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Artwork of the Month: July. The Phaistos Disc
On 3rd July 1908, the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier, working in the so-called 'House 101', northeast of the palace of Phaistos, found an object with symbols on both sides, next to a Linear A tablet. The object became known as the Phaistos Disc—and it remains as intriguing and mysterious now, over a hundred years later, as it was then. Physically it is round, hand-made, about 1.5cm thick and approx. 16.2cm in diameter, with an incised spiral decoration. The spiral is filled with little symbols, 241 or so of them (most of the motifs occurring more than once), stamped on the fresh clay. They represent the earliest evidence of the use of movable type. The clay is free from impurities and the object, unlike the tablets, was fired deliberately.
The excavator assumed it had fallen from the upper storey and that it was of Cretan manufacture. Not much progress has been made since then, though not for want of trying. Nothing else remotely similar has ever been found—and that is the main problem. Accusations of foul play were made as early as 1913. The villain of the piece was said to be Pernier who, jealous of his fellow archaeologist Halbherr's success at Gortyn (also in Crete), where he found the famous Law Code, and of Evans's discoveries at Knossos, deliberately planted a forged object with an invented script in order to raise the profile of his excavations. However, while it is true that Phaistos could not rival Knossos as to finds, at Aghia Triada nearby, also excavated by the Italians, the quality and quantity of material was truly amazing. Pernier and the Italian School had their hands full. He seems an unlikely accomplice in a forgery of this magnitude.
Interpretations of the object's function and meaning are extremely diverse, ranging from an astronomical or astrological calendar to a hymn to victory, a nursery rhyme or a sacred text. Current thought assumes it is a piece of writing though the direction of it, from the centre to the periphery or the other way round, has yet to be established. The small number of characters, 45 in total, suggests it is a syllabic script and close to Linear A, which has not yet been deciphered. There has been no shortage of proposed translations, based on languages as diverse as Chinese, Dravidian, Georgian, Hittite, Luwian, Semitic, Slavic and Sumerian. Indeed it was this abundance that prompted the late John Chadwick, who decoded Linear B with Michael Ventris, to appeal to those producing their own solutions 'not to send them to him'.
With appropriate testing, it would be possible to put this case to rest one way or another. Modern techniques such as thermoluminescence are not invasive and would ascertain the date of the firing, thereby deciding once and for all the question of authenticity, while the analysis of a minimal quantity of the clay could assist in determining provenance. So far the authorities involved have resisted all calls for such tests. But the case should not be allowed to linger.
Blue Guide Crete, which combs the island in loving detail, will be available in digital format later this month.
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The real Patrick Leigh Fermor?
Walking seems to be back in fashion. Pilgrim routes, secret pathways, ancient trackways: it is as if we are rediscovering the traditional pace of life. One catalyst for the interest has been Patrick Leigh Fermor's celebrated walk across Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul, in 1934, when he was only eighteen. It was immortalized in his two books A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. Although they are among my favourite travel books, I had not realised quite how long after the walk they were written. A Time of Gifts appeared 44 years later and Between the Woods and the Waterseveral years after that. So they are as much reflections on the walk, with added colour and insight, as they are of the reactions of an eighteen-year old.
Virtually abandoned as a child in England by his family—his father had a distinguished career as a geologist in India—Paddy (the name by which his biographer and his many friends knew him) grew up essentially feral. School did not work for him and he seemed unemployable. Yet he had a passion for the Classics, an acute memory for texts and a fascination with languages and how they shaped cultures. All this was incipient when he began his walk, but as he uncovered the ancient landed families of eastern Europe, explored their libraries and became a lover, notably of Princess Balasha Cantacuzene on her remote estate in Romania, he discovered new roles for himself. He was always to be a wanderer, attracted to the aristocracy as much for their heritage as for their status, ever willing to be financially supported, and happy to drink and sing his way through the night in a variety of languages and cultures.
When war came, it was again apparent that Paddy was not employable in any conventional role; but with his fluent Greek he could be found a job as a general dogsbody in Intelligence. This is how he ended up supporting the resistance in Crete against the occupying Germans. His most famous exploit, kidnapping the German commanding officer, General Heinrich Kreipe, forms the narrative highlight of this book. The moment when Paddy was able to complete a Horatian ode begun by the General is an unforgettable homage to the common roots of both cultures. Of course, with reprisals against villagers and Paddy's own careless shooting of a partisan with a gun he thought unloaded, the kidnapping remains controversial, but for many Cretans Paddy was a hero. Hard-drinking reunions followed in the years to come.
Artemis Cooper knew 'Paddy' well, but her subject still presents a challenge. Cooper is wise enough not to try to match Paddy's style when describing the famous walk and is content to tidy up discrepancies and fill in gaps. The kidnapping of Kreipe is well told. The problem comes with the years that followed. There is certainly good material for charting Paddy's sophisticated survival skills, his charm and success in persuading others to finance him (notably his long-term lover and eventual wife, Joan). It is moving to read of the shattered lives of his friends and lovers, Balasha among them. Full tribute is paid to his publisher, Jock Murray, whose guile and persistence ensured that the books actually appeared. Most publishers would have abandoned Paddy in sheer exasperation at his penchant for parties over disciplined writing.
Cooper also hints at the darker side: the depressions, the sexual dalliances—some of them actually encouraged by Joan—and at Paddy's ability as much to bore his listeners as to amuse them. And yet somehow she does not capture the full personality. The chronology is there, the house in the Mani is built (at Joan's expense), the wanderings are well charted, but the subject remains strangely elusive. Doubtless there are more perceptive and probing memoirs to come, but this biography provides a solid background and serves well to send one back to Paddy's writing, not only the famous walk but also the vivid studies of Greece, Mani and Roumeli. And we are promised that the fragments of the third volume of the walk, awaited by his readers for so long, are due to appear next year.
(One correction. Paddy's friend was Ian Whigham, not Wigham. He was a man of fastidious good taste and generous hospitality: I count the two occasions when I had lunch with him, as a friend of a friend in the 1970s, as among the more civilizing experiences of my life.)
Reviewed by Charles Freeman, historical consultant to the Blue Guides and author of Sites of Antiquity: 50 Sites that Explain the Classical World.
To see more details about this book, check the Amazon links below.
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Edward Lear and Crete
The well-known nonsense poet and artist Edward Lear paid a short visit to Crete in 1864. He was coming from Corfu, where he had lived for nine years; when the British government returned the Ionian islands to the Greek state, the British community dispersed. At that point in his life he needed to find a warm place for his indifferent health and to produce another book like his Views in the Seven Ionian Islands, which had sold steadily. Lear chose Crete, and arrived in Chania on 11th April, with his faithful valet George Kokali and armed with Pashley's Travels in Crete. Although he was aware of the presence of Venetian monuments and of some earlier ruins, what he was searching for were beautiful, exotic landscapes that he could sell in England, possibly in a book reworked from notes in his diary. Crete proved a disappointment in many respects. The landscape, vast, rugged and raw, did not lend itself to artistic composition according to the classical canons. The weather did not help and living conditions, from the food to the ever-present fleas and the state of the pavements, proved a perennial source of complaint. The only things that seemed to cheer him were the wine, the birds and the flowers. Lear took more notice of the latter than of the people. Unlike Pashley he makes very few ethnographical observations, even though he spoke Greek and took lodgings with local people.
Lear first travelled west in the Kissamos direction, venturing as far south as Topolia. He then went back to Chania for the Akrotiri and continued east to Souda and Aptera, cutting across to Vamos and Lake Kournas, finally sailing from Rethymnon to Megalokastro (i.e. Herakleion), which failed to impress him. He continued south, ascending Mt Juktas on the way. This he pronounced 'Cumberlandish', a term that he had already applied to Lake Kournas and of which he was obviously fond. The Mesara reminded him of the Beka'a Valley in Lebanon, but wanting in colours, lines and shape, and Mt Ida, around which he skirted from Tymbaki on his way north through the Amari Valley, was forever lost in the clouds. Lear was probably relieved to arrive back in England on 11th June. He had with him some 200 sketches and a diary: nothing of either was ever published in his lifetime. A few drawings were reworked and completed on commission and are now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The bulk of the sketches found their way onto the London art market in the late 1920s. The Gennadius Library in Athens has 92; the remainder are in private collections and museums. The diary was published in 1984.
An extract from Blue Guide Crete by Paola Pugsley. © Blue Guides. All rights reserved.
To mark the bicentenary of Lear's birth, the Ashmolean Museum is currently running an exhibition entitled Happy Birthday Edward Lear: 200 Years of Nature and Nonsense.
