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EPA Changes Cleanup Plan for Polluted Ground Water at Superfund Site in South Plainfield, New Jersey Responds to Input from Public
Release Date: 10/11/2012
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- (New York, N.Y.) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan to address contaminated ground water at the Cornell-Dubilier Electronics Superfund site in South Plainfield, New Jersey to prevent its use as a source of drinking water. In response to public input, the EPA is changing its proposed plan by deferring action on a portion of the ground water that may be adversely affecting the Bound Brook until further information is collected. The ground water affected by the site became contaminated with volatile organic compounds and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from past industrial activities. Volatile organic compounds can cause serious damage to people's health. PCBs are likely cancer causing chemicals and can have serious neurological effects. Under an action announced by the EPA this week, the ground water will be monitored and its use will be restricted.
The EPA held a public meeting on August 7, 2012 in South Plainfield to explain its plan. The EPA took public comment for 60 days and considered public input before finalizing the plan.
Cornell-Dubilier Electronics, Inc. manufactured electronics parts at a 26-acre facility at 333 Hamilton Boulevard in South Plainfield from 1936 to 1962. PCBs and solvents were used in the manufacturing process, and the company disposed of PCB-contaminated materials and other hazardous waste at the facility property. The ground water affected by the Cornell-Dubilier Electronics site is contained within a bedrock area known as the Brunswick Formation. The EPA's studies found an extensive area of over 800 acres affected by Cornell-Dubilier's disposal practices, extending under Spring Lake to the north and east of the site.
Because of the nature and complexity of the contamination at the site, the EPA divided the investigation and cleanup into four phases. The final plan addresses the third phase of the long-term cleanup.
Under the first phase of cleanup, which is continuing, the EPA has cleaned up nearby residential, commercial and municipal properties. PCB-contaminated soil has been removed from five residential properties near the former facility property, and the EPA is currently cleaning up eight additional properties. This work will be completed before the winter. Investigations are still being performed on several other properties as part of the first phase of the cleanup.
Under phase two, the EPA cleaned up the contaminated buildings and soil at the former facility property. The EPA has demolished 18 contaminated buildings and removed 26,400 tons of building debris off-site to be disposed of properly. The EPA has also excavated approximately 21,000 tons of contaminated debris and soil from an undeveloped area of the facility. Using $30 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds, the EPA continued the second phase of cleanup by treating contaminated soil on-site using a technology that heats the material so that contaminants can be pulled out and captured. Soil that could not be cleaned using this method was taken off-site for disposal at a licensed facility.
The third phase of the long-term cleanup, and the phase that is the subject of the final plan, focuses on the contaminated ground water. The EPA will install additional wells to monitor the ground water and will put in place restrictions that will prevent the use of untreated ground water as drinking water. In addition, the EPA's plan requires periodic sampling to ensure that potentially harmful vapors from the contaminated ground water do not seep into nearby buildings. Recent indoor air testing inside nearby buildings shows that vapors are not currently getting into structures.
After extensive rock and ground water studies, the EPA concluded that it is not feasible to treat the contaminated site ground water because of the complex rock formations underlying the site. In its proposed plan, the EPA included in this decision a portion of the ground water that may be contaminating the Bound Brook. The EPA is still investigating this possibility. The community and environmental representatives expressed concern about drawing conclusions about this part of the ground water before having information about how it influences contamination in the Bound Brook. In response, the EPA is deferring action on this area of the ground water until completion of these investigations.
In the fourth and final phase of the long-term cleanup, the EPA will focus on the contaminated sediment and surface water of the Bound Brook. As part of this phase, the EPA will also evaluate whether to take action regarding the deferred portion of the ground water that has the potential to affect surface water and sediment in the Bound Brook. A cleanup plan for phase four is expected in 2013.
South Plainfield is supplied with public water from several companies. The public water supply is routinely tested to ensure compliance with federal and state drinking water standards.
After extensive searches, the EPA has found no homeowner wells (that might have been installed before the availability of public water resources) within the affected area. The EPA will continue its efforts to identify homeowner wells that might still exist.
The Superfund program operates on the principle that polluters should pay for the cleanups, rather than passing the costs to taxpayers. After sites are placed on the Superfund list of the most contaminated waste sites, the EPA searches for parties responsible for the contamination and holds them accountable for the costs of investigations and cleanups. To date, the EPA's cleanup costs for this site exceed $133 million. The EPA has recovered some of its costs from parties responsible for the contamination and will continue those efforts.
To review the plan for the Cornell-Dubilier Electronics Superfund site, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/region2/superfund/npl/cornell
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Baltimore County police on Monday identified two people who died when the driver of a 2013 Ford Mustang flipped the vehicle on Route 40, near Martin Boulevard early Sunday.
Emil Antonio Ledesma Vargas, 29, of the 300 block of Endsleigh Avenue, and Josseline Rico-Hernandez, 25, of the 9700 block of Matzon Road, both in Middle River, were pronounced dead at the scene. A third passenger, a 25-year-old male, was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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The LH blood test measures the amount of luteinizing hormone (LH) in blood. LH is a hormone released by the
Alternative Names
ICSH - blood test; Luteinizing hormone - blood test; Interstitial cell stimulating hormone - blood test
How the test is performed
A blood sample is needed.
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- You have reached menopause
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- Before menopause: 5 to 25 IU/L
- Level peaks even higher around the middle of the menstrual cycle
- Level then becomes higher in women after menopause: 14.2- to 52.3 IU/L
LH levels are normally low during childhood.
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IU/L stands for international unit per liter.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Some labs use different measurements or test different samples. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test result.
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In women, a higher than normal level of LH is seen:
- When women of childbearing age are not ovulating
- When there is an imbalance of female sex hormones (such as with
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- During or after menopause
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- When the ovaries produce little or no hormones (ovarian hypofunction)
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- Problem with genes such as
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In children, a higher than normal level is seen in early (precocious) puberty.
A lower than normal level of LH may be due to the pituitary gland not making enough hormone (hypopituitarism).
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Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Obtaining a blood sample from some people may be more difficult than from others.
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- Excessive bleeding
- Fainting or feeling light-headed
- Hematoma (blood accumulating under the skin)
- Infection (a slight risk any time the skin is broken)
Borawski D, Bluth MH. Reproductive function and pregnancy. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henrys Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 25.
Melmed S, Kleinberg D, Ho K. Pituitary physiology and diagnostic evaluation. In: Melmed S, Polonsky KS, Larsen PR, Kronenberg HM, eds. Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 12th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011: chap 8.
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Saturday's emotional Senior Day in South Bend was highlighted by a crushing 31-0 defeat of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (5-6) by the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (11-0). Many Notre Dame's 29 graduating players played a vital role in the win and the team's undefeated 7-0 record at home this season.
Senior RB Cierre Wood sparked the blue and gold offense early in the first quarter by rushing for a 68-yard score, his longest of the season. Wood added another run for 20 yards, ending his final appearance in South Bend with 150 yards rushing on 11 carries.
