![]() ![]() Typically, Precautionary Boil Water Notice areas are isolated and affect only a small number of customers. ![]() We use a variety of methods to communicate this important information. How does the City of Murphy inform customers about boil-water notices? They may pose a special health risk for infants, young children, some elderly and people with severely compromised immune systems. Why is the boil water notice important?Ĭontaminated water may contain harmful bacteria, viruses, and parasites which can cause symptoms such as diarrhea, cramps, nausea, headaches, or other symptoms. State laws require that a Boil Water Notice is issued if a water system has (or could have) become contaminated from a water line break or loss of system pressure. ![]() The City of Murphy will issue a boil water notice, even if there is a very unlikely possibility of drinking water contamination, as a precaution to protect customers. A Boil Water Notice is in effect until laboratory results show that water is safe from bacterial contamination. It’s a notification that advises residents to boil their tap water used for consumption due to the potential for contamination. ![]()
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Those claims have been disputed by other background actors, and detailed at great length by Buzzfeed and Vulture. ‘Dykes, Camera, Action!’ Review: A Peppy, If Pithy History of Lesbian Cinemaīut the rollout hit a snag when the hashtag #BoycottAdam began trending, and petitions began circulating online calling the movie “extremely homophobic transphobic.” Adding fuel to the fire, one background actor claims they were misgendered on set and believed they were intentionally left in the dark about the film’s content. ![]() ![]() Part graphic novel, part memoir, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake. Strikingly illustrated in black and white, Wake explores both a personal and a global legacy. 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A best fiction book of 2021 for The Times ![]() ![]() ![]() Eliot in The Mill on the Floss draws out the ecological potential of this new biological concept by imbuing the described backgrounds of her novel with a lyrical affect I call “environmental desire,” a diffuse longing for ambient contact with one’s formative medium that offers an ethical alternative to the possessive and object-driven forms of desire that drive the plot of a traditional Bildungsroman. Lewes redefined biological life as dependent on an abstraction called a “medium” or “environment”-a term that united all the objects, substances, and forces in an organism’s physical surroundings into a singular entity. In the 1850s, scientific writers including Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, and G. This essay argues that George Eliot’s expansive use of landscape description in The Mill on the Floss (1860) represents an engagement with the emerging concept of a biological “medium” or “environment” in the nineteenth-century sciences. ![]() ![]() Jayne Hildebrand, “Environmental Desire in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss” (pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Josie has just informed her professor husband, Anthony, and her adopted daughter, Wendy, that she is moving out. In her latest, novel, "Trouble," two college best friends in their mid-40s, Josie, a Manhattan psychotherapist, and Raquel, an indie rock star, meet up in Mexico City for a "Thelmita and Luisa"-style adventure. ![]() Her last novel, "The Great Man" (which won the PEN/Faulkner award), was about three women in their 70s and 80s - two widows and an embittered lesbian painter - who rediscover love, lust and ambition after the death of the "great man," an artist who had always towered over them all. 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