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Nursing homes need increased staffing, not legal immunity
With nursing homes accounting for the majority of COVID-19 deaths in many states, the long-term care industry has joined with other health care providers to successfully lobby for protection from lawsuits. The result: Nineteen states have granted nursing homes new immunity from civil liability either by executive order or statute.
All of these new measures shield health care providers — usually defined as both individuals and the institutions where they work — from liability for negligence. New Jersey and New York even protect against certain forms of criminal liability. Moreover, while some only prevent COVID-19 patients and their representatives from holding providers liable, others could foreclose almost all lawsuits against nursing homes during the COVID-19 disaster.
The industry justifies these measures as essential to protect against liability that would threaten their operation. For example, the Florida Health Care Association, writing to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), argued that immunity was “necessary” so that facilities could provide care “without fear of reprisal.”
This rhetoric exaggerates the industry’s vulnerability to litigation. Even without legal immunity, COVID-19 could ravage a nursing home — killing most residents — without the facility being liable. This is because, consistent with established tort law doctrines, facilities that operate reasonably are unlikely to be liable for COVID-19 related harms, including residents’ deaths.
Nursing homes are generally only liable for harm to residents if they fail to act reasonably under the circumstances and that failure leads to foreseeable physical harm. This standard already favors facilities struggling with COVID-19. First, when deciding liability, courts typically consider the underlying circumstances, which include the institution’s resources and external factors (such as COVID-19). Conduct that would be negligent in normal times may be permissible during a pandemic. Second, whether health care providers are liable depends in large part on what similar entities would have done in the same situation. Indeed, establishing that a facility complied with professional standards is generally sufficient to defeat a medical malpractice claim. Consequently, nursing homes may be able to escape liability even for seemingly deplorable conditions if they show that they acted like other homes did in the face of the pandemic.
This truth exposes the real impact of the new immunity provisions: protecting providers who act unreasonably and fail to follow industry norms. True, immunity may save institutions money by deterring lawsuits, which can be costly to defend even if unsuccessful. But it also places the good actors in the industry at a competitive disadvantage relative to providers willing to cut costs by sacrificing resident care and safety.
It is hard to see how protecting nursing homes from liability — especially when the benefits accrue primarily to bad actors — outweighs the interest of residents, their families and the public in holding these institutions accountable. Although highly regulated, nursing homes rarely face fines or other significant penalties. Moreover, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services has responded to the pandemic by suspending enforcement actions against homes and waiving key regulatory requirements. In this context, private lawsuits are a key source of accountability and the new immunity measures eviscerate one of the only meaningful checks on nursing homes’ conduct.
There is less justification for granting immunity to nursing homes than to hospitals and other acute care providers. Hospitals justify their push for immunity on the grounds that courts should not second-guess the ethically charged resource allocation decisions made rapidly in response to a crush of COVID-19 patients. By contrast, the primary concern for nursing homes is that they will be held liable for inadequate infection control — a problem that typically reflects more deliberative choices over time.
The pandemic has exposed the staffing shortages and poor conditions that already plagued long-term care. The industry could use this historic moment to push for the resources that would help protect residents and workers now and in the future, including funding that would help facilities maintain a sustainable, full-time staff. Experts agree that most nursing homes were dangerously understaffed even before the epidemic and the industry’s heavy reliance on part-time staff (an estimated 15 to 17 percent work multiple jobs) has been linked to COVID-19 spreading between facilities. Increased funding tied to higher staffing levels and fair compensation for direct care workers could help address these systematic problems.
Unfortunately, the nursing home industry is squandering this political opportunity by lobbying for what some members want to protect their bottom line — and not what all could use to protect residents.
Nina A. Kohn is the David M. Levy professor of law at Syracuse University and a visiting professor at the Yale Law School. Her research focuses on the civil rights of older adults. Follow her on Twitter @NinaKohn.
Jessica L. Roberts is the Leonard H. Childs chair in law and a professor of medicine at the University of Houston, where she directs the Health Law & Policy Institute. Follow her on Twitter @jrobertsuhlc.


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At the University of Iowa’s John Martin Library’s Rare Book Room there is a copy of the remarkable Anatomia Universa of Paolo Mascagni, whose 44 hand-coloured plates they have scanned and made available for on-line viewing.
The book was published [posthumously - Mascagni died in 1815] in a series of nine parts between 1823 and 1832 at Pisa. Each of the 44 plates in the University of Iowa copy is hand-colored and accompanied by a duplicate outline plate which contains nomenclature for identifying the anatomical parts in the accompanying volume of text. The plates are so large that it has never been bound and is stored in a large book-shaped wooden box especially constructed for that purpose. The plates are so designed that a man five and one-half feet tall can be assembled from three of the plates if they are joined together. The plates were superbly engraved and the hand-coloring by pen and brush was done so carefully and with such skill that the artist often achieved a three-dimensional effect.
Each of the two images above are composites of three of Mascagni’s plates, which I have rather ineptly spliced together, hence the visible ‘joins’. Click on the relevant potions of the images to see the individual plates in isolation.Posted by misteraitch at March 15, 2004 10:17 AM | TrackBack

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Since 1922 the Muslim psyche has been inundated with a nefarious notion, a placebo of both false premise and hope: the Islamic State. Before the daily news was peppered with references to Caliphate, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko, Ikwan, Shabab, this or that Jamaat, and before our collective religious ethics were martyred in its cause, this “state” was a figment of imagination born out of desperation, not revelation. Contrary to what you may have heard in your MSA days, or what you continue to see and read in countless platforms inside and outside the Muslim community, there is no scriptural basis for such a polity, and no such utopian landscape ever existed. This notion does not harken back to our earliest heroes and predecessors, but rather to late 18th century geopolitics, and the succumbing of a weakening despotic empire to the rise of western nation states. It should be noted that the idea that religion and state should be unified is not unique to Islam but was found throughout the pre-modern era, or at least the era around the time of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. The Roman Empire was Christian, and the Sassanid Empire Zoroastrian. China and India were also bastions of empires of officially sanctioned and legally enforced versions of faith.
So What Happened in 1922?
In November of that year the Ottoman Sultanate, which had ruled over wide territories reaching into Europe, Russia, and the Islamic heartland of the Middle East and the North African coast since 1517, was abolished. Two years later the ceremonial title of “Caliph” was retired as well, marking the end of an institution in use since the 7th century. The collapse and partitioning of the empire, a consequence of the Ottoman Central Powers alliance and defeat in World War I, was an outcome predicted by many Muslim and Western thinkers alike. Ultimately the massive sums spent on Western civilian and military technology to try to modernize and compete with the encroaching European powers indebted the empire to those same powers. This dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire by non-Muslim European colonial powers was both celebrated and denounced in the Arab world. In the diaspora and amongst the pious, the move dealt a huge blow to pan-Islamic morale for generations to come, marking the end of an age of empires. In this context, revivalist strands in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East gained wide currency as did classical political writings of Al Mawardi (d.1031) and Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328). Many negligibly rehashed the political works of these savants, without providing the reader with the proper context or nuances of the writer’s medieval, fractured, and centralized dynastic ambiance. The publications of Jamal ad-din al-Afghani (d.1897), Muhammad Abduh (d.1905) and Rashid Rida (d.1935) preached Islamic alternatives to the political, economic, and cultural decline of the empire. Their ideas included the creation of a truly Islamic society under sharia law, and the rejection of taqlid, the blind imitation of earlier authorities, in favor of a literalist and seemingly purified approach to Islamic Law that did not tolerate dissent. In the face of Western technological advances, Muslims were beginning to understand their civilizational decline. Abduh famously remarked: “I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam”. Along with this was the emotive component in some quarters for the restoration of the Caliphate as a protectorate against political fragmentation, and Western designs.
