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Zara says that four years ago, she joined a communal bank within Pro Mujer, and that she was invited to do so by one of her co-members. Currently she has a business selling stockings, which has been operating for several years.
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La señora Zara cuenta que hace cuatro años que integra una Banca Comunal dentro de Pro Mujer y que para esto fue invitada por una de sus compañeras; en la actualidad ella tiene un negocio de venta de medias, mismo que trabaja hace varios años.
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How can I get my daughter to stop pulling her hair out?
My 2-year-old has a habit of twisting and pulling out her hair. She used to do this only when she was tired, but when I started potty training her the habit worsened. I eased up on the toilet training once it was clear that this was stressing her out, but she continues to pull out her hair. I gently remind her not to do this, but it's gotten so bad that she now has only an inch or so of hair left (she used to be able to wear pigtails). How can I help her stop this behavior?
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as an infant,my now six year old daughter started pulling/twisting my hair while sucking her thumb. after i got my hair cut she started on her own hair. she did this when she was tired or overwhelmed. she was and still is a very tactile child. so she also did it because she likes the feel of her hair. i also took her to a therapist. trichotillamania is not really a toddler disorder. as she went thru stressful times the hair pulling/twisting increased. i kept her hair short. she hated it saying she looked like a boy. i told her we had to keep it short so that she didn't pull. as she got older she found other stress releases and other things that she could feel that satisfied her need to feel hair. she still does from time to time, such as when she was in the hospital for a week. but for the most part, she has stopped. her hair is growing back. when i do catch her, i remind her how nice her longer hair looks. also, i have heard that if you tell them they can pull their hair all they want but only in the bathroom with the door closed, it looses its thrill. good luck. it is a tough one.posted 11/17/2004 by lisamom6
This happened to me. It was connected to her thumb sucking. We put a glove on her at night.We had to tape it on her. This stopped the hair pulling & thumb sucking during the day. She is now 7 and has really long hair, & no trich.posted 11/17/2004 by whatstheprob
This is a form of obsessive compulsive disorder. There are behavioral therapies now as well as medication. You may have success with the behavior therapy without a need for medication. I have OCD and have been in behavior therapy for several months now and it has made remarkable improvements with me. It was thought before that this was a psychological problem, but research has shown that there are chemical imbalances in the brain that most likely cause this. The behavioral therapy definitely helped for me. Good luck. If you search OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder, it will give you some insight on the problem and the different ways it can present itself as well as treatment options. Good luck.posted 11/17/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
I read a column in the newspaper recently about a little girl who did the same thing. it was written by John Rosemond. He suggested that the little girl should be allowed to pull her hair as much as she wanted, but only where no one else could see her. When she started puuling, the parents would calmly take her to a bedroom or bathroom and tell her that she could pull all she wanted with the door closed, then come out when she was finished. He said that things like this can develop into disorders if allowed to go on or given too much attention, but could be stemmed with simple discipline. if you try this and your daughter still pulls, then perhaps she should be seen by a doctor. I think parents nowadays are far too quick to label everything a "disorder."posted 11/17/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
I forgot to mention a pediatrician will just refer you to a physiatrist so if you don't need a referral for that service don't waste your time seeing the pediatrician unless your child eats the hair then you will need the pediatrician to supervise any problems the hair may cause if the hair collects and clogs the digestive track. In that case you would need them both. We're lucky they've learned more about this condition and we have great resources for help now. Take care!posted 11/17/2004 by crent
My daughter used to pull out her hair when she was throwing temper tantrums. My pediatrician recommended first to calmly hold her on my lap with her arms at her sides until the episodes subsided...this only made them last longer . Our next step (not for the faint of heart) was to tape socks onto her hands so she couldn't get a good grip on her hair. It worked like a charm, only 3 times until she stopped completely. My advice is to definitely consult your pediatrician, whatever you do. Good luck.posted 11/17/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
