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E-prescribing integration platform that helps developers to create and embed e-prescribing UI within your application using robust API.
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EndoVault Rx, a fully integrated e-prescription application.The application automatically imports a patient's medical and medication history (including active and inactive)for potential allergies and adverse drug reactions as well as checks insurance eligibility for appropriate coverage. Prescriptions and refills are routed safely and securely directly to a patient's pharmacy. All US pharmacies and mail-order companies are included in the system. EndoVault Rx is Surescripts certified.
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Obsessed is een Amerikaanse dramafilm uit 2009 met in de hoofdrol Beyonce. De film ontving slechte recensies. Beyonce en Ali Larter waren genomineerd voor twee Razzies voor hun rollen in de film. De film won ook een MTV Movie Award voor beste gevecht.

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Succesrijke zakenman Derek Charles heeft werkelijk alles: een liefhebbende vrouw, Sharon, een zoon en een mooi huis in LA. Het leven lacht hem toe. Maar dan neemt zijn bedrijf een bevallige nieuwe interim, Lisa, in dienst. Na een uit de hand gelopen bedrijfsfeestje gaat Lisa zich steeds vreemder gedragen en brengt ze Dereks carrière, huwelijk en zelfs Sharons leven in gevaar.

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 Beyoncé – Sharon Charles
 Idris Elba – Derek Charles
 Ali Larter – Lisa Sheridan
 Christine Lahti – Detective Monica Reese
 Scout Taylor-Compton – Samantha
 Jerry O'Connell – Ben

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Fongs confirms One Way sustainability calculation system
The effectiveness of Clariant's new One Way sustainability calculation system has been confirmed in physical tests carried out by leading machine builder Fong's. The test results verified the accuracy of the calculations and measurements obtained from Clariant's One Way Calculator, a sophisticated software tool that helps textile brands, retailers and manufacturers assess the cost, performance and environmental profile of evaluated products almost instantly.
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The effectiveness of Clariant's new One Way sustainability calculation system has been confirmed in physical tests carried out by leading machine builder Fong's.
The test results verified the accuracy of the calculations and measurements obtained from Clariant's One Way Calculator, a sophisticated software tool that helps textile brands, retailers and manufacturers assess the cost, performance and environmental profile of evaluated products almost instantly.
"The One Way system is designed to help our customers balance the twin objectives of ecology and economy and enables them to see that more sustainable and efficient solutions do not have to come at a higher cost," explained Emrah Esder, Clariant's Head of Product Marketing, Textile Chemicals.
Unique sustainability service
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, developed its One Way sustainability service to provide textile brands, retailers and manufacturers with a fast and reliable method of selecting the most appropriate chemicals and process routes for their requirements. The close consideration of key parameters, including raw materials and water and energy consumption, aims at achieving both economic and ecological benefits.
The database of Clariant's One Way system contains more than 200 dyes and chemicals that have been carefully screened and pre-tested by the company's product stewardship specialists against more than 15 eco-standards and other criteria. These include bluesign 1, Oeko-Tex 2, GOTS, the 11 restricted substance groups classified under the Joint Roadmap Towards Zero Discharge initiative, 20 of the major brand RSLs (restructured substances lists) and other factors such as bioelimination.
Suitable products are first identified and shortlisted and individual cost, performance and environmental profiles subsequently calculated using the One Way Calculator.
Fong's suggested carrying out trials of the latest low temperature pretreatment processes for fabric dyeing, including Clariant's own solution called Blue Magic, on its latest high energy, low consumption Jumbotec dyeing machine.
The bleaching pretreatment of fabrics prior to dyeing is an essential step in removing impurities and increasing both whiteness and hydrophilicity, allowing the dye to penetrate more deeply into the fibres so that the colours are more vivid.
The test data very closely matched the initial Clariant calculations using the new One Way Calculator. The tool allows for the evaluation of the environmental profile of given production processes, using relevant parameters such as dyes and chemicals, water, energy or time; differentiated by country, based on actual measurements of chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD), CO2 emissions, energy consumption and water usage.
"The One Way system helps mills and brand owners to develop innovative textile solutions that are both more ecologically and economically sustainable," said Esder. "Both industry and consumers continue to push for less complex, more cost-efficient and sustainable manufacturing processes, and defending and supporting the toughest eco standards is our aim with One Way."
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Friedman Kaplan litigation partner Anne E. Beaumont has authored an article that appears in the March 19, 2015 issue of Hedge Fund Law Report titled "BDC Finance v. Barclays: Derivatives Collateral Calls in a Chaotic Market." The article discusses a series of court decisions in litigation between BDC Finance, a hedge fund, and Barclays regarding the parties' collateral calls in connection with a total return swap transaction entered into pursuant to the ISDA Master Agreement. In addition to discussing the facts of the case and the three decisions to date - including one most recently by the New York Court of Appeals - the article offers a number of lessons from the case about how to handle collateral calls on over-the-counter swap transactions in chaotic market conditions.