Senior LB Carlo Calabrese forced a key a turnover on a crushing and game-ending blow on Wake Forest RB Josh Harris that was recovered by Senior Safety Zeke Motta. The Notre Dame defense suffocated the Wake Forest offense allowing only 209 yards of offense: 55 rushing yards and no points. The Fighting Irish last shut out came against Nevada in 2009.
Seniors WR John Goodman and TE Tyler Eifert made their presence felt in the first quarter on the receiving end. Goodman pulled down a 50-yard pass for a score and the All-American Eifert grabbed a two-yard pass to put the Irish ahead 21-0. Tyler finished his last day in South Bend as Notre Dame's all-time Tight End receptions leader with 130.
Overshadowed by his blue and gold upperclassmen teammates redshirt Freshman quarterback Everet Golson quietly set a career record with 346 yards on 20-for-30 passing. He accomplished this feat in one half as QBs Tommy Rees and Andrew Hendrix relived him of his duties the rest of the way.
LB Manti Te'o had made it clear that he returned for his senior year to share this special day with his family. The Notre Dame student section said good bye to their favorite player from Hawaii by sporting colorful yellow lais and giving the heisman-hopeful and one of Notre Dame's all-time greats a standing ovation as he left the game for a final time with thirteen minutes remaining after registering six tackles.
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week month, ATDI compares different propagation models for a given service based on very accurate measurements.
This week, FM: Model-Episode 1
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The configuration of the propagation model: reference (dBd, dBi, dBv), percentage of time and percentage of locations (if applicable), options like Tropo, Climate, Reflections…,
The quality of the cartography used by the planning tool: the resolution of the DTM, and the quality of the clutter file need to be adapted to the technology simulated. Applying the Lee criteria (see below) is for instance a good way to check the sampling resolution to use depending on the frequency of the technology simulated (step = 40 ?),
The quality of the GPS coordinates needs to taken into account: GPS have today an absolute planimetric accuracy of 7.8 meters at a 95% confidence level, and this quality decreases in obstructed environment (decrease of the GDOP)
The fast fading effect and RF prediction: the LEE criteria
One of the main aspects to take also into consideration for the correlation with measurement is the fast fading effect. Lee's goal was to find a valid method of estimating the local average power of a signal in the mobile radio environment. His conclusion, that the proper technique is to average 50 samples taken over a distance of 40 ? (wavelengths), has become a standard technique, widely used within the industry .This basis have
become so widely accepted that it can sometimes used in situations where Lee sampling is not strictly applicable. Even though it may not be optimum in all situations, it does provide a base-line that allows measurements to be compared.
Background to signal level variations: the envelope of a received mobile radio signal is composed of a slow fading signal with a fast fading signal superimposed on it. In many applications it is necessary to measure the local average power of the slow fading signal by smoothing out (or averaging) the fast fading part.
The fading experienced by a moving receiver has two major causes:
• The multi-path phenomenon: the signal transmitted from the base station is usually blocked by these surrounding structures and many reflected waves are generated. Summing ail of the multi-path waves at the mobile unit results in fast variations in the received signal which is called multi-path fading. It is also called short-term fading or fast fading referring to the short time period during which signals change.
• The variation of the average signal power as the mobile moves. This is due to different propagation paths between the base station and the mobile unit moving over different terrain configurations at different times. Since the propagation path is always changing as the mobile moves, the path loss values and hence local average power of the received signal vary. Because it is affected by the location of the mobile moving in real time and it varies slowly, it is called the local mean of the long term fading.
Since the received mobile radio signal contains both short term and long-term fading, to estimate the local mean of long-term fading that predictable using a planning tool, the fast fading effect has to eliminated from the measured signal, otherwise the true average power and the measured average power will not be the same.
Obtaining a Local Average Signal Power (Local Mean): how to measure the local mean of the signal when the signal is received by a moving receiver, Lee addressed two major questions. His approach to both was aimed at reducing the errors in the measurements:
• The first question is how to choose a proper length of signal data for averaging.
• The second question, after determining the length, is how many independent sample points are needed for averaging over that length.
Choosing the Proper Length of a Local Mean: as we know, the length of a local signal has to be chosen properly. If it is chosen too short, the short-term fading is still present after the averaging process. If it is chosen too long, information about the long-term fading which we want to preserve, will be smoothed out. To find the proper length, Lee calculated the variance of the estimated local mean as a function of the length. It is important to note that he assumed that the fast fading followed Rayleigh statistics. The variance of a set of samples is the square of the standard deviation of the samples from their mean and is a measure of the spread of the sample values. Lee presents a graph of the variance in dB against the length.
This graph guides the choice of the length by showing how much variance we can expect when using different lengths. This choice a matter of judgment rather than hard fact. Lee suggested the choice of:
• Length = 20 ?, if we are willing to accept a 1 ?m spread in a range of 1.6 dB
• Length = 40 ? if we are willing to accept a 1 ?m spread in a range of 1.0 dB.
If we try to choose less than 20 wavelengths, the 1 ?m spread increases quickly. If we try to choose the length 2L greater than 40 ?, the 1?m spread decreases very slowly, but, averaging over longer than 40 wavelengths risks smoothing out of long-term fading information. Lee concluded that a length of between 20 wavelengths and 40 wavelengths is the proper length for averaging the signal. It is proper in the sense that a length significantly shorter or longer is likely to result in a reduced accuracy of measurement.
Sampling Average: when using an analogue filter as an averaging process, it is difficult to control the bandwidth and Lee chose to use arithmetic averaging of samples instead of analogue averaging. This led him to address the question of how many samples should be taken across the length. Lee aimed to minimize the number of samples and calculated how many points were needed. The calculation is based upon taking the average of two
variables with different statistical distributions. Lee calculates how many samples must be used for the resulting average to be within +/- 1 dB of the true mean.
The resulting figure of 50 samples does not guarantee that the average is within +/- 1 dB of the true mean, though it gives a 90% confidence that it will be.
Effects of different fading environments: Lee concluded that the measured length of a signal necessary to obtain the local average power is in the range of 20 to 40 wavelengths (?), based on the Rayleigh distribution. The sufficient number of samples for estimating this local average power values is 50, based on a 90 percent confidence interval and less than 1 dB in error in the estimate. The processed average data retain the long-term fading information which is the local average power of the signal and predictable by a planning tool, while the short-term fading can be considered as filtered.
• Estimate of Local Average Power of a Mobile Radio Signal, William c.y. Lee, IEEE Trans.
Veh.Tech. Vol VT-34, No. l, Feb 1985.
• The Mobile Radio Propagation Channel, David Parsons, John Wiley 8: Sons 1992,
• Valid RF Field Measurements using Lee Sampling criteria, Willteck White paper
• TETRA field measurement protocol, Emmanuel Grenier, ATDI, Feb 2004


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Manchester United players cannot afford to blow their six-point lead in the Premier League because manager Alex Ferguson would sack them, according to defender Patrice Evra.