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The Trouble with Snake Goddesses
Over 100 years after the excavations at Knossos, Crete, it is hard for the modern observer to appreciate the excitement engendered by Evans's finds. Here was a whole new civilization with artistic achievements rivalling Egypt's. Evans himself fostered expectation by dwelling on the modernity of the style and by embarking on a (now) controversial restoration programme which owed much to his own romanticized image of the 'Minoan' (his own word) past. As Minoan artefacts became prestige objects for museums, unscrupulous dealers, smugglers and restorers were quick to react. Top of the wish list was the snake goddess.
With her full exposed bosom, pinched waist, flounced skirt and modern expression, she looked exactly what was expected: an art even superior to that of Classical Greece and comparable to the Italian Renaissance. But Getty curator Kenneth Lapatin has suggested that the famous snake goddess might not be a genuine antiquity.
It is certainly true that from modest beginnings in Crete in 1903, the production of modern Minoica moved onto a world-wide market. In 1914 the Boston Museum of Fine Arts paid a staggering $950 for a very damaged chryselephantine snake goddess with no detailed provenance. It has affinities with the faïences from the Temple Repositories but also a number of crucial unexplained differences, not least that it is the only example in Minoan art in which ivory is used for a female figure. Questions about its authenticity remain unanswered. In the 1920s the curator at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, wishing to enhance the status of her department, fell for a marble snake goddess, once again with no provenance except for a vague 'east of Knossos'. £2750 were duly paid to a local intermediary who said he had it through a Paris dealer. Doubts raised in Crete were set aside and ascribed to jealousy and embarrassment at having allowed such a unique artefact to leave the island. Yet questions soon began to be asked. No archaeologist had actually seen the object come out of the ground. Authentication was based purely on style, subjective judgement and expectations. Evans was still defending it in 1935 but the Fitzwilliam Museum, after demoting its status to 'dubious' in 1964, last showed it in 1991.
Who dunnit? Evidence points in two directions: first the Gilliérons, father and son, who worked as restorers for Evans from the very beginning and eventually set up shop in Athens producing fine detailed replicas of Knossos finds for academic collections. Alternatively it was one of the Cretan workers trained by them. Sir Leonard Woolley in his memoirs tells how a forger, confessing on his deathbed, had wept bitter tears on discovering how much money his work could ultimately command.
Extract from Blue Guide Crete by Paola Pugsley. Knossos is also one of the sites featured in Sites of Antiquity: 50 Sites that Explain the Classical World .
For more on the Gilliérons and the artworks of Knossos, see here , for details of an exhibition currently running at the Met Museum in New York.
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As a brief introduction here are six hotels and one restaurant that are recommended in the new Blue Guide Crete. Note that, as with all Blue Guides Recommended establishments, all have been visited by the author or our editors and contributors (see the criteria for recommendation here), indeed in the case of the below we have stayed at all of them. Considerably longer listings appear in the book itself.
Most of the below are available through www.cretetravel.com who we found excellent. As well as handling the reservations (at no cost to the visitor, they receive a fee from the hotel), they will also give helpful email or telephone advice:
1. Tamam Restaurant, Chania (details»)
2. Casa Delfino, Chania (details»)
3. Villa Kynthia, Panormos (details»)
4. Villa Kerasia, Venerato (details»)
5. Kalimera Archanes, Archanes (details»)
6. Palazzo Apartments, Agios Nikolaos (details»)
7. Aspros Potamos, near Makrigialos (details»)
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The result of five years of fresh research by author Nigel McGilchrist, and detailed editing by Michael Metcalfe and Heinrich Hall, this is the first full Blue Guide treatment of all the Greek Aegean islands in a single volume.
(And Nigel McGilchrist has published the full manuscript that he wrote for this book in twenty volumes as 'McGilchrist's Greek Islands', an invaluable resource.)
View the book's contents, index and some sample pages, and buy securely from blueguides.com here »
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Comments on Blue Guide Crete
This completely re-written new edition of Blue Guide Crete focuses on the long history of the largest Greek island, from Minoan civilization to the present day. It includes detailed coverage of the major resorts and archaeological sites, Venetian and Ottoman architecture, the island's unique landscape and wildlife, and its important history in the Second World War.
View the book's contents, index and some sample pages, and buy securely from blueguides.com here»
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Familiar face
Displayed on its own in a glass case in one of the later rooms of the excellent Archaeological Museum in Aghios Nikolaos, Crete, is an arresting clay head. It was found near Siteia, where it had been left at a shrine as a votive deposit. The young man's lips are slightly curved in the famous 'Archaic smile'. They would originally have been painted red, his eyebrows black and his enormous eyes probably dark as well. His features call to mind those of someone very famous. A frivolous idea? Perhaps. But once it's occurred to you, it's hard not to stroll the museum's halls without 'Pretty Young Thing' ringing in your head.
The new edition of Blue Guide Crete is published February 2010.
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Human Bowling Ball: noun. A child that feels the way to play a game is to hurl themselves into it and knock down all the pieces. Games include but are not limited to toy bowling sets.
Remember when I mentioned that Monkey Son #2 received a toy bowling set? Let me explain to you how this game now works.
Step 1: Set up bowling pins.
Step 2: Monkey son #1 rolls the ball towards the pins, while I hold back Monkey Son #2.
Step 3: I release Monkey Son #2, who runs as fast as he can towards the pins. His feet slide out form under him, causing him to land on his bottom somewhere in the vicinity of the pins.
Step 4: Monkey Son #2 sweeps his arms around until all the pins are down. He then claps for himself and says, "Yay!"

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"Eurêka" is a service that allows students to Brussels I to find, to the extent possible, their lost items, thanks to the volunteer work of some parents dedicating some of their time to collect, assemble, sort and inventory lost items and ensuring a weekly disposal thereof to those who lost them.
|Here are EURÊKA's opening hours at the start of the 2019-2020 school year:
What do we find in Eurêka ?
At Eurêka one finds clothing and sports equipment* lost by primary and secondary students at the Uccle site.
For valuables (watches, mobile phones, sunglasses, keys, wallets ...) or school material (books, notebooks, calculators ...) please check with the following persons:
- For primary, Secretariat MAT/PRI (office ERASME S.0.02);
- For secondary, Mr. Paulet (office: Plato, R232) - or whoever holds that office.
* The sports equipment (school T-shirts, navy blue shorts, gym shoes) without readable name on them (that is to say outside of a bag) are washed by volunteers and are sold second-hand at a price of EUR2, obviously without warranty of stock.... The money collected is used for the functioning of Eurêka: primarily for the purchase of printer cartridges to print the weekly lists and the purchase of anti-moisture refills.
Eurêka is located in the basement of the Erasmus building. You may access it via the "Castle" staircase.
Opening Hours
During the school year, from late September to late June, Eurêka is open in principle at the following times:
• every Thursday from 11:30 to 14:00.
• and the last working Fridays of the school of each month from 11:30 to 14:00.
And Berkendael ?
The lost objects at Berkendael are kept at the porter's lodge of Berkendael for 6 months. The unnamed items are subsequently moved to the Eurêka site in Uccle.


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A mushroom is a fleshy, spore-bearing, fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The mushrooms' projectiles are spores and fumes. In Plants vs. Zombies, they are active at Night and sleep during the Day, but can be woken up by having a Coffee Bean planted on them.
In Plants vs. Zombies 2, mushrooms do not sleep during day anymore. Five of them from Plants vs. Zombies have returned (Sun-shroom, Puff-shroom, Fume-shroom, and Magnet-shroom), and Hypno-shroom has become a gem premium plant. There are four new mushrooms, Spore-shroom, obtained in Neon Mixtape Tour, Perfume-shroom, obtained in Jurassic Marsh, Shadow-shroom, obtained in Modern Day, and Toadstool, which is a premium.
In the Chinese version, there are new mushrooms not in the international version, including Cryo-shroom, and Pyro-shroom, which require Puzzle Pieces to unlock, Magic-shroom, which is a monthly special plant, and Flat-shroom, a Steam Ages plant. In Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, mushrooms serve the role of the aggressive fighters for the Kabloom heroes, but also have various uses. New mushrooms include Buff-Shroom, Punish-Shroom, Grow-Shroom, Button Mushroom, and Sportacus.
Related achievements
Good Morning
Complete a daytime level by planting mushrooms and Coffee Beans only.
No Fungus Among Us
Complete a Nighttime Level without planting any mushrooms.
- Mushrooms are not classified as plants in real life. They are classified as fungi, which are in real life closer to animals than plants.
- Fume-shrooms and Magnet-shrooms are the only mushrooms that can be upgraded, however, only the Gloom-shroom is a mushroom. Gold Magnet is a normal plant.