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Low Tuition Maritime Universities in Canada with Tuition Fees
Maritime Degree Programs for International Students
Whether you're concerned in working for a merchant navy, in a port, ship, yacht or as ship captain students who join any of the universities offering maritime degrees have a wide range of Maritime Majors to choose from. Universities offer all study levels from foundation year, bachelor degree, master degree, PhD and maritime training courses too.
Degree majors including shipping studies, nautical science, marine technology, marine engineering, marine operations, port management, maritime management, English for shipping terms and STCW courses and training. See full list of maritime courses below.
The Maritime course offered including bachelor's degrees and master's degrees are taught by some of the best universities in UK, USA and Australia. The degrees and courses are available in distance learning, part-time or full-time study modes.
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All the programs are accredited by the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), Australian Maritime Authority and United States Maritime Administration (MARD). The maritime degrees provide students with advance knowledge, extensive skills and solid qualifications to prepare them for successful maritime careers and maritime jobs with marine companies, maritime companies and maritime government agencies such as customs authorities and port authorities.
Some of the UK Universities include University of Southampton, University of Portsmouth, Newcastle University, University of Strathclyde and Southampton Solent University. Australian Universities include University of Tasmania Australian Maritime College (AMC), , University of Sydney Marine Studies Institute (MSI) and University of Wollongong.
Maritime colleges in US include Texas A&M University, United States Merchant Marine Academy, California Maritime Academy, Maine Maritime Academy, Massachusetts Maritime Academy,
Canadian Universities include University of British Columbia, Vancouver Island University, Memorial University of Newfoundland Marine Institute and Georgian College.
Degrees taught by those top universities are accredited by the well-regarded International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) which is often required by many maritime organizations and employers.
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There is a wide range of Maritime degree majors covering all aspects including marine science, marine engineering, marmite management and maritime administration. Below is a list of popular marine degrees:
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Geography with Marine Studies
Marine Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Marine Technology with Marine Engineering
Marine Technology with Naval Architecture
Marine Technology with Offshore Engineering
Maritime Business & Management
Nautical Science and Chief Mate
Nautical Science Certificate
Naval Architecture with Ocean Engineering
Navigation and Maritime Science
Oil and Gas Chemistry
Ship and Port Management
Ship Captain
Ship Deck Officer Certificate
Ship Science
Ship Science & Engineering Management
Ship Science & Naval Architecture
Ship Science & Naval Engineering
Sub-Sea Engineering
Yacht Operations
Maritime English Courses
The general criteria and admission requirements by most universities include good high school qualification and IELTS 4.5 for admission to the foundation year, IELTS 6.0 for direct admission to the bachelor degree. Students must hold a good bachelor degree qualification and IELTS 6.5 score for admission to the master's degree. PhD admission requirements include bachelor degree, master degree, PhD proposal and IELTS 6.5 score.
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Prerequisites Needed to Study Marine Engineering in Canada
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) offers a diploma in marine engineering. Memorial University of Newfoundland offers an undergraduate degree in Ocean and Naval Architecture Engineering.
For admission to BCIT's diploma program, completion of high school is mandatory with English and math. Physics and chemistry are recommended. As well, a Transport Canada approved medical, hearing, and eyesight test is required.
High school completion is required for admission to MUN's undergraduate program. English, math, and physics are required; chemistry is recommended.
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Students who are interested in university admissions and need an offer of acceptance for any of the above maritime degree programs can apply online now. This is the easiest and fastest way to apply to university and receive your offer of acceptance from accredited universities in maritime education. Our admission application is supported by a team of education consultants and admissions experts who will work on your application to ensure you receive a positive outcome fast.
Cost of Living in Canada
The cost of living in Canada varies significantly depending on personal lifestyle preferences and your city of residence. The larger cities in the west and centrally, such as Montreal and Vancouver, tend to be more expensive. However, in the Atlantic Provinces and smaller rural areas, you might find it easier to live on a budget as groceries, accommodation, and transport are generally more reasonably priced. When estimating your budget you should include all living expenses, including accommodation, health insurance, groceries, laundry, utility bills, clothing, traveling, and entertainment. This usually ranges from CAD800 to CAD1,000 per month, but in a large city it could be much higher.
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List of Low Tuition Maritime Universities in Canada
Canadian Coast Guard College, Westmount, Nova Scotia
British Columbia Institute of Technology's Pacific Marine Training Campus, North Vancouver, British Columbia
Georgian College, Owen Sound, Ontario
Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Holland College, Summerside, Prince Edward Island
Maritime Institut of Quebec, Rimouski, Quebec
New Brunswick Community College, St. Andrews, New Brunswick
Nova Scotia Community College, Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia
Ladysmith, British Columbia
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The Qualifier Vaclav Safranek is the Opponent of Grigor Dimitrov at the Start of US Open
Grigor Dimitrov is seed No 7 of the main draw of the last Grand Slam tournament of the year in New York. On Tuesday Dimitrov will play world No 210 Vaclac Safranek from the Czech Republic, who entered the main draw after playing the qualifications. The potential second round opponents of the Bulgarian are Aljaz Bedene of Great Britain and Andrey Rublev of Russia. The first seeded player who Dimitr...
Grigor Dimitrov Lifted the Trophy of Cincinnati Masters
Grigor Dimitrov won his first Masters title after beating the Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-3 7-5. This is Dimitrov's 7th ATP Tour title and 3rd title for the year after Brisbane and Sofia.
"I'm just happy. There's nothing else I can say, honestly. I'm just happy and I'm humbled to have that trophy in my hands, and especially to win here, my first Masters 1000. It's just amazing. I always like this...
Grigor Dimitrov Reaches First ATP Masters Final
Without losing a set in Cincinnati, Grigor Dimitrov reached the biggest final of his career after two hours battle against John Isner 7-6(4) 7-6(10). Dimitrov saved three set-points before clinching the win on his third match point.
On Sunday clash for the title Dimitrov will face the Australian Nick Kyrgios who will also play his first Masters final....
Dimitrov with Convincing Win in the Quarterfinals of Cincinnati Masters
Grigor Dimitrov advanced to the semifinals of Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati after defeating the Japanese Yuichi Sugita 6-2 6-1. Seventh seed Dimitrov broke Sugita at the beginning of the first set and quickly reached 3-0 lead. In the second set Dimitrov broke twice and reached 5-0. He lost only 5 points on his serve and did not face and break points.
"It's a good feeling, for sure," s...
Grigor Dimitrov with First Win against Juan Martin del Potro
After losing five times to ex world No 4 Juan Martin del Potro, the seventh seeded Grigor Dimitrov finally succeeded to beat him in the third round of the Cincinnati Masters 6-3 7-5.
"I spoke with my coach in the locker room after [the win], and I was, like, 'Listen, I really needed that match.' He was, like, 'You know what? I kind of agree with you,'" Dimitrov said."Yeah, I always wanted to, ...
Successful Start for Grigor Dimitrov at Citi Open
Grigor Dimitrov had to play a tough three sets match to advance to the third round of the ATP 500 Citi Open in Washington, D. C.. The 4th seeded Bulgarian beat Kyle Edmund of Great Britain 7-5 4-6 6-3.
In the third round on Thursday Grigor Dimitrov will play the 21-years-old Russian Daniil Medvedev. In the only match so far Dimitrov beat Medvedev in June this year in the quarterfinals of the g...


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Q: How can I run a command whenever a new buffer is opened? I would like to have auto-complete-mode enabled by default. For some reason global-auto-complete-mode does not seem to have an effect on anything. What I have been doing to this point is manually enabling auto-complete-mode whenever I open a new buffer. What are my options here?

A: (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'auto-complete-mode)

A: global-auto-complete-mode is not as global as you may think it is. From the manual:

Enable auto-complete-mode automatically for specific modes
auto-complete-mode won't be enabled automatically for modes that are
not in ac-modes. So you need to set if necessary:
(add-to-list 'ac-modes 'brandnew-mode)

Thus if you would like to have, say, all buffers that are in prog-mode or in eshell-mode to automatically have auto-complete-mode enabled, you'd have to put the following in your .emacs file:
(add-to-list 'ac-modes 'prog-mode)
(add-to-list 'ac-modes 'eshell-mode)

