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Nicklas Lidstrom is retired, and the Detroit Red Wings are expected to lose defenseman Brad Stuart, who wants to move to a team closer to his California home once he becomes a free agent in July.
Here are options the Red Wings will be looking at as they try to restructure their defense:
Pursuing Ryan Suter: If he doesn't re-sign with the Nashville Predators (the team said initial talks this week were "positive and constructive"), Suter will be the top available free agent defenseman. He has some traits, particularly defensively, that are similar to what Lidstrom offers. He's a composed presence like Lidstrom. Suter would enjoy being surrounded by Detroit's skilled players. The Red Wings have plenty of cap space to attract him. The problem is a long line of teams will be interested in Suter.
Get more from Kronwall: Niklas Kronwall was already playing an expanded offensive role, maybe because he knew he soon was going to be driving the offense. But Kronwall isn't the efficient defensive player that Lidstrom is. He is more of a risk-taker, and he might have to tweak his game. Presuming the Red Wings lose Stuart, returing defensemen include Kronwall, Ian White, Jonathan Ericsson, Kyle Quincey (a restricted free agent) and Jakub Kindl, who was a part-time player last season.
Promoting Brendan Smith: He is Detroit's top young prospect, a player in the mold of Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Jack Johnson. He can be a dynamic offensive presence. He's aggressive. As he matures, he could be an impact defenseman.
Changing styles: Other successful defenses around the NHL didn't have Lidstrom for two decades. If the Red Wings don't land Suter, they could adjust their approach to fit the available talent. Potential available defensemen include Jason Garrison, Barret Jackman, Matt Carle and Bryce Salvador. Garrison is offensive-minded and Jackman and Salvador are defensive-minded. Carle is offensive-minded, but his defensive game has improved. The Red Wings will also be helped by the continued improvement of goalie Jimmy Howard.
Souping up the offense: If the Red Wings can't upgrade their defensive personnel, maybe they will look to put a charge in their offense. They are expected to pursue Zach Parise as well as Suter. If they can stay healthy up front and add a couple of scorers through signings and trades, they might not need to be as strong defensively. Depending upon what happens in the marketplace, it might make more sense to try to upgrade their offense.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
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Welcome To Directorate of Institutional Finance & State Lottery
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The department was established in the year of 1988 under the Finance Department and amalgamate with State Lottery and Institutional Finance & Small Saving.
The erstwhile two minor Departments under the administrative control of Finance Department viz. (1) Department of Institutional Finance & Small Savings and (2) Department of Mizoram State Lottery were amalgamated on 10.01.2005 by the State Government forming one major Department called "Department of Small Savings & State Lottery" vide Notification No.A.11016/1/04-F.Est/14 of 10/1/05. Recently, the nomenclature of the Department is changed as "Department of Institutional Finance & State Lottery" vide Government Notification No.G.16010/40/94-F.Est. of 22.09.2005. There are 78 (Seventy eight) sanctioned posts in the Department. Of which, 52 posts are on regular basis and 26 posts are on casual employees on muster roll basis.
At present, the Directorate is accommodated in two adjacent buildings at Tuikhuahtlang, Aizawl, one of which is belonging to the Department and the other is a rented building. The Department purchased land and building at Tuikhuahtlang, Aizawl from Pu Lalthanmawia of Chhinga Veng, Aizawl under LSC No.203 of 1972 covering an area of 3440 sq.ft. with its building on 9.4.1996 at the cost of Rs.16 lakhs. While, the Department also hired a private building belonging to Pu F. Hmingthanga of Republic Veng, Aizawl which is adjacent to the Departmental building still today.
The Department usually has close communications and interactions with other States in the affairs of the Lottery as well as with the Government servants and general public of the State in Small Savings matters. As the Department is established and instituted mainly to generate 'Revenue' for the State Government and also to improve the 'Additional Resources Mobilisation' of the State Government with less administrative expenditures, it endeavours to strive for achieving such goal and target with untiring zeal.
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Hello, I was wanting help on making a Roxas costume, but with it being female. I was wondering if any of you have any advise for a novice like me. Thank you for listening! :)
I saw a costume like that before a couple years back. It was super cute. I guess just the key thing to remember is the simple elements. I was trying to come up with a Halloween Town! Roxas idea once, but I was so scared I would just look like some blond emo kid instead of ROXAS.
Make sure you wear incorporate the checker pattern a lot. But not too much.
Hmmm.....What I would do first is just sketch out what you want the outfit to look like. It helps to have everything completely planned out before you start cutting stuff. Check Deviantart for inspiration, because I remember seeing Roxas girl designs all over the place. Personally, I've seen a girl!Roxas outfit once before, and I'm also helping a friend make one. Be sure to go as close to what his normal Twilight Town outfit is, but there's lots of options for a original design. Use the checkered pattern, like shivachan said, and the other aspects of his outfit. Because well, you don't want to look like an emo kid. xD
Don't try to make the outfit way too complicated, for the one I'm making with my friend, Goodwill, scissors, fabric scraps, and a hot glue gun are going to be our new best friends.
Best of luck!
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I did one, but it was kinda a last minute cop out >_>;;
I made a Cloud wig for a friend but he backed out of the costume, so I used it. I didn't have time to make the full costume, but since it was for Otakon where it'd be nice and warm, I used a black organization XIII-ish bikini top, some large khaki cargo shorts, big sneakers, a Roxas necklace, and a wife beater.
And a popsicle stick keyblade. I was "beach bunny" Roxas >_>;;
I'd say, go for sexy if you think it'll work. I scrapped mine together, but if I had time to do it, I'd have incorporated some more checker patterns and maybe made the shorts more like his pants. Maybe make a skirt, instead?
You should generally stick to the same materials as a regular Roxas' cosplay--off-white pleather for the jacket and so on--and also I would suggest not drastically changing all the elements (i.e. making a checkered dress).
You want to keep the jacket and pants, but I suggest you simply make the jacket more fitted and crop it, change the wristband to a checkered cuff bracelet, make the pants flares instead of baggy, etc. I mean, guy's pants are already severely different from girl's pants--just take that into account.
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Mr. Keegan points out that the problem of recruitment ''is acute in the United States, which lacks both Muslim communities of large size or antiquity and non-Muslim citizens with a knowledge of the appropriate languages.''
