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While I was pregnant my children and I visited our burral* for healing and learning time.
Country spoke to us and sent us the totems of the new teachers that would come into our lives during this new chapter. Country also began to speak about the learning journey that mother and new child would commence together. Country showed us a waterfall and gave us ochre to dance. During my pregnancy, whilst at our burral, I was gifted a dance to honour water.
Almost a month prior to Yiri being born we travelled again out to our burral to wait for Yiri to come.
The month was spent in different types of ceremony: making new friends and sharing in reconciliation ceremony; family healing time ceremony with my children and my mother; women's ceremony with other Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal friends and family; and personal ceremony time for me, alone, preparing for this birth and this new mutual learning journey.
All of it was wonderful. This month of experiences will always remain as one of the most rewarding months of my life. The birth preparation and the birth itself were everything that I needed to fulfill my dream of birthing on country strong in my cultural beliefs. It was healing for my mind, body and spirit and restorative of my inspiration.
I would love to live permanently at or near our burral in this simple way forever with my family. When I do die I wish to go to our burral to die and have my ashes spread there in that place.
The healing of the connection to country that the birthing stories of my three sons have given our family is immense. It was when I was pregnant with James that Mum and a friend first took me to the site (our burral) for healing time as a Wiradjuri woman. My Wiradjuri ancestor Annie Magick was born near the area and I immediately felt a strong connection to country in this place.
My first born, James, was born at Orange Base Hospital because I couldn't find a midwife to support me for an out of hospital birth. I had a completely natural birth on the hospital floor. James had his welcoming and naming ceremony at our burral when he was five days old. Just over two years later, Preston was born there on country, at our burral by the open fire. He was born on the floor inside a one-room stone cottage because of the winter.
Yiri has now been born in summer time at our burral. Born to the sound of the music made by the water flowing over the rocks of the Goulburn river. Born on the riverbank sand, under the overhang made by a cave, surrounded by a circle of ceremonial fires and under the starlight. Born to the Wiradjuri song sung by his ngama**.
With the growing connection to country that these birthing ceremonies have given to our family, I have much more deeply begun to understand the loss of what was. As a family we have a place in country to go to where our ancestors once lived. My children are connected strongly to mother earth there, as is our belief when the burral is planted with the great mother. We have been visiting this place for mutual healing and learning as a family for over seven years now.
Even years isn't very long in the story of our Wiradjuri and Ngemba people who have been custodians of this country since time began, since our creator and ancestors walked this earth. Now, as I often do, I begin to reflect on the great loss of the many generations of our Wiradjuri and Ngemba people since the invasion and desecration of this country. We have begun to repair a tiny fraction of what was and it is definitely making our family much stronger. But it is only a tiny fraction of what must be repaired. And we have had to work very hard for this small but powerful healing connection we have achieved as a family.
And yet the country there—this SACRED Wiradjuri birthing, healing and learning place—is under threat from mining at the Moolarban Coal Mine. I gave birth on a mine lease. The escarpments may collapse in the future if mining is not halted; the river may become too polluted for new born babies to touch in the future if our way of living in this country does not change drastically and with haste.
Everywhere we walk is land holding the stories of the ancestors of this country. Now we have contemporary custodians. My children and I are custodians of this land, our mother. Our burral holds our stories now. We love the country and do not want our burral or any other places in country anywhere in 'Australia' to be destroyed. We want people to take care of mother earth, our land, our rivers and each other.
Country revealed to me Yiri's birth totem in the lead up to his birth. Yiri's totem has a very strong connection to water.
Partly during my personal ceremonial time waiting for Yiri and partly after his birth, I was gifted a song in Wiradjuri language to honour water. It is the song to go with the dance I was given by country earlier during his pregnancy. I was singing Yiri the song to honour water during my contractions and immediately after he was born.
The next song and dance that I can feel readying within me is a song I'm being given about my mother and all mothers and mother earth. My amazing, strong and powerful mother is the reason our family has been given this healing gift of restoring our connection to country through these births. My mother has supported me in all my decisions to birth on country, has been present at every birth as our Elder and has given endless love (and much organisation) towards us achieving this as a family. I know my mum has seen the healing taking place within us and is feeling it herself. My mum has given me this gift. She was the one who first reconnected me with this special site and I haven't stopped going back and getting stronger since.
As I was giving birth to Yiri I was cradled in the arms of my mother as we were all cradled in the arms of our mother ancestors and our earth mother.
To birth on country and for my children and I to have our burral connection has been immense healing. Not all Aboriginal women can make the decision to birth on country due to health or other reasons, however those that wish to do so need to be fully supported to birth in the way that is our religious and cultural right.
However, all Aboriginal women and families, whether they birth in or out of hospital definitely need the opportunity to have access to special country where they can plant their children's burral and where they can share in women's business and family cultural and spiritual learning and healing. I'm hoping to make this vision a reality that is available to any Aboriginal woman and her family. I would like your support.
Think of a large expanse of bush in Wiradjuri country with fresh water from a river or creek and springs. Imagine eco buildings built by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal hands together, buildings powered by solar power. One of the buildings is a birthing centre for Aboriginal women who wish to birth inside but not in hospital. Nearby is the river and a ceremonial birthing circle for those who wish to birth outdoors.
