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What does it mean to be political loyalist? , the case of Mr. Solomon
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In general a loyalist is one who maintains a persistent support for a political party, a state or the like. Political parties spend most of their time to recruit members so that to mobilize devoted, loyal followers, united by common aspirations and a well-developed ideology. Commitment to accomplish your partys cause is not a bad quality by itself. However, blindly support everything what the party and party boss said is not by any measurement a health situation for the future of the country. Unfortunately, the hard core supporters of EPRDF, like Mr. Solomon, do not open their mind to different opinions like their bosses. I really appreciate Mr. Solomons determination and gut to defend what he believes is a right position. Even though, with a broken language and idea he tried to pass a little message to readers. Mr. Solomon is usually known not to confront ideas but side issues. He even tried to give comments on the well written articles of Mr. Gezaee Hailemichael on different times.
In my recent article I tried to talk the controversial Ethio-Sudan border issue and the Prime Minsters speech to the parliament. Solomon did not want or unable to talk about this very urgent issue for a couple of reasons. First, he may not be authorized by his boss to talk about the issue. Second, the article was based on facts; hence there is no way to argue otherwise. For what ever reason Mr. Solomon is again failed to put his cause in a right way. According to him, I am a Shaibias cadre because I have different opinion on issues like this. I wrote a lot of articles on Eritrean issue and I do not think it is difficult to understand my position for people who read those articles.
Mr. Solomon let me advice you something, everything have a limit and it will gona end sooner or latter. I am sorry; it is a common sense to say this. As a people we have a lot of common things to do for our common interest. Hence, there must be consensuses among us to accomplish this noble task. We do not have to defend individuals or party as the expense of our unity. Government activity is a complex business which needs a wise action in every move. Therefore, one way to avoid negative setbacks is to be open and transparent, especially if there is a polarized political environment like Ethiopia. This is what happened in the border issue of Ethio-Sudan. The government wanted to do things underground, without the knowledge of the people. Latter, provoked by some Medias, they told us the fact even with their own justification. I personally was not surprised when this border issue recently emerged as a political issue, at least in the Diaspora because things were not done right.
Mr. Solomon, I thought you read my articles with some concentration. If you have a problem with what I said, let us discuss. Otherwise, it is not helpful, even for your own party to label some body as a cadre for his different opinion. Anyway, I encourage you to keep your participation in whatever way you like.

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MUMBAI: In a bid to beef up its weekday prime time, Sony Entertainment Television is launching Amber Dhara in the 9 pm slot.
Based on conjoined twins, the show will kick off on 24 September and will air from Monday to Thursday. It will replace Ek Ladki Anjaani Si which is currently on air from Monday to Wednesday and Roobaru on Thursday.
"We have been consistently delivering strong weekends and attempting to develop a fresh habit forming fiction content on weekdays. Our programs like Durgesh Nandini and Virrudh are examples of it and Amber Dhara will further strengthen our viewership," said Set EVP and business head Albert Almeida.
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antto wrote:who said n0nx0x is as late as the ES-1?
if you think it's so easy - why don't you pick the code up and make it properly?
or just buy the 303
do you realize that you're complaining about something you can get for free, and you haven't even tried whether it's late or not
i don't exactly love this ES-1, but that's what i got
if it was open-source - i would surely attempt to fix the things that i hate about it and make it better
and with that i don't mean the latency, because that's probably not doable, but other little things, like the lack of pattern-clear function and so on..
but since that won't happen, i would gladly replace the ES-1 with something better, if i get the chance
And its the same with the syncing..have you ever worked with 3-5 different drum machines and a 303 and a simultaniously?
you shouldnt trust your ears.. measure it. do you own reaktor? i have the jitter meter ensemble if you need it..
3phase wrote:oh oh anto.. That explains somehow why you missed the timing flaws and glitches in your earlier versions. And it makes it a bit risky to take your "no jitter!" statements for granted.
