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The Friends of the Niles Public Library will sponsor the 18th theatrical reading season of the Shakespeare Project of Chicago at the Niles Public Library, beginning in October 2012. Four plays will be presented in a theatrical reading format by professional actors (members of Actors’ Equity Association) and will be offered free to the public on Friday evenings at 7 p.m. Pre-registration to the performances will be required.
“The Friends of the Niles Public Library are thrilled to bring professional classic theater to our district,” Chris Hanusiak, president of the Friends of the Niles Public Library District, said in a press release. “Not only will these performances provide a free evening of great entertainment to our community, they will also give our young people an opportunity to enjoy live quality performances right in their backyard.”
The Shakespeare Project’s Artistic Director, Peter Garino, added, “We are delighted to be bringing our performances to the Niles Public Library and reaching this new audience.”
The 2012–13 season will open at the Niles Public Library on Oct. 26 with Othello. As part of the Project’s Shakespeare’s Contemporariesseries, Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness will be presented on Jan. 18, 2013. Twelfth Night follows on Feb. 22, and the season concludes on April 19 with the rarely seen history play, The Reign of King Edward III, attributed to Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd.
In addition to offerings at the Niles Public Library, the Shakespeare Project continues to provide its free theatrical reading season at the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Wilmette Public Library, and the Highland Park Public Library.
The Shakespeare Project of Chicago is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council and has been providing free theatrical readings of the works of William Shakespeare and other great dramatists to Chicago-area audiences since 1995. The Project places an artistic emphasis on the language of the plays and leverages the talents of professional actors. The company's Education Outreach program brings abridged adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays (“50-Minute Romeo and Juliet,” “50-Minute Hamlet”) to middle schools, high schools, and universities throughout the Chicago area.
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Persian MS 73 (The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester)
Rawḍ al-akhyār by Amāsī, Muḥammad ibn Qāsim, 1459 or 60-1533 or 4
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly part of the collection of the Persian scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803-1865). Bland’s oriental manuscripts were sold through Bernard Quaritch in 1866 to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands, on behalf of the John Rylands Library, in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford.
Bibliographical description based on an index created by Reza Navabpour circa 1993. Identification of provenance based on manuscript catalogue by Michael Kerney, circa 1890s.
Funding of Cataloguing
Iran Heritage Foundation and The John Rylands Research Institute

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While doing research for the Normblog Bob Dylan Song Poll (if you haven’t sent your entry in already read here) I remembered that I have copies of two Dylan albums which I don’t really need anymore, since I have CD copies of the same. So the first Oxford-area VS-reader to stake their claim to LPs of Bringing It All Back Home and Blonde on Blonde can have them. Just get in touch.
In the end I went for (no particular order) “Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts”, “Like A Rolling Stone”, “It Ain’t Me, Babe” and “The Times They Are A-Changin'”. I left the fifth permitted spot intentionally blank, as it would be a crime to pick five without having something from John Wesley Harding (= best Dylan album ever), but after playing the record three times I just couldn’t decide which song I liked most.

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CALIFORNIANS WANTING TO PROTECT STATE OHV FUNDS HAVE A DEADLINE OF MARCH 14
Greetings from the Yamaha Outdoor Access Initiative,
California has a proud tradition of OHV recreation – one that is being threatened by recently-introduced legislation that could divert funds generated by OHV riders to other, non-motorized uses by the California State Park and Recreation Commission. If you have an opinion on this subject, we encourage you to share it with the California legislative committee before their hearing on March 14. The attached document provides some additional details about the bill and includes a link to the ARRA email generator for state legislators – to make it easy for your voice to be heard.
As always, we thank you for all you do to support responsible, sustainable open access for outdoor and motorized recreation.
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In the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Dorian is gaining strength. It is en-route to hit the U.S.
Still a week away from reaching Florida, the storm has already impacted one Jackson State student from the region.
Naysa Lynch is a marketing major and this hurricane hits close to home. She’s from the Virgin Islands where Dorian hit before it reached Puerto.
With debris piling the roads and heavy winds sending trees across yards, people in the Virgin Islands had little time to seek shelter.
“Real heavy winds that made me feel like I was back in Hurricanes Erma and Maria,” Naysa’s Mom Monique Richards said.
Around noon Eastern-Time Hurricane Dorian made its way over the Virgin Islands expected to hit the U.S mainland next Wednesday.
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“Whether or not you’re in the direct path prepare yourself,” Richards advised. “Get some water, get your batteries it is very traumatic. Make sure you know where your family members are and stay in close contact with them.”
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Though nearly 2,000 miles away from home, Naysa already feels she’s experienced hurricane Dorian and if it makes its way to the mainland her family has a message for everyone.


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Author: Shernide Delva
In areas where bar crawls were once a standard weekend ritual, a new trend is taking over, and it does not seem to be stopping anytime soon. The trend is sober juice crawls, and millennials are flocking all over the country to celebrate. All this non-alcoholic fun has resulted in researchers pondering, is sober becoming the new drunk?
Juice crawls are only one of many booze-free events in the US catering towards millennials who want to ditch the booze for clarity. New York is a prime location for Juice Crawls. At one crawl in the big apple, participants forego alcohol shots in favor for juice shots with names like “Dr. Feelgood” and “Kalefornia.”
The Guardian highlighted this trend by visiting a monthly juice crawl event where participants hop from different shops and sample 19 flavors of juices in a 2 oz. plastic cup. This event is just one of many that have popped up in major US cities to cater to the millennials who are now saying no to alcohol.
