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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ursula K. Le Guin (born 21 October 1929) is a US-based author, known mostly for writing science fiction and fantasy.
- See also: The Dispossessed.
- 1 Quotes
- 1.1 Rocannon's World (1966)
- 1.2 Planet of Exile (1966)
- 1.3 City of Illusions (1967)
- 1.4 Earthsea Books
- 1.5 The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
- 1.6 The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
- 1.7 The Word for World Is Forest (1972)
- 1.8 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)
- 1.9 Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
- 1.10 Lavinia (2008)
- 2 Quotes about Le Guin
- 3 External links
- True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
- "Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction" (1976)
- The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
- Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1976)
- I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
- Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1976)
- I have never found anywhere, in the domain of art, that you don't have to walk to. (There is quite an array of jets, buses and hacks which you can ride to Success; but that is a different destination.) It is a pretty wild country. There are, of course, roads. Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.
- The Language of the Night (1979)
- Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.
- in an interview in Vice Magazine.
- My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
- "The Creatures on My Mind" in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996), p. 65
- All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
- The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
- To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
- The Question I Get Asked Most Often in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
- What's to gain by silence?
- Cannoc, in Gifts (2004)
- Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.
- Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them.
- The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.
- "A Message About Messages" in CBC Magazine
Rocannon's World (1966)[edit]
- "Long ago we parted," said the slight, still man of the Fiia. "Longer ago we were one. What we are not, they are. What we are, they are not. Think of the sunlight and the grass and the trees that bear fruit, Semley; think that not all roads that lead down lead up as well."
- Prologue
- The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
- Chapter 2
- It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important.
"If it is not, what is?"
He could not endure those remembered words.
- Chapter 9
Planet of Exile (1966)[edit]
- All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
- Chapter 4 (The Tall Young Men)
- Men who fight wars in Winter don't live till Spring.
- Chapter 4 (The Tall Young Men)
- He detested them for forcing helplessness upon him.
- Chapter 9 (The Guerillas)
City of Illusions (1967)[edit]
- Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
- Chapter 1
- We live well in the houses—well enough. But we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars, and now we dare not go a hundred miles from home. We keep a little knowledge, and do nothing with it. But once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life. We did man's work.
- Chapter 1
- Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
- Chapter 2
- He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.
- Chapter 3
- The more defensive a society, the more conformist.
- Chapter 4
- The juniper-scented liquor had volatilized his thoughts; he should be thinking that madness caused this man to call himself a king, but was thinking rather that kingship had driven this man mad.
- Chapter 5
- The game must be played, and played their way, though they made all the rules and had all the skill. His ineptitude did not matter. His honesty did. He was staked now totally on one belief: that an honest man cannot be cheated, that truth, if the game be played through right to the end, will lead to truth.
- Chapter 7
- We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once began to exist.
- Chapter 7
- It seemed, at least, that they had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.
- Chapter 8
- Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.
- Chapter 9
- They prevented men from doing anything. But they did nothing themselves. They did not rule, they only blighted.
- Chapter 9
Earthsea Books[edit]
A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)[edit]
- To hear, one must be silent.
- Chapter 2 (Ogion)
- Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
- Chapter 2 (Ogion)
- You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Chapter 3 (Master Hand)
- Go to bed; tired is stupid.
- Chapter 4 (Kurremkarmerruk)
- You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do...
- Chapter 4 (The Master Summoner)
- The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
- Chapter 5
"Heal the Wound, Cure the illness, but let the Dying spirit go"
Chapter 5
- From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
- Chapter 5
- It is light that defeats the dark.
- Chapter 7 (Ged)
- He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
- Chapter 7
- "For a word to be spoken," Ged answered slowly, "there must be silence. Before, and after." Then all at once he got up, saying, "I have no right to speak of these things. The word that was mine to say I said wrong. It is better that I keep still; I will not speak again. Maybe there is no true power but the dark."
- Chapter 9
- I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.
- Chapter 10 (Ged)
The Tombs of Atuan (1971)[edit]
- All I know is the dark, the night underground. And that's all there really is. That's all there is to know, in the end. The silence, and the dark. You know everything, wizard. But I know one thing—the one true thing!
- Chapter 7, "The Great Treasure" (Arha)
- As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, "Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!"
There was no answer. There had never been an answer.
- Chapter 10, "The Anger of the Dark"
- Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
- Chapter 11, "The Western Mountains"
- "Summon up a supper," he said. "Oh, I could. On golden plates, if you like. But that's illusion, and when you eat illusions you end up hungrier than before."
- Chapter 11, "The Western Mountains"
- A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free.
What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
- Chapter 12, "Voyage"
The Farthest Shore (1972)[edit]
- So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
- Chapter 1, "The Rowan Tree"
- Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.
- Chapter 1, "The Rowan Tree"
- When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. or wonder who, after all, you are.
- Chapter 3, "Hort Town" (Ged)
- "We may suffer for it when the balance of things rights itself, but we do not lose hope and forego art and forget the words of the Making. Nature is not unnatural. This is not a righting of the balance, but an upsetting of it. There is only one creature who can do that."
"A man?" Arren said, tentative.
"We men."
"By an unmeasured desire for life."
"For life? But it isn't wrong to want to live?"
"No. But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale."
- Chapter 3, "Hort Town" (Ged and Arren)
- Those were men in whom great strength and knowledge served the will to evil and fed upon it. Whether the wizardry that serves a better end may always prove the stronger, we do not know. We hope.
- Chapter 3, "Hort Town" (Ged)
- There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty. Arren found himself unwilling to stay on these cold summits. He said after a little while, "I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent; they kill because they must."
"That is why nothing else can resist us. Only one thing in the world can resist an evil-hearted man. And that is another man. In our shame is our glory. Only our spirit, which is capable of evil, is capable of overcoming it."
- Chapter 3, "Hort Town" (Arren and Ged)
- No, I don't understand him, but he is worth listening to.
- Chapter 3, "Hort Town"
- He resolved not to speak again until he had controlled his temper.
- Chapter 3, "Hort Town"
- "But you knew them to be evil men—"
"Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!"
- Chapter 4, "Magelight" (Arren and Ged)
- But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility. Who am I—though I have the power to do it—to punish and reward, playing with men's destinies?"
- Chapter 4, "Magelight" (Ged)
- The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
- Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams"
- "Is it a wicked thing, then?"
"I should call it a misunderstanding, rather. A misunderstanding of life. Death and life are the same thing—like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed."
- Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams" (Arren and Ged)
- To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
- Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams" (Ged)
- The Dyer backed away from him another step and stood watching him, the exaltation in his face clouding slowly over until it was replaced by a strange, heavy look; it was as if reasoning thought were laboring to break through the storm of words and feelings and visions that confused him. Finally he turned around without a word and began to run back down the road, into the haze of dust that had not yet settled on his tracks.
- Chapter 6, "Lorbanery"
- "Well," he said. "Strange roads have strange guides. Let's go on."
- Chapter 6, "Lorbanery" (Ged)
- The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.
