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A Dutch court in the city of Hague on Wednesday issued a formally Europe-wide preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace smartphones due to accusations of Apple of infringements of patents. Interestingly, but the court did not order to halt sales of Galaxy-branded tablets.
Apple, claimed that Samsung had infringed on three of its patents. The court ruled that Samsung smartphones Galaxy S, S II and Ace breached just one of Apple's patents. The Apple patent allows for a certain method of scrolling or browsing through photos in some Samsung smartphones, the court added, reports Reuters news-agency.
The injunction relates to the current version of those devices but would not cover future releases that may be designed in ways that don't infringe this particular patent, according to Foss Patents. The status of that patent varies between different countries as this list shows. While the patent was originally designated to more than 30 member countries of the European Patent Organization (which is not an EU organization and also includes non-EU members such as Switzerland), there are many countries in which the application wasn't turned into a valid patent because Apple didn't make the necessary administrative effort and pick up the related costs.
This relates to countries in which one particular European software patent (EP 2059868) is valid. Formally it's a "device" patent, but it doesn't represent any innovation on the hardware side, so the nature of the invention is that of a software patent the way I define that term.
Samsung said in a statement that its affiliates in the Netherlands were not allowed to sell the smartphones in the Netherlands, Britain, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Sweden and Switzerland until the patent violation was resolved.
However, it said the ruling was not expected to affect sales in European markets other than the Netherlands.
"With regard to the single infringement cited in the ruling, we will take all possible measures including legal action to ensure that there is no disruption in the availability of our Galaxy smartphones to Dutch consumers," the official statement by Samsung reads.


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Olympian Oscar Pistorius stands following his bail hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 19.
PRETORIA, South Africa -- A South African court eased bail restrictions on Olympian Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, with the judge saying he should be allowed to travel abroad.
"I find no reason why Pistorius should be forbidden from leaving (South Africa) if he's invited to compete in athletic events in other countries," Judge Bert Bam told the court on Thursday.
Pistorius, a double-amputee who is also a Paralympic star, and must provide authorities with an itinerary before he leaves the country, Bam said. He must also return his passport to the court within 24 hours of returning to South Africa, The Associated Press reported.
Pistorius' lawyers said the athlete had no immediate plans to travel or compete abroad, but may need to in order to make money.
Olympian Oscar Pistorius has not been seen since he left a South Africa courtroom in February, holed up in his uncle's mansion. His defense is now asking the judge to allow him to travel outside the country. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.
His legal team had objected to him not being allowed to travel outside of South Africa even though a magistrate said he was not a flight risk when granting him 1 million rand ($108,000) bail.
The court also reversed the ban on Pistorius visiting the gated housing estate where he shot Steenkamp dead early on Valentine's Day.
The sprinter denies murdering Steenkamp and says he shot her by mistake, fearing an intruder was in his home. Prosecutors say he killed her intentionally following an argument.
There was no sign of Pistorius or his family in Pretoria High Court on Thursday. Pistorius was not obliged to appear.
On Wednesday, the sprinter's brother also appeared in court on trial for the death of a woman in a road collision in 2008.
Carl Pistorius arrived Wednesday at the Vanderbijlpark Magistrate's Court in Johannesburg to face a charge of culpable homicide, or unlawful, negligent killing.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
As Olympian Oscar Pistorius remains at his uncle's home since being released on bail last week, his brother Carl prepares for his own trial next month, after being charged with "culpable homicide" for a car accident six years ago. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.
Slain model's father: Pistorius will 'suffer' if he's lying about her death
Oscar Pistorius' father accused of racism over gun comments
Oscar Pistorius murder case detective quits South African police
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Each year, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival brings together music, art, fashion and pop-culture loving millennials together in an impressive display. Featuring some of Absolut's favorite things, it only makes sense that it would join in on the festival as well.
Continuing a tradition of partnering with artists to create unique Art Bar experiences that channel their creative vision, Absolut worked with the acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun project to create an immersive experience that not only pairs incredible cocktails with the artist's creativity, but also brings attention to the great cause behind Little Sun.
Inside the Absolut Little Sun Art Bar, located right next to Coachella's mains stage, glow-in-the-dark-walls illuminate the room with the Little Sun design, as the drawings on the ceiling tell the story of how Little Sun is helping bring light to the 1.6 billion people without electricity. At the bar itself, the bartenders were spared having to shake out hundreds of cocktails one after another through an innovative system that allows them to pour handcrafted cocktails directly from a tap – all that is needed was a splash of bitters, and a bit of garnish.
But the most fun part of the art bar was the photo booth, where anyone can pick up one of the solar powered Little Sun lamps to light-write whatever design they can imagine in a pitch black room. A long-exposure snap of the camera results in a finished picture of bright swirling lights.
With a burning sun hovering over the desert, the Absolut Little Sun Art Bar is the perfect refuge to have a proper cocktail, and interact with this amazing project.
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KILLINGTON—Powerful winds swept through Pico ski resort around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday during a rainstorm, causing damage to two of the condominium buildings, the base lodge and surrounding trees and signs.
Parts of the condo roofs were torn off, windows were broken and several metal chimney caps—weighing a couple hundred pounds each—were tossed into the parking lot, according to Pico property manager Tom Rock.
Of the combined 60 rooms in the two buildings, only 10 of them were occupied and everyone was evacuated without injury and sent to the Killington Grand Resort Hotel for the time being.
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Rock said there is no estimated cost of the repairs as of yet and no next step has been planned.
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EUREKA, ILL.—Central College rallied from a 10-point deficit and posted its fourth straight men's basketball victory Saturday, defeating Eureka College (Ill.) 94-82.
With the score tied around the 13:30 mark, Eureka took off for 10 straight points. Guard KJ Cool (senior, Chillicothe, Mo., Newtown Harris R-3 HS) answered with a 3-pointer to end the run and the Dutch cut the margin to two points before regaining the lead for a 44-38 halftime advantage.
"Eureka (3-1) really hurt us on the glass, getting second or third chances," coach Craig Douma said. "But our bench really came in and turned the game around with their defense and rebounding."
Central's reserves finished the game with 20 points. Cool, guard Jordan Cruse (senior, Mason City)and center Spencer Bakerink (junior, Creston) each had six points and Bakerink also had six rebounds.
"They really gave us a spark," Douma said.
The Dutch held on to the lead in the second half and led by as much as 15 points. Central committed just one turnover in the second half, and had six for the game.
"We took care of the ball down the stretch and knocked down some free throws," Douma said. "We were able to get Eureka out of rhythm and run the floor."
Guard Branden Stubbs (junior, Pleasant Hill, Des Moines Christian HS) led the Dutch with a game-high 26 points and seven assists. Guard Nick Marinkovich (senior, Clarendon, Hills, Ill., Hinsdale Central HS) had 22 points while center Jacob Winkler (senior, Lancaster, Mo., Schuyler R-1 HS) had 14. Forward Matt Greenfield (junior, Huxley, Ballard HS) had nine rebounds.
"Branden didn't come out of the game," Douma said. "He played solid and really led us in the second half.
"Nick started the game out rough but persevered and really shot the ball well. He had some big 3's in the second half."
Central outshot Eureka 48 percent to 44.4 percent and shot 30.8 percent behind the arc. The Dutch were 14-for-17 at the free-throw line.
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It's an unconscionable stain on our nation's history: Fewer than 40 years ago, many states had laws that actually forbid special needs students from attending public schools, including students who were deaf, blind or had developmental disabilities.
Until the Congress passed the first version of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1975, American public schools accommodated only 20 percent of these children with disabilities. About 1 million children with special needs had absolutely no access to public schools. An additional 3.5 million special needs children were "warehoused" out of sight of the general population, according to the National Council on Disability.
Thanks to progress made by educators and disability rights advocates, times have changed. More than 6 million students now receive public education through IDEA, according to the National Center for Learning Disabilities. That includes more than 222,000 special needs students in Michigan.
With greater access to special education comes a greater need for teachers and education support staff to be properly trained in special education issues. That's why MEA provides assistance to members in addressing specific questions related to special education rules and services, including topics involving IDEA and Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) rights.
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Davis frequently presents at various investment forums and has published studies on a variety of macroeconomic and investment topics in leading academic journals. In 2004, Davis was selected as a Faculty Research Fellow of the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research for his contributions to the fields of economic history and U.S. business cycles. Davis earned his Ph.D. in macroeconomics and finance at Duke University.
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When: October 27, 2013 at 8:55 AM (Registration opens at 7:30 AM; closes at 8:45 AM)
Where: Victory Fields at PW High School
What: USTAF Certified 5K, Family Walk and Chain of Survival Relay
Who: Benefitting Simon's Fund, an organization that prevents sudden cardiac arrest in students. A donation will also be made to our host school district, Colonial.
Price: $10 – 25, depending on entry and age
This USTAF certified course begins and ends at Victory Fields in Plymouth Meeting and is almost entirely on private roads.
The race will be chip timed and awards will be given out to the fastest times in a variety of age groups, including over 70!
Family Walk - This one mile loop course is takes you around PW High School. It perfect for a family stroll or a brisk walk. It's a great way to be a part of the cause!
Chain of Survival Relay - Teams from local schools will compete against one another in a relay that incorporates the steps taken to save a life from sudden cardiac arrest. If your school would like to enter a team, email us at [email protected] [3].


