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On Feb. 1, the House Natural Resources Committee approved a three-headed monster of an energy bill: drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, drilling off the California coast, and expansion of oil shale drilling. But hey, the bill has the magic word "jobs" in the label, so it's all good! The committee's press release trumpets the quantity of oil shale lurking deep under the Green River formation (Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming) and the need for job creators' certainty.
The committee doesn't bother with the thirsty facts of oil shale mining. If drilling for easy oil can be analogized to sticking a straw into a lemon and watching juice seep up, obtaining oil from oil shale involves digging up fossilized lemons, reconstituting them with a lot of water – some estimates are 5 gallons of water for every gallon of oil – using vast quantities of energy to boil the watery dried out lemons, catching the vapor, distilling lemon juice vapor from water vapor, and dumping all that contaminated waste water somewhere. All these activities will be taking place in western Colorado and eastern Utah, not exactly known for their abundance of water.
The committee also doesn't bother with the economics of oil shale mining. The technology isn't in place for commercial oil shale mining and may never be. Oil shale, like nuclear fusion, has been "10 years away from commercial development" for much longer than 10 years; the Checks and Balances Project has compiled oil shale industry boosters' promises (PDF) going back to 1916. Unlike Canadian oil sands (aka tar sands), oil shale has never been produced commercially in the United States.
Rep. Douglas Lamborn (R-CO-05), the author of the oil shale bill, also doesn't seem to care about the reactions of Coloradoans. They're fighting mad: : "It's not a good deal for us," said Rifle Mayor Jay Miller, a Republican. "We're not against oil shale or gas development here, we just want it done in a way that doesn't drive us into the ground." Western Slope small town residents worry about low royalty rates, water, infrastructure, and impact on outdoor recreation.
This water-gobbling bill is part of the terrible transportation bill (says the New York Times) now working its way through the House, less a serious policy document than a wish list for oil lobbyists (says the Los Angeles Times), the "worst transportation bill I've ever seen" (says Republican Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood), and a list of all the transport bill's failings would be a very long list indeed. Oil shale, Arctic drilling, and California offshore drilling are all years away from generating revenue, if ever, so sticking them into a transport bill on the pretense that they'll pay for roads defies credibility. The Congressional Budget Office finds the obvious – a not-commercially-feasible technology will generate no revenue.
Why is this oil shale bill necessary? In November 2008, President Bush announced a plan to open up 2 million acres of public lands for oil shale. (I believe that among those 2 million acres were the leases bid upon by Tim DeChristopher.) In February 2011, President Obama announced a moratorium on the Bush expansion. Republicans want a permanent end to the moratorium. Meanwhile, on February 3, 2012, Obama's Department of the Interior ended the moratorium in a good way, by formally rolling back the expansion, from 2 million acres to about 500,000 acres, with vastly less commercial potential.
The BLM's plan favors continued research and development of oil-shale technology, but no commercial leasing of 461,965 acres — 252,181 acres in Utah, 174,476 in Wyoming and 35,308 in Colorado. In addition, nearly 100,000 acres would be made available in eastern Utah for development of tar sands. It's a far smarter policy than Bush's. But Republicans are furious. Utah's Governor Gary Herbert is fuming, the American Petroleum Institute is whining, and the entire Utah Congressional delegation wants the BLM decision scrapped.
Now, a broader observation: this pair of actions illustrates a bit of a deficiency in the environmental movement, and progressives as a whole. The Lamborn bill is a fossil fuel giveaway, and deserves to be defeated. National environmental groups have already generated, and will continue to generate, thousands of signatures on hundreds of email petitions telling Senators to reject the transport bill. It will be rejected in its current form, because drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off the California coast are non-starters for Senators such as Barbara Boxer.
In the meantime, President Obama has done the mostly right thing here. He's reduced the scope of a bad Bush decision by 75%. And he's ensured that the remaining 25% will be usedmostly for research and development, not to pad some oil company's bottom line. Yet the decision has gone mostly unnoticed. No one is thanking Obama, Salazar, or the BLM for standing up to Big Oil. Of the half-dozen stories I read before writing this post, all but one include the American Petroleum Institute's canned angry reaction, but only one story included a favorable reaction, and that was from a local sportsman's group. If environmental groups are pleased, they're not writing press releases and they're not running thank-you emails. And if the progressive blogosphere reacted, I blinked and missed it. We're quick to hurl sticks when Obama and Salazar do the wrong thing. Why don't we grow carrots?


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Jury finds activist Tim DeChristopher guilty of both charges
Referencing back to DeChristopher's own words to a federal agent, Huber reminded the jury that the defendant said, "I decided I could live with the consequences."
Juror Fidel Martin of West Jordan said it was the evidence presented in the case — plus DeChristopher's own admissions on the witness stand — that led to the guilty verdicts.
"It was a difficult decision," he said. "But with the evidence that was given and his statements admitting to what he did, it was convincing."
Martin said the jury struggled through much of its deliberations and it "absolutely was not" an easy decision early on to reach.
"There was a lot of decision making at the end of the day."
South Ogden juror Randy Quinney said the outcome was inevitable.
"I would have to say that it came down to the fact that Tim admitted to all the charges in his testimony; there was no other direction to go."
Quinney added that DeChristopher was a sympathetic figure who they still had to convict.
"We felt like he was supporting his purpose, yet could have went about it through the proper channels."
With sentencing months away on June 23 at 1:30 p.m., it does not appear the cause of DeChristopher's group, Peaceful Uprising, will be quieted anytime soon.
Supporters planned to gather for food and more songs at the Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City Thursday night and Logan Froerer, another member of Peaceful Uprising, said more work remains to be done.
"We want to continue the conversation begun this week," he said. "There was information that was withheld and we shone a light on the government, on the fossil fuel industry. We will take on any sense of injustice that threatens individuals and people in the world."
DeChristopher supporter Lauren Wood, of Salt Lake City, said she and many others believe the jury didn't get "the full breadth of information" in the trial, namely that the auction was later deemed invalid by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and that DeChristopher could have paid for the leases that day.
"He was never allowed to pay for them, because he was not an insider of the gas and oil industry," she said.
But Wood reiterated that the trial and larger court case has united people in a movement that will continue, despite the verdict.
