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As her ! ve-and-a-half-year-old son ran around a table, asking for a toy car being ra" ed, Becky Lewis said she is overjoyed because her son Wyatt now asks for things in short sentences.
Lewis, of Herrin, has taken her son to the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Carbondale at the Wham Building since June. At the center, sta# work with him on his speaking issues. She said in the short time he has been going she has seen a change.
“He talks to us a lot, trying to tell us things he understands and wanting us to know he knows what this is and what that is,” she said.
Brandy Girtman, of Jonesboro, also takes her daughter to the center for therapy. She organized a fundraiser for the center Sunday called Rockin’ Out to Knock Out Autism at the Great Boars of Fire in Cobden. All proceeds of the event — which featured two bands, food, bounce houses and ra" ed baskets — will go to the center.
Girtman, of Jonesboro, works at the restaurant and organized the event, for which everything was a donation.
Kirsten Schaper, clinical director at the center and senior lecturer at the Rehabilitation Institute, said during the past ! ve years state funding for the center has been cut by almost $150,000, so fundraisers are necessary. She said the center runs on an annual $400,000 grant and receives minimal support from the university.
“Under the previous administration, we were held up as a signature program and we
were promoted as a way to attract students,” she said. “Under the current administration … they let us use the room and they turn on the lights.”
$ e center works with three di# erent areas: training graduate students, providing direct services and research, Schaper said.
She said 26 graduate students work at the center and are trained to work with the children. $ ey provide therapy in the center but also work directly with four school districts. She said the center is the only autism center in the southern region of the state and covers the bottom 32 counties.
She said the center focuses on research of teaching methods and how to e# ectively teach graduate assistants to work with the children.
“If you have met one person with autism, you have met one person with autism. $ ey are all completely di# erent,” she said.
$ ere are di# erent levels of functioning in autism, she said, because it is a spectrum
disorder that re% ects the changes they go through in their life.
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, autism is a range of complex neurodevelopment disorders, characterized by social impairments, communication di& culties, and restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior.
$ e institute estimates that six out of every 1,000 children will have autism.
“We may see a child at two and think the child is severely autistic but then in a couple of years they are getting an education and have friends,” she said.
Jessie Loverude, a senior from Carbondale studying communication disorders and science, said a' er working at the center for a year she wants to work somewhere just like it a' er she graduates.
Community rocks out for autism center
ELI MILEURDaily Egyptian
Wyatt Lewis, center, 5, of Herrin, plays in a bounce house with other children Sunday at the Rockin’ Out to Knock Out Autism fundraiser at Great Boars of Fire in Cobden. Wyatt’s mother, Becky Lewis, said he was always afraid of bounce houses, but when they got to the fundraiser and saw them he was excited. “You never know with him. Every day is a different experience,” Becky said. Wyatt was diagnosed with autism, and now attends sessions at the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at SIU. “For all of his issues, he is still just a young boy,” Becky said.
LYNNETTE OOSTMEYER | DAILY EGYPTIAN
COBDEN COLORFEST GETS CREATIVE Rose Hogan, left, of Cobden, Hyrum Robinson, center, 4, of Murphysboro, and Matthew Robinson, right, 6, of Murphysboro, participate in face painting Saturday at the Cobden ColorFest. This year’s ColorFest was held
at Cobden Community Park and included face and pumpkin painting, art and craft vendors, food and live music featuring Poison Siouxmac, Rog and Bob, Parsley and Sagebrush, and Free Range Chicks.
NATHAN HOEFERT | DAILY EGYPTIAN
SARAH SCHNEIDERDaily Egyptian
Parents of children with autism organize fundraisers to keep center open a' er budget cuts
Grant could make pool dreams reality
Carbondale could get a new aquatics center after years of effort thanks to a recent multimillion-dollar grant from the state.
“Our work is really cut out for us now ... to move it forward from a piece of paper idea to reality,” said Sally Wright, chair of the aquatics center citizen’s advisory committee to the Carbondale Park District.
The Park District was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Oct. 3 to construct an outdoor aquatics center. State Representative Mike Bost said he told Park District Executive Director Kathy Renfro about the grant.
“I couldn’t get my head around it,” Renfro said.
Bost said the money came from the federal government and was distributed by the state.
Wright said the grant covers half the projected $5 million project, which has been developed over several years by the aquatics center committee in collaboration with the Park District. The grant is the only money raised so far, she said.
The plan is to construct the center at the Superblock facility on land the Park District already owns, which will eliminate the cost of buying a site, Renfro said.
The current plan calls for two bodies of water. One would be a rectangular pool with a diving well. The other would include zero-depth entry, two water slides and a lazy river, Wright said. Adjusting the plans to fit a budget is always an option, she said.
A timetable for construction has not yet been developed, she said.
The committee looked at many other cities and
their pools to figure out what features to include, said Lee Fronabarger, member of the committee and City Council.
The Park District assisted the committee by surveying residents on their interest in an aquatic center, he said.
The committee that drew up the plan grew out of study circles organized by the city in 2003, Wright said. The circles consisted of groups of Carbondale residents that discussed how to improve community relations, she said. She said all the groups came to the same conclusion: An outdoor swimming pool, which Carbondale has never had, would help community relations.
“Water is the great equalizer,” she said. “When you take a group of people and put them in a pool and everybody’s just wearing their bathing suit, you can’t tell what their economic status is. We all float the same.”
Wright said the city received a grant in the ‘70s to build a pool but lost it due to conflicts over where to build it. She said there were non-negotiable stipulations in the grant about where the pool would go, but the city failed to reach an agreement on location.
Past efforts to build outdoor pools, including an ill-fated plan for three separate pools, may have been derailed by racial tensions, Fronabarger said.