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Years ago I used to fish a beautiful little trout stream, the West Branch of the Croton, where it flows between West Branch Reservoir and Croton Falls Reservoir. Being self employed, I was able to steal away at times for a long lunch hour and do a little fishing. I would park my car up at the property of the Putnam County Fish & Game Association. From there it was a short walk down a steep ridge to the brook and some of my favorite pools. The club caretaker owned two dogs. One was a large brown mutt, the other a spaniel type breed. The dogs usually followed me down to the stream in hopes of sharing my lunch. They seemed to be able to recognize a soft touch when they saw one. Once the food was gone, the brown dog would head back up the ridge. The spaniel was more sociable, tagging along the bank while I waded and cast, once in a while catching one of the wild brown trout that were born and bred in the river. Imagine, wild trout within 45 miles of New York City. This section of the West Branch has not been stocked in 40 years.
One day the spaniel attempted to become more than a just a casual companion. The trout were feeding steadily, their rise forms observed without difficulty on each pool that I approached. At first, success came easily for me that day. The fishing was great until I noticed the spaniel creeping up to the edge of the bank at a pool I was about to fish. The dog seemed to be in a state of great excitement. A trout rose a yard off the bank. Oh no! The eager dog launched itself into the brook, landing exactly where the fish had risen. The pup splashed about in the shallows seeking to find its quarry. It was comical to watch how bewildered the dog behaved once the trout had eluded it. I was amazed. It seemed to be undeniable that the dog had connected those rings on the water with the fish I was seeking. Of course, after that commotion there were no more trout rising in that pool. No matter, I could see that there were trout rising in the next pool upstream. Ah, but there was a problem. Handicapped by my waders, I could not reach that pool before the dog. I could only stand and watch while the spaniel repeated its unsuccessful attempt to catch a trout. What at first had struck me as being hilarious was no longer amusing. No amount of shouting or arm waving on my part succeeded in convincing the dog to leave the trout alone. My fishing was over for this afternoon. I sat down on the bank. The dog came and sat beside me whining and stamping its feet. It seemed to be saying, "OK, so I missed a couple, let's not quit now." What could I do? I reached over and patted the fishing dog on the head. It occurred to me that this was a great fish story. Then again, would even my closest friends believe this tale involving a spaniel, a fly fisher and a trout stream? I'll just have to raise my right hand and swear to tell nothing but the truth.


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Chef Showdown: Local Foods – Martha Ryan, Martha's Leelanau Table
When MyNorth.com challenged Martha Ryan, chef/owner of Martha's Leelanau Table, to our local foods showdown she accepted with gusto and prepared her signature Leelanau Raclette Fondue for a MyNorth.com video. In accordance with the rules of the showdown, 90 percent of the ingredients for this dish are from Northern Michigan and another 5 percent are from Michigan, making it a 95 percent made-in-Michigan dish.
Watch the video to learn Martha's technique. Then click here for the recipe.
Here is a list of the local ingredients Martha used in her Leelanau Raclette Fondue:
- Leelanau Raclette, Leelanau Cheese Company, Suttons Bay, 231-271-2600
- Chateau Fontaine chardonnay, Chateau Fontaine Vineyards, Suttons Bay, 231-256-0000
- Cherry Eau De Vie, Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay 231-2714970
- Bardenhagen Red Potatoes, Bardenhagen Farms, Suttons Bay, 231-271-3199
- Gala Apples, Friske Orchards, Charlevoix, 231-588, 6185
Watch Sam Hybel of Gusto in Suttons Bay prepare Asparagus with White Wine Sauce.
Watch Chef John Piombo of Nonna's at The Homestead in Glen Arbor prepare Goat Cheese and Kale Spelt Ravioli with Roasted Rabbit, Aspargus and Cream
Watch Randy Chamberlain of Blu in Glen Arbor prepare malted cherry ice cream.
Watch Joseph George of Grand Traverse Resort prepare Bacon and Eggs with Smoked Steelhead Roe
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Black Leaders Urge Obama to End War on Drugs
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African-American leaders recently announced a day of direct action to pressure President Barack Obama to end the longstanding War on Drugs, which historically led to the mass incarceration of young black men and women; and to instead invest in jobs, economic development and social programs in black communities.
"To say we're disappointed in some of the policies of this president is not an understatement," said Dr. Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW), an advocacy organization based in New York. "We're disappointed in his stance on the War on Drugs. This is his second term. What's he waiting for?"
Daniels convened a press conference on April 4 at the National Press Club in Northwest to bring attention to the upcoming day of action on Monday, June 17, the 42th anniversary of the War on Drugs. More than 30 individuals attended the press conference in the Zenger Room to show their support for the upcoming day of action.
Daniels has enlisted a group to spread the word.
Leading up to the day of action, faith leaders and other community organizers will educate congregations and the community in the greater Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md., areas to mobilize participants to take part in a rally at Lafayette Park near the White House.
The IBW, a national network of scholars and advocates, believes the War on Drugs is actually a "War on Us," a racially biased policy and strategy, the "New Jim Crow," which has devastated black families nationwide. This war led to policing tactics such as the stop-and-frisk programs, tougher and unequal sentencing for drug possession, and mass incarcerations. The mass incarcerations subsequently led to higher levels of joblessness, underemployment, crime, violence and fratricide within communities of color, said Daniels, a lecturer at York College, City University of New York.
There was, in fact, a different philosophy when it came to policing largely African-American communities years ago, said Ronald Hampton, a 20-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department. Hampton, who has since retired from the police department, and focuses much of his energy on educational issues, said a double standard, existed.
"It wasn't written policy in terms of what they wanted us to do, but it was an unwritten policy," said Hampton, a native Washingtonian and Ward 4 resident. "There were brutal civil rights violations in our community. But when we were fighting crime in Ward 3, these oppressive tactics were not [utilized]." Hampton said that in poorer communities, residents weren't involved in solving crimes; but in affluent ones, there was an emphasis on "community policing."
"Poor people don't complain," he said. "It's part of the environment and part of public policy."
Hampton, who is a member of a justice collaborative, including IBW, made his comments following the press conference on April 4, the 45th anniversary of the death of civil rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The justice collaborative comprises social justice, drug and criminal reform advocates, organizations that have partnered with IBW to ensure that the day of direct action is a success.


