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US Civil War | Slavery
What did being sold down south mean to slaves?
'Sold down South' or 'Sold down the river' refered to the generally more brutal treatment slaves received in Mississippi and Louisiana.
The Confederate president Jefferson Davis was unusual in being a Mississippi landowner who treated his slaves so well that they didn't want their freedom.
What does it mean by being sold down river or being sold south?
Means that slaves were broken apart and sent to work in the south.
What did freedom mean to slaves in the south?
it mean that they free from slaves
What was the south like?
in the civil war in the south there waz a lot of slaves note the south is HORRIBLE MEAN AND SELFISH for having slaves and i am latin
What was the transportation system for slaves?
If you mean how slaves were transported to the United States, it was by ship. If you mean how slaves were "transported" to freedom from the south, that was called the "Underground Railroad."
When applied to slaves what did the word Creole mean?
The word was used by the Portuguese to distinguish Creole slaves - that is, slaves who were born in South America as children of slaves - from slaves who were imported from Africa and who were called "African" slaves.
Why are the rainfoests in South America being cut down?
Because people want the wood- and people are really mean Maybe to prevent excess flooding due to rain
What did the south have the advantage of in war?
I don't mean to have this go the wrong way, but they had slaves for cheap/free labor for one.
Where did Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves?
If you mean where were the slaves he freed, the answer is nowhere. The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves only in states who were in rebellion, and at the point the rebelling Confederacy did not recognize the Union as its governing power and so it did not effect them. Therefore, Lincoln was attempting to free slaves in the Confederate South.
What does to sell someone down the river mean?
To knark or tattle on them. Selling down river was what the plantation owners did to slaves who misbehaved, separating them from their families. This has come to mean betraying someone by telling the authorities on them.
Were owners mean to slaves?
Many were - and the worst ones tended to be downriver in Mississippi. (Hence the fear of being 'sold down the river') Others who were highly respectable, like Robert E.Lee, treated slaves harshly because they thought blacks would abuse lenient treatment. Curiously, the Confederate President was a Mississippi landowner who treated his slaves so well that they didn't want their freedom.
Could the South had fought the CivilI War without slavery?
The War Between the states was not fought over slavery but instead state rights. This does not mean the South did not use slaves in the war, but the south offered slaves a chance to earn freedom if they served in the war, even though only ten percent of southerners were slaves at the time. So to answer this question more directly, yes slaves were not needed in the war but the use of slavery… Read More
How did slaves owners on in the south likely feel about the emancipation proclamations?
They were of course unhappy with them, since it would mean their economic ruin.
Why couldn't slaves go to school?
it depends on if you mean why couldn't they go to school when they were slaves or if when they were freed. they probably wouldn't be aloud to have an education or be smart enough to wonder what the difference between them and their masters are and why they are to be working and not the masters being slaves.
Why were they mean to slaves?
Partly simple exploitation - how to extract the maximum labour, without having to pay for it. Partly racial stereotyping - if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile. Partly asserting the class system - keeping the social barriers in place Some slave-owners wanted to be more lenient with their slaves, but were told that this would be letting the side down. The further South you went, the more brutal the treatment. That was… Read More
What did the end of civil war mean to north and south and for slaves?
It meant that the slaves would be free and the southern people must have been broken-hearted knowing that all of their free labor would be lost.
Who won the Civil War and What did that mean to the Union?
The North won the civil war, which meant that the South had to rejoin the union and free their slaves.
What was the slavery in America?
if you mean when that would be in the early - mid 1800's if you mean what, they were African slaves brought over in slave ships used for house hands but mainly field hands on cotton plantations in the south or "confederacy" the north however did not own slaves and the civil war began ultimately leading to the freeing of all American slaves. hope this helps :)
What does down for whatever bebo relationship status mean?
It means your down for being single,seeing someone or being in a relationship
What does ties you down mean?
Think about being literally tied down and you will understand. This means that something keeps you from being free.
Did the union armies moving from the south help freed most of the slaves?
You mean "Did the Union armies free most of the slaves in the Confederacy during their Southern campaigns?" Not as many as that. But they did manage to deprive a lot of farmers of their labour force.
What does slaves mean?
slaves meaning
What does encouragment mean?
being positive when someone is down
Why did some white people not want to help the slaves?
Some white people did not want to help the slaves because they were afraid of being persecuted, they agreed with slavery or they were disinterested by the idea of slavery and therefore felt no need to help slaves. However, the answer depends on what you mean by 'help the slaves'. Because it could denote fighting against slavery or helping slaves escape.
What did segregation in the south mean?
segregation in the south means that the blacks and the whites were separated by their skin color and being judged by it
Why did the south want states rights?
You mean south of America during the Civil War? I'm not really sure what you mean. I recommend you be more specific of your question. Anyways, if that is what you mean, then the Southerners wanted it because.. I suppose they figured it was unfair and they wanted their rights to own slaves and stuff. Sorry it isn't really a good answer.
What does sent down mean?
Sent down in religion like, is a way of saying being brought down from somewhere higher than you. Ex.:Jesus being sent down from Heaven onto Earth.
What does no put downs mean?
it means not putting others down and not being mean to other people
Was the south racist?
Yes! That's why we had a civil war! Because the south didn't like blacks and wanted to keep them as slaves but the north(union) stepped in and said it as wrong so they both disagreed and had war. I mean where do u think the KKK came from? The south!
What continent is pretoria south?
By Pretoria do you mean the city? If so, it can be found in South Africa, thus being on the continent of Africa.
Why was African cultural influence strong on rice plantations in south caolina?
The slaves brought their culture with them. Just because a person is made property, sold, and chained doesn't mean that they forget where they come from or who they are. Many slaves were leaders, educated, and trained soldiers.
Why did framers agree to legalized slavery in the south?
if you mean farmers then that was because the south thought they were better that African American and because they were lazy and didn't want to work or pay money to people to work so they hired slaves
Could slaves be mean to their masters?
No, slaves could NOT be mean to their slaves because they would get in HUGE trouble. They would probably be put to death if they where. [: Audralynne :]
Where do Love Birds migrate to?
love birds miograte down south, if you know what i mean ;]
What does the phrase live 'down under' mean?
That they live in Australia. Answer Australia is in the south (indeed, the word Australia is derived from Latin word australis for south) and south is usually at the bottom of maps and globes, so heading south is often worded as "heading down".
What caused Lincoln to fear that freeing slaves would mean the dissolution of the Union?
Quite understandably, US President Lincoln and others believed that if four million slaves would immediately be freed at once, there would be economic chaos. This is said remembering that prior to the US Civil War, Northern textile mills used Southern cotton and the North also traded with the South on a mutual and orderly basis. When Lincoln was alive, the so-called border states in the Union kept their slaves. Throughout the war, he tried unsuccessfully… Read More
What does renal stasis mean?
Stasis refers to something being impaired or slowed down. If renal stasis occurs, it would mean the kidneys are shutting down.
How did the people hurt the slaves?
The slave masters wanted the people (slaves) to work work and work if they even take a short break the slaves get beat up. If the slaves are sick or worthless they KILL them. And the slave masters were mean when I say mean I mean it. The slave master tie the slaves be neck and leave them bleeding.
What does it mean someone looks down and right?
It means they look down and right. Are you having some directional confusion? Down. Then right. South, then east. Aint that hard.
Who were able to be in the roman governments?
If you mean holding public office by being in the government, it was only Roman citizens of the first class who had the right to hold office. If you mean being in the government in the sense of working at a government job, almost anyone who wanted to could be a part of the bureaucracy. There were government slaves, clerks, freedmen, librarians, accountants and free men who all could have government jobs according to their… Read More
How did slaves prove they were not runaways?
If they were slaves, then they were runaways! You probably mean How did freed blacks prove they weren't slaves.
Is Africa or SA bigger?
If by SA you mean South America, then Africa is bigger. If by SA you mean South Africa, then South Africa is in Africa, being one of over 50 countries in Africa, so obviously Africa is much bigger.
What does it mean you hold these truths that all men are created equal?
This is an ideal which states that no human-being is born better or worse than any other. Which is ironic considering that most of the people writing the document that this was written on, specifically the Deceleration of Independence, had slaves. And by having slaves they were declaring that they were born better than their slaves.
What does the phrase Your Being Condescending mean?
Talk down to someone, insult their intelligence.
What does it mean when a woman shares chocolate with you?
She is being friendly and wants to her down on her calories.
What does White Christmas mean?
It refers to snow being down over the christmas
What did slaves do when they were freed?
Although Lincoln freed the slaves they really weren't freed as some Southern people felt. The killing of slaves was still ongoing even though the slaves were free (with a piece of paper stating their freedom from their Master). They were basically hunted down. Some slaves were treated well by the Plantation owner and therefore knew no other life and decided to stay on the plantation. A very few managed to leave the South and have… Read More
What does the term seasoning a slave mean?
Seasoning was the process of sending slaves to the Caribbean to work before bring them to the US. The sugar fields there were incredibly cruel, and most slaves died. Seasoning is nothing more than thinning out the weak slaves from the strong ones. you are talking about the seasoning camps. Also seasoning is when the slaves were for example rubbed down with palm oil to disguise their wounds. When slaves have been working as a… Read More
What is the meaning of Taylor swifts new song MEAN?
"Mean" is about a critic who said that Taylor Swift couldn't sing and was just being down-right mean to her- so being Taylor Swift, she wrote a song about it.
Was George Washington mean to his slaves?
No..He was very kind, trustworthy and soft - spoken to the slaves he owned. ..He was not mean , harsh nor abusive; and treated his slaves equally like members of his own family.
Where there slaves in 1942?
If you mean African-American slaves in the United States, no, there were no such slaves in 1942. Slavery ended in the 1860s in the US.


