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At the beginning of this month, SOCAP Europe was hosted in the same area of Amsterdam where the very first capital markets were built over 400 years ago. Created to invest in the dangerous voyages of sea captains to the Far East to bring back spices, silk, and other revolutionary products, those markets were instrumental in the development of the Netherlands as an economic super-power and drove fundamental changes to the global economy.
The conveners of SOCAP, a conference with a mission to "accelerate the flow of capital to good," noted on day one that Amsterdam is still pioneering in financial markets by hosting social entrepreneurs and investors from around the world. Kevin Jones of SOCAP and Frank van Beuningen of Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Company, a Dutch social investor, expressed hope that innovations in social impact investing will drive fundamental changes in the global economy.
These are grand ambitions for SOCAP which hosted its first conference just 3 years ago. However, in that time, conference attendance in San Francisco has grown to 1400 annual participants and SOCAP itself has become a global movement, bringing together pioneers of the social investment space.
In a field as broad as social capital, a consensus definition of social capital and social investing remains elusive. However, agreement was widespread that there is an emerging field of investors seeking both measurable social impacts and financial returns for the investments they make in for-profit and non-profit organizations.
These investors are grow ever more sophisticated and are organizing themselves into groups with such monikers as GIIN, the Global Impact Investing Network, and Toniic, an international impact investor network. They are also attending SOCAP. The inaugural SOCAP Europe had over 600 attendees from 50 countries and 6 continents. Apparently Antarctica continues to eschew social investment as legitimate practice that can achieve both social and financial goals.
Despite a lack of social entrepreneurship on the coldest continent, the number of social enterprises seeking capital for growth globally is exploding. The conference featured many social investors, and generously provided scholarships for 75 social entrepreneurs to attend. However, social entrepreneurs who had paid the admission price of over $1,500 were hard to come by. One participant noted that some social entrepreneurs had come to Amsterdam but did not attend the conference due to the high price, instead meeting with the investors they had come to see off-site.
With increasing supply and demand for social capital, the number of social investments is increasing quickly, though estimates of the number of deals or the value of the transactions that take place in the space varied widely. In the context of an increasing number of social investments, Princess Maxima of the Netherlands opened the conference with a call for transparency and the establishment of best practices for the field. Many at SOCAP speakers shared the perspective that the private nature of investment transactions and a lack of public information is impeding the ability of the industry to develop best practices.
Some participants expressed concern that this information deficit disadvantages social entrepreneurs who accept investment but cannot access the high quality investor management advice that other entrepreneurs in places like Silicon Valley are tapping into. Considering the good intentions of most social investors, this seems like an unlikely danger. The social entrepreneurs at SOCAP who had attracted social capital, like Peter Frykman of the innovative drip irrigation company Driptech, and Femi Akinde of the SMS startup Slimtrader, were happy with the support they had received.
As American and European social investors swapped experiences, the role of government in the space was an often discussed topic. In Europe there are high expectations that the government will finance social investments. A fascinating example of European governmental support for the space is that of BiD, the Business in Development Network. Every time a Dutchman or Dutchwoman buys a lottery ticket in Holland, a portion of the sale goes to finance BiD's work to connect developing country social entrepreneurs to social investors. While American lotteries often support charitable causes like education, American social capital experts do not expect the same governmental coddling being discussed across the pond.
While a lack of governmental support may be a reality in the US, social impact investing is a congruous concept with both liberal and conservative ideologies – and one which seems here to stay. All one needs is an interest in making the world a better place and the willingness to take risk which doesn't t even approach the risk taken Dutch investors in the scurvy-ridden mariners of yesteryear.


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For the Long-Term Unemployed, Job Growth Is a Mixed BlessingBy
Misery loves company: If you lose power in a storm, you hope that the whole area lost power with you, because the utility will work hard to restore electricity when many people are affected. It's a little bit like that with unemployment: It's not good to be the only one around without a job, because you're easily forgotten in the general prosperity.
That's why today's jobs report is a mixed blessing for the long-term unemployed. The ADP Research Institute said that private employers added 175,000 jobs in January, a respectable gain given the harsh winter. "There's a lot of uncertainty on the weather effect, but the broader message from ADP is that the trend in private payrolls remains pretty solid," Jim O'Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, N.Y., told Bloomberg News.
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg predict that the Bureau of Labor Statistics will announce on Friday that overall payrolls, which include government jobs, rose by 184,000 in January. They're predicting the unemployment rate to stay at 6.7 percent, the lowest since 2008.
But the more the overall job market recovers, the more the long-term unemployed tend to get ignored—or even worse, treated as losers or shirkers. Congressional Republicans have blocked extended unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed this year in part because of concern that those benefits breed dependency. "I'm not against having unemployment insurance," Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican, said on ABC's This Week in January. "I do think, though, that the longer you have it, that it does provide some disincentive to work and that there are many studies that indicate this."
To his credit, President Obama has put a spotlight on the plight of the long-term unemployed, both in his State of the Union address and in a White House report (pdf) last month called "Addressing the Negative Cycle of Long-Term Unemployment."
The report says that while short-term unemployment is back to normal, "the current long-term unemployment rate is 2.5 percent, more than double the pre-financial crisis average of 1 percent, and close to the highest rate on record prior to the recession."
The long-term jobless aren't losers. Surprisingly, the report says: "Today, the long-term unemployed are slightly more educated on average than their recently unemployed peers: 27 percent of the long-term unemployed have postsecondary credentials, compared to 24.5 percent of the short-term unemployed."
What they suffer from, more than anything, is an image problem, as economists' experiments using fake résumés show. "The long-term unemployed are about half as likely as the short-term unemployed to get a callback. Interview 'callback' rate for otherwise identical resumes falls sharply as the length of unemployment rises, with callbacks 45 percent lower for those unemployed for eight months compared to those unemployed for just one month."
Citing work by Northeastern University's Rand Ghayyad, the White House report says, "Applicants unemployed for seven months need to send an average of 35 resumes to online job postings to receive just one interview, compared to just 10 resumes per interview for those unemployed for only one month."
Vigorous job growth is good for the long-term unemployed if it means the job market is tightening and employers will finally give them the second look they deserve. But it's bad if it means that triumphant policymakers—and myopic employers—decide to write them off as yesterday's problem.


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For this issue of Greenhouse Grower, I wrote stories on two companies with mindsets and philosophies that are quite different — but are somehow still similar. Our cover story subject, Blooming Nursery, in Cornelis, Ore., is a mid-size operation, dedicated to independent garden centers, that prides itself on never having sold to a big box store. Timberline Nursery, the grower featured in our Under Contract series this month, is a big supplier to Wal-Mart, The Home Depot and Kmart. Down in the heat of Texas, Timberline contracts 300,000 square feet of growing area. Blooming Nursery supplies liners to other growers.
