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Handpicked By The Amoeba Staff
Films selected and reviewed by discerning movie buffs, television junkies, and documentary diehards (a.k.a. our staff).
The Fallen Idol
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Straight Outta Com
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The 400 Blows
The power of black and white film in an autobiographical story never ceases to be emotional and meaningful. The English title of French New Wave director François Truffaut's film The 400 Blows is unfortunately a literal translation that overlooks the meaning of the phrase "faire les quatre cents coups." The main character of the film is a thirteen-year-old boy named Antoine Doinel, who does exactly that – raises hell, or causes disruption within a society of order. Truffaut has a unique and undeniably intelligent way of filmmaking that is showcased in this personal film.
Our protagonist is as mysterious as he is mischievous. That is his essential charm – a young figure full of paradigms and intrigues. The beauty of the film lies in the fact that we follow him without obvious or over-the-top plot moves. The viewer is able to simply observe and be with Antoine in his exploration of a being a French adolescent. Antoine enters a life of crime and trouble making. He is scolded by his teacher, he discovers his mother is having an affair, and engages in stealing. He is punished and misunderstood by adults. There is no perfect answer for this boy, and this film proves there is no need for that. Truffaut allows us instead to enter a boy's intimate moments in visceral and dreamlike states.Continue Reading
White Dog
One would think that as blunt a director as Sam Fuller would have little use for metaphor when making a film about racism, but the director best known for his hard-hitting pulpy exposes of social injustice uses symbolism in White Dog as fluently as he used shock value in his previous films, without omitting any of the controversy expected of him. When Fuller made White Dog he had already pushed buttons with Shock Corridor's blunt portrayal of inhumane conditions in sanitariums in the 1950s and The Naked Kiss's vitriolic condemnation of small town hypocrisy. So why did Paramount seek out Fuller to co-write and direct a film based on a true story of a dog trained to attack Blacks, and then shelve the finished product? Fuller was back in favor after The Big Red One (1980), his first film after he made Shark! with Burt Reynolds in 1969, won the Palm d'Or at Cannes. Paramount pitched Fuller the concept, based on a Romain Gary article for Life magazine that Gary had adapted from his book Chien Blanc, and Fuller signed on to co-write the script with Curtis Hanson and direct the film. Together they adapted the non-fiction work into the story of Julie Sawyer, an aspiring actress who accidentally hits a white German shepherd while driving in the dark canyon roads of the Hollywood Hills. She rescues the dog, but after he attacks a co-worker, Julie believes that she has a former attack dog for a pet and takes him to movie set animal trainer Carruthers to reverse his aggressive training. When he sees the dog maul a Black man, he tells Julie that she has a "white dog," a dog trained by racists to attack only Blacks. Keyes, a Black trainer with an anthropological bent, attempts to deprogram Julie's racist dog as an experiment in the reversal of racial inculcation. Paramount was intent to avoid any accusations of insensitivity and in an attempt to obviate any complaints asked the president of the Beverly Hills chapter of the NAACP to be on set during the shoot. After the film's completion the organization voiced its disapproval of the film and Paramount decided to forgo its release.
This Criterion release is the first time White Dog has been available in the U.S. It never had a theatrical release here (although it did in France where it had decent ticket sales) and it has never been available on Beta, VHS, Laserdisc, DVD or shown on television. Those of us who were lucky enough to rent (or work, *hech-hem*) at Mondo Kim's in the East Village could rent a fuzzy bootleg with overmodulated sound. It was painful to listen to Ennio Morricone's score in such a distorted form, but Faustian bargains were made to glimpse Fuller's recondite masterpiece. Criterion does film scholars and the film community an immeasurable service when they release rare and obscure films like White Dog, Salo, Taste of Cherry, Sans Soleil, etc., more than amply making up for the plastic and human resources the label wastes the few times it releases films of questionable cinematic value that were already in wide circulation (I'm not going to name names. But one starts with Chasing…) By releasing White Dog Criterion is sharing with viewers one the strongest denunciations of racism in American film history, a denunciation that was stolen from audiences by Paramount's timidity and the NAACP's short-sightedness.Continue Reading
Mildred Pierce
Joan Crawford grabbed at life the only way she knew how—by the balls, baby. She fled a hard scrabble childhood full of the horrors to become the reigning queen of Hollywood. She defied so many odds put in front of her and she almost always came out on top. Joan was many different versions of herself throughout her life: gold digger, jazz baby, Pepsi hawker, perennial MGM shop girl, terrible, terrible mother, the greatest star the world has ever known, poster woman for mental illnesses, bizarre recipe creator, transgender identity pioneer, role model to the uneducated, black market baby taker, dubious advice giver, enemy of slovenly hippies, the world's most famous neat freak, world class fashion don't… she did it all. Her crazy life was her greatest work of art.
When people talk about Joan's essential artifice (and likewise the supposedly superior talents of her chief star rival, Bette Davis) I don't understand why they mean it in a bad way. Her artifice was the whole picture and it was riveting. It gave her a unique kind of depth. It set her apart. She didn't want to be liked; she demanded to be worshiped. Whether in a black market stag film early in her career (as was rumored) or any number of MGM prestige pictures or in her obsessive assembling of her bizarre family set up, Joan's way of life was to attack. Her ambition was her identity. This can be either repulsive or, if she was in the right film, it can be put to very compelling use.Continue Reading
Your high school English teacher always said everybody had a story in them. The Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo was a filmmaker who only had one story, a story of revolution that he attempted to tell in as many ways as possible. As a Jew trying to survive in Italy during the Second World War, Pontecorvo became a Marxist. Going into hiding, he organized Partisans to fight the fascist government and also wrote for the Communist Party's underground newspaper. His early exposure and involvement in radical leftist politics led to his adoption of Frantz Fanon's anti-colonial theories, ideas that he would subsequently develop in his magnum opus Battle of Algiers (1965) and later in Burn!
Battle of Algiers ideological ambiguity angered many conservative viewers and critics upon its release only three years after the French loss of the Algerian War. At the time the French right wing terrorist group OAS (the villains of Fred Zinneman's Day of the Jackal) was still active and had attempted to assassinate the French president Charles de Gaulle three years before for his role in the decay of the French empire. Battle of Algiers was banned in France for five years, ostensibly for showing the atrocities committed by the French armed forces and the Algerian insurgents' National Liberation Front with the same objective remove. The events portrayed in the film were carefully researched to accurately represent similar occurrences from 1954-1960. In contrast, Pontecorvo's next film had only a tenuous connection to any factual incidences. The protagonist, William Walker, played by Marlon Brando, is very loosely based on the 19th century American rogue adventurer of the same name who while under contract from the Nicaraguan government to put down a rebellion ended up declaring himself President of Nicaragua. His story is told in Alex Cox's brilliant film, Walker, finally available from Criterion, starring Ed Harris with a score composed by Joe Strummer.Continue Reading
Mister Lonely
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see Buckwheat from Our Gang wash the back of his holiness the Pope with a scrub brush in a stand-alone bathtub in the middle of the woods? Has the idea of witnessing Moe, Curly and Larry shoot a flock of diseased goats ever cross your mind? Or perhaps, getting a bird's eye view of several nuns free falling through the atmosphere during an impromptu skydiving trip? If so, Mister Lonely is the film for you.