Park District Chairman Harvey Welch said he’s lived in Carbondale since 1975 and though there’s some racial tension, he’s seen an improvement in racial attitudes.
“I’ve watched a lot of change in the racial climate in Carbondale,” he said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Suspected Taliban ! ghters have been subjected to beatings, electric shocks and other forms of torture in some Afghan-run detention centers but the abuse was not the result of government policy, the United Nations said Monday.
" e 74-page U.N. report found that detainees in 47 facilities in 24 provinces run by the Afghan National Police and the Directorate of Security su# ered interrogation techniques that constituted torture under both international and Afghan law.
" e NATO-led international military coalition announced last month that it had stopped transferring detainees to 16 of the facilities. NATO was taking action to help ! x the problem before resuming the transfers, the report said.
" e report said Afghan
security ministries cooperated with the investigation and have taken measures to stop the abuse a$ er being presented with the report. Although Afghan security o% cials have long been suspected of torturing detainees to elicit information and confessions, the report for the ! rst time con! rms the practice and outlines much of the abuse.
International organizations and governments have spent years trying to bring good governance and rule of law to Afghanistan, a goal that has taken added signi! cance following a decision to hand over security responsibilities to the Afghan government by the end of 2014 — when all foreign combat troops are to leave the country.
Dra$ ed by the U.N.'s Afghan mission, known as UNAMA, the report was based on interviews with 379 detainees being held at the various facilities and conducted from October 2010 to August 2011.
" e report said most of the detainees were “suspected of being Taliban ! ghters, suicide attack facilitators, producers of improvised explosive devices, and others implicated in crimes associated with the armed con& ict in Afghanistan.”
It said it “found the use of interrogation techniques that constitute torture under international law and crimes under Afghan law, as well as other forms of mistreatment.”
" e report said torture methods included suspending people by their wrists, beating the soles of the feet, electric shocks, twisting detainees' genitals, removing toenails and being put in stressful positions.
UNAMA said the torture aimed to obtain information and confessions, which it said are o$ en the sole form of evidence submitted in Afghan criminal trials. Judges o$ en ! nd such confessions “both persuasive and conclusive of the
defendant's guilt.”Afghan authorities have taken
steps to stop the abuse, UNAMA said.
" e report said that Afghan of-! cials have “stated clearly” that they have a plan to address the concerns. " ey have opened investigations, reassigned personnel and have in-dicated that those responsible will be suspended from their positions and in serious cases, prosecuted, the report said.
" e report was issued as part of a U.N. program to observe detention facilities.
“UNAMA's ! ndings indicate that mistreatment is not an institutional or government policy,” said Sta# an de Mistura, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan.
He added that Afghan government cooperation “suggests that reform is both possible and desired as does the government's announced remedial actions to end these abusive practices.”
" e European Union also said it welcomed the Afghan government's commitment to stop abuse.
“" e EU reiterates that all concerned parties must respect and guarantee the fundamental rights of all detainees, to eradicate all forms of torture and ill-treatment, to bring those responsible for such acts to justice and to adhere to and comply with the relevant international norms and standards,” said Vygaudas Usackas, the head of the EU's delegation and its special representative to Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Interior said ! ve Afghan civilians died in twin explosions Monday in the Dangam district of Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan.
A civilian vehicle struck a roadside bomb, shortly followed by another blast that hit passers-by running to the scene to help. Four people were killed and two wounded, the ministry said.
UN: Detainees tortured in Afghanistan
She said she communicates with the parents, schedules evaluations and assists graduate students by taking data and managing the child’s behavior during therapy.
“Progress takes a long time, and in the year I have been there I am not going to see a total change in a child. But this semester the child I have worked with up until now I can see progress,” she said.
Lewis said the center has not only helped her child but has given her a support system. She said she is relieved to know she’s not the only person going through this.
“Brandy and her husband have been wonderful just to be able to sit and talk to and not feel like we are the only ones,” she said.
Lewis said the hardest part
of having a child with autism is taking him somewhere there are not children like him because people tend to stare.
“You think the worst, they might just be looking because he squeals high-pitched,” she said. “We can’t go to movies because he squeals and it is not because he is upset, it is because he is excited.”
Lewis said she and her husband took Wyatt to see his ! rst movie at a sensory screening in Cape Girardau where the lights are on, the sound is turned down and the children are able to run around the theatre.
“We had tears in our eyes just because it was a normal thing we were able to do,” she said.
Sarah Schneider can be reached at [email protected]
or 536-3311 ext. 255.
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PATRICK QUINNAssociated Press
Renfro said she heard people say racial tensions may have played a role in the city’s lack of a pool, but she couldn’t say for herself if it was true. She said it shouldn’t be an issue now.
“I’d like to think we’ve already solved that,” she said.
The question now is a matter of funding, Wright said. The grant has a 24-month cycle, she said, and the next step will be a presentation to the Park District.
“The clock started ticking on Oct. 3,” she said.
Welch said further funding for the project could be gathered a number of ways, but the first that comes to mind for him is asking residents to increase the
Park District’s taxes.“That’s a hard question to ask
the community right now,” he said. “I’ve always been in favor of taxing myself for our future, for the future of our children, but not everybody has that philosophy.”
Wright said the next step in funding hasn’t been discussed yet, but she hopes the grant will make it easier to find the money.
“It’s a lot different to be
looking for sponsorships or donations when you’re starting at zero than when you’re halfway up the ladder,” she said.
As the project moves into the next stage, she said the committee is still looking for members of the community to get involved.
Eli Mileur can be reached at [email protected]
or 536-3311 ext. 266.
