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The 23-year-old left-back arrived from Vitesse Arnhem as a virtual unknown in the summer as cover for Patrice Evra and made an immediate impact on his debut against Wigan in September, with an impressive display and goal.
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E. M. Forster
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Edward Morgan Forster (January 1 1879 – July 7 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
- See also: Maurice
- 1 Sourced
- 1.1 Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)
- 1.2 The Machine Stops (1909)
- 1.3 Howards End (1910)
- 1.4 A Passage to India (1924)
- 1.5 Aspects of the Novel (1927)
- 1.6 Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)
- 1.7 The Life to Come and other stories (1972)
- 1.8 Selected Letters (1985)
- 1.9 Commonplace Book (1985)
- 2 Quotes about E. M. Forster
- 3 External links
- It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
- A Room with a View (1908) Ch.1
- There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
- A Room with a View (1908) Ch. 2
- The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but transalate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions.
- A Room with a View (1908) Ch. 3
- Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
- A Room with a View (1908)
- It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
- A Room with a View (1908) Ch. 19
- I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.
- "The Celestial Omnibus" (1911)
- ...There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty- in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub-our immediate duty is to stop it.
- "Notes on the Way", Time and Tide Magazine, 10th June 1934. Reprinted in The Prince's Tale and other uncollected writings, London, Andre Deutsch, 1998.
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)[edit]
- Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
- Ch. 2
- A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and — by some sad, strange irony — it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.
- Ch. 7
- I never expect anything to happen now, and so I am never disappointed. You would be surprised to know what my great events are. Going to the theatre yesterday, talking to you now — I don't suppose I shall ever meet anything greater. I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there. You are quite right; life to me is just a spectacle, which — thank God, and thank Italy, and thank you — is now more beautiful and heartening than it has ever been before.
- Ch. 8
- This woman was a goddess to the end. For her no love could be degrading: she stood outside all degradation. This episode, which she thought so sordid, and which was so tragic for him, remained supremely beautiful. To such a height was he lifted, that without regret he could now have told her that he was her worshipper too. But what was the use of telling her? For all the wonderful things had happened.
"Thank you," was all that he permitted himself. "Thank you for everything." ~ Ch. 10
The Machine Stops (1909)[edit]
- These are a few samples from this work, for more see the page for The Machine Stops
- Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. There were buttons and switches everywhere — buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. There was the hot-bath button, by pressure of which a basin of (imitation) marble rose out of the floor, filled to the brim with a warm deodorized liquid. There was the cold-bath button. There was the button that produced literature. and there were of course the buttons by which she communicated with her friends. The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world.
- Ch. 1
Howards End (1910)[edit]
- There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.
- Ch. 15
- She might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. With it love is born, and alights on the highest curve, glowing against the grey, sober against the fire. Happy the man who sees from either aspect the glory of these outspread wings. The roads of his soul lie clear, and he and his friends shall find easy-going.
- Ch. 22
- Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
- In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect — connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.
- Ch. 33
A Passage to India (1924)[edit]
- All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
- Ch. 4
- Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.
- Ch. 14
- Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
- Ch. 14
- 'Why can't we be friends now?' said the other, holding him affectionately. 'It's what I want. It's what you want.' But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices 'No, not yet,' and the sky said 'No, not there.'
- Ch. 37
Aspects of the Novel (1927)[edit]
- As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.
- Chapter One: Introductory
- A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver — in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
- Chapter One: Introductory
- If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
- Chapter Three: People
- A man does not talk to himself quite truly — not even to himself: the happiness or misery that he secretly feels proceeds from causes that he cannot quite explain, because as soon as he raises them to the level of the explicable they lose their native quality. The novelist has a real pull here. He can show the subconscious short-circuiting straight into action (the dramatist can do this too); he can also show it in its relation to soliloquy. He commands all the secret life, and he must not be robbed of this privilege. "How did the writer know that?" it is sometimes said. "What's his standpoint? He is not being consistent, he's shifting his point of view from the limited to the omniscient, and now he's edging back again." Questions like this have too much the atmosphere of the law courts about them.
- Chapter Five: The Plot
- How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
- Chapter Five: The Plot
- Most of us will be eclectics to this side or that according to our temperament. The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would offer my fellow eclectics is: "Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful."
- Chapter Seven: Prophecy
- If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people — a very few people, but a few novelists are among them — are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest is against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.
- Chapter Nine: Conclusion
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)[edit]
- [Tolerance] is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
- "Tolerance"
- Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
- "Tolerance"
- Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
- "Cambridge"
- A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
- "Anonymity: An Enquiry"
- What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote, and brings to birth in us also the creative impulse.
- "Anonymity: An Enquiry"
- Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.
- "The Raison d'Etre of Criticism in the Arts"
- We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
- "The Tercentenary of the 'Areopagitica'"
- To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- "A Book That Influenced Me"
- The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
- "A Book That Influenced Me"
- A humanist has four leading characteristics — curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
- "George and Gide"
- I believe in aristocracy... — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power... but... of the sensitive, the considerate... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages... there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos. Thousands of them perish in obscurity, a few are great names. They are sensitive for others as well as themselves... considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure.
What I Believe[edit]
- First published in The Nation, July 16, 1938
- Two Cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.
- I do not believe in Belief. But this is an Age of Faith, and there are so many militant creeds that, in self defence, one has to formulate a creed of one's own. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world where ignorance rules, and Science, which ought to have ruled, plays the pimp. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy — they are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long.
- There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
- An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness — much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.
- I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
- Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.
- Naked I came into this world, naked I shall go out of it. And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.
- The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
- If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
- One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
The Life to Come and other stories (1972)[edit]
- Dead silence ensued, which was well enough for Ansell, to whom it merely meant that neither of us had any more to say. But to educated people silence matters; it is a token of stupidity and lack of invention.
- Ansell
- But that was only the beginning of her mortification. Harold had proved her wrong. He had seen that she was a shifty, shallow hypocrite. She had not dared to be alone with him since her exposure. She had never looked at him and had hardly spoken. He seemed cheerful, but what was he thinking? He would never forgive her.
- Albergo Empedocle
- Had she only realized that it is only hypocrites who cannot forgive hypocrisy, whereas those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others – than the bitter flow of her thoughts might have been stopped and the catastrophe averted. But it was not conceivable to her that he should forgive – or that she should accept forgiveness, for to her forgiveness meant a triumph of one person over another.
