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Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 53-135.01 of the Liquor Control Act liquor licenses may be automatically renewed for one year from May 1, 2013 for the following license, to-wit:
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Monday, November 10, 2008
*Everyday Chatter
Reasons for hope: The recession is hitting the "yuppies in the East Village," where the price of an apartment is dropping. [NYT] & [NYT] via [EVG]
William Eggleston retrospective opened at the Whitney this weekend.
Enjoy the murals of Washington Irving High. [ENY]
The new F trains are coming. [Gothamist] Here we see a new F train as viewed from the interior of an old F train:
I, for one, will miss the cheerful citrusy interior decor:
17 comments:
- Unknown said...
I adore the F trains as they are now (even when late, and unable to sit down). I feel their orange seats and somewhat dim lighting match the mood I feel on that long trek to Coney Island.
- November 10, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Gen Y < Gen X
2000s < 1990s - November 10, 2008 at 12:59 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
mike, me too. and, ironically, their decor is very trendy right now: orange and chrome with faux woodgrain. but even being back in style won't save them.
- November 10, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Obama's NOT part of GenX. He was born in '61 at the tail end of the post-WWII Baby Boom generation that ran through at least '64. GenXers didn't start being born until '65 at the earliest.
-- Jon - November 10, 2008 at 1:28 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
re: Gen X. depends on the source. some put the beginning right at 1961. if that means we get obama, i'll take it.
- November 10, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Ironic, isn't it? The very people you hate, and blame for gentrification of your city, i.e the yunnies, are the ones that helped get Obama elected. Where are their thanks?
- November 10, 2008 at 2:48 PM
- Ken Mac said...
yo jeremiah, nim wah still looked closed when I was down there last week...
- November 10, 2008 at 3:36 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
thanks madman--what happened to old ken (of) mac?
- November 10, 2008 at 4:21 PM
I am GEN Y.
Gen X made NY much more exciting.
Gen Y has made NY much more PUSSIFIED. - November 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM
I respect the writing on these posts too much to have it disgraced by the idiocy of a debate of generational definitions. Articles about Gen X, Gen Y, the Millenials, Gen O, Post-Boomers, etc... just lazy hack bs, by pathetic writers who aren't clever enough to actually write about something with sophistication. Every article you read has a different definition of every generation. None of them have agreed upon cut off / beginning dates. You know why? Because it's all BS. I'm born in 1981. Pop quiz: what generation am I? You'll get fifty different answers if you ask various cultural critics, writers, demographers, sociologists, etc... Some people say Gen X ends with people born in 1979, some say it begins with people born in 1982, some say 1980. Funny, because I don't think I'm of a different generation from my friends who are two or three years older than me, and nor my friends who are 3 or 4 years older than me. I'm not even that much different from my nephew's who are 9 and 10 years younger than me. So what the f*ck generation am I? Is a generation every 20 years? 10 years? Is it four years in each direction of your age, so everyone that was in high school with you at some point is in YOUR generation? What about them? There's gonna be constant overlap? Maybe a generation is defined by a massive event that shakes and shapes public consciousness? But doesn't that affect everyone, not just people of a certain age demographic? 9/11 affected everybody, not just people who "came of age." And should we just call this an "era." Let's stop this nonsense which wastes everyone's brain cells and time.
- November 10, 2008 at 5:10 PM
to nycunnie--seems black people still have to clean up the "white man's"messes--
- November 10, 2008 at 6:39 PM
- Barbara L. Hanson said...
New York has always been a Democratic town. No yunnie help needed.
- November 10, 2008 at 6:49 PM
To knicksbasketballny -
I'm a self-hating Gen-Yer. My generation is unfortunately defined by vacuousness, vapidity, conspicuous consumption, lack of worldliness or awareness of that which exists around them, and myriad other rather odious and loathsome earmarks of a backwards and sick generation. That said, I have little fondness for my predecessors in Generation X, as well. You guys were laying the groundwork for the degenerate culture that exists today while we were still in diapers. You guys bestowed a generation of Patrick Batemans upon the world and kept the ball rolling through the nineties. New York didn't die on our watch, it died on yours. We're simply piling more dirt on the casket. All the detestable yunnies scurrying about today took their cues from the first truly privileged "me" generation - Generation X. You thirty and fortysomethings got us into this mess in the first place. If you want somebody to blame I suggest you look into a mirror. - November 11, 2008 at 3:18 AM
Hey BOB.
Reread what I typed again you idiot.
I am GEN Y too.
Now go back to Nebraska or whatever midwest state you came to NY from. - November 11, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Sure, Obama beats the alternative. But truly, JVNY, I am taken aback by your gushing over Obama. In the end he's just another centrist Democrat with signficant backing from Wall Street. Symbolism aside, in essence he will be on the national scale what arch-nemesis Bloomberg is on the municipal scale... just watch and see. After all Bloomberg was once a centrist Democrat himself! And frankly I'm quite surprised that no one on this blog has said as much.
- November 12, 2008 at 8:56 AM
knicksbasketballny -
I apologize for branding you a Gen-Xer. Still, I stand by my point - don't romanticize about a generation that had more to do with New York being in this situation than the one you bash.
I'll also have you know I was born in Mount Sinai Hospital and have lived in New York City all my life. Read any number of my comments on this blog and you'll know exactly how I feel about the invaders from Nebraska and all other parts unknown. - November 12, 2008 at 3:57 PM
- ConnectingTheDots said...
Obama is not a GenXer. As many influential experts and publications have repeatedly pointed out, Obama is part of Generation Jones, born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Xers. You may find this page interesting: it has, among other things, excerpts from publications like Newsweek and the New York Times, and videos with over 25 top pundits, all talking specifically about Obama's identity as a GenJoneser: http://www.generationjones.com/2008election.html
- November 19, 2008 at 1:18 PM


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The Troubles are over. So why is Northern Ireland still so unsettled?
| Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Dublin, Ireland
In 1998, after 29 years of bloody civil conflict, Northern Ireland was euphoric: Peace had finally been achieved. A political process, however difficult, was underway and the guns fell silent.
The guns have remained largely silent since. But street violence continues, particularly during the summer months of the so-called "marching season," when various groups, predominantly pro-British unionists, take to the streets of Northern Ireland to parade, sometimes resulting in violent clashes. This past summer was no exception, with several instances of rioting in North Belfast, and more feared due to a contentious unionist parade due on Saturday.