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Home›Music industry›US Distributor Improves Local Music Industry Business Model | Entertainment
US Distributor Improves Local Music Industry Business Model | Entertainment
Independent acts in the dancehall space usually have a specific season to break. In the past, there was one authentic dancehall song or artist that dominated the world charts, but lately more productions have had a chance to shine, and not just established popular artists and that's because of streaming. and an increase in music distribution companies partnering with a large number of digital platforms.
One of these companies is MarvMent. According to Samantha Grandinetti, communications manager for the US-based music distribution company, coordinating with digital distribution services doesn't have to be difficult and can be profitable when artists or producers find the right performance and the right one. platform to work with.
"Generally the beauty of the distribution industry is that music producers can decide which companies to work for them through trial and error," said Grandinetti. The gleaner.
She added, "We have a world-class development team that implemented a robust backend architecture to ensure ease of delivery and a super user-friendly content management system. With this, the conversation with the stakeholders of the streaming platform is not a challenge. "
Taking all factors into consideration, MarvMent predicts that "the rise of the independent artist and dancehall can be sustained in any market in the world".
"Good structuring of the industry and better oversight" will provide the solutions that the local music industry – especially dancehall – needs, said Grandinetti.
Founded in 2013, MarvMent's goal has always been to make it easier to distribute music videos for independent producers and artists, and that's what keeps them hungry in the music business today. Recently, they have added audio distribution to the services offered. Their catalog includes the works of music creators, spanning the genres of pop, hip hop, reggae, dancehall, reggaeton and modern music. It is one of the top 10 recommended content delivery partners listed on the VEVO website. It has also partnered with Spotify, Tidal, including distribution on Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, TikTok and over 150 download and streaming stores around the world.
With the exponential increase in streaming, the communications manager explained that the company that originally provided subscription video distribution has increased its resources to make the services more scalable.
Grandinetti said, "The music industry has been rocked by the effects of the pandemic, so we are offering independent producers 100% retention of their audio streaming revenue for one year; [it] is our way of helping the industry. And while the main business is distribution, and there is no direct partnership with artists at the moment, we also provide a platform where talent seekers around the world can find artists. Artists and managers can easily manage reservations.
Among the many artists whose works have been distributed through the company is Ludacris, whose song Vitamin D, with Ty Dolla Sign and Sean Kingston. Outside Jamaica, songs by General Degree, Spice, Tommy Lee Sparta, Alkaline, including Ride On Me (Remix) Now has over 48 million views on YouTube, and booming artists like Rygin King, TeeJay, Shaneil Muir and Skillibeng can be found among their distributed works.
The dancehall culture and the resulting informal economy require a different logic and approach to the e-commerce side of music, which includes "more responsibility on the part of the key players," said Grandinetti.
After producing a song and investing thousands of dollars to mix and master it, then produce a crisp video to add visuals to it, no artist or producer wants their work to sit on their hard drive and in the cloud, or simply shared on local radio. for people to find out, they want it to be consumed in order to see the returns on their investment.
"An independent producer should look at the marketing content and get information through marketing links. Get valuable analytics for content where financial revenue reports for audio and video publishing are provided and MarvMent has these features to facilitate music publishing and content management. Certainly, once the music is in the hands of a reliable and competent distributor, it will be easily distributed on the right streaming platforms, thus giving dancehall a lasting chance, "she said.
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The Great New England Vampire Panic
Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, farmers became convinced that their relatives were returning from the grave to feed on the living
At the gravesite of Mercy Lena Brown, right, sightseers leave offerings such as plastic vampire teeth and jewelry. (Left, Klaus Leidorf; right: Landon Nordeman)
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Children playing near a hillside gravel mine found the first graves. One ran home to tell his mother, who was skeptical at first—until the boy produced a skull.
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Because this was Griswold, Connecticut, in 1990, police initially thought the burials might be the work of a local serial killer named Michael Ross, and they taped off the area as a crime scene. But the brown, decaying bones turned out to be more than a century old. The Connecticut state archaeologist, Nick Bellantoni, soon determined that the hillside contained a colonial-era farm cemetery. New England is full of such unmarked family plots, and the 29 burials were typical of the 1700s and early 1800s: The dead, many of them children, were laid to rest in thrifty Yankee style, in simple wood coffins, without jewelry or even much clothing, their arms resting by their sides or crossed over their chests.
Except, that is, for Burial Number 4.
Bellantoni was interested in the grave even before the excavation began. It was one of only two stone crypts in the cemetery, and it was partially visible from the mine face.
Scraping away soil with flat-edged shovels, and then brushes and bamboo picks, the archaeologist and his team worked through several feet of earth before reaching the top of the crypt. When Bellantoni lifted the first of the large, flat rocks that formed the roof, he uncovered the remains of a red-painted coffin and a pair of skeletal feet. They lay, he remembers, "in perfect anatomical position." But when he raised the next stone, Bellantoni saw that the rest of the individual "had been completely...rearranged." The skeleton had been beheaded; skull and thighbones rested atop the ribs and vertebrae. "It looked like a skull-and-crossbones motif, a Jolly Roger. I'd never seen anything like it," Bellantoni recalls.
Subsequent analysis showed that the beheading, along with other injuries, including rib fractures, occurred roughly five years after death. Somebody had also smashed the coffin.
The other skeletons in the gravel hillside were packaged for reburial, but not "J.B.," as the 50ish male skeleton from the 1830s came to be called, because of the initials spelled out in brass tacks on his coffin lid. He was shipped to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, in Washington, D.C., for further study. Meanwhile, Bellantoni started networking. He invited archaeologists and historians to tour the excavation, soliciting theories. Simple vandalism seemed unlikely, as did robbery, because of the lack of valuables at the site.
Finally, one colleague asked: "Ever heard of the Jewett City vampires?"
In 1854, in neighboring Jewett City, Connecticut, townspeople had exhumed several corpses suspected to be vampires that were rising from their graves to kill the living. A few newspaper accounts of these events survived. Had the Griswold grave been desecrated for the same reason?
In the course of his far-flung research, Bellantoni placed a serendipitous phone call to Michael Bell, a Rhode Island folklorist, who had devoted much of the previous decade to studying New England vampire exhumations. The Griswold case occurred at roughly the same time as the other incidents Bell had investigated. And the setting was right: Griswold was rural, agrarian and bordering southern Rhode Island, where multiple exhumations had occurred. Many of the other "vampires," like J.B., had been disinterred, grotesquely tampered with and reburied.
In light of the tales Bell told of violated corpses, even the posthumous rib fractures began to make sense. J.B.'s accusers had likely rummaged around in his chest cavity, hoping to remove, and perhaps to burn, his heart.
Headquartered in a charming old schoolhouse, the Middletown Historical Society typically promotes such fortifying topics as Rhode Island gristmill restoration and Stone Wall Appreciation Day. Two nights before Halloween, though, the atmosphere is full of dry ice vapors and high silliness. Fake cobwebs cover the exhibits, warty gourds crowd the shelves and a skeleton with keen red eyes cackles in the corner. "We'll turn him off when you start talking," the society's president assures Michael Bell, who is readying his slide show.
Bell smiles. Although he lectures across the country and has taught at colleges, including Brown University, he is used to people having fun with his scholarship. "Vampires have gone from a source of fear to a source of entertainment," he says, a bit rueful. "Maybe I shouldn't trivialize entertainment, but to me it's not anywhere as interesting as what really happened." Bell's daughter, 37-year-old Gillian, a member of the audience that night, has made futile attempts to tempt her father with the Twilight series, but "there's Buffy and Twilight, and then there's what my dad does," she says. "I try to get him interested in the pop culture stuff, but he wants to keep his mind pure." Indeed, Bell seems only mildly aware that the vampire—appearing everywhere from True Blood to The Vampire Diaries— has once again sunk its fangs into the cultural jugular. As far as he's concerned, the undead are always with us.
Rhode Island folklorist Michael Bell has documented about 80 vampire exhumations; he believes that hundreds more cases await discovery. (© Landon Nordeman)
Bell wears his hair in a sleek silver bob and has a strong Roman nose, but his extremely lean physique is evidence of a long-distance running habit, not some otherworldly hunger. He favors black sweaters and leather jackets, an ensemble he can easily accentuate with dark sunglasses to fit in with the goth crowd, if research requires it. A consulting folklorist at the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission for most of his career, Bell has been investigating local vampires for 30 years now—long enough to watch lettering on fragile slate gravestones fade before his eyes and prosperous subdivisions arise beside once-lonely graveyards.
He has documented about 80 exhumations, reaching as far back as the late 1700s and as far west as Minnesota. But most are concentrated in backwoods New England, in the 1800s—startlingly later than the obvious local analogue, the Salem, Massachusetts, witch hunts of the 1690s.
Hundreds more cases await discovery, he believes. "You read an article that describes an exhumation, and they'll describe a similar thing that happened at a nearby town," says Bell, whose book, Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires, is seen as the last word on the subject, though he has lately found so many new cases that there's a second book on the way. "The ones that get recorded, and I actually find them, are just the tip of the iceberg."
Almost two decades after J.B.'s grave was discovered, it remains the only intact archaeological clue to the fear that swept the region. Most of the graves are lost to time (and even in the cases where they aren't, unnecessary exhumations are frowned on by the locals). Bell mostly hunts for handwritten records in town hall basements, consults tombstones and old cemetery maps, traces obscure genealogies and interviews descendants. "As a folklorist, I'm interested in recurring patterns in communication and ritual, as well as the stories that accompany these rituals," he says. "I'm interested in how this stuff is learned and carried on and how its meaning changes from group to group, and over time." In part because the events were relatively recent, evidence of historic vampires isn't as scarce as one might imagine. Incredulous city newspaper reporters dished about the "Horrible Superstition" on front pages. A traveling minister describes an exhumation in his daily log on September 3, 1810. (The "mouldy Specticle," he writes, was a "Solemn Site.") Even Henry David Thoreau mentions an exhumation in his journal on September 29, 1859.