The people who go to these events are not all recovering addicts. In fact, it is quite the contrary. These juice crawl groups are full of people who would rather engage in mindfulness activities and indulge in healthy juices then wake up with a hangover. While in the past, cutting booze would have been a significant social change, now events like these are more mainstream.
In addition to these crawls, there are now sober day races, alcohol-free bars, boozeless dinner, and alcohol-free dance parties. There is even a sober social network and a dating app for sober people that became so popular, it temporarily shut down.
In these tough economic times, many millennials are opting to stay away from alcohol. A recent study on millennials in five countries found that 75% of those surveyed drink in moderation when they go out at night.
Auzeen Saedi is a clinical psychologist that spends lots of time with younger patients. She mentioned in an article the biggest fear millennials have about the future is fear:
“I think the pressures are higher because [young] people see that even if you have a great degree, that does not guarantee you a job by any means.”
All of this uncertainty is due to the financial strains millennials have observed the past few years, and understanding that nothing is guaranteed upon graduation. Fortunately, mindfulness and yoga have become extremely trendy, and millennials often use these activities for stress-relief.
“Right now there are all these yogi Instagram celebrities with millions of followers … and they’re not drinking beer, they’re drinking juice,” she says. “Mindfulness, in a way, is the new church.”
Spirituality is becoming a big practice among millennials. Many are opting for meditation retreats to connect to something higher. The great thing about these retreats is that they reduce stress, and allow the ability to go on vacation with a purpose without fear of being intoxicated. The trend has saturated social media. On Instagram, there are celebrities with millions of follows. They are not drinking beer. They are not promoting the drunken party life. They are exercising, meditating and drinking juice.
Of course, not everyone loves this trend. Ross Haenfler became a straight-edge punk in the late 80s and was part of a group that embraced drug and alcohol in favor of political activism. Haenfler believes these new sober groups need to have a bigger message that fights more significant issues such as consumerism, homophobia, and racism. Otherwise, he questions the motive behind it all and whether or not people are participating in it due to the sudden popularity.
Overall, the clean healthy living movement is full of those who rather opt for glowing skin and yoga classes than party like it’s 1999. For most, it is far from a political movement. But regardless of the reasons people do it, more and more people are finding sober outings a more enjoyable experience for the mind, body, and soul than boozing up all night ever was.
The culture of drinking is changing, and more and more people would rather socialize through healthy activities than using drugs and alcohol as a conversation starter. If you are struggling, remember there is life after recovery. It is up to you to discover what that looks like. If you or someone you love is struggling with substance abuse or addiction, please call toll-free 1-800-951-6135.
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Author: Shernide Delva
Gambling can stimulate the brain’s rewards system much like drugs and alcohol can. Gambling addiction is a serious condition that can destroy lives. When gambling becomes addictive, it means you are willing to risk something in order to get something of even greater value. Sometimes this can mean straining relationships you have with your family and friends in order to satisfy the urge to gamble.
There is a state having a huge issue with gambling addiction and this time, it isn’t Nevada. The tiny state of Maryland is home to one of the largest concentrated casino markets in the country. As gambling addiction continues to rise, few treatment centers options are available for resident causing their addiction to get worse.
In 2009, a state survey revealed that an estimated 150,000 residents suffer from moderate to severe gambling addiction. The state’s toll-free hotline for problem gambling has taken 619 calls in the past year from people struggling with compulsive gambling up. This number is up from 431 two years prior. Police were called on four different occasions on account of children and seniors being left unattended in cars while their parents or caregivers were inside gambling.
Clearly, the issue is increasing in severity every day. Over 893 problem gamblers, desperate to free themselves of their addiction, legally banned themselves from entering a casino through the state’s Voluntary Exclusion program. Casinos reported 37 people who were unable to follow through with the ban.
Unfortunately, there are no treatment options in Maryland to address gambling addiction. To make matters worse, most of these problem gamblers do not have health insurance or access to funds to cover private addiction treatment. The funds they could have used were gambled all away.
“When gamblers reach out to us, they’re in crisis … it’s out of control, they don’t have any money,” said Deborah Haskins, president of the Maryland Council on Problem Gambling. “When the person doesn’t have treatment as an option, it’s like you’re putting a brick wall in front of them. You’re commending them for taking the first steps, but then you have nothing else to provide them. It’s very frustrating.”
Each year, casinos in Maryland are required to contribute to the state’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that addresses problem gambling. The casino’s pay $425 per slot machine and $500 per table game each year. The funds only came to only $4 million last fiscal year. Most of the money ended up going to the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling. The program focuses on increasing the amount of gambling addiction counselors and running the addiction hotline, among other services, but it’s not used for actual treatment
Vegas Came To Maryland
So I’m writing this wondering how a state like Maryland ended up so massive on the casino bandwagon. Five years ago, Maryland had just opened its first casino. Since then, four more have debuted and a giant $1.3 billion resort casino, MGM National Harbor, is set to open next year.
From a financial standpoint, Maryland is cashing in big time. The state took in $1 billion in the last fiscal year. Out of that money, the state’s cut was $487 million and $388 was used for Maryland’s Education Trust Funds.
It’s clear the state made a worthwhile financial investment but the consequences for addiction are all too real. Gambling is one of the most deceptive of all human vices. It presents the illusion of easy money but can quickly lead into financial ruin. The odds are never in your favor when the purpose of the system is to make a profit.
