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1. Which of the following is a satisfactory statement of the balance sheet equation?
a. Assets + owner's equity = liabilities
b. Assets = liabilities + owners' equity
c. Assets + liabilities = owners' equity
2. A revenue
a. increases assets and liabilities.
b. increases assets and owners' equity.
c. increases assets and decreases owners' equity.
3. In accounting, depreciation refers to the
a. decline in value of an asset.
b. obsolescence of an asset.
c. allocation of asset cost.
4. Gross margin is equal to the difference in
a. net sales and operating expenses.
b. net sales and cost of goods sold.
c. net sales and operating income.
5. Which of the following does NOT include net income in its computation?
a. Profit margin
b. Return on assets
c. Debt to equity ratio
6. What do current assets and current liabilities have in common?
a. Current assets are claims against current liabilities.
b. If current assets increase, there will be a corresponding increase in current liabilities.
c. Current liabilities and current assets are those items that will be satisfied and converted into cash, respectively, in one year or operating cycle, whichever is longer.
7. What does the retained earnings account measure?
a. Cash held by the company since its inception.
b. Financial resources currently available to satisfy obligtions.
c. All undistributed earnings.
8. An overstatement of beginning inventory results in
a. no effect on the period's net income.
b. an overstatement of net income.
c. an understatement of net income.
9. Which inventory method generally results in the most realistic ending inventory figure?
a. LIFO
b. FIFO
c. Average-cost
10. All else remaining equal, when a LIFO liquidation occurs during a period of rising prices, which of the following statements about the effects on a firm's financial statements is generally true?
a. Cost of goods sold increases
b. Taxes decrease
c. Gross profit margin increases
11. A machine was purchased for AED17,000, has accumulated depreciation of AED9,000, and has a depreciable cost of AED10,000. Its estimated residual value is
a. AED2,000.
b. AED7,000.
c. AED8,000.
12. A truck was purchased for AED35,000. It had a five-year life and a AED5,000 residual value. Under the double-declining-balance method, what is the accumulated depreciation after two years?
a. AED19,200
b. AED21,200
c. AED22,400
13. The amortization of a bond discount will result in reporting an amount of interest expense for an interest period that
a. is less than the amount of cash to be paid for interest for the period.
b. exceeds the amount of cash to be paid for interest for the period.
c. equals the amount of cash to be paid for interest for the period.
14. A AED100,000 bond issue with a carrying value of AED97,000 is called at 101 and retired. Which of the following statements is true?
a. No gain or loss is recorded.
b. A loss of AED4,000 is recorded.
c. A loss of AED1,000 is recorded.
15. Under a finance lease, the lessee does NOT record which of the following?
a. Rent expense
b. Lease obligations
c. Depreciation on the leased asset
16. Under a defined benefit pension plan,
a. the employer guarantees the employees certain benefits upon retirement.
b. retirement payments are based on the amount accumulated in the pension fund.
c. accounting for annual pension expense is simple.
17. Deferred income taxes are justified by what basic concept?
a. Revenue recognition
b. Matching
c. Conservatism
Use the following to answer the next 3 questions:
Net income AED5,000
Depreciation expense 2,500
Increase in deferred tax liabilities 500
Decrease in accounts receivable 2,000
Increase in inventories 9,000
Decrease in accounts payable 5,000
Increase in accrued liabilities 1,000
Increase in property and equipment 14,000
Increase in short-term notes payable 19,000
Decrease in long-term bonds payable 4,000
18. What is net cash flow from operating activities?
a. (AED3,000)
b. (AED1,000)
c. AED5,000
19. What is net cash flow from investing activities?
a. AED14,000
b. (AED14,000)
c. AED21,000
20. What is net cash flow from financing activities?
a. AED15,000
b. (AED15,000)
c. AED17,000
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FAIRLESS HILLS, PA -- The Lower Bucks County YMCA, Fairless Hills, PA, celebrated the grand opening Monday of its new Verizon Interactive Zone, an active gaming center designed to attract teens and children to the Y.
The Verizon Foundation donated $10,000 toward the creation of the $12,000 interaction zone. In addition to Wii and Sony Playstation gaming systems, the center features Xboard skateboarding games and cardio bikes outfitted with gaming software.
The interactive zone also features a pool table, a foosball table, table tennis and several computers for members to use free of charge that are equipped with Thinkfinity.org, an educational Web site created by the Verizon Foundation.

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Garage Door Repair in Huntington beachIf it pertains to your house the Garage is probably the greatest essential accessibility areas at your residence. Austins garage door services is working all-around ones schedule and bring an excellent services while having a smile. Austins garage door services provides several door and gates repair services and contains the biggest insurance policy in Huntington beach. We fix commercial and residential garage doors, Garage door opener and remote service. You may doubtless rely on our expert and skilled techs to provide you the most effective job. Do not wait until your vehicle is caught up in the garage since your door is out of service. Give us a call now at (949) 397-6329. No matter what garage door replacement you need Austins garage door services is happy to assist you. You may get in touch with us whenever you want and so we guarantee you that our professionals are capable of handling the job for you personally at the fee that will fit your financial budget. Services: 24 Hour Emergency Garage Door Service, Adjust Garage Door, Affordable Garage Door, Insulated And Non-insulated Steel Doors, Overhead Garage Doors, Bent Garage Door Tracks, Gate Remote Controls, New Garage Door, Garage Door Repair, Broken Spring, Contemporary Garage Doors, Overhead Door Installation, Repair Genie Garage Door Opener, Repair Garage Door, Decorative Overhead Door, Emergency Garage Door Repair, Genie Garage Door, Traditional Style Garage Doors, Local Garage Door Experts, Garage Door Spring Repair, Garage Door Lift Springs, Garage Door Lock Handles, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Opener Issues, Garage Door Parts, Garage Door Hardware, Garage Door Replacement, Garage Door Repairs, Electric Gate Openers, Tambour Wood Rollup Doors, Torsion Spring, Replace Garage Openers, Broken Cables, Affordable Overhead Door, Garage Doors Residential, Iron Gates, Genie Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Torsion Springs, Local Garage Door Installers, Local Garage Door Repair, Low Rate Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Opener Parts, Garage Door Contractor, Repair Liftmaster Garage, Noisy Doors Silenced, Garage Door Opener Safety, Overhead Doors, Overhead Garage Door Repair, Overhead Garage Door Service, Garage Door Opener Installation, Reliable Garage Door Repair Service, New Garage Openers, Low Cost Garage Door Service, Repair Garage Springs, Broken Garage Door Rollers, Replacing Broken Torsion Springs, Replacing Damaged Garage Door Sections, Residential Garage Door, Residential Garage Doors, Garage Door Springs, Gate Repair and more.
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Blueberries will not grow in Colorado soil. Blueberries need acidic soil (and a lot of it). Our native soils are alkaline; the opposite of what a blueberry needs! Every year at this time, I see the blueberry plants lined up in the big box stores just waiting for some unsuspecting gardener to purchase and take home to complete failure.
All is not lost however. Joel Reich, former CSU Extension horticulturist at the Boulder County Extension office experimented with growing blueberries. He discovered that by planting these directly into a bale of spagnum moss, one can have some success with blueberries in Colorado.
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He recommends:
- Dig a hole that is 20" deep, 30"long and 20" wide.
- Get a plastic-wrapped bale of sphagnum peat moss (3 cubic feet).
- Punch about a dozen holes in the bottom of the plastic wrap.
- Drop the bale, holes down, into your pre-dug hole. You can grow more plants in a row by dropping multiple bales in a trench. Different plants are necessary for cross-pollination as noted above.
- Cut an 8"x 8" "X" in the plastic on top of the bale and fold back flaps.
- Plant a bare-root blueberry plant directly into the peat moss (Do this in early-mid April).
- Re-close the "X" using tape, leaving about a 3" hole in the middle to accommodate the trunk of the bush.
- Fertilize in early May and early July with a balanced fertilizer for acid-loving plants (i.e. Miracle Grow for Acid Loving Plants).
- Water and provide winter protection as discussed in keys to success above.
- Provide protection from "critters" as animals love blueberries too.
- Enjoy blueberries year after year!
Complete information can be found at Front Range Food Gardener.
If you would prefer to plant in pots, Colorado State University Horticulture and Landscape Architecture College has been studying growing blueberries in pots and in greenhouse situations with great success. Again, the soil mixture is very important. Read here for the complete study and methods.
If you are up for a challenge, go for it!


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An Ellis County grand jury has indicted several people on charges of endangering a child in non-related cases.
In the first case, Antonio Macias, 42, and Juanita Salazar-Rangel, 43, both of Midlothian were each indicted on a charge of endangering a child as well as charges of delivery of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance.
The drug task force had executed a search warrant at the couple�s residence, assistant district attorney Patrick Wilson said.
�In the defendants� residence, they found numerous caches of cocaine and methamphetamine,� he said. �These drugs were readily accessible to a 2-year-old and 4-year-old who were living in the house and were present at the time of the search.�
Child Protective Services was contacted to become involved, he said.
Ennis case
Maldonado Davenport, 35, of Ennis was indicted on a charge of abandoning/endangering a child.