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But the elusiveness of the film is precisely the point: it is as beautiful and mysterious as a poem and its formal elegance and conviction are unarguable. What makes it a must-see, however, is the generous, unselfconscious passion of Jacob's performance as a young woman - two young women - in love.


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Meal delivery service dishes up old traditions for new moms
Anne Kadet
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Nouri co-founders Liu (left) and Jolorte Doro (right)
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The upstart: Nouri
Two years ago, Irene Liu, the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, learned about a tradition deeply rooted in her family's roots. "My aunt had a baby, and my mom was ordering meals for her from this very hyperlocal service in Los Angeles," she says. "It's very, very traditional. I was fascinated."
Across East Asian cultures, there are a number of delivery services catering to expectant and postpartum mothers with meals tailored to their current stage of motherhood. While similar outfits exist in the U.S., they tend to be small and primarily serve Asian immigrants.
Liu got to thinking this service might have appeal far beyond the Asian community. She emailed Jennifer Jolorte Doro whom she'd been following on Instagram. Jolorte Doro, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, was working as a nutritionist and private postpartum chef.
The result is Nouri, a meal delivery company they co-founded in 2020. It now serves roughly 500 households in the New York City area with Asian fare tailored to three specific stages: fertility, prenatal and postpartum.
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First trimester subscribers get meals that are easy-to-digest and often include ginger to combat nausea, for example. The postpartum menu features dishes like an iron-rich seaweed soup.
The heat-and-eat meals, which cost from $15 to $26 depending on the subscription level and options selected, are delivered weekly by courier, packed on ice.
The postpartum option is the most popular so far, accounting for roughly 45% of the company's sales, says Liu, the company's CEO. And nearly a fourth of the sales are gift subscriptions.
Kathy Chittley-Young, a lawyer in Ontario, Canada, bought a Nouri subscription for her 35-year-old daughter, a Queens film publicist who gave birth to a daughter in April.
"I thought, 'Oh my goodness, how am I going to help care for her,'" Chittley-Young says. "I couldn't put warm food under her door."
Searching for a postpartum meal service, she found Nouri in a Google search and signed up. Her daughter loves it. "She felt it gave her the boost she wouldn't have eating other kinds of foods, like peanut butter toast," Chittley-Young says.
Nouri will launch national delivery next month and is moving from its 300 square-foot Lower East Side kitchen to one more than 20 times that size in Kearny, New Jersey.
The reigning Goliath: Blue Apron
New York-based Blue Apron serves roughly 349,000 customers who choose from vegetarian, heat-and-eat and wellness options. The company says it has shipped more than 465 million meals since its 2012 launch. Its 2021 sales topped $470 million.
How to slay the giant
After months spent interviewing moms, developing recipes and testing delivery containers, Nouri launched a beta test in October 2020.
Jolorte Doro cooked the meals in the kitchen of her upstate Millbrook home. Liu, still completing her MBA at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, borrowed a friend's car and met Jolorte Doro in Manhattan every Sunday to help deliver the meals. "I remember the first delivery because it was my first time driving in New York, and I got lost," Liu recalls.
Nouri's Chili tofu congee with a Shan Yao miso kombu broth is typically served as a breakfast dish for mothers in their first trimester.
They learned a lot from the initial test, which offered meals such as a buckwheat bowl with miso coconut roasted vegatables. Many customers had queries about the food and ingredients, for example. A common question: Why didn't the dishes have more salt? Nouri started including educational information with the meals to explain the health benefits of each recipe. "The education piece is huge," Jolorte Doro says.
They also learned that while traditions typically limit postpartum fare to special soups, that didn't satisfy American eaters. Jolorte Doro tweaked the postpartum menus to include heartier fare with more grain and noodles.
The business funded itself through year one. They spent nothing on marketing, thanks to Jolorte Doro's connections with local "mom influencers" on social media and friends in the city's maternal wellness community who recommended the service. "It was really easy to tap into those existing relationships," she says.
Because customers paid in advance, the company was able to use subscription revenue to hire several cooks and rent a professional kitchen on the Lower East Side. By its first anniversary the company was serving 350 households and had wracked up $200,000 in sales.
The co-founders started fundraising last year to support expansion plans. They found several angel investors among their subscriber ranks and raised a pre-seed round of $350,000 in April.
Malcolm Waddell of the Harvard Business School Houston Angels Network bought a postpartum subscription for his daughter in New York after spotting Nouri at a startup competition. With his daughter's encouragement, he later invested in the company. While the meal delivery business looks saturated, he says, there's room for players who have discovered a new niche.
The next challenge
Other food delivery startups faltered when they sacrificed service and quality to rapid expansion, Waddell notes. But Nouri says it's taking things slow—when it launches nationally it will only offer the postpartum plan to folks outside the local area. "Being able to ship that, logistically, makes more sense than trying to do all of the stages and all the variations," Liu says. "At least in the beginning."
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Anne Kadet is the creator of Café Anne, a weekly newsletter with a New York City focus. She previously was the city business and trends columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
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Canaro is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about  southwest of Venice and about  southwest of Rovigo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,885 and an area of .

Geography
The municipality of Canaro contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Baruchella, Boccalara, C. Benvenuto Tisi, C.Mella, C.Ruggieri, Ca' Matta, Croce del Sud, Crociara, Garofolo, Giaretta, La Frattina, Mezzavia, Paviole, Tenasi, Valiera, Vallone, and Viezze.

Canaro borders the following municipalities: Ferrara, Fiesso Umbertiano, Frassinelle Polesine, Occhiobello, Polesella and Ro.

Demographic evolution

Twin towns
Canaro is twinned with:

  Gmina Pszczew, Poland

References

External links

 Canaro official website

Cities and towns in Veneto

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The killing of Kim Jong-un's half brother is the most bizarre story in a week of bizarre stories.
The assassination in Kuala Lumpur of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean dictator, just took a very unusual turn. Malaysian police now say that one of the two alleged assailants was an unwitting dupe who was fooled into thinking she was carrying out a comedic prank. The Guardian reports:
An Indonesian woman arrested for suspected involvement in the killing of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's half-brother in Malaysia was duped into thinking she was part of a comedy show prank, Indonesia's national police chief has said, citing information received from Malaysian authorities.
Tito Karnavian told reporters in Indonesia's Aceh province that Siti Aisyah, 25, was paid to be involved in pranks.
He said she and another woman performed stunts which involved convincing men to close their eyes and then spraying them with water.
"Such an action was done three or four times and they were given a few dollars for it, and with the last target, Kim Jong-nam, allegedly there were dangerous materials in the sprayer," Karnavian said. "She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents."
Aisyah emerges from the story as not only a patsy but a figure of genuine pathos, a single mother who was trying to support her family and got caught up in an international murder plot, likely ordered by an insane despot.