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From: (Douglas Richardson)
Subject: Correction for Complete Peerage: Elizabeth, lst wife of Hugh Burnell, 2nd Lord Burnell
Date: 9 Jan 2002 02:13:30 -0800
Dear Hap ~
In answer to your query regarding the identity of the first wife of
Sir Hugh Burnell, 2nd Lord Burnell (died 1420), it appears her given
name was Elizabeth. This is indicated by an inquisition dated Monday
after St. Andrew 44 Edward III [1370], an abstract of which is found
in the Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, 3 (1937): 285, which I
quote below:
"Robert Burnel, bishop of Bath gave to Joan Charles for life his manor
of Billyngford [Norfolk], which is worth 20 marks yearly, and is held
of the honour of Peverel by the service of 2-1/2 knights' fees.
After her death Edward Burnel, being of full age, entered thereon 37
years ago as kinsman and heir of the said Robert without doing relief,
as the jurors believe, and died without an heir of his body, whereupon
Maud his sister, being of full age, entered thereon as his heir
without doing relief, as the jurors believe. Afterwards by license of
the king, John Haudlo and the said Maud, then his wife, thereof
enfeoffed divers persons unknown, who granted the said manor by like
license to the said John and Maud for their lives, with remainder to
Nicholas their son, who by like license enfeoffed divers persons, who
granted it by license to Hugh Burnel and Elizabeth his wife, who now
hold it."
This information corrects Complete Peerage sub Burnell which
incorrectly states that Sir Hugh Burnell married (1st) Philippe de la
Pole, a ficticious person. Below please find an account of Sir Hugh
Burnell taken from the forthcoming book, Plantagenet Ancestry, 3rd
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Burnell information from Plantagenet Ancestry, 3rd edition:
I. HUGH BURNELL, K.G., 2nd Lord Burnell, of Holdgate and Acton
Burnell, Salop, Bidford, co. Warwick, Great Cheverell, Wiltshire,
etc., and in right of his 2nd wife, of Weoley, co. Worcester, Governor
of Bridgnorth and Montgomery Castles, son and heir, born about 1347
(aged 36 in 1383). He married (1st) before 1370 ELIZABETH _____.
They had one son, Edward, Knt. She was living in 1370. He was
summoned to Parliament from 20 Aug. 1383. He married (2nd) in 1386,
before 22 May, to JOYCE BOTETOURT, Lady Botetourt suo jure, daughter
of John Botetourt, of Little Linford, co. Buckingham, by Maud,
daughter of John de Grey, 1st Lord Grey, of Rotherfield, co. Oxford.
They had no issue. She died 1 Jan. 1406/7, and was buried at Hales
Abbey, Shropshire. He married (3rd) in 1408 or 1409 JOAN DEVEREUX,
widow of Walter Fitz Walter, Lord Fitz Walter (died at Venice 16 May
1407), and daughter of John Devereux, 1st Lord Devereux, by Maud,
daughter of John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford. She was born about 1380
(aged 17 in 1397). She died 10 or 11 May 1409, and was buried at
Dunmow Priory. HUGH BURNELL, 2nd Lord Burnell, died testate 27 Nov.
1420, his will directing burial at Hales Abbey, Shropshire.
C.P. 2 (1912):235 (sub Botetourt), 435-436 (sub Burnell). C.P. 5
(1926):481-482. Cal. Inq. Misc. 3 (1937): 285. VCH Warwick 3 (1945):
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Original post by Henry Sutliff:
A couple of months back I posted a query concerning the chronological
improbability that Hugh Burnell was married firstly to Philippa de la
Pole, an alleged daughter of Michael de la Pole and Katherine de
Stafford. A number of sources including Faris show this marriage as
as the further improbability that Philippa was mother of Hugh' son
The defining conflicts were the fact that Michael de la Pole was born
1367 and married Katherine circa 1383. When Edward died in 1415 his
p. m. mentioned three daughters, Joyce aged 24, Katherine aged 14 and
Margaret aged 11. Something was clearly wrong here.
I had the privilege of working on this problem with Richard Renold of
Staffordshire. Our efforts to solve this dilemma were eased by the
corrections to Burnell in the new CP XIV. What this showed was:
Hugh Burnell was married firstly to _______ who was mother of Edward.
Edward was married to (1) Alienore le Strange and (2) Elizabeth de la
Pole. The latter was daughter of Michael de la Pole and Katherine de
Stafford and thus this clears up some of the confusion about a Burnell
de la Pole marriage.
As helpful as the corrections in CP XIV were, Richard and I still had
two major questions not addressed. (1) which of Edward's wives was
mother to his daughters and (2) if Alienore le Strange was the mother
the girls, which Lord Strange was her father?
Peter Hammond who edited CP XIV was contacted and most generously
supplied the information. As Edward Burnell did not marry Elizabeth de
la Pole until shortly before his death in 1415, clearly Alienore was
mother of the girls. Elizabeth remained a widow for nearly 10 years
before she married Thomas Kerdeston in 1425.
Hammond identified John, 6th Lord Strange of Knockyn and his wife
3rd and youngest daughter and co-heir of John, 2nd Lord Mohun as
of Alienore (CP XI:354-5). This was not included in CP XIV, so I
this information would be new to many of those interested in this
I hope this information will be of help to some on this list.
Henry Sutliff
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The Albuquerque Basin, located in central New Mexico, is about 100 miles long and 25 to 40 miles wide. The basin is defined as the extent of Cenozoic deposits that encompass the structural Rio Grande Rift within the basin. Drinking-water supplies throughout the Albuquerque Basin are obtained solely from ground- water resources. The population of the basin grew from 419,000 in 1980 to 563,600 in 1990, a 34-percent increase, and resulted in increases in water demand and ground-water pumpage. From April 1982 through September 1983, a network of wells was established to monitor changes in ground-water levels throughout the Albuquerque Basin. Water-level data are currently (1998) collected at 88 wells and piezometers. This report includes water-level data from most of these sites for the period of record through 1998. Data collection at sites 6, 21, 27-29, 31, 35, 56-60, 77, 87, and 88 was interrupted due to construction or limited access, and does not extend through the reporting period. Data are currently collected annually at sites 11 and 56-60; semiannually at sites 1-10, 78, and 85; quarterly at sites 12-55, 67-77, 79, 80, 82-84, 87, and 88; and monthly at sites 61-63, 81, and 86. Water levels are recorded hourly at sites 64-66.