Some of the buildings are little cottages so the families can come and stay for up to six months prior to their due date. During this time the families are receiving support to heal through culture, to heal from trauma, to heal from substance abuse, to heal from violence, to heal together. At one end of the property is a men's space and building where the men are learning and healing and preparing to support their families.
Even if women can't birth out of hospital for health reasons they can still come to this place for prenatal and postnatal healing and learning with their families and to have ceremony and plant their placenta if they wish—or we will support them to plan to do so in their own country.
We need midwives to attend the women at the healing property for prenatal and postnatal checkups and support and for the actual births. We need health professionals such as Indigenous counsellors and other health professionals and social workers to assist with healing and reintegration of families to broader society a few months after the births…but first we need the land to begin the process of building this vision. I'm asking you, all of you, if you can support this vision in some way, if you can please contact me via email (click on my name at the top of this article to email me).
I want to build a business selling products to raise money towards buying the land. Perhaps you can help with this business in some way, or perhaps you are in a position to donate finances or time to this vision so that we can get land. I really hope some of you can as I know an opportunity such as this will drastically change the lives of many as it has changed mine and my children's lives.
I would like to extend a special thank you to my midwife Hazel Keedle who I highly recommend. Hazel's website is at: www.midwifehazel.com. Also a huge thank you to my Doula Danielle Martin who is awesome! Danielle's blog is at: douladanielle.blogspot.com. And a very special thank you to my mother and my dear friends and family who came out to the site to help with Yiri's birth.
To help with the campaign to stop mining at this burral site please visit: www.savethedrip.com
*A Wiradjuri word meaning birthplace, placenta and place of placenta burial.
**A Wiradjuri word for mother (there are also other words for mother).


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The West Volusia Wolves are champions of the Southeast U.S. and headed to the Pop Warner Super Bowl on Saturday.
The undefeated Wolves used an explosive running game and a "lights-out" defense to whip the CFL Outlaws of Jacksonville 31-0 Saturday and win the Southeast Regional Championships in St. Cloud.
"Doesn't that rock?" said Volusia County Councilwoman Pat Northey by phone Saturday after watching her grandson, linebacker Jacob Patterson, join his defensive mates in putting a bigtime hurt on the Outlaws' offense.
Cameron Robinson, the assistant principal at Galaxy Middle School and head coach of the Wolves, said the running game propelled the Wolves to the blowout win, with halfbacks Devin McGhee and Amorie Archibald scoring two touchdowns each on runs of more than 40 yards.
And the defense, led by linebacker Peyton Henley and defensive end Tyrese Herring, "was lights out. We didn't give up but, like, two first downs the whole game," Robinson said.
Now the Wolves, a Junior Midgets team made up of boys between the ages of 10 and 14, will hit the practice field this week to prepare for the 8-team Super Bowl tournament against teams from across the nation being played at Disney's ESPN Wide World of Sports and televised on ESPN3.
Robinson was feeling pretty confident Saturday.
"When we win the first game (Dec. 1), we play Tuesday (Dec. 4) and when we win that one, we play for the national championship the following Friday (Dec. 7)," said Robinson.
He was less confident with a pressing issue off the field: money. Robinson said the team needs to raise about $15,000, or about $750 per player, to cover fees, hotel stays and other expenses.
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The Book Shelf, a fixture in downtown Tryon, North Carolina, since 1952, offers national and regional bestsellers, an up-to-date children's section, unique cards and gifts, local authors, used books, and more. Our selection is expanding everyday. We provide friendly and helpful service as well as the best view from any bookstore in the Carolinas! We also have a comfortable reading nook to spend your afternoons enjoying good books and coffee.


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By Tracy Wagers [1] Aug 01, 2012 0 [2]
Individualizing the Student
Parents can support their teenager on the spectrum in many ways, but one that often gets overlooked is the support provided by helping school staff see your young adult as an individual. Neurotypical adults—whether teachers, administrators, or coaches—may at most have only a superficial understanding of the autism spectrum. In addition, the autism spectrum is highly diverse in how different young people display their disability. A positive alternative is helping school staff to truly understand your teenager and his or his unique qualities and challenges.
My years of experience with students with various learning and mental health challenges have shown me the breadth of characteristics which appear in students on the spectrum. It is reflective of the great diversity among human beings, despite our constant efforts to easily label and categorize people. At the last school I headed, one young man struggled with social relationships with his peers, but grasped humor and sarcasm and communicated very well with many adults in his world. That teenager had a wide range of interests. Another student was highly verbal, but his verbosity reflected his tendency to obsess about two hobbies--computers and video games. His challenges with logical thinking included difficulty in consistently recognizing the effect of his actions on other students. A third student caught my attention at his enrollment meeting by correcting my pronunciation and grammar several times. As a middle school student, he was only beginning to struggle with the expanded demands of peer relationships. The result of the differences in these students is that my teachers had to be selective about which techniques to use to enhance these students' social skills. We could not use a cookie-cutter approach.
When educators start with a narrow template of what constitutes autism, the outcome is ineffective teaching. A better approach happens when teachers start with getting to know individual students and use the autism diagnosis as a resource for providing the best support possible. Focusing on the category and not the individual often leads to teachers simply being frustrated that the student isn't behaving in a predictable manner.