As a result of the financial stress gambling addiction results in, often gamblers turn to drugs, alcohol and other addictive behavior to alleviate the anxiety brought on by the gambling lifestyle. They may struggle with drug and alcohol addiction for the rest of their life after years of self-medicating to deal with the stress. The stress of it call can result in strained relationships and isolation.
Maryland’s economy continues to thrive from the casino industry however compulsive gamblers have to deal with the consequences of their actions. These consequences include everything from home foreclosure and bankruptcies to domestic abuse, robberies and embezzlement.
Gambling in America costs the United States between $32.4 billion to $53.8 billion per year. The long term costs outweigh the economic benefits by a greater than 3:1 ration. Maryland has a choice to progress toward providing treatment and solutions to the gambling addiction crisis before it gets out of control. The consequences could overpower the risks.
If you feel you are starting to develop an addiction to gambling, seek help before the addiction takes control of your life. Luckily, there is help. If you or someone you love is struggling with substance abuse or addiction, please call toll-free 1-800-951-6135
By Cheryl Steinberg
As much as 90% of the drug and alcohol rehabs in America endorse the 12 Step approach to treatment and recovery and yet, research shows that there’s a better way: combining therapy and medication.
If you are a member of a 12 Step fellowship, you might know quite well the bias against the use of medications in recovery – and I’m not talking about narcotics. I mean things like antidepressants and medications designed to support abstinence, such as opioid blockers. The FDA has approved two different medications for use in the treatment of an alcohol use disorder.
So what are these FDA-approved medications and how effective are they?
The first medication is called acamprosate (brand name Campral) and it has been used for alcohol use disorder treatment since the 1980s in Europe; it was accepted by the FDA in 2004. The way Campral works is this: it stabilizes the initial depression as well as reducing cravings by quieting the feelings of being restless, irritability, and discontent that alcoholics experience when they first quit drinking. Acamprosate is meant to be taken daily for the first 12 months of abstinence.
The second medication is Naltrexone. Although Naltrexone is an opioid inhibitor, is has been FDA approved as a daily medication to be taken at a low dose for the treatment of alcohol abuse. Naltrexone is best if used as an emergency relapse drug. Alcoholics who take it prior to a relapse have reported significantly less negative impact of their relapse. For those who want to be abstinent, naltrexone works as a great emergency relapse drug in combination with acamprosate.
It also functions as a supplement to be taken prior to a planned drink. In fact, naltrexone works so well to reduce relapse that many alcoholics use it to successfully drink on a regular basis with very few reports of high binge drinking. Therefore, it might be entirely possible in the near future for alcoholics to simply carry a bottle of naltrexone with them for drinking occasions instead of attending an AA meeting when the urge to drink hits.
Putting It Into Perspective
If you think of these drugs being used to treat an ongoing disease like asthma, which alcoholism is, then it might make more sense. So, in this example, consider that the majority of asthma sufferers have both a daily inhaler and an emergency inhaler. Therefore, for people with alcohol use disorder, acamprosate is their daily medication and naltrexone is their emergency relapse drug.
Epidemiological Studies and Findings
Currently, clinical trials show that the combination of acamprosate, naltrexone, and cognitive-behavioral therapy have the highest rates of recovery of any system used in drug and alcohol treatment. In fact, this conglomeration of treatment approaches has been studied thoroughly over the past 10 years, revealing abstinence rates of greater than 65%. No other program, not Alcoholics Anonymous, nor SMART Recovery®, comes close to producing these rates of abstinence, and yet very few treatment programs in the U.S. are engaging in this practice.
Treating Nicotine Addiction: A Case for Medication
Abstinence rates for nicotine are at an all-time high of 82% in the United States according to the CDC. Nicotine addiction treatment has been the only drug treatment program to have significantly impacted drug use in recorded history.
So what’s happening in nicotine addiction treatment that isn’t happening in the drug rehabilitation industry?
The answer is pharmacological assistance in quitting addiction, which is to say, involving the use of medication(s) as a vital part in helping people overcome their addiction. First of all, it’s now widely known that nicotine is one of most addictive drugs in existence. Considering just how addictive this drug is, how then have smoking rates decreased so dramatically?
The answer to that is this: the use of a medical-psycho-social model of recovery. A comprehensive study from the Western Journal of Medicine in 2002 made two conclusions after scrutinizing over 6,000 articles on nicotine cessation. The first conclusion was that taking FDA-approved medication for the cessation of nicotine more than doubled success at quitting smoking. The second was that the likelihood of successfully quitting increased even further when anti-smoking medication was combined with evidence-based therapy for behavioral modification, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
There is no study that exists showing that therapy or 12-step programs alone are as effective as a combined therapy and medication program. Knowing this, it’s safe to say that any program that does not prepare recovering alcoholics with the tools of both therapy and anti-addiction medication that can lessen the impact of a relapse is unrealistic and negligent.
Consider this: of those who are attempting life-long abstinence, over 99% will drink at least once within a 20-year period. Therefore, healthcare practitioners are ethically responsible to prepare their patients with alcohol use disorder by providing them with essential information on how to mitigate relapse if it occurs.
Are you seeking recovery for an alcohol or drug addiction? Do you need help finding out where and how to start? Our Addiction Specialists are available around the clock to take your calls and answer your questions. Let us help you. You are not alone.
By Cheryl Steinberg
Chang-Guo Zhan, who is a pharmaceutical sciences professor in the United Kingdom, is working on the first FDA-approved drugs to treat both cocaine overdose and cocaine addiction.