How are they alike? They're not just surviving. They're thriving. Victor Vasquez, general manager at Timberline tells me the company is planning to add 300,000 square feet of greenhouse area in the next year. Expansion is also in Blooming Nursery's future. Owner Grace Dinsdale says her company needs a few more acres of greenhouse space and plans are in the works to construct them by the end of 2007.
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Something else that I noticed about these companies is how important their employees and co-workers are to them. Production is important, putting out a quality product is important. At the end of my interviews with them, I asked the questions I think most interviewees hate, "Is there anything else you'd like to add? Any other thoughts?" They both turned back to people they work with.
"We have these really talented, smart, hard-working people that have been here a long time and really know how to produce what we produce, and that has a lot to do with our consistency," Dinsdale says. "In the last few years, we've brought in some people with different perspective, different industry experience. In merging those two groups, we've got real strength."
Vazquez told me about the contract growers he works with and the open lines of communication between them. "We've known each other for a long time and we trust each other," he says. "We want to succeed. We want Timberline to succeed. We want them to succeed because we need each other."
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BULLITTTaking off around 1:30, meet the godfather of cool. Steve McQueen was lightning in the driver's seat, never moreso than in this cop classic. From producer Philip D'Antoni, responsible for some of the gnarliest car movies of the Seventies, this San Francisco thriller finds McQueen as the turtlenecked stud of the title, a lieutenant who has to uncover a massive political conspiracy tied to a low-level thug, one car chase at a time. Bullitt's Mustang soaring over the San Francisco streets remains one of the most indelible cinematic images of its time.
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Gay marriage billboards raise questions about children's wellbeing
A billboard advertising campaign was launched across central London this week by campaigners critical of the legalisation of gay marriage.
The billboard shows two men walking hand in hand while a child stands isolated. The strapline says "But what about Sophie, Mr Cameron? ... Evidence shows children do best with married birth parents".
The campaign is being run by the Gay Marriage No Thanks group and is based on evidence from research that the best environment for raising children is within a family headed by their married biological parents.
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According to a new Pew Research Center global survey:
"The Obama administration's increasing use of unmanned drone strikes to kill terror suspects is widely opposed around the world. … In 17 out of 21 countries surveyed, more than half of the people disapproved of U.S. drone attacks targeting extremist leaders and groups in nations such as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia."
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As has been previously noted, there is only one bidder for Variety who has the capacity to write a check without picking up the phone. Thus, Ron Burkle was always seen as a leading contender to acquire the trade publication if he so chose. Apparently, he has.
According to an LA Times report by Ben Fritz, Burkle is now the leading contender to acquire the trade:
Burkle's Yucaipa Co. has been the most aggressive bidder and is most likely to emerge victorious from a sales process currently underway, according to two people close to the sale but not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Much like the notion of Eli Broad purchasing the paper Fritz writes for, if it does transpire this way, it really could not have turned out any better for Variety. Burkle has deep pockets, tons of business acumen and, most likely, a solid big-picture plan that could spell trouble for the trade's direct competitors. The purchase price would allegedly be close to what has previously been reported: $40 million.
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Added Thorns enchant
Armor enchant
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Wears armor out quicker
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Fire Protection now extinguishes fire more quickly
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Protection no longer is as good as all specific Protection enchants combined
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Right-clicking while sneaking now uses the held item instead of the selected block
Dropping items while holding ctrl now drops the whole stack
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Fixed boats always getting placed in the same orientation
Fixed switching between dimensions resetting the selected hotbar slot
Fixed leaves obtained using Silk Touch having the wrong tooltip and data value
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Fixed the level up sound not playing
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Fixed the Wither's projectiles sometimes destroying the Nether Star
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Fixed endermen not teleporting away when set on fire
Fixed endermen still being set on fire when hit with a flaming arrow
Fixed endermen not opening their mouth when attacked by other mobs
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Fixed animals on fire not running away
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Fixed animals appearing to walk through fences in SP
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Fixed tools differing only in damage not being swappable in the inventory
Fixed some Z-Fighting with the beacon
Fixed a graphical issue in the trading GUI
Fixed /say not showing the text in the original purple color
Fixed Pick Block giving double slabs
Fixed minecarts not travelling through Nether portals
Fixed lightning not flashing
Fixed FallingSand spawners failing to save properly and causing crashes
Fixed the blocks in lowest layer of the map not being recognized by beacons
Fixed enchants not showing in item frames and on the ground
Fixed mobs walking slowly for a short while after being hit
Fixed chests becoming out of sync when a user right-clicks it twice quickly
Fixed flaming arrows not catching on fire immediately
Fixed zombies sometimes stopping their attack
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Nether Brick Slabs
Crafting Recipe
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Can be applied to items using anvils, consuming the book
Enchants can be applied to any item in Creative
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Efficiency and Silk Touch can be applied to shears, allowing the harvesting of cobwebs
Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods can be applied to axes
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Non-destructive, rise up in the air and create colorful patterns when shot by dispensers or placed by players
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A sound indicates when you hit a player with an arrow
Arrows now render from farther away
Skeletons, Zombies & Zombie Pigmen
The armor and enchants they spawn with now are even harder on harder difficulties
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Stressed To KillStressed To Kill (1994) Season 4 Episode 4311-139 BVTV Episode Numbers: BK-39- Bonkers Cartoon Episode Guide by Dave Koch
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- Animation Studio: Sunwoo
- Distributed by: Buena Vista Television
- Cartoon Characters: Bonkers D. Bobcat, Lucky Piquel, Dil Piquel, Marilyn Piquel, Police Chief Kanifky, Ludwig Von Drake, Fall-Apart Rabbit.
- Voice Actors: Jim Cummings, John Astin, Frank Welker, Earl Boen, Sherry Lynn, April Winchell, Joseph Onesto.
- Directed By David Block.
- Produced By Robert Taylor.
- Written By Robert Schechter.
- Music: Mark Watters, Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn.
- Editor: Sam Horta.
- First Aired on February 23, 1994.
- Originally Released in Syndication.
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Episode Number: 4311-139.
BVTV Episode Numbers: BK-39
- Season: 4
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Lucky suffers from severe stress in trying to nab an art thief.
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San Jose's newest falcons, the four offspring of City Hall dwellers Clara and Fernando El Cohete, have been given names — Blaze, Bolt, Beatrix and Halo — and now their fans will be eagerly anticipating their first real flight.
