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Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13 1850 – December 3 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature.
- This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
- There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear.
- To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
- An Inland Voyage (1878), Ch. III, "The Royal Sport Nautique".
- Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
- An Inland Voyage (1878).
- Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
- An Inland Voyage (1878).
- Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
- 'La Fère of Cursed Memory', 15th vignette of An Inland Voyage (1878), in Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson, e-artnow (2015)
- For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye.
- A Gossip on Romance, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).
- Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
- A Gossip on Romance, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).
- To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
- The New Arabian Nights. The Suicide Club (1882)
- In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
- Old Mortality (1884).
- Am I no a bonny fighter?
- Kidnapped, ch. 10 (1886).
- I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
- Kidnapped, ch. 14 (1886).
- I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann. (…) That, like it or not, is the way to learn to write whether I have profited or not, that is the way.
- Memories and Portraits, ch. IV. A College Magazine (1887).
- Youth is wholly experimental.
- Letter to a Young Gentleman Scribner's Magazine (September 1888).
- Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is — nor yet so good a Christian.
- The Master of Ballantrae. Mr. Mackellar's Journey (1889).
- Nothing like a little judicious levity.
- The Wrong Box, ch. 7 (1889).
- Do you know what the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina? It's a long time between drinks, observed that powerful thinker.
- The Wrong Box, ch. 8.
- Ice and iron cannot be welded.
- Weir of Hermiston (1896).
- So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- "Lay Morals" Ch. 4, in Lay Morals and Other Essays (1911).
- Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
- Prayer, inscribed on the bronze memorial to Stevenson in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
- Complete Works, vol. 26, Reflections and Remarks on Human Life, section 4.
- The pleasant Land of Counterpane.
- The Land of Counterpane, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Youth now flees on feathered foot.
- To Will H. Low, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
- Prince Otto, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.
- The Master of Ballantrae, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- There is but one art, to omit.
- As cited in The Harper Book of Quotations, Revised Edition (1993), Ed. R. Fitzhenry, HarperCollins, p. 498 : ISBN 0062732137, 9780062732132
- It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there's an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.
- "Reflections and Remarks on Human Life", VI: Right and Wrong, published in Works: Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson -- Sketches, Criticisms, Etc. (1895), p. 628.
- He and his tyrannicide! I am in a mad fury about these explosions. If that is the new world! Damn O'Donovan Rossa; damn him behind and before, above, below, and roundabout; damn, deracinate, and destroy him, root and branch, self and company, world without end. Amen. I write that for sport if you like, but I will pray in earnest, O Lord, if you cannot convert, kindly delete him!
- Letter to Sidney Colvin, 2 August 1881. Quoted in Terrorism and Literature Chapter 12 - "Parliament Is Burning" by Deaglán Ó Donghaile ISBN 9781316987292
Aes Triplex (1878)[edit]
- The Oxford Book of Essays ed. by John Gross (New York: Oxford, 1998) [Title is Latin for "triple brass," used by Horace]
- Already an old man, he [Samuel Johnson] ventured on his Highland tour; and his heart, bound with triple brass, did not recoil before twenty-seven individual cups of tea.
- 314.
- We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
- 314.
- To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
- 314.
- It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room.
- 315.
- By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
- 316.
- All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. And even if death catch people, like an open pitfall, and in mid-career, laying out vast projects, and planning monstrous foundations, flushed with hope, and their mouths full of boastful language, they should be at once tripped up and silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas?
- 316.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)[edit]
- It seems as if marriage were the royal road through life, and realised, on the instant, what we have all dreamed on summer Sundays when the bells ring, or at night when we cannot sleep for the desire of living. They think it will sober and change them. Like those who join a brotherhood, they fancy it needs but an act to be out of the coil and clamour for ever. But this is a wile of the devil's. To the end, spring winds will sow disquietude, passing faces leave a regret behind them, and the whole world keep calling and calling in their ears. For marriage is like life in this — that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
- Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1.
- You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.
- Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1.
- Cornhill Magazine, (August 1876)
- Hope is the boy, a blind, headlong, pleasant fellow, good to chase swallows with the salt; Faith is the grave, experienced, yet smiling man. Hope lives on ignorance; open-eyed Faith is built upon a knowledge of our life, of the tyranny of circumstance and the frailty of human resolution. Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honourable defeat to be a form of victory. Hope is a kind old pagan; but Faith grew up in Christian days, and early learnt humility. In the one temper, a man is indignant that he cannot spring up in a clap to heights of elegance and virtue; in the other, out of a sense of his infirmities, he is filled with confidence because a year has come and gone, and he has still preserved some rags of honour. In the first, he expects an angel for a wife; in the last, he knows that she is like himself - erring, thoughtless, and untrue; but like himself also, filled with a struggling radiancy of better things, and adorned with ineffective qualities. You may safely go to school with hope; but ere you marry, should have learned the mingled lesson of the world: that dolls are stuffed with sawdust, and yet are excellent play-things; that hope and love address themselves to a perfection never realised, and yet, firmly held, become the salt and staff of life; that you yourself are compacted of infirmities, perfect, you might say, in imperfection, and yet you have a something in you lovable and worth preserving; and that, while the mass of mankind lies under this scurvy condemnation, you will scarce find one but, by some generous reading, will become to you a lesson, a model, and a noble spouse through life.
- Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
- Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
- Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
- Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
- Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
- Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world. The effect is out of all proportion with the cause. Two persons, neither of them, it may be, very amiable or very beautiful, meet, speak a little, and look a little into each other's eyes. That has been done a dozen or so of times in the experience of either with no great result. But on this occasion all is different. They fall at once into that state in which another person becomes to us the very gist and centrepoint of God's creation, and demolishes our laborious theories with a smile; in which our ideas are so bound up with the one master-thought that even the trivial cares of our own person become so many acts of devotion, and the love of life itself is translated into a wish to remain in the same world with so precious and desirable a fellow-creature.
- Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 3.
- The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?
- Truth of Intercourse.
- The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
- Truth of Intercourse.
