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Q: If the parameter supplied while calling a function contains space, function is not called I'm using last.fm api. I am having a JavaScript AJAX Function which is like this,
function showart(art) {
    if (art=="") {
    document.getElementById("info").innerHTML="";
    return;
    }
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
    } else {
        xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
    xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200) {
            document.getElementById("info").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
        }
    }
    xmlhttp.open("GET","5.php?a="+art,true);
    xmlhttp.send();
}

And here's the PHP code where I'm calling it.
for($i=1;$i<=10;$i++) {
    echo '
';
    echo 'topartists->artist[$i-1]->image.'">	';
    echo 'topartists->artist[$i-1]->name.'\')>'.$info->topartists->artist[$i-1]->name.'
';
}

Whenever $info->topartists->artist[$i-1]->name is having a space within an artist's name for example, 'Mobb Deep', the function isn't getting called and if the artist's name is for example, 'Adele', the function is getting called. How to fix this?

A: You have to encode the parameter value:
xmlhttp.open("GET","5.php?a=" + encodeURIComponent(art), true);

That'll encode the space properly and the server will decode it.
edit the code that's creating the  tags is not putting the "onclick" attribute value in quotes, so when the HTML is parsed the event handler code ends up being broken. You should quote the code:
echo 'topartists->artist[$i-1]->name.'\')">'.$info->topartists->artist[$i-1]->name.'
';

Note the added " quotes around the showart() call.

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A Lifetime of Planning Pays Off
"You gotta be crazy!" That's what Lee Dunham's friends told him back in 1971 when he gave up a secure job as a police officer and invested his life savings in the notoriously risky restaurant business. This particular restaurant was more than just risky, it was downright dangerous. It would be the first McDonald's franchise in the city of New York - smack in the middle of crime-ridden Harlem.
Lee had always had plans. When other kids were playing ball in the empty lots of Brooklyn, Lee was playing entrepreneur, collecting milk bottles and returning them to grocery stores for the deposits. He had his own shoeshine stand and worked delivering newspapers and groceries.
Early on, he promised his mother that one day she would never again have to wash other people's clothes for a living. He was going to start his own business and support her. "Hush your mouth and do your homework,"she told him.
She knew that no member of the Dunham family had ever risen above the level oflaborer, let alone owned a business. "There's no way you're going to open your own business, " his mother told him repeatedly.
Years passed, but Lee's penchant for dreaming and planning did not. After high school, he joined the Air Force, where his goal of one day owning a family restaurant began to take shape. He enrolled in the Air Force food service school and became such an accomplished cook he was promoted to the officers' dining hall.
When he left the Air Force, he worked for four years in several restaurants, including one in the famed Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Lee longed to start his own restaurant but felt he lacked the business skills to be successful. He signed up for business school and took classes at night while he applied and was hired to be a police officer.
For fifteen years he worked full-time as a police officer. In his off-hours, he worked part-time as a carpenter and continued to attend business school. And he had started saving and preparing for his dream. By 1971, Lee had saved $42,000, and it was time for him to make his vision a reality.
Lee wanted to open an upscale restaurant in Brooklyn. With a business plan in hand, he set out to seek financing. The banks refused him. Unable to get funding to open an independent restaurant, lee turned to franchising and filled out numerous applications.
McDonald's offered him a franchise, with one stipulation: Lee had to set up a McDonald's in the inner-city, the first to be located there. McDonald's wanted to find out if its type of fast-food restaurant could be successful in the inner city. It seemed that Lee might be the right person to operate that first restaurant.
To get the franchise, Lee would have to invest his life savings and borrow $150,000 more. Everything for which he'd worked and sacrificed all those years would be on the line - a very thin line if he believed his friends. Lee spent many sleepless nights before making his decision.
He decided this was it. The years of preparation he'd invested - the dreaming, planning, studying and saving now had a vehicle to make them a reality. He signed on the dotted line to operate the first inner-city McDonald's in the United States.
The first few months were a disaster. Gang fights, gunfire, and other violent incidents plagued his restaurant and scared customers away. Inside, employees stole his food and cash, and his safe was broken into routinely. To make matters worse, Lee couldn't get any help from McDonald's headquarters; the company's representatives were too afraid to venture into the ghetto. Lee was on his own.
Although he had been robbed of his merchandise, his profits, and his confidence, Lee was not going to be robbed of his dream. Lee fell back on what he had always believed in - preparation and planning.
Lee put together a strategy. First, he sent a strong message to the neighborhood thugs that McDonald's wasn't going to be their turf. To make his ultimatum stick, he needed to offer an alternative to crime and violence. In the eyes of those kids, Lee saw the same look of helplessness he had seen in his own family.
He knew that there was hope and opportunity in that neighborhood and he was going to prove it to the kids. He decided to serve more than meals to his community - he would serve dreams and solutions. He was going to make their obstacles their stepping stones.
Lee spoke openly with gang members, challenging them to rebuild their lives. Then he did what some might say was unthinkable: he hired gang members and put them to work. He tightened up his operation and conducted spot checks. He continually taught his employees the need for honesty and a good reputation if they were to succeed in life. Lee improved working conditions and once a week he offered his employees classes in customer service and management.
He encouraged them to develop personal and professional goals. He always stressed two things: his restaurant offered a way out of a dead-end life; and the faster and more efficiently the employees served the customers, the more lucrative that way would be.
In the community, Lee sponsored athletic teams and scholarships to get kids off the streets and into community centers and schools. The New York inner-city restaurant became a hub for ghetto kids to get a new start and dream new dreams. And in the process, it became McDonald's most profitable franchise worldwide, earning more than $1.5 million a year.
Company representatives who wouldn't set foot in Harlem months earlier now flocked to Lee's doors, eager to learn how he did it. To Lee, the answer was simple: "Serve the customers, the employees, and the community-dreams, goals and solutions along with hamburgers."
Today, Lee Dunham owns nine restaurants, employs 435 people, and serves thousands of meals every day. It's been many years since his mother had to take in wash to pay the bills. More importantly, Lee paved the way for thousands of African-American entrepreneurs who are working to make their dreams a reality, helping their communities, and serving up hope.
All this was possible because a little boy understood the need to dream, to plan, and to prepare for the future. In doing so, he changed his life and the lives of thousands of others.
Cynthia Kersey
Excerpted/Adapted from Unstoppable
Copyright 1988 by Cynthia Kersey, www.unstoppable.net
"May All of Your Dreams Become Goals"