- Chapter 8, "The Children of the Open Sea" (Ged)
- What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.
- Chapter 8, "The Children of the Open Sea" (Ged)
- I know what they think they seek. But I know it to be a lie. Listen to me, Arren. You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose....That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself? Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the light of sunrise and sunset, to buy safety for yourself—safety forever? That is what they seek to do on Wathort and Lorbanery and elsewhere. That is the message that those who know how to hear have heard: By denying life you may deny death and live forever!—And this message I do not hear, Arren, for I will not hear it. I will not take the counsel of despair.
- Chapter 8, "The Children of the Open Sea" (Ged)
- "In innocence there is no strength against evil," said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is strength in it for good."
- Chapter 8, "The Children of the Open Sea"
- "The first lesson on Roke, and the last is, Do what is needful! And no more."
"The lessons in between, then, must consist in learning what is needful."
"They do."
- Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Ged and Arren)
- "What harm have the trees done them?" he said. "Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men."
- Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren)
- One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
- Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Ged)
- "A king has soldiers, servants, messengers, lieutenants. He governs through his servants. Where are the servants of this—Anti-king?"
"In our minds, lad. In our minds. The traitor, the self; the self that cries I want to live; let the world burn so long as I can live! The little traitor soul in us, in the dark, like the worm in the apple."
- Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren and Ged)
- To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place.
- Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Sparrowhawk)
- "There's nothing to fear, Lebannen," he said gently, mockingly. "They were only the dead."
- Chapter 11, "Selidor"
- "You exist: without name, without form. You cannot see the light of day; you cannot see the dark. You sold the green earth and the sun and stars to save yourself. But you have no self. All that which you sold, that is yourself. You have given everything for nothing. And so now you seek to draw the world to you, all that light and life you lost, to fill up your nothingness. But it cannot be filled. Not all the songs of earth, not all the stars of heaven, could fill your emptiness."
- Chapter 12, "The Dry Land"
Tehanu (1990)[edit]
- Her left hand reminded her of its existence, and she looked round to see what was scratching the heel of her hand. It was a tiny thistle, crouched in a crack in the sandstone, barely lifting its colorless spikes into the light and wind. It nodded stiffly as the wind blew, resisting the wind, rooted in rock. She gazed at it for a long time.
- Chapter 4, "Kalessin"
- A great deal of her obscurity and cant, Tenar had begun to realize, was mere ineptness with words and ideas. Nobody had ever taught her to think consecutively. Nobody had ever listened to what she said. All that was expected, all that was wanted of her was muddle, mystery, mumbling. She was a witchwoman. She had nothing to do with clear meaning.
- Chapter 5, "Bettering"
- Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
- Chapter 6, "Worsening"
- If they come prying they can leave curious.
- Chapter 7, "Mice"
- And I know that all I understand about living is having your work to do, and being able to do it. That's the pleasure, and the glory, and all. And if you can't do the work, or it's taken from you, then what's any good? You have to have something....
- Chapter 8, "Hawks"
- "Is it different, then, for men and for women?"
"What isn't, dearie?"
- Chapter 8, "Hawks"
- A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
- Chapter 8, "Hawks"
- "But now you've come too far, and I warn you, woman! I will not have you set foot on this domain. And if you cross my will or dare so much as speak to me again, I will have you driven from Re Albi, and off the Overfell, with the dogs at your heels. Have you understood me?"
"No," Tenar said, "I have never understood men like you."
- Chapter 9, "Finding Words"
- Is power that—an emptiness?
- Chapter 10, "The Dolphin"
- "She obeys me, but only because she wants to."
"It's the only justification for obedience," Ged observed.
- Chapter 12, "Winter"
- It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.
- Chapter 12, "Winter"
Tales from Earthsea (2001)[edit]
- All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition published by Ace Books
- O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
- Foreward (p. xiii)
- All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.
- Foreward (p. xv)
- There's no way to use power for good.
- "The Finder" (p. 42)
- There's people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.
- "The Finder" (p. 43)
- It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.
- "The Finder" (p. 56)
- Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.
- "The Finder" (p. 59)
- "The solution lies in secrecy," said Medra. "But so does the problem."
- "The Finder" (p. 64)
- Ignorant power is a bane!
- "The Finder" (p. 66)
- How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?
- "The Finder" (p. 67)
- The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
- "The Finder" (p. 80)
- The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
- "The Finder" (p. 85)
- "It always seemed to me they're sort of alike," he said, "magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right."
- "Darkrose and Diamond" (p. 110)
- "What's that all about?" Golden said to his wife, a rhetorical question. She looked at him and said nothing, a non-rhetorical answer.
- "Darkrose and Diamond" (p. 125)
- To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.
- "The Bones of the Earth" (p. 134)
- It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
- "The Bones of the Earth" (p. 138)
- You'll know what to say when the time comes. That's the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.
- "The Bones of the Earth" (p. 139)
- All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it's out in the daylight, doesn't amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade—wonderful illusions. But people don't want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There's so little in life that's beautiful or worthy.
- "Dragonfly" (p. 199)
- Maybe that's what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn't as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it's not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.
- "Dragonfly" (p. 200)
- Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
- "Dragonfly" (p. 201)
- Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.
- "Dragonfly" (p. 211)
- Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.
- "Dragonfly" (p. 227)
- She knew it, but she did not want to know it.
- "Dragonfly" (p. 233)
- What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
- "Dragonfly" (p. 236)
The Other Wind (2001)[edit]
- All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition (2012 printing) published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
- Chapter 1 "Mending the Green Pitcher" (p. 8)
- All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?
- Chapter 1 "Mending the Green Pitcher" (pp. 47-48)
- The world's vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.
- Chapter 2 "Palaces" (p. 72)
- I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
- Chapter 2 "Palaces" (p. 79)
- Manipulated, one manipulates others.
- Chapter 2 "Palaces" (p. 92)
- Statesmen remember things selectively.
- Chapter 2 "Palaces" (p. 102)
- The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
- Chapter 4 "Dolphin" (p. 231)
- Greed puts out the sun.
- Chapter 5 "Rejoining" (p. 281)
- "It is not right to want to die," the Summoner said...."For the very old, the very ill, it may be. But life is given us. Surely it's wrong not to hold and treasure that great gift!"
"Death also is given us," said the king.
- Chapter 5 "Rejoining" (p. 284)
- "I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that I when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I lived, the breath I breathed."
- Chapter 5, "Rejoining" (p. 286)
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)[edit]
- All page numbers from the Trade paperback edition published in 2000 by Ace Books
- Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.
- Introduction (p. xii)
- I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
- Introduction (p. xv)
- I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. But both are sensitive.
- Chapter 1 "A Parade in Ehrenrang" (p. 1; opening paragraph)
- I forgot, being too interested myself, that he's a king, and does not see things rationally, but as a king.
- Chapter 1 "A Parade in Ehrenrang" (p. 17)
- No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year.
- Chapter 1 "A Parade in Ehrenrang" (p. 18)
- One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.