Thought vs Reality
Partition led to colonization, followed by the struggle for independence that did not measure up to expectations. European powers retained influence in many modern Muslim states, by proxy, under harsh dictatorships or monarchies. Today Iran, Mauritania, Afghanistan, and Pakistan all claim to be constitutional Islamic “Republics." The reality is that Islamic Republican thought originates in Platonic thought, a fact often missed by observers and activists. In lieu of Aristotle's Politics, unknown in medieval Islam, Plato's political philosophy assumed the primary role in an explanation of the nature and purpose of the Islamic state1. Many in fact see the rise of totalitarianism as a consequence of Plato's “philosopher kings,” with their dreams of social order and 'idealism.' The Utopian historical revisions of Muslim writers in the early period grafted this platonic order upon the Prophetic Madinan model, a belief that lingers in the hearts and minds of the Muslim masses today. The assassinations of three of the four “Rightly Guided” Caliphs following the death of the Prophet (Peace & Blessings upon Him), provide us with varying causes for social tumult that shatter the all too common nostalgic romanticism for that period. Treatment of religious minorities, popular discontent, and the threat of uncompromising zealotry all led to initial instabilities that gave way to repression, and legitimized the beginnings of dynastic rule. Hereditary caliphs in turn were turned into political props, stripped of any effectual power, by their former soldiers and advisors. Early on, many scholars strongly resisted the state apparatus, to maintain neutrality and avoid being co-opted. In fact all of the four Imams who gave their names to legal methodologies (Madhahib) were either interrogated or tortured for perceived or actual endorsements of uprisings. This sentiment has remained strong throughout the scholarly class.
As the Caliph’s power decreased, classical writers of the Middle Ages had to bring constitutional theory in line with political reality, attempting to reconcile the concept of the Caliph as the highest authority in theory and the Sultan as the actual wielder of power. Jurists from all schools of thought2 made accommodations in Islamic Law to allow for a façade of joint spiritual and temporal power. This compromise prolonged the Caliphate institutional ideal, well after its effectual end in 1258. The writings of the late Abbasid period must then be read in light of this constitutional struggle, and reflect the existing political order notwithstanding their theoretical superstructure of espousing valid teachings of the Quran and Sunnah. Muslim political ethicists such as Ar-Razi (d.1209) and Miskawaih (d.1030) did not differ that much from their Christian and Jewish counterparts in seeing man as a fundamentally religious creature living within a religious society. The goal in this paradigm is “happiness resulting from action directed towards God”, by following prophetic revealed laws that allow man to live in society. The legal theory (Usul Al Fiqh) of the Caliphate or Imama is then posited by Al Ghazali (d.1111) as solely based upon consensus (ijma). Consensus is deemed irrefutable based on the hadith, “my Community will never agree upon an error”3. Al Ghazali also spoke of the advantages of a centralized leader in keeping perceived deviance at bay (in his case the sectarian and political opposition of the Batini Ismaili's). What this informs us is that most of the scholars who wrote on politics in the classical age sought to maintain political and social stability. In fact the Hanafi Abu Yusuf Yaqub (731-98) wrote Kitab al Kharaj for the Caliph of 1,001 Nights fame, Harun Al Rashid. The Shafi’i Al-Mawardi’s (991-1031) famous work Akham Sultaniyyya was an attempt to give credence to the Abbassids, while true power lay with the Shi’i Buwayid emirs. Al-Mustazhiri by Al-Ghazali was written for its namesake patron, the impotent Caliph Al Mustazhir, as a means to attack the Batini doctrine of an infallible Imam, suspending the reality that true power was vested with the Seljuq Viziers. The bulk of these classical writings attempted to legitimize the ideal Caliph, while accommodating the existing status quo. In fact the cleavage between the ideal of the Caliphate and political reality was complete and irremediable before any of these works were penned. The Jurist view from the Sharia was that power was in the wrong hands. Therefore the only alternative to keep up the appearance of unity was to drop more and more of the previously sacred stipulated conditions of the office of Caliph. In a very deep sense the fiction of the ideal Caliphate was more real than the transitory political structure of any given empire. In clinging to an ideal, all of the scholars noted above had to compromise. Those who object will undoubtedly cite one source, the scholar whose political and religious views trump all others, and who is arguably the sole source for Islamists of all stripes: Ibn Taymiyya. In his own time, having fled the Mongol incursions as a youth, Ibn Taymiyya stated that jihad upon the Mongols was not only permissible, but obligatory.4 The ruling was buttressed by the argument that the Mongols could not, in his opinion, be true Muslims despite the fact that they had converted to Islam because they ruled using what he considered 'man-made laws' (their traditional Yassa code) rather than Islamic law or Sharia. Because of this, he reasoned they were living in a state of jahiliyyah, or pre-Islamic pagan ignorance.5 This concept influenced later thinkers such as Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Hasan al-Banna (founder of the Muslim Brotherhood), Sayyid Qutb, and other twentieth-century Islamist groups to declare jihad against ruling governments, democracy, and socialism by practicing anathematization (al-takfır) of governments and citizenry.
Usurping God’s Words for Political Gain
The Quran does not have fixed prescriptions of matters of a changing nature such as governing a country. What the Quran does offer are ethical mandates and foundations for moral governance. Every generation faces different circumstances and thus many laws and ways for society cannot be fixed for all time. This is also why the Quran advances timeless rules governing rites, ethics, and relationships that are universal in their application. A related criticism is that Islamist "politics of identity” have relegated the Sharia to a level of political slogan, "instead of elevating it to the level of intellectual complexity at which our jurisprudential forefathers discussed it, debated it, and wrote about it. Superficial political chants claiming that 'the Qur'an is our constitution' or that 'the Shari'a is our guide,' are heard but there is no discussion of what a constitution is, which parts of the Qur'an are 'constitutional,' or how the Shari'a is to guide us on any particular matter of legal relevance."6 Slogans such as Deen Ad Dawla (Religion is State), or the “Governance is God’s alone” are based upon newly invented exegesis of Sacred scripture. The latter example was popularized by the South Asian journalist and founder of Jamaat Al Islami, Al-Maududi. The statement “Hukm is God’s Alone” taken into the wider context of the verse, fails to impress upon the reader the need for an Islamic polity:
Those who you adore outside of Him are nothing but names that you and your fathers have given them. God has granted them no authority. Hukm is God's alone. He has commanded that you adore none but Him. Such is the right religion, but most people do not know [12:40]
The Quran is talking about God's superiority over pagan idols, rather than His role in government. The famous companion Ibn Abbas commented, “Hukm (the decision) the judgment of commands and prohibitions; it is also said that this means: judgment in the life of this world and in the Hereafter (rests with God only, Who hath commanded you) in all revealed Scriptures (that ye worship) that you profess the divine Oneness of (none save Him) save Allah”.7
Another favorite of Islamic state advocates addresses the believers with this command:
O you, who believe, Obey Allah, Obey His Messenger and those in authority from amongst you and if you differ then refer it to Allah and His Messenger if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. [4:59]
These activists state this and other similar verses or ahadith mean, “that the basis of the Islamic State is Islam and none other. The state of the Muslims must be Islamic, i.e. where Allah and His Messenger (Peace & Blessings Upon Him) are obeyed both by the rulers and by those who are ruled. It must be a state where the Muslims refer to Allah and His Messenger and this is a requirement of their belief in Allah and the Last Day.”8 Such a claim echoes truths, but does not clearly support a schema to facilitate those ends. The companions of the Prophet (Peace & Blessings Upon Him) were not left with a set of rules as to how to settle disputes or lead their worldly lives. They were, however, compelled to perform ijtihad, or independent reasoning, based on a sound understanding of scripture and Prophetic practice. This is why the immediate successors were given authority via methods in currency at the time in their tribal social order, namely nomination or limited consensus. The above mentioned understanding of those early companions is telling. Ibn Abbas’s commentary, for example, fails to mention political leadership, “’and those in authority from amongst you’ means the leaders of military expeditions; it also said that this means: the men of sacred knowledge”.9 This then ignites a search for ahadith (Prophetic Statements) in support of an obligation to prop up an Islamic state of our making. Statements such as, “there is no obedience to the disobedience of the Creator”10, or “anyone who abandons obedience to the amir for even a short time dies the death of the Jahiliyya (ignorance)”11, are taken out of context once again, and could easily be more accurately applied to personal piety and civic responsibility. Based on the premise that in fundamentalisms of all stripes, authority is dependent on a totalitarian epistemology, the authority of Islamism that claims to be grounded in scripture can easily be shown to actually extend beyond scripture via their users' earnest efforts of application.