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Civil Servant Appreciation Day Service is the greatest preparation for leadership. Jesus Christ said, "Whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister," in Mark 10:43.
Service is one of the most valuable life lessons that one can learn, and we would like to appreciate those men and women who serve in our community on Sunday, Sept. 7, at 10:30 a.m. at Bible Baptist Church, 2601 N. St. Mary's St.
We at Bible Baptist Church will be preparing a special service and lunch for all of our civil servants, as we've come to call it our annual Civil Servant Appreciation Day. If you are a part of the fire department, police department or local government you are invited to this special event. It will be our honor to serve you as you have served this community.
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She showed great strength and endurance in the regional meet in Converse last Saturday as she ran her 400-meter dash in 60.03 seconds for a second place finish, ensuring a trip to the next round, at state.
The top two qualifiers advance to the state meet which will be held on May 10-11 at Mike Myers Stadium at the University of Texas at Austin.
Elder also placed third in the long jump at the Region IV meet with a leap of 16-11, close to her personal best of 17-2.
The Lady Eagle sophomore was also third in the triple jump with a 35-0.75 effort. In the 200-meter dash, the speedy Pettus athlete ran a 26.32 for another bronze medal.
Elder is also in the Spanish Club and has been the Pettus High School mascot, Peagle the Eagle, for the past year.
All of Pettus is excited to see Anna run in the state meet.
"We are certainly very proud of Anna's track achievements and look for her to continue qualifying for state competition in her junior and senior year in more than just one event," said Pettus Athletic Director Dan Garza.


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ICBA Offers Financial Tips for Travelers
Planning Ahead Can Help You Keep Your Money Safe
Washington, D.C. (July 1, 2013)—With many Americans planning on traveling for the holiday this week, the Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) and the nation's nearly 7,000 community banks want consumers to have the information they need before they hit the road so they can keep their money safe.
"There is nothing that can ruin a family trip faster than running out of money or losing your wallet and debit and credit cards," said Bill Loving, ICBA chairman and president and CEO of Pendleton Community Bank, Franklin, W.Va. "By planning ahead with your community bank, you will be able to create a plan on how to protect your money while traveling. Community bankers are relationship bankers who work together with their customers, so in the event something unfortunate does happen, they will be ready to lend a helping hand."
Financial professionals agree that the safest and most convenient way to travel with your money is to take a small amount of cash with you. Another good idea is to carry a debit or credit card along for the trip. These cards are convenient while traveling because they are easy to carry, easy to use and often offer the lowest fees and the best exchange rates.
However, it is important that travelers still plan ahead. ICBA offers these tips to consumers about what they need to take care of before they take off:
- Let your community bank know when and where you will be traveling so that you will avoid any potential denials or fraud alerts when out-of-the-ordinary transactions are presented. This is crucial for international travel.
- Find out what ATM or debit card fees you may be subject to around the country and abroad.
- Make copies of all the cards you'll be carrying. Take a copy with you and give a copy to someone you trust back home. Be sure to also include the customer service phone number.
- Bring a list of emergency phone numbers. Be sure to get a number for your bank that you can call if you're out of the country.
- Many credit cards provide travel accident insurance and traveler's assistance. Ask your community bank what special services are available through your card.
- Check your available balances before you leave. Know the limits on how much cash you can withdraw or purchases you can make.
"Whether your family is traveling near or far, it truly is better to be prepared for any event that comes your way. Your local community bank can help ensure your finances will be kept safe," Loving said.
To learn more about ICBA, visit www.icba.org. To find a community bank in your area, visit ICBA's community bank locator.
About ICBA
The Independent Community Bankers of America®, the nation's voice for nearly 7,000 community banks of all sizes and charter types, is dedicated exclusively to representing the interests of the community banking industry and its membership through effective advocacy, best-in-class education and high-quality products and services. For more information, visit www.icba.org.


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Ohio State makes playoffs
Lifestyle briefs, May 6
Learn about human trafficking
Sister Mary Kuhlman is to give a free program on human trafficking Thursday at Mercy Tiffin Hospital. The morning presentation is 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; the evening session is 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Both take place in McMullen Rooms 2 and 3. Call (419) 455-7055 to reserve a spot.
Barbecue dinner planned
REPUBLIC – A chicken barbecue dinner is to be served at 11 a.m. Saturday at Republic Town Hall. Each meal is $9.
Drive-through and carry outs are to be available.
Conference to cover addiction
FREMONT – Firelands Regional Medical Center and Counseling and Recovery Services is to offer its 15th annual Forensic Conference 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. May 21 at Terra State Community College, Fremont.
An expert on addiction and recovery, Cardwell Nuckols is to be the presenter. His program is titled "A Neurobiology Seminar: Understanding the Client with Early Life Developmental Trauma, Substance-Use Disorder and Antisocial Behavior to Improve Community Intervention and Treatment Outcomes." The target audience is judges, attorneys, parole/probation officers, prosecutors, public defenders, psychiatrists, counselors and social workers and other social service professionals.
Registration is limited to the first 250 registrants from professionals serving Erie, Huron, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca and Wyandot counties. Register no later than May 15 by calling (800) 242-5393.
Enrichment series continues
FOSTORIA – First Step, 1099 Columbus Ave., Fostoria, has started a Women's Enrichment Series that runs 6-7:30 p.m. Mondays. Refreshments are to be served at each gathering.
The following dates and topics have been scheduled:
May 19: "The Joy of Stamping"
June 17: "An Evening in Lavender"
June 23: "Christmas Herbal Pantry"
June 30: "Jams and Jellies"
Aug. 11: "Car Charms"
Aug. 25: "A Slice of Life"
Seating is limited. Register by calling (419) 435-7300.