Its easy to measure such things. A coder like you should be able to easily measure the timing under sync.. hint: the distance between the flanks of the gate output..just record the gate output and measure the distance in samples between the positive flancs. its dead easy and accurate enough because jitter in the 1 sample domain is not bothering us very much..
but jitter of 200 samples or more as in your beta versions..thats is pretty shitty and needs to be fixed.
Anyway.. seems to be way more easy to write an os for the xox than i thought.. when i wouldnt sell it i really should give it a shot..
3phase wrote:And up to now, years later, you dont know what clock jitter is and how it can be produced by bad coding inside the machine, even on a steady clock.
3phase wrote:And that you are not aware about timing offsets and their negative fx.. dont seem to be able to measure such things or in case you do find a value of beeing 5 ms late to be ok..
antto wrote:when the x0x is master, the gate-out has about 4.5 to 5.5ms latency compared to the generated dinsync clock
and now before you open your mouth, let me tell you that the gate signal from the cpu passes thru a number of components that in one way or another add delay, till it reaches the gate-out port
so this is beyond the scope of the cpu/firmware
3phase wrote:Since the statements about nonxox^1 was false there is a good chance that your statements about nonxox2 are false too.
You see the logic in that?
3phase wrote:You could tell how much internal jitter ther is on a steady incoming clock-- or measure the jitter off the incomming clock and the resulting jitter on the cv gate output of the machine..
darffader wrote:3phase.. I really dont like what I'm reading here.. Accusations of false claims and personal insults about the skills and knowledge of people involved. It's not nice and clearly there's some misunderstandings on your side about n0nx0x2.
Instead of typing a whole page full and wasting hours on something that may go nowhere, I have a better idea:
I'll send you a cpu with n0nx0x2, and a panel.. You try it out. And afterwards you send it back, or buy it if you want. No strings attached. I'll even pay for the shipping if that's what it takes.
Use this contactform and I'll make sure you'll get it asap.
Seriously.. No better way to know than to test by yourself.
antto wrote:it's very very hard to communicate with you.
i know very well what clock jitter is
when the x0x is master, the gate-out has about 4.5 to 5.5ms latency compared to the generated dinsync clock
and now before you open your mouth, let me tell you that the gate signal from the cpu passes thru a number of components that in one way or another add delay, till it reaches the gate-out port
so this is beyond the scope of the cpu/firmware]
why don't you have a look at the schematic and figure out how exactly the gate retriggers the envelope generators (both the filter and volume envelopes)
run a circuit simulation if you want, and see how much time it takes for the signal to even rise up
then go tell Roland that their circuit is too slow
someone sh*ts himself at age of 2, so he will sh*t himself even at age of 10?
great logic.
when slaved to the ES-1 via midisync, the converted dinsync is a steady square wave
it only aliases because it's generated at a 1kHz sampling rate, if you understand what this means
jimmy303 wrote: there are a few glitches still (2.08)


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We went to the annual CADSA family outing to the lugnuts game. This year Joe tolerated the noise and actually enjoyed being at the stadium. We stayed for a few innings and left before Joe's name was put up on the score board! He won a raffle and we didn't know until we bumped into a friend at the market this morning. That's why we call him lucky Joe.
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Emma's party
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Double Digits!
Emma turned ten yesterday! She spent the morning with Tutu, Papou, Joe and Chris at Jump'n Jax, and when it warmed up in the afternoon she invited a friend to go to the MSU pool for her annual birthday jump off of the 5 meter platform.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Last evening in Rome
Our last evening in Rome we walked around Trastevere (the part of Rome where we stayed. We did some shopping (I am clutching my new bright yellow bag) and had dinner at DaLucia for the final time. What a beautiful city and an all around great trip.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Rome: Day 6
Today was all about shopping and visiting our favorite places. We went to the high end shops on via Condotti at the Spanish steps and onto piazza Navonna. We also had coffee at Taza d'Oro and shopped around the Pantheon. Then we wlaked around Trastevere (I bought some handbags) and we ended the evening at DaLucia. Tomorrow we leave on a 11 AM plane.