- There is a strong feeling in favour of cowardly and prudential proverbs. The sentiments of a man while he is full of ardour and hope are to be received, it is supposed, with some qualification. But when the same person has ignominiously failed and begins to eat up his words, he should be listened to like an oracle. Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. And since mediocre people constitute the bulk of humanity, this is no doubt very properly so. But it does not follow that the one sort of proposition is any less true than the other, or that Icarus is not to be more praised, and perhaps more envied, than Mr. Samuel Budgett the Successful Merchant. The one is dead, to be sure, while the other is still in his counting-house counting out his money; and doubtless this is a consideration. But we have, on the other hand, some bold and magnanimous sayings common to high races and natures, which set forth the advantage of the losing side, and proclaim it better to be a dead lion than a living dog. It is difficult to fancy how the mediocrities reconcile such sayings with their proverbs. According to the latter, every lad who goes to sea is an egregious ass; never to forget your umbrella through a long life would seem a higher and wiser flight of achievement than to go smiling to the stake; and so long as you are a bit of a coward and inflexible in money matters, you fulfil the whole duty of man.
- Crabbed Age and Youth.
- The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind. The incongruity is speaking; and I imagine it must engender among the mediocrities a very peculiar attitude, towards the nobler and showier sides of national life.
- Crabbed Age and Youth.
- I shall doubtless outlive some troublesome desires; but I am in no hurry about that; nor, when the time comes, shall I plume myself on the immunity just in the same way, I do not greatly pride myself on having outlived my belief in the fairy tales of Socialism. Old people have faults of their own; they tend to become cowardly, niggardly, and suspicious. Whether from the growth of experience or the decline of animal heat, I see that age leads to these and certain other faults; and it follows, of course, that while in one sense I hope I am journeying towards the truth, in another I am indubitably posting towards these forms and sources of error.
- Crabbed Age and Youth.
- To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.
- Crabbed Age and Youth.
- Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
- Crabbed Age and Youth.
- The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honourable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artist in life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbour.
- Crabbed Age and Youth.
- All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. The follies of youth have a basis in sound reason, just as much as the embarrassing questions put by babes and sucklings. Their most antisocial acts indicate the defects of our society. When the torrent sweeps the man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. Shelley, chafing at the Church of England, discovered the cure of all evils in universal atheism. Generous lads irritated at the injustices of society, see nothing for it but the abolishment of everything and Kingdom Come of anarchy. Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries. But it is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! As for the others, the irony of facts shall take it out of their hands, and make fools of them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mopping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of countenance for all those who have been wise in their own esteem, and have not learnt the rough lessons that youth hands on to age. If we are indeed here to perfect and complete our own natures, and grow larger, stronger, and more sympathetic against some nobler career in the future, we had all best bestir ourselves to the utmost while we have the time. To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel.
- Crabbed Age and Youth.
- Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?
- Crabbed Age and Youth.
- It is as natural and as right for a young man to be imprudent and exaggerated, to live in swoops and circles, and beat about his cage like any other wild thing newly captured, as it is for old men to turn gray, or mothers to love their offspring, or heroes to die for something worthier than their lives.
- Crabbed Age and Youth.
- I suppose it is written that any one who sets up for a bit of a philosopher, must contradict himself to his very face. For here have I fairly talked myself into thinking that we have the whole thing before us at last; that there is no answer to the mystery, except that there are as many as you please; that there is no centre to the maze because, like the famous sphere, its centre is everywhere; and that agreeing to differ with every ceremony of politeness, is the only "one undisturbed song of pure concent" to which we are ever likely to lend our musical voices.
- Crabbed Age and Youth.
- Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough.
- An Apology for Idlers.
- There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. … They have no curiosity; they cannot give themselves over to random provocations; they do not take pleasure in the exercise of their faculties for its own sake; and unless necessity lays about them with a stick, they will even stand still. It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-mill.
- An Apology for Idlers.
- It is a sore thing to have laboured along and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achievement. Hence physicists condemn the unphysical; financiers have only a superficial toleration for those who know little of stocks; literary persons despise the unlettered; and people of all pursuits combine to disparage those who have none.
But though this is one difficulty of the subject, it is not the greatest. You could not be put in prison for speaking against industry, but you can be sent to Coventry for speaking like a fool. The greatest difficulty with most subjects is to do them well; therefore, please to remember this is an apology. It is certain that much may be judiciously argued in favour of diligence; only there is something to be said against it, and that is what, on the present occasion, I have to say.
- An Apology for Idlers.
- Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
- An Apology for Idlers.
- Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
- An Apology for Idlers.
- There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.
- An Apology for Idlers.
- There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
- An Apology for Idlers.
- A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life.
- An Apology for Idlers.
- A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
- An Apology for Idlers.
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
- El Dorado.
Treasure Island (1883)[edit]
- Fifteen men on the dead man's chest —
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest —
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
- Ch. 1, The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow.
- Doctors is all swabs...and that doctor there, why, what do he know about seafaring men? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes — what do the doctor know of lands like that? — and I lived on rum, I tell you.
- Ch. 3, The Black Spot.
- "What is the Black Spot, Captain?" "That's a summons, mate."
- Ch. 3.
- Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!
- Ch. 10, The Voyage.
- Many's a long night I've dreamed of cheese — toasted mostly.
- Ch. 15, The Man of the Island.
- Them that die will be the lucky ones!
- Ch. 20, Silver's Embassy.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)[edit]
- In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
- Bed in Summer, st. 1.
- A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.
- Whole Duty of Children.
- Whenever the moon and stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes riding by.
Late in the night when the fires are out,
Why does he gallop and gallop about?
- Windy Nights, st. 1.
- I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
- My Shadow, st. 1.
- The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.
- The Cow, st. 1.
- The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
- Happy Thought.
- Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle.
- Good and Bad Children, st. 1.
Underwoods (1887)[edit]
- Of all my verse, like not a single line;
But like my title, for it is not mine.