- Puff-shrooms and Sea-shrooms are the only mushrooms that cost no sun.
- There is an achievement in the first game called No Fungus Among Us which requires to complete a nighttime level without using mushrooms.
- There is also an achievement called Good Morning which requires to complete a daytime level with only planting mushrooms and Coffee Beans.
- Sea-shroom is the only aquatic mushroom.
- In real life, Psathyrella aquatica is currently the only known mushroom to be observed to grow underwater.
- All the mushrooms appear to stretch when a Coffee Bean is planted on them.
- Spore-shroom is the only lobbed-shot mushroom.
- Gloom-shroom and Toadstool are the only mushrooms that can only be obtained by purchasing them.
- Toadstool is the only mushroom that is based on a real animal.
- Mushrooms in the Zen Garden can go in the Day Garden if they have been fully grown, and are emitting light.
- Toadstool, both Nightcaps, Blight Cap and Sportacus are the only mushrooms not to have a "-shroom" or "mushroom" in their name.
- This isn't including all the NPC variants of the Night Cap class or variants of potted plant variants of mushrooms.
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- Fire-shroom
- Flat-shroom
- Fu Ling Mushroom
- Fume-shroom
- Fume-shroom (PvZ: AS)
- Fume-Shroom (PvZH)
- Fume-shroom (Spawnable)
- Magic-shroom
- Magnet-shroom
- Magnet-shroom (PvZ: AS)
- Magneto Mushroom
- Mirror-Shroom
- Mushroom Ringleader
- Perfume-shroom
- Poison Mushroom
- Pound Cake
- Puff-shroom
- Puff-shroom (PvZ: AS)
- Puff-Shroom (PvZH)
- Punish-Shroom
- Pyro-shroom
- Scaredy-shroom
- Scaredy-shroom (PvZ: AS)
- Scaredy-shroom (Spawnable)
- Sea-shroom
- Sea-Shroom (PvZH)
- Shadow-shroom
- Shelf Mushroom
- Shroom for Two
- Sleepy
- Smoosh-Shroom
- Spore-shroom
- Sportacus
- Sun-shroom
- Sun-shroom (PvZ: AS)
- Sun-Shroom (PvZH)
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So I'm outside today, picking up some trash in the yard. Last year we planted some broccoli, lettuce, cabbage and tomatoes in a random part of our yard. Everything grew except the cabbage. We tried to grow a huge tomato, but with the weather last year, we received a lot of rain, so it cracked in a few place and some punkass worms made it their home. I was so proud until I cut it open. Disappointment was all over my face. My wife says to me, it's always next year. I'm a MAN and when I do things they have to be over the top and AWESOME, but I failed. So I said the hell with it, I ain't planting NO MORE. I thought I had a green thumb, yeah right, a black one, literally. (I thought that was funny, you don't have to laugh.)
I walked by this area of the yard and start to clean up my disaster and as I'm picking up the pieces of the border we put down, pull weeds out and some old broccoli stalks, it hits me. I know exactly what to do. It hurt like hell to get the ground cleared, turn the dirt, make sure all the weeds were out, but it was worth it. My grandmother passed away on January 23, 2014. I attempted to go to her funeral, but I couldn't make it. The weather during that week, was horrible and of course, being in the South, we are unprepared for icy conditions and snow. Every route I planned on taking was congested due to traffic, iced over roads and such. I could have taken a lot of backroads, but didn't want to attempt it, because believe it or not there are individuals that live in this region of the country and think because of my skin color we are not equal, but that's a different story.
Don't get me wrong, my Grandmother is worth it, but I'm sure she would've been more upset with me if I did it. Either way, I cleared away the old, turned the dirt and planted an assortment of different flowers in her memory. I looked at it and quietly said a prayer and said, "Grandma, I love you and I would like to see you everyday in this physical way now that you are gone from this earth." You may think I'm weird, but I loved my Grandmother and really think that I took her for granted, because I always expected her to be there. Isn't that what happens with all our loved ones that are not close enough for us to see on a daily or weekly basis? I know in my heart that she is going to show me that she is right here with me in good ol' Southeast Georgia.
The picture that I am adding to this you will think is corny, but I could give a crap how you feel. In my shadow, I'm reaching up towards the sky as if I am reaching for her hand. Yes, I could have done it in a "prettier fashion", but like I mentioned in the beginning, I am a MAN and the things I do have to be AWESOME and I feel it was. R.I.P. Edna Mae Glover, you are truly missed. I would also like to dedicate the Glover Garden to Carol Gober, Sharon Gober & Tammy Gober. They all are truly missed.


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CRESTWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- Crestwood police said a robbery suspect, who had a child with her, tried to run over an officer in a Walmart parking lot overnight.
Around 12:30 a.m. Thursday, security personnel at the Walmart in the 4700-block of 135th Street caught a woman, who was with a child, stealing from the store. When police arrived to arrest her, she allegedly ran to her white Chevy Impala, backed into a patrol car and tried to run over an officer.
"Ended up backing into the cop car and almost hitting two cops. Then smashed into a car right here and then back up again and hit the cart holder, which caused it to shift and hit a sergeant's leg and then ended up taking off and making a right," said Danny Spano, a witness.
The officer was taken to the hospital with minor injuries to his midsection, police said.
Investigators said the suspect tried to hide in a nearby neighborhood. She allegedly blew a tire and ditched the white car in a driveway in the 4300-block of West 150th Street in Midlothian. Dan Shutay lives in the home connected to that driveway.
"There was damage on the driver's side and the wheel well was gone. There was no tire. Other than that there were clothes in the car," Shutay said.
No one was inside the car. A few minutes after he found the car, the police arrived.
"They yelled at me to get on the ground. I was in my underwear. I said, 'I have no clothes on and I live here,'" Shutay said.
After a brief search, police said they found the suspect and the child on the porch of a nearby home, acting like it was their own. The woman was arrested. She has not been charged.
Police said the child is safe and in the hands of the Department of Children and Family Services.
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New Recommendations for Kids and Sugar from American Heart Association
Children and teens from the ages of 2 to 18 should consume no more than 25 grams of sugar a day, according to new guidelines issued by the American Heart Association.
Strong evidence supports the association of added sugars with increased cardiovascular disease risk in children through increased energy intake, increased adiposity and dyslipidemia.
The guidelines mean these children and teens can have roughly six teaspoons of added sugar daily, amounting to around 100 calories.
The AHA also advised that children should have no more than one sugar sweetened beverage per week. Check out the new recommendations at abcnews.go.com.


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Measuring Atopic Eczema Severity
- National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health (UK). Atopic Eczema in Children: Management of Atopic Eczema in Children from Birth up to the Age of 12 Years. London: RCOG Press; 2007 Dec. (NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 57.) 4, Assessment of severity, psychological and psychosocial wellbeing and quality of life. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK49367/
- Assessment of clinical signs of atopic dermatitis: A systematic review and recommendation Schmitt, Jochen et al. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , Volume 132 , Issue 6 , 1337 - 1347 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2013.07.008
- Hanifin JM, Thurston M, Omoto M, Cherill R, Tofte SJ, Graeber M. The eczema area and severity index (EASI): assessment of reliability in atopic dermatitis. EASI Evaluator Group. Exp Dermatol. 2001 Feb;10(1):11-8.
- Severity scoring of atopic dermatitis: the SCORAD index. Consensus Report of the European Task Force on Atopic Dermatitis. Dermatology. 1993;186(1):23-31
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Horses that are 18 - 20 years of age are entering their golden years. As your horse grows older, things start to change, from fluctuations in weight to increased need for dental care. Your horse will need attention and love to age gracefully and be comfortable in their transition.
While it can be difficult to accept that your horse is growing older, it is important to remember that aging is a natural part of any animal's life. By being knowledgeable about the senior horse care you will need to provide, you can ensure that their life in their golden years is just as beautiful as when they were young.
Dental Care for Elderly Horses
When caring for an elderly horse, proper dental care is of the utmost importance. Some dental issues have been developing over the course of the horse's life, such as root eruption. Other problems, like abnormal teeth and increased tooth wear, are simply a result of aging.
Here are some ways to make sure that your elderly horse has optimum oral health.
- Regular oral examinations. By receiving routine dental care, any issues that arise in your horse's oral health can be quickly pinpointed and treated.
- Offer a soft senior horse feed. Older horses experience teeth wear and even loss. When your horse has very worn down teeth or extensive tooth loss, dental intervention often doesn't help. However, using the right senior horse feed can make a huge difference in their oral health.
Nutrition for Elderly Horses
Horses need proper nutrition at all ages, but especially when they start to get older. It is normal for your horse to start dropping a few pounds, specifically in the winter months, due to their metabolism speeding up. This weight loss is not due to inefficient digestion, but because they can no longer process food or nutrients as well.