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Payment by cash, check, credit or debit card.
Crown Center Shops and Restaurants are independently owned and operated. Applications may be obtained at the shops or restaurants.
There are several surface lots available for bus parking to the south of the Crown Center Shops, east of the 27th and Grand Blvd. intersection.
You can enjoy FREE WiFi in the Crown Center Shops Atrium and on Crown Center Square. (Courtesy of CTC Wireless, 816-842-0606.) Various shops, restaurants, attractions and Crown Center's hotels also offer WiFi access. Contact them directly for more information.
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Obama asks Vermont to help host immigrant childrenJuly 17,2014MONTPELIER The Obama administration has asked Vermont whether it can house immigrant children who have crossed into the United States over the Mexican border.
Gov. Peter Shumlins office says that its willing to investigate locations and logistical requirements and work with them to determine if Vermont would be an appropriate host state.
Democratic opposition increased Wednesday to legal changes that would speed removals of young Central American migrants, jeopardizing President Barack Obamas call for $3.7 billion in emergency border spending to deal with the surge of unaccompanied youths at the South Texas border.
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Banks face capital hit from 'punitive' EU pensions rule
The UK's five largest banks may have to find billions of pounds of extra high-quality capital to back their pension schemes under regulations coming in next year.
Pensions consultancy Redington has calculated the requirement as £12 billion. It cautions that it has used figures from the banks' 2012 accounts. Banks could have reduced their liability by reducing equity exposure since then.
Redington based its analysis on an announcement in December by the Prudential Regulation Authority, the Bank of England's risk watchdog, on how it would apply new EU capital requirements to banks' pension finances.
The PRA said that under part of the EU Capital Requirements Directive IV, which comes into force on January 1 next year, the quality of capital banks hold against their pension schemes would have to be higher. Around half of their pension risk will have to be backed by core Tier 1 capital, the highest quality, consisting of shareholders' equity and retained earnings.
The provisions are "far more punitive than the pension trustees' usual deficit measures", according to Antony Barker, director of pensions at Santander, one of the banks analysed by Redington.
He said that such standards were not applied to "a motor manufacturer or an airline", adding that the move "completely transformed" the management of banks' pension liabilities.
An equity analyst who covers the UK banks said: "Pensions risk is being incorporated into capital requirements in a way that's raising those requirements for every UK bank that we cover that has a substantial pension scheme."
Any transfer of capital to back the pension scheme would be unwelcome when banks are being urged by regulators to strengthen their balance sheets.
The PRA has not decided the detailed formula for the new requirements, so there is considerable uncertainty about the numbers. A spokeswoman for the authority said it would begin consulting on implementation "later this year".
The Redington estimates are based only on the equity portfolios of the banks' pension funds, as information on these is disclosed in a consistent way. Further details of their investment portfolios and capital requirement calculations are not made public.
Redington based its estimates for five UK banks: Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander, on their 2012 accounts.
It estimated that Lloyds, with the largest pension liability of the five and the highest level of equity investment in its pension portfolios, would need the most extra Tier 1 capital, £2.7 billion based on the 2012 data.
Its other estimates were £2.4 billion at RBS, £1.4 billion at Barclays, £500 million at HSBC and £440 million at Santander UK.
The PRA spokeswoman said that while Redington's calculations on equity risk were correct, because they did not consider other assets, they did not convey the full capital requirement for a bank's defined benefit scheme.
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Me, not her.
I make most of DD's food, but I am getting so tired of pureeing stuff! Her purees are really thick now, and I'm wondering when/how to transition to small soft pieces. She loves to feed herself, I just don't know how to get away from all the purees. Is it too early? She's 8 1/2 mos. I started cubing little pieces of avocado and "dusting" them in cheerio crumbs so she can grab them, but I need more suggestions.
Soft cooked pasta?
Cottage cheese?
Shredded Chicken?


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How much do holiday lights cost?
Published On: Dec 11 2013 03:01:14 PM CST
Decorating your home for the holidays brightens the season. But those lights need power, and you may notice a difference in your electricity bill.
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The Best ORAL SEX Ever: Her Guide to Going Down
by Yvonne K. Fulbright, PhD, $11.95
by Yvonne K. Fulbright, PhD, $11.95
I didn't expect a woman's guide to oral sex to be 176 pages long. I figured it would say Prologue: Keep your teeth off it. Denouement: You've made quite a mess. A dong isn't very hard to figure out. If you called an instruction book on blowjobs Friction and Enthusiasm it would spoil the ending.
I'm not saying there's no difference between best oral sex and worst oral sex. But it's a small gap and only something you complain about if you're completely out of real problems. People are dying in Libya, so give the poor girl a break if poking her in the face isn't going exactly as planned.
You're probably asking, "If blowjobs are so easy, I have two questions. One, if that's true, why do unattractive women always brag about how good they are at giving head? And two: if oral sex is so simple, what the hell does this book talk about for 176 pages?" I'll answer both your questions. One: that unattractive woman is just trying to sleep with you. Don't make her beg. And two: Oh my god, this book is like a medical doctor throwing up on your balls.
This isn't a delightful sexual romp through fun positions you and your partner can try. The detailed, clinical descriptions for every fleshy bulge on a man's body will make a woman never want any part of you in her mouth again. Did you know that doctors have a real name for the area under your balls? Perineum. That sounds like something you would detect right before you evacuate an office building. And it just gets grosser. There's a chapter on ball smell. Not so much about how to prevent it-- only that it exists. There are tips to avoid choking on pubic hair, and I'll never repeat any of them. This horrible book makes me want to write a letter to every girl I ever got to third base with to apologize for everything, especially all the perineum.
One fun feature is the extensive sexual dictionary in the back for people who, after hundreds of pages, still aren't clear on the definition of things like Butt Plug or Frenulum. I appreciated that they included simple ones too, just in case:
I know what you're thinking: "Wait, that's what a penis is? You mean that whole book was about putting that in my mouth!?" I'm afraid so. I even looked it up in my superhero Super Dictionary. Unfortunately, my Super Dictionary was apparently written before "Penis" was invented. The closest word it had was "peanut."
So while I still might not be clear on what a penis is or who that soon-to-be-dead man is that keeps hitting Hawkman with peanuts, I do know how to keep both of them from suffocating me thanks to the chapter on circular breathing techniques the author borrowed from oboe players and applied to blowjobs. Although I don't think you really need to tell a person to breathe through his or her nose while there's a dick in their mouth. Phil Collins has been singing about that for decades. In your fac-oh, heavenly fuck, what the shit is this thing?
I don't have a PhD in wang science, but that is clearly a robot designed for tunneling under its victims. It is not safe to rub on a human perineum. Does your hedonism run so deep that you need to risk yanking chunks of our genitals off with a rotating wheel of "velvety tongues"? That's how the muppets died, you monster. That's how the muppets died.
The Best ORAL SEX Ever: His Guide to Going Down
by Yvonne K. Fulbright, PhD, $11.95
by Yvonne K. Fulbright, PhD, $11.95
This book is two pages shorter than the one about going down on men, despite the fact that there are 917 parts to a vulva, and 214 of them reset a woman's sex drive when you touch them. There's the Labia Minora, the Clitoral Hood, dozens of squirting glands, the Mons Pubis... it's confusing. Especially since I think a lot of these vagina parts were named Walrus Man when I was a kid.
This book is nearly identical to the one about going down on men in that it makes oral sex sound as erotic as dissecting an earthworm. By the time you finish, you'll think that cunnilingus is a painful way to stink up your face. There's a chapter that has diet tips for giving her womanly parts a "scrumptuous" and "tangier" flavor in pursuit of "becoming a fine-dining experience." Why would you even talk like that unless you wanted someone to puke up your birth canal? I'm almost positive that Yvonne K. Fulbright, PhD is working for The Council to Convince Me That Geysers of Rats Might Pour Out of Vaginas.


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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Eggs Havana
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i love eggs for breakfast....this sounds very good. i have ramekins, but rarely use them for their intended purpose. maybe i'll put them to use this week! xoxoReplyDelete
I agree this looks worth all the time it takes to make it. How wonderful to have hot meal for breakfast! Much better over toast!ReplyDelete
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Look great! I love baked eggs. Here's my buttinsky obversation which I know you didn't ask for. I'm not a troll I swear. I find the small font size coupled with red typeface on yellow background extremely difficult to read. If the font size is small, you'd be better off sticking to black type. If you want colored type, you may wish to increase the size at least. Other readers like me might be "dragging and highlighting" your text in order to provide more contrast to more easily read your posts without the red font.ReplyDelete