- Albergo Empedocle
- 'Why are pictures like this allowed?' he suddenly cried. He had stopped in front of a colonial print in which the martyrdom of St Agatha was depicted with all the fervour that incompetence could command.
'It's only a saint,' said Lady Peaslake, placidly raising her head.
'How disgusting – and how ugly'
'Yes, very. It's Roman Catholic.'
- Albergo Empedocle
- She began to speak, but waited a moment for the maid to clear away the tea. In the waning light her room seemed gentle and grey, and there hung about it an odour (I do not write 'the odour') of Roman Catholicism, which is assuredly among the gracious things of the world. It was the room of a woman who had found time to be good to herself as well as to others; who had brought forth fruit, spiritual and temporal; who had borne a mysterious tragedy not only with patience but actually with joy.
- The rock
- This conversation taught me that some of us can meet reality on this side of the grave. I do not envy them. Such adventures may profit the disembodied soul, but as long as I have flesh and blood I pray that my grossness preserve me. Our lower nature has its dreams. Mine is of a certain farm, windy but fruitful, half-way between the deserted moorland and the uninhabitable sea. Hither, at rare intervals, she should descend and he ascend, to shatter their spiritual communion by one caress.
- The rock
- His hand came nearer, his eyes danced round the room, which began to fill with a golden haze. He beckoned, and Clesant moved into his arms. Clesand had often been proud of his disease but never, never of his body, it had never occurred to him that he could provoke desire. This sudden revelation shattered him, he fell from his pedestal, but not alone, there was someone to cling to, broad shoulders, a sunburnt throat, lips that parted as they touched him to murmur – 'And to hell with Woolacott'.
- Dr Woolacott
- It is better to have a home of one's own than to always be a typist. Hilda did not talk quite as she should, and her husband had not scrupled to correct her. She had never forgotten – it was such a small thing, yet she could not forget it – she had never forgotten that night on their honeymoon when she had said something ungrammatical about the relative position of their limbs.
- The obelisk
- Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.
- What does it matter? A morality
Selected Letters (1985)[edit]
- Laughing at mankind is rather weary rot, I think. We shall never meet with anyone nicer. Nature, whom I used to be keen on, is too unfair. She evokes plenty of high & exhausting feelings, and offers nothing in return.
- Letter 57, to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905
- You can gather however that I know I am not a real artist, and at the same time am fearfully serious over my work and willing to sweat at atmosphere if it helps me wo what I want. What I want, I think, is the sentimental, but the sentimental reached by no easy beaten track—I cannot explain myself properly, for you must remember (I forget it myself) that though 'clever' I have a small and cloudy brain, and cannot clear it by talking or reading philosophy.
- Letter 60, to Robert Trevelyan, 28 October 1905
- As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored"—"I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare—that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.
- Letter 104, to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912
- The newspapers still talk about glory but the average man, thank God, has got rid of that illusion. It is a damned bore, with a stall mate as the most probable outcome, but one has to see it through, and see it through with the knowledge that whichever side wins, civilisation in Europe will be pipped for the next 30 years. Don't indulge in Romance here, Malcolm, or suppose that an era of jolly little nationalities is dawning. We shall be much too much occupied with pestilence and poverty to reconstruct.
- Letter 136, to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914
- Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me—at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not—awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.
- Letter 137, to Syed Ross Masood, 5 December 1914
- I wrote it [Maurice] neither for my friends or the public—but because it was weighing on me; and my previous training made me write it as literature, though for a long time I meant to show it no one at all. [...] I am much dependant on criticism and now, backed by you and some others, do feel that I have created something absolutely new, even to the Greeks. Whitman nearly anticipated me but he didn't really know what he was after, or only half knew—shirked, even to himself, the statement.
- Letter 144, to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915
- Always fatuity, vulgarity, as soon as human passion is touched. [...] Just as some poetry is of the eye (form, colour) and some of the ear, so Keats is of the palate. Not only has he constant reference to its pleasures, but the general sensation after reading him is one of tasting. 'What's the harm?' Well, taste for some reason or the other can't carry one far into the world of beauty—that reason being perhaps that though you don't want comradership there you do want the possibility of comradership, and A cannot swallow B's mouthful by any possibility:....and this exclusiveness (to maunder on) also attaches to the physical side of sex though not the least to the spiritual.
- Letter 162, to Malcolm Darling, 1 December 1916
- Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.
- Letter 216, to Florence Barger, 11 February 1922
- Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.
- Letter 231, to W. J. H. Sprott, 28 June 1923
- All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
- Letter 251, to Florence Barger, 23 December 1924
- Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.
- Letter 285, to George Thomson, 1 August 1931
- [Before the prostate operation] I feel gay and calm, but have an open mind as to whether I shall get through or not[.] I don't say this to anyone else, but I love you too much to say anything but the truth. I don't feel afraid of anything and it is your love that has made me be like this. I hope to come back to you and everything and be as before, and I will try my best to do so.
- Letter 311, to Robert J. Buckingham, 17 December 1935
- Your letter firmed me up a lot. It certainly is a comfort to know that my work is respected by someone whom I respect and am as fond as you. It confirms my beliefe that life is notall nonsense and cruelty—the inversion of Victorian complacency—but has hard spots of sense and love bobbing about in it here and there.
- Letter 330, to Christopher Isherwood, 28 August 1938
- My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive—Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he is not very important. They give me information and they give their comrades gratification, but that's all; gloom, indignation, aspiration in plenty, and plenty of stains on the tablecloth and coal-dust in the mine—but no living beings to experience them.
- Letter 350, to John Lehmann, 21 December 1940
- The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.
- Letter 396, to Eric Fletcher, 9 July 1951
- What puzzles me most is your criticism that he showed 'no sense of engagement'. I haven't met the expression before, and feel bound to comment on its totalitarian tang. Engagement not with the truth as the speaker apprehends it, but with the alleged opinion of the majority of listeners.
- Letter 400, to John Morris, 12 January 1953
- I went to our Theological College lately, Westcott House, and we had a sort of chat. He told me that without him it was impossible to understand the universe, and I came away having forgotten to reply that it did not occur to me to try to understand the universe. I must not run on like this so. Or rather what I mean is I have just finished the biography of my great aunt. Undersanding, or partially understanding, her has been quite a large enough job.