A co-worker had gone to Davenport�s residence to speak with him, with a 3-year-old answering the door, Wilson said.
The police were contacted and found the 3-year-old and six other children - ages 6, 5, 2, 2, 1 and 1 - all unattended in the house, Wilson said, saying officers waited 45 minutes before Davenport arrived home.
Child Protective Services was contacted in the case.
Waxahachie case
Gina Salazar, 30, of Waxahachie was indicted on an endangering charge relating to a 2004 incident in which police found her 2- and 3-year-old children running around out in the street, Wilson said, noting a warrant was issued, with Salazar recently taken into custody.
Failure to register charged
Jerry King, 47, of Waxahachie was indicted on two charges: failure to register as a sex offender and possession of a controlled substance.
King was previously convicted in 1980 on three charges of aggravated rape and is on parole for those offenses, Wilson said.
�As someone with multiple sex-related offenses, he is required to verify his information with law enforcement every 90 days. He failed to do that,� Wilson said. �At the same time, the narcotics task force received a complaint that there was drug action at his residence.�
A search warrant was obtained and executed at King�s residence, with officers finding methamphetamine, Wilson said.
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With Windows 8 , Microsoft has made a radical change in its approach on the operation system. Its true that the OS is in a not so beautiful transitional phase. Its embracing future interface, a modern one. But keeping desktop with the modern ui giving the twin personality is not easily digestible to some. But people resist change , and that is what made windows successful and the reason for its recent criticism. Letting aside the UI changes , there is universal agreement that the the underlying architecture of the OS has improved a lot , that includes boot speeds- using fast boot technique, Security – with promoting windows defender as a complete antivirus, windows smart screen ( smart screen or common sense , i think the latter is enough)….
Windows defender:
Before Windows 8, Windows Defender featured anti spyware capabilities. It included a number of real-time security agents that monitored several common areas of Windows for changes which may be caused by spyware.
In Windows 8, Microsoft upgraded Windows Defender into an antivirus program comparable to Microsoft Security Essentials. This new Windows Defender greatly resembles Microsoft Security Essentials and uses the same virus definition signatures.
As part of the minimalism Microsoft made all OS maintenance tasks being extremely silent , mostly invisible to or less intrusive to the user. Let the user use the pc for the realization of his creativity and not to make the end user an IT pro just to maintain his workstation in a fair condition.
But for windows defender it went a little too lean.Being less visible to the user. This time Microsoft took out the Default actions setting from the program. Now the defender takes the recommended action (remove,quarantine,allow) automatically based on the severity of the alert. Tray icon is also removed. Microsoft has previously done the the same act of removing "Automatically do the Default actions" but the team later revised the decision and brought it back.
Windows defender/Microsoft security essentials do have the reputation detecting very less false positives, but that is with a cost of reduction in actual detection rate of zero day threats compared to vendors like avast,avira etc as per the AVTEST.
Still we cannot guarantee that windows defender wont generate false positive. The alerting mechanism used by windows defender in windows 8's toast notifications are such a away that there is a possibility of missing alerts when you are not in front of the pc. I also do not want defender to quarantine files on the fly. I would like an interactive way. Most power users would love that. So how to make that happen.
1) Open Policy editor and navigate to
2) Computer Configuration ==> Administrative Templates ==> Windows Components ==> Windows Defender :
3) Enable "Turn off Routinely Taking Actions"


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I'm not sure if the Joker ever figured out where Batman gets his wonderful toys, but it looks like Harley Quinn's much more resourceful.
This online shopping lesson has been brought to you by Gotham City Sirens #8 (March 2010) by Guillem March and Marc Andreyko.
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If you can act fast, AT&T, Best Buy and Credo Mobile are offering some incredible deals on high-end smartphones including the iPhone 5 and Galaxy 4. If you have an old phone to trade in, AT&T is selling a wide range of smartphones at a 50 percent discount. At Best Buy, you can get $150 off the price of a new iPhone 5 if you swap an iPhone 4 a or iPhone 4S in good condition. Credo Mobile is offering a freee Galaxy SIII at a 25 percent discount on monthly voice charges from Sprint for one year and a $350 credit.
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I love Star Wars, and it is this saga of films that first got me interested in storytelling. I even use it when I am giving lectures on story development, as it is one of the clearest examples of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, a story formula that shows what unites the features of stories from every culture.
Not only is the story reflective of the age old fight between good and evil, it also shows a journey of personal discovery expressed through the main heroes, thus far embodied by Luke and Anakin Skywalker, as they embark on their quest to gain knowledge of The Force; a journey which is reflective of our quest to understand our place in the universe.
However, a story is always interpreted in the context of the age in which it is told. This being an age of terrorist threat, it is no surprise that there are elements of this creeping in to the Star Wars tale; especially if you watch the new Rebels series, or read the new books.
Imagine that you are just an average Joe living in the Star Wars galaxy. You go to work, spend time with family, go to the pub, go shopping; you live a normal life. During all of this, you realise that there is unrest, elsewhere in the galaxy, but you don't seem to see any of it happening on your doorstep. As far as you're concerned, life seems to be running very well in your neck of the woods, law and order being kept in check by those white clad stormtroopers and government officials.
As far as you understand it, the unrest is being perpetuated by a group of terrorists who call themselves "The Rebel Alliance," who regularly commit acts of violence and terrorism against the Empire, in an attempt to sabotage the smooth running of government. Well, that's what the news broadcasts tell you.
Of course, as outside observers of this story (the first six films), we are well aware that the man at the top of this government is truly evil, and seeks to control everything for selfish reasons. The point is, however, average Joe doesn't know this because, as far as he's concerned, he has no reason not to trust the news feeds. Why would the government lie? Yes there are stories of slavery and subjugation, but these are conspiracy theories, surely.
Does average Joe remind you of anyone? Yes, he's you. You, and all of us, are living in world where there are threats everywhere, and conspiracy theories abound. We have no idea what is true and what is propaganda, on either side. We certainly have less and less of an idea of who we can trust.
Food for thought as we look forward to the next awesome instalment "The Force Awakens."


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Who doesn't like getting new stuff? But increasingly we, as individuals and as a community, are becoming aware of the environmental and financial impact of a throw-away culture.
National Recycling Week aims to help everyone get new stuff . without it costing the earth.
How does a Swap Party work?
Check out our 'Swap Party Guide' video below. At a Swap Party you bring along good quality items you no longer want. Exchange each item for a token. Then exchange the token for an item brought along by someone else.
It's fun, free and has a strong, positive environmental benefit. By diverting items from landfill, and avoiding buying something new, you save water, resources and reduce emissions.
Find an event
Every year, there will be scores of Swap Parties around the country, hosted by councils, schools, workplaces and individuals like you as part of the Big Aussie Swap. Our Events page remains open year-round, so check it out to look for upcoming Swap Party, or hold your own!
Host Your Own Swap
Why not be part of the Big Aussie Swap and organise your own Swap with friends, your book club or sports group? Check out our guide to Hosting Your Own Swap Party, along with swap tokens, an adaptable invitation, event signage and swap rules.
From Crop to Swap
What really goes into making the clothes we wear? Does swapping really help the environment? To find out, watch this video of the journey of a pair of jeans from crop to swap. Narrated by Melissa Doyle.
Connect with the Big Aussie Swap community on facebook.com/Planetark and twitter.com/planetark (#NationalRecyclingWeek).
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Now that the Browns have settled on a new head coach, they don't need the interim.
And if nothing else, Gregg Williams can always find work at the post office.
According to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the former defensive coordinator who filled in after Hue Jackson was fired will not be retained by new coach Freddie Kitchens.
Trying to keep him would have created the kind of internal turmoil they're trying to move away from, the kind which made Hard Knocks such an awkward watch at times. And while they played well under his watch, the development of Baker Mayfield and the need to keep a rising commodity like Kitchens made it inevitable.
Williams has bragged about all the offers he's had in the past, and will get to pick from those letters now.


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Thousands of species of succulent plants occur in the dry regions of the world. Succulent plants display an extraordinary array of features to contend with these conditions. Our understanding of these adaptations in the plant kingdom and the evolutionary processes underlying them is patchy. I aim to contribute to a more complete picture of evolution among communities of succulent plants, particularly in Africa.
I work in an interdisciplinary context with a wide network of people. I would be glad to hear from anyone interested in collaborating.
Past and present students in my group are listed here.
Systematics and evolution of aloes
Aloes are botanical icons of Africa. They are easily recognised and highly appreciated wherever they occur, from the southernmost tip of Africa to the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the islands off the eastern coast of Africa, including Madagascar. There are over 500 species, and the evolutionary relationships and classification of aloes have long challenged botanists.
We now know that the tree aloes (members of the genus Aloidendron, Xanthorrhoeaceae subf. Asphodeloideae) are the oldest of the extant aloes. The rambling aloes (Aloiampelos) and fan aloes endemic to the Cape (Kumara) likely evolved before the lineage that gave rise to the aloes in the strict sense – the genus Aloe. New insights into the evolution of aloes have revealed multiple innovations in leaf succulence, pollination syndromes and habitat specialism. I am pursuing studies on various aspects of the systematics and evolution of aloes with my collaborators.