Currently, there is no approved treatment for cocaine overdose, which can occur suddenly and which is potentially deadly. The drugs being developed by Zhan are funded by grant money from the National Institutes of Health and are now in clinical human trials.
How It’s Made
Zhan hopes to develop one drug to neutralize cocaine once in the bloodstream of the user and another drug that would remain in the user’s system that would act as a cocaine blocker, cancelling out the effects of the drug, which would theoretically help break the cycle of addiction. Zhan is doing this by using an enzyme from the bacteria that’s found in the soil where the coca plant, which is the source of cocaine, is grown.
How It Works
The drugs being developed by Zhan and a team of researchers from UK, Columbia University and University of Michigan will help break down cocaine into less harmful by-products. The enzyme, in its naturally-occurring state, decays too quickly to be of use in medicine, lasting only about 12 minutes at body temperature.
Zhan and his team introduced mutations, or changes, to the enzyme in an attempt to preserve the aspects they wanted while doing away with any problems that would make it unstable and therefore unusable as a drug.
So far, the team of researchers has introduced two mutations that can make the enzyme stable for up to six hours and which increase its ability to chemically break down cocaine by 4,000 times.
Narcan-like Drug for Cocaine Overdose in Development
Both drugs should neutralize the effects of cocaine but, the overdose treatment will have to work quickly in order to save cocaine users’ lives. That’s because cocaine overdose can happen in the blink of an eye and with devastating effects.
Cocaine overdose can come on suddenly and with no signs of a problem. Cocaine affects the central nervous system (CNS) which manifests in symptoms such as seizures, tremors, and general shakiness. For those using cocaine for the first time, the substance usually will keep them awake for a long time. Yet, for others, there is less of a wide-awake effect. Seizures and tremors can come on suddenly and without warning, although they tend to occur shortly after use.
Cocaine is dangerous no matter how it is taken. Some of the most common serious problems include heart attack and stroke. Cocaine overdose can occur in long-term users or first-time users.
New Drug for Cocaine Addiction
The other goal is to create a drug that would remain in effect for a longer period of time so that a patient who takes more of the drug will not feel those effects either and may stop the addiction cycle. This would act like Antabuse for alcoholics or Suboxone for opiate addicts. The idea is that, by taking the cocaine treatment drug, the effects of cocaine, itself, could not be experienced and therefore it could interrupt the cycle of craving, obsession, and compulsion to continue using.
Cocaine might be fashionable or enticing to use however, you’re playing with fire. Taking a so-called sober pill isn’t enough but, the good news is that recovery is possible. If you are currently struggling with cocaine use, abuse, or addiction, help is available. Call toll-free to speak with an Addiction Specialist today. We are available around the clock to help. You are not alone.

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Although its been just about a month since Meizu announced its flagship Meizu Pro 5 smartphone, the company is already preparing for another smartphone launch. Meizu has started sending out invites for its October 21 event to the Chinese media, where it will most likely reveal a new model in the Blue Charm family, possibly the Meizu M3 Note. It might be another variant of the M2 Note, since the phone reportedly runs on YunOS 3.1.6, but lets wait for an official confirmation from the company.
We had already seen the model on TENAA yesterday with the model number Meizu M57A revealing some of the key specifications as well as images of the device. Now, Meizu’s invitation reveals a lot more about the upcoming Meizu M3 Note. The invite comes with a metal back cover, confirming that the new Blue Charm model will feature a metal body. This will be the first time a Blue Charm device is featuring metal housing. The phone will reportedly come in different colors like, white, pink, gold, blue and silver.
As for the specs, the Meizu M3 Note is expected to feature an octa-core 2GHz chipset with 2GB RAM and 32GB of expandable storage. Up front, it will have the same 5.5-inch 1080p display as the M2 Note, but with 2.5D glass. There should be a 13MP camera at the back, and a 5MP shooter up front. Finally, the phone will run on YunOS 3.1.6.
Expect more information before the official release on October 21.


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RADIO HOST/DJ of one of the longest-running electronic mix shows in the country, Subsonic, which amazingly debuted 20 years ago on the Bay Area airwaves in 1997. Every Saturday, 10pm-1am, Aaron spins an eclectic mix of beats for the Bay, including EDM, drum & bass, future house, trap, downtempo, alt rock remixes, bass, glitch hop and classic '90s electronica. The Bay Area was first introduced to Prodigy, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, DJ Shadow, LCD Soundsystem, Armin Van Burren, Diplo, Steve Aoki, Basement Jaxx, Swedish House Mafia, Zedd and countless others via Subsonic on Saturday night's
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MYSORE: The state government is caught in a fix over the issue of closure of New Model Training School (NTMS), a century-old Kannada school, and could give a go ahead to Ramakrishna Mission to build a memorial for Swami Vivekananda at the site.
The controversial issue has made it to the 12th Mysore Zilla Kannada meet where many speakers asked the government not to allow closure of NTMS pointing out that it has a rich heritage of over 100 years imparting education in Kannada medium. However, the BJP government's decision in January has left the present government in a bind: It is a cabinet decision and the government is wary of legal implications.