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The billion-dollar project will complement Google's balloons and drones.
By comparison, the satellites used by Internet provider HughesNet are 22,000 miles from the ground.
O3b's satellites weigh about 1,500 pounds each, but Google intends to build ones that weigh less than 250 pounds, according to the Journal report. Google's initial fleet of 180 satellites "could be launched for as little as about $600 million," but the project could end up costing up to $3 billion.
Separately, Google recently purchased drone maker Titan Aerospace, which it will reportedly integrate into "Project Loon," Google's attempt to provide Internet access to hard-to-reach areas from balloons.


This tactic has now crossed the big pond. On January 17th, British Prime Minister Theresa May delivered a long-awaited speech meant to clarify her approach to Brexit, with the hazy late-March deadline for triggering Article 50 fast approaching.
Yet May merely repeated what most already knew: Brexit means Brexit; the U.K. will try to get the best deal possible and – somehow – keep all of the benefits of the Union without being under its regulation. Furthermore, she will submit to the Supreme Court's judgment and allow Parliament to have the final say, something that never really required her permission. As for the dreaded question of how, she only offered the threat of making Britain a tax haven if the EU won't let her have her way.
In light of such obfuscation, it appears the public will have to go back to relying on those pesky journalists and the traditional media, a trend already reflected in the spike in post-Brexit sales of the Guardian and the Times of London and the Trump-effect at The New York Times.
Apparently some people want more than "alternative facts" – and seem to be willing to pay for it.