Evolution of useful traits in succulent plants
Aloe and Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) are both examples of large succulent genera in Africa of considerable medicinal value. In Aloe, the leaf exudate and the succulent tissue are used, whereas in Euphorbia, the toxic milky latex is used. I am interested in using evolutionary data to prioritise and predict species of interest for a given attribute.
Phylogenetic methods can be used to detect patterns in the evolution of traits, and estimate the repetition of these patterns in species for which data are lacking. This exciting new approach is being tested in various ways to identify species of interest for their properties, conservation concern or uses. I work closely with Nina Rønsted's lab at the Natural History Museum of Denmark investigating the evolution of chemical traits and uses in valuable succulent lineages.


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Good Health and Bad Medicine:
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Asthma And Hay Fever
( Originally Published 1940 )
BRONCHIAL asthma and hay fever are known as allergic disorders. Although they differ from each other in the kinds of discomfort they cause, they have a very fundamental thing in common. Both occur in people who are sensitive to sub-stances which, when given in similar amounts to other people, are harmless. In other words, these disorders are a clear illustration of the old adage—"One man's meat is another man's poison."
Most persons, for example, can eat an egg without any untoward symptoms. In sensitive or allergic individuals, how-ever, eating an egg may bring on an attack of asthma. Most normal people may have one or two colds a year and the rest of the time forget about their noses and eyes; allergic persons may suffer from perpetual colds (called "allergic rhinitis") because they may be sensitive to the dust in the air. Others suffer from attacks of hay fever during the summer or autumn because they are sensitive to pollens of various trees, grasses, and weeds—pollens which have no effect on other people.
Drugs and cosmetics as well as foods, dust and pollens can cause allergic disorders in sensitive people. In fact, there is almost no limit to the number of substances which can, in susceptible individuals, produce allergic reactions. The most innocent-looking substance can cause a mild or serious reaction in an allergic person.
In bronchial asthma, the bronchial tubes are the seat of the allergic disorder. In hay fever, the mucous membrane of the nose is the main site. But allergic disorders can manifest themselves in almost every organ and system of the body, including the skin, the digestive tract, and even the brain.
The diagnosis of an allergic disorder is often difficult; a great deal of patient work may be necessary before an offending substance can be tracked down. The treatment of hay fever has been more or less standardized, so that the majority of hay fever sufferers can get partial or complete relief by a series of injections before the season begins or all the year round. (Preparations of pollen extracts to be taken by mouth have not proven successful.)
For other allergic disorders the matter is not so simple. It may take weeks of diagnostic tests before those periodic mi-graine headaches can be shown to be caused by a particular food, before those recurrent attacks of hives can be traced to the eating of tomatoes, or before those frequent "colds" can be shown to be due to the dust in one's home and office.
The complexity of the subject and the great number of people afflicted with allergic disorders have not prevented the proprietary medicine interests from invading the field. It is estimated that to per cent of the population suffer from some allergic disorder. The temptation to exploit this large number of persons is naturally great.
Asthma is one of the commonest and most serious of the allergic disorders. It has to its credit a vast number of remedies advertised for its relief or cure. The rational and scientific way of treating asthma is to determine the cause of the attacks and to eliminate it, if possible. If the attacks are caused by sensitivity to feathers, for example, or to animal dander, the obvious treatment is to avoid contact with these substances. If the attacks are caused by sensitivity to dust or pollens, the proper treatment is to immunize or "desensitize" the patient by a series of injections employing dust or pollens, since it is difficult or virtually impossible to free the environment of these materials.
Many organic disorders, such as heart disease and tumors of the bronchial tubes or lung, can cause attacks resembling asthma. Therefore, a physician always makes certain that these organic diseases are not present before proceeding with allergic treatment.
In the light of these facts, it is obvious that no advertised remedy or drug can cure asthma or any other allergic disorder. Doctors also use drugs in the treatment of asthma, but these drugs are used simply as palliative or emergency measures until the cause is found. The most important drugs used for this purpose are epinephrine and ephedrine.
Ephedrine is the main ingredient of most asthma remedies on the market, particularly of those that are administered by sprays or nebulizers. Whether administered by cheap hand sprayers or mechanical or electrical "aerifiers," the action of ephedrine is the same. The Theodore Radin, Inc., for ex-ample, advertises Atmozon Aerifiers, and Silbe inhalation preparations for asthma and hay fever, The electrical apparatus costs $200, the pocket atomizer costs $3.75. Both are simply sprayers, and both produce the same effect. The medications sold by the company for use with the "aerifiers" have fancy names—Glycirenan ($2.50), Jadirenan ($2.50), etc. As the Journal of the American Medical Association stated, it is evident that these remedies involve nothing more than "the employment of semi-secret proprietaries to obtain the well-known action of epinephrine and ephedrine , . . when applied in the form of a spray."
Physicians have found sprays of epinephrine helpful in relieving attacks of asthma; manufacturers have gone them one better and erected "inhalatoriums" where asthma and hay-fever sufferers can sit and inhale, and exhale all sorts of odors and sprays. In these rooms, epinephrine, ephedrine, aromatic substances and even mineral waters in varying pro-portions are nebulized to form persuasive clouds of sprays that envelop devotees of the inhalatoriurn. The mental effect of dwelling in such an atmosphere is considerable and there are, no doubt, many asthma sufferers who feel better after a visit to a spray emporium. Unfortunately, however, the at-tacks will occur again, and will keep recurring until the cause of the asthma is found and eliminated.
In 1937, the front pages of many newspapers featured an article that must have brought hope to thousands of sufferers from asthma and diseases of the respiratory tract. The article described the wonders of the so-called Duke-Fingard method for the treatment of asthma, tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases. This new method was supposed to be a remark-able discovery which had been endorsed by political and financial notables and members of the European aristocracy. According to the American Medical Association, which was quick to expose the unscientific nature of the method in its Journal, '... the method involves the use of a cabinet containing 12 trays of a liquid which is an oily brown mixture in `carefully worked' proportions of creosote, phenol (carbolic acid), iodine, garlic, aromatic essences and essential oils and glycerin. Air is dried by passing through a short tube into a box containing calcium chloride, which is said to `filter off dust and microbes.' It is then sucked into the apparatus by a small electric fan and, after being heated to between 70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit, is driven over the 12 trays of medicaments and out into the room. The patient breathes this mixture of air and whatever it can pick up, beginning with 3 hours a day and going on to 16 hours a day. It is alleged that by this method of treatment asthma is brought under control, recovery occurs in hopeless cases of tuberculosis, and patients with sinus trouble are freed of their disturbances."
The Journal further points out that the method is "secret in character, fantastic in its administration, unsupported by any scientific evidence, promoted by a chemist and financiers whose records are far from clear, and supported by letters of politicians, military officers and aristocrats."
Asthma powders and asthma cigarettes are also widely advertised. Almost all of them contain the drug stramonium, plus some more or less inert ingredients. Inhalation of stramonium leaves does relieve paroxysms of asthma in many people. However, some people are sensitive to other ingredients of stramonium cigarettes and may suffer from more severe attacks than before.
Asthma remedies in the form of capsules, tablets and liquids usually contain ephedrine, iodides, or both. Those containing iodine or iodides can cause harm to those suffering from tuberculosis or having skin eruptions.
Numerous air filters have also been devised for the relief of asthma and hay fever. The apparatus is usually expensive and gives relief only when the patient is in the air-filtered room. Filters are useful under certain circumstances, but they should never be made a substitute for planned, comprehensive investigation and treatment. The following air filters have been approved by the Council on Physical Therapy of the American Medical Association: Arnett Air Filter, Arnett Air Filter Co., Chicago, Ill.; Electrostatic Air Cleaner, Atmospheric Electric Filter Corp., New York City; Pollenex Air Filter, George W. Pollock Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
"Nasal filters," such as "Dr. Weaver's," which are inserted into the nose, not only cannot effectively filter out offending dust, pollen or other substances but are likely to cause irritation of the nasal passages. The futility of using such gadgets is apparent when it is realized that pollens, dust and other substances can enter the body through the mouth and eyes as well as the nose.
Hay Fever
A popular remedy for hay fever in some sections of the country is honey. There is, however, no evidence that honey will favorably influence attacks of hay fever or asthma. As a matter of fact, many hay-fever sufferers cannot tolerate honey because it frequently contains a great variety of pollens.
The hay-fever patient will. get the surest relief if he is able to obtain a course .of injections employing the pollens to which he is sensitive. The pollens that are responsible for most attacks of hay fever are those of the ragweed, and various trees and grasses. Contrary to popular, belief, the rose, dandelion and goldenrod are rarely responsible for attacks of hay fever.
Eye-drops and nose-drops or sprays for the relief of hay fever usually contain epinephrine or ephedrine. If the hay-fever patient has been unable to obtain injections, or if the injections have not been successful (as occasionally happens), doctors prescribe solutions of epinephrine with perhaps a small amount of cocaine, for the relief of the intense congestion of the nose and eyes.