Despite a power-sharing accord between the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and republican party Sinn Féin, all sides involved in the recent disturbances feel aggrieved, leaving many in the North wondering what happened to promises of a "New Northern Ireland" and why are things still so unsettled.
Even among many who are glad that the Troubles have ended, blame is beginning to point toward the structure of the peace process itself, specifically how it attempted to defuse the conflict into a culture war. While the Troubles' zero-sum political conflict – between the competing ideas of a united Ireland and a United Kingdom – has ended, what remains is a split between nationalist and unionist, Irish and British, where the divide isn't healed, but rather is reinforced annually.
"There is a cultural space for rioting in the Northern Ireland calendar," says Paddy Hoey, a former journalist who is completing his PhD thesis in the literature of dissident Irish republicanism at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies. He says that the unrest in interface areas – places where republican and loyalist communities abut – is a "result of the vacuum of the peace process."
While the political battle has left the streets and entered the halls of government in Northern Ireland, the Troubles' one-time fighters still remain in control of their districts as "community representatives," Mr. Hoey says. That leaves them in position to wage the cultural war through annual parades and protests, but without being held to account if the events devolve into riots.
"It's a manifestation of social control by people who were able to act with tacit impunity," he says.
Marches and riots
This summer has been no exception to the cycle of cultural conflict. Marches by the Orange Order and Royal Black Institution, both Protestant fraternal organizations, erupted into violence on July 12 and Aug. 25 when a marching band named Young Conway Volunteers marched outside St. Patrick's Catholic church in Donegall Street.
On July 12, the band stopped outside the church and played an anti-Catholic tune named "The Famine Song," which spurred reactive protests that turned violent later that night in the republican Ardoyne district.
The Parades Commission, the statutory body which sanctions marches, banned Young Conway Volunteers from the Aug. 25 march, but the group flouted the ban, spurring a further series of disturbances by republican protesters.
Loyalists have rioted as well. Only yards away from Donegall Street, a republican march commemorating 18th century republican Henry Joy McCracken resulted in three consecutive nights of violence from Sept. 3 to 5, with loyalists attacking police with stones, bricks, and fireworks in objection to the march. Police fired plastic bullets in response.
Saturday will see another contentious march, this time by pro-British unionists commemorating the 1912 signing of the Ulster Covenant that swore to oppose Irish Home Rule, eventually leading to the formation of the 100,000 strong Ulster Volunteers armed group. The Orange Order estimates the parade will involve 25,000 to 30,000 marchers. The Parades Commission this week ordered that no loyalist supporters accompany the parade as it passes St. Patrick's church, and that a planned nationalist protest at the church be limited to no more than 150 people.
'Almost street theater'
But many observers of the violence contend that it is not the result of spontaneous outrage, but rather is deliberate, almost formalized cultural chest-thumping.
Pauline Hadaway, who runs the Belfast Exposed photographic gallery in Donegall Street less than a mile from the rioting, says the September confrontation was easy to ignore and appeared staged.
"We work down the bottom of the street from this flashpoint and you'd not notice it. It's a real set-piece conflict, almost like a piece of street theater."
Ms. Hadaway, who is originally from England and holds political and social discussions in the gallery, says if similar outbursts of street fighting had occurred in parts of Britain, it would be treated as a simple, if extreme, matter of law and order – not as signs of cultural conflict. She says the now annual Belfast disturbances cannot be compared to the widespread rioting in England last year.
"Effectively you have to go out of your way to be offended. It's a drama without an audience and it's so predictable. It has none of the shock value of the London and Manchester riots last year," she says.
But North Belfast resident and writer Daniel Jewesbury argues that some will nonetheless make sure to be offended. "One thing the Orange Order said that is true is that there are some groups who are dedicated to taking offense, but on the the other hand there are some who are dedicated to giving it," he says.
He also questions the idea that the rioting genuinely represents widespread feeling on the ground – though he acknowledges that it is a popular conception among the rioters.
"There's still a sense that, despite everyone knowing it's staged, both sides expect community support" from their own cultural group, as the protesters feel they are acting for their respective communities, Mr. Jewesbury says. "This is the direct result of the peace process. It's the way this strange architecture of peace is constructed."
Malachi O'Doherty, one of Northern Ireland's best-known authors, fears a potential return to widespread violence, particularly if a republican is killed during a riot, something that could bolster support for dissident republicans opposed to power-sharing.
"The Troubles had gone on for far, far too long. I think even Sinn Féin and the IRA saw that. Are the ingredients there that could bring it back on the same scale as before? I very much doubt it. But are the ingredients there to lead to more killings, including of innocent people? I think so."
And Mr. O'Doherty echoes the sentiment that the rioting is orchestrated, rather than spontaneous. "The fact that the rioting switched off as soon as the talks started shows it's being managed by somebody. There are two solutions to that: find out who that person is and find out what their price is, or find out who that person is and put them in jail for a long time."
O'Doherty notes the escalation of tension, if not necessarily the violence itself, may have a tactical basis.
"The DUP certainly regards it as a culture war: conflict by other means. I don't know who first viewed it this way, but maybe it [explains] the fact that otherwise they [the DUP and Sinn Féin] are so close to each other," noting how the parties work together in government despite representing distinct electorates locked into a seemingly permanent face-off.


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Midem UpdatedSo when the going gets weird, the weird get ad-funded. Even in the short, strange history of digital music, they don't come weirder than Qtrax, a music service that launched here at Midem in Cannes today. It's a marriage of two desperate industries – the music business, and the ad-supported web startup. To steal a phrase from Sun's Scott McNealy, it's like watching two garbage trucks colliding.
So how weird is this?
Qtrax delivers an unlimited supply of free music to the web surfer, for them to keep, by scraping the Gnutella P2P network, sticking ads on the front end, filtering out the bogus files (that the IFPI and RIAA have put on the P2P networks in such abundance over the years), and wrapping the song files in DRM.
If that isn't surreal enough, the company pushed a bewildered looking James Blunt on stage with a broom to say how stealing from the sweat shop was wrong. And that he didn't really know much about what was going on – but he'd like to.