Preterm or premature babies can have difficulties with their long term health because their lungs, bowel or brain may not have had time to mature and so not work as well. With support from the neonatal (baby) doctors, many premature babies will grow, develop and can catch up. Neonatal care has improved in recent years so overall outcomes are better than before.
Can a Preterm Birth be predicted?
In women at high risk of preterm birth, there are methods available that can help to predict if a premature birth will happen again.
This starts with checking a medical history to gather information about what has previously happened and measuring the length of the cervix or neck of the womb.
A woman may be at risk if she has had a previous preterm baby before 37 weeks, her waters have broken before 37 weeks, she has had a late miscarriage or pregnancy loss between 16 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. Having had one or more operations on the cervix where some of the cervix has been removed may also increase the risks of preterm birth.
How is the risk of Preterm Birth assessed?
In women at high risk of preterm birth, there are methods available that can help to predict if a preterm birth will happen again. This starts with checking a medical history to gather information about what has previously happened and measuring the length of the cervix or neck of the womb. A woman may be at risk if she has had a previous preterm baby before 37 weeks, her waters have broken before 37 weeks, she has had a late miscarriage or pregnancy loss between 16 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. Having had one or more operations on the cervix where some of the cervix has been removed may also increase the risks of preterm birth.
To assess the risk of preterm birth, the length of the cervix is measured by a transvaginal ultrasound scan and a normal cervix measures more than 25 mm long. When the cervix measures less than 25 mm, it is described as short and the woman will be at risk of a preterm birth.
Preterm birth clinics that do this risk assessment are available in some NHS hospitals but not all. So the management will vary depending on where a woman lives and her local hospitals policies. Also, preterm clinics have been shown to be good at reducing the number of preterm births in some hospitals in the UK.
How is a short cervix managed?
If a cervix is short, there are treatment options. A woman may be offered a cervical cerclage. This is where a stitch is put around the cervix to try and stop it from opening or offered vaginal progesterone pessaries, a hormone that has been found to reduce preterm birth in 3 to 4 out of 10 women. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance have has recommended that women who have had a previous preterm birth or late miscarriage and have a cervical length of less than 25 mm measured between 16 and 24 weeks of pregnancy are offered a choice of either vaginal progesterone or prophylactic cervical cerclage.
Having a cervical length scan may is useful but it is not available in all hospitals. At the Aster Baby Scan clinic, we can measure the length of the cervix and will refer you to your healthcare provider if any concerns are present.


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Események
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Sikerfilmek
Észak-Amerika
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 Superman II. – főszereplő Christopher Reeve, rendező Richard Lester, bevétel: 108 millió dollár
 Kilenctől ötig – főszereplő Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin és Dolly Parton, rendező Colin Higgins, bevétel 103 millió dollár
 Dutyi dili – rendező Sidney Poitier
 Bármi áron – rendező Buddy Van Horn

Magyar filmek

 Az áldozat – rendező Dobray György
 Ballagás – rendező Almási Tamás
 Bizalom – rendező Szabó István
 Boldog születésnapot, Marilyn! – rendező Szörény Rezső
 Boldogtalan kalap – rendező Sós Mária
 Békeidő – rendező Vitézy László
 Circus maximus – rendező Radványi Géza
 Cserepek – rendező Gaál István
 Csontváry – rendező Huszárik Zoltán
 Élve vagy halva – rendező Rényi Tamás
 Fábián Bálint találkozása Istennel – rendező Fábri Zoltán
 Hogyan felejtsük el életünk legnagyobb szerelmét…? – rendező Szász Péter
 Ki beszél itt szerelemről – rendező Bacsó Péter
 Kojak Budapesten – rendező Szalkai Sándor
 Koportos – rendező Gyarmathy Lívia
 Két történet a félmúltból – rendező Makk Károly
 Köszönöm, megvagyunk – rendező Lugossy László
 A légy – rendezte Rofusz Ferenc
 Majd holnap – rendező Elek Judit
 A mérkőzés – rendező Kósa Ferenc
 Naplemente délben – rendező Hintsch György
 Nárcisz és Psyché – rendező Bódy Gábor
 Örökség – rendező Mészáros Márta
 Panonski vrh – rendező Petrovics Éva (?) (Eva Balaž-Petrović)
 A Pogány Madonna – rendező Bujtor István, Mészáros Gyula
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 Vasárnapi szülők – rendező Rózsa János
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Film: Egy tiszta nő, rendezte Roman Polański
Rendező: Roman Polański, Egy tiszta nő
Férfi főszereplő: Claude Brasseur, Rendőrök háborúja
Női főszereplő: Miou-Miou, A szökés
Külföldi film: Manhattan, rendezte Woody Allen
 1980-as cannes-i filmfesztivál
 Berlini Nemzetközi Filmfesztivál
Arany Medve: A szelíd vadnyugat – Richard Pierce
Rendező: Szabó István – Bizalom
Férfi főszereplő: Andrzej Seweryn – A karmester
Női főszereplő: Renate Krössner – Solo Sunny
 Velencei Nemzetközi Filmfesztivál (augusztus 22. – szeptember 1.)
Arany Oroszlán: Gloria – John Cassavetes
Férfi főszereplő: George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg – Nyugdíjasok bandája
Női főszereplő: Liv Ullmann – Emlékek Richardról
 1980-as Magyar Filmszemle

Születések
 február 12. – Christina Ricci, színésznő

Halálozások
 január 24. – Lil Dagover, színésznő
 január 29. – Jimmy Durante, színész
 február 13. – David Janssen, színész
 március 5. – Jay Silverheels, színész
 március 28. – Dick Haymes, színész, énekes
 április 29. – Alfred Hitchcock, rendező
 május 14. – Hugh Griffith, színész
 május 14. – Bulla Elma, színésznő
 május 30. – Kalmár László, rendező
 július 6. – Gail Patrick, színésznő
 július 24. – Peter Sellers, színész
 július 25. – Vlagyimir Viszockij, színész, énekes
 július 31. – Bobby Van, színész, táncos
 augusztus 14. – Dorothy Stratten, színésznő
 augusztus 25. – Gower Champion, színész, táncos
 szeptember 25. – Lewis Milestone, filmrendező, filmproducer és forgatókönyvíró
 október 6. – Hattie Jacques, színésznő
 november 7. – Steve McQueen, színész
 november 18. – Makláry János, színész
 november 22. – Mae West, színésznő
 november 24. – George Raft, színész
 november 26. – Rachel Roberts, színésznő
 december 31. – Raoul Walsh, rendező

Filmbemutatók
Betörő Morant – rendező Bruce Beresford
Airplane! – rendező Jim Abrahams és David Zucker
Bármi áron – rendező Buddy Van Horn
Atlantic City – rendező Louis Malle
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back) – rendező Bill Melendez
Brubaker – rendező Stuart Rosenberg
Golfőrültek – főszereplő Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight
A nők városa – rendező Federico Fellini
Portyán – rendező William Friedkin
Hírnév – rendező Alan Parker
Flash Gordon – rendező Mike Hodges
Péntek 13. – rendező Sean S. Cunningham
Ragyogás – főszereplő Jack Nicholson és Shelley Duvall, rendező Stanley Kubrick
Szabadlábon Velencében – főszereplő Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mirella D'Angelo, Paolo Bonacelli, Michel Galabru és Carla Romanelli, rendező Georges Lautner
Gloria – főszereplő Gena Rowlands, rendező John Cassavetes
Hey Babe! – főszereplő Yasmine Bleeth és Buddy Hackett
Árnyéklovas – rendező Kuroszava Akira
A vagány – rendező Maurice Pialat
Őrült éjjel
Amerikai nagybácsim – rendező Alain Resnais
Kilenctől ötig – főszereplő Dolly Parton, rendező Colin Higgins
O Megalexandros – rendező Theo Angelopoulos
Átlagemberek – rendező Robert Redford
Palermo vagy Wolsfburg – rendező Werner Schroeter
Dühöngő bika – rendező Martin Scorsese
Hárman a slamasztikában – rendező Jay Sandrich
Dutyi-dili – főszereplő Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder
A nagy vörös egyes – rendező Samuel Fuller
A kék lagúna – főszereplő Brooke Shields és Christopher Atkins, rendező Randal Kleiser
Spetters – főszereplő Hans van Tongeren, Toon Agterberg, Maarten Spanjer, Renée Soutendijk, Rutger Hauer és Jeroen Krabbé, rendező Paul Verhoeven
The Blues Brothers – rendező John Landis
The Club – rendező Bruce Beresford
Konstans – rendező Krzysztof Zanussi
Az elefántember – rendező David Lynch
A kaszkadőr – rendező Richard Rush
The Young Master – rendező Jackie Chan
Városi cowboy – rendező James Bridges
Gyanútlan gyakornok - rendező Claude Zidi, főszereplők Coluche és Gérard Depardieu
 Cannibal Holocaust - rendező Ruggero Deodato

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In February 2016, I participated in microcalorimetry workshops in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Carlos, Brazil. There is a long-standing and active group of calorimetry users in Brazil, and I had the opportunity to give introductory isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) presentations at each workshop. Faculty members and students presented their research projects including ITC and/or DSC results.
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Our second stop on February 3-4 was the Instituto de Química de São Carlos, University of Sao Paulo (IQSP/USP), in Sao Carlos. Dr. Carlos Alberto Montanari, (USP) was the chair of the workshop, and his co-chair was Dr. Conceição A. Minetti, (Rutgers University, New Jersey) who was visiting and conducting research at USP for several months. Dr. Watson Loh from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) also assisted in the organization of this workshop.
Many thanks to our Brazilian customers for organizing such great events – I am looking forward to further visits to Brazil in the near future!