Next to epinephrine in effectiveness are isotonic salt solutions of ephedrine (1%), neo-synephrin (1 %) and propadrine 1%. One drop in each eye and three or four drops in each nasal cavity may have a relieving effect.
A Benzedrine inhaler is sometimes helpful, although not as useful as epinephrine solution. If used, directions on the tube should be scrupulously followed. Chlorine inhalations should be avoided. They do not relieve hay fever or asthma and are likely to increase the congestion of the nose and eyes.


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The 1983-built oil product tanker Guraab has been refloated after it ran aground on a reef at Lhaviyani Felivaru, Maldives, according to media reports.
The vessel was on its way to Male' from Milandhoo when it ran into trouble, Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) was cited as saying.
Guraab, which was carrying petrol, ran aground in the early morning hours on October 16, local time. The vessel was refloated in the evening hours the same day.
World Maritime News contacted MNDF for more details on the matter, however, they are yet to reply.
At the time of the incident, the vessel was crewed by 12 seafarers. There were no reports of injuries to the crew or water pollution following the grounding.
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Are you currently preparing your trip to the United States and, with this aim, you have submitted (or are about to) your application for ESTA authorisation? To be sure you are permitted to enter the USA you want to know if you should print this authorisation or not. Here you can find out as we will respond to this question by explaining the reasons why you may, or may not, print this official document.Apply for ESTA
Firstly, we recommend that you take a few minutes to remember how this ESTA travel authorisation system works. As indicated by its name, the ESTA procedure is an Electronic System of Travel Authorisation which therefore does not resemble the classic Visa paper document.
But the ESTA is only valid for a certain category of visitors that need to fulfil certain fixed conditions. Only the residents of one of the 22 ESTA system member countries, including the United Kingdom, can access this simplified travel authorisation procedure. It is also necessary that your visit to the USA should not exceed 90 days and you do not plan to work there. Finally, all visitors that wish to benefit from this ESTA Visa Waiver programme should hold an electronic or biometric passport which is valid for the entirety of the planned visit. We will explain more about why later on.
This basic information is important to understand why it is not necessary for you to print your ESTA.
The response to this first question is simple: In fact, it is definitely not compulsory to print any document to enter the United States. We will explain why.
Firstly, you should understand that the ESTA authorisation functions as an electronic system and therefore 100% online. This procedure has been voluntarily simplified by the American authorities to avoid processing paper applications. Once you have completed the ESTA authorisation application questionnaire on our website, this request will be sent electronically to the American authorities responsible for its validation. These immigration services then decide whether to authorise or refuse your entry and this decision is immediately registered electronically in their database.
To put it simply, your ESTA authorisation is associated with your passport number and therefore immediately recognised as soon as you present the latter on your check in for your trip and at the time of crossing the border.
It is therefore pointless to print your ESTA with the objective of presenting it on your arrival in the United States. On the other hand, no official document will be sent to you. You will simply receive an email indicating that you have obtained (or not) this travel authorisation.
As we have just seen, it is absolutely not essential to print your ESTA authorisation to travel to the USA. However, we do still advise you to print your confirmation email you received, for the logical reason that we will explain here.
On the email that you receive is your reference number. This reference number is highly important as it can prove useful later on. In fact, an ESTA authorisation is valid for a period of two years and for all trips to the USA that you may complete during this period. However, to reuse your ESTA you will need to ensure that all information entered in your file continues to be correct. If you change your passport, your address or your situation then you should simply modify your file to renew the right to travel to American territory. In this case you will simply need to visit the website where you originally submitted your application and connect to your file using the reference number you were given. This procedure is the same if you made a mistake during the completion of your application form.
It is therefore judicious to carefully keep this email and your reference number. Ensure you keep it in a safe place after printing it.
Even if you have printed your ESTA authorisation you may have lost it over time and cannot lay your hands on it although you have planned a new visit to the United States. In this case several solutions are open to you.
Firstly, you should know that if you cannot find your ESTA this doesn't necessarily mean that you cannot visit the USA. In fact, as your authorisation is electronically linked to your electronic or biometric passport, as we have explained above, it is therefore not necessary for you to present any other document during your travel apart from this passport.
However, you will need to access your online ESTA document if you have changed your passport since your initial application or your personal information has changed. And to do so you will need your file reference number.
If you do not possess your file number then you will have to complete the form again repeating the entire procedure from the start. Of course, this also means paying the entirety of the fees for the transfer and processing of your application that will be re-examined by American immigration authorities. However it is important to know that even if you do have your file number and proceed with the necessary modifications you will still be required to pay the fees again as your application will be subject to a new complete examination by the authorities responsible for immigration.
It is therefore not a serious problem if you no longer have your ESTA as you can easily complete a new application. This new authorisation will replace the first and will again be valid for a new two year period valid for all visits to the United States that you wish to make during this period.


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PEARL –The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has received reports of two weather related traffic deaths as a result of the ongoing winter weather event.
"Deborah and I extend our thoughts and prayers to the families of those who lost their lives during this winter storm," said Gov. Phil Bryant. "I urge Mississippians to stay aware of changing weather conditions and to stay off of roadways in impacted areas if possible."
The National Weather Service is warning of several risks around the state today through Wednesday:
- North Mississippi: anywhere from one to four inches of snow.
- Mississippi Delta counties: anywhere from one quarter to one inch of ice accumulation and one to two inches of snow.
- Central and East Mississippi: wintry mix of rain and freezing rain.
- South Mississippi: one to three inches of rain. Flood Warnings have been issued along the Pearl and Chickasawhay rivers.
If you lose power in your home, contact your county emergency management agency to find out where shelters are set up in your community. For a full list of county emergency managers, go to https://www.msema.org/local-ema/.
For up-to-date roadway information, go to www.mdottraffic.com or dial 5-1-1.
It is imperative for citizens to stay aware of weather in your area, as conditions change. Monitor your local media outlets or your NWS Office.
The State Emergency Operations Center is activated with state and partnering agencies to respond to county requests for assistance.
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Monday, 27 October 2008
Happy Birthday Benjamin
My youngest turned 3 today... how amazing is that? I thought I would show you the card I made for him. Ok, so maybe he doesn't appreciate the intricacies of card-making at this point in his life (and let's face it, he's male - so he will probably never get it. I know that's a generalization, and my apologies to all you male card-makers - I know there are a few of you out there!). But all that aside... didnt this card come up cute? I have always loved this set, but have never actually owned it, so I borrowed it from my beautiful friend and fellow demonstrator Alex last week knowing that Ben's birthday was coming up. He had a lovely day... we had spider cupcakes (as you do) and he got to pick his favourite meal tonight (Tacos). Last night we went out for a birthday dinner with Nanna and Poppy (visiting from Port Macquarie). He received some lovely gifts and told everyone who would listen that he is now 3 (with 3 fingers extended). I just cant believe that he is 3 - he is still my baby boy.
Well that's it. All our family birthdays done for another year.
Next is... Christmas. Aaaaargh - I need to really get stuck into my Christmas card-making if Im going to make it!
Dont forget that if you need to stock up on any Christmas cardstock, ribbons, patterned paper, inks, stamps - or anything else that you need for your cards, you can get them all right here... click here to see a catalogue, or contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com or ring me on 0412 375 552
Happy papercrafting!
Pink for a Reason
For anyone out there who has been hiding under a rock, this past month has been looking a bit on the pink side. And for a good reason... October is the month that we set aside to raise awareness of Cancer in our society, and in particular breast cancer. And of course to raise money to assist with the research on the disease. Today, October 27, is offically "Pink Ribbon Day". One of the local radio stations was today broadcasting from the Brian McGowan Bridge here in Gosford NSW, and they called for Central Coast women to donate their old bras to then be strung up along the bridge. They ended up with enough bras to reach right across the bridge - so anyone driving along the Central Coast Highway this morning would have noticed hundreds of bras lining their way! What a fantastic effort raising awareness for such a great cause!
Of course many of you would have been aware that I have also been raising money this month for the Cancer Council, and I am really happy with the total. I wanted to raise $200, and I am happy to say that we made it! Thank you everyone for your kind donations! I haven't closed it off yet though, so if you still want to donate, I am keeping it open until the end of the month. The easiest way to donate is to follow this link:
and fill in the online form. Or of course you can contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com and we can work out another way to do it - cash or bank deposit both work well.
And finally I wanted to post the progress of my own Mum, who was diagnosed with Non-Hodgekins Lymphoma at the end of last year. Many of you knew that she was originally given 6-12 months to live, that was if she didnt have Chemotherapy. But she did decide to have the Chemo earlier this year, and it was pretty terrible - it really knocked her around. This month she had her first scan since the chemo and has now been officially declared in "Remission". It has been such a relief for everyone! So that is my very happy news to tell you all - so many people have asked me how she is going, and so it's great to be able to share some good news with you.
So I am keeping with the large number of pink projects that I've been posting lately. Here's another one for you!
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Even More Pink
Some of you might remember that I did those cute coathangers and babysuit cards for my friend Margy's baby shower a couple of weeks ago (scroll down to see them). Well we only just made it in the nick of time because only 3 days after the baby shower Margy and Wayne welcomed little Lilli Claire to the world. I guess she will be needing all those coathangers (the guests at her baby shower made one each for her - 15 altogether) a little earlier than we thought!