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Rome: Day 5
On day 5 we took a train out of town to see the ruins at Ostia Antica. We spent a couple of hours walking around the town that used to be by the Tiber (2 BCE-4 CE) until the Tiber moved and people moved away. In the afternoon we walked back to Vatican City and then toured the Vatican museums at night. It was fantastic to see the Sistene Chapel at night in a non-crowded room.
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Rome: Day 4
This morning we boarded a bus and drove a bit out of Rome to see the early Christian catacombs. We rode the archeobus which took us past a lot of sites and happily right down the center of the shopping district! In the evening we had tickets to Borghese museum for the evening showing. The collection is amazing! We walked around the park and then had dinner at a restaurant called "Friends" that is set up to assist people with special needs to learn how to work in a restaurant. The waiters work in a team. The meal was fantastic and we were so happy to be able to support such a fantastic venture. I tried to buy a T-shirt but they were sold out.
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Rome: Day 3
We lost our internet connection at the hotel so I was not able to upload photos day by day. On day 3 we got on a hop on - hop off tour bus and drove all around Rome visiting sites and getting to know the city. In the afternoon we went to San Angelo castle (where the Pope flees when the city is attacked) and then walked along the Tiber River.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Rome: Day 2
This morning we ate breakfast in our hotel and then walked downtown to purchase a Rome pass to ride the buses for 3 days. We rode into the center of Rome, looked at an archeological site in the middle of the road (where Audrey Hepburn sleeps on a bench on Roman Holiday) "The Area Sacra", saw ancient Roman apartments and then climbed the giant monument Vittorio Emanuelle II known as the Wedding Cake monument. Then we headed over to the Capitalini Museum where we spent the morning in the Renaissance wing and after lunch we walked through the ancient section of the museum with a fabulous view of the Roman Forum and the foundation of the ancient temple to Jupiter. Then we walked to the Pantheon, had an iced coffee at Tazza d'Oro, and explored the Pantheon (saw Raphael's tomb). After a nap back at the hotel we walked along the Tiber river to Vatican city and strolled around St. Peter's square. It was raining so we didn't stay long. Then back to Trastevere for dinner at Da Lucia. Finally we ate gelato at Blue Ice in piazza Santa Maria.
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Rome: Day 1
We arrived in Rome on Monday morning and after we collected out bags we took a train to Termini (the main terminal) and then jumped in a cab for our hotel in Trastevere. We are staying in a small hotel on the hill in Trastevere (literally across the Tiber River) which is a lovely section of Rome across the Tiber River. After a jet-lagged nap we walked down to the main piazza and walked through Santa Maria church. We spent some time in a cafe, walked along the Tiber river, viewed St. Peter's in the distance from a couple of bridges, and then had dinner in a restaurant in the center of Trastevere. There are tons of restaurants and lots of people walking around at night. I'm so glad we decided to stay here.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
2 Nights
Here are photos of Joe sleeping two nights in a row. Night #1 he is sleeping with his microphone. Night #2 he has his guitar. Rock on, Elvis!
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Strawberry Picking
After the last day of school Emma, Joe, Tutu and I went strawberry picking in Dewitt! It was the perfect end to a great school year.
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Joe is in First Grade!
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LAst day of Marble School
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Trip to Mackinac Island
We had a great time on Mackinac Island. This was the fourth graders class trip that combined social studies and history with a trip to mark the end of their time at Marble School. Emma is very excited to move on to the next school and I have been looking forward to it too. When I chose the music for this montage I realized that I am a little melancholy about the end of elementary school for Emma, even as I am happy to see her move ahead towards more independence. Enjoy!
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Trip to Mackinac Island
At 6 AM Emma and I are leaving with the fourth graders from Marble School for a trip to Mackinac Island. Along the way we will see Historic Mill Creek, Colonial Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City, take the ferry to the island, and see sites there. We have never been to the island so we expect to have a great time. Mackinac Island is located between the upper and lower peninsula. As an added bonus I will see Lake Superior for the first time!
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Going to Italy, finally!
