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Paul Murry drew for the Disney comic books and was mainly responsible for the adventurous 'Mickey Mouse' stories of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The charming style of the Mickey Mouse characters was already formed in the 1930s and 1940s in Floyd Gottfredson's daily comic strips, and Murry did much to further develop these characters. Murry drew thousands of pages of comics during his career and was one of the few Disney artists who was successful in drawing all the characters.
Born in Missouri, Murry started out working as a farmer. He started to draw in his spare time, and he began to work for an engraving company in 1937. Soon afterwards, he went to work at the animation department of the Disney Studios. He cooperated among others on 'Pinocchio' (1940), 'Dumbo' (1941), 'Saludos Amigos' (1942) and 'Song of the South' (1946). He enrolled into the comics department in 1943. He started out doing the 'José Carioca' Sunday page, and subsequently worked on the 'Mickey Mouse' daily strip and the 'Uncle Remus with Br'er Rabbit' and 'Panchito' Sunday pages.
He went to work for the Disney comic books of Dell Publishing in late 1946. He drew several classic 'Br'er Rabbit' stories for the Four Color Comics, as well as some 'Big Bad Wolf' stories. From 1953 to 1973, he was one of the most productive and most notable 'Mickey Mouse' artist for the Dell comic books. He was also the first artist to draw 'Super Goof', Goofy's superhero counterpart.
In addition to his Disney work, Murry worked as a gag cartoonist and illustrated for Walter Lantz's 'Woody Woodpecker' comic books. He also did the comic strip 'Buck O'Rue' with writer Dick Huemer in the early 1950s.


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Re the Mosqueterias in sharia-compliant school districts, like the biggest school board in Canada: A proposed
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To: students, parents, ratepayers
Date: [tbd]
Subject: Complaints received re sharia schools
We feel your pain.
Ever aiming at new levels of balance and diversity, we plan to address the complaints by shortly instituting "Spirituality for gay/lesbian/transgendered/queer/exploring/uncertain teens," proving them with appropriate worship and clergy counselling in previously public space.
[Politician: Good! Balance out the only lobbies that matter.]
We will, of course, continue to suppress observant Christian and Jewish teens who want access to spiritual counselling, lest their harmful culture is propagated. They could end up concluding that some lifestyles are bad for them and that they have the power to decide for themselves.
We want to take this opportunity to reassure our whole community that that goes against everything we believe here at the Board. Fact and rationality are "out the window" now, in favour of diversity studies, post-modernism, deconstruction, victimhood, and plunging IQs.
[Union head: Great! More shight, less fear of an "incompetence" evaluation. Bring it on.]
We pledge to promote any weirdness or hatred whatever, as long as you think you can't help yourself or your family is forcing you to. We are especially supportive if someone will kill you if you don't go along with the [shight]. We'll help you adjust to the terror.
[Editor: How did "shight" get in here? We certainly need a better word than that. How about "life affirmation"? Too woo-woo? Wait! Try "peace amid diversity"? Yes, that's it! Put it in!]
Finally, we promise to continue to shake down the public to support your oppression. Human Rights Commissions have the authority to persecute anyone who thinks you should have a second look before you jump. They've gone after very prominent Canadians, so there is no fear that you will ever get out from under Trudeaupia.
[Recommendation from equity reviewer O'Leary, just before slitting her throat: To drive the point home, make the little serfs study Canadian Icon Margaret Atwood's horror novel about "Gilead," a mythical theocracy in the southern United States. We can't permit the young swine to realize that theocracy is happening here, and not there. For effect, throw in another compulsory Atwood three-loon special, will you? Just to teach them to ALWAYS point the finger abroad, to distract attention from what's happening at home.]
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The Aquabats are a band from Southern California who dress as superheroes and are also the stars of their own television series. In "The Aquabats! Super Show!," which airs Saturday mornings on the Hub, they travel about in their Battle Tram to play concerts and fight monsters. It is a show, in the old circus parlance, for children of all ages.
Recently, on the occasion of the start of the series' second season and a DVD release of its first, I traveled down to Orange County to interview three of the five Aquabats in their world headquarters, a small suite of offices in a Santa Ana office park. The resulting feature, which ran in last Sunday's Times, can be read here.
Present were Christian Jacobs, Ian Fowles and James Briggs, also known as the M.C. Bat Commander, EagleBones Falconhawk and Jimmy the Robot. (Absent were Chad Larson and Richard Falomir, also known as Crash McLarson and Ricky Fitness.) Jacobs, co-creator of "The Aquabats! Super Show!" also co-created the very popular Nickelodeon series "Yo Gabba Gabba!," which one might say is for smaller children of all ages.
Present as well was Joel Fox, an animator and filmmaker who works on both band-related series and appears as the Fox Man (a man dressed as a fox) in the background of every episode of "The Aquabats! Super Show!"
What follows is some of the rest of our conversation, which ranges over the band members' early days on the punk/ska/surf/skateboard scene, the influence of old TV shows, their heroes, their fans, and a few of the nuts and bolts of making their series.
What did you learn as musicians that helps you make television?
Ian Fowles: Before we were even in bands, we'd just go to shows, growing up, and try to be part of that. And no one was better than anyone else.
Christian Jacobs: It was part of that late '70s/early '80s punk rock, DIY thing. Also, I worked in skateboarding for a long time, too, so that's also very "just do it yourself, don't wait around for someone else to sign the check, just go get it done." We were doing skateboard videos, being in punk bands, touring. But, at least with "The Aquabats," even though we were doing so much ourselves, the one thing we seemed to be waiting on was the TV show -- we were waiting for somebody to say like, "OK, we see what you're doing, let's do this." Whereas with "Yo Gabba Gabba!" it was like, "No one is doing that, so we have to go do it."
James Briggs: We kind of missed the Somebody Else Doing It For You movement.
The costumes you wear now, how far back do they date?
JB: Within the first year the general concept was pretty nailed down.
CJ: The costumes were an initial thing. Myself and Crash -- Chad, who plays bass -- were really big Devo fans, and we were like, "Let's do something where it's more uniform." But also around that time there was that kind of surf band explosion, like the mid-'90s bands like Phantom Surfers and the Go-Nuts and Man or Astro-man? -- there were a lot of those kind of bands doing that thing, which I thought was really cool. But at the same time it was a little bit exclusive, it was a little bit 21-and-over, like, cool guys with cool cars and vintage equipment. And we were just surfer kids that were joking around. We wanted to combine Devo with surf music and ska. But we all came from punk bands, so the whole ska thing was more of a reaction to the scene at the time -- there were a lot of ska bands, like No Doubt and Sublime. Reel Big Fish and Save Ferris were all happening at the same time. And we were like, "Let's get in on this and just be silly about it."