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Police warn Sinn Féin of possible attack
Police warn Sinn Féin of 'dissident republican attack'
Sinn Féin's deputy leader has said police have told her dissident republicans are planning an attack on herself and party colleague Gerry Kelly.
Michelle O'Neill is NI's deputy first minister, and Mr Kelly is the party's policing spokesperson.
She said Sinn Féin had received the warning from the PSNI on Tuesday.
Ms O'Neill said her party would not be deterred, following its success in the Irish general election.
On Monday, Sinn Féin celebrated its best-ever electoral result, winning 37 seats out of 160 and taking the highest share of first preference votes.
"The backdrop (of the threats) is that 500,000 people have voted for Sinn Féin and voted for change in recent elections," she said.
"These people have nothing to offer society, nothing but intent to attack myself, and Gerry and our families.
"Dissident republicans have no strategy, no plan and no progress towards Irish unity. It also comes at a time with a backdrop where we have never been closer to Irish unity.
"I will not be deterred and Sinn Féin will not be deterred."
DUP leader and First Minister Arlene Foster condemned those responsible, saying: "There is no place for threats or violence.
"We live in a democracy. The ballot box is how we effect change, not through the bomb or bullet.
"Whether in 1970, 1980, 1990 or 2020, violence from every hue must be condemned."
Ms O'Neill said she could not comment further on the nature of the intelligence the PSNI had received, but said she and Mr Kelly had to take measures to protect their families.
She and Mr Kelly attended a PSNI recruitment event in Belfast last week, which was described by the Chief Constable Simon Byrne as a positive step forward, regarding a drive to encourage more Catholics to join the force.
Last year, there were attempted bomb attacks by dissident republicans on police in Belfast, Craigavon and Fermanagh.
The two dissident republican groups involved are the New IRA and the Continuity IRA.
Both groups are said to want to demonstrate they continue to exist and that they remain capable of violence, partly as a means to attract recruits – not just young individuals, but those from an older generation.
They see themselves as continuing physical force republicanism against British rule.
Police Service Northern Ireland
By David Rider - February 11, 2020


