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I should start this review by admitting I've never had much interest in reading Coetzee. The only thing I really know about him is that I never know whether to put his books in Australian Literature or not at work. But then this came up on a reading list at uni, so I didn't really have a choice. Well, I had a choice, but I didn't want to sound like an uninformed idiot when I went into the tute.
David Lurie is a twice divorced man of 52, who is rapidly realising his place in the world is being superseded by those younger than him. His job at the university no longer interests him – in fact, the only pleasure he derives from life is sleeping with prostitutes. But when he has an awkward sexual encounter with a student, he is forced to go bush, to go to his estranged daughter's farm. Waiting there, though, is something that will affect their already fractious relationship.
It's funny that this was on a reading list for postcolonial literature, because I never really got that vibe from reading the novel. Sure, it's set in South Africa just after the fall of apartheid, and there are some race politics bubbling under the surface, but I don't buy for a second that that's the focus of the novel, or even the aim of Coetzee here. Here, he seems far more interested in gender politics, and how men and women interact with each other in the most extreme of situations.
Central to the plot, and indeed, the philosophy of the novel, are two sexual assaults – though they are world apart in tone and intent. What I'm about to say shouldn't in any way make you think I'm ok with rape (because I'm really not), but Disgrace asks us to think about some difficult questions, so these are the things I'm trying to answer here.
The first one is uncomfortable, though vague enough for some people to perhaps not qualify it as a rape. Of course, David, our narrator, certainly doesn't think so, and there is enough ambiguity in the way the girl acts, both during the incident and afterwards, to make us question what we might call the event that occurred. David is in no doubt of what happened – he was caught up in the moment, and it was a momentary lapse of judgement. He offers no kind of apology, simply an explanation of what was going through his mind when it happened. As you can probably guess, he doesn't come off as a likeable kind of guy.
The second, though, is not so much uncomfortable so much as very confronting. There's something to be said for typing your main character up in a room where he can hear his daughter be gang raped by three men. Not pretty, but then, I guess that's the point. Stupid me was so shocked by the whole thing it took me a few more pages to realise what Coetzee was doing here – mirroring the sexual assault at the beginning, and forcing David to think about it from a different angle. Lucy's reaction to her assault, and Melanie's reaction to the first, are interesting in that, in some ways, they are the same. Neither of them want to talk about it – Lucy insists that it is not shame, but rather, that her father will never understand her, so she just doesn't want to talk about it.
And this brings us to the central question of the novel: can a man ever understand what it's like to be a woman, particularly one who's been sexually assaulted? It's not a question that I can answer, and Coetzee only provides a very tangential answer – I suspect he leans towards no, but his narrator is so messed up anyway, I can't decided if he's just presenting David as an idiot, or a wider symbol of manhood everywhere. Of course, David is not a symbol of manhood everywhere – he is a symbol of a particular kind of man at a particular stage in his life, where women have abandoned him willy nilly, and he's done nothing to help the situation, by sleeping around like a man whore, and treating the women he sleeps with very little respect.
It is perhaps telling that, for an hour a few weeks ago, when we had a tute about this novel, I had very little to say. I don't know how I feel about Disgrace. Certainly, it's not at all what I thought it was. It is taught, sparse, and above all, unsettling. While David is understandable, he is not likeable. And no other character is, for me, understandable. These people are just doing things that I cannot comprehend. Perhaps, though, that was the point. David is out of touch with the world, and we are just seeing the world through the eyes of a tired, middle-aged man.


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Someone who can't afford license fee of SAS or Matlab, this is the best alternative out there. And in some cases a better alternative.
Not well known but R's accessibility support is far better. Here is an example from a paper accepted in R Journal
Statistical Software from a Blind Person's Perspective
A. Jonathan R. Godfrey
It also feels more appropriate, somehow, to do research code in R: It's supposed to be shareable and reproducible, and using an expensive and proprietary language kind of defeats the purpose. Besides, CRAN and Bioconductor have rather a lot of useful stuff...
Tell that to all the "scientists" and "researchers" paying money for _and_ investing lifetimes worth of effort into writing libraries for Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, LabView and other proprietary environments, instead of contributing to make the existing free environments better.
Matlab --> GNU Octave, Scilab, NumPy/SciPy
Maple, Mathematica --> Maxima, SymPy
Tell that to all the "scientists" and "researchers" paying money for _and_ investing lifetimes worth of effort into writing libraries for Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, LabView and other proprietary environments, instead of contributing to make the existing free environments better.
Times are changing. There are many forces at work here:
1. Cutbacks in funding is making lead scientists look for ways to save money.
2. The proprietary vendors upgrading their software and charging license fees for each version (one particular vendor licenses specific minor versions).
3. The desire to share work and non-proprietary methods are the best way to do it.
4. New postdocs are familiar with python (they like working in iPython in particular) and its libraries.
5. R is gaining ground with the older scientists due to its features and price.
Unfortunately, many scientists probably use commercial tools in hopes that their libraries will be picked up by the company and they will earn some money from it.
Drives me crazy. At least with statisticians, R is by far the dominant package now. But in science, it's Matlab Matlab Matlab.
Python + Numpy/Scipy is such a better alternative now it's not even funny. It's actually a real language, and has loads of packages. And unlike Matlab, you don't have to pay extra money for additional packages (or any money).
The use of closed source software in science is a waste of scarce resources, and it hurts openness. Another thing is that every numerical type class I've had has used Matlab. It's really unfair to expect students to purchase a copy. I use Octave when I have to deal with this, but it is not perfectly compatible.
Students have it good when it comes to matlab -- you can get a student version of matlab + simulink (with 10 or so toolboxes) for $99. The people who are really hurt by matlab's pricing schemes are the hobbyists who don't qualify for a student copy. There's this huge price dichotomy; when you're a student it's $99, after you graduate it's $5000+, and that's without any toolboxes.
However, for academic use it makes perfect sense for scientists to use matlab over the alternatives. At least in the UC (universi
I tried switching to Python + Numpy/Scipy from Matlab. In the end I switched back to Matlab. I'm already familiar with python, and have done a lot of C++ programming so slight langauge differences were not the issue. Here are some of the reasons I switched back to Matlab:
IDE Matlab comes with a ready to use IDE.
Value semantics Matlab treats Matrices (and all classes that are not derived from "handle") using value semantics, so you know that Y=f(X) won't change X, if X is a matrix. However it also u
Tell that to all the "scientists" and "researchers" paying money for _and_ investing lifetimes worth of effort into writing libraries for Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, LabView and other proprietary environments
Depends on who they're doing it for, it seems. It's a time vs. money balance.
In a commercial environment, Matlab tends to win out purely because of the toolboxes - especially current ones where Matlab has real-world interfaces so after modelling, you can prototype your control system with real hardware.
I haven't used labview, but Knime is both opensource and awesome. I can quickly prototype pretty much any workflow I want and get really good reproducibility. Debugging and unit tests need to be more directly integrated, but it is still a great package for practical science. It has R/Java/python integration as well!
LabView is similar - a horrible mess if you want to program with it, but scientists and the like love it because it means not having to mess with code.
