly brutal in Syria's civil war for its abductions and killings of anti-Assad activists, journalists and civilians seen as critical to their rule.
But other residents welcome the group for chasing out thugs who terrorized residents in opposition-held areas, and for distributing food and aid to the poor.
ISIL emerged in the Sunni heartland of Iraq, where it has targeted Shiites with car bombs.
This week, they seized control of the key Sunni town of Fallujah, scattering government forces. It also claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing Thursday that targeted a Shiite-dominated Beirut neighborhood.
Some activists hailed the fight against ISIL as a second revolution, but it wasn't clear if the fighting against the al-Qaeda group could unite already chaotic rebel groups.
The groups battling ISIL come from a series of different brigade coalitions. Some are rivals to each other, and at least one group, the Army of the Holy Fighters, said they were battling the al-Qaeda group because it did not properly accept Islamic law, in a video uploaded to the Internet.
The Western-backed coalition of Syrian opposition groups in exile has welcomed the attacks on ISIL, as it sees the group as hijacking its efforts to overthrow Assad.
But the potential loss of rebel-held territory as infighting persists also threatens to weaken Syria's already bruised opposition ahead of an international peace conference scheduled for this month to try hammer out the future of their country.
Syria's pro-government al-Watan newspaper appeared to welcome the infighting, offering this as a headline to an editorial Sunday: "Terrorism eats its sons."


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Williston, ND -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/17/2012 -- According to newly-released statistics, the unemployment rate in North Dakota has dropped to just 3 percent. Although many other parts of the country are still recovering from the recession, workers who are looking for jobs in North Dakota are finding some lucrative positions in the oil industry.
In fact, because of the North Dakota oil boom, the state's economy is shooting through the roof. Business owners everywhere are desperately searching for workers of all skill levels, and even an unskilled restaurant server can make upwards of $25 an hour working full-time and even overtime.
Although this might sound like a fantasy, this is the everyday reality in the state of North Dakota where, unlike the rest of the country, rather than a shortage of jobs there is a shortage of people to fill them.
In late 2008, while the rest of the country was experiencing one of the worst financial catastrophes in recent history, a quiet economic revolution was taking place in humble North Dakota. The revolution was centered around what is known as the Bakken formation, a geologic rock formation that is literally soaked through with valuable oil.
Although the Bakken formation was known to geologists as early as the 1970s, it was not until recently that a newly developed mining technique known as hydraulic fracturing—or "fracking"—in combination with the skyrocketing price of oil, made it economically profitable to exploit the mass amount of oil embedded in these rocks. Since then production has exploded to over half a million barrels a day, and North Dakota is now producing more oil than it even has capacity to ship out.
With economic booms come, of course, jobs. With masses of people flooding to fill jobs related to oil exploration and extraction, unemployment in North Dakota has plummeted to the 3 percent level. With so many people moving out of the non-oil labor market into high-paying oil and gas jobs, local businesses—which have also been rapidly expanding due to the oil boom—have been experiencing serious trouble in filling non-oil related jobs.
As a result of the flood of newcomers to fill both high-paying oil jobs and desperately needed low-skill jobs, the housing market has also rapidly expanded. Oil companies as well as individuals have snapped up mass amounts of real estate in the form of houses and apartment buildings, making it extremely difficult and expensive to acquire real estate during this North Dakota oil boom.
Despite the increased cost of rent, it should be obvious to anyone the massive and widely unknown opportunities that are available for oil and gas industry jobs in North Dakota.
About North Dakota Oil and Gas Jobs
The website was started in December 2011 and provides news, information, facts and daily job postings in relations to the oil boom in North Dakota. For more information, please visit http://oilnorthdakota.com


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Many of you may be a bit like me. I have a small archive of characters I've played over the years. Most are RM characters, but quite a few are from other games. These are characters that were played a lot, acquired a lot of experience, gained a lot of things, did a lot of things and went many places. Some were played for only one game or a series of games and never returned to. Either because the scenario didn't work or the players just weren't interested. Sometimes, the character just wasn't right for the scenario it was created for. Other characters may have died right away or you may have played them for a long time before they died. In most cases however, you as the player probably invested some of yourself into those characters.
I know I did. Some of them more than others, but all had something special. It's that specialness that drives me to this post. I haven't been seriously gaming as a part of a group for over twelve years now. I was able to game via Skype for several years and there was always a lot of hope that I'd be involved with more from time to time.
Now, however, life changes things. By this point it's not like high school or college where you have a lot of time and don't have to worry about anything else. However, I have always had a passion for gaming. I have characters I wish to play, but I know I won't ever get back to some of them in their original adventures because of circumstance. They are lost to time. Yes, there may be a point sometime in the future where they can be played again in a different adventure or circumstance, but the fact that that small slice of their time will never return saddens me somehwat. I would have liked to see the journey complete. This is easier with some of the characters that had long careers, especially ones that retired. I can always tell myself they are still there enjoying their retirement or doing what they normally would have done.
But the others. Where they never had a chance to develop or the story was left hanging. That, I'd like to see completed. But life's not fair and what I want I don't always get. I take small comfort in the fact that most of them are still alive, if not being used. Perhaps someday I can return to some of them. I hope so.
Do you have any characters you feel this way about?
The one on my mind at this time was a young sailor named Rodrin Tamerick. He had one or two adventures at sea and was doing well enough before the scenario was abandoned and not returned to. Thus, I never got to experience his full potential. He's lost in time at that young age with possibilities that will probably never be explored. It's just a little sad.


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"No, I'm just ironing Freddie's underwear."
Marissa Benson is Freddie Benson's mother. She is shown to be nosy, aware of everything, overprotective, and borderline psychotic. Beneath all of this, she is nonetheless a devoted and caring mother (see Maddie page for their mother/son relationship). She would go to great lengths to protect Freddie from anything and everything that might be even remotely dangerous to him. This decreases after iMove Out, in which she promises never to embarrass Freddie again (including unblocking all of the channels on his TV), Freddie threatening that he would move out again. Despite that, she is still somewhat overprotective of him, as seen in iBeat the Heat and iPsycho. Marissa is an anti-hero throughout the series, due to her overprotective, cautious, and sometimes selfish personality, but she at times is shown to be kind and gentle (such as when she cares for Lewbert when he is hurt in iHurt Lewbert).