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It's no surprise that while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 rolled back on Monday, the financial sector led the declines — with JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) down over 5%, Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) off over 7%, Citigroup (NYSE:C) off almost 8% and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) off almost 9% to start the week. After a red-hot run in October, financial stocks were looking overbought to just about everyone.
But the question going forward is whether this is just a pause for the sector amid a resurgence, or a sign that the gains are fleeting.
Unfortunately, it looks like the latter. Banks have lagged the market in 2011 and look to be taking a beating yet again.
Underperformance for Banks in 2011
A look at the stock market across the past six months shows a clear divergence between the broader market and the financial sector — as represented by this chart of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (AMEX:SPY) and the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (AMEX:XLF).
Click to EnlargeNamely, during the May market weakness we saw financial stocks move sharply lower than peers in other industries — and when the mayhem in August struck the market, the same overreaction to the down days persisted in the sector.
Consider one case study on Aug. 4, when the Dow lost more than 500 points in a single day to slide about 4.3%, Bank of America gave up almost twice that — 7.5%. Citi dropped about 6.6%. The rest of the sector performed similarly to these laggards — and similarly to today's performance, where financial stocks were hurt more than the rest of Wall Street on negativity.
That's just one example in a long line of declines recently that outpaced the broader market's stumbles. There is significant underperformance of the sector year to date as a result, with the XLF fund off about 15% compared to a flat S&P 500.
The rally in October indeed affected bank stocks more than other sectors — but don't fool yourself into thinking the outperformance was dramatic. Since Oct. 3, when the mini bull market began, the XLF financial ETF is up almost 15% compared with a little less than 12% for the S&P 500. That's not exactly a huge difference.
In short, on the whole financials take it on the chin MUCH harder than the rest of the market when times are tough, but only bounce back a bit faster than other stocks. Since protecting yourself from severe declines is equally important as outperformance on the way up — perhaps even more important considering the market seems intent on building a leg down after October's leg up — those who are banking on the outperformance of banks could be in for trouble this November.
Especially if the overall trend of the broader market is down.


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JERUSALEM (Jun. 18)
Prices were generally stable in Israel in 1955, David Horowitz, governor of the Israel State Bank, reported today in a review of the country's economy last year. Prices levelled off to a far greater extent during 1955 than in 1954, he said.
National production rose by 10 percent during the year, Mr. Horowitz reported, while the number of employed persons increased by 5,5 percent. National income was up by 14 percent and investments increased by 22,5 percent.
Only slight progress was made, however, in solving basic economic problems of the country and there is a danger in the fact that the trade balance has not improved, Mr. Horowitz pointed out. He noted that the principal sources of capital imports–German reparations and American grants-in-aid–were being reduced and would gradually dry up.
It is know that Mr. Horowitz report is being given serious study by the government. It is expected that a series of measures will be introduced step up production in all fields.


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Project DescriptionDesigning an 80-room dormitory on a very low budget was not in itself a daunting prospect for Cambridge, Mass., architect Peter Rose, AIA. But the mission of the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, a retreat devoted to holistic healing and meditation in the atmospheric Berkshires, elevated expectations. Rose's challenge was to express the program's intangible goals—integrity, authenticity, serenity, self-realization—in the building. In short, he had to grapple with matter to express spirit.
The sylvan context of the dorm, a tree-lined, meadowed site with a view of a sprawling lake, certainly helped. But the existing midcentury Jesuit seminary did not. Rose had to respond to the beauty of the Berkshires while negotiating what looked like an oversize roadside motel.
The dorm is only part of Rose's larger commission to design a master plan—aimed at segmenting the main structure to achieve what Rose calls "demassification"—and he selected a site at the end of the former seminary, positioning the new building to avoid views of the old while capturing those of the lake out front and the forest in back. To fit the program on a footprint squeezed between the existing building and a perimeter road, Rose designed a six-story block divided by a vertical wedge-shaped service core, resulting in two unequal, angled wings. A double-loaded corridor, widened at one end, runs the length of the structure; the resulting geometries were determined based on careful curation of views.
Striating the façade with strips of cypress, Rose materially aligns the dorm to the wooded site rather than to the brick seminary; the building reads from a distance as wood against the woods. Manually operated sliding window screens allow guests to modify their views and sun exposure, and the randomness animates the façade.
Inside, the cellular rooms are monastic. The strict $450 per square foot budget kept rooms at 9 feet 9 inches by 19 feet. Rose wasn't aiming at stylistic minimalism, but was simply calculating livable minima. "It was as lean as you can make it," he says. As a result, structure doubled as surface: the floors and piers embedded in the demising walls are exposed concrete. But this exercise in economy ended up contributing to the experience of the space. The density of the concrete in the compact rooms creates a silent sense of contemplative isolation.
The four dormitory floors rest on a podium of public space, including the entry and a glass-enclosed walkway linking to the old seminary. Groups practice yoga in a large meeting room lined with sliding windows that ensure guests see only the sky, mountain ridges and trees from their mats on the floor; the windows also allow for cross-ventilation. The simplicity of the space is not stylistic but elemental. The sprung floors are wood; the walls and ceiling are exposed concrete, with plywood panels dropped from the ceiling to mask pipes. Color is natural and integral. Rose has always been a master of material collage, and the material honesty throughout the dormitory gives the space a sense of embodied authenticity. No simulacra, only the real thing, plus tight editing to eliminate the unnecessary.
Functionally, Rose used the concrete's thermal mass for temperature control. Embedded plenums and micro-chases for radiant heating and cooling create a spatially efficient HVAC system, which allowed for the building's tight 90-inch floor-to-floor heights. "We activated structure as a piece of the mechanism, and concrete is a perfect medium for sustainability," he says. The integrated climate-control strategy resulted in a projected 40 percent less energy consumption than that of a typical forced-air system.
Without wearing karma on his sleeve, Rose achieved a strong but nuanced architectural presence appropriate for yoga instruction. He knew when to stop adding and when to quit subtracting, and achieved a design conducive to ambient serenity: The architecture supports, and even assists, but does not intrude. "The architecture, like yoga itself, is full of subtlety and layers of complexity that gently improve the structure's performance," he says. "Light, air, using minimal means to create a calm, healing environment—it's all about fulfilling these almost intangible requirements."