The annual "Fledge Watch" began Friday, and the young falcons are expected to begin taking to the skies sometime in the next week. Of course, things don't always go well for the falcons, so trained volunteers will be positioned at designated spots around the birds' nest box at City Hall, ready to lend a hand if an early flight turns into a nose dive onto San Fernando Street.
The names — Blaze and Bolt are boys; Beatrix and Halo are girls — were the most popular among the entries nominated by San Jose schoolchildren. They were deemed most popular by judges that included representatives from the Children's Discovery Museum, Happy Hollow Foundation and Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, the former San Jose Peregrine Falcon Alliance, Silicon Valley Creates, the city's Environmental Services Department and biologist Glenn Stewart of UC-Santa Cruz's Predatory Bird Research Group.
You can get more information on the Peregrine falcons and a link to the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group's FalconCam at www.sanjoseca.gov/falcons.
UPDATE: Since this post was written, a mischievous Beatrix nudged Blaze off the ledge at City Hall on Thursday and Bolt was "encouraged" to fly by his sister, Halo, too. Trained volunteers, who are positioned at designated spots around the birds' nest box at City Hall, got the boys back up to the nest.
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Monte Carlo
Having spent 10 years of holidaying (of the campping kind) on the French Riviera when the kids were young, know it well. Came in off a cruise ship 2 years ago. if you come into Monte carlo itself, not worth booking a trip. You can walk along the front and up to the castle in Monaco in about half an hour, through the gardens, leisurely stroll. Try to get up for the changing of the guards at noon, worth seeing. The view from the fairytale castle is spectacular down over Monte Carlo itself. meander through the little streets opposite the castle (drinks are cheaper the further away you go), pop into the cathedral where Grace and Rainier are buried and near the Jacques Cousteau museum you can catch a trolley bus for a few euros, which will take you down into Monte Carlo, following the route of the grand prix, along the front and past the Casino. It's worth having a leisurely stroll back down to the port and take in some of the yachts.
If you want to get out of Monte Carlo, there is a train line which runs right along the front to Nice within about half an hour. You'll love it, we've done some travelling and it's our most favourite area for beautiful scenery. Now the kids are grown, we still spend a few days there each Summer at a little place called Beaulieu, between Nice and Monte Carlo, set into the Corniche - amazing!
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Name: Marty Cowles
Lives: Ocean Beach
Surfing: Avalanche Jetty, Ocean Beach
"Go home, Barney," Marty Cowles says is the worst insult he's heard from locals. The most he's been hassled is at Oceanside. "They get pissed off at you up there. Riding at the pier in Oceanside is pretty cutthroat."
Since Marty came to San Diego from South Dakota five years ago, he's been surfing. He moved here for the music scene; he's keyboard player in a couple of on-again off-again bands.
Marty surfs Ocean Beach because everyone's respectful. "As long as you stay out of people's way, you know, if you're in line, you can go for it. People will let you go. Nobody's really competing for waves or showing off."
After five years, Marty considers himself an accomplished surfer. The challenge of surfing and the mellow feeling after a session surfed well are why he keeps coming out. "Whether you're getting good waves or not," Marty says. "It's still something to do that makes you feel good.…
"South Dakota, we have wakeboarding and…well, getting drunk. Surfing is a different feel. It's more zen, but also a little more intense; you have to stay on your toes out there."


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A NORTH-East rower has won gold, silver and bronze in a youth Olympics.
Competing in the 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival, rower Nicole Lamb, a former Durham School pupil, won gold in the women's four, silver in the women's double and bronze in the women's eight.
The 20-year-old from Hexham, Northumberland, is now studying Chemistry at Newcastle University.
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Martin George, headmaster at Durham School, said: "We are immensely proud of Nicole's achievements which are thoroughly deserved as she has always had such an excellent work ethic and dedication to her sport.
"Things are looking very promising for Nicole and we will be following her progress carefully over the next few years."


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Intellecap's Investment Banking Practice raised INR 150 million in Series-A funding for Gramco Infratech in a transaction where it acted as the sole financial advisor.
Gramco Infratech Private Limited (Gramco), a rural-focused Company that creates infractructure to support farmers, secured a first-round equity funding of INR 150 Million from Samridhi Fund. Gramco will utilize these funds to construct agri-warehouses in Madhya Pradesh and to meet its working capital requirements.
The Samridhi Fund was launched as a private sector development programme by Department for International Development (DFID) in partnership with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).
About Gramco
Based out of Indore, Gramco offers complete bouquet of services in the vicinity of villages and producing areas - spanning across inputs, warehousing, collateral finance, contract farming/seed production, fully automated handling / cleaning / grading and procurement of agri-commodities by creating strong market linkages for farmers. It is in the business of creating / leasing full service agri-infrastructure. Gramco, incorporated in 2010, owns 2 multi service facilities near Indore and plans to set-up another 11 by FY' 15. It aims to increase the number of farmers served from the current 700-800 to 10,000 by 2015.
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The pictures represent over 40 middle grade and high schools of New Jersey. The projects are from Art, History and/or Language Arts teachers or a combination through integrated instruction.
An open design competition is being sponsored by the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial organization (ACBHM, Inc.), a private non-profit foundation chartered for the purpose of erecting a Memorial, in cooperation with the City of Atlantic City, which has dedicated a superb site for the Memorial on the boardwalk. The competition was advertised nationally and internationally, and will be juried in September by a world class panel of experts in the field of architecture and design. Over 700 responses were received from throughout the world.
The students work was also designed to memorialize the impact of prejudice, bias and bigotry as seen through the Holocaust and genocide and a number of them were chosen to be sent to Atlantic City to be displayed with the finalists of the international competition.
The core mission of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education is to promote Holocaust education in the State of New Jersey. On a continual basis, the Commission shall survey the status of Holocaust/Genocide Education; design, encourage and promote the implementation of Holocaust and genocide education and awareness; provide programs in New Jersey; and coordinate designated events that will provide appropriate memorialization of the Holocaust on a regular basis throughout the state. The Commission will provide assistance and advice to the public and private schools and will meet with county and local school officials, and other interested public and private organizations, to assist with the study of the Holocaust and genocide.
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Several hundred people took part in a community Thanksgiving meal in a Central Texas town where a fertilizer plant explosion claimed 15 lives.
Organizers say the free food on Thursday included a dining opportunity for some people whose homes were destroyed in the April 17 blast.
Co-chairman Bob Nors said the midday meal has always been important to people in the area, but this year it was meaning more.