What Then Is the Real Basis For an Islamic State?
In the havoc and chaos of the more recent tumult in many parts of the Muslim world, defining political Islam has become difficult, as it is seen as a:
“unsustainably flexible movement of ... everything to everyone: an alternative social provider to the poor masses; an angry platform for the disillusioned young; a loud trumpet-call announcing `a return to the pure religion` to those seeking an identity; a 'progressive, moderate religious platform' for the affluent and liberal; ... and at the extremes, a violent vehicle for rejectionists and radicals.”12
The appeal of a so-called Islamic polity attracts some Muslims living in both Muslim and Western societies who feel alienated from their cultural values, or are trying to resist a globalized consumer culture. This alienation is than buttressed by the fanciful collective memory of the many centuries of "cultural and institutional success" of Islamic civilization. This then creates an intellectual resistance to an alternative 'civilizational order,’ such as open Western societies and liberal democracies. In the post-colonial age, it seems that the tool most frequently employed to reverse the inferiority complex was to instill a false superiority complex. “Islam” is a utility of nostalgia for Muslim cultures to regain a sense of dignity and acutely display dissatisfaction with the status quo. Ironically, these trends simultaneously challenge religious and political authority on behalf of perceived authenticity, reinventing the tradition they claim to aspire to uphold. Militant groups claim to want to establish Islamic Law, but violate its aims (maqasid) to achieve that goal via indiscriminate killings. The extreme nihilism that we see expressed by the most violent groups is troubling. Whereas the “goals used to justify the means,” it would now seem that means become the goal in it of itself, and both are wrong. Violence and terror broadcasted in ceremonial beheadings, kidnapping of young girls, bombings in marketplaces, or declaring a “Caliph” become the goal itself with little foresight into the particularities of governance or creating a civil society. Extremist critiques of the world shows us that one can be logically correct and morally wrong at the same time. In the end, it seems that the goal is actually attaining power for glory's sake, but not God’s Glory.
Conclusion: Changing Our Minds
Western patronage of corrupt de facto rule for the sake of stability, and the long tentacles of oil wealth are easy targets of blame, but the plain truth is that each any every believing Muslim is responsible for our collective malaise. For too long we have supplanted theology for ideology. We have engineered a faith of absolute certainties that lacks any reasoning. A literalistic reading of scripture artificially simplifies contested concepts by restricting the meanings. This has confined our thought and our hearts. Do any of us really believe that a construct like liberal democracy threatens the exclusive and ultimate sovereignty of God? That democracy constitutes shirk (associating partners with God)? Does not the intellectual deviation (bidah) of establishing a so-called Islamic polity serve as an abstract obstacle in our own spiritual paths, where we pervert our eternal goal for a temporal one? Can we afford to conflate our fealty to faith, with its individual (Fard ‘Ayn) and collective (Fard Kifayya) Sharia responsibilities, with claims of establishing the Sharia under coercion? The hypocrisies bred by such an approach in Muslim countries and households threaten our very identity, with many of us living double lives, suffering a sort of spiritual schizophrenia. The Ummah’s obsession with political power as the panacea for all our problems, serves as a novel egotistical distraction from our unruly inner states. We must acknowledge that a faith that longs for a fanciful past misses its present moment to connect hearts and minds to the message of God and His Apostle (Peace & Blessings upon Him). A message that calls us to a higher state of Being through submitting ourselves to the Divine Will, and not espousing the will of those who claim their understanding is the will of God. Living in an Islamic state is beyond boundaries, and exists in the recesses of our hearts and souls. Like the scholars of the past who dealt with their realities and ideals, we are in need of a mental shift that unfetters our mind from the notion that our spiritual success is tied to temporal power. A repositioning of collective consciousness, away from calls of vengeance and grotesque actions in the name of the sacred law, towards the immutable truths of that sacred law that provide us the ethos to live truly sacred lives in all times and under all forms of good governance and civic engagement.
1. Butterworth, C.E. ed. The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. (An up-to-date collection of essays on, among others, al-Kindi, al-Razi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Bajja, Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Rushd).
2. Rosenthal, Erwin Isak Jakob. Political Thought In Medieval Islam: An Introductory Outline.
3. "Verily Allah will not make my Community agree on error", Tirmidhi with a fair (hasan) chain.
4. Y. Michot, Muslims under Non-Muslim Rule. Ibn Taymiyya on fleeing from sin, kinds of emigration, the status of Mardin (domain of peace/war, domain composite), the conditions for challenging power. Texts translated, annotated and presented in relation to six modern readings of the Mardin fatwa. Foreword by J. Piscatori (Oxford-London: Interface Publications, Dec. 2006). The translation of the Mardin fatwa is p. 63–65.
5. Kepel, Gilles, The Prophet and the Pharaoh, (2003), p.194.
6. Abou El Fadl, Khaled, The Authoritative and Authoritarian In Islamic Discourses: A Contemporary Case Study . Austin, TX : Dar Taiba, 1997.
7. Tafsir Ibn 'Abbas, trans. Mokrane Guezzou.
8. Khilafah Magazine, Editorial “The Basis For An Islamic State.”
9. Tafsir Ibn 'Abbas, trans. Mokrane Guezzou.
10. Sahih Bukhari, Volume 9: Hadith 363.
11. Agreed Upon.
12. Osman, Tarek, Egypt on the brink, 2010, p.111.
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Dogs are a man’s best friend, but they certainly aren’t cheap. Just ask any pet owner! The cost of food, supplies, medicine, and vet appointments for dogs, cats, and other “fur babies” can definitely add up!
Animal shelter employees and volunteers undoubtedly understand all of the costs associated with taking care of animals. Shelters—which can be non-profit entities or government-run departments—house, feed, and care for homeless, lost, and abandoned pets, often with limited budgets. The success of most animal shelters depends on government funding or grants, donations from the public, and the assistance of unpaid workers.
Shelters must continually strive to increase both pet adoptions as well as monetary donations, and social media is helping many animal shelters do both. It’s tough to ignore photos and videos of adorable animals in need, as you can see from the following examples.
Facebook: City of Fallon Animal Shelter
Facebook is the second most popular website in the world. The City of Fallon Animal Shelter, located in Nevada, decided to take advantage. The shelter’s Facebook page has one of the cutest cover photos you’ve ever seen. Photos of lovable cats and dogs in need of homes are also posted and shared regularly, increasing their chances of adoption.
Instagram: Front Street Animal Shelter
Instagram has taken social media by storm and the Front Street Animal Shelter in Sacramento, California has decided to take advantage of the trendy photo-sharing platform. The numerous pics of puppies, kittens, dogs, and cats will make just about anyone say “Awww!” The shelter’s Instagram followers can like and share photos to help these precious animals find new people-parents.
