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Suspect charged in Lone Star College stabbing
UPDATE: The suspect, Dylan Quick, has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
No one knew what in the world was going on, least of all Ryan Ballard as he headed up the staircase of the Health Science building at the Cy-Fair branch of Lone Star College.
Late for his Tuesday morning biology class, Ballard didn't even notice the increasing commotion around him, the heightened chatter and raised voices. If anybody nearby even knew about the stabbings that had just taken place, which ultimately would total 14, they had not had time to spread the word.
But Ballard did notice the blood.
First a few drops - perhaps from a nosebleed? Then more blood a few steps higher. And then more, like a small puddle.
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Ballard saw three women running down the stairs crying and screaming. And then more blood, as one of the students held her neck, a flowing red stain moving over her hand and down her chest.
"I was in shock," he said. "I had never seen something that bad."
Seconds later, he heard someone in the lobby of the building yell, "Stop that guy!" Though Ballard could not have known it at that moment, "that guy" had attacked not just the bleeding woman but more than a dozen students, inexplicably stabbing each with a small knife as he walked by before quickly moving on, almost unnoticed, to another.
For the second time in three months, a Lone Star campus was the scene of a sudden violent assault. No guns this time. The attacker walked down the hallways of a well-populated building, stabbing people at random.
Now he was running out the door.
"My first thought was I need to go catch him,'" Ballard said. "I don't know why I thought that."
Suspect tackled
Another group of students was running toward the man. One finally reached him near the parking lot, grabbing the assailant in a bear hug. Ballard, a former offensive lineman at Langham Creek High School, also closed in. That's when he noticed the attacker squirming to get his hand into his back pocket.
Instinctively, Ballard knocked both of them to the ground.
"I didn't want to wait until it was too late to make a move," he said, not realizing until later that there was more potential danger involved than he could have known. "I'm not going to lie. Now that I know what the man did, I realize he could have pulled a knife on me and I could have been just another statistic."
Late Tuesday, prosecutors charged 20-year-old Dylan Andrew Quick with three counts of aggravated assault.
'Did you do it?"
A former Lone Star student who also had been detained Tuesday morning by campus police was in the holding area when Quick was initially detained. Demond Lago, who had been accused of trespassing on school property, said Quick confirmed to him that he had attacked his unsuspecting fellow students, each of whom suffered knife wounds to the throat and head.
"We were sitting on the floor while a cop sat in a chair," said Demond Lago. "I asked him, did you do it? And he said yes. Then the cop told us to stop talking to each other."
When the officer looked away, Lago said, he asked Quick what he was trying to do.
"He said he was trying to go on a killing spree but the (expletive) blade broke," said Lago, who described Quick's demeanor as "troubled."
Authorities declined to specify the precise type of weapon used in the assaults, referring only to a "razor-type" knife. Witnesses described it as small, perhaps a pencil-like hobby knife or a box cutter. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that a piece of blade broke off when one of the victims was wounded and that the handle was recovered in Quick's backpack.
Those who know Quick were as stunned by the news as those who witnessed what he allegedly did as he moved between two campus buildings, his gloved hands stuffed into his pockets until he decided to strike. Neighbors described him as a once-shy kid who remained a bit of a loner. They said he spent most of his time at home and rarely, if ever, had friends over.
Screams from hall
Born deaf, Quick received a cochlear implant as a child. He was a student in the Cy-Fair ISD until 2004 and was later home-schooled. Neighbors said he was polite and helpful, and that they saw little evidence of a troubled personality. However, Quick told investigators he has had fantasies of stabbing people to death since he was in elementary school. He also said he planned Tuesday's attacks for some time, according to the news release.
The entire incident was over within minutes. It had happened so quickly that most students were not even sure what was happening. Cassie Foe was in her physical anatomy class when she heard screams from the hallway. She thought it was just kids being loud.
"I went out to ask them to please be quiet and a girl was bleeding out through her neck, running down the stairs," said Foe, a 21-year-old nursing major. "I saw another girl sitting at the top of the stairs, and they had paper towels on her neck because she had gotten stabbed in the throat."
None of what Foe saw made sense until she witnessed an attack firsthand.
"I turned around the hallway to see if there was anyone else, and as I was looking around the corner, I saw a guy who was standing next to another male, and it looked like he bumped into him. Then he just collapsed to the floor. He definitely aimed for the throat - in the middle of the throat. It looked like the goal was exactly in the middle."
Jan. 22 attack
Capt. Robert Rasa of the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department said 12 people were taken to area hospitals while others were treated at the scene. He said most of the injuries were stab wounds to the face and neck area.
Six were taken to the Memorial Hermann Texas Trauma Institute, which is part of Memorial Hermann Hospital, said hospital spokeswoman Alejandra Rodriguez. Four of those patients were transported by Life Flight medical helicopter.
The other hospitalized victims had minor injuries and were treated at North Cypress Medical Center, Rasa said.
The scene was frighteningly similar to a Jan. 22 incident in which random contact between two students erupted into gunfire that left four people hurt. Both men were charged, one with aggravated assault, which began when one accidentally bumped the other. An argument quickly escalated.
Assisting victims
In Tuesday's assault, nursing student Jessica Moffett had gone to the bathroom during one of her classes when another student ran in, frantic, and said she needed help: Two people had just been stabbed in the neck.
Once outside, Moffett saw a man and a woman bleeding. The man seemed worse off, so she and another student applied pressure to the man's neck and told him to stay calm. Someone had given him their T-shirt so that they could apply pressure to control the bleeding. A teacher brought gauze and Moffett continued to help apply pressure to the wounds until paramedics arrived. They said he had lost a lot of blood.
"I just am praying for everyone involved and am hoping there will be no fatalities," she said. "At this point, I'm shocked anyone would do this to innocent students."
The first 911 call came in at 11:12 a.m. Dozens of patrol cars descended on the campus, along with ambulances and Life Flight helicopters. The campus was placed on lockdown briefly, then the campus was cleared. Remaining classes were canceled.


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I need some Java help, I've sought out help from my professor with no luck. We're doing a picture processing program in Java. Basic functions are flip vertical and horizontal, invert and rotate. They've written most of the code, which can be found here: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~cs160/pub/Pic.java
The requirements and PGM files are here: CS160 | Main / HW6
Basically I don't know how to get started. They have a comment in each method (eg negate) // YOUR CODE GOES HERE. I'm pretty good on the logic/understanding part of the java program but am struggling with the code part. I see that there is a private method that handles the image into an array, I'm thinking I probably need to use that. When I've tried it gives me an veriable scope error.
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Chelsea's Oriol Romeu joins Valencia on loan deal
Chelsea have confirmed that midfielder Oriol Romeu has joined Valencia on a season-long loan deal.
The 21-year-old moved to Stamford Bridge two years ago after struggling to force his way in to first-team reckoning at Barcelona.
Romeu, who has represented Spain at every youth level, has played 33 times for the Blues but missed the second half of last season with a serious knee injury.
He will now link up with Valencia ahead of the forthcoming season as Chelsea continue to send their squad players out on loan.
Romeu joins the likes of Marko Marin, Thibaut Courtois and Patrick van Aanholt in penning temporary moves away from west London but Romelu Lukaku, who impressed whilst on loan at West Brom last year, is still likely to remain a member of Jose Mourinho's squad at Chelsea.