Mister Lonely is the story of a shy Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living and dancing his way through the streets of Paris. While performing at a retirement home, Michael comes into contact with a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton). The two have lunch at which point Marilyn invites Michael to accompany her to a commune inhabited by celebrity impersonators located in the Highlands of Scotland. At first, Michael is apprehensive. But the beautiful and very uncanny Monroe impersonator convinces him to join her. Michael gathers his things in a scene, which in my opinion, is the embodiment of the entire film. Never has a moment in a film where a character interacts with furniture ever make me feel the way in which this particular (and peculiar) scene did.Continue Reading
Lady in White
A curious mix of autumn colored nostalgia for a small town early 1960s childhood and a supernatural fantasy with an icky child murderer sub plot to round it out, Lady in White is something of an anomaly. Released at a time when horror films were gorier than ever (think Freddy, Jason, et al.) this quietly creepy little movie made a virtue of suggestiveness rather than overkill and at least the hint of psychological complexity that works to the film's favor even if the execution is a little clumsy. Still, the film has a couple of genuinely haunting moments that have some of the visual poetry of the classic Val Lewton horror films that he made for RKO (Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie).
Little Frankie Scarlatti (Lukas Haas) is a sensitive kid and a budding writer who loves to scare people with his monster stories. After terrifying his classmates with a special story he wrote just for Halloween he is tricked by some of his bratty classmates into being locked in the school coatroom after everyone else has gone home. He falls asleep only to wake up hours later, trying not to panic in his little Dracula costume, with the glow of moonlight shining in the window. It's this scene that stays with you—just a simple, almost completely still shot that speaks artfully of the very real childhood fear of being abandoned, of being lost in the darkness that you are too young to comprehend.Continue Reading
Encounters at the End of the World
It's an uncontestable fact that Werner Herzog is the greatest living director. His latest documentary Encounters at the End of the World may not be as cathartic or controversial as his dramatic features, but it validates Herzog's ability to personalize every film that he directs with the creation of hypnotic, surreal images, images that despite their otherworldliness symbolize a litany of urgent, undeniable truths. The most famous of these are the 360-ton steamship being pulled over a hill in the Amazon rainforest in Fitzcarraldo, as well as the dancing chicken and interminable ski-lift ride in the finale of Stroszek. People who have seen multiple Herzog films walk away with images they hold personally to them, like amulets; for me it's Kaspar Hauser standing immobile in the village square clutching a letter that he can't read. Only a director like Herzog could go to edge of the planet and make a film that is idiosyncratic.
Herzog and his cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger (his DP for the majority of his films since Gesualdo) received a grant from the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program to travel to Antarctica for several months to shoot footage for a documentary. The director seems to express ambivalence at the beginning of the film about his suitability for the subject, saying that he's not interested in making a movie about "fluffy penguins." Ironically, he ends up shooting some of the cutest baby and mommy seal footage I've ever seen. It eventually becomes apparent that Herzog's focus is not so much the landscape as it is the modern day explorers who have come to study the frozen continent. The bleak landmass has become a magnet to a millenarian mixture of scientists, engineers, cooks, survival experts, and ice terrain vehicle drivers who believe that the secret of the earth's future, and perhaps demise, is hidden in the landscape and wildlife of this frozen desert. Herzog compares these people driven to the end of the map by their dreams to adventurers like Ernest Shackleton and Roald Admundsen, forsaking comfort and civilization to be near the Unnameable.Continue Reading
There are some who would say that Bloodsport was the film Ingmar Bergman intended to make when he directed Wild Strawberries. And to be perfectly serious Bloodsport is the better film.
When Frank Dux's childhood friend and the son of his martial arts mentor is killed in a Kumite, a bloody underground mixed martial arts championship, Dux (Jean-Claude van Damme) goes AWOL from his army post to travel to Hong Kong to compete in the next Kumite and avenge his fallen friend's honor. Hot on his trail, two military agents (one played by Forest Whitaker) follow him to protect the army's investment in Dux's amazing martial arts talents. With the help of a wrestler with a huge forehead (Donald Gibb from Revenge of the Nerds) also competing in the tournament and a plucky and attractive female journalist, Dux enters the brutal Kumite and displays his excellent fighting skills. But can he beat the man-killing, pec-flexing Chong Li or will he end up like his boyhood buddy?Continue Reading
Dust Devil: The Final Cut
Dust Devil has suffered from a bad reputation ever since Harvey and somebody Weinstein eviscerated Richard Stanley's cut of the film from 108 minutes to 87 for its ill-fated theatrical release. Stanley's previous feature was the cult hit Hardware, which was noted for having made back its micro budget many times over as a video store hit. Why the Weinsteins chose to lop off 20 minutes and remove all the sense from the film is a bit of a mystery. Hopefully, Dust Devil: The Final Cut will redeem the film in the eyes of those who had seen it previously and introduce this gem to a new generation of horror fans.
Set in an arid, remote region of South Africa, Dust Devil follows an enigmatic serial killer (Robert John Burke), half man-half demon who follows the lonely highway, making love to and then killing depressed women. The killer uses ritual magic, attempting through his murders to transcend the earthly plane so he can return to the spiritual world. The desert setting gives the film a Western atmosphere as does the casting of an American actor in the drifter-killer role. Whether there are supposed to be additional political connotations in an American man using African magic and killing white African women is an unresolved quandary. Wendy, a narcissistic housewife, leaves her brutish husband, eventually crossing paths with the handsome killer. The fact that neither the killer, nor Wendy, nor her husband are likeable characters and the latter two are idiots, makes the final battle all the more enjoyable. By liberating you from sympathizing with the protagonists, Stanley allows the viewers to consider the killer's motivations objectively and also enjoy the resulting bloodshed more thoroughly.Continue Reading
Morgan!: A Suitable Case for Treatment
I volunteer, in an unofficial capacity, that David Warner could play with intelligence and wit any part offered to him. Misogynistic art film buffs will fondly remember his uncredited role in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, 80s comedy fans know him best as vampire hunting Professor McCarthy in My Best Friend is a Vampire, and a certain blog writer can't choose between his best performances, as Evil Genius in Time Bandits and Jack the Ripper in Time after Time. Warner's rugged, sculpted features and his Royal Shakespeare Company training have made him one of the most versatile and charismatic film actors, on par with other distinctive, powerful talents like Stephen Rea and Harvey Keitel. Warner gives his leading man performance in Morgan! with such ease and virtuosity, it's incredible that he's so often been relegated to smaller roles. His is a rather unlikeable character: a juvenile underproductive artist with a complex involving gorillas and Communism, financially supported by his soon to be ex-wife. Vanessa Redgrave does a lot with a thin role as his rich, unappreciated spouse who has transferred her affections to Morgan's oleaginous art dealer. Already suffering from (or in Morgan's case thoroughly enjoying) delusions and fantasies, his wife's ambivalent reaction to his attempts to win her back makes him lose his grasp of reality.
Morgan! is a seminal film in the Mod movement that flourished in England during a short period from the early to mid-1960s. Mod filmmakers like John Schlesinger, Richard Lester, and Karel Reisz transitioned from "kitchen sink" documentaries funded by the British government to Mod's more vibrant, stylized aesthetic, some of them then continuing on to more commercial careers. While there has been controversy amongst sociologists as to whether the Mod movement was a working- class rebellion against mass-produced culture or an embracement of consumerism across class barriers, Mod filmmakers firmly posited Mod style as a youth-oriented rebellion against the previous generations mores, characterized in film by a stylized aesthetic and structure, portrayals of sexual liberty, and a quirky, if hit-or-miss sense of humor.Continue Reading


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The Internet is exploding with parenting advice.