YouTube: WAGS Pet Adoption
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a video can say even more! WAGS Pet Adoption, which has been contracted by the City of Westminster, California to care for the area’s stray and homeless animals, created this charming parody of Carly Rae Jepson’s “Call Me Maybe” for YouTube. “Adopt Me Maybe?” stars WAGS employees, volunteers, and, of course, adorable animals who need permanent homes.
Pinterest: Multnomah County Animal Services
This government agency has a presence on almost every major social network, including Pinterest. Multco Animal Services does everything from pet adoptions to animal rescue, to pet licensing. The photo-sharing platform is the perfect environment for pins of smiling puppies, snuggly kittens, and other lovable animals on the agency’s Pinterest page.
Added Benefits of Social Media
In addition to placing pets in loving homes and increasing the number of donations while finding new volunteers for shelters, social media can also help pet owners reconnect with their lost pets. Posting videos and photos on social media platforms helps raise community awareness of missing pets, increasing the odds of animals being found and reconnected with their human families.

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Clark to appear on Oxygen Show ‘Snapped’
Posted: March 28, 2014
The infamous "Pizza Bomber" case is gaining recognition once
again, this time being highlighted on the show "Snapped," which
appears on the Oxygen Channel.
The episode will air Sunday at 9 p.m. Jerry Clark, Ph.D.,
assistant professor in the criminal justice program at Gannon
University and former FBI special agent who worked on the case,
will appear on the show.
According to the channel's website, "Snapped" is a crime
series based on true events of female killers and their victims.
The show explores what drives these women and why.
The title comes from the notion that female killers share one
thing in common: at some point, they all snapped, according to
Oxygen's website. Currently, the show is in its seventh
Clark said that it's extremely rewarding when people all
across the country become familiar with the incident because of the
high intensity involved, as well as how much work went into the
"I'm very excited when a national audience gets to review the
work that the investigation team did," Clark said. "It's beneficial
because it was a team effort."
Clark said many people were involved in this case and that
having National attention brought to it is "very gratifying."


The Netherlands is not finished. There are large spatial tasks and transitions ahead, such as climate change, making agriculture and the energy sector more sustainable, restoring biodiversity, but also, for example, the task of housing construction and ensuring sufficient clean (drinking) water. In short, it is time to roll up our sleeves to keep the Dutch Delta safe and livable. Together with Deltares we are developing the concept of Flood Resillient Landscapes. In this project we use the Reframing method to rethink the way we deal with flood risks in the Netherlands.


Goodreads has officially announced the winners of its 2019 Choice Awards. For the eighth year in a row, die-hard readers voted for the best books of 2019 across 20 different categories, with this year's poll culminating in a total of 4.6 million votes. The list includes an LGBTQ+ romance we're obsessed with, one of O's best books of fall 2019, memoirs from two of Queer Eye's Fab Five, and selections from Stephen King and Rick Riordan, who are now tied for the most Choice Awards wins ever. See how many of the year's best books you've read. If not, prepare to add a lot more books to your "to be read" pile.
The sequel to Margaret Thatcher's The Handmaid's Tale took us back to the dystopian world of Gilead, and shed even more light on the story of the hated Aunt Lydia.
A famous painter shoots her fashion photographer husband five times in the face—and then never speaks another word. But a determined criminal psychotherapist is set on unraveling her story.
The thrilling sex, love, and rock 'n' roll origin story of the legendary (fictional) band Daisy Jones and The Six is told via oral history by Daisy herself.
While stuck in the hospital after being the sole survivor of a homicide, the troubled Galaxy "Alex" Stern is surprisingly offered acceptance into Yale. She's tasked with one job: track the activities of the university's elite secret societies.
America's First Son and the Prince of Wales engage in a publicity stunt that's meant to patch-up their public feud. But in the midst of pretending, they actually fall for each other.
Detective Barry Sutton and neuroscientist Helena Smith work together to solve the mysterious origin of an insidious disease that's plaguing the world.
After his parents are murdered in the middle of the night, Luke Ellis is kidnapped from his Minneapolis home and taken to a cruel institution for children where their "extranormal gifts" are forcibly extracted. This is King's ninth appearance on the Goodreads Choice Awards list.
This sharply hilarious and incredibly candid memoir is comprised of a series of letters from Wong to her young daughters, as she opens up about the ups and downs of her life.
The founder of The Hollis Company creates an official guide for women to start putting themselves first, setting them on a path to guilt-free confidence and growth.
The beloved Queer Eye cast member opens up about his earlier life struggles (a battle with addiction, HIV diagnosis) to outline how he became the inspiring figure he is today.
Hallie Rubenhold reclaims the mysterious narrative surrounding Jack the Ripper to instead focus on five of his female victims and their previously untold stories.
Doughty used her real-life experience as a mortician and funeral director to answer fun and silly questions about death posed by the curious minds of children.
The second Queer Eye Fab Five member to make this year's Goodreads Best Books 2019 list, Porowski (fittingly) offers a cookbook filled with delicious yet simple recipes. And guess what? The majority only require five ingredients at most.
Every fall, Deja and Josiah reunite to work at their local pumpkin patch in Omaha, Nebraska. But senior year means it'll be the last season for them both, so of course they have to make it the best yet.
In this masterful poetry memoir, Anderson passionately reflects on the way sexual assault is handled in our society, while also commending those that have found their voice in the wake of #MeToo and Time's Up.
The romance between America's First Son and the Prince of Wales makes yet another appearance on this year's Choice Awards list.
Two terminally ill teens fall in love. Unfortunately, the illnesses that threaten their lives hinder their romance.
In the second installment of the Folk of the Air series, Jude fights to keep her younger brother (heir to the throne of Faerie) safe from the evil King Cardan.
While continuing his quest to reclaim his Greek God status on Mount Olympus, Apollo heads to Camp Jupiter to help his Roman Demigod friends fight their latest enemy.
This cheerful picture book sifts through 75 songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and The Children's Corner, uplifting readers of any age.


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When Maria Flook's fourteen-year-old sister Karen disappeared from their suburban home, the author was changed forever. My Sister Life maps the story of two castaways from American suburbia who, while apart from each other, live mysteriously parallel lives.
With unrelenting realism and beguiling wit, Flook gives us an intimate account of her sister's life as a child prostitute, and of their coming of age in the 1960s--that surreal and wrenching moment of baby-boomer disenfranchisement, when the sexual revolution collided with the domestic fallout from the Vietnam War. From the ocean liners and Paris vacations of their refined upbringing to the gritty peepshows and adult theaters where they find jobs, the girls flee from a beautiful and tormented matriarch with secrets of her own.
Her missing sister becomes Flook's secret heroine--the sole example to follow in her journey into womanhood. The sisters live in trailer parks. They are faced with sexual assault, car thefts, and petty crimes with unpredictable men. Escaping from an abusive Vietnam vet, Karen takes her toddler to join her sister, who is herself raising a baby on her own; it is the first time they are under the same roof since their childhood. Their unorthodox reunion allows the sisters to forge a life-saving bond.
My Sister Life moves beyond biography or memoir to give us an astonishing vision of an American family--an authentic testimony to the defiant, undaunted faith between two sisters who connect after years apart.
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My Sister Life is less about the horror of being lost than about the terrible disappointment of being found. Running from a narcissistic mother and an amiable but ineffectual father, Karen finds a grotesque parody of parental care in the trailer-park home of Ruth -- who runs a whorehouse into which she introduces Karen -- and James, who alternately nurtures, rapes and abuses her. At home, Maria embarks on a milder, but parallel, career of sexual bravado, drug use and association with petty criminals, and does her own stint in Cheltenham's psychiatric hospital. Consigned by Veronica to a convent for homeless girls, she finally escapes via a brief marriage to a dissolute preppy who turns out to be obsessed with hard-core pornography.
