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This last week, sixth graders have been learning about the reasons why we experience seasons. To understand this concept, they participated in a lab where they were able to measure energy levels at various points throughout earth's orbit around the sun. Hopefully this solidified the idea that it is the TILT of the earth's axis that causes seasons.
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Ashley Mitton, a technician here at Westside, helps students with whatever is needed. She was born in Provo and grew up in Mapleton and Springville. She is one of our recently married teachers. Ashley's favorite things do do are reading and running. Her favorite thing about Westside is the students and that the teachers are awesome and fun to work with. Ashley thinks the most important thing teachers and educators can do is to help students learn and build their confidence. An interesting fact about her is that she used to teach second grade, but now she works for Americorp.
Parent Conferences/SEP'sPublished by monica.bair on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 09:29
On January 9th, parent conferences were held at Westside. Many teachers, however, chose to do what are called "Walking Report Cards" which give the students the opportunity to showcase what they have learned, and demonstrate their knowledge of various concepts in certain subject areas.

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VP Maduro: Economic actions will continue
According to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, opposition sectors "are wailing because the exchange control applied them a tourniquet"
According to the senior officer, this year the domestic economy will grow at least 6%. "Our people trust in the policies and the economic project of the revolution," he commented.
During an inspection of a canned food manufacturing plant in Zulia state, west Venezuela, he referred that some opposition sectors "are wailing because the exchange control applied them a tourniquet."
"Now, US dollars are used for our people's development," he summed up.
Is protest over?
That political protest in Venezuela has lost momentum seems pretty obvious: people are no longer building barricades to block off streets near Plaza Francia in Altamira (eastern Caracas), an anti-government stronghold; no new images have been shown of brave and dashing protesters with bandanna-covered faces clashing with the National Guard in San Cristóbal, in the western state of Táchira; and those who dreamed of a horde of "Gochos" (Tachirans) descending in an avalanche to stir up revolt in Caracas have been left with no option but to wake up to reality.
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We are in the process of having our new home framed. We selected double pane vinyl windows with Low-E glass. Our builder and his supplier feel that Low-E glass isn't necessary. Living in the south makes me ask, "Is 1/2" insulated glass good enough? Any input is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Low-e glass cuts down on solar radiation, I live in the pacific NW and it is used quite a bit up here. As far as spacing in glass 1/2" is good enough, but you may want to look into triple wall. Also check into fiberglass frames they will cost you double but they are also twice the window that vinyl windows are.
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"Much ado about nothing."
Author, no. Narrators were fine.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, for 46 hours with nothing important to say. Yes, it's as if the author penned a dream he had; but dreams need to be tweaked for public consumption, and the non-sense made sensible. This was a waste of neurons.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks.
"Just not working for me"
1Q84 is the second book I've listened to in a month that has two "star crossed" lovers who's love is so powerful it alters the world in some sort of supernatural way, The Night Circus being the second book. I feel like if the author is going to build a story around powerful love, there needs to be something that makes me understand it other than just saying what it is. The two lovers, Aoemame and Tengo hold hands briefly when they are ten, after which she moves away. We join the story when they are both in their 30's and both are having empty and unfulfilled lives, feeling that their hand holding was the most pure true love they ever had. Sorry...maybe things like this do happen, but for this story I need more development.
Other problems include the supernatural elements. What the heck? I totally don't get what their function is in this story. Seems useless other than to add mystique.
The book was building toward a finish with what I thought was going to be a resolution with the two lovers, and then in the last third of the book (Act 3?), Murakami introduces a NEW character, a private detective to puzzle out the murder of an important character. This simply does not work and was of absolutely no interest to me as a reader because I had just spent the previous 2/3 of the book reading about what took place! Maybe Murakami wanted to write a mystery thriller. If so, he should have started there and nixed the previous 2/3s of the book. ugh
I also agree with the other reviews about the constant repeating and reviewing - does Murakami think the readers are not paying attention and needs things to be explained over and over?
The narration was also a problem. Allison Hiroto has a baby like quality to her voice that is very distracting. She reads very clearly, however the baby voice grated on me. I also thought some of the dialog she read was a bit flat. The male narrators were fine but not stellar.
Overall, this book did not work. It has some interesting elements but seems to be mostly a mass of information and character development with not enough focus to make it work.
"refund please"
i thanked my son for turning me on to Haruki Murakami with 'wind up' and 'kafka' and i was looking forward to '1q84' and my hour drive to and from work. WOW, what a disappointment. 1st time i arrived at work more brain dead than when i left. i queried what literary device is when characters constantly repeat each other, without the incremental advancing of the story. the only thing apparent is the targeted audience has add or adhd, 'in other words' has trouble following a weak story line. ho-ho!
any suspense was wondering when the suspense will begin. ho-ho!
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Mostly, I wanted to understand the role of the Little People and whether Aaomame and Tengo ever found each other.
Not with the female narrator.
Unfortunately, not in my perspective.
I should have been forewarned by the claim that the novel was an
"Questions of morality and reality"
Murakami pulled me in to his story so much so that I could not live a day without it. The descriptions of what the characters see, feel and do are so realistic that they become your friends, your enemies, your sisters, your lovers. Morality and social norms are questioned and played with throughout this story which keeps me pondering long after I finished listening. Questions of the world(s) we live in also continue for me. Fantastic listening by fantastic narrators.
"Nov 2011 - the month I will never forget"
I listened to this book for the entire month. What an experience had it been. I have read several critics saying that the book is too long. It indeed like reading 3 books, but what an experience it was. I felt that I was pulled into this fascinating stpory, to this amazing world of 1q84, never wishing to leave this world.
A quote which will probably become eternal - "if you can't understand it with out explanation you will not understand it with an explanation".