Do this! Don't do that! You must do this! Don't ever do that!
It's overwhelming, to say the very least.
Parenthood is a constant negotiation between freaking the eff out and trying to give your children your very best self. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle, ping-ponging between the two.
Like you, I've been inundated with parenting advice from the very minute I announced my pregnancy. I've employed a lot of those tips along my 4-year parenting journey, some with more success than others.
Related: 10 things every mother should teach her daughter
But, there are three bits of advice I picked up that have served me very well. So well, in fact, that I really feel like they've made me a better parent. And they are so easy! Yup. In the end it wasn't some complex system of rewards (bribes!) and flow charts and gold stars that really made a difference, but three very simple things you can do every day that make a huge difference in the way your children behave and, more importantly, how they feel about themselves.
1. "Do you need a hug?"
Instead of lecturing or yelling when your kid is freaking out, tantrumming, and snotting all over the place, tell them you're sorry they feel bad and ask them if they need a hug. Nine times out of ten my daughter sobs "YES!" and falls into my arms for some mama love, effectively ending the tantrum.
2. "Do you want to talk about it?"
When either of my kids are upset and sobbing incoherent sentences, I tell them to take a deep breath and ask them if they want to talk about it. Sometimes they do and we work it all out, and sometimes they don't want to talk about it or don't know how to talk about it, but I think giving them the option to express themselves is important. I usually find that someone offering to talk about it with them calms them down.
3. "I am SO happy to see you!"
I read somewhere, and I wish I remember where because I'd link to you, that the way you react when your kid enters the room is so important for their well-being and sense of self. I've made it a rule for myself that, even if I'm tired, I light up and sweep my kids into a hug first thing in the morning, when I pick them up from school/daycare or just haven't seen them in a while because they were in their rooms playing. You should see how thrilled my daughter is to see me every day. It makes my heart burst. She's thrilled to see me because she knows I'm thrilled to see her.
Sounds simplistic, but I swear to you that these three things have significantly improved my parenting and the way my children behave. Hope they help you the next time your kid is jangling your last nerve… Instead of blowing up, ask if they need a hug. It'll do you both good.
Here's to hoping that, no matter what age, they'll always need a hug, always want to talk about it, and always be thrilled to see us.
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Alemany High has retained its right to keep home-field advantage Friday in a Southern Section Pac-5 football semifinal against top-seeded St. John Bosco (12-0). Kickoff is 7 p.m.
St. John Bosco, ranked as high as No. 5 in the nation by USA Today, wanted to switch the event to a bigger venue, but Alemany agreed to bring in extra bleachers and portable bathrooms for what is expected to be a capacity crowd in Mission Hills.
"We're preparing for 6,000-plus, and I'm getting everything we need," Alemany principal Frank Ferry said. "I'll be there with my mittens on."
Alemany (10-2), which has not won a title in 57 years, is playing in the Pac-5 semifinals for the second time in four seasons after defeating Servite in the quarterfinals for the first time in 10 meetings between the schools dating back to 1971.
Crespi is on the only San Fernando Valley program ever to reach a final in the Southern Section's top division. It won a Big Five title in 1986 and finished as a Pac-5 runner-up in 2007.
Wingenroth on the run
Connor Wingenroth was an 8-year-old ball boy the last time Hart won a Southern Section championship in 2003, and now the senior has put together two big rushing performances in the playoffs to help Hart (10-2) reach the Northern semifinals Friday against West Torrance (10-2) at College of the Canyons.
Wingenroth has rushed for 569 yards in two games, pushing his season totals to 1,344 yards in nine contests after missing more than three games because of a shoulder injury.
"It was terrible being out of the lineup. That injury was the first time ever in 10 years of football that I've missed a game," Wingenroth said. "I'm really excited. I proved my point that no injury was going to slow me down. These last two games, they've been statement games for both me and my team."
Tigers seek return to final
San Fernando figures to be a big favorite in Friday's City Section Division II semifinal against 12th-seeded Chatsworth (5-7).
The top-seeded Tigers (12-0), however, are wondering which Chancellors team is going to show up — the one that stumbled through the first two months of the season or the one that just knocked off No. 4 Sylmar in the quarterfinals.
That win was preceded by similar upsets at University and fellow semifinalist Granada Hills.
"They're kicking butt," San Fernando coach Robert Garcia said. "They're a pretty good team, and they're going to give it everything they've got. So you know I'm excited because we're going to give it everything we've got, too, because we know what's at stake.
"We want to be in the championship, too. It's going to be a great game."
Burbank pursuing history
Burbank has a chance to qualify for a football final for the first time in the school's 105-year history as the Bulldogs (10-2) play Friday at La Serna (10-2) in a Southeast Division semifinal.
"It's been forever and ever. This is pretty exciting for us," Burbank coach Hector Valencia said.
Benkert, Herrington are all-star coaches
Westlake's Jim Benkert is coaching the West in the annual Daily News all-star game on Jan. 19 at College of the Canyons.
Alemany's Dean Herrington will coach the East.
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A JARROW March-style crusade against the alleged "privatisation" of the National Health Service says it is growing in support as it heads to Parliament.
About 500 people gathered at Jarrow Town Hall on Saturday as campaigners set off on the People's March for the NHS, which is carrying a petition in support of saving a walk-in facility at Palmer Community Hospital, in Jarrow, from closure.
Neil Foster, Northern TUC policy and campaigns officer, who joined the march in North Yorkshire this week, said: "There has been loads of media interest and passers-by have been really receptive.
"Even in a Conservative area like North Yorkshire, there has been great support, with many people concerned about the future of the NHS under the present Government, and that things are changing for the worse.
"The Jarrow petition is just one of the health causes being highlighted along the route, and there was another from Northallerton, where people are concerned about the closure of a maternity service.
"There are about 60 people on the march at present, with people joining different legs of the march when they can, and when their work allows."
Thousands of names have been collected on a petition against the closure of the walk-in unit for minor injuries, at Palmer Community Hospital.
Jarrow MP Stephen Hepburn spoke out against the closure plans at a rally before the march set off and organisers of the People's March for the NHS will carry the petition to London, where it will be presented to MPs when the health crusade reaches Parliament on September 6.
Mr Foster added: "The stories about issues within the NHS are growing as the march makes its way to London. There were more than 500 people at Jarrow at the weekend, and health issues are being highlighted along the route."
Officials of NHS South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have announced plans to close the Jarrow walk-in centre as part of a shake-up of the local health service, which could see the creation of a new care hub at South Tyneside District Hospital, South Shields.
Health bosses say the plans could reduce the number of unnecessary visits to A&E and save up to £2m a year.
A new urgent care "one-stop shop" could be created at the district hospital and access improved to GPs and pharmacies for minor illnesses and ailments.
However, the CCG has stressed there are no plans to close Palmer Community Hospital.
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Gulf markets seen shaky after Iran oil ban
Dubai, January 24, 2012
Gulf markets are expected to be shaky after European Union agreed to ban Iran oil and new threats from the producer to block the Strait of Hormuz.