Chris and I are taking our ten-year anniversary (on our 11th anniversary) trip to Rome, Italy! We have been planning this trip for over a year and we are ready to go. As I take Italian CDs out of the library, look through guidebooks, and micromanage the children's schedule for the time we are gone, my thoughts keep returning to "Welcome to Holland." I guess the message as we go to Italy is not to over plan (yeah, right) and to stay open to all of the surprises that may find us on our trip. I made sure that there was at least one picture of Joe in this montage wearing an Italy shirt. So, the other lesson to keep in mind is humor. Back by popular demand (at least by me) is "Welcome to (Amy's) Holland."
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Jeff Atkinson won the men's 1500 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1988, with a closing 400 meter kick of 52.89. When he left high school his coach there told him he would never break 55 seconds in the 400,…….fresh ! I told him he had to run 53 seconds in debt, with a lap to go to win the Olympic Trials. He went on to be a finalist in the 1500 at the Seoul Olympics, and later became the American record holder at the indoor 1500 meter distance. Yet despite these rather impressive achievements ( especially when viewed against the U.S. middle distance scene of the late 80's ) he never fully bought into how he was being coached. One day he voiced his reservations by stating:
You do not coach me like an athlete, you coach me like a jazz musician !
You dumb ass,…. you think you are insulting me, but you just paid me the highest praise possible without even knowing it. That says volume about how much you know about how you got to be an Olympic finalist !
Last week I was driving home from practice when Nancy Wilson was doing her jazz appreciation show on National Public Radio. Before there was a Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, or even Alecia Keys, more than a half century earlier, there was Nancy Wilson. I was living in Chicago at the time and at midnight Sid McCoy, the local jazz disc jockey, would come on and with his deep, resonant baritone he would introduce her as "Sweet Nancy, the Baby". And that is just what she was! Well last week, Sweet Nancy the Baby, was narrating a hour on the work of Jimmy Smith, the premier jazz organist. Various guests would share their impressions and input about the things that made Jimmy Smith the unrivaled master of the jazz organ. A lot of it was pretty mundane and well known rhetoric about his fabulous playing and skill on the instrument. But one of his former sideman's comment really summed up part of what Jimmy Smith was all about. He pointed out that Jimmy at times during the middle of a number had to pull out the "stops" on the organ to change the sound, tone and timbre the organ produced. Doing this he would get ever so slightly behind the beat and in order to get back on the beat he had to rush to catch up. This produced a heavy syncopation that characterized his playing and allowed him to ever so soulfully swing . Most of Jimmy Smith's solos were prefaced with a very tight elaborate and virtuoso effort, from which he would release and launch into the most soulful and syncopated rendition possible of the piece. I liken Jimmy Smith's introductions to the concept often used in track and field called Post Tetanus Potentiation . The concept is based upon the fact that if you aggressively contract muscles prior to performance you can theoretically get up to a 10% increase in contraction. This is most often seen with baseball hitters swinging weighted bats and track and field jumpers, aggressively bounding at the outset of their approach. It was most definitely the case with Jimmy Smith, following the introduction he would take everything to a higher level of excellence and soulfulness.
As I was driving I thought about track and field athletes in relationship to certain jazz artists. For example, one of my favorite musicians is Gene Ammons, He was the master of a big, masculine sound that came right at you without apology, hesitation or reservation. David Oliver is very much like Ammons. Ammons would work to get the very deepest and pure sound out of his horn. David works very hard to get the most technical efficieny out of his body. Both David and Ammons share physical size and a dedication to what they value most,…. in its purest form. Aries Merritt reminds me of Paul Desmond, of the Dave Brubeck days. Light, airy, shy, with a certain creativeness tinged with humor.
But this is not about Aries or David,.. the track and field athlete I likened to Jimmy Smith is Asthon Eaton. The reason being that organists have to be fluid and multitask with both arms and both legs. The same, to some extent, can be said of drummers. But organists not only keep time with the left foot on the bass pedals, they also have to do a melodic thing with the bass pedals based on the chord changes, while at the same time doing something creative with their other three limbs. So for me, organists are the ultimate multitask people of jazz, thus, they are decathletes or hepthathletes( Shirley Scott ) of their art form .