Here are some things to look for when deciding on a senior feed for your horse:
- Look for a feed that is easy to chew, and high in fat. This type of feed will help them manage their weight easily and effectively, absorb more nutrients, manage arthritis/joint pain and cause less damage to their teeth.
- Supplement with vitamin E. Vitamin E helps your horse build a strong immune system and supports healthy muscle and nerve tissues. Horses that graze often will naturally get vitamin E from the pasture, but older horses with dental problems don't have strong enough teeth to graze. Supplementing your horse's diet with vitamin E ensures they are getting adequate vitamin E.
- Do your research. Not all senior feeds are created equal, and it is critical to find a feed that best meets the individual needs of your horse. Some ingredients in senior feeds, like molasses, can be detrimental to horses with specific conditions.
- Consult with your veterinarian. If you are having difficulties finding a feed for your horse, consult with your veterinarian to see what they suggest.
Arthritis/Joint Pain in Elderly Horses
Throughout their life, horses are very active and hard-working animals. Due to this active lifestyle, many older horses are prone to arthritis. Younger horses have a natural inflammatory control process for inflamed joints, but as they grow older, horses lose their ability to naturally lubricate their joints, triggering increased inflammation.
Here are some ways that you can help your horse deal with arthritis and joint pain:
- Regular gentle exercise.Ensuring that your horse is getting regular exercise is one of the best things you can do to help them with their pain. Exercise helps keep their joints flexible & lubricated.
- Let your horse stay outside as much as possible. When a horse is outdoors instead of cooped up in the stable, they will naturally move around and exercise on their own.
- Pay attention to proper hoof trimming or shoeing. This can help take any unnecessary stress off of their joints.
- Utilize complete joint supplements. Incorporating these supplements into your horses daily diet will help keep their joints strong and their muscle healthy. Complete joint supplements contain glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate, which work together to strengthen cartilage and control inflammation.
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Sad news to report today, iconic actor, Rutger Hauer has passed away at the age of 75.
The Dutch actor was best known for his role as Harrison Ford's nemesis Roy Batty in the 1982 movie, "Blade Runner." While Hauer's role in the Ridley Scott cult favorite is perhaps his most notable performance, he was also known for "Batman Begins" and "Sin City," "The Hitcher," and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Hauer's agent Steve Kenis told Fox News on Wednesday that the actor died on Friday. "This is not news, but he was a great guy and a great actor," Kenis told us.
He also won a Golden Globe award for his role in the 1987 TV film "Escape from Sobibor." His more recent movies include "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" and "The Sisters Brothers." Hauer's television career included his role as Niall Brigant in "True Blood" and a recurring role on ABC's 2015 musical comedy "Galavant" as Kingsley.
Born on Jan. 23, 1944 in the town of Breukelen, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Hauer's parents were both acting teachers. He left home at age 15 to join the Dutch merchant navy before returning to Amsterdam in 1962 where he briefly studied acting before leaving school for the army, Variety reports.
Per his website, Hauer leaves behind his wife of 50 years, Ineke ten Cate, and his daughter, actress Aysha Hauer, from his marriage to Heidi Merz.
He died at his Dutch home after "a very short illness."
Rest in peace Mr. Hauer, you will be missed.


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Covenants are a valuable tool in preserving the Spring Valley lifestyle. They inform members what is and is not permitted for the area in which they live.
There are currently eleven different covenant filings in Teller County for Spring Valley, two for Shadow Lake and five additional properties identified by Metes & Bounds . The specific covenant that applies to your property varies based on when the "property" was implemented into the sub-division.
We have scanned copies of the Covenants and attached them below. Unfortunately some are poor quality. At the closing of the sale of your property, the title company is required to provide the correct version of the covenants to you. If you are in need of a clean copy of these, you should contact your title company or Teller County.
If you have an issue regarding a covenant violation, please contact us through the US mail to SVPORC, P.O. Box 513, Divide, CO 80814. We cannot process your complaint unless we receive it in writing. You will receive a prompt response to your written complaint.
310................Membership Policy and Procedures
320................Covenant and Rule Enforcement Policy
321................Nuisances and Annoying Conditions and/or Behavior Policy
330................Architectural Control Committee Rules and Regulations
330A.............Building & Exterior Modification Contract
810.................SVPORC Property Recreational Regulations
Covenants (Scanned copies)
Notice Concerning Declaration of Protective Covenants
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Glass and aluminium balustrading supplied by Balconette has been used extensively to create individual balconies and increase light to communal access areas at a new residential development in London.
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Close collaboration between Balconette's technical department and the United Living team ensured the project progressed smoothly from specification to installation.
United's Site Manager Tony Kopczak commented: "The Balconette system met exacting specifications for this scheme in terms of its high quality, robustness and efficient design. It was quick and easy to install, plus the balconies look very good and certainly enhance the external appearance of the buildings."
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Whether you're looking for value, service, tasty flavors, or a healthy balance of all of these elements, it's a wild world of CBD vape juice out there.
That's why we've thoroughly evaluated dozens of CBD e-liquids to find the best of the best. We sent samples out to a lab for testing, evaluated each company's customer service, and tried them all out ourselves.
So, whether you're a vaping newbie or smoke-ring champion, we've got the info you need to choose the best CBD vape juice for you.
Note from the Editor - September 2019
The products reviewed in this article were tested for cannabinoid potency, but not for contaminants.
According to the CDC, "anyone who uses e-cigarette products should not buy these products off the street (e.g., e-cigarette products with THC, other cannabinoids) and should not modify e-cigarette products or add any substances to these products that are not intended by the manufacturer."
Editor's Choice Awards
But we know that individual consumers value certain qualities more than others. Some people care more about flavor than anything else, while others are just looking for the best value. So, here are a few shoutouts to highlight the top performers in categories that we know our readers care about.
Want to see which brand earned the highest scores overall? Skip to the full ranking to find out.
Best All Around CBD Vape Juice
With their quality ingredients and top-notch customer service, Hemplucid took the top spot in our ranking. Their full-spectrum extract provides a broad range of cannabinoids along with a pleasantly natural flavor.
Best CBD Vape Juice Value
Pure Hemp Botanicals
At just $0.07 per milligram of CBD for a 15 mL bottle of vape juice, Pure Hemp Botanicals proves that you don't have to buy in bulk to get a good deal. You'll get an extra 20% off with our code: cbdhacker20.
Best Flavored CBD Vape Oil (Tie)
Koi CBD
Koi's "Autumn" CBD vape liquid fit perfectly into our curled-up-by-the-fireplace-in-a-cozy-sweater winter lifestyle. Or get a head start on summer with "Tropical Popsicle."
Blue Moon Hemp
Skipping dessert? No biggie. Blue Moon Hemp's Black Kat CBD e-liquid has a creamy, nostalgic flavor to satisfy any sweet tooth.
QUICK OVERVIEW: Our Top Picks for CBD Vape Juice
Table of Contents
Our rankings are based on a thorough evaluation of how each product performs in multiple areas. From the price per milligram of CBD to the performance of the company website, we weigh all of the facts to calculate a ranking that will be as useful as possible to as many people as possible.
That means that we're going to cover a ton of information in this article!
Looking for something specific? Use the links below to navigate directly to the sections that matter most to you:
- Methodology: how we selected the best CBD vape oils
- Value comparison
- Cannabinoid profiles
- About vaping CBD
- Concerns and drawbacks
- The 10 best CBD vape juices
Ready to get into it? Let's go.
Our Methodology
To select the best CBD vape oil products, we started by selecting a mix of established brands and rising stars to evaluate. To do that, we looked at which products CBD users are recommending in online communities.
And after we decided which products to evaluate, that's when the real fun started.
For this ranking, we filled each liquid into an empty vape cartridge for our blind product testing. This allowed us to keep the products completely separate from each other, and made it easy to switch from one to another. We recorded our detailed impressions of each numbered cartridge for scoring.
Meanwhile, samples of each liquid underwent cannabinoid potency testing at an independent lab. This way, we could make sure that each one contained the amount of CBD and THC indicated on the label.
Our team also contacted each company to get a feel for their customer service. We contacted them via phone and email to check their response time and compare the quality of their service.
Finally, we dove into each company's website to make sure that the information provided was thorough and accurate, and that it was easy to complete the purchase process.
Want to review some of the cold, hard data? Scroll down to check out the value and cannabinoid data…or, just skip to our ranking of the 10 best CBD vape juices.