My 5 year has Trichotillomania. Only she pulls out her hair and eats it. It is an impulse disorder in our daughters case she has a lot of OCD symptoms so we think it's OCD. My 7 year old daughter has Tourettes Syndrome she doesn't have Trichotillomania but it is more often found with children with Tourettes so we worry my 5 year old may develop Tourettes later on. I've read a book called "Help for Hair Pullers understanding and coping with Trichotillomania? It?s a good book--It can be purchased on Amazon.com. I recommend keeping your child?s stress level down and teaching them other means to expressing their stress--Sports, play dough, coloring or anything that will keep their hands and mind occupied for relief--Not Food. I recommend getting a doctors advice but I would try behavior modification first--medication should be a last resort.posted 11/17/2004 by crent
I had the same "habbit" when I was 7 which embarassed myself for 5 years. I'm not completely 'cured' but minimized the 'habbit' from pulling off hair to cutting out hair split using siccsors. Now my son (about 3) appears to have the same. He holds and feels his hair by his right hand when he's stressed or sleepy. I keep telling him that pulling hair is not right and advise him to 'ask' his left hand to control his naughty right hand by crossing his fingers like praying, whenever his right hand is trying to pull hair. This works sometimes but yet he's too young to control himself. I agree that these cases need to get help from pediatrician. so good luck to you and me.posted 11/17/2004 by Jacseto
I would try to put some mittens on her hands, the same way we do for scratching and or nailbiting. If that does not work then try to put her hair u in one bun or maybe even some braids that are not hanging free.posted 11/17/2004 by rowley925
my year-old son was doing this to the point where he had bald patches on his scalp. our pediatrician wasnt much help other than to warn us about the dangers of swallowing too much hair so you may find you need a referral to a ped with more experience with this kind of disorder. ultimately we ended up shaving his hair short enough that he couldnt grab it and gradually substituted furry hair-like toys and blankets when he needed comforting. we made a blanket out of fake fur from the fabric store and he sleeps with that every night and seems very contented. it took about four months and we keep his hair very very short, but he rarely grabs for his hair now when distressed. occasionally he twirls and pulls mine when he can get to it, but im fine with that so long as Im just another comfort toy and not the _only_ toy. just be patient and dont make a big deal out of it when you see her doing it or it will make the situation even more stressful and take longer to cure the habit. shaving the head really helps to start - i know she's a girl so its harder, but that was the thing that really helped us move in the right direction. if the hair isnt there they're more receptive to an alternative. good luck!posted 11/16/2004 by ebmk96
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The City of Yokohama held the Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP) Forum on June 14, 2015. Participants in the Forum reported to the public and interested businesses on project initiatives mounted over the course of five years. The project's demand response trials, involving the use of home energy management systems (HEMS), energy management systems for the household sector, are Japan's largest, with approximately 3,500 households participating. The trials are providing valuable outcomes towards social verification of the effectiveness of the systems, for example by demonstrating how the level of reduction in peak power demand changes with the provision of information and the offering of incentives.
- 2015/05/19
- Using HEMS to Achieve Optimal Energy Management in Detached Houses and Housing Complexes
The Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP) consists of a number of projects that have begun to produce results. One project is conducting a demonstration of demand response (DR) in the largest such demonstration in Japan, covering 3500 households. Another uses a home energy management system (HEMS) to promote efficient energy use and conservation in the household sector. Yet another project is using home-to-home energy wheeling.
- 2015/05/19
- Optimal Control of EV and Charging Station Storage Batteries by Linking with CEMS
As part of the Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP), a V2H (vehicle to home) system was developed such that storage batteries in electric vehicles (EV) were charged with electric power from home photovoltaic (PV) power generation systems and conversely the storage batteries supplied electric power to homes. A charging station energy management system (EMS) was developed that used PV power generation and storage batteries supporting demand response (DR) linked to a community energy management system (CEMS). Using this, EV sharing was demonstrated. The project sought to develop a combined energy storage / charging system for EVs by combining multiple quick chargers with high-capacity storage batteries. The Storage Battery SCADA system was also developed. This system sees the multiple storage batteries as one virtual battery containing them all. Among other things, DR was demonstrated that eliminated the need for power usage limitations.