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The presenters of BBC 2 series Wartime Farm are holding a book signing at Waterstones Croydon.
Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman have spend a year turning the clock back and running a Hampshire farm as it would have been in World War Two.
The trio have dealt with everything from the battle to get as much land as possible under cultivation, mobilising the land army, raising livestock and entertaining themselves.
Both the television series and the book illustrate how our predecessors lived and thrived in difficult conditions, which included growing your own vegetables, keeping chickens in the back yard and other challenges faced by wartime Britons.
As well as behind-the-scenes images from the show, the book also contains in-depth historical detail and day-to-day solutions for Wartime living.
The book signing will take place on Saturday October 20, from 1pm.


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Mademoiselle Victorine (Paperback)
When Victorine Laurent joins the chorus of the grand Paris Opera ballet, she expects to become the mistress of a wealthy man; this is how young women without family survive in the decadent City of Light. Yet when the artist Degas introduces her to Edouard Manet, her life changes dramatically. She agrees to pose for him, and the result is a painting that shocks Paris. Overnight, Victorine becomes the city's most sought after courtesan. When she becomes the favorite of the Duke de Lyon, the power behind the shaky government of Emperor Louis-Napoleon, her continued attraction to Manet becomes dangerous for them both. And when an astonishing secret from Victorine's past comes to light, her carefully constructed world may come crashing down around her. Mademoiselle Victorine transports readers back to nineteenth-century Paris, a time when art, love, and commerce blended seamlessly together.
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Mademoiselle Victorine plunges the reader into the volatile mix of art and political intrigue in 1860s Paris through the fascinating person of Victorine Laurent, whose rapid, determined rise from dancer to courtesan of kings exposes the lives and passions of her time. Mademoiselle Victorine rides the Parisian whirlwind, taking the reader so deep into the heart of that glittering and dangerous era that putting the book down will not be an option.
- Pamela Aidan, author of An Assembly Such As This
"As vivid, bold, and seductive as a Manet painting…brings to life the tinseled, tawdry art world of Second Empire Paris.
- Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
"Finerman cleverly weaves her touching story, populated with colorful, artistic characters, through a period in the political and artistic history of France that is rich with drama."
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Principals concerned at spend on charter school
Press Release: Mangere Principals Association
Principals concerned at spend on charter school
The Mangere Principals Association, says today's opening of a charter school in the area flies in the face of the community efforts to raise educational achievement. The Chair of the Association, Fiona Cavanagh, says that the Ministry of Education's failure to consult with the educational community of Mangere over the school has damaged trust.
"Throughout the entire process we were not consulted about the plan to open a new school in our neighbourhood," says Fiona Cavanagh. "There are 23 schools in our Mangere cluster and the professionals who work in them know, more than anyone, the educational needs of our community. Yet we were not consulted."
Ms. Cavanagh says the Principals' Association is unaware what criteria was used to decide that money be put into a charter school in the Mangere area, rather than towards funding innovation and achievement in existing schools.
"There are so many good things happening here that are about helping all of our children and are pro-active and forward thinking. Sadly the same cannot be said of the Ministry of Education's actions in putting a lot of money and resource into a small charter school."
The Ministry contract, published on the Ministry website shows that the new 'Rise Up' school, which caters for 50 students, cost the Government $391,945 to establish and has an operational grant of $484,440 for 2014. The funding per student is $9668 compared with an average for students in public primary schools of $5,881.


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Todd Tosetti Joins Koehl Bros. as Electrician / Technical Support
Date Posted: September 24, 2013
Maroa, IL—As grain facilities continue to increase grain quality management, the need for quality field service expands exponentially.
In order to satisfy this need, Koehl Bros. sought out the best in the industry. It is with great pleasure that we announce Todd Tosetti, seasoned electrician and technical support guru, has joined our team.
With over 16 years in the industry, Todd's electronic background lead him to parallel industry innovations in technology.
He understands the newest equipment and has experience researching and developing grain quality efficiencies.
He was instrumental in creating an industry-best training program for technical support.
He has trained dealers in these proficiencies and has vast field experience.
Todd has worked for GSI Group and, most recently, Sukup Manufacturing. His manufacturing background provides our customers with a knowledgeable, connected ally.
Todd will serve Koehl Bros., in both sales and service.
He has a degree from the University of Illinois.
For more information, call 815-692-2326.
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UPDATE: Yes, the rumors are true: Andrew Rogers has joined ICM as an agent in the motion picture talent department. This follows his departure as head of Paradigm's motion picture talent group. ICM expects most of his clients to follow, including Michael Cera, Laz Alonso, Eugene Levy, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Russell Hornsby, Regina Hall, Gavin Weisen, Zack Pearlman. But Paradigm tells me that Rogers' clients Shailene Woodley, Melissa George, Blair Underwood, Asher Book, Lucas Neff and Nicole Behaire have confirmed that they are staying.
Paradigm's Andrew Rogers Joins ICM
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Let me be the first to say, Andrew Rogers is a great guy. Anybody who says otherwise is just a hater and has never had an real success in hollywood, thus has time to troll these boards. What about me? I haven't had any real success either. But that doesn't mean Andrew is not a good guy.
Rogers is a complete and total hack. He's about to become Toni Howard's bitch boy.
I don't know who the bigger hack is, Andrew Rogers or Sam Gores and Steve "lazy" Small for promoting him to run the talent department. The guy has one client, Michael Cera, who is proving to only be a character actor and not a break out star. Who are these other actors? And this is the agent that was running a talent department, albeit at a small boutique.
icm is a boys club, but rogers still won't fit in. ts likely that clueless silberman sees him as the future of icm. However, once tyranasauraus howard figures him out and sees that he's a talentless backstabber, he'll be toast.
Thanks Michael, loved you in Superbad. Is that supposed to be a department head's client list?
To all the "Posters/Posers", here, read this so you can figure out the nuts and bolts of Hollywood before it's too late:
Stop hating because your contract either: A) Didn't get picked up at Paradigm, aka (fired) or B) You got thrown out of ICM because your numbers didn't add up.
Get over it. Learn how to compete.