United pulled clear of defending champions and cross-town rivals Manchester City with a 3-2 win in a tempestuous derby at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
Last season, City capitalised to take the title when United let an eight-point lead slip over the final six games but Evra said there was no chance of a repeat in 2013.
"I think Ferguson is going to sack everyone if we did that," the French left-back was quoted as saying in a number of British newspapers on Tuesday. "I'm serious. It would not be funny, for the fans, for the players, for everyone.
"I remember what happened last year. We were eight points clear and in the end we lost the league, so a six-point lead means the league is not finished yet.
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Lower Hutt City romped to their first Chatham Cup final and Central United to their eighth, after both notching big away wins in today's semifinals of the 89-year-old knockout competition.
Lower Hutt made sure of their passage to the final with a 4-0 win over Caversham at Dunedin's Caledonian Ground, while Auckland's Central United banged six unanswered goals past eight-man Miramar Rangers at David Farrington Park in Wellington.
Hamish Watson threatened early for Lower Hutt and finally broke the deadlock in the 38th minute, poking home a corner at the back post.
Pomare Te Anau doubled the lead from outside the box in the 63rd minute and Taban Mokaii's goal four minutes later looked to have wrapped up the tie, before Andrew Coad added a final flourish six minutes from time.
The result means Caversham's semifinal curse continues, with their seventh loss at the final four stage from as many appearances.
In Wellington, former Lower Hutt player Emiliano Tade led Central's charge to the final with a hat-trick that included two penalties.
His seventh minute spot kick was all that separated the teams at halftime but Patrick Fleming's 52nd minute dismissal for a second yellow card earned from a clash with Central keeper left Miramar with a mountain to climb.
Paul Urlovic made it 2-0 in the 57th minute and Adam Dickinson extended the lead further in the 82nd minute to kickstart a final flourish from the five-time Chatham Cup winners.
Seven minutes from fulltime Miramar goalkeeper Sacha Nathu brought down Tade to earn an early shower and the Argentinean striker slotted the resulting penalty, before completing his hat-trick with Central's fifth goal in the first minute of injury time.
A forgettable day for Miramar was compounded in the fourth minute of additional time with another red card, this time to Tom Doyle, with Daniel Koprivcic converting the resulting penalty to wrap up the 6-0 win.
The venue for the final will be confirmed during the week, with North Harbour Stadium - the host of 11 of the last 14 finals - due to host provincial rugby on the weekend of August 25-26.
Results from Sunday's semifinals in the Chatham Cup football competition:
At Caledonian, Dunedin
Caversham 0 Lower Hutt City 4 (Hamish Watson 38, Pomare Te Anau 63, Taban Mokaii 67, Andrew Coad 84). HT: 0-1.
At David Farrington Park, Wellington
Miramar Rangers 0 Central United 6 (Emiliano Tade pen 7, pen 83, 90+1, Paul Urlovic 57', Adam Dickinson 82, Daniel Koprivcic pen 90+4). HT: 0-1.


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"At least I have my health!" How many times have we heard this declaration of the high, if not supreme, value placed on physical well-being? What is God's perspective on physical health? How is it related to the saving "wholeness" the gospel announces?
Though the crew and passengers were safely on shore (diasothentes; compare 27:43-44), they still faced the possibility of slavery or death if they met unfriendly islanders. The inhabitants of Malta could well have been such. Luke labels them "barbarians" (note NIV's softening to islanders). Their language was a Punic (Carthaginian) dialect. The island, strategically located at the narrows of the Mediterranean, had been settled from Phoenician Carthage in the sixth century B.C. Though Rome had captured it from Carthage in 216 B.C. and Augustus had settled veterans and their families on it, those who met Paul at this remote bay were of the original settlers' stock.
God in his providence made the rescue complete, for these uncouth, uncivilized islanders showed unusual kindness and welcomed the shipwreck survivors with a fire. Though the temperature may have been about 50 degrees Fahrenheit, the rigors of the journey and the swim to shore had soaked the travelers to the bone. A fire was necessary relief from the rain and cold. Paul's promise, Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head (27:34), continued to be true.
Jesus and Paul modeled the "character of authority as service" (Lk 22:25-27; L. T. Johnson 1992:461). Thus Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and . . . put it on the fire. No act of service for the health and well-being of others was too menial for him or his Master, nor should it be for us. But in that act danger struck: a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. Lawrence of Arabia relates a similar experience: "When the fire grew hot a long black snake wound slowly out into our group; we must have gathered it, torpid, with the twigs" (Lawrence 1927:107, quoted in Bruce 1988:497).
The islanders, steeped in an animistic worldview, thought of the gods as using the forces of nature, especially storm and sea, for retributive justice. They interpreted Paul's snakebite as the work of the goddess "Justice" against Paul, who must be a murderer. In a Greek epigram Statyllius Flaccus tells of a mariner who escaped the whirlwind and fury of the deadly sea, only to be slain by a viper on the Libyan sand (Greek Anthology 7.290).
The islanders were following the conventional wisdom: "bad things happen to bad people." Yet Paul's innocence (23:29; 26:31) encourages Luke's readers and us to take a second look at the significance of this snakebite. At the very least, it calls into question the adequacy of any worldview that solves the problem of evil in such a mechanistic fashion.
In a very matter-of-fact way Paul shook the snake off and suffered no ill effects. Thus he proved true Jesus' promise to his messengers (Lk 10:19; compare Ps 91:13). Still, suffering no harm is the exception, not the rule, for Christian disciples in general and for Paul in particular (Acts 14:22; 9:16).
The islanders kept on expecting Paul to either swell up (compare Num 5:21, 27) or burn with fever (pimprasthai can mean either; Bauer, Gingrich and Danker 1979:658) and suddenly fall dead as the poison acted to destroy blood corpuscles and vessels. But their expectations went unfulfilled. How were they to explain Paul's preservation in health? They began to say, or repeatedly said, "He is a god!"
The islanders' about-face shows the power of a worldview for interpreting experience--and how a non-Christian worldview often won't "get it right." Those who have a non-Christian worldview and observe a "witness in sign" are likely to misconstrue what is happening unless an interpretation, a "witness in word," is provided. Even then, unless the Lord opens the heart to understand the gospel witness, the miraculous sign will not serve to point unambiguously to the power of Jesus the Savior. The Maltese are not alone in misinterpreting a "witness in sign" (Acts 2:12-13; 3:12; 8:18-21; 14:11-18; 19:13-16). And today Luke calls the "signs and wonders" movement to reckon with this ambiguity and aim to make the Spirit-empowered, Spirit-illuminating proclamation of the gospel message central to any "power encounter."
In parallel with the islanders' initial welcome is the official welcome by Publius, the chief official on the island. Luke's report of the survivors' three days of hospitality at Publius's estate would certainly enhance Paul's status in the eyes of Luke's readers, especially if us referred only to Paul and his Christian companions.