That title from a better man I stole:
Ah, how much better, had I stol'n the whole!
- Title page poem
- Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.
- Bk. I, To a Gardener.
- Dear Andrew, with the brindled hair
Who glory to have thrown in air,
High over arm, the trembling reed,
By Ale and Kail, by Till and Tweed.
- Bk. I, To Andrew Lang.
- Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
- Bk. I, Requiem (the final sentence was used on Stevenson's Gravestone).
- Who comes tonight? We ope the doors in vain
- Bk. I, To Henry James.
- My body which my dungeon is,
And yet my parks and palaces: —
Which is so great that there I go
All the day long to and fro.
- Pt. I, My Body Which My Dungeon Is.
- There's just ae thing I cannae bear,
An' that's my conscience.
- Bk. II, In Scots, My Conscience.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)[edit]
- Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.
- No. I, The Vagabond, st. 4.
- The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.
- No. II, Youth and Love - I, st. 3.
- I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
- No. XI, Romance, st. 1.
- Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.
- No. XIV
- In the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,
And the young fair maidens
Quiet eyes.
- No. XV
- God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff.
- No. XXV, If This Were Faith.
- Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer
Made my mate.
- No. XXVI, My Wife.
- Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!
- No. XLV, S.R. Crockett.
Across the Plains (1892)[edit]
- The observer (poor soul, with his documents!) is all abroad. For to look at the man is but to court deception. We shall see the trunk from which he draws his nourishment; but he himself is above and abroad in the green dome of foliage, hummed through by winds and nested in by nightingales. And the true realism were that of the poets, to climb up after him like a squirrel, and catch some glimpse of the heaven for which he lives. And, the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all. In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action.
- Ch. VII, The Lantern-Bearers.
- We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.
- Ch. IX, Beggars.
- To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful. There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.
- Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
- Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.
- Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
- If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
- Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
- Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: — surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.
- Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
- To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
- Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
Quotes about Stevenson[edit]
- Keats, entirely a stranger to error, could believe that the nightingale enchanting him was the same one Ruth heard amid the alien corn of Bethlehem in Judah; Stevenson posits a single bird that consumes the centuries: "the nightingale that devours time." Schopenhauer — impassioned, lucid Schopenhauer — provides a reason: the pure corporeal immediacy in which animals live, oblivious to death and memory. He then adds, not without a smile: Whoever hears me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
- Jorge Luis Borges in "A History of Eternity" as translated in Selected Non-Fictions Vol. 1, (1999), edited by Eliot Weinberger
- Truth out of Tusitala spoke and pleasure out of pain.
- "Tusitala" was a name used by Stevenson after he settled in Samoa; it is here referenced by G. K. Chesterton in his introductory poem to The Man Who Was Thursday.
- Never had beauty been so forgotten; style was poisoned at the fount of thought by Carlyle, whose sentences were confused disasters like railway accidents, and by Herbert Spencer, who wrote as though he were the offspring of two Times leaders; among novelists only Robert Louis Stevenson loved words, and he had too prudent a care to water down his gruel to suit sick England's stomach.
- Rebecca West, "Transition", in Henry James. London, 1916.


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Crebain were large birds of the crow-kind, native to Dunland and Fangorn Forest.
[edit] History
The Fellowship of the Ring encountered various flocks of crebain on their arrival in Hollin. Fearing that they were used as spies by Saruman, the Fellowship spent the entire day in hiding, without a campfire.[2]
[edit] Etymology
Crebain is the Sindarin plural of craban. The word was derived from Mannish tongues.[3] Before the publication of this singular, craban was the generally assumed form, though it might have been croban or creban as well.[4] The similarity between craban and Proto-Germanic *hrabanaz[5] and its derivatives has been noted by several writers.[6][7][8]
[edit] Portrayal in adaptations
2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:
- A flock of Crebain "from Dunland" appears when the Fellowship is in Hollin. Though Gimli at first dismisses it as a cloud, Boromir notices them going too fast, and against the wind. The Fellowship hide as the birds swoop by.[9] The crebain are revealed to have indeed been spies when they report to Saruman at Isengard later.[10]
[edit] See Also
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Knife in the Dark"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Ring Goes South"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 37
- ↑ David Salo, "Message 5032", Elfling (June 1, 2001)
- ↑ Raven at the Online Etymology Dictionary
- ↑ Jim Allan (1978), An Introduction to Elvish, page 75
- ↑ Ruth S. Noel, The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth, page 128
- ↑ Robert Ireland, "The Lord of the Rings: A-C", A Tolkien Dictionary
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Ring Goes South"
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Fighting Uruk-hai"

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Readers Seth & Jen watched that wonderful Notre Dame promo and thought they recognized those Midwestern-sports-funk stylings from the video you see here, a celebration of Reds fandom.
Here are the emails Seth & Jen sent:
This is a dude who calls himself Freekbass. He's from Cincinnati and is kind of a big deal locally here. He's produced by the legendary Bootsy Collins. The DJ in the video is DJ Logic, we think.
Freekbass. Of course.
Correction…that is not DJ Logic
If it's not DJ Logic, then who is the fire-spitter with whom Freekbass works, you ask? Why, it's none other than Tobotius. They have a Myspace page together and everything. If you like, you can even follow Freekbass and Tobotius on Twitter.
Social media experts though they may be, what are we supposed to take away from this? Is this what they do? Or are Freekbass and Tobotius actually "good" and just take (presumably) paid gigs from big organizations to support their bass-slappin', turntable-spinnin' lifestyle? You know what to do.


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text: As promised, here's my review of the 1951 Scrooge, which was the winner in the Movie Classics poll for people's favourite adaptation. At heart, A Christmas Carol is a ghost story. Some productions almost lose sight of that, amid all the cosy family scenes and picturesque snowscapes. However, the great 1951 British film starring Alastair Sim – known as Scrooge in the UK and A Christmas Carol in the US – keeps to the spirit of the original text, and gives us all the haunted darkness of the story, as well as the wild happiness of its ending. Screenwriter Noel Langley, who went on to script and direct The Pickwick Papers the following year, clearly had a gift for adapting Dickens.