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Ed Miliband 'backs return of EU powers' but warns PM over strategy
Ed Miliband has said a future Labour government would seek to return some powers from Brussels to Westminster to make the EU "work better for Britain".
The European Union must become more "flexible" and responsibility for areas such as industrial strategy should return to member states, he suggested.
He also told the BBC he backed holding a referendum if further powers were transferred to Brussels in the future.
But he said an in-out referendum now would have "big costs" for the country.
He was speaking ahead of a long-awaited speech in which David Cameron was due to set out his view of the UK's future relationship with the 27-member union. However, the speech was postponed due to the Algerian hostage crisis.
He is expected to call for a renegotiation of the UK's existing relationship and to guarantee a referendum on its outcome after the next election.
Asked about the circumstances in which he would back a referendum, Mr Miliband said his party would not hand over any more powers to Brussels without first consulting the public.
'Real damage'
If Labour were re-elected, he said he would not repeal the coalition government's so-called "referendum lock" - a law passed in 2010 which means a public vote would be triggered if substantial further powers were delegated to the EU.
He said "urgent changes" were needed in the EU and Labour would seek to repatriate certain powers - including funding for industry and infrastructure that are part of the EU's regional policy - to ensure the EU "worked better for Britain".
"Regional policy, the way a national government can have an industrial policy, I think there are areas where Britain needs powers back," he told the BBC's Radio 4's Today programme.
But he said Labour would not seek to limit co-operation in other areas, for instance by opting out of the European Arrest warrant.
He did not say during the interview whether he would rule out a referendum in the future to approve any return of powers to the UK from the EU.
A group of Conservative MPs called on Wednesday for powers over employment and social legislation to be returned to the UK and safeguards in other areas such as financial regulation but others want to go further and leave the EU altogether.
The fact that the UK would not be joining the single currency in the foreseeable future, including under a Labour government, was evidence that Europe was becoming more "flexible", Mr Miliband argued.
But he insisted the desire for greater flexibility was not the same as having a "looser" relationship and he said uncertainty over the UK's continued membership of the EU would deter foreign investors and reduce the UK's influence, he added.
"The debate here is between essentially those who say 'reform Europe to change it to work in our interests and I fear the prime minister's strategy which is leading us towards exit which will cause real damage to our economy."
He said the prime minister had voted against an in-out referendum in a parliamentary vote in 2011 but had been "dragged" towards a scenario in which such a scenario could happen by a "neuralgic" Conservative Party.
'Walk away'
"Committing now to a in-out referendum has big costs for Britain," he added. "Putting up a big flag 'saying exit, Britain is about to get out - is that a good negotiating strategy? I have to say I think it is a hopeless negotiating strategy.
"The idea that people are more likely to accede to your demands if you say 'you are actually going to walk away and Britain can be sort of written off', I don't believe that is going to help us."
The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson said Labour's support for the government's "referendum lock" was significant as it committed the party to holding some form of referendum over Europe if, as expected, the eurozone crisis leads to a big change in the EU.
He said it was also noticeable Mr Miliband was not willing to rule out a referendum in other circumstances or even to include a commitment to that effect in his party's next election manifesto if the "pressure really builds".


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Release Date: March 18, 2011
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William Woods University is offering New Madrid area residents the opportunity to pursue a master of education (M.Ed.) or a specialist of education (Ed.S.) degree without quitting work. The programs will begin with an orientation at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at a location to be announced.
Prospective students are encouraged to contact the university's Graduate and Adult Studies program prior to then, but walk-ins will be accepted. Call 1-800-995-3199 or contact WWU by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The 36-credit-hour MED program has three tracks—students can choose to study administration, which is intended to provide the fundamental skills necessary for effective school administration; curriculum and instruction, which is for teachers who wish to enhance their classroom skills, and athletics/activities administration, which is for anyone interested in developing and administering activities in any school or community setting.
William Woods University's program helped Anita Gilliland "develop professionally and academically, while at the same time allowing me to have a life outside of graduate school." Gilliland, who completed her M.Ed. in Jefferson City, said, "William Woods puts a friendly face on graduate school."
North Central Association's Higher Learning Commission granted approval last year for William Woods to offer the Specialist of Education in School Administration program. This degree prepares educational administrators to be certified for the superintendent's certification. A specialist of education in instructional leadership was added this year. These degrees are a level higher than the master's degree and they prepare recipients to pursue the doctorate degree.
Employing a model of accelerated learning developed especially for the convenience of the working adult, William Woods University's Graduate and Adult Studies programs are structured so that a degree can be completed in as few as 22 months.
William Woods offers degree programs that utilize a cohort model, emphasizing learning through student-directed study groups of three to five students.
Gilliland has high praise for the cohort program. "The William Woods cohort program allowed me to continue teaching full-time while attending classes one night a week. Because we were part of a cohort, we were able to develop friendships and close working relationships with classmates and professors," she said.
"Cohort" describes a group of people who collaborate to reach a common goal. WWU's program utilizes the diversity of the individual members to broaden the learning experience of the class as a whole as they work together. The school recognizes that learning can and does take place outside of the classroom and that theoretical knowledge is only useful if applied to real-life on-the-job situations.
Classes meet once a week in the evening for four hours. Study groups meet outside of class to prepare projects and assignments before the upcoming week.
"With the teamwork approach of using study groups and projects within the cohort model, students can draw on a greater pool of ideas, and they have the opportunity to learn quickly that the effectiveness of one person can be greatly enhanced by utilizing the other members of the group," said Betty R. Tutt, WWU vice president of external initiatives.
Because of the nature of programming—focusing effort on one course at a time—90 percent of all students finish their program successfully. Each course in the M.Ed. program normally runs six weeks in length.
"William Woods University is a leader when it comes to designing quality programs for nontraditional adult students. Everything we do is specifically designed to help adults succeed in reaching their goals as efficiently as possible," said Tutt.
In addition to the M.Ed. and Ed.S., William Woods offers several other Graduate and Adult Studies programs, including an associate of arts degree in liberal studies, the ACCESS program of general education, a bachelor of science in computer and information management, a B.S. in management (BSM), a BSM with human resources emphasis, a B.S. in marketing and a B.S. in paralegal studies.
Additional graduate programs include a master of business administration (MBA) and MBAs with accounting, health management or human resources emphasis.
William Woods can tailor any of its programs for a particular business or community. More information is available on the William Woods website at www.williamwoods.edu.


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Hey, I've lost everything. Now, I've gotta find a way out.
Hey, they keep asking me where I was when it was burning.
There's no trying to explain, they'll lock me up again. Throw away the key.
The protagonist became the villain they disdain in every way.
Hey, I've lost everything. But I'm gonna find a way out.
Hey, nothing's left for me except malady and hatred.
No evidence was found; they'll let me go for now at least 'til tomorrow.
Hey, when tomorrow brings the morning sun again I'll be long gone.
Now, as I drive away and leave the past behind, I think I'm dying.
It's so pathetic, I hate you so much but I still miss you.
Karma is hard to change when everything you do and say is awful.
Remorse is hard to fake when you only feel sorry for yourself.
I'm coughing up more blood, it's filling up my lungs, it's killing me.
Hey, when tomorrow brings the morning sun again, I'll be long gone.
Dead, lying all alone on this motel room floor, I know I'm dying.
Hey, I've lost everything. Now, I've succumbed to grace.
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On Kei's (梁安琪) job seemed simple: Hold the big red letter K up high enough for all 2,012 people to see. "My friend is the letter L," Kei yelled over the repeated cheers of "I Love Taiwan."