"Tim galvanized all of us and the fact that he was found guilty hit me like a ton of bricks," she tearfully said. "This has galvanized change in the community here in Utah and across the nation."
Defense attorney Ron Yengich said it is too early to tell if there will be an appeal — he's waiting for the sentence handed down by Judge Dee Benson — but reiterated that the defense team did the best it could given limations imposed by the court.
"We were limited by the defense we wanted to put on," Yengich said. "That was an impediment."
DeChristopher had sought to center his case on the so-called necessity defense, which hinges on the legal premise that he chose the lesser of two evils and had to act illegally to right a wrong.
If that defense had been allowed, DeChristopher could have summoned the breadth of his motivations for acting regarding climate change and environmental impacts caused by oil and gas drilling.
Benson rejected that, however, saying there were other lawful avenues available for DeChristopher to choose, rather than resort to breaking the law.
Ashley Anderson, director of Peaceful Uprising, said it would be wrong for anyone to view DeChristopher's criminal conviction as a defeat.
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In an interesting analysis, Eriq Gardner of The Hollywood Reporter sees signs the U.S. Supreme Court might consider the five-year dispute between Jack Kirby's heirs and Marvel over the copyrights to many of the company's most popular characters.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in August upheld a 2011 ruling that Kirby's Marvel creation in the 1960s were work for hire, and therefore not subject to copyright reclamation by his children. (They had filed 45 copyright-termination notices in September 2009, seeking to reclaim what they saw as their father's stake in such characters as the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk; Marvel fired back with a lawsuit.) In their March petition to the Supreme Court, the Kirby heirs took aim at the Second Circuit's "instance and expense" test, arguing that it "invariably finds that the pre-1978 work of an independent contractor is 'work for hire' under the 1909 Act."
Gardner points out the the justices discussed the petition at a May conference, and then requested that Marvel respond (the company initially didn't file a response). Those p0tential portents were followed by a pair of friend-of-the-court briefs: one filed by Bruce Lehman, former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, on behalf of himself, former U.S. Register of Copyrights Ralph Oman, the Artists Rights Society and others, and the other by attorney Steven Smyrski on behalf of longtime Kirby friend Mark Evanier, Kirby historian John Morrow and the PEN Center USA.
Gardner stresses that the weight of Lehman's brief, which insists the Second Circuit disregarded both history and precedent in its definition of "employer" and application of "the instance and expense" test," "shouldn't be underestimated."
The brief from Evanier and Morrow is also interesting, in part because the Second Circuit had upheld the lower court's exclusion of their testimony, but largely because it's a surprisingly breezy overview of Kirby's career and work process, and his history and relationship with Stan Lee and Marvel (from their perspective, naturally). They also wade into the creation of some specific characters, from the Fantastic Four to Spider-Man to Thor, undoubtedly providing even more fuel for Lee-versus-Kirby comments-thread arguments.
"At Kirby's peak in the early and mid-1960s, the Fantastic Four comic book introduced dozens of new and imaginative characters, such as Dr. Doom, Alicia Masters, The Watcher, The Inhumans, The Black Panther, Galactus, The Silver Surfer, The Frightful Four, The Skrulls and many more," the brief states. "Many of these characters spun off into their own series; others reappeared time and again, not only in Fantastic Four but in other Marvel comics. Tellingly, after Kirby became disenchanted with Marvel and contemplated working with DC, the Fantastic Four ceased offering notable new characters."
The Supreme Court receives about 10,000 petitions each year, but hears oral arguments in only about 75 to 80 of those cases. But, as Gardner notes, if the justices were weigh in, its decision would reach well beyond Marvel and parent company Disney.
Read the Evanier brief below; the other can be found, along with Gardner's analysis, at The Hollywood Reporter.
I wonder what SCOTUS will have to say about the Kirby heirs rights.
Stan Lee left the Fantastic Four about a year after Kirby. That also could explain the lack notable new characters…
Stop!!! Enough!!! I have great respect for Evanier and Morrow, but let it go. Stop trying to rewrite history. They even state it was an "agreement" between Kirby and Marvel. I'm tired of this. there are probably millions of Americans alive today whose forefathers didn't get enough money for their contributions to every thing from medicine to toilet paper. If Kirby wasn't bright enough to step up to marvel in the early sixties about his pocket money for supplies then its his own fault. He could have quit and demanded better pay….and he would have gotten it in writing because he was that important to them.
Personally, I strongly believe that the Kirby's do not have the rights to Marvel characters. If anything, I find Kirby's artwork a little over rated compared to artist's like Steve Mcniven and Humberto Ramos (although I do love Darksied, he's one of my favorite Villains). If anyone should own the rights to these characters, it's Stan Lee! He's the one who actually came up with the concept of the characters, all Kirby did was design what they looked like, which any artist can do. Not only that, but these kids are trying to leech of whatever great success Kirby had in his lifetime. That's his legacy, NOT THEIRS.
49 years ago,my late pop invented a tool to be used on power lines, when he worked for the power line company in North Dakota. He got paid a big 35 bucks for his design, and was damn glad to get it.Im sure that his name today isnt even listed for thinking it up.Thats just the way things are.From what I have read over the years,Kirby was VERY street smart and tough,but when it came to doing business, rather a punching bag.DC treated him rather shabby,both back in the 1950s and in the 1970s.I doubt very much if the charlton line would have coughed up 1/100th what DC or marvel paid to him.By 1970,that was about his only other option.That or trying to talk archie into reviving the fly and shield.well into the mid 1970s,dc was as bad if not worse then marvel for returning original art.
Comparing Kirby's work of 40+ years ago to current day artists is comparing apples and pork chops. Completely different eras of art.
None of us will ever know exactly what happened. The paper trails are all that is left of those histories. Stan's overblown ego pretty much eliminates anyone but himself as an architect of Marvel, despite the obvious influence of Kirby and others.
I was a bit surprised to see that there was an amicus brief from Lehman et al, given their stated pedigrees, but it seems to be more related to specifics in definition of what an employer is, where they want a re-examination of the law on those points.
But even if that was sufficient to pique SCOTUS' interest, there are still a few sticky points in the Kirby case.
There's the "many hands" production of comics, which is the type of situation WFH was created for.