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'300': The Future of Movies?
Article Date: March 7, 2007 | Publication: ABC News | Author: DAVID WHARTON
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=2929264&page=1
he battle of Thermopylae took place 2,500 years ago, but a new film aims to place it squarely back in the public's mind.
Adapted from the graphic novel by Frank Miller, "300" is the underdog story of how 300 men held off a million (men).
The fight pitted a portion of the Spartan army against the much larger Persian Empire. The Spartans stood their ground, helping the Greeks unite and preventing the Persians from spreading into Europe.
ABC's Joel Siegel spoke with the director of the film, Zack Snyder, who calls it, "half real world, half Frank world."
You can see all of Joel Siegel's interview with Zack Snyder on "Popcorn" on ABC News Now all this week at 8:35 a.m. ET and 8:35 p.m. ET.
"I took the battle of Thermopylae and turned it into a myth. I think my movie is the way a Greek would tell the story of Thermopylae months after it happened, not with 2,000 years of hindsight," Snyder said.
In "300," the Spartan king Leonidas faces off against the Persian tyrant Xerxes. Some media reports speculate that one or the other is supposed to represent President Bush. Snyder, who also co-wrote the screenplay, says that he began the script long before Bush was elected, and that any connection is purely speculative.
"I think it's awesome that our little movie about the crazy Frank Miller version of Thermopylae could evoke that kind of discussion, and like I said in [The New York Times] article, if people are saying, 'I think Leonidas is Bush' and the other is saying, 'I think Xerxes is Bush,' and those two people are having a debate about world politics because they saw my movie � hey, that's pretty awesome," Snyder said.
To create the fantastical look of the movie, all the scenes were shot entirely on green screen. Snyder was worried that not being able to visualize the finished product would affect the actors, but that wasn't the hardest aspect for him.
"I was afraid that the actual fighting would be the hardest part, but it turned out that when an actor is swinging a stick at an actor and trying to hit him in the head, they tend to duck and it looks real. The harder part of the movie for me was actually the post-production side of the movie � the year of post production it actually took to finish the movie," he said.
The actors leaned on each other for inspiration.
"It doesn't really matter if there's a sunset or a mountain, as long as when they're looking into the eyes of the actor in front of them and that's real, then that works," Snyder said.
Snyder freely admits that the film isn't a by-the-numbers historical representation. In ads and scenes for the movie, you see loin-cloth-wearing, bare-chested men with weapons and only a shield for protection. In reality, the Spartans wore heavy body armor.
Snyder brushes off criticism of this aspect. "It's funny because, you know, I had been criticized by people that said, '[In] the real battle of Thermopylae, the Spartans had chest plates and they had armor on and that's what the Spartans really look like and in your movie they're depicted bare-chested.' Victor David Hansen, this historian I showed the movie to, said, 'In some ways, what you've done is similar to the way a Greek vase painter paints a hoplite naked.' That is sort of the Greek ideal of what a warrior would be," Snyder said.
One thing Snyder did not want was for audiences to oversympathize with the Spartan way of life.
"Real Spartans were pretty hard core," he said. "It's like the way Spartans raise their children. They do crazy stuff � they beat on them, they make them fight. If they're not perfect, then they chuck them off cliffs. They're pretty hard core."
Snyder's previous film was a remake of the George Romero horror classic, "Dawn of the Dead." Snyder does not want to be seen as competing with his heroes.
"'Dawn of the Dead' is a love letter to George Romero, there's no two ways about it. I mean, that's my version of the movie. And Frank's book, I tried to make it as faithful as I could to the graphic novel, so it's not like I'm trying to take those guys on and say, 'You're wrong! I can fix your thing. I can make it better!'" he said.
Despite all the hype about "300," Snyder takes it in stride.
When asked whether he and his filmmaking style were the future of movies, Snyder replied, "If the future of the movies is having a good time, then maybe."
"300" opens in theaters Friday.
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James Traficant, the Ohio Congressman known for his withering diatribes, trademark cowboy boots and extremely suspicious hair, was released from prison Wednesday after serving seven years for bribery.
The longtime Democratic lawmaker left a federal prison in Minnesota bound for the northeastern Ohio district he once represented, where loyal supporters planned to greet him in "Welcome Home Jimbo" T-shirts.
Traficant began his career in Congress beating a bribery rap in 1983 by claiming he ran a one-man sting of the Mafia from his job as Trumbull County sheriff. The acquittal vaulted him to Congress, where he served for 18 years. Once there, he was famous for calling for the abolition of the IRS and saying "Beam me up, there's no intelligent life here."
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It was the Jewish New Year this weekend, one of two opportunities for Jewish food writers to freelance articles about the holiday. Newspapers only cover Jewish food twice a year: on Passover in the spring, and on Rosh Hashana in the fall. It's kind of like specializing in stories on turkey, and therefore you can only be published on Thanksgiving. Does this make sense? No, but welcome to Jewish food writing.
And just like Thanksgiving, each year, food writers have to come up with something new. The distinguished Joan Nathan, America's best known cookbook author on the subject, dutifully found an unusual angle for the New York Times last week: how actors in New Hampshire recreate early settlers' celebration of Rosh Hashana. At the Washington Post, freelancer David [Read more…] about Food Writing That Happens Only Twice a Year


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Outside of Hammond Stadium, the biggest news regarding the Twins was the Royals' signing of power-arm reliever Juan Cruz. This news is significant for reasons twofold: 1) It signifies the disinterest in securing a replacement arm for Boof Bonser of elite caliber in the bullpen (and thereby revealing the front office's confidence is the quality of arms existing) and 2) it makes an AL Central competitor that much better.