Kei, a Taichung university student from Macao, and her friend were just two of the hundreds of volunteers needed to help direct people where to sit. It was all in order to create the world's largest picture mosaic, an image of a person with hands raised aloft along with the words I Love Taiwan underneath.
"Even though it's windy, you can't stop the passion," Kei said of the event held Wednesday morning at Taichung City Hall to help commemorate Double Ten National Day.
Shaun Bettinson, the event's organizer, said he believed the event shattered the current Guinness World Record of a 1,458-person mosaic. While Guinness representatives were not on hand, he said video, photos and eyewitnesses should be enough to validate the achievement. Official notification, he said, should happen within three weeks.
"There's no doubt in my mind that it was a success," said Bettinson, a 32-year-old British expat who has taught English in Taichung for the last eight years.
Bettinson has gained minor celebrity status with the launch of his I Love Taiwan campaign, which aims to amass 201,210 photos of people with their arms jutting into the air declaring their love for the nation. Collecting the photos and turning them into a massive collage and breaking another Guinness World Record remains a goal, he said. To date, 37,000 photos have been collected.
One of those making up the mosaic was Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (胡志強), who held a white board above his head for the required 10 minutes. "We're going to show our love for Taiwan," Hu said, rallying the participants. "With you, Taiwan is a better place to live."
Those on hand eagerly offered up what they loved about the nation. Reasons for loving Taiwan abounded, including the nation's delicious food and friendly, caring people.
"We love Kenting," said Robyn Knox of Taichung, who came with her husband, Mo Van Der Merwe. "We went there on our honeymoon."
Citing an example of Taiwanese kindness, Knox said it was the doorman at the English-speaking couple's apartment who offered to help them order their wedding invitations.
Of course, many also offered suggestions on how to make the country better. Improve roads to ease traffic congestion, said one woman, while another suggested the government should take better care of stray animals.
"I think the government should support more sports," said Liao Yu-ying (廖于瑩), who showed her national pride with a temporary tattoo of I Love Taiwan emblazoned on her left cheek.
Taichung resident Mei Wang (王玫) said she and her 72-year-old mother took part in the mosaic because they wanted to be part of a meaningful, history-making event. "When Shaun says, 'I Love Taiwan,' I want to follow him," Wang said.
Such outpourings of emotion both humble and empower Bettinson.
"It's all about love and liberating those feelings," he said. To build on this momentum, Bettinson said he plans to create a charitable I Love Taiwan Foundation, which would provide aid to the nation's disadvantaged residents.
Bettinson is not above getting emotional himself. As the last of the 2,012 people to sit down and form the mosaic, Bettinson looked up at the jumbo screen on the side of Taichung City Hall. Seeing himself next to the mayor and surrounded by throngs of supporters, Bettinson couldn't help but get choked up.


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Flint River Basin Partnership Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI) Project
Innovative system of conserving water from center pivot irrigation farms by excluding wetlands and other non-farmable land cover. Savings are generated by removing non-crop areas from irrigation; coordinating application amounts with variations in soil type and topography; and eliminating double application from pivot overlap.
Variable rate irrigation (VRI) reduces water use by an average 15%-20% by retro-fitting center pivot irrigation systems with variable rate irrigation (VRI) systems with an average water savings of 20% per center pivot would save the Lower Flint River Basin approximately 45 billion gallons of water.


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Cubs' Rusin impresses in brief call-up
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chris Rusin gave the Chicago Cubs something to remember Saturday.
Called up from Triple-A late Friday night, Rusin relieved Chicago starter Carlos Villanueva with no one out and two on in the fourth inning of Saturday's 10-4 loss.
He allowed those runners to score on a single by Jon Jay, but settled in nicely after that for the final five innings. Rusin allowed one run on three hits with a strike out and an intentional walk.
"He helped save the bullpen," Cubs manager Rick Renteria said.
Following the game, Rusin found out this would be his only appearance with the big club — for a while, anyway. The Cubs plan to option him back to Triple-A Iowa.
Rusin was not surprised.
"You pitch where they tell you to pitch and go where they tell you to go," he said. "But this was big for my confidence and something I can take with me."
If he continues to pitch the way he did Saturday, Rusin figures to be back soon enough. He was lying in bed Friday night when he got the call to report to St. Louis.
"I was ready to go," said Rusin, who made it to St. Louis about two hours before first pitch.
His performance impressed the winning pitcher Saturday.
"He did exactly what he was supposed to do,' said St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright. "He came in there and threw strikes and saved his bullpen. I thought he did a nice job."
"He helped save the bullpen," Renteria said.
Matt Adams homered, Matt Carpenter drove in two runs and Wainwright saved his own tired bullpen by lasting seven innings for the Cardinals.
It was hardly a vintage performance by Wainwright (2-1), who helped his own cause with an RBI single. He gave up a homer to Junior Lake on his first pitch and allowed six more hits and three runs after that while striking out eight. The four runs were twice as many as Wainwright yielded in his first two starts.
The win was Wainwright's 101st with the Cardinals, tying Matt Morris, Larry Jackson and Max Lanier for 10th place on the franchise list.
In addition to Carpenter, Daniel Descalso also had two hits with an RBI and two runs scored. Adams hit his first home run, a leadoff shot in the second inning.
The Cubs' Nate Schierholtz, who had four hits Friday night, had two doubles and an RBI.
St. Louis did most of its damage off Villanueva (1-3), who allowed nine runs and 10 hits in three innings.
After Adams' homer tied the game at 1, the Cardinals sent eight more batters to the plate in the second. Molina and Allen Craig followed Adams with singles, and they came home on RBI singles by Descalso and Wainwright. Carpenter then drove home Descalso with an infield single to shortstop that made it 4-1.
St. Louis sent 10 more hitters to the plate in the fourth inning and broke it open by scoring five times.
Descalso started the inning with a double and was safe at third on Wainwright's sacrifice, with Wainwright reaching first on the fielder's choice. Carpenter and Kolten Wong followed with RBI singles and Matt Holiday had an RBI groundout. Jay's single off reliever Chris Rusin with two outs made it 9-2.
NOTES: Renteria had a successful replay challenge in the third inning of first base umpire Jerry Layne's call on Jay's grounder to shortstop Starlin Castro. Layne had called Jay safe at first, but after reviewing the play, Jay was ruled out. ... St. Louis SS Jhonny Peralta, who has two hits in his first 32 at-bats for the lowest batting average among all qualifiers (.063), was given the day off. ... Castro, who had two hits, has hit safely in eight of his last nine games. ... Former Cardinal Edwin Jackson (0-0) will take the mound for the Cubs in the series finale Sunday against Michael Wacha (1-0). ... Craig was 1 for 12 on the homestand and hitless in his last eight at-bats before his second-inning single. ... With a victory Sunday, the Cubs can win a series for the first time since taking two of three from the Reds from Sept. 9-11 last season. Chicago has dropped eight straight series since.


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McCain: The grand inquisitor
It usually takes a lot to rattle the Pentagon's top brass, but John McCain's got a knack for doing just that.
Since returning to the Senate after his failed 2008 presidential bid, McCain has settled into the role of his party's chief inquisitor on military issues and foreign affairs, a position that has given him new life as an informal leader among his GOP colleagues.
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Never has that status been more evident than in his aggressive questioning at three recent hearings, including two on the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on America's consulate in Benghazi and a nearby U.S. facility.