It is currently unknown what happened to Freddie's father, so it is believed he is either dead or divorced with Marissa. It was revealed in iFence that Marissa's side of the family is the Bensons, so the last name of Freddie's father is currently unknown. Although it is mentioned on iCarly.com that Freddie's dad's name was Leonard, he could have left Marissa because she is too overbearing. It is also said that Mrs. Benson gives Freddie an $8 monthly allowance because she thinks if she gives Freddie more he will buy a bus ticket and leave her. According to Freddie, this is "not really [stupid]", possibly indicating that Freddie's dad bought a bus ticket and left her.
CharacteristicsShe regularly gives her son tick baths and possesses an industrial-sized first aid kit. According to iMove Out, she was pregnant with Freddie for 11 months to "make sure that he was done." In iFence, Mrs. Benson becomes particularly upset when Freddie takes up fencing. It turns out she comes from a long line of fencers and she, herself, once took up the sport because her father made her (he'd been a part of The Fencin' Bensons) and became addicted to it. She initially objected to Freddie fencing, but eventually relented, later revealing that she is herself a skilled double-sword fencer.
Her relationship with Carly Shay and Sam Puckett is one of general tolerance. She agreed to allow Freddie, and the girls, to go to Japan to collect their iWeb Award only if she came along, (iGo to Japan). Although she generally seems to like Carly and even implied she would like her to be Freddie's girlfriend in iWill Date, Freddie, she became hostile towards her when Carly supported Freddie's fencing, and then later again after Freddie was hurt from saving Carly's life in iSaved Your Life when she caught them kissing she angrily screamed, "What the yuck?!" Just before the kissing, she said to Carly, referring to Freddie hit by the taco truck, "It should have been you!" This proves that Mrs. Benson is different from other parents because most parents would be sad that their child's in pain yet proud that he/she made a heroic move saving a life, as opposed to Mrs. Benson, who's instead upset that Freddie's in pain and angry at Carly because she thinks Carly caused the accident. She doesn't approve of Carly as much and also in iBeat the Heat, as she calls Carly a "dummy." She seems to blame Carly for causing her son's injury, although this makes no sense since Freddie saved her life voluntarily.
As for Spencer Shay, her attitude towards him varies from general annoyance and disgust to treating him in an almost motherly way (in several episodes she's seen ordering Spencer about).
In iChristmas, Carly experiences an alternate reality in which Spencer and Mrs. Benson had fallen in love and were engaged to be married. Since Carly wishing that Spencer was normally caused this alternate reality, Marissa, therefore, just like normal people.
In iHurt Lewbert, she found herself taking care of injured doorman Lewbert Sline, and sparks of romance flew between the two until Freddie, horrified at the prospect of Lewbert being his mother's boyfriend, orchestrated an accident that caused her mothering instinct to kick in. She is now hostile towards Lewbert, as shown in iBeat the Heat.
Although her occupation is unknown, it has been revealed by Dan Schneider that she sometimes occasionally works as a part-time nurse.
She seems (especially in iSaved Your Life) to dislike Carly (although she likes Carly in some episodes) because she "hurt" Freddie (who rescued her), but doesn't show any hate towards Sam, who hurts her son frequently. She may be unaware of Sam's treatment of Freddie - he may never have told her about it, and Sam has never bullied him in front of her. It may also be because Freddie had a crush on Carly, and she sees Carly as someone who takes Freddie's attention away from her. In iMove Out, she mentions that Carly got Freddie interested in girls, causing his "boy chemistry to be out of wack."
Ever since iSaved Your Life, Mrs. Benson has shown a dislike towards Carly. Examples are in iBeat the Heat and iSam's Mom as she rudely calls Carly "dummy" or "dumbo." She is also sometimes rude to Spencer, as in iFind Lewbert's Lost Love when she called him stupid.
In iStill Psycho and iToe Fat Cakes, Mrs. Benson is shown to be very neurotic and suffers from Mysophobia (fear of germs) as proven by when she admits to Carly she bathes in her sweatshirt and that she uses hand-sanitizer and a tissue to open her apartment door.
- Freddie's father: Leonard Benson (according to iCarly.com) Unknown Dates.
- Lewbert Sline (2008) (iHurt Lewbert)
- Spencer Shay (her fiancé - alternate reality in iChristmas) (2008)
- Kelsy and Jeremiah Benson (parents)
- Freddie's dad (ex-husband or deceased)
- Freddie Benson (son)
- Stephanie (niece)
- Amanda (niece)
- Lara (sister)
- Jennifer (possible sister or sister-in-law)
- Yolanda and Harry (grandparents)
- Susan (sister)
- Lewbert: Thank you. Mrs. Benson: Please, call me Marissa. Lewbert: Marissa? That's a pretty name! Marissa: Thanks. It's French. It means honeysuckle. Lewbert: Oh, I like honeysuckle. (iHurt Lewbert)
- Freddie: Mom, I'm not allergic to flowers. Marissa: And you weren't allergic to Mexican food trucks, but look at you now! (iSaved Your Life)
- (After Freddie asks where she got an antibacterial spray) At sprayyourchildren.com! (iSaved Your Life)
- And teenage girls are like maniacs what with their bubbling hormones and all that R&B music they listen to! (iSaved Your Life)
- It should've been you! (to Carly, believing she caused Freddie's accident.) (iSaved Your Life)
- Posie di posie do, I don't want posies in my house! (iSaved Your Life)
- I wanted to make sure you were done! (iMove Out)
- Leave your shoes in the hall. (iSaved Your Life)
- Wet and sticky is very icky. Sticky and wet makes Mommy upset. (iHurt Lewbert)
- You're the one who got Freddie interested in girls, and ever since then his boy chemistry's been all out of whack! (to Carly, in iMove Out)
- Okay, but caution! The tip is pointy. (iCarly Saves TV)
- In your underpants. You don't have your name sewn into your underpants. (to Spencer) (iCarly Saves TV)
- What the YUCK?! (iSaved Your Life)
- When temperatures get too high, the elderly will start to die! (iBeat the Heat)
- Freddie! Freddie: They're just scissors! (iTwins)
- (calling 911) I need to report my missing little boy... He's 15...Well, that's little to me! (iMove Out)
- I spent 3 weeks making it for you. Freddie: All right, Mom, I'll wear it! God! (Seen dressed as witch) (iScream on Halloween)
- Freddie, I need home to take bubble bath. SPENCER! (Chasing him down the hall)
- "When a big boy eats his vegetables"- Freddie: Don't sing the song!