T hat’s a hard question to ask the community right now. I’ve always been in favor of taxing myself
for our future, for the future of our children, but not everybody has that philosophy.
—Harvey WelchPark District Chairman
D'()* E+*,-('.N!"#Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3
There’s a difference between an emotional outcry and a movement. The difference is organization and
articulation. ANDREW YOUNG
former U.S. Ambassador, who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., as a strategist during the civil rights
movement, offering his take on the Occupy Wall Street protests
I saw the vehicle running over the protesters.
Then they opened fired at us.
WAEL ROUFAILa protester in Cairo, on the demonstration for
Coptic Christian rights that turned into a deadly riot against the military
CAIRO — Flames lit up downtown Cairo, where massive clashes raged Sunday, drawing Christians angry over a recent church attack, hard-line Muslims and Egyptian security forces. At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the worst sectarian violence since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February.
! e rioting lasted late into the night, bringing out a deployment of more than 1,000 security forces and armored vehicles to defend the state television building along the Nile, where the trouble began. ! e military clamped a curfew on the area until 7 a.m.
! e clashes spread to nearby Tahrir Square, drawing thousands of people to the vast plaza that served as the epicenter of the protests that ousted Mubarak. On Sunday night, they battled each other with rocks and " rebombs, some tearing up pavement for ammunition and others collecting stones in boxes.
At one point, an armored security van sped into the crowd, striking a half-dozen protesters and throwing some into the air. Protesters retaliated by setting " re to military vehicles, a bus and private cars, sending # ames rising into the night sky.
A$ er midnight, mobs roamed downtown streets, attacking cars they suspected had Christian passengers. In many areas, there was no visible police or army presence to confront or stop them.
Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s 80 million people, blame the country’s ruling military council for being too lenient on those behind a spate of anti-Christian attacks since Mubarak’s ouster. As Egypt undergoes a chaotic power transition and security vacuum in the wake of the uprising, the Coptic
Christian minority is particularly worried about the show of force by ultraconservative Islamists.
! e Christian protesters said their demonstration began as a peaceful attempt to sit in at the television building. But then, they said, they came under attack by thugs in plainclothes who rained stones down on them and " red pellets.
“! e protest was peaceful. We wanted to hold a sit-in, as usual,” said Essam Khalili, a protester wearing a white shirt with a cross on it. “! ugs attacked us and a military vehicle jumped over a sidewalk and ran over at least 10 people. I saw them.”
Wael Roufail, another protester, corroborated the account. “I
saw the vehicle running over the protesters. ! en they opened " red at us,” he said.
Khalili said protesters set " re to army vehicles when they saw them hitting the protesters.
Ahmed Yahia, a Muslim resident who lives near the TV building, said he saw the military vehicle plow into protesters. “I saw a man’s head split into two halves and a second body # attened when the armored vehicle ran over it. When some Muslims saw the blood they joined the Christians against the army,” he said.
Television footage showed the military vehicle slamming into the crowd. Coptic protesters were shown attacking a soldier, while a priest tried
to protect him. One soldier collapsed in tears as ambulances rushed to the scene to take away the injured.
At least 24 people were killed in the clashes, Health Ministry o% cial Hisham Sheiha said on state TV.
State media reported that Egypt’s interim Cabinet was holding an emergency session to discuss the situation.
Writing on his Facebook page, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said: “What is happening now are not clashes between Muslims and Christians but attempts to spark chaos and divisions. I call on all the children of the nation who care about its future, not to comply with calls of sedition, because it is " re
that will burn us all.”! e protest began in the Shubra
district of northern Cairo, then headed to the state television building along the Nile where men in plainclothes attacked about a thousand Christian protesters as they chanted denunciations of the military rulers.
“! e people want to topple the " eld marshal!” the protesters yelled, referring to the head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi. Some Muslim protesters later joined in the chant.
Later in the evening, a crowd of Muslims turned up to challenge the Christian crowds, shouting, “Speak up! An Islamic state until death!”
Twenty-four dead in worst Cairo riots since Mubarak ousterMAGGIE MICHAELAssociated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — Nighttime deer poachers beware — that shadowy creature on the side of the road may just be remote-controlled.
State wildlife officials across the country have for several decades been rolling out roadside robot decoys to nab unscrupulous hunters, and the effort has paid off with hundreds of citations.
A robotic deer decoy used in Georgia had to be replaced in 2006 after being shot more than 1,000 times.
“It’s a time of year when some Utahns can't resist the sight of a big buck on the side of the road
— even if shooting hours are over for the day,” said Amy Canning, a spokeswoman for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
Utah’s five DWR regions now each have their own robot decoys, which are deployed in various spots along roadways where deer often gather or where poachers have been a problem in the past.
Hunting is not allowed at night in Utah, starting a half hour after sunset until a half hour before sunrise, but authorities say the sight of a big deer on the side of a road can just be too tempting for some.
Once a plan is in place, authorities put the mechanical deer near a road where it can be seen by passing cars. Then
they hide nearby and keep watch, waiting for someone to take the bait, occasionally using the remote control to move the decoy's head and tail “to make it look as realistic as possible,” said Utah DWR Sgt. Matt Briggs.
“We try to mimic some of the movement that takes place in the field,” he said.
Hunters will generally use headlights to illuminate the deer, then take their shot. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bow and arrow or a rifle — if it’s at night, it’s illegal without special permission, Briggs said.
The shooters in Utah are issued a class B misdemeanor citation, punishable by up to six months in jail and up to a $1,000
fine. Authorities also seize their weapons.
Briggs said he’s seen it all, from bow hunters shooting multiple arrows at the inanimate robot deer, amazed that it's not going down, to shooters with rifles repeatedly firing shots at the mechanical beast.