( PHOTOS: 10 quotes about Hillary Clinton and Benghazi)
On Thursday Martin Dempsey, the highest-ranking military officer in the land, found just how deep McCain's frustration runs the hard way at an Armed Services Committee hearing on the assault, which killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Dempsey is just the latest in a parade of unlucky Obama administration officials and nominees have been pitted against McCain under the bright lights of Senate hearings. Chuck Hagel, a fellow Vietnam veteran and former chum, got the McCain treatment when he appeared as President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed Panetta last month. And Hillary Clinton, who once beat McCain in a vodka-shot contest, got a lecture from her former colleague when she came to the Foreign Relations Committee to testify on Benghazi.
The exchange Thursday was one of the toughest so far.
McCain looked to Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for an answer to the question of why the military wasn't better prepared to intervene with air power. He called Dempsey's opening statement "one of the most bizarre" he'd ever heard in his years in the Senate and accused him of providing "simply false" information.
"For you to testify that our posture did not allow a rapid response — our posture was not there because we didn't take into account the threats to that consulate, and that's why four Americans died. We could have placed forces there," McCain said.
Dempsey, seated next to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at the witness table, didn't back down a bit in the face of McCain's grilling.
( Also on POLITICO: Leon Panetta defends response after Benghazi attack)
"Let me begin by saying I stand by my testimony, your dispute of it notwithstanding," he started. "But I would like to say …"
"Perhaps you can give me some facts that would substantiate it," McCain interjected with trademark snark.
The exchange is just the latest round. McCain hammered away at Hagel on the Nebraskan's opposition to President George W. Bush's "surge" strategy in Iraq, asking him whether he was right or wrong. Hagel hemmed and hawed. McCain interjected repeatedly, prodding him for a yes or no answer six times before saying, "I would like you to answer whether you were right or wrong, and then you are free to elaborate."


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IOC is asked to consider human rights in selecting host
BUENOS AIRES -- Given the backlash over Russia's anti-gay legislation heading into February's Winter Olympics in Sochi, the International Olympic Committee is being asked to consider human rights issues as much as it considers venues and finances when awarding future Games.
"Beijing set a pretty high bar in terms of human rights abuses and Russia is giving them a run for their money," Minky Worden, the director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch, told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday."Our message well before the human rights catastrophes of Sochi has been you cannot have a successful Olympics where you have major human rights abuses."
As the IOC begins meetings today in this Argentine capital dubbed "the City of Tango," it too will engage in a dance full of passion and power. By the time the 125th IOC session closes next week, a new president will be elected and either Madrid, Tokyo or Istanbul will be awarded the 2020 Summer Games.
With this backdrop, as well as the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, gay rights groups in 33 cities in 21 countries had plans Tuesday to participate in a "Global Speak Out" against Russia's anti-gay laws. Andre Banks, executive director of All Out, called the event "one of the largest global demonstrations for gay rights and human rights in history."
Advocate group Athlete Ally has urged the 101 IOC members to choose Madrid, the most friendly of the 2020 candidates to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, to "make sure the Sochi Games never happen again."
According to a recent Pew Research Center survey about whether homosexuality should be accepted or rejected by society, 88% of those polled in Spain said it should be accepted. In Turkey, 78% said it should be rejected. In Japan, 54% agreed with acceptance. The survey of 39 countries with 37,653 respondents was released in June.
Pride House International has put together a resource guide for IOC voters on the three countries with links to reports from Human Rights Watch, the U.S. State Department and the United Nations.
"We're not telling voters in Buenos Aires who they should vote for, but we want to remind them that their own charter declares that sport is a human right and that sport must be free from discrimination," said Lou Englefield, director of Pride Sports UK and coordinator of Pride House International. "The IOC has huge potential for promoting positive change in the world."
When criticized for not forcefully speaking out against human rights issues in China, Russia and Brazil (the 2016 Olympic host is Rio de Janeiro), IOC leaders have repeatedly said they rely on "quiet diplomacy," reminding their critics that they are a sports organization, not a government or political body.
Last month Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists asked the six IOC presidential candidates for their views on various rights issues, including the anti-gay laws in Russia. In response, the IOC sent a letter on behalf of the candidates.
"Whilst we clearly expect any Olympic Games, regardless of their location and including the next edition in Sochi, to take place without any form of discrimination, it is important to stress that the IOC's remit is limited to the scope of the Games," the IOC wrote. "For instance, the IOC cannot influence national legislation and has to respect the law of any host country."
The 2020 host city will be selected Saturday. Madrid may be the choice for LBGT rights advocates and Tokyo may be the most stable economic and political choice, but recent Olympics have been awarded to cities that have never hosted before. The 2016 Summer Games in Rio will be the first Olympics in South America. An Olympics in Istanbul would bring the Olympics to a new part of the world, to a predominantly Muslim country for the first time.


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A center where art, medicine blend to benefit dancers
As Kasia Wasilewska knows, performing those gravity-defying leaps and twisting into eye-arresting poses can involve as much pounding athleticism as graceful art. And when dancers get hurt, are hindered by mechanics or bothered by nagging injuries, they can tap into the Cedars-Sinai/USC School of Theatre Dance Medicine Center. There, professionals, students and amateurs may benefit from an innovative blend of art and medicine.
The center is led by: Margo Apostolos, PhD, director of dance at the USC School of Theatre, who has a background as a dancer, educator, scientist and expert in human and robotic movement and choreography; and Glenn Pfeffer, MD, who offers more than 25 years' experience as an orthopaedic surgeon treating dancers and athletes. In addition to teaching and educating dancers how to prevent and minimize dance-related injuries, the center provides specialized treatment for those with injuries – current or perhaps incurred awhile ago. It conducts research in preventing and caring for movement-related harms, which not only affect those in classical and contemporary but also in areas such as "cheer" dancing. There are physical therapists, physiatrists, imaging specialists and expert physicians at the center at the ready to help dancers whose bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments or joints are always vulnerable as are their lower backs, feet, ankles and knees.


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How to Enter Information into a Quicken 2013 or 2014 Check Form
Printing checks in Quicken 2013 or 2014 is, well, quick. All you basically need to do is enter the information you want to print on the check form and the number you want Quicken to use to identify the check. Sounds simple enough, doesn't it? It is, as you can read in the steps that follow.
1Display the Write Checks window.
You can display the Write Checks window in a bunch of different ways. For example, you can choose the Tools→Write and Print Checks command. And when the Spending tab displays an account register, you can also click the Account Actions button and choose the Write Checks command. You can also use the command shortcut, Ctrl+W.
2Select the account on which you want to write the check.
This step is very important! To select the account you want to use, open the Write Checks From drop-down list in the top of the window. (You can do this by clicking the arrow button that's just to the right of the box.) When Quicken displays the list of accounts, choose the one you want to use.
3Enter the check date.
First, use the mouse or Tab key to move the cursor to the Date field. Then, type the date that you're going to print the check (probably today's date). Remember to type the date in a MM/DD/YYYY format — enter August 31, 2013, as 8/31/2013.
You don't need to enter the year if the year number that Quicken retrieves from your computer's internal system clock is correct. You can adjust the date by a day by using + and – from the numeric keypad. You can also click the button at the end of the Date field to display your friend, the pop-up calendar.
4Enter the name of the person or business you're paying.