I'm not sure "love" is the right word, at least in my experience. Although I've worked on several projects that used LabView, 90+% of the people working on it seemed to bitch and complain about it constantly. Many use it because they have already existing code using it, or because of equipment that has drivers that are much, much easier to use in LabView, or because in a few select cases, it lets you bang out a GUI control really quick. But otherwise, it seems to make the rest of the project a nightmare
I don't know about SAS, but Octave is a much better alternative to Matlab if money is your main issue.
Hell even scilab or python's numpy are more similar.
I have a license for SAS through my university. I gave up trying to convince the stupid thing to install. If the installer wasn't crashing, the license manager was.
MatLab has similar, though less severe problems.
R had a nice double click installer that worked the first time. Later I compiled it, which worked without any headaches. There's a nice bridge from R to Python and you can extend either one, or embed either or both in other applications.
You meant R has better accessibility options for the disabled but it's just plain more accessible.
I am a SAS developer and have never run into any such problems but I won't say I don't believe you. However, the benefit of that large licensing fee is the easy access to SAS help resources (real live people living over there in Cary, NC) who get back to you VERY QUICKLY for ANY level of technical question you have.
Their employees, at least the hundred or so I've met over the years when presenting at SAS Global Forum, have been INCREDIBLY friendly and helpful.
I am a SAS developer and have never run into any such problems but I won't say I don't believe you. However, the benefit of that large licensing fee is the easy access to SAS help resources (real live people living over there in Cary, NC) who get back to you VERY QUICKLY for ANY level of technical question you have.
Their employees, at least the hundred or so I've met over the years when presenting at SAS Global Forum, have been INCREDIBLY friendly and helpful.
If commercial software is your thing, and you can afford it, and the vendor offers good support, 100% agreed.
If you're looking for R help the best two places to start are:
* Get a copy of The R Book, by Crawley -- it'll save you days of pointless/incomplete search for web resources
* Swing by the R IRC channel on Freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/#R) -- we welcome n00bz
I once had a job in the EduBubble where I had to learn SAS. It's a language could only survive in the EduBubble, which is at least 15 years behind in technology and 25 years behind in thinking.
If R isn't a well designed language, at least it is free, open source, and capable.
A couple of years ago I ran into SAS at a trade show. It really surprised me that they were still around; I'd previously seen their products on mainframes back in the late 70s, with punch cards. (I forget by now whether I'd used SAS or SPSS, which were the two competing commercial stats packages in that environment.)
pie(c(85,15),init.angle=25,col=c("yellow",1),labels=c("pacman","not pacman"))
As in: when they release it, you can trust it to work.
Hence they didn't mess around with major reconstruction of R's guts until they could release something that's finished (and well-tested !) and bumped the version number to 3.0.0 when they did in order to properly differentiate it from previous versions.
This is one of the differences between amateur OSS offerings (like for example KDE with its miriad half-baked Kxxx packages, sundry horrible OSS games, etc.) and genuine production-quality OSS (like R, Lapack, Octave, Libre Office, PostgressQL, MySQL, GRASS GIS, QGIS, Maria DB, GNU CC, the Linux kernel etc.)
This is very gratifying as R happens to see widespread use in academia, government and business when it comes to data analysis and statistics.
If R has a weakness, it is that uses an in-memory approach to data-processing, unlike e.g. SPSS, which keeps almost nothing in memory and simply makes passes through datafiles whenever it needs something. R is also a bit memory-hungry, so the need for genuine 64-bit implementations should be clear.
Apart from sporting about 4000 useful and ready-to-run statistical applications packages, R has convenient and efficient integration with C code and has what's probably a contender for the best support for data-graphics anywhere.
For those who didn't know, even packages like SPSS and SAS have incorporated R interfaces to tap into the wealth of application packages that R offers. Can't think of a more significant compliment right now.
LOL! Octave is a finished product? That's news to me. Horrible package when compared against R Project and its satellite projects (e.g. RStudio).
Not trolling, just can't say that Octave is usable with a straight face. Poor UI, bad copy of MatLab, and horrible performance. Friends don't let friends use Octave. They show them the path to R.
Even i have used R in the past for my thesis. My statistician was using S-plus to do magical things that the hospitals SPSS definitely could not do.
However, S-plus was not available to us non-statisticians.
As a complete non-programmer, mediocre statistician, i was able to reproduce en build upon his examples in R.
But what i truly missed was a usable GUI. there were some, and i tried them all at the time, but none were able to do more than the basics. For someone using R daily, a GUI will be more trouble and
There are no new GUIs in the R distribution, but there are several GUIs produced by third parties that probably weren't available when you were doing your thesis. I like RStudio and recommend it to my students, but there are others too.
I think you are confusing GUI with IDE; RStudio and most of the other R "guis" don't make R more discoverable. SPSS and the like are used because they offer guidance on what one should try given what they already know. With an IDE, you still have to know how to program. Throwing together a text editor, an output window, and an execution button doesn't do much.
It's really disheartening that a professor thinks this solves any of the major pedagogical problems that R forces. I really wish you would STOP re
Yes, RStudio is an IDE. An IDE is a GUI for development. If you want a GUI to do statistics without programming, then RStudio is not what you need.
I really don't know what you're talking about in your second paragraph. R doesn't force any pedagogical problems. It's a tool. It doesn't force anything.
The best-known one is called 'R commander' (package name = Rcmdr ). It gives you a point-and-click interface and (like SPSS) drops the R code to repeat what you did using the menu (so that your work is reproducable).
Functionality includes: data summaries, contingency tables, means tests, proportions tests, variance tests, ANOVA, cluster analysis, model fitting (linear, generalised linear, logit), various graphs, tests for comparison between fitted models, plus draws and lookup tables for lots of continuous and discrete distributions. Rcmdr allows for plugins, and a number of them are also downloadable as R packages (e.g. experimental design).
The second one I know about is called 'Deducer' (package name Deducer), which provides a GUI loosely resembling that of SPSS.
Both GUIs are workable and allow you to do simple things simply.
There's also a rather nice IDE, called RStudio (which is a separate download).
R is an example of the best and worst of FOSS.
Every time I switch institutions I can use it. No problem with lack of site license,no grant money for a license or activation problems on a new machine. I can use it on whatever OS the organization owns. I can get it up and running in about 5 minutes and it will work.
Awsome community. If you have a problem there's a good chance there's something in the CRAN that solves it.
But super steep learning curve. Begginner documentation is at best suboptimal ("go bu
If you just use R to run data through a package (which in my opinion is the quickest way to get a lot of value out of R) then the learning curve is tolerable. Less steep than for SAS (I think), but steeper than for SPSS.
On the other hand: R in and by itself is mostly a tool for statisticians and data analysts (or anyone else who doesn't flinch at having to write scripts, who's acquainted with the phenomenon of 'manual', and who's used to spending a few hours or s
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Fiorentina have admitted they would be interested in signing Liverpool striker Fabio Borini at the end of the session, according to Goal.com.
The Serie 'A' club sit sixth in the league, 13 points behind league leaders Juventus. But the club's sporting director Daniele Prade has revealed he's looking to bring in another goalscorer in the summer, with Liverpool's Fabio Borini and Roma's Pablo Osvaldo topping his shortlist.
The Florence-based team signed Giuseppe Rossi in the January transfer window, but speculation is mounting that current top scorer Stevan Jovetic could be set to quit the club at the end of the season.