Some Iranians also warned they might strike US targets worldwide if Washington used force to break any Iranian blockade of the strategically vital shipping route.
Front-month Brent crude rose 12 cents to $110.70 a barrel, gaining for a second day.
"While you might get some knee-jerk reaction in the short-term, you have to watch out for the sustained impact on energy prices," says Abdul Kadir Hussain, chief executive and fund manager at Mashreq Capital.
"At this point, people are still thinking that it will not get heated to the point of oil supply disruption. There will be geopolitical premium but hopefully that would dissipate over the next few weeks," he adds.
Delays in Greece debt restructuring could also weigh on sentiment after Euro zone finance ministers on Monday rejected help offer made by private bondholders, sending negotiators back to the drawing board.
The euro retreated from a three-week high on Tuesday while Asian shares edged higher.
National Bank of Oman will be in focus after the lender's fourth-quarter results missed analysts' forecasts.
The bank proposed a cash dividend of 17.5 percent.
Oman's two Islamic banks will float 40 percent of their shares by June, the sultanate's central bank Executive President Hamood Sangour al-Zadjali said on Monday.
Bank Nizwa will issue an initial public offering of 40 percent of its capital of OR150 million ($389.61 million), while Al Izz International Bank will issue 40 percent of its OR100 million capital by June this year. – Reuters


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Trial date set for Pope's butler
The pope's butler will go on trial next week over the embarrassing theft of papal documents that exposed alleged corruption at the Holy See's highest levels.
Paolo Gabriele, who as butler in the papal apartments had served for several years as one of the pope's closest aides, is accused of grand theft.
Also on trial is Claudio Sciarpelletti, who has been temporarily suspended from his post as a computer specialist in the Holy See office of secretariat of state. He faces a a lesser charge of aiding and abetting the crime.
Judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre said the first session would begin on Saturday, September 29.
According to last month's indictment, Gabriele, who is under house arrest in Vatican City and who was relieved of his post, said he was inspired by the Holy Spirit to take the documents to shed light on what he called evil in the church.
The documents, which have painted a picture of alleged infighting and corruption at the Vatican, were revealed in the Italian media this year after Gabriele allegedly passed them on.
The Vatican has promised a public trial by a three-judge panel but said no still or video cameras will be permitted.
Vatican officials say they are still looking into the possibility of other accomplices.
Conviction on the theft charge could bring up to six years in jail.
Besides allegedly pilfering the documents, Gabriele is also accused of taking a cheque for 100,000 euros made out to the pope and donated by a Spanish Catholic university.
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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve agonized in 2008 over how far to go to stop a financial crisis that threatened to cause a recession and at times struggled to recognize its speed and magnitude.
"We're crossing certain lines. We're doing things we haven't done before," Chairman Ben Bernanke said as Fed officials met in an emergency session March 10 and launched never-before-taken steps to lend to teetering Wall Street firms, among a series of unorthodox moves that year to calm investors and aid the economy.
The Fed on Friday released hundreds of pages of transcripts covering its 14 meetings in 2008 – eight regularly scheduled meetings and six emergency sessions. The Fed releases full transcripts of each year's policy meetings after a five-year lag.
The transcripts cover the most tumultuous period of the crisis, including the collapse and rescue of investment bank Bear Stearns, the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the fateful decision to let investment bank Lehman Brothers fold in the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history and the bailout of insurer American International Group.
For all the aggressive steps, the Fed failed at times to grasp the size of the catastrophe it was dealing with. Bernanke and his top lieutenants often expressed puzzlement that they weren't managing to calm panicky investors. As late as Sept. 16, a day after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bernanke declared, "I think that our policy is looking actually pretty good."
The Fed declined at that meeting to cut its benchmark short-term rate. Yet just three weeks later, after the Fed had rescued AIG, Bernanke felt compelled to call an emergency conference call. In it, he won approval for a half-point rate cut.
In January, Frederic Mishkin, a Fed governor, missed an emergency conference call because he was "on the slopes."
The crisis had been building for months. In the Jan. 21 conference call, Bernanke rallied support for a deep cut in interest rates. He warned that market turmoil reflected investors' concerns that "the United States is in for a deep and protracted recession."
The transcripts show Bernanke enjoyed the support of Janet Yellen, who succeeded him this month as Fed chief, for the unconventional policy actions he was pushing. At the time, Yellen was head of the Fed's San Francisco regional bank.
At an Oct. 28-29 Fed meeting, Yellen stated, "It is becoming abundantly clear that we are in the midst of a serious global meltdown."
Yellen had downgraded her economic outlook and was predicting a recession, with four straight quarters of declining growth. The recession was later determined to have begun in December 2007. It lasted until June 2009.
The Fed's moves failed to prevent colossal damage from the crisis. The U.S. economy sank into the worst recession since the 1930s. But Fed officials and many economists have argued that without the Fed's aggressive actions, the Great Recession would have been more catastrophic, perhaps rivaling the Great Depression.
"I really am extremely nervous about the current situation," Mishkin said at a July meeting. "We've been in this now for a year, but, boy, this is deviating from most financial disruptions or crisis episodes in terms of the length and the fact that it really hasn't gotten better. We keep on having shoes dropping."
Even as they grappled with a floundering financial system and an economy in freefall, Fed policymakers wondered how history would judge them. Bernanke, acknowledging that they were operating in "the fog of war," said in late October: "I would defend what we've done in terms of the general direction, acknowledging that execution is not always perfect and that communication is not always perfect."
But Bernanke wrestled with doubts, too. At an April meeting, he said: "I play Jekyll and Hyde quite a bit and argue with myself in the shower and other places."
By the end of 2008, the Fed had made seven rate cuts, leaving its benchmark short-term rate on Dec. 16 at a record low near zero. It remains there today. Many economists don't think the Fed will start raising rates until late 2015 at the earliest.
The Fed that year also launched other never-before-tried programs to get money flowing to parts of the economy that were desperate for credit.
Yet Fed policymakers fretted over the unprecedented steps being taken. Thomas Hoenig, head of the Fed's Kansas City regional bank, expressed concern during a July 24 conference call that the Fed might continue its extraordinary lending to Wall Street firms into 2009.
"This seems to take us away from, rather than toward, backing out – and I really am a bit concerned about that," Hoenig said.
Bernanke countered that the Fed was "not in this business indefinitely ... But at the moment, conditions do not seem considerably better, and I don't think that at this moment we really should be reducing our support to the market."
Jeffrey Lacker, head of the Richmond Fed, worried at the March 10 meeting about accepting mortgage bonds as collateral for Fed loans to Wall Street firms. "This proposal crosses a bright line that we drew for ourselves in the 1970s in order to limit our involvement in housing finance," Lacker said.
But Timothy Geithner, then head of the New York Fed, countered that the Fed was a stronger institution than in the '70s. "We need to be flexible and creative in the face of what are really extraordinary challenges," Geithner said.
On Oct. 7, Bernanke called an emergency conference call to seek approval for a half-point cut in the benchmark rate. Five other central banks in Europe and Canada had agreed to take similar steps.
"It's just a sign of the extraordinary times that we're currently living through," Bernanke said. "Virtually all the markets – particularly the credit markets – are not functioning or are in extreme stress."
The proposal was unanimously approved. Some Fed officials worried that it still wouldn't be enough.
