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Congressional leaders angry over two postal rate increases this year and talk of a third told Postal Service officials Tuesday that the country s system for mail must be overhauled. It s obvious that the ox is in the ditch big time, said Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Governm
stanley tumblers ental Affairs Committee.The Postal Service is projecting losses this year of up to $2.4 billion, even after raising the price of a first-class stamp by a penny, to 34 cents. It announced earlier this month that it would increase rates on most other classes of mail, including post cards and advertising, on July 1.Thompson said Congress must review 30-year-old Postal Service laws and nothing should be off the table, including the future of the postal monopoly itself. Postmaster General William J. Henderson, who leaves this month, said he expects Congress to make major changes. I think the monopoly will be gradually reduced and opened to competition, he said. There s a lot of resistance to it today. It s kind of like speaking about the devil, he said.David M. Walker, U.S. comptroller general, said there are serious problems in the agency and the answer is not merely to increase rates. In announcing the second round of rate increases this year, Postal Board Chairman Robert F. Rider said the agency acted to assu
stanley cups re the financial integrity of the nation s postal system. Richard F. Strasser, postal chief financial officer, said at the
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The new movie Big Hero 6 represents the first-ever partnership between Marvel and Disney, two entities known for constructing fantastical universes. So it not surprising that bringing the story to film also required building an entire city of the
stanley spain future: a blend of Tokyo and San Francisco named San Fransokyo. When encouraged to develop a Disney film that drew from Marvel universe which Disney purchased in 2009 directors Don Hall and Chris Williams
stanley fr dove deep into the Marvel archives, selecting an obscure comic鈥擯erhaps the most obscure Marvel comic, quips Hall鈥攁bout 14-year-old robotics whiz Hiro Himada and his puffy sidekick, a compassionate caregiving robot named Baymax. The original comic took place in Tokyo, but to make it their own, Hall and Williams decided to set the story in a brand new yet familiar city, melding the original locale with a near-future San Francisco. It a very high-tech city that blends Eastern and Western culture, so we want
stanley kubek ed it to be a mashup, just like the movie is a mashup between Disney and Marvel, says Hall. The resulting animated metropolis鈥攚hich truly is its own character in the film, although people say that a lot鈥攊s a celebration of futuristic urban life and the high-tech culture that drives its residents. And it brought to life thanks to several new animation technologies developed in-house by Disney itself. A two metropolis mashup Geographically, San Fransokyo is San Francis