At one point, we were trying to do something where every night you wouldn't know what to expect: One night we'd come out with suits and fezzes on, or the next night we'd be dressed like chefs, or in hula skirts. One night we dressed up like Abba-Zabas, like, black and yellow, and we just looked like candy bars.
What was the reaction?
CJ: The punk bands really hated us and then the ska scene didn't really like us that much either, because we were coming from a different angle.
JB: They didn't like that we were just messing around. They were so serious about what they were doing.
As a band you played all-ages shows, and now you make all-ages kids' shows. You've always been kid-friendly.
CJ: I think from going to all-ages shows as a kid, like, taking the bus and going to Fender's or going over the hill, 'cause I grew up in the Valley, right in North Hollywood, so taking the bus over and seeing shows at the Whisky or the Roxy ... just that kid out there on the sidewalk with a skateboard that can't wait to get in to to see the Descendents or whatever -- that's always driven the music part. We never wanted to play 21-and-over clubs. We played a few in the beginning, Jimmy was ... 17?
JB: Eighteen or 19.
CJ: Even though he was in the band he couldn't come into the club unless he was onstage playing; so the whole time we were in there waiting to play, Jimmy was sitting on a stool in the alley. And I was like, "You're never doing this again." All my favorite bands used to sing songs about this, Minor Threat and Black Flag. I think that was at the Tiki Bar, which used to be the Cuckoo's Nest. So the focus of the Aquabats has always been all ages, to be an inclusive thing, which definitely comes out of the punk scene and doing something fun for kids.
What did skateboarding mean to you?
CJ: Skateboarding is huge for me, and the community in skateboarding was so creative, especially in the '80s, and all the guys that came out of that, Spike Jonze and Jason Lee, and the list goes on and on. [Artists] Mark Gonzales and Ed Templeton and Neil Blender, all these guys that were so great on a skateboard but did so many other different things as well. Matt Hensley who's in Flogging Molly is an incredible skateboarder. Danny Way is still doing crazy stuff. Skateboarding opened my eyes to not just like the tricks you could do on a skateboard but what you could do yourself in the world, like, there's no limits. All the guys I grew up skating with and also looking up to, they said, "Yeah, I'm gonna start playing guitar," "I'm gonna start a band." Tommy Guerrero and Ray Barbee -- those guys are incredible and they started playing music while they were skateboarding. Steve Caballero, all those dudes. Music, or art, or making films. Spike, Jacob Rosenberg. They would just look at things like, "I could do that."
[Skateboard legends] Tony Hawk and Eric Koston were in your season premiere.
CJ: Tony and I were on [the 1989 skate-themed movie thriller] "Gleaming the Cube" together. I ended up hanging out with Tony a lot as a teenager, we got to be friends, and years later I saw him at a concert and I was telling him I had this new TV show -- it was "Yo Gabba Gabba!" -- and he was saying, "That's pretty cool." And I was like, "You should come be on the show, it would be rad," and he was, "Yeah, I'll think about it." You know, he's busy, he's all over the place, the biggest skateboarder in the world. Then about a month later, we booked him and he showed up on set and he was like, "Dude, I had no idea this was your show -- my kid and I, we watch it all the time." It brought us back together as friends, and he came out and did a role on the "Aquabats," which is kind of so beneath him. I love the fact that he just did it.
How did your superhero characters emerge?
JB: They're all based on the individuals, so it's not too much of a stretch.
Joel Fox: It changed a little bit. Like Christian's character got to be a little more of a jerk.
CJ: It's funnier that way. Someone has to be a jerk. In college Ian studied theology and religions and spirituality and things like that, so we thought it was fun to bring crystals and spirit animals into his character.
IF: In touch with the universe.
CJ: Which is a great contrast with Jimmy the Robot; Jimmy the Robot is a straight man. For the most part the characters' personalities have a lot to do with the individuals. Like, Crash McLarson, the fact that he grows large when he gets emotional, that comes from years and years of being on the road with Chad and when things get a little bit ... emotional, everyone ducks. Having been friends for so long, we we can all make fun of each other and ourselves; there's still a little bit of egos left but they've been beaten down pretty hard.
IF: They all kind of fit into archetypes other people can relate to. Everyone has a big hulky friend who smashes things.
JF: And there's a pretty guy.
CJ: Oh yeah, Ricky -- I thought you were talking about me. Ricky is the one character we're still trying to bring out onto the screen. Ricky in real life is kind of a prankster, and he's a lot funner than I think we've repped him on the show. That goes down to acting, too -- being a band first and a bunch of guys that played music together and have toured, we weren't designed to be actors. You look at it, like, "I could do that," but when you get down to it, and they say "Action!," it takes some work. My acting background [Jacobs was a child actor] definitely helped. But I was doing spots on "The Love Boat" and "Silver Spoons."
At the same time "The Aquabats" parodies them, it really is in many ways an accurate re-creation of an old-fashioned kids' show. Not just something obvious like "The Power Rangers," but also something like [the 1976 CBS Saturday morning live-action adventure series] "Ark II."
IF: "Ark II"!
CJ: We were just watching that yesterday, because I was like, "Ian, did you ever watch this show?" [Indicates DVD collection on shelf.] I watched that when I was a kid. I mean, what a concept: Post-apocalyptic science team go out and inspire the world to rebuild and regrow, and that was so inspirational to me. But you watch it now and the acting is horrible, the framing -- it's like they just threw it together. And it was, like, "This is so much like our show, right?" They shot it all in the same place. And they have a battle tram that's giant on the inside.
IF: Now we need a monkey; they have a monkey, and that's great.
CJ: I would have always said that "Ark II" is an influence on our show. But after watching it again a little bit yesterday, I was, "Wow, this is a bigger influence than I realized."
IF: Subconscious -- it just seeps in there.
CJ: But I think we're conscious of that artistically, as well -- like, in designing props and the way the show is lit, I really want it to feel like those shows. Because having kids myself, I want them to like those kinds of shows. There was something to them. The heart of "Ark II" is great, what it was trying to do. But the execution maybe was a little bit weak.
It was certainly cheap.
IF: There was "Batman," too.
CJ: That wasn't cheap. And it looks amazing. That show is incredible.
Adam West is still the only Batman I really accept.