Prade is thought to be putting together a list of targets should Jovetic leave the club, with the former-teammates Borini and Osvaldo the main priorities.
Borini and Osvaldo played together at Roma before Borini made the switch to Liverpool in the summer of 2012. The former-Chelsea striker played under Reds boss Brendan Rodgers at Stamford Bridge and at Swansea, but he's strugged with injury under the Northern Irishman at Anfield.
The Italy international was recently ruled out for the rest of the season with a dislocated shoulder.
But Fiorentina's sporting director Prade has insisted he's still a target for the Serie 'A' club, although he admitted it would be difficult to tempt either forward to Florence.
Speaking to Radio Toscana, Prade said: "We are looking for a forward with the hunger for goals. A player who lives to score goals.
"We like Fabio Borini, but it is unlikely that Liverpool will want to let him go.
"Osvaldo? I do not think that Roma will want to strengthen a direct rival of theirs, but you can never say never."
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Te Papa fish team is off Kaikoura onboard the MV Star Keys to study deep-sea fish fauna.
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Phelps County Commissioners Thursday awarded a contract to CSE Enterprises Inc. to replace the outdoor concrete steps at the main entrance to the county courthouse.
CSE was the only company to submit a bid for the work. The contractor originally submitted a bid of $12,000 to replace the steps, but after Mark Brookshire, county facilities manager, spoke with a company representative about replacing the handrails, CSE added $914.25 for the handrail work, for a total bid of $12,914.25. That is how much the county will pay CSE.
The county will directly pay for the concrete to be used, which amounts to about $1,587, according to County Clerk Carol Bennett.
CSE stated in its original bid that it would have the work done by June 1, but the revised bid with the handrails stated that the contractor would need a two-week extension.
The company's bid now is higher than the first time CSE bid on the project last year. In early November 2012, the commission sought bids for the project and CSE was the only contractor to submit a bid then, too. At that time, CSE's bid was $9,990.
Brookshire said he wanted to wait until after winter for the concrete work and because the bids sought in the fall had a timeframe that had passed, the county decided to seek bids again.
Also at the Thursday meeting, Bennett said that an application was made to the state for the county to receive $108,506 that, if approved, could be applied toward their soft match of Bridge Replacement Off-System (BRO) funds from a bridge project on County Road 3610 near Boys & Girls Town of Missouri east of St. James.
The commission Thursday also approved an amended contract with Show Me Health Women that increases the amount by $1,500, Bennett said.
Earlier this week, the commission continued discussion of replacing windows at the courthouse. County officials say some of the windows, especially on the south side of the courthouse, have become discolored and there is condensation and leakage issues with the windows.


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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Once again Maryland used its formula for a victory in 2001: early offense and nearly flawless defense as the Terps blanked Loyola, 2-0 on Sunday afternoon at a chilly Ludwig Field.
Maryland senior captain Ali Wolff (Richmond, Va.) recorded two saves for her fifth shutout -- each of the Terps' five wins on the way to a 5-2-1 record through eight games.
Sophomore sensation Jen Biscoe (Baltimore, Md.) got it going early as she took a pass from Kim King (Media, Pa.) and beat Loyola keeper Danielle Ruppel just 2:39 into the game. Biscoe's shot from the right side of the box went into the upper right side of the net.
Maryland dominated the play through the rest of game, but was unable to dent the scoreboard until 3:01 was left in regulation as Courtney Beirne (Westminster, Md.) took a pass from freshman Melissa Anderson (Annapolis, Md.) for the Terps' second goal. Beirne's shot was lofted into the left side of the net past Loyola's second-half keeper Erica Neimann. The assist was the first collegiate point for Anderson and first goal of the season for Beirne.
The Terps outshot the Greyhounds 16-4 and by an 8-2 margin in each half.
Loyola falls to 2-4-0.
The Terps return to action as No. 1 North Carolina comes to Ludwig Field for a 7 p.m. showdown on Friday, Oct. 5. It's Alumni Day as the Terps will honor its WUSA players Keri Sarver, Emily Janss and Michelle Demko.
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Loyola 0-0=0
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Loyola - none. Maryland - Jen Biscoe (Kim King) 2:39, Courtney Beirne (Melissa Anderson) 86:59.
Loyola - Danielle Ruppel (45 minutes, 1 GA, 2 saves), Erica Neimann (45 minutes, 1 GA, 2 saves). Maryland - Ali Wolff (90 minutes, 0 GA, 2 saves).
Team Stats:
Loyola - Shots: 2-2=4, Corner Kicks 2-0=2, Saves 2-2=4, Fouls 6-3=9, Offsides 1-0=1. Maryland - Shots: 8-8=16, Corner Kicks 1-3=4, Saves 1-1=2, Fouls 2-6=8, Offsides 1-1=2.
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"[M]any health systems are not ready to cope with th[e] relatively new phenomenon" of people living with HIV (PLHIV) growing older, PlusNews reports. "Data on aging with HIV is largely restricted to the developed world and very little is known about older Africans living with virus, despite the high caseload in this region," the news service writes, adding, "A July 2012 supplement of the medical journal, AIDS, notes that an estimated three million people in sub-Saharan Africa aged 50 and older are HIV-positive -- 14 percent of all infected adults (7/26). In the U.S., people aged 50 and older accounted for 17 percent of new HIV diagnoses in 2009, according to the CDC, the Associated Press adds. The news service notes about one-third of the nearly 1.2 million PLHIV in the U.S. are older than 50, and that proportion will rise to one half by 2020, according to Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), who spoke at one of several sessions on aging at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) (Neergaard, 7/26).
"Nils Daulaire, the director of the Office of Global Health Affairs in the United States Department of Health and Human Services, said not only do older people still have sex, but it is mostly not safe sex and is frequently with multiple partners," PlusNews reports, adding, "As a result of being left out of HIV awareness campaigns, older people often did not know enough about HIV and preventing it" (7/26). "The new focus is on what these pioneering survivors can expect as they reach their 50s, 60s and beyond," the AP writes, adding, "They're now getting chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and osteoporosis -- some of the common ailments when anyone gets old. But studies suggest people with HIV may be at higher risk for some of those illnesses, or get them earlier than usual" (7/26).
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Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz is the author of some 100 feature-length films, along with numerous plays and multi-media installations. In Poetics of Cinema, Ruiz takes a fresh approach to the major themes haunting our audio-visual civilization: the filmic unconscious, questions of utopia, the inter-contamination of images, the art of the copy, the relations between artistic practices and institutions. Based on a series of lectures given recently at Duke University in North Carolina, Poetics of Cinemadevelops an acerbically witty critique of the reigning codes of cinematographic narration, principally derived from the dramatic theories set forth by Aristotle's Poeticsand characterized by Ruiz as the "central-conflict theory." Ruiz's impressive knowledge of theology, philosophy, literature and the visual arts never outstrips his powerful imagination. Poetics of Cinemanot only offers a singularly pertinent analysis of the seventh art, but also shows us an entirely new way of writing and thinking about images.