There is much to like about Cruz: his 12.37 strikeouts per 9 innings was the second-highest in baseball (behind only Tampa's Grant Balfour) and his 66.0% contact rate was the second-lowest in baseball (behind only Phildelphia's Brad Lidge). He did not even have to bend pitches around the strike zone, even when throwing within the zone, he still led the league with the lowest contact rate (73%). It would be there and hitters would miss. Wielding his 94-mph fastball and his 80-mph slider, Cruz just made bats miss, plain and simple. Like the deserts miss the rain. But it isn't as if Cruz doesn't come without his warts. Cruz hits the strike zone as often as tails appears on a coin-flip (just about half) which has caused a large number of free passes to be handed out (5.40 per 9 innings in 2008 to be precise). And adding baserunners in close-and-late situations is as close to throwing fuel on the fire as one can get.
It took a two-year commitment of $2.25 M in 2009 and $3.25 M in 2010 ($5.5 million total) and the Royals hold a third-year option for $4 M in 2011 with a $500,000 buyout - if the team should so choose to cut ties- to win Cruz. Even with all of the ballyhoo surrendering a first-round pick on the Type A free agent Cruz, the Royals only have to forfeit their second round (55th overall) draft choice. The cost necessary to gain Cruz was extremely reasonable and within the Twins' fiscally conservative budget.
The Royals have confounded baseball analysts all offseason, making those of us that review these sorts of things in-depth wonder "Are they or aren't they competitors?" After all, the Royals have made curious maneuvers in the past few months: they traded solid bullpen arm in Leo Nunez to the Florida Marlins for power-only first baseman Mike Jacobs when they seemed to have viable in-house candidates in Billy Butler, Kila Ka'aihue and Ryan Shealy; they announced their intentions to reposition outfielder Mark Teahen to second base, a move I likened to doing the same with Michael Cuddyer; they committed $8-million to reliever Kyle Farnsworth who doesn't seem to have the slightest as to where is ball is heading when he released it but he could be fairly certain it was usually headed in the direction of the outfield bleachers (2.24 HR/Game in 2008). In the business world, they call these transactions "crack-crazy".
Of course, while most of us scoffed at these trades, repositioning and free agent signings, the Royals had quietly moved forward with a quality one-two combination of starters in Gil Meche (14-11, 210 innings, 3.61 FIP) and Zack Greinke (13-10, 202 innings, 3.56 FIP) coupled with the moderately successful Kyle Davies (who in the last month of 2008 went 4-1 with a 2.27 ERA and a 24-to-7 strikeouts-to-walks ratio). The bullpen has Joakim Soria at the back-end, battling only Joe Nathan for closer supremacy in the Central (that torch will be passed sooner than you think). These are four pieces of concrete foundation. Situating hard-throwing Farnsworth and now Juan Cruz to usher the game from the starting rotation to the "Mexecutioner" to close them out has greatly increased the Royals odds of protecting any lead. In spite of their head-scratching transactions this offseason, the Royals are certifiable contenders in 2009 and the addition of Juan Cruz has just amplified their bid for the Central.


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Small business owners in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, including sole proprietors. We want to position our firm as The South Bay's Holistic Online Strategist. The logo must show that we are professional and the local expert at what we do.
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The environmental community has lost one of its most well-known and respected leaders. Rebecca Tarbotton, the 39-year-old executive director of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), died on Dec. 26 during a swimming accident. She was on vacation in Mexico.
"Our hearts are broken," RAN chair Andre Carothers said in a prepared statement. "We lost a powerful, transformative leader this week. The Rainforest Action Network was her home, but the world was her stage, and her future was so incredibly bright. We can do nothing more right now than love her, her family, her husband, and her friends and colleagues."
According to the RAN release, Tarbotton breathed in water while she was swimming in the ocean north of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, causing her to asphyxiate. She had been vacationing with friends and her husband, Mateo Williford, whom she married just five months ago.
Tarbotton had been with RAN for six years and took over as its executive director in August 2010, becoming one of the few women to lead any of the major environmental organizations. "Becky reshaped Rainforest Action Network, and was a force against deforestation and corporate greed," said Michael Brune, RAN's previous executive director and the current president of the Sierra Club. "We need more women to be leading environmental organizations, and losing a leader and friend like Becky is especially painful."
Grist board member and 350.org founder Bill McKibben praised the late environmentalist: "She was, among other things, one of the most spirited of environmentalists — no long-faced doomsayer, and no too-careful D.C. tactician, but a fighter with a spring in her step and a bit of fire in her eye."
In an October 2012 keynote address, Tarbotton laid out her philosophy for RAN and conservation: "We need to remember that the work of our time is bigger than climate change. We need to be setting our sights higher and deeper. What we're really talking about, if we're honest with ourselves, is transforming everything about the way we live on this planet…We don't always know exactly what it is that creates social change. It takes everything from science all the way to faith, and it's that fertile place right in the middle where really exceptional campaigning happens — and that is where I strive to be."
Tarbotton was one of many activists arrested during a Keystone XL protest in front of the White House last year. Among her accomplishments with RAN was convincing the Walt Disney Company to stop sourcing its paper from endangered forests. RAN characterized this as "the most significant agreement in the history of the organization."
Mother Jones publisher Steve Katz said Tarbotton "was carved from passionate, steely, joyful stuff. She was a young force to be reckoned with. Her death is an especially hard one, when what we assume to be a natural order in succession is upended."
RAN says Tarbotton's ashes will be scattered in British Columbia off Hornby Island, where her family owns a cabin. Dates for public memorial services in San Francisco, where RAN holds its offices, and Vancouver, where Tarbotton was born, will be announced soon. You can watch a video about what Tarbotton's death means below.


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I've just started an IT support company and I want a flyer (single or double-sided) that I can distribute to the homes near me to get some business.
The image I want to portray is friendly, nice but with professional, quality, reliable service.
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Favorite Athlete: Manny Pacquiao
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Hollywood, CA, New comedy series "Trainers" world premiered at Fox Studios on Thursday May 9, 2013. Some of the celebrity guests included: Nikki DeLoach, Kelly Stables, Tim Bagley, Brandon Jones, Natalie Lander, Shaka Smith, Ric Drasin, and Doug Brignole. The event was fun and kept its "Trainer" theme by using yoga mats instead of a red carpet.