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No government is bound by the actions of its predecessor.
Just re-read what I wrote....Applying the law is not proposed as a counter argument, but as something that should be done (and should have been done) anyway. I do think that a little time should be taken for some sort of Lab/Con consensus to be developed so that any solution survives any change in government. I'd also look for safeguards to ensure genuine press freedom/public interest defence. In my view also, any regulation will bear heavily on those who would not offend anyway, so discouraging possible investigative journalism. In addition, those determined to lie, cheat , threaten will still find ways.
Also , on here,lawyers come in for a certain amount of criticism but suddenly, one of them , Leveson, is the hero of the moment.
Murdoch got away with murder for years because Thatcher/Blair/Cameron were in hock to him. That's what's got to stop. Newspaper editors/proprietors thinking it's they who run the country. "Freedom of the press" sounds good, but after what they've done with that freedom I think a few small restrictions are called for. People like Paul Dacre thinking they can stalk people 24/7 whose views they disagree with in order to try and get some dirt on them and discredit them has to stop. Dacre is known to be a bully in journalistic circles. Whatever you say about Grant and Coogan, the same certainly doesn't apply to J K Rowling's children!
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Phone: 503-823-4682
fax: 503-823-4019
1221 SW 4th Ave. Suite 210, Portland, OR 97204
by Commissioner Steve Novick-- One of the most confusing things about being an American is how many different governments we have. Federal, State, County, City, school boards, Metro... Where does the City fit into it all?
There are some issues the City handles pretty much by itself - but not quite; other issues where the City plays one role as part of a bigger system involving multiple governments; and other issues where the City has no direct responsibility or authority, but has a big interest in them. Here are some examples:
The City is exclusively responsible for water and sewer service, and raises money for water and sewer from ratepayers. But the City has to meet federal Environmental Protection Agency standards for sewer and water systems, and in fact, some of the biggest and most controversial water and sewer projects the City has been involved in relate to EPA requirements.
The City has police, but the police are part of a larger public safety universe that includes a lot of County employees and offices -- the District Attorneys, the Sheriff, the jail, and parole and probation officers - and the State, which has prisons (for longer sentences) and the Attorney General. The Courts, meanwhile, are kind of joint County - State operations. One of my goals as a City Commissioner is to promote a closer and better integrated relationship between all parts of the public safety system. And one of my personal goals in life, as a guy who's interested in better public understanding of government, is to get Dick Wolf to change the intro to "Law and Order" to something like: "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups. The police, City employees, largely paid for by property taxes, who arrest offenders, and the District Attorneys, County employees who are also largely paid for by property taxes, who prosecute them, and send them either to County jails, also largely paid for by property taxes, or State prison, which in most States are paid for by a combination of sales and income taxes, except in States that only have one of those two taxes."
The City is responsible for City streets, but some of the biggest streets in Portland, like Powell Boulevard and 82d Avenues, are actually State highways, and most of the money for City transportation projects (including basic street maintenance) comes from State and Federal gas tax revenue. Meanwhile, Tri-Met, which runs buses and light rail, is run by a separate board appointed by the Governor.
The City has the Fire Bureau, but these days the Fire Bureau has more medical calls than fire calls, so the Fire Bureau is part of the larger health care system, which includes private hospitals and doctors, the ambulance system, which is overseen by the County, and the federal Medicare and State Medicaid programs. One of my goals as City Commissioner is to see if the Fire Bureau can work more closely with the rest of the health care system to find efficiencies.
The City has parks, which are independent of other governments.... although the Parks Bureau is part of the City's work with other entities in the Intertwine Alliance, which works to increase visitation and investment in natural areas in the region as a whole.
The City provides shelters and other services for the homeless, but the County also has services for the homeless, and the Federal government provides much of the funding for low-income housing.
The schools are completely independent of the City ... but of course, the City has a huge interest in the strength of the schools.
The City does zoning and planning and permitting, but the zoning and planning fits within the broader zoning and planning goals set by the State and Metro.


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Wyndham Vacation Rentals offers Park City lodging at many popular townhome and condominium complexes, including accommodations in the Historic District, the Park City Resort area, The Canyons, and the Silver Lake and Snow Park areas of Deer Valley® Resort. Some complexes, such as Sundial Lodge at The Canyons, Mont Cervin Plaza in Deer Valley® Resort, and Lift Lodge at the Town Lift offer ski-in, ski-out access. Others offer community amenities like heated outdoor pools, hot tubs, exercise rooms or free underground parking.


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Philadelphia Phillies (6-6) at Cincinnati Reds (5-7)
Cliff Lee (2-0, 1.08) vs. Bronson Arroyo (1-1, 5.25)
Time: 7:10 pm, Great American Ballpark
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 68
Media: Twitter and Facebook
First, let us send out thoughts and prayers to the people who may have been affected by the heinous bombings at the Boston Marathon. We certainly hope that if you have friends or family in the area that they are safe and accounted for. After this tragic event, baseball will be played. Jonathan Papelbon: "I used to live right above where one of the bombs went off." So sad.
The Phillies will start a set with the Reds, who look a lot like the Phillies in the early going – a team with a capable offense hurt by a lack of competent pitching. One hitter the Phillies will have to keep a close eye on is Joey Votto. The former MVP is lacking power numbers, but more than making up for them in terms of doing everything he can to not make outs. Going into the game, Votto has 20 walks and 10 strikeouts. His batting average is .289. His on-base percentage is an obnoxious .542. Just silly.
Not only will Cliff Lee have his hands full there, but he'll have to deal with Shin-Soo Choo, who is off to a hot start as the Reds new leadoff hitter. Choo has posted a 1.088 OPS through the first 12 games.
The Phillies hitters will get a chance to tee off on Bronson Arroyo, a guy they've had success with. The lanky righty is just 2-7 with a 6.55 ERA in his career against the Phillies.
Good news: Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Domonic Brown, and Michael Young are batting a combined .340 with seven doubles and four homers against Arroyo, according to our own Corey Seidman.
Also good: Freddy Galvis sticking in the lineup at his third position in three days. This is fantastic, as they're able to give their aging vets a breather.
LINEUP: Revere CF, Galvis 2B, Rollins SS, Howard 1B, Young 3B, Brown LF, Nix RF, Kratz C, Lee P
Your Gameday Beer – Yards Chocolate Love Stout
Had a large bottle of this over the weekend and fell in love with it again. It's creamy and seductive, yet extremely smooth. It has a bite to it at over 7.0% ABV. It'll go well with a plate of cheese and meat, so head to DiBruno bros. before the game.
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The Phils really have a chance to set up this series well tonight. All they have to do is pound the ball. Cincy really could use a well piutched game to rest their beleagued pen. Don't let Bailey go too deep, and the Natti is even further back on their heels. Broxton, 31 "pitches" yesterday, I think it was Simon who threw about 50 relieving Cueto the other night. Hanle Bailey, and build up LeCure's pitch count, and get a good one out of Cliff, and the Phils might find themselves in actually pretty good shape to win 2 of 3. Dare I say at least? Hell no. Not when the games are played in Nightmre Park.
Reds on a losing streak and we have had success against them in recent years. I think Cliff will get out there and do his thing. As long as the Phils don't make a very hittable Bronson Arroyo look like Cy Young like they tend to do from time to time I think they will come away with the win here in game one of the series. Good vibes! Everybody hit!
My prayers and thoughts go out to the victims of the senseless mess in Boston as well.
I never want to see anyone get injured but the timing of the Phillies missing both Cueto and Latos is fortunate. Here's to hoping they will take advantage of that good fortune.
Good gawd. jeff Brantley (not surprisingly, and Thom brenneman (very disappointing) calling Galvis "Golvis" This could be a long telecast.
How careful is Cliff with Votto? Well, this isn't a be all and end all, but in 16 PA, he hasn't walked him. .5-13 with 3 walks.
"he hasn't walked him. .5-13 with 3 walks."
That'll fire em up in accuracyville. 3 K's, 0 walks, now 6-14.
That's great math.
Amazing catch by Revere..can't believe he held it..
I really shouldn't post this right now, even before digesting that fabulous catch, and seemingly distracting from Bennie's catch, but this is one of my favorite defensive plays ever, and really worth a look..
WOW! That is what Rev Run brings to this team. What a play! He covers so much ground. He just saved a run. That's a Web Gem baby!
WOW!!! I was watching some of the Boston coverage, and tuned into the Phils game just in time to see Ben Revere's MOST AMAZING CATCH EVER!!!
You and I had the same reaction. Just WOW.
As T-Mac just pointed out, that Revere catch is reminiscent of the famous Jim Edmonds play. Instant classic.
Psh this game will be over by 8:30 if this keeps up.
So much for Gold Glove comp. Double web gem night. That must have happened somewhere aiong the line.
I don't know why, but it really bothers me when the Phillies can't hit Arroyo. More than any other pitcher. Probably because he looks like a goof and does that leg kick.
sadly, that took Cliuff out of a bases loaded 1 out at bat. That's called fun. But to me, that Kratz at bat just gets chalked up to that's life. He hiot the ball as hard as he could, just right into a DP. It goes as another failure in the RISP dept, but the guy hit the ball hard. I guess some people just don't go with the feeling of that stuff evens out.
How come batters from other teams get 2 strikes and they battle?
I thought with 2 strikes you were automaticly out?
Ive just thought this Phillies line up wasnt good enough 3 years ago.
It certainly isnt good enough this year.
Oh well.
Tough on pitchers when you arent getting any support.
Yeah, this offense is pathetic. I think scoring runs will be an anomaly and the lack of scoring runs will be the norm. Bronson Arroyo is very, very hittable, and it is extremely frustrating to watch him tie the Phillies down.
Miss Ruz?????
Ugh. Flashbacks to last season, when Cliffy pitched fabulous games and kept losing 1-0. Will the offense show up tonight?
Not unless the Reds bring Broxton in, then maybe there is a minuscule chance that the Phillies score a run. Maybe. The Phillies are mesmerized by Arroyo's long dancer's legs, luscious long blonde locks, and that kick he does during delivery. Not looking good for the Fightins.
Votto went of that one pitch should have never been on the base path.
Lee is upset at Kratz?
Or the balls and strikes?
Oh well another great pitching effort wasted.
How sad is it that we all knwo the Phillies arent scoring 3 runs.
so 2 does it.
They've had a few late-game heroics this year. I haven't given up yet. But I'll be surprised if they pull it off.
Unfortunately, Chapman should be pretty fresh com the 9th. Threw 5 pitches yesterday, and was off Saturday. I don't know that this is now or never time but it's not far from it.
Oooo… I'm not dead yet!!!
Chase Utley, YOU ARE THE MAN!!!
Boy, is Dusty gonna get killed for that. Just killed.
As for Chase, you gotta be good to say something original about him.
It's too easy tosit there and really know Aroldis's readiness for being brought in for a 4 out save, but you're fighting a losing streak, and not many Phils can beat you, but Ut's one of them. Biy is he gonna get questioned and ripped.
No question, you walk Joey and let Adams go at Phillips. N ot even debatable.
Yeah, more 2012 flashbacks. Starter pitches a gem, reliever throws it away.
Horst has been pretty useless so far
Yeah, Horsch is bad. What a shame. Tie it up and just like that we are behind again.
I blame Horsch
What a horror house. It's such an accomplishment when the Phils win a series at any stadium in Cincy.
I can throw a better ball from Right Field than Nix can
Adams made an ugly mistake and left the ball up on Phillips
Galvis, Rollins, Howard against the hardest throwing lefty in the game…..
No way
This one is close to being over
Why not Adams to start the 8th? He was acquired for that reason…
Because it makes sense?
Might have something to do with it being a road game, same way most managers don't like using their closer in a tie game on the road.
That'd be my best guess.
i get your point, but if your willing to use him when horst gets in trouble, you should have started inning with him. charlie consistently makes questionable calls, but then claims genius when he falls into one like calling on nix to ph in that fla game yesterday
If Howard faced Chapman 1000 would he strike out over 900 ?
Survery says…. yes
Team is not good enough I think is the bottom line.
Everyone else is jsut clubbing the Marlins.
Phils struggled.
Oh well theres always tomorrow
I know it's still a very small sample size, but how much longer of a leash does Horst get?
Nix serves no purpose.
Shame on the phillies for being in a ituation you are running him out there every night in right.
Nix serves no purpose.
Shame on the phillies for being in a situation you are running him out there every night in right.


