Primal living, of course, is ultimately about overall wellness. Sure, we focus a lot on nutrition and exercise (important points, after all), but these topics are only part of the picture. Wellness, as it's often defined, embodies healthful living in several dimensions of self-care and actualization. Our sense of emotional well-being, for example, figures strongly into our quality of life, and it's about more than just personal happiness. Stress and unmanaged mental health concerns can take a true physical toll. In chronic cases, poor mental health/stress can become a downward, damaging spiral. We're talking immune dysfunction, high blood pressure, systemic inflammation…. Stress response can even contribute to heart disease and cancer in extreme cases.
And just as our society seems to be sorely lacking in the physical health department, our mental health is in dire straits as well. Coincidence? Experts blame the prevalence of mental health concerns on a variety of modern perils. Contributing factors can be as varied as poor nutrition, environmental toxins, disconnect from nature, and the breakdown of intimate social networks. They all seem to have their kernel of sense. The mind-body connection (tying together all those wellness dimensions) is an undeniable, powerful relationship.
A recent Time magazine article highlighted a new offshoot of the traditional psychological treatment psychotherapy that appears to tap this connection. It's called yoga-therapy, the incorporation of yoga poses and meditative breathing into the therapy sessions. The practices are believed to both release emotional blockages and empower clients in their emotional exploration and communication. For clients with depression, practitioners offer guidance for "energizing breaths," while "balancing breaths" are modeled for those with anxiety. The approach can apparently have particular significance for clients with posttraumatic stress disorder. The physical "grounding" of certain poses (e.g. warrior or chair pose) may help center them in the present moment and place as they recount past traumatic experiences. A recent study of schizophrenia patients who received yoga therapy showed a "decrease in negative symptoms and increase in quality of life." Dr. Elizabeth Visceglia, psychiatrist, yoga-therapy practitioner, conducted the study and credits yoga's impact on the endocrine and parasympathetic systems for the treatment's apparent success.
Our impressions? For one, we're always intrigued by therapies that offer authentic and effective support for overall well-being. (And if it can be part of a practice that supplements – if not supplants, when appropriate – the pharmaceutical treatments so often offered as a first line approach then all the better, we say.) It makes physiological sense: inducing the relaxation response, helping trigger or soften hormonal release. But maybe there's a deeper significance in this kind of therapy – a broader point applicable beyond the psychotherapist's clientele.
As a society these days, we seem to either live in denial of our bodies (letting them go to pot) or live to conquer them (exercising into oblivion). We struggle to attain (or intuit) a "right," natural relationship with food, with fitness, with aging, with our physical selves as a whole. On many front we're disengaged from what's natural, what's hardwired into our evolutionary selves. Though Grok, as we've noted, certainly had his share of conflicts, he wasn't strung out on chronic stress the way we moderns can be.
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I'll admit I'm a yoga girl. I've tried the CrossFit thing, and while it is extreme and leaves me with a "win" feeling, yoga leaves me with a "peace" feeling. For me the two are mutually exclusive. Anyone disagree?
I'm very glad you wrote this article.
Yoga is such a multi-dimensional discipline. It can relieve stress, be a good source of exercise, train us to be mindful, and so much more.
Words are a useful tool, but certainly not the end all of the healing process. I think yoga can be a powerful tool in promoting a healthy, balanced and purposeful life.
Yoga's okay, I'll do it a couple of times a year. Weight lifting, now that leaves me feeling great in a really tired but relaxed kinda way!
I have been practicing yoga for about 6 months and the benefit for me have been huge. I now feel a sense of calm I haven't felt in years. My posture has improved, and so many other gains for me have been significant.
To Address Jen: I see exactly what you are saying. I actually just started crossfit about 2 weeks ago. Although I am not fully immersed in crossfit yet, (as I've just begun the program)I feel that both benefit me in different ways. I have been an athlete my whole life and formally competed on a national level. Crossfit fulfills my need to push myself. Yoga has helped me with my balance, concentration, and body awareness that I wish I had when I was competing. I would consider both forms stress relievers.
I think with the state our nation is in health-wise, yoga could probably help so many people that otherwise would be medicated.
I definitely see the benefits of yoga — mind and body — when I do it. It's hard to incorporate yoga into an already packed schedule (that includes other regular workouts). Of course, perhaps having to "fit in" sessions like these is part of the problem!
Jen: I don't think they are mutually exclusive, but it definitely depends on your beginning mindset. I can feel a peace/win feeling after something like a brisk walk. I guess where you set your "win" bar makes a difference.
I do yoga about once a week, sometimes twice depending on how I'm feeling about my other workouts. I am almost always sore the next day (I do pretty intense yoga workouts), but afterwards I am calm. I couple that with my strength training/sprinting/cardio workouts on the other days for a nice balance. Like Mark said.. its about the balance.
My biggest problem with yoga is generally by the time i finish my 9-10 hr day sitting at a desk non-stop i need to get up and DO something. While yoga has me breathing and such, i need to expel more energy most of the time, i need to strain my muscles a bit, i need to sweat. i clear my mind more sprinting and running and lifting.. thats my catharsis.
Yoga, weights and using the legs in tennis and biking are my standards. Yoga put me in touch with the imbalances my other pursuits have created. I am lucky to have access to a wonderful teacher. The class is addicting. A couple of weeks ago, I overheard one lifter outside the room where we do yoga say to another guy. "Oh, that's yoga. That's for women." I had to chuckle as I still push some pretty big poundages but have a problem with several of the postures-not just range of motion which I sorely need to keep working on-but balanced strength in muscles that I have long ignored. On Tuesday evening, I go from yoga to competitive tennis and the session usually has me very ready for the court.
I've been practicing yoga for 15 years. I've done hatha, hot yoga, warm yoga, anusara, kripalu, kundalini…right now I do a 2 hr vinyasa/ restorative class on Sunday evenings. It is the perfect conclusion to my week (I do my sprints & weights on alternating days, 3 x a week each). Yoga seems to help both workouts while promoting a more inward-facing mindset. I would not trade it for anything, and highly recommend it to anyone who has not tried it. It's just a matter of finding the style that most appeals to you, and there are many to chose from.
I've been practicing yoga for the past five years and wouldn't change it for anything. The health benefits are enormous, but nothing compares to the peace of mind and relaxation I get after each session… A total mind-body-spirit workout that energizes the whole being!
For almost 42, I'm physically a lot fitter and stronger then guys in their 20's. But getting into poses is tough for me, so I laugh at myself and laughing at your self is a very healthy thing.
Yoga for sure can be a part of a good healing modality.
I also tried my first set of sprints the other day.
Congratulations on your recent changes, Peggy, and welcome to Mark's Daily Apple. Enjoy all that we have to offer and stay in touch. I love hearing from readers so come back often!
I have actually been thinking about involving my 6 yr old son with adhd in some yoga exercises…the kid doesn't understand the word "relax" or "slow" so I think if we spend just 5 minutes a day doing one or two stretches it could help….his counselors have no clue if it will or not, but said it surely can't hurt him!
I would love to get into something like this as for quite some time now I have been keeping fit by working out with kettle bells and going for walks on the alternate days. Yoga does seem to be the next step as the mind needs release too.
I have been talking to a friend who is about to teach Wu Tao which is a Dance Exercise program based on oriental medicine.
Wu Tao or The Dancing Way, is a dance-based therapy that balances and harmonises the flow of Qi (life-force energy in the body). It has its foundations in Oriental Medicine, and is a system of healing, with a wholistic philosophy and practice, that restores balance to the person on all levels.
I will be starting this in June so will let you know how it goes. I am very excited as I love dance and to combine this with my health program sounds awesome.
I was a bit skeptical of Yoga until I was deployed one time and they had a really hot Yoga teacher.
Jokes aside, for a rest day, Yoga is a great thing for 30 minutes.
Sonya, sounds like a good mixture!
I can't speak to "yoga-therapy", but I have watched the impact yoga has had on my wife. She went from having migraines 1-2 times each month to having only one this year (so far). And that one was mild by her standards.
The thing about yoga though is that it takes dedication, just like any other physical endeavor. You can't expect to jump in and after three sessions will experience a life-changing epiphany.
And by the way — skip the "hot yoga" craze. That's all it is in my opinion.
I don't do yoga, but I love pilates. I always feel energized and relaxed at the same time after a session.
I'm new to your site and this way of eating. Your blog has been extremely helpful!
I've always been biased against yoga because of all the new age associations it has. I don't know whether it aligns your chakras or cleanses your aura, but the times I've tried yoga it has triggered these big endorphin highs in me, which are always welcome.
I personally really enjoy yoga, but it wasn't until my job got more stressful that I really got into it 😉 It forced me to tune out stresses and decompress. I find that the key is, as you mentioned, not to just "get through it", but to get into it. You don't have to do all the humming and go through a life change, but if you really focus on the "now" of yoga, it can be a mentally and physically refreshing (dare I say) exercise.
Thanks for your information about yoga therapy. Yoga is really a helpful exercise to begin with. This will help you unleashed the stress inside you.
Anyone that has done Ashtanga, in particular, the Primary Series or attempted it, will know that it is a challenge. I have redefined my core and my upper body to a point that is unrecognizable, when I had been a gym goer and doing weights could never give me the same definition. Ashtanga is about as primal as it gets. David Williams, the man that brought Ashtanga to North America calls it caveman exercises, how we learned what our bodies could do and what we could do with them. I do intervals on a bike, and a bit of crossfit, they all work well together, the yoga and breathe work in particular help with bringing breathing back after an effort.
Fascinated by Prasara, going to check it out, thanks for the link.
Wow, I pulled this article up to read it because I do yoga, but the article image is one that our business has been using as our primary marketing image for the last year, on our website, and in our postcard mailings. Heh.
At age 49 and the Sales Manager for a wellness center, I decided to practice what I preach and vary my workouts. I always did high intensity step, strength training and cardio but added Hatha yoga about six months ago.
I now feel much more centered, more balanced and my back pain from scoliosis has virtually disappeared. Now I can just breathe or smell lavendar when I'm stressed and get immediate relief (like Pavlov's dog.) It has added an entirely new dimension to my wellness routine.
If I was more disciplined and had more time (!) I'd certainly consider Yoga in one form or another.
Great article! I've practised Yoga for the last year now and find it very helpful for everyday anxiety. As well as I use a tool called EFT and find it complements Yoga very nicely.
That picture, I'd love to get it as a high resolution version for my desktop. I would greatly appriciate a link of some sorts of where I can find it. Thanks for a great blog!
In principle, I'm interested in people developing their mind-body awareness capabilities. Somatic sensitivity and the ability to actually "feel" what is happening in the body and nervous system are cornerstone aspects of so much of physical culture (dance, martial arts, yoga, et. al).
Problem with yoga is that it's just too new to know what it's doing yet. Give it another 50 years to work out the kinks and evolve and I think you'll have a great movement system.
like fine chocolate and fine wine and fine whatever your fancy…dive into your being and explore!
I came to primal eating naturally, not through research or referral, but by learning to listen to my body. From there I researched and discovered primal.
In the same way, I do exercise that I enjoy. I wake up in the morning, and I listen to my body. Most days I just want a long walk. Some days I am craving a sweaty, strength building yoga sesh. Other days, soothing and healing yoga. I love barre workouts, I teach a pilates/ strength training class, and occasionally I just want to dance. I look and feel great and I am aligned with what I need.
To me that is primal exercise.