Regional information
|Name of city
|City of Yokohama
|435.17km2 (as of August 2012)
|3,703,258 (as of January 2014)
|Locations for the operational experiments
|City of Yokohama as a whole, with a focus on three districts: The Minatomirai 21 district, the Kohoku New Town district, and the Yokohama Green Valley district
|Area covered by the operational experiments
|435.17km2(as of August 2012)
|Number of households involved in the operational experiments
|4,000 houses and apartments for social verifications and technology verifications
|Number of workplaces involved in the operational experiments
|4 office buildings, 3 commercial buildings, 4 apartments, 1 large-scale factory
|Number of EV/PHV involved in the operational experiments
|25 EV for demand response (DR) verifications (including 6 EV for charging/discharging; 2 charging stations with PV/storage batteries)
|Target for introduction of photovoltaic generation, etc.
|Photovoltaic (PV) generation: 27MW; HEMS: 4,000 households; EV: 2,000 vehicles
About the city
With a population of 3.7 million, Yokohama is a large city even by world standards. Commercial buildings are clustered around the Yokohama Station area and factories concentrate around the bay, while residential areas are situated inland. The diverse topographical areas of the city include the commercial district centering on Minatomirai, with its numerous high-rise buildings on the site of a redeveloped bay area that used to be a shipyard; the large-scale "new town" area, developed between the 1970s and the 1990s and covering about 2,500 ha; and the bay around which large-scale apartment and industrial complexes are concentrated.
Overview of the project
The Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP) is an effort to develop a model for smart cities by means of cooperation between citizens, private companies, and the municipality, and to export the successful model to Japan and the rest of the world. Large-scale operational experiments are being held with Yokohama, a large, advanced city with a diverse topographical range of districts, as the stage. The hierarchical bundling of energy management systems (EMS) enables energy management at the level of individual EMS and demand-side management at the level of the overall system.
Each of the EMS considers its respective environment in managing energy and making energy use visible. There are a number of different types of EMS: HEMS for houses, HEMS for residential complexes, HEMS for apartments, integrated BEMS, and FEMS, which optimally control factory operation. Integrated BEMS offer group management of BEMS for office buildings and commercial facilities. In addition to these, the CEMS brings together elements including the electric vehicles (EV) for charging and discharging verifications, charging stations, and the SCADA storage batteries that contribute to system stabilization, which will form the nucleus of next-generation transport systems, and offer optimal management of energy at the level of the community as a whole.
By means of optimal linking of the EMS, centering on the CEMS, we are creating infrastructure that will facilitate the large-scale introduction of renewable energies, for example by offsetting the instability of weather-sensitive photovoltaic (PV) generation. At the same time, we are conducting large-scale verifications of demand response (DR). In addition to curbing power demand by providing consumers with incentives to limit their electricity use, thus contributing to the reduction of CO2 at a lower social cost, we are realizing overall optimal energy management while testing DR to make it possible to absorb the surplus power that will be generated by the large-scale introduction of PV generation.
Project orientation
Our aim is to transform a city already provided with social infrastructure into a low-carbon city while maintaining the comfort of its residents. In order to do so, we will introduce a CEMS and develop and operate energy management systems optimized for this specific region. Together with these efforts, we will use PV generation and other forms of renewable energy, and work to change the way that citizens relate to energy. Specifically, we will introduce HEMS for homes, BEMS for offices and commercial buildings, FEMS for factories, and EV and charging stations for the transport sector, and we will curb peak energy demand and conserve energy through their mutual linkage.
Themes of operational experiments
PV generation, storage batteries, CEMS, HEMS, BEMS, FEMS, EV, charging infrastructure, SCADA storage batteries
Participating companies and organizations
- NTT docomo
- ORIX Corporation
- ORIX Auto Corporation
- Sharp Corporation
- JX Nippon Oil & Energy
- DAIKYO ASTAGE, Inc.
- Taisei Corporation
- Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
- Nomura Real Estate Development Co., Ltd.