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The NonProfit Press: 2015 FULLER Challenge winner announced!
The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is pleased to announce the Winner of the 2015 Fuller Challenge: GreenWave, a non-profit organization that has designed the world's first multi-species 3D ocean farms. GreenWave aims to restore ocean ecosystems and create jobs in coastal communities by transforming fishers into restorative ocean farmers. The project was submitted by GreenWave Executive Director Bren Smith.
GreenWave's integrated model shifts the practice of aquaculture from growing vulnerable monocultures to creating vibrant ecosystems, which produce higher yields. The infrastructure is simple: seaweed, scallops and mussels grow on floating ropes, stacked above oyster and clam cages below. From these crops ocean farmers can produce food, fertilizers, animal feeds, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, biofuels and much more. The farms filter harmful pollutants out of water, sequester CO2, support biodiversity, and are thus designed to restore rather than deplete our ecosystems.
"GreenWave exemplifies beautifully Fuller's inspirational call for individuals and groups to take the initiative, identify a critical issue, and tackle it independently, creatively, responsibly, and in a comprehensive manner," said Michael Ben-Eli, former colleague of Buckminster Fuller, Senior Advisor to the Fuller Challenge, and Founder of The Sustainability Laboratory.
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Being Piglet
It's been awhile since I've hit the blog, and not because there wasn't much to say. This summer's been chock full of drama and reflection and some disappointments.
In early June, I learned of an old friend's sudden passing—way too soon and heartbreaking for anyone who was lucky enough to know him. I think of his family often: his wife, and the way they would huddle close in conversation. She was his true north, he, her biggest cheerleader. And his kids: I didn't get to know them, but I have no doubt that he was an amazing dad, infusing their days with empathy, laughter and his infectious joy for being alive.
His spirit is another reminder of how I aspire to be, reminding me of one of my most-often-used parenting mantras. Since she was little, and even before she got sick, I would tell E to try to "be Piglet." Funny, in a way, because her favorite stuffed animal—the one who has joined us for every hospital visit and is by her side every night—is Eeyore, whom I've always loved and, in fact, this Eeyore used to be mine. There's something so irresistible about that sad-sack donkey. Her hand-me-down Eeyore is pretty threadbare now, and I long ago lost his detachable tail (bad Mommy), but he's still holding up pretty well considering. I think it's all the love.
Why Piglet? He's little, but he doesn't let that stop him. He's feisty, he's capable, and he's got a big heart. He loves his friends, and he works hard at things. Sometimes, he doesn't always know his limitations. Sometimes he frets. Sometimes he makes mistakes. But overall, it's his attitude that makes him the one to emulate, especially in the more trying times.
More specifically, there was a Winnie the Pooh story I often read to E when she was little. Piglet was inviting all of his friends over for tea and special cupcakes. He had a new recipe and was very excited to bake for them. But he made some sort of mistake in the mixing, so instead the cupcakes became one massive, doughy pile. When he saw it, he was at first distraught. But then he took a deep breath, regrouped and said, "I'll just call this my 'Make-the-Best-of-It Cake'!" So he decorated it. Soon his friends came over, they had a great time and complimented him on his baking achievement.
Be Piglet. Make the Best of It. That's what I always tell E to try to do. Life is not always perfect, and sometimes it's hard. Hers has had many challenges, for sure. But we have no other choice than to make the best of it. So when we got disappointing news at the end of June—the endoscopy/colonoscopy still showed widespread inflammation, meaning her Crohn's was still active—we dealt with it. It was not good news. She needed to change medications immediately, but we worked with her doctor to schedule the infusions around sleep away camp, which E had been anticipating for months. She still has pain, which is not optimal. But it's not debilitating (a four or five on the 1-to-10 scale), lasts about a minute or two where it used to last much longer, and has lessened to 1-2 episodes a day. Overall, she's having a surprisingly good summer, considering how it started.
E really is making the best of it. I'm proud of her. Now I'm trying to remind myself that I need to be Piglet, too.
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WASHINGTON—VA does not have "reasonable assurance" that the healthcare quality measures it reports on Hospital Compare and its own website accurately assess how VAMCs are performing, a new study suggests.
"This is because the quality measures are calculated using clinical information recorded in patient medical records, but VA Central Office does not know to what extent this information has been accurately and completely recorded across VAMCs," a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report stated.
"Until VA can provide information on a broader range of health care measures and services, highlight key differences in the quality of clinical care at VAMCs, and present this information in a way that is easily accessible and understandable, VA cannot ensure that its website is functioning as intended in helping veterans make informed choices about their care," the report stated.
VA reports healthcare quality measures on its website as well on the HHS Hospital Compare website.
"Hospital Compare publicly posts health care quality measures for over 4,000 non-VA hospitals that participate in Medicare, which enables veterans and others the opportunity to compare the performance of non-VA hospitals and VAMCs on a common set of quality measures. VA also separately reports on its own website information on the performance of VAMCs on a range of health care quality measures," according to the report.
VA's website consists of two separate webpages with information—the "Access and Quality" webpage, launched in April 2017, and the "Quality of Care" webpage, which VA has used since 2008, according to the GAO.
"The Access and Quality webpage is intended to be the primary source of information on quality of care at VA for veterans, according to VA officials," the report stated.
GAO found in its audit that VA's primary Access and Quality webpage generally reported healthcare quality of care information in ways that are more accessible and understandable than VA's older Quality of Care webpage. VA's primary Access and Quality webpage did "especially well" at presenting information on quality of care on two subpages that focus on access to care, the reviewers found.
Those pages provided information written in plain language with accompanying graphics and allow users to rank order VAMC's by level of performance on a given quality measure, among other things.
Additionally, VA's primary webpage "only provides limited information about key differences in patient experiences and the key strengths and limitations of the data reported," the document pointed out.
In contrast, GAO found that VA's older Quality of Care webpage displays quality measures in ways that "generally do not meet any of the presentation criteria," adding that the older webpage still provided veterans with more relevant information than the VA's primary webpage.
"VA's Quality of Care webpage performs better on the relevance criteria primarily because its four subpages together provide information on 100 different measures spread across a broader range of measure categories," the GAO suggested.
The report said that VA concurred with its recommendations.
When it comes to its website, "VA provided additional information about its plans to expand the quality measures reported on its Access and Quality webpage, including information on which additional measures it was planning to add to the webpage and the steps it planned to take to continue to enhance the presentation of this information for veterans. VA indicated that its target completion date for these activities was December 2017," the GAO stated.
VA "concurred in principle with our second recommendation for VA Central Office to conduct a systematic assessment of the completeness and accuracy of patient clinical information across VAMCs that is used to calculate the health care quality measures VA reports and address any deficiencies that affect the accuracy of these measures," according to the report.