"I don't think that anything that we do today – cutting the funds rate 50 basis points or whatever – is going to make the next couple of months in terms of the overall economy any less painful," said Charles Plosser, head of the Philadelphia Fed.
Plosser said it was important for the Fed to invoke broader economic concerns to justify its actions beyond the turmoil in the stock market.
One Fed official asked Bernanke if the sharp rate cut meant further cuts would occur at forthcoming meetings.
"I feel rather unconfident about predicting the path of rates six months in the future," Bernanke replied, "because I'm not quite sure what is going to happen tomorrow at this point."


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Mitt Romney's comments about cutting funding for PBS, Big Bird, and even Jim Lehrer, caused quite a stir among social media users after the first presidential debate last week, reviving discussions about the importance of public television programming in the face of soaring government debt.
Thanks to renewed interest in PBS and shows like "Sesame Street," this 1969 video of a young Fred Rogers ("Mister Rogers' Neighborhood") defending the value of public children's programming has resurfaced on the internet.
At the time, budget cuts threatened a $20 million grant to PBS. In the video, the children's television host makes a passionate appeal to then-Senate committee chairman John Pastore, who is visibly moved by Rogers' poignant plea.
"I'm supposed to be a pretty tough guy and this is the first time I've had goosebumps for the last two days," says Sen. Pastore near the end of the video.
Here's part of Rogers' statement:
I'm very much concerned, as I know you are, about what's being delivered to our children in this country. I've worked in the field of child development for six years now, trying to understand the inner needs of children. We deal with such things as the inner drama of childhood. We don't have to bop somebody over the head to make drama on the screen. We deal with such things as getting a haircut. Or the feelings about brothers and sisters. Or the kind of anger that arises in simple family situations. And we speak to it constructively.
We've got to have more of this neighborhood expression of care. And this is what I give -- I give an expression of care, every day to each child to help him realize that he is unique. I end the program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we and public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health.
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18 Then the Lord appeared to him by 1the aterebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. 2 bSo he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; cand when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground, 3 and said, "My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant. 4 Please let da little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. 5 And eI will bring a morsel of bread, that fyou may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, ginasmuch as you have come to your servant."
They said, "Do as you have said."
6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes." 7 And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it. 8 So hhe took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.
9 Then they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?"
So he said, "Here, iin the tent."
10 And He said, "I will certainly return to you jaccording to the time of life, and behold, kSarah your wife shall have a son."
(Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.) 11 Now lAbraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and 2Sarah mhad passed the age of childbearing. 12 Therefore Sarah nlaughed within herself, saying, o"After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my plord being old also?"
13 And the Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?' 14 qIs anything too hard for the Lord? rAt the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son."
15 But Sarah denied it, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid.
And He said, "No, but you did laugh!"
16 Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them sto send them on the way. 17 And the Lord said, t"Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, 18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be ublessed in him? 19 For I have known him, in order vthat he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him." 20 And the Lord said, "Because wthe outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their xsin is very grave, 21 yI will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, zI will know."
22 Then the men turned away from there aand went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. 23 And Abraham bcame near and said, c"Would You also ddestroy the erighteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it? 25 Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so fthat the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! gShall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
26 So the Lord said, h"If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes."
27 Then Abraham answered and said, "Indeed now, I who am ibut dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: 28 Suppose there were five less than the fifty righteous; would You destroy all of the city for lack of five?"
So He said, "If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it."
29 And he spoke to Him yet again and said, "Suppose there should be forty found there?"
So He said, "I will not do it for the sake of forty."
30 Then he said, "Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Suppose thirty should be found there?"
So He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."
31 And he said, "Indeed now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: Suppose twenty should be found there?"
So He said, "I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty."
32 Then he said, j"Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found there?"
kAnd He said, "I will not destroy it for the sake of ten." 33 So the Lord went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.
19 Now athe two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and bLot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. 2 And he said, "Here now, my lords, please cturn in to your servant's house and spend the night, and dwash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way."
And they said, e"No, but we will spend the night in the open square."
3 But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. fThen he made them a feast, and baked gunleavened bread, and they ate.
4 Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. 5 hAnd they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? iBring them out to us that we jmay know them carnally."
6 So kLot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, 7 and said, "Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! 8 lSee now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, msince this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof."
9 And they said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one ncame in to 1stay here, oand he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them." So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door. 10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. 11 And they pstruck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.
12 Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—qtake them out of this place! 13 For we will destroy this place, because the routcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and sthe Lord has sent us to destroy it."
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, twho had married his daughters, and said, u"Get up, get out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city!" vBut to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.
15 When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, w"Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city." 16 And while he lingered, the men xtook hold of his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the yLord being merciful to him, zand they brought him out and set him outside the city. 17 So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that 2he said, a"Escape for your life! bDo not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape cto the mountains, lest you be 3destroyed."
18 Then Lot said to them, "Please, dno, my lords! 19 Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die. 20 See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live."
21 And he said to him, "See, eI have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there. For fI cannot do anything until you arrive there."
Therefore gthe name of the city was called 4Zoar.
23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. 24 Then the Lord rained hbrimstone and ifire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 So He 5overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and jwhat grew on the ground.
26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became ka pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where lhe had stood before the Lord. 28 Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, mthe smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God nremembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar and odwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave. 31 Now the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth pto come in to us as is the custom of all the earth. 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we qmay preserve the 6lineage of our father." 33 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
34 It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, "Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the 7lineage of our father." 35 Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; rhe is the …
Heb. Alon Mamre
Lit. the manner of women had ceased to be with Sarah
As a resident alien
LXX, Syr., Vg. they
Lit. swept away
Lit. Little or Insignificant
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HOSSEGOR is set to host another all-girl showdown this August, with the Swatch Girls Pro France tournament bringing together the lip-smacking combo of professional female surfing alongside professional beach partying.
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"I am probably the laziest programmer on the planet, a fact with which anyone who has ever seen my code will agree." - esbo, 11/15/2008
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Events Calendar
Indigenous Choreographers: Performance & Talk Back
Thursday, April 19, 2012
7–9 p.m.
UCR Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts: 3834 Main Street Riverside, CA 92501 (951) 827-3755
Indigenous Choreographers Residency 2012
Jack Gray • Rulan Tangen • Tanya Lukin Linklater
Performance and Talk Back
New choreographic work by Jack Gray and Rulan Tangen, alongside an installation of dance video and photographic work by choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater
Jack Gray is an independent freelance dance artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is currently a choreographer and dancer with Atamira Dance Company: Maori Contemporary Dance Theatre which he founded in 2000 and director of Jack Gray Dance
Rulan Tangen is internationally accomplished dance artist and choreographer, and Founding Artistic Director and choreographer of DANCING EARTH Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations
Tanya Lukin Linklater is a contemporary artist whose work includes experimental choreography, performance art, installation, text, and video. Her work often engages with memory, history, the contemporary indigenous woman's body, images of the Eskimo, and notions of cultural revitalization.
Photo: Site Sight (2011) by Tanya Lukin Linklater
Tangen and Gray are the second set of "Indigenous Scholars in Residence" hosted by the California Center for Native Nations in 2012
Residency made possible with the generous support of the UC Riverside Chancellor's Strategic Investment Fund Initiative Grant, California Center for Native Nations, Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs, Culver Arts Research Lab (CARL) residency program, Department of Dance, and Native American Student Programs.