Making Friends
As a parent, you can actively cultivate relationships with teachers and administrators to help them view your child as an individual. One action parents can take is to provide all teachers with information about the child's likes, dislikes, motivators, and behavioral triggers. Effective teachers follow the best practice of building a positive rapport with their students, and personal information—such as a student's love of trains or the video game "Halo"—helps facilitate that rapport. The teacher or administrator's response to that information also assists you in determining how willing they are to work as a team with you. For example, during enrollment meetings, I took notes on students' likes, dislikes and behavioral triggers and disseminated those to every teacher in the school. I also set an expectation that teachers use that information. This practice made my teachers more effective. Our goal was not to teach autistic students; our goal and our responsibility were to teach individual students.
Of course, the trick is to do this in a way that helps you gain the teacher's cooperation. This process is often an exercise in identifying the most outstanding teachers in the school building. In general, the more a teacher exhibits an ability to listen to you and your concerns, the more likely he or she will also demonstrate the same behavior with your teenager. You can look at this experience as an opportunity to gain great skills in reading people and understanding their motivations—skills you are also likely to want your young adult to develop.
Using stories will also be particularly helpful as you speak with teachers about your student's needs. Many teachers best remember specific qualities about our students when a concrete example in the form of a story reinforces the information parents are providing. This approach likely gives us a visual image to return to when we next encounter that student and need to respond differently than we habitually do. It's even better to learn enough about an educator to make the story meaningful to them in some way. For example, if you as a parent know that your son, James, has the same name as his social studies teacher's son, you have a way of engaging with that teacher on a personal basis, which may be far more effective than engaging in the more formal teacher and parent stereotypes. Again, you will be bringing forth your student's humanity and linking it to the teacher's experience.
Remember the Big Picture
When it comes to our kids, it's easy to get tunnel vision. We love them deeply and know that they need our support and advocacy. The challenge is that our tenacity on their behalf can come across to educators as pushy and even interfering. Of course on one level, that reaction is irrelevant; we still have to do what we believe is best for our teenagers. It can be helpful, though, to view any troubling situation—such as a conflict with a teacher or another student—from a broader perspective. By taking a short time to view a situation from other vantage points—the student's, the teacher's, the principal's, and so on—we are better able to help bring about a solution. In addition, looking at the big picture helps us to not take other people's reactions personally, which then allows us to listen, gather information, and strategize more effectively. For example, an unresponsive teacher may be a genuine problem and your student may need to be in a different class. On the other hand, if a parent can patiently and nicely reiterate her concerns again the following week, instead of going directly to the principal to address a problem, she may find the previous response was a one-time incident. Perhaps the teacher was coming down with the flu and was desperate to leave school for the day when you came to her classroom to discuss a problem. Errant negative responses can be dismissed with this approach, while if the teacher's negativity or unwillingness to treat your student as an individual is ongoing, you may have gathered the information needed to make a meeting with the principal far more effective.
The example above also speaks to the value of perseverance in helping your student succeed. It could take a long time. And, breaking down any conflict or solution into a step-by-step process models effective problem-solving for your student. For example, you have a negative encounter with your student's English teacher and you are feeling furious about it. Your impulse might be to stomp directly into the principal's office and create a scene. And while a calm, effective principal might hear your frustration and help you to process it, and then move on to finding a solution that supports your student's growth, you may not be dealing with a school leader who possesses those qualities. Furthermore, your student may not have the skills to make sense of a parental outburst in a meaningful way. So a better approach across the board is to model the practice of calming yourself completely before you connect with the principal, especially in the presence of your child. This can be challenging, but is a great opportunity to help your teenager learn good social skills. You can also enhance that learning process by mindfully describing the steps you go through to calm yourself and to plan your next step.
Flying on Their Own
Finally, when your student is ready, you can also help him learn to advocate for himself in the ways described above. All the skills parents can use to positively and effectively advocate for their students are skills that both parents and educators know these young people need to learn. Whether your teenager has high-functioning autism or Asperger's, he or she will benefit from repeated, patient, clearly-described modeling of the constructive ways in which people communicate to solve problems and to develop relationships. Parents can role play with their students, ask probing questions of their teenager about the behavior of people on television or in the grocery store, and openly explain their own behavior as parents. All these practices let young men and women experience and succeed at being self-advocates in a safe environment.
In the End
What most of us want in life—whether we are neurotypical or experiencing the autism spectrum firsthand—is to be understood and known not only (and not foremost) as a member of a group, but as individuals. Helping your young adult be seen and appreciated for his love of pepperoni pizza, his obsession with anime, and his great vocabulary is not only vital for the important goal of giving him a sense of being valued as a person, but also because it helps the educators who teach him be more patient, more supportive, more understanding and ultimately more effective in their work.


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New phase of 'Boys in Blue' exhibit opens at Lincoln Presidential
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[January 18, 2013]
SPRINGFIELD -- The Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library launched the third phase of its popular
"Boys in Blue" exhibit Tuesday with new pictures and documents that
spotlight Civil War prisons and prisoners, immigrant and Jewish
soldiers, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
The exhibit, which is free
of charge, opened Jan. 15 and runs seven days a week through March
of 2014. Visitors can see prisoners' drawings of the horrible
conditions at Union and Confederate POW camps, a medical kit used by
an Army surgeon, a prisoner's coat, and more.