- No, I'm just ironing Freddie's underwear (to a person on the phone) (iToe Fat Cakes )
Quotes about Marissa
- I gotta get home before my mom has a panic attack Freddie
- I need to go home so my mom can spray me again... Freddie
- Your mom only gives you $8 a month? Freddie: She's afraid if she gives me more, I'll buy a bus ticket and leave her.
- She thinks I'll choke on pills, so she pounds them with a mallet then puts them in the fruit sauce. Spencer: Fruit sauce? Freddie: She thinks I might choke on fruit, so she pounds them- Spencer: It's none of my business.
- Sam: Freddie hates you. Freddie: I do not "hate" her.
- In iMove Out, she promises to Freddie that she will not overprotect him ever again, but in further episodes she breaks her promise.
- She shows some interest in sculpting because Freddie talks about her going to pottery classes at "Color Me Pot". (iFence)
- Mrs. Benson slapped Lewbert so hard that she popped his wart, this is one of many times something hurt Lewbert's wart. (iBeat the Heat)
- She is a skilled fencer, because she was forced to fence by her parents. Despite this, she hates fencing and tried to stop Freddie from fencing, so he doesn't become obsessed with it, like her father and grandfather were. (iFence)
- She used to drive a Prius until Spencer stole its battery to power a helmet. (iGo To Japan)
- Sometimes she likes to make rhyming sentences, usually to make Freddie do something he doesn't want to, i.e. eat mushrooms or sit up straight (iHurt Lewbert, iWill Date Freddie, iMove Out, and iBeat the Heat)
- It's possible that Mrs. Benson is divorced or her husband is dead, seeing as her husband is never shown or heard. Some hints are in iChristmas were she and Spencer are engaged. Another hint is in iHurt Lewbert where she had a little relationship with Lewbert, only for that to end when Lewbert shows his inner self when Freddie gets hurt by falling the stair. Also, in iHurt Lewbert, Carly and Sam joke that, if Marissa and Lewbert continued dating, they would be married and that Lewbert might become Freddie's step-father.
- A possible reason she could be divorced is that her husband couldn't stand her anymore and left her and Freddie.
- Another possibility is that Mrs. Benson never had a husband. In iFence we find out she comes from a long line of circus fencers, called The Fencin' Bensons. This implies that her maiden name is Benson. Given that Freddie is also a Benson, it's possible that Mrs. Benson and Freddie's father never married. (Other possibilities do exist, of course.)
- Marissa was born on July 8, 1966.
- Marissa means "of the sea", but she thinks it means "honeysuckle" (iHurt Lewbert).
- Marissa has shown some signs of mental instability, such as screaming loudly and ripping her clothing at the first sign of discord in her life, such as disobedience from Freddie. She also seems to fall into mental disarray at the sight of uncleanliness, regarding things in a childlike manner or convulsing in panic.
- Marissa's overprotection by her son has paid off in iStill Psycho.
- She appears again in the Sam & Cat special #TheKillerTunaJump where she thought Freddie was looking at Carly's door even though he was getting a phone call from Cat.
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Hi everyone
We are preparing SuperTuxKart for a major event and we are cleaning a lot of small details.
A few minor improvement have been made regarding karts:
1) Exhaust smoke: Before the exhaust pipe was only active when nitro was used. Now all karts emit smoke
2) Day/Night Notion: Now track can have a parameter that specify they are set during night time, this activate a few things
3) Karts can have now glowing headlight during night time races. The kart driven by the player has also a point light
Here is an example of kart with headlight:
To use the new feature it's very easy. Light emitter are added automatically to karts during night time. The lens flare effect is made with a separate object that mask the headlight and is shown only during night time.
The headlight object must have a texture that is already included in Supertuxkart media-repository/textures/gfx. The front headlight has gfxGlow_blue_a.png and the back gfxGlow_red_a.png. No need to add your own textures.
Now we need your help because ideally all karts (except gnu) should have front and back headlight + some sort of exhaust pipe. So if you are motivated please help us and improve the karts.
If all karts have front/back headlight in 3D model I can then add the lensflare effect
I created a ticket to overview the whole task here
Thanks for your collaboration


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I'm going very off topic right now but on Steam you can get Fractured Space game for free during this weekend and you get to keep it!
"Fractured Space is team-based space combat fought in gigantic capital ships. With the intensity of a shooter and the big-picture-thinking of a strategy game, Fractured Space is at the forefront of an exciting new frontier for the genre."
Why am I sharing this with you? This team is worth it! I've been playing this game on my free time for many months now but I also got to visit its developer and publisher Edge Case Games Ltd. office last year. I met their CEO, James Brooksby who is a really nice, down to earth, funny guy and is a major geek like the most of us, we went for a lunch and he introduced me to his team.
|James B.
One of my favourite things in the game is the level of detail from the ships which is just amazing, I couldn't get enough of watching the guys who build the models working. I still haven't quite chosen my favourite ship but I usually tend to go for anything that allows me to fight at a close and personal range like the Enforcer.
This weekend, I may actually livestream Fractured Space, for those interested, we can team up. :)
Homepage: https://www.fracturedspace.com/
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/310380
Most recent interview: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/closer-to-the-edge/0161876


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What Happens When Someone Stops Texting Back? [VIDEO]
It's happened to all of us at least once. You are in the middle of a text conversation with a friend or prospective soul mate and the texts just stop and your mind begins racing. The people at UCBComedy captured this moment brilliantly in a short comedy sketch titled 'They Stop Texting Back.'
First of all, I need to ask what is it with texting these days? Why do people let texting replace actual communication? Lots of the communication gets lost in text messages. Below I have made a list of the Pros and Cons of texting.
Texts allows time to think before responding
Texts are not as scary as calling (you know that cute girl/guy you met last night terrifies you)
Texts are permanent (well okay, semi-permanent)
Texts are fun
Texts don't maintain the subtle meaning of a thought
Texts can be intrusive
Texts are impersonal
Texts annoy people around the receiver of a message
There you have it. If you are texting, make sure it's about something fun, there isn't the chance of being misunderstood, you want the person receiving it to have it basically forever, and don't be a jerk and assume the person is going to drop everything he/she is doing just to respond to your texts.


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Owners of new company say leave the driving to them
For less than a round trip cab ride, there's a new company in our area where workers will pick up people who have been drinking, and drive their car to their house.
One of the owners will hop on their moped, drive to where a person needs to be picked up, then pack up the moped.
For $12 and $2.90 per mile, the driver will hop in the driver's seat and drive them home.