- Letter 411, to Lionel Trilling, 1 August 1955
- I had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensaton of being in close contact with what I was reading. [...] But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.
- Letter 419, to William Plomer, 12 December 1957
Commonplace Book (1985)[edit]
- Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
- p. 6
- Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
- p. 11
- Probable that I am now better than most people and as good as I ever shall be at this game, and can therefore get to know anyone I wish, provided I am not physically repellent. And perhaps this is why personal relationships no longer seem to me a serious branch of study.
- p. 45
- I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
- p. 46
- Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.
- p. 50
- I grudged her nothing except my company. But it has gone further, like the degradation of rural England: this afternoon (Sunday in April) all the young men had women with them in far-flung cameradeie. If women ever wanted to be by themselves all would be well. But I don't believe they ever want to be, except for reasons of advertisement, and their instinct is never to let men be by themselves. This, I begin to see, is sex-war, and D.H.L. has seen it, in spite of a durable marriage, and is far more on the facts than Bernard Shaw and his Life Force.
- p. 59
- No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.
- p. 76
- It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.
- p. 92 (26-2-32)
- One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
- p. 92
- Today 29-9-34 ion the garden, rockery side, looking up to the house where Bone was working, sky bluish, very gentle, I looked without theories or self consciousness. This happens very seldom, though I can prolong the delight if I prevent my engines from restarting.
- p. 95
- But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
- p. 151
- N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.
- p. 155 (1943)
- I have very strongly of late the wish that others may be as sensitive as myself and the fear that they will not be. Colleague Sir Frank Adcock stumped by the sunset-portent unheeding. And I can't arge that I gain, or that others would gain, anything for humanity by observing and recording what went on for a few moments in the sky on Boar Race evening. I sometimes pretend to myself that I am public-spirited. I am not. I am an hedonist who wants pleasant sensations. On the other hand I am not the usual type of hedonist, for I want sensations to be had – if not by myself, then by someone else. The show shouldn't end with my death, which becomes a minor boo-hoo.
- p. 211 (1959)
- Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
- p. 219 (1960)
- Going to Bits. This phrase me to day and is indeed the one I have been looking for; not tragic, not mortal disintegration; only a central weakness which prevents me from concentrating or settling down I have so wanted to write and write ahead. The phrase "obligatory creation" has haunted me. I have so wanted to get out of my morning bath promptly: have decided to do so beforehand, and have then lain in it as usual and watched myself not getting out. It looks as if there is a physical as well as a moral break in the orders I send out. I have plenty of interesting thoughts but keep losing them like the post cards I have written, or like my cap. I can't clear anything up yet interrupt a 'good read' in order to clear up. I hope tomorrow to copy out a piece of someone else's pose: it is the best device known to me for taking one out of inself, Plunge into anothers minutiae.' 31-1-61
- p. 224
- It is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way – otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contrary the Christian danger.
- p. 243 (1963)
Quotes about E. M. Forster[edit]
- "Only connect...", the motto of Howards End, might be the lesson of all his work. His heroes and heroines...are the precursors of the left-wing young people of today; he can be used by them as a take-off in whatever direction they would develop...Much of his art consists in the plain-ness of his writing, for he is certain of the truth of his convictions and the force of his emotions.
- Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 1938.
- "Two Cheers for Democracy"...(made) a considerable impression. It annoyed many, both orthodox patriots and orthodox Marxists, but they felt outmanoeuvred by it. And many others, sickened of "commitment" by the betrayals and confusions of the Spanish civil war, found it a great support and recognized a heroism in its facing of limitations.
- P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1979. (p. 225)
- His light blue eyes behind his spectacles were like those of a baby who remembers his previous incarnation and is more amused than dismayed to find himself reborn in new surroundings. He had a baby's vulnerability, which is also the invulnerability of a creature whom one dare not harm.
- Christopher Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind (1976) ISBN 0374520364 , ch. 6 (p. 106)
- ...No government, no big organization, will pay for the truth. To take a crude example: can you imagine the British Government commissioning E. M. Forster to write A Passage to India? He could only write it because he was not dependent on State aid.
- George Orwell, "As I Please" column in Tribune (13 October 1944). Reprinted in
The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945 (1968).
- He's a mediocre man -- and knows it, or suspects it, which is worse; he will come to no good, and in the meantime he's treated rudely by waiters and is not really admired even by middle-class dowagers.
- Lytton Strachey, Letter to James Strachey, 3 February 1914, in Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (1968)
- The book [A Passage to India] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
- Virginia Woolf, 'The Novels of E.M. Forster, Atlantic Monthly, November 1927, in E. M. Forster: The Critical Heritage, ed. P. Gardner (1997)
- The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.
- Virginia Woolf, Diary for 12 March 1922, in The Diary of Virginia Woolf, ed. A. O. Bell (1977-82)
External links[edit]
- Brief biography at Kirjasto (Pegasos)
- Brief biography at the British Humanist Association (BHA)
- Pharos: E. M. Forster
- Only Connect : The unofficial Forster site
- Aspects of E.M. Forster
- The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
- Works by E. M. Forster at Project Gutenberg
- Howards End Page at Kingwood College Library


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This is not expected to be the definitive photo tour of Israel but it is a nice collection of photos taken on a six day tour of Israel in November 2008.
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Interests are: Nature, Trekking, Surfing, Swimming, Diving, Boating, Photography, Writing, Philosophy, Vegetarian Cooking and Yoga Meditation.
Publish Date December 03, 2008
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"It's a rite of passage." "It's just boys being boys." "I was bullied when I was a kid and it was no big deal."
Fortunately, ignorant statements like these have been being shot down over the last few years, but there are still those who believe them. The truth of the matter is that bullying extends way beyond just a couple of kids in the schoolyard. And now, we have an example of exactly that truth.
We have Ms. Karen Klein, an elderly adult in a position of authority no less, being relentlessly abused by children on a school bus. Bullies do indeed bully everyone, not just other kids. Bullying is just one 'flavor' of abuse, and abusive behavior is a widespread societal issue these days.
The four boys who were caught on tape abusing Klein have been suspended from public school for a year (which means they have been placed in an "alternate" learning environment outside of the normal public school system), have been given 50 hours of community service and have been enrolled into a bullying prevention program. Would that all bullies were handled like this. There would be much less of it going around. I think it's very appropriate and a great start.