Value Comparison
|Price per mg CBD
|Pure Hemp Botanicals
|Flavored Vape Juice - Bananas Foster
|15 mL
|500 mg
|Bluebird Botanicals
|CBD Vape Oil
|30 mL
|1000 mg
|30 mL
|1500 mg
|Citizen CBD
|Premium Vape Blend
|30 mL
|300 mg
|30 mL
|250 mg
|Premium CBD E-liquid - GSC
|30 mL
|150 mg
|4 Corners Cannabis
|Vape Liquid
|30 mL
|1000 mg
|Highland Pharms
|Hemp + Vaporizer Oil
|15 mL
|250 mg
|Blue Moon Hemp
|Black Kat CBD Half Moon
|30 mL
|200 mg
|Green Roads
|CBD Oil + Strawberry AK Terpenes
|15 mL
|1500 mg
Cannabinoid Profiles
|CBD mg/g
|Δ9-THC mg/g
|Trace amounts
| 34.8
|Bluebird Botanicals
|Pure Hemp Botanicals
|4 Corners Cannabis
|CBDa, CBC, CBG
|Highland Pharms
|Citizen CBD
|Koi CBD
|Blue Moon
|Green Roads -Strawberry AK
About Vaping CBD
So, why would you want to vape CBD, anyway?
Well, when you compare the different methods of consuming CBD, vaping is thought to have higher bioavailability.
For example, when you vape CBD, a greater percentage will reach your bloodstream than it would if you took the same amount in a capsule. This means that you can get the benefits of CBD from a smaller amount. And you'll also feel the effects of the CBD more quickly with vaping, because you won't be waiting for your digestive system to metabolize the product.
That's why vaping is attractive to people who are looking for a fast-acting, effective delivery method for CBD. But there are other reasons to try vaping.
For one thing, vape devices are typically made to be portable, so you can take your CBD with you in your pocket, purse, or briefcase. No worries about leaky bottles or messy oils.
And vaping is also a highly customizable delivery method. There are unlimited options for flavors and potencies, especially if you blend your CBD products with other e-liquids.
Concerns and Drawbacks
A vaping device heats the vape liquid until it evaporates. And importantly, it doesn't get hot enough to burn. That means that you avoid the carcinogenic substances associated with inhaling smoke.
But there are still safety concerns and drawbacks when you choose this delivery method.
For example, while the rapid effects of vaping can make it easy to customize your dosage, vaping also makes it challenging to get a consistent dose. For some people, more precise delivery methods are more desirable so that they can know exactly how much CBD they are ingesting.
There are also safety concerns around the long-term effects of vaping. There is a lack of research regarding the long-term effects of inhaling vaporized e-liquid ingredients, so it may be wise to exercise some caution.
Finally, there is also a stigma surrounding vaping. In many public places, vaping indoors is forbidden, which can be challenging if you rely on this method for your CBD.
The Top CBD Vape Juices
HemplucidVape/DripProduct Quality & Value 100%User Experience 100%Customer Service 100%Reputation 91%Transparency & Accuracy 90%96
Ingredients: Whole-plant CBD hemp extract, organic vegetable glycerin, polysorbate
Testing notes: Cloudy, thick liquid with an iridescent, green-gold shimmer. Mild, herbal aroma and flavor. Very natural and enjoyable.
Hemplucid's vape liquid is made with Colorado hemp from USDA-certified organic farms and extractors. They offer a variety of potencies which showcase the hemp's natural flavor, and the full-spectrum extract offers a broad spectrum of cannabinoids.
The higher price point could be a sticking point for some shoppers, but Hemplucid's 30-day satisfaction guarantee and exemplary customer service take the risk out of the purchase.Advantages
- Broad range of potencies
- Great natural flavor
- High quality ingredients
Shop NowRegular Price: $199.95
- Higher price point
- No flavor options
- Very thick consistency
Bluebird BotanicalsCBD Vape OilProduct Quality & Value 96%User Experience 92%Customer Service 96%Reputation 96%Transparency & Accuracy 100%95
Ingredients: Broad spectrum CBD extract, propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin
Testing notes: Clear, somewhat thick, lavender-tinted liquid. Discreet, neutral aroma with a slightly sweet flavor.
Bluebird Botanicals consistently lands in our product rankings, and for good reason. Quality products, best-in-class transparency practices, and great customer service all contribute to consistently good reviews.
Their vape offering is a mild formula that would be ideal for discreet use. Or you can mix it with your favorite e-juice to get the benefits of CBD blended into the flavor of your choice.Advantages
- Local hemp
- Good value
- Excellent transparency
Shop NowRegular Price: $74.95
- No flavor variations
- One potency available
- Some information is hard to find
Pure Hemp BotanicalsFlavored Vape Juice - Bananas FosterProduct Quality & Value 89%User Experience 96%Customer Service 96%Reputation 94%Transparency & Accuracy 100%95
Ingredients: Glycols, natural flavors and terpenes, vegetable glycerin, hemp extract.
Testing notes: Completely clear, slightly viscous fluid. Huge banana-caramel flavor and aroma.
Pure Hemp Botanicals is dedicated to a sustainable and compassionate business model. And we're big fans of their high-quality products, excellent transparency, and great prices.
Our main criticism of this vape juice is that we couldn't get the bottle to close properly after opening it. CBD Hacker headquarters still smells like bananas thanks to the leaky seal.
Looking for a different type of vape product? The company also offers vape kits, cartridges, and unflavored CBD concentrates that you can add to your favorite e-liquid.Advantages
- Excellent value
- Great quality
- Stellar customer service
Shop Now20% off with code cbdhacker20
- Slow website
- Leaky bottle
Koi CBDAutumnProduct Quality & Value 93%User Experience 92%Customer Service 100%Reputation 91%Transparency & Accuracy 90%93
Ingredients: Natural cannabidiol isolate, propylene glycol, food grade vegetable glycerin, natural & artificial flavorings
Testing notes: Crystal-clear juice with a slight golden hue. Vanilla and coffee notes. One of our favorite flavored products.
Koi CBD has a loyal customer base for their vape liquids, and it's easy to see why. The flavor is great, and this one in particular is one of our faves.
The company's products are made with Colorado hemp, and uses a CO2 extraction method.
Koi has been growing rapidly, and has implemented rigorous product testing practices, with lab results for most products available on the website.Advantages
- Great flavor
- Good value
- Transparent lab testing
Shop NowRegular Price: $39.99
- Strict return policy
- Lab results aren't available for every product yet
4 Corners CannabisGlycerin TinctureProduct Quality & Value 94%User Experience 85%Customer Service 96%Reputation 94%Transparency & Accuracy 95%93
Ingredients:Vegetable Glycerin, CBD dominant hemp extract, Limonene (orange extract)
Testing notes: Cloudy, iridescent, green-gold liquid. Nice, natural flavor.
4 Corners Cannabis grows their own hemp, giving them seed-to-sale control over their products.
The unadulterated flavor of hemp shines in this liquid, which offers the complete cannabinoid profile that occurs naturally in the hemp. With its vegetable glycerin base, you can use it as a vape liquid or as a sublingual tincture.
And with their strong customer service and great quality, it's no wonder they have a growing community of happy customers.Advantages
- Complete cannabinoid profile
- Nice, natural flavor
- Good customer service
Shop Now20% off with code Hacker20
- Higher prices
- No flavor options
- Confusing website
SAUCPremium CBD E-liquid - GSCProduct Quality & Value 93%User Experience 100%Customer Service 92%Reputation 83%Transparency & Accuracy 70%88
Ingredients: USP kosher vegetable glycerin, bio-based propylene glycol, organic terpenes, organic cannabidiol isolate
Testing notes: Clear, somewhat thick. Light, tangy aroma. Mild and natural flavor.
SAUC is one of the newer companies on our list, and they specialize in CBD vape products.
We loved the mild, natural flavor of their CBD e-liquid, made with domestic hemp.
In addition to their other e-liquids, SAUC's related products include a disposable vape pen, plus vape pods that come either empty or pre-filled.Advantages
- Low entry-level price point
- Great flavor
- Nice website experience
Shop NowRegular Price: $26.00
- Newer company
- Lab results aren't posted for all products
- CBD potency was a touch lower than expected
Green RoadsStrawberry AK Terpenes + CBD OilProduct Quality & Value 80%User Experience 90%Customer Service 72%Reputation 93%Transparency & Accuracy 95%86
Ingredients: Hemp oil, cannabidiol, kosher grade vegetable glycerin, hemp seed oil, proprietary terpene blend
Testing notes: Thick, frosty, light-yellow liquid. Flavor and aroma are light and slightly fruity.