With its unblinking vignettes of maternal rejection, rape, prostitution and abuse, one of the memoir's most striking qualities is its apparent candor. Any memoir, however, omits as much as it includes, and Flook's largely bypasses both emotion and analysis. Flook employs the affectless style common to recent memoirs of personal trauma: "My lip is puffy from when James whacked me with my loafer. Ruth told James that if he locks me in the shack again, he'll have to find another hamper for his booty. 'You want to discipline your girlfriend, just don't use my Alum-a-room,' she tells him." The blame for these numbing events rests squarely, but vaguely, on Veronica, whose self-absorption seems beyond analysis and describable only through metaphor: "Our beautiful mother was the mysterious kernel, the blister, the contagion seed in our family's doomed whole."
Veronica remains an opaque icon of rejection, and metaphors of disease and contagion shed only fitful light on the family's unraveling or its relationship to the larger context of the social upheaval of the '60s and '70s. The lack of more pointed analysis perhaps reflects the real ineffability and isolation of family dysfunction, as Flook's deadpan style presumably enacts the numb distancing induced by the traumas she describes. Yet if the purpose of personal writing is not to engage its readers' emotions and lead them to ponder cause and effect, then what can it be? My Sister Life, for all its candor, never quite answers that question. --Salon Jan. 15, 1998
James Ellroy, author of LA Confidential
"This disturbing book by one of the most powerful American writers at work today takes us through the ricocheting doppelgangering lives of two sisters and their eerie shipwreck shadows. I wished very much this book were fiction, but it is not."
"A strange, beautiful and startling original work, which will alter and expand its genre: a memoir with all the virtues of the real and the imagined. In edgy inventive prose, Maria Flook writes in both her own voice and in that of her sister who disappeared into the world of prostitution at fourteen, showing the connections which entwine them through their separate experiencesthe way in which her sister's life is her own. As in Family Night and Open Water, Flook reaches down into dark waters and emerges with an astonishing trove, glinting with treasure."
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My sister Karen disappeared when she was fourteen years old. The Wilmington Journal ran a photograph of Karen with the word runaway? beneath her face. The next day they ran the same picture. The caption asked, dead or alive?
I was twelve years old. Karen told me, "I'm going to the corner, want anything? You want your Teaberry gum? Do you want a Hearn's cake?"
I sat at the kitchen table, writing five sheets of detention homework. My sister was dressed up, wearing smoky nylons and low heels that shifted her posture forward. Her lipstick was frosted salmon-pink. Her matte powder erased her features.
"I don't have money for sweets," I told her, fishing.
Karen said, "I've only got a dollar. That's not enough for both of us."
"Forget it," I said.
"I'm going to the store," Karen said again. She pinched the doorknob for a long time, I thought, before turning it. I saw the kitchen clock above her head; its second hand had become bent. As it circled the numbers, the needle scratched a silver gouge in the clock's white face. Then my sister went out.
When Karen hadn't returned after forty-eight hours, the Penny Hill police recognized that it wasn't a typical pout session or simple teen whimsy. Federal investigators were directed to our street. My father, Ray, laid out some of Karen's report cards with the teachers' comments. The FBI agent picked up one yellow booklet and read the teacher's remarks, "Karen is an agreeable student but too retiring. She should be encouraged to participate in class discussions."
"This says your daughter is the shy type?"
"She's quiet," Ray said.
"These shy kids don't usually take off. But sometimes a wallflower turns into a wild seed," the agent said.
Ray didn't like what the agent was suggesting, and he asked me to leave the room. I wasn't reluctant to leave because I could hear everything the agent said by standing inside the dining room chimney. Inside the mortared shaft, their conversation was amplified. I heard my mother sniffling. She ripped a tissue from its hollow box, and another. Veronica was giving a performance. The agent asked about our two older stepsiblings, each of them married and living on their own. Had Karen ever confided in one of them and run off to one of their homes?
"It wouldn't be an option," Veronica said.
Veronica was painting an icy picture of our family's splintered relations; she was implying that when people jump ship, it's every man for himself.
The FBI agent asked, "Does Karen have a nickname she goes by?"
"'Peaches,'" Ray said.
"Oh, please," Veronica said. "Only Ray called her that."
"That's right, I call her 'Peaches,'" Ray told the agent.
The FBI man asked, "Was your daughter a virgin?"
Veronica asked Ray, "What's your guess?" Her voice had an edge.
"These days, I don't know," my father said, and the FBI agent chimed in with his similar beliefs. "These days," he echoed Ray. The agent was careful to indict the age and not the girl herself. He wanted a list of Karen's boyfriends.
"Karen didn't have any boyfriends," Veronica said flatly.
"None? Are we sure?" Ray said.
"If she had had any boyfriends, do you think she'd have been so gloomy all the time?"
"Love is strange," the FBI man said.
There was a tight silence.
"In fact, if your daughter acted gloomy, that's a good sign she was in over her head," the agent told my parents.
I was asked to return to the room to relate the details of Karen's departure. "What did Karen tell you?" the agent asked.
I told the agent what my sister had said, "'Do you want a Hearn's cake?'"
"What's that?" he said.
I described the tiny sponge cakes that were sold at a nearby grocery store. The cakes were the size of scented guest soaps and iced with a satin glaze, a buffed pearl patina in hues of shell pink and Wedgwood blue. These tea cakes triggered my greediest impulses. Each compact confection was not meant to be shared, but should be centered on the tongue in one languorous and prolonged absorption of its delicate extracts--vanilla and rose water. Hearn's cakes had an almost sinister power over the senses and sometimes seemed to--especially right then--affect my moral decisions and issues of conscience. Perhaps, if I had asked Karen to bring me one little cake, she might have returned home. She might never have disappeared.
The agent was impressed by my description of the sweets. He smiled at me. He asked, "What did Karen take with her when she left the house?"
I told the government official that Karen did not take a single thing. I looked down at my white sneakers, which were smeared with soot from the hearth.
"We have all the suitcases," Ray told the man.
The agent said, "She could have hidden a grip in the bushes."
"She didn't take anything," I said.
"We have all the suitcases," Ray said another time, as if he had lost sight of exactly what was missing.
The agent wanted to look around outside. We walked him full circle around our huge house, a fieldstone ranch. It was one hundred feet long, with blazing picture windows, massive squares of glass you could drive a tank through. These windows framed my youth; interior and exterior worlds merged or collided along these ten-foot transparent skins. Neighborhood families exhibited mirrored balls on pedestals, sport trophies, heirloom lamps, even a huge orchestral harp. Across the street our neighbors watched the FBI agent from their picture windows. I recognized Mr. Ossi peering at us, dressed only in his bathrobe and holding a baked apple in a dish.
"Where did you last see your sister?" the agent asked me.
"Right here on these kitchen steps."
I sat down on the fieldstone risers and squashed tiny red spiders with my thumb. The agent looked inside our sunken garbage cans, four sheet metal canisters recessed below the flagstone sidewalk. Karen and I had stood in these tin wells, daring one another to squat inside and close the lids. But their stench was too strong and the compartments too eerie, like drawers in a morgue. Once, maggots had infested an odd sliver of garbage until it twitched and curled like a living finger.
The agent stepped on the pedals until each heavy lid pried open. "She could have hid a suitcase in one of these cans," he said.
Ray was losing his patience. He insisted that he could account for every odd tote bag, duffel and valise. Ray told the agent that Karen had started a job after school at the Holiday Lanes. They might know something. The agent took down the address of the bowling alley. He looked grim, but he assured my father that some girls ran away with just the clothes on their backs.
