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  1. Didn't catch this till now... why would they have multiple copies? I've never seen that in local libraries... they're struggling to buy single copies already, it seems (often they're sort of complement each other... or they just have either an original or a German translation...) as far as i can see they have five copies, one in the overseas studies department, one in the education department and three in the mount scopus library which is where the rosenzweig center is "The Franz Rosenzweig Research Center seeks to honour the cultural legacy of German Jewry from the Middle Ages through the Shoah, and its subsequent reconstruction. The centre was named after the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), whose life and work are deemed emblematic of the German-Jewish cultural legacy." so i guess they have multiple copies for several researchers working on the subject (at least that's how it's done here, we often have three or four copies of important books even if they are rather specialized... books which are used in classes are often there in much larger quantities, say 30-50)
  2. imho at least the numbers for mexico are to small to make sense... the virus seems to be very contagious and officially there are not that many more patients in mexico than elsewhere in the world... given what i believe mexico city is like i'd guess the true numbers are at least somewhere in the ten thousands... ________________ edit to add: the numbers here are a mess but you see that there are considerable numbers of cases outside mexico - it doesn't feel reasonable to me that 3000 infected people in mexico can spread a disease to other countries like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak
  3. the sun also rises is one of my favorite books and i've read it quite a few times - strangely i never made through more than 50 pages of any of the others....
  4. Stephan Oliva - Jazz & Movie (deezer) Steve Lacy - Evidence (deezer)
  5. belated happy birthday! (the four days when i'm a year older than you are over again...)
  6. two ensembles financed by the same radio station... i'd guess they get the same pay (and sometimes do projects together - don't know how voluntary that is ), might practice in the same building (and that's about it)
  7. !!Happy Birthday!!
  8. it's years ago that i read it... gave it to a friend two weeks ago and what he said matched very well my own memories: it's mainly about sex and (with few exceptions) it ends somewhere in the early fifties... it's a good book but there's room left for other mingus biographies... Let's just say this one should be filed under "Fiction" in the library. an interesting contrast btw is buddy collettes (slightly boring but still recommended) autobiography which for the early years roughly covers the same people at the same time... it's so much less colorful i almost felt sorry for collette...
  9. i know very little tippett, two albums i haven't listened to in years but remember very fondly are Tippett's Dedicated to you but you weren't listening and even more so Dennis Gonzalez's Catechism (featuring elton dean, tippett, moholo... gonzalez used to have this for download on his webpage but i can't find it anymore...) thanks for this thread! will check out more tippett soon (only yesterday i first heard paul rogers' time of brightness with dunmall/domancich/levin and enjoyed it a lot...)
  10. it's years ago that i read it... gave it to a friend two weeks ago and what he said matched very well my own memories: it's mainly about sex and (with few exceptions) it ends somewhere in the early fifties... it's a good book but there's room left for other mingus biographies...
  11. I'd want to know how cities earned points in their measuring system, before giving any credence to it overall. And I'd like to see how the 215 candidate cities were selected in the first place. I'm guessing this survey looked at primarily large cities that deal in alot of trade/business. Frankfurt would qualify in that respect, though I'd much rather live in any number of nearby cities over Frankfurt. walked around frankfurt for a day two years ago and while it wasn't quite the moloc i had expected there are dozens of city in germany i'd prefer... can't imagine living in bavaria so no munich for me (though that may be prejudice)... i did live in dusseldorf for a few months in 2006 and indeed it really was the best place i have lived in so far (berlin and cologne are of course much much livelier but somehow dusseldorf felt better...) don't know their criteria but big business surely was a huge factor...
  12. at least three copies left at hebrew university http://aleph518.huji.ac.il/F/KGNK1XFKNHSPD...amp;jump=000021 coincidentally, two hours ago i just gave a book i bought from a library here to a friend who will probably take it with him to switzerland at some time in the future...
  13. Avishai Cohen - After The Big Rain (deezer)
  14. reading rosenzweig's bible translation was the best thing we ever did in religious instructions class in school...
  15. Matana Roberts - The Chicago Project (lastfm)
  16. "!!happy birthday joe!!
  17. thank you all! took this one easier then the last two, even though i definitely feel like i'm approaching 30
  18. the one thing that really surprised me was that bolton actually called gioia that day...
  19. Paul Rogers - Time of Brightness (lastfm)
  20. Jacques Vidal - Sans Issue (Deezer) great one!
  21. Lars. . . what a great player . . . I have all the appearances on Dragon, and a few others including Portrait of my Pals. wasn't too impressed with portrait but the 1952 one (which is part of dragon cd 7) was great. Now playing Bernt Rosengren - Notes from Underground those two rosengren albums are fascinating (are these digital only reissues?), stockholm dues has fine trumpet playing from lalle svensson he sounds a bit like kenny dorham but with some "old jazz" quality in his playing (somewhere on the web i read he was initially a trombone player and tried to have some trombone like quality in his trumpet playing - made sense to me)
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