Qtrax is staffed by refugees from SpiralFrog, the clueless ad-supported web startup that was unveiled in a blaze of publicity but never quite launched properly – yet still managed to fork over $2m to Universal Music, the world's biggest record company, before it had made a single transaction. This is their latest suicidal tilt at the market.
If you're going to fail, I guess, then fail hard and fast.
Qtrax updates its massive Midem poster. Perhaps it needs to work on signing some record companies.
The company has pinched what it could from open source land. The fat client is a custom version of Firefox, with a fork of the Songbird music player layered on top. Normally software developers could expect a decent license fee from a $30m start-up for use of their work - but in the new Tim 2.0'Reilly "freetard" model, the Firefox and Songbird developers don't get a cent for their labour - merely the satisfaction that they're "building a platform".
The company also deploys MusicIP's filtering software to weed out noise (such as the junk tracks that contain pops and clicks) as well as unlicensed material such as The Beatles catalog.
Qtrax has plastered Cannes with saturation advertising. And it's won glowing plaudits from the visiting mainstream press.
The Times is enthusiastic: "After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs," it writes. A credulous Wired report repeated the company's claim that the service offered 25m songs, whereas that's the theoretical size of the publishing catalog Qtrax has licensed. If there are only five songs on the Gnutella network that get past Qtrax filtering at any one time – then five songs is all you can get.
Reg readers will be able to spot the flaws in the plan, summarized for us by Dan Cryan of research firm Screen Digest:
"Free on its own is not enough," he told us. "It's an ad-funded model built around download an application, and that's a barrier to entry in itself."
The DRM ensures that music fans won't be able to take the music to go: it's tied to the host computer and the DRM collects play information to be beamed back to the mothership. The reporting isn't a deal breaker, but the incompatibility may well be. Qtrax said it's working on cracking Apple's FairPlay to allow iPod users to take the music and go.
Anyone who'd had to build an ad-supported business knows the pitfalls - if you don't have massive scale, you're competing with "a billion unwanted voices in real-time", as one reader memorably described Web 2.0. Jupiter's Mark Mulligan estimates that 100 clickthroughs are needed to generate rights holders enough to compensate them for the equivalent of one legal download through iTunes.
With a recession coming and bound to hit new entrants the hardest, we would advise Qtrax to burn through their VC money as fast as they possibly can. ®
At its press conference, Qtrax claimed to have licenses with all four major record labels: Universal, Warner, Sony and EMI. Except they don't. Universal, Warner and EMI say no deals are in place, while an unconfirmed rumour we've heard says the Sony deal doesn't cover a download service. We can't confirm the figure for VC investment in Qtrax, so we've cut that from the original version of this story.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A labor group Apple Inc. joined to assess working conditions at three manufacturing plants in China, where its products are made, says conditions are improving. But employees are still working more hours than the country's legal limit.
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If you're so inclined to take a stroll through Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo and you happen to find yourself by Mirror Lake, look around at the tombstones. If you're lucky (it ought to be easy to find, it's the only one with the huge flagpole), you'll find one that reads:
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On February 25, 1841, George Hinson's wife gave birth to a baby girl. The parents named her Sara. Sara Hinson would go through the Buffalo School System before being sent to finishing school. Upon completion of her education, she began teaching at Buffalo PS 13 before being moved to School #4. In 1864, as the Civil War was ending, Hinson was 23 and she transferred to School #31, where she taught the fourth grade for thirty years before spending the next twenty as principal.
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Lots of people reject both Matrix sequels, but do they have a good solid reason?
Personally, I watched all three with the same level of wonder and interest. I listened carefully and pieced together the fictional universe as details emerged. Everything seems to fit; There's nothing I can put my finger on that is contradictory.
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With Scid you can maintain a database of chess games, search games by
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A look at the best tweets from the world of UFC. Follow @ufc, the list of official UFC accounts, the list of UFC fighters and the list of Strikeforce fighters to keep up with these guys and gals.
Birthday Brawlers
As long as I don't get one of these birthday cakes, I'll be good! This sh*t is funny! http://bit.ly/U6RWH1 -Josh Koscheck
Thank you for the birthday wishes I had a great night. Back to the gym now I got work to do! -Costas Philippou
Save The Fabled Unicorns?
God I wish Michael Bisping would STFU. -Jason High
After the Gym, the DMV is the Best Place to Find Fighters
I hate going to the DMV -Chris Camozzi
KenFlo is the DMV of Twitter
I am currently reviewing applications for following people on twitter. At present time the the list is at 145,468. I'll get back to u guys. -Kenny Florian
No Fighter Wants to Run Out of Gas
Picked up @VinceMurdock from airport and they lost his bags. Then I ran out of gas on way home. Sorry budI'm a jackass -John Cofer
Here i come to save the day! @coferpottery @VinceMurdock stay in the Car! Outta gas. http://instagr.am/p/SpcQH6M4l2/ -Urijah Faber
Made em suffer thru a quick photo shoot. http://instagr.am/p/SpdaN3s4mU/ -Urijah Faber
Sorry, Science, Feathers Ain't Badass!
the discovery that dinosaurs were covered in feathers have made them not cool anymore !!! -Philip de Fries
@phildefriesmma wtf is this!?what r your sources -Joey Beltran
@mexicutioner760 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/lost-worlds/2012/oct/25/dinosaurs-fossils … :( -Philip de Fries
@phildefriesmma my mind is officially blown! I'm going to bed before something else goes wrong! -Joey Beltran
Watching a HS wrestling match! I remember when that was me lol -Miesha Tate
From youth to old man http://instagr.am/p/Sowds1lrVr/ -Derek Brunson
Awesome Impressions
I got 99 problems but a baby ain't one.. http://twitpic.com/bhlkf8 -Jake Ellenberger
I asked Jonah to show me his best @nickdiaz209 impression & he nailed it. pic.twitter.com/vD8xdmLw -Matt Mitrione
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@ikevallieflagg: No I like to party! We both cant like to party! -Cub Swanson
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It's Friday. Watch me and @joeyboomboom fight it out tonight on @TUFonFX -Jon Manley
#Tarpsoff Time -- @mmamike, @MikeyRicci, @JonManleyMMA, and I fighting in the quarterfinals tonight @TUFonFX -Joey Rivera
if i had a dollar for every cheesy MMA clothing companies thats come and gone...make stuff someone would actually wear. -Bristol Marunde
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Saturday 13 October 2012
Lord of the Fries - veg*n fast food
It is the Flinders Street Station LoTF that we have visited most frequently. Every now and again we need food fast at the end of a busy day. It soothes the cranky tired little girl. The LoTF chips are proper golden, freshly fried, hot, home style chips. I've had crispier but these taste honest (if such a word can be applied to a chip). Not the thin anaemic shoestring fries that some other fast food outlets have made popular.