Though scholars today still struggle to explain the vampire panics, a key detail unites them: The public hysteria almost invariably occurred in the midst of savage tuberculosis outbreaks. Indeed, the medical museum's tests ultimately revealed that J.B. had suffered from tuberculosis, or a lung disease very like it. Typically, a rural family contracted the wasting illness, and—even though they often received the standard medical diagnosis—the survivors blamed early victims as "vampires," responsible for preying upon family members who subsequently fell sick. Often an exhumation was called for, to stop the vampire's predations.
The particulars of the vampire exhumations, though, vary widely. In many cases, only family and neighbors participated. But sometimes town fathers voted on the matter, or medical doctors and clergymen gave their blessings or even pitched in. Some communities in Maine and Plymouth, Massachusetts, opted to simply flip the exhumed vampire facedown in the grave and leave it at that. In Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, though, they frequently burned the dead person's heart, sometimes inhaling the smoke as a cure. (In Europe, too, exhumation protocol varied with region: Some beheaded suspected vampire corpses, while others bound their feet with thorns.)
Often these rituals were clandestine, lantern-lit affairs. But, particularly in Vermont, they could be quite public, even festive. One vampire heart was reportedly torched on the Woodstock, Vermont, town green in 1830. In Manchester, hundreds of people flocked to a 1793 heart-burning ceremony at a blacksmith's forge: "Timothy Mead officiated at the altar in the sacrifice to the Demon Vampire who it was believed was still sucking the blood of the then living wife of Captain Burton," an early town history says. "It was the month of February and good sleighing."
Bell attributes the openness of the Vermont exhumations to colonial settlement patterns. Rhode Island has about 260 cemeteries per 100 square miles, versus Vermont's mere 20 per 100 square miles. Rhode Island's cemeteries were small and scattered among private farms, whereas Vermont's tended to be much larger, often located in the center of town. In Vermont, it was much harder to keep a vampire hunt hush-hush.
As satisfying as such mini-theories are, Bell is consumed by larger questions. He wants to understand who the vampires and their accusers were, in death and life. During his Middletown lecture, he displays a picture of a man with salt-and-pepper sideburns and weary eyes: an artist's reconstruction of J.B.'s face, based on his skull. "I start with the assumption that people of past generations were just as intelligent as we are," Bell says. "I look for the logic: Why would they do this? Once you label something 'just a superstition' you lock off all inquiry into something that could have been reasonable. Reasonable is not always rational." He wrote his doctoral dissertation on African-American voodoo practitioners in the South who cast love spells and curses; it's hard to imagine a population more different from the flinty, consumptive New Englanders he studies now, but Bell sees strong parallels in how they tried to manipulate the supernatural. "People find themselves in dire situations, where there's no recourse through regular channels," he explains. "The folk system offers an alternative, a choice." Sometimes, superstitions represent the only hope, he says.
The enduring sadness of the vampire stories lies in the fact that the accusers were usually direct kin of the deceased: parents, spouses and their children. "Think about what it would have taken to actually exhume the body of a relative," Bell says.
The tale he always returns to is in many ways the quintessential American vampire story, one of the last cases in New England and the first he investigated as a new PhD coming to Rhode Island in 1981 to direct a folklife survey of Washington County funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. History knows the 19-year-old, late-19th-century vampire as Mercy Brown. Her family, though, called her Lena.
Mercy Lena Brown lived in Exeter, Rhode Island—"Deserted Exeter," it was dubbed, or simply "one of the border towns." It was largely a subsistence farming community with barely fertile soil: "rocks, rocks and more rocks," says Sheila Reynolds-Boothroyd, president of the Exeter Historical Association. Farmers heaped stones into tumbledown walls, and rows of corn swerved around the biggest boulders.
In the late 19th century, Exeter, like much of agrarian New England, was even more sparsely populated than usual. Civil War casualties had taken their toll on the community, and the new railroads and the promise of richer land to the west lured young men away. By 1892, the year Lena died, Exeter's population had dipped to just 961, from a high of more than 2,500 in 1820. Farms were abandoned, many of them later to be seized and burned by the government. "Some sections looked like a ghost town," Reynolds-Boothroyd says.
And tuberculosis was harrying the remaining families. "Consumption," as it was called, had started to plague New England in the 1730s, a few decades before the first known vampire scares. By the 1800s, when the scares were at their height, the disease was the leading cause of mortality throughout the Northeast, responsible for almost a quarter of all deaths. It was a terrible end, often drawn out over years: a skyrocketing fever, a hacking, bloody cough and a visible wasting away of the body. "The emaciated figure strikes one with terror," reads one 18th-century description, "the forehead covered with drops of sweat; the cheeks painted with a livid crimson, the eyes sunk...the breath offensive, quick and laborious, and the cough so incessant as to scarce allow the wretched sufferer time to tell his complaints." Indeed, Bell says, symptoms "progressed in such a way that it seemed like something was draining the life and blood out of somebody."
People dreaded the disease without understanding it. Though Robert Koch had identified the tuberculosis bacterium in 1882, news of the discovery did not penetrate rural areas for some time, and even if it had, drug treatments wouldn't become available until the 1940s. The year Lena died, one physician blamed tuberculosis on "drunkenness, and want among the poor." Nineteenth-century cures included drinking brown sugar dissolved in water and frequent horseback riding. "If they were being honest," Bell says, "the medical establishment would have said, 'There's nothing we can do, and it's in the hands of God.'"
The Brown family, living on the eastern edge of town, probably on a modest homestead of 30 or 40 stony acres, began to succumb to the disease in December 1882. Lena's mother, Mary Eliza, was the first. Lena's sister, Mary Olive, a 20-year-old dressmaker, died the next year. A tender obituary from a local newspaper hints at what she endured: "The last few hours she lived was of great suffering, yet her faith was firm and she was ready for the change." The whole town turned out for her funeral, and sang "One Sweetly Solemn Thought," a hymn that Mary Olive herself had selected.
Mercy Brown's remains were likely placed in the stone crypt at Exeter's Chestnut Hill Cemetery before burial. (© Landon Nordeman)
Within a few years, Lena's brother Edwin—a store clerk whom one newspaper columnist described as "a big, husky young man"—sickened too, and left for Colorado Springs hoping that the climate would improve his health.
Lena, who was just a child when her mother and sister died, didn't fall ill until nearly a decade after they were buried. Her tuberculosis was the "galloping" kind, which meant that she might have been infected but remained asymptomatic for years, only to fade fast after showing the first signs of the disease. A doctor attended her in "her last illness," a newspaper said, and "informed her father that further medical aid was useless." Her January 1892 obituary was much terser than her sister's: "Miss Lena Brown, who has been suffering from consumption, died Sunday morning."
As Lena was on her deathbed, her brother was, after a brief remission, taking a turn for the worse. Edwin had returned to Exeter from the Colorado resorts "in a dying condition," according to one account. "If the good wishes and prayers of his many friends could be realized, friend Eddie would speedily be restored to perfect health," another newspaper wrote.
But some neighbors, likely fearful for their own health, weren't content with prayers. Several approached George Brown, the children's father, and offered an alternative take on the recent tragedies: Perhaps an unseen diabolical force was preying on his family. It could be that one of the three Brown women wasn't dead after all, instead secretly feasting "on the living tissue and blood of Edwin," as the Providence Journal later summarized. If the offending corpse—the Journal uses the term "vampire" in some stories but the locals seemed not to—was discovered and destroyed, then Edwin would recover. The neighbors asked to exhume the bodies, in order to check for fresh blood in their hearts.
George Brown gave permission. On the morning of March 17, 1892, a party of men dug up the bodies, as the family doctor and a Journal correspondent looked on. George was absent, for unstated but understandable reasons.
After nearly a decade, Lena's sister and mother were barely more than bones. Lena, though, had been dead only a few months, and it was wintertime. "The body was in a fairly well-preserved state," the correspondent later wrote. "The heart and liver were removed, and in cutting open the heart, clotted and decomposed blood was found." During this impromptu autopsy, the doctor again emphasized that Lena's lungs "showed diffuse tuberculous germs."
Undeterred, the villagers burned her heart and liver on a nearby rock, feeding Edwin the ashes. He died less than two months later.
So-called vampires do escape the grave in at least one real sense: through stories. Lena Brown's surviving relatives saved local newspaper clippings in family scrapbooks, alongside carefully copied recipes. They discussed the events on Decoration Day, when Exeter residents adorned the town's cemeteries.
But the tale traveled much farther than they knew.
Even at the time, New England's vampire panics struck onlookers as a baffling anachronism. The late 1800s were a period of social progress and scientific flowering. Indeed, many of the Rhode Island exhumations occurred within 20 miles of Newport, high society's summer nucleus, where the scions of the industrial revolution vacationed. At first, only people who'd lived in or had visited the vampire-ridden communities knew about the scandal: "We seem to have been transported back to the darkest age of unreasoning ignorance and blind superstition, instead of living in the 19th century, and in a State calling itself enlightened and christian," one writer at a small-town Connecticut paper opined in the wake of an 1854 exhumation.
But Lena Brown's exhumation made news. First, a reporter from the Providence Journal witnessed her unearthing. Then a well-known anthropologist named George Stetson traveled to Rhode Island to probe "the barbaric superstition" in the surrounding area.
Published in the venerable American Anthropologist journal, Stetson's account of New England's vampires made waves throughout the world. Before long, even members of the foreign press were offering various explanations for the phenomenon: Perhaps the "neurotic" modern novel was driving the New England madness, or maybe shrewd local farmers had simply been pulling Stetson's leg. A writer for the London Post declared that whatever forces drove the "Yankee vampire," it was an American problem and most certainly not the product of a British folk tradition (even though many families in the area could trace their lineage directly back to England). In the Boston Daily Globe, a writer went so far as to suggest that "perhaps the frequent intermarriage of families in these back country districts may partially account for some of their characteristics."