“I’ve seen an individual shoot it with a 30-06 (rifle) and couldn’t figure out why it didn’t go down after he hit it five or six times,” Briggs said. “It can be really entertaining.”
Elsewhere, poachers are catching on, and have become wary of shooting from the road not only for fear of arrest, but of the embarrassment that comes along with it, said Lt. Bill Bruce
of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. His state’s decoy was effective for about 10 years, but wasn’t deployed last year after it became less useful.
“If somebody gets caught shooting the deer from the road, it ruins their reputation as a hunter,” Bruce said. “Their name goes up on the wall of shame among local hunters.”
Florida officers have also used a robotic deer in all six wildlife regions, said state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Katie Purcell.
“It’s been successful at catching poachers,” Purcell said. “It’s a tool that officers can take to where the violation is actually happening.”
Wildlife o! cials use robo-deer to catch poachersJOSH LOFTINAssociated Press
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D!"#$ E%$&'"!( N!"# Tuesday, October 11, 20114Group asks what people dislike about religion
Students, faculty and sta) have shared their disapproval of religion for the past week outside Faner and Lawson Hall.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship has taken the initiative to openly discuss religion with students at the university by setting up display boards for the campus community to write what they dislike about speci* c religions in the Faner Breezeway and outside Lawson Hall from Monday to + ursday.
+ e organization is an interdenominational campus group whose goal is to help students * nd God and a Christian community during their stay in Carbondale, said Josh Gaither, a student leader of the organization.
He said the group did the project two years ago and decided to try it again this year.
Gaither, a junior from Woodlawn studying biological sciences, said the group may have the display boards again this week.
He said members of the organization wanted to see where people disconnect from religion, and then hopefully show participants the things they dislike about religion are actually what people have created, he said.
“We’re trying to break down the false perspectives people have about religion, speci* cally Christianity and Jesus Christ,” he said.
Zach Marvel, a junior from Johnston City studying zoology and administrative justice, said a positive to discussing religion is the possibility it may open your mind to other beliefs.
“I think it’s important for people to understand that the religion they believe in could simply be because they grew up in a certain culture and they’ve been directed toward one religion,” he said.
Gaither said every person looks at
religion in a di) erent light. He said an environment where students can have a basic conversation is a good way to get people to come to an understanding of other religions' concepts.
“I think it’s good for people to be able to open their eyes and think in a way they’re not used to thinking because they might have been surrounded by people who’ve mirrored their religious views,” he said.
Benjamin Dean, a senior from Leroy studying psychology, said the religious discussion with other students helps by informing them about religion they may already
have an opinion of.“If someone was raised in one
religion, they may have been told about others, but they haven’t really researched or studied other religious groups,” he said.
Marvel said there will always be people who become upset when exchanging religious views.
“It’s a very touchy topic, and people have problems openly discussing it because people try to impose their faith on other people as to where they’re not able to simply explain what the religion might have to o) er them compared to what they already believe in,” he said.
Dean said people can take ideas the wrong way and try to call other religions crazy. He said he thinks Christian organizations assert their views on people.
“I don’t consider myself Catholic, but I was raised Catholic and in church they really try to push it on you,” he said.
Gaither said Christianity can receive a negative reputation about having zero tolerance for other religions.
“+ e disbelief is that you’re wrong, we’re right and a lot of people have that idea,” he said. “For us, we do believe Christianity is the
only way, but we also believe we should be talking with people and understanding of their views.”
Marvel, a follower of Buddhism, said other religious groups have to realize everyone comes from di) erent cultures and di) erent parts of the world.
“People are going to have di) erent beliefs but all religions share the concept of love and compassion, therefore they all kind of overlap,” he said.
Karl Bullock can be reached at [email protected] or
536-3311 ext. 259.
KARL BULLOCKDaily Egyptian
Jillian Luensman, a freshman studying zoology from Troy, invites passers-by Thursday to write opinions about religion on an InterVarsity Christian Fellowship display outside Faner Hall. “We’re having people
write about religion — what they like about it and what they don’t like about it,” Luensman said. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship will meet Thursday at Brown Hall to discuss the comments written on the board.
BROOKE GRACE | DAILY EGYPTIAN
There’s a difference between an emotional outcry and a movement. The difference is organization and
articulation. ANDREW YOUNG
former U.S. Ambassador, who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., as a strategist during the civil rights
movement, offering his take on the Occupy Wall Street protests
I saw the vehicle running over the protesters.
Then they opened fired at us.
WAEL ROUFAILa protester in Cairo, on the demonstration for
Coptic Christian rights that turned into a deadly riot against the military
CAIRO — Flames lit up downtown Cairo, where massive clashes raged Sunday, drawing Christians angry over a recent church attack, hard-line Muslims and Egyptian security forces. At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the worst sectarian violence since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February.
! e rioting lasted late into the night, bringing out a deployment of more than 1,000 security forces and armored vehicles to defend the state television building along the Nile, where the trouble began. ! e military clamped a curfew on the area until 7 a.m.
! e clashes spread to nearby Tahrir Square, drawing thousands of people to the vast plaza that served as the epicenter of the protests that ousted Mubarak. On Sunday night, they battled each other with rocks and " rebombs, some tearing up pavement for ammunition and others collecting stones in boxes.
At one point, an armored security van sped into the crowd, striking a half-dozen protesters and throwing some into the air. Protesters retaliated by setting " re to military vehicles, a bus and private cars, sending # ames rising into the night sky.
A$ er midnight, mobs roamed downtown streets, attacking cars they suspected had Christian passengers. In many areas, there was no visible police or army presence to confront or stop them.
Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s 80 million people, blame the country’s ruling military council for being too lenient on those behind a spate of anti-Christian attacks since Mubarak’s ouster. As Egypt undergoes a chaotic power transition and security vacuum in the wake of the uprising, the Coptic
Christian minority is particularly worried about the show of force by ultraconservative Islamists.
! e Christian protesters said their demonstration began as a peaceful attempt to sit in at the television building. But then, they said, they came under attack by thugs in plainclothes who rained stones down on them and " red pellets.
“! e protest was peaceful. We wanted to hold a sit-in, as usual,” said Essam Khalili, a protester wearing a white shirt with a cross on it. “! ugs attacked us and a military vehicle jumped over a sidewalk and ran over at least 10 people. I saw them.”
Wael Roufail, another protester, corroborated the account. “I
saw the vehicle running over the protesters. ! en they opened " red at us,” he said.
Khalili said protesters set " re to army vehicles when they saw them hitting the protesters.
Ahmed Yahia, a Muslim resident who lives near the TV building, said he saw the military vehicle plow into protesters. “I saw a man’s head split into two halves and a second body # attened when the armored vehicle ran over it. When some Muslims saw the blood they joined the Christians against the army,” he said.
Television footage showed the military vehicle slamming into the crowd. Coptic protesters were shown attacking a soldier, while a priest tried
to protect him. One soldier collapsed in tears as ambulances rushed to the scene to take away the injured.
At least 24 people were killed in the clashes, Health Ministry o% cial Hisham Sheiha said on state TV.
State media reported that Egypt’s interim Cabinet was holding an emergency session to discuss the situation.
Writing on his Facebook page, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said: “What is happening now are not clashes between Muslims and Christians but attempts to spark chaos and divisions. I call on all the children of the nation who care about its future, not to comply with calls of sedition, because it is " re
that will burn us all.”! e protest began in the Shubra
district of northern Cairo, then headed to the state television building along the Nile where men in plainclothes attacked about a thousand Christian protesters as they chanted denunciations of the military rulers.
“! e people want to topple the " eld marshal!” the protesters yelled, referring to the head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi. Some Muslim protesters later joined in the chant.
Later in the evening, a crowd of Muslims turned up to challenge the Christian crowds, shouting, “Speak up! An Islamic state until death!”
Twenty-four dead in worst Cairo riots since Mubarak ousterMAGGIE MICHAELAssociated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — Nighttime deer poachers beware — that shadowy creature on the side of the road may just be remote-controlled.
State wildlife officials across the country have for several decades been rolling out roadside robot decoys to nab unscrupulous hunters, and the effort has paid off with hundreds of citations.
A robotic deer decoy used in Georgia had to be replaced in 2006 after being shot more than 1,000 times.
“It’s a time of year when some Utahns can't resist the sight of a big buck on the side of the road
— even if shooting hours are over for the day,” said Amy Canning, a spokeswoman for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
Utah’s five DWR regions now each have their own robot decoys, which are deployed in various spots along roadways where deer often gather or where poachers have been a problem in the past.
Hunting is not allowed at night in Utah, starting a half hour after sunset until a half hour before sunrise, but authorities say the sight of a big deer on the side of a road can just be too tempting for some.
Once a plan is in place, authorities put the mechanical deer near a road where it can be seen by passing cars. Then
they hide nearby and keep watch, waiting for someone to take the bait, occasionally using the remote control to move the decoy's head and tail “to make it look as realistic as possible,” said Utah DWR Sgt. Matt Briggs.
“We try to mimic some of the movement that takes place in the field,” he said.
Hunters will generally use headlights to illuminate the deer, then take their shot. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bow and arrow or a rifle — if it’s at night, it’s illegal without special permission, Briggs said.
The shooters in Utah are issued a class B misdemeanor citation, punishable by up to six months in jail and up to a $1,000
fine. Authorities also seize their weapons.
Briggs said he’s seen it all, from bow hunters shooting multiple arrows at the inanimate robot deer, amazed that it's not going down, to shooters with rifles repeatedly firing shots at the mechanical beast.
“I’ve seen an individual shoot it with a 30-06 (rifle) and couldn’t figure out why it didn’t go down after he hit it five or six times,” Briggs said. “It can be really entertaining.”
Elsewhere, poachers are catching on, and have become wary of shooting from the road not only for fear of arrest, but of the embarrassment that comes along with it, said Lt. Bill Bruce
of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. His state’s decoy was effective for about 10 years, but wasn’t deployed last year after it became less useful.
“If somebody gets caught shooting the deer from the road, it ruins their reputation as a hunter,” Bruce said. “Their name goes up on the wall of shame among local hunters.”
Florida officers have also used a robotic deer in all six wildlife regions, said state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Katie Purcell.
“It’s been successful at catching poachers,” Purcell said. “It’s a tool that officers can take to where the violation is actually happening.”
Wildlife o! cials use robo-deer to catch poachersJOSH LOFTINAssociated Press
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Suspected Taliban ! ghters have been subjected to beatings, electric shocks and other forms of torture in some Afghan-run detention centers but the abuse was not the result of government policy, the United Nations said Monday.
" e 74-page U.N. report found that detainees in 47 facilities in 24 provinces run by the Afghan National Police and the Directorate of Security su# ered interrogation techniques that constituted torture under both international and Afghan law.
" e NATO-led international military coalition announced last month that it had stopped transferring detainees to 16 of the facilities. NATO was taking action to help ! x the problem before resuming the transfers, the report said.
" e report said Afghan
security ministries cooperated with the investigation and have taken measures to stop the abuse a$ er being presented with the report. Although Afghan security o% cials have long been suspected of torturing detainees to elicit information and confessions, the report for the ! rst time con! rms the practice and outlines much of the abuse.