The chips come with all sorts of sauces. I don't like sauce on my chips so I haven't tried them. There is a whole range of food other than chips. It is all vegetarian with lots of vegan and gluten free options. Burgers, hot dogs, onion rings etc. The Unfortunately they did sausage rolls at Flinders Street Station at one stage but when I returned to try them, they had stopped making them.
I was interested when I heard that there was a new Lord of the Fries cafe on Brunswick Street. The decor is a diner-style that is in line with the food they sell. Sylvia and I went there a few weeks back when we had other errands in the area.
Sylvia got chips and a bottle of pink fizzy guava drink. I had to ask for a cup for her and was given a cardboard chip cup. It was meant to make it easier for her to drink the stuff. She still managed to spill sticky pink drink over the table, the seat and the floor. Then she dropped tomato sauce covered chips in the window. I know they are kid-friendly but I can't help but think they must have breathed a sigh of relief when we left.
I ordered the mini Toronto Hot Dog. The menu said it came with veg bacon rashers, cheese, onion, relish, ketchup and mustard. Sounded good. I asked for vegan cheese. It was more expensive but at least it was melty and tasty. I think there may have been some onion but not a large tangle of fried onion that I expected. I am sure there was no bacon. I might have asked if I hadn't already had an uncomfortable chat about vegan cheese (where I didn't like to say that I wasn't vegan) and Sylvia hadn't spilled too much about her. So it seemed that the hot dog was really mostly about sauces and that is just not my thing, even when the relish is green.
Despite the hot dog not being quite right, I would love to go back and try it again. I really want to sample the veg bacon. Michael enjoyed the bacon on his hot dog so next time I will be sure to ask about it. I love the chips and the service was friendly. We will definitely be back!
Lord of The Fries
383 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne CBD
And other locations in Melbourne
This post is part of Vegan Month of Food October 2012. Go to my Vegan MoFo list for more of my Vegan MoFo posts.
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Even though the hot dog was a disappointment, it's nice you have a vegan option like that in melbourne. I really wish we could get a Lord of the Fries in the States. I recently visited melbourne and loved the Big Mark and enjoyed the chips with vegan mayo.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry the hot dog was a disappointment...I think their non-chip products would be what appeals to me most so I'm making a mental note not to ever try the hot dog (if I ever get to try anything!). I did smile at the idea of tomato sauce covered chips in the window :)
ReplyDeleteI love Lord of the Fries - I wish they'd open in Sydney. You should try them with the gravy & cheese topping (SO GOOD)! I tried the "chicken" nuggets last visit to Melbourne - good stuff.
ReplyDeleteI think the hotdogs are disappointing. My advice is to stick to the burgers.
For what it's worth, the sausage rolls were the La Panella sausage rolls, which I also find a bit strange.I agree with Danni, the burgers are the best. I think they will give you a container of sauce for the chips if you prefer them not to be slathered with it. I usually prefer crispy chips but I don't mind having them with sauce at LOTF.
ReplyDeleteShame about the hot dog - however, totally fantastic name for the shop and awesome looking fries.
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By The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER - A critically ill false killer whale calf rescued off a beach on the west coast of Vancouver Island has overcome one of its most life-threatening challenges.
Staff at the Vancouver Aquarium say the little creature is now nursing from a bottle as it receives round-the-clock care at the aquarium's Marine Mammal Rescue Centre on Vancouver's waterfront.
The bottle was designed by University of British Columbia PhD student Amelia MacRae, who did research for her master's degree with the aquarium, studying diet and feeding levels of marine mammals.
Clint Wright, the aquarium's senior vice-president, used his experience with cetaceans to coax the male calf to nurse.
The whale was estimated at barely six weeks old when it was found near Tofino on July 10, and still requires some feeding by tube.
Veterinarians hope it will continue to improve its bottle-feeding techniques so the tube feeding can be stopped.
They say the calf is also slowly building its strength, buoyancy and co-ordination but remains in a flotation sling in a shallow pool, with staff constantly walking it in circles through the water.
False killer whales are actually members of the dolphin family and are rarely seen in B.C.'s coastal waters, preferring the open ocean off the West Coast.
The calf was near death when it was found, with respiratory problems, lacerations and wounds from being tossed onto the sand and lying on the beach for several hours.


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DABLON, CLAUDE, priest, Jesuit, missionary, superior-general of the Jesuit missions in New France, geographer; b. 21 June 1619 (al. February 1618) at Dieppe (Normandy); d. 1697 at Quebec.
Father Dablon lived in New France from 1655 until his death. As his apostolate took him from Lake Nekouba (Nikabau) to Lake Ontario and Lake Superior, his zeal for the conversion of the Indians was heightened by a special interest in the geography of America, the interior regions of which were still unknown to European scholars. But Father Dablon's importance lies above all in the fact that he was the superior-general of the Jesuit missions in New France.
When Father Dablon reached Quebec, late in the summer of 1655, Father François Le Mercer, the superior, sent him immediately with Father Chaumonot to the south of Lake Ontario, to work among the Onondaga nation of the Iroquois; the Onondagas had been requesting missionaries for two years, and had been promised them by Father Simon Le Moyne. Father Dablon's account of his journey contains a fairly precise description of the St. Lawrence River, from Montreal to Lake Ontario. A second trip in 1656, the object of which was to found Sainte-Marie-de-Ganentaa, allowed him to add certain details about the natural resources of the country and the customs of the inhabitants. After the failure of this mission, Father Dablon returned to Quebec, where for ten years he was to hold various offices: minister, bursar, class prefect, director of the Grande Congrégation, teacher of humanities and rhetoric.