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In the 1970's Hillary Clinton has claimed that she tried to join the U.S. Marine Corps but the recruiter allegedly told her she couldn't because she was too old and a woman. It's a story Hillary still tells on the campaign trail.
Good luck getting the MSM to join in the demand that Hillary provide more evidence for her claim.


As we approach the centenary of Ukraine's famine of the 1930s, we are yet to understand its scale and mechanism. There're not many witnesses left, but the archival documents, written testimonies and photographic evidence allow researchers to analyse and reveal the most hidden aspects of the biggest tragedy in Ukraine's history.
This event will include a talk by Daria Mattingly, a PhD candidate in Ukrainian studies at University of Cambridge and Samara Pearce, artist, photographer and researcher. Samara's presentation will be accompanied by a slide show of unique Holodomor photographs. The talk will be in English, moderated by Marina Pesenti, director of Ukrainian Institute London.
Admission: This is a ticketed event. £10 per person. Ticlet price includes free wine reception after the talk. Please book your tickets here.
Samara Pearce, a great-granddaughter of Austrian engineer Alexander Wienerberger, who captured the genocide of Ukrainians in Kharkiv in 1933-34. His photos are almost the only photographs serving as evidence of Holodomor. Samara is working on preserving the memory of her great-grandfather, whose life story is so important to Ukraine, but largely unknown. Samara will talk about this unique collection of Holodomor photos made by her great grandfather and will show the historical collection.
Daria Mattingly, a PhD candidate in Ukrainian studies at University of Cambridge is working on a project that is an interdisciplinary examination of the identities, activities and memorial traces of the rank-and-file perpetrators of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor.
While Stalin and his fuctionaries in the Kremlin have long become an object of enquiry, people who directly facilitated mass famine in Ukraine have largely been neglected by scholars. Who were the perpetrators on the ground? How have they been remembered? To answer such questions, Daria proposes a methodology that incorporates a microhistorical analysis of the famine period with a close reading of memorial and cultural texts composed after the famine. She draws on archival data, testimonies of the perpetrators and the survivors of the famine, and on contemporary 'post-memory'. Casting what took place in the rest of the country in greater relief, her study challenges reductive readings of the famine as well as readings of its active participants as outcasts devoid of historical agency.
Samara Pearce is a researcher and fine art photographer, this coupled with the family connection to Holodomor, she hopes to bring attention to this historical act of genocide through her art. During her work on this subject, Samara has been fortunate to help to such people as Anne Applebaum, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Andrew Tkach, Bohdan Klid and many more artists and researchers of Holodomor. Samara has also exhibited her art in London, Ukraine and won a Creative Conscience Award, for work that helps change the world. Check Samara's website here.
Daria Mattingly is a PhD candidate in Ukrainian studies at University of Cambridge. She is currently finishing her dissertation on the rank-and-file perpetrators of the Holodomor and their representation in cultural memory. She is also a convener of Places of Amnesia research group which focuses in its seminars on themes less commonly studied. Mattingly has written articles and reviews on topics in Ukrainian history and cultural history. She was educated at Kyiv Shevchenko University and University of Bristol, where she received her MA in Russian history.


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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01663.x/abstract
Contribution of acidification and eutrophication to declines in species richness of calcifuge grasslands along a gradient of atmospheric nitrogen deposition
Carly Stevens
K. Thompson
J.P. Grime
C.J. Long
D.J.G. Gowing
1. Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) is a global problem resulting in negative consequences for biodiversity due to direct toxicity, increases in invasive species, increased susceptibility to environmental stresses and soil-mediated effects of acidification and eutrophication.
2. Reductions in plant species richness related to N deposition have been observed in a number of habitats including calcifuge (acid) grasslands but the mechanisms of this decline have not been fully investigated. We test the hypotheses that along a large-scale gradient of N deposition there is (i) an increase in species tolerant of low pH conditions as a result of soil acidification and (ii) an increase in competitive and nitrophilic species as a result of soil eutrophication. As competitive species can occur in low pH habitats, both of these hypotheses could be true.
3. Using plant characteristics, we examined changes in vegetation species composition along the gradient of N deposition in the UK. Mean C–S–R signatures were used to identify the competitive response of plant communities together with Ellenberg N (nitrogen) scores to identify increases in nitrophilic species. Ellenberg R (reaction, pH) scores were used to identify change in response to soil pH together with an index of soil acidity preference developed using regional survey data.
4. Mean C–S–R signatures showed no significant correlation with N deposition, nor did mean Ellenberg N scores. Ellenberg R scores and the index of soil acidity preference showed significant relationships with N deposition indicating an increased dominance of acid-tolerant species.
5. The results suggest that soil acidification as opposed to eutrophication and consequent competition between species is contributing to shifts in species composition and diversity linked to N deposition in calcifuge grasslands. Soil acidification may be leading to reduced nutrient availability preventing the effects of N addition from being apparent.

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Flirting is the human form of the mating dance. It is not as clearly defined as some of the rituals that take place in the animal kingdom, but it is every bit as primal. Men and women alike are turned on by The Chase.