There is the issue of Stan Lee, as a full employee fulfilling all requirements of WFH, being either creator or co-creator and how that relates to ownership. Is it even possible, under the law, for a work to be created as half creator-owned and half work-for-hire when the "employer" isn't the creator but a third party?
Then there is the issue of just how far the "creation" argument can be taken, certainly on Iron Man and Spider-Man the boundaries are tested to their limits.
Also of note: parts of the argument here, including apparently the Lehman amicus brief, seems to undermine the very concept of freelance work-for-hire. If that is carried through, it could splinter the IP libraries of both DC Comics and Marvel to the point where it's not just an issue of e.g. using the trademark "Avengers", but paying to every creator who has ever contributed a concept referenced in the movies.
But it would be an immense and far reaching judgement with enormous economic consequences and very little basis in precedent.
Are Kirby's kids demanding royalties for any of Kirby's Fourth World characters or the Eternals,Machine Man or even Devil Dinosaur? It seems they are more concerned with lining their pockets than Jack's Legacy.
Per a special deal made by DC, Jack Kirby received royalties for the Fourth World characters and books under the royalty system introduced in the 1980s, even though 4th World was published in 1971. He did a redesign for "Super Powers" or something that let them include him.
Eternals, Machine Man and Devil Dinosaur were created upon Jack Kirby's return to Marvel in the mid 1970s, and would not be due for copyright termination for about another decade and a half. The copyrights being challenged are roughly 1960 to 1965, with 56-year terms ending 2016 to 2021.
Whether they are concerned with just money or Jack Kirby's legacy is, quite frankly, their business. It has nothing to do with whether they should get the rights. If they get the rights and abuse them, I'm sure people will speak up.
@The Doctor: I don't believe that Kirby's '70s work for DC or his post DC work for Marvel are old enough for the family to consider a termination filling. (I'm happy to be corrected by some one with more knowledge) This is also the time frame where Marvel and DC were bought by bigger companies and became more corporate, so its also possible that the talent contracts were more specific as to who owned what etc, while work before that time was frequently done under less clear conditions. (Again, happy to be corrected)
Having read Stan Lee's and John Romita's evidence in the last trial a number of points come to mind:
1. The Marvel method was designed to help Stan script all the titles, something he couldn't do if he had to provide full scripts. The artists were given scenarios for them to go away & fully develop the story and do the art. That is a significant departure from the work for hire concept where the work is defined and directed. This approach led to the artist themselves creating character to fit their stories; e.g. The Silver Surfer.
2. Kirby was being paid top dollar (probably comic industry's top earner at the time) and refused to go on staff; Stan has on numerous occasions stated Kirby was offered the Art Director job. This would have required a drop in income form his per page rate & hence his refusal. This job eventually went to John Romita.
3. It is also clear Kirby was saving new characters for his Fourth World project at DC during the last months on the FF. The quality of the late run is poor.
4. Stan gave Kirby a job when DC kicked him out after the commercial failure of Fourth World. Some have tried to portray this as guilt on Stan's part which is a bit perverse; you take back the guy who left in bad faith?
5. Marvel gave rights to Captain America to Joe Simon but not Kirby – why?
Kirby deserves all the credit for his great creations but his poor business sense & need for a quick buck is at the root of the current rights issues.
If you asked Jack why he cranked out the crazy crap he created at a legendary rate, 3-4 pages a day, he would have said "To provide for my family, for Roz and my children". He was that kind of guy. You could look it up. I talked to him at cons; he was that kind of guy.
One could argue that the characters Mr. Kirby spawned, at their most basic level, are creations of intent purely to provide for his family.
If this were one of those funny book stories we like to follow, the Metaphysical ramifications of this would make your head spin! as well as inspire a few story arcs.
These characters are generating Billions and yes, Billions in world currency but no love for the Kirbys. The second most greediest plan couldn't work, it always has to be the most greediest plan.
What I said about Jack creating as means to provide, that holds true for Stan as well… well, obviously.
Nice that Stan has been able to cash in and negotiate deals, especially as his rights to the characters have always been the same as the Kirby estate.
But Stan is quick and lively. And Jack is a just a dead guy who forged universes solely to further his lineage. Hah!
I am surprised at what seems to be some knee-jerk antagonism at the Kirby estate here in these comments. If any of you were in a similar situation I would want you all to prevail financially. Why Not? That's why I like to read comics anyways, see crazy good things happen to people some of the time.
Billions they are making on these characters.
And they can't even honor the family of the man who is providing for them and putting food on their table.
You know, as a fan of comics, I see a headline about Jack Kirby on a comics site, click it .. and see responses that are anti-Kirby .. and beyond that, anti-creator rights. Also, against the rights of inheritance, apparently.
And I think .. what?
Here's something to consider: If the Kirby heirs are awarded 50% ownership of Kirby's characters like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, it should void the contracts Marvel signed with Fox for those characters. Seeing as the half-owners of the characters were not involved in the negotiations, the entire contract for both properties would have to be renegotiated from scratch.
At which point Disney could opt not to, and bring them back in house to Marvel Studios. Seeing as they'd be 50% owners, as well as trademark owners, they could use the properties as they please. As long as they paid the Kirby Estate 50% of any profit. Or they could just give them a nice lump sum pay out and buy the rights back in total. They'd probably be a whole lot cheaper than Fox's asking price, if they even considered one.
In other words, use this as a back door to get rid of those horrible contracts Marvel signed with Fox back in the 90's. Worst case is Disney winds up with half the profit from the movie rights. Which would be better than the nothing they get now, aside from whatever fee Fox pays. Basically, no matter which way this case goes, Disney wins.
I'm really eager to see how the Supreme Court interprets the evidence in the instance and expense test. The situation just seems so obviously not work for hire.
Kevin, do you know what sort of criteria the Court uses to decide which cases to hear?
"Kevin, do you know what sort of criteria the Court uses to decide which cases to hear?"
There's a handful of factors, including conflicts of law (when various lower courts reach different conclusions about federal law; that's likely why the Kirby petition plays up the Second Circuit's "instance and expense" test) or a disregard of Supreme Court precedent (which Bruce Lehman, in his friend-of-the-court brief, says the Second Circuit did). Sometimes, though, the justices may select a case simply because they think it's interesting or important.