Asthon Eaton is blessed in many ways, but one of the most important is the person who coaches him. Harry Marra graduated from Mount Saint Mary's College more than 50 years ago. When Vin Linnana, Director of Track and Field/Cross Country at Oregon called me up, and we discussed the pros and cons of hiring Harry Marrra , here is what I shared with him:
Vinnie, first of all Harry came from a college that specialized in the decathlon . Jim Deagan, the coach there, always had good multiple event people. So Harry was part of a rich tradition at his school. After graduating he joined our track club in Washington, D.C. We were loaded with talent and Harry fit right in and was a big asset to the team because of the very intense competitive nature he brought to the club. But the most important thing you need to take into consideration is the fact that Harry was a very small guy for the decathlon.
So why should I consider his size when he was an athlete then ? I am considering him for a coaching job NOW.
Vinnie, when I want to get insight and intuition into the very best way to physically execute something in track and field, I look at women who are good in the event and I look at small guys in the event. For example, if I were looking for efficiency in the high jump, I would immediately look at Stefon Holm of Sweden because he was so small, he had to be doing things right in order to do so well. When we wanted to get the best conversion from horizontal to vertical at take off for Oliver in the hurdles, we modeled his take off technique after Blanka Vlasic. Harry was successful as a little guy in the decathlon because he was efficient and effective despite his size, so he knows things about biomechanical efficiency that other coaches simply do not have. Further the same principal applies to other things related to the sport. Harry had to find the best and most efficient way to handle these things.
So I think I am hearing that if I bring him here he will have the feel and intuition about what is the best and most efficient way to get things done.
Bingo !
Now lets get to Eaton, Jimmy Smith, jazz and syncopation. Keeping a steady time means that you are on the beat,… and that is rhythm. On the surface that is acceptable,and perhaps to some, even desirable. However, when you lag behind the beat and have to really accelerate to catch up,……….. that is syncopation. In track and field the basic objective for success is strategic force application. The formula for Force is Mass times Acceleration. When Jimmy Smith lags behind when he is adjusting the "stops", he has to accelerate to catch up and swings harder and sounds better because he is syncopating more. When Eaton slightly lowers his center of gravity – and slows – in the field events and hurdles before the delivery point, and has to accelerate and explode in order to catch back up to, and even exceed, the previous tempo and beat, he is syncopating, thus applying greater force. With Harry knowing instinctively and intuitively how to strategic exploit that greater force creation , we have the ultimate marriage between a basic jazz principal (creative syncopation) and biomechanics. Because Harry has experienced a lot of what is going on in a first-person-singular fashion, he is better positioned to get the very most out of Eaton.
The next time I see either one, I am going to suggest they become Jimmy Smith fans.
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Book reviews: George Orwell and Muriel Spark
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
First published by Secker & Warburg, 1945
This edition published by Penguin, 1973
Books that were on the school curriculum suffered as much as I did from forced reading. I still shudder when thinking of metaphysical poetry, for example. But slowly I am returning to the fiction made dusty in classrooms, and this is one of them – George Orwell's 'fairy story' of a tainted revolution.
The book's premise is achingly simple and oh-so clever. The animals stage a coup and drive out the farmer, proposing to work for themselves. Their success hides the fact someone has to be the leader, a mantle assumed by the pigs, and over time a terrible transformation takes place.
This is the sort of fairy story of which the Grimm brothers would have been proud. Each animal has a role that reflects our society – whether it is the honest everyman of Boxer the horse or the blind obedience of the sheep. It's not a mirror one cares to linger in front of for too long in fear of what you may see.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
First published in Great Britain by Macmillan, presume 1961
This edition published by Penguin, 1969
This is a fascinating story of a woman teacher desperate to make an impression, to appear cultured and charming, and the impressionable girls who she taught at school. We are told early on that one of 'the Brodie set' betrayed her by bringing about her dismissal as a teacher. But which one?