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I have a *possible* uterine infection, though nothing really showed up on a pap I had done on 6/16. So they are just trying me on flagyl (metronidazole) and Doxycycline. My OB assured me that they are both just fine while breastfeeding. When I double checked online both of them were red flagged. I work at a hospital and our system said a big fat NO to either of them while nursing, though Doxy seemed the least bad. A nurse aquaintance said that it was the other way around and that flagyl was a L2 so it's safe and DOxy is NOT safe.
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It's been a couple of weeks now that I have heard a lot of trilling from nearby lakes and wetlands. The first thought from someone not familiar with the local habitat may be that there is a swarm of crickets or other insects that frequent waterways during spring. This is not the case however; the trilling is the courtship call of the American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus). This is a recent scientific name change as the old genus name was "Bufo". Calling toads can be heard here: http://www.twcwc.com/toadsong.html.
American toads start courtship calling in our region by May and continue into June. It is the male toads that can be heard calling as they try to attract a female for mating. Their call is loud and can be heard far off. If you are within 20 feet or so of a few males calling, most other sounds are drowned out. American toads do not have to open their mouth to emit their loud calls. They will expel a lungful of air through the larynx and into the vocal sac below their jaw. The sound resonates within the vocal sac and causes it to be amplified and propagated through the air. The call trills are usually 30 to 40 Hz in frequency and can last for over half a minute.
After the end of breeding season, most of the toads will disappear from the aquatic habitats as American toads do not need a body of water during non-breeding times. The first tiny toad offspring may be visible in early July as they emerge from the water as freshly metamorphosed toadlets. If you happen to handle an American toad, wash your hands afterwards as the parotid glands (the big warts behind each eye) emit a toxin which can make humans ill if ingested. American toads and other amphibians will be heard for a few months. Sit back and enjoy the spring serenade.