Sponsors included Activate, Sports Authority, Vega, Plant Fusion, Slim Chillers, Rex Frame, EVOL Spirits, Chef Stef Candy, Cupcakes Squared, VitaMedica, Mamamio, Sonic Electronix, 220 Fitness, NuNaturals, Nature's Hollow and Garden of Life.
About the series: Working out has never been so hard in this hilarious new comedy series by independent filmmakers Selah Victor, Michael Onofri and Alexa-Sascha Lewin. TRAINERS follows a band of misfit personal trainers who battle each other, absurd clients, and the threat of permanent closure of their less than lovely LA gym.
The series stars established actors such as Brandon Jones (CSI, Pretty Little Liars, 2 Broke Girls), Natalie Lander (The Middle), Tim Bagley (Will & Grace, 1600 Penn, $#!+ My Dad Says), Alan Blumenfeld (Heroes), Jason Kelley (True Blood, Parks and Rec), and Dominic Rains (Flashforward, General Hospital). "Trainers" series can be seen on www.trainersshow.com and www.comediva.com, as it has now been picked up for distribution by Comediva. In the Fullscreen network, Comediva creates and showcases original video and editorial content for women.
The three episodes represent a proof of concept for the spec single-camera comedy pilot that the creators have written, as well as the entire first season that they have mapped out.
As the momentum behind "Trainers" grows, the creators hope that the audience will grow as well and that they can develop this into a full television series. Watch all three episodes online and see more information about the show at www.TrainersShow.com.
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Offering something a bit unique to Fort Myers Beach and its surrounding area, Big Game Bar and Grill, an establishment of Salty Sam's Waterfront Adventures, will be hosting a Tequila and Cigar Tasting event Thursday, Sept. 16, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Matt Hanson, co-owner of Salty Sam's Waterfront Adventures, along with his father, Darrell, is excited to begin the unique and cultured evening.
"It's going to be a great time," Matt said. "Our head chef John Venuto is specially preparing entrees to blend with the different types of tequila."
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Big Game Bar and Grill will host a Tequila and Cigar Tasting Thursday, Sept. 18, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. For $55, guests of the event will enjoy three different blends of El Mayor tequila – both straight and as mixed drinks – along with specially prepared entrees for each blend, whipped up by award-winning head chef John Venuto, and concluded with a fine, hand-rolled Payne Mason cigar. Above, Chef John and Parrot Key's Corinne Edelstein are ready for the event! Photo by MELISSA SCHNEIDER
That's right. To accent each of the three blends of El Mayor brand of tequilas (Silver, Reposado and Anejo) Big Game head chef John Venuto has prepared a fabulously paired culinary creation.
"We will prepare chorizo with spicy mustard sauce, plantain-crusted seabass and adobe beef short ribs, each dish accenting the three blends of El Mayor tequila," the award-winning Chef John said.
Head coordinator of the event and president of the Southwest Florida Women's Wine Club Sharon Torregrossa is very eager to kick off the perfectly-paired event at Big Game Bar and Grill on San Carlos Island.
"I think it's the perfect place to host such a wonderful event," she said. "Holding so many women's wine-tasting events, I've been asked to host an event that guys would enjoy as well, so we discussed tequila tasting."
She explains the stereotypes of the Mexican liquor.
"Many people think tequila tastings are just taking back large shots of tequila, and that's not it at all," she said. "It's about learning the different varieties of tequila, learning the different blends, seeing what foods pair well with them. And what goes great with tequila? Cigars."
Speaking of cigars, Sharon summed up the perfect end to a perfect evening of fine tequila tasting. Each guest of the event will receive a fine, hand-rolled Payne Mason cigar to top off the night.
The cost to attend the three-hour event, which includes three tequila tastings, three mixed-tequila-drink tastings and culinary creations that are paired with each, as well as the conclusive hand-rolled Payne Mason cigar, is $55 per person.
"This should be a very fun event for men and women alike," Sharon said.
Reservations to the tasting are highly suggested. To reserve your spot(s) or for more information on the event, future events or joining the Women's Wine Club (with no club fee), call Sharon Torregrossa at 565-7652 or email Sharon Torregrossa at email@example.com.
"We look forward to hosting more tastings here at Salty Sam's in the future," Matt said. "including a wine tasting sometime next month and a champagne tasting aboard the Pieces of Eight Pirate Cruise for a sunset trip."
The Women's Wine Club
Sharon began the local chapter of the Women's Wine Club a little over a year ago, meeting the fourth Tuesday of every month at different locations.
"The locations change throughout Lee County, so the ladies can experience different venues and different foods," she said.
Each month, attendance goes higher and higher with the club outings. Last month, the ladies met at Bayfront Bistro on Fort Myers Beach with 92 guests. The month's prior venues included Cr and Angelina's.
"We have to make some of the events two nights, because it's so popular," Sharon said.
Each event is $55, which is all-inclusive with wines, meals, etc., and Sharon was sure to boast that, although it is called the Women's Wine "Club," there is no annual club fee.
For more information on the Women's Wine Club, or to join on the monthly events, contact Susan at 565-7652.