"Here's something to consider: If the Kirby heirs are awarded 50% ownership of Kirby's characters like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, it should void the contracts Marvel signed with Fox for those characters. Seeing as the half-owners of the characters were not involved in the negotiations, the entire contract for both properties would have to be renegotiated from scratch."
That's not how copyright law works. Joint authors are permitted to separately exploit a work, but must account to each other for all profits.
just give the kirby kids back kirby's royalties. It's what kirby would have wanted anyway. They deserve it. Stan lee sues marvel for royalties and wins….Kirby family does it and its a crime??? Stan lee should thank ditko and kirby for his security….Now give what is due to the kirby clan. This will show Marvel and DC to share profits of the creators characters. This is long overdue.
"If anyone should own the rights to these characters, it's Stan Lee! He's the one who actually came up with the concept of the characters, all Kirby did was design what they looked like, which any artist can do."
Go to pages 7-8 for Lee's own admission Kirby created the Silver Surfer (who was NOT in Lee's plot for the Galactus Saga)…
…and then wonder how many more characters did Kirby create?
just like the super man heirs scotus will proably turn down hearing the case in the end even though marvels has proven their idea of a work for hire contract is some one including jack signing their paychecks. we shall see if the justices do indeed wind up finaling hearing a copyright case involving comic book icons . for after all stan lee doesn't own his share of the marvel characters he co created odds are sadly the justices will pass on saying that maybe jack heirs can claim the share jack should own of the marvel universe
" Atomic Kommie Comics"" If anyone should own the rights to these characters, it's Stan Lee! He's the one who actually came up with the concept of the characters, all Kirby did was design what they looked like, which any artist can do."
Give me a fucken break!!! lee for years has been taking credit for all of Kirby's doings. It was just a few years back he's been calling himself Co-Creator. He noticed that people could actually see the margin quotes that kirby left for him in his artwork. As soon as kirby left marvel Stan lee didn't create squat. Atomic Kommie Comics you talking outta ya butt.
Hey, Asif, re: this question :
"5. Marvel gave rights to Captain America to Joe Simon but not Kirby – why?"
Marvel didn't GIVE those rights. Joe Simon reclaimed them.
There are two reasons the rights weren't terminated in favor of both Simon and Kirby.
1) Kirby didn't actually co-create Captain America in the eyes of the law. While Simon and Kirby were partners and ran a studio together, Joe Simon created Captain America in a moment's inspiration, designed him and immediately pitched him to publisher Martin Goodman. Kirby wan't supposed to work on the book as he was already overextended on other titles they were producing but he liked the character so much that he insisted on being part of it. But by law, his involvement at this point could only be WFH.
2) Simon tried to reclaim Captain America in the late 1960s. He wasn't aware of the exact details of copyright termination law, and pursued termination on the theory that it was a Simon and Kirby copyright. Which it couldn't be. However, as he was filing the paperwork, Marvel's lawyers whispered a few words in Kirby's ear, convincing him that Simon was cutting hinm out of the picture, so he screwed Simon over by selling "his half" to Marvel first. Which meant that Simon couldn't take the character back, Marvel could still use him in return for a nominal fee (or so all parties involved believed at the time) . So he settled with Marvel, ironically for a much better deal than Kirby got.
Now, details of Kirby's underhanded sale of "his half" of Captain America are not known, but for all we know there might be a "perpetuity clause" in there somewhere that would allow them to buy out the rights at the next juncture as well. When the next termination deadline came around, Kirbyu was dead, but his widow sided with Joe Simon and gave her public blessing for him to reclaim it on his own.
So there might be a legal problem, created by Kirby himself, that would have made it impossible to terminate copyrights fully if he was listed as co-creator, and Marvel would certainly have argued that this contract still gave them half if Joe Simon's claim to sole copyright wasn't too obvious to dispute.
Regardless of this, Marvel comics and Marvel movies still list Captain America as created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Which they could not have done without the approval of Joe Simon and later his estate. All evidence suggests that Simon never had any intention of "cutting Kirby out" from the credit of developing Cap, the law simply required him to terminate copyrights on his own.
Sad to see that this still all boils down, in the public arena, to who you like best, Kirby or Lee. There's little objectivity in evidence in this or any comments section on this topic. Mindless cheer leading for one side or the other. Twas ever thus.
Knut Robert Knutsen at least attempts to bring something beyond fan boy effusions to the table. Understand, I'd rather see Kirby heirs win this than Marvel. Even though the import of Knutsen's comments is that the Kirby heirs will lose, kudos to him.
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@Titan: It's also not Marvels legacy either dude. It's either Kirby's heirs or a big multi nat company.I say all the proceeds go to charity and the heck with it. How fast do you think Marvel/Disney would jump to settle if that were to be the case?
The Supreme Court will weigh in on the side of the large corporation as it has done repeatedly in its long history and most often recently.
If it hears this suit, I doubt it will get a fair shake or that creators would in any way benefit.
The Supreme Court will not upset the apple cart. There is too much money at stake. I feel sorry for the Kirby heirs as I feel creators should have rights to their characters regardless of what they signed and blah, blah, blah . . . these were different times, and like the Shuster case, there's no reason to think Kirby wasn't bullied or misled about ownership of his work. We weren't there, we can't say.
Self-serving fanboys don't want the apple cart jostled because it might mean a cessation of monthly publication of their comics, or *gasp* at worst the end of the comic book industry, because nothing but superhero comics exist. But I would think they would want to give the creators of their favorite characters some token of the profit of what they've made and earned.
I hate how these things degenerate into Stan vs Jack. Stan has absolutely nothing to do with the Kirby estate suits. Marvel would still use the same work for hire line that they used on Jack (along with Stan) if it were Kirby and Otto Binder who created those character or even if Jack Kirby was credited as the writer and artist. Stan could walk in there and scream "He did it all" in Clarence Thomas' face and it wouldn't make a difference.
