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Her Happy-Ever-After has been a long time coming? Elle spent years trying to get over her so-called Prince Charming, and she's finally getting the hang of it. A Grimm--a guardian angel with unique gifts--she spends her nights trolling for demons and kicking ass, and lately, her days have been spent with her on-and-off-again lover, Ren, a fellow Grimm. But fate has other plans in store for Elle, plans that include Michael, the prince from her youth who broke her heart. "What do you choose?live for her? Or would you rather die?" That was the choice Michael was given all those years ago. Although he knew she'd never forgive him, when Michael was given the chance to become a Grimm, he took it. Still, he isn't so sure Elle needs him in her life. With a lover at her side and a mission before her, Elle looks like she's doing just fine without him. But the not-so-charming prince isn't going to back off that easily?not if there's a chance she might need him again. He'd do anything to save her. Kill for her, live for her, die for her? Warning: This dark, twisted version of Cinderella involves demons, deceit, desire, and debauchery between a princess and two sexy guardian angels, both determined to win the fair Cinderella.


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Furniture designer, craftsperson, and community activist Tanya Aguiñiga will be the artist-in-residence at Dwell on Design, bringing to the exhibition an artful, interactive process of providing handcrafted pieces to those living in Los Angeles shelters. Dwell on Design attendees are invited to join Aguiñiga and her team of fellow artists and art students as they upcycle—through painting, weaving, and upholstering—donated chairs, tables, and blankets before donating them to the area shelters. This living installation will be curated as only Aguiñiga can, with her colorful approach to craft, materials, and view of the world around her. The upcycling aspect will ensure as little waste as possible is created in this endeavor that will provide one-of-a-kind pieces, which will be the first objects people receive on their path to rebuilding their lives. "I really like the idea of an interactive piece where Dwell on Design attendees can immediately help improve the life of someone in their own community," says Aguiñiga. Also look for Aguiñiga on the Demo stage as she hosts additional select craft workshops throughout the weekend.
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"You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong."
"I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged."
"To take what rightfully belongs to another, is like a Muslim eating pork, or a Hindu eating beef. Our Guru, our Spiritual Guide, stands by us, if we do not eat those carcasses."


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FMW Library
The FMW Library seeks to provide resources to the community about Quakerism and issues of interest to the members, including Quaker biography and history, spirituality, social justice, and nonviolence.
The FMW Library is now up and online with over 1,700 books, 290 Pendle Hill pamphlets, and 87 other pamphlets. Please follow the hyperlink for the library catalog. One of the easiest ways to search the Library collections is on your mobile device using this URL: http://www.LibraryThing.com/m/ and entering the user name FMWLibrary. You can also search for books in the Library here:
If you would like to download an Excel spreadsheet of books in the Library, this one is arranged by Author and this one is arranged by Title.
For online resources relating to Quakerism, including free e-books, visit the helpful website of the Concord Friends Meeting.
Some other e-books you can download for free:
Barclay, Robert. Barclay's Apology.
Clarkson, Thomas. Portraiture of Quakerism.
Fox, George. An Autobiography.
Hicks, Elias. Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of Elias Hicks.
Hodgkin, L. V. A Book of Quaker Saints.
Penn, William. A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers.
Penn, William. A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House, in Gracechurch-Street, London.
Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Complete Works.
Woolman, John. John Woolman's Journal.
Quaker Periodicals
Quaker Life, magazine of Friends United Meeting.
Friends Journal, an independent Friends magazine. An index to the Journal may be found here.
The Friend, weekly Quaker magazine published in London.
Pendle Hill Pamphlets, a publication of Pendle Hill. An index may be found here.
The Western Friend, publication of the Pacific, North Pacific and Intermountain Yearly Meetings.
Earthlight, Publication of the Pacific Yearly Meeting Committee on Unity with Nature.
Donating books to the FMW Library
If you have books on Quakerism published since 1990 that you would like to donate to the Library, please search for the titles first in our online catalog to make sure we do not already have a copy. Contact Michael North, clerk of the Library Committee, by going to our Contact Form and selecting Library as the message category.
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Getting a business credit card when you have a bad credit can be particularly daunting, especially for those who are new in the corporate world. When you are just starting a small business, it is necessary that you have a credit card in order to be able to sufficiently finance your endeavors.
Things can be a bit complicated because credit card providers do not look too kindly on people with bad credit. After all, who would want to invest on someone with a bad credit score and a bad credit record? You get a bad credit rating when you are incapable of paying up your financial obligations on time, and if you have debts which you have failed to pay. How, then, do you get a credit card with a bad credit?
Get a co-signer
Having a bad credit rating is definitely a very bad thing for you and your family. It is particularly inconvenient because you will be deprived of the opportunity to apply for loans or credit cards. Of course, if you are in debt, this is the time when you need to apply for a loan in order to pay up some of your bigger debts.
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The phrase may seem redundant, but it means as it reads. A bad credit credit card is a credit card which is meant for people with bad credit ratings. The privileges are, of course, different from that of the regular credit cards. Still, you will be able to make a lot of use of a credit card for bad credit holders. You can get one of these online.
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Much like the credit card for bad credit holders, the small business credit card is a type of credit card uniquely meant for card holders who are financially hard-up.
This type of credit card is available for people who are just starting their businesses. These individuals, more often than not, encounter a lot of financial difficulties. This type of credit card has a limited coverage, but this is enough to make things a little less difficult for you.
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Cal Poly SLO - Department of Music
Course Information - Music 324 (History of Film Music) - Fall 2014
Office: 132 Davidson Music Center
Office Hours: Tues 11-12; Wed 1-3; Thurs 12-1; other times by appointment—just ask!
Course Description: Music 324: History of Film is a G.E. C.4 (WRITING INTENSIVE) survey
course for all upper-division students that examines the history and masterworks
of music for films, beginning with the birth of the genre and continuing to the
present day. (For the C.4 Learning Objectives, please see http://ge.calpoly.edu/content/learning-objectives-and-criteria#arts%20and%20humanities.)
Special focus will be given to developing an analytic vocabulary for musical
elements, music's function within films, and for the technology of film-making.
The course consists of lecture/discussions, guided and independent listening/film-viewing,
written assignments, and periodic examinations. It is NOT necessary to read
music in this class—but it is essential to come to class and to do the
reading assignments to earn a good grade.
The Textbook is Roger Hickman's Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Film Music, W. W. Norton, 2006. Please bring your book with you every day, and please do your reading before each class.
The Course Reader, which will be found in PolyLearn AND at the course website: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~amclamor/324Film/index.html (you will receive the password in class).
Please PRINT OUT and BRING the reader with you to class EVERY day. It contains guidelines for the assignments, a glossary, helpful tips, and many other wonderful and exciting things.
You will be given loaner cds from the Music Department, to be returned at the end of the quarter. Set up regular listening times in your weekly schedule, and listen often! The individual tracks of the Recordings are listed in the Course Reader.
Prerequisites: completion of Area A and a foundation course in Area C.