Here's the card I made for her, using the All in The Family stamp set and Berry Bliss paper. Very simple, but I thought it was pretty cute. Hope you do too.
Linda H
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Monday, 13 October 2008
Getting Ready for Christmas
I know, I know, none of us want to think about Christmas just yet. Truth is though, it's only a couple of months down the track, and if you have grand plans to make your own Christmas cards, then now is the time to get started (if you havent already). It certainly saves that last-minute panic!
I have lots of Christmas card ideas for you. You'll find some of them right here on my blog - like this one at the top of this post. But if you have trouble finding the time to do Christmas cards, then I would suggest that you block out an evening or day to get started. Or get together with some friends as a social occasion - and make it a card-making night. Or, come to one of my Christmas Stamp-A-Stacks - it means that you are setting aside a night to just concentrate on Chrissy cards. We make 6 cards (3 each of 2 designs) and that's a great way to get going. I will be offering several of these nights in the next few weeks, so here's a few dates to get you started:
Monday 20th October 7.30p0m
Monday 3rd November 7.30pm
Tuesday 11th November 7.30pm
There are other events and classes coming up, so please check my right-hand side bar to see them (You'll need to click into the actual blog if you are reading this information via my email updates)
To book into a class, just email me at email@example.com
Hope to see you at one of my classes soon!
Linda H
Friday, 10 October 2008
Birthday Specials
Thought you might like to see a card that I came up with today using one of the special promotion sets this month. It's the Pretty Princess stamp set, and I've made quite a few cards with it lately. (My daughter also turned 6 this month - guess which stamp set I used ;-)
Anyways I was having a play with my Markers and an aquapainter this morning - doesn't she come up beautifully when she is watercoloured? And that's just white gel pen used in the flower centres on the Background - it made all the difference to the card.
Normally this set of 7 stamps is $45.95, but this month only you'll be able to get it for $36.76 when you make any $20 purchase. That's 20% off! And it's not the only set on offer. To see what other sets are available click here. Or email me at email@example.com for a copy of the colour flyer.
Hope you like the card. It was really fun to make.
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
World Card Making Day tomorrow 8th October - Come and support the Cancer Council
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday 8th October, is the day that I would love you to come to my World Card Making day event. I am using it to raise money for the Cancer Council. You've heard of the "Girls Night In" program that the Cancer Council runs each October... well I thought why not have a "Girl's Day In" and do what we love the most - make stuff! So I have cut up several different card designs for you guys to stamp and assemble (you can see some of the finished cards up above), and I am hoping that you will come along and enjoy some company and stamping with me. I will be asking for donations for the Cancer council - although I have suggested $10, you can make this amount any that suits you to make.
My aim is to raise at least $200. I have started the ball rolling by donating online myself at:
Its so easy to do online, and you are welcome to do it this way too. A receipt will be issued to you by email straightaway for tax purposes. Otherwise, bring a little cash with you tomorrow and I will be happy to organize a receipt for you. All donations are tax deductable. If you are unable to attend, but would like to donate, then the online donation page is the way to do it.
In case anyone is interested to know why I am supporting this cause you may not know that my Mum has Non-hodgkins Lymphoma which was diagnosed just before Christmas last year. So it's a cause close to my heart.
We will kick off at 10.30am tomorrow. I will have refreshments provided, but feel free to bring a plate if you feel so inclined. Email me at email@example.com if you would like my home address details - I'm on the NSW Central Coast. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
PS The two cards on the left in the picture above are based on the designs in the Simply Sent kit "Sending Happy Thoughts", whilst the blue one on the right features the "Short and Sweet" stamp set. It was inspired by a card I spotted on Jayne Mercer's blog - thank you Jayne for the inspiration. All these products are currently on special to celebrate either World Card Making Day, or SU!'s 20 year anniversary. Remember that I will be donating 10% of any sales from tomorrow's event to the Cancer Council too. And at 20% off these are really good value for you too. Enjoy!
Saturday, 4 October 2008
It's our Birthday...
.... and we're throwing a party! From 1st - 31st October Stampin'Up are celebrating 20 years in business by offering a 20% off special on selected celebration sets. To see that sets that are on offer click here. To take advantage of the special you only need to spend $20. (And we all know how hard that is to do! ;-)
I am lucky enough to own a couple of these sets so I will be using them extensively during the month of October at my workshops.
Also I should tell you that during October my husband is travelling quite a lot for his job, so I haven't been able to schedule many night classes this month. I do have a couple of day events coming up though - see over on the right-hand side bar to see what is on.
The next thing coming up is this Wednesday - Come and make a card to raise money for the Cancer Council. It will run at my house between 10.30am and 2.30pm and you can make a card, and have a cuppa. I will asking people who come to donate $10 to the Cancer Council. And I will be donating 10% of any sales made on the day. There will also be discounts on selected products. Email me at email@example.com if you would like my address.
If you cant make it but would still like to donate please go to my Cancer Council website :
Thank you so much for your support. It's so great to be able to contribute something for this great cause.
In the meantime enjoy this little Card holder that I put together. It's based on the template of the one that we made recently at our Regional Training Day. Cute isnt it?
Hope to see some of you on Wednesday.
Linda H
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Kendrick Lamar, who is reportedly working on a follow-up to his debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d. city, has worked on several songs with Flying Lotus, according to FlyLo.
"We've been working on stuff together," Flying Lotus says in an interview with Pitchfork. "I went on tour and he recorded to a bunch of my songs. I don't know if he's gonna use them or not, but he recorded a bunch of stuff, which is why there's no Captain Murphy album out yet. He took all my beats."
Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus toured together on the Yeezus tour run with Kanye West.
In October 2013, FlyLo announced this with the following Twitter post.
Been helpin out w the new @kendricklamar show for the yeezus tour. It's gonna b so amazing.
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Kendrick Lamar's new album is believed to be set for a 2014 release. The emcee has said he feels no pressure going into this sophomore album following the success of his debut effort, good kid, m.A.A.d. city.
Lamar has also said he is not focused on good kid while making his new project.
"I really can't focus on the past and what was said then," he said earlier this year. "You're only as good as your last piece of work, so now it's about what's right now and me putting that same 110 percent that I did with the last one."
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Better adjusted but with cutting wit intact, Lisa Lampanelli returns to Foxwoods Feb. 23
Fun facts about Lisa Lampanelli, "Comedy's Lovable Queen of Mean," who will return to Foxwoods Friday, Feb. 23:
Three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Polish, she lives in Fairfield and the Upper East Side of New York. She has several stand-up comedy dates this month and next, but was out of regular comedy for about six months working on her own play, "Stuffed: A Big-Boned, Skinny-Ass, All-You-Can-Laugh New Play."
In her racy insult comedy, she's ruthless, profane, quick and (if you're not mortally offended) very funny. She's been a regular on the cable TV roast circuit.
Originally from Trumbull, where her mother still lives, she started adult life as a reporter in Fairfield County — copy editing and writing for Rolling Stone and Spy magazines.
After gastric sleeve surgery, losing more than 100 pounds, a divorce and dealing successfully with anger and sadness issues, Lampanelli comes off as honest, thoughtful and even endearing in conversation.
"I work as little as possible. I try to do maybe three or four days a month," she said in a recent phone chat. "Cuz, I'm 56, I don't really have that many career things that take priority anymore. It's become, in the past five years, a big shift about family, friends, service. So I'd rather just have sort of a home life instead of running around the country."
That perspective took hold years ago when a student doing a master's thesis asked Lampanelli for her 10 greatest accomplishments, which Lampanelli told her. "And she goes to me, 'Did you notice that none of those (answers) had to do with the business?' Like every single thing was about friends, family or service.' "
Lampanelli said comedy can be looked at as a service, and she still likes doing it. "It can get people out of their own heads, distract them for a few hours. But if it didn't do that, I don't think I'd have the stomach for it anymore."
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As with the late-great Don Rickles, people seldom take real offense to the nasty barbs of Lampanelli, even when they're hurled directly at them.
"I think if there's truly no malice behind it, people sense that," Lampanelli said. "But if there's people out there who maybe would do this (comedy) and do have an ax to grind with some ethnic groups or some people, then people aren't into it."
Asked if her act has changed any, Lampanelli said she still does a lot of insult humor, but also likes to tell stories that people can identify with.
"If I'm more open about my life, and about my divorce and my weight-loss journey, and make fun of myself about those, but I'm still being real ... it's funny and people go, 'Oh, my God, me too!' ... And who hasn't gone through some crappy addiction or ... weight problem, something that's really difficult. And to do it with a smile makes people think their life ain't so bad either."
Despite talk of slowing down, Lampanelli has, since we last spoke with her several years ago, done an autobiography, blog, a fifth stand-up TV special and podcasts, not to mention starring on a season of "Celebrity Apprentice" with the future president of these United States. She remembers when Donald Trump first talked about running and said everyone took it as a huge joke.
"It's like the kid who says, 'I want a pony for Christmas, daddy.' You're never gonna get the pony. And we got the pony."