Paul's host has an older relative who needs physical healing (compare Jesus' and Peter's ministry: Lk 4:38; Acts 9:33-34). Publius's father was sick in bed, suffering from bouts of fever and dysentery (pyretois, plural). It is probably the "Malta fever" (Micrococcus melitensis), which in the nineteenth century was traced to the milk of Malta goats and for which a vaccine was developed in 1887. Untreated, it lasted an average of four months, but in some cases up to two to three years (Longenecker 1981:565).
Paul parallels Jesus' and Peter's practice in some ways: he goes to the bedside and lays hands on the man (Lk 4:39-40; Acts 9:34; compare Paul's experience in 9:17). But he makes a significant addition: he prefaces the laying on of hands with prayer, thus showing as explicitly as possible the true source of the healing power (compare Jn 11:41-42).
The islanders' misunderstanding of Paul's survival after the snakebite--"He is a god!"--explains his methods here. Publius's father and the Maltese must learn for the first time--and we must never forget--that any restoration of physical health comes from God, whether it be directly or through the practice of medicine. We, like Paul, show that we are convinced of this truth if we ask for healing in prayer.
The sick on the island respond to the news of the healing by "approaching" Paul, one after another, and "being healed" by him (imperfect continuous action; compare Lk 4:40-41; Acts 5:15-16). Though Christians may differ on what aspects of Paul's miraculous ministry were unique to him as an apostle and which are possible today, all should agree that the proclamation of the "whole gospel" will involve prayer-saturated witness to and concern for the "whole person" (compare Jas 5:13-18).
Paul experiences what he had instructed the Corinthians about--the dynamic of sowing spiritual things and reaping physical things (1 Cor 9:11; also see Rom 15:27). The islanders honored Paul's party in many ways and furnished them with the supplies . . . needed. A mercy ministry embraced in truth will not simply amaze or bring physical restoration--it will make one merciful.
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On the day that one county continues their Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) assessments, a neighboring county is thinking ahead to recovery.
On the day that one county continues their Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) assessments, a neighboring county is thinking ahead to recovery. Camden County Presiding Commissioner Kris Franken continued to host emergency management officials around the county on Wednesday. After touring Linn Creek and southern parts of the county including Richland and Stoutland on Tuesday, the group took a look at the Linn Creek Industrial Park, a section of Y road, businesses in Osage Beach, parts of Horseshoe Bend, Camdenton and Sunrise Beach on Wednesday.
After seeing heavy rain and flash flooding earlier in August, Camden County and Miller County are hoping for government assistance.
According to Miller County Commisssioner Brian Duncan, FEMA and SEMA officials were also in Miller County on Tuesday. Duncan said that one representative from SEMA, two from FEMA and one official from the environmental team toured the county.
The recent visits are for officials to survey the flood damage and to figure out if the state as a whole sustained enough damage to qualify for federal assistance.
"They are basically trying to get a basic overview of what the damage is to see if we qualify for presidential declaration," Franken said of the recent visits.
Camden County does not have a total damage estimate to release. Duncan estimates that Miller County saw about $1 million worth of damages.
Duncan also said that about 40 percent of the bridges and low water crossings in Miller County were affected and are in need of significant repair. At least three of those structures need to be replaced completely. According to Duncan, 60 percent of the county's culvert pipes have damage and many road surfaces through-out the county were washed away.
If Miller County does not get federal aid, the repair will affect day-to-day operations.
"It is really going to hurt our everyday maintenance," Duncan said. "When we are trying to do repairs, we can't do everyday maintenance."
If the funds do not become available, Duncan said that the county may have to budget for the repairs next year and prioritize what needs to be done.
"It will just take time," Duncan added.
The counties could wait weeks to hear if they qualify. Lake Sun will update residents on the status of government assistance for flooding damage as soon as the information is available.


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Chuck Provini, president and CEO of Red Bank-based Natcore Technology Inc., wants to keep the mass production of his firm's latest silicon solar cell technology in New Jersey, but he's having a hard time finding someone outside of China to do the job.
"I will always be passionate about doing business in the United States … and I want to figure out how to do it in New Jersey," Provini said. "I've gotten a lot of help from the lieutenant governor, but there's not much more she can do for us if there's no one in the solar cell manufacturing business or the chip manufacturing business here."
The roadblock isn't new to Provini, who formed a joint venture with China-based Chuangke Silicon Ltd. in 2010 to manufacture solar film-growth equipment after a long, and ultimately failed, search for a production partner based in the United States.
But Provini said he's more hopeful about finding a company in New Jersey to manufacture his Absolute Black silicon wafer solar cell component — which he said has near-zero reflectivity and can be produced at a lower cost than the best wafer on the market — that his firm developed at its facility in Rochester, N.Y.
However, Lyle Rawlings, president and CEO of Advanced Solar Products, in Flemington, said Provini won't have much luck in his local effort, since the state "has a lot of installers, but doesn't really have any solar manufacturers."
"We had one Italian company in Somerset — MX Group — that was in business for two years, but recently shut its doors, and I don't know if it has the potential to reopen," Rawlings said. "But if Natcore's technology really is good, I don't know if they would bother going out and find(ing) it."
But by the time the technology is ready to be fully commercialized, Provini said he expects China's solar bubble to burst, and more solar cell manufacturers to appear in the state.
"What China's doing right now is supporting the solar market by giving companies money to sell cheaper solar cells. Eventually, it will run out of money, and its hold on solar will not last," Provini said. "When the pendulum swings the other way, I hope to be on the other side with a manufacturer producing my technology."
Rawlings, however, said "there will be no dramatic swing away from China. China dominates the solar world right now and will continue to be a strong force, even if they won't be as dominant as they have been for two years."
While Rawlings couldn't say if Natcore's silicon solar cell is truly better than what's already available in the market, he said the company's tandem solar cell technology — which is still in the first phase of development — "would be a game changer and a dramatic improvement in the economics of solar if its claim to increase solar cell efficiency to 30 percent is true," since the best cells in today's market hover around 22 percent efficiency.
"U.S. solar manufacturing is struggling to compete with Chinese and Korean and Taiwanese manufacturers … so if this turns out to deliver on its promises and is deployed in the U.S. for a while at least, that may give U.S. manufacturing a leg up," Rawlings said.


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Theology of Everything
Cos everything's theological
A Theology of Eating Disorders
Emma Scrivener
- Emma Scrivener lives in Eastbourne. She speaks at national events, is the author of 'A New Name: Grace and Healing for Anorexia', and blogs at 'A New Name'. View all resources by Emma Scrivener
Theology Network recommends Emma's new book, A New Name: Grace and Healing for Anorexia.
Seven years ago I looked like the perfect Christian but I was gripped by an addiction that nearly destroyed me and the people I love most.
I was twenty-seven years old. A talented student at Bible college. I had my dream job, leading a thriving Sunday school. Id been married for four years to a church minister in training. We were seen as ministry dynamos, a couple who would go far. But beneath the shiny exterior, I was slowly but surely killing myself.
Before you say it, let me interject: Christians dont get anorexia, right?