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The number of San Diego homes lost to foreclosure in October fell to levels seen nearly four years ago, but default notices remain higher than normal, based on Monday's numbers from a leading real estate tracker.
Related: Has the foreclosure crisis in San Diego peaked?
La Jolla-based DataQuick reported there were 667 foreclosures in October, dropping 19.3 percent from September and 33 percent from a year ago. October's foreclosure figure is the lowest since November 2007, when the county recorded 478 trustees' deeds, which signal a home has been lost to foreclosure.
Meanwhile, the number of San Diegans starting the foreclosure process rose again, following several months of erratic changes, data show.
Notices of default -- the first step in the foreclosure process -- rose 14.4 percent in October compared with September and 10.8 percent from a year ago.
DataQuick analysts recently reported the majority of home-loan defaults are from four to six years ago, with the median at the third quarter of 2006.
That's been the case for almost three years, which shows lax rules in mortgage underwriting likely peaked during that time, the report added.
DataQuick analyst Andrew LePage on Monday said the steady drop in foreclosures is partially explained by lower numbers of default filings, mainly from last fall to this summer.
Why did foreclosure starts taper off?
"It's not necessarily the only reason, but those default notices dropped off pretty sharply after the robo-signing episode began," said LePage, referring to reports of banks employing workers who signed off on loan paperwork without proper review.
The county saw a bump in default filings in August, at 2,094, but it's difficult to say whether future spikes will occur.
"It's hard to know at any given time how many people are active in the pipeline," LePage added.
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ATLANTA -- When stories were being written last spring about John Smoltz shifting from the Braves rotation to closer, Leo Mazzone suggested 40 saves was likely.
As it turns out, the pitching coach vastly underestimated him. But that's OK. Baseball people have been doing the same thing for years.
Hey, there are days when Smoltz, who leads the major leagues with 49 saves, doesn't believe it himself.
"I didn't come into this role thinking I'd be setting a standard," he said. "I knew nothing about saves. I didn't know what the record was until people started talking about it. All these things have come about without me anticipating any of it."
The saves record belongs to Bobby Thigpen, who saved 57 games in 65 opportunities for the Chicago White Sox in 1990. Smoltz, who already owns the franchise saves record, is four saves shy of matching the National League record held by Randy Myers (1993) and Trevor Hoffman (1998).
He has 23 games left to surpass Thigpen.
"I would take so much pride in the saves record because of everything I went through," said Smoltz, whose next save will make him just the second pitcher in major league history to have a 20-win season and a 50-save season. "I would temporarily rank it higher than winning the Cy Young because of all the things that led up to it.
"But you can have a season like this one, then have an ending like (Mariano) Rivera's last year. That's why this role eats you up and drives me to do my best."
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Smoltz has always thrown hard; his game has always been about a 98 miles per hour fastball and one of the game's best sliders. The price he's paid, however, has been steep. He's been on the disabled list seven times with various elbow maladies ranging from inflammation to a strained ligament. He underwent "Tommy John" ligament replacement surgery in 2000 and missed the entire season.
Smoltz went from a guy who threw a league-leading 256 innings in 1997 to 59 innings last year. The team wanted to protect his elbow, but which is more damaging to a ligament: Working a total of 200 innings at five-day intervals, or pitching in 80 games?
Thigpen, who never had more than 34 saves in any season except 1990, appeared in a career-high 77 games during his magical season. But he saved just 53 games over the next three years, and was out of baseball four years after he set the saves record.
"The toughest part is trying to maintain what looks like the same stuff every time out," Smoltz said. "I don't know which (job) is better, but I know which I prefer."
Smoltz remains a starter at heart. But after signing a three-year, $30 million deal last winter, he's resigned to closing. It's ironic that a reluctant closer has turned into the game's best stopper, and a legitimate MVP candidate.
"He's as valuable as any position player out there," pitcher Tom Glavine said. "We're no better without John Smoltz than the Giants are without Barry Bonds. He's figured in 52 wins, and that's over half our total. The argument that hurts him is people perceive that taking him out of our bullpen is not as big a deal as taking Bonds out of the Giants' lineup."
Brian Giles, the Pirates' All-Star left fielder, begs to differ. Without Smoltz, he says, the Braves wouldn't be leading the NL East by 19 games.
"His numbers speak for themselves," he said. "He's a big reason why they've won 88 games."
Oh, those numbers.
The Braves have won the last 41 games Smoltz has appeared in. He set a major league record by reaching 40 saves in the fewest (114) games. He converted 25 successive save opportunities, a streak that ended Aug. 6. He's struck out 75 batters in 72 1/3 innings. Opposing hitters are batting .218 against him. He made the All-Star team, six years after he'd made it as a starter.
"Stuff-wise, not many starters in the league have his stuff," manager Bobby Cox said. "I've always felt that nobody is going to get a run off him."
Said reliever Mike Remlinger: "A big part of it is he has three pitches he can throw whenever he wants and all three are well above average, if not outstanding. Having been a starter and becoming a reliever, I think it makes you a better reliever. It gives you something to compare it to."
Smoltz remembers each of his four blown saves, but the game that sticks in his craw is his April 6 appearance against the Mets. He gave up six hits and eight runs in 2/3 of an inning, numbers that figure prominently in his 3.61 ERA.
"I look back and say I was this close to being perfect," he said. "Just give me those four games over again and I'll do things differently."
Which brings us to Thigpen's record. No one knows how the former White Sox closer feels about his record because he's turned into a virtual recluse in Tampa, Fla., refusing all interview requests. But we do know that Smoltz, given the opportunities, is a lock to surpass him.
"It's an opportunistic role," Smoltz said. "This is a role that depends on your team playing close games. We may not play nine more close games. That's why you can't assume the record is going to be broken. If it's not, I certainly won't be disappointed.
"I think it would be pretty awesome if we could win every game that I appear in the rest of the season. I left spring training hoping to find myself, and once I found it, I wanted to keep it the rest of the year."
Mission accomplished.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Friday, September 6, 2002.
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I'm sure that Plan International probably does a lot of good, but I will no longer be contributing to the organization, and it makes me sick that I have in the past. I found out tonight after doing some internet research that Plan International has supported Reproductive Health Uganda, which is affiliated with Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States. I have to agree with another reviewer who stated that Plan's marketing materials are very slick. Plan has a highly touted campaign against sex-selective abortions in countries like India, a campaign which I would normally support if I wasn't aware of their aid to Reproductive Health Uganda. As it is, my charitable dollars will be going elsewhere in the future. I know many well-meaning folks will disagree with my views about abortion, as I have a lot of friends on the other side of the issue, but I'm not leaving this review for them. I'm leaving this review for those like me who are opposed to abortion on demand and who don't want their charitable contributions going to organizations that support it.
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I was trying to set up my ObjectDock so it shows my all the system icons in the system tray on my 'Tabbed Dock'. I went into the settings and clicked on show system tray button and nothing is showing up. The System Tray Icon tab is showing on my 'Tabbed Dock', which is located on my right middle side of my screen, however when I went into 'configure system tray icons' nothing shows up, its just an empty box with nothing to choose, I clicked on the 'show all tray icons at all times' and still nothing shows up. Does anyone know how to fix this problem, I went on Google to try to find a solution and have tried many different things such as, making a shortcut in my startup folder (when I try to find the specified file for the shortcut I am unable to find it) and I saw another solution as deleting a file (some file named ObjectDockTray or something around that but I was unable to find the file they specified to delete) but I didn't want to delete anything since it might mess up the program.