International organizations and governments have spent years trying to bring good governance and rule of law to Afghanistan, a goal that has taken added signi! cance following a decision to hand over security responsibilities to the Afghan government by the end of 2014 — when all foreign combat troops are to leave the country.
Dra$ ed by the U.N.'s Afghan mission, known as UNAMA, the report was based on interviews with 379 detainees being held at the various facilities and conducted from October 2010 to August 2011.
" e report said most of the detainees were “suspected of being Taliban ! ghters, suicide attack facilitators, producers of improvised explosive devices, and others implicated in crimes associated with the armed con& ict in Afghanistan.”
It said it “found the use of interrogation techniques that constitute torture under international law and crimes under Afghan law, as well as other forms of mistreatment.”
" e report said torture methods included suspending people by their wrists, beating the soles of the feet, electric shocks, twisting detainees' genitals, removing toenails and being put in stressful positions.
UNAMA said the torture aimed to obtain information and confessions, which it said are o$ en the sole form of evidence submitted in Afghan criminal trials. Judges o$ en ! nd such confessions “both persuasive and conclusive of the
defendant's guilt.”Afghan authorities have taken
steps to stop the abuse, UNAMA said.
" e report said that Afghan of-! cials have “stated clearly” that they have a plan to address the concerns. " ey have opened investigations, reassigned personnel and have in-dicated that those responsible will be suspended from their positions and in serious cases, prosecuted, the report said.
" e report was issued as part of a U.N. program to observe detention facilities.
“UNAMA's ! ndings indicate that mistreatment is not an institutional or government policy,” said Sta# an de Mistura, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan.
He added that Afghan government cooperation “suggests that reform is both possible and desired as does the government's announced remedial actions to end these abusive practices.”
" e European Union also said it welcomed the Afghan government's commitment to stop abuse.
“" e EU reiterates that all concerned parties must respect and guarantee the fundamental rights of all detainees, to eradicate all forms of torture and ill-treatment, to bring those responsible for such acts to justice and to adhere to and comply with the relevant international norms and standards,” said Vygaudas Usackas, the head of the EU's delegation and its special representative to Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Interior said ! ve Afghan civilians died in twin explosions Monday in the Dangam district of Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan.
A civilian vehicle struck a roadside bomb, shortly followed by another blast that hit passers-by running to the scene to help. Four people were killed and two wounded, the ministry said.
UN: Detainees tortured in Afghanistan
She said she communicates with the parents, schedules evaluations and assists graduate students by taking data and managing the child’s behavior during therapy.
“Progress takes a long time, and in the year I have been there I am not going to see a total change in a child. But this semester the child I have worked with up until now I can see progress,” she said.
Lewis said the center has not only helped her child but has given her a support system. She said she is relieved to know she’s not the only person going through this.
“Brandy and her husband have been wonderful just to be able to sit and talk to and not feel like we are the only ones,” she said.
Lewis said the hardest part
of having a child with autism is taking him somewhere there are not children like him because people tend to stare.
“You think the worst, they might just be looking because he squeals high-pitched,” she said. “We can’t go to movies because he squeals and it is not because he is upset, it is because he is excited.”
Lewis said she and her husband took Wyatt to see his ! rst movie at a sensory screening in Cape Girardau where the lights are on, the sound is turned down and the children are able to run around the theatre.
“We had tears in our eyes just because it was a normal thing we were able to do,” she said.
Sarah Schneider can be reached at [email protected]
or 536-3311 ext. 255.
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Renfro said she heard people say racial tensions may have played a role in the city’s lack of a pool, but she couldn’t say for herself if it was true. She said it shouldn’t be an issue now.
“I’d like to think we’ve already solved that,” she said.
The question now is a matter of funding, Wright said. The grant has a 24-month cycle, she said, and the next step will be a presentation to the Park District.
“The clock started ticking on Oct. 3,” she said.
Welch said further funding for the project could be gathered a number of ways, but the first that comes to mind for him is asking residents to increase the
Park District’s taxes.“That’s a hard question to ask
the community right now,” he said. “I’ve always been in favor of taxing myself for our future, for the future of our children, but not everybody has that philosophy.”
Wright said the next step in funding hasn’t been discussed yet, but she hopes the grant will make it easier to find the money.
“It’s a lot different to be
looking for sponsorships or donations when you’re starting at zero than when you’re halfway up the ladder,” she said.
As the project moves into the next stage, she said the committee is still looking for members of the community to get involved.
Eli Mileur can be reached at [email protected]
or 536-3311 ext. 266.
T hat’s a hard question to ask the community right now. I’ve always been in favor of taxing myself
for our future, for the future of our children, but not everybody has that philosophy.
—Harvey WelchPark District Chairman
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Aries — Today is an 8 — You’re hot, and getting hotter, but don’t get cocky. When confidence turns to arrogance there’s trouble afoot, especially around money. Don’t gamble. Play it cool.Taurus — Today is a 7 — Hang in there; good things come to those who wait. Choose your own destiny (and your destination). Your intuition is right on target, so follow that thread where it leads.
Gemini — Today is an 8 — Your inbox keeps growing. Keep plugging away to keep the stack to a reasonable height. Schedule time for friends, though. They’re the fuel that keeps your motor running.
Cancer — Today is an 8 — You may find inspiration for your next career move in a book. Talk about your dreams with someone special over a wonderful meal. Notice flavors and subtle details.Leo — Today is an 8 — What’s your next move? Every step is an adventure, every turn a surprise. Regale your subjects with an inspiring effort. Balance work with travel, and step on out.