Eating disorders affect all sorts of people, including those within the church. Believers are not exempt: in fact, they may be particularly vulnerable. Thats because such addictions raise bigger questions than whether or not our clothes fit. Theyre about what it means to be human. What gives us identity and worth. Life and death and everything in-between. What we worship.
As my eating disorder took hold, I was just as religious as Id always been. I was still trusting in God. The difference was that this god had a small, rather than a capital g. And surprise, surprise, it was a god that looked just like me. The god of performance, hard work, externals and rituals. A god that gave nothing of itself, but demanded everything in return.
Like any religion, anorexia is built on a mountain of beliefs about what constitutes life and death, salvation and sin, shame and redemption.
According to the Bible, sin is rejection of Christ a refusal to receive from a giving God. It affects us all, but is illustrated perfectly in the girl who refuses to eat. With the goddess Anorexia, sin is redefined and its not just caloric. Instead, its about a lack of self-control, the shame that comes with wanting and needing too much.
In the Bible, there is a problem with uncleanness, with sin and shame. Its a problem common to us all. Our sin is our separation from the life-giving God. And its not something we can atone for ourselves. It requires a Scapegoat, someone perfect who can take our mess and all that it deserves. Thats the salvation that only Jesus Christ can offer.
For the anorexic, however, fat is the unforgivable sin. Fat separates me from my god too in this case, from the person I want to be. It also needs to be removed. In this model, salvation means atoning for myself, by myself: bearing my punishment in my own body. As I seek to recreate myself, my body becomes the scapegoat. I hate it and identify all thats wrong in my world with this lump of flesh. Yet at the same time, I also worship it, ritualizing and relishing every aspect of my self-imposed atonement.
Through the rituals, I separate myself from my messy, sinful flesh with its overwhelming desires. I will punish my body while I concentrate on the real me almighty willpower. With my secret knowledge of exercise and nutrition, I can soar above my own fallibility. I can split myself into two and rise anew, born again to a new kind of humanity.
And what about the community of faith?
In the Bible, worship takes place in the context of a wider body where we are free to be ourselves and speak the truth in love. With anorexia, the opposite is true. I retreat into myself and cut myself off from relationships. I hide and I lie. I turn my hatred against myself and against anyone who comes close.
At the centre of the Christian faith is Christs body and blood, broken and poured out for us. In the Lords Supper we are reminded that we cannot save ourselves. We are needy hungry for the Bread of life. But in Jesus we have found a self-giving God who invites us to his table and feeds us. This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them is what they said in the Gospels (Luke 15:2), and its just as true today. As we come in our brokenness, we know that we are not worthy, but we are welcome nonetheless.
At the centre of the anorexic faith is another body, also broken. This body is solitary. It is mine. And it is punished by me and for me. This continual sacrifice is proof that I am worthy after all. I wear my rules and rituals proudly, for all to see.
The drive towards self-improvement is relentless. The weight and exercise goals are never enough. The rituals serve as sacraments. It all feels like freedom. But I am enslaved. Each day more demands are added to the list. Each day my body shrinks along with my world.
The gospel of anorexia isnt good news at all. It is a system of works, of slavery, self-salvation and self-destruction. It feels like heaven, but leads to hell. It is a religion, as powerful and addictive as any cult.
Whats the solution?
We need to be careful here. Anorexics are all about solutions. Everything is aimed at self-improvement. In the past, Id turned over a thousand new leaves. Id made a hundred new beginnings, each doomed to failure. These resolutions were all about me my rules, my strength, my gospel, my way. In the end, I lost all I tried to keep. I got exactly what I asked for: religion without relationship, and law without love. But it left me hungrier than before.
In Romans 2 theres a verse that Id never understood. It says this: Gods kindness leads you towards repentance (2:4).
My version of repentance had no room for kindness. Instead, it was about fear, pride and self-will. My version said, Pull yourself together. Try harder, do more, make it better. Fix your own mistakes or face the consequences. Gospel repentance looks very different. Its the product of Gods kindness, undeserved and poured out without limit.
At my very lowest ebb I opened the Bible and came in brokenness before the Lord. In Revelation I met Jesus: someone I had never really seen.
Hes the Creator of the universe (Revelation 1) - and Hes a bleeding and bow-legged lamb (Revelation 5). Hes the embodiment of strength and glory but also of frailty and pain. Hes Jesus as Lord, the conquering Lion. And Hes Jesus as Lamb, sacrificed and broken.
Meeting the Jesus of the Bible was life-changing. Like Jacob in Genesis 32, I felt as though Id been fighting and fighting. Finally, Hed won. Hed slain me - with His grace. The road to recovery isnt simple or easy: but at the foot of the cross is where it finally began.
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List traversal
From HaskellWiki
Traversing a list is sometimes more difficult than it seems to be at the first glance. With "traversal" I mean to consume one or more lists and produce one or more new ones. Our goal is to do this efficiently and lazily.As a running example I use the
Its type signature is
partitionEithers :: [Either a b] -> ([a], [b])
and it does what you expect:
Prelude Data.Either> partitionEithers [Left 'a', Right False, Left 'z'] ("az",[False]) Prelude Data.Either> take 100 $ snd $ partitionEithers $ cycle [Left 'a', Right (0 :: Int)] [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
The second example is especially important because it shows that the input can be infinitely long and the output can be, too. That's the proof that the implementation is lazy. We will use this example as test for our implementations below.
1 First attempt - quadratic runtime, not lazy
In our first attempt we maintain a state containing two lists that we want to extend to the result lists step by step.
partitionEithers2 :: [Either a b] -> ([a], [b]) partitionEithers2 = let aux ab [] = ab aux (as, bs) (Left a : es) = aux (as ++ [a], bs) es aux (as, bs) (Right b : es) = aux (as, bs ++ [b]) es in aux ([], [])
This implementation works for finite lists but fails for infinite ones. You will also notice that it is quite slow.The reason is that appending something to a list like
Since we do this repeatedly we end up with quadratic runtime.
2 Second attempt - linear runtime, still not lazy
We have learned that appending something to a list is expensive. However prepending a single element is very cheap, it needs only constant number of operations. Thus we will implement the following idea: We prepend new elements to the result list and since this reverses the order of elements, we reverse the result lists in the end.
partitionEithers1 :: [Either a b] -> ([a], [b]) partitionEithers1 xs = let aux ab [] = ab aux (as, bs) (Left a : es) = aux (a : as, bs) es aux (as, bs) (Right b : es) = aux (as, b : bs) es (ys,zs) = aux ([], []) xs in (reverse ys, reverse zs)
This implementation is much faster than the first onebut it cannot be lazy because
3 Third attempt - linear runtime and full laziness
In order to get linear runtime and full laziness we must produce the list in the same order as the input. However we must avoid appending to the end of the list. Instead we must prepend elements to lists that become known in the future. We must be very careful that the leading elements of the result lists can be generated without touching the following elements. Here is the solution:
partitionEithers :: [Either a b] -> ([a], [b]) partitionEithers [] = ([], []) partitionEithers (Left a : es) = let (as,bs) = partitionEithers es in (a:as, bs) partitionEithers (Right b : es) = let (as,bs) = partitionEithers es in (as, b:bs)
matches the top-most data constructor lazily. The following expressions would match strictly and thus would fail:
(\(as,bs) -> (a:as, bs)) $ partitionEithers es
case partitionEithers es of (as,bs) -> (a:as, bs)
Matching the pair constructor strictly meansthat the recursive call to
before the pair constructor of the result is generated. This starts a cascade that forces all recursive calls until the end of the input list.