But it also bugs me when people trot out the "Stan didn't creating anything without Kirby or Ditko" line because it's just not true and kind of insulting to all the other people he worked with. Stan did 60 issues of Spiderman including introducing The Kingpin. He did 50 issues of Daredevil including what some (myself included) think is the single greatest issue of a marvel comic ever, Daredevil 47. He introduced The Falcon in Cap, She-Hulk, Mephisto, and probably Hawkeye and Black Widow (Heck did say that sometimes the cover was given to artists as a way to pay them for design work they helped with but that's kind of circumstantial) and most of all the reason he didn't write as much after that period was because he took a promotion as publisher not because he was suddenly bankrupt of ides.
Hildeamer Dasce, just because Jack contriputed all that work to support his family doesn't mean he owns it. I work at a grocery store as a cart attendant.to support myself, but that doesn't mean I own the store. Don't get me wrong, how you worded it makes a sweet guy, but I just don't think that reasoning is enough for the Kirby family to own anything.
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China's inflation accelerated in January as prices excluding food rose the most in at least six years, bolstering the case for more interest-rate increases to tame overheating risks in the fastest-growing major economy.
Consumer prices rose 4.9 percent from a year earlier after a 4.6 percent December gain, the statistics bureau said on its website today. A separate central bank report showed banks signed 1.04 trillion yuan ($158 billion) in new loans, less than forecast while still the third-highest January total.
"Inflationary pressures haven't abated and China has already entered into an era of structural inflation," said Liu Li-gang, an Australia & New Zealand Banking Group economist in Hong Kong. He sees "more monetary policy tightening ahead."
The acceleration in inflation reflects rising rents, a 48 percent surge in money supply in two years and increasing domestic demand in the nation that's replaced Japan as the world's second-biggest economy. Policy makers may front-load monetary-policy tightening in the first half of the year as inflation remains elevated, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley.
The yuan gained 0.1 percent to 6.5897 per dollar as of 3:51 p.m. in Shanghai, while the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed little changed.
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January lending of more than double December's level sustained a pattern of Chinese banks extending more credit at the start of each year. At the same time, the latest amount was 160 billion yuan less than the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of analysts.
Xinhua News Agency corrected its earlier report that new lending was 1.2 trillion yuan.
A smaller gain in M2, the broadest measure of money supply, added to the signs that central bank tightening is starting to take effect after record lending drove China's economic recovery. M2 climbed 17.2 percent, less than a 19 percent median forecast and a 19.7 percent gain in December.
In the inflation data, producer-prices climbed 6.6 percent, the most in eight months. Consumer-price inflation has exceeded the government's 2011 target of 4 percent for four months.
Economists had anticipated a 5.4 percent gain in the consumer price index, according to the median of 27 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey. Alterations to the CPI's components that took effect last month boosted the rate by 0.024 percentage point, the statistics bureau said.
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"The driver of the below-consensus reading is the smaller-than-expected increase in food prices," said Lu Ting, a Hong Kong-based economist with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Food prices climbed 10.3 percent last month from a year earlier, according to today's report. Vegetable prices rose 2 percent, fruit prices surged 35 percent and grain rose 15 percent, according to the statement.
Non-food prices rose 2.6 percent from a year earlier.
Asian economies, with rising food costs and inflows of capital driving inflation, may need to raise interest rates further to limit the risk of overheating and prevent a "hard landing," International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Feb. 1. India's benchmark wholesale-price index rose 8.23 percent in January, Indonesia's inflation is 7 percent and South Korea's is 4.1 percent, the latest government data show.
The People's Bank of China has raised its benchmark one-year lending and deposit rates by a quarter percentage point three times since mid-October and also ratcheted up banks' reserve requirements.
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China's consumer prices jumped 1 percent in January from December, the third-biggest monthly increase in almost a year, the statistics bureau said today.
"The spillover of price pressures throughout the inflation basket should be a worrying sign for the People's Bank of China and as a result we expect the recent fast pace of monetary tightening to continue," said Dariusz Kowalczyk, an economist with Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong.
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China's one-year deposit rate, which now stands at 3 percent, has lagged behind inflation for about a year. The government aims to keep consumer price gains within 4 percent this year, state television reported Dec. 14, citing the National Development and Reform Commission.
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The central bank last month asked lenders to set aside more money as reserves for a seventh time since the beginning of last year and the government has also intensified a crackdown on property speculation.
China became the world's No. 2 economy after Japan's gross domestic product fell an annualized 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter, the Japanese government said yesterday. The International Monetary Fund estimates the Chinese economy will grow 9.6 percent this year, six times faster than Japan.
Under revised CPI weightings, the component for residence-related charges, which include rent and utility costs, was increased by 4.22 percentage points, the statistics bureau said. Other categories got smaller weightings, with food declining by 2.21 percentage points, the agency said.
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It didn't give the exact make-up of the index. Food previously accounted for a third of the basket of goods and was the main driver of inflation last year. Residence-related costs jumped 6.8 percent in January from a year earlier, the most since August 2008, today's data show.
The statistics bureau also revised the calculation of the components of the producer-price index, adding about 2000 products to the basket and adjusting the weightings. The change reduced January's yearly producer-price inflation by 0.05 percentage points, the bureau said, without disclosing a breakdown of the basket.
China may increase retail gasoline and diesel costs as soon as this week to reflect higher international crude prices, Shanghai Daily reported Feb. 11, citing consulting company C1 Energy. The world's largest rice consumer last week increased the minimum purchasing prices for the 2011 crop by as much as 22 percent to boost stockpiles and increase production.


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If you finally answered that incessant voice that begs you to be more than you are—to do whatever you can for others with your short life—you may find yourself sleeping in a car and washing your armpits in rest stops along Route 66.
Stephanie Kinnunen found her time being snatched away by teaching Finns the art of small talk. And so a little more than two years ago, she quit her job as an English teacher in Finland, sold nearly everything she and her husband, Kelly, had in their European apartment, and began a trek across the U.S. visiting humanitarian groups in a sedan they'd bought online.
"I wanted to ask these organizations, 'In a perfect world, using a media platform, what can we do to help?'" recalls Stephanie, a bespectacled fortysomething with long Judy Collins hair and manicured nails. She visited large, corporate-style benefactors like the Red Cross and Global Visions, and tiny nonprofits. She wasn't sure of her purpose or final destination until she was somewhere on Interstate 10 down South, talking to her husband, who, at the time, was serving out the end of his contract teaching media production in Finland.