"Boys in Blue" is part of the Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency's commemoration of the Civil War's 150th anniversary and the
role played by soldiers from the Land of Lincoln. More than 90,000
people visited the first two stages of the exhibit, which will
continue with a fourth stage next year.
Staff at the presidential library combed through thousands of
original letters, photographs, newspapers, books and artifacts to
tell the stories of Illinois soldiers from all backgrounds.
After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, nearly 200,000
former slaves and free men served in the Union Army and Navy. Army
discharge papers for John Williams of the 29th U.S. Colored Troops
are included in this exhibit.
Immigrants living in Illinois had come from Ireland, Poland,
Prussia, Sweden, Germany and Hungary, and many of them served during
the war. The Irish Brigade fought well in many battles, including
Antietam. Jewish soldiers from Illinois also fought and died. Capt.
Noah E. Mendell of the 7th Illinois Infantry was the first soldier
from Sangamon County to fall in the war.
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The notorious Confederate prisons camps Andersonville and Libby
are featured in "Boys in Blue," as are Union prisons Camp Douglas in
Chicago and Camp Butler east of Springfield. An oversized drawing of
Andersonville is particularly striking, but there are more personal
items, too.
Twenty-one-year-old Thomas Doremus Vredenburgh of Springfield was
taken prisoner after the Battle of Vicksburg in 1863. A local woman
gave him a Confederate jacket to keep warm in prison. That jacket is
now part of the exhibit.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, 112 N. Sixth St. in
Springfield, is home to nearly 13 million items pertaining to
Illinois history. "Boys in Blue" will be open to the public daily
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., although the library's reading room and other
departments are closed on weekends.
The library is adjacent to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Museum, which is open seven days a week and requires paid admission.
The museum brings Abraham Lincoln's story to life through immersive
exhibits and displays of original artifacts. In addition to its
permanent exhibits, the museum is presenting "To Kill and to Heal:
Weapons and Medicine of the Civil War."
www.presidentlincoln.org for more information about programs and
exhibits at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
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NEW YORK — Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and Rockefeller University have identified the first gene to be linked to a rare condition in which babies are born without a spleen, putting those children at risk of dying from infections they cannot defend themselves against. The gene, Nkx2.5, was shown to regulate genesis of the spleen during early development in mice.
The study, published online May 3 in Developmental Cell, raises the hope that a simple genetic screening test for Nkx2.5 mutations can be developed that will alert parents that their developing child may be missing the organ, which could then be confirmed with a diagnostic scan.
"The great news is that with the appropriate preventive antibiotic treatment these children will not succumb to fatal infections. This test could potentially save lives," says the study's lead investigator, Dr. Licia Selleri, an associate professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Because defense against infections depends, in part, on the spleen, children known to be born without the organ require treatment with a regimen of antibiotic therapy throughout their lives. But most diagnoses of this condition, congenital asplenia, are made during an autopsy after a child dies, suddenly and unexpectedly, from a rapidly lethal infection, usually from bacteria that causes pneumonia or meningitis, Dr. Selleri says. "For those reasons, we believe this condition is not quite as rare as believed. Not every child who dies from an infection is given an autopsy."
Long search for genetic culprits
Patients with congenital asplenia usually lack a spleen as the sole abnormality, but sometimes have abnormalities of the heart and blood vessels. The majority of those cases arise sporadically, so are not believed to be inherited. One form of this disorder is known as Isolated Congenital Asplenia (ICA), characterized by a spleen that is missing but with no other developmental abnormalities. The cause is believed to be genetic, but no candidate genes in humans had been found before this study.
This research project was a collaboration between Dr. Selleri and her colleagues, and Rockefeller University's Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova, professor in the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Casanova had led a previous study describing 20 ICA patients, of which most children suffered their first serious infection by age one, and nine died of an invasive pneumonia.
Dr. Selleri has long been studying congenital asplenia in the laboratory using the mouse as a model system and had previously discovered that a transcription factor known as Pbx is the prime regulator of spleen development in mouse models. Dr. Matthew Koss, a recent Ph.D. graduate who had studied in Dr. Selleri's lab, led the effort to create a strain of mice that lacked Pbx in the spleen, and were born without a spleen. He identified a regulatory module that is controlled by Pbx and targets Nkx2.5, a gene downstream of Pbx, in the developing spleen of the mouse embryo. He also discovered that Pbx controls the growth of the spleen by directly regulating the expression of Nkx2.5, which in turn controls cell proliferation within the primitive spleen organ.
Then, in Dr. Casanova's lab, Alexandre Bolze, a graduate student, sequenced genetic samples from ICA patients and analyzed them using whole exome sequencing technology, which allows sequencing of the entire coding genome of multiple patients — a technique routinely employed by Dr. Casanova. Bolze found that Nkx2.5 was mutated in a family of asplenic patients, some of which died from lethal infections — confirming the importance of Nkx2.5 in human congenital asplenia as in the mouse model of the disorder.