- Chapter 3 "The Mad King" (p. 27)
- When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
- Chapter 3 "The Mad King" (p. 42)
- I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
- Chapter 5 "The Domestication of Hunch" (p. 51)
- Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
- Chapter 5 "The Domestication of Hunch" (p. 55)
- "We in the Handdara don't want answers. It's hard to avoid them, but we try to."
"Faxe, I don't think I understand."
"Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask."
"But you're the Answerers!"
"You don't see, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?"
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question."
- Chapter 5 "The Domestication of Hunch" (pp. 69-70)
- The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
- Chapter 5 "The Domestication of Hunch" (p. 70)
- A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
- Chapter 7 "The Question of Sex" (p. 95)
- A man can trust his luck, but a society can't; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
- Chapter 8 "Another Way into Orgoreyn" (p. 98)
- If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
- Chapter 8 "Another Way into Orgoreyn" (p. 101)
- "The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties."
"If so," said the stranger with fierce certainty, "it is an immoral mission."
- Chapter 8 "Another Way into Orgoreyn" (p. 104)
- He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.
- Chapter 8 "Another Way into Orgoreyn" (p. 116)
- Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
- Chapter 8 "Another Way into Orgoreyn" (p. 118)
- This, at least, is the accepted explanation, though like most economic explanations it seems, under certain lights, to omit the main point.
- Chapter 8 "Another Way into Orgoreyn" (p. 118)
- It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.
- Chapter 10 "Conversations in Mishnory" (p. 143)
- To oppose something is to maintain it.
They say here "all roads lead to Mishnory." To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
- Chapter 11 "Soliloquies in Mishnory" (p. 151)
- To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his nonexistence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Thus proof is a word not often used among the Handdarata, who have chosen not to treat God as a fact, subject either to proof or to belief: and they have broken the circle, and go free.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
- Chapter 11 "Soliloquies in Mishnory" (p. 151)
- It is not human to be without shame and without desire.
- Chapter 13 "Down on the Farm" (p. 177)
- Mr. Ai, we've seen the same events with different eyes; I wrongly thought they'd seem the same to us.
- Chapter 14 "The Escape" (p. 197)
- The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
- Chapter 15 "To the Ice" (p. 209)
- A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.
- Chapter 15 "To the Ice" (p. 213)
- What is more arrogant than honesty?
- Chapter 15 "To the Ice" (p. 213)
- It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
- Chapter 15 "To the Ice" (p. 220)
- Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
- Chapter 16 "Between Drumner and Dremegole" (p. 233)
- A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
- Chapter 18 "On the Ice" (p. 249)
- The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
- Chapter 18 "On the Ice" (p. 252)
- And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend's voice arises, and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?
- Chapter 19 "Homecoming" (p. 279)
The Lathe of Heaven (1971)[edit]
- There is nothing important except people. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.
- Chapter 5 (Haber)
- Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
- Chapter 6 (Orr)
- The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
- Chapter 6
- I guess I can't, or my subconscious can't, even imagine a warless world. The best it can do is substitute one kind of war for another. You said, no killing of humans by other humans. So I dreamed up the Aliens. Your own ideas are sane and rational, but this is my unconscious you're trying to use, not my rational mind. Maybe rationally I could conceive of the human species not trying to kill each other off by nations, in fact rationally it's easier to conceive of than the motives of war. But you're handling something outside reason. You're trying to reach progressive, humanitarian goals with a tool that isn't suited to the job. Who has humanitarian dreams?
- Chapter 6 (Orr)
- He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it?
Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed without knowing they follow it, the sharecroppers's wife in Alabama and the lama in Tibet and the entomologist in Peru and the millworker in Odessa and the greengrocer in London and the goatherd in Nigeria and the old, old man sharpening a stick by a dry streambed somewhere in Australia, and all the others. There is not one of us who has not known them. There are enough of them, enough to keep us going. Perhaps.
- Chapter 7 (Heather)
- A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
- Chapter 7 (Heather)
- Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
- Chapter 8 (alien)
- What's wrong with changing things? Now, I wonder if this self-canceling, centerpoised personality of yours leads you to look at things defensively. I want you to try to detach yourself from yourself and try to see your own viewpoint from the outside, objectively. You are afraid of losing your balance. But change need not unbalance you; life's not a static object, after all. It's a process. There's no holding still. Intellectually you know that, but emotionally you refuse it. Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life-evolution-the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy—existence itself—is essentially change.
- Chapter 9 (Haber)
- When things don't change any longer, that's the end result of entropy, the heat-death of the universe. The more things go on moving, interrelating, conflicting, changing, the less balance there is—and the more life. I'm pro-life, George. Life itself is a huge gamble against the odds, against all odds! You can't try to live safely, there's no such thing as safety. Stick your neck out of your shell, then, and live fully! It's not how you get there, but where you get to that counts. What you're afraid to accept, here, is that we're engaged in a really great experiment, you and I. We're on the brink of discovering and controlling, for the good of all mankind, a whole new force, an entire new field of antientropic energy, of the life-force, of the will to act, to do, to change!
- Chapter 9 (Haber)
- He knew that in so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
- Chapter 10 (Orr)
- You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough. You have to...be in touch. He isn't in touch. No one else, no thing even, has an existence of its own for him; he sees the world only as a means to his end. It doesn't make any difference if his end is good; means are all we've got.
- Chapter 10 (Orr)
- How could anybody think this man was sick? All right, so he had funny dreams. That was better than being plain mean and hateful, like about one quarter of the people she had ever met.
- Chapter 10 (Heather)
- But maybe you're just as glad he's not a shrink, eh? Awful to have your spouse analyzing your unconscious desires across the dinner table, eh?
- Chapter 10 (Haber)
- He looked at the machine, its cabinets all standing open; it should be destroyed, he thought. But he had no idea how to do it, nor any will to try. Destruction was not his line; and a machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
- Chapter 10 (Orr)
- There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
- Chapter 11 (Orr)
- I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
- Orr
The Word for World Is Forest (1972)[edit]
- Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1972
- Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
- Section 5
- Character and training disposed him not to interfere in other mens's business. His job was to find out what they did, and his inclination was to let them go on doing it. He preferred to be enlightened, rather than to enlighten; to seek facts rather than the Truth. But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretend he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. "What are they doing?" abruptly becomes, "What are we doing?" and then, "What must I do?"
- Section 5
- "Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another."
- Section 8
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)[edit]
- Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974
- The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.
- As we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial. A boundless and generous contentment, a magnanimous triumph felt not against some outer enemy but in communion with the finest and fairest in the souls of all men everywhere and the splendor of the world's summer: this is what swells the hearts of the people of Omelas, and the victory they celebrate is that of life.
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)[edit]
- What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality.
- "Betrayals", p. 1; first published in Blue Motel (1994)
- To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.
- "A Man of the People", p. 104; first published in Asimov's (1995)
- He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.
- "A Man of the People", p. 106
- The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.
- "A Man of the People", p. 107
- What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
- "A Man of the People", p. 108
- All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. [...] No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. A true line, a true color. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot get back to seeing the part as the whole.