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According to a recent poll conducted by Branded Research, 7 out 10 U.S. consumers said that identity theft protection and cybersecurity are important to them when they do online holiday shopping.
The real tragedy is that there are still many holiday shoppers who fail to take the precautions to keep their identities safe, which, unfortunately, makes them easy targets. You may be pleased with how much you save on holiday gifts, but you may not even realize just how much you've sacrificed when it comes to personal security.
As our gift to you, we asked identity theft and cybersecurity experts to provide security tips and advice for online holiday shoppers this season.
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Don't download any software programs from a shopping site — modern browsers have all the software you will need for routine cyber-shopping. If a site asks you to download software, leave the site and close your browser because the site is most likely trying to trick you into downloading malware onto your system.
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CAITLIN GLEESON
THEATRE MAKER, FACILITATOR AND WRITER
Vera by Caitlin Gleeson and Ross McCaffrey premiered at Camden People's Theatre on the 20th March 2019 as a work in progress performance. We're currently undertaking a period of R&D before taking it on tour so please get in touch if this interests you.
Astrophysicist Vera Rubin is now widely credited for the controversial discovery of dark matter, but it took decades before her work was recognised by other scientists. Her male superiors ignored, disbelieved, and later tried to steal credit for her work, and when she was offered a job at Palomar Observatory in 1965 her colleagues initially refused her entry to the building because she was a woman.
Caitlin and Ross have been trying to tell Vera's story for some time, but can't figure out whose account is right. They are both desperate for the truth but doubt each other's version of events, and their struggle to be believed descends into an urgent battle for power as two versions of the same story collide.
Vera is an urgent and innovative show that uses a story about a pioneering astrophysicist to ask why women's testimonies aren't valued as much as men's. Conflict, humour and science show that what we believe depends on the power of who is telling the story.
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Strings Attached - October 2020
Written by Terry Robbins
Category: Early, Classical and Beyond
It's been a simply terrific month for cello discs.
Cellist Jonah Kim and pianist Sean Kennard were together as teenagers at the Curtis Institute and again at Juilliard. For Rachmaninoff and Barber Cello Sonatas, their first album on the Delos label, they have chosen Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata Op.19 and Samuel Barber's Cello Sonata Op.6 (Delos DE 3574 naxosdirect.com/search/de+3574).
The composers were both in their 20s when writing the works, and heart-on-sleeve romanticism and expansive melodies are common to both sonatas. Despite the balanced writing in the Rachmaninoff, there's a notoriously difficult piano part which Kennard handles superbly.
There's a deeply personal link to the Barber sonata here. Barber himself studied at the Curtis Institute and wrote his sonata there in 1932 with help from cellist and fellow student Orlando Cole, who premiered the work with Barber in 1933. Cole, who died in 2010 at 101, taught at Curtis for 75 years and counted Johan Kim among his students; Kim and Kennard received priceless coaching from Cole in their performance of the work.
There's an abundance of lovely playing here, with a beautiful cello tone and a rich and sonorous piano sound perfectly suited to the flowing melodic lines that are central to these strongly Romantic works.
Kian Soltani is the soloist in the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Daniel Barenboim conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin in a performance recorded live in concert at the Berlin Philharmonie in October 2018 (Deutsche Grammophon 00028948360901 kiansoltani.com/discography).
Barenboim has been general music director of the orchestra since 1992, and the lengthy but lovely orchestral start to the concerto is a reminder of just how much of a master he is on the podium. He also has a personal connection with Soltani, having worked on the concerto with the cellist in 2014 prior to Soltani's first concert performance of the work. Soltani plays the London ex-Boccherini Stradivarius cello on loan, and what a tone he produces! It's a simply superb performance in all respects.
Five short Dvořák pieces arranged for solo cello and cello ensemble of six players – three of the arrangements by Soltani – complete the disc: Lasst mich allein (the song that has such emotional significance in the concerto); Goin' Home (after the Largo from the New World Symphony); Songs My Mother Taught Me (from Gypsy Melodies Op.55); Allegro moderato (from Four Romantic Pieces Op.75); and Silent Woods (from From the Bohemian Forest Op.68).
The live performance of the concerto has richness, immediacy, depth, emotional commitment and tension and a great sound. Stay for the ensemble arrangements, but buy this CD for the concerto.
The outstanding cellist Alban Gerhardt is back with more stellar performances on Shostakovich Cello Concertos, with the WDR Sinfonieorchester under Jukka-Pekka Saraste (Hyperion CDA68340 hyperion-records.co.uk).
Both works were written for the Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and despite Gerhardt's admitted "utter adoration" for Rostropovich and an awareness of his relationship with the composer, he admits that he has ignored his interpretations, essentially because Shostakovich's markings in both concertos were largely ignored by the Russian cellist.
The Concerto No.1 in E-flat Major Op.107 from 1959 has four movements, the third being a towering solo cello cadenza almost six minutes in length that perfectly frames Gerhardt's technical and interpretational abilities.
The Concerto No.2 in G Major Op.126 from 1966 began as a memorial piece for the poetess Anna Akhmatova, who had died earlier in the year. An essentially reflective work, Rostropovich considered it the greatest of the numerous concertos written for him.
Terrific performances of two of the great 20th-century cello concertos make for an outstanding CD.
There's a very clear message in the programing of Voice of Hope, the new CD from the Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas with the Brussels Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon 00028948385645 camillethomas.com/VoiceOfHope.php). Building a selection of songs, prayers and laments around the world premiere recording of the Cello Concerto "Never Give Up" Op.73 by the Turkish composer Fazil Say, it pays tribute "to people's ability to triumph over adversity, create harmony in place of chaos, and overcome hatred with love."
Say's three-movement concerto, a vivid, emotional and quite unsettling but extremely effective response to terrorist attacks in Istanbul and Paris, was written for and premiered by Thomas. It is performed here on the 1730 Stradivarius cello once owned by Emanuel Feuermann, with the orchestra's music director Stéphane Denève as conductor. The remaining tracks are conducted by Mathieu Herzog, who also made several of the numerous arrangements, only Bruch's Kol Nidrei appearing in its original form.