Course Requirements (Please note: the percentages are calculated using the letter grades earned, not points; "the points don't matter." An "A" is calculated as 4.0, an A- is 3.7, a B+ is 3.3, and so forth):
I. Two Midterms (20% each), on Oct. 16 and Nov. 6. You will need an 882 Scantron for each.
II. Two Analysis Assignments. Guidelines and forms are in the course reader.
Viewer Guide Function Analysis is due October 23 (10%)
Featured Film Function & Musical Analysis is due November 25 (20%)
III. A Final, on Dec. 9 (30% of the grade). Again, bring an 882 Scantron form (and return the CDs)
IV. Set Your Alarm. A large portion of the material for which you are responsible will come out of the class lectures. It is impossible for you to 'hear' music and 'see' videos we covered when you review someone else's notes, so regular attendance is essential!
Moreover, you need to be completely present "mentally," so NO CELL PHONE USE during class; laptops, tablets, etc., can be used only with permission, and you must agree to leave their wireless access disabled. If you do not wish to comply with this expectation, PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.
NOTE: If you are going to be away from campus for two or more class meetings (attending conferences, etc.), this course is not recommended for you.
V. All course requirements must be completed in order to receive a passing grade; all assignments should be completed independently. This includes developing the cue-sheets for each paper, bibliographic citations, etc. In short: DON'T SHARE YOUR WORK!! (Please see the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities website for Cal Poly's guidelines concerning Academic Dishonesty: http://www.osrr.calpoly.edu/)
Music 324 - History of Film Music - Course Outline - Fall 2014
Reading Assignments
Week 1 Sept. 23 1-Tues. The Tools of Music Ch. 3; Reader pp. 7, 16-19, 24
Sept. 25 2-Thurs. The Tools of Music Ch. 1, 2
Week 2 Sept. 30 3-Tues. Functions of Film Scoring Ch. 4; Reader p. 14
Oct. 2 4-Thurs. Functions of Film Scoring Reader pp. 22
Week 3 Oct. 7 5-Tues. Functions of Film Scoring
Oct. 9 6-Thurs. Functions of Film Scoring; Sample Quiz (ungraded) Reader pp. 15-19, 21
Week 4 Oct. 14 7-Tues. Functions of Film Scoring
Oct. 16 8-Thurs. Exam I
Week 5 Oct. 21 9-Tues. Film / Film Music Operations Reader p. 25
Oct. 23 10-Thurs. Film / Film Music Operations; "Silent" Films; Viewer Guide Ch. 5-8
Function Analysis Due
Week 6 Oct. 28 11-Tues. "Silent" Films; Birth of Talkies Ch. 9; Reader pp. 15-16, 20, 26-28
Oct. 30 12-Thurs. Talkies; Rise of the Symphonic Film Score Ch. 10, 11
Week 7 Nov. 4 13-Tues. Symphonic Film Scores and the International Film World
Nov. 6 14-Thurs. Exam II
Week 8 Nov. 11 15-Tues. [No Class Meeting - Veteran's Day Holiday]
Nov. 13 16-Thurs. "1939" Ch. 12; Reader p. 29
Week 9 Nov. 18 17-Tues. The Golden Age Ch. 13; Reader p. 21
Nov. 20 18-Thurs. Styles and Genres: Film Noir Ch. 15, 17
Week 10 Nov. 25 19-Tues. Styles and Genres: Thriller/Suspense/Horror; Featured Film Ch. 18, 21, 22
Analysis due
Nov. 27 20-Thurs. [No Class Meeting - Thanksgiving Holiday]
Week 11 Dec. 2 21-Tues. Styles and Genres: Western Ch. 25, 29, 30; Reader p. 30
Dec. 4 22-Thurs. Beginnings and Endings Ch. 31, 32, 34
Finals Dec. 9 F-Tues. Final – 4:10 PM - 7:00 PM (Please bring back your Loaner CDs)


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The lessons from QE and other 'unconventional' monetary policies - evidence from the Bank of England
This paper investigates the effectiveness of the 'quantitative easing' policy, as implemented by the Bank of England in March 2009. Similar policies had been previously implemented in Japan, the U.S. and the Eurozone. Th
This paper investigates the effectiveness of the 'quantitative easing' policy, as implemented by the Bank of England in March 2009. Similar policies had been previously implemented in Japan, the U.S. and the Eurozone. The effectiveness is measured by the impact of Bank of England policies (including, but not limited to QE) on nominal GDP growth – the declared goal of the policy, according to the Bank of England. Unlike the majority of the literature on the topic, the general-to-specific econometric modeling methodology (a.k.a. the 'Hendry' or 'LSE' methodology) is employed for this purpose. The empirical analysis indicates that QE as defined and announced in March 2009 had no apparent effect on the UK economy. Meanwhile, it is found that a policy of 'quantitative easing' defined in the original sense of the term (Werner, 1994) is supported by empirical evidence: a stable relationship between a lending aggregate (disaggregated M4 lending, i.e. bank credit for GDP transactions) and nominal GDP is found. The findings imply that BoE policy should more directly target the growth of bank credit for GDP-transactions.…
|Victor Lyonnet, Richard A. Werner
|Parent Title (German):
|Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2011,29
|Series (Serial Number):
|CFS working paper series (2011, 29)
|Goethe-Univ., House of Finance, Center for Financial Studies
|Place of publication:
|Frankfurt am Main
|Document Type:
|Working Paper
|Year of Completion:
|Year of first Publication:
|Publishing Institution:
|Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main
|Release Date:
|Central Banking; General-to-specific Methodology; Monetary Policy; Nominal GDP Growth; Quantitative Easing
|Version June 29, 2011
|HeBIS PPN:
|House of Finance (HoF)
|Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
|Dewey Decimal Classification:
|332 Finanzwirtschaft
|E41 Demand for Money
|E52 Monetary Policy
|E58 Central Banks and Their Policies
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|Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen


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Get away for a break on a budget this autumn with our pick of five flights to France, Spain, Italy and Croatia, all less than £50.
1. Girona, Spain from £30
Its airport is offically called Girona-Costa Brava, while Ryanair call it Girona Barcelona, which both hint that most people head straight off to the beach or Barcelona. But Girona itself is very much worthy of your attention, especially now summer's heat has eased. Walk the walls of the city on the Passeig de la Muralla, pausing to rest among cacti like sprouting stars in the gardens opposite the Banys Àrabs (a 12th century bathhouse). Or walk the walk at night... spooky!
2. Pisa, Italy from £30
You can't go to Pisa without getting a photo of you holding up the Leaning Tower. You may find yourself in a feature called '10 cheesiest holiday photos' but there's a time and a place to be a total tourist, and that's here. Photo opps aside, there is much more to do in this pretty, romantic Tuscan city. Like eat. Pick a place for pizza in Piazza dei Cavaleri or a tourist-free trattoria around Via San Martino, order a bottle of sun-nourished Suvereto and raise a tipsy toast to la dolce vita.
3. Santander, Spain from £34
Better known these days as one of the world's largest banks, Santander got its name from its home, the port city in Cantabria, northern Spain. One way of getting there is by ferry, from Portsmouth or Plymouth, which despite taking 20 hours, has its advantages, like the chance of seeing cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises). Or you could just take a short flight for a short break. Take a windswept walk up to Cabo Mayor lighthouse to earn a plate of rabas (fried calamari) and blow your entire holiday budget in neoclassical style at the Gran Casino del Sardinero.