Lampanelli said she enjoyed working with Trump on the show, although "he didn't have much to do with that show. ... He was always very nice and respectful to me because I was an older woman. I wasn't someone he was going to grab by the you-know-what."
She tells a story on stage about how Trump would always compliment the women on the show, and she was feeling left out until one day "when he says, 'Lisa?' And I thought, ooh, it's my turn. And he says, 'Doesn't Teresa look good today?'"
At Foxwoods, she plans to roll out her Trump-roast jokes, which she said aren't partisan, and "anything else that's been bugging me in the past few months, which is a lot because I'm human and I have a real big mouth and I like to talk about things."
Balancing her cutting insults to gays in the audience, Lampanelli is a big supporter of LGBTQ causes, saying she never really fit in with any group. "I think the reason I'm drawn to people, whether it's minority people or LGBT, (is) it almost seems like it's an island of misfit toys. A bunch of people who ... are just trying to get through life."
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The journeying process of grief and the monumental shift that can take place when one endures extreme loss is a singular experience. No one quite grieves the same. A dedication of sorts to that long walk through grief and recovery and the senseless, tragic nature of suicide and those loved left in the wake and rubble when one reaches the point where they see no other option than to end their life. Indie rock band Sorority Noise grapples with emotional ugliness that can ensue following such a death with their newest album "You're Not as ____ As You Think" an ode to the permanence of death and the insidious nature of depression and drug addiction.
Having lost two close friends, one to suicide and one to a heroin overdose, lead singer Cameron Boucher lends a real sense of raw gravitas to the songs, wailing and wringing emotional release out of every word of every song. This is an album where the lyricism showcases a writer going through the stages of grief and loudly and messily as one does in real life, using art as a key to catharsis without ever finding the neat ending one might find in a story more conventionally told. Death impacts us all, and Sorority Noise's latest doesn't compromise that fact, instead completely dedicating itself to the idea that this experience they've gone through is both independent to them while also speaking to the universal elements.
The most definitive song on the album is the single "No Halo" which plays with the hearty and rhythmic notes of their prior albums, all gusto punk-rock and powerful choruses that juxtapose with lyrics that hint at the pain lying beneath the surface.
I slept 8 hours total, I barely sleep/Maybe that's why I've been weak/The same things that plague you still plaguing me
Boucher has spoken about the anxiety and depression he experienced following his friends untimely deaths and in "No Halo" he deals with the random nature of depression, how he is feeling the similar emotions of deep sadness and aimlessness, feeling adrift in the world as he's even unable to attend his friends funeral. These themes are carried over to "Disappeared" the other single on the album. In it Boucher sings:
I let my hair down today/And I took a shower for the first time in what felt like weeks/I felt my hair falling out/And I felt myself falling down
The potent sense of anxiety is felt throughout and perhaps that influence has some of the most stirring lyrics in the album where Boucher's experiences are most tangibly felt. In "A Portrait Of" he sings:
I was thinking 'bout how great it would be if I could make the tightness in my chest go away.
Anyone who has ever dealt with anxiety understands that dreaded, lurking clamp around your chest that happens with any trigger, any misplaced thought or extreme circumstance and with a single line Boucher manages to capture it. Further in the number which is as poignant as anything on the album but nearly masked by the levity of the instruments he sings about dealing with depression, about dealing with all of the emotions and desperation that lead his friend to suicide. It builds and builds to a last chorus where he screams about how hard it is some days to "fucking stand" but he keeps going because he's living as a "continuation" of those who fell victim to the fight.
Drop that phone drink a glass of water/And call me when you get in your bed/I've seen inside your head/And I'm doing the surgery on the parts/That still wish you were dead
The album deals with all forms of loss, be it in the camaraderie of a friend or the stability of youth and the loss of innocence but also in the notion of the loss of faith and how such senseless deaths can take that away from even the most devout. The song "Second Letter from St. Julien" deals with this head on with lyrics "You says there's a God, you say you've got proof/ well I've lost friends to heroin so what's your God trying to prove". Beyond the poetic nature of the line the musicality of the song casts a clear distinction between the bands typical, raucous sounds and the self-meditative mood the album strikes, Add to that the rhythmically stark build up to the chorus where the vocals stay flat where you'd believe they'd swell and it's one of the albums most intriguing numbers separated from the lyrics.
Refusing to sacrifice their sound for anything exploitative conceptual, the album bleeds in its conscious objective to see both the side of the victim of depression and those left behind. In "Where Are You?", objectively the most uplifting and optimistic song on the album, there's jaunty and energetic beat that pushes the song forward with lyrics such as "I've got friends who've died/But everything's gonna be alright/They'll be with me by my side every night" that play after "And it gets pretty cold when at twenty-three years old/ You've been running from death your whole life". One verse is dealing with moving forward after loss and carrying the dead with you through better or worse while the latter deals with idea of how depression can be a lifelong disease.
There are no moments of rejoicing on the album, instead it's a relentless endurance test to anyone who has dealt with the trauma of loss, especially at the hands of depression or the insidious nature of drug addiction. It's also not an album that sinks into you on your first listen. Rather, it takes its time, slowly creeping up on you until the words float past the surface level of your psyche and into those moments where you've felt that anxiety, that level of unrest and overwhelming sense of inescapable loss. It's the most mature album that band has ever done and some of it is due to what they dealt with, the pain and the fallout and all. Smartly they never glorify it, rather leaving the album open ended. One album isn't going to solve everything but rather allow a catharsis of sorts where listeners alike can listen in and join the chorus of those we've lost, those who've survived and those who commit to spend their days continuing their lives as a need to reckon with the ones who took their own, living the days that were left behind by others.


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- Appr. Date: 15th c. (15th c.)
- Genres: Medical or scientific
- Illustrations: Yes
In double columns.
Compendium in multiple hands. Mostly medical treatises, with some works on pseudo-sciences. See entry at Pinakes (in online resources) for contents and (at the bottom of their entry) bibliography.
Folios are numbered by hand at on the upper corner and with a stamp on the lower one. The folio after 181 was accidentally also given the number 181 by hand, but the stamp-numeration continues on (correctly) at 182. Here we follow the latter.
Fol. 1 greatly damaged on outer columns.
14v Whole-page table of symbols reminiscent of Linear B, labeled with words (ex. gr. μύλα [i.e. μῆλα], ὕδωρ, κλπ.), perhaps as a key to the abbreviations found later in the book.
Fols. 17-26 are a metabyzantine insertion, most containing a dozen cameo portraits of famous physicians and philosophers (including among others Proclus, someone named Leo Hippocentaurus, Apollo (the god?) with a sort of cockscomb hat, several women, and of course Hippocrates & Galen).
41v The page is taken up by the outlines of three standing, human figures. From film BOL.1.2 they seem possibly to have been rubbed out, but more probably never to have been finished.
42r The lower left-hand corner has a small figure, reminiscent of pre-Columbian Mexican art, who appears to be striking a cranioid piñata, vel sim.
51r The upper half of the page is taken up by the figure of a person named ὁ Πίνσος handing a vessel of urine to Theophilus (Protospatharius). Below them are twenty-one containers, labeled by color, incl. λευκόν, ξανθόν, ἐρυθρόν, γαλακτο[ει]δές, γλαυκόν, χαρωπόν, κύανον, &c. For Theophilus, cf. WEST.FLO.2.2 and 2.3.
52v The upper part of the page, a little over a third, has another two figures exchanging a cup. The one standing is clean-shaven and unlabeled. The seated man, with pointy shoes and an impressive forkbeard, has a name beyond our abilities (perhaps with elements from the words διδάσκαλος or διάστημα?).
68v Two bearded figures, Dioscorides seated, a man named Ares standing; between them what appear to be herbs. Symbols (a recipe?) below the image. There follow four pages of a long list of plants, incl. αἰγύλωψ, νάρθηξ, κρόκος, κλπ, κλπ. A small child seems to have taken a pen to the ms., but not affected the text.
90v Two seated, bearded figures, Παῦλος Αἰγινίτης [7th cent.] and Μενεμάχος.
91v A long list of stones.
97v Two seated, bearded figures in discussion, each holding a parchment vel sim., with similar documents on a stand between them, Ὀρειβάσιος & Φίλιππος.
101v A number of lines partly stricken through, but mostly still legible despite such editing.
102r-123r Many pictures of animals scattered throughout the text and taking a fair amount of space, incl. a horse, dog, seal, bear, lion, frogs («βάτραχυ», accent sic), ants, various fowl (incl. a griffin on 109r), fishes (including a swordfish, 112r), all manner of creeping things, serpents, some beast with an upset stomach (115v), a cat (117r), a distinctly unthreatening crocodile («κορκόδυλος») & alia plura.
108r Along with the pictures of fowl, one at the top of the page of two seated, bearded figures, the more prominent labeled «ἁπόκρατίου» [sic] and the other «ομην[?]».
125v Two figures resembling those on 97v, labeled Ποσειδώνιος and Ξενοκράτης.
132r A group portrait of Julian the Apostate and his Arrian friend Aëtius, with the lesser figures of Hermophilus, Magistrian and Basus.