First off, no one "steals" clients–everyone works with teams of representatives in Hollywood–agents too–the clients go wherever they want, feel most comfortable, and think they are represented the best–period.
2nd off, "hacks" don't find or develop clients, or run with the same lists for years, the agent discussed has only lost a handful of self destructive clients, who are on milk cartons hoping someone will find them as we speak……the agent discussed has had all of his clients an average of 4-5 years–and has a kung fu grip on them…, look out the window, a charter just pulled up to ICM!
3rd off, who cares, aren't they all tyranasorases, fire breathers–with a little car salesman thrown in for good measure?? Dude, he isn't even like that. All of his former Assistants were either promoted or assisted in finding their desired position in other facets of Hollywood.
Hollywood Cry Baby, look here, if your numbers add up, and you've been excelling at a smaller shop=more difficult to sign and keep, you get to move to better agencies and develop your business further. If not, you stay put and hope you can keep your hair dark enough and your chicklets white enough so they don't replace you with a younger agent with more upside.
Oh, one more thing, when an agent sits down with dozens of A,B,C, list actors in the last few years, and they all say: "you know, I like you, I would sign with you, but I'm just not sure about your agency…" You fix the problem. Problem solved. Any of the three letters minus the squared will work.
And, if you still can't figure it out, I hear there is a Joe Blaze seminar starting at RFD in 15 minutes…now go, maybe he can smack some Hollywood sen$e into your stuck on stupid mentality.
good post, Rogers. Nonetheless, you won't last more than a year at ICM
Dear Andrew Rogers' Asssistant/Former Assistant:
1) You do realize that it's possible for people to form a negative opinion of someone based on legitimate reasons (ie, not "hating,") right? Different people have different opinions of others. For example, your apparently positive opinion of Rogers seems to be based on the fact that he hooked you up in some way (perhaps recommended you for a promotion?). On the other hand, if he had screwed you over, or just been an ass to you (as he has to dozens upon dozens of others), you would probably have a negative opinion of him.
2) Despite your ignorant assertion to the contrary, it is possible for one agent to "steal" a client intra-agency. Yes, most clients have "teams." We all get that. But there's usually one (maybe two) rainmaker agents who actually sign the client to the agency (the Huvanes and Lourd's of the world) and then in the signing meeting they introduce the client to their "team." The "team" is always supposed to check everything with the rainmaker, since that person is the "lead agent" on a given team. But what if one of the team's "covering" agents suddenly goes rogue and unilaterally starts calling the client, setting up appointments without running anything through the "lead" agent, to the point that they have now installed themself as the "lead" agent? Then they have "stolen" the client intra-agency. And that's what Rogers did with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, whom he did NOT sign to the agency. That's what he did with Michael Cera, whom he did NOT sign to the agency. That's what he attempted to do with Melissa George, whom he did NOT sign to the agency. etc, etc., etc.
We all get it, you're a former Rogers assistant, so you want to be loyal. But try to maintain some sense of objectivity before you lose all credibility.
First order of business…
Package Michael Cera and Burt Reynolds to remake Cloak and Dagger.
It will own the summer of 2011.
good for rogers. paradigm is a waste of time. it is sad that he has the best list there and i never heard of half of the clients. cant imagine the no bodies that fill up the rest of the lists.
Rogers is a smart, tough agent. Good to see he's moving up.
Rogers is the man! He doesn't have that gansta limp because he's a "hack."
Hipsters have no business agenting.
Rogers is just the shot in the arm that ICM needs to spark some momentum in its aging talent department. He's got a group of young hot clients that gives the stagnant and stale department something fresh and exciting to talk about. In recent months, all the ICM talent agents have been forced to service that hundred-year-old troll Toni Howard, who limps through the hallways like an old wounded dog barking orders and making veiled job-security threats to underpaid junior agents. Meanwhile, she herself hasn't signed a meaningful piece of business in more than a decade, as she's too busy getting her hair dyed puke yellow at Juan Juan. ICM needs to hire more like Rogers and less like Howard if they want to have a shot at competing with other mid-level agencies.
OMG. I interned there this past summer and that person nailed it right on the head about Howard!
lol….Juan Juan


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Contribution of professional development and training of workforce to productivity
Oghanna, Wardina & Murray, Martin H. (2005) Contribution of professional development and training of workforce to productivity. In Jorge, Cristiano (Ed.) 8th International Heavy Haul Conference, June 14-16, 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Radical and ongoing changes to the railway industry worldwide are leading to the non-replaced loss of important accumulated knowledge and skills amongst those retiring or made redundant from downsized or broken up rail organisations. The paper describes the development and offering of two training courses that introduce participants to the breadth of business, management and engineering activities in the industry. Improved knowledge and understanding of such workplace tasks leads to more efficient business operations.
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The big news out of Washington on Friday? President Obama and Joe Biden went to Shake Shack to talk infrastructure. (Yes, infrastructure.)
Cameras followed the dynamic duo to Dupont Circle -- and caught this terrific shot of Biden talking, Obama "listening", an innocent bystander and whole lot of shakes. (Biden had a milkshake -- of course he did! -- while President Obama passed.)
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Facebook (FB) will remove ads from pages that contain violence or sexual content starting today.
"Beginning on Monday, we will implement a new review process for determining which Pages and Groups should feature ads alongside their content," reads Facebook's blog. "By the end of the week, we will remove ads from all Pages and Groups that fall into this new, more expansive restricted list."
The push to remove ads from racy pages came in May after the women's activist group, Women, Action and the Media, requested advertisers to boycott Facebook due to the content on some of its pages. The pages contained photos and text that encouraged rape and violence against women, reported the Associated Press.
Facebook controversy isn't limited to just ads. Last week a glitch caused over 6 million users private information to be shared without their permission.


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Horizon On the Middle of Nowhere: Season 1 DVD
Starring Jun Fukuyama, Minori Chihara, Miyuki Sawashiro, Yuu Kobayashi, Mutsumi Tamura, Takehito Koyasu, Kaori Nazuka, Daisuke Ono, Takaya Kuroda
Directed by Manabu Ono
All 13 episodes from the first season of the Japanese anime set in the distant future where nations battle for control on a barely inhabitable Earth.
With space travel out of the question due to unknown reasons, the world's population flock to Japan, the only country left on the planet fit to live in.