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Tchmil Takes Milan-San Remo Sprint
After being away for 208 kilometres the breakaway trio of Francisco Cerezo Perales (Vitalicio Seguros), Robert Hunter (Lampre) and Marco Antonio Di Renzo (Cantina Tollo) were caught as the peleton prepared for the major climb of Cipressa. At that point the pack was all together. Approximately halfway up the climb Marco Pantani (Mercatone Uno Bianchi) blew things apart with an attack. Pantani led over the top, with favourite Michele Bartoli (Mapei Quick Step) and Alexandre Gontchenkov (Ballan Alessio) only a few seconds back. By the base of the descent (14 kilometres to go) there was a lead group of 8 - Pantani, Bartoli, Gontchenkov, Paolo Savoldelli (Saeco Cannondale), Leon Van Bon (Rabobank), Paolo Bettini (Mapei Quick Step), Zbignew Spruch (Lampre Daikin) and Mario Aerts (Lotto Mobistar). By the base of the Poggio (last major climb, before descending into San Remo) a much reduced peleton had chased back into contention. Gabriele Colombo (Cantina Tollo), the 1997 winner of the race, launched an attack almost immediately and by the top of the climb was 7 seconds clear of Michael Boogerd (Rabobank), Davide Rebellin (Team Polti), Zbignew Spruch (Lampre Daikin), Rolf Sorensen (Rabobank) and Andrea Ferrigato (Ballan Alessio), with the peleton just behind. However, it was not be for Colombo - he was swallowed by the peleton just before the line, with Andre Tchmil (Lotto Mobistar) outsprinting Erik Zabel (Telekom) for the win. Zbignew Spruch (Lampre Daikin) took third. More results and times to follow.
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Tigers Win Final Game of Season, Split With Belmont
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee State dropped the first game of a twin bill on the final day of the season, before closing out 2014 with a win over Belmont. The Bruins grabbed game one of the Ohio Valley Conference contest 5-2, while the Tigers ended on a positive note with a 5-3 victory at Rose Park on Sunday afternoon.
TSU finished the season at 18-38, 6-20 in conference play. The 18 wins for the Tigers matches the 2009 season for the third best total in program history.
Belmont ended the year at 13-36, 7-19 in the OVC.
Kate Morris led the Tigers on Sunday driving in five runners with three hits. Morris finished the year with a team high 30 RBI, which tied the 2009 total by Caitlin Eaton, and is the second highest amount in a single season in TSU history.
Courtney Gearlds reached base five times on three hits, a base on balls and on a hit-by-pitch. The outfielder led the Tigers in scoring, as she touched home three times.
Jayna Hanawahine picked up two hits, both extra base hits. The sophomore tripled and scored in game one and doubled in the night cap. Kiarra Freeman registered two hits driving in one and scoring once.
The Tigers opened the scoring with a run in the second inning. Hanawahine notched her first triple of the season to set up a sacrifice fly off the bat of Rebekka Gross. TSU took the early 1-0 lead as Hanawahine touched home plate.
The advantage was short lived as Belmont benefited from a Tiger miscue in the bottom half of the inning to even the score at 1-1 off starting pitcher Shea Morris. The Bruins picked up another run in the third off Hannah St. Clair and an unearned run in the fourth against Olivia Gamache.
Down 3-1, Gearlds reached first after being hit by a pitch to open the sixth inning. It was the OVC leading 12th time Gearlds had been beaned. Two batters later, with two outs and Gearlds on third, Kate Morris hit a ball into right center, driving in the first-year outfielder and cutting the BU lead to one.
Belmont added a pair of insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth and was able to withstand a TSU threat in the seventh, as the tying run stepped to the plate in the form of Gearlds. The freshman flew out to centerfield to end the game.
St. Clair suffered the loss and completed her rookie campaign at 3-13.
In game two, Belmont started fast as they scored a run in each of the first three innings. The Bruins touched Shea Morris for the run in the first, as well as the second. Olivia Gamache entered in the third and surrendered the final run the Bruins would score in the game.
The Tigers started their comeback with a run in the fourth. Gearlds sparked the offense with an infield single and took second on a throwing error. Kate Morris followed two batters later with a single into left field as she picked up her second RBI of the day.
An inning later, TSU was down to their final out before loading the bases on a pair of BU errors and a Gearlds single. Freeman brought the Tigers to within a run with an RBI single to left, plating Lindsey Burgess.
Kate Morris followed and jumped on the first pitch she saw and drove it to the fence in left center to chase home Liz Stansberry, Gearlds and Freeman to give TSU a 5-3 lead.
Gamache (5-12) would make the score stand as she scattered five hits and two walks to earn the win. The senior pitcher saved the best for last, recording the most wins in a season, lowest ERA (3.20) and most strikeouts (89).
Gamache and Ashley Haynes leave TSU with their names all over the record books. Gamache finished in the Top 10 of seven career categories and six single season records. Haynes listed in seven career marks and two single season.


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Four of the Nesting Chairs designs will be released by RK in April 2012 and shipping sometime this summer.
The new color stories are completely different from what the grey/yellow and aqua/orange I've had in the store, so if you're a fan of those color combos and want to add them to your stash, now is the time!
I'll ONLY have them available in my store through the end of January 2012 and they're 15% off in celebration of this Final Sale. If you need more yardage than what's listed in the store (or if the listings expire when I'm not looking), just lemme know and I can set up a custom listing for you. I'll be printing as needed to fill orders for the duration of the sale. :) When orders are placed I'll email you with a rough shipping estimate.
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…" Karen has thoughtfully assembled a delightful set of guideposts and lamp lights to channel personal energy toward a happy place in everyone's personal life. This Five Pointed Star is a personal approach that can radiate to the lives of people nearby, as well as the person within. A thoughtful presentation, and a great read from a uniquely masterful intellect."
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Novelists, philosophers, and therapists all know that character is destiny: you become what you are. Karen offers a great way to discover just what that is.
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In the summer of 1968, events were roiling America and the world: the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy; the escalation of the Vietnam War; the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia; the radicalization of the civil rights movement.
The tenor of the times consumed and overshadowed the competition at the Mexico City Olympics. Indeed, the '68 Games will forever be defined not by Bob Beamon's gravity-defying long jump, but by the black-gloved demonstration of sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos and the killing of protesting students by the Mexican police and army 10 days before the opening ceremonies.
Until recently, Berlin (1936, Hitler's Games) and Munich (1972, the Black September terrorist attack) have generated the bulk of Olympics-related literature. Mexico City is gaining ground, jump-started by two academic-press books this decade: Amy Bass' "Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete" and Douglas Hartmann's "Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath." Both Smith ("Silent Gesture") and Carlos ("Why?") have also written autobiographies.