A tithe is defined as a "tenth part". The tithe is "first fruit" of your increase. The principle behind your tithe being your first fruit is you are recognizing God as your source of supply; He is the cause of your prosperity. Therefore, the tithe is not any tenth of one's income; it is the first tenth of one's income. Leviticus 23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest.


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Is it ok to eat GMO foods? Scientists say 'yes.'
Human health-wise, they're perfectly fine.
By Charlotte Hu | Updated Jan 3, 2022 4:15 PM
Dive into the science of GMOs. Sasha Khalabuzar via deposit photos
PopSci is spending September relearning how to eat. As intuitive as our love of chowing down is, a lot stands between us and optimal eating. This month, we'll break down diet myths, unlock delicious kitchen hacks, and explore our most common misconceptions about our grub.
The food labels you see in grocery stores are getting a makeover. By January 2022, products that have been bioengineered, or have an ingredient in them that's been bioengineered, will require a disclosure telling consumers about the presence of GMOs, thanks to a mandate from Congress. You might already see this new label make its way onto select foods and brands starting this year.
The new labeling system might make people wonder, as they frequently have in the past—are GMOs safe?
Here's where the latest scientific consensus stands.
GMO food is GM-OK
Good news: The majority of food safety experts agree that genetically modified organisms, from plants to animals, are generally safe for human consumption.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found in a 2016 review of more than 1,000 studies that GMO crops don't pose a health risk to humans.
In a press lease, the committee announced that it "found no substantiated evidence of a difference in risks to human health between current commercially available genetically engineered (GE) crops and conventionally bred crops."
The World Health Organization, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the European Commission reached the same conclusion. The US FDA works closely with the EPA and USDA to evaluate the safety of new GMO crops and ingredients.
The WHO has also partnered with the Food and Agriculture Organization to develop a collection of food standards and best practices that provides a guideline for assessing any potential risks of new genetically modified crops or organisms.
[Related: Avoiding GMO food might be tougher than you think]
The major issues that consumers are worried about are the same ones that experts have been actively investigating for the past two decades, says Richard Goodman, a research professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. These issues include the "natural problems with food that would affect human safety, animal safety, allergy, toxicity."
Before an organism with a genetically modified trait can enter the market, researchers test it extensively over a few years. They verify that the DNA inserted—more on just what that is in a moment—works correctly and is stable, meaning that it doesn't jump around within the chromosome of the organism. Then, they evaluate proteins produced by the organism and check to see if they line up with their source genes or match the makeup of known allergens or toxins.
For some products, scientists also run what's known as a rat toxicity test in which a high dose of the protein produced as a result of the genetic insert is fed to a number of rats over a controlled time period to see if there are any impacts on their health. Additionally, researchers also conduct nutritional studies assessing the protein, carbohydrate, and fat levels of the genetically modified product, often in comparison to a similar product produced through conventional breeding.
So how does genetic modification, or bioengineering work?
The FDA formally defined a genetically modified organism as a plant, animal, or microbe that has had its genetic material, or DNA, specifically altered using technology to introduce a new trait. This also includes the transfer of a section of DNA from one organism to another. An example is when a gene from a soil bacterium (Bt) was spliced into corn DNA to create an insect-resistant corn.