Pocket dimensions are put in place to cater for the large number of inhabitants but in order to regain the ability to go into space the humans start to re-enact events recorded in the Testament.
Hoping to establish power the other nations drive the Japanese from their homeland but when the history written in the holy book comes to an end, the outbreak of war looks imminent.
Student Tori Aoi (voice of Jun Fukuyama) and his friends use this as an opportunity to retaliate and take back their country.
The episodes are: 'Those Lined Up Before the Horizon', 'Innocents at the Table', 'Commandos in Town', 'Covert Ops Under the Night Sky', 'Graduates Under the Moon', 'Advocate at the Confession Grounds', 'Musashi's Knight', 'Ruler of the Land', 'Summit's Flower', 'The Trumpeter at the Start Line', 'Musashi's Mr. Impossible', 'Opposition Against Crossing Over the Parallel Lines' and 'Those Lined Up Above the Horizon'.
- Format: DVD
- Region: 2
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- Catalogue number: MANG5311
- Studio: Manga Entertainment
- Release date: 29/07/2013
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I Met Him in Paris / Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Claudette Colbert turns on the charm in this duo of breezy romantic comedies set in France: I Met Him in Paris (1937) and the Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett-scripted farce Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938). The first finds fashion designer Colbert visiting the City of Lights, where she's pursued by two would-be suitors (Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young). In the second, Colbert falls for a millionaire who's been married seven times (Gary Cooper).


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Because He's Hot: Bradley Cooper In NYC (PHOTOS)
Bradley Cooper had a big night out in New York City Monday where he attended the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, but he still looks gorgeous and fresh while out in NYC Tuesday afternoon.
The actor, sporting a leather jacket and carrying a motorcycle coat in hand, arrived minutes apart last night from ex Renee Zellweger. So who was Bradley's date for the evening?
His mom!
Seriously, could Bradley Cooper be any hotter? The Limitless star is currently sporting a little mustache supposedly for his next film. In the meantime, check out BC on the big screen in The Hangover 2 when it hits theaters May 26. Celebuzz can't wait!


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How can one make a surf story exciting without engaging in felony hyperbole? Let's be honest, a well-told surf tale elevates the teller. A story about a bad wipeout is really a story about how you're tough enough to survive a bad wipeout; a story about scoring perfect waves with just you and two bros is really a story about how you're such an intuitive surf forecaster that you can out-do Sean Collins on a good day. With that in mind, the key to spinning a successful surf yarn is appearing humble.
For example, if you're about to describe your best surf session ever, try prefacing that chapter of the story by saying, "I know I'm never going to be offered a six-digit contract by Billabong, but…" After that disclaimer, you now have carte blanche to brag a bit about a session. If you're trying to impress upon your audience how big the waves were, don't blurt out: "The waves were 20 feet!" Instead, calmly state, "It was like six feet…Hawaiian." Because the only tool more effective that being humble is knowing how to judge wave-height in Hawaiian.


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A South American scientist from Argentina, after a lengthy study, has discovered that people with insufficient brain activity read their e-mail with their hand on the mouse.
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Monday, April 20
The James Bradford Colloquium BSC 336, BSC 343 6:30 p.m.
A presentation of senior research by students from the Science Division and Psychology.
Light refreshments will be served.
Thursday, April 23
The Undergraduate Research Banquet PBC 300 5:00 p.m.
All science majors and scholars are invited. Look for your invitation in your email and in your campus mailbox.
"The Dr. Homer A. Anderson Lecture Series" BSC 343 6:30 p.m.
Amy McKinney, "Pollination as a Model for Ecological and Evolutionary Study"
Undergraduate Research Poster Session BSC Lobby 8:00-9:00 p.m.
A poster display representing research by students and faculty from the Science Division and Psychology.
Authors will be present for questions. Light refreshments will be served.
Friday, April 24
Undergraduate Research Poster Display BSC Lobby Until noon
You are invited to hear...
Dr. Mark Pagani
Associate Professor, Yale University
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Thursday, April 2 at 7:00 p.m. in BSC 343
"A Cenozoic History of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide"
Dr. Pagani's research encompasses the fields of biogeochemistry, paleoceanography, and paleoclimatology, with a focus on understanding the factors driving climate during the Cenozoic era. In his presentation, he will explore the relationship between climate and carbon dioxide during the last 65 million years of Earth's history. He will also discuss the relationships between ocean circulation, plate tectonics, and climate change.
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The other day, I saw something online for an Update Rollup 2. What is this? Please explain!
Surely! That's no problem. You're actually not the only one who has called us or written to us about this very topic. It's very interesting, so come along with me as we check this out!
Do you have the Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 program on your computer? If you do, there is an update for it that you just have to check out. It's called the Update Rollup 2 and it's meant only for the XP Media Center software. With this update, you will receive enhancements in the stability and performance of the program itself. So, if you've ever had any problems with the Media Center, this upgrade should fix them all!
Another main feature to the update is the improvements that are going into the Media Center Extender. The program will now recognize when you have an Xbox 360 connected to your network, it will provide extra support for two (yes, I said two!) Advanced Television Systems Committee tuner cards and it will also now function with the DVB-T radio broadcasts. You will also enjoy an optimization feature that will help your computer to continue to run smoothly, a zoom mode for widescreen TVs and an update for burning DVDs.
You can install the update by going to this Web site. You can either choose the Express (which is recommended) or the Custom installation. Now, in order for the install to work, you need to have both the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and the .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 utilities already on your computer. Chances are, if you've been using the Media Center program for quite awhile, you will already have both of these on your PC.
If you're not sure, there are a couple of ways you can go about finding out. For one, the regular Windows Update will actually determine if your computer has them or not. If you don't happen to have them, it will automatically install them for you. Now, this is where things get a little more confusing, but bear with me and you'll make it through.
Note: This next section is only for those of you who already have the .NET downloads on your computer. The .NET Framework 1.1 recently came out with an update. If you happened to run that update on your computer, you must uninstall it (just the update) in order for the .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 part of the download to work. If you don't, those two functions will interfere with each other. So, now, if you're not sure if you have the update, here's how you can check. (By the way, the update will be labeled by the number 886904).