Also included are Ravel's Kaddisch, Dvořák's Songs My Mother Taught Me, John Williams' Theme from Schindler's List, Wagner's Träume from the Wesendonck-Lieder, Gluck's Dance of the Blessed Spirits and well-known arias from the operas Dido and Aeneas, L'elisir d'amore, Norma, Werther, Don Giovanni and Nabucco.
Thomas says that she "wanted to choose works that represented this idea that beauty will save the world, quite simply." Quite simply, there's certainly beauty in her playing.
The American harpist and organist Parker Ramsay has a master's degree in harp performance from Juilliard, and is equally at home on modern and period instruments. Bach Goldberg Variations is his first solo harp recording, and it's a remarkable accomplishment (King's College Recordings parkerramsay.com).
Apparently the Goldberg Variations can only be played on the harp in G major, which luckily happens to be Bach's key. A keyboard/harp comparison reveals interesting differences: difficult keyboard flourishes are often easier on the harp, while simple keyboard linear melodies are more difficult or even impossible, especially if rapid pedal changes are needed for chromatic passages. The modern pedal harp, though, offered Ramsay what he terms "the best of both worlds: it's a plucked instrument like the harpsichord, but is sensitive to pressure, like the piano."
Listening to this CD the first thing that strikes you is the astonishing articulation – the accuracy, fluency and agility, especially in the ornamentation and in the faster, more florid variations. With the harp's added resonance Ramsay stresses the opportunity to present the harmonic structures as well as the contrapuntal in what is a gentle and atmospheric sound world.
In a recent New York Times article Ramsay says that he realized that "the way to hear this work – and most of Bach, for that matter – as I wanted would be to use my first instrument, the modern pedal harp." On this remarkable and immensely intriguing and satisfying showing, it's hard to disagree with him.
There's more Bach music in transcription on Volume One of Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suites arranged for guitar (Naxos 8.573625 naxosdirect.com/search/747313362578) by Jeffrey McFadden, the outstanding Canadian guitarist who is Chair of Guitar Studies at the University of Toronto, and whose debut recording in the early 1990s was the first CD in the prestigious Naxos Guitar Laureate Series.
It's not unusual for recorded works to take a year or two to reach CD release, but both the McFadden arrangements (which remain unpublished) and the recording here were made in 2009. Still, there's no doubting the quality and effectiveness of both the arrangements and the performance of the three Suites No.1 in G Major BWV1007, No.2 in D Minor BWV1008 and No.3 in C Major BWV1009. Recorded at St. John Chrysostom Church in Newmarket by the always-reliable Norbert Kraft (with whom McFadden studied) the sound quality on a charming disc is, as usual, exemplary.
Volume Two is apparently scheduled for release this month.
There certainly seems to be no shortage of outstanding young guitarists these days. Classical Guitar is the debut release from guitarist Alex Park, and offers exemplary performances of a range of short pieces both familiar and unfamiliar (alexparkguitar.com).
The Gigue from Ponce's Suite in A Minor provides a bright and brilliant opening to a recital that ranges from Conde Claros by the 16th-century Spanish composer Luis de Narváez and John Dowland's Allemande (My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe) through Handel's Sarabande & Variations and Debussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair to the traditional Irish tune Spatter the Dew.
Four standard classical guitar pieces – three of which display Park's dazzling tremolo technique – complete the disc: Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra; Albéniz's Leyenda; Villa-Lobos' Prelude No.2 (given a performance more fluid than many); and Agustín Barrios' Una Limosna por el Amor de Dios.
The publicity blurb for the CD release noted that Park has "a superb sense of dynamics, tempo and phrasing, performing with deep expression." Add terrific technical assurance and you have a pretty good description of the playing here.
The Russian duo of violinist Anna Ovsyanikova and pianist Julia Sinani is in top form on Les Saisons Françaises, a quite delightful recital disc of late 18th- and early 19th-century French music by Debussy, Lili Boulanger, Ravel and Poulenc (Stone Records 50601927780963 stonerecords.co.uk).
There's warmth and a lustrous violin tone in the 1917 Debussy Violin Sonata in G Minor and a beautifully clear and bright performance of Boulanger's Deux Morceaux – Nocturne and Cortège. Two works that are less often heard are the real gems here though: Ravel's single-movement Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 "Posthume" and Poulenc's three-movement Sonata for Violin and Piano.
The Ravel work was written in 1897 while the composer was still a student but wasn't published until 1975, almost 40 years after his death. It's a really lovely piece that combines Romantic and Impressionistic styles and moods.
Poulenc apparently destroyed several earlier attempts at a violin sonata, his only surviving work in the genre being the sonata composed in 1942-43 at the request of, and with the help of, Ginette Neveu. Following Neveu's tragic death at the age of 30 in a 1949 plane crash, Poulenc revised the finale, reducing the length and reworking the violin part. Both versions of the movement are included here.
The composer himself was disparaging about the work – it is "alas not the best Poulenc," he said, and "Poulenc is no longer quite Poulenc when he writes for the violin" – but at this remove it seems a gorgeous and quite idiomatic work. Given performances like this it makes you wonder why it isn't firmly established in the standard repertoire.
The CD Joshua Bell: At Home With Music (LIVE) presents eight performances from the PBS-TV special Joshua Bell: Live At Home With Music broadcast on August 16. Described as "A musical soirée of intimate performances from home, while sharing a behind-the-scenes look at family, Bell's own musical inspirations, and more," the CD features the soprano Larisa Martínez (Bell's wife) and pianists Peter Dugan, Kamal Kahn and Jeremy Denk (Sony Classical 886448695332 joshuabell.com/#recordings).
The first movement of Beethoven's Spring Sonata provides a lovely opening to a program that includes Kreisler's arrangement of Dvořák's Slavonic Fantasy in B Minor, Wieniawski's Polonaise de Concert in D Major Op.4, Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat Major Op.9 No.2 and Heifetz's arrangement of Summertime from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
Martínez is the vocalist in Ah, ritorna, età dell'oro from Mendelssohn's Infelice, Quando m'en vo from Puccini's La Bohème and a Medley from Bernstein and Sondheim's West Side Story.
Playing the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius with an 18th-century bow by François Tourte, Bell exhibits a full-blooded, all-in approach that doesn't for a moment imply any lack of subtlety or nuance. It's simply captivating playing.
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Q: Tool for path finding algorithm testing Anyone know, some tool for path finding algorithm testing.
Where i could test my own writed path finding algorithm on 2d grid.
Something like this http://topfat.blogspot.com/
But where i could write and run my own algorithms.
It could be using any programming language.
I can adjust my code almost to any programming language.