Several service organizations and religious groups have hosted the Thanksgiving meal for more than 10 years, arranging for donated food and deliveries. More than 400 meals were served Thursday, along with dozens of meals taken to older residents who couldn't make it to the West Community Center.
West is about 15 miles north of Waco.
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Reed Elsevier has signaled its intention to find a buyer for its 11.8 percent stake (valued at approximately $300 million) in Riverdeep, according to the Irish Independent. The stake forms part of Reed Elsevier's recent deal to sell its Harcourt US schools education business to HM Riverdeep, which is headed by Barry O'Callaghan, for $4m.
It is understood that Reed agreed to take a stake in order to appease the debt backers of the HM Riverdeep deal, which will create a publishing giant with an enterprise value of about $10bn. Some $7.4bn of this will be comprised of debt. "We don't take the view that's a long-term shareholding," Reed's chief executive Sir Crispin Davis was quoted as saying yesterday, raising the spectre of the stock being sold soon after the deal is completed. Meanwhile, Sir Crispin said he was confident that HM Riverdeep had the financing in place to complete the transaction, expected to close in late 2007 or early 2008 after regulatory reviews have been completed.


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Latos will make Sunday's start for Padres
Club concerned about top pitching prospect's workload
By Corey Brock / MLB.com
One of those players will be 21-year-old right-handed pitcher Mat Latos, who will officially be recalled from Double-A San Antonio for a start Sunday against the Rockies at PETCO Park.
Latos is considered to be San Diego's top Minor League pitching prospect.
In order to make room for Latos on the 40-man and 25-man active roster, the Padres designated pitcher Josh Banks for assignment.
Latos, who tossed a scoreless inning in Sunday's Futures Game in St. Louis, has risen quickly in 2009, going 3-0 with a 0.36 ERA with Class A Fort Wayne and then completely bypassing high-Class A Lake Elsinore for Double-A San Antonio.
Latos is 5-1 with a 1.91 ERA in nine starts for San Antonio with 46 strikeouts and nine walks in 47 innings. Opponents are hitting .192 against him.
Towers has hinted several times in the past month that Latos would arrive in the Major Leagues before rosters expand from 25 to 40 players on Sept. 1.
But Towers cautioned last month that the team is wary of Latos' workload. He's already pitched 72 1/3 innings this season, more than he pitched in any of his first two seasons (both, ironically, 56 innings).
"I just think he's still inexperienced," Towers said. "He's never thrown more than 55 innings [in one season]. Even though he's flat-dominated, if we bring him up, he could end with 150 or so innings. That's more than triple what he's used to."
That means, Towers said, that Latos could be shut down before the season ends as a safeguard against a heavy workload.
"To me, a good barometer is to no more than double the innings," Towers said.
Latos, who was selected by the Padres in the 11th round of the 2006 First-Year Player Draft and signed before the '07 Draft, spent part of Spring Training in Major League camp, a first for him.
"He was with us in Spring Training and is familiar with our coaching staff and a number of our players," Black said. "He has pitched well. His performance through this Minor League season has been outstanding."
He has impressed the Padres with both his maturity and his advancement as a pitcher.
"He's answered the call on everything we've asked him to do," Padres vice president of scouting and player development Grady Fuson said after Latos was promoted to San Antonio in May. "He's down in the strike zone, his velocity is great, his changeup is great. He's ready to be challenged."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Tigers earn No. 1 seed in Sub-Section 3AA baseball
The Morris Area/ Chokio-Alberta baseball team earned the No. 1 seed in Sub-Section 3AA and will host Redwood Valley Saturday at 11 a.m.
At 1 p.m. New London-Spicer will play Montevideo, also at Chizek Field. The winners of the two games will face off at 3 p.m.
The Tigers clinched the West Central North title by winning a doubleheader over conference rival Sauk Centre Thursday.
The Tigers are now 12-2 overall and 7-1 in the conference with two games remaining in the regular season. The Tigers host BOLD on Tuesday afternoon and host Lac qui Parle Valley on Tuesday night.
The Tigers defeated Sauk Centre 4-3 in game one Thursday. Tom Holland scored two runs and had an RBI-single, and Tanner Picht and Jake Torgerson each drove in a run. Torgerson pitched a complete game with no earned runs allowed, while striking out 11.
In game two, the Tigers shut out the Mainstreeters 10-0. Chandler Erickson was 3-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs and Tom Holland had three RBIs.
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Morris/C-A 4, Sauk Centre 3
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Sauk Centre 100 020 — 3 6 2
HITTING – Morris/C-A: Chandler Erickson 1-3, Tanner Picht 1-3, 2b, rbi, Mac Beyer 1-3, Tom Holland 1-2, rbi, r-2, Jake Torgerson 1-2, rbi, Bryce Jergenson 1-2, Lincoln Berget 1-2
SC: Josh Buschette 2-3, Andrew Primus 2-3
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SC: Josh Buschette (L)
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Morris/C-A 210 205 — 10 8 0
SC: Josh Buschette 1-3, 2b
Morris/C-A: Chandler Erickson 3-3, r-2, rbi-2, Tanner Picht 2-4, r-2, Tyler Henrichs 1-3, rbi, Tom Holland 1-2, rbi-3, Danny Tracy 1-1
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Summer will attend two Wizard World shows later this year (thanks Tony Ruben for the heads up!).
She is coming to Philadelphia Comic Con taking place on May 7-8-9-10, 2015 at Pennsylvania Convention Center and then at Chicago Comic Con taking place on August 20-21-22-23, 2015 at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center for a panel and signing/photo op session. Please note that Summer will be appearing at Philadelphia Comic Con on Saturday and Sunday only, idem for Chicago Comic Con.
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Israel has extended the use of its Iron Dome rocket interceptor system, installing it in the centre of the country for the first time. According to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the Rafael-based system has been deployed northeast of Tel Aviv as part of "operational process".
The system will protect the cities of Netanya, Hadera and nearby towns, including strategic installations such as power plants.
The Iron Dome systems have undergone a significant upgrade in recent months, to expand the number of rockets they can intercept.
According to the IDF, the deployment in central Israel is part of a larger acceptance process of the new system.
The IAF is in the process of receiving the sixth Iron Dome battery from Rafael. Four additional batteries are on order.
In mid-August, an Iron Dome system deployed in Eilat, the Red Sea resort, intercepted rockets launched from the Sinai desert in Egypt. In recent months, the Iron Dome is believed to have intercepted more than 90 % of the BM-21 (Grad) and Kassam rockets that have been launched from Gaza into Israel.
Iron Dome is a mobile defence system aimed at intercepting short-range rockets and artillery shells.