This is different for lazy pattern matches.The above
let ~(as,bs) = partitionEithers es in (a:as, bs)
(\ ~(as,bs) -> (a:as, bs)) $ partitionEithers es
case partitionEithers es of ~(as,bs) -> (a:as, bs)
or without the tilde as syntactic sugar:
case partitionEithers es of ab -> (a : fst ab, snd ab)
contain strict pattern matches on the pair constructor but the key difference to above is that these matches happen inside the pair constructor of
That is, the outer pair constructor can be generatedbefore the evaluation of
4 Fourth attempt - expert solution
Now real experts would not recurse manuallybut would let
This allows for fusion. Additionally real experts would add the line
in order to generate the pair constructor of the result completely independent from the input. This yields maximum laziness.
partitionEithersFoldr :: [Either a b] -> ([a], [b]) partitionEithersFoldr = (\ ~(as,bs) -> (as,bs)) . foldr (\e ~(as,bs) -> case e of Left a -> (a:as, bs) Right b -> (as, b:bs)) ([], [])
5 Fifth attempt - your solution
If you are tired of all these corner cases that we need to respect in order to get full laziness then you might prefer to solve the problem by just combining functions that are known to be lazy. It is good style anyway to avoid explicit recursion. Of course, when combining lazy functions you must still take care that the combinators maintain laziness. Thus my exercise for you at the end of this articleis to implement
say, from
base before version 4.
turns out to be very useful.


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2013-01-02 / Columnists
Pets pets pets
From the "you can't make this stuff up" file, the following exchange recorded by Chris Elton, Babylon Town Shelter director, the morning after Christmas is typical of the lies and fabrications from the public that municipal shelters deal with each day when trying to ascertain the truth and background, including whether there may be owners desperately looking for the poor pets that cross the shelter threshold. (The dog's name has been changed to protect the innocent): Guy comes in: Someone left a dog in my yard. Someone left a dog in your yard. Why? Why what? Would someone leave a dog in your yard? Dunno. When was the dog left in your yard? A couple of days ago. Really? Well.... maybe a couple of weeks ago, it was around the time of the storm. What storm? The hurricane? Yeah. That was two months ago. Whatever. Have you brought the dog to a vet? Ask my wife. You seem not to believe me. You got that right. Your wife's number please, bring the dog around back while we call your wife. (The guy brings cute but very matted Yorkie mix wearing a collar and a rabies tag to the back door of the shelter.) Hello? Hi, your husband is here to turn in a dog. Which dog? Uhmmm, a small dog? Oh, Bradley. (Sounds sad.) You don't want your husband to turn him in? No, but we are moving tomorrow so he has to. Did you ever bring him to the vet? Dunno, ask my husband. Where did you get the dog? Dunno, he brought it home one day. (The rabies tag comes back registered to the guy.) Anything more you want to tell me? Like what? Where did you find the dog? Around my neighborhood. When? Like I said a couple of months ago. No, you said, a couple of days ago, then, a couple of weeks ago, then you said around the time of the storm. Whatever. Well, it's just that you brought him to the vet for his rabies vaccine. So? Back in April. $65 dollars please! (This is the owner turn-in fee.) Director's impression: Guy found/stole dog last spring, brought him home and neglected him. When he took his other favored dog to the vet (the one that is moving with them today) he got this one a rabies shot. (Then he presented the dog as a stray with his own rabies tag.) Lesson: We are professionals; we have heard all your hogwash before five ways from Sunday.
For Adoption at Babylon Town Shelter (631- 643-9270) Lamar St. W. Babylon: "Athena" #12- 753 is an overlooked Hound/Pit puppy about four months old. For some unexplained reason, no one notices this cutie. Handsome "Slate" #2-430 has been at the shelter since September, even though he is declawed and has the look of a Russian Blue.
Special Adoption and Foster Plea: Nassau County Emergency Pet Shelter at Mitchel Field set up after the storm needs help with permanent and temporary pet placements. After Sandy when Nassau OEM and HSUS were going house to house in the Long Beach area to look for stranded pets, they came across eight stray dogs that have been at the shelter ever since. No owners have come forward. Permanent homes are needed ASAP for these dogs, mostly Pit mixes. Also there are still 64 dogs and 76 cats at the shelter that belong to people who will not be able to go back into their homes for a long time so temporary foster care is essential. If interested in adopting one of the eight dogs, or fostering a dog/cat for a displaced owner, please contact Nassau SPCA at 516-The-SPCA or via www.nspca.us.


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Rome: AC Milan continued their recent resurgence with a commanding 3-0 win over Serie B side Reggina in the last 16 of the Coppa Italia.
After labouring to break down the visitors in the first half, a powerful header from Mario Yepes and a quick-fire double from M`Baye Niang and Giampaolo Pazzini saw the Rossoneri cruise to victory, and set up a tantalising tie with Juventus in the next round.
The hosts bossed the opening exchanges and carved out the first real opening after 15 minutes when Pazzini was played in behind by Robinho only to see his effort blocked by the onrushing Davide Facchin.
Reggina struggled to get out of their own half in the first quarter of the game, but Manuel Fishnaller should have done better after turning well to work space for a shot on the edge of the area. Instead, though, he blazed over.
The visitors thought they had taken a shock lead shortly before the 25-minute mark, but Dario Bergamelli`s well-taken finish was correctly ruled out for offside following a deep free kick. Bojan Krkic`s header was then parried by Facchin just a minute later to keep the scores level.
Milan continued to press for the opener but, despite dominating possession, they found it difficult to find a way through the visiting defence and its three-man shield in the centre of midfield, with Pazzini`s header straight into Facchin`s arms indicative of their struggle for inspiration in the final third.
The hosts came out of the blocks quickly after half-time and almost found an opening when Ignazio Abate prodded through towards Robinho, but the Brazilian could not quite reach the pass and Facchin gathered.
But the Rossoneri did not have to wait much longer for the breakthrough. After Robinho`s header was brilliantly blocked on the line after Emanuelson`s corner, the Brazilian returned the ball out wide to the Dutchman and his excellent cross was powerfully headed home by Yepes.
With the deadlock broken, Massimo Allegri opted to give youngster Niang a chance to impress and he almost scored with his first involvement, after controlling Pazzini`s pass but Facchin was alert to smother the danger. Emanuelson then forced his way through a number of challenges only to be denied by the Reggina stopper once more.