- "A Man of the People", p. 140
- It may be in our sexuality that we are most easily enslaved, both men and women. It may be there, even as free men and women, that we find freedom hardest to keep. The politics of the flesh are the roots of power.
- "A Woman's Liberation", p. 158; first published in Asimov's (1995)
- I was utterly miserable, and yet fearless as I had never been. I was carefree. It was like dying. It would be foolish to worry about anything while one died.
- "A Woman's Liberation", p. 184
- What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.
- "A Woman's Liberation", p. 208
Lavinia (2008)[edit]
- "There was a pretty prince of Troy named Paris. He and a Greek queen ran off together. Her husband called the other kings of Greece together, and they went to Troy, a great army in a thousand beaked ships, to get the woman back. Helen was her name."
"What did they want her back for?"
"Her husband's honor demanded it."
"I should think his honor demanded that he divorce her and find himself a decent wife."
"Lavinia, these people were Greeks."
- (The spirit of Virgil explains the Trojan war to Lavinia.) p. 44
- I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
- (Virgil, to Lavinia) p. 45
- Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
- p. 66
- "Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men."
- p. 87
- They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?
- p. 177
- Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
- p. 184
Quotes about Le Guin[edit]
- Like one or two other SF figures of unassailable stature, Le Guin is deeply courteous. She seems to meet people in the expectation, or maybe simply the hope that she will learn from the encounter. She is like the novelist Doris Lessing; they do not reflect the world; they absorb it.
- John Clute, Science Fiction : A Visual Encyclopedia. Dorling Kindersley, 1995 (p. 178)
- For Margaret Atwood, Le Guin is a "quintessentially American writer", of undoubted literary quality, "for whom the quest for the Peaceable Kingdom is ongoing". Her worlds, Le Guin says, are not so much invented as discovered. "I stare and see something, maybe a person in a landscape, and have to find out what it is." But whether charting inner lands or outer space, her eye remains on the here and now. At 76, Le Guin counts among her affiliations the peace and women's movements ("I take a perverse pleasure in calling myself a feminist"), and Taoism ("profoundly subversive").
- Maya Jaggi, in "The magician", in The Guardian (17 December 2005)
External links[edit]
- Ursula Le Guin's homepage
- Ursula K. Le Guin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Collection of Ursula Le Guin info at feministsf.org
- LitWeb.net: Ursula Le Guin Biography
- Interview in The Guardian (17 December 2005)
- Review of The Left Hand of Darkness
- Review of The Dispossessed
- LeGuin talks about the Earthsea film
- More about LeGuin and the Earthsea film
- "Judging a Book by Its Cover: The Dispossessed" by Smith, Heather Smith (October 2006)


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UTSA Art Professor Ken Little of UTSA's College of Liberal and Fine Arts has been selected to serve as the 2014 Texas State Visual Artist 3-D.
Little is one of a handful of artists recognized by the Texas Commission on the Arts and will help contribute to a distinctive cultural identity that is Texas.
Little's work has been featured in more than 250 group exhibitions, 45 solo exhibitions, and in public and private collections all around the United States.
*The original post of this story misspelled CST Brands CEO Kim Bowers as Karen Bower. The correction is now reflected in the copy.
Valero is spinning off its retail operation under the new name CST Brands, Inc. for all of its 1,900 stores across the U.S. and Canada.
CST Brands CEO Karen Bower Kim Bowers said the new company comes to the market as a Fortune 220 Company, a good deal for the shareholders.
"Bella Italia" will feature music to be performed by the San Antonio Mastersingers and the University of Texas at San Antonio Concert Choir in Italy, May 12–21. The program begins with Giovanni Palestrina's "Ave Maria", "composed for St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in Rome, where we've been invited to sing a Mass during this tour," says John Silantien, conductor of the groups.
The Children's Chorus of San Antonio performs their annual Spring Song this Sunday at 3 p.m., with a theme "The Magic Within."
Artistic Director and Founder Marguerite McCormick is excited for the program.
The Texas House has passed House Bill 21, which sets up a statewide database to track the location of repeat offenders that have been convicted of family violence.
The bill, which is authored by Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer of San Antonio, sets up a registry of anyone convicted three times on charges of family violence and/or child abuse.
In the first segment:
It appears that regardless of what passes or doesn't pass in the legislature this month, the San Antonio city ordinance on payday lenders in San Antonio will remain.
According to Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption advocacy nonprofit, payday lenders had more than $3.7 million in donations to state lawmaker campaigns since 2010.
The organization says the payday loan lobby is fueling a "tepid" set of reforms.
The city is in the middle of a week-long list of events to motivate residents of all ages - from elementary to high school and beyond - to go to college.
On Monday, Mayor Julián Castro reminded people on the steps of City Hall about the city's commitment to education.
"San Antonians set a bold goal," he said. "That goal was to make the biggest turnaround in educational achievement any big city has seen in a decade."
Update: (May 2, 3:20 p.m.) Allen was sentenced to three months confinement, reduction to the grade of E-3 (Airman First Class) and hard labor without confinement for 30 days.
Allen's is the 18th completed courts-martial in the ongoing Lackland sex scandal involving military training instructors.
Two Senate lawmakers and the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court are asking the state to look into the possible disparity of minority children being criminally ticketed for misbehaving in the classroom.
"An estimated 300,000 misdemeanor tickets are issued in our state's schools each year," said Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson. "We are criminalizing our children for non-violent offenses."
Much like laws in the other states that ban restaurants and food eateries from using trans fats, Texas senators are now considering a similar measure in House Bill 1359.
"The bill prohibits the use of any trans fats above .5 grams, and it doesn't have any enforcement provisions in it, but it does allow the food inspection department to provide some grading on the restaurants using or not using trans fats," said Sen. Jose Rodriguez, D-El Paso, who authored the bill.

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I just got rid of our Rival slow cooker and got a Hamilton Beach one (I know it is not totally lead free but it is as close as one can get with a slow cooker, so I have researched.)
I am now also using a Le Creuset glazed cast iron dutch oven as well, which I have researched online and they state that their glaze are lead free and their non red/orange colors are cadmium free. We have a black one with sand color inside so I think we are good.
But what about our
-pyrex clear and blue baking dishes (I think pyrex is fine but would like conformation)
-Corningware French White baking stoneware dishes (I can't find an answer to this one)
-And our dinnerware? We currently have "Sango" cheap-y dinnerware from Bed Bath and Beyond. I have no idea if there is lead or other heavy metals in the glaze. It worries me.
I am looking to replace the dishes with either FiestaWare (made in the USA and the only dinnerware that guarantees they are lead free--but does contain a pre-aluminum compound?) Or Corelle (which does contain a low amount of lead but lower than others out there?) Or is there a better alternative?
I know it's never going to be perfect but I'm really trying here. Can anyone help me out?