4. Faro, Portugal from £34
Faro isn't that far away! Oh dear. Far and away one of Europe's top autumn golfing destinations, you'll probably share the plane with a fair few men of a certain age in sleeveless pink Pringle jumpers. But you don't have to have a handicap of six to take a sunny late season break on the Algarve. And you should really stop on Faro itself on your way to the beach/pool/villa/golf course, even if it is just to take a stroll through its medieval streets and shop for a new jumper.
More: 8 great places to visit in Portugal
5. Zadar, Croatia from £30
Late season sun: the three magic words caress like a warm sea breeze along the Dalmatian coast. Where lies Zadar, a walled port in the same vein as the more-visited Dubrovnik further south. If you fancy a change from drinking wine and perusing menus studded with seafood, check out Krka National Park an hour inland. Swim in whirlpools, hike in wooded hills and keep an eye out for the 18 species of bats found in the park. Did you know there were 18 species of bats?! No? Oh well, back to that bottle of wine.
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Ride longer with Trek's most versatile line of bikes yet. Outfitted with Ride longer features like Bontrager Ergo grips and a fitness-specific Bontrager H2 saddle that uses a Flex Form elastomer to pivot slightly…
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- Frame:
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- Front Derailleur:
Shimano 6703
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- Shifters:
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- Chainset:
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- Chainrings:
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- Cassette:
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- Pedals:
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Tektro RX 3.0 brake
- Rear Brake:
Tektro RX 3.0 brake
- Brake Levers:
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- Handlebars:
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- Stem:
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- Headset:
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- Grips:
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Bontrager Race rims
- Front Hub:
Bontrager Race hub
- Rear Hub:
Bontrager Race hub
- Front Tyre:
Bontrager Race Hard-case plus all weather 700×28c
- Rear Tyre:
Bontrager Race Hard-case plus all weather 700×28c
- Saddle:
Bontrager H2 Flex form
- Seatpost:
Bontrager Race X Lite carbon
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Just want to congratulate Harvey Pooka for taking the initiative to setup the wiki page so everyone can quickly see the progress made on this issue. I hope its kept up to date. Given the support and openness of Zander and Nvidia thus far I don't see why this would not be the case. Thanks guys
I wish there was a little more involvement from the FreeBSD dev team here though. I know they are probably working on certain aspects of the features Nvidia needs but I always find FreeBSD Dev info hard to come by(searching mailing lists is not my idea of fun, I guess they are busy coding). Has anyone got some links they could post so I can watch the progress in more detail? Or tips on finding this info?
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Full detailed profile on Jason Morgan (Past) Played by Steve Burton on General Hospital Daytime Soap Opera.
Steve Burton (ABC)
Birthday: 1970-06-28
Jason busts into the church and demands the cure but Ewen doesn't have it. He wants to talk to Jerry and is taking Liz with him. Liz tries to break free but Jason orders her to stop. Jason knows the connection Ewen has to the Jacks family and Ewen confesses to killing John in cold blood. He'll kill Jason too if he has to and shoots him in the leg. Ewen loves Liz and wants to be the one to fix things. He refuses to let Jason be the hero. Liz breaks away and Jason shoots Ewen in the stomach. He tells Ewen he deserves to die for what he did. Jason cuts Liz's hands free and she checks on Ewen – he needs to get to the hospital or he will die.
At the hospital Kate has some good news for Sonny – Joe Jr. checked out of Metro Court. Sonny may have had something to do with that but he didn't hurt Joe. She wonders what stopped him. He gets a text to meet Todd at the Quartermaine's to get the cure and leaves. Later, Steve tells Kate that Olivia has not had another acid flashback like when she thought Ewen was the devil, although that has turned out to be true. Kate knows Ewen is a good man and will not hurt Liz. Just then Liz and Jason come in with Ewen. Kate begs Steve to help Ewen while Liz takes Jason into a room to work on him. Jason and Liz share a close moment while she works on his wound.
Jason and Spin Skype. Jason looks sick – flushed and feverish. Spin found out that Ewen had a special patient – John Jacks. He was being treated for depression, but then he was moved to Arizona. Keenan was eventually summoned there to continue treatment. Now Spin is in Arizona in the hospital where John died. Jason tells him that Keenan kidnapped Liz and sends him a recording of the phone call. Spin is able to figure out they were close to St. Mary's Church based on what he hears. Jason tells Spin there is a quarantine and he needs to stay away. After they sign off, Spin looks up online about what is happening in Port Charles and is shocked.
In the church, Ewen grabs a gun and tells Liz that is why they are there. John Jacks took everything from his family and left them with nothing. His dad died a broken man while John and his family prospered over the dead man's hand. His dad owned the dead man's hand. People would offer him unbelievable amounts but he would never sell –that was his insurance in case the farm fell on hard times. One day John Jacks showed up, gained his trust and took the cards out from under him. After that, their livestock died and Ewen's dad sold the farm to pay off his debts. He promised his father on his death bed that he would make John Jacks pay. He wanted to steal the hand but someone else beat him to it and without the cards John was just as broken as his dad. He injected something into John to kill him, but was caught by Jerry. He didn't report John's murder and has used it to make Ewen do some terrible things. He tells Liz he has to make it right. She begs him to take her with him. Suddenly, Jason bursts in with a gun.
Jason gets to Liz's house and finds Patrick knocked out on the floor. He gets him up and asks where Ewen is. Patrick tells him they were calling the cops and Ewen knocked him out. He must have taken her. Jason calls Dante, but Patrick refuses an ambulance. They need to find Elizabeth. Patrick can't believe this is the same guy. Dante arrives and puts an APB out on Ewen. Jason is freaking out about Liz – they need to find her before Ewen hurts her.
Back at the station, Jason answers the call from Liz. Jason, Patrick, Lulu and Dante can hear them talking and start to trace the location. Ewen realizes she has her phone on and throws it out the window. Meanwhile, Dante gets a call from CDC that there is a potentially fatal pathogen in the water and they don't know how to stop it.
At the cable station, Jerry is shocked when Jax walks in – he was supposed to be grounded in Shanghai. Jax wants to hear it is all a bluff, but Jerry assures him it is real. Jax thinks Jerry is desperate and wants to know what he wants. Jason asks if he worked with Ewen or Joe Scully but Jerry denies both. Jax can tell he is lying. John and the cops take Jerry in and Jax tells Jason the name Keenan sounds familiar.
Dante tells the cops at PCPD they need to work hard to prevent a riot. Sonny wants to help. Dante tells him that McBain and Jason have Jerry at gunpoint and they are testing the reservoir to see if the threat is real. Sonny can get his guys out to a local market to keep order. Dante appreciates the offer, but can't have him take matters into his own hands. Sonny tells Dante that Joe Jr. is also out and he doesn't know what he has planned. Later, they bring Jerry in and Jason tells Jax about Keenan. Jax can't place the name. Jerry thinks they will be more receptive to negotiate the next morning.
