User:MuppetArchives/Current Events 12 (August 2006)

Archive of Current events discussions.

Wikipedia
Interesting note: Sesame Street is the featured article today on Wikipedia. — Scott (talk ) 15:09, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Sesame Street Season 37
I just went ahead and added a link to the Sesame Workshop pressroomp page for Sesame Street Season 37. The pressoom section includes artwork, but in order to get into the artwork section, you have to have a username and password. I happen to have one, due to my work on Dragon Tales over at TV.com, although technically I'm not supposed to give them away. However, I could get the pictures though for possible use at the Wiki. I believe it's okay to use them, however they do require that when you use one of their images, you include the notice "Sesame Street® and associated characters, trademarks and design elements are owned and licensed by Sesame Workshop. © 2006 Sesame Workshop. All Rights Reserved." George B. ''(talk ) 03:26, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Press release
Anyone want to use this? -- Zanimum 17:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC) http://pressroom.americangreetings.com/archives/summer06/learninghorizons06.html

It's a Hurricane... Hunter
I was watching a show called DragonFly TV today and they had a meteorologist on there. He said that he sometimes gets to fly the hurricane-hunter planes and he said that their names for the planes are Kermit, Miss Piggy and Gonzo. Of course, I immediately though of the Wiki and was wondering if there was some use we can make of that. George B. ''(talk ) 21:06, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you know who owns the planes? The government, commercial forecasters? --  Zanimum 17:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Offhand --- I believe that he worked for the government, although that doesn't necessarily mean that the government actually owns the planes, I suppose. I still have the episode on tape --- I'll try and check and see if I can get anymore details. George B. ''(talk ) 22:35, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * A quick search turned up that the aircraft belong to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA's "Hurricane Hunter" Aircraft). Jim Henson Productions designed the logos; photos of those would be great on the wiki page for them. -- Melissa (talk ) 22:46, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The nose art for Kermit and Miss Piggy are about two-thirds of the way down this page: http://www.aoc.noaa.gov/aircraft_lockheed.htm -- Melissa (talk ) 22:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Should the article be National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration? National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration aircraft? NOAA's "Hurricane Hunter" Aircraft? Miss Piggy (plane)? --  Zanimum 14:43, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds like you guys have done a good job on finding the exact details on this. I'll leave it to the powers-that-be to determine what a good name exactly for the page would be. George B. ''(talk ) 02:56, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

American Library Association
I just found this image and I'm not quite sure what it's from. The website I grabbed it from was advertising that it's for sale as a poster and bookmark from the Library of Congress gift shop, advertising the American Library Association. Anyone know anything? (By the way, my apologies if this isn't where a question like this goes) -- Joe (talk ) 19:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * It's the poster for "Building a Nation of Readers", the Center for the Book's national reading promotion theme for 1997-2000, produced by the Center for the Book and the American Library Association. I don't know its current availability, but as far as I know the products were available for purchase through the Library of Congress Sales Shop and the American Library Association. -- <font color="Blue">Melissa  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:42, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm pretty sure I've seen that poster before at either the library where I work or one or more of the branches in the system. <font color="Blue">George B. ''(<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:50, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I have those bookmarks, and I also have the previous Muppet bookmark, which had Piggy as Cleopatra. The Muppets' participation in ALA materials goes back to the Muppet Show era. There was also one with Zoe around the same time as the "Building a Nation of Readers" one, and there were probably other Sesame ones before that. I can scan the two bookmarks that I have, although I'm going away for a few days, so I won't be able to do it until I get back. -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 10:42, 3 August 2006 (UTC)