It's a certainty that this isn't the first and only time these boys have abused someone. It's probably just the first time they've been caught doing it. Or, more likely, they have been caught before, but now that an elderly woman was the recipient of the abuse, it couldn't be ignored as it is so often when it's "just" other children on the receiving end. If these consequences were imposed on these lads for past bullying incidents, this particular situation probably would never have happened.
I'm concerned that the focus of this story has now turned to the nearly $700,000 that has been raised for Karen Klein. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a wonderful gesture on the part of the public to do this. But we can't simply give everyone who is bullied and abused a gift because we feel bad for them. We need to do more. We need to be proactive. We need to do whatever we can to prevent this type of behavior before it happens. You can't just "pay off" trauma.
One thing we can do to really turn this around is to start holding the parents at least partially responsible in situations like these. Alarms need to go off when a situation like this occurs. Statistics show that there is a very high probability, edging on certainty, that one or both of the parents of each of these children are abusive themselves.
Children learn what they live. That's just a fact. My experience, coupled with the experience of many others, show that when children are "hard core" abusers like we have here, it indicates that someone in the home is role modeling that abusive behavior. Either directly — through abusing the children themselves — or by abusing the spouse, or both. The parents must be held accountable for some amount of responsibility in this incident.
At the very least, the parents should be investigated by some sort of social services bureau for abuse in the family. Further, the parents should be required to foot the bill for the alternate education their children are required to receive because they can't seem to act with respect and civility towards other people.
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I just watched the most absurd commercial. It's for Angel Soft toilet paper. A guy asks his wife for a roll of toilet paper. It's a classic Goldilocks. First she throws him a roll that's too hard. Then, it's too soft. Then she throws him the Angel Soft roll followed by a jingle… "Angel Soft… an ideal balance of softness and strength."
It may not sound so corny on paper as you're reading this. But I guarantee you, the jingle… awful.
It brought me to wonder why agencies would write such an awkward line of copy. Were the other lines rejected after some AB testing? Maybe legally speaking they can't use certain phrases that other brands have used to express "softness without sacrificing the strength."
Whatever reason, I heard that jingle and balked. So yes, good job ad agency, I remember the commercial. However, I'm also a brand whore. Charmin only. And anything other than Bounty in my Kitchen, Lysol in my bathroom, or Tide by my laundry basket? I think not. So no, the commercial also didn't change my purchasing decision. But I'm unique. I love advertisements and studying them.
My real question is how did the commercial come about? The product manager, maybe product marketing manager, the advertising agency, media buyer, and all the third party hands that have touched the commercial from the studios to the channels where the commercial is broadcasted. They all touched the commercial. What were their inputs and influences? How much do you trust the gut instinct of your ad agency versus the pages of spreadsheets with scanner data and consumer perception via focus groups, surveys, etc.? How do you separate the noise in the numbers from the statistically significant? If you can't, what do you rely on? If you're a product manager in this situation, how do you make your decision?
I don't know. I want to learn.
I believe there is too much reliance on numbers, even when it means making assumptions that aren't comparatively significant. I believe in "an ideal balance of intuition and data." My goal is to learn that ideal balance.


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Clean ~ Quiet ~ Private 1 bedroom downstairs apartment. $98.00 to 199.00 Nightly (email or call for pricing). Mountain and River Views. New Carpet. Newly Remodeled Bathroom. Fall into a peaceful sleep to the sound of water. Large yard. Private Entry. Off Street Parking. Close to Trolley stop, beautiful park, library. Downtown; restuarants, shopping, train depot, museums, galleries, fishing, hiking, tubing, kayaking, white water rafting, skiing, boating, zip line, mountain tram and Alpine Slide (Purgatory). All Water and Snow Sports. Spas, Hot Springs. Absolutely something or everybody! Damage Deposit Required ($300.00). Price quoted are for 2 guests. One additional guest possible for an additional $20.00 per night, no additional damage deposit.
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One queen size bed. Also La Z Boy sofa w/ air mattress and one futon. Large living area. Cable television. Wonderful view of the river, hatchery, mountains, wildlife. Beautiful patio for your morning cup of coffee! Quality Linens; sheets, towels, etc. Coffee maker, toaster oven, microwave, 2 burner hot plate, BBQ. Kitchen supplies and utensils. Beautiful New Washer and Dryer available for guests. Home must be left as found. Owner will do all bath & hand towels, wash cloths, sheets and pillow cases.
activities and attractions in Durango Colorado
Narrow Gauge/Silverton Train. Near Mesa Verde National Park, Silverton historic mining town. Ouray, the "Switzerland of American" an incredible place to spend the day. Purgatory and Hesperus Skiing. Pagosa Hot Springs, approx. 1 hr away. The Animas River with all kinds of water sports; rafting, tubing, fishing, kayaking. Hiking of paved trails throughout town. Great for biking, jogging, walking, etc. So much to do and something for everyone. Fall colors, chili roast.
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Call or email for price quotes. $300.00 deposit for 2 - 3 guests. Refund is fully refundable if unit is left as found, including clean linens. New front loading washer and dryer available to guests. Any cleaning necessary after the first 1/2 hr will deducted from the deposit at $100.00 per hour. Any damages above and beyond the damage deposit will be the sole responsibility of the guests or tenants. Refundable deposit will be returned via US Postal Service within 7 business days to address provided by guest. Unfortunately there is no wifi available at this time. BUT the library is right across the & there are many coffee shops etc very convenient to our location. :)
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Established in 1985, ISIS is the longest running Bob Dylan magazine still in print.
A professionally produced, large format glossy publication, ISIS magazine provides Dylan enthusiasts with a wide-ranging collection of writings on Bob Dylan. Our regular columns include a comprehensive and authoritative News section, reviews of new CD, DVD and book releases, an unofficial bootleg CD column, reviews of official and unofficial vinyl releases, exclusive in-depth articles, interviews, concert reviews and rare and exclusive photographs.
In fact, ISIS is everything you will ever need in a Dylan magazine.
Published approximately every two months ISIS magazine is sold through this website and has subscribers in 32 countries.
For subscription information, please see our ISIS subscriptions page.
Renowned authority on the life and works of Bob Dylan, Derek Barker founded the international Bob Dylan magazine ISIS in September 1985 and has edited this highly respected journal uninterruptedly for more than 25 years.