Patrick pulls Ewen off Liz at her house. Ewen thinks Jason got to him too, and Patrick agrees he may have overreacted. Liz pushes Ewen for an answer about his involvement with Jerry. He covers and says Jerry has always been off. Patrick asks Ewen to go back to the hospital while he talks to Liz. Ewen leaves and Patrick tells Liz that Jason sent him to warn her. Liz tells Patrick that she thinks Ewen is working with Jerry and picks up the phone to call Dante. Ewen walks in with a baseball bat. Later, Jason arrives and sees Patrick knocked out on the floor and Liz is gone.
At the hospital, Jason asks Patrick about Robin's ties to Jerry. He thinks Jerry is connected to the injections. A nurse runs in and puts on the television. When Jerry says he has an associate, Jason tells Patrick it is Keenan he is talking about. He calls Liz but she is not answering. He makes Patrick promise to check on Liz.
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Roy at the RTI Activist's National Convention in May of 2007
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Aruna Roy (born 26 June 1946) is an Indian political and social activist who founded and heads the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathana ("Workers and Peasants Strength Union").
Roy was born to Tamil Brahmin family in Chennai.[1][2] She grew up in Delhi where her father was a government employee. She did her schooling from Convent of Jesus and Mary, Delhi, and later completed her post graduation in English literature from Indraprastha College, Delhi University.[3][4]
She served as a civil servant in the Indian Administrative Service between 1968 and 1974. In 1970 she married Bunker Roy.
She resigned the job to devote her time to social and political campaigns. She joined the Social Work and Research Center (SWRC) in Tilonia, Rajasthan.[5][6][7] In 1987, she along with Nikhil Dey, Shankar Singh and others founded the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan.[8] She was a leader of the Right to Information movement through National Campaign for People's Right to Information, which led to the enactment of the Right to Information Act in 2005.[9] She has also remained a member of the National Advisory Council.[10]
In 2000, she received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership.[11] In 2010 she received the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academia and Management.[12] In 2004, Roy was inducted into the National Advisory Council, a quasi-governmental body chaired by Sonia Gandhi[13] which was passed by the Indian parliament in 2005. She served as a member of the National Advisory Council of India until 2006 and was part of NAC II.
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- ^ "Aruna Roy (Indian activist) -- Encyclopedia Britannica". Encyclopedia Britannica. January 30, 2013.
- ^ "DU has a lot on its ladies special platter". India Today. June 3, 2009.
- ^ Women who dared, by Ritu Menon. Published by National Book Trust, India, 2002. ISBN 81-237-3856-0. Page 169-170.
- ^ Aruna Roy BusinessWeek, July 8, 2002.
- ^ Aruna Roy National Resource Center for Women, Govt. of India.
- ^ MKSS As a Role Model, Civl Society Online. Jan 2012
- ^ Blacked out: government secrecy in the information age, by Alasdair Scott Roberts. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- ^ "NAC reconstituted". The Hindu. Jun 4, 2005.
- ^ Ramon Magsaysay Award Citation
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- ^ Visionaries: The 20th Century's 100 Most Important Inspirational Leaders, by Satish Kumar, Freddie Whitefield. Published by Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1-933392-53-3. Page 139.
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As 2013 came to a close, the California court of appeal in Parker Shattuck Neighbors v. Berkeley City Council (1st Dist., Div. 4, 12/30/13, A136873) ___Cal.App.1st___, 2013, upheld the City of Berkeley's decision not to...more
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Fresh off a remarkable late series rally against the Anaheim Ducks, the suddenly upstart Detroit Red Wings have shockingly moved on to the Western Conference Quarterfinals against their old rivals from Chicago.
The path to a Stanley Cup doesn't get any easier for Detroit, as the Blackhawks are the number one seed in the west, and have played like it, ousting Minnesota in an easy five game series. The Red Wings played Chicago tough in every single game but one this year, and are full of confidence heading into the final playoff match up between the teams before Detroit moves east. Will the Red Wings secure another upset, or will Chicago skate away to the conference finals? Today, we're letting you know.
Key To The Series:
Andrew Tomlinson: Physical play.
The Red Wings need to push the Hawks, specifically Corey Crawford around. It is no secret the Chicago netminder is the weakest link of what is a very good Western Conference team. That said, we all know how quick he can fall apart and it will be the job of the Red Wings' big men to get in his crease, disrupt his focus and sure, why not run him over a few times. It worked for Boston against Ryan Miller.
Chris Burke: Turnovers.
Detroit's only — ONLY — chance in this series is to play as it did for the first 55 minutes of Game 6 and the first 57 minutes of Game 7 vs. Anaheim. And by that I mean, forechecking hard enough to force some mistakes by Chicago and playing soundly enough on D to prevent any glorious chances. All of this starts with the Wings' defense taking care of the puck. The Blackhawks are good enough to survive if they get a little sloppy. The Wings are not.
Max DeMara: Board battles.
If there was one area Detroit was incredibly exposed against Anaheim despite their victory, it was perimeter defense, especially along the boards and behind their own net leading to middle of the ice chances. Turnovers and careless play cost the Red Wings too many times to the tune of too many goals. Against the Blackhawks, the defense has to play much more responsibly in their own end and win the board battles. Chicago is a hungry team which forechecks well and doesn't mind scoring ugly goals, so the pressure will be on the Red Wings' defense and forwards to win the one on one contests.
Players To Watch:
Tomlinson: Justin Abdelkader/Brandon Saad.
Abdeklader was great for the Wings last series. He may have a little Brendan Shanahan in him with his physical play and nose for the net. If he can stay out of the press box, his physicality could really be a turning point for the Wings this series. On the other hand, Saad is an impressive young player who has killed the Wings all year and been a bright young star in the Windy City. Keeping him at bay will help the Wings avoid the pain of watching another young player take them to the woodshed like Etem did last round.
Burke: Detroit's third line and Patrick Sharp.
It's easy to forget, amidst all the Hossa/Toews/Kane hoopla, that the Blackhawks are an extremely deep team. No player from the rest of the group is as dangerous as Sharp, who does just about everything you could ask a player to do. The Wings more of a shot to counter that depth than most will give them credit for, but it starts with the third line producing. That Joakim Andersson/Damien Brunner/Gustav Nyquist grouping was great against Anaheim (other than the Game 5 OT goal), and it has to replicate that success here.
DeMara: Gustav Nyquist and Bryan Bickell
In these playoffs, Nyquist has been a breath of fresh air with speed and playmaking ability around the net. His fast skates and slick stick have looked great, especially when paired with Brunner and Andersson. Chicago might have a bit more trouble dealing with a Detroit team featuring a confident Nyqust. Bickell, on the other hand, is the stereotypical playoff player. A burly forward capable of scoring tough goals, the Red Wings will need to match his intensity and drive. Given their immense depth everywhere else, how well Bickell and his linemates play could determine how fast Chicago wins the series.
Rob Starrs: Dan Cleary/Valtteri Filppula and Jonathan Toews/Patrick Kane
Cleary and Filppula are going to be the keys to the series. They both showed up for game seven with the lines being jumbled, and that seemed to break them both out of whatever funk they were in. If Filppula can find his scoring touch and Cleary can grind and make plays the Red Wings will be much tougher to deal with. It's easy to say that Detroit needs to watch the top guys, but Kane and Toews will be crucial in this battle. It will be tough to keep them in check, but Detroit will have to contain those two danglers in order to have a chance at this upset.
Most Important Series Stat:
Tomlinson: Why not? Blocked shots.