The system is designed to avoid collateral damage by detonating the target warhead outside the area defended, preventing target debris from falling in that area. The system's main components include tracking radar, a battle management and weapons control unit, an interceptor with a special warhead that detonates threats from ranges up to 70 km, and a missile firing unit.


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Rueful Brennan blames Ulster fans
January 26, 2007
Toulouse lock Trevor Brennan regrets having an altercation with an Ulster fan during the Heineken Cup clash between the sides on Sunday, but claims he only acted after being repeatedly baited by supporters.
The former Ireland international seems certain to be facing a lengthy suspension and possible fine after the alleged assault.
Brennan, who was on replacement duty for the match, had been warming up with his fellow Toulouse substitutes when he claims he was verbally abused by a group of Ulster fans.
The second-row forward then climbed into the stand and was involved in an incident with an Irish supporter.
In a statement, Brennan has apologised for his actions but claims he was provoked into reacting.
"When I was warming up, I heard a group of supporters sing: 'Brennan, your mother is a *****','' read the statement.
"One of them looked me in the eyes, and again started to sing 'Brennan, your mother ...'.
"I then climbed the wall and had an altercation with this person. I regret this incident.
"But I didn't initiate it. That is the last thing I wished to do.''
Brennan added he had a good relationship with Ulster fans but insisted such provocation was unlike anything he had experienced before.
The statement continued: "I have always respected and I have always been respected by opposition supporters.
"I have often played against Ulster and not had these problems. I met their supporters days earlier and it was a true pleasure.
"I love rugby, I love Toulouse and the supporters, but I love my family and my mother more than all that.''
Toulouse have launched a robust defence of their player, saying in their own statement: "Trevor Brennan is a generous man who has always respected opponents and their supporters.
"It required sustained and repeated provocation to make him react in an unacceptable but understandably human way.
"(Rugby is a) sport which has always placed an emphasis on the values of friendship and camaraderie.
"We want European Rugby Cup (ERC) to investigate the behaviour of some of the
Brennan, a 33-year-old Dubliner who won 13 caps for Ireland between 1998 and 2001, later appeared in the game.
But he was yellow-carded after exchanging blows with Ulster's Australian lock Justin Harrison.
ERC announced their disciplinary officer Roger O'Connor will probe the off-field incident.
O'Connor has contacted Toulouse and Ulster asking them to supply full details, and he has also requested reports from the match officials and broadcasters at the game.
Following his investigation, O'Connor will decide whether to lodge any misconduct complaints.
Ulster were unhappy at the way events unfolded, releasing a statement on their return to Ireland.
It read: "Ulster Rugby has made the organisers of the Heineken Cup, the ERC, aware of an off-the-field incident involving the Toulouse player Trevor Brennan.
"During the match between Toulouse and Ulster in Toulouse on Sunday, Brennan left the playing enclosure and physically assaulted a member of the Ulster travelling support.
"Ulster Rugby will be submitting a formal report to assist ERC in their investigation of this serious matter.
"Brennan was also involved in an incident on the field of play which Ulster Rugby will be reviewing.''
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Miss Universe host Steve Harvey names wrong winner of pageant
(FOX News) - Miss Universe pageant host Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner at the end of Sunday night's big show in Las Vegas and was forced to make an embarrassing apology.
Who was REALLY crowned #MissUniverse? Wait for it... See for yourself: https://t.co/Wz48UsxXwL— FOX (@FOXTV) December 21, 2015
After announcing Miss USA, Olivia Jordan, as the third runner-up, Harvey initially named Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo, as the night's big winner, relegating the remaining contestant, Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurzbach, to the second runner-up spot.
But after Miss Colombia received her crown and a bouquet of flowers, Harvey announced he had made an error and that Miss Philippines was in fact the winner. Harvey, known as the host of "Family Feud" and "The Steve Harvey Show", said it was his mistake and that he would take responsibility for not reading the card correctly.
A stunned Wurzbach, who had taken her place with the other contestants behind Arevalo, then walked out to center stage. Last year's Miss Universe, Colombia's Paulina Vega, then removed the crown from Avrevalo's head and placed it on Wurtzbach instead.
I'd like to apologize wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia & Miss Philippines for my huge mistake. I feel terrible.— Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) December 21, 2015


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A case of suspected animal cruelty is reported in Oakfield.
Roxanne Rowe, 25, of Maple Street, Oakfield, is facing a misdemeanor charge for allegedly feeding her neighbor's dog food laced with metal objects.
Rowe also allegedly possessed marijuana. She is scheduled to appear in Town Court January 7th.
A Lockport woman is accused of shouting obscenities while in the street and refusing to remove her children from the roadway.
Lakiesha Gibson, 26, is facing charges of disorderly conduct and endangering the welfare of a child. She was allegedly engaged in a dispute on Thorpe Street.
Gibson is due in City Court Tuesday.
A Batavia man convicted of drug-related charges was sentenced to two years probation by a U.S. District Judge.
42-year-old Andrew Chapman -- who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine – was responsible for obtaining quantities of methamphetamine from a supplier in LeRoy and then sharing the drugs on numerous occasions between April and July of 2010.
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Tottenham chalked up another draw against Roy Hodgson's workmanlike West Brom to leave their Champions League ambitions in tatters.
With Manchester City not in action until they travel to Blackburn on Monday night, Spurs had the opportunity to edge themselves into fourth place in the Premier League but a stunning late goal from substitute Simon Cox left the home side stunned.
Spurs were in the driving seat for the entire game, despite conceding an early opener to Peter Odemwingie, with great efforts from outside of the box from both Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe either side of the interval handing them the lead.
However, substitute Cox's superbly bent equaliser levelled matters leaving West Brom on 40-points and with apparent Premier League safety.
Roy Hodgson opted to make one alteration from the team who ran out 3-1 losers to Chelsea last week, with on-loan striker Carlos Vela coming in at the expense of James Morrison, after the young Mexican came off the bench to produce an exciting cameo against the Premier League champions.
PFA Player of the Year Gareth Bale overcame his midweek injury fears to start for Spurs, with Harry Redknapp exploring the little-used combination of Jermain Defoe and Roman Pavyluchenko up top.
The game started in a haphazard manner perhaps befitting two clubs who were desperate for the points at this stage of the season. Though, as soon as the frantic opening pace settled down, Carlos Vela produced the first real moment of quality, which lead to West Brom's opener.
The on-loan striker received the ball out of the left and did well to bend an excellent pass inside to Odemwingie. The Nigerian still had a lot to do, outmuscling Benoit Assou-Ekotto and striking the ball clinically inside the far post from the edge of the box.