With police out in force, dedicating hundreds of hours to DUI enforcement, the owners of NWADD say their designated driver service is better than the alternative ... a night in jail.
"We were sitting outside a bar around 2:30 a.m. and saw over 200 people leaving the bars and hopping into their cars and driving," said Brian Oller, owner. "Surely some of them weren't too good to drive."
"There's definitely a market for it," said Oller.
NWADD does not accept cold calls. The company requires customers to register online for a pickup.


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Sunday, April 7
Remembrance service The Holocaust Remembrance Committee of the Jewish Federation of Howard County and the Howard County Board of Rabbis will host a service at 6 p.m. at Beth Shalom Congregation, 8070 Harriet Tubman Lane in Columbia. Service include interactive sessions and a keynote address by Gustav Goldberger in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Danish rescue of more than 7,000 Jewish men, women and children. Free and open to the public. Information: 410-531-5115.
Dance performance Kinetics Dance Theatre presents "Effervescent," a tribute to the late JoAnn Shay O'Neill, at 4 p.m. at Slayton House, 10400 Cross Fox Lane in Columbia. Tickets are $15; $10 for seniors and students; $5 for children 12 and younger. Information: 410-480-1686.
Wednesday, April 10
Genealogical society Kenneth Heger of the National Archives and Records Administration presents "Working for the People: Documenting Employment of Civilian Employees of the Federal Government, 1789-1950," at the Howard County Genealogical Society's monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Ellicott City Senior Center, 9401 Frederick Road. Free. Information: 410-313-1400.
Thursday, April 11
School news The Board of Education holds a regularly scheduled meeting at 4 p.m. in the board room at 10910 Clarksville Pike in Ellicott City. Both the afternoon and evening session, which convenes at 7:30 p.m., begins with a public forum, when members of the public may address the board on any topic other than those for which a formal public hearing process exists. Information: 410-313-6680.
Bird club meeting During the monthly meeting of the Howard County Bird Club, David Holmes will make a presentation, "Enhanced Identification: Seeing Beyond Color," at 8 p.m. at the Robinson Nature Center, 6692 Cedar Lane in Columbia. Information: howardbirds.org.
Saturday, April 13
Classical music Michael Adcock presents works for solo piano and vocal/wind chamber music with Dawn Tubb, Charles Zhao, Stefan Palen and MaryAnn Evangelista at 8 p.m. at the Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7246 Cradlerock Way in Columbia. A pre-concert talk begins at 7:15 p.m. and a reception with the artists follows the concert. Tickets are $20; $15 for students 15-23; free for children younger than 15 with a paying adult. Information: 410-381-0097.
GreenFest The sixth annual GreenFest takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Howard Community College's Burrill Galleria, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia. This free event features exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, activities and practical tips for easy ways to "green" your home, workplace and lifestyle. This year's theme is "Green Communities: Get up. Get out. Get Green," and focuses on steps you can take, at home and in the community to make a difference. Information: 410-313-2350 or hcgreenfest.org.
Concert Kathleen Stanley, Libby Weibel and Laurence Bauer perform in a free Music Matters showcase from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Anna's Coffee Roastery, 8827 Centre Park Drive, Suite D in Columbia. Information: 443-546-4131.
Chamber music Sundays at Three presents the Peabody Trio playing Beethoven and Schubert piano trios and short pieces written for them by Shalumit Ran and Fred Lerdahl at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14, at Christ Episcopal Church, 6800 Oakland Mills Road in Columbia. Tickets are $15; free for those 17 and younger accompanied by a paying adult. Information: 443-288-3179.
Film series The Columbia Jewish Congregation's annual film series concludes April 20 with "Nicky's Family." Screening is at 8 p.m. at 5885 Robert Oliver Place, room 200. Tickets are $9. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments and post-film discussion included. Information: 410-381-4809, 410-997-0694 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
'WomenFest' The Department of Citizen Services' Office on Aging presents its annual wellness event for women from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 27 at the Gary J. Arthur Community Center, 2400 Route 97 in Cooksville. "WomenFest" is an interactive day that focuses on health, wellness, fashion and beauty, and is designed to inspire women to live more balanced, healthier and fuller lives. Event will feature more than 90 vendors and exhibitors offering products and services of interest to women, as well as health screenings, seminars and food. There will also be free blood pressure, body mass index, osteoporosis, vein, partial skin cancer and glaucoma screenings available. Admission is free but seating is limited and tickets will be available the day of the event while supplies last. For more information, call 410-313-5440 or send an email with "WomenFest" in the subject line, to email@example.com. A full schedule is available at howardcountyaging.org/womenfest.
Fair Mount Hebron Nursery School Parents Group's 29th annual Spring Fair will take place at 11 a.m. April 27 at Mount Hebron Presbyterian Church, 2330 Mount Hebron Drive in Ellicott City. Event features a bake, book and plant sale, moon bounce, face painting, crafts, games and a Mother's Day Secret Shop. Hamburgers, hot dogs and other foods will be for sale. Tickets for games and activities available for purchase. Information: 410-461-2773.
Testing Gifted-and-talented testing for nonpublic school students, grades 5-7, who plan to enter Howard County middle schools in August, will be held beginning at 9 a.m. May 4 at Harper's Choice Middle School, 5450 Beaverkill Road in Columbia. Registration materials can be obtained from middle school guidance offices, or parents may call the Gifted and Talented Office at 410-313-6800.
Reunion The Cardinal Gibbons High School Class of 1973 will hold its 40th reunion April 20 at Reflections Banquet Hall, 8015 Fort Smallwood Road in Pasadena. Information: 410-382-6919 or email email@example.com.
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Passover Intensive 2012 - Talk 4 - Get GoingBy Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Apr 01, 2012
Location: Makor Or
In topic: Judaism / Jewish Meditation
Norman gives the fourth talk to the Makor Or Passover Intensive 2012 on Get Going.
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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream has always been one of my favorite flavors, but I had a very particular way - okay, weird way - of eating it as a kid.
My parents preferred the Breyers brand for all ice cream, so that's what we usually had in the freezer, but the one problem with Breyers mint chocolate chip is that the ice cream isn't green. And mint chocolate chip ice cream should be green, even just a pale green, like these mini pies, is better than just pure white.
So to make my non-green ice cream more interesting, I would suck all the ice cream off the chocolate pieces, spoonful by spoonful, leaving a pile of chocolate in the bottom of the bowl. And then lastly, I'd eat that little soggy pile of chocolate. My parents seemed to think it was strange - who knows why - but they generally let us eat our ice cream any way we liked. Don't play with your food was more for dinner, but with bowls of ice cream, we were free to swirl it, smooth it, lick it, you name it, to our hearts' content.