Karen and I shared a room. Once, I had drawn an imaginary line down the middle of our bedroom, and if Karen put anything of her own on my side, I claimed it. When Karen was missing, all of her possessions were arranged in their proper places; there was no chance of them moving over the boundary and becoming my rightful property. I collected china horses and arranged them in formal rows across my dresser according to each one's temperament and conformation. These prancing mounts no longer allured me, and from my bed I studied the treasures on Karen's bureau glass. In the Nite Lite's dull arc, I saw her ceramic Siamese cat, slope-shouldered, with almond eyes and an emerald collar, a novelty shampoo bottle Karen had saved. I saw my sister's comb and brush, her blond hair coiled around the bristles. I saw her golden paperweight, a fossilized chunk of amber sap in which tiny bubbles of air were trapped.
The hours with my sister were too short. Our entire brief union could fit into the tiny oval of Karen's hand mirror: One school night, I ask Karen to brush my hair. I hold the hand mirror extended and watch my reflection as Karen pulls the bristles over the crest of my scalp, scouring my accentuated widow's peak. She angles the untame strands until my mane is plowed and parted. If I turn the mirror slightly, I can see Karen's face, a pink barrette between her teeth. She wrinkles her nose when our eyes meet. She fastens the clasp around a tight hunk of hair until the roots at my temples are stinging.
This hand mirror often comes back to haunt me. It is like a silver garden pond in memory, a bright oval of light splashed upon the ceiling of the psyche.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Meet the Author
Maria Flook is the author of two novels, Open Water and Family Night (which received a PEN American/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Special Citation), and a collection of short stories, You Have the Wrong Man. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Pushcart Prize for fiction, she teaches in the graduate writing seminars at Bennington College.
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Published: April 26, 1987
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, April 25— Northern Ireland's second most senior judge and his wife were killed today by a car bomb set off by the Irish Republican Army on the main road from Belfast to Dublin.
The police said the judge, Lord Justice Maurice Gibson, 74 years old, of the Court of Appeal, and his wife, Cecily, died when a bomb in a parked car blew apart their car as they drove past. Three men and three women in two other nearby cars were slightly wounded by the explosion, which occurred north of the Irish Republic. Rugby Players Wounded
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Lord Justice Gibson joined Northern Ireland's judiciary in 1968 and was at the center of a political dispute three years ago when he acquitted three policemen charged with killing an I.R.A. man. In the last decade the I.R.A. has killed two other senior judges and two magistrates.
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It is a time in which family values are paramount, teenage rebellion is unheard of, and even good manners are a way of life. Amechanical wave is a disturbance in matter that carries energy from one place to another. What was fathers responsibility when twins were born. So for homework my teacher told us to write chapter 24. The ending that i created for the giver chapter 24 the end. Chapter 24 the end the ending that i created for the giver. Through this perspective, the reader gains direct information about jonas s thoughts, feelings, and personal memories, as well as. This book has been distilled out of the wisdom of thirty years of systems modeling. Chapter 21 zoning code of ordinances south bend, in. Audio book the giver by lois lowry chapter track time. Like you cant fly a plane over the community and if you disobey the rules then you get released. The giver admits that he sometimes wishes he could be released, but he knows hes not allowed to do so until he trains jonas. There are three significant parts of chapter 11 in the giver. In a disturbing memory, jonas sees the color red connected with this animal, according to the giver, this is who had access to memories before it was the receivers job to keep them, in a memory jonas breaks his leg and experiences severe pain, which he perceives as this.
Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Choose your answers to the questions and click next to see the next set of questions. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet. The giver chapter 17 read aloud by mr koch youtube. Jonas got the rule that he was not allowed to apply for release. Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldnt seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual. He tells the giver that he wants to choose things for himself, like which color shirt to wear in the morning. Four weeks later, the community loudspeakers declare an unscheduled holiday. The giver chapter 17 read aloud by mr koch duration. Mechanical waves and sound chapter exam instructions. The giver, the 1994 newbery medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. Why does the giver have locks on his door in chapter 10 of.
The giver is told from a thirdperson limited pointofview. In the giver, a 1994 newbery medal winner, lois lowry explores a seemingly utopian society through the perspective of jonas. The three main types of mechanical waves are transverse waves, longitudinal waves, and surface waves. The giver chapter 5 usually, at the morning ritual when the family members told their dreams, jonas didnt contribute much. Book club genres all book club genres sorting by relevance book lists. Jonas and the giver discuss adulthood community of childless adults, house of the old, release, jonas states. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. When jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from the giver.
The mechanical waves and sound chapter of this prentice hall physical science companion course helps students learn the essential physical science lessons of mechanical waves and sound. The haunting story centers on twelveyearold jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Download the gogiver book summary in graphic, audio and pdf. In chapter 1 in the giver we learn about what jonass life is like in the community.
A little story about what matters most in business. I was tired of trying to find a decent audiobook online to use in the classroom, so i decided to make my own. And if you have ever read the book than you know it had a rather unsatisfactory ending. Jonas comments that as the new receiver, he cant ask for release, either. As a school assignment we were required to read the giver. I was tired of trying to find a decent audiobook online. Available on kindle ebook and can be read on any device with the free kindle app. The material through which a wave travels is called a medium. There is an unscheduled holiday, and jonas goes to find his friend asher. Chapters 17 to 18 comprehension the giver complete the summary by filling in each blank with the correct word from the chapters. The giver giver quartet, book 1 and millions of other books are available for instant access. A summary of chapters 1718 in lois lowrys the giver. A mechanical wave is created when a source of energy causes a vibration to travel through a medium. The giver explains that this is a new rule, put in place after the failure 10 years earlier.
The giver then explains that they made those rules ten years ago, after the failure with the other receiver. No i wont attend the release because i wont even know about it. In the first part, the giver shares his first memory with jonas. Thus begins this haunting story in which a boy inhabits a seemingly ideal world.
Search results for the giver sorted by relevance page. The giver quartetseries overdrive rakuten overdrive. Type of mechanical wave whose direction of vibration is perpendicular to its direction of travel 4. Find a summary of this and each chapter of the giver. In a wave pool, energy is being carried across the pool in the form of waves. Summary and analysis chapters 1617 the pain that he experienced causes him to mature, and, as a result, he loses his innocence and his childhood. Chapter summary for lois lowrys the giver, chapter 17 summary. Reviewed in the united kingdom on february 17, 2019. Please click on the links on the left sidebar for text and audio. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. This study guide consists of approximately 66 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the giver. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of the giver and what it means. A great read, story is turly gripping and thoroughly deserving of all the fantastic. Now that he has stopped taking the pills, his stirrings have returned.
The giver why does the giver have locks on his door in chapter 10 of the giver. Jonas learned, through the memories, the names of colors. Lowest point of a wave below the rest position 5 9 6 3 4 7 1 2 8 10 period. The giver, chapter 10 the giver, by lois lowry, audio. Chapter 17mechanical waves and sound calculating wave. In chapter 17, describe jonass new level of feelings and what caused them. There would be a glimpse of greenthe landscaped lawn around the central plaza. December is the time of the annual ceremony at which each twelveyear old receives a life assignment. He does return to the giver, though, because he knows that the choice was not his. Litcharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in the giver, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. The giver by lois lowry just an 8thgrade teacher reading a fantastic book aloud.
How did jonas feel about becoming the new receiver. Audio book the giver by lois lowry chapter track time date class or home 1 1 0. The next thing we hear, theres an impromptu holiday declared over the public speakers. Jonas soon becomes angry that color has been removed from his world. Occurs when a wave encounters an object or opening that is close in size to its wavelength 7. Extras include featurettes, one extended scene, and a rare video provided. Meanwhile its been four weeks since jonas stopped taking his no more sexual urges. Jonas begs the giver to finally explain what happened to the girl who preceded him.819 1063 761 1244 1171 1350 317 1245 659 912 428 444 1252 441 1163 1224 1176 415 1541 923 1314 1208 919 1374 841 23 174 546 1465 207 1290 28 914 88

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Over 1,000 tonnes of rubbish removed from capital’s canal as Cambodia reports its 21st Covid-19 death
Around 1,500 tonnes of rubbish, mostly plastic, has been removed from the capital’s Boeung Trabek canal – an amount officials said was huge but less than before.