Worse news soon followed for Spurs with the fact that Assou-Ekotto picked up a knock during the goal, with the home side forced to bring on Sandro to replace him, with Gareth Bale dropping back to fill in at left back.
Spurs looked shell-shocked from their slow start, with the home fans becoming increasingly frustrated as their side seemed unable to produce the quality needed to break down the visitors.
They went close several times, with Gareth Bale producing streams of probing deliveries before William Gallas misjudged his timing to head Rafael van der Vaart's vicious free-kick over the bar with the goal at his mercy.
Spurs' relentless pressure soon paid off just before the half hour mark when Pavlyuchenko shifted the ball onto his left foot from 18 yards out and smashed it in off the far post, giving Scott Carson absolutely no chance.
The chance to go one up moments later was missed when Bale bent his free-kick from a promising position just over the bar.
Van der Vaart then forced Carson into a smart reactionary save when he drove viciously with his left foot from an impossible angle and with the goal gaping, Pavyluchenko could only wastefully drill the rebound over.
The home side's relentless pressure continued until the referee blew for half-time, with a weary looking Albion looking eager to regroup.
The second half quickly settled into the pattern that was firmly established in the first. However, West Brom sent out a firm reminder of how dangerous they are on the counter.
Odemwingie leapt well to send a firm header back across goal but Heurelho Gomes produced a quite fantastic save, plunging to his right, to claw the ball out and away from danger.
Much to Redknapp's dismay, West Brom began to assert themselves and progressively got better as the game went on. Odemwingie continued to make a nuisance of himself, driving wide from the edge of the box and getting into some handy positions inside the Spurs' box.
The introduction of Aaron Lennon on the hour mark sparked some much needed vigour into the home side's play and within moments the nippy winger won a free-kick on the edge of the box. This time Van der Vaart stepped up but more-or-less replicated Bale's first half effort from near identical range.
The breakthrough came almost instantenously, when Jermain Defoe picked the ball up and drove at the heart of the West Brom defence. He ably weaved in and out, before striking a left footed drive into the bottom corner of the net with aplomb.
The strike completed a century of goals in the Premier League and for Spurs for the forward who had looked short of confidence all afternoon.
James Morrison was brought on by the visitors with the hope of providing some new attacking impetus of their own and this nearly paid dividends if not for Michael Dawson's brave block from the substitute's close range effort.
The game showed no signs of grinding to a dull close though, with an invigorated Defoe dancing into the box but waiting too long to pull the trigger before Brunt went close at the other end when he flashed a shot just wide of the upright.
It took a moment of total class from substitute Simon Cox to bring the Baggies level though, stepping onto the ball on the edge of the box and sending his effort effortlessly into the top corner, leaving the White Hart Lane faithful in stunned disbelief.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
In a Flash
My Friday was wild. I went to the Amazon listing for Memories from Cherry Harvest to add information about an event in Oakland on July 19 at A Great Good Place for Books (7 PM) and I noticed that the publication date for the book had been moved up almost a month. So I emailed my production manager at Counterpoint to ask what was up. She emailed back immediately. She thought she had told me that the pub date had been moved up, apologized for leaving me out of the loop, and informed me that she had received an advance copy of the finished book from the printer the day before! Apparently my copies will be shipped to me next week.
I'm still in shock. Especially since I have not seen a finished copy yet. This has been my dream my whole life. I have struggled to be patient these past months as the publication process has unfolded. I have tried not to think about it so I could sleep at night. I was pacing myself. Only 6 months to go. Now only 5 months. Now only 3. Now next month, oops, no, now NOW. In a flash it happened, rushing to me swifter than expected.
Here is one of my deepest most personal fantasies: A UPS van pulls up in front of my house. The driver gets out and walks to my door. I open the door and sign for a heavy box. The driver hands it to me and walks away. I carry the box into my living room and put it on the floor in front of me and open it up. Inside, a treasure, value more than diamonds, more than rubies, inside are books. All the books are the same. A novel. And I wrote it. I have imagined this scene in detail over and over again for a dozen years. I can see the light on the driver as he walks to my door. It is always late afternoon in summer and the light is golden on the brilliant green trees. My fantasy is going to happen this week.
Today I had a conversation with my father. Dad is a mathematician. He wrote a book in the 1970s that was light years ahead of its time. In the past 10 years Dad's work has been rediscovered and as it turns out there are many mathematicians who were trying to work out things that Dad had already worked out and described in his book over 30 years ago. In a few weeks Columbia University is hosting a 3-day mathematics conference that will revolve around Dad's work. Obviously Dad is delighted to have his work back in the spotlight and put to good use. It just goes to show that if we live long enough there's no telling what will happen. Dad said this to me today, that he had lived long enough to see his work recognized in this way. It has become the foundation for an entire area of mathematics development. In his lifetime.
When I was very young I set out to be a writer. Writing is my passion. Books are my passion. I have always written. I write every day. But I also intended to publish and that was not panning out for me. The years were flying by and I was not accomplishing what I had set out to do. I have been blessed and am grateful for the wonderful life I have had so far. Yet always it bothered me that I had not done this one thing that was so important to me and that I had set out to do. That's why I self-pubbed The Call to Shakabaz – and that was a very rewarding experience; but did not carry the level of recognition that being published the traditional route has and will do. Perhaps you have experienced the satisfaction of doing what you set out to do in life, but if you have not reached your goal yet, then let me encourage you; encourage; what a great word(!), let me support you in having the courage to hang on to your dream, and to keep working for it, because it may still be coming. It may arrive in a flash.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Child Welfare
On Friday, I took a break from working 12-hour days writing a huge grant to benefit children in the foster care system in Santa Clara County so that I could fly down to San Diego for the college graduation of my son's girlfriend Tina (from San Diego State University). Tina and Akili have been going together for over four years and he is pretty much part of her family by now, as she is part of ours. My lovely daughter drove down from L.A. to celebrate with us. And after the incredibly long ceremony, Tina's family and ours went out to eat. Her parents, siblings (with spouses), and their children, plus our family (minus Sudi) were at the table. Included in the group was Emmett, Tina's new nephew, born a month ago. After spending the whole week working like crazy writing about the impact of childhood trauma on infants, toddlers, and preschoolers; and attempting to craft a complete description of the wonderful safety net that Santa Clara County is trying to put into place for these unfortunate little ones, I was especially moved to behold the way in which Tina's family cherished their newest little member.
Emmett doesn't do much yet other than sleep and eat. He slept most of the time, but did grace us with a few waking moments so we could see his eyes. While awake, he peered ever-so-intently into the faces of each member of the huge bustling family into which he had been born as he was passed from hand-to-hand and adored by everyone; welcomed over and over again by this mob of loving family eager for him to begin to participate actively in their lives.