Move the cursor to the Pay to the Order Of field and type away. For example, type Steve Nelson. If you've written a check to the payee before, when you start to type the name, Quicken recognizes it and fills in the rest for you.
5Enter the amount of the check.
Move the cursor to the $ text box and type the amount. When you press the Tab key, the cursor moves down to the next field, and Quicken writes the amount in words on the line under the payee name and before the word Dollars.
6Enter the payee's address.
If you plan to mail the check in a window envelope, move the cursor to the Address field. (You can do this by clicking in the field.) Then enter the name and address of the person or business you're paying.
7(Optional) Enter a memo description of the check.
Move the cursor to the Memo field and enter a description (such as an account number or an invoice number) of why you're sending your money to this person or business. Or, if you're sending someone a check because you didn't have time to go out and buy a real gift, type Happy Birthday in the Memo field. It's the little things that make a difference.
8Enter the category.
Move the cursor to the Category field and type the category name for the expense you're paying with the check. If you don't remember the category name, scroll down the category list to find the category. The figure shows the completed window for a check payable to Movies Galore, the local cable TV company.
You can assign a check to more than a single category by using the Split Transaction window. Using the Split Transaction window with the Write Checks window works the same way as using the Split Transaction window with the Transactions tab. You use the Split Transaction window when a check pays more than one type of expense or is transferred to more than one account.
For example, if you're writing a check to pay your mortgage, with part of the check paying the actual mortgage and part of the check going into an escrow account for property taxes, you can use the Split Transaction window to describe the transaction's individual components.
To split a check amount so that the amount is assigned to multiple spending categories, click the Split button (which looks like a sign for a fork in the road) or press Ctrl+S. Either way, Quicken displays the Split Transaction window for you to indicate the categories and categorized amounts that make up the check total.
9Click the Record Check button.
Quicken records the check. It displays the current account balance and the ending account balance, and it even adds a Checks To Print total in the bottom of the window. If you're working with a monitor that supports a high screen resolution, you'll also see a Checks To Print window that lists all the nitty-gritty about the checks you have to print.
Shoot, when you're finished with one check, Quicken even scrolls the completed check off the screen and replaces it with a new, blank check that you can use to pay your next bill. It doesn't get much better than this, does it?


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The Revenge of the Repressed
Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found
The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse
Remembering Satan
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (3rd edition)
Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria
Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives
Throughout the past decade or so, a shock wave has been sweeping across North American psychotherapy, and in the process causing major repercussions within our families, courts, and hospitals. A single diagnosis for miscellaneous complaints—that of unconsciously repressed sexual abuse in childhood—has grown in this brief span from virtual nonexistence to epidemic frequency. As Mark Pendergrast shows in Victims of Memory, if we put together the number of licensed American psychotherapists (roughly 255,000) with survey results about their beliefs and practices, it appears that well over 50,000 of them are now willing to help their clients realize that they must have endured early molesta-tion. Those professionals have been joined by countless untrained operators who use the yellow pages and flea market ads to solicit "incest work." It is hard to form even a rough idea of the number of persuaded clients, because most of them take no publicly recorded action against the accused, but a conservative guess would be a million persons since 1988 alone. The number affected is of course vastly higher, since, as all parties acknowledge, virtually every case sows dissension and sorrow throughout a family.
When one explanation for mental distress rockets to prominence so quickly, we ought to ask whether we are looking at a medical breakthrough or a fad. However, the choice between those alternatives is not always simple. As its main proponents insist, "recovered memory" is by now not just a diagnosis but a formidable sociopolitical movement. In the words of one of that movement's founders, the Harvard psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman,
The study of trauma in sexual and domestic life becomes legitimate only in a context that challenges the subordination of women and children. Advances in the field occur only when they are supported by a political movement powerful enough to legitimate an alliance between investigators and patients and to counteract the ordinary social processes of silencing and denial.
The larger movement in question is, of course, women's liberation, including what Herman calls "a collective feminist project of reinventing the basic concepts of normal development and abnormal psychology…"1
However uneasy one may feel about an ideologically driven "reinvention" of scientific notions, it is possible that the feminist critique of received psychological lore is substantially right. Feminists were certainly warranted, in the 1970s and 1980s, in declaring that the sexual abuse of children was being scandalously underreported. If they now go on to claim that untold millions of victims, mostly female, have forgotten what was done to them, their claim cannot be discredited by the mere fact that it sprang from an activist commitment. Obviously, it needs to be assessed on independent grounds.
Yet such grounds are hard to come by. How can one count authentic cases of repressed memory when the very concept of repression stands in doubt? And what, for that matter, do the champions of recovered memory mean by repression? It is fruitless to press them very hard on this point, since most of them show an…
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An air of Christmas in the Orangery
Take a break from your Christmas preparations! Enjoy bulbs in bloom, Christmas lights and lovely scents. Get inspired by flower arrangements, admire the creativity of the childrens' decorations, or buy an Amaryllis for your home.
A Linnaean Garden Party 2020
Time travel to the 18th century, hear the rustle of silk skirts, see silver shoe buckles glisten, and sample artisan foods. Meet scientists, experiment, and learn more about Linnaean science. Guided tour in English at 11.30 and 14.30.
A cultural cavalcade in the Linnaeus Garden 2020
Listen to folk music and singer-songwriters or enjoy dans shows. Visit Carl Linnaeus' home. As darkness falls, the garden will be Illuminated by candles. Enjoy a magical stroll among the flowers of autumn.


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Iraq, once a country of fervent readers, now starves for books
BAGHDAD — When Maysoon Kadhim began working on her master's thesis at Baghdad University two years ago, she braced for the challenge. After all, her paper's subject is Shakespeare, whose prose can perplex even native English speakers.
Kadhim, of course, grew up with Arabic.
As she proofread her final draft days before it was due, however, she said her biggest frustrations have had nothing to do with language.
Instead, they've come from trying to get her hands on the right books.
"You would expect that my studies and the analysis would be the hardest things," Kadhim lamented. "Getting the books should be simple."
But in Iraq, a country where so much has been leveled by decades of dictatorship, international embargoes and war, few things are easy. Here, students often can't find the books they need. Libraries and schools are understocked, and many bookstores are closed. At those that are open, academic selections are usually limited.
College-level texts, books on specialized subjects and recent editions are the hardest to come by. Most elementary and high school students use decades-old materials.
"You could say we are starving for textbooks," said May Youssef Saour, a microbiology professor at Baghdad University's al Kindy College of Medicine. "It is a little better lately, but still it's hard to find books on many subjects. The shops and the libraries just don't have them."
Kadhim, who's 34 and has a bright smile, spent more than a year gathering the dozen or so books she used for her thesis. The lengths to which she went are impressive.
She identified what she needed by searching for books online, but credit cards and mail delivery hardly exist in Iraq. So Kadhim asked a friend in Britain to buy the books for her, then electronically scan their pages and e-mail them to her.
To get her hands on an especially important Shakespeare analysis, Kadhim asked her British friend to mail the book to another friend in Syria who was planning a visit to Iraq. The Syrian friend then hand-delivered the text Kadhim needed.
"It is terrible that this is what we must do to learn and earn our degrees, but this is the situation in Iraq," Kadhim said. "Everything is a struggle."
Other college students said that borrowing textbooks from teachers and photocopying relevant chapters is common.
"If I could find my own, I would just buy the books," said Raghad Jameel, a first-year Arabic student. "But most of the time I have to make copies. It is expensive and takes so much time."