Here's how organisms are typically genetically modified. In the standard method, a piece of DNA is inserted into cells, sometimes with a gene gun, and sometimes via a specialized bug called Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Now, researchers are experimenting with using CRISPR/Cas9, a system that uses RNA guides to target and cut out specific parts of the organism's genome. The DNA added in the process is embedded into the chromosome of the food that's being modified. That inserted DNA comes with tools that the organism can use to turn the simple gene code (which is in essence an instruction manual) into RNA, and finally, into a protein.
Researchers check to see that the protein doesn't look too similar to a number of toxic proteins that exist in nature like venoms, or ricin, which comes from unprocessed castor beans. They also check that the new proteins don't contain anything that would trigger an unwanted allergic reaction.
The scientists then closely monitor the modified cells to see how they grow. Eventually, individual transformed plants are selected for testing in the field. Goodman estimates that there are over a hundred different genetic modifications that have been approved by the regulatory bodies in the US in crops like rice, corn, soybeans, sugar beets, canola, and more.
However, there are some plants that are genetically edited that are exempt from USDA regulation. These include edits at levels too low to be detected, or knocking out or slightly tweaking a gene that is originally part of the plant's native genome. All crop developers need to apply for exemption with the USDA in those cases.
[Related: GMO Facts: 10 Common GMO Claims Debunked]
Modifying plants is somewhat different from modifying animals. For example, the GM Atlantic salmon uses a growth factor from another species of salmon, says Goodman. "It took more than 22 years to get approval for this to be used as food, and they looked at things like what are the proteins made from the different parts of the salmon."
Different flavors of GM
Goodman compares some GM products, like the viral-resistant papaya developed in Hawaii in the 90s, to the biomedical industry's use of gene editing to boost immunity or correct disease-related mutations in humans. "That has worked, and it's pretty accurate and effective," he says. "So there are similar things that people are trying to use on plants that do similar things."
Many experts argue that even though the first modern genetic modification techniques were introduced in the 1970s, it is not really any different than how humans have been traditionally breeding plants and animals. In fact, this method could be seen as a sped up and more precise version of that.
[Related: There's No Need To Fear Gene-Edited Food]
"Everything is genetically modified," says Goodman. Plus, foreign DNA in our body is nothing to fret about, he adds. For example: When you get infected with viruses or your intestine's bacterial organisms die and break down, foreign DNA can leach out, "and your immune system takes care of that," he says.
Some genetic modifications can make food last longer or taste better, but others can create nutritional benefits. An example of that is golden rice, which was produced by inserting two different plant genes that allowed the rice to make the precursor to vitamin A, beta carotene.
"People who eat mostly rice, especially in countries where they don't have much money or don't eat a lot of vegetables, can have vitamin A deficiency, which causes immune defects, [and] problems with vision," says Goodman. "If you try to supplement people who have vitamin A deficiency by giving them vitamin A, you could cause toxicity unless you really limit that. Beta carotene, if you eat too much of it, it goes out in your urine." In other words, golden rice is a better solution than stand-alone vitamins.
More significantly, Goodman says that some GMOs have reduced the amount of pesticides and herbicides put on plants. "Some of those chemical pesticides end up in ground water and so forth," he adds. "So, where are we better off?"
Correction September 17, 2021: The article previously misstated that certain foods from plants that are edited are exempt from FDA regulation. It is the USDA that grants certain exemptions for some edited plants. Foods from plants are regulated by the FDA regardless of how they are produced.
Charlotte Hu
Charlotte Hu is the Assistant Technology Editor at Popular Science. She covers the social internet, AI, privacy, security, human-machine interactions, the digital economy, and general tech news. She holds a Master's degree from Columbia Journalism School, and her work has previously appeared in GenomeWeb, Business Insider, and Discover Magazine. Contact the author here.
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Jaroslav Špillar (* 11. Oktober 1869 in Pilsen; † 20. November 1917 in der Irrenanstalt Dobřany) war ein tschechischer Maler.