Go to Start, Run and type in "appwiz.cpl" and click OK. Click the Show Updates check box and under the Currently Installed Programs list, look for an entry that says "Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Hotfix (KB886904)." If you see it, you must remove it before you go any further with the Media Center upgrade. To uninstall it, click on the entry and choose Remove. Remember, if you don't see that entry in the list, don't worry about it. You can continue on with the Rollup Update install.
Okay, I hope you made it through all of that with me. Either way, you're now free to go and install the Update Rollup 2 and you can start to enjoy the new features and benefits it has to offer. Also, don't forget that if you need any technical support with the new program, contact the manufacturer of your actual software immediately. They will be the ones who can help you the best, because they know the software better than anyone else.
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What I need is to distinguish between states: L1/L2 DOWN, L1 ACTIVE and L2 DOWN or L2 TEI_ASSIGNED or L2 MULTIPLE_FRAME_ESTABLISHED - working line on L2.
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Glen Rose is approximately 40 miles (64 kilometers) from Fort Worth and 65 miles (105 kilometers) from Dallas.
From major tourist drawcards to lesser known delights, North Central Texas is dotted with things to do and see. Cresson, is 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the south, while Meridian can be found 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the north.
Organize some transport and head out to Cleburne, a regional center, 25 miles (40 kilometers) away from Glen Rose. The place has a number of visitor attractions, such as Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum, Johnson County Sheriff's Posse and Johnson County Courthouse. Cleburne Golf Links, Splash Station and Layland Museum are some of the other interesting sights in Cleburne that should be included on every traveler's itinerary.
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Worlds aplenty dot our galaxy, even orbiting twin stars, suggests NASA's Kepler space telescope team.
Despite the double suns, the planet Kepler 16b orbiting two stars is too cold for oceans (or for the desert world of Tatooine made famous by the movie Star Wars), reports the Science journal study led by Laurance Doyle of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
Kepler 16b is the first double-star planet directly detected by the "transit" method of spotting worlds, which detects dips in starlight triggered by the regular orbit of a planet in front of a star (where roughly 10% of stars with planets seem to have solar systems viewable edge-on to ours in this fashion).
"A planet with two suns is a familiar concept from science fiction. However, the evidence for the existence of circumbinary planets—those that orbit around both members of a stellar binary—has been limited. A few good cases have been made for circumbinary planets based on the timing of stellar eclipses, but in no previous case have astronomers obtained direct evidence of a circumbinary planet by observing a planetary transit (a miniature eclipse as the planet passes directly in front of a star). Detection of a transit greatly enhances confidence in the reality of the planet and provides unusually precise knowledge of its mass, radius, and orbital parameters," says the study.
Following a 229-day orbit, the planet circles two stars smaller and less warm than our sun, which leaves the temperatures of the planet from -155 to -90 degrees Fahrenheit. The planet's orbit aligns with the two stars "to within 0.4°," concludes the study. "This extreme coplanarity suggests that the planet was formed along with the stars, within a circumbinary protoplanetary disk, as opposed to being captured from another system."
Update: Dutch astronomy writer Govert Schilling reports from the "Extreme Solar Systems" meeting at Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, that astronomers there say there is evidence for at least four "Tatooine" planets in the exoplanet data. Kepler scientists at that same meeting reported they have over 1,400 candidate planets in their data.
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This guy decided to go on the prowl 25 yrds from me. When he finally stoped I let him have it. Grizz tricks did thier job as usual.
I have been hunting a few years never seen one alive see them dead on the road. I can tell you he was very hard to make out in the fallen leaves.
After I shot him there were about a 1/2 dozen Toms that landed on the trail near me. Big old butterballs.
This one is getting mounted the way he was approaching the Turkeys.
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Spaceships, Miles Davis, Britney Spears ... they're all part of the freeform conversation of jazz legend Wayne Shorter. Marc Moncrief talks to the scatty saxophonist on the eve of his Melbourne shows.
Saxophone fiend Wayne Shorter speaks the way he plays - precise and unpredictable, funny and political, logically erratic. Anyone in the way better hold on tight.
On the phone from his 27th floor apartment in south Florida, the veteran of 40 years in jazz describes his ocean view for a blink before a bayside phalanx of Trump apartment pillars catches his whim. He moans there for a moment until a spaceship sweeps him up and out over the ocean, careening towards Cuba.
"I'm booking passage aboard the Golden Mean!" he exclaims. '"I wanna be on THAT spaceship!"
The Golden Mean? Is that the name of a rocket? Is it a life path? Is it a delusion? Yes. But more pointedly, it is the name of a song, Adventures aboard the Golden Mean, on the jazz legend's upcoming release on Verve records, Beyond the Sound Barrier.
"There's a lot of things going on in that piece. There's flying around and everything." At this point, Shorter is also flying. "That's the kids! That's the kids ... of the future! They're knowing that they're in zero gravity! They're free, you know?"
Zero gravity? Where have these children come from? But we soon find the thread of his thought. Another song on the album, Over Shadow Hill Way, is inspired by a vision of children playing somewhere in Beverly Hills.
"There's a playground where little kids play and there's a street that runs behind it called Shadow Hill Way. I was thinking about a spaceship over it, so I wrote a song called Over Shadow Hill Way.''
How that spaceship came into the picture and plucked playing children up into outer space is just one of many queries that, in conversation with Shorter, quickly blips into the rhetorical.
But all this goofing and playing around has a point; namely, the song, the record, the tour. Pull him out of orbit and pin him to one of these subjects and he begins to roar.
"There's a lot of things going on on that record," he growls. His voice gains a Satchmo gravel as he catalogues the influences that cameo on his latest effort.
"Some people say 'wow, you guys are dipping into classics, into that classical realm. And then the classical feel becomes something else - becomes something jazz. And then you're going to Ireland.'"
His inspirations are hard won. Shorter is one of a dwindling number of players still touring who cut his teeth with the fathers of jazz. He played with John Coltrane and inherited Miles Davis' anti-conformism through a mentorship with the man they called "Prince of Darkness".
Shorter was never the purist. In the '80s, with breakthrough band Weather Report, and through his continuing compositions and tours with the likes of Herbie Hancock, he has tirelessly driven jazz to morph.
His constant innovation drove The New York Times to dub him "the most important living composer in jazz". It is a sound he will bring with him to Hamer Hall on May 13 and 14 as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.
Melbourne last heard it when Shorter toured with Hancock in 1998.