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What is more tangibly emerging is a focus on capacity building through professional development, with a World Conservation Institute. This CEC initiative aims to offer a world conservation curriculum for professional development covering the areas of the IUCN programme. CEC member Professor Michael Moss negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding between IUCN and Royal Rhodes University, Canada, in 2009 to create the World Conservation Institute. The Institute will offer professionally-oriented programmes and courses at three levels: Certificate, Diploma and Master. Royal Rhodes will confer the awards and offer a core of courses. Optional courses will be chosen from a network of universities in different regions of the world with which CEC has established relationships for this purpose
ESD - Education for Sustainable Development
• CEC member Konai Helu Thaman attended the Bonn UNESCO World Conference on ESD as a workshop Cluster Reporter and a member of the drafting committee. She gave a side event on culture and ESD focusing on traditional Pacific navigation. Konai later presented a seminar at the University of the South Pacific. Her topic was "Bonn and Beyond: Re-orienting teaching and learning towards Sustainable Development".
• Also in 2009, Konai was a keynote speaker in Tokyo at the Asia Pacific Forum on ESD, reviewing progress in the first half of the UNDESD. And at her university in Fiji, she spoke as a panelist in a workshop on youth and ESD.
• CEC member Katalin Czippán reported on the first meeting of the UNECE Expert Group on Competences in Education for Sustainable Development, attended by five CEC members.
• CEC member Dieter Gross coordinated a survey about the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD), with responses from 21 experts in a Japan plus an additional 108 international experts.
• CEC member Edgar González Gaudiano published a book on education, environment and sustainability, "Educación, medio ambiente y sustentabilidad" and presented it at the education research congress in Mexico.
• CEC member Maurilio Cipparone announced the launch of the EU's Central Europe Programme for environmental sustainability in the region.
Training and courses
• CEC member Peter Adler offered a new course that addresses cross sector collaboration by exploring how to bring together Industry, Government and Community Leaders to work together on a politically difficult problem.
• CEC member Mohit Mukherjee conducted at seminar at UPEACE on "Educating for the 21st Century" in July in Costa Rica.
• CEC member Peter Townsend offered the course "English Language for Environmentalists: Communication and Language Skills" at Losehill Training, UK.
• CEC member Diana Pound offered a variety of training courses through her organization Dialogue Matters, such as "Good Practice Stakeholder Participation with a focus on the environment."
• CEC member Arturo Curiel Ballesteros was engaged in planning an environmental information centre in Spain.
• CEC member Gillian Martin Mehers conducted a training workshop on Systems Thinking for Transformational Change to LEAD's European Cohort in London.
• CEC members shared resources throughout the year such as an online course on climate change and REDD and a four-part web seminar about systems thinking, offered by the Sustainability Institute and isee systems inc.
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Student or Learner
She has long, straight, black hair. Is the order of adjectives correct here.
How about commas? Do you need them in this sentence?
NOT a teacher
Actually, English grammar does not specify the ordering of adjactives among themselves. So there following versions are also correct:
She has black, straight, long hair.
She has straight, black, long hair.
She has straight, long, black hair.
She has black, long, straight hair.
or any other permutation.
In fact, it is sometimes correct to put the adjactive after the noun, just like adjactives in French and Spanish. Technically speaking, there are no rules on the relative positions of adjactives and the nouns they are describing.
Actually, English grammar does not specify the ordering of adjactives among themselves.
Your reference for this please?
order of adjectives before nouns english grammar learnenglish
There are guidelines on ordering of adjactives, but no agreed-upon rules.
Practically the first sentence I read on your given reference site is,
and I cut and paste:
He does, however, go on to list some of the most important rules:
You change the order, and you change the sense:
She has black, straight, long hair.
This reply is what a reader would expect, if I had just described a female thief as having short, straight, black hair, and the policeman tells me that another witness described the thief as you had written, the policeman emphasizing the most dissimilar aspect by placing it last - "She has black, straight, long hair."


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|View Poll Results: Kanon - 2006 - Episode 19 Rating
|Perfect 10
|9 out of 10 : Excellent
|8 out of 10 : Very Good
|7 out of 10 : Good
|6 out of 10 : Average
|5 out of 10 : Below Average
|4 out of 10 : Poor
|3 out of 10 : Bad
|2 out of 10 : Very Bad
|1 out of 10 : Painful
|Voters: 148. You may not vote on this poll
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|2007-02-09, 11:10
|Link #41
I don't give a damn, dude
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In Despair
Age: 32
Okay, so unlike the previous times when I waited for the high-quality subs to appear before getting my fix, I decided to go straight for the first one that came out this time (we all know which one, but since the fansubbers asked me not to do it a long time ago, I shall not name names. ). You know, there is a really noticable difference between the .avi and the .mkv versions.....which means that even though I've got my fix, I'm getting the .mkv version too when it comes out.
Alright, so on to Episode 19. Just like Episode 11, which I considered an episode that suffered "backlash" from the very well-done Episode 10 of Makoto's finale, Episode 19 similarly suffered the same "backlash"; specifically lower-than-usual-for-KyoAni animation quality (no doubt the result of KyoAni throwing money like it was nothing at the previous two episodes), and a jarring change in mood. However, Episode 19 seemed to suffer even more severely from "backlash" than Episode 11 did; apart from animation quality, this is the first time I felt that KyoAni didn't do quite enough to soften the impact of the "backlash". Hence, I am going to compare Episode 19 to Episode 11, since they're essentially similar in their roles in the entire series thus far.
For one thing, it felt like Yuuichi bounced back a little too quickly from Shiori; in Episode 11, there were still some minutes dedicated to the memory of Makoto before life went on as usual, while Episode 19 jumped straight into the "7 years ago..." flashback, followed by the OP and only then did they show Yuuichi back at home, thinking about Shiori....and even then only for a few seconds before Ayu butted in. My view is that a better way of handling it might have been; show Yuuichi arriving home looking depressed in his own quiet way, then OP, then flashback linked into Yuuichi waking up and going to the balcony. Otherwise, the way KyoAni did it merely made it look like they were rushed for time or something; I didn't quite get the feeling of Shiori holding down a place in Yuuichi's mind like Makoto did.
Secondly, while I'm comparing Episode 19 to Episode 11, it's not a perfect comparison; Ep 11 was clearly a much-needed breather from the emotional weight of Makoto's conclusion, while Ep 19 jumped right into the Ayu path without the chance for a breather. It felt kind of rushed somehow, and again gave me the impression that KyoAni's storyboarders are starting to feel the pinch of time.
Next, let's go to the timeframe 17:42-17:50 onwards. In this timeframe, you see Nayuki telling Yuuichi that school's over......but when the scene changes to in front of the train station, how come Yuuichi's alone? Where the heck did Nayuki go? Not like I'm expecting her to tag along like the little puppy she was so unfortunately portrayed as in Toei and the manga.....but at least say something about where she is, KyoAni!!! Heck, if you tell me she has some things to settle with the track team despite the tournament being over, I'd accept it. But entirely no explanation at all?
And finally, the conversation between Ayu and Yuuichi shifted into the "Do you have a memory of losing someone" portion rather too quickly. That is the kind of topic you don't just drop into a casual conversation; not that there wasn't any build-up per se, I just thought it could have done with more. For me, that sudden shift in mood was just as much out of left field for me, as
In conclusion, Episode 19 felt like KyoAni trying to cram material more suited for two episodes into one, and it felt squashed, tasting like canned tuna. Therefore, my lowest score yet for Kanon 2k6; a 7. The overall quality animation, which is still a lot better than many other animes despite the compromise by KyoAni's standards, is what saved it from going lower, and therefore breaking the baseline score I've set so far for this series. And really, you can't go wrong with a panning shot of that last scene.