So should it be for every baby.
Tina is "the baby" of her own family, and yesterday her parents were the first ones in the arena and just about the last ones to leave, and we screamed and hollered when Tina walked across the stage. From birth to adulthood. So should all children be cherished and adored.
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
What Came Back after the Blast
Last week I sent an "email blast" to give folks a heads up that Memories from Cherry Harvest will be released June 18 and is available for preorder from booksellers now. As a result of the email blast, I received emails from quite a few people about their own exciting work. In some ways, I feel as though I have been sitting on the sidelines all these years because I have not had the opportunity to fully offer my gift to others. Meanwhile I have been enjoying the gifts of other writers, artists, musicians, and creative souls. So this past week, when my little message about my own creation ventured out, and then returned with such abundance in its wake, I felt like it was at last a fair exchange. Here is a sampling of the discoveries the blast brought in.
I learned about two novels written by Rosine Nimeh-Mailloux. Rosine's younger brother Mike lived with my family for a couple of years when he was in high school. Rosine and Mike are Chrisitian Arabs whose family was forced to flee from their home in West Jerusalem when Israel became a state in 1948. They moved to Bethlehem (where Mike was born). Rosine was an exchange teacher in the town where I grew up (she taught English). She befriended my parents, and when the INS forced her to leave the U.S., she went to Canada, and my parents took in Mike, whom she had managed to rescue from the war-torn Middle East and had brought to the U.S. Rosine and I have not communicated for many years, but when I sent Mike the email about my book, he forwarded it to her. A flurry of emails between Rosine (who lives in Ontario) and myself followed and the upshot is that she is sending me her novel entitled The Madwoman of Bethlehem. Her is the link to find out more. She is also the author of a book of short stories about her family's experiences in the turmoil of the Middle East entitled Mustard and Vinegar.
I have a friend, Professor James McIntosh, who taught American Literature at the U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor. I have never taken a class from Jim, but we became friends and enjoyed many an evening of literature-talk together. His wife was the curator of the campus art museum for many years. They are lovely folks. Jim's area of greatest expertise is American lit. of the 1800s. This week I learned that Jim is the editor of a Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short works entitled Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales. The second edition is just out. Scholarly work, not "creative" writing, but Norton, well that's quite impressive. Jim is sending me a copy so that I can read his foreword in the edition. Here is the link to find out more.
In a completely different direction (not literary or high-brow.) My Cousin Joe's teen daughter Emily is a singer and she is featured in a pop music video posted on YouTube last week to sell her song "The New Cleopatra" on iTunes. Here is the link to her debut on the music scene. (If you feel inclined you can view the page and click on the "like" button to give Emily a boost.)
Returning to literary connections, I want to mention Helen's poetry and that of her daughter Dorothy. Although I did not first find out about my Scottish friend Helen Lawrenson's new book of poetry this past week, it was only a couple of weeks ago that I learned of its release. I met Helen in Dundee in 1970. As long as I have known her, she has written exquisite poetry that uses the beauty of the natural world to teach life lessons, always delighting the reader with her keen eye for detail. Helen lives in Wormit, just across the Firth of Tay from Dundee. Here is the link to the information about her chapbook of poetry entitled Upon a Good High Hill. I already knew about Helen's poetry book, but this past week Helen's daughter Dorothy's poem "September" was selected as one of the Scottish Poetry Library's Best Scottish poems of 2011! Here is the link to Dorothy's poem. Here is the link to it online. But I'm going to be so bold as to reprint her poem here in its entirety since it's brief, beautiful, and reminds me so much of the poetry her mother wrote when I first met her over 40 years ago.
By Dorothy Lawrenson
This far north, the harvest happens late.
Rooks go clattering over the sycamores
whose shadows yawn after them, down to the river.
Uncut wheat staggers under its own weight.
Summer is leaving too, exchanging its gold
for brass and copper. It is not so strange
to feel nostalgia for the present; already
this September evening is as old
as a photograph of itself. The light, the shadows
on the field, are sepia, as if this were
some other evening in September, some other
harvest that went ungathered years ago.
[Published in Painted, spoken, 22]
Obviously, I am not the only one who has been busy. And as I send word out into the world about my humble accomplishments, word continues to come back to me about the accomplishments of others. We are all doing what we do, following our heart where it leads us. And that is a very fine thing.
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
Girlfriend Power
My friend Rajni is on my mind this week. I met Rajni when we were both 16 years old. We have the same birthday. In my 16th year, my family lived in Dundee, Scotland for one year. I attended the Morgan Academy in what was the equivalent of my junior year of high school. This was in 1970-71 so it was before the British education system switched to "comprehensive." Prior to the switch, schoolchildren took an exam in 6th grade that determined whether they would attend a university-bound school in grades 7-12 or a vocational school. The Morgan was for university-bound children. Children tracked to the vocational school were not prepared for university but rather for a trade. If they wanted to go to university they would have to attend a junior college for several years to complete the coursework necessary to advance to a university.
I was allowed to attend the Morgan because my father was teaching at Dundee University so I suppose the powers that be assumed I was college-bound material. Even so, for my first month at the school I was placed in sophomore-year classes because they assumed that an American child could not perform up to the level of a British child. After one month, they realized that I was way beyond sophomore year and they moved me up to junior-year level classes. My younger brother and I were the only Jews in the school. We were practically the only Jews in the whole city. My friend Rajni and her two sisters were the only East Indian students at the school and the only Hindus. Everyone else was Christian. Interesting, huh?
Back before the switch to comprehensive education, the powers that be automatically placed all Indian and Pakistani students (and there were many) in the vocational schools. Even though most of them spoke excellent English and many were very bright, they were never allowed to go up to the university-bound academy in Dundee in 1970: rampant racism. One of Rajni's older sisters had duked it out with the authorities and managed to get into the Morgan (the very first Indian student to attend). She was a star student and she paved the way for her younger sisters, all of whom were allowed to attend in her footsteps.
It's not surprising that Rajni and I became instant friends. We were both presumed inferior intellectually until proven otherwise. She was my best friend for my year in Dundee. Both of us had to work twice as hard as the other students in order to prove ourselves, and prove ourselves we did. Although we have not seen one another since 1980, we stay in touch. Rajni went on to become an exceptional woman. She completed her law degree at university and practiced law for several years. I remember her once telling me that she had a fantasy of appearing in court in a sari, just to make a point about the competence of Indians. It was just a dream. She never did it. But here is what she did do: Rajni became the very first Asian (Indians are referred to as Asian in Britain) judge, either male or female, in all of Scotland! This occurred many years ago. She has served as a judge for most of her professional career. This is an extraordinary accomplishment. But I am not at all surprised. Rajni is an extraordinary person. (She is also, by the way, married to a lawyer and has two grown sons, both college graduates accomplished in their fields.)