One 1896 New York World clipping even found its way into the papers of a London stage manager and aspiring novelist named Bram Stoker, whose theater company was touring the United States that same year. His gothic masterpiece, Dracula, was published in 1897. Some scholars have said that there wasn't enough time for the news accounts to have influenced the Dracula manuscript. Yet others see Lena in the character of Lucy (her very name a tempting amalgam of "Lena" and "Mercy"), a consumptive-seeming teenage girl turned vampire, who is exhumed in one of the novel's most memorable scenes. Fascinatingly, a medical doctor presides over Lucy's disinterment, just as one oversaw Lena's.
Whether or not Lucy's roots are in Rhode Island, Lena's historic exhumation is referenced in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shunned House," a short story about a man being haunted by dead relatives that includes a living character named Mercy.
And, through fiction and fact, Lena's narrative continues today.
Part of Bell's research involves going along on "legend trips," the modern graveside pilgrimages made by those who believe, or want to believe, that the undead stalk Rhode Island. On legend trips, Bell is largely an academic presence. He can even be a bit of a killjoy, declaring that the main reason that "no grass grows on a vampire's grave" is that vampire graves have so many visitors, who crush all the vegetation.
Two days before Halloween, Bell and I head through forests of swamp maple and swamp oak to Exeter. For almost a century after Lena died, the town, still sparsely settled, remained remarkably unchanged. Electric lights weren't installed in the western part of Exeter until the 1940s, and the town had two pound keepers, charged with safekeeping stray cattle and pigs, until 1957. In the 1970s, when I-95 was built, Exeter evolved into an affluent bedroom community of Providence. But visitors still occasionally turn a corner to discover the past: a dirt road cluttered with wild turkeys, or deer hopping over stone fences. Some elderly locals square-dance in barns on the weekends, and streets keep their old names: Sodom Trail, Nooseneck Hill. The white wooden Chestnut Hill Baptist Church in front of Lena's cemetery, built in 1838, has its original blown-glass windows.
An early Nor'easter is brewing as we pull into the church parking lot. The heavy rain will soon turn to snow, and there's a bullying wind. Our umbrellas bloom inside out, like black flowers. Though it's a somber place, there's no immediate clue that an accused vampire was buried here. (Except, perhaps, for an unfortunately timed Red Cross blood drive sign in front of the farmer's grange next door.) Unlike Salem, Exeter doesn't promote its dark claim to fame, and remains in some respects an insular community. Old-timers don't like the hooded figures who turn up this time of year, or the cars idling with the lights off. They say the legend should be left alone, perhaps with good reason: Last summer a couple of teenagers were killed on a pilgrimage to Lena's grave when they lost control of their car on Purgatory Road.
Most vampire graves stand apart, in wooded spots outside modern cemetery fences, where snow melts slower and there's a thick understory of ferns. But the Chestnut Hill Cemetery is still in use. And here is Lena. She lies beside the brother who ate her heart, and the father who let it happen. Other markers are freckled with lichen, but not hers. The stone looks to have been recently cleaned. It has been stolen over the years, and now an iron strap anchors it to the earth. People have scratched their names into the granite. They leave offerings: plastic vampire teeth, cough drops. "Once there was a note that said, 'You go, girl,'" Bell says. Today, there's a bunch of trampled daisies, and dangling from the headstone's iron collar, a butterfly charm on a chain.
How did 19th-century Yankees, remembered as the most pious and practical of peoples, come to believe in vampires—especially when the last known vampire panics at the time hadn't occurred since 18th-century Europe? Some modern scholars have linked the legend to vampiric symptoms of diseases like rabies and porphyria (a rare genetic disorder that can cause extreme sensitivity to sunlight and turn teeth reddish-brown). Exeter residents at the time claimed that the exhumations were "a tradition of the Indians."
The legend originated in Slavic Europe, where the word "vampire" first appeared in the tenth century. Bell believes that Slavic and Germanic immigrants brought the vampire superstitions with them in the 1700s, perhaps when Palatine Germans colonized Pennsylvania, or Hessian mercenaries served in the Revolutionary War. "My sense is that it came more than one time through more than one source," he says.
The first known reference to an American vampire scare is a scolding letter to the editor of the Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer, published in June 1784. Councilman Moses Holmes, from the town of Willington, warned people to beware of "a certain Quack Doctor, a foreigner" who had urged families to dig up and burn dead relatives to stop consumption. Holmes had witnessed several children disinterred at the doctor's request and wanted no more of it: "And that the bodies of the dead may rest quiet in their graves without such interruption, I think the public ought to be aware of being led away by such an imposture."
But some modern scholars have argued that the vampire superstition made a certain degree of practical sense. In Vampires, Burials and Death, folklorist Paul Barber dissects the logic behind vampire myths, which he believes originally arose from unschooled but astute observations of decay. (Bloated dead bodies appear as if they have recently eaten; a staked corpse "screams" due to the escape of natural gases, etc.) The seemingly bizarre vampire beliefs, Barber argues, get at the essence of contagion: the insight that illness begets illness, and death, death.
Vampire believers "say that death comes to us from invisible agents," Barber says. "We say that death comes to us from invisible agents. The difference is that we can get out a microscope and look at the agents."
While New England's farmers may have been guided by something like reason, the spiritual climate of the day was also hospitable to vampire rumors. Contrary to their Puritanical reputation, rural New Englanders in the 1800s were a fairly heathen lot. Only about 10 percent belonged to a church. Rhode Island, originally founded as a haven for religious dissenters, was particularly lax: Christian missionaries were at various points dispatched there from more godly communities. "The missionaries come back and lament that there's no Bible in the home, no church-going whatsoever," says Linford Fisher, a Brown University colonial historian. "You have people out there essentially in cultural isolation." Mary Olive, Lena's sister, joined a church just two weeks before she died, her obituary said.
In place of organized worship, superstitions reigned: magical springs with healing powers, dead bodies that bled in the presence of their murderers. People buried shoes by fireplaces, to catch the Devil if he tried to come down the chimney. They nailed horseshoes above doors to ward off evil and carved daisy wheels, a kind of colonial hex sign, into the door frames.
If superstition likely fanned the vampire panics, perhaps the most powerful forces at play were communal and social. By 1893, there were just 17 people per square mile in Exeter. A fifth of the farms were fully abandoned, the fields turning slowly back into forest. In her monograph The New England Vampire Belief: Image of the Decline, gothic literature scholar Faye Ringel Hazel hints at a vampire metaphor behind the westward hemorrhage: The migration "seemed to drain rural New England of its most enterprising young citizens, leaving the old and unfit behind."
As Exeter teetered near collapse, maintaining social ties must have taken on new importance. An exhumation represented, first and foremost, a duty to one's own kin, dead or dying: the ritual "would alleviate the guilt someone might feel for not doing everything they could do to save a family, to leave no stone unturned," Bell says.
Even more significant, in small communities where disease could spread quickly, an exhumation was "an outward display that you are doing everything you can to fix the problem." Residents of the already beleaguered town were likely terrified. "They knew that if consumption wiped out the Brown family, it could take out the next family," Bell says. "George Brown was being entreated by the community." He had to make a gesture.
The strongest testament to the power of the vampire myth is that George Brown did not, in fact, believe in it, according to the Providence Journal. It was he who asked a doctor to perform an autopsy at the graveyard, and he who elected to be elsewhere during the ritual. He authorized his loved ones' exhumation, the Journal says, simply to "satisfy the neighbors," who were, according to another newspaper account, "worrying the life out of him"—a description with its own vampiric overtones.
Perhaps it was wise to let them have their way, since George Brown, apparently not prone to tuberculosis, had to coexist with his neighbors well into the next century. He died in 1922.
Relatives of the Browns still live in Exeter and are laid to rest on Chestnut Hill. Some, planning ahead, have erected their grave markers. It can be disconcerting to drive past somebody's tombstone on the way to his or her home for a vampire-oriented interview.
On a sunny Halloween morning, when Bell has left for a vampire folklore conference at the University of London, I return to the cemetery to meet several Brown descendants at the farmer's grange. They bring, swaddled in old sheets, a family treasure: a quilt that Lena sewed.
We spread it out on a scarred wooden table. The cotton bedspread is pink, blue and cream. What look from a distance like large patches of plain brown fabric are really fields of tiny daisies.
It's the work of a farm girl, without any wasteful appliqué; Lena clearly ran out of material in places and had to scrimp for more. Textile scholars at the University of Rhode Island have traced her snippets of florals, plaid and paisley to the 1870s and 1880s, when Lena was still a child; they wondered if she used her sister's and mother's old dresses for the project. Perhaps her mother's death, too, explains Lena's quilting abilities, which are considerable for a teenager: She might have had to learn household skills before other girls. The quilt is in immaculate condition and was likely being saved for something—Lena's hope chest, thinks her distant descendant Dorothy O'Neil, one of the quilt's recent custodians, and a knowledgeable quilter herself.
"I think the quilt is exquisite, especially in light of what she went through in her life," O'Neil says. "She ended up leaving something beautiful. She didn't know she'd have to leave it, but she did."
Lena hasn't left entirely. She is said to frequent a certain bridge, manifested as the smell of roses. She appears in children's books and paranormal television specials. She murmurs in the cemetery, say those who leave tape recorders there to capture her voice. She is rumored to visit the terminally ill, and to tell them that dying isn't so bad.
The quilt pattern that Lena used, very rare in Rhode Island, is sometimes called the Wandering Foot, and it carried a superstition of its own: Anybody who slept under it, the legend said, would be lost to her family, doomed to wander.
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Spring forward, fall back – it must be Daylight Saving Time again! If winding the clocks back and forth has left you in a spin, why not try our topsy-turvy brainteaser? You're in luck though because with the clocks going back, you've got an extra hour to try to solve it!