This is a rare masterpiece, but is very accessible. No dull moment and still leaves you with so much to absorb and think.
I only regret I could not listen to it in its native language. However the narration is superb. One of the most exciting experiences of any audible book I listened to was when the narrator started to sing from a Bach Passion (if my memory does not betray me).
To summarize, highly recommended!
"Escaping Orwell"
1Q84 s a book about parallel universes. Not in the SCIFI sense so much as in the moral and a human sense (though there are SCIFI elements). A book about what happens to people (in this case, Aomame and also Tengo) who get off the track in their lives and have to go through some scary stuff in order to get back. It starts with Aomame in a taxi on a freeway in a traffic jam (listening to Janacek's Sinfonetta--which becomes a theme) choosing to get out of the cab and climb down an emergency access stairs to the surface. When she leaves, the cab driver tells her to remember that appearances to the contrary there is just one reality.
But soon it appears that's not true and the world she climbs down into seems different. Her first clue is that the police have different uniforms and are carrying heavier fire power than she remembers. Eventually the icon of the "alternative world" dubbed 1Q84 instead of 1984 (references to Orwell intended) is the second moon in the sky, smaller than the "real" moon, slightly lopsided and green.
Aomame is a serial killer ... of sorts. She happened into that line of work though an elderly rich woman who becomes a client (Aomame is a physical therapist and trainer). Together they target men whose crimes (often but not always crimes against women) that seem not likely to be addressed by the legal system. Aomame's work with the body has put her on to a spot on the back of the neck where she can kill someone instantly leaving no marks. Her job often calls her out to use her skills to help busy people relax which gives her opportunity. She's devised a weapon--a thin needle she keeps in a pouch in her purse. The Dowager identifies the targets and arranges access. Aomame is convinced once the Dowager coaxes her that the men they target deserve to die.
Tengo was a math prodigy in school but has lost interest in math and is playing around with being a writer. He's not published anything yet, but he writes on his days off from the cram school where he teaches math, though on one day a week he frolics with his married lover. He as no friends and few others he sees or talks to. He lives in a old, slightly run down apartment building, cooks for himself and writes in his spare time. When the novel opens, he has been working with Komatsu, the literary editor of a periodical that awards a prize for young and new writers. Tengo has contributed in the past and impressed Komatsu but has never won a prize. This time Komatsu shows Tengo an unusual manuscript which has caught his attention and which he thinks might win not only this prize but a bigger, more prestigious award if it's edited some (actually re-written). The author is a 17-year old girl. Komatsu wants to make into a "star" out of her which will bring money to his publishing house--and to himself and Tengo. Tengo is more that a little skeptical--after all it will be fraud--but he's a relatively passive young man and Komatsu is compelling. Besides Tengo is fascinated by the manuscript of Air Chrysalis.
So we have two basically decent 30-year-olds who have been drifting and two determined and manipulative adults who influence them. It's important that neither Komatsu nor the Dowager is particularly evil. Each has a strong sense of morality and a determination to take matters into their own hands. Both demand (and in most ways deserve) loyalty. Both are loyal in return.
Finally, there's a religious cult called Sakigaki that professes just to be a farming community in the countryside. No one knows much about them, but we learn from Professor Ebbesuno, who's informal guardian to the girl who wrote the manuscript, that she evidently ran away from Sakigaki at age 10 and came to live with the professor who was a friend to her parents. She will not talk about Sakigaki or her parents who have never tried to contact her.
The major portion of the novel consists of sections devoted to Aomame and Tengo alternately. Not exactly first person narratives, mostly third person with the first person (thoughts mainly) printed in italics. We assume after the early chapters that there's some connection between the two but it's a long way into the novel before we learn that Tengo once held her hand when Aomame was a 10-year old girl ostracized in school because her family was associated with a strict religious group. Neither has ever forgotten that. Both somehow assume that the other (if they can find the person after 20 years) is the only person they can be close too, can love. And we learn that Aomame left her parents and their strict Seven-Day-Adventist-type religion at age 10. Tengo believes his strict father is not his real father and has only one enigmatic memory of his mother.
Both eventually discover that they are living in an alternative world, one with two moons and a few others things askew. What happens in this alternative world (in 1Q84) can be impossible in the reality that we know and that they have known. Aomame first and then Tengo seem to recognize that they must meet in the present before either can escape back to the "real world".
It's a multi-layered story which is at once a page turner and a story to contemplate.
"Over rated."
Why all the hype?
Who thought this was good?
Without a doubt the most disappointing book I have ever read.
"Excellent But!"
This story is spectacular and completely engrossing. One difficulty, however, is the fact that the female reader provides an overly enunciated reading that has an almost saccharine affect to it.
"Worth the wait"
I've listened to a bunch of Murakami books and I have enjoyed the better part of them tremendously. 1Q84 was definitely worth the wait, though I found it a bit too long.
I loved the way the story was told from different viewpoints of the characters. The narration was rather good with a few pointers.
Being a regular murakami-reader and a big fan of the Rat trilogy, I missed Jay Rubin's vocal interpretation of Ushikawa. (but that's personal)
The vocal interpretation of Ushikawa became even more confusing when taken over by the male narrator of this book. I would prefer an audio version where each separate character is narrated and colored by one narrator.
The female voice dragged a bit towards the end of the book. (Sounding more and more like an airport flight-announcer... sorry.)
The male voice had a very, very heavy american accent which to my taste could have been tuned down a bit.
The book is definitely worth your credit. I would not recommend it as a first Murakami-read, though. Going trough the trilogy of the rat first (pinball 1973, dance dance dance, a wild sheep chase ) and through The wind-up bird chronicle helps to appreciate the literary universe that is murakami's. It definitely added to my listening pleasure.


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