Florida-based Green Roads offers a wide variety of products made with certified-organic, Colorado hemp. At the advice of their company reps, we blended Strawberry AK Terpenes with their CBD Oil for a customized, terpene-flavored vape liquid.
Lab results for every batch are available on the Green Roads website, and you can find results for a specific product by scanning the QR code on the label.
While Green Roads generally performed well, they took a hit on our customer service score because the two reps our team spoke to gave contradictory advice about how to use their products for vaping.Advantages
- Great value
- Nice flavor
- Accurately labeled
Shop NowGet 10% off with code cbdhacker10
- Less transparency around lab testing
- Website is missing info
Highland PharmsHemp+ Vaporizer OilProduct Quality & Value 93%User Experience 85%Customer Service 76%Reputation 90%Transparency & Accuracy 85%86
Ingredients: Vegetable glycerin, CBD-rich hemp oil, emulsifier, cannabidiol
Testing notes: Frosty pale gold. Smells strongly of hemp out of the bottle, but the vapor has a much milder aroma and flavor.
Texas-based Highland Pharms offers reasonably priced products made from organically grown, non-GMO Colorado hemp.
Free shipping and a generous return policy make this a good one to try if you're looking for natural flavor and a propylene glycol-free formula.
Areas where we'd like to see improvement are the website experience and transparency. They don't share lab results for finished products, and the results they do have posted – for the CBD extract – are outdated.Advantages
- Local hemp
- Great quality
- Nice flavor
Shop NowRegular Price: $50.00
- Higher prices
- Thick consistency
- Website experience
Blue Moon HempBlack Kat CBD Half MoonProduct Quality & Value 94%User Experience 73%Customer Service 92%Reputation 89%Transparency & Accuracy 80%86
Ingredients: Organic non-GMO vegetable glycerin, bio propylene glycol, pure CBD, natural flavorings
Testing notes: Clear, somewhat thick liquid. Nostalgic nutty, creamy notes. Skip dessert and have this instead.
This was one of our favorite flavored e-liquids, and we were happy with the quality of the product.
Unfortunately, we found that Blue Moon Hemp's customer service was not consistent. While our team received very detailed, knowledgeable assistance by phone, our email went unanswered.
We would also like to see improvements to the website, which was a bit tricky to navigate and offered an unusual number of broken links and blank pages.Advantages
- Great value
- Delightful flavor
- Accurately labeled
Shop NowRegular Price: $49.00
- Less transparency around lab testing
- Website is missing info


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For anyone that has attended a school science fair, you might expect the typical volcano projects or even the usual Mentos and soda displays. However, some of today's young scientists exemplify levels that far outpace those types of situations. Sarasota County Florida has had some of the top science projects in the country, with students that have gone on to compete in both the Intel and Google International Science Fairs…and win. Thus is the story of a young lady by the name of Brittany Wenger, who created a non-invasive method to detect breast cancer.
At 17 years of age, this teen from Lakewood Ranch, FL blended the fields of computer science and biology to create an app that assists doctors in breast cancer diagnosis. It is called the 'neural network' and as described by Wenger, it is designed to mimic the human brain aka an artificial 'brain' that can learn and adapt in detecting complex patterns that can be a diagnostic tool to diagnose breast cancer.
Brittany's program uses data from 'fine needle aspirates', which is a minimally invasive process. Wenger knew that this is sadly one of the least precise methods used for diagnosis and her plan was to make use of today's technologies to change that. Her app that makes use of the cloud, has resulted in correctly identifying ninety nine percent of malignant tumors.
A full description of Brittany's project can be found on the Google Science Fair page. Brittany's project won the local Sarasota County science fair, went on to win the state science fair and when she entered it into the International Google Science Fair, she was the grand prize winner. This latter achievement is no easy task as students from all over the world compete in this astounding fair.
To get an idea of how revolutionary her project was and the genius of this young girl, you need only read a part of the Google page project description: The successfully implemented custom network is tested with 6,800 trials. To assure maximum training, each sample is run through ten trials evaluated by different networks trained against all other samples. The custom neural network achieved predictive success of 97.4% with 99.1% sensitivity to malignancy – substantially better than the evaluated commercial products. Out of the commercial products, two experienced consistent success while the third experienced erratic success. The sensitivity to malignancy for the custom network was 5% higher than the best commercial network's sensitivity. This experiment demonstrates modern neural networks can handle outliers and work with unmodified datasets to identify patterns. In addition, when all data is used for training, the custom network achieves 100% success with only 4 inconclusive samples, proving the network is more effective with more samples. Additionally, 7.6 million trials were run using different training sample sizes to demonstrate the sensitivity and predictive success improves as the network receives more training samples.
The Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer may be ready to diagnose actual patients – more global participation is required to confirm the findings and increase the predictive success on blind samples.
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New Fortress Energy's LNG terminal complete
Golar LNG Partners' floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Golar Freeze is seen at New Fortress Energy's floating storage and regasification terminal in Old Harbour Bay Jamaica two weeks ago.
The terminal will be used to supply natural gas to Jamaica Public Service's new Old Harbour power plant and the new co-generation power plant at Jamalco's alumina refinery in Clarendon, as well as other industrial customers. In addition, the terminal will be used as New Fortress's energy hub in the region.
LNG World News reported that the 125,000-cbm FSRU Golar Freeze will serve a 15-year charter for New Fortress Energy as an import facility supplying new gas-fired power plants.
" Golar Freeze was previously converted into an FSRU from an LNG carrier and has a 4.9 billion cubic metres per year regasification capacity," the publication said.
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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Bromham - Calne - Derry Hill with Pewsham - Lacock - Melksham
Websites of Interest
GenUKI - For information relating to Wiltshire and Chittoe
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre - The Wiltshire County Archives for all historical documents and the place to obtain original copies
Wiltshire Community History - Historical information for parishes within the Wiltshire County jurisdiction.
The Parish Church of St. Mary
St. Mary Church Gallery St. Mary's Churchyard
A dwindling population and congregation caused the church to close and it became a private dwelling house in the 1980's.
New Deacon Ordained 1861 Poor Benefice Fund Grants 1880
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1846-1912
Marriages 1846-1978
Burials None listed
For Chittoe entries prior to 1846 please refer to Bishops Cannings, Bromham, Calne and Chippenham Parish Registers
Parish History
Chittoe has a modern church, Sloperton Cottage, where Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, spent a large portion of his late life, is in the parish. There are traces of the Wansdyke here, and the name survives at Wans House. It is occasionally merged in the Roman road from Bath to Marlborough, which here passes through Spye Park. [source: The Red Guide, Methuen 1949]
Chittoe is also known as Chitway
Chittoe was a detached portion of the Bishop's Cannings parish and became a parish in its own right in 1867.
Civil Registration
1837 - Present Devizes Registration District
Buildings and Land
Sloperton Cottage home of poet Thomas Moore, the Irish Poet.
Inclosure Award Extract 1812-1813 Leasehold & Copyhold Estates (extract) 1824 Tithe Awards 1849
Parting Letter of Mr. Estcourt 1859 Owners of Land 1873
Crime and Legal Matters
Crime Reports 1800-1849 Bastardy Examinations 1864
Post Office 1855 Post Office 1875
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Miscellaneous Documents
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
The Heath Methodist Chapel closed in the 1980's and has been converted to a private dwelling. There is some evidence that a chapel may have existed during the mid 16th century.
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
Coroners Bills
County coroners were introduced in England in around 1194 once established other boroughs and liberties sought the right to have their own coroner. Often in Medieval times the coroner also assumed the role of the sheriff and his duties weren't limited to holding inquests on dead bodies although almost a full time post they were unpaid for the duties apart from those that were deemed murder or manslaughter when they would receive 13s. 4d. From the 24th June 1752 a law was passed allowing the coroner to claim £1 for every inquest they attended not held in a gaol and also to claim 9d per mile travel allowance from the place of residence. Inquests held in any gaol were performed at a rate totalling no more than £1. These costs were to be paid from the county rates. In cases of homicide the coroner also received the former fee of 13s. 4d. The coroners submitted their bills at the quarter session sittings for approval. Coroners Bills 1752-1796
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843
Family Notices
General Items
Parish Notables
Thomas Moore, Poet of Sloperton Cottage
Personal Research Items
Tuck Family
Tuck Family Research Burial Extracts
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Poor Law Union Bread & Flour Contract 1838
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 Why the Poppy
British Red Cross/VAD Volunteers
Eliza Breach 1916-1919 Jane Gee 1916-1919 Lottie Gee 1916-1919 Celia Laverton 1916-1919


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A fundraising Consultant for the Polk County Republican Party, MacKenzie Dreeszen, tells Breitbart News her alumna status was revoked by her sorority, Delta Phi Delta, at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa because of her "Conservative political beliefs."