Stephanie continues, "After hearing so many stories of hope and seeing them with our own eyes, we thought, How can we tell these stories? And that's when Kelly said, 'A magazine. And we can call it Need.' And we basically hatched out the first issue in that conversation."
Two years later, Stephanie and Kelly, both Minneapolis natives, sit in an office in southeast Minneapolis overlooking the downtown skyline. Eight employees, many of them volunteers, mill about the pristine, white-walled space. They're making phone calls, brewing coffee, tendering opinions on which photos to use for an upcoming story about Wings of Hope, an air-transport program that transfers the poor, sick, and injured from remote areas to clinics around the world.
The premiere issue of Need, perfect-bound like a book and printed on thick and beautiful paper stock, is tacked to the wall. It reflects painstaking decisions about how to present disturbing before-and-after pictures of reconstructive facial surgery, alongside stories about fishing villages in Thailand after the tsunami. The imagery, even at its most gut-wrenching, is profound and not a little exotic—a National Geographic story targeted to prospective Peace Corps members. (The magazine can be found at newsstands, art bookstores, and Barnes & Noble and Borders nationwide.)
Kelly tries to recall the celebs at a Film Aid event who received one of the 22,000 copies of the premiere issue. "Matt Dillon got one," he says, his eyes widening. "And Ed Burns." (It's worth noting that the closest the magazine has come so far to humanitarian chic is a story on Jimmy Carter.)
Kelly is a shaggy-haired, earthy Santa Claus in a baseball cap and Dr. Martens shoes, and he has an endearing, throaty giggle. Everything is "cool" with him. The magazine. Quitting his job to start a nonprofit business. The fact that he has at least 38 to-do tasks written on his dry-erase board. Today, hanging out at a conference table, he tells his wife to call up Bono and ask for his support. He's only half-joking.
While Stephanie has been working full-time on the project for almost a year, Kelly recently lost his local graphic design job, which was helping to fund the magazine. Now they're both full-time at Need, putting in fourteen-hour days, seven days a week. Kelly previously volunteered in Mexico, working with people who built homes from garbage heaps. His mother studied to be a missionary. And so the notion to sell everything and start a magazine focused on humanitarian efforts was an epiphany he couldn't shoo away. The magazine's mission statement, emblazoned on the front page of its website (www.needmagazine.com), rings with the clarity of a bell: We are not out to save the world, but to tell the stories of, and assist, those who are.
"It wasn't scary at all," Kelly says of uprooting his life. "It made perfect sense."
It is sometimes a mercy killing when a dubious stroke of 3:00 a.m. inspiration falls away in the clear light of day. The Kinnunens, however, remained committed to their fledgling magazine while they crashed in a weekly-rate room at the Live Inn Suites in Burnsville. They ended up staying there for nearly 10 months. Stephanie, whose background is in business management, performed temp jobs to help fund the magazine's media kit, which later surrounded their bed in the single rented room.
"Our families couldn't believe it," Stephanie says. "They were like, 'You are doing what? You are coming back with no place to live and starting a magazine? Are you crazy?'"
That may not have been the most charitable word for the couple's humanitarian impulse. But there is something unusual about a couple who one evening saw a European television report about young women rescued from the sex trade in Russia, and only days later acquired visas to visit the crumbling girls' home. They arrived one gloomy Saturday in St. Petersburg, entered the craft room where they saw the girls drawing and making necklaces, and asked what they could do to help.
Today, Kelly plays editorial director as 24-year-old Liz Werner, a writer and editor, scrolls through colored pictures of Cambodian landmine removers on her Flatron computer screen. Last year, Werner was working as a server at the Minneapolis Golf Club when she heard about the magazine through two co-workers, who were also volunteering in sales and editing.
Werner clicks on a picture of a woman in a protective helmet. She's smiling for the camera with giant piano-key teeth. The photographer, like nearly everyone the group has worked with so far, agreed to donate the photos to the magazine.
"Cool," Kelly says. "It's so cool, man. It's so cool to see all these photos."
The de-miners work in 104-degree heat and are up at 4:30 a.m. to clear the fields. Werner explains this as she sorts through her notes, most of which she acquired through an organization called the Mines Advisory Group.
"We need to express to readers [that] this isn't one place," Kelly says, crossing his legs. "What can we say in words that these images can't say? What does it mean to be a de-miner?"
As Werner scrolls through more photos, Kelly becomes more visibly enthusiastic. "Wow," he says, starting to dance a little in his rolling chair. "These are just so cool."
It's nearly 6:00 p.m., and the Need team still has a few hours to work before Stephanie heads off to Seattle to solicit potential advertisers. While it's been a struggle to round up enough funds to put together the second issue, Stephanie says she has no doubts that she's in the right place.
"It's already working," she says. "We know that someone called up the orphanage in Kenya we featured in the [first] issue and that it's getting built. It's working. And that's the goal—to help those people in need." She slides a media card across the conference table. On it is the Microsoft logo with the words, "Microsoft, you're invited...because your actions speak louder than words." She taps on it with her finger and smiles as if she knows a secret, and concludes, "People think we're nuts? Well, we're all nuts here. So we're in this together."
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GLASGOW HAWKS player Ally Maclay claims he was assaulted by Glasgow Warriors players Ryan Wilson - who was dressed as Batman - Ryan Grant and Rory Hughes at a restaurant in the city.
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I need to implement a proxy with delivery-garantee pattern and here you are my solution (I'm started from this post http://charith.wickramaarachchi.org/2012/05/another-message-redelivery-pattern-with.html):
- a proxy invoke an external service giving, as input, the initial client message
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- if the external service is down or generate a SOAP fault, I'll put the message in a store (retry store), and then, using a sampling processor (after a time "t"), I'll try again for "n" max attempts: at any attempt, if the external service is down or generate a SOAP fault, I'll put the message again in the retry store, and the process is repeated
- after "n" attempts, if the external service is still out of service, the message is stored in another store (garbage store)
All works fine when I try to test with one message, but when I try to test with more messages (> 20 but this number is variable ... ), the sampling processor hangs completely, nothing is shown in the logs. Looking in the console, sometimes (but not always ...), the processor is off, deactivate and in this case, to restore, I need to undeploy, stop and restart, and then deploy again my .car.