Iraq once was widely regarded as country of fervent readers, as reflected by an adage on books well known in the Arab world: Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, Iraq reads.
That began to change after Saddam Hussein took power. Education was free to all Iraqis under Saddam, and early on, his regime kept schools well stocked with current materials. However, he also banned certain titles. The sanctions that followed his 1990 invasion of Kuwait kept new books from entering Iraq.
As the country slipped deeper into poverty in the 1990s, families and book collectors alike sold off their libraries to pay for basic necessities. Government funding for education dropped, leaving schools and universities with fewer books.
The censorship and the sanctions disappeared after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, but new impediments replaced them.
The widespread looting that followed the invasion destroyed library collections across Iraq. Booksellers and publishing housing closed as violence spread, and the priorities of many Iraqis shifted from reading and learning to staying alive and finding ways out of the country.
In 2007, a series of explosions ripped through Baghdad's Mutanabi Street, shutting down the book market known for decades as Iraq's most popular gathering place for intellectuals and bibliophiles. Many of its shops and cafes have only recently reopened.
Today, with violence down, Iraq is struggling to rebuild its cultural and educational institutions. Art, music and theater are only beginning to rebound. Schools are open and roads are safe enough for students to reach them, but classrooms and teachers are in short supply.
Like so much else here, access to textbooks is improving. Progress is slow, however, in a country with almost daily bombings, rampant government corruption and scarce electricity and clean water.
"Some say books are a small matter compared to many of Iraq's issues, but I say this is not true," said Alaa Makki, a Sunni Muslim lawmaker who heads the Iraqi parliament's education committee. "Without knowledge and educated people, who will solve these things? I believe education is the path to solve all (Iraq's) problems, even the political problems and the security issues."
A few grassroots book drives by teachers and students in the U.S. and other countries have helped put textbooks in a few more hands, but their contributions have amounted to a drop in the bucket relative to the wider problem.
So far, Makki acknowledged, efforts by Iraq's own fledgling government haven't gone much further. He said his committee has asked for more funding for education from domestic coffers and foreign aid organizations.
Real progress, however, probably won't come until booksellers, publishers and distributors — here and abroad — are convinced that Iraq is safe enough for business.
"Some of the shops and companies have come back," Makki said. "But not enough."
In the meantime, the government has begun sponsoring book fairs. So far there have been two, one at Baghdad University that ended last week and another in northern Iraq. Makki hopes for more.
So many people turned out for the Baghdad fair that its organizers extended the event from nine days to 15.
With 60,000 titles spread across dozens of folding tables in the university's gymnasium, the fair's selection included books in Arabic and English, on subjects ranging from medicine and engineering to acting and safe driving.
About 40 publishers participated, almost all of them foreign.
"It is so unexpected to see so many books on so many subjects in one place," said Lava Hawizi, a college student who perused dentistry and literature books. "I'm taken completely by surprise."
Ahmed Basim, a local bookshop owner who organized the fair, said it was the first of its kind in Iraq in years. "For so long an event like this was impossible here," he said.
Basim's shop, Al Thakera Books, bills itself as the largest academic and scientific bookseller in Iraq, though it has just two locations, one in Baghdad and one in Erbil in Iraq's Kurdish region in the north.
"It's true it may be hard to find academic books in Iraq, but the Iraqi reader is still an educated reader," Basim said. "So they appreciate this fair. They long for these books."
(Reilly reports for the Merced Sun-Star. McClatchy special correspondent Sahar Issa contributed to this article.)
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Roasted Lobster with Almonds
Oven-roasted lobster with almonds ("homard rôti aux amandes" in French) is Papa's (my dad's) specialty. Papa doesn't cook on a daily basis, except for Maman's birthday and special occasions such as New Year's Eve. Exactly one year ago, my husband Lulu and I were in Paris, celebrating the holiday season with my parents. And of course, Papa pleased me by cooking my favorite dish. First, the lobster is poached for a few minutes, then a drizzle of Hollandaise sauce covers the lobster meat along with a sprinkle of toasted almonds. Then, the lobster dish goes in the oven for a few minutes.
I absolutely love this seafood dish. The lobster meat turns out sweet and succulent. For obvious reasons, this luxurious dish isn't an everyday meal, but it's a great way to make special occasions that much more special.
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We're pleased to announce details of our next season, which stretches from Deloitte Ignite in September, curated by Mike Figgis, until summer 2012. Full details are posted here, but we've made this blog to give a quick overview of new productions and revivals.
Photo above: Marianela Nunez and Rupert Pennefather in Scarlett's Asphodel Meadows which returns in November. Photo: Johan Persson.
This is Monica Mason's last year, her final programme hails the future strength of the company with some exciting revivals and new works. It is also the Royal Ballet's 80th birthday; the Vic-Wells Ballet was founded in 1931.
Some of the new productions and highlights (full list):
Jewels – Balanchine's triple bill on the theme of rubies, diamonds and emeralds. Monica Mason said she adored this work, at the press preview.
Marguerite and Armand – Fonteyn and Nureyev's duet by Ashton, re-imagined with Sergei Polunin and Tamara Rojo.
Manon - Martin Yates is conducting MacMillan's classic and has re-orchestrated the music with an additional piece in Act III.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Wheeldon's new ballet returns, with more performances for those who missed it first time round.
Prince of the Pagodas – MacMillan's tribute to Classical ballet set in an exotic land, is being revived for the first time in 20 years.
Les noces – Monica Mason described this as 'one of the masterpieces of the 20th century'. It's part of a triple with Birthday Offering and A Month in the Country, and is one of four ballets this Season to the accompaniment of the human voice (the others are Requiem, Gloria and Song of the Earth).
New works – New McGregor and New Scarlett in a triple bill in April. In July, there's a bold and big new tie-in with the National Gallery. It will see the likes of Christopher Wheeldon, Kim Brandstrup, Wayne McGregror, Jonathan Watkins and Liam Scarlett pair up with contemporary artists such as Chris Ofili and Mark Wallinger – inspired by Titian's metamorphosis paintings.
Antonio Pappano's programme is inspired by the boldness of ambition of the Olympics. There are big, inspirational works, and cycles of works.
Some of the new productions and highlights (full list):
Il trittico – Richard Jones directs all three of Puccini short operas. The first full cycle of them at The Royal Opera House since 1965.
Mozart's Da Ponte operas – all three (Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro) are being played as a cycle in February. A chance to immerse yourself in Mozart and compare and contrast.
Falstaff – a New Robert Carsen production of Verdi's final masterpiece in May.
Rusalka – Dvořák's mix of myth and magic has not been performed at the ROH before.
Les Troyens – A gigantic work for the Olympic Season. Berlioz's epic version of the Trojan war and its aftermath in a new production by David McVicar.
Miss Fortune – a UK premiere of Judith Weir's new opera, directed by Shi-Zheng Chen. Based on an Italian folk tale about the Fortune family.
The contemporary arm of the Royal Opera House has developed new works and new talent for the coming Season. There's something for all audiences on a smaller scale than the main stage.
Some of the new productions and highlights (full list):
The Metamorphosis - Edward Watson takes the lead in Arthur Pita's new dance piece on Kafka's seminal novel.
Heart of Darkness - Conrad's dark tale of obsession in a new opera by young British composer Tarik O'Reagan.
Magical Night - A family Christmas treat in a new dance version by Aletta Collins. To a score by Kurt Weill that had lain forgotten since 1954 and has only recently been rediscovered.