In 1661, with Father Gabriel Druillettes and five Frenchmen, he proceeded up the Saguenay as far as Chicoutimi, went to Lac Saint-Jean, and undertook an exploratory expedition with the object of determining whether the northern sea was linked in some manner to the western sea and the southern one. Having got to Nekouba the group had reached the level of the watershed, and dread of the Iroquois struck terror into the Montagnais who were acting as guides for the French.
In 1669 Father Dablon was named superior of the western missions; their centre was Sault Ste. Marie. A journey around Lake Superior with Father Allouez supplied information for a map which for the period was admirable in its exactness, and which American geographers have called Carte des Jésuites. It depicts Lake Superior and the beginning of lakes Huron and Michigan.
His appointment as superior of the Jesuit missions in New France brought Father Dablon back to Quebec in l671. He served in this capacity for two terms: 1671–80 and l686–93. Being interested in the exploration of the country, he recorded in the Relations the accounts of the journeys of Fathers Marquette and Albanel to the Mississippi and to Lac Saint-Jean.
Father Dablon was obliged to take a stand on certain contentious matters: the trade in spirits and the acculturation of the Indians. He managed to do so tactfully according to all contemporary testimony, including that of M. Louis Tronson, the superior-general of the Sulpicians in Paris.
From 1655 to 1672 Father Dablon wrote several chapters of the Relations; the account of the journey to the northern sea (Hudson Bay) was published in 1662. The Relation of 1672, the last to be published in the 17th century, and the annual reports from 1673 to 1679, which remained unpublished for nearly two centuries, are also his work.
ACSM, MSS 402, Notice biographique du P. Claude Dablon (1868), par Félix Martin. ASQ, MSS, 43, "Étude sur les Relations des Jésuites," par Félix Martin. JR (Thwaites). JJ (Laverdière et Casgrain). Delanglez, Jolliet. Marie de Saint-Jean-d'Ars, "A la recherche de la mer du Nord, 1661," RHAF, VIII (1954–55), 220–35. Rochemonteix, Les Jésuites et la Nouvelle-France au XVIIe siècle, II, 143–49, 361–75, et passim; III, 4, et passim.
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Denis (aka Piggy) was a founding member of the band and has appeared in all of Voivod's albums. He wrote most of the bands music. Denis was the main architect behind VOIVOD's awesome sound and music. Denis was inspired by guitarists such as Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Steve Howe, Robert Fripp and Alex Lifeson. Denis passed away on August 26, 2005 from colon cancer.


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The Comité français pour la sauvegarde de Venise often sponsors the restoration of Venetian monuments that have a French connection.
This is the case of the Cappella Clary in the Church of San Trovaso, the burial place of a French princess.
The most important work in the chapel is the beautiful fifteenth-century relief carving of three Greek marble panels on the front of the altar, but the project also provided for cleaning and consolidating the carved wooden stalls and uncovering the tempera paintings on the vaulting which had been whitewashed out following a fire in the last century.
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Temperature Scales
Temperature is the measurement of how hot or cold something is and changes in temperature occur when there is an exchange of energy between substances. Temperature generally is measured in one of three different scales: Fahrenheit (°F), Celsius (°C), and kelvin (K). Fahrenheit is a non-metric temperature scale used almost exclusively in the United States. Celsius is a metric temperature scale use by most other countries and some scientists. It was devised by dividing the freezing and boiling point of water into 100 equal parts. A lesser known metric temperature scale is kelvin which is used by some scientists, like astronomers, when making calculations because it has no negative values. The kelvin scale begins at absolute zero which is a hypothetical temperature were there a complete absence of heat energy.
On this dashboard temperature is shown in Celsius. Refer to the following chart to see how these temperature scales compare.
Temperature | Kelvin (K) | Celsius (°C) | Fahrenheit (°F) |
Boiling point of water | 373.15 | 100 | 212 |
Average human body temperature | 310.15 | 37 | 98.6 |
Average spring temperature in North Florida | 294.26 | 21.11 | 70 |
Melting point of ice/Freezing point of water | 273.15 | 0 | 32 |
Absolute zero | 0 | -273.15 | -459.67 |
Factors Affecting Water Temperature
There are several factors that can affect water temperature. They include the surface area of the water body, turbulence of the water, amount of solar radiation, air turbulence, and the temperature difference between water and its surroundings. For groundwater emerging from the springs, other factors such as how long the water has been underground, and the temperature of the rock that the water moves through determines the temperature of the water. In Florida, spring-water temperatures range from 19°C to 36°C (66°F to 97°F), with the average temperature in North Florida around 21°C (70°F).
Usually the temperature of groundwater emerging from any particular spring remains constant regardless of the air temperature. Temperature affects the type and rate of chemical reactions and microbial activity occurring in the water. Since temperature has this affect, several parameters measured by scientists use equations to correct for temperature in order to more easily compare measurements over time and at different locations. Also many plants and animals can only survive in specific temperature ranges, and springs provide a relatively stable environment for these organisms. Springs also provide a refuge of relatively warmer water in the cold winter months for animals such as Manatees, and a wonderful place to cool off in the hot summer months for all of us humans.


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Although it is often said that the academy moves slowly, very slowly, I never really thought about myself as a \"slow mover\" with regard to pedagogy in the classroom. But when the idea of using social media (e.g., Facebook) as part of my face-to-face classes was suggested to me about two years ago, I found myself in the slow lane.
I remember thinking that a professor like me, with 24 years of experience, was not going to use social media just to impress my students. As I talked to colleagues about the social media possibility, I grew more determined to hold the line against these newfangled \"teaching tools\" and to continue to teach my classes, especially the largest one (Introduction to Psychology, with 500 students, mostly freshmen), as I had done in the past.
Luckily, about a year ago I saw the proverbial light. It was then that I had a frank conversation with a colleague about the value of using Facebook (Fb) in my classes. I approached her partly because I knew that she was an avid Fb user, but also because I was looking to do more with the hundreds of students I teach in Introduction to Psychology. After all the years of teaching these "mega-sections" and with the tough financial situation of my state university it was clear that this type of class was not going away. I had success with my classes over the years, but I had become increasingly dismayed by the lack of meaningful interpersonal communication I had with my students, and that the students themselves did not get to know each other very well.