Pro-Kannada activists are urging the government not to allow the closure of the school and handover the prime property to Ramakrishna Mission, a registered society founded by Vivekananda and comprising monks of Ramakrishna Math. However, the religious organization is seeking the Congress government to honour the cabinet decision putting chief minister Siddaramaiah in a spot. Representatives of the Ramakrishna Mission have met the CM and district minister V Sreenivasa Prasad seeking to know about the follow-up action. "They met me after meeting the CM and have discussed the issue. The CM being a Mysorean is aware of the nitty-gritty of the issue. I'll take up the issue with Siddaramaiah this week and decide," Prasad told TOI. Prasad and cooperation minister H S Mahadeva Prasad is said to have held a talk with the CM.
This comes a day after pro-Kannada organizations and Kannada activists asked Prasad not to buckle under pressure, at the Mysore Zilla Kannada Sahitya Sammelana. During the meet, the Mysore Zilla Kannada Sahitya Parishat expressed its opposition to the closure of the school, while it was not against the memorial for the Hindu monk.
Prasad said the process to handover the property was initiated by the BJP government. There are reports that even katha certificate was issued to Ramakrishna Mission, which the minister said he was verifying. "Math representatives asked me for physical possession of the land. We've to balance and it is difficult given that no legal option is available. We cannot say we don't want a memorial for Vivekananda," Prasad said, adding the government will take a call on the issue next week. Prasad will discuss with chief secretary S V Ranganath and the education department.
When contacted, Mysore MP Adagooru H Vishwanath, who has opposed closure of the school, said: "The government has to decide. We'll chalk out further course of action after the government takes a decision."
At the heart of the controversy is the one acre land in the city centre where the school is located. Abutting it is Niranjan Mutt where Vivekananda stayed while he was in Mysore in November, 1892. A year ago, the MCC renovated the property even as BJP government agreed to handover the NTMS to Ramakrishna Mission to build Viveka Smaraka. JD(S) MLA Sa Ra Mahesh had opposed handing over of the property to Ramakrishna Mission and had asked the government to build the memorial on its own.

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Dave Rawlings Machine just released, Nashville Obsolete (Acony Records). It contains seven, beautifully recorded, original tracks (44 minutes) of timeless songwriting and instrumentation. It’s “a vivid journey through a bedeviled, bygone world punctuated by Rawlings’ mellow tenor and wicked picking, all grounded by Welch’s plaintive harmony and steady strumming” (Lindsey Tanner AP).
Dave Rawlings Machine will be playing the Capitol Theater on October 30th at 8:00 PM and I was fortunate to talk with Dave about the current tour, recording the new album and some of the music he’s been into as of late.
Madison Music Review is excited to have you all back in town again. Now that DRM is on tour, how are the songs from Nashville Obsolete been translating into a live setting?
Yes, we are excited to be back in Madison too. I think the last time we were here (played a sold out show at High Noon Saloon) we were trying to avoid a rather large snowstorm. As for the tour, we’re currently about are eight shows into it. Everything seems to be going really well so far. We have been playing mostly all of Nashville Obsolete in the live setting. It’s really been interesting to see how Britney Haas (of bluegrass band Crooked Still) has taken to translating all those string parts from the album with her viola.
Speaking of the string parts on the album, could you tell us about the recording process for Nashville Obsolete?
Those string parts took a while for me to write. They were all recorded and engineered in Memphis, TN working with Matt Andrews (audio engineer). We then took those parts back to Nashville and the album was completed over a four to five week span spent in the studio (Woodland Sound Studios) in Nashville, TN.
You have collaborated with Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), Robyn Hitchcock and Ryan Adams in the past, is there any other person or band on the horizon with whom you’d like to collaborate, produce or record?
Most recently I worked with Dawes, All Your Favorite Bands (Rawlings produced and played on it). Working on that project was very satisfying and I would be interested in doing this again but my time is of the essence and I tend to be a bit myopic. I’m looking forward to the possibility of making another record with Willie Watson and collaborating again with Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes).
Interestingly enough, there was mention of an encounter he had with Barry Gibb; there was even talk of the of writing together at some point – the possibilities seemed thrilling to Rawlings. Dave went on to point out how the “differences in style can mean more to the people that actually play it”.
I brought up an example of when Gillian (and Dave) recorded Radiohead’s, “Blackstar” (for the Gillian Welch, Backstar EP) and how well this song had translated into their style of music. Later on, he (again) referenced Radiohead, OK Computer (1997) and when he heard it for the first time.
I was blown away and intrigued (by Ok Computer), but at the time, I was very into old-time music and set it aside. Years later, I pulled it out again and found how like folk music (or old-time), the songs remained strong despite the times.
In this ever-changing music industry, what advice would you give for artists to stay relevant?
If you are passionate, then there is not a lot to say – it will drive you to become successful. There is this misconception that “people aren’t interested in paying for music anymore” and this needs to be reexamined or addressed. If you took music, off the internet you wouldn’t be as accessible. Unfortunately, the artists don’t always get the money – this (model) needs to be more equitable for the artist. If this happens, it would actually make for better music overall and artists wouldn’t only have to rely upon touring.
What are you currently listening to right now? What’s on your turntable?
I’ve been listening to a lot of older stuff but I’ve recently been into this Studs Terkel WFMT Chicago radio show, Blues With Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee. But as for current artists, I am really digging (Melbourne singer/songwriter) Courtney Barnett. [Interestingly enough, Dave also mentioned that he enjoyed Die Antwoord]
Thank you for taking the time to meet with Madison Music Review – looking forward to the show on Friday (10/30).
Thanks. So are we… it should be a great time.

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Downturn may signal rate cut
THE City today slashed the odds on a May cut in interest rates after it emerged that the economy posted its weakest performance in a year during the first quarter.