Dreeszen had posted on social media about defunding Planned Parenthood and "#AllLivesMatter."
"Some of my former sorority sisters took offense that I posted a photo on Facebook of a rally in Des Moines to defund Planned Parenthood," Dreeszen exclusively tells Breitbart News. "They also stated that my support of the phrase "#AllLivesMatter" was racist."
Dreeszen said she learned that it was a former alumna sister that contacted current leadership and successfully convinced them to take away her alumna status.
On November 7th, I emailed the Greek Life Coordinator at Cornell College and asked her if she had shared my letter with the Cornell Greek Council. She responded on November 10th to let me know that she shared my letter, and that the Greek Council discussed the need for all Greek groups at Cornell to re-evaluate their constitutions this year. She did not elaborate.
Delta Phi Delta president Sarah Johnson and the sorority treasurer Kathleen Nordie provided the following statement to Breitbart News:
We are extremely disheartened by what happened in this situation. Our main goal as members of Delta Phi Delta is to promote sisterhood and respect of all members past and present. Our current sisters range in political beliefs from extremely conservative to extremely liberal and everything in between. We want diverse beliefs throughout our sisterhood, and members are encouraged to look at others' viewpoints and examine their own.
MacKenzie's alumnae status was revoked not because of her political beliefs, but because of her treatment of current Delphis. While we wish this situation had never happened, the treatment of current sisters is our top priority. After her response to direct insults to our current sisters, several current members brought their concerns to the leadership and Judicial Board. Her alumnae status was revoked by a unanimous vote of all our current members as a consequence of the way she acted.
Although the disagreements stemmed from politically driven posts this outcome was based on her actions, rather than her beliefs.
All of our members know that MacKenzie is a Republican, and we supported her. We wish her successes in her future endeavors and are saddened by this entire situation.
-Delta Phi Delta Triumvirate 2015-2016


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I've been reading this copy pasted message in many facebook profiles lately.
Anna Hazare says bring back the Black Money.
Do u know what will
happen if
1,456 Lac Crores comes back.
1. India Financialy No.1.
2. Each district will get 60000 crores.
& 1 village will get 100 Crores
3. No need to pay taxes for next 20 yrs.
4. Petrol 25 Rs,
Diesel 15 Rs,
Milk 8 Rs.
5. Support Anna hazare by paste this message in ur status.
I did my job.
Jai Hind!
It makes me wonder if people are really that naive to believe in such inconceivable lies. Do people even realise how much is 1,456 lac Crore? Let me do the maths for the intellectually challenged idiots (I being one of them :p). 1,456,00,00,00,00,00,000 INR. Which approximately is 3,23,55,55,55,60,000 USD. That is 32,355,555,560,000 USD – 32.3 Trillion USD.
Let's see some statistics shall we?
The Reserve Bank of India defines the monetary aggregates as[31]:
- Reserve Money (M0): Currency in circulation + Bankers' deposits with the RBI + 'Other' deposits with the RBI = Net RBI credit to the Government + RBI credit to the commercial sector + RBI's claims on banks + RBI's net foreign assets + Government's currency liabilities to the public – RBI's net non-monetary liabilities.
- M1: Currency with the public + Deposit money of the public (Demand deposits with the banking system + 'Other' deposits with the RBI).
- M2: M1 + Savings deposits with Post office savings banks.
- M3: M1+ Time deposits with the banking system = Net bank credit to the Government + Bank credit to the commercial sector + Net foreign exchange assets of the banking sector + Government's currency liabilities to the public – Net non-monetary liabilities of the banking sector (Other than Time Deposits).
- M4: M3 + All deposits with post office savings banks (excluding National Savings Certificates).
So the total money in India is only 30,00,000 crore rupees (30 lac crore rupees). Do you still believe some dirty politicians might have almost 50 times more than this? Is it even possible? Think again.
In many posts around the internet, it was 1.4 trillion US Dollars to begin with (I've not found any official statement from any government or bank to back that supposedly false claim on the internet). It suddenly became 1,456 lac crore overnight. There is a huge difference between the two values. Then again, may be the crooked politicians multiplied, divided, added and subtracted their deposits in the past couple of days (Can you sense the sarcasm? If you can't just press the 'power off' button and do everyone a favour).


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John Jones, Oxford don - obituary
John Jones, who has died aged 91, was the Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1978 to 1983.
He came sandwiched between two poets – John Wain and Peter Levi – but his tenure of the chair was in its way equally distinguished, and he was a considerable, even a great, orator. The grandson of the Hegelian philosopher Sir Henry Jones, he was possessed of the Celtic gift of utterance. He lectured without notes or script, in a posture which recalled Yeats's line about his father – "his beautiful mischievous head thrown back". (As a young ordinary seaman in the Royal Navy, Jones's nickname, among the Wrens, was "Little Johnnie Head in Air").
The lectures were extraordinary. There was one about Handel, delivered in the very spot in the Sheldonian Theatre where Handel had received his Honorary Doctorate of Music. (Handel remained a lifelong love, and in his last illness Jones asked for his music to be played to him on his ancient cassette machine.)
Another spectacular lecture, given in the dining hall at Merton College, was on Platonic myth. Yet he did not write his lectures down, and had no Eckermann to record his brilliant conversations.
Jones told a student whom he had just admitted to read English at Merton: "There will be three years of Socratic tension." The young man did not know what was meant, but three years later, he knew. Jones was always clear in his mind – and so was Merton – that he should be given a lot of time to get on with his own reading and cogitations. He never had more than a handful of pupils on whom to exercise his Socratic gifts, and sometimes he would arrange for even this select band to be taught by someone else.
The locum tenens was usually the blind poet John Heath-Stubbs, who said things such as "Dryden was the last poet to attend to the music of the spheres" – not the sort of sentence that would be heard in other parts of the English Faculty, which had already begun to wrestle with "Theory" in the works of Derrida or Harold Bloom.
Jones was a celebrated literary figure but in fact did not become the English tutor at Merton until 1962, eight years after he had written his masterpiece on Wordsworth, The Egotistical Sublime, and in the same year that he published his Aristotle and Greek Tragedy, a book much admired by, among others, CS Lewis.
Henry John Franklin Jones was born on May 6 1924 in Burma, where his father was a doctor. He was eight, and a pupil at an English boarding school, when he heard that his father had died – as a result of being half-drowned in the river Irrawaddy. Thereafter, Jones never felt he had a home anywhere until he arrived at Merton.
He was educated at Blundell's and was taken up, while still a schoolboy, by those bizarre brothers Jackson Knight (who became the first professor of classics at what would become Exeter University) and the great Shakespearean scholar Wilson Knight. Jones remembered Jackson holding his shoulders and presenting him to Wilson as if he were a beautiful work of art: "Just look at him!"
Jones got his scholarship to Merton, but joined the Navy – it was wartime – and studied Japanese for six months at SOAS before going East. His job was to intercept wireless messages, and he believed he was the first person in the world to learn that the war against Japan was over. He was in Colombo when the war ended, reading Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in the public library. He remained a fervent Hegelian, and would dismiss Bertrand Russell's satires on the Hegelians with almost tearful rage.
He returned to Merton, took a First in Law, and became the Law don in 1949. He had to wait until 1962 before Hugo Dyson (who had converted CS Lewis to Christianity) retired as the college's English don.
Some found Jones's arrogance insufferable, but he always had passionate admirers – such as Anne Barton, the Shakespearean scholar, and Iris Murdoch. Rachel Trickett, a much underestimated novelist, brilliantly evoked his character in a prophetic novel, The Elders, in which she fantasised, 12 years before Jones stood for the chair of poetry, that Wordsworth and Coleridge were standing against one another for election. It was in reality a novel about Jones, and what she saw was that he was a failed genius, who could not decide whether to be Wordsworth, with a body of work and no charm, or the cherubic Coleridge, whose genius was lost in talk.
A passionate football fan, Jones supported Plymouth Argyle and wrote about the game for The Observer from 1956 to 1959. When, in the late 1970s, he appeared on Melvyn Bragg's BBC books programme, Read All About It, rather than talk about something erudite, he chose for discussion a biography of the Everton legend Dixie Dean. He spent most of his slot describing a photograph of Dean heading the ball, remarking how "he seemed to hang in the air like all great centre forwards". Tutorials with like-minded undergraduates would often be spent discussing football.
In the year he won his fellowship at Merton, Jones married Jean Robinson, and the marriage produced two children to whom he was devoted – Jeremy and Janet. He was intensely domestic, rarely eating in college, and preferring to return to his house, Holywell Cottage, for lunch and dinner and to practise the cello.