Facchin was the busiest man on the pitch by this point, saving well from Abate`s shot across goal after some good interplay with Niang and Pazzini, before making a superb one-handed stop following Pazzini`s instinctive effort on the turn.
Reggina responded by finally pushing men further forward, but the tie was settled with two strikes in quick succession. First, Niang doubled his side`s lead by slotting coolly past Facchin following Emanuelson`s run and pass, before Pazzini was finally rewarded for his efforts when he turned inside the box and fired high into the corner of the net.
Reggina attempted to rally but Allegri`s side ultimately cruised the final exchanges to progress to the next round, where they will face table-toppers Juventus.


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Volume 18 Issue 11 | August 5 - 11, 2005
Film Forum
209 W. Houston St.
Opens Aug. 17
Emmett Louis Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley, as seen in The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.
Documentary on the grisly lynching of Emmett Till
1955 event said to have spurred the Civil Rights movement
By Jerry Tallmer
Billy Joe McAllister may have jumped into the Tallahatchie River, but Emmett Louis Till was thrown into it, a 75-pound cotton-gin fan strung around his neck with barbed wire to keep him what was left of him under.
The Billy Joe McAllister of Bobbie Gentrys haunting song was white. Emmett Till, age 14, was black, a kid from Chicago a mischievous kid, his cousins said who made the mistake of putting a couple of pennies (for bubble gum) directly into the hand of the good-looking young white woman at the cash register of a grocery store in the tiny town of Money, Mississippi, instead of placing the coins on the counter.
He may also have wolf-whistled at her. So she said. She also said he made a lewd gesture and grabbed her around the waist. Or he may have been whistling, by habit, to overcome a polio-induced speech impediment. So his mother later said. In any event, the young white woman, 21-year-old small-town beauty-contest winner Carolyn Bryant, went out to her car to get a gun, and Emmett and his two cousins ran off.
At 2:30 in the morning, four nights later, August 28, 1955, two white men Carolyns husband Roy Bryant and Bryants larger, older half-brother J. W. Milam came to the home of Moses Wright, Emmett Tills great-uncle, and took Emmett away with them.
Here is what they did to him, as recapitulated by Moses Wright and by Emmetts mother Mamie Till-Mobley (both now dead) in The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, a stark 70-minute documentary by Keith A. Beauchamp that opens August 17 at Film Forum on Houston Street:
Beat him to a pulp. Cut off his tongue. Cut off his privates. Knocked his right eye out of its socket, his left eye into oblivion. Knocked out all but two of his teeth. Cut off an ear, or maybe both ears. Blew a bullet hole through his head from ear to ear. Took an axe to what remained of his head.
It was this Emmett Till that his mother insisted be left untouched, face up, in an open casket, at the funeral Let the world see it, said steel-willed Mamie Till-Mobley and it was a photograph of this Emmett Till in Jet magazine that shocked the daylights out of 10-year-old Keith Beauchamp as he was idling through some magazines in his parents study in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a quarter of a century later.
That image has stayed with me all my life, says the Beauchamp who has spent the past nine of his 34 years researching, witness-chasing, persuading, shooting his Emmett Till film. I worked with Mrs. Mobley for eight years before she passed away. It took me three years just to convince Simeon Wright [son of Moses Wright] to talk to me. Im still shooting. This is a never-ending documentary.
And a never-ending case, considered by many as marking the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. {Three months later, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of that bus in Montgomery, Alabama.)
Old Moses Wright courageously took to the stand, back in 1955, to identify Roy Bryant and J.W, Milam as the two white men who came and took Emmett away that night. Acquitted in short order by an all-white jury on the ground that nobody could establish the battered body as that of Emmett Till the two supremacists immediately started boasting in public about what theyd done, and sold their story for $4,000 to journalist William Bradford Huie.
Beauchamps Untold Story is credited with playing a part in persuading the United States Department of Justice to now reopen its investigation into the lynching of Emmett Till. Only a few weeks ago as the movie was in previews at Film Forum the remains in that casket were exhumed in order to establish by DNA or otherwise whether the body is indeed that of Emmett Till.
One strong piece of evidence, today as 50 years ago, is the ring the corpse had on one finger a ring inscribed L.T., the initials of Emmetts soldier father Louis Till. Bizarrely enough, Louis Till was hanged by General Eisenhower, is how Keith Beauchamp puts it, though not in the film for the rape of three Italian women, and murder of two of them, during WW II.
When the Emmett Till case came along, Mrs. Mobley sent a wire to President Eisenhower. He never answered it, Beauchamp says. He was worried about the Southern vote. Whatever happens in Mississippi stays in Mississippi was Eisenhowers attitude.
Keith Andre Beauchamp, born July 2, 1971, at Fort Gordon, Augusta, Georgia, is himself the son of a man who served 21 years in the U.S. Army. His mothers a professor of business administration and agriculture.
One of Beauchamps key sources has been Peggy Morgan, a white woman now in her 60s whose husband was close to Byron De La Beckwith. It was thanks in part to Mrs. Morgans testimony that, decades after the event, De La Beckwith was convicted of the 1963 murder of black civil-rights leader Medgar Evers.
Peggys father and uncle were in on the Emmett Till murder, says Beauchamp. Her uncle supplied the 75-pound cotton-gin fan and the barbed wire that anchored the body in the Talahatchie River.
One of the things Ive tried to do is not be biased, says the coffee-colored 6-foot-3 former Louisianan who was once himself, at 17, at a pre-graduation party in a Baton Rouge teenage club, beaten up, kicked, and handcuffed by an undercover police officer for dancing with a white girl. I also wanted to get the white side how it was at that time, in that era.
For that matter he has tracked down a number of black men who, as employees of Milan and Bryant, were forced to participate in the abduction and murder of the 14-year-old from Chicago.
Some of Beauchamps witnesses will be at one or more of the Film Forum screenings. He has been trying to reach Carolyn Bryant (now Carolyn Bryant Donham) for years, but every time he found where she was, she moved on. Shes now, in her 70s, living like a prisoner, Beauchamp says, in a house in Greenville, Mississippi, with her son Frank, a Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted sign in the front yard.
She was not the white-lily queen everybody says she was, and it was said that she made up the whole lie to teach husband Roy who had left her alone in the store a lesson. But the psycho-sexual-racial implications, the death-marked implications, the orgastic implications, of the Emmett Till case go far beyond a sulky young womans teaching a temporarily absent husband a lesson; in truth, you can find a lot of that dynamic right in the novels of William Faulkner of Oxford, Mississippi.
Or you can follow Keith Beauchamps tracks to Juanita Milam, ex-wife of J.W. Milam.
Milam and Bryant are both now dead of cancer, and both wives long ago within six months of Emmetts murder divorced their husbands. I was able to reach Juanita Milam. She said to me: Both men are dead, Emmett Till is dead, the case is dead.
But it isnt.
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This is the 47th post in a series on Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company.
Of all the health are providers involved in your motherhood journey, you'd expect that pediatricians would be the most supportive of breastfeeding
After all, their job is to ensure the health of your infant. And they're the providers you see when you're home from the hospital and the rubber hits the road.