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Journalism students' Skype election coverage project available online
A live election webcast created by a cross-university team of journalism students is now available to view online.
Using Skype and Livestream, students from University of Buckingham, Kingston University and University of Westminster collaborated on the project to run live outside broadcasts and live output as well as interviews and packages from the studio, remaining on air continuously from 10:00pm to 6:00am.
The output has been edited into a series of segments which can be watched at this link.
Twenty students also covered the counts at a range of constituencies in Winchester, Eastleigh (Chris Huhne's seat); Southampton (two constituencies); Isle of Wight; Devizes; Bethnal Green; Twickenham (Vince Cable's seat); Battersea; Whitney (David Cameron's seat); and Aylesbury.
The webcast attracted an audience of 1,500 users.
Additional coverage of the project by Journalism.co.uk can be found at this link.
This entry was posted in Broadcasting, Training and tagged election, ge2010, Livestream, Skype, webcast, winol.co.uk on July 22, 2010 by Melissa Ittoo.
Currybet.net: Will social media's influence on political engagement continue post-election?
The Guardian's Martin Belam has produced a great summary of the panel debate at the launch of Nic Newman's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) paper on social media and the election, on his site currybet.net.
The research document, titled 'UK Election 2010, mainstream media and the role of the internet', outlines the significant role social media, in particular Twitter, played in informing the public during the election process.
One of the big questions which emerged from the panel debate was whether this social media engagement would continue now the election is over:
People need something to be engaged with. It remains to be seen whether the major parties will continue with digital campaigning, or whether, rather like leaflets, we will see a lot of them at election time and not much in between.
Outlining the main findings, Newman reportedly told the audience that Twitter became a "political newswire" as well as having a direct impact on the behaviour of politicians.
Reports Belam:
The best of the social media – jokes, spoof posters, reaction on Twitter – was reflected and amplified by the mainstream media. This ultimately influenced the behaviour of the politicians. David Cameron, for example, toned down his habit of citing anecdotal stories of people he met after it was spoofed online.
(…) William Hague announcing he was about to go back into negotiations with the Liberal Democrats via Twitter suggesting the service was beginning to be used as 'a political newswire'.
See Martin Belam's full post here…
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Politics, Social media and blogging and tagged election, ge2010, Martin Belam, reuters institute for the study of journalism, RISJ, social media, social media engagement, Twitter, uk election on July 16, 2010 by Rachel Bartlett.
'The day Gordon Brown resigned': behind-the-scenes at Sky News
Video from Sky News showing how it put together its coverage of Gordon Brown's resignation and the post-election coalition talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
Video also available at this link…
Related reading: Sky News' Niall Paterson on "bigotgate" and the parliamentary press pack.
This entry was posted in Broadcasting, Editors' pick, Journalism and tagged Broadcasting, ge2010, general election, political journalism, Politics, Sky News, uk election, Video on June 30, 2010 by Laura Oliver.
Broadcast election editors go head-to-head at Media Society event
It is the 100 metres of the TV Factual Olympics. General election night. The three main news broadcasters – BBC, ITN and Sky News – vie to get results to the nation first. A month on, the election editors of Sky News and the BBC appeared at last night's Media Society event in London entitled 'Who won the TV election?'
The BBC won the greater share of the audience on 6 May. They always do. But John McAndrew, editor of the Sky News offering was there to claim journalistic credit for being not just first but clearest on screen. His was deliberately not a heavily studio anchored show: "We knew what the BBC would do and we aimed off for that," McAndrew said. He had surprising support from one member of the audience – the BBC's former political correspondent Nicholas Jones. Jones had switched over early. Sky News, McAndrew said, went with plenty of straight news and little comment.
The David Dimbleby programme on the BBC was at the other end of the spectrum. There were virtual reality graphics aplenty from Jeremy Vine and scores of outside broadcasts. Craig Oliver, their editor, was at last night's event to defend their coverage, or at least try to. He had a near impossible job when it came to the now notorious 'ship of fools', a BBC barge moored in the Thames full of celebrities giving their take on the election. Not many of those at the event felt that Joan Collins or Bruce Forsyth 'added to the sum total of human knowledge', as one audience member succinctly put it. Another pointed out that the £70,000 allegedly spent on the boat (the only cost figure mentioned on a night when all were coy about what they spent) was money wasted.
Oliver was on surer ground defending the BBC position of not calling any result until the Returning Officer had. ITN seems to jump the gun almost as a matter of principle. Oliver, who edited the ITN election programme in 2005 before defecting, was dismissive of presenter Alastair Stewart's recent tirade in the Press Gazette claiming that the BBC 'had missed the story'. His absence from the discussion said it all according to Oliver.
Channel 4's 'Alternative Election Night' – featuring comedians like Jimmy Carr and David Mitchell – was a deliberately offpiste offering but it worked, beating ITN in the ratings. Deputy head of news and current affairs Kevin Sutcliffe was there to explain the thinking behind the format and reveal that it would be used again. Their satirical approach attracted a young demographic and twice the audience he expected, Sutcliffe said, adding that he was impressed with the (unintentionally) satirical quality of the BBC coverage.
Attracting the most audience comment last night was the stunningly accurate exit poll shared by the broadcasters and put out on the stroke of ten. It got the result right to within one seat. Some felt it destroyed the drama and made the remainder of the coverage predictable, suggesting a return to separate polls. Sue Inglish, the BBC's head of political programmes and a moving force behind the poll, was on hand to explain and defend. The sheer size and cost of the 125,000 sample poll made it impossible to do more than once. But Oliver, in a mild mea culpa, said the BBC studio gurus had been wrong to downplay the surprising exit poll results for the first hour after they were broadcast.
The event had the air of an inquest, but not a particularly rancourous one – and the majority of criticism was reserved for the absent ITN. There was mostly praise for the British broadcasters for whom a 100-metre dash became a five day marathon. If the reaction in the BBC Council Chamber last night is anything to go, they had an audience satisfied with the results.
John Mair is events director of the Media Society.This event was jointly organised by the Media Society and the BBC College of Journalism
This entry was posted in Broadcasting, Events and tagged BBC, election coverage, ge2010, ITN, John Mair, Sky News, The Media Society on June 11, 2010 by John Mair.
#VOJ10 – Twitter is just another outlet, says BBC's Laura Kuenssberg
One careless tweet could sink the fleet.
Advice from BBC journalist Laura Kuenssberg, who warned of the power of a single tweet to bring down politicians and political correspondents alike. Kuenssberg, who did her fair share of tweeting during the general election last month, is specific about what she tweets:
I still use it broadly for the same things [pre and post-election] and I'm quite strict about why I would tweet. I use it for simple breaking news and information (…) it's the fastest way of getting it out there even with 24-hour television.
I also use it for the kind of colour you see as a journalist – not gossip, not rumour. These are often the things that get retweeted the most; things that as a journalist you see with your own eyes but might not get to broadcast.
As a lobby journalist you've got a ticket to a very small world. You are witness to a very closed world. Its part of my job to reach out to people and give them moments of colour that they otherwise wouldn't see.
Having trialled using twitter during the party political conferences in 2009, Kuenssberg's following on the social network grew from around 5,000 pre-election to 23,000 post-election. But it hasn't changed how she works, she says – just added to it:
Twitter has just become another outlet. It's highly compatible with my job because I'm normally out and about. It has given journalists more material – not a massive amount, because so far we haven't had massive breaking stories from citizen journalists.
Social media as a "paper trail" – tracking down the backgrounds of PPCs and following what they've said pre-election on Twitter – was particularly useful however, said Kuennsberg.
Although it's still a small group of people using Twitter, it has shown me that there's a big interest in what we do. There's a huge appetite for politics and I think we're reaching some people who weren't consuming political news in any way before.
This entry was posted in Events, Politics, Social media and blogging and tagged #voj10, BBC, election coverage, ge2010, laura kuenssberg, Twitter on June 11, 2010 by Laura Oliver.
BBC College of Journalism blog: The problems with reporting a coalition government
The BBC College of Journalism's Jon Jacob raises some interesting points about journalists' coverage of the UK's new coalition government:
"The coalition is still in its early days. It's easy to forget how the business of reporting the coalition agreement has overshadowed the true schedule of government business;"