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Simple gifts that go far could be getting your little sports fan equipment that they can use in a league they participate in. If you would like to go that route make sure you know what kind of equipment is allowed in the league so that you do not get something the child won???t be able to use. Do a little research to find out the better brands. Many times the most expensive one is not your best bet. When I talk about equipment this could be:
Shin guards (soccer)
Protective pads (hockey, football, lacrosse)
Regulation size football, baseball, basketball, soccer ball
Mouth guard
Bat, stick, or glove (These can be a little harder without the child there since measurements and weight come in to effect here.)
If your child likes to watch sports rather than play jerseys and other team logo apparel is often a good choice. I recommend replica jerseys since kids grow fast and change their favorite player often. Many official sports organizations make games with their logos on it. This is a great gift especially if you participate or want to start your own family game night. These could include:
1 The Yankees Uno game with players featured on the cards
2 Connect Four and Monopoly games that feature NFL teams.
3 NFL, MLB, and NHL have a line of Mr. Potato Heads, which are really cool.
4 Match Box sports cars with Team Logos
Bigger gifts for kids you could get:
5 Tickets for a game along with a game used item that you get at the stadium or from a reputable dealer
6 A Meet and Greet event where your child has the chance to meet their favorite player and ask them questions. (Steiner Sports offers this type of opportunity.)
7 A trip to visit the Hall of Fame of their favorite sport
While this is a short list of gift suggestions for children who enjoy sports, there are many different options parents can take when doing their gift shopping. Check out the catalogs for the latest toys and coupons. This time of year stores push customers to buy from them by offering certain percentages off and sometimes more of a discount can be offered when purchasing online.


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Tell the Snack Food 20: Cut Conflict Palm Oil, Not Rainforests
Expansion of palm oil plantations into Indonesia's and Malaysia's rainforests is causing massive climate disruption and pushing wild orangutans to the brink of extinction. We have reached The Last Stand of the Orangutan—but it's not too late.
Take action now to call on the Snack Food 20—companies that control some of the best-known snack food brands in the world—to remove Conflict Palm Oil tied to rainforest destruction and orangutan extinction from their products. These companies rely on our trust as consumers. If enough of us speak up, the Snack Food 20 will have to change the way they do business.
Only 60,600 orangutans remain in the wilds of Sumatra and Borneo. That's why we're organizing 60,600 humans to stand up for them by calling on PepsiCo and the other Snack Food 20 companies to cut Conflict Palm Oil, not rainforests. Will you stand for the orangutans and the climate today?


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On Friday, the Council of Economic Advisers released a state-by-state report on the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on employment in the first quarter of 2010. Overall, the report shows that the Recovery Act is now responsible for 2.2 to 2.8 million jobs through the first quarter of 2010. [4/16/10]
Wilmington Star News (North Carolina) - White House: Stimulus bill sustains 84,000 jobs in North Carolina
The White House says President Obama's stimulus bill, passed last summer, was responsible for nearly 84,000 jobs during the first quarter of 2010.
According to a December spending report on the state's Web site tracking the recovery funds, the federal stimulus bill has pumped $109 million into New Hanover County, $83 million into Brunswick County, and $24 million into Pender County.
Those amounts include extra funding for schools, highways, unemployment benefits and water and sewer infrastructure. [4/16/10]
WHSV ABC-3 (Virginia) - Stimulus Money Created Thousands of VA Jobs
The Council of Economic Advisers released Friday a new analysis that finds that the Recovery Act was responsible for 66,000 jobs in Virginia through the first quarter of 2010.
More than $5.8 billion in Recovery Act funds are already being put to work in Virginia so far creating jobs and driving economic growth. In addition to helping fill state budget gaps and jump-starting job-creating construction projects, the funds are also being used to provide tax cuts and other financial assistance like unemployment benefits to help hard-hit lower and middle-income families get back on firm financial footing. [4/16/10]
Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minnesota) - Recovery Act cited for 56,000 jobs in Minnesota
Direct from the White House, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released a new analysis Friday that finds that President Obama's Recovery Act was responsible for 56,000 jobs in Minnesota the first quarter of 2010. [4/16/10]
Deseret News (Utah) - Federal stimulus brings 25,000 Utah jobs in first quarter
The White House's Council of Economic Advisers said on Friday that 25,000 Utah jobs were saved or created by the stimulus during the first three months of the year.
That meant the Recovery Act created or saved about 9.5 jobs per every 1,000 Utahns. That rate was the 22nd highest rate among the states -- and was just slightly higher than the national rate of 9.4 stimulus related jobs for every 1,000 residents.
The White House said Utah received about $2.4 billion of the $200 billion spent in the first quarter in stimulus funds nationally -- or about 1.2 percent of that spending. [4/16/10]
Ridgefield Press (Connecticut) - Government says Recovery Act responsible for 36,000 jobs in state
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) today released a new analysis that finds that the Recovery Act was responsible for 36,000 jobs in Connecticut through the first quarter of 2010, the White House said yesterday. [3/17/10]
KMTV CBS-3 (Nebraska) - Stimulus funds secure 16,000 jobs in Neb this year
The federal stimulus package has provided Nebraska with millions of dollars and thousands of jobs as the nation recovers from an economic recession.
A statement from the White House cites a federal report showing 16,000 Nebraska jobs created or saved in the first quarter of 2010 can be attributed to the federal stimulus package. [3/17/10]
Providence Business News (Rhode Island) - Stimulus said to save 11,000 jobs in R.I.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been responsible for creating or saving 11,000 jobs in Rhode Island since its signing in February 2009, the Obama administration said Friday.
That would be 2.4 percent of the 452,500 non-farm payroll jobs in Rhode Island as of last month.
In its report, the White House Council of Economic Advisers said more than $1.5 billion in federal stimulus money would wind up coming to Rhode Island because of the law. [4/16/10]
Associated Press - Feds: Stimulus dollars created 11,000 Hawaii jobs
The White House Council of Economic Advisers says the Recovery Act was responsible for 11,000 jobs in Hawaii in the first quarter of 2010. [4/16/10]
South Carolina Now - Stimulus funds have saved more than 150 jobs in Pee Dee
To date, more than 150 jobs were saved or created in the Pee Dee by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, according data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the S.C. Stimulus Oversight Task force and recovery.org.
Counties of the Pee Dee have received about $135 million of stimulus money so far in grants and contracts awarded to businesses. [4/17/10]
Other Headlines:
- La Crosse Tribune (Minnesota) - Three rural communities get $6.6M in stimulus funds
- Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan (South Dakota) - HSC Receives National Stimulus Funding


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As we all know, Palmetto Bay councilmember and mayoral candidate Shelley Stanczyk has spearheaded the campaign against the Palmer Trinity School expansion.
At the May 4 (and 5) public hearing on the school's revised site plan, she arbitrarily capped the student population at 900, and then voted against her own amendment. Not surprisingly, the issue is now back in court and could cost the village well over $500,000.
In its most recent ruling regarding Palmer's zoning, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled the village departed from the essential requirements of the law, resulting in a miscarriage of justice. This same court could now be assessing fines and penalties against the village, with serious financial implications.