I love the idea of easy, no-bake desserts for summer, so I came up with a mini no-bake pie that was reminiscent of mint chocolate chip ice cream. The mini graham cracker crusts are available on the baking aisle, and I filled them with a minty mascarpone filling, folded with semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Add a couple drops of green food coloring, or a whole bunch. Food should be fun, so I say, play with your food!
Mint Chocolate Chip Mini Mascarpone Pies
printable recipe
- 6 individual, ready-made, graham cracker pie crusts
- 8 ounces Mascarpone cheese (or cream cheese)
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon mint extract
- 1 tablespoon fresh, chopped mint, plus extra sprigs for garnish
- a few drops of green gel food coloring
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
Set the pie crusts on a tray. In a mixing bowl, combine the Mascarpone cheese, whipping cream, powdered sugar, mint extract, mint and green food coloring. Whip with an electric mixer on low speed until smooth and combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
Spoon the filling into each of the pie crusts, and garnish with mint and a sprinkling of chocolate chips.
The pies can be eaten right away, or refrigerated until ready to serve.
Cook's Note: To make a full standard-sized pie, simply double all of the filling ingredients and spoon filling into a standard graham cracker pie crust.
Yields 6 servings.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen


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RAYMOND WEIL introduces its brand new chronograph. With a classic allure, elegantly colored materials and modern dial design, the latest addition to the maestro collection sets the time to the rhythm of its hours indicated by Arabic numerals.
The maestro chronograph, first presented in 2011, plays a melody around a more contemporary chord arrangement this year. On a silver dial, the hours are now depicted by Arabic numerals, leaving place in the center for a refined sunray guilloché decoration. The chronograph's counters, located at 3 and 9 o'clock, read off horizontally. The hands, which recall the classic character of the collection, are rose gold plated, matching the hour numerals and the 41mm diameter case. Finally a classic, brown, alligator-style bracelet with an ardillon buckle confers all the letters of nobility upon this fine example of masculine, automatic watchmaking.
Distinction and refinement give this chronograph a prominent role in the maestro collection.


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F1 teams want to winnot only for the high purses received at the finish line, but because F1 cars are considered to be the height of single-seat racing car construction. So, if you win, youre considered to be the best in what many consider to be the most glamorous automobile racing events in the world.
But, if you dont get the aerodynamic package of your F1 right, you wont have a hope of getting near the front of the gridmuch less win the race! F1 teams spend up to $50 million on the latest thing in wind tunnels in order to be at the head of the pack.
Thats why Advantage CFD, owned by the B.A.R. F1 team, came to the industry leader in CFD design manipulationthe Optimal Solutions Software teamin their efforts to more quickly and accurately aerodynamically improve the B.A.R. Formula 1 race cars.
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A federal district court judge in Nevada has ruled against same-sex couples in Nevada seeking access to marriage. Sevcik v. Sandoval is a legal challenge to Nevada's constitutional regime with respect to same-sex couples, filed by Lambda Legal. The state allows same-sex couples to have most of the rights and benefits associated with marriage but denies them and only them use of the word marriage. The plaintiffs in this case say that denying them marriage violates the equal protection of the laws.
The judge disagreed, writing that the 1972 summary dismissal in Baker v. Nelson forecloses the issue. He suggested a broad reading of Baker (which concerned an equal protection challenge based on gender), writing that "The equal protection claim is the same in this case as it was in Baker, i.e., whether the Equal Protection Clause prevents a state from refusing to permit same-sex marriages. Although the judge found that the amendment does indeed draw a dividing line between two groups and that "for the purposes of an equal protection challenge, the distinction is definitely sexual-orientation based", he applied the most lenient form of judicial review for equal protection challenges, rational basis review, where "a court does not judge the perceived wisdom or fairness of a law, nor does it examine the actual rationale for the law when adopted, but asks only whether "there is any reasonably conceivable state of facts that could provide a rational basis for the classification."" Under this standard, he wrote, "[t]he protection of the traditional institution of marriage, which is a conceivable basis for the distinction drawn in this case, is a legitimate state interest." Thus there is no violation of the Equal Protection Clause.
For now, that is. Remember that this case is far from over. Rather, Lambda Legal has already vowed to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. And remember that the Ninth has already issued a pro-marriage equality ruling in the California Perry v. Brown case. Although that ruling was very narrowly tailored to California, it nonetheless was decided on the very same 14th Amendment grounds of equal protection that the Sevcik Nevada case is based upon.
That's why marriage equality advocates are surprisingly hopeful this morning as the case moves to San Francisco (where the Ninth Circuit is based).
Further, in determining the level of constitutional scrutiny to apply to the statutes in question, Judge [Robert] Jones writes that "public acceptance and legal protection from discrimination has increased enormously for homosexuals," going so far as to argue that "any such disabilities [that is, due to discriminatory treatment] with respect to homosexual have been largely erased since 1990." The simple existence of the Defense of Marriage Act defies this statement, for myriad reasons–let alone the other obstacles that LGBT Americans continue to face despite the great strides that our community has made in the last 20 years.
Judge Jones goes on to write that "anti-homosexual messages are rare in the national informational and entertainment media"–presumably he was fortunate enough to miss pastor Rick Warren compare same-sex attraction to other feelings that people simply shouldn't act on, such as "get[ting] angry and … punching a guy in the nose" this very week in a conversation with CNN's Piers Morgan. He argues that gays are not politically powerless, and makes the somewhat astonishingly claim that for any group to be regarded as such requires that their "chances of democratic success be virtually hopeless."
Perhaps most distressingly, Judge Jones's opinion adopts lock, stock and barrel the anti-gay canard that marriage equality would somehow scare straight couples into deciding not to get married [...]
It's important to remember that Judge Jones had scheduled oral argument in the Sevcik case for this past Monday to allow both sides to address the merits of the case (and specifically the question of the precedence of Baker v. Nelson but abruptly and without any explanation cancelled such arguments in a late September order. As I wrote after a preliminary hearing in the case in August, Judge Jones seemed especially eager to move the case quickly to the Ninth Circuit, telling attorneys for both sides, "It makes sense to get this decided and off with the circus train."