Virgo — Today is a 7 —Patience is not just a virtue, it’s necessary today. Be open to transformation or for things to shift. Don’t believe everything you think. The fun is in the inquiry.
Libra — Today is an 8 — Take action about an uncomfortable working condition. Solving it removes an obstacle and benefits many. This allows the abundance to flow more freely.
Scorpio — Today is a 9 — Take advantage of your energy for increased productivity. Don’t delay urgent action. Consider the needs of a loved one in your schedule. You can do it all.
Sagittarius — Today is an 8 — The day’s picture perfect. Play with children or younger people for a regained sense of youth. Make sure to stretch before jumping for the moon.
Capricorn — Today is an 8 — Competition spurs you to pick up the pace. You’ve got the power, so pour on the steam! A new idea could work with help from a partner. Add your muscle to their passion.Aquarius — Today is a 9— You’ve got the energy and health, so put in the extra work to really get things moving. Your sweetheart wants your time (not your money). Balance your schedule.
Pisces — Today is a 9 — You have more vitality today. You’re motivated to take action, so go right ahead. Declare your intentions, and dare to be assertive. Waltz with any changes.
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ADDED COMMA AMAZED IMMUNEWhat the zombie took at the archery competition — DEAD AIM
As her ! ve-and-a-half-year-old son ran around a table, asking for a toy car being ra" ed, Becky Lewis said she is overjoyed because her son Wyatt now asks for things in short sentences.
Lewis, of Herrin, has taken her son to the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Carbondale at the Wham Building since June. At the center, sta# work with him on his speaking issues. She said in the short time he has been going she has seen a change.
“He talks to us a lot, trying to tell us things he understands and wanting us to know he knows what this is and what that is,” she said.
Brandy Girtman, of Jonesboro, also takes her daughter to the center for therapy. She organized a fundraiser for the center Sunday called Rockin’ Out to Knock Out Autism at the Great Boars of Fire in Cobden. All proceeds of the event — which featured two bands, food, bounce houses and ra" ed baskets — will go to the center.
Girtman, of Jonesboro, works at the restaurant and organized the event, for which everything was a donation.
Kirsten Schaper, clinical director at the center and senior lecturer at the Rehabilitation Institute, said during the past ! ve years state funding for the center has been cut by almost $150,000, so fundraisers are necessary. She said the center runs on an annual $400,000 grant and receives minimal support from the university.
“Under the previous administration, we were held up as a signature program and we
were promoted as a way to attract students,” she said. “Under the current administration … they let us use the room and they turn on the lights.”
$ e center works with three di# erent areas: training graduate students, providing direct services and research, Schaper said.
She said 26 graduate students work at the center and are trained to work with the children. $ ey provide therapy in the center but also work directly with four school districts. She said the center is the only autism center in the southern region of the state and covers the bottom 32 counties.
She said the center focuses on research of teaching methods and how to e# ectively teach graduate assistants to work with the children.
“If you have met one person with autism, you have met one person with autism. $ ey are all completely di# erent,” she said.
$ ere are di# erent levels of functioning in autism, she said, because it is a spectrum
disorder that re% ects the changes they go through in their life.
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, autism is a range of complex neurodevelopment disorders, characterized by social impairments, communication di& culties, and restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior.
$ e institute estimates that six out of every 1,000 children will have autism.
“We may see a child at two and think the child is severely autistic but then in a couple of years they are getting an education and have friends,” she said.
Jessie Loverude, a senior from Carbondale studying communication disorders and science, said a' er working at the center for a year she wants to work somewhere just like it a' er she graduates.
Community rocks out for autism center
ELI MILEURDaily Egyptian
Wyatt Lewis, center, 5, of Herrin, plays in a bounce house with other children Sunday at the Rockin’ Out to Knock Out Autism fundraiser at Great Boars of Fire in Cobden. Wyatt’s mother, Becky Lewis, said he was always afraid of bounce houses, but when they got to the fundraiser and saw them he was excited. “You never know with him. Every day is a different experience,” Becky said. Wyatt was diagnosed with autism, and now attends sessions at the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at SIU. “For all of his issues, he is still just a young boy,” Becky said.
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COBDEN COLORFEST GETS CREATIVE Rose Hogan, left, of Cobden, Hyrum Robinson, center, 4, of Murphysboro, and Matthew Robinson, right, 6, of Murphysboro, participate in face painting Saturday at the Cobden ColorFest. This year’s ColorFest was held
at Cobden Community Park and included face and pumpkin painting, art and craft vendors, food and live music featuring Poison Siouxmac, Rog and Bob, Parsley and Sagebrush, and Free Range Chicks.
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Parents of children with autism organize fundraisers to keep center open a' er budget cuts
Grant could make pool dreams reality
Carbondale could get a new aquatics center after years of effort thanks to a recent multimillion-dollar grant from the state.
“Our work is really cut out for us now ... to move it forward from a piece of paper idea to reality,” said Sally Wright, chair of the aquatics center citizen’s advisory committee to the Carbondale Park District.
The Park District was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Oct. 3 to construct an outdoor aquatics center. State Representative Mike Bost said he told Park District Executive Director Kathy Renfro about the grant.
“I couldn’t get my head around it,” Renfro said.
Bost said the money came from the federal government and was distributed by the state.
Wright said the grant covers half the projected $5 million project, which has been developed over several years by the aquatics center committee in collaboration with the Park District. The grant is the only money raised so far, she said.
The plan is to construct the center at the Superblock facility on land the Park District already owns, which will eliminate the cost of buying a site, Renfro said.