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Jaroslav Špillar war der ältere Bruder des Malers Karel Špillar. Er besuchte 1885 die Kunstgewerbeschule in Prag und war Schüler von František Ženišek und Jakob Schikaneder. Von 1887 bis 1890 studierte er an der Akademie unter Pirner und Sequens. 1888 lernte er das Chodenland im Südwesten Böhmens mit seiner reichen Volkskultur kennen und siedelte sich 1891 hier in Postřekov an, später in Pec pod Čerchovem. Špillar machte zahlreiche Reisen nach Italien, Paris, Jassy in Rumänien, wo er 1893 an der Ausmalung einer Kirche beteiligt war, Bulgarien und mehrmals nach München. Seit 1904 zeigte sich bei ihm eine Geisteskrankheit, die ihn zunehmend am weiteren Schaffen hinderte. Er wurde im Familiengrab in Šťáhlavy beigesetzt.

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Jaroslav Špillar war als Maler zu seinen Lebzeiten erfolgreich. Er schuf hauptsächlich realistische Genrebilder, die die Volkskultur des Chodenlandes darstellen. Sie sind auch aus ethnographischer Sicht wertvoll, da sie zahlreiche Volksbräuche genau darstellen. In Domažlice befindet sich die Galerie Špillar, die Werke von ihm und seinem Bruder Karel zeigt.

 Die Greisin (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), Öl auf Leinwand, 70 × 45 cm
 Der Dudelsackpfeifer zu Gast (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), Öl auf Leinwand, 100 × 98 cm
 Das Altenteil (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), Öl auf Leinwand, 90 × 65 cm
 Missverständnis (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), Öl auf Leinwand
 Der Dorffotograf (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1891, Öl auf Leinwand, 73 × 100 cm
 In Postřekov (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1893, Öl auf Leinwand
 Chodische Hochzeit (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1893, Öl auf Leinwand, 102 × 168 cm
 Mitgefühl (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1894, Öl auf Leinwand, 100 × 75 cm
 Fronarbeit (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1897, Öl auf Leinwand, 111 × 182 cm
 Die verlassene Braut (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1898, Öl auf Leinwand, 115 × 85 cm
 Der Sohn des Künstlers (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1900, Öl auf Leinwand, 78 × 65 cm
 Der Dorfarzt beim kranken Knaben (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1901, Öl auf Leinwand, 76 × 96 cm
 Frau im Pelz (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1901, Öl auf Leinwand, 70 × 45 cm
 Fasching (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1901, Öl auf Leinwand, 159,5 × 200 cm
 Kartoffeln graben (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1902, Öl auf Leinwand, 114 × 120 cm
 Altenteil (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1904, Öl auf Leinwand, 116 × 100 cm
 Holz einbringen (Domažlice, Galerie Špillar), 1913, Öl auf Leinwand, 114 × 119 cm

Literatur
 František Xaver Bucha: Jaroslav Špillar. Studie života a díla (= Knihovna Baarovy společnosti. Sv. 7, ). Baarova společnost, Domažlice 1946.
 Jan Wenig: Maliř chodského lidu Jaroslav Špillar. Krajské nakladatelství, Plzeň 1960.

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