Then Stanczyk led a campaign against a charter school that was going to rent space from Old Cutler Presbyterian Church. She was successful in orchestrating an email campaign that caused the Miami-Dade School Board to strike the item from its July 14 agenda, effectively delaying the implementation of this neighborhood school for at least another school year.
Bad for the school, and the church really needed the financial support from that rent.
Next on the list, Councilmember Stanczyk became aware of a large parcel of land for sale immediately adjacent to Westminster Christian School. She does not want Westminster to get involved in buying this piece of property for $8.8 million. What was her response? To propose an emergency moratorium on all development in the Village of Palmetto Bay, although I asked her and she denies that.
What schools or churches are next? Is Christ Fellowship the next one in line to be rejected because they ask for an expansion?
People move to Palmetto Bay because of the schools, parks and religious institutions. Stanczyk tried to pass an ordinance last year regarding churches, private schools and child care facilities which would severely reduce their size, hours of operation and even the size of their congregations. The village council ignored this egregious intrusion into the operation of some of the most important village assets.
Stanczyk and her vocal group are against any expansion of churches and schools. They may have the power, but that doesn't make it right. Is this the direction in which the people of Palmetto Bay want to go?
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This silly, incompetent woman who cannot even run a second rate second hand store is arbitrarily voicing opinions that continue to cost our village $100k's is running for mayor??? Are you kidding me??? If I had known then what I know now I would NEVER have voted for incorporation for "The Village of Palmetto Bay". Sheesh…
I believe that schools are an important part of educating this country. There is only so much land in this city and schools should have the right to take advantage of opportunties to expand and purchase land. Our children should come first. We were all children once…why deny the generation that will lead this world into the future?
Schools and Churches take land away from the tax rolls so that the burden must fall on the remaining property owners. I don't live in Palmetto Bay but I can see why the Village doesn't want any more land going for schools or churches. Churches and Non-profits use public services like everyone else. If there's a fire, the fire department shows up and puts it out, if there's a theft, the police show up. No more free rides for churches and non-profits. And schools must tighten their belt like everyone else and do with less. Schools have become palaces and the permanent school bureaucracy is breaking the back of tax payers.
So here we go again. Grant Miller is trying to control Palmetto Bay like he does in every election. He didn't bother to say that he supports Palmer Trinity because his children attend school there. He supports night league play at Coral Reef Park and therefore supports candidates who promise to light the park for him. He also said this stuff about Stanczyk wasn't true. Grant stay out of Palmetto Bay. We don't want our Parks lighted that are in our front yard. We don't want more traffic and noise. And we sure don't want higher taxes because your candidate wants to use our tax dollars to improve his friends businesses and build apartment buildings and hotels with our tax dollars in our residential areas. We clearly have not spent too much to protect us from the likes of you and your interference. Go back to Pinecrest.
So we now know who the Millers are supporting. Living in Pinecrest they don't care that their candidate, Peter England wants to raise taxes by virtue of his re-development plans for our residential areas and transforming them into Apartment complexes and hotels. Just to get elected he's taking money from all the Palmer Trinity People so Palmer can count on his vote and his friends. The Millers don't care about the people of Palmetto Bay , they live in Pinecrest.
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Netflix's options are dwindlingOctober 25, 2012: 6:00 AM ET
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FORTUNE -- Netflix chief Reed Hastings was right about one thing when he made his clumsy, quickly retracted announcement last year that he was going to split off the company's DVD business: the future of video rental lies in streaming. Unfortunately, that's horrible news for Netflix.
DVD rentals make up 90% of the company's profits, but DVD subscribers are bolting fast. Margins are much better for DVDs than they are for streaming. Subscriptions to Netflix's (NFLX) streaming service are growing, but not nearly fast enough to make up the difference. The company announced on Tuesday that it added 1.16 million new U.S. subscriptions in its third quarter, well below expectations (J.P. Morgan guessed it would be 1.56 million), and even further below Netflix's own goals for the year. Shares were down by more than 8% in late trading on Wednesday, despite the fact that revenues, at 905 million, were in line with expectations and that net profits, at $8 million, were better than predicted.
DVD subscriptions fell by 630,000, and Netflix said it might lose another 760,000 in the fourth quarter. It has lost 2.56 million DVD subscribers this year. Netflix now has 25.1 million low-margin streaming subscribers and 8.6 million high-margin DVD subscribers, and those numbers, as well as the profits they represent, will continue to diverge.
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And that's when the company is able to land or renew licenses at all. New offerings are relatively scant, as Netflix has lost some providers, such as Starz, and has made weak or restrictive deals with others, such as Warner Bros. Complaints about a lack of selection are mounting up.
Kathe Wulff, who lives near Minneapolis, recently canceled her Netflix subscription. She sums up her reasons this way: "Redbox [a DVD vending service owned by Coinstar] has the movies faster for a buck down the street and Netflix doesn't get them for another month. I can only stream on one device at a time unless I upgrade my membership," she said. "Hulu is a much better deal with streaming and it has just-run shows from the previous day."
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But perhaps the most troublesome fact for Netflix is that as the streaming market spreads out among so many competitors, it will be at a distinct disadvantage as a standalone streaming service. Its biggest competitors are subsidized by other revenue streams to finance growth and acquisition costs. Netflix isn't. It has about $709 million in cash on hand, but with profits being siphoned off by its growth initiatives, particularly internationally (where profits are slim to none so far), it will have much less room to maneuver than the likes of, for example, Amazon, which has money pouring in from many different sources.
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Heflin police Officer Jackie Stovall, Alabama State Trooper John Lewis and Cleburne County Sheriff's Office Deputy Jamie Cofield were awarded the Medal of Merit by the Oxford Police Department for what Oxford police Chief Bill Partridge described as going "above and beyond the line of duty."
Stovall was shot on Dec. 15 while in pursuit of Romero Roberto Moya, 33. According to police, Moya fired an AK-47 at officers in Heflin and Cofield returned fire several times before Moya fled from police and crashed his vehicle in a busy Oxford intersection. Law enforcement officials said that after the crash, Moya open fired again on officers and Stovall was shot in the groin. Lewis rushed to help and was able to keep Stovall from bleeding out at the scene.
Moya was later shot dead by Oxford police in Coldwater.
Partridge said 14 officers were previously awarded the Medal of Merit, but this is the first time the distinction was given to officers outside the Oxford Police Department.
"These three individuals saved lives. Not only did they save police officers lives, but they saved our citizens' lives," Partridge said to a standing-room only crowd at Oxford City Hall Tuesday evening.
Stovall, who worked as an Oxford police officer before he was hired by Heflin in 2005, still requires crutches, but hopes to be back at the office soon.
"It's been a long road," he said.
Stovall has one more surgery scheduled and extensive physical therapy to complete before he'll be ready for work. Since December, he has had five surgeries to repair the damage caused by Moya's gunfire.
Stovall said he's "very thankful for everything" and credits Lewis for saving his life that day.