"This study illustrates the unique strength in using mouse models and human genetics hand-in-hand," says Dr. Selleri. "It demonstrates how genetic pathways identified in mouse models can be exploited to further understand the pathogenesis of human disease towards a better prenatal diagnosis."
She says that other patients and families with this disorder need to be studied in order to develop a comprehensive prenatal test. "It may be that there are other mutations that are acting in concert or independently of Nkx2.5 in other asplenic patients," Dr. Selleri says. Those studies in human patients are currently underway in the Rockefeller University lab, while at the Weill Cornell lab additional studies on mouse models are ongoing.
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the March of Dimes and Birth Defects Foundation, the Associazione Italiana Ricera Cancro, the Marie Curie Foundation and the St. Giles Foundation.
Other co-authors include Dr. Andrea Brendolan, Dr. Matilde Saggese, Dr. Terence D. Capellini and Dr. Ekaterina Bojilova from Weill Cornell Medical College; Dr. Bertrand Boisson from Rockefeller University; Dr. Owen W.J. Prall, Dr. David Elliott, Dr. Mark Solloway and Dr. Richard P. Harvey from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Darlinghurst, Australia; Dr. Elisa Lenti from the Fondazione Centro San Raffaele Del Monte Tabor in Milan, Italy; Dr. Chisa Hidaka from the Hospital of Special Surgery; Dr. Ching-Pin Chang from Stanford University School of Medicine; and Dr. Nizar Mahlaoui from Necker Hospital in Paris, France.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University's medical school located in New York City, is committed to excellence in research, teaching, patient care and the advancement of the art and science of medicine, locally, nationally and globally. Physicians and scientists of Weill Cornell Medical College are engaged in cutting-edge research from bench to bedside, aimed at unlocking mysteries of the human body in health and sickness and toward developing new treatments and prevention strategies. In its commitment to global health and education, Weill Cornell has a strong presence in places such as Qatar, Tanzania, Haiti, Brazil, Austria and Turkey. Through the historic Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, the Medical College is the first in the U.S. to offer its M.D. degree overseas. Weill Cornell is the birthplace of many medical advances — including the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer, the synthesis of penicillin, the first successful embryo-biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., the first clinical trial of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, and most recently, the world's first successful use of deep brain stimulation to treat a minimally conscious brain-injured patient. Weill Cornell Medical College is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where its faculty provides comprehensive patient care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. The Medical College is also affiliated with the Methodist Hospital in Houston. For more information, visit weill.cornell.edu.


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Oliver North: Iraqi prisoner abuse "the kind of thing that you might find on any college campus nowadays"
Appearing as a guest on the May 11 edition of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, FOX News Channel host Oliver North followed other conservative commentators (such as radio host Rush Limbaugh and Weekly Standard online editor Jonathan V. Last) in comparing the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. prison guards to behavior on a college campus.
The prisoner abuse, North said, was committed by "a group of obviously twisted young people with leashes and weird sex acts, the kind of thing that you might find on any college campus nowadays, being perpetrated by people in uniform." Two days earlier, in a May 9 Commentary for The Washington Times, North wrote, "The media's 'compassion' for these imprisoned miscreants and suspected terrorists [the abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison] is a front for their journalistic jihad against the [George W. Bush] administration." From the May 11 episode of Hannity & Colmes:
NORTH: The official response of the United States is to catch and punish the perpetrators of this heinous act [the murder of American civilian Nick Berg]. That's what we must do.
COLMES: And there certainly has been outrage. There's been outrage in this country. There's outrage globally. You don't feel there's enough outrage about this? I've been hearing outrage all day.
NORTH: Alan -- Alan, for 13 or 14 days now, all we have seen on the front pages of America's newspapers is a group of obviously twisted young people with leashes and weird sex acts, the kind of thing that you might find on any college campus nowadays, being perpetrated by people in uniform.
Oliver North was a member of the National Security Council staff during the Reagan administration and is founder and honorary chairman of the conservative public policy organization Freedom Alliance. His felony conviction in connection with the Iran-contra scandal was overturned by an appeals court that said his appearance before Congress may have influenced his criminal trial [USA Today, 7/9/97].
North is a nationally syndicated columnist and the host of the weekly FOX News Channel series War Stories with Oliver North. North is also the author of a book -- based on his tour in Iraq embedded with Marine and Army units during Operation Iraqi Freedom -- titled War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom (Regnery Publishing, November 2003). The book includes a free DVD featuring an hour-long FOX News Channel episode of War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom. According to a Publishers Weekly review, FOX shares copyright on the book.


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Sheldon Carter
Digital Extremes' Star Trek won't be run-and-gun
Despite the high octane teaser, Digital Extremes is keen to ensure Star Trek isn't just a shooter tie-in.
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Quick Quotes: Darkness 2's project director Sheldon Carter on iPad
"I think the home console experience is going to be with us for a long time. Do I think that the iPad will encroach? Absolutely, it has to. You think about how many iPads are out there already, iPads and other mobile devices. But I don't think it'll be exclusive, I don't think that just […]
Quick Quotes: Digital Extremes on story being the "final frontier" for games
"I think it's a progression that everyone's going to get to eventually. I'm not trying to say we're ahead of the curve or anything like that, that's just the choice we made for this game. I think story is the final frontier for games. We're kind of getting there tech-wise. Mechanics-wise it's cool that we're […]


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This Homeland Security Employee Is Preparing for a Coming Race War
Abby Ohlheiser
A Department of Homeland Security employee who works on, among other things, the procurement of guns and ammunition for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, spends his nights and weekends preparing for a coming race war and advocating for anti-gay causes, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Meet Ayo Kimathi, a.k.a. "the Irritated Genie," who told his bosses at the DHS that his anti-white, anti-gay site, "War is on the Horizon," was just an entertainment site that sells concert and lecture videos.