Pediatricians are also highly influential in mothers' decisions to initiate and sustain breastfeeding, and to breastfeed exclusively.
We know of many, many pediatricians who are supportive of breastfeeding, practice evidence-based care, and even champion the cause. Many pediatricians have led the way in improving breastfeeding care (and you can find some of them associated with the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine).
But research has shown that pediatricians are often Booby Trapped by inadequate training, and that their personal experience and attitudes can also stand in the way.
Consider these sobering research findings:
The American Academy of Pediatrics does periodic surveys of physicians' skills and attitudes toward breastfeeding. The most recent one, published in 2008, found that compared to the prior survey done in 1999, pediatricians were:
- Less likely to believe that the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the difficulties or inconvenience
- Less likely to believe that almost all mothers are able to succeed
- More likely to report reasons to recommend against breastfeeding
- Up to 5 times more likely than pediatricians in 1995 to recommend weaning for inappropriate reasons
- Most respondents to a 1999 AAP survey reported that breastfeeding and formula feeding were equally acceptable
- (Fortunately, they were more likely to recommend exclusive breastfeeding and follow supportive hospital policies.)
The study concluded that pediatricians' "attitudes and commitment have deteriorated."
Other studies have found similar problems:
- 70% of physicians surveyed in this Mississippi study said they received no training at all in breastfeeding management during their residency.
- This 2002 study reports on inadequacies in the training pediatricians get to help breastfeeding mothers.
- Pediatric textbooks, says this 2004 study, contain information which, "when not omitted, is highly variable and at times inaccurate and inconsistent." To wit: "The breastfeeding chapter in a widely used, general pediatric textbook addresses 11 of 15 basic breastfeeding criteria, and information on 6 of those 11 areas is incorrect or inconsistent."
This has real consequences for mothers and babies. One study found that "mothers whose pediatric providers recommended formula supplementation if an infant was not gaining enough weight or who considered their advice to mothers on breastfeeding duration to be not very important were more likely to have discontinued exclusive breastfeeding by 12 weeks postpartum."
There is hope on the horizon in this area, and I'll soon be writing about a new curriculum for residents which has shown excellent results. But for now, it's important that mothers understand that not all pediatricians have the skills or attitude necessary to help you meet your breastfeeding goals.
Was your pediatrician knowledgeable and skilled when it came to breastfeeding? How did your pediatrician influence your breastfeeding experience?


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Crocodile attack in Australia: Boy, 12, feared dead
(CNN) — A 12-year-old boy is missing after being snatched by a crocodile in a remote part of the Australian Outback, authorities said Monday.
Police officers and park rangers have been using helicopters and boats to search an area around Mudginberri in the Northern Territory's Kakadu National Park since Sunday afternoon, when a saltwater crocodile attacked a group of five children swimming in a water hole, police sergeant Stephen Constable told CNN Monday.
One of the boys, aged 15, was bitten by the animal but managed to escape. The crocodile then turned on his friend, aged 12, Constable said.
"The 15-year-old boy was grabbed on his right arm. He started fighting off the croc, and it took him by the left arm; then it let him go and took hold of the 12-year-old boy, and swam off with him."
There has been no sign of the child since the attack occurred.
"As time goes on, the chances of finding him alive diminish severely," Constable said Monday evening.
A crocodile expert who examined the first boy's wounds, believes the crocodile is between 2.5 to three meters long (around eight to nine feet), Constable said.
Search crews are also looking for larger crocodiles that may have attacked the one that took the 12-year-old.
"On occasion a smaller crocodile may take some food, and a bigger crocodile will take it off them," said Constable.
Authorities have issued shoot-to-kill orders for crocodiles longer than two meters which are spotted in the area.
Two crocodiles, 4.3 and 4.7 meters in length, were killed and cut open overnight, but their stomachs did not contain any human remains.
According to local media reports, people had been warned against swimming in the area after a teenager survived an attack by a five-meter-long crocodile in the region in January last year.
Constable said this time of year is particularly dangerous due to seasonal flooding.
Authorities will continue their search through the night, he added.
By Sophie Brown
CNN's Pierre Meilhan contributed to this report.


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The night I closed down our other three, older forums, I found from 36 - 79 guests reading and downloading things at each of the three forums, in the middle of the night. We had not had more than 7 -8 guests doing so, here, until those forums were closed down.
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DIY Project Ideas: 10 Window Treatments for Under $50
I moved five times in the past nine years: for college (twice), graduate school, and also for work. I once even moved out of a place I loved because my landlord needed to move back in. Among other things, all this moving has taught me that no two homes' windows are alike, and a new space (or the urge to freshen a current one) can mean a costly adventure in window treatment world. (It's putting it mildly to say I was sticker shocked when I discovered the price of 118" drapes.) With a little DIY spirit, and a free weekend, there are tons of ways to create your own, cost-effective window treatments. Here are ten tutorials to get you started!
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4. Molly of The Nesting Game shares how to transform cheap mini-blinds into chic Greek Key Roman Shades.
5. Drop cloths are a clever way to stretch your fabric dollars. Shine Your Light jazzes up otherwise basic curtains with this Stenciled Drop Cloth Curtain tutorial.
6. Taryn, here at Apartment Therapy, recently featured this amazing tutorial on how to turn shower curtains into window drapes.
7. This simple idea, from Patricia's Downsized Digs House Tour, for clipping vintage tea towels to drapery rings, is a perfect budget solution for small windows in kitchens and bathrooms.
8. Design Sponge shares a how-to for turning a scarf collection into curtains. (I might need to call around to relatives and friends to see if they'd contribute to my newfound desire for a scarf collection!)
9. Basic IKEA curtains get a fun paint treatment by Charlotte at Curbly.
10. Those new curtains deserve a fun new rod! Check out our awesome tutorial for Conduit Pipe Curtain Rods; Carolyn was able to make three rods (one was 12 feet long!) for $25.


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Vogue sunglasses are made for those who are full of youthful energy and optimism. Creative people who live in a world of aspiration and desire and love to play with fashion in everyday life will love the many shapes and colors of Vogue sunglass frames.
Vogue eyewear was created in 1973 with the name of the popular and prestigious fashion magazine. In 1990, the Vogue eyewear brand became part of Luxottica and its heritage of flirty design, innovative shapes and fun colors began.


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da bg is luvely wat u talkin bout lol-luv da writing in it n her multi colored eyes. i like her hairstyle its pretty n gr8 colorin :3
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We're in the last week of the Great American History Puzzle, and if you've passed every obstacle and dodged every arrow, all is (hopefully) starting to become clear. The treasure may seem to be almost in sight.
But at least two of the last three puzzles in the grid (including today's!) may be among the hair-pullingest yet. I'm not a sadist, mind you. I genuinely think you'll have fun with them. Maybe only in occasional moments of insight, or even hindsight. But that's sort of how puzzles work, my friends.
Don't give up! Not so close to your goal.