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But thanks to the one-a-year plan, in which multiple films were being juggled in production at once, the immediate follow-up to The Little Mermaid didn't have the luxury of aping its form or structure. At the time The Rescuers Down Under went into production, The Little Mermaid was nothing more than the next movie to come out after Oliver & Company. And even if someone here or there within the animation studio got it in their heads that the mermaid picture was something special, I can't imagine that anyone was so optimistic as to assume it would be such a massive success, commercially and artistically. Certainly, nobody would have been so bold as to argue that it was going to massively redefine the identity and popular conception of Disney animation, which maybe explains why The Rescuers Down Under feels like something of an experiment, as though in those early days when money was somewhat loose for the first time in decades, and corporate support was secure like it had not been since Walt's death, the studio was trying out a great many different styles, trying to find the one that would fit it in the uncertain future. Except that The Little Mermaid was a massive blockbuster, and The Rescuers Down Under was at best a very minor success, the last Disney feature to gross less than $30 million; thus the former was fêted copied, while the latter looks, in retrospect, like a very peculiar outlier, something that would not have been the case in 1990, when the Disney Renaissance was one film old and had not yet even been thought of as a "renaissance".
As the film was such a box-office washout, sandwiched in between the infinitely sexier The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, it is not given very much attention in the standard histories: which means unfortunately that there is much that I do not know about its development. In particular, the question hangs like a cloud: why, at this time, did Disney elect to produce its first-ever sequel to one of its features, in this case 1977's The Rescuers? I am not slighting the choice of that particular film, I should quickly point out: there might indeed not be another Disney feature so readily tailored to sequelisation, or even a full-on franchise. Indeed, this latter point very nearly came about when Disney's young television animation division, created by the new executives in 1985, sought to create a cartoon series spin-off of The Rescuers with predominately new characters in 1988; that plan was derailed by the production of this very feature, and the cartoon saw life as Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers. Not to mention that the little girl Jenny from Oliver & Company was for the briefest time going to be Penny, the girl from The Rescuers, a bit grown up and living with her new parents. Must have just been something in the air in the late '80s.
But the question remains: why a sequel? I ask this only rhetorically. I cannot imagine why a sequel, not in 1990 or ever. It simply was not the way things were done over there. That said, if a sequel positively had to be made, to The Rescuers or anything else, at least The Rescuers Down Under is a relatively classy sequel; it doesn't slavishly re-create its predecessor nor does it actively dishonor its memory, and plays the same characters in a different enough vein that it functions as its own story while also expanding on the original narrative in a logical, reasonable manner. It's sufficiently entertaining that no small number of people (mostly those young enough to have first discovered The Rescuers Down Under on home video) seem ready to declare it the better of the two Rescuers films -a conclusion that I don't agree with, although I must admit that it's not such an easy claim to dismiss.
Our story opens in Australia, as we can tell from the giant red sandstone formation off in the the distance, which we start zooming to with all undue speed. This happens only after a short opening shot involving some weird-looking Oz bugs milling about, and indeed the great zoom into the rocks is part of the same shot. In all honesty, I actually rather respect this for an opener, because it introduces us to two things that will come to dominate the experience of watching the film: the pounding, adventuresome score by Bruce Broughton, a clichéd bundle of '80s action movie motifs tricked up with Australian instrumentation, and which I like a great deal more than that preceding clause makes it seem; and the contrast between hand drawn character animation and CGI - but I would rather delay that conversation.
The long fast zoom ends at a little house back of beyond, where we find that our hero is a little boy named Cody (Adam Ryen), whose hobby, as quickly becomes apparent, is clambering through the Outback forests and deserts, saving animals from poachers' traps and speaking to them, it being an apparent motif of the series that little children can talk to animals, and neither they nor the animals seem to think it at all peculiar. It is, however, bound to be a good skill to cultivate on a continent noted for the predominance of deadly fauna. So, Cody is being called up to rescue a giant golden eagle naming herself Marahute (she never speaks except in a series of birdlike shrieks provided by the incredibly prolific and elastic voice actor Frank Welker), and when he cuts her free from a net at the top of a bluff, the bird in her anxiety knocks him off the edge, before promptly swooping down to save him. Bird and boy then embark on a soaring tour of the skies above Australia, in an essentially pointless but visually entrancing montage that ends with Cody tromping off home, only to end up caught in a pit dug by a poacher. Hardly has Cody taken stock of the situation before he is found by the poacher, a nasty and gangly thing named McLeach (George C. Scott), who is prepared to let the boy go - until he sees Marahute's feather. Instantly recognising the telltale trace of one of the world's rarest avians, McLeach imprisons Cody until the boy will tell him where the eagle's nest lies.
We are now nearly one-fifth of the way through the movie, and though there has been much Down Under, there have been no Rescuers to speak of. This is about to change, for Cody's abduction was observed by a white mouse who instantly runs off to the local telegraph station and sends out an emergency message to the Rescue Aid Society (the RAS theme song from the first movie puts in a nice little cameo in the score here. A really nicely assembled sequence takes the message across the Pacific, until eventually it ends up in New York City, where a late-night emergency session of the international society of do-gooding mice is called - it pleases me that nearly all of the mice we see are clearly the same designs from the earlier film. The RAS chairmouse (Bernard Fox, the first of three actors reprising his role from The Rescuers) suggests to universal acclaim that Miss Bianca (Eva Gabor, the second) and Bernard (Bob Newhart, the third) are the only team that can handle this difficult task, except that the two heroic mice aren't in the room!
As it turns out, they're at dinner-
All right, I'm stopping here. There is only one problem I have with The Rescuers Down Under. I mean there are a lot of things that it doesn't do right, but there's only the one thing it does flat-out wrong: this otherwise delightful adventure-comedy has a completely meandering, aimless story. Here we are, something close to a quarter through a 74-minute feature, and the alleged plot (Bernard and Bianca brave the Australian wilderness to save Cody) hasn't even remotely started up yet. Instead, we get us a genial "reintroduction to the characters" scene: Bernard wants to propose to Bianca, but he drops the ring and has to chase it, and by the time he gets back, she knows about the Australia mission and thinks that he does too, so when she says "I think it's a wonderful idea", he thinks she means getting married, and they have a lot of comic banter for a while before he finally figures out what's going on. Given that the joke here is something like 400 years old, the scene actually is quite amusing and playful; but my God, the movie is wasting away, do we really need to put three minutes of comedy of errors shenanigans into a movie that is so far refusing to be about the rescuers down under, title be damned?
More or less, that's pretty much the whole movie: one scene after another of charming or adventurous character business, sometimes featuring Bernard, Bianca, and their kangaroo rat guide Jake (Tristan Rogers)... what, kangaroo rats aren't found in Australia? But "kangaroo" is right in their name! Ahem, so sometimes the bits involve the three rodents, and sometimes Cody's attempts to escape McLeach's clutches, and sometimes the comic misadventures of Wilbur (John Candy), the albatross who helped fly Bernard and Bianca to Australia, and has since ended up in hospital with a bad back (Wilbur was put in as the brother of the first film's Orville, in an attempt to work around the death of Jim Jordan, Orville's performer). A lot of these sequences are decently funny or decently exciting, or both; but the film never gets any chance to build up a narrative head of steam, as a result of the hopscotching between subplots and of the refusal of any of those subplots to tie into the others until virtually the end of the movie, which has the terrible effect of making our theoretical protagonists, the mice, completely useless players in the unfolding of the drama until the very end.
A comparison to The Rescuers is enlightening. Like its sequel, that film told us a great deal about the kidnapping that it keeps back from Bernard and Bianca, but it doesn't do so arbitrarily. After the very vague opening scene, we follow the two rescuers exclusively as they uncover clues in what amounts to a mystery plot rather than an adventure for the first act. After they meet Madame Medusa, things switch up abruptly, and the film becomes more of an adventure quest: get to the bayou, find help, concoct a plan, save the girl. All of this, however, is driven by Bernard and Bianca, and the whole movie tells the story of their rescue efforts. In The Rescuers Down Under, there is so much extraneous matter that if Bernard and Bianca were crushed by a bus in the first scene, we'd still have a whole lot of the movie left untouched.
I bring this up not to damn the film with it, but to explain why all things considered, I will never like the sequel over the original; it's extremely episodic, and there's just something about episodic plots that raises my hackles. Letting that be what it is, The Rescuers Down Under is still a perfectly enjoyable movie whose biggest sin in the judgment of a history largely content to ignore its existence is that it's not The Little Mermaid. It still has appealing characters, in the main, whose lightly comic escapades are perfectly entertaining and easy to watch. Bernard's proposal woes are sitcom-level comedy, but even sitcoms can be well-done; Cody is a marked improvement over Penny, plucky and smart without also being incwedibwy pwecious.
As is often the case, the film is dominated by its villain, McLeach: voiced by perhaps the single most distinguished actor to ever provide vocal work for a Disney animated feature (George Sanders in The Jungle Book is the only reasonable competition I can think of), and if I am not much mistaken, the first (only?) Disney character who was drawn as a reasonable approximation of the actor playing him. McLeach (supervised and designed by Duncan Marjoribanks, a man of talent whose name is not often voiced in conversations of the great Disney animators in the 1990s) is a pretty potent bad guy, drawn as a series of tight, strained lines that imply a perpetual explosion of violence at any moment; he is one of the very few Disney villains that you can actually imagine up and slaughtering a little boy just for the fun of it. Herein lies the problem. Tonally, The Rescuers Down Under is basically the same kind of film as The Rescuers: playful, G-rated action, with lots of slapsticky gags, and a slightly more adult vein of humor mined by Bob Newhart in full neuroticism. Appropriately, The Rescuers had one of the most down-rent villains of them all: a frowsy clown, armed with a wicked temper but a complete inability to work genuine harm. But McLeach, well, he keeps threatening to take the movie someplace else, someplace that it really would just as soon not go; rather than generating drama, this tension makes The Rescuers Down Under a touch incoherent.
Man, I ran out of saying nice things way faster than I wanted to. I really do enjoy this movie, I promise, even if that enjoyment is in the "there's nothing difficult about this pleasant comic romp" mode. So let me bail on the story and head for the animation: because in this respect The Rescuers Down Under is surprisingly one of the most important projects in the history of the medium, a film that represents a greater leap in technique than any Disney feature since One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
I am speaking of CAPS: the Computer Animation Production System, introduced very briefly at the end of The Little Mermaid, but given its big coming out party right here; the technology was developed by Disney along with an Apple subsidiary called Pixar (a tech house well-known for the particularly good humor of the short films it produced as demos for its software). In a nutshell, CAPS was a process of painting frames of animation on a computer, eliminating the need for cels, although the drafting of each image was still done by hand on paper. At its simplest, this was just a labor and cost-saving device: it streamlined the lengthy, costly ink & paint process. But - and I really don't want to get into too much technical discussion of a system that I only understand in layman's terms - CAPS also allowed for the integration of hand-drawn and computer-generated images in a much readier fashion than the laborious process of tracing computer printouts that was used in The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver & Company, and The Little Mermaid. You have perhaps noticed, if you are an avid viewer of Disney films from the years 1985-1996, how very different the CGI looks before 1990 compared to after. The big CG effects and backgrounds in the later films look a lot like fully-rendered 3-D animation, a style that sometimes jars with the flat characters moving in front of them. That jump became plausible only because of CAPS. And even in The Rescuers Down Under, that awkward disconnect between the characters and the computer settings is already quite noticeable (the big flight through a New York snowstorm that ends the first act is a terrifically clear example of what I'm referring to), although since this technology permits the depiction of things never before possible, I am inclined to cut it slack, to acknowledge that the disconnect exists, but that it is a technical failure, not an artistic one. Besides the stark contrast between relative simple character cels and relatively detailed backgrounds has been with American animation since the '30s.
The other, and maybe more important advance that CAPS permits is the use of more subtle color shading on characters, far more dynamic lighting effects, transparencies, and so forth. It is a technology that does not perhaps fully compensate for the loss of the hand-hewn quality to some of the best classic animation (tell me that Dumbo would be half as charming were it colored on a computer, and I shall call you a damnéd liar), but the huge, abrupt jump in the colorists' vocabulary had immediate and definitive results: the characters in The Rescuers Down Under look beautiful, in an absolute sense; not because they are well-designed for the needs of the story (they are; that is incidental to my present meaning), but because they are so much richer and more detailed even than the lovingly-crafted figures in The Little Mermaid. Though certain elements of improved character coloring, like dynamic lighting effects, had become more prominent in the studio's output starting with The Fox and the Hound I cannot readily recall the last film to have characters as textured as the ones in this film: maybe Bambi, maybe even Pinocchio.
I suppose that I am giving The Rescuers Down Under credit simply for pride of place: because it was the first 100% CAPS feature (and also the first 100% digital feature, incidentally), it is the film that gets to look so very amazing compared to all the films preceding it. Ay, well, it has pride of place; so let me not deny it that right, even if the next several features would trump it time and again in their extraordinary uses of the system. It still can't be denied that the film looks awfully pretty, though the animation itself isn't especially distinctive.
Anyway, the film is quite decently entertaining, and I think it unfair that it has been lost in time while more inane "classics" have a stronger presence in Disney's marketing schemes: special edition DVDs of Robin Hood and The Fox and the Hound, I'm talking to you. Not that I can complain - for more than a decade, I was right along there with the camp ready to consign this one to the dustbin, and I must stop here with the strange observation that of all the 29 films I've watched as part of this Disney retrospective, the two Rescuers features are the only ones that I have liked significantly more than I remember.
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- Tom said...
I'm glad that Disney had the sense not to consider advertising this as a "Disney Masterpiece" in the subsequent video releases.
- Tim said...
Yes, but they still abused the hell out of the M-word, didn't they?
- javi75 said...
I loved this movie when released in theaters, because it looked so good and it was an action-adventure and the CGI provided exciting scenes.
Later I realized what you explain perfectly, too many subplots don't let the movie build up a narrative spine with any momentum.
But I do like it better than the first one.
Tim, in the late 80's there was an animated feature with Scrooge McDuck and his nephews that was released in theaters (at least in Europe). Why isn't this considered canon?
- Tom said...
I have the same question as javi. Wasn't this called "Ducktales the Movie"? Why would this not be considered Canon? Also, what about "A Goofy Movie"? Thanks, Tom.
- Tim said...
The DuckTales movie and Goofy Movie weren't actually animated by Walt Disney Feature Animation - they were both made by DisneyToon Studios, the same outfit that puts together all of the direct to video sequels. The Jungle Book 2 and Return to Neverland were also by DisneyToon, and received theatrical releases; there may be others that I am presently forgetting.