Over the years, Barker has contributed regularly to BBC Radio programmes about Bob Dylan and has been featured on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Northern Ireland, BBC Radio Scotland as well as dozens of local radio stations. He has also appeared on the BBC 2 television programme "The Culture Show" and Channel 4's Breakfast News talking about Bob Dylan.
Derek has had three books published; the first, a collection of writings and interviews from the back pages of ISIS. "ISIS: A Bob Dylan Anthology" (Helter Skelter Publishing, 2001) sold out a hardback edition, two paperback printings and a 2004 revised edition.
The second collection of writings from ISIS, "20 Years of ISIS" (Chrome Dreams, 2005) was published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the magazine. This book is still in print.
Barker's third book, "The Songs He Didn't Write – Bob Dylan Under The Influence" (Chrome Dreams 2008) received rave reviews from Dylan fans and the monthlies alike. The book was voted as one of the ten best music books of 2009 by UNCUT and was chosen as the third best music book of the year by Record Collector magazine.
Barker has had his writings on Bob Dylan published in journals throughout the world. He has worked on a number of CD and film projects. His status as an expert on all things Dylan is such that he advises premier auction house Christie's (both in London and New York) on the authenticity of items of Dylan memorabilia.
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Jackson was injured in the Seahawks' Oct. 9 victory over the New York Giants and then missed the next game (which came after the bye week) against the Cleveland Browns. Charlie Whitehurst took over for that game and saw his team lose, 6-3. Jackson came back in the next game and has played decently, but nowhere near a good level.
He's thrown four interceptions, including three in one game, since his return from injury but has yet to throw a touchdown pass. He's improved his completion percentage over those games, reaching 63 percent last week against the Ravens. He could be in for a good day against the Rams.
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We joined after having been in a private school so my bar was fairly high. I've been incredibly pleased overall.The teachers my kids had were super solid.Parents reported to me the majority of teachers are great with only a few being just average.The 4th Grade teacher my child had in particular was the best she's had (even at private school).She regularly kept the kids challenged and passionate about learning while insisting on a respectful yet fun classroom environment. The principal is extremely dedicated and has gone above and beyond in all the situations I've experienced.The parents are also dedicated, raising funds to supplement where the state has made cuts as well as volunteering in the classrooms and activities. Parents are incredibly welcoming too!The Parents club has also organized a before/after school chess, art and lego robotics, as well as a few other engaging activities such as talent shows etc. My wish list would be to offer a foreign language after school and leverage more of the parents expertise in an organized way to supplement/enhance teaching and to continue to keep kids engaged. It would also be great if the school grounds landscaping could be freshened up.
Great school - love parent teacher team efforts - our KG teacher was excellent, have made a very positive impact on our kid's life.
Great school with excellent kids.
Academic programs at VHE are outstanding. One of the finest in CA. Extracurricular activities could be improved, including after school art programs. The level of parental involvement exceeds any I have ever seen. A high percentage of parents can be seen on campus every day working in the classrooms, attending field trips with the students, and helping in the office. I am the parent of two 2nd graders and a 4th grader at the school.
Vintage Hills is a good school. I am impressed with the principal. There are some nice families at this school. This school has very high parent involvement. Unfortunately the school is lacking in an Art program.
Quiet and safe campus, I love to have my kids go to Vintage hills elementary
This is a fabulous school nestled in the hills of Pleasanton. Far away from the city streets. I am a former student and have the fondest of memories and just recently I went to an open house and was amazed that the warmth and security hasn't changed in so many years.
Great school! Have one second grader and one kindergartener. Some teachers are better than others, though the overall learning experience is wonderful! Very happy!
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As a warm-up for Euro 2012, Germany played Israel in a friendly on Thursday. There was probably some significance behind this match that goes behind the narrow constraints of football and preparation for Euro 2012, but that does not change the fact that this match did very little to help Germany prepare for the tournament. Israel did not do much attacking at all, and Germany comfortably coasted to a 2-0 win.
The Germans weren't great with their finishing and Ariel Harush had a solid game in goal for Israel. They spent enough time in the general vicinity of the Israel penalty area to score a dozen times over, but didn't look terribly interested in doing so for a lot of the game.
Mario Gomez netted the opener after 40 minutes of play, finishing off a very well-worked move. Sami Khedira started off the attack with a through ball into the box for Thomas Müller, who played an impressive one-touch flick into the path of Gomez. The striker's first touch wasn't the best, but he set himself up beautifully with a very good second touch and hit his finish into the roof of the net.
André Schürrle replaced Lukas Podolski in the 66th minute, and from then until the end of the match, he was the best player on the pitch by some distance. He had one laser beam of a shot skillfully saved by Harush shortly after he came on, but he would eventually get the better of the Israeli keeper. In the 82nd minute, he curled a fantastic right-footed shot around Harush's hand from 20 yards out, ensuring Germany's victory.
The only real worry for Germany heading into the Euros is their situation in the center of midfield. Bastian Schweinsteiger was rested Thursday and his fitness is a bit in doubt at the moment. Toni Kroos started the match, but won't cut it in a double pivot against top teams. Lars Bender got a two-minute runout, while Ilkay Gündogan did not play. Schweinsteiger will probably open the Euros in the center next to Sami Khedira, but there's no telling whether or not he'll be the best version of himself.


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Climb through small but solid, pink crimps and crystals onto a slab that get easier as you go.
This is on Left Wire's middle wall.
6 bolts to LOs.
Fun route but the rock's a bit dodgy towards the middle of the route, be careful pulling to hard on holds as you approach the roof section.
Hold broke on me today between 1st and 2nd bolt.
Brett B, was this hold that broke consequential to the 10a rating? I climbed this route tonight and thought the moves between the 1st and 2nd bolt were significantly harder than 10a . . . perhaps 10c/d? The guidebook says 9+, so I was surprised to say the least!
I would say it did make the climb a bit harder than 10a at the time I climbed it.
There were only two bolt hangers at the top of this route sans chains/rings. I left two quicklinks up there as it was all I had on me. The next person up there might want to add rap rings and/or hangers.
Something has definitely broken off this. Nowhere near 10a.
Shitty rock. Anchor still only has two quicklinks, which do not align properly and will twist your rope. Route is currently hard 5.10/low 5.11 but will probably change when (not if) more holds break.
Fun route with great moves. Harder than the crux, for me, was making the 3rd and 6th clips. The moves past those bolts are no issue if not leading.