Although I think Judge Jones probably should have kept his initial oral argument hearing, I think he's going to get his wish: this one's definitely going to the Ninth Circuit, and it's hard to believe that court (unless the case gets a very conservative panel) won't take issue with at least some, if not a great deal, of Judge Jones's reasoning. In a press release distributed after the decision today, Lambda Legal wrote, "This is not the end of this fight. We will appeal and continue to fight for these loving couples, who are harmed by Nevada's law barring marriage for same-sex couples. By forbidding same-sex couples' access to marriage, the State brands them and their children as second-class citizens."
In many ways, Judge Jones' ruling is downright farcical. And it's still appalling that he did not even hear oral arguments in this case. Without a doubt, the Ninth will take issue with that.
We'll just have to wait and see what the Ninth decides to do with this case. The appeals court may simply send the case back to trial court here in Nevada if judges there feel that Judge Jones did not give this case a fair trial. Or perhaps, a three judge panel may just keep the case there and weigh the larger Constitutional issues involved while simply dismissing the (lack of) findings in Judge Jones' ruling.
But without a doubt, this case is far from over. And especially considering the US Supreme Court is weighing whether to review the Perry (California Prop 8) law suit and the Ninth's ruling in favor of the plaintiff (or in favor of marriage equality), this issue isn't going away any time soon.


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- Whenever possible, only connect to wireless networks that require a network security key or have some other form of security, such as a certificate. The information sent over these networks is encrypted, which can help protect your computer from unauthorized access. When you view available wireless networks in Connect to a Network, you'll see text indicating if a wireless network has security enabled or not.
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- Before you connect to a network provided by a wireless Internet service provider (ISP), such as a public network in a coffee shop or airport, read the privacy statement carefully and make sure that you understand which files, if any, are saved to your computer and what type of information the network provider collects from your computer.
- If you connect to a network that is not secure, be aware that someone with the right tools can see everything that you do, including the websites you visit, the documents you work on, and the user names and passwords you use. Make sure that you don't work on any company-sensitive information or visit password-protected areas of your business network while you are connected to that network.


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What would helicopter money mean for markets?
What would helicopter money mean for markets?
"I think Bernanke is whipping this donkey that can only grow at 1% because he thinks it's a racehorse that should be growing at 3! So he's going to keep on whipping it until it either drops dead or turns into a racehorse."
- Jeremy Grantham, founder and chief investment strategist of Boston-based GMO, March 2013
At the time of the above quote three years ago, most policymakers believed that with enough monetary stimulus, the US economy would recapture its pre-crisis trend rate of growth.
This has not happened. Although the US has performed like a thoroughbred relative to other developed economies, by its own standards it's been a bit of a donkey.
In its 2016 World Economic Outlook "Too Slow for Too Long", the IMF recently downgraded its global growth forecast to 3.2% – the fourth such downgrade in the last 12 months. This is perilously close to the 3% rate the institution considers recession territory.
Fearing an extended period of low growth and low inflation (secular stagnation), and with risks in its view tilted to the downside, it has endorsed central banks to step up their efforts to find a "more energetic" solution.
One merely has to consider the unprecedented monetary experiments undertaken by global central banks in recent years and the consequent trillions of dollars worth of bonds trading with negative yields to see how "energetic" policy has already been. Nevertheless, in the eyes of the IMF at least, more should be done. The question is what…
The policy petri dish
Japan has long been the poster child for an economy struggling with low growth and low inflation as a result of an aging demographic, weak productivity growth and an enormous debt mountain (sound familiar?). Accordingly, it has served as a useful petri dish for the unorthodox interventions of Western policymakers in recent years.
Japan was the first developed economy to essentially hit zero interest rates in the late 90s, it was the first to engage in quantitative easing in 2001, and earlier this year bungled a move to negative interest rates.
Today, having experienced four recessions in the last seven years in spite of its central bank "energetically" buying up 35% of all Japanese government bonds and 59% of its exchange-traded funds (ETF) market, speculation is building that it will soon pioneer the implementation of "helicopter money".
Get to the chopper?
The concept of helicopter money was first introduced by Milton Friedman in 1969. Ben Bernanke famously spoke of it in 2002 before becoming Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair, and recently published a blog on the subject titled "What tools does the Fed have left? Part 3".
Simply put, helicopter money describes an alliance between monetary and fiscal authorities to directly intervene in an economy to help stimulate nominal growth. Whereas quantitative easing (QE) has been an indirect attempt to stimulate growth (printing money to buy assets, thus lowering market interest rates, credit spreads and equity risk premiums), helicopter money would in effect be printing money to fund a fiscal splurge without raising already high debt/GDP ratios.
Bernanke's blog gives the example of $100 billion being printed to fund both a regeneration of US infrastructure and a tax cut for consumers. Although it is described as a 'last resort' policy, in the event of a downturn with rates already near zero, there would be few energetic options for the US Fed to pursue.
It is widely acknowledged that as things stand, such a policy would be politically impossible in the US. However, if it were seen to have been even remotely successful in Japan (admittedly a big "if"), such a programme would likely be seen as preferable to risking outright deflation.
Investors ought to remain open-minded in our view. Policies that were once considered reckless and at the very extremes of economic theory (QE, negative interest rates) are now not only deemed conventional but are more and more judged as inadequate!
From a long-term perspective, we know Japan's economy is in a perilous state. That is not new news. It may well be that its longer-term demographic decline can be arrested in time through financial incentives. That is one potential long-term solution to a long-term problem.
In the shorter-term however, with the renewed strength of its currency posing a major headache to its reflation efforts, helicopter money – if it is going to be unleashed anywhere – will happen in Japan first.
Bernanke, the IMF and the financial world at large will no doubt pay close attention to how the experiment pans out.
The market implications
An important competence in fund management is being able to separate what you think should happen from what you consider most likely to occur. We can all have views about whether something should or shouldn't come to pass. Ultimately though, it's just not that relevant.
The secular stagnation theme has been permeating market prices for some time now. After three-plus decades of disinflation and falling interest rates, investor psychology regarding deflation and low rates seems as entrenched as the fears of inflation were in the 80s. The overwhelming narrative today is as follows:
1. Sovereign debt/GDP ratios are too high
2. This is undermining nominal GDP growth, which is already too low
3. The global economy remains in a position of extreme vulnerability as a result
4. With the monetary arsenal already fully deployed, we have no credible safety net
5. So we should heavily overweight 'safe' assets for fear of falling into a deflationary abyss
As things stand, points 1 – 3 are not controversial in our view. As outlined above however, point 4 is not only debatable, but has the potential to be a game-changer for investor positioning.