Jean was a painter – Iris Murdoch believed that one day she would be as famous as Van Gogh. She was plagued by mental illness, at times so severe that she had to be hospitalised.
Jones minded intensely that his books were not more famous, and that he had not been rewarded by promotion in the academy. (It was a very dark day in Holywell Cottage when his great rival – and friend – John Bayley became the Warton Professor of English Literature.)
All this was a pity because the afternoon and evening of Jones's days were sad, when, in only slightly altered circumstances, they could have been happy. He could have had a circle of younger friends who appreciated his deep cleverness, and who enjoyed his anecdotes, and who basked in his clever, close reading of Dickens, Wordsworth, Shakespeare. Instead, there was bitterness, and a sense of things drying up.
Undoubtedly this was exacerbated by the decision to live in London.
Jean was a Londoner through and through, and was determined to get out of Oxford when Merton asked them to vacate Holywell Cottage. She persuaded the college to buy them their son's flat in Swiss Cottage and to allow them to live there for life.
There she could have had a happy time, painting on Primrose Hill by day and entertaining in the evenings, enjoying the company of friends such as Tony and Marcelle Quinton, Tony and Sarah Curtis, Robin Denniston, Gerard Irvine, and many others. She was a very good cook, and supper in the flat was nearly always an enjoyable occasion, starting with Jones dispensing egg-cup sized glasses of vodka, moving on to wine for guests, and for himself a tankard of beer.
Alas, these days were darkened by Jean's repeated descents into mental illness. Jones was an exemplary husband to her at these times, in circumstances which would have been intolerable to many others. When she finally sank, first into dementia, and then into death, he was desperately sad.
Difficult as their marriage had been, it had lasted 63 years, and those who loved them would think of their nightly routine, which Jones managed to keep going except in the very darkest times, of their lying beside one another in bed and reading jointly, and silently, the novels of Angela Brazil. John read more slowly than Jean and she would patiently wait for him to nod, vigorously, as a signal that she could turn the page of Monitress Merle – or Jean's Golden Term.
He is survived by his two children.
John Jones, born May 6 1924, died February 28 2016


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God's Destination
Day 1:
We all have a destiny. God has a plan for the places we will go and things that we will see. This week, 10 women had the opportunity to further God's destiny for Haiti. These women woke up as early as 2:00 a.m. and took a break from their daily lives in order to 'Heal Haiti'. This was a small sacrifice in order to fulfill God's destiny.
The media often depicts only the negative aspects of third world countries. They regretfully forget the heart of the countries inhabitants. Upon arrival, the team was shocked to see the beauty of Haiti that is hidden from cameras. We were warmly welcomed by everyone insight. Crowds to children ran to greet us while parents waved. While the fast pace and traffic was alarming, it did not cloud our minds from the true beauty of this country as a whole.
These statements are not to say that Haiti is perfect. There is not a nation in the world that is. However, despite the animals and trash that lined the road, no one could deny God's handprint on Haiti. The group was more than ready and willing to allow God to use us to change lives this week.


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Yesterday I translated this Han Han post for ChinaSMACK. In the process, I came across this passage, which I found rather interesting. Han Han is saying that he is willing to give Confucius (the recent Chow Yun-fat film) only two "points", the second of which is thusly explained:
Also, because the director is female, I will encourage her with a point. But it must be said, that whether it's this female director's Confucius or another female director's I am Liu Yuejin, their grasp of non-emotional films, especially the more complex/intricate ones, is rather weak. I don't understand why they don't make films about love or life [instead], which is what female directors are good at. Zhang Aijia's Heartbeat or Xu Anhua's Day and Night in Tianshui are good movies by female directors. Why should women embarrass themselves?
This passage hasn't, as yet, jumped out at many of the ChinaSMACK commenters, and neither did it appear to leave a deep impression on Han Han's commenters from what I can tell (though I confess a deep disinterest in wading very far into the thousands of comments, which are 90-95% just "Han Han I love you", "I will always support Han Han", "Wow, first page!", etc.).
Nevertheless, the passage bothers me. What Han Han seems to be suggesting is that women are inherently better at making one type of movie than another; that they're not fully capable of creating a complex dramatic epic like a man can. Furthermore, the sentence "why should women embarrass themselves?" suggests that the failure of one female director, is, somehow, reflected on all other female directors.
Granted, there is a great disproportion in the ratio of male to female film directors. But does that justify judging female directors collectively, or deciding based on the works of a few what they can or can't do? When Zhang Yimou makes a mess of a complex martial arts/"historical"/character drama (as he has repeatedly in the past decade), I haven't seen anyone calling that an embarrassment to male directors. So why the special treatment for women? Are they really less capable of making films than men because of their gender?
In fact, Chinese female directors can and have made films every bit as complex and character-driven as men. Huang Shuqin's Woman Demon Human [人鬼情] springs to mind immediately as a cinematic work by a female director that is moving, emotional, and quite complex in its meditations on the nature of gender and performance. It is not about "love" or "life" (at least, not any more than any film is about "life"), and yet a female director managed to pull it off. Of course, I doubt Han Han has seen this film as it came out in 1987. But there are other examples.
Do Han Han's comments constitute sexism? Furthermore, how do Chinese people define sexism? There seem to be two terms, 性别主义 ("sexism") and 性别歧视 ("sexual discrimination"), with the former just being a sort of ideology and the latter often implying some kind of discriminatory action. If we take Han Han's words at face value, it seems to be a clear cut case of 性别主义 ("sexism"), as Han Han implies that men are inherently better at making certain kinds of films than women.
Whether or not Han Han's comments constitute 性别歧视 ("sexual discrimination") is probably more controversial. On the one hand, these are his own thoughts posted on a blog. On the other hand, by expressing them in a place where literally thousands of women are going to read them, his words are bound to leave some kind of impression on his many adoring followers, male and female both.
Is it the same as beating a woman, or paying her less than a man? Certainly not. But this kind of mindset is exactly what leads to those more extreme behaviors. After all, if women are inherently worse at making certain types of movies, they must also be inherently worse at other things too, right? Unless there's some kind of adverse reaction that happens between film cameras and the female gender, we can assume Han Han also believes women are less capable of writing great works of dramatic literature, for example. The supposed existence of these shortcomings in the female gender suggests to readers that there might be more ways in which women are incapable of measuring up to men.
I do not mean to suggest that Han Han is a male chauvinist. I've never met the man, and though I read his blog fairly frequently this is the first time I can remember running across something like this, so I am not attacking Han Han as a person. But I do believe that what he suggested in this essay was fundamentally sexist. Confucius may have sucked, but that doesn't mean no women are capable of making that kind of film, it just means that one woman wasn't. To paraphrase a favorite line from the film Gettysburg, 'anyone who judges by the group is a pee-wit. You take people one at a time.'
What do you think? Was Han Han being a bit sexist or are we making mountains out of molehills?


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Sales volumes suffered more than prices in 2015 as the market awaited news of the exact interpretation of Lex Weber. Swiss residents, are also reviewing the implications, keen not to limit their pool of potential future buyers to residents only.
We expect supply within the second home market to become constrained in the next five years, particularly in areas such as Verbier and Montreux where construction will effectively be halted, and non-residents will only be able to buy from non-residents, effectively producing a two-tier market.
The majority of this region comprises of numerous ski resorts as well as a village alongside Lake Geneva that benefit from a definition as a 'holiday zone' so this means that a non-resident may buy in this area. The Valleys of this canton however, do not allow a purchase without a residents permit.
Please refer to our buying guide for more detailed information.
Valais has the driest climate and lowest rainfall of the entire country – it is famous for the Mediterranean clarity of its skies.The towns of Valais are attractive places with long histories and the villages tend to be peaceful rural communities offering fascinating glimpses of traditional life. The Chablais region, close to Lake Geneva, is known for its fine wines and industry – predominantly pharmaceuticals, agribusiness and other light industry.
There are numerous excellent public and international schools within the main towns of Valais and in surrounding communities.
Its numerous museums and exhibitions offer insights into the fascinating history of this unique region. Outstanding art galleries like the Fondation Pierre Gianadda Martigny are testament to the vibrant and sophisticated cultural life away from the piste.
All winter and adventure sports are well-catered for in Valais - hiking, sailing, golf, horse riding, cycling to name a few.
Verbier is one of the Alps' foremost mountain resorts, offering scenic skiing and walking.
Crans-Montana is a luxury mountain resort famed for its glamour and high end shopping.
Zermatt is one of Switzerland's most famous ski resort offering a comprehensive array of skiing, snowboarding, cross-country ski, hiking and more – all under the watchful gaze of the mighty Matterhorn.
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