Although it sounds trite, I was hoping to include something that would add a greater sense of community to the class, something that everyone in the class could use to better connect to one another. I was not looking to use Facebook in a \"formal\" sense, as a platform to present specific course content. Instead, my goal was to use Fb in an \"informal\" manner, encouraging each member of the class to see him or herself as a part of the whole. Interaction was encouraged 24/7, and it was made clear that the Fb group page was everyone's responsibility — I was not to be the only person writing posts and comments.
Like all experiments, I had no idea if things would work. I knew the data about how many college students were on Fb, but would students be willing to spend some of their valuable Fb time communicating within a Fb group for a college course? Also, would I be willing to become an avid Fb user, following the flow of communication several times a day? It did not take long to learn that the answers to these questions was "Yes," and that I had reached my goal of facilitating a sense of community. Although joining the Fb group for the course was not required, a little over 80 percent of the class became members of the group.
Moreover, the students essentially ran the group. Although I wrote posts and comments, students wrote over 90 percent of the posts and over 80 percent of the comments. These included everything from asking for notes, getting clarification on points made in lecture, posting videos and images that pertained to class material, forming study groups, noting relevant events on campus, and congratulating class members on specific accomplishments. Sometimes these posts were made during class, right after I discussed something. I thought that this behavior would bother me, but it simply added to the value of the group and reinforced the spontaneity of interaction.
The post that really convinced me of the power of Fb for my large class was when a student offered his classmates the link for the flashcards he had made for an exam (others did the same after this initial post). When he posted the link to these flashcards, he stated that he really saw no need to keep the flashcards to himself. I was overwhelmed by this offer because it showed the power of Fb to bring the class together as a group, and that the size of the class was not going to be an obstacle to working together.
The success of Fb described above, as well as survey data I collected showing positive reactions to the Fb group, will lead to my continued use of this technology. I always had the feeling that students wanted to communicate with others in my large class, but there was simply not a clear path to this goal. Students may have interacted with a chosen few among the hundreds enrolled, but contact between most students (and me) was typically limited or nonexistent.
I believe that Fb changes the rule of communication in this class. It facilitates interaction within the large class and allows each student to feel part of the whole. This technology may even help retain students, especially those who leave the university because they "feel like a number" in such classes. For those who say that Fb cuts down on face-to-face communication between students and faculty I would argue that with this many students and the demands for research and service there is almost no time for such contact.
Facebook gave me something I had been lacking all these years, a direct conduit to my students even when we were not together in class. I enjoyed this feeling of being united with my students. Also, for the first time with my large class, I had a similar sense of community as I have enjoyed when teaching a small class.
Although it is unclear at this time whether the use of Fb is linked to improved student performance, I hope others will see the value of using Fb as described above. It is definitely not for everyone — you must be committed (especially time-wise) to using it. But knowing that you and your hundreds of students are finally seeing eye-to-eye is worth the effort!
Jonathan Golding is a professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky.


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(2006). Acuracy Study of a MRI-guided Robotic System for Prostate Needle Placement.
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(2012). Augmented reality visualisation using an image overlay system for MR-guided interventions: technical performance of spine injection procedures in human cadavers at 1.5 Tesla.
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Rumors began to swirl in recent days that Detroit's Woodward light rail project was on the chopping block because of the hopeless fever swamp that is the city's financial situation.
Turns out, the scuttlebutt was true. It appears that federal funding and support will be shifted from the nine-mile, 19-stop rail line (between downtown and Eight Mile Road) to a plan for a system of buses that would operate in dedicated lanes.
Work on the rail project continued up until the 11th hour. As late as Monday, the Detroit City Council was interviewing candidates for its two seats on a seven-member oversight authority that would have acted as the construction manager for the rail line.
It emerged Tuesday night that Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, Gov. Rick Snyder and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood had reached some type of accord that kills the rail line in favor of buses -- a decision clearly linked directly to the city's looming takeover by a Snyder-appointed emergency financial manager.
Both Washington and the local private investment consortium that was ponying up $100 million of the plan's $528 million price tag had been critical of Detroit's plan to fund the system's capital cost via a Rube Goldberg-like concoction of bonds and grants.
Some of that money was to be siphoned from the city's already critically ailing bus service -- setting off alarm bells. There also was no real plan for operational funding.
It strained logic to imagine that the city could realistically turn to the bond market to finance the project while also facing take-over by a Snyder-appointed emergency financial manager and likely Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
After all, Detroit's finances are a nightmare: The city expects to run out of cash by April. By the end of the fiscal year in June 2012, the shortfall is estimated to be $45 million. The city has an accumulated deficit of about $180 million in its $1.2 billion general fund.
Other warning signs were there for all to see. There never was harmony among the project's stakeholders.
The private consortium that originally proposed a rail line for Woodward, M1 Rail, bickered with the city over the proposed alignment and layout of the project. Members of M1 preferred more of a curbside running system rather than the primarily median-running system developed by DDOT's hired designers.
M1 also was skeptical of the city's ability to manage and fund the line, and there were personality issues with the city's project manager, former DDOT chief and city CFO Norm White.
The grumbling resonated with Bing. He jettisoned former DDOT chief and city CFO Norm White as head of the rail project, and shifted it to the quasi-public Detroit Economic Growth Corp. (with city council blessing).
Bing had to listen because M1's major individual donors are deep-pocketed, powerful Detroit advocates with downtown business commitments: Penske Corp. founder Roger Penske, who is chairman of the project; Peter Karmanos Jr., founder of Detroit-based Compuware Corp.; Mike Ilitch, owner of the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings and co-founder of Little Caesar Enterprises Inc.; and Quicken Loans/Rock Financial founder Dan Gilbert, the project's co-chairman.
They have committed $3 million each for the display advertising rights to a station along the route. Henry Ford Hospital and Wayne State University also have committed $3 million each for a station.
About $20 million of M1's commitment is from the U.S. Department of Treasury's New Market Tax Credit program, which annually awards credits against federal income taxes for qualified organizations that invest in low-income communities.
The Troy-based Kresge Foundation has pledged $35 million toward the rail effort as part of M1 and actually has paid out about $14 million of that — and also publicly voiced displeasure with the city's handling of the project.
That's a lot of major names, and without M1's money, the rail line was dead.
Turns out, it's dead anyway.