The current plan calls for two bodies of water. One would be a rectangular pool with a diving well. The other would include zero-depth entry, two water slides and a lazy river, Wright said. Adjusting the plans to fit a budget is always an option, she said.
A timetable for construction has not yet been developed, she said.
The committee looked at many other cities and
their pools to figure out what features to include, said Lee Fronabarger, member of the committee and City Council.
The Park District assisted the committee by surveying residents on their interest in an aquatic center, he said.
The committee that drew up the plan grew out of study circles organized by the city in 2003, Wright said. The circles consisted of groups of Carbondale residents that discussed how to improve community relations, she said. She said all the groups came to the same conclusion: An outdoor swimming pool, which Carbondale has never had, would help community relations.
“Water is the great equalizer,” she said. “When you take a group of people and put them in a pool and everybody’s just wearing their bathing suit, you can’t tell what their economic status is. We all float the same.”
Wright said the city received a grant in the ‘70s to build a pool but lost it due to conflicts over where to build it. She said there were non-negotiable stipulations in the grant about where the pool would go, but the city failed to reach an agreement on location.
Past efforts to build outdoor pools, including an ill-fated plan for three separate pools, may have been derailed by racial tensions, Fronabarger said.
Park District Chairman Harvey Welch said he’s lived in Carbondale since 1975 and though there’s some racial tension, he’s seen an improvement in racial attitudes.
“I’ve watched a lot of change in the racial climate in Carbondale,” he said.
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It has been so long — a decade, in fact — since the Detroit Lions played a regular season game on Monday night that kicker Jason Hanson can't remember it.
Hanson probably has a hard time recalling what happened Oct. 8, 2001, because all he did was kick o! once in a 35-0 loss to the St. Louis Rams at the Pontiac Silverdome.
“Wow, it has been that long,” Hanson said entering his 300th game with the Lions. “Monday Night Football is the NFL's showcase game and it's exciting that people want to see us play on it again.”
Hanson hopes to make new memories in prime time at home against the Chicago Bears.
Detroit is aiming for its " rst 5-0 start since 1956, the year before its most recent NFL title, and to snap a six-game skid against Chicago.
# e defending NFC North champion Bears want to avoid falling to 2-3 in a division led by the upstart Lions and Super Bowl champion Green Bay.
“It's a game that puts us right in the mix or will set us back three games,” Chicago linebacker Lance Briggs said. “# is is a must-have. We have to have it. Period.”
Bears quarterback Jay Cutler tried to downplay the game in one breath before acknowledging reality a moment later.
“It's got a playo! atmosphere to it,” Cutler said.
# ere's a lot of that going around these days in the mitten-shaped state.
# e Lions are kicking o! a seven-day stretch in which they'll play two home games, the Tigers will host Texas in Games 3-4 of the AL championship series next door at Comerica Park.
Also, No. 11 Michigan plays at No. 23 Michigan State 75 miles away trying to snap a three-game losing streak in the series and stay undefeated on the season.
“# is is a great little stretch for Detroit,” Lions coach Jim Schwartz said. “But I'd like to think there's a lot better to come.”
NFL history suggests the former laughingstock of the league will make the playo! s for the " rst time since the 1999 season.
Nearly 70 percent of teams that won the " rst four games of a season have made the playo! s since Chicago's 4-0 start in 1933, according to STATS LLC.
Bears receiver Roy Williams said one of his former teams has gotten used to winning — an NFL-best eight times in a row during the regular season since losing to Chicago — and he's happy for the Motor City.
“I know the fans are excited,” Williams said. “# ey truly deserve it. No o! ense to the Bears fans or Cowboys fans, but those fans are the most loyal fans that I've
seen going through everything that they went through, but still showing up at the games and still cheering for their football team.”
Fans at Ford Field might " nally get to root for " rst-round pick Nick Fairley.
# e defensive tackle hasn't played in a game since he helped Auburn win the national title. Lions defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham got excited during practice when Fairley lined up with Ndamukong Suh, Kyle Vanden Bosch and Cli! Avril.
“I looked out there and I said, '# at is the way life is supposed to be, Gunther,’” Cunningham said. “Sometimes you dream about those things.”
Followers of a franchise with only one playo! victory since winning the 1957 NFL title and the league's only 0-16 season just three years ago feel as if they're
dreaming when watching the current team.
Detroit has become the league's " rst team to win a$ er trailing by at least 20 points in consecutive weeks, rallying from a 24-point de" cit — the largest by an NFL team on the road — to win at Dallas a week a$ er coming back from a 20-point hole at Minnesota.
Calvin Johnson is the only player to catch more than one touchdown pass in the " rst four games of a season and along with Cris Carter, he's the second in league history to pull o! the feat over any four-game stretch.
“In my opinion, he is not only solidifying himself as the top receiver in the NFL, but he would be my pick as league MVP if the season ended today,” Lions Hall of Fame running back Barry Sanders said.
Chicago cornerback Charles Tillman, who will get chances to bring Johnson back down to earth, said he and his teammates will have a hard time trying to contain him.
“He’s the Goliath of receivers right now,” Tillman said.
With the 2011-2012 hockey season underway, which central division team do you think will come out on top?
SOCCER AT STEHR Fustel Houecande, a freshman studying pre-nursing, leaps for a ball during a soccer pick-up game Sunday night at Stehr Field. Stehr serves as a playing field for sports classes, pick-up games and other activities, as well as a dog park.
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Lions on MNF for 1st time in decade, facing Bears
I know the fans are excited. They truly deserve it. No offense to the Bears fans or Cowboys fans, but those fans are the most loyal fans that I’ve seen going through everything that
they went through, but still showing up at the games and still cheering for their football team.
— Roy WilliamsBears receiver