A: Did you check the source code for Tool for Path Finding algorithm? I'm one of the developers and the tool is open source (Java). For example the interface that your algorithm should implement is
public interface PathFindingAlgorithm {

    /**
     * Method for finding path from given start point to goal point
     * using Map object. Found path (if any) depends on path finding algorithm
     * class that overrides this method.
     *
     * @param start the point where the search begins
     * @param goal the goal point
     * @param map Map object the path finding algorithm uses
     * @return SearchResult object containing path and possibly other relevant information
     * about the search and null if no path is found.
     */
    public SearchResult findPath(Point start, Point goal, Graph graph);

Class where you add your algorithm (http://code.google.com/p/topfat/source/browse/trunk/src/algorithms/PathFindingAlgorithms.java):
public class PathFindingAlgorithms {

    private Vector<PathFindingAlgorithm> algorithms;

    public PathFindingAlgorithms() {
            this.algorithms = new Vector<PathFindingAlgorithm>();
            addAlgorithm(new AStarAlgorithm());
            addAlgorithm(new DijkstraStyleAlgorithm());
    }

    public Vector<PathFindingAlgorithm> getAlgorithms() {
            return algorithms;
    }

    public void addAlgorithm(PathFindingAlgorithm algorithm) {

            if (! this.algorithms.contains(algorithm)) {
                    this.algorithms.add(algorithm);
            }

    }

    public void removeAlgorithm(PathFindingAlgorithm algorithm) {
            this.algorithms.remove(algorithm);
    }

I don't remember exactly if this also adds everything needed to the GUI. We did this few years ago so the code is (of course) not perfect. The simplest case in this application is Dijkstra and if you need something more complicated, check A*.
You can do check out from Google Code http://code.google.com/p/topfat/. If you do something you'd like to commit, we can add writing permissions for you too.