CJ: You watch "The Dark Night" and "Batman Begins," and you're like, "OK, this is pretty cool" -- then, you're like [snaps fingers], "Wait a second -- this could never happen. It's so illegal, what he's doing, and he would get hosed by a machine gun so fast, they would catch him so quickly." I love the "Batman" '66 because it's so aware of itself. It's so like, "Superheroes? They're pretty silly. Let's have fun."
I knew that show was a comedy, but I also watched it as a straight adventure. The same with "Get Smart" -- that was a spy show to me.
CJ: [Indicating Briggs]. Hymie the robot, right? "Get Smart," absolutely. You're watching it as it unfolds, not for laughs. "Batman," too, as a kid, you're watching the adventure. And every now and then you'd hear a laugh track and you'd think, "I think I'm supposed to laugh at this," but not know why.
How involved are you in the scripting?
CJ: It's pretty much us. I write a lot of the episodes, and Jason [deVilliers], our director, writes a lot. Matt Chapman [from "Yo Gabba Gabba!" and co-creator of the Web cartoon "Homestar Runner"] We've all taken stabs at punch ups. The first season we had a great guy named Dani Michaeli, who worked on "SpongeBob [SquarePants]" for many years that came in as our script editor, and he was basically just there to--
IF: --rein it in.
CJ: Rein in the madness.
IF: "Easy, guys."
CJ: We were just going crazy just sitting around in a room like this, just throwing ideas into the center. And he would just--
IF: --simplify things a little more.
CJ: --help keep the stories together. We learned a lot from Dani, and he really helped, you know, popcorn-ball the season into something that made sense.
It seems like you're working with your own established community.
CF: Yeah, like Joel.
JF: I saw the ["Yo Gabba Gabba!"] pilot when you put it online and I was like, "Oh, I should work on this show." And I sent an email and got an email back the next day that said, "You probably should."
CJ: It felt like we were a beacon to some interesting fellows -- and females, as well. It just seemed like there was this strange gathering that happened on "Gabba," and we moved with the gathering onto "Aquabats" -- and hopefully to other things. It just makes a lot of sense working together.
IF: It's like a scene, too, if you want to go back to the punk rock thing again, in a way.
CJ: It's like how you'd go to the same shows and you'd see the same people all the time. Or the art scene -- you'd go to each other's art shows, it's all the same artists, they always hang together and work together. It feels very much like that, rather than the traditional Hollywood way of making kids shows, for sure.
IF: Like in a normal Hollywood show I probably wouldn't be able to tell the director, "Hey, I think we should add this shot or we should go from this angle."
CJ: Well, you are an actor, so it depends. It depends on how much you're getting paid to act.
IF: I'm just saying, on the average show.
CJ: If you were just writing songs you would have got fired. But you're an actor. Directors have to put up with that sometimes.
Who makes your monsters?
CL: Scott Johnson, who did "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Tron" and stuff for the Muppets and "Yo Gabba Gabba!"
JF: Almost every time he surprises you, like, oh my gosh, we had this idea, and he makes it, it's way better.
JB: It shows up on set and you pull the tarp off and you're like, "What? This is incredible."
CJ: We'd made a Cobra Man costume before, back in the day, because a lot of these characters we brought over from the live show; we had monsters that we'd fight onstage. And sometimes we would make them up in the backstage, we'd grab some trash bags or a box and make Trash man, or whatever. Or we'd make up elaborate costumes beforehand. Some of the other characters that show up on "The Aquabats" show we've been fighting for years. But when we made the Cobra Man costume with Scott and those guys, they'd taken 4,000 plastic spoons and snapped off the heads and then done scales all over. They were, "This could have been better but we had to use plastic spoons."
JB: We were so looking at it like, "This is the greatest thing we've ever seen."
Do you have a sense of how the show is being received?
It seems like a lot of fans are making their own fan art from the show.
JB: There are pictures from Comic-Con in Phoenix last weekend, and there's the Jimmy the Robot person, the EagleBones person, there's the Commander person. And they all went together as a group -- as our characters and whatnot.
CB: Right -- where before it was just like you dressed in the Aquabats costume. In the early days of the Aquabats, people were their own thing, like "Kooky Bat" or "Chicken Bat." Exact Change Man, he was dressed as an Aquabat, with a little change dispenser. Like, "$2.37?" -- he could do it really fast. Something about the Aquabats encouraged their individuality; now, because of the show, it's "I identify with EagleBones because my hair is long" -- whatever it is.
CJ: That's a new phenomenon for us.
JB: It's pretty rad.
CJ: The energy is a little different now.


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Even with the H1B program supposedly restricting things, there's a lot of non-US talent in the US; one can only imagine how many "back home."
You can find plenty of articles saying that we are not churning out enough engineers. For instance: http://www.worldexpertise.com/Declining ... _Needs.htm
We need to fix this. We need to do everything we can to encourge OUR people to go into engineering and science before it's too late.
I wonder if the US has suffered the same problem as the UK. Engineering has shifted from being a vocational profession to an almost exclusively academic one. An exclusively academic approach may be a good fit for electronic engineering, but I'm not sure that it's such a good fit for mechanical, civil, electrical engineering, for example. Twin tracks (one academic, one vocational) leading ultimately to the same qualification, with equal support and respect for both tracks, makes more sense. The emphasis on the academic track is discouraging to those who prefer their work to be more hands on and practical.


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There may have been games before Atari, but for many people games like Pole Position and Choplifter defined the early days of gaming. How much would you pay for a piece of that history? $500? $1,000? On June 21 Sotheby's is auctioning off a lot of marketing, promotional, and behind-the-scenes material from Atari. The site requires a login to view the images and full information, but here is their description of what will be sold:
An extensive archive of original marketing materials (as detailed below) from the "Golden Age" of Atari, ca. 1981 to 1983, comprising more than 2,000 items of widely varying sizes and formats, including manuscript memorandum, internal specification guidelines, original sketches, blue lines, mechanicals, proofs, color separations (including acetates), and screen diagrams; the archive is mostly related to marketing materials for Atari games and game consoles, especially boxes and manuals, but includes some early design and graphic work for specific game characters and components; the archive contains mostly English-language materials, but proofs and mechanicals for cartons and manuals in French, German, Spanish, and Italian are also present. The whole archive organized into approximately 135 large file folders for graphic materials.
The images are great. It looks like there are early drawings of the cars from Pole Position, and the catalog note adds that some of Atari's biggest games have strong representation in this package of materials. I'm not sure what one would do with this lot, but I'd love an hour or two just to page through everything and see what there is. From a historical standpoint, this is an impressive package.