134r At the end of the work several lines of appreviations and symbols, and three largeish concentric circles around a pentagram.
134v A portrait, taking the whole page, of a physician named Isaac, flanked by an explanation for hair-growth, «ἰστέον ὅτι ἡ γέν[νησις] τῶν τριχῶν γίνεται ἀπὸ τῶν χ[ο]λωδῶν καὶ παχέων ἀναυθμιάσεων.»
154v Two figures, the more prominent bearded and seated, named Δέσμ[ιος?] and the lesser, standing and clean-shaven, Φαυστῖνος.
167r A seated figure (cujus nomen nos eludit) exchanging a cup with the monk Clement.
172v Aëtius sits, with writing upon a stand, before four or five women, whose caption seems to read «γυναῖκες».
183r Philotimus, seated, sees an ἀσθενής, with something coming from the latter's mouth.
188v A bearded man sits before a woman and two children, one with her hand on his knee and the other holding a chalice. The woman hands him, or takes from him, a rectangular item. Between him and them is a snake, whose chin he has his hand under.
205v A (woman?) titled ὑπόλοφος hands an object to a bearded man, whose name we can't make out.
209v/210r Charts for alchemy or astrology or other pseudo-science and an image of Philo Judæus at a table with strange objects. A list follows.
214r Magnus Sophista, a second character, (a Cappadocian?) and Cyrus. A potion or some such thing is involved.
218r A large figure of Octarius and a smaller of (Γείλινος?).
255v Serapion and Praxagoras; between them a youth with mortar and pestle.
260r Two figures, a large, bearded Erasistratus and a shorter, clean-shaven Ἀλεξανδρεύς.
268r-272v Astronomical charts and figures.
286r Leo Sapientissimus, seated with writing before him. Several pages following have oracles or such, half a dozen per page.
297r Large image of seated figure, «ὁ Πέρσος [οὕτω] Ἄραψ, ὁ Ζανατὴς ὁ ἀλ[χ]ημιστής».
312r A human anatomy, his various parts assigned astrological symbols vel simm. His membrum virile is labeled, whether in earnest or in jest, ψῶλος.
315r Eudoxius the Egyptian astrologer holds a long scroll and speaks to three smaller men. Several pages follow of explanations of signs.
321v Another anatomy, given similar signs.
335r Large image of concentric circles, apparently a (heliocentric?) cosmos.
337v/338r Pictures, the first perhaps of an orchard.
341v The astronomer Hercules and a disciple.
345r An image of alchemical or mystical appearance of two figures on a path.
346r A master and disciple.
346v-349r Various figures seeking φώτισις.
350r Text crossed through, as in disapprobation, but quite legible.
350v An astrologer and his victim.
351v A lecanomancer or hydromancer, and his.
354r Man with towel and smiley face. Other semi-marginal pictures follow, including another smiley face (355v) and a charming deer (356r).
358r A mermaid on the sea, or lizard-woman on land (difficult to tell from microfilm) at a table, perhaps wearing phylacteries against the evil eye. Below are women's names (Μαρία, Εἰρήνη, Χριστίνα, Κατερίνα κλπ.).
361sqq. Charts, &c.
378r-379r Dioscorides, a dog, the mandrake, Wisdom, &c. On 378v sit Magnanimity, Wisdom and Prudence, with a baby centaur at their feet. On the following page, the poor dog has died («κύων ἀνασπᾷ τὴν [sic] μανδραγόραν, ἔπειτα ἀποθνῄσκων»). Many pages follow of mostly or exclusively images, mostly of plants (incl. the mandrake again on 403v); quite beautiful.
418r-419v Various figures, including "Chiron the Hypocentaur" (presumably the Hippocentaur) and the angel Gabriel.
420r-435v Full-page illustrations of various torturous medical treatments.
420v Apparently the Wheel of Fortune.
436v-442v Testamentum Salomonis: Περὶ βοτάνων τῶν ιβ' ζῳδίων Ἑρμοῦ τοῦ Τρισμεγίστου καὶ περὶ βοτάνων τῶν ζ' πλανητῶν. (Cf. also Parisinus gr. 2256, fol. 580 (P. Boudreaux, Codices Parisini [Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum 8.3. Brussels: Lamertin, 1912]: 153-165)).
436r Full-page drawing of the Labyrinth, apparently built by the allwise Solomon.
438r Bottom half taken up by 13 symbols: the first, an odd triangle/square mixture; 2-10 and 12, round medallions with various figures, some incorporating the chi-rho or something similar; 11 and 13 have writing and other symbols, the first perhaps «ι η ? ν ζ ? χ ? ς υ ν ρ? ηνγου ? ΧΧΧΧ?» and the second «αὐταὶ αἱ [?] ιβ' σφραγῖδες εἰσέδοκεν ὁ ἄνγγελος [sic] τῶν λωμ^τα, ἐξ οὗ [ἥλιος?] ἀστ[έλη?] τὸ χ[άρισμα?] [καὶ?] τὴν χαρ[ιν?] [ὅτι?] καὶ ιου [=Ἰησοῦ?] λ[η?]θ [???]».
443v Two large medallions, the right one empty, the left one with designs (stylized letters?), making it resemble a Picasso portrait in profile.
444v Sapientes vel similes.


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Friday, February 24, 2012
Quran burning--Alma 14:8
I don't know if you've heard about the furor in Afghanistan over copies of the Quran which were burned at a U.S. military base.
The whole situation is very sad, and I think the primary lessons are that populations living under persistently vulnerable conditions are unusually prone to conspiracy-theory thinking and to letting their frustration erupt into counter-productive violence.
But I think it also provides an opportunity to talk about different ways people think about what's sacred.
For most American Mormons, a copy of the Bible or Book of Mormon should be treated with more respect than an ordinary book, but is hardly sacred as a physical object. When my grandparents were serving in India in the mid-'90s, though, my grandma would often remind the Elders that it's a bit shocking to local members to see missionaries just drop their scriptures down under a chair or something. Why? Because in Indian culture, numerous traditions reinforce the idea that you should care for a sacred book.
I wonder whether we're more casual because American culture developed after the advent of print. Whereas in the formative days of Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism, physically writing a book was a huge effort and a show of great craftsmanship. And relatively few people could afford to have a handwritten copy of a book, which made it even more special.
When I think about the sacred, I think about the temple. But before print, a physical book was probably viewed a little bit more like a temple in the sense of being the product of detailed work for God. And how would we feel if foreign soldiers raided our temples for suspicious items and burned them with the trash?
I don't think the soldiers who burned the books meant to be disrespectful. It sounds like they were genuinely concerned about whether handwritten annotations in the books were promoting violence. But I think I can see why, for people who are already upset and frustrated, the willful destruction of a holy book would feel like such a violation.
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As a Book-of-Mormon-dropping-Mormon (i.e., my copy is sitting on the floor next to the sofa right this minute) and knowing that I could round up $50 to buy another quad if something were to happen to this one, I would still take this gesture of "the willful burning of a HOLY book" burning FAR more seriously than you seem to.ReplyDelete
I have a friend who is Muslim, and she explained that the Qur'an should never be placed below the heart. She also said that if you write the name of God on a slip of paper, you must keep the paper.ReplyDelete
These seem to be in line with what you are saying about the importance of the written word, especially holy texts. I feel that you do take this issue seriously. However, it's more important that we take human life more seriously than the burning of any book.


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I pointed out back in September that the common thread in your series of bad jobs is – probably – you. I certainly have had my share of troubles with my current client. I spent a lot of time wishing they would just tell me to hit the road. Call it the Law of Attraction (be careful what you wish for) or just call it part of the overall economic woes, but my client decided to start jettisoning consultants at the end of November. I am one of the consultants. Since I completed all of the work they asked me to do over a month ago, this is not much of a surprise to me.
Too often I think people stuck in bad jobs wait for something like this to happen. They secretly wait for a layoff or something really bad to occur in order to feel justified in quitting. As a consultant, I didn't want to irritate a client with some significant contacts in the surprisingly small world of the Manhattan financial service industry. Yet at the same time I have been hoping, with great intensity, that I would have an excuse to leave. Now I have it.
I know most people in times like these feel a great deal of anxiety and cling to their jobs (and they should, to a degree). A measure of how much I hated my current client – and to a lesser degree, all of my clients in my semi-crooked industry – is that I did not feel one second of anxiety, or remorse, or worry when I heard my contract would be up. I felt nothing but joy. I cheered. My fellow consultants thought I was nuts.
That was last Friday. Now I'm starting to do my usual between-clients fretting: making sure the finances are in order (they are), making sure I have some leads out on new clients (I do) and preparing to alter my routine as I do every six months or so. Every time I have new work ready to go within days; I haven't gone more than two weeks without working (except by choice).
I am asked all the time by employees of my clients whether I feel exposed or unstable in my position, and I realize more and more with each contracts' completion that I don't. I am more confident each time that clients are easy to come by, and the REAL challenge – the one that I should be scared of – is not finding the next client but having the guts and the determination NOT to find another client.