Is Miss Jean Brodie in her prime? You'd never know from the prose. It's only repeated about a hundred times, but Muriel Spark likes to hang tags on her cast of characters and invokes them with nearly every mention. In this way the characters become slightly two-dimensional as we only ever see one trait – Sandy's small peering eyes, Rose 'famous for sex'. But knowing one trait opens our eyes to details that surround the characters - 1930s Edinburgh, the era preluding the Second World War.
The novel unfolds making good use of prolepsis / flash forward – this technique allows us to know events before they happened and gives a sense of fatality to the story even before we pass the first chapter. But what we lose with suspense we gain with attention to detail, and try to pick up on clues as to why the story unfolds like it does. At first Miss Brodie's influence over 'her girls' seems beneficial but as they grow older it is revealed as manipulation.
Incidentally, great cover, isn't it? It shows Maggie Smith as Miss Jean Brodie in the 1969 film, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
18 comments:
- The Golden Eagle said...
So that's what Animal Farm is about! I hadn't known that society was represented by farm animals in the book.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie I've never heard of--the flash forward style, though, interests me.
Thank you for the reviews!
- 28 November 2010 at 18:19
- Old Kitty said...
Two fabulous fabulous fabulous and may I say again - utter fabulous books!! These are so in my all top top 10!!
Oh but I don't have this edition of Miss Jean Brodie with the magnificent cover!! Wow!!! That really is a find!!
Take care
- 28 November 2010 at 19:17
- Fran said...
Great books. As an English teacher, though, it makes me shiver when people talk about the way books are ruined at school. Brrrrrrr. Oh, I so hope that isn't true for the kids I teach. I so hope ...
- 28 November 2010 at 19:22
- Jayne said...
Fran - just from the way you write on your blog I am sure you are a brilliant teacher, and make the books come alive for your students. English at my school suffered from too much group reading (quick readers left to die quietly in boredom waiting for others to catch up), book sharing (oh the agony), and the sense that the book was a learning tool, much like a calculator, rather than a door to a different world. I think the teachers tried but it was a difficult school, difficult class, and difficult curriculum! I also remember we were left on our own to watch television quite a bit - we would be told to watch a play but would re-tune the telly to This Morning.
- 28 November 2010 at 19:32
- Christine said...
A couple of great books there, Jayne. I think that I must have been lucky at school in liking the books we studied.
Have a good week!
- 28 November 2010 at 19:55
- Lindsay said...
Animal Farm was of course an attack on Communism, or rather, Stalin's version of Communism which Orwell saw - as did many - of Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution,and his disgraceful treatment of Trotsky.
- 28 November 2010 at 19:58
- Happy Frog and I said...
I do so enjoy reading your reviews. I have read Animal Farm so this brought back lots of memories of it, but I have only seen the film of the Prime of Miss Brodie rather than read the book. I should give it a go, so thanks.
- 28 November 2010 at 21:10
- Mystica said...
I read Animal Farm ages ago. i think I should get back to it now. Its nice to read some classics when one is older as you see it in a new perspective!
- 28 November 2010 at 21:17
- Jemi Fraser said...
I enjoyed Animal Farm back in high school - the teacher we had introduced us to books I'd never heard of or read before - I loved the dystopians :)
- 28 November 2010 at 21:18
- Mary Mary said...
I love it when readers take on more classic-style novels. Although I haven't read either one of them, both books sound intriguing. I think I'd probably enjoy The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Thanks!
- 28 November 2010 at 21:46
- KarenG said...
I've never read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. I know it was made into a film back in the day. I have always LOVED Animal Farm. It's one of my very favorites.
- 29 November 2010 at 01:49
- Jenny Beattie said...
Oooh fab review. I loved both of these books. AF I studied in school and TPoMJB I read myself. I should read them both again but there are so many books and so little time...
- 29 November 2010 at 11:32
- A Certain Book said...
Hi Jane,
Thanks for the excellent reviews. I need to make space somewhere for reading classics!
- 29 November 2010 at 17:36
- Shannon O'Donnell said...
I love Animal Farm! And I promise that I work to make it as fun as it is educational when I teach it in class (which I have NOT done for several years)! :-) Sadly, I haven't read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - but I need to. Great reviews, Jayne. :-)
- 29 November 2010 at 20:09
- Madeleine said...