Getting shots at the net seemed to be a key stat for both team's last round. Lets roll with it again this round. Blocking the point shots from Chicago and making sure the Wings' shots get to Crawford and around the dirty areas will be a huge factor.
Burke: Shots on goal.
Detroit has to be, at least, pretty close to even here. If the shot totals skew badly in Chicago's favor, it's hard to imagine the Red Wings coming up with enough offense to match the inevitable Blackhawks goals.
DeMara: Penalty minutes.
Chicago only had two power play goals the last round to Detroit's six. On the other hand, the Blackhawks were the most efficient penalty kill in the last round at 100 percent while the Red Wings struggled to hang around 72 percent. As the old saying goes, something's gotta give here. The key to this series will lie within specialty teams. If the Red Wings can cash in their chances with the man advantage, they will be in excellent shape, especially if they kill their penalties. They cannot let the Blackhawks' power play off the mat, nor can they afford to take needless penalties.
Starrs: Penalty minutes.
As I said before the first round, it's going to be special teams. The Red Wings have to take advantage when the Blackhawks go to the box. Chicago won't let Detroit slide if they miss on a 5 on 3. On the reverse side, Detroit has to stay out of the box. The Blackhawks' power play can be deadly when they're clicking and get into a groove.
Detroit Wins If…
Tomlinson: The euro-twins continue to produce like they are producing.
Chicago is not giving up many goals and I still do not trust Jimmy Howard to stop much, either. If Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg continue to fill up the scoresheet, the Red Wings will find themselves in a series.
Burke: The back six raises its game.
Thus far, the Carlo Colaiacovo-for-Brian Lashoff switch has produced results for Detroit. The Wings need that back six to be rock solid — looking at you, Kyle Quincey and Brendan Smith. It'd be nice to have Danny DeKeyser for this matchup; without him, the pressure's on everyone else
DeMara: Scoring depth proceeds.
Last round, the Red Wings managed to hang around early in the series without much from their big guns. The third line was excellent, and the fourth line contributed a few good shifts as well. This time, though, Detroit will need their stars to play like stars right away, including Zetterberg, while getting the same effort out of other lines. It's a tall order to match Chicago's depth, but with inspired efforts, it could happen.
Starrs: If the young guns grew up during round one.
Lots of mistakes by a younger, inexperienced defense can't happen this series. The Red Wings have to limit the giveaways, especially in their own zone. The Blackhawks won't be missing open nets and breakaways like Anaheim did. If the younger players continue to take care of the puck and do the simple things right, the Red Wings will have a chance.
Tomlinson: Blackhawks in six.
Burke: This feels a bit like the reverse of the Wings-Blackhawks series in 2009, when Detroit was the Western Conference power and Chicago was an up-and-comer. I expect every game in this series to be pretty tight, but it's hard for me to envision the Red Wings winning. Blackhawks in five.
DeMara: The Red Wings showed mettle against Anaheim and surprised many with a seeding upset. Turning that trick against Chicago will take a string of perfect games, hard work and good fortune from Detroit's perspective. The mental advantage of being the team to play Chicago the toughest during the abbreviated regular season will matter in this series, and the game Red Wings give the Blackhawks a tussle. Home ice counts for more this time around in game seven, though, as the gassed Red Wings go down fighting. Blackhawks in seven.
Starrs: Everyone will be picking against the Red Wings because of Chicago's dominance over the league this season. I think Detroit's first round victory taught the young guys a thing or two, though, that will prove pivotal in this series. Red Wings in six.
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An appeals court in New York City has unanimously rejected Christopher Porco's latest attempt to get a new hearing on his murder conviction by claiming ineffective counsel.
The Appellate Division in the Second Department rejected claims that Albany attorney Terence L. Kindlon failed to properly represent Porco through the lengthy appeal process.
"The appellant has failed to establish that he was denied the effective assistance of appellate counsel," stated the unanimous decision filed Wednesday.
Porco, 30, is serving a 46 years to life murder sentence in the Clinton Correctional Facility for killing his father, Peter Porco, and injuring his mother, Joan Porco, with an ax in their Bethlehem home. He was convicted in 2006 by an Orange County jury. He is eligible for parole in 2052.
The appeal was of the original appellate ruling issued in 2010.
"We did everything on earth," Kindlon said Thursday about the efforts made to defend Porco.
That included the trial, original appeal; an appeal to the state Court of Appeals and two filings with the U.S. Supreme Court.
"The truth is the five lawyers in my office, along with some brilliant lawyers and legal scholars who are friends, and graciously contributed their research, writing and creative brain-storming pro bono, left no stone unturned," Kindlon said in a statement about the case.
Kindlon pointed out that the defense lawyers were able to obtain a change of venue for the trial; get Porco out on bail; and suppress a police video of a six-hour interrogation of him.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry says prayer can be more effective than gun control laws.
In a statement responding to President Barack Obama's executive actions to reduce gun violence, Perry says he's "disgusted" by what he calls the "political left" using the Connecticut school massacre to push for greater restrictions on guns.
The governor says, "The sad young man who did that in Newtown was clearly haunted by demons and no gun law could have saved the children in Sandy Hook Elementary from his terror."
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"Harry, a bottle of milk an' a quart of sour cream."
"A whitefish, Harry. But fresh."
"A couple of rolls, an' a cream-cheese, an' a . … .an a. . . ."
"All right, all right. Just a minute. I've only got two hands."
The women, browsing among the cans of soup and fruit-juice, began to talk about Harry.
"He's not feeling so good today."
"Something is on his mind."
"All dressed up, isn't he?"
The women were right. Harry had something on his mind. And he was dressed up, too. A short, narrow-shouldered man, he darted up and down behind the counter. He lifted the glass door of the icebox. He pulled boxes down from the shelves. But his thoughts were somewhere else:
"He is here. Thank God. . . .The only one left. He is here now. Here, in the free America."
A neighbor came into the store. ."Harry, you going to the boat?"
"Going? Sure I'm going. My nephew," he explained to the others. ."He is coming from Europe. Saved from a certain death. . . .The only one left of my family."
The store grew quiet. They listened; each woman had a similar story. Harry felt like a speaker on a platform. But his usual glibness left him, and he spoke in disconnected phrases.
"Nobody even knows what became of their ashes. . . .Pinchas, he is risen from the dead. He was in all the worst concentration camps."
"He's coming with his wife." Harry began to add details. ."They just got married—in Belgium. You should see how she writes English." He opened the drawer where he kept important papers and pulled out a pack of grey envelopes. But by this time the women had begun to get impatient. The milk-and-cream woman was inspecting her charge-slip. ."Harry, don't forget to count the two bottles that I brought back."
"I won't! I won't!" he growled. But as a matter of fact, he had been thinking of other matters: His brother (Peace be with him!). .The old times. The old home. . . .But where is the missus? Harry began to get angry. Why hasn't she come yet? Promised to be here early. This is no ordinary occasion. This is for Hayim Ozer's boy.
Hayim Ozer was the scholar of the family. And Pinchas has his name after grandfather Pini, Reb Pini the Reader.
Oh. . . .here is the missus!
The car on the El was half empty. Harry closed his eyes. He thought of the welcome they had prepared. His missus had talked about it for weeks. ."A party . . . ah," he sighed, "that's all a woman thinks of."