Estimated value? $150,000 to $250,000. Developers, I'd keep all your early sketches. Wow.


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I have had crushes on both males and females. I have only dated a single guy. Most people assume I'm straight but I more correctly identify as asexual--it's not the body parts, it's the personality. Sometimes a guy has the right mix of qualities, sometimes it's a girl who has them. Either way, I have come out as bisexual to a few close friends who I thought wouldn't judge--even a gay male's reply was "so a hole is just a hole for you, eh?", assuming that it was all the sexual angle.
I think bisexuals often get flack from both ends of the spectrum--gay and straight, with people expecting you to "pick a side" so to speak. But I think as many bodies are so interchangeable(I find convincingly androgynous people insanely awesome--I wish I had that sort of ability to transform), eventually it won't matter. I've been accused of being a guy lots of times, and it used to really bother me--not so much any more. It is mildly amusing to have people blink at me like I'm crazy when I say I identify as asexual.
I do fear general judgment from women if I out myself on having crushes on girls, though. So I generally keep quiet.
However, It is never about sexy tiemz, and I honestly would take a nice tea party with smoked salmon and cream cheese finger sandwiches over a steamy orgy any day(not that orgies are bad).
Definitely :)
Interestingly enough, I've never actually been in a relationship with a woman. And, I never will because I'm getting married in three months. But I very recently came to the realization that I'm bisexual (or fluid), I've had crushes on guys and girls my whole life. And I find men and women to both be beautiful, women probably more so. But, I am marrying a man who is the love of my life. And he completely understands my bisexuality and has no problem with it
hi i am a bisexual male i have dated and slept with both sexes but im more attracted to males
i came out about being bi just a few months ago when i was going through depression
depression come on by very homophobic and hateful dad and every one in a 20 mile radius i am 1of the 5 atheist in my entire town and probably the only bi male in my town
Me. I am but I am leaning toward women more then men. Just connect with womenn better and they are so soft. Just saying.
I have encountered some roadblocks in expressing my sexuality that only got more complex when religion factored in. I knew that I am attracted to women and men from a young age, pretty much as long as I have been an atheist. I never really 'came out' though because I didn't think it was relevant. I am strongly sexual and am very open about it. I am lucky to have a supportive group of friends that, while diverse in their own beliefs and orientations, still accept me for who I am.


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Student leaders from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have offered their support to London's bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.
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Afghans mourn hundreds killed in landslide
Authorities and volunteers try to help more than 700 families displaced by natural disaster
ABI BARIK, Afghanistan (AP) — As Afghans observed a day of mourning Sunday for the hundreds of people killed in a horrific landslide, authorities tried to help the 700 families displaced by the torrent of mud that swept through their village.
The families left their homes due to the threat of more landslides in the village of Abi Barik in Badakhshan province, Minister for Rural Rehabilitation Wais Ahmad Barmak said.
Another reason for the evacuation was the threat of flooding caused in part by the landslide itself, said Mohammad Daim Kakar, from the Afghanistan Natural Disaster Management Authority. He said the shifting earth had made it difficult for water to drain through the valley — a serious concern as rain continued to fall Sunday.
Engineers are working on a plan to divert the water, he said.
Aid groups and the government have rushed to the remote area in northeastern Afghanistan bordering Tajikistan and China with food, shelter and water. But for those affected, help was slow to arrive.
"My family, my wife and eight children are alive, but have nothing to use as shelter. We have nothing to eat," said Barat Bay, a 50-year-old farmer and father of eight. "We have passed the last two nights with our children at the top of this hill with no tent, no blanket."
Kakar, who visited the area Sunday, acknowledged that aid had yet to reach some people but said their efforts were complicated by villagers from areas unaffected by the landslide also coming to claim the aid.
A spokesman for the International Organization of Migration, Matt Graydon, said the group is bringing solar-powered lanterns, blankets and shelter kits. He said after a visit to the area Sunday that some residents have gone to nearby villages to stay with family or friends while others have slept out in the open.
"Some people left with almost nothing," Graydon said.
Authorities visiting from Kabul gave $800,000 to the provincial governor during visits on Saturday and Sunday to use in the aid effort, said Kakar and Barmak, who promised that the government would pay more if needed.
President Hamid Karzai designated Sunday as a day of mourning for the hundreds of people who died. Authorities still don't have an exact figure on how many people died in the landslide, Barmak said, and estimates have ranged from 250 to 2,700.
The government has identified 250 people who died and estimated that 300 houses were buried under tons of mud, Barmak said.
It will be impossible to dig up all the bodies, but many people continue to look on their own, said Abdullah Homayun Dehqan, the head of Badakhshan province's National Disaster Department. He said officials met with community elders Sunday in Faizabad, the provincial capital, to see whether they wanted the government to continue digging, but said no final decision has been made.
US President Barack Obama called Karzai on Sunday to offer his condolences and additional assistance for the relief efforts. A White House statement about the call did not elaborate.
Afghanistan has suffered through some three decades of war since the Soviet invasion in 1979. But natural disasters such as landslides, floods and avalanches have taken a toll on a country with little infrastructure or development outside of its major cities.
Already this year, 159 people have died in April and May from flooding, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Sunday in a statement. New waves of flooding are expected in two northern provinces, the agency said.
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Corn Planted Acreage Up Slightly from 2012
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All Wheat Acreage Up 1 Percent
All Cotton Acreage Down 19 Percent
Corn growers intend to plant 97.3 million acres of corn for all purposes in 2013, up slightly from last year and 6 percent higher than in 2011. If realized, this will represent the highest planted acreage in the United States since 1936 when an estimated 102 million acres were planted.
Soybean planted area for 2013 is estimated at 77.1 million acres, down slightly from last year but the fourth highest on record, if realized. Compared with 2012, planted area is down across the Great Plains with the exception of North Dakota. Nebraska and Minnesota are expecting the largest declines compared with last year, while Illinois and North Dakota are expecting the largest increases.
All wheat planted area for 2013 is estimated at 56.4 million acres, up 1 percent from 2012. The 2013 winter wheat planted area, at 42.0 million acres, is 2 percent above last year and up slightly from the previous estimate. Of this total, about 28.9 million acres are Hard Red Winter, 9.67 million acres are Soft Red Winter, and 3.39 million acres are White Winter. Area planted to other spring wheat for 2013 is expected to total 12.7 million acres, up 3 percent from 2012. Of this total, about 12.1 million acres are Hard Red Spring wheat. The intended Durum planted area for 2013 is estimated at 1.75 million acres, down 18 percent from the previous year.