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Q: Can every real number be represented by a (possibly infinite) decimal? Does every real number have a representation within our decimal system? The reason I ask is because, from beginning a mathematics undergraduate degree a lot of 'mathematical facts' I had previously assumed have been consistently modified, or altogether stripped away. I'm wondering if my subconscious assumption that every real number can be represented in such a way is in fact incorrect?
If so, is there a proof? If not, why not?
(Also I'm not quite sure how to tag this question?)

A: The answer is yes. The fact that $\mathbb{Q}$ is dense in $\mathbb{R}$ gives us the start line to reach every real number as a sequence of increasing long sequence of digits. ($ 1, \ 1.4, \ 1.41, \ 1.414, \ \dots \rightarrow \sqrt{2} $)
to compute even more digits we have lots of algorithms.
if your question is "I think about $x$ random real number, what's the decimal representation?"  I will answer, "is between $a$ and $a+1$ ($a \in \mathbb{N}$) ? If yes, is between $a,1$ and $a,2$ for example (if no I will ask you for $a,2$ and $a,3$ ...) and so on.
At every step I will build a sequence of digits that converge to your number. :)
Obviously there are different sequences that converge to the same number ($1=0,\overline{9}$)
and I use a intuitively means of convergence.

A: Irrational numbers were known to the ancient Greeks, as I expect you know. But it took humankind another 2000 years to come up with a satisfactory definition of them. This was mainly because nobody realised that a satisfactory definition was lacking.
Once humankind realised this, various suggestions were proposed. One suggestion (Dedekind's) defined a real number as two infinite sets of rational numbers, which 'sandwiched' the real number; another suggestion (Cauchy's) defined a real number as an equivalence class of sequences obeying a certain convergence criterion. The details are available in many places.
But the important point is that all of the reasonable definitions turned out to be equivalent -- the set of real numbers according to Dedekind's definition was 'the same' as the set of real numbers according to Cauchy's definition, although the definitions look completely different.
Now, to your question: another reasonable definition of a real number is a non-terminating decimal expansion (we say non-terminating just to clear up the ambiguity that arises between e.g. 123.4599999... and 123.46 -- only the first is allowed). It turns out that this definition is equivalent to all the others.
So your intuition is correct. But strictly speaking, your question is flawed: instead of asking whether every real number can be represented in this way, you should ask whether this representation of the real numbers is a valid one. And it is.

A: Yes, every real number has a decimal representation.
Numbers of the form $n/10^k$ where $n$ and $k$ are integers and $n \neq 0$ have two representations each (e.g. 1.000... and 0.999... represent the same real number). Depending on your conventions, zero has either one or two representations: e.g. $0$ and $-0$ in the latter case. Every other real number has only one decimal representation.
Conversely, every decimal number that is all zeroes on the left is the representation of some real number. e.g. the decimal
$$ ...000011.000... $$
is the number eleven. (recall that any digit that isn't written is zero, so the decimal "11" really has zeroes to its left and right, as notated explicitly above)
In standard notation, decimals that are not all zeroes on the left such as
$$ ...11111.000... $$
do not represent real numbers.

There are generalized notations that allow some left-infinite decimals to represent real numbers (the number above would be -1/9). There are also other number systems that can be represented with decimals, such as the 10-adic numbers. It may be confusing to try and learn about such things at this point, though....

A: Suppose $x$ is a positive real number. It can be shown that $n\mapsto 10^n$ is a map that is unbounded above in the integers, so by Archimedean property, there is some integer $n$ with $10^{n+1}\ge x$. Take the least such $n$ (why must one exist?), and let $a_{-n}$ be the greatest element $a$ of $\{0,1,2,...,8,9\}$ such that $a\cdot 10^n<x$ (why must one exist?). Now, given $a_{-n},a_{-n+1},...,a_{m}$ for some $m\in\Bbb Z$ with $m\ge-n,$ we let $a_{m+1}$ be the greatest element $a$ of $\{0,1,2,...,8,9\}$ such that $$a\cdot 10^{-(m+1)}<x-\sum_{j=-m}^na_{-j}\cdot10^j$$ (why must one exist?) Recursively, this determines a sequence $a_{-n},a_{-n+1},...$ of elements of $\{0,1,2,...,8,9\}$ such that for all integers $m\ge-n$ we have $$S_m:=\sum_{j=-m}^na_{-j}\cdot 10^j<x.$$ In fact, $S_{-n},S_{-n+1},...,S_m,...$ is a non-decreasing sequence of positive numbers, so since bounded above by $x,$ this sequence converges to some number no greater than $x$ by the Monotone Convergence Theorem. We can even do better than that, and show that the sequence of partial sums $S_n$ converges to $x$ (why?). The series thus determined is the infinite decimal expansion of $x$.
If $x$ had been negative, we could acquire a decimal expansion for $-x$ in this way, and then the opposite of that would be a decimal expansion for $x$. $0$ has a decimal expansion, too, so all real numbers have a decimal expansion, and moreover, all of them (except arguably $0$) have an infinite decimal expansion (though some also have a finite decimal expansion).

A: Every real number $x$ has a decimal expression
$$x = a_0.a_1a_2a_3\ldots. $$
Proof: Picture $x$ on the real line. Certainly $x$ lines between two consecutive integers; let $a_0$ be the lower of these, so that
$$ a_0 \le x < a_0+1.$$
Now divide the line between $a_0$ and $a_0+1$ into ten equal sections. Certainly $x$ lies in one of these sections, so we can find $a_1$ between $0$ and $9$ such that
$$ a_0 + \frac{a_1}{10} \le x < a_0 + \frac{a_1+1}{10} .$$
Similarly, we can find $a_2$ such that
$$ a_0 + \frac{a_1}{10} + \frac{a_2}{10^2} \le x < a_0 + \frac{a_1}{10} + \frac{a_2+1}{10^2} ,$$
and so on. If we do this enough times, the sum $a_0 + \frac{a_1}{10} + \frac{a_2}{10^2} + \ldots$ gets as close as we like to $x$.