"[S]hould journalists actually continue referencing the government ministers they talk about in their reports – including in vision graphics and on-air announcements – to illustrate how ideologies differ within a coalition government?"
When can the media stop referring to it as a coalition government or is there a danger in doing so?
Full post at this link…
This entry was posted in Editors' pick and tagged BBC College of Journalism, coalition government, ge2010, Jon Jacob, political journalism, political reporting, Politics, UK government on May 28, 2010 by Laura Oliver.
#ge2010: Who was first-past-the-post in this year's election coverage?
It is an event producer's nightmare. You book three big speakers, and they pull out with two hours to go. Reader, that was my nightmare on Tuesday.
Five day after polls had closed and Britain was still without a government. I had the general election editors of the BBC, Sky News and the editor in chief of ITN all set to go head-to-head on 'Who won on TV?' at Westminster University for a Media Society debate. The debate looked promising until Gordon Brown decided he had to go and would be replaced by David Cameron that very night. The broadcast editors decided they had better, well, broadcast.
Fortunately, the audience was nearly as distinguished as the panel, and veteran media commentator Raymond Snoddy and Professor Ivor Gaber were recruited to join Dorothxy Byrne, head of news and current affairs at Channel Four. They were joined by the doyen of political documentary makers, Michael Cockerell, and were under the watchful eye of ex-Sky News editor Nick Pollard, who chaired the debate.
The televised leaders' debates came to dominate the election campaign and they very nearly dominated discussion on Tuesday night. Given the tight rules laid down by the politicians in advance, many claimed 'debate' was something of a misnomer. David Hill, Tony Blair's ex-spin doctor, felt anything was better than the bear pit Question Time had become in the 2005 election. The audience at Westminster felt that broadcasters ITN, Sky and the BBC had too easily rolled over and accepted the preconditions laid down for them. The BBC was largely felt to have produced the best of the three debates thanks to the magisterial presence of David Dimbleby.
There was a different opinion of Dimbleby on the BBC Election night programme though. Some felt he looked tired and over-rehearsed, and a little lost in the behemoth of a set. While admiring his stamina, at least one person remarked on his miscall of a couple of swings. Jeremy Vine and his virtual reality graphics show divided the audience as did, inevitably, the Jeremy Paxman experience.
It seems that the BBC got it mostly right, but very wrong in one case in particular, namely the 'Ship of Fools', a barge on the Thames full of celebrities being quizzed about the results. The political opinions of Bruce Forsyth and Joan Collins were both predictable and irrelevant on a night of high drama. Nobody defended the ship. Clearly a wrong move.
As to network alternatives on the night, both ITN and Sky were seen as sharper and quicker than the BBC, partly because they got to the locked-out voters story earlier. In terms of set design and presentation though, there was no match for the BBC.
Where all the networks scored was in putting the newspapers in their place. The printed press was following the agenda in this election not leading it. Nowhere was this seen better than the live interruption of our debate to show the Gordon Brown resignation statement live from Downing Street. That moment really summed up this year's election coverage – fast, exciting, and on television.
This entry was posted in Broadcasting and tagged BBC, Broadcast, ge2010, general election, ITN, John Mair, Sky News on May 13, 2010 by John Mair.
#ge2010: Digital timeline charts campaigning and media innovation online
It was always obvious that at the end of the election campaign there would be a slew of articles declaring that it had or hadn't been "the internet election". I decided back in March to start collecting examples of campaigning and media innovation around the election and putting them into a digital election timeline, so that when we got to polling day I'd have a timeline of events.
I chose to use Dipity as my tool. The free version allows you to create up to three timelines. Within a topic you give each event a title and a timestamp. Optionally you can add a description, image and link URL to each event. Dipity then builds a timeline using Flash, and the events can also be viewed as a plain chronological list, or in a 'flip-book' format. If you link to a video on YouTube, Dipity automatically embeds the video in the timeline.
To get the data to go into the timeline I relied quite heavily on Twitter. I made sure that I subscribed to the Twitter streams of the major parties, and to election Twitter streams from broadcasters like Channel 4 and the BBC.
During the day, every time I saw a link on Twitter that I thought might lead to an interesting bit of the digital campaign I marked it as a favourite. At night, I would then spend 20 minutes looking back through the day's favourites, taking screengrabs, and entering the details into Dipity. I also had help from various people within news organisation who began sending me messages about content and services they had launched.
The timeline has around 150 events in it now, and I've been continuing to update it in the aftermath of the indecisive result.
A few things stood out. From the political parties, the Conservatives #cashgordon Twitter fiasco was amusing, but worrying. It seemed that the people who look likely to be commissioning the nation's digital infrastructure in the next couple of years couldn't commission a website which got basic security right. Worse, instead of holding their hands up to a "Web security 101" SNAFU, they tried to shift the blame to "left-wing" hackers, an example of tribal politics at it's worst.
For their part, the Labour decision to turn their homepage over to a Twitterstream during the Leader's Debates was a brave, but I believe, misguided one. First time visitors would have been perplexed by it, just at a moment when the nation was focused on politics and they had a chance to introduce floating voters to key elements of the Labour manifesto.
The Liberal Democrats Labservative campaign was a favourite of mine for sheer attention to detail. Fictional leader Gorvid Camerown even had a profile on Last.fm, where he enjoyed nothing but the status quo. The campaign was clever, but whether it increased the Liberal Democrat vote is impossible to judge.
It seemed to me that as the campaign progressed, the cycle of social media reaction got faster and faster. There were plenty of spoof political posters early in the campaign, but on the eve of the poll it seemed like it took less than ten minutes for the first spoofs of The Sun's Cameron-as-Obama front page to appear. Likewise, within minutes of the Landless Peasant party candidate appearing behind Gordon Brown giving a clenched fist salute in Kirkcaldy, a Facebook fan page for Deek Jackson had been set up and attracted over 500 joiners. It has now reached 4,000.
It has been a really interesting exercise. I definitely feel that compiling the digital election timeline personally kept me much more engaged in the campaign.
Would I do the timeline differently in the future? In retrospect I may have been better off putting the events into a mini-blog service like Tumblr, and powering the Dipity version from that. As it is, the data is locked into Dipity, and can't be indexed by search or exported. I have though uploaded around 100 of the screengrabs and images I used to a Flickr set so that people can re-use them.
This entry was posted in Online Journalism, Social media and blogging and tagged #cashgordon, digital election timeline, Dipity, ge2010, general election, Martin Belam, media innovation, social media on May 11, 2010 by Martin Belam.
Charlie Beckett: 'How do you report a hung parliament?'
POLIS director Charlie Beckett looks at the challenges a hung parliament poses for journalists:
The likelihood of a hung parliament raises all sorts of interesting procedural issues for journalists – especially the BBC and other Public Service Broadcasters. How do you report impartially and proportionately and how do you avoid getting bogged down in procedural detail? And how will our partisan press respond?
Generally, governments are given the dominant position in news coverage and allowed to dictate terms and set agendas because they have the popular mandate. New governments also tend to get a honeymoon period where the media allow them to set out their stall and give them the benefit of the doubt.
This entry was posted in Editors' pick and tagged Charlie Beckett, ge2010, general election, hung parliament, Parliament, political journalism, Politics, uk election on May 10, 2010 by Laura Oliver.
PDA: Andrew Sparrow on liveblogging the general election
For the 2010 general election, the Guardian's senior political correspondent Andrew Sparrow has been tasked with liveblogging the event on an almost daily basis. In this post for PDA he explains his approach, the practical considerations and the benefits for journalists and readers:
I live blog a lot and I believe the format – minute-by-minute updates, combining news, analysis and links – allows journalists to report events with more thoroughness and immediacy than if they are just writing stories (…) If journalism is the first draft of history, live blogging is the first draft of journalism. It's not perfect, but it's deeply rewarding – on any day, I was able to publish almost every snippet that I thought worth sharing, which is not the case for anyone who has to squeeze material into a newspaper – and it beats sitting on a battlebus.
On a typical day the site's liveblog generated between 100,000 and 150,000 page views, rising to 2 million on election night, adds Sparrow.
See the results of our poll on the best journalists, tweeters and bloggers of #ge2010…
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Online Journalism and tagged Andrew Sparrow, ge2010, guardian, liveblog, liveblogging, Online Journalism, Politics, uk election on May 10, 2010 by Laura Oliver.