You see, DHS employees, even those with office jobs like Kimathi's, have to get outside activities approved by their supervisors, according to the SPLC. Kimathi's former supervisor told the watchdog group, which tracks hate speech and groups in the U.S., that despite her former employee's banal description of his extracurricular activities, the actual content of the site left her "stunned." She continued: "To see the hate, to know that he is a federal employee, it bothered me." She added that had Kimathi's site been accurately described to the agency, there's no way the DHS would have signed off on it. Possibly to keep his bosses from looking up his work, Kimathi used only the site's acronym, WOH, in his permission request. In addition to his involvement in the purchase of ICE supplies, Kimathi also had a public profile for the agency, speaking at vendor events. As "Irritated Genie," Kimathi also has a public profile as a black supremacist advocate.
The content of Kimathi's advocacy demands some clarification. In some (white, conservative) circles, the term "black supremacist" is applied with a very wide brush. Black supremacy was the implication of Maine Governor Paul LePage's reported comments that President Obama "hates white people," for instance. Kimathi's site is not in this vein of this imagined threat — on the contrary, War on the Horizon calls Obama a "a treasonous mulatto scum dweller," and lists him among the movement's enemies (also on the list? Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, and Condoleezza Rice, among others) Instead, the DHS employee advocates for:
- The mass murder of white people. His site says, "warfare is eminent, and in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites – more than our christian hearts can possibly count."
- A conspiracy theory arguing that white people are trying to "homosexualize" black men in order to make them more effeminate and therefore weaker. As part of this, Kimathi, praises a series of laws in some African countries that criminalize LGBT behavior and people. Kimathi also advocates for the supremacy of black men above black women — he offers tips on his site, for instance, "to help every Black woman in the world understand what she needs to do to keep a strong Black man happy."
Conservatives don't tend to be fans of the Southern Poverty Law Center: this is the same group that labeled The American Family Association and pretty much the entire anti-Islam movement as hate groups. But their report seems primed to stoke the fires of a set of American conservatives who already believe the DHS is hoarding ammunition (contrary to the evidence), either to build a secret army, or to prevent gun owners from accessing it.
Update: ICE's Deputy Press Secretary Gillian Christensen responded in a statement to this story:
ICE does not condone any type of hateful rhetoric or advocacy of violence of any kind against anyone. Every ICE employee is held to the highest standard of professional and ethical conduct. Accusations of misconduct are investigated thoroughly and if substantiated, appropriate action is taken.
Christensen declined to comment, as a matter of ICE policy, on whether the agency was currently investigating Kimathi or not.


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Wanted: Gator trappers
Marion County interviewing for gator trapper jobs
Marion County is in need of some gator trappers.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is accepting applications for nuisance gator trappers through Jan. 31.
Applicants must live in Marion County, must have a working email address, must have a clean criminal history and no fish and wildlife law violations.
Nuisance alligators are generally more than four feet in length and pose a threat to people, pets or property. The trappers are called in to remove the gators, and once trapped, the gator becomes property of the trapper.
Trappers are compensated by selling the alligator products, such as the hides and meat, but they may also receive a small expense reimbursement, according to the FWC.
The FWC says trapper positions are rarely available because of little turnover.
For an application, visit MyFWC.com/Alligator
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HOMESTEAD (AP) - The attorney for a woman facing prostitution charges says an undercover western Pennsylvania detective went too far when he allowed the woman to begin a sex act before arresting her.
Homestead Officer Ronald Depellegrin writes in his criminal complaint that 36-year-old Diana Gross began the sex act before he arrested her March 22 after answering a personal ad she allegedly placed.
Gross has been ordered to trial on prostitution charges, but her attorney, Michael Waltman, says the officer's actions are 'shocking, outrageous and clearly intolerable' and is threatening to sue.
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala has previously said officers who have sex with suspects could be barred from bringing charges, depending on specific circumstances.
Zappala has since determined this prosecution can go forward, but says it's up to Homestead officials to discipline the officer if they see fit.


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The fastest growing brand in the plant industry wants to know what you think about our plants and ideas. High Fashion meets Horticulture. That's Hort Couture!
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
IGC Trends 2012
Many of the newest and hottest ideas for the Independent Garden Center revolve around the idea of growing our own foods. Canning, backyard chickens, seed sowing and buying organic are all opportunities for the IGC to capitalize on in 2o12. This phenomenon also gives way to sales in catagories such as hydroponics, drip irrigation and organic controls.