From A Conscise Introduction to Pure Mathematics, Fourth Edition, by Martin Liebeck, pg 22.


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Commissioned by Californians for Safety and Justice, a criminal justice reform advocacy group and crime survivors network, the report is based on surveys of close to 1,000 crime victims from across the state, organizers said. The group released the results to coincide with a gathering of hundreds of crime survivors at the state capitol this week as part of National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
The survey found that one in three Californians have been a victim of crime in the past 10 years, but only 20 percent of victims felt they had received adequate support to help them recover. Supports that were lacking included financial and legal help, medical services and counseling.
At the same time, a majority of victims said they lacked confidence in the ability of the current prison system to reduce recidivism. Instead, most said they supported reducing prison sentences for people considered a "low risk" to public safety, and spending more of the state's prison budget on funding crime prevention, rehabilitation and mental health treatment programs.
Lenore Anderson, founder and president of Californians for Safety and Justice, said the report highlights two key areas where the state is failing crime victims. Survivors of crimes need access to trauma recovery services, and they also want perpetrators rehabilitated so they won't reoffend, she said.
"The common assumption is that all of the increased expenditures on corrections and lengthy sentencing is what crime victims want," she said. "But it turns out that when you speak directly to crime victims, you hear a very different story, and that's a story about putting health, wellbeing and rehabilitation at the center of our approach to public safety."
California has already enacted policies to reduce prison overcrowding by shifting many state inmates to county jails, and lowering penalties for certain crimes. Additionally, the state is spending millions of dollars on rehabilitation programs for prison inmates, although a recent audit found this does not appear to have impacted recidivism rates.
To assist victims, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) operates an Office of Victim and Survivor Rights and Services, which provides information and support to some crime survivors and their families. And the California Victim Compensation Board offers financial help to certain survivors of violent crimes.
However, Tinish Hollins, state director of Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, a program of Californians for Safety and Justice, said the current reforms and survivor supports are not enough. A crime survivor herself, Hollins said many victims lack information about how to access support, or find they are ineligible. This might be because of time limits on receiving help, because they did not report the crime to law enforcement, or because they don't meet certain criteria. In her case, her family was denied financial assistance for burial costs for her murdered brother because he had a past criminal record, she said.
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Alison Dadow, who along with her twin sister, Ann, once operated two high-end Palm Beach County yoga studios, has been re-arrested in connection with her sister's death and is in a New York jail cell awaiting extradition to Hawaii.
Dadow is accused of driving an SUV off a cliff May 29 in Maui and plunging 200 feet with Ann in the passenger seat after the sisters argued violently.
Alison Dadow, 38, was initially charged with second-degree murder but a judge threw out the case June 8 citing a lack of evidence.
Dadow then left Hawaii for Albany, New York, where she was arrested Friday after a Maui County grand jury charged her Oct. 28 with second-degree murder.
New York police investigators tracked down Dadow to a residence in Albany after an arrest warrant was issued. State troopers and Albany police patrolled the area until they saw the woman standing outside the home, the statement said.
When authorities moved in Friday to arrest her, she ran in an effort to get away, according to a police statement.
Dadow didn't get far before she was apprehended. She is being held in the Albany County Jail in lieu of $3 million bail.
This is not Dadow's first brush with the law since she moved to New York.
She was arrested Aug. 15 and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated and other traffic violations. Police observed Dadow's vehicle drifting between lanes and she was pulled over for "almost striking a vehicle operated by a state police investigator." Police said her blood alcohol content was 0.26, which is more than three times over the legal limit.
Media reports following the fatal crash said the sisters were "screaming and arguing with each other" and Ann was "pulling at the driver's hair and the steering wheel" as they were driving their SUV along the Hana Highway at the far end of Maui.
After that, the vehicle went off a steep cliff along the narrow, curving road. Ann suffered severe head trauma and bleeding and died, according to media reports. Alison had to be extricated from the car and suffered minor injuries.
Alison Dadow changed her name to Alexandria Duval when she and her sister moved to Maui; her sister was known as Anastasia Duval. Prior to that they operated Twin Power Yoga studios in Palm Beach Gardens and West Palm Beach before they left the area in 2014. They first moved to Park City, Utah, to open another studio before settling in Hawaii.


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Q: How To Run Scheme in Mac Emacs? - "process scheme exited abnormally with code 1 / 126" Questions with similar titles (linked) do not cover the specific errors I am encountering, hence the new ask.
Context:
I am trying to set up an environment for working with scheme in emacs so I can work through the SICP book. I understand it is possible to integrate the two nicely so they work well together. I understand there are many ways of doing this even with extra features (I've seen the names quack/racket ...) but those seem like the more advanced options. Since I am having trouble setting up this bare basics 'run-scheme' in emacs I have not looked into these options extensively.

Where I'm at / What I've tried:

*

*I downloaded MIT:GNU scheme 9.2 for OS X (x86-64). This works as expected and I can run the interpreter either from the terminal with:
$ scheme

or by executing the file "/Applications/MIT:GNU Scheme.app/Contents/Resources/mit-scheme" (which opens the interpreter in a new terminal window).
At this point M-x run-scheme returns a message saying that no such file or directory exists.
I read these two questions for reference and then:

*I created a symbolic link to the binary/exec file "/Applications/MIT:GNU Scheme.app/Contents/Resources/mit-scheme" (which works perfectly when executed from finder/the terminal), then placed this file in "/usr/bin" with name "scheme".
At this point M-x run-scheme returns:
/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.5/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs:/usr/bin/scheme: Exec format error

Process scheme exited abnormally with code 126

*The symlink file looked very out of place in the bin folder so not knowing what else to try I removed the symlink and instead created an actual copy of the mit-scheme exec file and placed that in "/usr/bin".
M-x run-scheme now returns this:
/usr/bin/scheme: can't find a readable default for option --band.
    searched for file all.com in these directories:
    /Applications/mit-scheme.app/Contents/Resources

Inconsistency detected.