One of the greatest challenges in working on a web project is that so much of the planning work feels abstract, and the building of the site itself is mostly behind the scenes.
If you've ever done any type of home building or remodeling project though, you already have the understanding you need.
With web work versus building, you don't get to see the workers in their hard hats, digging a foundation, connecting to utilities, framing, running wires and pipes, HVAC, and all the other steps involved in the process. But the process has a lot of similarities.
Both processes involve designers and architects.
The designer helps you determine what it will look like – what colors, what the details will be, what will go in the pages or rooms.
Both processes involve engineers and developers.
The engineer helps figure out what the structural requirements are – how many visitors the building or site will need to be able to handle. What the best materials or code will be for the specific requirements.
The developers actually build the site, factoring in the design, the functional requirements, the architecture, and the specifics of the particular environment, whether it's the siting and building code for construction or remodel, or specific browser and platform needs for a new web site.
There is also the most important resource – the client. At the end of the day, in the case of a construction project, he or she is moving into the building with furniture, pictures, welcoming guests, living in and with the end project. For a web site, the parallel is the content – text, images – how you share your brand, welcome visitors and share your brand.
Finally, there is the project manager, making sure all the different pieces come together as smoothly as possible and facilitating communication between the construction team and the client.
One of the huge differences in being able to see the work itself, as with a construction project, is that when a client asks for the bathroom to be moved from the southeast corner of the house to the the northwest corner AFTER the house has been built, it's pretty clear what's going on and why when the general contractor comes back with a new estimate and bill.
Thats what makes the planning process so important and what ultimately engages the client in paying close attention to the blueprints before anything is built. Even there, the best laid plans run into snafus.
It's exactly the same with the web.
You don't see the workers tearing out walls and redoing plumbing, electrical and HVAC, repainting walls, moving furniture, rehanging pictures, etc… but the same rules apply.
But paying close attention to the early stages of your architecture and design process will help assure the smoothest possible process when it comes to your site-warming party, and keeps your project on budget and on time.
Just think of a house.


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It's the first of the month, again, and we have a new colour for July. One that I will freely admit I have difficulty working with. Kermit the Frog used to tell us it wasn't easy being green. I might amend that to say it's not easy for me to pick out green.
I suspect we all have colours that we struggle with. Mine are found on the warm side of green. I am good with the cool side of green but get me into lime green or olive green I am never just exactly certain if I have it "right".
And further to that almost apology I am fairly confident that I missed the light medium and dark on this month too.Or maybe my back drop is overpowering.
Once again I found my Bloc-Loc rulers handy. They have a set for Flying Geese. Be certain to visit Jen at patterns by Jen (here) to obtain your next pattern and to find the links for the other participants.
It is a great block this month that goes together quickly. Once you have your fabric selections made you will put it together in no time. I trust you are keeping up. We are midway through 2018. How did that happen. They always said that the older you get the faster time went and I think someone recently did a study to find out why. I don't really need to know why, it just does.
For for my Canadian friends Happy Canada Day. It is looking like this one is going to be mighty hot in our part of the country.


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What pop culture did you eventually come around on?
Clayton Purdom,
Sean O'Neal,
Meg Brett,
Kevin Pang,
Alex McLevy,
Caitlin PenzeyMoog,
Kelsey J. Waite,
Matt Gerardi,
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Yes, a staffer came around to Boogie Nights. (Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Graphic: Devin Vaughn.)
AVQ&AWelcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences.
This week's question comes from reader Mathew Timms:
"I saw the pilot of 30 Rock when it first aired, and didn't care for it. However, after loving Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt I went back and have become a fan of the show. What artist or piece of entertainment do you like that you didn't like upon first encountering it?"
Matt Gerardi
I was a real pretentious asshole of a teenager, especially when it came to music. I was so thick-headed that I somehow convinced myself that everything in The Beatles discography prior to Rubber Soul (you know, when they started to get, like, weird, dude) was just simplistic, poppy trash that wasn't worth my time. But by 2009 when The Beatles' discography went through that huge remaster and re-release, my tastes had changed and I had stopped being such a close-minded dickhead. I pored over every one of their songs, and of course, I started to realize the error of my ways. Yes, those early albums were simpler than the more cutting-edge stuff the band would move on to, but there's no doubt they contain some of the best pure rock and pop songs of the era, if not ever. These days, I'll take Please Please Me or A Hard Day's Night over Sgt. Pepper's every time. God, what I wouldn't give to go back in time and slap some sense into myself.
Josh Modell
Will I be excoriated if I say the answer is both The Bends and OK Computer? I sorta liked Radiohead's Pablo Honey when it first came out, but got so sick of "Creep" that I barely paid attention to The Bends when it came out. Even my first listen to OK Computer didn't do it for me, because I think I was still carrying some baggage from the "Creep" video. But I actually recall the moment when OK Computer hit me, sitting in my car outside my apartment in Milwaukee, shortly after it came out. It's one of the only times I can recall where I had a legitimate "What was I thinking?" moment. And then, of course, that album faded into obscurity and nobody listened to it ever again.
Kelsey J. Waite
Some of my most profound musical loves have come through reassessments or acquired tastes like this. Take P.J. Harvey: My first-ever glimpse of P.J. was the too-close, side-eyed selfie on the cover of the self-produced Uh Huh Her, an album littering music-store shelves the summer I graduated high school. Knowing nothing of her, I was intrigued enough to pick up a copy, and though there were moments I connected with, mostly its aggressively ugly, bombed-out aesthetic fell on deaf ears. In hindsight, that strange first encounter via Uh Huh Her had more of an impact than I knew, but it was a slow and incremental absorption of Harvey's catalog that eventually converted me, and now I'm the kind of fan who will follow her every experiment and drive hours for the rare chance to see her play.
Clayton Purdom
I've been revisiting a ton of David Lynch lately, so maybe he's just fresh on my mind, but Inland Empire has grown in stature to me from an unfocused mess to the logical endpoint of his filmic career. The movie is easy to dislike: Its digital cinematography can be garish, its dreamy scenes meander, no one has ever figured out what it's about, and it's three hours long, when I like my movies as close to 90 minutes as possible. In other words, I am an Eraserhead guy. But over time, I've come to love Inland Empire's blurry, artifact-laden patina, and many of its scenes are burned in my mind like few others in his career. And there's something appealing about its utterly intractable structure. While other Lynch films cohere after a few viewings—there are "correct" answers to the mysteries of Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive—Inland Empire exists in a realm of pure abstraction, one metaphor fading into the next. Lynch is fond of comparing his search for inspiration through transcendental meditation as searching for "big fish," but on Inland Empire, he charted the deep oceans without ever coming up for air.
Kevin Pang
My introduction to Bruce Springsteen was via "Dancing In The Dark," near the top if not first place on The Boss' most polarizing tracks. As a teenager of the '90s who held firm views of matters cool and uncool, the 15-year-old me thought Springsteen was decidedly uncool. It wasn't until after September 11 that Springsteen—reunited with his E Street Band—was everywhere, and through the lens of his album The Rising (in particular its standout track, "My City Of Ruins") did I begin to find Springsteen's music genuinely affecting. I decided to give The Boss a second try—someone recommended I start with Darkness On The Edge Of Town—and I've been yelling "Bruuuuuuce," not "Boooooo," ever since.
Meg Brett
When Justin Bieber's Purpose came out, my thoughts could be summed up with a simple "meh." Sure, there were some catchy songs, and one that continuously asks the question, "What about the children?" for some reason. But when I first heard "Love Yourself," I hated it. It's just a seemingly self-obsessed twentysomething guy singing about a seemingly self-obsessed ex. I mocked it relentlessly, and would lovingly tease friends when I saw them listening to it on Spotify. But then I found myself listening to it over and over again to laugh, and something weird started happening. I started enjoying it. I couldn't get it out of my head. I would hum it on the train, folding laundry, sitting at my desk. And goddammit, now I like it. You may disagree with me and try to rain on my parade, and if that's the case… you can go and love yourself. (C'mon, you knew that was coming.)
Kyle Ryan
To this day I can't explain the shrug I initially gave Boogie Nights, but that's exactly what happened. I don't remember the circumstances, but I didn't see it in the theater. It was probably on cable in 4:3, and I somehow sat through Paul Thomas Anderson's incredible ensemble drama about people in the '70s/'80s porn industry and thought, "Eh, that was okay I guess." It didn't last, because the next time I saw it, or maybe the time after, I was completely—and correctly—mesmerized. Now every time I happen across it, I'm sucked in until the very end. Younger me has routinely proven to be a jackass.
Sean O'Neal
I'll admit it: I was not immediately enamored of Game Of Thrones. I've long been ambivalent toward all forms of medieval fiction and fantasy; there's just something about swords and sorcery, knights and kings, and endless talk of honor that's always bored me. So, while I watched the first couple of seasons with my wife—who loves all that shit—I was never exactly anxious to catch the next episode, not in the way I was with other shows. Really, it took until the brutal, relentless third season (Theon's torture, "The Rains Of Castamere"—look, I don't have to tell you people) before I suddenly found myself enthralled, which I guess probably says a lot about my own damaged psyche. Today, I not only eagerly anticipate each new episode, I've actually gone back read all of George R.R. Martin's sword-and-sorcery-filled books, something that would have been unthinkable to me just a few years ago. Maybe if they'd called it Game Of Sudden, Unexpected Murders And Mutilations, I'd have been hooked from the very beginning.
Caitlin PenzeyMoog
The first time I saw Terry Gilliam's Brazil I had a viscerally negative reaction to it. I was young, and its decrepit world of bureaucratic dysfunction and consumer pursuits was more than my fragile little psyche could bear. But revisiting it a few years later I was absolutely floored by its brilliance. I guess I could just cope better with the anxieties its deeply uncomfortable world represents, and it took growing up a bit to understand satire. That appreciation has only increased as I entered my own bureaucratic and byzantine nightmare of taxes and insurance. Nowadays it's a guiding cultural touchpoint, its pneumatic tubes and Ministry Of Information the perfect metaphor for all sorts of things: Our company's expenditure reporting system is the internet of Brazil. Trying to find a good therapist who accepted my insurance was Brazil writ mental healthcare. It's hard to come up with a movie I think of more often on a daily basis, and a case in point to give things you don't like when you're young another chance when you've aged up a bit.
My relationship with the first Dark Souls is a fairly standard one, I think. Lured in by critical praise, I took a running leap at it, slammed face-first into a wall of incomprehensible menus, hurky-jerky combat, and seemingly directionless world design, said "well, fuck this," and vowed to never play it again. It took some gentle coaxing from friends—and a lingering sense of the vast weirdness I was missing out on—to lure me back in, and the second time, it took. (I know people who took three, or even four tries to fall into the game's sync, though.) This probably sounds like digital Stockholm syndrome to anybody outside the cult, but in a way, the game's aggressive obscurity is part of what brought me back. In a world where every game wants to give you a glowing line to your next direction and a checklist of stuff to do, the thought of that big, bizarre world, just daring me to go explore its every nook and cranny, is a major part of what ultimately got me to fall in love.
Alex McLevy
This is one I spent years getting disbelieving stares for, but: Arrested Development. The first time I watched it, my roommate and I got through maybe the first five or six episodes, looked at each other, and said, "Well, that was kind of a bust." This was around the time of season two or three, when people were just starting to discover the series outside of the audience that barely kept it afloat at Fox, and we had been handed the DVD collection. But I just couldn't get into it: I found the rhythms off-putting, the jokes a little too much the equivalent of someone nudging me in the ribs and going, "Eh? Eh?" It seemed like comedy for people who liked Monty Python a little too much. It took nearly a decade for me to revisit the show, and the second time around, it all clicked as to why people love it so much. Things that had irritated me previously now seemed like clever affectations, and I can appreciate the pacing without getting exhausted. I still don't love it as much as many of my coworkers, but I'm more than happy to sit down and watch an episode, any time. After all, there's always money in the banana stand.
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The Scottish-born comedian will perform over two nights at SSE Arena in Belfast on November 9 and 10, 2018, as part of his UK and Ireland tour in 2018.
Kevin, who last performed in Belfast in two years ago, broke box office records when his 2015 tour A Whole Different Story went on sale at the end of 2014, winning awards from Ticketmaster and Ents24 for the Fastest Selling Ticket of the year.
The tour saw him sell over 500,000 tickets across 145 dates, including an incredible 16 nights at The Hydro in Glasgow.
Tickets for his Belfast gigs will go on sale on Friday, November 24 at 10am.