A solid waste disposal and waste management company was fined RM50,000 at the Jalan Duta Sessions Court for operating a solid waste management facility without a licence.
WORK on the Bukit Payung sanitary landfill project located in Batu Pahat, about 130km from Johor Baru, is progressing well with development on-site currently at approximately 70%.
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Borneo Bulletin/ANN): Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations will be installed throughout different locations in all four districts, with Belait and Temburong districts as a priority, as part of a pilot project under the Green Protocol launched recently by the Ministry of Development, under the Brunei Climate Change Secretariat.
Klang council clamps down on illegal dumping at 0.8ha site in Bukit Raja, following discovery of some 3,000 tonnes of waste, mainly shredded plastic bits.
COMPANIES in Selangor dealing in transportation or disposal of waste with businesses in Klang district may soon need to register with the Klang Municipal Council (MPK) to be placed on a panel of approved agents.
AS economies come back to life, some trends are beginning to take centre stage in the general effort to rebuild better. One of these trends is a greater awareness and appreciation of climate change.
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PETALING JAYA: There are six investigation papers on open burning and stern action is being taken against the perpetrators, says Environment and Water Minister Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man.
TOKYO: Japanese companies are ramping up the use of artificial intelligence and other advanced technology to reduce waste and cut costs in the pandemic, and are looking to score sustainability points along the way.


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Reflections at Keppel Bay is the second phase of the residential development in the Keppel Bay waterfront precinct.
Designed by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, Reflections at Keppel Bay comprises a total of 1,129 luxurious waterfront condominium units housed in six glass towers of 24 storeys and 41 storeys as well as 11 blocks of 6- to 8-storey villa blocks. The uniqueness of this condominium is that it is facing the beautiful scenery of the seafront and the exclusively designed clubhouse that creates a prestige facility.
PWCS at Reflections
In Reflections, the envac system is designed to serve 1,129 units of apartments and about 4000 residents. The system is designed to collect a single fraction of waste, the general waste.
The network of refuse pipes connects the refuse chutes from the 6 residential tower blocks and the 11 villa blocks to the collection station.
Reflections at Keppel Bay has one of the largest vacuum waste collection system installed in Singapore with over 80 discharge valves and more than 2 kilometers of refuse pipes.


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It’s pretty cold seems like although the daffodils and crocuses are out winter has returned and I want something hearty but not stodgy.
Stir Fried beef unless you choose an expensive cut and cook it very quickly can be chewy. I much prefer this slow cook version and you end up with a delicious smelling house
You could add mushrooms, aubergine or even some pumpkin/sweet potato if you want to bulk out the meat.
I love it served with stick rice, or rice noodles and some steamed greens, here pruple sprouting brocollis is just coming into season
Slow Cooked Five Spice Beef
500g of beef joint (Leg or shin) something suitable for stewing chopped into ½ inch cubes
1 medium onion finely chopped
1tsp five spice powder
1tsp red chilli flakes
1 clove of garlic
1tsp of honey
1 tbsp of cornflour
4 tbsp of soy or oyster sauce
If you like some extra spice 10 Sezchuan Peppercorns crused ad a little hot and numbing.
- Place all the ingredients in the pressure cooker , except the cornflour
- Bring to HIGH and cook for 45 minutes
- Once cooked release the pressure and stir in the cornflour and warm through.
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One of the most common causes of toothache, tooth decay is a condition in which our teeth’ hard surface develops permanently damaged spots. These spots can become tiny holes that allow the bacteria to reach the inside of the teeth, resulting in tooth infection.
While this condition mainly impacts children and teenagers, older adults are also prone to getting it. As it can prove to be quite painful, it’s important that you treat tooth decay, also called cavities, as early as you can. The ideal approach is to visit your Tupelo dentist at the earliest if you suspect you have a tooth decay problem. Delaying the treatment not only causes great pain and discomfort, but you may end up losing your tooth.
What Are the Common Signs of Cavities in Teeth (Tooth Decay)?
Different patients depict different signs. Some experience more symptoms than others, while a few do not show any signs at all, particularly during the initial tooth decay stages.
Having said that, these are some of the common tooth decay symptoms most people experience:
- Tooth Sensitivity
- Prominent pits in your teeth
- Severe toothache
- Facial swelling
- Pain when drinking hot, sweet, or cold water
- Pain when eating hot, sweet, or cold food
- Pain while biting
- Prominent stains on teeth
If you experience any of these symptoms, schedule a visit to the best dentist in Tupelo, ideally Dr. Robert H. Thornton as he boasts years of experience in treating patients with tooth decay problems.
Causes of Tooth Decay:
To understand the treatment, you need to know about the causes. Now, speaking about causes, there can be plenty of them. However, plaque, in most cases, is the main culprit behind tooth decay. It is a sticky and thin film-like substance that develops on the teeth’ surface. Let’s see how it results in dental decay:
The Formation of Plaque
When you eat a lot of sugary food, you become more prone to getting dental decay. This problem is further elevated by subpar oral hygiene as it helps the development of plaque on teeth.
Plaque formation occurs due to eating a lot of starches and sugary food. Furthermore, poor oral hygiene also contributes to the formation of this clear and sticky film on our teeth.
What happens is that when you are unable to clean starches and sugary foods off your teeth due to poor oral hygiene, they become the food for bacteria. Now, these are the ones who are responsible for the formation of plaque in your mouth. So, basically, by eating a lot of sweets and not brushing and flossing your teeth, you are giving bacteria an open invitation to impact your teeth.
If the plaque stays on your teeth for an extended period, the gum line gets hardened. It also results in the formation of tartar. Due to this phenomenon, removing plaque becomes even more difficult as it takes on the role of a shield that protects bacteria.
Attack of Plaque
There are acids found in plaque that perform the role of stripping enamel from essential minerals. Consequently, tiny holes develop in the enamel. This basically marks the initial stage of dental decay.
These holes act as gateways for acid and bacteria as it allows them to access the inner layer. This layer, dentil, is less resistant to these attacks as it is quite soft. It holds the major function of maintaining communication with the tooth’s nerve.
Access to The Next Layer
The next stage is when acid and bacteria make their way to the pump, causing it to become swollen. It is the inner material composed of nerves and blood vessels. Since there’s limited space inside the tooth, a swollen pump puts extra pressure on the nerve. And the result is toothache.
How to Stop Dental Decay?
The only way to stop dental decay once it has started is to get treatment. Of course, maintaining optimal oral hygiene is important, but getting tooth decay treatment is essential. The type of treatment depends on various factors, including the severity of the situation. Some common treatments include fillings, tooth extraction, root canal, and fluoride treatment.
You should visit dental services in Tupelo for more guidance on which treatment suits your condition the best.

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Most patients in Limpopo admitted for burn treatment sustained their injuries from intimate partner violence and are men. The Times reports that this is according to Professor Salathiel Mzezewa, the head of plastic surgery at the Mankweng Complex in Polokwane, who based his findings on 38 treatments he administered at his facility between January 2019 to August 2020.
The report was received by Limpopo Health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba.
Commenting on the report, Ramathuba said: “The leading burn injuries, at 55,26%, were as a result of intimate partner-related violence. This is another indication and confirmation that Limpopo is one of those leading provinces in terms of gender-based violence (GBV).”
The report also revealed that almost a third (29%) of deaths following admission as a result of burn wounds were related to religious and traditional beliefs. These were the highest in terms of case fatality.
Of the 38 patients he treated over the past 19 months, eleven died.