Amanda Thebe is a force of nature for women who are experiencing menopause hell and want to start feeling healthy and fit in their 40s and beyond.
And when she's not fitnessing, you can find her socializing with her family and friends and the occasional Netflix binge session with the hubby. She's pretty ordinary really!
Work with Amanda directly and start transforming your life at 40!


The Cloud is still a very big buzzword these days. Almost every business we talk to is interested in hearing more about The Cloud, and how they can use it to help their business. But the truth is the Cloud is not right for every company. In some cases, it actually makes much more sense for a business' bottom line NOT to go to the cloud. So the question now is how can you tell if the Cloud is right for your company?
First, let's review a few different ways that you can use the Cloud in a business setting. You can have all of your data stored in the cloud and use a cloud based program such as Dropbox or Egnyte to manage it. To learn more about all the different Cloud-based file storage and sharing programs, read this blog post.
Next, you can choose to only have some aspects of your business in the Cloud, such as email. By using a program like Gmail, or Hosted Exchange, you can set it up so your company email is accessible from anywhere with an internet connection.
Or, you can choose not to put anything in the cloud, and instead use local file storage and on-site devices to manage your company data.
It's true that using the Cloud to manage your data, email, etc. seems like the better choice. You have more flexibility and ease of use when it comes to teleworking, which means you are not reliant on your office building to keep your company running. This can be especially important during major storms or snow days.
When you use the Cloud you also don't have to worry about taking care of all the physical devices- that's someone else's responsibility. You don't need to spend time cleaning it, maintaining room temperature, checking when it's time to replace it, etc. Instead, you can spend that time and money focusing on other aspects of your business.
So, Why Don't I Want The Cloud?
It seems like there really is no reason not to use the Cloud for your business, and in many cases that is true. The Cloud programs available provide flexibility and peace of mind that don't necessarily come with an on-premise device. However, being a business, one of the things you need to be concerned with is the bottom line, and this is where it sometimes makes more sense not to use the Cloud.
For small companies, using the Cloud is a great solution. It is much more cost-effective to use Cloud-based programs then to have your own devices. But, if you are a large company, it actually might make more financial sense to have your own devices instead of using Cloud-based programs. Using the Cloud can actually end up hurting your business's bottom line instead of helping it.
Most Cloud-based programs run on a subscription basis- you pay per employee per month. For a small business, one with less than 50 employees, this subscription payment plan is going to work really well. But, if you have over 50 employees, buying and managing your own server might actually end up saving you money- you don't have to pay as much attention to how many users you have, very helpful when you are working with a company of 100-200 people.
The Cloud seems like a shiny new way to run your business, but it is important to take the time to sit down with your IT professionals and really discuss what your company needs and goals are. You might be surprised and find out that a Cloud-based solution isn't actually right for you.
Do you use the Cloud for your business? How? If not, why not? Tell us in the comments!