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5 cheatcodes to catch a gamer girlfriend
Posted on February 7, 2010 July 2, 2022 by Ganker
The girl gamer is a rare breed of lady. Like a ninja or a flying unicorn, she remains perpetually shrouded in myth and/or shadow. Statistics would have us believe that over 40 percent of gamers are female — but come on. When was the last time you got trash-talked on Modern Warfare 2 by the dulcet tones of a woman? The fact is: you have a better chance of meeting a girl with an interest in Gauguin than gaming (girls are a lot smarter than us, y'see).
But that's not to say that female gamers don't exist. You just need to adopt the right mindset and know where to look. If you pine for a fellow gamer to keep you warm at night — and your hairy roommate just isn't cutting it — then you need to read this article. Armed with the following tips, you're guaranteed to land the gamer girlfriend of your dreams. Maybe.
#1: Stick to your own league
Amputated limbs is another sign to look for in a realistic gamer girlfriend.
Look at the girl in this article's header picture. Now erase her from your memory forever. She has been paid by Microsoft to look vaguely interested while holding an Xbox controller. As much as we'd like to believe otherwise, part-time models don't spend their downtime playing Halo 3 in their underwear (with the possible exception of Jessica Chobot.)
Besides, the girl in that photo would almost certainly crush you to death with her elephant-sized hoofs. Just look at the size of those bloody things! Gargantuan feet notwithstanding, our advice is to aim lower. Morgan Webb, Felicia Day and that cute chick who licks Xbox controllers are not going to date you. Stick to your own league.
What we're trying to say here, is that beggars can't be choosers. There is only one stud gamer in this world and his name is Vin Diesel. Chances are, your guns don't measure up. Set your sights on a girl gamer with slightly less facial hair than you — if she agrees to go on a date, you're doing pretty well for yourself.
#2: Join an MMO
World of Warcraft: there be ladies.
MMOs are unusually popular with girl gamers. In fact, the genre's crawling with more female chromosomes than a lonely mad scientist's petri dish. According to a recent Nielsen study, over two-thirds of online gamers are women — and most of 'em can be found playing World of Warcrack. (Er, we mean World of Warcraft.) With over 40,000 registered female players in the US alone, WoW is the ultimate hunting ground for affection-starved gamers. It's basically one big lonely hearts club, but with trolls, gnomes and ogres. [So, no change there then. -- Ed.]
But it's not just the desperate-and-dateless who play World of Warcraft. Some confirmed WoW-hotties include Cameron Diaz, Mila Kunis, Kate Beckinsale, Jenna Jameson and Playboy model Adrianne Curry — who reportedly enjoys playing in the buff. (See below.) As WoW blogger 'Jaimie' writes: "There are literally millions of people waiting to find a new raiding partner, on their computer screen and in life."
Adrianne Curry is a self-confessed WoW fanatic (but please refer to Tip 1).
Unlike most multiplayer games, MMOs are about establishing lasting relationships, as opposed to forming rivalries. For example, on Valentines Day you can surprise your WoW crush with a flower or piece of garden gnomeelry in-game. As you can imagine, this tends to go down better than shooting her in the head and tea-bagging her crumpled corpse. [In real-life too — Ed.]
Our advice is to join a guild with a skewered gender-ratio and then latch onto the most affable elf babe in your party. Naturally, voice-chat is a must during MMO courtships — otherwise you might be wooing a 40-year old mechanic called Bruce. If you play your cards right, you'll soon be chatting on the phone, arranging lunch dates and making beautiful Kaldorei babies together. As an added bonus, you'll also get to date her in-game avatar — that's two romantic partners for the price of one! (If she decides to start playing a dude, just go with it. Experimentation is the key to a healthy relationship.)
The only problem is... are MMO-fans really proper gamers? You might as well be dating a girl who only plays The Sims. (Just sayin'.)
#3: Become a paypig
GameCrush is a new online 'dating' service that lets you play video games with women in exchange for cold, hard cash. It's basically a virtual brothel that substitutes Halo for sex. No really. For the princely sum of US$41.70 an hour, you get to choose a lady from Gamecrush's roster of buxom 'PlayDates' and proceed to pwn her in the video game of your choice. Or you could let her beat your avatar to a bloody pulp in-game — whatever floats your boat.
The question is, are you desperate enough to try and score with a platonic prostitute who is solely in it for the cash?
"Hell yeah!" would appear to be the most popular response. Within a few hours of its beta launch, the Gamecrush website was swamped by thousands of requests from horny gamers in an orgy of passion-fuelled server annihilation. "The GameCrush Public Beta is temporarily unavailable due to the incredible user response (more than 10,000 inquiries in five minutes)," explained the front page.
Of course, the PlayDates aren't really gamers -- no more than a dominatrix is a bonafide school teacher. But at least they're willing to talk to you... for a price.
#4: Hit a gaming bar
Mana Bar.
The bar has long been the Mecca of the dating world. Fueled by Dutch courage and with beer-goggles donned, it's the most likely place to find a romantic partner (or a sweaty night of mutual self-loathing).
If either of those prospects sounds appealing to you, you need to get your butt to a gaming bar. These uniquely-themed watering holes attempt to combine gaming with social drinking — and they're bringing girl gamers out of the woodworks. We like to imagine that the men who built these bars were galvanized by Field of Dreams-style visions: "If you build it, they will come, etc."
For Australians, there's the Mana Bar in Brisbane, a "funky drinking venue" co-owned by the legendary Ben Crowshaw (AKA Yahtzee). The Mana Bar features playable consoles seven days a week, with an emphasis on social gaming. Remember, you're not here to devastate noobs with blistering kill-streaks. If you want to impress a girl gamer you need to make her laugh — and what could be funnier than warbling unmusically into a SingStar microphone?
Meanwhile, Japanese gamers can swing by Roppongi, Tokyo and check out Ludia's Bar. As its name implies, Ludia's Bar is inspired by the popular JRPG series Dragon Quest which features an inn with the same name.
The bar's grand opening coincided with the release of Dragon Quest VI on the Nintendo DS (coincidentally, the girl gamer's console of choice). While it doesn't recreate the 'Ye Olde Taveyrn' setting, Ludia's Bar does offer a bunch of themed dishes and cocktails; including a 'Hyad Cool' drink and something called a 'Goddess's Fruit'. Frankly, if a girl rebuffs your attempts to buy her a Hyad Cool drink, she's just not worth it. (Who turns down a free Hyad Cool drink? Seriously?)
Unfortunately, the likelihood of these places being rampant sausage factories is a lot higher than your average bar 'n' bistro. Bummer.
#5: Convert a non-gamer
To be honest, this is probably the only tip you need. Y'see, love is a hideous and complicated monster beyond any of our understanding. If you narrow the field to just girl gamers, you'll be embarking on an impossible mission — even if you happen to look like Hugh Jackman's hotter, younger brother.
Related: How to convert your girlfriend to gaming
Our advice is to find a girl you like, and who by some cosmic coincidence, happens to like you back. If the relationship works out, she's bound take an interest in your hobbies... including gaming.
screw getting a "gamer" girlfriend. Getting a regular one is hard enough!
I thought this article was hilarious! But I think your best bet is to convert a girl into a gamer. There are games out their for everybody. But the key is to start her off slow with games that might bore you are be below your level of game play, but she might like because its easy to play. A good gateway game for girls are the sims.
ah yeah you're right about the sims. strangely i've known girls that went from the sims 2 to gta3 san andreas to assassins creed t othe sims 3... so who knows?
anyway I would keep em away from fps' as I think they like 3d person (or arcade) better...
James Durbey
@ Gan:
Agreed on them liking third person games. The only shooter my girlfriend likes to play is L4D/2 split screen coop with me on the 360. Only other shooter she's enjoyed was Goldeneye back in the day playing with her brothers. And the game she got the most addicted to....drum roll....Vice City. So thar you go.
Agree with pat, co-op is the way to go, I've recently converted my Wife 🙂
Note that it might be easier to do with younger females (not over 40)
We started out with Spyro after she "got me" a PS3 for my b-day (which i picked out and ordered and paid for 😉 Then we moved onto some of the LEGO games which are quite easy and fun to play together. Then we got all the way through Eternal Sonata. Lately she loves to watch me play Assasin's Creed II (makes me stop playing it when she goes to sleep so she doesn't miss out on the story line) Overall i think that it is doable, just start them off slow. Of coarse younger age (24) is a big plus to being successful.
SHAFTUCANTHANDL
I have been trying to convert my (super hot) girl to be a gamer girl for a while, and it is not sticking...
What you should do is make a list of games that would get a non-gamer girl interested in gaming...
I will try Braid next.. It will remind her of Mario Bro's, which every girl has played at least once.. but also challenge her intellect....
Sometimes I ask myself, If I am to succeed in making my hottie a gamer girl... will I then regret it???... Get off my PS3...
I got my girl into the first Resistance when it came out. Had to play co-op with her which was frustrating but I tried to make it fun with her. Eventually she started playing the single player on her own when I was at work. So co-op game could be a good start to, but it really all depends on the girl.
PS: for many girls Wii is a great start, start her off with Wii + Wii Fit for her bday or valentine's...
I got lucky and found a girl who is willing to try new things, and after trying a few video games out, she started to really like Borderlands. As I said, I got lucky.
Im a girl gamer and my boyfriend bought assassins creed 1 when it first came out and I was hooked. I then went on to sims 2 which my boyfriend got for me and was hooked, then it was fable 2, then gta IV, cod [email protected] then borderlands, fat princess, assassins creed 2, fairytale fights and oblivion. Theres been others but I cant remember. All I can say to guys out there that want to get there girlfriend into gaming is start off simple even say "can you man this window while I do..." thats how I got hoooked on nazi zombies. Even play co-op with a girl and make sure she doesnt die and praise her for doing something right.
I met a gal gamer in my college..:)..boy..never thought it would be possible ya knw.:D..especailly in my country
Cody Blevins
man this article is awesome i got my girlfriend (Erica) playing rock band 2...
...yeah 😀 it was pretty interesting comparing DLC learning we have the exact same DLC
I know someone that married a girl he met through warhawk. a second couple that are getting married in july through warhawk, and i myself even went to stay with a hottie in canada that i met through warhawk.
I play with plenty of ladies i met through the good ol'hawk and have at least 12 on my friendlist.
Just like out in the wilds there are girls all over the place, you just need to know how to communicate with them. Grunts don't count.
i got really lucky. the girl i met was already into games. and in my league. we have great convos about mw2. she puts getting an Xbox over almost everything else xD
Lobobolt
actually if you do find a girl that like games like yourself, you will both probably won't be playing video games together but making out and going out on dates. Happened to me, we only played games once during our relationship.
It's one of those rare times that being gay is an advantage - finding myself a gamer boyfriend was easy!
Only trouble is, when a new game comes out we don't see eachother for a week...
Almost 5 years now, me and my girl met on WoW.
Now we have 2 kids.......
GL and HF xD
swear to f-ing god - At my university I met this Brazilian chick that came to Canada to study Computer Science. She never gamed much before - but she willingly got hooked on GTA, Grand Turismo 3, Counter Strike, COD MW2, Starcraft, and now Starcraft2 (beta). Shes pretty amazing at SC2 and CoD MW2.
Oh and guess what - shes a ballet dancer and was a friggin fashion model before university - the tall, tan, fit, long haired brazilian type - Sooooooo hot. She also cooks, cleans (she moved in with me - I pay rent, but haha fair enough), sews, and loves my parents. What a dreamboat.
How did I score? Well Im fairly attractive, but she can def do better physically. Seems that what really did it for her is that when we met I didnt start drooling automatically. I treated her politely, but like she was one of the guys.
As somewhat of a nerd, let me say... Forget all that high school popularity bullsh-it guys - in the real world, personality and talent DO make it. Dont act like youre not worthy!
im a gamer girl, and honestly feel insulted when anyone who only plays WOW or Wii call themselves a gamer.
ewww :p
lynielou
i'm a gamer girl also. this article was funny but i suppose it's kinda right most of my friends even the ones addicted to anima hates gaming to hard they say.i lost a PS2 controller when my friend played final fantasy 10. Same thing happened with the new prince of Persia. some much money wasted
uhg. this article was funny but all these comments are gay. Seriously its like you are all talking about training a puppy. I am a gamer girl and I have been my whole life because I grew up with an older brother. I love MW2 on 360 and play it religiously. I personally think its just silly to say things like "start her off with wii"... I HATE wii with a fiery passion. I hate guitar hero and want to sock it in the face. But thats probably because I tested Smash Hits at Activision and it pretty much killed it for me. I am hilarious. I play drums. I am not a unicorn. Although I think it would be awesome to be a ninja.. 🙂 My point is... there are kick ass girls all over the place.. and if its meant to be it will be. Maybe some of you are having trouble converting your gf's/hot friends into gamers because you keep introducing them to crap ass games and condescending their intelligence. Some girls, such as myself, actually prefer shooting bitches in the face...
lose some fucking weight, go outside, and find the right one for yourself


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