NOTE: I've to use the sampling processor and not the forwarding processor because this processor, after "n" attempts deactive itself and I can't use it for my goals.
I can't put here the complete code because is too long, but I can give you a sample .car that you can deploy and execute on your WSO2 installation (to simulate the external service I've used the echo service ...).
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The drop has nothing to do with this guy leaving.
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volume drying up now so this BS is ending.
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SOURCE: Orlin, Lena Cowen. "Night over Taos: Maxwell Anderson's Sources and Artistry." North Dakota Quarterly 48, no. 3 (summer 1980): 12-25.
In the following essay, Orlin traces Anderson's source material for Night over Taos and defends the play against earlier criticism.
The Group Theatre premiered Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos during its first season, in March of 1932. In his "Story of the Group Theatre and the Thirties," The Fervent Years, Group cofounder Harold Clurman remembered that his immediate impression of the script was "not a happy one. The play seemed bookish, contrived, uninspired. I was reluctant to have the Group do it."1 Although he finally decided that it would suffice as a "playable stage piece," his lack of enthusiasm for Night Over Taos proved characteristic of subsequent reactions to the play. The Group production closed...
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Nine vocal students from the Performing Arts Department at Lees-McRae College participated in the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NCNATS) Student Auditions held on the campus of Western Carolina University Saturday, November 12. Six students received scores high enough to attend the Regional Auditions in April. The following students passed the auditions:
- Freshman: Kaitlyn Buchanan - Bakersville, NC
- Sophomores: Chloe Boggs - Bear, DE; Holly Knowles (3rd place) - Fort Mills, SC; and Randi Sowards - Concord, NC
- Juniors: Sarah Rutzen - Shelby, NC
- Senior: Jarrett Koski - Clearwater, FL
Sophomores Cassandra Schultz from Weldon, NC and Brianna Witherspoon from Greensboro, NC, along with Senior Makenzie Simpson from Hickory, NC also participated in the NATS Audition. All three vocalists had an outstanding performance but did not have enough qualifying points to participate in the Regional Auditions.
The NATS Student Auditions are an opportunity for students to perform for professional teachers of singing from all over the state of North Carolina which gives both the students and their teachers valuable feedback about their singing and vocal technique. There are three adjudicators for each category which ranges from high school freshman to college seniors. Adjudicators are members of NATS and professional voice teachers from North Carolina colleges and universities. There are two separate events during the year; one for Musical Theatre and the other for Classical Literature.
The audition results are based on scores ranging from zero to 30 with 30 being the highest score. While there are first, second and third place winners in each category, students need to receive an average score of 25 or more to move on to the Regional Audition. Students had to prepare selections from various musical periods and styles and had 10 minutes to present.
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Auditions will be held on April 13-14 at the University of Maryland. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter includes: Maryland/Washington DC, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Lees-McRae College vocal students will compete against winners from these chapters in April. The NATS Regional Audition is the final audition of the year and there will be a first, second, and third place winner in each of the categories.
Mr. Jim Taylor, Assistant Professor of Music said, "I am very proud of the work these students have achieved. These are all private voice students, and I think this reflects well on our decision to add the BFA in Musical Theatre to our program. The last time we participated in this event was two years ago where we only had one singer out of five pass to the regional level. This year we are six out of nine, which is quite an improvement over previous years. We couldn't have done it without our amazing accompanist Paul Adamson. He worked tirelessly with nine singers who each had four songs to prepare - 36 songs in all! Special thanks to Ethan Henry who went along as Mr. Adamson's page turner. We look forward to attending the Regional Auditions and appreciate the support of the College and the Performing Arts Program."
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Season 4
7 Oct. 2011Tempus
Adam Worth destroys Praxis and travels back in time to the 1890s to save his daughter. Dr. Magnus travels back in time to stop him before he damages the time line and destroys her future with it.
14 Oct. 2011Uprising
With Magnus gone, Will is appointed the head of the Sanctuary Network. The abnormal uprising continues to get worse. Biggie and Kate are kidnapped. As expected the surface governments respond to the uprising with deadly force.
21 Oct. 2011Untouchable
The UN Security Council sends a task force headed by a weasel of a man, Greg Addison, to investigate the Sanctuary. His disdain for abnormals is matched by the disdain that Magnus and team have for him.
28 Oct. 2011Monsoon
Since the UN no longer backs the Sanctuary, Magnus makes other arrangements for her finances. A planned meeting in Africa with a potential banker turns into a hostage situation. Will and Henry search for an abnormal in the Old City tunnels.
4 Nov. 2011Resistance
Helen and Henry break into a government abnormal research facility called SCIU - only to find it is run by Tesla. Biggie and Will deal with an annoying abnormal named Galvo.
11 Nov. 2011Homecoming
Will's trip to Liberia turns bad when he suffers a head trauma from an attack. The trauma brings up powerful memories about his mothers death and the inadequacies of his father. Magnus deals with be-winged scam artist.
18 Nov. 2011Icebreaker
Henry and Declan lead a team to rescue a crew of a Russian icebreaker and the abnormal passengers.
25 Nov. 2011Fugue
FBI Agent Abby Corrigan's life is endangered after she is suddenly attacked by an unfamiliar abnormal during an investigation; Magnus and Will's heated debate over the best way to help Abby threatens to permanently alter their relationship.
8 May 2012Chimera
There is a sentient organic nanite causing havoc in the computer system in the Sanctuary. Magnus and Tesla connect their minds to the system in an effort to isolate the nanite. They find Adam Worth instead.
9 Dec. 2011Acolyte
A radical group of abnormal beings plan a terrorist attack with the goal of starting a war between surface dwellers and hollow Earth inhabitants. To Magnus' disbelief, Addison, at the NSA, has proof of Biggie's leadership of the group.
16 Dec. 2011The Depths
When Magnus and Will learn of a plan to capture very rare and dangerous Abnormal, they travel to a remote cave to prevent then hunt.
23 Dec. 2011Sanctuary for None - Part I
When the Sanctuary is approached by an abnormal leader about a radical plan for peace, Magnus goes all in and pledges her full support. However, when Will is forced to leave the Sanctuary, his decision may just put everyone at risk.