Climbed this yesterday and had another hold break off just above the second bolt. The moves to get to the roof feel harder than low 5.10 to me. I think the holds that were originally in the middle section of the route must have broken off, because it's really thin until you reach the roof and definitely not 9+ as the guidebook states. The move to pull the roof is fun, but getting there isn't all that enjoyable.


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Krista N. completed all the requirements to receive the highest award a Girl Scout can achieve, the Gold Award.
Krista's project consisted of painting four murals on the walls of the Strawbridge United Methodist Church. The murals depicted different children's scenes from the Bible. Children helped design parts of the mural and volunteers learned how to paint under Krista's direction.
"I love art, and teaching others about it," said Krista. "I would like to paint more murals in the future."
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Original post made by Anne Toth on May 29, 2007
That was until this past weekend.
Strangely, ALL the signs disappeared in the middle of the night. Now it's possible that this was just an ill-conceived teen prank. However that doesn't seem to be the likeliest explanation. As much as I hope it's not the case, this seems more like some nasty community vigilante-ism.
We can debate the merits of the signs themselves but people are entitled to their opinions and should be free to express them. Certainly there have been a number of local signs posted that promote the "save the farm" cause. But whatever someone's personal opinion is on a particular topic, it's not okay to steal personal property or attempt to stifle speech. That's just wrong. And it makes the folks who are trying to engage in a meaningful discussion about the merits of having a farm look like they are engaging in petty thievery to make their case. Even if they aren't. It's really just sad.
on May 29, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Well, it makes sense. The "Farm" Group (and lets get real here-- that has never been a REAL farm!) has shown that they have little respect for the property rights of the owners of the pumpkin store parcel-- why should they show any regard for the property--or free speech-- rights of neighbors?
on May 29, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I really cannot understand why neighbors would be opposed to the farm. I've heard concerns about traffic and parking - but come on, if 55 homes go there instead of a farm, traffic and noise is going to be much worse.
That neighborhood has a rare opportunity to have a very unique project right in their backyard, instead of more urban sprawl, which composes the vast majority of the rest of the city. Well, maybe the neighbors believe that adding a bunch of new McMansions next door will increase their property value, which is pretty sad.
on May 30, 2007 at 8:47 am
The neighbors object because you are attempting to force upon them a high-density project that doesnt conform with their neighborhood, with LESS streets to feed the new development, therefore forcing MORE cars onto the one major street-- a street that already has problems (no, I dont live over there, but Ive actually been paying attention...). The proposal, put together without any input from professional builders or planners (or, um, the OWNERS of the property), will add a LOT of congestion to that neighborhood.
threefive, here's what I'd like to ask you-- can I put a 3 story townhouse project nextdoor to you, but to make up for the density, may I seize your other neighbors house, pay them half what its worth, tear it down and plant sunflowers?


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December 3, 2012
Construction workers erect the frame for a new building troopers will use as a base of operations for northern turnpike patrols.
It's replacing an old building which was constructed back in the 1950s and designed to be used for side toll operations. But time took its toll on the cramped quarters, hampering the work troopers could do here.
"It's wore out, basically," Sergeant W.R. Knight said. "It wasn't secure. Environmentally, the heating and cooling system, you couldn't keep it cool. It wasn't really accessible to the public."
The Parkways Authority solicited bids for the project, which ranged from $547,000 to $904,000. The low bidder was Teays River Construction. The company was awarded the work, which will be paid for with toll money. Approximately 75 percent of those funds come from out-of-state motorists.
"The state police provide a valuable duty for the turnpike," Greg Barr, General Manager of the W.Va. Parkways Authority said. "And we needed to provide them with an inhabitable building that they could work out of."
It was decided removing asbestos, creating a sewer system and making environmental repairs would be too expensive. So, the decision was made to tear down the old structure and build a new one.
This 2200-square foot facility will be about one and a half times larger than the previous building. With offices and a garage it will offer more space and security for its occupants.
"They have to deal with wanted individuals from out of state," Captain B.C. Marcum said. "People that just stole vehicles. People that do felonious crimes. This new facility will allow our troopers to be able to bring people in there to interview them, search them."
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To me that sounds like a lot of hard, thankless work and definitely something that would interfere with my obsession with The Daily Show, but if you're going to do it, now's the time. Apparently November is National Novel Writing month. What, you don't believe me? Click here! they have a website and everything.
And if you need a more local kick in the pants to get writing, check out Nova Southeastern University's National Novel Writing Month Kickoff Meeting from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday at the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center at NSU, 3301 College Ave., in Davie. Call 954-262-5477 for more information.


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How did we celebrate 17 years of Valentine's bliss?
We took our four children to a homeschool party at the Graysville Library and then later in the day checked out a movie. We were able to leave three of the kiddos behind for the theater trip.
As I looked back at Feb. 14 over each of the past 17 years, some of those days have been very impressive. There was the time that I surprised Andrea with a limousine at her place of work, which was followed by a visit to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse and a limo ride around Birmingham. There was also the time that I took her to a Broadway show and surprised her with a stay in a swanky hotel afterward.
Andrea will tell you our worst Valentine's Day ever was in 2005. She had our second child, Breeze, about a month earlier. I planned this elaborate surprise — a video set to "Phantom of the Opera." In the video, I played the role of the phantom thanks to a mask I bought for $1.99 on eBay. Andrea absolutely hated the video. If you want to know why she hated it so much, it's probably still on YouTube. Just search "The Phantom of Passion." I think there is even a blooper reel too.
Our first Valentine's Day together stands out as one of Andrea's favorites. We were seniors in high school, and I didn't have a lot of money. Our romantic dinner consisted of bologna sandwiches and heart-shaped cakes baked by the world-reknowned Little Debbie. Andrea's gifts included a dozen roses purchased at a grocery store, a children's book entitled "Love Bugs" and a some fancy "love bird" earrings made by Avon.
Our entertainment for the night was watching "Untamed Heart," a 1993 film starring Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei and Rosie Perez. The tag line for the film was "Girl meets boy. They fall in love. Tragedy strikes." Doesn't it sound like the stuff that makes a good Lifetime movie.
That first Valentine's Day together was amazing for several reasons. I had been in love with Andrea for quite some time, and just being with her was amazing. Looking back now, I think the fact that day was so simple was also amazing.
In the 17 years that have followed, things have become a lot more hectic in our lives. With work and raising four children, our relationship can take a backseat from time to time. The one constant we've had is each other, and that's what makes every day awesome for me.