Here goes our list of the Top Ten Trends to be prepared for in 2012 at your IGC-
1. Locavores- The demand for local vegetable and herb plants will continue to grow in 2012. With the local IGC leading the way as the experts in "grow your own" we can continue to grow this catagory for years to come. At Hort Couture we are partnering with companies such as Peace Tree Farm in Pennsylvania to produce our Culinary Couture Collection to bring not only the finest varieties and quality to the market but also from repuatable companies that are going the extra mile to not only use sustainable processes but are working to pioneer them. Promote your local grown plants!
2. Worm Castings- This is a fast growing catagory in soil conditioners. We particularly like Worm Power that is a company working to produce a very high quality product. Visit http://www.wormpower.net/ to learn more. This is a high margin item that gardeners will be looking for in 2012.
3. Backyard Chicks- Many gardeners are looking to add a few beautiful poultry to their gardens in 2012. Insect control, free fertilizer and fresh eggs are part of the allure. There are tons of exotic varieties that can be offered. Find out what your local laws are for selling and also for raising chickens in your town. Imagine a fun event with a truck of baby chicks arriving on a Saturday morning. Kids will never forget your store!
4. Miniature Gardening- Talk about a fun trend! Both miniature and fairy gardening continues to be a hot catagory for the IGC. From miniature plants to very cool accessories to even fairy potting soil... get this catagory going early at your store with an early Spring seminar or two to get some interest started. Companies such as Georgetown Home & Garden and Jeremie both have great accessories such as furniture, fairies, fencing and more.
5. On Line Gardening- Wow! This is such a different world to garden in. Many gardeners now spend endless nights discussing gardening on Twitter at events such as the popular #gardenchat, reading through the endless array of gardening blogs and websites or joining Facebook Groups with names such as Garden Geeks and Plant Porn. There is even a new on line gardening game called GARDEN QUEST that will help lead customers to our stores. The IGC can really learn and gain new customers through social media. How can your company meet new customers on line?
6. Outdoor Orchids- Orchids are gorgeous in the house but have never been part of the container gardening and landscaping discussion. The new PATIO & GARDEN Orchids from Hort Couture are game changers. After excellent results in trials in such hot spots as the Dallas Arboretum and at our trialing facilities in Homestead, Florida... these orchids can take the heat and keep blooming all summer. Think of this as the new "Geranium" for the mixed container!
7. Canning- Becoming the local expert on vegetable and herb gardening is a great opportunity for the IGC... offering some seminars on canning can be a fun event that can attract new customers to your business. Consider carrying canning supplies at your store this Spring to let people know they can use your staff expertise to learn how to grow and store fresh veggies.
8. Salad Mania- There are so many ways we can sell lettuce to our customers. Decorative containers, growing crops in our empty greenhouses in slower times to service local restaurants, offering endless mixes to keep customers coming back for more. Look at our Culinary Couture Seed Collection for unique mixes such as our Soul Food Salad and Urban Jungle. Fun ideas that are so easy and delicious!
9. Bright Colors- The 2012 Pantone Color of the Year is Atomic Tangerine. Bright colors in flowers are going to be hot for the next few years. People are going to want to get the maximum bang for their buck so why not make it Atomic Tangerine! Take a look at our new Petunia PANACHE 'Hells Bells' for something totally new in the catagory, and yes it is Atomic Tangerine in color! Pottery is moving the same way. Check out the new bright colors from Jackson Pottery in larger containers. Make gardening fun with bright colors.
10. The Smart Horticulturist- The trend of local shopping is for real. People are tired of the fight to purchase at the big boxes. We have an amazing secret weapon that will make the IGC a great experience for the consumer. WE ARE SMART! There are so many amazingly creative and articulate horticulturists out there. The big chains can not replicate this and we have to leverage this to the max. Be confident and make your store the source for great information and conversation about gardening in your community.
We hope you will take the time to plan properly to make your 2012 your best year yet. The key for the Independent Garden Retailer is to find ways to differentiate your store from the others. Maybe some small part of this blog will help!
Happy New Year from Hort Couture
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- Form and Foliage said...
Thanks for this comprehensive list. It's very interesting to see how trends develop and converge. We'd like to vote for plants that have Tangerine leaves, too! Have you seen the spring and fall color on many Japanese maples? Not to mention Berberis 'Orange Rocket'...
- December 29, 2011 at 7:14 AM
- Kylee Baumle said...
The gardening world is an exciting place to be right now! Love your countdown of trends, Jim.
- December 29, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Arlena Schott said...
Jim and every on there at Hort Couture thank you for this wonderful information that leads us in to another exciting year of getting out in the garden , you are always leading the way. Green Blessings from Arlena's Garden Wise Living
- December 30, 2011 at 7:59 AM
- Unknown said...
It's the year to be sharing the garden. I'm looking forward to the shares you have coming our way in 2012
- January 2, 2012 at 3:07 PM
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- January 4, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- Jonah Holland @LewisGinter said...
Thanks for posting this. It's always great to read someone's insight for trends. Especially interesting: outdoor orchids!
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The eighth issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor concludes with an article on ways to cut costs and time when developing national drug programmes. The article states that the technical capabilities of Latin American and Caribbean nations have increased. Neighbouring countries should rely on this expertise instead of expending resources on a foreign consultant, who is often unfamiliar with the native language and culture. The Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC) strategy is an agreement of mutual cooperation to work together in a specific area of development. The WHO Regional Office for the Americas has been promoting the TCDC programme through four initiatives in Central America and Panama, the Andean region, the southern cone countries and the Caribbean countries. The initiatives address health problems within specific countries that have been selected through collaboration with the respective ministers of health. France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United States have contributed financial and technical support for the TCDC initiatives.