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I love baseball. I love slugfests. I love pitchers' duels. I love the game. All aspects of it fascinate me. That being said, for eight innings on Friday, I hated the game between the Sox and Jays. The so-called new and improved Red Sox defense looked sloppy and not even average. Before the ninth, Boston managed just two base hits, by the past and possibly the future of the Sox, Jason Varitek and Josh Reddick. Jon Lester did pitch pretty well although he was hurt by errors, giving up 2 unearned runs in six innings. Lester fanned 5 while walking two. It looked like a lost cause until the bottom of the ninth at City of Palms Park. It's funny, though, how your impression of a game can change in a heartbeat.
When Boston rallied, it had a decidedly Pawtucket "flavor" to it. Catcher Dusty Brown, with wife Jordan and son Jude cheering in the stands, knocked in the game tying run and with Jeff Natale at third base (pinch runner), Tug Hulett hit an opposite field flare to score Nat and secure the 3-2, come from behind victory. The 100th consecutive sellout at the Spring training venue, sent the partisan Sox crowd into the humidity of the late afternoon, a bit weary, but satisfied.
Some of the days' other news. The Sox signed lefthander Scott Schoeneweis. Schoeneweis, cousin of R.I. native and Senior adviser for the Red Sox, Jeremy Kapstein, won a World Series Ring with the Angels in 2002. More recently, His wife died of a drug overdose last May, leaving him to raise 4 children alone. Schoeneweis was released by the Brewers Thursday. He worked out of the Arizona bullpen in 2009. Boston also acquired infielder Kevin Frandsen from the Giants for cash or a player to be named later. Frandsen hit .140 in 50 at bats with San Francisco in '09. Mike Lowell left the game in the first inning after fouling a ball off his knee. Prior to the game, the savvy fans at the park gave Lowell the loudest ovation during introductions. Lowell sustained a contusion on the inside of his left knee. Josh Beckett was named Opening Day starter for the Sox on April 4th against New York. Dustin Pedroia was out of the lineup for the second straight game, nursing a sore wrist. Pedey joked that he wasn't sitting out because of the injury. "I got benched. I told Tito he looked like Corrado Soprano" (Dominic Chianese from the HBO hit series The Sopranos)
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Steve nice to read an honest report on a game instead of all the hype we've be getting from MLB.com about the wonderful new Sox defence! I've noticed how players who will probably end up with a minor league team often out perform major leaguers in Spring Training. Perhaps they have more to prove. Seems unfair they dont get rewarded unless someone goes on the DL.