On the lighter side of things, if I liked Nayuki back then, I most definitely love her now. This is a more mature, more stoic, and therefore more believable Nayuki than the overly-kind, overly self-sacrificing of Toei's Nayuki, or the entirely uncharactistic genki-ness of manga Nayuki. While manga Nayuki was pretty much written out of the picture altogether and thus has nothing on either anime versions of herself, Toei's Nayuki was merely the generic jealous-depressed neglected party.....the precursor to psycho-Kaede, if you will. Which doesn't speak very well for her as a character. However, KyoAni Nayuki's ability to take things in her stride not only makes her more likeable as a whole,
Spoiler for I'm serious, first-time viewers. Do NOT open this if you don't want to be spoiled badly:
06:10-06:18, proof that Nayuki-sama is indeed a household name in her own right, and doesn't have to play second fiddle to anyone.
08:55, Garten of Memento secret-tagged this scene in his blog as "unfair advantage".
Best. Laugh. Ever.
17:36-17:41, the dreaded depressed-Jun-talking-about-Shiori scene in Episode 18's preview turned out to be nothing more than a bored Jun saying something opposite to expectations! I am SOOOO going to kill someone at KyoAni for toying with my fears.
EDIT: As of the time of my voting, I actually cast the lowest vote thus far of everyone! Wow. How often does Ascaloth prop up the bottom of this particular series, huh?
|2007-02-09, 11:43
|Link #42
Dead Sexy
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: NSW, Australia
I shelled out a perfect 10 both because a) this episode was truly surprising, in the good way - the ending left me hanging for even more, and b) we're finally into the story arc I've been anticipating for months. The other girls are all very beautiful characters in their own right, but for me, nobody tops Ayu.
That said, a new avatar is in order.
|2007-02-09, 12:39
|Link #43
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Seattle
Age: 35
Great episode nonetheless. Yuuichi had a thing for Ayu from seven years ago, even Nayuki acknowledged it. I think he finally realized it, and thats probably what led to what happened at the end of the episode.
|2007-02-09, 13:05
|Link #44
~ You're dead ^__^* ~
Graphic Designer
nani nani nani!? ~ i dont believe the last 30 secs of this...the whole event just truly crapped on top of my head
well material wise i thought about giving this ep an 8 but the last scenes pushed it up to a 9 *cough*
well now nayuki ~ she knows more that what shes letting on imo ~ in the convo between her and yuuichi in the cafe strongly hints that nayuki is in love with yuuichi even to this day ~ but mr blockhead cant figure that out even with the strong hints the irony of yuuichi saying that nayuki's chosen man must lead a stressful personality gave me a bit of a giggle ~
and moving onto more of the meat stuff ~ ayu ayu's arc is finally here ~ the flashbacks to the past was interesting ~ such a close relationship between the two ~ and the headband was given by yuuichi O.o man i hate it when im wrong
the emotional trigger that ayu gives yuuichi was kinda random ~ why bring up sad memories? that then made yuuichi think about loosing important peoples...but multiply that by 3 ~ amazing how he hasnt broken down yet ~ and in his moment of weakness ayu manages to steal...his kiss~ oh my god O.o
funny stuff:
jun going "WAHT!!!" to ayu's real age
nayuki "falling in"
|2007-02-09, 13:28
|Link #45
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
KyoAni toying with us again in the preview, showing clips of Ayu undergoing Makoto's ill-fate. Lucky, we can't trust the preview anymore, since KyoAni has misled us viewer too many times.
The message in the preview is kinda interesting to say the least, too.
Ayu: Okay, we'll part-ways here.
Ayu: Don't forget about our after-school promise.
I'm assuming Yuuichi probably asked Ayu (or Ayu asked) to hangout together afterschool.
Ayu: I'm okay with it... holding hands.
Scene of Ayu freezing / acting cold
Scene of Ayu outside of Yuuichi's room on the veranda, freezing and covered with snow.
Then the msg from Ayu, "That was... you see... um..."
Akiko's comment is the most disturbing one to me, tho.
|2007-02-09, 13:44
|Link #47
~ You're dead ^__^* ~
Graphic Designer
and about the preview ~ love love relationship between yuuichi and ayu? O.o and akiko seems to have something to say about that
|2007-02-09, 13:50
|Link #48
Gone for Good
Join Date: Apr 2004
It's good to see the anime expand on Nayuki's talent as a track runner by having her shine in the marathon. That scene was probably Key's way of making up for not having that aspect of Nayuki's character developed well in the original novel.
At the speed she's running, Nayuki's probably faster than Mai, though the same can't be said of her demon slaying abilities.
Gotta love how they made Nayuki obtain Raging Heart from Takedaya, the store from AIR. It seems that besides from opening a branch in the Kanon town, Takedaya has now diversed their business portfolio to selling magical weapons. Maybe they got a license from the Time-Space Administration Bureau? lol
Looks like Shiori gets to live for another few episodes, at least, giving her an opportunity to go with more style than last episode's sudden disappearance, which seemed anti-climatic.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out Nayuki likes Yuuichi, and seems resigned to losing to Ayu already.
While I expect Ayu and Yuuichi to bond eventually, that kiss came surprisingly quick. It was earlier than I would have expect, with still 6-8 episodes remaining.
Expect our friend, the regular Kanon 2006 basher, to give this episode a score of 5 or below again, as usual.
|2007-02-09, 14:03
|Link #49
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
The animation may not be up to Kyo-Ani standards, but it's still good enough for most viewers, including me.
This episode is carried forward by its story, there is no fancy animation this time round to wow us. I was impressed with the mood in this particular episode, Kitagawa spoke for me when he said he felt melancholic. It's like...there's really nothing much to be depressed or sad about in this episode, and yet KyoAni somehow managed it. It could be the music or the flashbacks. I don't really know.
Ayu climbing the tree gave me a bloody heart attack.
Nayuki's Raising Heart was amusing, and I was quite surprised to find that she was that well-built. Now we know what she was hiding under all those jackets and school uniforms that she usually wears.
I feel for U1. That poor guy is finally cracking after all the events he experienced in the past few weeks. At least he lasted this long, I am pretty sure any of us in his shoes would have been destroyed after seeing what happened to Makoto, much less Mai and Shiori.
I absolutely love the
All in all, a very nice episode, and I gave it a 10.
|2007-02-09, 14:05
|Link #50
Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
Really enjoyed the bracing comments from Ascaloth. I gave this ep a 10 -- and I wouldn't change that if I could -- but he/she makes some good points. However, I think the way they wove the story worked beautifully. Suppressing the sorrow made it more effective, in a way. It took the whole ep for it to work its way to the surface, and that was art. But I, too, wondered where Nayuki went after school. The feeling that Nayuki might show up was lurking there in the background for us through the scene between Yuuichi and Ayu, which gave it a twist.