Government statisticians' first stab at estimating gross domestic product - a measure of overall economic activity - between January and March showed the economy expanded by a mere 0.2%, the weakest since the first quarter of 2002. The year-on-year increase nudged up from 2.2% to 2.3%.
Economist Brian Hilliard at Societe Generale said: 'This news will be very worrying to the Bank of England. While it is also concerned about the inflationary potential of a weaker pound, we think the news on activity will be more important. We already predict a further half point off rates and a cut in May looks increasingly likely.'
Short sterling futures, which track interest-rate expectations, jumped on the news as dealers priced in 3.5% rates by June. Sterling slid a third of a cent to $1.5890.
A full GDP breakdown was not given today, but National Statistics estimated growth of the dominant services sector slowed to 0.3% from 0.5% in the previous quarter. It said there had been a marked downturn in the hotels and restaurants sector as tourism dried up ahead of war with Iraq. Manufacturing output is thought to have risen.
Gordon Brown's 2%-2.5% growth forecast for the year is looking increasingly optimistic. The economy needs to expand by an average of nearly 0.7% in each of the remaining three quarters.
US GDP for the first quarter grew at an annualised 1.6% in the first quarter, well below analysts' expectations.
• The number of visitors to Britain's High Streets and shopping malls over the Easter break was 2.3% lower than last year. Shopper monitor FootFall said that a late surge on Easter Monday failed to prevent a miserable Easter for retailers.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Girls in Pants by Ann Brashares
After reading the first two "Sisterhood" books, I had to read the third one. I wanted to find out what happens to Bridget, Tibby, Carmen & Lena as they get older.
Girls in Pants starts with the four girls graduating from high school. Each has a different plan for college next year and this is their last summer together. The pants, once again, serve as a way for the girls to connect while all experiencing pivotal moments in their lives.
At first, I wasn't very interested in the story. It seemed slow-moving and all I noticed was each girl complaining, whining about something. I was not in the mood for such a story and was tempted to put it back. Thankfully, as the story progressed, I noticed less and less complaining and immersed myself in each of their lives -- their hopes and dreams, their fears about the changes taking place in their lives. It's probably because I can remember the summer before leaving for college and identify with exactly what they are feeling, that I became enamored. This is exactly how I felt and hoped at that point in my life. The more I read, the more I fell in love with the story. Things don't end up sunshine and rainbows for each of the girls, but it's definitely hopeful. Each much struggle through some sort of trial or hardship and grows as a result. I do like that. An 'A' story for me, memorable.


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Sit down to a delicious soupy read.
Left in the care of his older sister, a boy begs her to read his favorite book but she is too absorbed in her own reading even to notice when a tiger comes to life in the steam from his soup.
An octopus struggles with misadventure when he leaves home but is relieved to know how and where to find a safe haven.
Murray the mouse goes into town for the carrot he needs to make Perfect Soup, and soon finds himself with a chain of favors that will work only if a friendly snowman can help him gets things started.
Feeling sad, Mouse decides to ask some mice friends to help whisk up a special batch of soup as a way to feel better.
Maxwell Duck is trying to invent a soup that everyone will remember him for, but when he goes out to look for the missing ingredient and his friends show up, they think he has fallen into the soup.
A book containing a rhyme about each of the months, each rhyme ending with chicken soup with rice.
The master of poetic imponderables once again collects his thoughts on the inner workings of Grandpa's nose hair, tasty donuts, noodles in a haystack, and more.
When a crew of Chinese fishermen forget to bring cooking utensils with them, they find creative ways to make do with what they have and what they can find.
In this version of the familiar tale, a hungry fox tricks some barnyard animals into contributing the necessary ingredients for making his delicious stone soup.
A young boy tries to make an ice cream cake, but winds up making ice cream "soup" instead.
When Fly Guy is not allowed in the restaurant with Buzz's family he follows his nose and ends up in the soup.
Pinch and Dash's disagreement over the use of pepper and hot sauce in their soup ends up spoiling the meal.
Huckle Cat and friends decide to throw a birthday party for Lowly Worm but something goes very wrong with their cake.


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Government Considered Raising VAT Rates For Hotels In Budget
Documents drawn up by the Department of Finance state that high hotel prices in Dublin do not justify the tourism industry's reduced VAT rate of 9%. According to The Irish Times, the documents, whi...
Documents drawn up by the Department of Finance state that high hotel prices in Dublin do not justify the tourism industry's reduced VAT rate of 9%.
According to The Irish Times, the documents, which were compiled before the budget in October, claim that increasing the VAT rate to 13.5% for hotel accommodation would address "the issue of high hotel prices not warranting" the 9% rate, while maintaining the reduced rate for other services in the hospitality sector.
Research undertaken on the run-up to this year's budget revealed that the 9% VAT rate on hotel rooms was one of Europe's lowest, with Dublin hotel prices being the 10th highest out of the countries included in the research. The data indicated that the average room rate in Dublin at the end of 2016 was €147 per night.
Additionally, the Department of Finance estimated that increasing the VAT rate to 13.5% across the hospitality sector would bring in €491 million in revenue. The reduced rate is estimated to have cost the State €2.2 million since its introduction in 2011.
Representatives of the hospitality industry have been very vocal in their opposition to rising the VAT rate, with an Irish Hotels Federation spokesperson stating, "The 9% VAT rate continues to be one of the most successful job-creation initiatives in modern times, with its positive impact on tourism exceeding expectations."