Now comes Richard Hoffer's "Something in the Air: American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics." A longtime Sports Illustrated writer, Hoffer is known best for his boxing coverage. Whether explicating the phenomenon of Mike Tyson or the marketing push behind Oscar De La Hoya, Hoffer never let bluster or subterfuge (the old one-two of the sweet science) interfere with astute reportage.
In "Something in the Air," Hoffer introduces us to a large cast of characters in bite-sized pieces. Many are familiar faces, including miler Jim Ryun and boxer George Foreman. (Hoffer's description of Foreman's journey from street thug to gold medalist is richly detailed.) Others are probably forgotten by those who do not follow track and field: Dick Fosbury, who revolutionized high jumping; sprinter Wyomia Tyus; quarter-miler Lee Evans; USC pole vaulter Bob Seagren.
Athletics aside, the most compelling story from Mexico City remains race. San Jose State sociology professor Harry Edwards, himself a former athlete, broached the idea of a boycott by African American athletes at a meeting in Los Angeles in 1967. He knew that a boycott of the Olympics would devastate the U.S. team and count as a propaganda victory for the U.S.S.R. "It's time for black people to stand up as men and women and refuse to be utilized as performing animals for a little extra dog food," Edwards said. In connecting sports to the civil rights movement, Edwards and his allies spotlighted hypocrisy on the playing field. Many Southern universities did not give scholarships to African American athletes. In the professional ranks, there were no black managers or head coaches. Muhammad Ali had been stripped of his heavyweight title because of his refusal to fight in Vietnam. (SI staffer Jack Olsen's groundbreaking, five-part series drew attention to the plight of the black athlete in 1968.)
As Hoffer points out, few athletes chose not to compete. In Mexico City, African American athletes won seven of the 12 U.S. men's track and field gold medals; black U.S. women, who were not consulted about the potential boycott, won three golds. Smith and Carlos finished one-three in the 200-meter sprint (with Smith using his "Tommie Jets" to shatter the world record). After the race, they mounted the victory podium in black socks and, as the National Anthem played and the American flag was raised, thrust fists into the night.
Their eloquent, silent defiance outraged Avery Brundage and his minions on the International Olympic Committee, whom Hoffer describes as "a cadre of old white men redolent of their privileges." The IOC pressured the U.S. team to exile Smith and Carlos. The pair were vilified by, among others, Brent Musburger, who called them "dark-skinned storm troopers."
Hoffer provides a livelier alternative to Bass and Hartmann's accounts. However, he falters by expending little effort in placing the Games in historical perspective. He describes the so-called Tlatelolco Massacre, during which the Mexican government killed perhaps hundreds of protesting students, but never returns to the still-controversial topic. The use of steroids is mentioned in passing, even though it was becoming obvious that athletes were indulging. He summarizes Smith and Carlos' post-1968 lives in two paragraphs -- their tortuous tale is worthy of its own chapter, not least because Carlos wrote in his autobiography that he allowed Smith to win the 200. Smith has countered that Carlos did not deserve selection to track's Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, in a neat reversal, they're now perceived as heroes, with a statue of their gesture erected on the San Jose State campus.
Yes, there was something in the air in Mexico City: the realization that sports and the Olympics were not immune to politics and social change. Hoffer captures a fleeting glimpse of this new order, one that four years later would haunt Munich with deadly consequences.
Davis is a contributing writer at Los Angeles magazine.


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In the unveiling of its new iPad rival, it appears Microsoft ripped more from Apple's playbook than just the pages on how to build a tablet.
Microsoft reportedly went to great lengths to keep the development of its Surface tablet under wraps until the company was ready to reveal the device to the world on Monday.
Engineers working on the device were housed in an underground bunker to keep them out of the view of fellow employees or others.
Once the team got too big to keep in a bunker, Microsoft moved them up to a room with windows but behind airlock doors.
Employees were only allowed to enter the room one at a time and they had to wait for the airtight doors behind them to close before walking in.
Surface developers were also kept away from fellow employees who were not working on the device. The engineers were not even told all the specs of the device until launch.
On Monday Microsoft unveiled the tablet that is 9.3 mm thick and cut from liquid metal magnesium with a 10.6-inch display (1366x768 resolution).
It weighs about 1.5 pounds and it comes with a full-sized USB 3.0, a DisplayPort, microSD card slot and its rear has a pop-out kickstand.
Although Microsoft is not overtly saying it, many believe the device could be the first formidable challenger to Apple's iPad in the tablet arena.
Microsoft Went to Apple Lengths to Keep Surface Secret
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Assured helped me find a job right away, they help lots of people. I really like the assignment that they sent me on and I have been referring people over to them.
Since I have been employed through Assured Staffing, I have had nothing but a professional experience. The ladies at the office are very helpful and make my job a lot easier. Thank you for the wonderful experience and I highly recommend Assured Staffing.
As a growing business, it just made sense for us to turn to Assured Staffing when our personnel needs increased. They do all the legwork to vet employees. It's easier for the hiring manager, and provides an effective way to confirm that employees can do the work – and are trustworthy – before committing them to your company payroll. We've converted 8 or 9 from Assured Staffing to full-time employees over the last two years.
By using Assured Staffing's pre-screened employees, we're not starting at zero. We interviewed several agencies, and chose Assured Staffing because they're willing to work with us to understand our long-term needs, and to solve problems that may arise.
They're responsive to our needs. They provide employees to back-fill staff positions, such as reception and office coordinator. These roles require a range of skills, and Assured Staffing employees have worked well for us. They're very organized and have been a great help.
Like many other companies, we experience fluctuations in production schedules. We rely on Assured Staffing… to help us balance those fluctuations. Their quick response with qualified candidates helps keep our production schedules running smoothly. That's why we've continued to work with them for 17 years.
We've had great success with the employees Assured Staffing sends our way, whether hourly production/assembly, or receptionists and other office staff. Some have transitioned to full-time employee status – including many who are currently group leaders.


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