This past week, I sent Rajni an email to let her know that Memories from Cherry Harvest will be available in print on June 18 and that I will be sending her a copy. She replied in a brief email: "I cannot express my joy for you as eloquently as you. You were a huge influence on me in the short time we were at school as best friends. I look forward to reading your book." I am touched and humbled by her words. I wrote back, jokingly, "Behind every hugely successful woman is a terrific high school girlfriend." It's more than a joke, though. Our girlfriends, our women friends, are often the only factor that makes the difference between success and failure, between perseverance and collapse, between hope and despair. Back in 1970, before "feminism" and "women's lib," before the ERA was passed in Congress (though never ratified by enough states to become law), all we had going for us was each other, our sister-girls who cheered one another on and believed in each other. That's how we made it through. I believed that Rajni could do anything she set her mind to, and she knew I believed in her, as she has believed in me all these years. I'm proud to have been a small part of her accomplishment; she is certainly a small part of mine.
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Vietnam and the Philippines are set to reap the rewards of diversifying their exports, helping fireproof the two economies from plunging commodity prices. Indonesia and Malaysia's failure to do so now represents a risk to Asia's 2016 outlook.
Two decades ago, commodities were about 50 percent of overseas shipments for both Vietnam and Indonesia. By 2014, Vietnam had cut that to less than 30 percent while Indonesia's was almost 60 percent. In the Philippines, a net commodity importer, the ratio was about 20 percent last year.
Vietnam managed to reduce its commodity export dependence by boosting sales of electronics, mobile phones, textiles and footwear via a broader manufacturing base.
Global commodity prices from oil to copper to coal have declined as demand from China wanes in response to an economic slowdown. The intensifying El Niño weather pattern could also result in the prices of natural gas and oil staying weak—due to warmer winters in North America—putting renewed pressure on Malaysia's and Indonesia's exports, HSBC Holdings Plc. said.
"The commodity environment is going to drag on growth through 2016," HSBC economists led by Joseph Incalcaterra said in a Sept. 30 research report. "The Philippines should benefit the most, while Vietnam seems to be holding up well given the lack of crop disruptions. We continue to see the highest risks to Indonesia, where the effect on the real economy and consumption has yet to be fully felt.''
Gross domestic product in Vietnam and the Philippines will expand by more than 6 percent this year and next, the fastest among major economies in Southeast Asia, the Asian Development Bank forecast last month. Indonesia's economy will probably grow 5.4 percent in 2016, while Malaysia's economy is seen expanding 4.9 percent.
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SALT LAKE CITY — When it comes to playoff drama, the Salt Lake Bees are batting 1,000. For the second consecutive night they kept fans at Spring Mobile Ballpark in their seats until the bottom of the ninth inning, topping Las Vegas 5-4 on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by Scott Cousins.
Andy Marte scored on the play to give Salt Lake a commanding 2-0 lead in the best-of-five PCL Pacific Conference championship series.
"That's huge. That gives us a little bit of a cushion," Cousins said. "We've got to go down there and win one out of three instead of two out of three, or three out of three on the road. I mean that's a huge difference to pull out these wins at home."
On Wednesday, Salt Lake prevailed on a walk-off homer by Matt Long.
The second game of the series was a seesaw affair with both teams holding and losing leads.
Las Vegas started the back-and-forth process on the eighth pitch of the game when lead-off hitter Kirk Nieuwenhuis belted a solo homer.
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The Miami Marlins beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 on Wednesday to take the lead in their current four-game series.
Henderson Alvarez went 6.2 innings before being lifted with a runner on in the seventh. Overall the right-hander allowed two runs (one earned) on seven hits and a pair of walks. Alvarez saw his E.R.A. move to 2.32 while picking up his fifth win of the year.
Mike Dunn came in to pick up the last out in the seventh and keep the Miami lead at one. In the eighth, Kevin Gregg turned in a 1-2-3 inning for a hold.
Steve Cishek pitched the ninth and had a 1-2-3 inning of his own to earn his 18th save. Cishek struck out the side to slam the door on the Phillies.
Marcell Ozuna doubled for the ninth time and also brought home his 44th run of the season. The left-fielder had two hits and scored once.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia brought home the other two runs on a double which was the catcher's ninth double of the season.
A day after throwing four wild pitches and committing two errors, the Marlins once again had a pair of errors. Derek Dietrich picked up his tenth on a throw while Ed Lucas mishandled a ball for his third miscue of the year.
Dietrich has had trouble with his defense all season long and it played a role in his recent demotion to AAA. With a lack of offensive options at second base however, Dietrich will be given every opportunity to keep the job on a regular basis.
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I own a condo in Illinois but have not paid my mortgage for the past year. I did, however, keep up with the HOA fees up until 5 months ago. I recently received a "Thirty day notice and demand" from the Association's lawyers. I would like to know what I can do to protect myself from an early eviction. Thank You
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The association has a right to maintain an eviction action. They gain possession and theoretically can rent the unit until they have covered your deficiency.
There is some likelihood that money would talk. They probably do not want the hassle of managing the unit, so if you can come up with a couple months' payments and suggest a plan, they may be willing to postpone to a new date.
Alternatively, if it is likely you will be filing bankruptcy because of the foreclosure, you may want to arrange a consultation to evaluate whether it is a good time to do so. The bankruptcy itself will gain you some time since the automatic stay would go into effect. They can move for relief from the stay, but they may not find it worthwhile and, even if they do, they would have to set a date in bankruptcy court, then set a new date on the eviction.
The scope of this space does not afford an opportunity to assess the situation and advise you. I recommend you assemble for legal consultation: (1) your income information for March 2013 through the present, including wages and unemployment during that period; (2) all your bills (copies neatly assembled, back pages included); (3) last four years� tax returns; (4) a credit report (use www.annualcreditreport.com to obtain free report if not requested in last year); and (5) other information that may apply, such as copies of lawsuits. Call at your earliest convenience to afford the most opportunity in which to be advised about your best course. You are not required to use an attorney in your area.
I do not recommend filing bankruptcy on your own. There are too many complex issues. I have seen several posts on this site for debtors who filed on their own and are seeking counsel concerning complications. Most of them will have a hard time finding an attorney to get involved to unwind the mess without the attorney charging several times what would originally have been paid.