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- Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons
Arabella M. Willson
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This book follows the three amazing stories of Adoniram Judson's wives, Ann, Sarah, and Emily. Each wife went through incredible hardships, but each hardship only proved to make them strong women of faith, who despite all difficulties and illnesses, selflessly gave their strength to the sick and needy. Ann Judson followed Her husband from prison to prison, bribing guards so that she could see him and make his condition a little better. They sacrificed lives of ease, with loving families and friends for lives of hardship, sickness and sorrow, but what a joy and peace came with it only God can provide, but anyone can know! None of them regretted going to Burma as a missionaries wife, they would not have turned back if they could and their letters and writing are enough to encourage those in the very worst of circumstances. This book will leave you refreshed, convicted, encouraged and I pray, closer to the Lord, these three women were mightily used of God!

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Elder abuse and elder fraud by family caregivers or acquaintances are unfortunately getting more and more common and not enough is being done to stop this epidemic.
Family members are often the first appointed guardians and serve as representative payees when a person is declared incapacitated. In the US 85% of the 5.9 million Social Security payees are family members. Unfortunately payees are not being thoroughly checked and abuse is on the rise.
In a recent article BARBARA LAKER and WENDY RUDERMAN from the Philadelphia Daily News describe recent cases of elderly or disabled people who have been abused and neglected by family members or acquaintances who stole their money.
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How often do you get to go skinny-dipping while Jenny Lewis sings a few feet away, dance on stage with Girl Talk or play yoga-Twister at midnight?
These were just a few of the attractions on offer at the inaugural Wanderlust Festival, which unfolded in the ridiculously picturesque Sierra Nevada mountains on the California side of Lake Tahoe this past weekend.
Festival founders Jeff Krasno and Sean Hoess, who run the Velour Music Group, and Shuyler Grant, a renowned yogi who also happens to be Jeff’s wife, figured that surely there must be some crossover between music and yoga. Turns out they were right. Thousands of people descended on Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe for three days of chanting, sun-saluting and rocking out (or at least swaying in time to the music).
The eclectic, indie-rock-laden lineup included Jenny Lewis, Spoon, Broken Social Scene, Andrew Bird and Michael Franti, who was forced to cancel at the last minute to undergo an emergency appendectomy. Chicago rapper Common ably stepped in to fill his shoes, and Girl Talk and Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings kept things going late into the night.
There was just one catch: to see most of the bands you had to take a 20-minute cable car ride up the side of a steep mountain. For many festival-goers this was an “ooh” and “ahh”-inducing experience, replete with scenic photo opps. Some of us, on the other hand, suffered through it with sweaty palms, trying desperately to keep our eyes shut so as not to catch a glimpse of the jagged peaks down below that promised certain death.
The view at the top almost made up for the terrifying journey. Spread out before us was a stage nestled in the mountains with a small lake just behind it. Snow dotted the mountain peaks, even though it was a blazing 90 degrees in the midday sun, and Lake Tahoe sparkled in the distance. Several musicians commented that this was the most beautiful festival they’d ever attended. “I feel like I’m in the ‘Sound Of Music’,” Amanda Palmer said during her Saturday afternoon set which saw her covering Bright Eyes as well as Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’.
Going from the ridiculous to the sublime, Palmer had just come from the comic book/sci-fi-geek bonanza Comic-Con in San Diego, where she and her sci-fi author boyfriend Neil Gaiman had been promoting their book ‘Who Killed Amanda Palmer’. “Going from Comic-Con to Wanderlust is crazy,” she said. “It’s all about the demographic.”
Rilo Kiley frontwoman-turned-Appalachian-folk-singer Jenny Lewis fit right in with the festival’s mellow, tree-hugging vibe, and managed to draw an even more sizeable crowd than the skinny dippers swimming in the lake a few feet behind the stage as she performed.
But it was Andrew Bird who stole the prize for the weekend’s most fitting act. His whistling and fiddling echoed off the mountaintops, and it almost seemed as if the Chicago native could have been born right there wearing a checked button-down shirt.
That said, The Honey Brothers came in a close second with their charming, ukulele-driven tunes. Right now, their main claim to fame is the presence of actor Adrian Grenier of ‘Entourage’ as their drummer. But keep an eye out for their forthcoming full-length album that could boost their notoriety judging from the tunes they played at the festival.
Winning the prize for the most random act of the weekend was Girl Talk, aka Gregg Gillis, who cranked things up with his Saturday-night DJ set. The crowd, who had by now exchanged their yoga mats for beer cups, went nuts for his Michael Jackson-MGMT-Queen mash-ups.
Those who craved more body-bending antics convened afterwards in a yoga tent for a midnight game of yoga-Twister.
Not to be forgotten was the impressive array of yoga classes on offer all weekend, boasting titles such as ‘I Am A Tree’, ‘Acro Yoga Monkey Madness’, ‘Rock Your Heart Out’ and ‘Let Your Pose Sing’, pictured here:
Just before Spoon closed out the three-day festival with a solid set, Wanderlust organisers promised they’d do it again in 2010. “We’ll see you next year,” they told the crowd. “If you come back again, we will too.” Despite the terrifying gondola ride, I have a strong suspicion that I’ll be back and ready for an all-night game of Twister.