- Panasonic Corporation
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Moore's archivally dense and methodologically suggestive exploration of the lives, works, and communities crafted by four eighteenth-century women—the literary and visual artist Mary Delany (1700-1788); collector Mary Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-85); poet Anna Seward (1747-1809); and writer and educator Sarah Pierce (1767-1852)—locates itself amongst recent important reconsiderations of the affective work of lesbian and gay history by Chris Nealon, Carla Freccero, L. O. Aranye Fradenburg, and others, which foreground the dynamic interplay between historical narratives and the contemporary communities that both shape and draw sustenance from them. Moore's engaging and beautifully written book is enlivened by the authoritative location of her subjects within complex cultural and relational contexts, as it is by her sharp eye for telling biographical details. Her archive is capacious: the range of its contents and close readings offer remarkable insight into the diversity of its subjects' artistic and affective practices. As her title suggests, Moore does not shy from employing the term "lesbian" in historical contexts predating its contemporary usage, gesturing towards the strategic deployment of taxonomical anachronisms in the work of Freccero, Valerie Rohy, and others.
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Once again, an Atlantic Sun Conference program put a scare into Georgetown. Unlike last season's NCAA Tournament loss, the Hoyas made winning plays in the second half.
D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera scored 17 points and Mikael Hopkins had all 13 of his points in the second half as the Hoyas won their third straight game with a 70-49 win over Lipscomb.
Leading 27-26 at halftime, Georgetown (4-2) started the second half with a 13-0 run as Smith-Rivera tallied 12 points after the break. After settling for 3's in the first half - and missing their last 14 - the Hoyas poured in points from the paint over the final 20 minutes, shooting 56.5 percent in the second half.
Lipscomb (3-4), which defeated Georgetown nemesis Florida Gulf Coast twice last season, closed the first half on a 7-0 run. The Hoyas showed no signs of nerves after halftime, pulling away by holding the Bisons without a point for the opening six minutes of the second half.
Asked to reveal his halftime message, Georgetown coach John Thompson III said, "I thought we needed to make shots. We had a lot of wide open shots in the [first] half and because we were getting the wide open shots, we kept taking them instead of trying to get the ball inside. I think in the second half we played more inside out."
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Back on the U.S. mainland after victories over Kansas State and No. 10 VCU at the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, the Hoyas initially maintained that momentum early with an 11-point lead. However, faulty 3-point shooting and another foul-plagued game for Josh Smith allowed the Bisons to stick around, at least for one half.
Whittington: Before tipoff, the program announced junior forward Greg Whittington had been dismissed from the team.
Leading man: Georgetown's leading scorer this season, Smith-Rivera did a little of everything against Lipscomb. In a game the Hoyas shot 7 of 27 from beyond the arc, the sophomore guard made 4 of 7 attempts. He also led Georgetown with eight rebounds and seven assists.
"He is going to score. It was good to see him finally throw some passes and get some rebounds," Thompson cracked.
The scoring certainly hasn't been an issue lately for the sophomore guard, who averaged 21.7 points during the three games in Puerto Rico while making 10 of 16 3-pointers.
" The 17 points, I will say whatever to that," Thompson continued, "but the seven assists and the eight rebounds is something that we need more of that from him. I thought he did a good job."
The turn: Known more for his defensive energy, guard Jabril Trawick sparked the Hoyas with a dunk and fast break layup immediately after halftime.
"I thought in the first half overall they were just playing harder than we were, Trawick said. "My mindset in the second half was to bring the energy.
His coach appreciate the hustle and desire.
"[Jabril] got us going and all of a sudden other guys started to feed off of his aggressiveness, his assertiveness, his energy," Thompson said.
Sitting Smith: Joshua Smith scored 14 points in only 16 minutes. Blame foul trouble for the limited playing time, though this marked the fourth time in six games he has played less than 20 minutes. The 6-foot-10, 350-pound junior center made all six of his field goal attempts, three in each half.
"He such a big guy and so skilled down there, you're almost helpless," Lipscomb coach Casey Alexander said. "Anytime he can get the ball with you behind him, you're at his mercy."
The issue is Smith cannot stay on the court long enough for the Hoyas to take advantage of his low post gifts. Georgetown has no replacement for his low post offense. When Smith sits, Georgetown is a completely different team, certainly in style, though Thompson doesn't think that's "an extra challenge. I think we know how we want to play with whomever in the game. Are we much different when he is on the court? Absolutely. But it is not like we have to completely reinvent the wheel. We know what to look for when he is in there, how we are going to attack things. Defensively, how we need to protect him."