Lawyer, MP, what's next for Bishop?
FORMER foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop plans to work in the private and philanthropic sectors following her retirement from politics at the federal election.
In an interview with the Mercury on Tuesday, Ms Bishop ended speculation about her medium-term future by saying she was "clearly" heading in those directions.
There was no mention of the Government-appointed ambassadorial roles for which she has been described as a strong candidate, including gigs as a future governor-general or senior diplomat.
The trailblazing West Australian was in Hobart to deliver the keynote address at an International Women's Day function held at Wrest Point. About 370 guests attended the inaugural $165 a ticket Frankly Women Leadership Forum.
Afterwards, the 62-year-old said she was looking forward to her next era, beyond politics.
Ms Bishop was the nation's first female foreign affairs minister and first deputy leader of the Liberal Party, serving four leaders during tumultuous times that culminated in last August's leadership switch to Scott Morrison, when she stepped aside from Cabinet.
"Having spent 20 years in a legal career and 20 years in a political career, I think it's time for me to have a third fulfilling and hopefully fabulous career," Ms Bishop said.
"I am leaving at a time of my choosing and I can't ask for more than that."
Ms Bishop made national headlines last weekend when she declared she would have beaten Labor leader Bill Shorten in the upcoming May poll had her colleagues made her prime minister after ousting former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
But yesterday, wearing trademark red heels, Ms Bishop affirmed her support for Mr Morrison and said she was confident the Coalition would win the election.
She said it was on that basis she was "comfortable" making the decision to retire from politics.
Ms Bishop has previously said she hopes her party will preselect a woman for the long-held seat of Curtin she will abdicate, with Celia Hammond, a former vice-chancellor of the University of Notre Dame, firming as the favourite. The successful candidate will be announced on Monday.
Whatever her next move, the Liberals' most successful woman will go on to have plenty of shoe money. Having served the Parliament for 21 years in a variety of senior roles, Ms Bishop will be entitled to an annual pension estimated at more than $175,000.