All cotton planted area for 2013 is expected to total 10.0 million acres, 19 percent below last year. Upland area is expected to total 9.82 million acres, down 19 percent from 2012. American Pima area is expected to total 206,000 acres, down 14 percent from 2012.
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TULSA, Okla. - Frank Marion Young, 77, of Tulsa, formerly of
Canadian, Texas, died Monday, Dec. 26, 2011.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Abundant Life Assembly of God in Canadian with the Rev. Willie George, pastor, officiating and the Rev. Ricky Pfeil, pastor, assisting. Burial will be in Edith Ford Memorial Cemetery in Canadian. Arrangements are by Hughs Funeral Home of Canadian.
Frank was born Feb. 11, 1934, in Wheeler, Texas, to Henry Young and Hazel Larue Wofford Young. He was a 1952 graduate of Canadian High School. He then went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Texas Tech University.
Frank was a veteran of the Air Force. He married Fern Gitchell on Jan. 7, 1956, in
Briscoe, Texas. They moved to Oakridge, Tenn., where he began working for Union Carbide. Frank worked for Union Carbide for the next 12 years until moving back to Canadian in 1967. For the next 10 years, he worked for Cabot and Celanese Chemicals in Pampa, Texas, until retiring and began working on the family ranch. He was a member of Christian Center Church in Wheeler from 1969 to 1999 and then started attending The River Church until moving to Tulsa in 2008.
Survivors include his wife, Fern Young of Owasso; three sons, Henry Young and wife Melinda and Lee Young and wife Lisa, all of Lubbock, Texas, and Frank Young and wife Tiffany of Tulsa; two daughters, Deleva George and husband Willie of Owasso and Janet Smith and husband Buster of Plainview, Texas; four brothers, Lee Young and wife Genise and David Young and wife Pat, all of Canadian, Texas, Jim Young and wife Nancy of Weatherford and Bob Young and wife Valerie of Lubbock; two sisters, Dora Ann Baker and husband Morgan and Nancy Richardson, all of Lubbock; 15 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Kingdom Keys Network, P.O. Box 8088, Amarillo, TX 79114; or Alzheimer's Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – Barack Obama is wrong. The budget plan that was written by Paul Ryan, passed by the House and endorsed by Mitt Romney is not "a Trojan horse," as the president said this week.
There is nothing sneaky about the Republican plan to shrink the federal government. Sure, the Ryan and the Republicans are advertising their plan as a deficit-reduction plan, but anyone can see through that claim in a second, or maybe two if their arithmetic skills are rusty.
If this plan is a Trojan horse, it's a pretty transparent one. Read the Ryan plan.
Read the CBO analysis of the Ryan budget.
No, the goal of the Ryan plan is pretty obvious: It would end government as we know it. The military would be left intact, and there would still be programs called Social Security and Medicare, even if Medicare benefits would be meager. Most of the rest of what the federal government now does — from the FBI and the FAA to Head Start and highways — would simply disappear.
That's not a flaw; it's the essential feature of the Ryan budget, which is based on the notion that Americans hate big government and everything it tries to do for us and to us.
It is true that Americans are quite skeptical of big government. When things aren't right, our first impulse is to say we should fix it ourselves, or let the market solve it. If that doesn't work, we turn to nonprofit groups, or to local governments. Only in the last resort do we ask the federal government to lend a hand.
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If the federal government is doing something, you can be pretty sure that all other alternatives have already failed.
The Ryan budget assumes that we neither want nor need the federal government to do anything more than defend our borders. It assumes that the federal government has been imposed upon us from above by faceless power-seeking bureaucrats. However, history shows that little gets done in Washington without a long, hard fight by grassroots organizers who, after decades of agitating, finally force Washington to act.
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food and drug safety, consumer safety, clean air and water, labor rights, voting rights and civil rights weren't gifts from a power-hungry federal bureaucracy. As Joseph Boyett shows in his book, "Getting Things Done in Washington," they were earned only after long campaigns in which liberal activists persuaded a majority of skeptical Americans that severe and persistent national problems could only be solved with federal action.
Now that we live in a world where we assume that what we eat is relatively safe, that our rights as citizens will be mostly honored, and that we'll have basic health care and a modest income when we retire, it's easy to forget what life was like before. Before big government.
Before, life was nasty, brutish and short. It was especially nasty, brutish and short for the working class, and for blacks, Hispanics, Asians and immigrants, and for women and children.
Health care was a luxury only a few could afford, and many who could have been healed died prematurely or were permanently disabled. People who were too old or too sick to work threw themselves on the mercy of family or charity, or lived out their lives in dire poverty. The food we ate and the drugs we took were adulterated with noxious fillers and toxic poisons. Our air was unbreathable, and our rivers were filthy. Workplaces were death traps. Most of us were second-class citizens, at best.
Those were problems that we couldn't fix on our own. The market failed. Charities and local governments weren't up to the task. Only a national government had the resources and reach that was necessary to give us all some security in retirement, or guarantee our rights, or expand access to health care, or make sure that companies didn't poison our workplaces, our environment, or our food in pursuit of profit.
That's not to say that the federal government is perfect. Far from it. Regulations can become outdated, or go too far, or not go far enough. Regulators can be captured by the very industries they are supposed to police. The costs of entitlement programs and regulations must be constantly weighed against their benefits, and against what we as a nation can afford.
But rather than making a reasoned judgment about what works and what we can afford, the Ryan budget simply says Washington can't afford to do much of anything.
The problem with the Republican plan is that we've already tried to run our country that way, and we didn't like it.


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The 11th - 15th July saw the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's visit to the UK.
To celebrate Gagarin's achievement and his visit to the UK, a statue of Gagarin was unveiled on The Mall, outside the British Council's offices (opposite the statue of Cook) by Gagarin's eldest daughter, Elena Gagarina and HRH Prince Michael of Kent.
This statue will be in situe for a year, before finding a permanent home at a currently unknown site in the UK.
The @YuriGagarin50 Twitter feed continues to Tweet information of Gagarin's world tour, as it happened 50 years ago, as well as other related and spacey information.
The First Orbit 2012 project, to release the film as a multi-language DVD and BluRay is now complete. To purchase your copy please go to http://www.firstorbit.org/.
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The statue is situated outside the British Council offices on THE MALL where it will remain for a year.