Bigs: Georgetown entered with a major size advantage against a Lipscomb squad with no starter taller than 6-foot-5. That was the case even with Smith playing only seven minutes before halftime. None of that showed on the boards in the first half. Georgetown had 23 rebounds, Lipscomb 21. Second half, a different tale as the Hoyas outrebounded the Bisons 25-16.
"We just had to come back out and be aggressive, attack the glass," said Hopkins, who had all seven rebounds in the second half. "They were the smaller team. [Just] use our athleticism."
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3-point follies: Starks and Smith-Rivera each made a shot from beyond the arc inside the first 90 seconds. Georgetown then missed 14 straight. Actually, half of the Hoyas first half attempts were 3-pointers despite their significant size advantage even with Smith saddled with fouls. Overall Georgetown shot 7 of 27 from distance, but went 4 of 9 in the second half.
Missing out: Moses Ayegba did not play and Reggie Cameron received only five minutes.
On deck: The Hoyas host High Point on December 5 at 9:00 p.m.


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As the President and his spokesvoices sought to mitigate and explain away this disaster for the ages, fingers began to point at the woman atop the agency holding the reins.
This put Secretary Sebelius in the hotseat to face pressure even from usually adoring voices from the left.
(If that liberal pushback surprises you, don't let it. Obamacare disciples needed this beast to roll out as cleanly and efficiently as a moon rocket at Cape Canaveral. They know the failure of the delivery system sparks massive doubt as to whether the government that could not launch a website can remotely handle the infinitely more complex task of managing the actual care of millions.)
She has not done well under fire, and I confess a certain sympathy. What exactly is she supposed to say? What magical words would make people nod and say "Oh, NOW I get it."
But the larger truth is that like any member of this administration, she is a willing accomplice to its agenda. It may not be her direct fault that healthcare.gov is such a mess, but responsibility lies at the feet of those in charge.
That ultimately means Barack Obama himself, who surely knew what might be coming. It is impossible to believe that this controlling, wonkish President would not be elbows-deep in every detail of this rollout. He wears it just as she does.
The difference is, he isn't going anywhere. She may be gone by Thanksgiving. Two questions arise: does the administration help itself by throwing her under the bus, and does her dismissal bolster the case for Obamacare's eventual extinction?
The answers are yes and yes.
The moment he shows Sebelius the door, the pressure momentarily lightens around Obama. Many will say "Look, he had to fire his HHS Secretary. There has been accountability, let's move on."
But a silver lining lies ahead for those seeking to stop Obamacare. A Sebelius departure would begin the wafts of a stench of failure that should properly lead to a successful effort to drive a stake through the heart of this monster.
When that great day comes, we will look back at these autumn days and the pillars of the "Affordable" Care Act that started dropping like leaves.
It all begins now, as even those who were open to Obamacare are starting to feel the first tugs of doubt. If we play hard and play smart, we can turn that into broad skepticism and eventually bitter distaste.
But as we head down that welcome road, paved in large part by the courageous resolve of Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and those who led the defund effort, we need to be ready to take advantage of every chapter in Obamacare's unraveling.
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This spring saw rising public anger over the preferential Obamacare waiver process (which I first reported on in September 2010). Some 2,000 lucky golden ticket winners were freed from the costly federal mandates -- including a handful of fancy restaurants in Aloha Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district, the entire state of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Nevada, and scores of local, state and national Big Labor organizations, from the Service Employees International Union and Teamsters on down. Meanwhile, as The Hill newspaper reported last month, other not-so-lucky Republican-led states seeking waivers, such as Indiana and Louisiana, were rejected.
But it wasn't just Republicans objecting to the president's arbitrary Obamacare fiats. In July, congressional Democrats turned on the monstrous federal health bureaucracy known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The constitutionally suspect panel -- freed from normal public notice, public comment and public review rules -- would have unprecedented authority over health care spending and an expanding jurisdiction of private health care payment rates.