I am runnning Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit, if that helps.
Thank you all for your time and help!
Separately, I am also having trouble trying to jailbreak my ipod touch if someone is good at solving how to put an ipod in DMU perfectly, I have tried it over 70 times and am unable to do it. I previously was successful in putting my iPod in DMU mode a year ago when I did it last, it took me about 30 tried but I did it. I literally need a 'How to put your iPod in DMU mode for Dummies'. Email me at email@example.com, I would appreciate the help. Thanks!
The SAME THING is happening to me. THe ability to see/utilize the system tray icons is the ONLY reason I paid for the Plus version of ObjectDock. And now it's useless. Responses from Support take about a WEEK, and are vague and INEFFECTIVE. Getting this fixed for Windows 7 users should be a top priority, especially if they want to continue to sell this product.
Open Impulse. Shift+Right Click on "Verify Installation". Update if necessary.
If it returns "Installed Correctly", it might be the skin you are using. Choose 'Aero' and apply it, and then repeat the System Tray in the Dock option you wanted.... see if the text in the box appears.
If these don't work, open a ticket at email@example.com and refer back to this url and to any screen shots you make to show the problem: They help.
Wait for a person to answer (not the autoreply). If you write again, you will be sent to the end of the queue for response.
Thanks DrJBHL, but changing my dock background to Aero Reflections did not resolve the problem. Also, Impulse shows that ObjectDock Plus is installed correctly. I will open a ticket and see what happens.
Good luck... not sure why yours is doing this. Try to go under the trouble shooting options and reset the dock. If that doesn't change things, then toggle the 'disable system tray' choice, close it and exit OD2+ and then reopen it, and uncheck that option, exit it and reopen. See if that changes the problem.
i just got a new error with mine it says Skin loading failed:could not find a part of the path 'C;\Programme Files(x86)\stardockPlus2\Skin\Tray'.
Could i please get some help with this as its frustrating only being able to see parts of the
settings tab? if you could put a download link for my missing Skin Tray i would be more than greatful
to install it in my (x86) Files manaully
hoping for a quick response thanks MRNzGamer
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I think you should write to Stardock Support (firstname.lastname@example.com) and include a description of your problem as well as your OD+2 purchase info.
hararipia - If you haven't done so already, please email email@example.com and start a trouble ticket.
yeah i guess so ...think windows 7 manager i downloaded corrupted my registry and now its not working
tried on my laptop and it works fine but my desktop is rooted id say
may have to reinstall windows if i dont get anywhere???
COULD somebody KINDLY upload a copy of the UI folder for the skin tray in programme files x[86] PLZZZZZZ
this is all i need to fix it myself...so if you have StarDockPlus2 and you would like to take a little of your time
to copy and upload the UI folder for the skin tray i would be forever indebted to you
thanks to the kind persons that want to help out
could not find a part of the path 'C;\Programme Files(x86)\StarDockPlus2\Skin\Tray'.
please email the UI folder to [ removed -admin] and may the good lord bless you for doing so
You should make the request through email@example.com .
done guess i have to wait a week then
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I am having the same exact problem. I upgraded from the free version for this functionality. It doesn't work. Tech support does not respond. Not working with Windows 7 was not documented. Stardock stole my money....vaporware.
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Single Women Problems:Computer Issues
I am very smart at most things audio however, when it comes to computers, not so much. Thankfully at one of my part time jobs, all four people that work there have distinctly different strengths, and one of them is skilled in computers.
Thus, me and my co-worker did a trade. You may notice I seem to do many of these "trades" with my male friends but hey, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. I wrote him up something (writing is one of my forte's) and he came to fix my computer. Tada! I also was a polite hostess and made him one of my spicy olive martini's but that's just cause I love the guy.
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Coming in to our shop at Borough Market, you might have noticed a snail. It is called "Snail of approval" and it is the seal of Slow Food approval. The award criteria are the following: quality (food must taste good and be good for us), authenticity (food produced is true to its source), sustainability (paying attention to the consequences of how food is produced and distributed).
We are honoured to have earned such an outstanding seal of approval from a movement like Slow Food that celebrates good, clean and fair food. We started off about 6 years ago inspired by our great love for Greek products, organic farming and fuelled by our producers' passion and commitment. Our star ingredients are unique, limited number products, harvested with traditional methods and kind to nature. These handmade goods are the labour of love, and not only do they represent the uniqueness of the craftsman but also the uniqueness of the Greek terroir.
For example, our family-owned independent smallholding has strong traditional farming roots and dedicated organic values. We source among others, a unique cultivated type of pistachios from Aegina, as well as Corinth raisins; both been awarded a Protected Designation of Origin (P.D.O) product status.
You might be familiar with Slow Food, a grassroots international movement (1) which manifests that one can access a kind of cultural authenticity via local food. The movement encourages local food produced by "centuries-old traditions" in an attempt to counter the invasion of fast food and mass produced food. It also seeks to replace mass produced, artificial and sometimes tasteless fast food by whole-some foods produced in known placed by identifiable people.
Borough Market is filled with traders whose approach to producing or sourcing has gained them official accreditation from Slow Food UK. Slow Food philosophy closely mirrors that of Borough Market, and in recent years the ties between these two organisations have become increasingly close. Let's not disregard the number of local –as well as international- foodstuff that would be at risk of survival if it weren't for those hard- working to keep them relevant.
During October we celebrated quality, sustainability and ethical standards during Slow Food Week with fellow Borough Market traders. Slow Food Awards are a wonderful reward for either producing or sourcing products in a sustainable, small-scale, environmentally sound way. Those products not only do they respect culinary traditions but they also taste excellent. We were really proud to be runner up for the Best Individual Product in Slow Food Awards with our unpasteurised olives.
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(1) An excellent reference for further reading: Meneley, Anne. "Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Slow Food." Anthropologica , vol. 46, no. 2, 2004, pp. 165–176. www.jstor.org/stable/25606192.


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ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa — The Lyon County Sheriff's Office investigated a two-vehicle accident at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday at South Store Street and South 10th Avenue. Josie Moser, 21, of Alvord, Iowa, was driving a 2009 Bluebird School Bus. Peter Menage, 16, of Rock Rapids, was driving a 2004 Dodge Durango. Menage was cited for failure to yield to vehicle on right. The bus, owned by Rock Rapids Kids Club, sustained approximately $2,500 in damage. The Durango sustained $4,000 in damages. There were no injuries.
WORTHINGTON — The Worthington Ambulance was dispatched at 5:11 p.m. Tuesday to Ecumen Meadows, 1801 College Way, to assist a resident who had fallen and possibly fractured a hip.
WORTHINGTON — The Worthington Police Department investigated an accident that happened earlier in the day and was reported at 5:31 p.m. Tuesday from Sanford Worthington Medical Center.
WORTHINGTON — The Worthington Police Department investigated a dog bite reported at 7 p.m. Tuesday from the 800 block of Eighth Avenue.
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Disney, HSN take retail movie marketing up a notch with multiplatform push
April 11, 2014
Disney's Maleficent
Mobile plays a critical role in how Disney plans to market several of its upcoming films over the next couple of years with HSN in what the company claims is its first partnership with an omnichannel retailer.