He will invite the whole family. But only the older people will come, those of his own generation. What do the youngsters know about Reb Pini the reader? His own children, what do they know?
Not that he, Harry, has reason to complain. His oldest, Barry, has his own drugstore. The youngest, Jerry, is almost a professor. Only, he is a bit of a black sheep. That is, a bit of a "red" one. He got infected by his friends in the college. But that is nothing to worry about. Jerry is a veteran. Four years overseas, fighting for Uncle Sam. Even Sandra has straightened out. True, she runs around in slacks. And always with a cigarette, never out of her mouth. But she married a decent boy. No, he can't complain. But as regards Judaism—that's a different story. Lately, of course, they have begun to be aware. Barry takes a look at the Palestine news in the Times—especially if a bomb is in the headlines. Jerry argues that anti-Semitism and capitalism go hand in hand. He saw enough in Germany, didn't he?
At Grand Concourse, Harry got off the El and walked through the long tunnel to the 7th Avenue Express.
Now Harry began to get down to brass tacks.
Brother Sam from Brooklyn will certainly come to the party, and sister Sarah from Central Park West will probably be there too.
If they feel like chipping in, that's all well and good. But he, Harry, won't mention it. After the party, however, he'll give Pinchas a check—a good check—a hundred! Maybe more? Let him have a couple of cents in his pockets.
He won't do it in public. No, God forbid. But don't worry, they'll notice it.
Warmed by the coming meeting with his nephew, Harry became sentimental. It now occurred to him that it would not be seemly to give Pinchas nothing but a check. The boy comes from hell, from pain and suffering.
What is money? No. Man does not live by bread alone. Pinchas must be given a sign. A symbol. Something spiritual.
But what? Some furniture has already been bought. Clothes? That will come later. The missus will buy. She is waiting till they arrive, so she can get the exact sizes. Well, make the check bigger. A hundred and fifty. . . .Two hundred, OK?
But that is not it!
It was only at 96th Street that he got his inspiration. .The Eternal Values! Why didn't he think of it before? There is the proper gift!
The Eternal Values was a book with a history. Ten years ago, Harry did a favor for a Mr. O'Connor. This O'Connor—a very decent goy, this one—wanted to give him a check. But Harry put his foot down. No check. Let him know that money is not a Jew's all in all!
So O'Connor took a ride to the East Side, went into a book store and asked for a book, a book with Hebrew letters. Let it be something good. Bible, Prayers, Laws. Price is no object. Poetry? Poetry, that doesn't hurt either. From time to time, Harry and O'Connor used to have a discussion on elevated matters. My God, your God. . . .O'Connor knew Harry was no ignoramus.
He brought him The Eternal Values. .A de luxe edition, almost a thousand pages. It had in it a bit of everything that's good: the Bible, Sayings of the Sages, Maimonides . . .up to Bialik. So the book lies in Harry's closet—gathering dust. Now, at least, the book will be used. He, Harry, has no time to look in it. When can he sit down with a book? And the children. . . . well, the children. . . .
Harry's face clouded. Ah, it's good that Pinchas is coming. Now somebody will look into the book. Give it to Pinchas. The book—and a check for two hundred and fifty dollars. There'll still be plenty left for the children. No, three hundred dollars.
But he still felt uneasy. He felt that he was imposing on Pinchas. How? In what way? He could not put it clearly.
The lights of a local station twinkled. Suddenly, a story came into Harry's mind, a story that he had heard back in his childhood:
A boy was on his way to school, carrying his siddur and a roll for his lunch. Along came a dog and snatched the roll out of his hand. So the boy took the siddur, threw it at the dog, and cried, "If you took the roll, take the siddur too. . . .You go to the school!"
Times Square!
The light was a pail of cold water. The underground journey had spun cobwebs in Harry's brain. Light brushed them away now, and they drifted off between the skyscrapers, between the hotdog stands. He breathed the sharp air, the business air. He stopped being a philosopher. Harry was a Bronx storekeeper again.
He waved to a taxi. They started for the boat.
Pinchas-Pierre and Modeste stood at the rail and eyed the crowd upon the pier.
"Do you recognize him?" she asked.
They were speaking in French. ."Who? Uncle Harry? I don't even know him. When he left for America, I wasn't even born yet."
"Yes, I forgot. Because. . . .because of that . . .I am all mixed up."
"I don't know. You scared me so much."
They stared at the giant city, this mute Sphinx, keeping to itself the secret of their future. Modeste fidgeted nervously. Pinchas-Pierre could hear a few disconnected syllables, as if she were intoning a spell: "Pin-has . . . yum-tuv . . . ha-sunna . . . mik, mickey."
"What are you murmuring?" Pinchas attempted to smile.
Modeste blushed. ."I don't know. I am afraid of the first meeting."
"Well," he said. ."In the first place, it is 'mikva,' not 'mickey.' And, in the second place, you can forget the word. Here, in New York, they don't have much use for it."
"Good. Better that way." She pushed her short blond hair back and posed before him, with her slender body, like a mannequin. ."How do I look now?" she said. Her girlish bosom strained against the tight-fitting sweater.
"How? A Flemish shiksa."
"No," she pouted. ."Seriously. Tell me."
"Tell you? I am telling you. What do you want to look like? A rabbi's daughter?"
Modeste's face clouded and she lowered her eyes. ."I know," she whispered. ."You no longer love me. I have no one. I am here alone . . .in a strange world . . . among strange people."
Pierre's arm slipped around her waist. "Don't worry. It will be all right. You'll see."
Her eyes lit up. ."When I am with you, I do feel better." She looked at the big city.
He was an old wanderer. It was nothing new to him to be in a strange land. But she had always lived at home, in the small fishing village where her father, Old Benoit, was the inn-keeper. There was a little garden, a few dozen fowl, a couple of pigs. Even while the Germans were there, she had felt that it was temporary, like a storm at sea, which in time blows over. The real storm began when they found Pierre, bruised and famished, in the loft of their barn. He had been in a little boat trying to cross the Channel. . . .
After the Germans were gone, Pierre took her to Paris. Oh, how she had tried to understand his friends, talking all the time in tiny rooms of small hotels. All that talk. . . .
Then, suddenly, they were here, across the ocean.
Harry began to make philosophy again. In the store, the customers kept buzzing.
"Harry, a bottle of milk!" "Harry! What time do the fresh rolls come in?"
"Rolls . . . they'll come when they come." Harry was thinking of other things.
He had seen little of his two relatives from the other side. He took them from the ship to their rooms in Brooklyn, and then, during the next week, the missus had shown them the ropes. She took them to buy clothes; a few things for the house. Took them for a walk in Prospect Park. The missus liked them, especially Modeste.
"A good girl," she said. "Gentle. Like a dove. Only, she mixes so much French in her Yiddish. And her name, too. . . .Harry, how do you say 'Modeste' in English?"
Harry did not know.
He found it hard to think of his nephew as a man of flesh and blood. He had become a symbol, a principle. And, around this principle, Harry fought a battle with himself.
"Why?" he would argue. ."Why should Pinchas be the one to take The Eternal Values? Why Pinchas? What's the matter with my children?"