Obama's health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, faced separate legal questions over her overseer role in a hair-raising document-shredding case when she served as governor of Kansas. In October, a district judge in the Sunflower State suspended court proceedings in a high-profile criminal case against the abortion racketeers of Planned Parenthood. Bombshell court filings showed that Kansas health officials "shredded documents related to felony charges the abortion giant faces" and failed to disclose it for six years.
That same month, Bloomberg News columnist Jonathan Alter gushed: "There is zero evidence ... of corruption. Where is it?"
Alter's declaration of the "Obama Miracle" came just weeks after the politically driven half-billion-dollar Solyndra stimulus "investment" went bankrupt, prompting an FBI raid and ongoing criminal and congressional probes of the solar company funded by top White House bundler and visitor George Kaiser.
As Solyndra and an avalanche of other ongoing green subsidy scams erupted, so did the LightSquared debacle -- a federal broadband boondoggle involving billionaire hedge fund managers and Obama donors Philip Falcone and George Soros. In September, two high-ranking witnesses -- William Shelton, the four-star general who heads the Air Force Space Command, and National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Director Anthony Russo -- exposed how the White House had pressured them to alter their congressional testimony and play down concerns about LightSquared's interference threat to military communications.
The White House continues to block efforts to gain information about the Federal Communications Commission's approval of a special waiver for the company, even as new government tests this month showed that the company's "signals caused harmful interference to the majority of ... general purpose GPS receivers."
The Obama White House closed out the year with Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri demanding a probe of the smelly $443 million no-bid smallpox antiviral pill contract with Siga Technologies -- controlled by big lefty donor Ron Perelman. Then there was the small matter of massive voter fraud in Indiana, where a Democratic official resigned amid allegations that "dozens, if not hundreds," of signatures were faked to get Obama on the state primary ballot in 2008. And while Americans busied themselves with the holidays, White House and Democratic campaign officials were dumping more than $70,000 in contributions from another deep-pocketed contributor -- scandal-plagued pal and former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who oversaw the collapse of MF Global.
All this -- and so much more -- yet erstwhile "conservative" journalist Andrew Sullivan of Newsweek/The Daily Beast scoffed, "Where are all the scandals promised by Michelle Malkin?"
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
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|Directed by
|John Roberts
|Produced by
|Mark Gordon
Gary Levinsohn
Allyson Lyon Segan
|Written by
|Laurie Craig
|Jay Mohr
Tony Shalhoub
Gena Rowlands
Hallie Eisenberg
Cheech Marin
Bruce Davison
Trini Alvarado
|Narrated by
|Jay Mohr
|Music by
|John Debney
|Tony Pierce-Roberts
|Edited by
|Bruce Cannon
|Distributed by
|DreamWorks Pictures
Release dates
Running time
|94 minutes
United States
|$23 million
|Box office
|$26.9 million[1]
Paulie is a 1998 German/American adventure fantasy comedy film about a disobedient bird named Paulie, starring Tony Shalhoub, Gena Rowlands, Hallie Eisenberg, and Jay Mohr. Mohr performs the voice of Paulie and also plays a minor on-screen character.
The film is a picaresque tale about an intelligent talking blue-crowned conure named Paulie, and his long quest to return to his owner.
Misha Belenkoff (Tony Shalhoub), a Russian immigrant and former teacher of literature, lives in America and works as a janitor at an animal testing lab. At the lab, Belenkoff encounters Paulie and is shocked to see Paulie speaking fluent English. Subsequently, Paulie does not speak a word when Belenkoff brings others to witness the talking bird.
Belenkoff woos Paulie to tell his story by offering him pieces of mango. Paulie tells Belenkoff about his master, a little girl named Marie (Hallie Eisenberg) who was a stutterer. The story transitions to a flashback scene in which Paulie is a baby bird. As Marie learns to speak, so does Paulie, beginning with understanding the meaning of words and progressing to the construction of complex sentences. Marie's father (Warren, played by Matt Craven), a soldier, returns home from Vietnam and decides that Paulie is not helping Marie. The father's resentment of the close bond between Paulie and Marie, and their shared progress in speech development is evident.