As for what some others considered a surprising event between Ayu and Yuuichi near the end, it was not surprising if you consider: Nayuki already said Yuuichi loves Ayu; Yuuichi and Ayu met secretly at night in their pyjamas (or at least hers) twice in this episode; they are able to talk to each other about their intimate feelings; they spend many after-school times "searching for something" together; they are "really" the same age and were close friends seven years earlier, sharing a promise always to meet. Moreover, in the midst of tears is a very natural moment for such an event to occur.
As for the points made by Zoahr: that was a teardrop, and there was no hint of Nayuki in the reflection. However, the fact that we didn't know where she had gone did perhaps give us a little uneasy feeling that she might be around somewhere and see them. The round shape might make one think of a round crystal, or even a pearl, but if you watch them, drops of water may start elongated, but end up round before they hit the ground.
And in answer to velocity7's question about syoboi calendar, it only has the titles up to ep21, but it shows that there are broadcasts up to ep26, beside which it puts the symbol "end," which it does when it knows that that is the final episode.
|2007-02-09, 14:41
|Link #51
Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 31
One word about this ep: Rushed.
It felt like it all moved too fast. We get a scene of this happening - jump to another scene for a short moment - jump to next one etc. I Didn't like the pacing of this ep. Animation went down (Tho i was expecting this after Shiori's arc, where they were animating like there is no tomorrow).
Dropping Shiori's issue so easily is a minus for me - it is like the writers were short on time, and decided not to include her aftermath on Yuuichi, and just move on with the next stuff.
The Yuuichi/Nayuki talk was nice. Was it me, or does it seem like Nayuki's dropping out of the race ? Either way - any one care to explain how on earth Yuuichi manages to catch on other peoples problems so quickly, yet is completely oblivious to the one person who is right under his nose ? (Raising Heart ... stand by, ready, set up ... prepare for Starlight Breaker)
Nayuki telling Yuuichi that school is over -> jump to scene with Yuuichi at the station or whatever that building is... what hole did Nayuki fall in to ?... or is it her duty to inform Yuuichi when school ends, because he is incapable of processing that information himself for some reason ?
Any one who explains to me how in the world Ayu got up that tree gets a cookie.
That kiss scene ... awkward? It seemed at that moment it was rather two people comforting each other than something romantic, but lets see what spawns from it. Either way - came too quickly, and little more from the direction of the left field than i would like. (I was sooo expecting for Nayuki to stand somewhere nearby, with her schoolbag slipping out of her hands as she is watching the scene )
that conversation came across as a bit "artificial"... seemed to me they simply needed to produce some sort of a climax, so something got pulled out of the bag.
"Yuuichi, have you lost any one important to you?" ..... No friggin "doh" - little Ayu, weren't you the first to notice how depressed Yuuichi was recently? And now you learned the reason - Shiori ... and you learned about Shiori's condition .... and now you ask him has he lost some one important, when some one important is dying in front of him ? Since when 2+2 became 22 ?
... overall - a little disappointing ep. Too bad, because this was an ep i was really looking towards to. Oh well - can't expect perfection every single time >.< ... lets see what the next week brings. *drumroll* 7/10 - the lowest i have given to a Kanon ep.
|2007-02-09, 14:57
|Link #52
of Porsche
Well, episode 19 covered a few things about Nayuki and the result of Shiori (albeit hints and pieces), not to mention Ayu who had several minutes more screentime than the former two. I was a little surprised that Yuuichi was taking Shiori's crisis so well to begin with - no depression, no breakdown of any kind. But if you think that withdrawing into deep thought counts, then I suppose you could forget what I just said and say he took the loss pretty seriously. Yuuichi even said in episode 10 that he's good at not having things affect him. That's true to some extent, but the stuff we've seen prove otherwise that he is changing little by little with every girl he runs into.
I really thought that I would have a lot to say about this episode but I don't. I guess it's because there were a lot of flashbacks and you can't really say complain about what people do in the past. Memory is info, and what's happened can't be changed. It's a straight-forward display of what transpired with very little basis for complaints.
My biggest gripe is pacing this episode; several scenes were either rushed or didn't effectively convey that desired mood for me. These would include Nayuki's marathon and the scene at the end of the episode. I didn't feel like it would take a miracle for Nayuki to win, nor did I feel Yuuichi did anything to motivate her into taking the lead from last place. She was already performing great feats passing other runners from nowhere. If it was left to me, I probably would have Yuuichi on the bike the entire length of Nayuki's leg, motivating her all the way through. Not only would this construct a better dramatic moment, but it would enhance their relationship as well as intensify the time they spent together alone after the ceremony.
Well, after several people brought it up in the episode 18 discussion thread, I figured they were right. So I wasn't surprised when I saw in this episode that Kaori was absent. All we have is word that Shiori is getting better, but it's merely hearsay. But if we do take the facts at face value as we have, then Shiori probably won't die. Recall that Shiori said she didn't feel like dying anymore back at that fountain. That's probably the miracle Yuuichi performed: the change in Shiori's attitude to her illness. Most people may not know this, but attitude is important to the healing process of any injury. When Shiori admitted to not liking death, her chances perhaps improved. But what do we know? heh
Yuuichi and Ayu spent a whole afternoon together and they talked about their most treasured people slipping away from them. I wish Yuuichi had said more, but my gut was telling me they didn't have time for that; they had to cut a few lines. This would have been a very good time to say how Yuuichi felt about Shiori after she walked out on him. "Well, I realized she may be trying to save me from too much pain, but there was such a finality to that act." Something like that. In short, I didn't think Yuuichi delivered an equal level of emotion to what Ayu expressed about losing her mother. So something was off beat to me, and when I saw the kiss, it felt forced and obtrusive. I didn't feel like a kiss was that warrented. But thinking about it, I can see several factors where it would be appropriate; but viewers don't want to spend too much time thinking. In visual media, you show, then tell.
Curious moment: the tree. I was watching episode 1 again because I recently redownloaded another copy. That tree is particularly special. But seven years later, is that clearing with the tree in the middle gone? I swear I've seen that setting somewhere during the Makoto arc. And yes, I felt exactly like some other member here. Feels like she was gonna fall off at more than one point in time. I anticipated that, but it didn't happen. She's still good and alive!
More and more, I'm getting the distinct feeling that the missing item is the doll Yuuichi gave her seven years ago. We haven't seen it in the present yet, and it is the only important item so far that remains off screen. I wonder if it's back at that tree. If it is, they're completely searching the wrong side of the city. But you have to wonder: they're searching city areas for a reason. I wonder if there's something about Ayu and Yuuichi and the city that we do not yet know about? It's possible. Yuuichi said he would grant her three wishes; so far we've only heard one. What the last two are, time will tell.
Nayuki...well, if the person she was describing (her grade school crush) is who I think it is, it would certainly explain the "Yep. You certainly are fushigi as Nayuki described" that even Kaori described in episode 2. I guess the average American would complain that this is inappropriate, but from what I heard about Japan, they're a little more tolerant of this kind of romantic pairing. Besides, it's nothing I haven't seen before. = P
So go go, Nayuki. Faito, dayo! Wow, I successfully refrained from saying "Yuuichi" in the above paragraph.
Lastly, it's not entirely conclusive that the series will end with Nayuki as the victor (for lack of a better term). For all we know, next episode will focus on Ayu, then the next two or three will turn to Nayuki, then finish off with Ayu. Who knows? As I said, time will tell.