As I watched our kids dancing and playing at the party Thursday, I couldn't help but think back on the two young kids that had their first Valentine's Day together 17 years ago. Seeing the smiles on our children's faces reminds me of how much a single smile from their mother can make my day.
I'm writing this before we left for our movie, but I'm thinking we'll end up watching "Safe Haven," the new movie from the guy who made "The Notebook," which is one of Andrea's favorites. I've told her for days that I wouldn't watch that garbage, but I'm sure that's what I'll purchase tickets to watch. She's just as beautiful as the day we started dating, so I'll probably spend more time looking at her than I do the screen any way.
No matter what we do, where we go or what we watch, it will be a great Valentine's Day because I will have spent it with the one person who loves me no matter if we are eating bologna sandwiches or $50 steaks. She loves me whether I spend a lot of time planning for Valentine's Day or I throw together a quick trip to the movies.
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Since the 2011 flood hit, we've been following the progress of some of our KX News staff whose homes were hit by the high water.
Last night, we had an update from Shaun Sipma.
Tonight in our series "This Flooded House," we hear some good news from Jim Olson about getting life back to normal.
It seems like a lifetime ago that I stood in front of my house in mid-July of 2011 recording a report on what I had found as one of the first people in my neighborhood to venture back in.
What I had found was devastation. Along with the standard muck and mess, I discovered my foundation had been wiped out by the rushing water. That lead to this in November of 2011 - demolition of my home of a quarter-century.
But, almost parallel to the seasons, that winter of heartbreak was followed by a spring of hope as work began in April on a new house at the same location.
Already facing a mountain of bills from the flood, family, friends, and I did as much work as possible ourselves - farming out some of the most critical and specialized work to paid contractors.
But we pounded nails, installed siding, placed insulation, laid floors, and painted and stained - to save money and make the project possible.
We've worked just about every weekend and many weekdays in the past year - in fact if you've tuned in the KX News at Six and seen Alysia on her own, it probably means I worked on my paid job here at KX News early and then took off in the afternoon to build a front porch or move furniture.
All the work paid off early this year when we were finally able to say goodbye to our FEMA trailer, and officially move in to the new house that now sat where my flooded house had been.
The new house has the same square footage of my original house, but instead of a basement, we built a second floor - a room now packed with stuff that will someday, we hope, be a great playroom for grandkids.
On the main level, the house has a layout that's very similar to our former house but we have made some improvements over what was here before - from a bathroom attached to the master bedroom, to a new treatment for the area between the living room and dining room.
And perhaps our favorite upgrade is right here in the floor of the entryway.
It's a medallion that's inlaid into the wood floor - a process for which I hired an expert by the way.
And the marble slab points guests north toward a staircase I've just started to stain and paint - a process sure to take me a few more days and a weekend or two.
There's still much more to do - outside there's landscaping and finishing work to be done on the house in the spring, and inside there's the upstairs and lots of painting to do.
But one year after the process began, I can now report that - with an SBA loan providing debt up to my ears - This Flooded House is once again a home, thanks to so many people who helped make it happen.
I want to especially thank a few people - I got special help from Curt Moore, who invested dozens of hours helping wire the house.
And throughout the project, my friend Jeff Rudy was here to help - Jeff invested hundreds of hours on every phase of the house building.
I also got help from good friends Cherie and Mike from California, who spent a week in July pitching in.
There's still lots to do but I can say we are now officially living in This Flooded House. Jim Olson, KX News.
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What better proof do we need than the recent war with Hamas in Gaza, dubbed "Operation Protective Edge," that transformed the pain and suffering of three families into a sense of unparalleled unity and outpouring of love of the entire nation of Israel?
So many families are mourning, and all along we mourned with them.
In addition to his great erudition, Rabi Akiva was known for his optimism.
She told me that she was busy and that he could sit in his wet clothes for the rest of the day. It would teach him to be more careful.
What can we do to help him stop feeling so sad all the time?
Children with dyslexia or dysgraphia frequently have problems in social relationships.
Israel's neighbors engaged in hostilities from the onset. The War of Independence was a hard-won battle. Aggression and enmity has followed for 66 years.
The contest will include student-created sculpture, computer graphic design, collage, videography, PowerPoint and painting.
David, an 8-year-old boy on the autism spectrum, recently attended a Friendship Circle event. As he entered he told his Dad, "I love coming to the FC programs 'cause everyone loves each other."
Goldsmith himself went on his own "voyage of discovery" to the places where his grandfather and uncle landed and were sent.
Frank proclaimed himself Zvi's successor and the reincarnation of King David.
You're probably wondering why the greatest advocate of fast and easy preps in the kitchen is talking about layer cakes, right?
Almost immediately the audience began singing and clapping and continued almost without stop throughout the rest of the concert.
As of late, vintage has definitely been in vogue in the Orthodox community.
The loneliness is overwhelming. Yoel G., Yaakov Yosef G., and Yossi B. have spent ten months in solitary confinement, sitting on a hard concrete floor, their mobility severely restricted.
The loneliness is overwhelming. Yoel G., Yaakov Yosef G., and Yossi B. have spent ten months in solitary confinement, sitting on a hard concrete floor, their mobility severely restricted.
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The 411: 'Despicable behavior' is the norm on campus
Original post made on Jan 25, 2008
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on Jan 25, 2008 at 8:05 am
Dear Dolores,
Ms. O'Hara wrote well and with depth about a problem generated in high school that invades our culture throughout our adult life. Intimidation, defamation and discrediting is a dire problem of "Bullying" in our high school cultures and it continues into our adult lives and cultures.
Somehow we should hope that many more high school students would join Ms. O'Hara and stop this cycle that continues generation-after-generation into our adult culture and from the adult culture back to their children.
on Jan 25, 2008 at 10:33 am
Kodachrome Lyrics
Artist(Band):Paul Simon
When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of edu---cation
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
They give us those nice bright colors
Posted as reference, "Is High School Obsolete?"
on Jan 26, 2008 at 7:51 am
Dear Dolores,
I received this comment from a former MVHS student:
"..and there is all kinds of bullying in high school including teachers, coaches and parents encouraging students to bully a fellow student. I am one of several students that transferred from our area high schools because of environments that encouraged bullying about sports participation, academic participation, and activities participation."