As we have discussed in previous quarterlies, we have had an extremely bifurcated market in recent years, where the beneficiaries of low growth and low inflation – assets which are considered 'safe', even at record high valuations – have trousered the beneficiaries of higher growth and higher inflation – assets that are considered 'risky' despite having endured three-to-four year bear markets.
We suspect that if the Japanese do proceed as submitted above, the market's view towards inflation beneficiaries globally may well swing 180 degrees. Indeed, looking at the performance of the commodity complex this year (a classic inflation hedge), one could argue this process is already well underway.
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Suspect in Alabama terror plot changes plea to guilty
MOBILE, Alabama (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Alabama say a man has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges.
AL.com reports 25-year-old Mohammad Abdul Rahman Abukhdair changed his plea to guilty Tuesday. Authorities accused the man of plotting violent acts in America and looking to join an overseas jihadist movement.
Abukhdair was initially set to go to trial later this month and changed his plea during a pretrial conference in Mobile.
The man's co-defendant, Randy Wilson, also pleaded guilty in the case and both men are now scheduled to be sentenced later this year.
Prosecutors have agreed to recommend a 15-year prison sentence on a charge of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
The man was deported from Egypt after being arrested in November 2010 on suspicion of being involved in terrorist activities.


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Prompong Hakk-a-Maze Knifeblock
At Design Interviews
Interview with Prompong Hakk : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Prompong Hakk : When designing a-maze I first wanted to tackle problems of hygiene and secondly problems of space. Most knife blocks I had come across were extremely large for the storage they offered. Inspired by the variable widths of knives I drew blocks for each of them and realized that I could configure them in this maze which then led me to creating the final a-maze Design. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Prompong Hakk : I wanted to create a really simple, innovative yet visually interesting design piece. It was imperative that SNF's first product would create enough hype to support SNF's design led brand vision. That's why a-maze had to create a unique stand in the world of knife blocks. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Prompong Hakk : a-maze will become SNF's flagship design and the inspiration to new additions for the SNF range. There are plans to refine the Design further such as a slanted option and additional shapes. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Prompong Hakk : We worked on a-maze's concept for about one month with three months in production development before our first safety passing working prototype was finished. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Prompong Hakk : a-maze was designed as a pitch to WIKO cutlery. We followed our own brief and our own insight to come up with a range of various knife blocks with a-maze catching the eye of WIKO's founder Jonathan Lo who then supported its development and our current working relationship on developing the SNF brand. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Prompong Hakk : a-maze design is produced by the WIKO Cutlery group under the SNF brand. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Prompong Hakk : We were pitching for a job with WIKO Cutlery. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Prompong Hakk : No. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Prompong Hakk : All people who value a different take on a knife block. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Prompong Hakk : a-maze is extremely compact in comparison to other knife blocks. It also stores knives in a very organized way despite its unique looks. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Prompong Hakk : The name was really part of the Design and became of full meaning when the Design was finished. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Prompong Hakk : Sketching and CAD. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Prompong Hakk : The maze formation and storage of multiple knives. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Prompong Hakk : No. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Prompong Hakk : The Design was created to be made using existing technologies. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Prompong Hakk : No. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Prompong Hakk : One of the challenges was to make the Design drop-proof from a standard table counter. This requires the change from an originally slanted version to a straight up Design. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Prompong Hakk : I came across the A'Design award by looking up another Designer who was affiliated with it. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Prompong Hakk : Being one of my first commercially successful Designs, a-maze has launched an array of new ideas for me and injected me with more confidence in my Design style and belief. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Prompong Hakk : No. .
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|Muppets Tonight
|Air Date
|January 4, 1998
|Written by
|Jennifer Barrow, Dick Blasucci, Paul Flaherty, Darin Henry, Jim Lewis, Bernie Keating, Kirk Thatcher and Patric Verrone
|Greg Fera
|Prod. no.
With Beaker off on a Star Trek cruise (where he encounters George Takei), Dr. Bunsen Honeydew realizes his life is very empty. Bunsen and guest star, Andie MacDowell, decide to take a walk on the wild side. Bob Keeshan and Ben Stein make cameo appearances with special performance by Liz Gandara, Lisa Thompson, and Jennifer Keyes as the Fly Girls.
Skit Highlights
- Four Weddings and a Frog
- Snoop Doggy Dew, ft. the Fly Girls
- The Hunchbear of Notre Dame
- Penguin Chorus sings "Hallelujah Chorus" conducted by Mr. Poodlepants
- "Oh, Pretty Bunsen" ("Oh, Pretty Woman") sung by Johnny Fiama
- "Dancing In the Dark" sung by Kermit
- Carl the Big Mean Psychic
- Andie MacDowell would work with the Muppets again in 1999, playing Shelley Snipes in Muppets from Space.
- The emcee of the Star Trek convention that Beaker attends is played by Bill Barretta.
- Dave Goelz as Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Gonzo, Waldorf, and Bill the Bubble Guy
- Brian Henson as Sal Minella and Nigel
- Jerry Nelson as Statler
- Steve Whitmire as Kermit the Frog, Beaker, Rizzo the Rat, Mr. Poodlepants, and Alfonso D'Bruzzo
- Bill Barretta as Bobo the Bear, Johnny Fiama, Carl, Pepe the King Prawn, Zippity Zap
- Kevin Clash as Clifford and Miss Piggy (puppetry)
- Frank Oz as Miss Piggy (voice; uncredited)
- Leslie Carrara
- Thomas Fountain
- Len Levitt
- Drew Massey
- Stephen Ritz
- Joe Selph
- with
- Liz Gandara, Jennifer Keyes, Lisa Thompson as the Fly Girls
- Clifford, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, Kermit the Frog, Statler and Waldorf, Johnny Fiama, Sal Minella, Rizzo the Rat, Gonzo, Bobo the Bear, Pepe the King Prawn, Miss Piggy, Big Mean Carl, Mr. Poodlepants, Bill the Bubble Guy, Nigel, Zippity Zap, Alfonso D'Bruzzo, Eugene, Muppets Tonight Writers, Frogs, Penguins
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Tough Decisions
Posted by antithesis Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 7:46 AM
I'm all about integrity. I don't feel just in just starting level 3 on the 10 day mark. For one thing, level 2 is kicking my butt too bad and I wanna honor myself by allowing myself time. The other reason is I had two unplanned non-workout days. Those are in addition to the unforseen one I am having this weekend. Technically, there are two this weekend as Idk how much of a workout paintball is and I won't be doing Jillian Michaels. All factors considered, I have decided to extend my challenge 4 days. Barring any further interruptions in the plan, this will put me with an end date exactly one month from SXM. I can live with that.