Animation was average, blah blah blah...yay. See you next week.
|2007-02-09, 16:42
|Link #53
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: event horizon
I'm seing a lot of people cheering for the Episode. Sure, Yay! for Ayu episode, but on the other hand this means it's Ayu's turn to go thru' the torture session, there definitly ain't anything Good there, so I rate it with the most appropriate rating for this episode: Painful Boo~ to all you hartless people who think this is something good it's bad I tell you, they're going to torture poor Ayu.
Am I the only Ayu fan here who wants to see her alive and happy at the end of the series?!
I'm guessing Ayu's lost item is the angel thingy. ~haha I'm so slow.
Hmm. Now is it me or did she just have one wish, meaning there are 2 more wishes. Or maybe that's the part we don't see.
Hmm.. I wonder if Ayu's little wings have some meaning. Mhn. nhaa couldn't be ~_~
Is anyone else getting the feeling that Yuiichi is something unnatural. A ghost or something~ mmm.
Something just doesn't smell right about his memory and all...
|2007-02-09, 16:45
|Link #54
Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 31
The scene that had Yuuichi remember the past events really was a work of genius - and its about time he was given such a powerful scene that ables you to understand more of his feelings - its easily given in the game, very lucky to get it in the series.
|2007-02-09, 17:19
|Link #55
I don't give a damn, dude
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In Despair
Age: 32
|2007-02-09, 17:35
|Link #56
Born to make history
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Shibuya Psychic Research
Oy Im torn!!! Im debating giving this epi a 10 since the kiss was awesome but as mentioned by other members I felt this epi to be a bit rushed. I also felt Yuuichi (even though his is clearly depressed) he did bounce back too quickly, him almost crying at the end tho slightly made up for it. Hmmmmmm maybe Ill give it a 9
|2007-02-09, 17:35
|Link #57
Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
|2007-02-09, 17:51
|Link #58
Kairin fan club member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Alexandria, VA
Age: 51
Did you notice...
Look, dont' read the spoilers if you haven't seen EP19. It will give too much away.
Of course it will be even harder to wait for he next ep. Each EP from here on out is going to be a power house EP.
|2007-02-09, 17:56
|Link #59
Kairin fan club member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Alexandria, VA
Age: 51
But I really liked Yuuichi's reaction. That will explain a lot.
Everything just clicked in this EP!
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McDermott, a consensus All-American this past season, made the announcement Thursday. He said he considered early entry to the NBA Draft, but wanted to play one more year in college.
"I went back and forth on this a lot," said McDermott. "The NBA can wait. I feel like I'm not 100 percent ready, emotionally and physically. I might as well stay another year, improve my game, improve my body and have the (best) year of my life."
The 6-foot-8 Iowa native was a finalist for numerous awards, including the Wooden, Naismith and Robertson honors. He was the second-leading scorer in the nation, averaging 23.2 points, and also contributed 7.7 rebounds in 36 games.
Only Virginia Tech's Erick Green had a better scoring average at 25.0 points per game.
McDermott said playing another season for his father, Greg, and the lure of playing in the Big East also played a part in his decision. Creighton is leaving the Missouri Valley Conference for the new Big East next year.
"Not a lot of people can say they played in two different conferences," said McDermott. "People will probably doubt us a little, but we have enough guys returning and some guys coming in that can help us."
McDermott is already Creighton's all-time leading scorer and is eighth in Missouri Valley annals. He is the only MVC men's player to earn top freshman honors, newcomer of the year, player of the year and tournament MVP.
In 110 career games, McDermott has averaged 20.1 points with 7.7 rebounds.
The Bluejays were 28-8 this past season, falling to Duke in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. McDermott struggled somewhat against the Blue Devils, making just 4-of-16 shots. He still scored 21 points thanks to a perfect 12- for-12 from the stripe in the 66-50 loss.


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JUNEAU — Sen. Mark Begich is co-sponsoring legislation aimed at improving mental health care in this country.
The proposal is an expansion on a measure that Begich proposed last year to improve mental health services on college campuses but that died with the last Congress. The new plan has drawn bipartisan support, which Begich said should help the measure gain traction.
The measure, entitled the Mental Health First Aid Act of 2013, has eight other original co-sponsors, including three Republicans — Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Roy Blunt of Missouri and Marco Rubio of Florida.
"Around this place, it's not often you can get bipartisan support very quickly," Begich said Thursday, adding he expects others to sign on.
A companion bill has been introduced in the House by Democratic Rep. Ron Barber of Arizona, who was among those wounded in the shooting of then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in 2011.
The bill, among other things, would provide training for educators and others to learn the warning signs and risk factors for mental health issues, as well as teach techniques to de-escalate crises. It also would lay out steps for referrals to mental health services available in communities, according to Begich's office.
Begich has called for a focus on improving mental health — rather than a focus on new gun control measures — after last month's deadly school shooting in Connecticut.
"I think a lot of people clearly understand, it doesn't matter if it's here in Congress or across the country, that mental health services in our country are lacking significantly," Begich said. "And at least one of the common denominators among these very violent mass killings that have occurred is individuals experiencing some sort of mental illness."


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RENO, NV - The deadline to register to vote in Nevada is fast approaching. Currently the number of registered voters in Washoe County could come close or even exceed the total number of registered voters in 2008. But unlike four years ago, there are even more ways to register to vote for president.
The voter registration forms are coming in from all methods possible at the Washoe County Registrar of Voters.
Temps have been hired to input information from those who have registered by mail.
If the person is efficient, he or she can place about 200 people in the system in 8 hours.
Lists of on-line voter registrations come in daily to the office.
After an examination, one click and they are now all registered to vote here in Washoe County.
Registrar of Voters Dan Burk says this is the future.
"Pretty soon all the aspects of registration will be done on line. And that's really a wonderful thing. If you need to change an address or you got married and you need to change your name, or if you moved those are things that happen to voters all the time," says Burk.
The deadline to register is in two weeks and one day.
Burk says so far the county has 225,000 voters, there were 231,000 registered in 2008.
You can register with the Secretary of State's office website, but you will need a Nevada Driver's License or state ID card.
Or you can register by mail, or through the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Sample ballots will be going out October 15th through the 17th.
Burk says if you don't have one by the 18th you should call immediately.
In general he says it happens because they don't have your right address.
You can easily check and change your status before the deadline by going to the registrar's website.
Billboards have been popping up all over Northern Nevada warning voters about the pending deadline to register to vote.
But you can still register beyond that deadline if you go to the voters' office and register in person.
Federal law says Nevada men and women serving our country in other part of the world must receive their ballots 45 days before the election.
Burk says those 700-800 ballots will be going out this Friday.
How to request and absentee ballot, extended office hours to register in person, early voting, and where you go to vote on election day—can all be found by going to kolotv.com and clicking on Hot Topics.


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- Tim Stanley: Conservatives mostly let Ted Nugent's outrageous remarks slide
- It's shocking they seem afraid to dissociate themselves from Nugent, he says
- He asks: What happened to the intellectual tradition of conservatism?
- Stanley: The pursuit of the party base leads to a surrender of rationality
When did conservatives become prisoners to idiotic vulgarity? I ask that question as someone who self-defines as conservative and who is sick and tired of being embarrassed by Ted Nugent.