"We were playing out stuff," Shorter says of that tour. "We noticed that the audience, as opposed to a pop reaction or rock 'n' roll, or R&B/country reaction, was reacting more as individuals. That's what they told us. They would come backstage and say 'hey, you're on your own. We're on our own out there.' And they liked it. That was refreshing 'cuz some people had that ... they were moving, their eyes closed. That was a nice trip."
"When someone says 'it doesn't sound like jazz', and when people make mandates that say 'jazz is supposed to sound like this' - that's not it," he offers.
"It's a spirit. It's a spirit of moving process. A work in progress. The creative process is the thing to be identified - all the time."
On a roll, Shorter can't stop beating his drum - but who really wants him to?
"When the creative process is smokescreened over and heavy laden with layers and layers and layers of Madison Avenue marketing devices and placards and clothes - a suit of armour, so to speak - it gets more and more difficult to identify the creative process."
His is a constant quest to keep jazz relevant - to make people
listen - and he is woeful about the depths to which he sees music
sinking around him.
"In America, the level of achievement and of excellence is at an all-time ... mediocre. The whole thing - music, musicians, movie makers, novelists ... I dig reading novels and the chances that some novels take. If it's not worth the risk, it's probably mediocre."
But instead of reward for taking risks, Shorter sees more and
more money and talent siphoned into what he derides as big, safe
carbon-copy art.
"We don't see any instant return on this kind of venture," he says of jazz festivals. "Can't we get Jay-C (sic) or whatever ... maybe we can get Beyonce. Maybe she could bounce Beyonce over here. Britney! She's not fully booked. I can hear them talking: let's do a big one, we could get Britney Spears."
From Shorter's high-rise, the whole nation looks mediocre - from arts to politics. It's a malaise that elevates the mundane.
"There's still this (idea that) this jazz stuff is so ... it's too deep." He laughs as he pinpoints his enemy's political motto: "It's 'I don't wanna think. I'm gonna vote red state.'"
Red state? One feels pushed to remind him that, when he gets off that spaceship, he'll be back in Governor Jeb Bush's Florida.
The Wayne Shorter Quartet plays Hamer Hall on Friday May 13 and Saturday May 14. For program details go to www.ujm.org
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(Editor's Note: CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer Larry Morahan spent a week traveling the jungles and back roads of Central America in this profile of Friends of the Americas, a private aid organization based in the U.S. This is the final installment on Morahan's findings.)
Tegucigalpa, Honduras (CNSNews.com) - In a country so poor its economic development is measured in terms of its recovery from Hurricane Mitch, the private aid group Friends of the Americas realizes it can do no great things for the 6.2 million people living in Honduras.
But Friends' officials said they hope to do enough small things to improve the lives of the tens of thousands of people it touches here through an array of medical and sponsorship programs, and help U.S.-Latin American relations in the process.
"Friends' mission is not just humanitarian," said Diane Jenkins, president of the Baton Rouge, La.-based non-profit organization. "We promote the ideas of free elections, free enterprise, self-reliance and the opportunity for everyone to make a better life for themselves."
Recent history has shown that natural disasters leave poor countries in Latin America vulnerable to political extremism and civil war.
If the United States fails in its obligation to give effective help to the region, analysts say, a situation that occurred in the 1980s when Soviet money and arms were routed through Cuba to the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua could someday be repeated by the communist Chinese, who are increasing their presence in Latin America.
"Americans need to come in and show great compassion and assistance after natural disasters. At this time in El Salvador they are quite vulnerable because of the earthquakes," said Danny Smith, a vice president with Friends.
Honduras has shown dramatic recovery since Hurricane Mitch washed away whole towns and communities across the country during a week of torrential rains in October 1998.
But the disaster left deep scars. More than 5,000 people died during the storm and its aftermath, and a third of the population was dislocated and uprooted from their homes or livelihood.
Estimates of economic losses from Mitch exceeded $4 billion. The agricultural sector, which employs 40 percent of the workforce and accounts for 70 percent of exports, was extremely hard hit. Many small farmers lost everything.
"Overall, what was destroyed over several days took us 50 years to build," Honduran President Carlos Flores said after the hurricane.
What the U.S. Agency for International Development is doing on a large scale to help Honduras recover from Mitch, Friends has been doing in miniature since its inception as a humanitarian relief agency in 1984.
But while USAID helps with taxpayer money, Friends relies solely on private donations.
Relief agencies have come to regard the devastation caused by Mitch as an opportunity to transform Honduras into something better than it was. New designs in road construction and sewage infrastructure are being implemented, as well as upgrading the management of water resources and rivers. Local authorities are expanding the role of municipal workers to control the spread of disease, and educating officials in the management of future disasters.
To help the country's agricultural sector, governments are funding the replacement of key transport links and making credit available so that farmers can replace lost capital stock.
While Friends works on a smaller scale, its hopes for the future of Honduras and its neighbors are no less optimistic.
Plans call for the setting up in El Salvador of a mobile clinic and a disaster strike force that would be able to respond to major disasters which regularly hit that country.
"We want to expand on what we consider to be our strengths, the areas we have become expert in through experience and years of hard work, and that's primarily in medical care, emergency disaster relief and in child sponsorship projects," Jenkins said.
The group also has plans to deploy a second mobile clinic to Guatemala, Honduras' northern neighbor. In Honduras, the group hopes to add an operating theater to the clinic at Los Trojes, and expand nutritional facilities in the region to accommodate more people. There is also a constant demand for reliable trucks to travel the punishing mountain roads.
The move toward democracy in Latin America has been dramatic over the last 20 years, Friends' officials said. Countries have stabilized as they moved from dictatorships to democracies, and economic systems have been opened up for ordinary people.
"The future now is in the children," Smith said. "If we are able to provide the children an opportunity to go to school and get a good education and see themselves with a high self-image - that they can be prosperous and provide for themselves and their families - then we feel we've accomplished a great deal."
Already Smith sees a great many signs of improvement and prosperity trickling into the countryside during his frequent trips to Honduras - new bicycles for the children, new shoes, better clothes, and more and better vehicles on the roads.
"I believe that's a result of the people of the United States extending a hand of friendship and showing people how to improve their plight without creating a social welfare mentality - showing them how to fish, rather than giving them fish to eat."
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