Great post. I love 'reading' the classics as audio tapes as I often find the style difficult to get into on the written page. I once read too many autobiogs and found it hard to read other styles for a while, but now I read more than ever.:O)
- 29 November 2010 at 20:41
- Creepy Query Girl said...
Huh. I read animal farm back in highschool so this was a great referesher - I could probably stand to read it again:) As for the second selection! COmpletely new to me! Thanks for the review!
- 30 November 2010 at 16:40
- Happy Dog said...
Oh, how I have struggled to make my students love Orwell as much as I do. I think too many of them experienced the book at ages 11-13 with teachers who either (a) tried to cram an understanding of the Russian Revolution down their constricted craws, or (b) had no freaking idea of what the book was about in the first place. Now that I teach advanced classes to juniors and seniors, I relish exposing them to Orwell's essays. I finally have one answer to that stupid "if you could have dinner with five people" question. And if you haven't read 1984 in the past 10 years, you certainly owe it to yourself. We all do!
- 1 December 2010 at 21:27
- Pat Tillett said...
Two great books. Animal Farm was always one of my favorites as a kid. I think it's time to read it again... Thanks for the review!
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David and Linda's Chicken Wrap
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|can chicken broth
|boneless chicken breasts
|5 - 8
|2 - 3
|Italian Squash
|Peppers (red, green, and yellow)
|Sea salt
|Ground Cumin
|Medium flour tortillas
|Olive oil
|Vegetable Oil
|Sour Cream
- Peel and cut carrots into small slices.
- Cut squash, peppers and onion into small squares.
- Put squash and carrot slices into pot with chicken broth on medium heat.
- Saute onions in oil olive until slightly brown and then mix in peppers and saute until just slightly soft.
- Put onions and peppers into pot with carrots and squash.
- Add in some cumin and stir in some flour and turn up the heat! You want to cook the mixture until the chicken broth is soaked in.
- At the same time, boil chicken in covered pot for 20 minutes.
- Shred chicken and put into pot with the vegetables.
- Heat up vegetable oil and fry both sides of the tortillas, but only slightly--you still want them to be soft so you can roll the mixture in the tortilla.
- Lay a scoop of the chicken mixture in the tortilla, roll up, put 2 toothpicks in to keep it closed and put back into the oil.
- Turn the wraps on their sides until golden brown.
- Place finished masterpiece onto a bed of parsley and use your sour cream dispenser to trim the wraps with the markings on a football.
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In what is most likely the first food truck casualty of 2012 and perhaps since the food truck phenomenon started, Clea Senneville and Jason Edwards, owners of Beet StrEAT, the food truck of vegetarian and vegan healthy eats, have closed up shop.
The announcement was made last week and the truck, the business, or both are currently up for sale via Beet StrEAT's website and Facebook page.
"Among my 'lessons learned'," a Facebook post from Beet StrEAT reads, "it is clear that there is a demand in Phoenix for whole, fresh, simple - and, yes, even meat-free - meals that are affordable and convenient. Phoenicians also increasingly are rallying around their local small-scale growers & food-makers.... This was our mission, and it was thrilling (especially as a native Arizonan) to recognize this about communities across the Valley - and how positive and cohesive our communities are and work to be."
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A vintage serigraph from 1980 of a geometric abstract by Roy Ahlgren (1927-2011). It features a vortex design, rendered in a gradient of pink. Ahlgren was a self-taught American artist known for his Optical Art style and use of colors. Following the hard edge technique allowed him to create his signature optical illusion images. Signed and numbered in pencil, edition: 100, AP. It is offered unframed.
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Date: 06/02/2014
Writer: Angela Simental, 575-646-6861, firstname.lastname@example.com
Melise Taylor, a New Mexico State University graduate student pursuing a masters degree in agricultural biology and integrated pest management, has been competing in the annual meeting of the Southwestern Branch of the Entomological Society of America since her sophomore year of undergraduate studies.