After he got home from the ship, Harry kept raising the check that he planned to give Pinchas. Three fifty. . . . Four hundred. . . . When it reached four hundred and fifty, Harry began to see that something was wrong, that he was trying to buy his way out.
Out of what?
Slowly he began to understand those obscure thoughts that he had had on the Express. . . .Moses received the Torah on Sinai. He handed it on to Joshua. Joshua handed it on to the elders. The elders . . .till it reached Harry. Harry—who was trying to hand it on to his nephew, Pinchas. Why? Why his nephew? He, Harry, has children of his own. If it's a good thing, why not hand it to his own sons? If it's not a good thing, why give it to Pinchas? Pinchas has had enough troubles. He has been there . . . in that Hell.
But, for that matter, why should his sons suffer? They are Americans. They are native-born. Why should they bear a burden? Why should they have it worse than other American boys? In America, everybody's an American. The Italians, the Spaniards . . .why, even the Poles.
Well, they had changed their name. Was Brandtwein. Now it's Brown. Brown. Why not? What's so good about Brandtwein? If they liked Brown, let it be Brown. America's a free country. Still, a name that's too Jewish can get in your way.
On the other hand, this doesn't mean that Jewishness is done with. As regards religion, he himself, he's not sure if there really is a God or not. But, as regards being Jews—What is a world without Jews? A world without Jews is like. . . .a wedding without musicians! Just imagine a world, a world with nothing but goyim. They drink whiskey, make war. . . .And what about the Torah? Nowadays they call it "Justice". . . .What does a goy know about justice? That is, he does know something about it. He has socialism, parties, unions—but that's not the same! That's politics. . . .Now, a Jew, he who always gets beaten, always, in every generation, he knows the meaning of pain. ."You should know the soul of the stranger because you yourself were a stranger in the land of Egypt." But—without Jews? If nobody gets beaten, then the whole world'll be full of nothing but murderers.
Will there be no end to it? he wondered. Will we always have to suffer? As regards me, myself, I am used to having troubles. But my children are Americans.
As luck would have it, he came across a poem in the paper, a poem about the offering of Isaac. Harry never bothered with poetry. But there it was in his Sunday paper, and, absent-mindedly, he read it.
It was a hard poem. Yet, when he put his mind to it, he was able to chew its sense out of it. He could see what the author meant: Abraham led his only son to the sacrifice. Jewish fathers have to do the same in every generation.
At first, he felt funny about this, but then he got angry. Why? Why do you always have to sacrifice? Once in a blue moon, well. . . .But this poet wants it all the time. Every other day, a sacrifice. Why, in the whole Bible it happens only once. Then, in the second place, a ram happened to appear. So Abraham burned the ram instead of his son. In the third place, he was doing a thing that God specially ordered him to do. But this poet. . . .he probably doesn't even believe in God. What makes him so crazy about sacrifices?
Well, all right, he means it as a symbol: Humanity, Justice. . . .But—why does it always have to be us? This is their world. So let the goyim beat their own heads against the wall!
And the inevitable happened. Harry lifted a box of eggs. Suddenly, his hands began to shake. A couple of dozen eggs smashed on the floor. Thirty-eight years in the store. The first time it had happened.
Trouble always comes in bunches. A few hours later, Harry spilled a bottle of milk on one of his best customers. He splashed the woman from head to foot. She was wearing a Persian lamb coat. The black lamb became white. The woman almost fainted.
"Here is your sacrifice!" Harry yelled.
The customers thought he was going crazy.
Harry put bottles on the table: cokes, sodas, beer, a bottle of whiskey, a French brandy—in honor of Modeste.
Quite a crowd came to the party. First came Louie, a relative of Harry's wife, a cutter of ladies' garments, and an expert on politics. Louie read the Communist Freiheit; he hated the Socialist Forward like poison. Louie had a bit of the cognac, and then asked Pinchas about the last elections in France.
Modeste had some cognac too. She gave it the approval of a connoisseur. Pinchas-Pierre grew nervous. Maybe she would say a word too much. But she saw Pierre's glance.
"Kosher wine?" she asked. ."Isn't it?"
Next came Sam, Harry's brother from Brooklyn. Sam was an old Forward reader. He hated the Communist Freiheit. .His wife told a long story about the trouble they had closing the store an hour early. They had a drop of cognac. Then Harry's missus brought the gefillte fish.
Over the fish and horse-radish, Freiheit and Forward had sharp words over the new Polish government.
Louie the cutter had landed an ordinary piece of fish, and as he had a good appetite, he finished his portion quickly and was the first to deliver an oration.
"Aristocrats! Militarists!" he attacked Sam in the plural.
The Forward, on the other hand, got a more complicated portion. A stuffed head. Sam kept digging up hidden treasures with his fork, dipping them piously in the pungent horse-radish. He did not dare interrupt this ceremony lest (God forbid!) one of the little bones should get stuck in his throat. But his patience snapped.
"Red dictators! Moscow agents!" he mounted a counter-attack.
Modeste listened. .Freiheit's mother-in-law—Louie came with his whole family—told Modeste not to take it to heart. Modeste listened.
Still, it was lucky that Sandra and her husband chose this moment to arrive. Sandra kissed her new cousins, sat down near Modeste, and started to ask about the fashions in Paris. Then came Barry, the druggist, and his wife. Sandra went into the kitchen. She came back with two platters of blintzes. Barry swallowed half a platter. . . .Barry was a sport.
All of a sudden, important guests! Aunt Sarah and her son, from Central Park West. Aunt Sarah's son is a reporter on the New York Post.
"Why! She looks Irish!"
Pinchas got frightened. But it was all right. Aunt Sarah, it is true, had a horrible fear of mixed marriages. But, at the same time, she had a deep respect for goyim. Her dream, therefore, was a Jewish daughter-in-law with an Irish face.
They brought the fat chicken soup. Then the chickens.
Modeste made a hit. Her English was good—she had once had a job with a family of English tourists—so she chatted with the young folks. Everybody liked her.
Finally, they all got up from the long table. They stood in the corners. They stretched in the arm chairs. Sam lit a thick cigar, gave one to Louie, the cutter. Louie took it, lit, puffed. But he was not mollified.
"If you think capitalism can buy me with a good cigar, you are missing your guess! You've got the wrong party!"
It was about eleven o'clock. Pinchas was leaving the bathroom when Uncle Harry cornered him. Shyly, Harry shoved a check into his hand. Pinchas put it in his pocket without looking at it.
In the hall when they were leaving, Harry took The Eternal Values from the closet. ."Take it." He handed the volume to Pinchas. ."It's good to have a book around a house."
"Pa . . ." Barry said reproachfully.
"Why? Do you want it?" asked Harry with amazement.
"No," said Barry. ."But it's all covered with dust."
Harry's wife brought a rag. .The Eternal Values were dusted.
Modeste was happy. ."Oh, they are such fine people." She threw her arms about him. ."I'm so happy," she said. ."Come and give me a kiss."
"This is America. It's forbidden to kiss in the street. You'll have to pay them a fine."
Modeste laughed. "You got a check."
In the subway, she put her arm around him. Pinchas took the check out of his pocket.
"Seven hundred and fifty dollars!"
"How much in francs?" she asked.