The British Council also has a Gagarin in Britain exhibition at their offices. Please note the opening times for Gagarin in Britain are from 4-5pm on Tuesdays and Fridays ONLY. Due to security restrictions at the British Council offices, all visitors must pre-register their visit by emailing us at
To accompany the statue unveiling and the exhibition, the British Council has published Gagarin in Britain, an extensively illustrated, 160-page catalogue, exploring the life of Yuri Gagarin, his visit to Britain in July 1961, and the legacy of the Russian space programme. The catalogue is edited by Andrea Rose, Director of Visual Arts at the British Council, and includes texts by Piers Bizony, biographer of Yuri Gagarin; Dr. Christopher Riley, writer and filmmaker; Vix Southgate, author of Yuri Gagarin: The First Spaceman; and Dr. Svetlana Boym, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Harvard University. Illustrations include technical drawings from the Moscow State Archive for Scientific and Technical Documentation showing the development of the parachute and ejector seat equipment that have never been published before in the West. Priced at £25, the catalogue will be available for purchase from Cornerhouse Publications online at www.cornerhouse.org/books
Fifty Years of Human Spaceflight – BBC World Service examines Gagarin's Legacy
First Orbit - watch the most talked about event on YouTube
YuriGagarin50 special events on 12th April included:
The Yuri Walk - join us on the South Bank at 7:07am BST to toast Gagarin at the exact time of his launch
Rockets for Yuri - take part in a mass rocket launch at 12 noon BST
First Orbit - see screenings of Chris Riley's new 'First Orbit' film on BBC big screens across the UK and on YouTube
IET Yuri Gagarin Lecture - A celebration of manned space flight – past, present and future
Commemorating Gagarin in London: On 14th July 2011, a statue of Gagarin will be unveiled in the Mall in London, opposite the statue of Captain Cook and outsite the British Council offices. The statue is a gift from the Roscosmos Space Agency to the British Council. Read more
12 April 2011 YuriGagarin50 supporters toast Gagarin at 7:07AM BST, exactly 50 years after his launch and take partin the Yuri Walk on the South Bank, London
BBC Russian Service coverage of the Yuri Walk: www.bbc.co.uk/russian/multimedia/2011/04/110412_london_gagarin_walk.shtml


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August 15, 2013
For a brief moment last week, Adrian Peterson appeared to be fighting for his job. After coming off a spectacular season as the NFL's MVP (Most Valuable Player), Peterson had to put out his best effort yet as a Viking if he was to continue his quest to be the premier running back of the decade.
Last Wednesday, 66 year-old former running back for the Chamberlain Cubs, Wick Fisher, donned Peterson's number 28 jersey and shocked the Mankato crowd, the longtime home of the Vikings training camp.
On his first play from scrimmage, Fisher ran the length of the field, totally untouched by the defense.
Upon reaching the end zone, the visibly exhausted Fisher spiked the football, pointed to the heavens to thank God and collapsed.
As he was being carted off the field on a stretcher, he couldn't help but notice the entire defensive team doubled up and rolling around on the ground holding their stomachs. They were obviously aching from spasmodic laughter.
The entire play following the handoff from quarterback Christian Ponder to running back Wick Fisher's 60-yard run from scrimmage mysteriously erased two minutes and fifty seconds off the time clock.
After being rushed to the nearest hospital by ambulance, an anonymous source for the Vikings commented, "Wick Fisher's status is listed as day to day."
A reporter queried "Does that mean Fisher might actually make the team?"
"No" replied the spokesman. "I'm referring to his life."
Fisher was soon released from the hospital with doctor's orders to "take it easy."
He returned to training camp, sat down with his friend Chris, and guzzled a few beers.
By lunch time, the pair found their way around town, eventually landing at El Mazatlan, one of the finest Mexican Restaurants in the area. The food was authentic, plentiful and quite inexpensive.
Practice resumed later that afternoon finding Fisher and friend Chris sitting in the bleachers watching much younger players fighting for a spot on 2013's version of the Minnesota Vikings. After a remarkable finish last season that put the Vikings in the playoffs, according to defensive star Jered Allen, the goal has been raised this year. Simply making the playoffs no longer cuts it.
"We need to win our division this year in order to gain home field advantage in the playoffs." Allen stated.
For the Vikings, the home field will be the last time ever for that architectural wonder, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
Following the dome's scheduled demise early next year to make way for Ziggy Wilf's mostly taxpayer funded billion-dollar stadium, perhaps Humphrey will finally stop rolling over in his grave from the humility of having his name associated with possibly the worst designed sports stadium in history.
Coach Leslie Frazier was asked how he thought the Vikings would do this year in light of the fact that they sacrificed one home game to play in London, England.
They also face a much tougher schedule this season. You need to remember that last year's soft schedule was the result of the Viking's coming off a 3-13 record the previous year.
"Yes, I am aware that we are facing a much tougher schedule and also we will lose home field advantage for the game played in London," Frazier stated. "However, I think it all boils down to one factor. Is Wick Fisher for real or not?"


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Simple Winter Dinners: Curried Butternut Squash Soup (Recipe)
Soup (like this butternut squash soup recipe) can be the centerpiece for easy, cold-weather entertaining
So here we are, all exhausted and five pounds heavier after the holidays, but feeling a bit bleak, now that tinsel season's over, right? One remedy: casual winter dinner parties. A couple of years ago, I decided to forget the dreary New Year's resolutions that don't get kept, and resolved instead to have my friends over for easy, casual dinner parties all through winter. On a frigid day, you can't beat a bowl of soup and some crusty bread. Add a green salad and maybe an apple tart for afters and you've got a mini-feast that doesn't cost a bundle and that's easy to prepare — and can be done ahead, too.
Robust soups are best when it's cold out: lentil spiked with cumin and coriander; creamy leek and potato with some chunky bits left in; black bean brightened with lime juice — all good. Slowly caramelized-onion soup with decadent amounts of cheese melted on top is a real winner, as long as you use good beef stock. One of our favorites is thick butternut squash soup. As their name suggests, butternuts have a sweet, nutty flavor, and they're at their best now. Here's a recipe that gets some zing from fresh ginger and curry powder. It serves four, but you can double or triple the amounts and freeze any leftovers for another day.
Curried Butternut Squash Soup (serves 4)
- 2½ lbs butternut squash, halved and seeds removed
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 1 large shallot or medium onion, chopped
- 2 in. piece of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
- 1 Tbsp curry powder
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- Salt and ground pepper
- Sour cream
- Chopped fresh parsley for garnish
- Place the butternut squash halves in a 400 degree oven and roast for 45 minutes or until the flesh is tender. When they're cool enough to handle, scoop the flesh from the skin.