Anyone who is working in a job where they have tension so great that they yell in delight when laid off from that job is probably not working in the right job for them. I may be regretting that joy if I struggle finding new work, but I suspect that if I took another stab at problogging I might do even better. Knowing it was my only source of income for a while would give me the incentive to work out the logistics. Maybe I'm crazy, but I keep thinking that maybe there's some truth to the idea that if you want something badly enough, events will conspire to put that thing in your lap. It certainly happened to me this time!
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World of Music is taking a little time off for the next week or so to enjoy summertime and ponder the big questions of life, like – exactly what does it mean for a pacifist, animal rights activist vegetarian to hang a 'Gone Fishing' sign on the door?
There will be no radio show this week on The Radiator, but we'll be back in bizness as usual next Monday the 23rd.
In the meantime please enjoy this beloved highlights reel from the …archives… nevermind.
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Of the three years I've been to Cambridge Folk Festival, the 52nd edition, from 27-31 July 2017, was the least euphoric for me (for lack of coming up with a better adjective for it). The weather was not great on most days and really sucked on Saturday night plus there wasn't really any act that I was dying to see live this time. On top of that, on the last festival night, I managed to pick a bus to the campsite with a driver how wasn't in the mood to do the roundabout thing, which I'd been looking forward to practically for a year. Having said all that, I still had a great time because of the fantastic new music I discovered, the always friendly vibe, the yummy food and last but most definitely not least the fun team I worked with (third year in a row).
Of the acts I did catch I was most impressed by a few of the bands I had not seen before like the excellent She Drew the Gun from Liverpool, Amythyst Kiah from Tennessee, the Indigo Girls with guest band member Lucy Wainwright, Juanita Stein, Worry Dolls, Moxie and Daoirí Farrell (both from Ireland), 2017 Grammy winner Fantastic Negrito (see second pic below), The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians, Blue Rose Code and Scottish band Admiral Fallow (see pic below), the last set of the festival for me and the perfect end to this year's event.
Acts I didn't care much for were Jake Bugg (really doesn't compare at all to, say, the Passenger performance in 2015, but still attracted lots of screaming selfie-taking teenagers) and, a bit unexpectedly, Shirley Collins, whose main stage performance was rather uninspiring and who seemed to favour sticking with just music from the past and dissing musicians creating new 'folk' music. Surely traditional music was also new at some point and it's exciting to witness the emergence of new folk songs, the best of which are bound to be classics one day while keeping the best of traditional folk music alive as well.
We also got some fantastic surprise sets at the Clapham's Common After Hours Stage (my favourite way to relax after a long festival day) with appearences by Jon Boden (yes, really!) and lots of other great performers until about 1.30am most nights. The campsite was still fairly quiet overall and I had a few good nights' sleep.
Instead of doing a run-down of my festival weekend I thought this time around I'll answer a few questions people tend to ask me about going to festivals. Here we go…
What is it like working at a festival?
I do a mix of attending festivals with a press pass, volunteering and, like at Cambridge, working as part of the festival team. Each of them have their advantages and disadvantages. With a press pass you tend to have easier access and can see any acts you want, but it can also be a bit boring as it takes more effort to interact with people if you're there by yourself. As a volunteer you have a ready-made group of pals you work and hang out with, which is great fun and a lot more sociable and you still get to see a lot of acts as you generally get given a festival pass. I try and volunteer only at festivals that ask for no more than 4 hours per day, as I think any longer shifts are basically work and should be paid accordingly. At Cambridge we do about 6-8 hours of paid work a day and as you're staff it comes with a bit more responsibility than simply being a volunteer. But it's so great to work with other people who are motivated and to make sure, together as a team, the audience is having a fun and is having a safe festival experience. As we are usually the first to notice if anything doesn't go according to plan (accidents, logistical issues, lost children, the lot), we really get to see how much work and coordination it takes to make such a large event happen and how good teamwork positively contributes to it.
Isn't camping sort of roughing it and not very enjoyable?
I first started festival camping in 2012 when I made the crucial mistake of buying a super light tent with only one skin. It makes me cringe thinking back to that summer when my little tent got flooded by rain and after a wet and uncomfortable night I headed into the nearest town desperate to buy a sturdier model. Since then I've had the best of times with my 'happy tent' (see pic below), a 3-man dome tent, which is just perfect for one person actually. It fits my self-inflatable sleeping mat and sleeping bag on one side and my handluggage-sized trolley and other bits and pieces on the other side. I only go to festivals with reasonable shower and toilet facilities, so do read the FAQs of the festival(s) you're planning to go to. I also always travel by public transport, so it's essential to keep everything to a minimum while still bringing enough change of clothes, wellies etc. to keep you comfy no matter what the weather gods throw at you. Although there tend to be very few thefts and festival security patrolling the camp sites at most festivals I've been to, it's also wise to not leave any valuables in the tent if you can avoid it. Some festivals offer lockers or you might be able to ask a neighbour in a Campervan to keep things for you if needed. Campers tend to be friendly, helpful folks, so don't be shy to ask for help and offer it yourself if you see anyone struggling with putting up their tent (we've all been there).
Don't you get lonely attending a festival by yourself?
I love solo travel and that also applies to festivals. Most of my friends are not quite as excited about festivals as I am and I'm not quite as excited about drinking, smoking and just hanging out when there are the most amazing bands on the line-up. So I just tend to have more fun on my own. Yes, the first night when you don't know anyone yet, can be a bit lonely, but it's a great opportunity to get out of your comfort zone and talk to new people or learn to sit with that feeling of loneliness, which is also a good experience from time to time. I always bring books to read and a journal to write in and there is so much on all the time that I hardly ever have any spare time anyway. Like already mentioned above, volunteering or working at a festival is a great way of meeting new and most of all trustworthy people, who can keep you a seat or look after your bag while you're off to the loo, all of which is a bit more difficult when you're on your own.
What do you recommend bringing to a festival?
I hate being cold even more than being too warm. So I always pack a blanket, a hot water bottle (onsite ambulance stations or coffee vans sometimes let you fill those if you ask nicely or you can bring a travel kettle if there are plugs around the site), a water bottle as festivals always have taps for drinking water (saves the environment and quite a bit of cash, which you could spend on artist merch instead), band aids, dry shampoo, plastic bags (you can never have enough of those, especially when the weather is bad) and for those weekends when it gets really sunny don't forget your sun protection and a hat.
How do I get to be in the front row for a particular set?
Every festival is different, but at Cambridge you basically have the largest stage (stage 1), the slightly smaller stage 2 and the Club Tent (talks/Q&As, folk clubs and more traditional music during the day, fairly up-tempo acts at night) plus The Den (up and coming acts, just outside the main festival area). For both stages 1 and 2 I recommend getting to the front at the end of the set just before the one you want to see. If you get there only by the start time of your preferred artist, that is usually too late, so you do need to plan ahead. Having said that, Cambridge is always fairly relaxed and you won't have to worry much about it being too crowded and claustrophobic. The tents are open on two sides (stage 1) or three sides (stage 2) and this might be an English thing, but there are often gaps in the middle as most people tend to stand around the edges, so if you say 'excuse me' a lot in a friendly way while threading your way through the crowd, you might get further to the front even if it looks busy from outside the tent. People are also generally willing to let children stand in the front. During the Indigo Girls set on Friday night, there was a girl even sleeping in between other people's legs right behind the front row, so it's definitely no problem with little ones.
My partner doesn't care much for music, what else is there to do?
Cambridge has lots of alternative activities on all day and most of them take place by the Duck Pond, a bit outside the main arena. The Hub offers workshops for children and young people (craft, dance, music), the Flower Garden does too (talks, storytelling, music workshops) and there is a healing area as well with Tai Chi, yoga (sadly missed both sessions this time), positive thinking, drawing and willow art. There is also a café there where you can refuel in between workshops. Plus you have a lot of fun stalls to explore in the main arena offering jewellery (like this very well designed one below), fancy dress, instruments, CDs and more.
What do you eat at festivals as a vegetarian or vegan?
It is actually at festivals where quite a few pop-up stalls with inventive veggie and vegan food started out and there is no problem whatsoever at most UK festivals to eat meat-free all weekend (but do confirm this on the website of the festival you are planning on attending). At Cambridge I had a choice of curries, salads, smoothies, Indian street food, burritos, cakes, wood oven pizza and more and a veggie version of the 'full English' is pretty standard, too, nowadays. As a staff member, I was lucky to also get to eat at Red Radish backstage once a day, who had the yummiest veggie and vegan dishes every day, such as delicious curry with melons and vegan Bolognese pasta.
While my first ever Cambridge Folk Festival in 2015 was still the best one so far for me, 2017 was definitely very enjoyable again. And the fact that Rhiannon Giddens (video snippet of her 2015 set) will be taking over from Jon Boden next year as a guest festival curator (besides Bev Burton who took over the main festival programmer job from Eddie Barcan this year) is already a great reason to attend next year, too!
P.S. This year there was an all-female line-up for stage 1, which should be a great example for other festivals to up their female musicians percentage. I personally think it would work even better if it wasn't all condensed into one day and just spread throughout the weekend, but what's important is that Bev and the team have obviously given it a thought and are helping to make positive change happen. Excellent!