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No not that type… rain barrels! It's hard to think much about rain with the lovely spring-like weather we've been having lately, but eventually it will rain again and when it does we'll have the usual runoff, dirty water, bacteria, etc.
While we think of runoff coming mostly from our streets and parking lots, there's another impermeable surface out there that collectively accounts for hundreds of thousands of gallons of runoff water each year: rooftops. Every time it rains water runs off our roofs, down the gutters, into the street, and down our stormdrains collecting oil, bacteria, and other contaminants along the way.
There is an easy and attractive solution that not only reduces runoff pollution but stores that water for later use in the garden when things dry out again.
glazed ceramic pottery, and hand painted recycled metal oil barrels are just a few ideas that are not only useful but make great focal points in the garden. Drill a few holes, add a spigot and a leaf screen and you can turn any of these containers into a working rain barrel.
irectly to a downspout, copper rain chains can be fixed to the roofline gutters to direct water into the barrel and give an even more decorative look to your water collection system.
For those wanting to get really serious about rainwater storage, you might consider installing a cistern (the underground type are least visually invasive) which uses a pump to distribute water and can save hundreds of gallons of rainwater at a time.
Check out http://www.harvesth2o.com/ for more resources and great information about rainwater harvesting and graywater around the country.


Most of the fun to be had here is either on or below the surface of the water. The most popular activity on Los Roques is to take a day trip to one of the nearby uninhabited cays. If your hotel doesn't include excursions to the outer islands and cays, you can hire a peñero (small boat) at the main docks for between BsF20 and BsF70 per person, depending on the distance to the cay chosen and the number of people in your party. You should pack a lunch, bring plenty of drinks, and try to secure a beach umbrella for shade. Make sure you firmly arrange a pickup time and place for your return to Gran Roque.


Pembrokeshire led the way in reducing food waste and making use of surplus food with the first surplus food cafe in Wales in 2013. It is now home to two community fridges, in Fishguard and Goodwick (another first for Wales!) and Narberth – both part of Hubbub's Community Fridge Network. The idea is spreading with more community fridges to open in Pembrokeshire and visits from interested groups from across Wales looking to set up more.
If you've not heard of community fridges, essentially, they operate as a free or 'pay-as-you-feel' shop, abiding by the same environmental health standards for food safety as other food businesses. Often set up by community groups, they are housed in publicly accessible spaces. Combined with storage for ambient food, they are stocked with surplus food from supermarkets, local shops and other food businesses as well as donations from local people. Everyone is welcome to take food, the focus being on sharing good food and ensuring it is eaten – they are not food banks.
The Fishguard and Goodwick community fridge opened in November 2017, following on from Transition Cafe, to make good use of surplus food. The purpose of Transition Bro Gwaun (TBG), who set up both initiatives in Fishguard, is to deliver innovative local solutions that address global environmental challenges. In the first 10 months their community fridge has processed over 5 tonnes of food, equivalent to 1 kg per person, in this small coastal community. Drawing on figures from WRAP, in this UK Government report, this equates to 20 tonnes of CO2 being avoided by reducing food waste.
Food waste and surplus food have become newsworthy topics in recent years with many mainstream media reports suggesting supermarkets are the main culprit. However, looking at data available from WRAP and the FAO the truth may be a little less palatable, with two-thirds of UK food waste coming from our homes.
Across the UK, WRAP estimate we throw away 7 million tonnes of food from households every year, or approximately 110 kg per person, equivalent to 440 kg of CO2. Similar figures are cited by the FAO for other Western European countries and the USA. From my personal experience working on TBG's surplus food projects very few people admit to wasting food and usually think it is someone else's problem..!
Current Love Food, Hate Waste campaigns are based on evidence that targeting groups of people is more effective than a blanket message. For example #MakeToastNotWaste and #GiveACluck are aimed at young people via social media. This is not to say that this age-group wastes more, rather that there are many reasons we all waste food and that life-stage and lifestyle play a part.
Drawdown identify reducing food waste to be one of the most effective ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally, especially as food which ends up in landfill breaks down anaerobically, producing methane. Considering the resources used to grow, feed, water, harvest, produce and transport food and then subsequently disposing of it into landfill, food waste is accountable for roughly 8% of global emissions.
Wales is recognised in WRAP's current UK household food waste report as leading the way in reducing household food waste, with effective Welsh Government policies to divert household food waste from landfill. In Wales all local authorities collect household food waste and process it for anaerobic digestion. However, just over half still ends up in landfill – equating to 34.6 kg per person per year in Wales. By way of comparison, in England around half of local authorities collect household food waste, but 90% still goes to landfill or is incinerated.
More positively, WRAP found that the quantity of food waste from homes went down in Wales by 12% between 2009 to 2015. We have the knowledge and experience in Wales to reduce food waste, with support from progressive Welsh Government policies. What we need are the resources to continue to reduce food waste throughout the food system. This is a trend that we must maintain!
Corinne Castle is Project Development Manager at Transition Bro Gwaun and blogs at https://pembrokeshirecook.com/.


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The Pythagorean Theorem is believed to have been was discovered on a Babylonian tablet circa 1900-1600 B.C.
The Pythagorean Theorem relates to the three sides of a right triangle. It states that c2=a2+b2, C is the side that is opposite the right angle which is referred to as the hypotenuse. A and b are the sides that are adjacent to the right angle.
The theorem simply stated is: the sum of the areas of two small squares equals the area of the large one.
You will find that the Pythagorean Theorem is used on any formula that will square a number. It's used to determine the shortest path when crossing through a park or recreation center or field. The theorem can be used by painters or construction workers, think about the angle of the ladder against a tall building for instance. There are many word problems in the classic math textbooks that require the use of the Pythagorean Theorem.
History Behind Pythagorean's Theorem
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Hippasus of Metapontum was born in the 5th Century BC. It is believed that he proved the existence of irrational numbers at a time when the Pythagorean belief was that whole numbers and their ratios could describe anything that was geometric. Not only that, they didn't believe there was a need for any other numbers.
The Pythagoreans were a strict society and all discoveries that happened had to be directly credited to them, not the individual responsible for the discovery. The Pythagoreans were very secretive and did not want their discoveries to 'get out' so to speak. They considered whole numbers to be their rulers and that all quantities could be explained by whole numbers and their ratios. An event would happen that would change the very core of their beliefs. Along came Pythagorean Hippasus who discovered that the diagonal of a square whose side was one unit could not be expressed as a whole number or a ratio.
What Is the Hypotenuse?
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Simply put, the hypotenuse of a right triangle is the side opposite the right angle. It is sometimes referred to by students as the long side of the triangle. The other two sides are referred to as the legs of the triangle. The theorem states that the square of the hypotenuse is the sum of the squares of the legs.
The hypotenuse is the side of the triangle where C is. Always understand that the Pythagorean Theorem relates the areas of squares on the sides of the right triangle
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