Process scheme exited abnormally with code 1

Searching for help with understanding these error messages lead me to threads about issues with setting up scheme on windows OS, which is confusing, and I feel I am now out of my depth -
hoping someone knows where I'm going wrong.
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It seems strange because I know that the 'M-x run-scheme' command is trying to access the location "/usr/bin/scheme" and I have made sure that such a location exists, and that the scheme exec file at that location works properly - I don't understand what other requirements emacs has for this to work.
What is the run-scheme command actually doing? What other requirements does it have to function as expected?

A: MIT Scheme looks for its libraries (including its 'bands') in a location derived from the executable's path.  If the libraries are in a non-standard location, then the mit-scheme executable won't find them.
For example, in my setup, MIT scheme is located at: /usr/local/scheme/bin/mit-scheme and the band, and other stuff, is located at /usr/local/scheme/lib/mit-scheme/.
For Emacs I've defined:
(defun mit-scheme ()
  (interactive)
  (run-scheme "/usr/local/scheme/bin/mit-scheme -library /usr/local/scheme/lib/mit-scheme"))

Which ensures mit-scheme can find its library when, in Emacs, I perform M-x mit-scheme.  If I want MIT Scheme to be the default, I would use:
(setq scheme-program-name "/usr/local/scheme/bin/mit-scheme -library /usr/local/scheme/lib/mit-scheme")

You'll need to set your values according to your installation.  You also might have an option of setting MIT Scheme related environment variables to point to your library location.  The relevent one is MITSCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH.
$ mit-scheme --help
Usage: mit-scheme --OPTION ARG ... --OPTION ARG ...

This machine accepts the following command-line options.  The options
may appear in any order, but they must all appear before any options
for the band.

--library PATH
  Sets the library search path to PATH.  This is a colon-separated
  list of directories that is searched to find various library files,
  such as bands.  If this option is not given, the value of the
  environment variable MITSCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH is used; if that isn't
  defined, "/usr/local/lib/mit-scheme" is used.

--band FILENAME
  Specifies the initial band to be loaded.  Searches for FILENAME in
  the working directory and the library directories, returning the
  full pathname of the first readable file of that name.  If this
  option isn't given, the filename is the value of the environment
  variable MITSCHEME_BAND, or if that isn't defined, "runtime.com"; in
  these cases the library directories are searched, but not the
  working directory.

...

A: I'm also trying to play with the materials from SICP. It took a couple of hours and attempts to get things working.
I realized my paths were wrong after following Don't Panic! on Mojave (macOS 10.14).
I installed mit-scheme 10.1.5 from source running the installation steps from here and in the readme. My paths were different, which caused the --band command to fail.
If you're having issues double check all your paths are what you expect.
I used make install with default paths to install to /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib
Mac comes with emacs 22.1.1, which is old, but it works with the extra scripts from the professor for customizing emacs.
NOTE: If you quit emacs 22.1.1, it doesn't warn you about stopping scheme, which will lead to a 100% CPU usage process that you can't stop without Activity Monitor. Newer versions of emacs will prompt you to quit the scheme process before exiting (there may be a setting for older versions as well).
I installed emacs 26.1 using Homebrew and was able to get everything running after fixing these issues:
There is an error on newer versions of emacs (24+?) with ad-advised-definition-p, fix it by commenting out the function in "multi-term.el" around line 334:
; (defcustom multi-term-dedicated-skip-other-window-p nil
;   "Default, can have `other-window' select window in cyclic ordering of windows.
; In cases you don't want to select `multi-term' dedicated window, use `other-window'
; and make `multi-term' dedicated window as a viewable sidebar.
;
; So please turn on this option if you want to skip `multi-term' dedicated window with `other-window'.
;
; Default is nil."
;   :type 'boolean
;   :set (lambda (symbol value)
;          (set symbol value)
;          (when (ad-advised-definition-p 'other-window)
;            (multi-term-dedicated-handle-other-window-advice value)))
;   :group 'multi-term)

Path setup
I had a warning:
Warning (initialization): Your 'load-path' seems to contain
your '.emacs.d' directory: ~/.emacs.d
This is likely to cause problems...
Consider using a subdirectory instead, e.g.: /Users/paulsolt/.emacs.d/lisp

Which I solved by pointing the top line of the ~/.emacs file to:
;; (setq load-path (append (list "~/.emacs.d") load-path))
(setq load-path (append (list "/Users/paulsolt/.emacs.d/config") load-path))

The config folder already had all the scripts, that I think I was having issues getting Emacs to see.
I installed scheme from source without modifying install paths, so I changed this line:
;; This is the place where you have installed scheme. Be sure to set
;; this to an appropriate value!!!
;;(setq scheme-root "/mit/6.945")
(setq scheme-root "/usr/local")

Next to fix the issue that was causing --band to fail I modified this line.
(setq scheme-program-name
      (concat
       scheme-root "/bin/mit-scheme "
       "--library " scheme-root "/lib/mit-scheme-c "
       ;;"--band " scheme-root "/lib/mit-scheme-c/all.com "
       "--band " scheme-root "/lib/mit-scheme-x86-64/all.com "
       "-heap 10000"))

My scheme library was installed in a mit-scheme-x86-64 folder.
Lastly, it appears that there's some other commands I had to comment out, since they don't seem to exist ...
;;(tool-bar-mode -1)
;;(scroll-bar-mode -1)

After all that setup I'm now able to create a scheme script in emacs, and I can run the script using the meta key (iTerm set my Alt key to Esc+):
M-x run-scheme

Tip: Being newer to emacs, I'm working through the emacs tutorial (C-h t) which is essential if you're going the text-based approach. In college I used emacs outside of terminal, but I'm giving it go inside the terminal this time to learn more hotkeys.


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Coluber mycterizans Linnaeus, 1758, synonyme de Ahaetulla mycterizans (Linnaeus, 1758)
Coluber mycterizans Russell, 1796, synonyme de Ahaetulla nasuta (Bonnaterre, 1790)

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