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The Miss America Organization has partnered with Children's Miracle Network Hospitals to raise funds and awareness for children's hospitals throughout the United States. Contestants competing in Miss America-sponsored pageants are now expected to raise a minimum of $100 in donations for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and the Miss America Scholarship Fund. It's not an entrance fee, but a new service requirement. In addition, each new Miss America becomes the goodwill ambassador for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, speaking on behalf of kids treated at children's hospitals and raising awareness around the country. It's just another way the Miss America Organization helps young women leave a legacy of service, scholarship, and support.
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Kenya's first female Olympic Champ Pamela Jelimo
Bolt's world records
Kenenisa Bekele's 5k and 10k Olympic double.
Kenya's first female Olympic Champ Pamela Jelimo
Bolt's world records
Kenenisa Bekele's 5k and 10k Olympic double.
Because I'm bored, here's my top 10:
10. Stephanie Rice in the 4 x 100 IM. Whatever she's doing or not doing with Michael Phelps, this was a ****ing impressive swim. Coventry beat the WR as well but was a distant second.
9. That Russian high jumper whose name escapes me. How many times has she broken the WR now? Ridiculous.
8. Rowing - Olaf Tufte in the Single Sculls and Caroline & Georgina Evers-Swindell in the Double Sculls. Who cares about a lack of wins between Olympics when you win back-to-back Gold medals in the races that really matter?
7. Indoor Volleyball - US men's team winning two weeks after their coach's father was killed.
6. Usain Bolt in the 200m, beating Johnson's amazing record.
5. Kayaker representing Togo winning the bronze medal, snapping his paddle in celebration.
4. Jason Lezak's last 50m of the 4 x 100m relay.
3. German weightlifter
2. Phelps in the 100m butterfly. He was 7th with 50m to go. 7th!
1. Usain Bolt, 100m.
Elbow dislocation man
The big weightlifter
41 year old American swimmer
The one I enjoyed the most was probably Ohorugu's run, I watched it in the canteen in work and was watching the wrong girl for about 300m, I'm going "oh **** she's last" and my mate says "what are you on? she's 3rd," I glanced over to the right lane and saw her steaming through, awesome. Enjoyed our Boxing gold as well, but then I enjoy anything when I'm drunk that early in the day (Y)
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RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
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Bashed, stabbed and tied-up: Bloodied woman stumbles into pub
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A YOUNG Wodonga woman was tied-up, stabbed and bashed in a horrific 12-hour ordeal that ended when, with a fractured neck, she walked into the Koetong Hotel to get help.
Detective Leading Sen-Constable Aaron Ibbott, of Wodonga police, said the 20-year-old was in her Lawrence Street home when she answered a knock at her front door at 1.30am on Saturday.
It will be alleged her former partner, in a psychosis from ice and the prescription drug Xanax, forced his way in, assaulted her, bound her hands and feet with wire and dragged her to his car.
Sen-Constable Ibbott said her cries for help could be heard at the eastern end of Lawrence Street.
She was allegedly assaulted repeatedly over the next 1½ hours, he said.
"She was bashed senseless."
She was stabbed five times in her legs with a 20-centimetre kitchen knife as they drove along the Murray Valley Highway towards Tallangatta.
The man held one knife to her throat and had another in his other hand as he drove.
Near the Koetong Hotel, the driver lost control on a bend and the car rolled down a 30-metre embankment near a stream.
The woman fractured her neck and lost consciousness.
"He's dragged her out of the car and covered the car with branches," Sen-Constable Ibbott said.
The woman regained consciousness at 2.30pm, almost 13 hours later, on a sand bar near the stream with her former partner lying nearby.
She managed to get up and walk to the Koetong Hotel where publican Jennie Vinge sat inside talking with family.
The woman told them she had been bashed and asked if she could use the phone.
She wore pyjama shorts, she was sunburnt and blood had dried all over her.
"She looked like she had been dragged through the dirt and the mud," Ms Vinge said.
"There were marks on her like she had been tied up ... she had a swollen lip, black eye, they looked like stab wounds on her leg."
They sat her on a chair and kept talking to her to keep her conscious while waiting for paramedics and police.
Ms Vinge's son ran down the embankment where he found the man lying by the creek.
Sen-Constable Ibbott said both were taken to Albury Base Hospital. The woman's injuries were serious but not life-threatening and the man, who was placed under police guard, sustained minor injuries.
He was taken into custody on Sunday afternoon.
Wodonga detectives charged a 31-year-old Albury man with aggravated burglary, false imprisonment, intentionally cause serious injury, threats to kill, conduct likely to cause death or serious injury and other assault offences.
He was remanded in custody on Monday morning and will face the Wodonga Magistrates' Court on January 8.
Sen-Constable Ibbott asked anyone who heard the woman's cries for help, witnessed the incident on Lawrence Street or saw a silver Nissan Navara D22 twin cab utility between 1.30am and 3am to phone police on (02) 6049 2600 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
He said information could be given anonymously.