Our communities can easily accept that it is "six of one and a half a dozen of the other" and assume that victims of bullying somehow share the blame by attracting such actions by the overall school culture. It is a simple reality that such bullying is not a rational part of education or any culture and it doesn't belong in any part of our community for any purpose.
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"I hope the league makes some adjustments, at least talks about the issues," Nelson said. "Combine everybody and just take the top 16 teams would be probably the most fair thing. ... I think with our own (charter) airlines, (cross-country) trips aren't like they used to be. So what's the difference if you have to play the East a little more? Play everybody as (equally) as you can and take the top 16 and let's go. That's what I'd do."
If this season were being contested under those rules, the Warriors and Nuggets -- who both came in Thursday with matching 47-31 records -- would have been battling for control of 11th place, rather than merely fighting for continued existence past Wednesday. The 16th and final spot would be in the hands of either Portland or Atlanta, each of whom is 39-39.
"Well, I sure would like it now," Nuggets coach George Karl said of Nelson's plan, accentuating the final word. "It's an interesting format to put your best 16 teams out there on the court."
Playing all 29 other teams an equal amount would require three games against each opponent for a total of 87 -- or just a home-and-home set that would mean only 58 regular-season games. Karl was skeptical that the league would be willing cut regional rivalries such as the Boston-New York-Philadelphia troika in the Atlantic Division from its allotment of four games a season, but pointed to the success of Major League Baseball's addition of the wild card in 1994 as an argument in favor of change.
"Baseball, I think, was uplifted by the wild card system," Karl said. "It seems like they've gotten a higher quality of baseball on the field, and it seems like the ratings are up as well."
Unfortunately, someone often needs to be sacrificed on the altar of unfairness to prompt a move, and it looks like it'll be the Nuggets or, more likely, the Warriors filling that role.
"I figured if we would have won 46, we would have had it locked by now, and we'd be preparing ourselves for the playoffs, resting some veterans and doing those kind of things that championship teams do," Nelson said. "We don't have that luxury."
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The Warriors broke their single-game franchise attendance record with a standing-room only crowd measured at 20,737, the team said. The previous mark of 20,713 was set March 24 against the Los Angeles Lakers. ... Warriors rookie forward Brandan Wright did not suit up because of his strained left groin. Fellow rookie guard Marco Belinelli took his place. ... Nuggets forward Nene (strained groin) was held out of action as well.
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— Lynn Marie Johnson and David Scott White were married July 6, 2012, in Aurora, Ill., by Judge Edmund P. Bart. A reception with the couple's children was in Maggiano's Restaurant in Naperville, Ill.
She is the daughter of the late Raymond and Peggy Johnson of Beecher, Ill. She is a 1970 graduate of Crete-Monee High School in Crete, Ill. She is employed by Dr. Kurt A. Wagner.
He is the son of the late Chester L. White of Parker, Ariz., and the late Mildred K. Schmidt of Kokomo. He is a 1970 graduate of Western High School and is employed by Chrysler LLC.
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I have never climbed at Gilman and was wondering if anyone can comment about the conditions this early in the year? Sounds like most of the climbing is across the water, is the water level early a consideration? Thanks Bob
I have climbed out there this time of year before and it was great with a light fleece. That being said I have not been there recently so take it with a grain of salt but I bet you would be fine. When do you plan on going?
Bob, Gilman should be perfect this weekend (high 60s). I've climbed there during this time of year twice before and it was almost too warm in the sun, albeit a little chilly in the shade. I've climbed at the Broken Arrows and the Dr. Seuss Wall. Everything I got on was pretty good. Watch out for some loose stuff though. The water levels have never been a problem in my opinion. Both times I've been there I waded across the knee deep stream in my Chacos. They dried out quickly. The water level may be a little high for the belays at the Dr. Seuss wall, but shouldn't affect the Broken Arrows. All this being said, I have not been out there this year, and I cannot comment on the other areas across the stream like the Spectator Wall. Gilman is fun, and worthy of a day or two of cragging (beware of the gawkers). Cheers! Jason Y.
Bring a helmet, there's lots of rockfall at Gilman.
I went to Gilman today and decided to move on to the Crystal Cave. The river was really high and I could not believe how close to the walls the water was. You would need to be ready to cross some very fast deep water. I'd say the water level needs to go down to make it worth a trip.
In case anyone is curious here is the USGS gauge for the Rio Guadalupe / Jemez River. waterdata.usgs.gov/nm/nwis/uv/?site_no=08324000&PARAmeter_cd>>> Normal Levels should be around 50cfs for this gauge. If it reads higher, the stream is flooding. Happens for about 2 weeks on a good year. Stream is coming back down now, might have a little spike again from all of this snow.


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TIPTONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The new Mississippi River port in northwest Tennessee is open for business.
The Union City Daily Messenger reported that Scott Sigman, the interim manager of Cates Landing, made that announcement Wednesday at a meeting of the Northwest Regional Port Authority in Tiptonville.
The port, near the Kentucky state line, still lacks a railroad link. The port authority is seeking a permit from the Federal Surface Transportation Board to build a rail line from the port to the CN tracks in Dyersburg.
Officials said it could take up to two years to realize the rail link.
The port is named for former U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Clifton Bledsoe Cates of Tiptonville.
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Artturi Lehkonen scores the #9 spot on the list of top players in the Canadiens system under the age of twenty-five.
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One of very few players to have found themselves on this list since the initial rankings in 2010, Gabriel Dumont places 22nd in the 2014 edition, courtesy of his two-way abilities exhibited at the...
While most of us were enjoying our July 4th, Beane was working. As a result a lot of journalists suddenly had to start working too. Links from around the web on the A's blockbuster.
Bryan Murray is undoubtedly a good judge of talent and has drafted well in the past. This is another reason to be optimistic for the Ottawa Senators future.
I'd like to just get a conversation going about our prospect development. You've probably all seen by now this cool fap-piece on Deadspin. Someone (one of you?) left this comment: Perhaps you...
Frederik Andersen assigned to Norfolk Admirals, John Gibson called up to backup Hiller. Ducks @ Coyotes.
Let's be honest. This one might take the whole weekend to read.
Checking in on all the Astros players participating in the various off-season baseball leagues
There are new faces in most key roles for the Lightning this year, from captain on down to the minors. Many are playing to expectation, but who are the big surprises? Bishop, Sustr, Kucherov,...
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