"A quarter of a million."
"My God!" She was about to invoke Jesus and Mary. Remembering the holy book in her hand, she stopped in time.
"What is written here?" Modeste showed him The Eternal Values. .He took it. He turned the leaves.
"A little bit of everything," he said, "Bible, laws, prayers. . . ."
"A sacred book. Truly." She nodded her head devoutly.
In the house, she laid the book on the little table by the bed.
Modeste could not fall asleep. ."Pierre, are you awake?"
"Why?" he said sleepily.
"Read me something. From this book."
"Now? Are you crazy?"
Many minutes passed. Sleep did not come. Suddenly, Modeste slid out of the bed. She put the thick volume on her knees.
Instinctively she understood. All had been said on Sinai. From the quarrels of Jacob and Esau . . .up to all that talk in a Paris hotel. Up to all the talk at a party in the Bronx. Everything is written here.
"This, this is it," she whispered.
She closed her eyes. She remembered the saints, the stained-glass of the church in the village. She remembered the nights Pierre was hiding in the stable, the nights when he had told about the persecutions of Jews . . .concentration camps . . .man-hunts.
This book. They could endure it because of this book.
She stroked the binding. Yes . . . a great book.
"But," she thought, "It doesn't seem that they have used it much. . . ."


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National Hurricane Center specialists on Friday forecast the storm to remain shy of hurricane winds for at least the next five days, but some model runs suggested it would reach hurricane strength as it passes well offshore South Carolina on Monday night and early Tuesday.
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The storm moved into the Caribbean Sea on Friday afternoon, passing between the islands of Martinique and Dominica, buffeted by shear winds, with marginal tropical storm force winds and moderate rain. Hurricane specialist Jack Beven with the National Hurricane Center said it's possible the storm will weaken to a tropical wave, losing its tropical cyclone characteristics, before regenerating.
On Friday afternoon, the storm had 50 mph winds but a ragged symmetry. The Southeast remains for now potentially in the path of the storm. But none of the various computer modelling runs Friday afternoon suggested the storm could make landfall here.
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Hampton arrived at Brooks Gym on Friday and picked up right where it left off in a 94-71 victory against Unaka on Thursday.
Junior post Stanley Valentine scored 21 of his 28 points in the first half while the Bulldogs built a 47-24 lead, including an impressive fast-break dunk, and they sputtered from there for a 67-51 Watauga Valley Conference win at University High.
Hampton (7-0, 20-2) rode the agile 6-foot-2 Valentine early. He scored on stick-backs, turnaround banks on the blocks, one-dribble mid-range jumpers and a 17-footer at the top of the key while playing what Hampton coach Ned Smith described as his best half. He also finished the game with 10 rebounds.
"Valentine came to play tonight," UH coach Justin Penley said. "He played really well."
Point guard Cody McClain frequently found Valentine. Among his nine assists was a textbook one-handed wrap-around post entry from the right wing.
"Cody and the rest of the guys, they saw that I was feeling it," Valentine said. "So ... they were just all looking for me. ... We played pretty good in that first half and then the second half we came out and just messed it up, just sort of tried to give it away. ...
"That second half isn't us. Hopefully, it doesn't happen again."
McClain (eight points, five rebounds, three steals) made a difficult 40-foot pass to Valentine for a transition basket look easy on the opening possession, and he ended the half beating the buzzer with a long 3-pointer after utilizing a ball screen to get free on the right wing.
"McClain's really an impressive player," Penley said. "He's so unselfish ... that he went from being a focal point to now being a distributor. He's happy doing that. He has a high basketball IQ. And he's a great passer and a great shooter."
Hampton pressured UH into turnovers, attacked the offensive boards and shot well from the perimeter in what seemed like a clinic in the first half. Sophomore wing Coby Jones scored eight of his 12 points in the first half. He made two 3-pointers, as did Cheyenne Camillo.
"The whole team took the open look and went to the glass," Smith said. "We got a lot of put-backs and played together. Cody runs the offense really well. ... The second half we didn't come out to play. … There's about six minutes there in the third quarter we didn't (compete) and they made some big shots."
Hampton scored 42 points in the third quarter against Unaka on Thursday, and Penley must have wondered what was in store at intermission. But UH outscored the Bulldogs 27-20 in the second half.
Senior guard Marcus Taylor scored 12 of his 19 points in the second half, including the Junior Bucs' first seven points of the fourth quarter. His difficult 18-foot fadeaway in the right corner cut Hampton's advantage to 59-46 with 4:45 remaining. But Valentine answered with an inside basket and UH was never as close as 13 again.
Taylor's baskets included two step-back 3-pointers, a crowd-pleasing drive that began with him splitting a trap, a finger-roll after a baseline drive and back-cut for a lay-in on a high-post pass from Brady Horton.
"Marcus is probably one of the best players in the whole area," Valentine said. "He's a problem for most players."
Hampton would present problems for any area team, regardless of classification.
"Hampton might be as good as anybody around here," said Penley, who qualified it in adding that teams such as Dobyns-Bennett, Tennessee High and Science Hill probably have more depth and/or size. "The thing that's most encouraging to me is that our kids continued to compete in the second half. They battled and they whittled that lead down.
"But there are no moral victories. We've got to play better early. That was disappointing that we just did not value the ball in the first half and we did not rebound it with tenacity. ... We rebounded the ball in the second half."
UH (2-4, 9-12) had all of its players available for the first time in more than a month. Senior shooting guard Joseph Phillips (hand) returned last week and sophomore point guard Luke Willoughby made his return Friday from an ankle injury he suffered Dec. 20.
Impressive in how quickly he catches and releases, Phillips made five treys while matching Taylor's 19 points. Willoughby had four assists, including two interior passes after dribble penetration, and helped alleviate some of Hampton's pressure in the second half.
"I think we have a chance to be pretty good (at tournament time)," Penley said.
Of course, Hampton's postseason prospects are especially intriguing, particularly if it plays the way it did in the first half Friday.
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University High 39
Monica Olvera made her first five 3-point attempts and Hampton finished 9-of-17 from behind the arc in the Watauga Valley Conference victory.
Olvera's first three treys came from the corner for the Lady Bulldogs (4-3, 15-9), whose ball movement led to scores on numerous possessions without any dribbling. Olvera made four treys in the first quarter while helping Hampton open on a 20-3 run.
"We do a lot of shooting in practice and we sort of emphasized early today that the baseline area would be open because they had three out front in a 3-2 zone," Hampton coach Bud Hazelwood said. "We shot it well."
Kim Swearingen had 14 points and three assists for Hampton. Tatum Street scored 10.
Olvera also had three assists, and Alexis Bowers had three points, seven rebounds, five assists and three steals. Kaitlin Irick and Swearingen each made two treys. Alexis Grubbs had seven points and five rebounds.
Taylor Treadway made four 3-pointers en route to 16 points for the Junior Lady Bucs. She hit three 3-pointers and scored 13 points in the first half.
"We knew Treadway's dangerous," Hazelwood said. "We didn't find her the first half and I held up a big sign at halftime saying, 'What's this number? Five. That's the one that's killing us.'"
Lexi Crouthers and Brie Nikolous scored eight points apiece for University High (0-6, 7-10).


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