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Here is another noteworthy place to eat for bread lovers. Affectionately known as The Bread Shop, this cozy little shop is nicely tucked away in the upmarket residential area at Bukit Damansara. I didn't know of its existence until it was introduce to me by my colleague.
Unlike most places, The Bread Shop only offers a limited selection of bread and pastries. However, this is not necessary a bad thing as they tend to only sell the best in what they do.
All their breads and pastries are traditionally baked using preservative free healthy ingredients. This is evidently so when you had a bite at their tasty pastries. One of my favourite is the Cinnamon Swirl (RM 4.80). The texture of the bread wasbsoft and fluffy with a thick sweet taste of apple syrup.
The Garlic Toast (RM 2.80) is very flavoursome with a strong scent of garlic on top of the crusty bread. Nicely done.
The Chocolate Bun was rather average. I didn't quite like the chocoloate fillings as it was a bit dry.
Luckily the Custard Almond fares better as the custard fillings was not too sweet.
The Bread Shop
11, Jalan Setiakasih 5
Damansara Heights
Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-20938734
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Avengers Movie-Inspired Eye Makeup
Amazing Avengers-Inspired Eye Makeup You Have to See
Amazing Avengers-Inspired Eye Makeup You Have to See
The Avengers movie premieres today, and fans have been eagerly waiting in anticipation for its debut. Some have even paid tribute with amazing homages, like Finnish makeup artist Jangsara. She was so excited about the film that she decided to create this amazing Avengers-themed eye art, coming up with looks that reference Thor, Iron Man, The Hulk, and even big bads like Loki. Are you ready to assemble some super eye shadow? Then check out her amazing work now.
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AIBA approves IABF's amended constitution
Published: 25th February 2013 03:35 PM | Last Updated: 25th February 2013 03:35 PM | A+A A-
After the lifting of suspension
on Indian boxers, the barred Indian Amateur Boxing Federation
has got another shot in the arm with the world body, AIBA,
approving its amended constitution.
"The amended constitution has been approved and we have sent a copy of it to the Sports Ministry as well," IABF Secretary General Rajesh Bhandari told PTI today.
AIBA had provisionally suspended the IABF last year, citing the International Olympic Committee's ban on the Indian Olympic Association and "possible manipulation" in its elections.
The governing body had asked the IABF to amend its constitution to make it compliant with the AIBA Statute as one of the pre-requisites for the lifting of suspension.
"The AIBA wanted us to drop the word amateur because we have incorporated the provisions for professional boxing as well. We have also incorporated the age and tenure limitation guidelines which should satisfy the ministry as well," said Bhandari.
The IABF was also suspended by the Sports Ministry, which wants it told hold a re-election.
"We are not averse to a re-election but we have given a point by point reply to the ministry's objections. They should tell us, what is it that we have done wrong," he said.
The nominated post of Chairman, which is currently occupied by former IABF President Abhay Singh Chautala, has also been removed from the amended constitution.
"We want the suspension to be revoked at least from the Ministry's side now. We have adhered to the sports code and have incorporated changes as suggested to us," Bhandari said.
"Because this is what was discussed at our last meeting with the Ministry officials. Now they should keep their word after going through the constitution," he added.
Asked whether AIBA is insisting on a re-election,
Bhandari said, "They have not conveyed this demand. If they
ask anything in writing, we will respond accordingly."
Meanwhile, the invitation for participation in the Asian Junior Championships for men, scheduled from March 10 in Philippines, has also arrived.
"Only coaches and boxers will go but the good thing is that boxers will not suffer anymore. Now these boys will have an aim. Earlier, they were training without a sense of direction," he said.
Earlier, in a letter to the IABF, the AIBA said that its Executive Committee decided to allow participation of Indian boxers in international events despite the continuation of suspension of the IABF.
The AIBA, however, made it clear that no official will be allowed to accompany the boxers in any international competition.
The development came after India's IOC member Randhir Singh spoke to AIBA President Ching-Kuo Wu and followed it up with a letter, stating that the Indian boxers should not suffer due to IOC's ban on India.
In India's sporting history, the country's athletes have never participated in any competition under the flag of an international entity.


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Tulsa Expo Square — A Case History
Listen to the audio for some astonishing facts about how KDM's Octasound speakers have completely won over the folks at Expo Square. With it's many large buildings spread over 240 acres, Tulsa Expo Square hosts over 400 events each year. The largest of these buildings – The Tulsa Expo Center – makes an excellent case history.How is that Possible?
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Why Horns?
Take a look at any PA system being used for music in a large space. Almost without exception the mid and high frequencies are being produced by horns. The horn type speaker has a separate driver inside which produces the vibrations. The horn then amplifies and projects the sound. Think of how much louder a trumpet is in a small room compared to almost any other instrument and you'll see what we're 'driving' at. The trumpet also projects the sound forcefully compared to other ways of delivering sound vibrations. The bottom line is the horn is a far more efficient device giving you much more volume per watt of input signal every time.
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The creation of a truly great sub is no small feat. At Lenny's we pride ourselves on serving up Authentic Philly Cheesesteaks & the Deli Fresh Experience™. Since the beginning, Lenny's commitment to quality and attention to detail has gone into every restaurant and every sub sandwich.
The first Lenny's Sub Shop® opened in 1998 in a suburb of Memphis, TN to satisfy cravings for authentic subs and Philly Cheesesteaks. Though Lenny's Sub Shop® was originally planned as a single unit restaurant, the tremendous reception from guests at the first location prompted rapid growth and the concept soon became franchised. Lenny's, now owned by Lenny's Franchise Systems, LLC, continues to expand across the country.
Lenny's is the only place to find Authentic Philly Cheesesteaks & The Deli Fresh Experience™. We slice our meats and cheeses fresh to order and pile them high on fresh baked bread. With about a half pound of meat and cheese on the regular size sub, and about a full pound on the large size sub, Lenny's provides an unmatched value for our guests' hard earned dollars. Our Philly Cheesesteak is cooked fresh to order and is served hot off the grill.
Lenny's commitment to its guests is clear – More Food, More Taste, More Personality®. Our commitment means that substantial portions, quality produce and great customer service can be found in every Lenny's Sub Shop®.