Last month the aged rocker called President Barack Obama a "subhuman mongrel" in an interview with Guns.com. That was bad enough, but what was just as shocking was the willingness of Texas GOP gubernatorial nominee Greg Abbott to keep him aboard his campaign.
Rick Perry and Ted Cruz also failed to rule out appearing with him. Only Rand Paul took to Twitter to demand an apology, which Nugent eventually gave. He downgraded Obama to a "liar," which is, at least, a more colorblind insult.
There is a view that Nugent simply "speaks his mind," and, yes, he has every constitutionally guaranteed right to do so. Maybe what he says appeals to some people, those for whom good manners are a bourgeois affectation and correct spelling the preserve of Harvard pointy-heads.
Either way, what is disturbing is that some serious Republican politicians think that he matters and are happy to count him among their endorsements -- as though selling records and getting angry make him a spokesman for the masses. Animal from the Muppets also speaks his mind, but we've yet to see him headlining a rally for Chris Christie.
This isn't what conservatism is supposed to be about. Conservatism is the rejection of ideology in favor of common sense and anger in favor of cool rationalism.
Of course, there have always been intemperate voices on the American right -- from Joe McCarthy to the John Birch Society. (I'm not including Southern Democratic racists such as George C. Wallace because their place on the political compass is impossible to plot.) But the American right has an intellectual tradition that has all been forgotten by the media in recent years.
There were the Progressive Republicans (Irving Babbitt), the anti-communists (Whittaker Chambers), the libertarians (Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman), the traditionalists (Russell Kirk), the neo-conservatives (Leo Strauss), and the sages of the National Review (James Burnham, L. Brent Bozell, Willmoore Kendall) -- the latter embodied by the urbane, cosmopolitan wit of William F. Buckley.
Most of these groups quietly linger around today, largely ignored in the noisy mess of 21st-century politics but still patiently taught at some colleges and think tanks. In modern-day Washington, you'll find all the Catholic Republican interns spending Sunday at St. Stephens on Pennsylvania Avenue and weekday nights at lectures by bishops on the nature of good and evil. Not at the assault weapon firing range.
Sometime in the 1970s, the intellectual right made common cause with populism, and historians such as Rick Perlstein tell us that this is when they surrendered their brains to cultural conservatism. But Ronald Reagan was neither inarticulate nor rude. He was happy, sunny, funny, and his speeches so dense with philosophy and history that they make Obama sound like a high school student.
Crucially, he had a faith in the intelligence of the average American, which meant he didn't resort to meanness or bad syntax to win their vote. Reagan would never call an opponent "subhuman."
So how do we explain the rudeness of contemporary politics? Nugent's followers might insist that his language reflects the desperate seriousness of his cause, that any conversation about fundamental issues such as guns or Obamacare is bound to cause a loss of temper. But in the 1960s the Republicans were debating urban riots, sex, drugs and Vietnam -- and yet the GOP sold itself as a party that could resolve these challenges with calm sensibleness. Nixon ran as an antidote to the chaos caused by the left, offering order over anarchy.
What has changed is that back then conservative politicians had faith in themselves and their own philosophy, that it would win out because it was right and middle-class Americans could see that.
Today's breed are all too often chasing a "base" that, they imagine, includes yahoos, survivalists and people who think the world is both flat and about to come to an end. This pursuit of the base ends with basically intelligent men deferring to those who are rightly socially unacceptable.
Cue John McCain in 2008 being told by supporters that Obama is an Arab, or Mitt Romney nearly paralyzed with socially awkwardness as he courted the Joe Six-Packs in 2012. And it ends in politicians failing to call Nugent out for being a Neanderthal.
As the midterms approach, conservative presidential aspirants face this challenge: Can they elevate rather than reduce the political debate? Rand Paul has made a good start, and it's probably because he is driven by philosophy and all the self-assurance that brings. For the rest, I'd like to see them defy a few stereotypes. Rather than being photographed shooting bears or doing pushups with Chuck Norris, let journalists catch them reading a book. Russell Kirk is a good place to start.


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A former volunteer swim coach at Ashland High School was arrested Tuesday on multiple counts of felony rape and sexual assault stemming from his alleged conduct with a 14-year-old girl on the team.
Camren M. Mitzel, 24, of Ashland, was being held in the Jackson County Jail on four counts of third-degree rape and four counts of second-degree sexual assault. His bail was set at $50,000, after Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Lorenzo Mejia raised the amount from $40,000 during Mitzel's arraignment Wednesday.
Mejia warned Mitzel, who appeared via a video feed from jail, that he is to have no contact with the victim should he be released on bail.
"And I mean no contact of any kind. Don't be in the neighborhood — nothing," Mejia told a somber Mitzel, who requested the assistance of an attorney.
Mitzel is the son of AHS swim team's head coach, Steve Mitzel, who did not return phone messages left Wednesday.
Ashland School District Athletic Director Karl Kemper also did not respond to messages left Wednesday.
The Ashland School District issued a news release stating it "cannot comment on the details of this incident during the investigation."
The release said Camren Mitzel is "currently not an employee or volunteer" for the district.
Whether Camren Mitzel's tenure as a volunteer for the high school ended prior to his arrest has not been confirmed. Neither AHS Principal Michelle Zundel nor district Superintendent Jay Hummel responded to messages left Wednesday.
An Ashland Police Department press release referred to Camren Mitzel as "a volunteer swim coach."
Police Chief Terry Holderness said a several-week APD investigation determined that "no force was used" between Camren Mitzel and the victim, who was a freshman at the high school.
Holderness said Camren Mitzel was charged with four counts for each alleged crime because "we can demonstrate there were four different acts" involving the victim.
Each of the four alleged acts took place on or between Oct. 2, 2012, and March 31, 2013, said Mejia. That period spans the 2012-2013 swim season at AHS.
Holderness said the alleged crimes were reported to a separate agency, which then contacted APD to follow up with an investigation.
"It was reported to us through the child abuse format ... somebody called us from a different agency," he said.
The state Department of Human Services, Jackson County Developmental Disabilities Program and several other public and private organizations in the area maintain hotlines for reporting abuse.
A preliminary hearing for Camren Mitzel is scheduled for Aug. 7 at 4 p.m. in Jackson County Circuit Court.
Sam Wheeler is a freelance writer living in Ashland. Email him at email@example.com.
Former AHS volunteer swim coach charged with rape and sexual assault
A former volunteer swim coach at Ashland High School was arrested Tuesday on multiple counts of felony rape and sexual assault stemming from his alleged conduct with a 14-year-old girl on the team.


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by Michele Polz, Alicia Staley, Brian Reid, Allison Blass and Kerri Sparling
As more and more patients begin using social media as an information source and a support network, it's inevitable that they'll begin to interact with representatives of pharmaceutical companies looking to use new technologies to inform and educate. While consumer-industry interactions are not new -- Comcast crawls Twitter for those in need of tech support, and Gatorade sends electronic high-fives to high school athletes -- links between drug companies and those they serve are more fraught, with some patients celebrating dialogue and others warning that such relationships are intrinsically inappropriate. This panel -- including patients, advocates and industry -- will explore the ground rules of "friending" big pharma and the ground rules that biopharma firms must play by to ensure patients aren't taken advantage of.
United States United States, Austin
9th–13th March 2012