Sum - A new chamber opera with music by Max Richter inspired by David Eagleman's cult book. Wayne McGregor is director and choreographer.


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Wolfgang A. Ritschel first enjoyed a successful academic career in the medical sciences before being able to devote full time to a creative life in the visual arts as an internationally exhibited expressionist painter and sculptor. He and his wife, Ingrid, traveled across America and overseas to catch impressions of the land and its people and their different ways of life and heritage.
While growing up in Austria, he always had a great love for and interest in the visual and performing arts. During his ensuing academic career in the medical sciences over the next forty years, he always took along his sketchpad and travel set of watercolors over the world so they would be available at a moment's notice. In his fifties, he began to follow his increasing desire to devote once again more of his spare time and energies to the arts, taking art courses at the University of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Art Academy, Miami University, Oxford, and at the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, Colorado.
Over the years, he presented numerous art talks, lectures and demonstrations at diverse forums such as the Museum of Alabama, Cincinnati Art Museum, University of Indiana East, University of Southern California, Hillel Gallery, at national and international health science meetings, the Peruvian-North American Cultural Center, Cincinnati Art Club, Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors, and Mason Art Association.
Wolfgang described his style as expressionism influenced by fauvism. His use of vibrant colors was derived from the influence of German expressionists, particularly Gabriele Münter and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. In his expressionistic rendering of city scenes he depicted both the excitement and cultural richness of city life, including his beloved adoptive home of Cincinnati, and at other times themes such as the social and economic disparities and loneliness of their inhabitants.
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Intervening with perpetrators of intimate partner violence: A global perspective
Nearly 50 population-based surveys from 36 nations around the world find that from 10 to over 50% of women are physically assaulted by intimate partners during their lifetimes (Heise, Ellsberg & Gottemoeller, 1999). Men's victimization by intimate partners has not been well studied, particularly cross-nationally, but in the United States of America (USA) men experience significantly less intimate partner physical assault than women; women in the USA are victims of intimate partner violence at a rate about five times that of men (Rennison & Welchans, 2000). While intimate partner violence against women has been documented as occurring in at least 42 nations (Heise, Ellsberg & Gottemoeller, 1999; Horne, 1999; Kozu, 1999; Subramaniam & Sivayogan, 2001; Adinkrah, 1999; Garcia-Moreno, 2000), it is unlikely that these nations are exceptional – more plausibly, intimate partner violence is a widespread phenomenon with devastating consequences for families, communities and societies in all parts of the world.
The causes of partner violence by intimates remain only partially clear and are often debated. Two theories have heavily influenced intimate partner etiology research; social learning theory, or the idea that violence may be transmitted from one generation to the next, and feminist theory, or the idea that male dominance in society affects interpersonal relationships. The theory that stress may contribute to intimate violence perpetration has also been postulated (Jewkes, 2002). Due to the complexities of researching intimate partner violence, and maintaining victims' safety while doing so, it has been far easier for researchers to identify factors associated with the occurrence of intimate partner violence rather than those that are indisputably causal. Moreover, the majority of available research has defined intimate partner violence narrowly – as including only physical violence (or in some cases, physical and sexual assault). Restricting the definition of intimate partner violence in this way makes it easier to compare identified correlates of "intimate partner violence" across studies, but raises questions about whether a more expanded definition of the concept would be associated with the same, or additional, predictors.
Nonetheless, several factors have been found to be consistently associated with the physical assault of intimate partners, and as a result they are widely believed to play some causal role. At the societal level, these include poverty (Bachman & Saltzman, 1995; Hotaling & Sugarman, 1986; Aldorando & Sugarman, 1996) and social norms that reflect male dominance (Levinson, 1989). At the individual level, it has been demonstrated that those who physically assault their female intimates are more likely to have witnessed interparental violence (Hotaling & Sugarman, 1986), experienced child abuse (Wekerle & Wolfe, 1998; Alexander, Moore & Alexander, 1991; Simonelli et al., 2002), have been raised in families with patriarchal values (Fagot, Loerber & Reid, 1998; Gwartney-Gibbs, Stockard & Bohmer, 1987; Riggs & O'Leary, 1989), subscribe to patriarchal values (Yllo & Straus, 1990), and use alcohol or drugs more than their non-abusive counterparts (Hotaling & Sugarman, 1986; Tolman & Bennett, 1990; Kantor & Straus, 1989).
In response to the problem of intimate partner violence, most nations have developed legal, medical and social resources to support victims and their children. For example, many developed nations have passed "restraining order" legislation, which entitles victims of intimate partner violence to protective orders against their abusers. In some Latin American and Asian nations, specialized women's police stations, designed to improve the reporting of and response to violent crimes against women, have been established1. Rape kits, one-stop centres, sexual assault response teams, special examination centres and sexual assault nurse examiner programmes, as well as sensitivity training for healthcare professionals, have been implemented in developing and developed nations alike. Psychological counselling centres, legal literacy programmes, self-help groups, specialized shelters, supportive telephone hotlines, and peer advocacy programmes for intimate partner violence victims have been replicated in a wide variety of settings. International agencies, coalitions, and forums that promote victims' support services – such as the Women Against Violence Europe, Communities Against Violence Network (CAVNET), or the United Nations Interagency Campaign on Women's Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean – have been established and are expanding their membership base.
While the growth of victim advocacy and support services is an achievement, intervention with the perpetrators of intimate partner violence has received comparatively little attention from non-governmental, governmental and academic organizations outside the USA and Canada. Given that many abusers continue to terrorize their victims even after the relationship ends (Hart, 1996; Browne, 1987), providing support services to victims in the absence of intervention for perpetrators is a questionable practice. What is being done to change the beliefs, and actions, of intimate partner violence perpetrators worldwide?
"Batterer intervention programmes" are educational, therapeutic groups for intimate partner violence offenders. The first programmes were developed in the late 1970s in the United States; these included EMERGE in Boston, AMEND in Denver, and RAVEN in St. Louis. Shortly thereafter, the Duluth, Minnesota-based DAIP programme was created. Since that time, batterer intervention programmes have become a significant presence in the USA. Although national enrolment figures are unavailable, more than 3 000 men participate in batterer intervention groups in the state of Massachusetts alone every year (Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2001). Most batterer intervention programmes in the USA represent partnerships between local criminal justice, mental health and victim advocacy professionals.
Evaluation research indicates that batterer intervention programmes are at least modestly successful at preventing further abuse by abusers (Gondolf, 2002; Saunders, 1996). Reviews of batterer intervention programme evaluations from the USA and UK have found that roughly 50 percent to 90 percent of people who complete the programmes remain non-violent for follow-up periods ranging from six months to three years (Eisikovits & Edleson, 1989; Rosenfeld 1992; Tolman & Bennet, 1990). The largest-scale evaluation to date found that those who completed the programmes were two-thirds less likely to physically re-assault their partners as those who dropped out of them, even controlling for demographic and behavioural factors that might otherwise explain this difference (Gondolf, 2002). It appears that intervention also inhibits renewed acts of non-physical abuse by participants, although these nonphysical forms of abuse are prevalent among programme completers (e.g. 72% of men are verbally abusive 15 months after completing a programme) and are increasingly employed in the years following programme completion (Gondolf, 2002).