It becomes obvious that he wants Marie to forget Paulie, when the father brings her a cat. The cat and Paulie don't get along. Once again, Warren blames Paulie for Marie's speaking problems and believes she has imagined Paulie's ability to speak. Eventually after a dramatic event in which Marie falls off the roof in an attempt to teach Paulie to fly, Warren convinces Marie's mother (Lila, Laura Harrington), to send him away.
Paulie is passed from one owner to another, eventually ending up in a pawn shop, where he spends his time insulting the customers until he is purchased by a widowed artist named Ivy (Gena Rowlands). She befriends the bird and agrees to find Marie, who has moved across the country to Los Angeles. Ivy loses her sight and Paulie decides to stay and take care of her. After Ivy dies, Paulie, having finally learned to fly, continues his journey.
In East Los Angeles, Paulie joins a group of performing conures owned by Ignacio (Cheech Marin), but later begins a life of crime after being kidnapped by Benny (Jay Mohr). In a botched jewel theft, Paulie flies down through the chimney of a house, where he is trapped inside, then abandoned.
Paulie is then brought to the institute, his current home, where employees and scientists are stunned by his intelligence. They subject him to testing, and promise that he will be reunited with Marie. When Paulie discovers that he has been lied to by way of his acquisition as institute property, he refuses to cooperate with any more tests. As a result, his wings are clipped, and he is imprisoned in the basement.
Moved by Paulie's story, Belenkoff decides to give up his menial job to release Paulie and take him to Marie. After escaping from the institute and taking a bus to her address, they find her, now a full grown, beautiful young woman (Trini Alvarado) unrecognizable to Paulie. After a moment of confusion, Paulie and Marie are happily reunited as Marie sings Paulie's favorite song and he remembers her. The film ends with the three characters happily entering the house.
- Jay Mohr as the voice of Paulie, a blue-crowned conure, and Benny
- Tony Shalhoub as Misha, a recent US immigrant from East Europe
- Gena Rowlands as Ivy, a widowed artist
- Hallie Eisenberg as Marie Alweather, a young girl who stutters
- Trini Alvarado as Adult Marie
- Cheech Marin as Ignacio, an entertainer
- Bruce Davison as Dr. Reingold, a biological research Scientist
- Buddy Hackett as Artie, owner of a pawn shop
- Matt Craven as Warren Alweather, Marie's father
- Bill Cobbs as Virgil
- Tia Texada as Ruby and the voice of Lupe, a Jandaya parakeet
- Laura Harrington as Lila Alweather, Marie's mother
- Jerry Winsett as Mr. Tauper
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Directed by John Roberts and written by Laurie Craig,[2] the film's production budget was $23 million.[3]
|This section requires expansion. (December 2014)
The movie Paulie scored a 6.2/10 rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[4] It was distributed in 24 countries and 10 different languages between 1998 and 1999.[citation needed] Box office receipts grossed $5,369,800 on the opening weekend, and $26,875,268 total.[5] It was released in 1,812 North American theaters.[3]
Awards and nominations[edit]
|ALMA Award
|Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film - Cheech Marin
|ALMA Award
|Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film - Trini Alvarado
|BAFTA Children's Award
|Best Children's Feature Film
|Bronze Gryphon
|Early Screens - John Roberts
|Young Artist Award
|Best family feature - Comedy
|Young Artist Award
|Best performance in a feature film - Young Actress aged ten or under - Hallie Kate Eisenberg
|Young Artist Award
|Best performance by a young actress in a comedy film - Hallie Kate Eisenberg
- ^ "Box Office Mojo". IMDB.com. 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
- ^ "Paulie (1998)". imdb.com. imdb.com. 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ^ a b "PAULIE". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ "Paulie (1998)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster, Inc. 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ^ "Angels Stays Aloft in Top Spot". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
External links[edit]
- 1998 films
- 1990s fantasy films
- 1990s comedy films
- American children's fantasy films
- American comedy films
- American films
- German films
- English-language films
- Film scores by John Debney
- DreamWorks Pictures films
- Mutual Film Company films
- Buddy films
- Films about birds
- Films featuring anthropomorphic characters
- Films set in 1978
- Films set in New Jersey
- Films set in Los Angeles, California
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