30 Dec. 2011Sanctuary for None: Part II
SCIU has surrounded the 5th Ward with troops and an electric shield that prevents them from leaving. Caleb has a virus that can turn the human population into abnormals. Magnus enacts her ultimate plan for the Sanctuary network.
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so I'm not sure what happened but my blog categories used to show excerpts that would link to the full blog post but now all posts are showing without headers, thumbnails or links to 'read more'...
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Running Time: 81
Director: Judy Blue
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Cast: Sunny McKay, Heather Hunter, Madison (I), Mike Horner
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A decent good guy, bad guy/cops and robbers yam with Heather Hunter coming across as extremely likeable and vulnerable, Heather Hunted features hot sex scenes and relatively new faces.
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Cheney: Not part of the executive branch?
Skeletons in the CIA closet: To be detailed next week.
The President's Crocs: Ill-considered, says the Post's fashion critic.
Brain-controlled toys: Coming.
Closing Gitmo: A paper says Bush is near a decision to do so.
The Paris Hilton interview chase: A $1 million offer from NBC? The network says no.
A nation without a BlackBerry: France.
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Australia's Retail Sales Decline, Sending Currency Lower
Australian retail sales unexpectedly fell in March for the first time in five months, weakening the currency and shares of some of the nation's biggest stores.
Sales declined 0.5 percent from a month earlier, when they increased a revised 0.8 percent, the Bureau of Statistics said in Sydney today. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of 21 economists was for a 0.5 percent gain, and none saw a drop.
The report led some economists to cut their forecasts for first-quarter growth. Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens has paused raising interest rates for the past five meetings to help Queensland state recover from damage to properties, mines and crops from floods and a cyclone.
"Consumers are pretty cautious as they face higher mortgage rates and living costs," said Su-Lin Ong, senior economist at RBC Capital Markets in Sydney. "There is a lot of uncertainty over households."
Ong said she will probably change her forecast to a contraction in gross domestic product in the first quarter, from a previous prediction of a slight expansion. The RBA earlier this week said GDP "likely" shrank in the January-March period because of the natural disasters.
Economists at Westpac Banking Corp. today said the decline in first-quarter GDP may be larger than their current forecast for a 1 percent drop.
Currency Slides
The currency slid to $1.0697 at 1:08 p.m. in Sydney from $1.0769 just before the data. The two-year government bond yield declined to 4.925 percent from 4.966 percent prior to the release.
Spending at department stores fell 3 percent, and consumers spent 0.4 percent less at food retailers, today's report showed. They spent 0.1 percent more on clothing and footwear, which was the only category that showed a gain, it showed.
Shares of Myer Holdings Ltd., the country's largest department-store chain, slumped as much as 1.6 percent to A$3.11, the lowest intraday price since April 11. David Jones Ltd., the second-biggest department store operator, fell as much as 1.8 percent to A$4.44. Woolworths Ltd., Australia's biggest retailer, dropped as much as 0.5 percent to A$26.72.
Retail sales, adjusted to remove inflation, were unchanged in the three months through March 31 from the previous quarter, the report showed. Economists had forecast a 0.6 percent gain.
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Retail sales in Queensland fell 2.9 percent in March, today's report showed, after climbing 3.2 percent the month before.
In a statement after its May 3 policy decision, the RBA said it left rates unchanged as households continue to show caution in spending and borrowing, and a higher rate of savings.
At the same time, a mining investment boom to meet demand from China helped Australia record its biggest annual increase in jobs on record last year and employers added more workers in March than forecast, lowering the jobless rate to 4.9 percent.
A separate report today showed Australian home-building approvals rose the most since October, a sign demand for housing may increase as the economy approaches full employment.
The number of permits granted to build or renovate houses and apartments advanced 9.1 percent from February, when they fell a revised 5.3 percent, the Bureau of Statistics said in Sydney today. The median forecast was for a 5 percent increase in a Bloomberg News survey of 19 economists.
It was the first gain in building approvals this year after the natural disasters in Queensland disrupted the market.
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Building approvals fell 18.1 percent from a year earlier, the report showed. That compares with economists' forecast for a 25.2 percent drop year-over-year.
Approvals to build private houses fell 0.8 percent to 8,016 in March from the previous month, the report said. Approvals for apartments and renovations advanced 26.1 percent to 5,147.
Stevens increased rates by 175 basis points from October 2009 to November last year to 4.75 percent, moves that helped the Australian dollar gain more than 18 percent in the past year. It this week touched the highest level since it was freely floated in 1983.
"The rapid fire rate hikes over the latter part of last year should bear the brunt of the blame for the lack of activity in both the housing sector and consumer spending," Savanth Sebastian, an economist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney, wrote in a report after the release. "And this weakness was further compounded by the vagaries of the weather -- which will remain a concern over the next couple of months."


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Endive and Pear Salad With Gorgonzola Cream Dressing
Total Time
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From Bon Appetit, Quick and Delicious, 2000. Don't want to lose this.
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- 4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 4 heads Belgian endive, large, sliced
- 1 large pear, halved, cored, sliced
- 1⁄3 cup sour cream
- 1⁄3 cup plain yogurt
- 1 1⁄4 cups gorgonzola, crumbled
- salt
- pepper
- 1⁄2 cup hazelnuts, toasted, husked
- fresh chives, chopped
- Whisk 3 tablespoons vinegar, oil and honey in a large bowl to blend.
- Add endive and pear and toss to coat.
- Blend sour cream, yogurt and remaining1 tablespoons of cider vinegar in medium bowl; mix in cheese.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Mound salad on plater and top with dressing, then nuts and chives.
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In the figure below, the pulley is a solid disk of mass M andradius R with rotational inertia .5MR. Two blocks, one ofmass m1 and one of mass m2 hang from eitherside of the pulley by a light cord. Initially, thesystem is at rest with block 1 on the floor and block 2 at height habove the floor. Block 2 is then released and allowed tofall.
a) What is the acceleration of block 1 and block 2?
b) What is the tension on the cord?
c) What is the speed of block 2 just before it strikes theground?
d) What is the angular speed of the pulley at thispoint?
e) What is the angular displacement of the pulley?
f) How long does it take for block 2 to fall to thefloor?