A major general criticism of the project was that it stopped at Eight Mile and didn't run into the suburbs. The city said it couldn't pay for a line beyond its political limits, and the suburbs weren't offering up cash to extend it. Without making it easy for suburbanites to get to and from the railhead -- or have it end at a populated area -- many questioned whether enough people would regularly ride the line to justify its cost.
(For a detailed look at some of the project's key design and route elements, click here)
There's no public accounting yet of how much the city has spent on the Woodward project. San Francisco-based engineering firm URS Corp. was hired by DDOT to do the project's preliminary engineering and design. The city and its contractors leased space on the Cadillac Tower's 40th floor, and expected to take over the 39th, for the project design and engineering teams.
New York City-based engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff was hired to manage the environmental impact study for the city.


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Spicy Jalapeno Bacon and Cheese Oysters
Yields 6 servings
- 36 oysters, shucked, on the half shell
- rock salt
- 12 ounces mozzarella cheese, grated
- ½ cup cooked bacon, crumbled
- 4 jalapeno peppers, chopped
Arrange oysters on rock salt in a baking dish. Top each oyster with ½ teaspoon of the cheese, crumbled bacon and chopped jalapeno to taste. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes or until edges of oysters begin to curl.
Nutritional Value Per Serving
- Calories 248, Calories From Fat 110, Total Fat 12g; Saturated Fat 12g; Trans Fatty Acid 0, Cholesterol 50mg, Total Carbohydrates 7g, Protein 27g, Omega 3 Fatty Acid 0.46g
*Recipe and image courtesy of Chef Justin Timineri and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
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Small World has been described as a re-implementation of Vinci, but I've heard that there are some non-trivial differences. How do these two games differ in terms of rules/mechanics and feel of play? (I'm not concerned with the change from Europe to a fantasy map unless it affects play.)
I'm familiar with Vinci but have never played Small World.


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A few weeks ago I made it over to the SFMOMA to check out the Francesca Woodman exhibit...WOW. Is all I have to say. There are over 150 photographs in the exhibition and I was just blown away. I didn't expect to see so much work by someone who died way too soon.
Overall the entire exhibit was ethereal and so inspiring — but was also sad. Knowing that Woodman had killed herself at the age of 22; it was hard to not feel that vibe through out the exhibit. Regardless though, it was fascinating to be in the presence of such beauty. Her work transcends time for sure.
Francesca Woodman runs through February 20, 2012.
There were so many gorgeous, stirring images but I think the above is my favorite. Titled aptly; I Could No Longer Play. I Could Not Play By Instinct.
I took a lot of these images with my iphone, so sadly my hand is mirrored in a few. But I still wanted to share.
These two images were taken from a photobook of Woodman's called: Potrait of a Reputation. It was stunning and tied with a red, ragged ribbon.
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S&H Recital Review
BEETHOVEN Sonata Op.90 BRAHMS Sonata
Op.5 Ashley Wass (piano) The BBC Radio 3 Lunch Time
Concert, Wigmore Hall, 22 January 2001
Playing without music, Ashley Wass showed that he has developed into a mature, thoughtful 'musicians' pianist'. He judged the Wigmore Hall acoustics perfectly in his dynamic range, pedalling clarity and beautiful tone quality. Wass gave an impression that having assimilated the scores completely, he was thinking and feeling these two sonatas whilst performing them. It made for a fulfilling hour's music, with a palpable silence from his listeners in the hall contributing to what will have been a memorable broadcast at home, as balanced from the BBC's five microphones.
The E minor sonata of Beethoven (1814) is one of those smaller, concentrated middle period works (this one in two contrasted movements) which are more often encountered in complete cycles than chosen on their own. Its first movement requires meaningful juxtapositions of extreme contrasts; the second a relaxed melodic rondo which is Schubertian in feeling, both perfectly realised here.
That was a perfect preparation for tackling the Everest of the young Brahms' huge five movement F minor sonata of 1853, his largest solo keyboard composition. The Allegro maestoso took us straight into a world of high drama, the following song like slow movement a perfect foil, evoking sensitive phasing from Wass. Calum MacDonald provided the full analysis in the free leaflet; he drew our attention to 'thunderous octave writing' in the central scherzo, but Ashley Wass appeared to take a different view, perhaps taking a long view and wanting to allow some respite in the sonata's centre. He emphasised the scherzo's dance quality with a light touch and an almost Viennese waltz rhythmic lift, with fleet figuration nearer to a Mendelssohn scherzo. This prepared us better, perhaps, for the extraordinary funeral march, in which MacDonald compared Brahms' skill in transferring orchestral sonority to the keyboard with that of Alkan. (This made me ponder whether anyone had attempted to orchestrate this great sonata, as Schoenberg had done for one of the piano quartets, with rather quaint results?)
Afterwards we were whirled into the journey from dark to light of the finale, negotiated with confidence and racing with aplomb to an uplifting conclusion. Even those of us who had travelled far to the Wigmore Hall departed without any feeling that an hour of music had been short measure.
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Ashley Wass was the first British winner of the triennial World Piano Competition (London 1997) and he has chosen Cesar Franck's piano music for his debut CD. The early Églogue Op 3 and Caprice Op 5 (both are rarely played pieces from 1843) date from his period as a virtuoso pianist, which was however not greatly successful. From 1870, he devoted himself to composition and returned to writing for the piano in his last years. Here we have his major works for the piano from the 1880s, both of which reflect his career as an organist in their texture and general style. The Prélude, Chorale & Fugue and Prélude, Aria & Finale are important works, which maintain a tenuous place in the repertoire, though they are heard less often nowadays.
Wass gives fluent accounts of both, and his choice is auspicious in its avoidance of more popular and over-recorded music. His playing is fluent and preserves a beautiful tone, reinforcing my good impression upon hearing him live at a recital in the prestigious Wallace Collection recital series. He shows himself here as a serious minded pianist, who has much to offer. His future will be watched with interest and this debut CD is well worth acquiring. (PGW)
See also review by Rob Barnett
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Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Google Maps now with PhotoSpammy Links?
This came in today from a reader:
I ran across this new twist with InfoUSA & Google Maps and thought I'd pass it in. Do you recall when Google Local/Maps added a photo provided by InfoUSA to many local business profiles? It's the default image for most companies.