This was her last year to participate in the competition, which took place in San Antonio, Texas, and even though she has a full-time job and is working on her masters thesis, her drive and excellent research earned her first place.
Like many other NMSU students, Taylors success in this competition is the reflection of hard work and balance of professional, academic and personal life.
This was the last meeting I was going to be able to attend before graduation and I was really shooting for first place, Taylor said. To me its a big accomplishment to go against other graduate students from bigger schools and more developed departments and still be competitive. So it was a personal accomplishment as well as a display of what the department of Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Science at NMSU has to offer.
Taylor presented a portion of her masters thesis research that deals with how a type of stink bug lay eggs, which was also her first publication.
It may seem trivial but it is an important piece of their biology that can affect future research and control of this invasive pest, she said. For me the most interesting part of the research was finding that these stink bugs were laying their eggs in the soil. There is no documentation of any other species of stink bugs displaying that behavior. It was also interesting to see their ritual. My research describes the phases of laying the egg; the behaviors that every female displays during the process.
Her work had important implications, both economically, since it impacts effective management techniques of this pest species, and on a basic biological level because the observed behavior of the bugs is so unusual for this family of insects, added Scott Bundy, her adviser and associate professor of agronomic entomology.
Before the presentation, Taylor had to overcome her nervousness. Even though she had participated many other times, this would be the last opportunity she had to earn first place.
Im an introvert at heart so the most difficult part of the competition was getting over my nerves. I knew the material and was confident in my research; it was the delivery I was worried about, she explained.
She said the competitions have been a learning experience in her academic career and a confidence booster.
Ive learned scientific writing and public speaking skills that were otherwise lacking in my curriculum, Taylor said. Theres always the chance to network at these meetings, connecting with professionals and fellow students can really affect how things go when youre looking for a job or maybe a doctorate position.
Taylor moved in the middle of her masters education, to work for the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department: Urban Biology Division. She monitored mosquito populations in the city and tested for West Nile Virus, knowing that finishing her degree would become more challenging. As a full-time employee and student, Taylor, with the support of her husband, makes every effort, from taking online classes to traveling back and forth from Albuquerque to Las Cruces every two weeks and staying in contact with her adviser, to make sure she is meeting the standards of her research.
I am lucky to have a job that is equipped with microscopes and a boss who is willing to let me utilize those resources when I need them, she said. Communication with Dr. Bundy is the key to this project. Sometimes I email him about five times a day or we will have phone conversations about whats going on. He has also made himself available and met with me on the weekends when Im in Las Cruces. Its been a challenge and a lot of driving, but I appreciate the opportunity to finish this degree while pursuing other goals in my personal life.
Taylor will graduate in December and continue to work for the Environmental Health Department. She said coming back for a doctorate degree is one of her future options.
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The latest collaborative effort in the Dark Ambient cosmos has emerged from the atmospheric masters No-xygen and multi-instrumentalist Mike Radice. They have presented us with a soundtrack for the ultimate journey of humankind. Their concept surrounds our struggle to relinquish the darkness and dessication within us and be reborn in an enlightened existence.
These subterranean compositions feature catatonic orchestral progressions that flow in between avant-garde bursts of Industrial despair. With various tones from all over the globe, these movements fuse our anguishes together and give us all a common goal to reach for. Genres clash into each other as Drone intertwines with ethnic beats. The end result is a sui genereis affair that covers the entire atmosphere. From the deepest cave to the exosphere, waves of Ambient murmurs drape over everything, covering our souls with a comforting despondency.
The collaboration consists of four songs from each artist. They each take one end of the spectrum: No-xygen forges the difficult and sorrowful uphill climb out of dark times while Radice shows us the ethereal beauty that awaits us at the top of the mountain. Each song exhibits the yin and yang of their concept. They each contain sentient beauty alongside daunting torment. From this we learn that even though we are in dark times there is still beauty everywhere. We must also not forget that when we are reborn there will be still be desolate gloom to combat. As eternal beings we cannot live without one or the other. In order to evolve we must find the delicate balance between darkness and renaissance.
Rating: 4 stars
Standout track: Renaissance