Critics of batterer intervention programme evaluations point out that abusers who participate in intervention programmes may simply become more skilful at concealing their renewed abuse from detection, and thus, evaluation results will reflect more positive change than truly occurs. Moreover, critics point out that the reported programme effects only pertain to men who complete the programmes, and that "programme drop-out" is a significant problem for programmes that serve court-mandated abusers. Indeed, it appears that 22–42% of abusers in US and Canadian programmes fail to complete their assigned programme (Rooney & Hanson, 2001; Saunders & Parker, 1989; DeMaris, 1989; Gondolf, 2002; Pirog-Good & Stets, 1986). These criticisms notwithstanding, it is possible to conclude on the basis of existing evaluations that batterer intervention programmes offer some hope for behaviour change among intimate partner violence offenders who are amenable to participation, though they are not a panacea.
Although there is variety across programmes, all batterer intervention programmes in the USA that operate according to available state standards offer 12–52 weeks of structured group intervention for approximately two hours each week (Healey, Smith & O'Sullivan, 1998). Groups are attended by adult males who acknowledge that they have perpetrated intimate partner violence. The group sessions are dedicated to reviewing the abuse that the participants have perpetrated, learning about non-violent alternatives to resolving conflict, studying the ways in which social norms or gender roles influence behaviour, and examining ways in which substance abuse, stress, and negative attribution may exacerbate violent behaviour. The group facilitators are not necessarily mental health professionals; many programmes employ formerly battered women and some employ former batterers as group leaders (Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2002). For many programmes, establishing and maintaining private contact with the victim of the abuser with whom they work is essential for ongoing monitoring of abusers' accountability.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, several USA states and Canadian provinces began to draft standards or guidelines for operating batterer intervention programmes in order to regulate the type and quality of service provided. As of 1997, 3 Canadian provinces had enacted standards (Dankwort & Austin, 1997) and 37 standards were in use in the USA (Austin & Dankwort, 1999). Critics of standards point out that requiring conformity among programmes may limit their ability to develop innovative techniques, or compare the utility of various methods across programmes. Moreover, some criticize existing standards and guidelines for their lack of scientific basis and for their permissiveness towards staff members who are not licensed clinicians (Austin & Dankwort, 1999). Despite the fact that particular advocacy groups may take issue with the content of a specific set of standards, at the very least these standards do provide a mechanism through which funding or regulatory agencies can hold programmes accountable for the services they procure.
A small number of articles and books on intervention with men who batter in nations other than the USA exist. However, there is no international sourcebook that delineates the type of intervention occurring in different nations, that describes the approach and training of the interventionists, or communicates the results of evaluations. This report seeks to make the first contribution towards such a comprehensive resource. While not exhaustive, it indexes fifty-six programmes for men who batter from around the world, including programmes in high, middle, and low income nations.
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A high school graduate who learned everything he knows about motorhomes from "the university of Winnebago" has navigated one of the industry's leading manufacturers over very bumpy terrain in the past year, according to the Associated Press.
Robert Olson, 58, took a job installing motorhome windows at Winnebago Industries Inc. at age 18 in hopes of saving money for college. He never left, foregoing a college education for on-the-job training that led him to where he is now, 40 years later, sitting in the CEO seat.
Actually, the seat he chose for a recent interview was a tan plush leather sectional sofa in the company's newly unveiled $300,000 Itasca Ellipse.
The 42-foot home on wheels — the company's largest motorhome ever – was parked outside Winnebago corporate headquarters in Forest City, Iowa, a small farming community of 4,500 people near the Iowa/Minnesota state line.
Production takes place in a campus of several factory buildings encompassing 2.5 million square feet. Components aren't just assembled here, but seat covers, dashboards, water tanks and cabinets — more than half of the motorhome parts — are manufactured here.
Olson proudly discusses the Ellipse's amenities: ceramic floor tile, granite countertops and cherry wood cabinetry. There's a gas fireplace in the living room beneath a large flat-screen television. A second TV faces the king-sized bed in the back of the RV, which you reach after passing a bathroom, and a washer and dryer enclosed in a hallway closet.
"This is what our customers who like to go camping are asking for," Olson said with a smile.
Going camping these days, it seems, isn't what it used to be.
Q: It's been a torturous couple of years for your industry, a 55% decline in shipments in the past year alone. Tight credit, high fuel prices and job losses hit you and your competitors hard. What has it been like?
A: I think you're going to be hard-pressed to look at any recession this industry has had where you've had 10 manufacturers go out of business. They've physically shut their doors, sold their assets and they're done. You've also got four other manufacturers who have filed for bankruptcy protection. Some of those are really big names in this industry.
Q: You've had to cut total number of workers by nearly 50% to around 1,700, close factories, make other cuts. Is that what enabled you to get through it?
A: We learned a long time ago that you always carry a war chest of cash in reserve and we did that again. We're still at a point, even being in this recession for about 24 months, where we have no debt. We think that's a very important part of our success.
Q: If the economy is beginning to recover, are you able to capture some of the customers who might have bought from former competitors?
A: We think we are. Those 10 manufacturers made up only 4-5% of the market, so there's not a lot there you'll gain. Some of those in bankruptcy — Monaco Coach Corp. and Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. — made up nearly a third of the market. One of the things that's a little disheartening to us is that you can file for bankruptcy and get a clean slate. You get to start over. So, now we've got two competitors we thought were about down and out who get to come back, and will probably be stronger than ever.
Right now we're just about 19% of the market and we've picked up some.
Q: Describe your average buyer?
You can't lose sight of the fact that projections are that until 2030 you're going to have 350,000 Baby Boomers per month joining our potential customer base.
You also have people living longer. We've got customers out there like at last year's annual rally of Winnebago motorhome owners, a guy was 87 years old and he was dickering on a coach.
Q: Any other factors that might have an impact on sales?
A: What I'm really excited about is that 2004 was one of the biggest years this industry has seen in volume. Our average trade-in cycle is four to six years. So we're right in the heart of those people wanting to trade their used coaches off for something new.
The whole market is starting to grow. Three years ago we had an African American RV club camped here and the Hispanic demographic is starting to grow.
One thing about it is, you've got my generation and even my kids' generation, their parents took them camping, they took them to the lake and they sat around a campfire. A lot of people now look to gain a simpler life. They're looking at wanting to share those types of memories with their kids.
Q: Tell me about your background. Where did you grow up?
A: I grew up in Osage. I was born and raised there. I went to school there, graduated from Osage High School. I'm very proud of my Iowa roots. My wife and I raised two children in Forest City, my daughter is 37 and my son is 34. As for my parents, my dad was a mechanic and worked at a Chevrolet garage in Osage when he was younger. He became a gas transport truck driver for a local oil company. My mom was a nurse's aide and a cook at Osage Community Hospital.
Q: How did your career path an Winnebago Industries lead you to the CEO's office?
My education was at the university of Winnebago. I've taken a lot of extra courses targeted toward the individual field I was in at the time. I'm a certified practitioner in production inventory control, for example. I got my break in the materials side of the business. It allowed me not only to see the material side but to interact with much of the manufacturing side. I then got the opportunity to move into manufacturing. I ran both the fabrications support areas and the assembly side of it, so I've seen all sides of the business and now I'm getting an education in sales, engineering and planning.
It's gone extremely well.
Q: Do you have a motorhome?
A: Not yet. I will say I'm in the process of building a shed right now and it was built around having a motorhome. That is the plan, when I do retire. You can't be in this industry and tout the beliefs of it and the memory-making part of it and not do it when you're done. Both my wife and I are looking forward to the day we get to do that.