"I wouldn't be here without him," he said. "God put him there to take care of me and get me to the hospital."
Lewis described that December day as "emotional … seeing a fellow police officer shot."
Lewis said as soon as he saw Stovall hurt he radioed for help and immediately applied pressure to the wound. After an ambulance arrived, Lewis rejoined the chase for Moya.
The trooper of 10 years said he was appreciative of the recognition.
Cofield said he felt he was "just doing his job that day" and it could have been anyone from his department involved in the chase.
The deputy of 10 years said he prays before every shift for the strength to handle any call that comes his way. While trading gunfire with Moya, Cofield said he tried to distract the shooter because he was worried for Stovall's safety.
"I just tried to keep a cool head and did what I had to do," Cofield said.
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Sajjad Tuesday, 24 September 2013 4:00 PM - Dubai
Comparing school fees to university fees is not apples to apples comparison. We need to compare school fees to school fees.
I put my children through a private school in the UK for 2 years then moved to Dubai. The UK school was a reasonably pricced one, not a high end. I paid AED 67,000 (total for both per year) in the UK and pay AED 62,000 (total for both per year) here in Dubai. So it is cheaper here. The Cambidge and Oxford University fees at AED 53,000 are also cheaper than a UK private school.
The question, however, is not just one of fees. The level of education in the UK is considerably better than Dubai. I would say that my children dropped back about a year in their level here in Dubai compared to where they were at in the UK. In Dubai we have good facilites in the school that we pay for, but the education is more important than whether there is a swimming pool or not. Unfortuantely, there is no focus on improving the actual education itself.
Margo wearn Saturday, 9 February 2013 1:23 PM - England
I have decided to home school in Dubai because a) i am broke and b) i am (actually) quite intelligent.
Easy solution and the kids can get up at 11 instead of 7.
Skm Friday, 1 February 2013 1:45 AM - UNITED KINGDOM
University tuition fees soar for foreign students
Foreign students are being charged up to eight times more than British undergraduates as universities seek to plug a multi-million pound hole in the higher education budget.
New figures show students from outside Britain and the EU will pay an average of �10,463 in tuition fees next year ? a rise of 5.6 per cent.
One university ? Imperial College London ? is preparing to charge fees of up to �26,250 for some laboratory-based subjects.
Under Government rules, tuition fees for all British students and those from EU member states are capped at �3,290 next year, but universities are free to set unlimited fees for foreign undergraduates.
A study earlier this year by the think-tank Policy Exchange found that overseas students were increasingly seen as a ?lucrative source of income for a growing numbers of universities?.
Alex Sunday, 27 January 2013 11:28 PM - Dubai
Agree, I have my daughter as an overseas student at Central Saint Martins College and tuition and accommodation in student quarters is equal to Year 10 for my son at GEMS Wellington in Dubai.... No issue normally if quality of education was worth the investment, however, teachers who treat assignments in Dubai as a working holiday and the constant 'in and out' with no continuity of teaching staff makes the quality suffer and the students lacking encouragement and commitment....
Dr Salman Hameed Sunday, 27 January 2013 11:23 PM - UAE
No taxes here in UAE. Even the services here offered to all residents way better than any other country in the world. We dont pay a dollar or pound or Euro to use public toilets like many Western countries despite all the taxes they pay. Education is far more superior in private schools here as compared to western public schools. That's why hundred of thousands of westerners do not want to go back to their own countries as the level and quality of life they enjoy in Dubai is far superior to that in any other country. If you are a law abiding residents than there are no problems. The local emirati community is educated and very tolerant. I have lived in UK and Canada and USA and I know what I am talking about.
I can spend on health and education from the money I save for not paying taxes. I dont have to wait for months or sometimes years waiting for doctors appointments or investigations.
LONG LIVE UAE AND its leaders and all the residents.
May God bless this country.Telcoguy Monday, 28 January 2013 4:10 PM - UAE
You really do nto know what you are talking about if you think education here is any good. Check any international benchmark like PISA for primary education or the scores of UAE residents (or worst, UAE nationals) at GMAT, GRE or even TOEFL
Denying the problem will do nothing to solve it, but hey, your country, your choiceOldtimer Monday, 28 January 2013 11:42 AM - UAE
Most of what you mentioned is true, but the level of education here is really pathetic! I am comparing it to the private education I received in a third world country, for far less money ( exchange rates considered)! There was far more commitment to quality education and the teachers were very dedicated to their students. The GEMS group is spoiling the reputation of Dubai by dishing out mediocre fare for top dollar. What is adding to the helplessness of the parents is the near monopoly they have in Indian-curriculum schools. We have a wonderful life here and would like to stay together as a family, and not have to send our kids away to get a better education. We would (at lest I would) gladly pay top dollar, if they only provided quality education. Despite the exorbitant fees they charge, their teachers are paid a pittance, so qualified and experienced ones don't stay for long. The result is a constant change of teachers which adversely affects the students performanceGamal Monday, 28 January 2013 11:36 AM - UAE
Mr. Salman,
with all due respect, we are talking about cost of education and you are talking about taxes which is irrelevant.
schools are suppose to be either non-profit Org or they are regulated in the sense that they can not simply charge as they like.
as the article mentioned, the KJ student pays more that the university student....where is the sense here.
we need gov intervention just like any other sector..banking etc.
although the quality of education is not the issue here but you went to compare the UK / western education to Dubai schools....which is a poor discussion because it is not relevant and also we all know all the breakthroughs came from the west/ USA ...if u want to compare MIT/ Harvard/ Stanford/Berkely / Oxford/ Cambridge etc.
as a matter of fact, the curriculum that the schools teach in Dubai is either British or American.
so let's not divert and lets compare apples to apples.
the question here is the cost of education period.
one of the joes Monday, 28 January 2013 11:34 AM - uae
Dear Salman, your Dr does not help you from making unqualified statements, it appears. many expats that I know left & live & work happily in countries where they have to pay taxes. I have sent my children back to Europe to attend (private) schools there. All of our children confirm how much better the schools (curriculum, teachers, infrastructure) are compared to here. All of our kids have been to a number of high cost schools in Dubai, they know what they are talking about.
you pay for what you use here, that's just a different collection scheme than with taxes. Nothing is for free here, but that is also not expected.
And in regard to medical services - you know where many Emiratis go for treatment? Europe, namely Germany and UK. Same doctors work here & in Europe, different price. European prices are lower as there is no real estate bubble surcharge one of the joes included in Europe prices.
I still live here as I am closer to where the biz is - in the Gulf region, not for taxes
Maj Sunday, 27 January 2013 3:06 PM - UAE
The greed of the education business people will never stop, and yet, govt. isn't doing a thing about it..... till it will become too late, as usual...... yeah, you heard me, it happens that they are reactive where they should proactive...... yeah, thanks lord, there is at least some kind of activeness so to say.
Pity people have to pay this much of money to give their kids a proper education, where education should be a mission, a mission to be given with the minimum cost to cover the expenses, not to make a huge profit out of it !
let's open a school, have low cost teachers and not even pay them (they need jobs, right?) and overcharge the hell out of everyone who need to educate their kids.