A couple days ago, I clicked on one of the photos (trying to check out a phony address) and got a redirect to what I thought was a hijacked, spammy page offering a credit report. This morning I finally realized every InfoUSA photo redirects to one of those pages on Credit.net with 'an InfoUSA company' in very light gray text at the top left. The linked photo is in thumbnail size but surrounded by an offer for a credit report on the business. Each is a lead generator since no data about the company is actually provided. Each 'click to view' link launches a pop-up box to register. User registration required with an offer of 'the first 25 reports for 'free." Here are the TOS –
They've basically got ad links for InfoUSA credit reports on every business listing. Even with a business's own uploaded pictures, the one from InfoUSA still shows under "Photos". To experience this for yourself click on the last photo of the business (see screen shot below) in this Google Maps search example for Chelsea Fower Market in NYC..
I wonder if this is quid pro quo between G and Info (and planned all along) or a unilateral switch to better monetize the InfoUSA data. Would love to find screen shots from the old daplus.com since I seem to remember small links offering credit reports.
It is not clear why or how those photo links are there but the links sure appear inappropriate, don't they? Now that is a link campaign!
Read on to see a screen shot..
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Researchers initiated the Booster Neutrino Experiment, BooNE, to verify definitively the results of the Los Alamos Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector experiment. In 1995, the Los Alamos experiment presented strong evidence for the oscillation of muon anti-neutrinos into electron anti-neutrinos.
The 800-ton detector, called MiniBooNE, searches for neutrino oscillations. The detector is located 500 meters from Fermilab's second neutrino source, the Booster Neutrino Beam or BNB.
The presence of neutrinos can only be inferred by detecting the charged particles they produce when they collide and interact with matter. By characterizing the resulting product particles through measuring their charge and energy, physicists can trace back and characterize the incoming neutrino.
MiniBooNE has ruled out the Los Alamos result, but what remains is an excess of low energy interactions that may be significant but do not fit within the current physics model.
The MiniBooNE collaboration also explores physics topics from the fundamental understanding of neutrino interaction probabilities to more exotic matters, such as neutrinos from supernovae and the neutrino magnetic moment. Next, the MiniBooNE collaboration plans to search for CP Violation by looking for a difference between neutrino oscillations and antineutrino oscillations.


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The Internet Archive Part 3 - The Prelinger Archive
Continuing our Internet Archive series, today we'll look at the Prelinger Archive, part of which lives on the Internet Archive among its many collections. The Archive was founded by Rick Prelinger in 1983, dedicated to collecting "ephemeral films" (defined as advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films -- things that are not often collected and cataloged by scholars). In 2002, the Prelinger Archive (then consisting of over 60,000 films) was acquired by the Library of Congress. Some of those films (about 2,000) are available online via the Internet Archive.
The Prelinger Archive contains well-known films like Duck and Cover, but most of the material is deeply obscure. The films are often unintentionally hilarious, seeming amazingly transparent in their attempts at propaganda or "education." See, for example, "Soldier With Big Feet" (try the download/streaming links at left; the in-browser viewer sometimes stops early); the American Petroleum Institute's Destination Earth - from the description: "In this corporate-sponsored cartoon, Martian dissidents learn that oil and competition are the two things that make America great"; and This is Hormel - a lengthy look at Hormel's meat-packing operations.
More great films after the jump.
The real gems of the Prelinger Archive, in this blogger's opinion, are a series of films narrated by John Kieran. These films feature hilarious commentary, apparently written on the back of a napkin after a single viewing of the material. They sound like baseball game play-by-play, with the narrator commenting on whatever comes on the screen, often seeming a bit surprised by the scene, but gamely fitting it into a loose narrative. An example from "Ant City": "The ant city we're looking at is a good-sized one; it compares to, uh, well, say, um, Minneapolis or Cincinnati or New Orleans. I mean a city of, uh, half a million, uh, busy inhabitants." Lots of fun.
- Ant City
- Bee City - actually has very nice visuals
- Hair Dress Through the Ages - my personal favorite
- The Heart
- Human Grace - apparently re-edited from Leni Riefenstahl's film OLYMPIA.
- Water
For more, see prelinger.com, including information on Rick Prelinger's Panorama Ephemera, a 2004 collage film drawing from the archive. Or browse the Prelinger Archive films directly at the Internet Archive's Prelinger section.


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I'm trying to install a new version of Ubuntu from scratch, but I would like a list of the packages which I manually installed (as opposed to installed as a dependency or that came with the system).
I can get a reasonable approximation on Synaptic by looking at only my Installed (manual)
packages and then only looking at those packages not supported by Ubuntu (i.e. all those files without the Ubuntu Unity symbol next to them). However, I cannot seem to get Synaptic to export a list of these packages.
Hence my question is whether it is possible to generate a list of packages that were installed manually via the apt-get install
The following do not work:
- Using
apt-mark showmanual
. It yields all packages deemed essential as well as manually installed packages. I only want my manually installed packages. aptitude search '!~M ~i'
. There are way too many packages that are being shown (no way I manually installed > 1000 packages).- The Python script given by @txwikinger in Generating list of manually installed packages and querying individual packages. There are packages (such as
) which I installed, but do not show up in the output of that script. - The bash script given by @Johan in https://serverfault.com/questions/133681/generating-a-list-of-installed-packages-in-ubuntu. Once again too many packages are shown.
This question is similar in flavor to other questions that have been asked both on Stack Exchange sites and elsewhere (such as Generating list of manually installed packages and querying individual packages, https://serverfault.com/questions/133681/generating-a-list-of-installed-packages-in-ubuntu, and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=947865&page=2).
David Kalnischkies on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727799 gives some perspective as to why pinning down exactly what "manually installed" means is difficult (e.g. do programs which you ran which installed packages count as "manually installed"?). Therefore I have specifically limited this question (unlike the others that I listed) to only invocations of apt-get install
Edit: How to view a list of packages that were manually installed without their dependancies has a nice idea for using the log files of apt-get to do this. Unfortunately this doesn't keep track of which packages have been removed. And even if I were to simply grep 'apt-get purge'
and take the diff
of the two lists that I get it still wouldn't account for the edge case that I've installed a package, uninstalled it, and then reinstalled it.