- Melt the butter in a large pan over medium heat. Sauté the shallot or onion for two-to-three minutes, until it's translucent.
- Add the ginger, garlic, curry powder, and squash and cook, stirring once in a while, for four or five minutes.
- Stir in six cups of vegetable stock, homemade chicken stock, or water. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Season with salt and pepper, and purée the soup in batches.
- Serve hot with a swirl of sour cream and a sprinkling of parsley.
Roasting the squash makes for a deeper flavor, but you can skip that step and simply peel and seed it, cut it into ¾-inch chunks, and sauté them along with the ginger and garlic for nine or 10 minutes. You may need to simmer the soup for a little longer to cook the squash through.
For a more fragrant version, stir in a teaspoon each of ground cinnamon and nutmeg. To balance or tone down the sweetness, add a tart green apple; to boost it, add a teaspoon or so of brown sugar. Skip the curry and ginger, if you don't like those spices, and add potatoes, celery and carrots for more flavor. Experiment. It's hard to go wrong.
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Tony Blankley sees the possibilty that John Kerry may place himself in the line of candidates including Thomas Dewey, Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis — classic flops. Blankley cautions that this is not a prediction — merely an assessment of some potentialities.
Kerry seems to remind Blankley most of Tom Dewey. Like Dewey in 1948, Blankley asserts, his deepest flaw as a candidate is his sheer unlikeability: "It was said of Dewey that you had to know him really well to dislike him. But his pompous, stilted style rang through even in his public appearances."
Blankley also reports that Kerry is treating his medical records like he has something to hide, that he dissembled regarding his prostate cancer, and that his doctor's endorsement of Kerry's health seems qualified. Blankley's excellent column is "Kerry personally vulnerable."
UPDATE: Reader Neil Davidson adds:
Your link to the Tony Blankley column comparing the "sheer unlikeability" of John Kerry to Thomas Dewey reminded me of a moment in the Dewey campaign of 1948 similar to the Kerry outburst against his secret service agent after running him down on the ski slope. While Dewey was speaking to a crowd in Beaucoup, Illinois, from the back of his campaign train, the train suddenly lurched a few feet backward toward the crowd, causing a brief panic. Dewey angrily blurted into the microphone, "That's the first lunatic I had for an engineer. He probably ought to be shot at sunrise." The angry outburst hurt Dewey in what turned out to be a very close race.
To be fair to Dewey, it was said that you had to get to know him well to dislike him. In Kerry's case, I think his pomposity is all too evident, even to the casual observer.


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LeTourneau University has hired LETU alumnus Dr. David Dittenber as assistant professor of civil engineering, effective Aug. 1.
Dittenber holds a Bachelor of Science in engineering, mechanical concentration, from LeTourneau University, a Master of Science in civil engineering and a doctoral degree in civil engineering from West Virginia University.
While at West Virginia University, he was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow and an American Society for Engineering Education/NSF engineering innovation fellow.
Dittenber has university teaching experience at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va., and secondary teaching experience at Christian Heritage School in Longview, Texas.
While at West Virginia University, he also worked at the Constructed Facilities Center as a research assistant for numerous projects focusing on the use of fiber-reinforced composites as structural materials and at Bedford Reinforced Plastics as a visiting researcher.
His wife, Rachel, is a registered nurse, and they recently celebrated their first anniversary.
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independence day
It's been a busy week for our family... and a bit of a roller coaster ride. On Thursday evening, our baby decided to assert her independence and make her way into the world, four and a half weeks before her due date! She took us completely by surprise, and we are still amazed that she is here already.
It was a fast and easy delivery.. but nervewracking none the less as babies born over a month early often have breathing and other issues that can keep them at the hospital for weeks. We feel very lucky that our little girl is doing so well. She has always been able to breathe on her own, is nursing and eating, and is gaining weight quickly. We are very hopeful that she can come home soon to be with her family and meet her siblings (C and Bee aren't allowed in the NICU, and are super anxious to meet their sister!).
I will admit I feel very torn running between the NICU and home, trying to spend time with Bee and C, but also be at the hospital as many hours a day as possible. I am counting my blessings daily, so happy she is healthy and that my husband can be home with the kids when I am away. We have high hopes that she will be home by the weekend. Fingers crossed that she gets to see a firework or two. Happy 4th to you and yours..
(Directions for these star cupcakes, which would be perfect for the 4th of July, here.)
UPDATE: Thank you, for all your kind comments. After 8 long days in the NICU, Baby M came home last night! We are so so happy to have her home.. Bee and C are beside themselves and literally cannot stop touching her tiny little fingers (there is a lot of hand washing going on here!). She will be on a portable monitor for the next few weeks so the doctors can continue looking at her heart and breathing, but she is doing great!


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After a restless night, hundreds of NFL players nervously checked their cellphones Saturday morning, cringing every time it buzzed.
Tim Tebow was among those who got the dreaded call telling him to come see the coach and bring in his playbook.
Teams had to whittle their rosters to the 53-man maximum Saturday, and although his release wasn't a big surprise, Tebow was by far the biggest name among the notable cuts.
"I will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback," an undaunted Tebow tweeted.
After being let go by his third team in 18 months - and with the season just five days away - the quarterback's chances of immediately catching on with another team seem slim.
Several other veteran QBs also found themselves looking for work on this Labor Day weekend as the Giants released longtime backup David Carr, the Packers cut Vince Young and the Bills chopped Matt Leinart.
Other noteworthy cuts included:
� Eagles RG Danny Watkins
� 49ers LS Brian Jennings
� 49ers WR Austin Collie
� Panthers QB Jimmy Clausen.
� Saints S Jim Leonhard
� Browns K Shayne Graham
� Chargers WR Robert Meachem
Those who made the 53-man rosters had a weekend respite before heading back to work Monday, except for the Broncos and Ravens, who kick off the season Thursday night in Denver.
The Broncos held meetings and a walk-through Saturday after final cuts were made. They'll practice Sunday, as will the Super Bowl champion Ravens, who are being forced to start the season on the road because baseball's Orioles wouldn't move their game in Baltimore that night.
Among Denver's cuts was veteran running back Lance Ball, paving the way for the injured C.J. Anderson of Cal to make the roster while the Broncos wait for him to recover from a sprained right MCL. That makes 10 straight seasons that an undrafted college free agent has made the Broncos' opening day roster.