Sustainable Development agenda has come in global discussion since more than two decades. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) based on Millennium Declaration as agreed in the year 2000 by the United Nations (UN) and committed to be achieved by 2015 have been the foundation of the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. Formally discussed at UN Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio in June 2012, and in UN General Assembly (UNGA) in September 2014, the proposed SDGs are being negotiated and agreed in the UNGA in September 2015. Nepal, as a member of the UN will have to be part of this global development initiative. In that context, this National Report on the SDGs is the first work to assess the proposed SDGs from national perspectives, examine their relevance in the national context and provide inputs for the global negotiation process as well as initiate national dialogue on their operationalization in the country.


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Thieves are concentrating on digital forex buyers on the road in a wave of “crypto muggings”, police have warned, with victims reporting that hundreds of kilos have been stolen after their cellphones had been seized.
Anonymised crime experiences offered to the Guardian by Metropolis of London police, as a part of a freedom of data request, reveal criminals are combining bodily muscle with digital knowhow to half individuals from their cryptocurrency.
One sufferer reported they’d been attempting to order an Uber close to London’s Liverpool Avenue station when muggers pressured them handy over their cellphone. Whereas the gang finally gave the cellphone again, the sufferer later realised that £5,000-worth of ethereum digital forex was lacking from their account with the crypto investing platform Coinbase.
In one other case, a person was approached by a bunch of individuals providing to promote him cocaine and agreed to go down an alley with them to do the deal. The lads supplied to sort a quantity into his cellphone however as an alternative accessed his cryptocurrency account, holding him towards a wall and forcing him to unlock a smartphone app with facial verification. They transferred £6,000-worth of ripple, one other digital forex, out of his account.
A 3rd sufferer stated he had been vomiting beneath a bridge when a mugger pressured him to unlock his cellphone utilizing a fingerprint, then modified his safety settings and stole £28,700, together with cryptocurrency.
In one other case, a sufferer advised police that his playing cards and cellphone had been pickpocketed after a night on the pub, with £10,000 later stolen from their account with the investing platform Crypto.com. The sufferer was utilizing his cellphone within the pub and believed thieves noticed him sort in his account pin, the report stated.
“It’s a type of crypto mugging,” stated David Gerard, the writer of Assault on the 50 Foot Blockchain, a e-book on digital currencies.
Cryptocurrency transfers are irreversible, not like a financial institution switch, making such a crime extra enticing to thieves.
“If I get robbed and so they power me to make a financial institution switch, the financial institution can hint the place the cash has gone and there are all kinds of comebacks. You may reverse the transaction.
“With crypto, if I switch it to my crypto pockets I’ve bought your cash and you’ll’t get them again.”
He stated the dangers had been exacerbated by the best way some individuals deal with their investments on smartphones, with out exercising the identical diploma of warning they might with money. “Individuals preserve silly quantities of cash on account in crypto. They don’t suppose it’s cash by some means.”
Gurvais Grigg, a 23-year veteran of the FBI, now works as public sector chief know-how officer for Chainalysis, which helps authorities companies and monetary establishments monitor actions of digital forex.
He stated the character of cryptocurrency, the place transactions are logged on the blockchain, meant police ought to, in principle, have the ability to monitor stolen crypto.
“To [transfer stolen assets], they’ve to supply a pockets tackle and, most probably, they’ll use that pockets tackle once more sooner or later. You additionally have to convey it to an alternate if you wish to flip it into fiat forex.”
He stated this created a digital paper path that investigators can, and repeatedly do, use to trace down multimillion-dollar crypto hacks. Nonetheless, he stated they had been much less prone to have the sources to pursue smaller, one-off crimes.
“A person theft of a small quantity might not get the eye of the police or a big legislation enforcement company.
“If they might put collectively a bigger conspiracy of exercise, the place persons are doing it greater than a few times, police companies would seemingly concentrate.”
The crypto muggings occurred within the second half of 2021, within the comparatively small a part of London’s monetary district patrolled by Metropolis of London police.
The incidents are usually not the primary wherein individuals have been pressured handy over cryptocurrency with the specter of violence.
A pupil in Kent claimed final yr that eight individuals stormed his college lodging and compelled him to switch £68,000 of bitcoin at knifepoint.
Later that yr, the American know-how entrepreneur Zaryn Dentzel advised police he had been attacked at dwelling in Madrid by masked thieves. He stated they tortured him with a knife and stun gun earlier than disappearing with thousands and thousands of euros in bitcoin.
Nonetheless, the character of the crimes reported in London final yr – apparently opportunistic avenue incidents akin to a mugging for money or valuables – is presenting new challenges for the police.
Phil Ariss, who leads the cryptocurrency staff on the Nationwide Police Chiefs’ Council cybercrime programme, stated extra coaching was being given to cops on a wide range of crypto-related crimes.
He stated police had been additionally taking a look at methods to tell the general public in regards to the must be cautious when accessing a crypto account.
“You wouldn’t stroll down the road holding £50 notes and counting them. That ought to apply to individuals with crypto belongings,” he stated.


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I'm an artist and writer of fiction and blogs, 70 years old, living in Portland, Oregon. Thrillingly married, two amazing sons and one amazing step-daughter, entering the world of artists 10 years ago. Long-time day-dreamer, and believer in hope and wonder. Magic too.
These past few months of painting feel like a new journey for me. I have certainly worked to create quality abstract paintings in the past, and you can see many of those in the "Abstract" page on this site. But most of those were painted a couple of years ago, and currently I am painting with more intention - fueled by a deep study of artists I most admire and who inspire me. Which brings me to the field of abstract art, specifically American abstract art, and particularly these days to Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell. I'll have more to say going forward, my intention to be far more regular in my appearance on this Blog. Thanks for checking in.