Ali Sunday, 27 January 2013 11:04 AM - USA
I was about to move to Dubai from the US hoping to live the Dubai dream...but reading all these posts and especially the careless nature of the government towards expats and foreign workers and especially the ill treatment and double layers of laws, one for locals and one for foreigners, is something I can not live with at all as I believe every human is equal no matter where they are born.
By the way, to the gentleman who posted above about the same laws in the US for higher university fees for no us citizens, I would like to educate him that we are talking of primary schools here, not universities. Schools in the US are free with the best education whether you are a local or foreigner, so don'teven start to compare. Secondly, even in US universities, you can get schollarships and grants and work on campus and off campus to earn your fees...does Dubai allow that to foreign students??? If you get a univeristy job you pay local fees even if you are a foreigner, so no comparision there!
Joh Sunday, 27 January 2013 11:02 AM - UAE
Guys have commented here about the costs. Of course the cost does not justify the quality they produce. Second, any guy who can sit down with a calculator (or without), will tell how much profitable it is to be that school. If someone can start a simple school wothout the "cosmetic facade" and ensure they have good dedicated teachers (pay them decently), the management will still make profit and also ensure receiving blessings of the parents. The quality of students they generate now is pathetic. Even the show the management puts up for inspection is worth a comedy televesion serial. To add to the misery, if the inspectors say your school is good then they justufy a fee rise.Telcoguy Sunday, 27 January 2013 3:09 PM - UAE
You raise an interesting point. After reading all the complains and criticisms there seems to be plenty of demand for "value" education. I can not answer why nobody is addressing that need but I would like to add some other points
-In most situations the "value" option is a dead trap as markets quickly break into low-price, low-quality and high-price, luxury with little ground in the middle (but it seems the low-price is not happening here)
-In normal circumstances parents would set up some coop school, this is not happening in Dubai, I suspect this has to do with the transient population (you may only educate your kids here for 1-2 years, why bother) in spite of all the commitment talk
-Few parents are raising the quality issue (far more serious I think)
-People are a bit unrealistic about other people's motivations. If someone is going to bother educating your kids they are more likely to do for profit. If not they would do at home country with poor kids, no middle/high-class expats
Andy Friday, 25 January 2013 12:21 PM - USA
Dubai may be tax free but they more then make up for it in other ways. The other ways that they make up for it exceed taxes paid in western countries. Only for locals does this work out well.
To the locals if I am not mistaken education and medical is all free. Utility bills are also lower. In the areas that they live they also do not have to pay the community fees every year like the ones the expats do.Ali Sunday, 27 January 2013 3:10 PM - UAE
Hisham, he is not talking about "fees". You have actual "fees", and then you have inflated costs of housing, schooling, and telecom. Housing and schooling take up more than 50% of the income of many cost-conscious families.
On top of that , many newcomers are expected to cough up an entire years rent before they even have 2 months salary.
Blaming "partying" is a red herring, there are plenty of families who dont party, budget all costs and still find it difficutl to save 5% , let alone 35%, mainly because of the high accomodation and schooling costskingkaiser Sunday, 27 January 2013 3:08 PM - UAE
@Omar - actually, the more discussed western countries being referring to support their *residents*. Your lower in-state charges apply whether you are American or Armenian.
Hisham Sunday, 27 January 2013 12:34 PM - UAE
@Andy unless you're talking about someone from some banana country, this can hardly be true. All the fees and extra charges together can never amount to 30% of your earnings, or in some European nations' cases, over 50%. Instead, it's the expats themselves who have created what they refer to as the "Dubai lifestyle", which in their case is a lifestyle of clubbing, alcohol and eating out three times per day. With that in mind, any country would be expensive. It can even be a quite amusing minstrel show to look at, and to see how new expats are pulled into this lifestyles by the ones who are already here. If you live according to your means and maintain the European lifestyle, you can save at least 35% of your salary. If you want to drive Porsches on a 12K salary, you don't have to be a math genius, and any type of "machine" will swollow up your money.
Adam Friday, 25 January 2013 11:14 AM - UAE
@ Omar is back, very well said Omar, the standard of living in Dubai and the UAE as a whole is high and it costs a lot to reside and lead a reasonably decent lifestyle in this great country. Expats chose to come to the golden shores of the Arabian Gulf, nobody forced them to come or drag their children along. Since they chose to educate their children in the UAE, they should be able to pay the fees and or send them back home to pursue their studies not make an annual big hue & cry. Those days when the teacher use to come to school on a dilapidated bicycle and slippers are long gone and forgotten, education is business people and rightly so.Telcoguy Saturday, 26 January 2013 1:04 PM - UAE
@Mike, yes I am sure most people would like to get Scandinavian-level of education (Finland being the highest scorer in PISA, I hope you will allow me to include them as Scandiavians) But is also clear that most people in the UAE do not fancy Scandinavian-level taxation
And honestly there is no reason why the UAE government should spend resources educating the expat's children. The very same expats that are reminded every few days of their "guest", transient status... It is simply not consistent.
So you are left with purely for-profit schools that perform on the same level as other service providers here (think of banks, DEWA, Etisalat...)
Sending kids home for schooling is really an option, probably the best one regarding education. It may not be something you like based on other criteria (I guess family life and all that), but that is the deal when you take an expat job, you are no longer at home for good and bad
Maybe you should talk other parents and start your coop schoolMike DeLonghi Friday, 25 January 2013 5:44 PM - Saudi Arabia
Adam, some of the best, most qualified teachers I had as a kid were the ones wearing 'slippers' and 'riding old bicycles'. Your other arrogant statement that our kids should just be sent home for school if we can't afford school fees and that 'education is business' both have a rather hollow ring to it. I went through public schools in Scandinavia and still made it as an Exec in multinational company. Surely, I prefer that model of having an actual choice between public/private education rather than being force-fed over priced, monopolized private schooling such as in Dubai. If you can't appreciate that the current state of UAE education (for expats, mind you locals get it for free!) is basically flawed, then I can only speculate about your motives for posting such blunt statements.
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The University of Memphis (formerly known as West Tennessee State Normal School and then Memphis State College) first fielded a football team in 1912. The program saw some of its greatest success under coach Billy Murphy, who coached the Tigers from 1958 to 1971. The Tigers went to their first bowl game in 1971 - the Pasadena Bowl, beating San Jose State. Memphis wouldn't play in the post season again until Tommy West took the helm. West has led the Tigers to 4 bowl games in 5 years. Memphis has contributed some talented players to the NFL over the years, including DeAngelo Williams, Isaac Bruce, and Steve Gostkowski.
The Memphis Tigers play their home games at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. Opened in 1965, the Liberty Bowl holds over 62,000 spectators. Visitors to a Memphis game at the Liberty Bowl will be struck by the great sightlines and how close all the seats are to the playing surface. There isn't a bad ticket to a Memphis Tiger game, so buy Memphis football tickets today!
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