Two teams have longer streaks: Indianapolis (15 years) and Kansas City (11). The Colts kept 27-year-old rookie linebacker Caesar Rayford, a veteran of the Arena and Canadian leagues, and QB Tyler Bray made the Chiefs' roster.
"It's not an easy day because they all worked hard," Broncos boss John Elway said about the players who didn't make it. "We just don't have enough slots for everybody."
Every coach calls this the cruelest day of the year in pro football - even the Giants' Tom Coughlin, whose birthday was Saturday.
But tonight might prove worse as some bottom-rung players who barely had the chance to celebrate making the team get discharged in favor of waiver wire pickups.
Teams can also fill their eight-man practice squads Sunday.
This could be it for Tebow, the popular but polarizing player who has provided his supporters and detractors with plenty of fodder during his 35-game NFL career that includes a 47.9 completion percentage, 17 touchdown throws, nine interceptions, a dozen TD runs and 15 fumbles.
Jettisoned by the Jets last winter, Tebow signed June 11 with New England, where the man who drafted him in Denver, Josh McDaniels, is the offensive coordinator. His three-month stay with the Patriots was decidedly lower key than his stints with the Broncos, whom he led to the playoffs in 2011, and Jets, but he still had trouble throwing the ball, posting a passer rating of just 47.2.
Tebow's last play with the Patriots, and perhaps in the NFL, was a 9-yard touchdown toss Thursday night to rookie free agent Quentin Sims with six seconds left against the Giants.
Now Tebow is out of work again and maybe out of chances.
"I can't predict that," Broncos coach John Fox said. "I wish nothing but the best for him, as I've said many times. He did a lot of good things for us, was great to this organization and to this coaching staff, myself included. So, I wish him nothing but the best."


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Unions shrug at Dem convention
Labor unions and Democrats form a pretty traditional political alliance that's usually on display in full force at the national conventions. Big labor historically spent big money on concerts, lunches, rallies and panels for its members, and spent millions to help fund the Democrats' party.
This year? Not so much.
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Some union officials are sitting out the political fete entirely after the Democrats chose a labor-unfriendly location in the right-to-work state of North Carolina. Others are sending skeleton staffs to support their union delegates, but say they're focusing resources elsewhere. Labor groups aren't shelling out for big events in Charlotte, and many aren't even donating cash to the cause — despite their exemption from new restrictive fundraising rules.
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"I think there's going to be just less participation this time; there's less enthusiasm," said Moses Mercado, a Democratic lobbyist who has attended the past four Democratic conventions. "And it's going to be noticeable," he added. "Obviously, they're a big part of the Democratic family; they've always been, and they've played a large role in funding and doing other things at the convention."
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will be in Charlotte and is planning a meeting for labor delegates on Tuesday morning. But Trumka has made it clear that the union's participation will be scaled far back from what it has been.
"In recognition of the changes we have made in our political program, however, and our desire to engage in politics in a more effective and grass-roots way, this year we will not be making major monetary contributions to the convention or the host committee for events or activities around the convention," Trumka said in a letter last month to union officials. "We won't be buying skyboxes, hosting events other than the Labor Delegates meeting or bringing a big staff contingent to the convention."
Another labor group, Workers Stand for America, will have members out in the streets of Charlotte encouraging people to sign a pro-labor "bill of rights." The group — which has the backing of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the AFL-CIO and other labor groups — held a rally in Philadelphia in August that some dubbed a " shadow convention" amid labor groups' grumblings about Charlotte.
The Laborers' International Union of North America was the top union donor to the 2008 convention, spending $1.5 million. LIUNA also sponsored roundtables and billboards, and had advertisements on buses and hotel key cards in Denver. But union officials have said they won't be giving at all to this year's event.
Even some officials planning to go to Charlotte say their attention will be elsewhere.
"There's real concern out there about the timing of this convention being a distraction" said Tim Waters, political director at the United Steelworkers Union. "The whole time anybody's there, they're going to be thinking about getting back to rejoin the battle that is waging on the ground in key states."


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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine, tree
Leaves generally opposite, entire; stipules generally on stem, sometimes leaf-like (then leaves apparently whorled and stipules considered leaves), adjacent pairs sometimes fused
Inflorescence: cyme, panicle, cluster, or flower solitary, generally terminal and ± axillary
Flower generally bisexual; calyx generally ± 4-lobed, sometimes 0; corolla generally radial, 4-lobed; stamens epipetalous, alternate corolla lobes, generally included; ovary generally inferior, chambers generally 2 or 4, style 1, ± fused if 2
Fruit: 2 or 4 nutlets or a berry, drupe, or capsule
Genera in family: ± 500 genera, 6000 species: worldwide, especially tropical; many cultivated (including Coffea , coffee; Cinchona , quinine; many ornamental)
Reference: [Dempster 1979 Fl CA 4(2):147]
Annual, perennial herb, sometimes ± shrubby, often ± dioecious, glabrous or hairy, often scabrous
Stem when young 4-angled
Leaves in whorls of 4 or more, including leaf-like stipules
Inflorescence: panicle, or axillary clusters of 1many flowers
Flower bisexual or unisexual (with sterile stamens or pistils); calyx 0; corolla generally rotate, sometimes ± bell-shaped, generally greenish, fading yellow or white, sometimes reddish, lobes generally 4; ovary 2-lobed, styles 2, ± fused basally
Fruit: 2 nutlets or 1 berry
Species in genus: ± 400 species: worldwide, especially temp
Etymology: (Greek: milk, from use of some species in its curdling)
Hairiness of ovary and fruit generally ± equal on a single plant; staminate plants often identified only by association with pistillate.
Perennial, erect, 2050 cm, loosely tufted, dioecious; base woody
Leaves in whorls of 4, 625 mm, broadly elliptic to ovate or round, 3-veined, tip abruptly soft-pointed
Staminate inflorescence: panicle open, leafy; clusters many-flowered
Pistillate inflorescence: flowers generally solitary in axils
Flower: corolla rotate, generally yellowish
Fruit: berry, sometimes hairy
Ecology: Shady places, often in forest
Elevation: 3502300 m.
Bioregional distribution: Cascade Range Foothills, Sierra Nevada, n Inner South Coast Ranges.
Plant sometimes reddish
Leaf generally ovate, ± leathery; hairs 0
Ecology: Shady places
Elevation: 3501600 m.
Bioregional distribution: Cascade Range Foothills, n Inner South Coast Ranges.