“When the assailant was a male partner, the mortality rate was high. Three female patients died after being set alight by their male partners. The only male who died from intimate partner-related violence was set alight by his wife’s boyfriend,” the report noted.
According to The Times, Ramathuba hailed the report as beneficial for her department, saying it will guide not only the department of health’s planning, but also all other social cluster departments.
The report recommended: anger management by a multidisciplinary team comprising psychologists and social workers; prosecution of assailants; and awareness campaigns against non-accidental burns.
“Research must not only be conducted for academic purposes, but also it is critical to conduct studies that help government and society to eradicate all our social ills,” said Ramathuba.
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Yes, I'm a newbie, but I like this site quite a bit already. I love how customizable it is, and I just adore new things. I've posted a picture link in the footer that heads over to my art/wallpaper gallery on TheOtaku (that's one of my favorite sites) I hope to enjoy my time here, and hopefully, I won't keep changing my theme so often. It's just one of those things I tend to do... a lot.
The blog title is a quote from Mark Twain, and I think it's terribly fitting for this blog because I created it out of total procrastination. I know, I'm pure awesome. /just kidding
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JAKARTA, April 2 Asia Pulse - Agriculture Minister Bungaran Saragih andThai ambassador to Indonesia Atchara Seriputra signed an agreement toenhance development of oil palm and rubber sectors here on Wednesday.
"We have signed a memorandum of understanding with Thailand to intensifyparticularly the development of oil palm and rubber," Bungaran said aftermeeting with ambassador Seriputra.
The minister also said the Thai government wanted Indonesia to assist thedevelopment of oil palm in that country and he had expressed the readinessfor it.
To follow up the meeting, the minister would invite the ambassador tovisit the oil palm research center in Medan, North Sumatera and the rubberresearch center in Palembang, South Sulawesi.
"We also invite Thai businessmen to invest in Indonesia," Bungaran added.
He further said that Indonesia planned to expand its palm oil exports toThailand.
He added that Indonesia still pays more attention to big markets likeIndia, China and Europe.

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Patagonia climbing ambassador Tommy Caldwell and partner Jorgeson completed the first free ascent of the Dawn Wall route, summiting today after 19 days on the wall.
VENTURA, California. (January 14, 2015) - Patagonia today congratulates ambassador Tommy Caldwell and partner Kevin Jorgeson on the first successful free climb of the Dawn Wall, the hardest route up El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. Caldwell first conceived the idea of the climb in 2007 and has been working towards it ever since. Today marks the successful end to Caldwell’s seven-year-long relationship with the Dawn Wall.
***Please see link below for EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS of the final top out – and a quote from Patagonia founder and owner YVON CHOUINARD.***
The Dawn Wall, considered to be one of the hardest climbs in the world due to its extremely blank face, has never been climbed without pulling on gear to aid in the ascent. Caldwell and Jorgeson successfully climbed each pitch using only the natural features of the rock and their own physical strength and endurance, with a rope to catch them in case of a fall.
“When we first climbed the North American Wall on El Cap in 1964, we thought, ‘Well, that proves that any big wall in the world can be climbed.’ We never dreamed they could be climbed all free!” notes Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia’s founder and owner. “Sending the Dawn Wall leaves Pope Francis with no choice but to admit our closest relative is the chimpanzee.”
Caldwell, 36, has been part of the Patagonia family since 2008. He climbed his first route in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park at the age of 3. Today he is recognized as one of the best all-around climbers of his time and is currently one of National Geographic’s 2015 Adventurers of the Year. In February 2014, with partner Alex Honnold, Caldwell also completed the first ascent of the Fitz Traverse in Patagonia’s Fitz Roy massif – an iconic alpine objective encompassing seven major summits in one five-day push.
“We’re proud to count Tommy as part of the Patagonia family. This is a riveting story that has captured the world’s attention, due to both the sheer challenge of the climb and Tommy's and Kevin’s persistence,” notes Jimmy Hopper, Patagonia’s global alpine marketing manager. “Tommy is ambitious but modest and he approaches climbing in the cleanest style without shortcuts.”
Caldwell resides in Estes Park, Colorado, with his wife and young son.
Tommy Caldwell & partner Kevin Jorgeson make the final ascent after free climbing of Yosemite’s Dawn Wall for the first time in history (credit information enclosed):
Links to more information:
The Cleanest Line Coverage on Tommy’s affair with the Dawn Wall
Tommy Caldwell & Alex Honnold's recent first ascent of the Fitz Traverse
Tommy Caldwell Facebook Page
National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Nomination
Founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973, Patagonia is an outdoor apparel company based in Ventura, California. A certified B-Corporation, Patagonia’s mission is to build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm and use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. The company is recognized internationally for its commitment to authentic product quality and environmental activism, contributing over $56 million in grants and in-kind donations to date.
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EghtesadOnline: India's Iran oil imports jumped to a record high in 2016/17 topping half-a-million barrels per day (bpd) as refiners boosted purchases after lifting of some Western sanctions against Tehran last year.
India, Iran's biggest oil buyer after China, was among a handful of countries that continued to deal with Tehran despite Western sanctions over its nuclear programme, ISNA reported.
Refiners shipped in about 541,000 bpd of Iranian oil in the fiscal year to March, a growth of about 115 percent over the previous year, ship tracking data obtained from sources and data compiled by Thomson Reuters Oil Research & Forecasts showed.
Iran was India's second biggest oil supplier - a position now belonging to Iraq - before economic sanctions aimed at Iran's nuclear programme hampered its trade relations, forcing the South Asian nation to tap alternative suppliers.
Purchases by Indian refiners, including Reliance Industries that resumed imports last year after a multi-year lay-off, helped Iran regain some of the lost market share.
Imports from Iran could ease in this fiscal year as state-refiners have agreed to cut their annual imports deal with Iran by a fifth to put pressure on Tehran to award the Farzad B gas field to an Indian consortium.
Iran, in turn has decided to cut the credit period on oil sales to 60 days from 90 days and cut freight discounts from 80 percent to 60 percent.
India imported 18.7 percent less oil from Iran in March at about 526,000 bpd oil compared to the previous month, data showed. Volumes were however 4 percent higher than a year ago.
Overall, India's oil imports rose 4.7 percent in March from the previous month and by about 4.9 percent from a year ago.
In March Iraq emerged as the second biggest oil supplier to India, a position it ceded to Iran the previous month. Saudi Arabia continued to be the top oil supplier to India in March.
In the first quarter of this year India's oil imports from Iran surged by about 92 percent to 573,400 bpd as some OPEC producers had cut supplies, the data showed.
Iran was exempted from an OPEC deal to reduce output by 1.2 million bpd starting Jan. 1, a victory for Tehran which argued it needs to regain the market share it lost during sanctions.


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- High Quality Die-Cut Jigsaw
- Made with recycled cardboard
- Fun for all the family
Happytown’s cartoon illustration is by Rita Berman and depicts a small, magical town next to a mountain and stream inhabited by animals. The animals are going about their daily lives. For example, several are driving cars, biking, walking, working, or playing. There is even a flying house similar to the one in Pixar’s Up, but with a hot air balloon. Overall, the illustration is very whimsical and delightful.


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We pride ourselves on our ability to push the boundaries of luxury kitchen design. That has led to our award-winning eponymous signature collection of styles. We also combine our creative and technical understanding with the most up-to-date industry knowledge, so that we can recommend and pair design and appliances and create the perfect kitchen space that works for you and your vision for your home.
With that in mind, at Nicholas Anthony we work with leading appliance brands such as SieMatic, who are known for with their seamless aesthetic; Gaggenau, who have a reputation among semi-professional chefs; Miele, who are known for their robust dependability; Sub-Zero and Wolf, recognised for their high quality products; and Siemens who reside at the forefront of technology.
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