Disney will work with HSN to develop multi-platform marketing programs for three upcoming films: Cinderella, Maleficent and The Hundred-Foot Journey. The programs include unique mobile, digital and television marketing to support themed merchandise.
The biggest movies dont stop making money when the film leaves the theater, said Jeff Hasen, Seattle-based chief marketing officer at Mobivity.
There are merchandising extensions and promotions for coming DVDs and on-demand showing, he said. Why wouldnt Disney do more to reach them there?"
Mr. Hasen is not affiliated with Disney or HSN. He commented based on his expertise on the subject.
HSN and Disney did not meet press deadline.
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Disneys partnership with HSN will last two years, and Disney claims that it is the first time the movie giant has worked with a retailer on a long-term marketing plan.
The first program to launch will be for the upcoming film Maleficent on May 27, which premiers in theaters on May 30 and follows the story of the Sleeping Beauty villain.
After a 24-hour programming event, consumers will be able to shop products designed for the film by designers including Heidi Daus and Naeem Khan on HSNs mobile platforms and Web site.
Additionally, HSN plans to air primetime specials related to the film from May 28 30 that will be broadcast via mobile, online and television.
A shot fromMaleficent
The following two programs will take place in the fall later this year and in the spring next year for The Hundred-Foot Journey and Cinderella, respectively.
Leading up to the release of each film, HSN will roll out mobile, Web, social and television campaigns that showcase particular products from HSNs home, beauty, jewelry and fashion departments.
Disneys partnership builds on similar campaigns that the movie company has run with HSN in the past. These include programs for 2013s Oz The Great and Powerful and 2010s The Help.
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HSN has invested quite a bit in mobile over the years.
A screenshot of HSN's app
In November, HSN ran mobile-only offers to get a head start on holiday shopping (see story).
Additionally, the brand ran a nine-week holiday sweepstakes that leveraged games and video last year (see story).
As film studios look to squeeze the most out of the often expensive marketing that goes into individual film launches, taking ad spend digital and mobile is one way that marketers can potentially build longer forms of engagement.
The film industry has gone mobile in many ways, including ticket buying, advertising for those on the go who are looking for something to do, and to draw buzz through content and social interaction, Mr. Hasen said.
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Lauren Johnson is associate reporter on Mobile Marketer, New York
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- Internet giant Google on Monday announced the launch of its video service
YouTube in South Africa. YouTube.co.za will enable country-specific services,
including local caching of YouTube content.
Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said that internet video is growing with over
two billion videos viewed every day on the Google service, the largest
of its kind.
He added
Google was excited about bringing a local version of YouTube to South Africans.
look forward to continuing to improve the YouTube experience for our South
African users," said Hurley.
Google said
it has formed partnerships with local media companies, including the SABC and
eTV, that will use the service to distribute content online. The SABC confirmed it is piloting the use of YouTube for uploading both old and current
television shows.
Hurley said
with over 70% of YouTube traffic coming from outside the USA, it is important to localise the service for specific countries. South Africa is the first
African country to receive a dedicated YouTube service.
Google has
placed local servers in SA to provide a local store of video content and
improve performance for South African viewers, but would not provide
information on local network partners or how content will be selected for caching.
- Fin24.com
They make this sound REALLY nice but this also means that the 'local media' (in other words the ANC's censorship regimen) will have TOTAL control to all YouTube content coming into the country too. The South africans already control the Facebook access and this is JUST ANOTHER WAY to control the internet inside South Africa. I would NOT welcome this AT ALL.
Now ETv and SABC get extra help in investing their propaganda to the world. They now have control on what is seen by the world or not as they have total control on content.
You two have NO idea what you're talking about.
Dont worry. the anc does not have the intellectual know-how to censor youtube.
Propoganda and Adriania, are you guys high? You Tube is a seperate entity. ETV and SABC will be able to put shows on however they have no control over what anyone else puts on, only what they do. They are content providers essentially, but so is everyone else. The only information they haven't given is who/where your content will be stored.
Neither would I welcome it! Slowly but surely they are taking "freedom of speech" away. We are going to land up totally "cut off" with what really is going on in South Africa and what we want the rest of the world to see and hear about because our government is trying to hide it.
Maybe Google must give us an indication of how the SA gov will be involved with this project. Google do have some communication with governments and do remove materiel by their request. (Interesting that you spoke to the SABC from the word go - trying to find friend?!?...)
Come on Google do you dance the dance with the gov or are you giving us "freedom of speech". Or maybe freedom for some. O and Google, what will you do if the gov request details of an individual? Would you comply. Give us some guarantees then we'll think this is a nice service you are planning.
Big brother does not like people talking against him the same goes for this gov.
Would you protect us, or are you cut from the same cloth at this gov??? Or are you part of the "big brother", just asking....
You may as well phone the devil and ask him what is sin. The same with the ANC controlled government. They can do anything. This is really BAD!!! But hey, Pik Botha's grandson is a big shot at Youtube remember!!!
Adriana and Propaganda -- please, if you don't know what you're talking, just keep quiet. YouTube has NOTHING to do with the SABC, eTV, the ANC or even Julius bloody Malema for that matter.
Brush up a bit, all you're doing is spreading disinformation.
I just hope this mean Your Partner program will now all work for us!
You have freedom of speech. If there was absolute censorship then we would not be reading narrow minded off topic drivel. Come to China where we have to look for proxies and vpn's to access facebook and Youtube because of absolute censorship. Youtube has given lots of communities a voice to their good or bad situations. Happy 5 year old birthday youtube!
Why the hell would I visit YouTube to watch some local crap that has already been repeated on local TV 67 times? I visit YouTube for new videos, music especially. But us lucky South Africans must always be punished " This video is not available in your country due to copyright laws". Fix this dear music industry - then we will truely enjoy services like YouTube.
Oh wow ...WOW ..that does look good...you Americans are sooooo amazing! Pity you can't play football ...or Rugby :)
Hey Eedgan...would LOVE to hear what songs YOU have written for free for the world...Ag pleeze post them for free so we can all have free entertainment ....love you soooo much ..:(
Hmmm ANC's true intentions of where they want to lead this country are becoming evident each day.Guess the communist thinking of the ANC has not completly died...as they would love for us to know.
No need to panic right? haha ey look China is doing well!


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Australian butchers see lower December sales
All meat categories in the December quarter were "notably lower in 2012 than in 2011", the survey said. Carried out by Millward Brown for the MLA, the survey showed sales of beef, lamb and chicken to be 8% lower than last year, while sales of pork slumped by 7% on the previous year.
However, it added beef sales had performed the best for the butchers surveyed over the period, with 33% reporting sales of beef to be "very good" to "excellent" and 44% saying sales were "good".
Chicken fared a little worse, with 31% of butchers asked saying sales were "very good" to "excellent", while a further 41% reported sales of chicken were "good". 26% said lamb sales were "very good" to "excellent", and 46% said they were "good".
Out of the performance of the four meats included in the survey, pork was reported to be the poorest, with just 22% of butchers asked reporting sales to be "very good" to "excellent".
Popular cuts of the period were beef steaks. However, the MLA survey stated the popularity was not as high as that seen last year at the premium end, although the quality of beef in general helped to drive sales. Lamb was popular, along with sausages; the MLA attributed this to the hot weather, which led people to bring out the barbecue, adding to sales.


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