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Mineola, NY -- ŌĆ£Time is of the essence,ŌĆØ thatŌĆÖs the message New York Islanders Senior Vice President and Alternate Governor Michael Picker tried to convey at Tuesday's Nassau Legislature Economic and Community Development and Labor meeting.
ŌĆ£We cannot be talking anymore about whatŌĆÖs, ifŌĆÖs, canŌĆÖs, should, etcetera,ŌĆØ He said while addressing legislators at the Tuesday meeting. ŌĆ£Unfortunately at this point in time, since the Lighthouse Project was discussed in 2003, weŌĆÖre at the end of that roadŌĆ" We have to make a decision on the Coliseum itself because the Islanders have to make a decision on their home.ŌĆØ
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ŌĆ£The Brooklyn game is an exhibition game into a market that allows us to be the first NHL game ever to be played in Brooklyn,ŌĆØ Picker told Islanders Hockey Blog when asked if exhibition game was a way to test the waters. ŌĆ£In a brand new facility that we can expose, not only the Brooklyn community, but the surrounding community to NHL hockey.ŌĆØ
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Deputy County Executive Walker did say that County Executive Ed Mangano is still committed to keeping the team in Nassau, sayin that ŌĆ£keeping the Islanders here is on the forefront.ŌĆØ Newsday reported Tuesday night that Mangano had offered Islander owner Charles Wang an exclusive window to draw up plans for a privately funded plan to redevelop the Coliseum and the 77-acre surrounding area.
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ŌĆ£A development at that site without the New York Islanders and a new venue is not realistic,ŌĆØ Picker responded when asked about such plans. ŌĆ£It sets us back from where we are today and I donŌĆÖt even believe, what ever is suggested is developed there if itŌĆÖs without the team and a new venue, it could approach what the economics are to the county and itsŌĆÖ workforce today.ŌĆØ
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ŌĆ£The one good thing that has come from the referendum not passing, has been the overwhelming support from people to now have come forward and say what they would like to see built,ŌĆØ he said during his address at the meeting.
A group of several large developers announced plans last week for a joint proposal for the area with or without the Islanders. Though the thought may be scary to fans, Picker still seemed optimistic something will be worked out, even with people thinking about development with out the Islanders.
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|Sep 9, 2009, 12:23am
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Why not just go with it? Open a "play" account with limited funding so that you can only take relatively small positions and then have your discretionary fun to your hearts content ( well, 'til you have to top it up anyway ).
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|Sep 9, 2009, 7:56am
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Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately, my money by now is so limited that a "play" account would be 300 dollars, and so I cannot trade futures with it. Of course, maybe I am lucky not to have had a million because by now I would have lost it all. Then another option would have been to paper trade but the problem of the addiction is that I feel that I will make money so I trade with real money on purpose. I think in this area and in another areas of my life, as I said, I have a problem with acting in my own self-interest. Why do I go to sleep late every night? I haven't been able to fix it...
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It's very interesting. Today, depressed about yesterday's relapse into discretionary trading, I was browsing on a pretty good web site where a trading expert writes on the basics of trading and as usual he has a section about "psychology and trading".
He starts off by saying, as usual, that in trading, discipline is very important. And discipline - he says - means adhering to rules of entry and exit.
Now discretionary traders generally trade by instinct but, I agree, they might have a a given number of fixed rules to follow.
But then a problem arises: because of the elements of improvisation, freedom, flexibility of discretionary trading, you can say that your method has worked in the past, but you cannot back-test it and you cannot say whether it will work in the future, since your profitability as a discretionary trader is partially based on your intuition. So, even for a discretionary trader who has been consistently profitable, you cannot say "discipline brings profit", because also "intuition brings profit", since his system is based on both fixed and flexible rules.
Now, as stated, the utility of discipline is partial even for a discretionary trader who has found a profitable discretionary (flexible) method.
What happens if the trader doesn't have a profitable discretionary method yet?
If you are a discretionary trader and still do not have a profitable trading method it doesn't make sense to tell you to be disciplined in following rules, since you do not know what rules are profitable. And yet these experts are talking precisely to those traders who do not have a profitable method yet. "Always use a stoploss" they say. But a stoploss alone doesn't guarantee anything. If it's placed in the wrong place it could make you unprofitable. And so on.
They all say that "you don't make money because you are not disciplined and don't use a stoploss" or similar, but the truth is that you'll lose money even using a stoploss. You'll lose money until you'll find out where it is profitable to place that stoploss, and where to enter and exit. Also, you will not be using a stoploss in a consistent and disciplined manner if you are still testing out where that stoploss should be placed - so it makes no sense to prescribe discipline to you if you still do not know what's the profitable thing to do.
What instead they should prescribe is "paper trade until you find a profitable method, and find out as many fixed rules as you can, leaving as little as possible to discretion". That is, if any, the way to go with discretionary trading.
Saying "always use a stoploss" doesn't lead to profitability. "Find out where it's profitable to place a stoploss" with trial and error or better yet with back-tests (which is hard with discretionary trading) is what should be told.
Once you find out what works, it's effortless to follow those rules. If you don't know what works, it doesn't make sense to tell you to follow some general rules, which could be applied in very unprofitable ways (stoploss, trailing profit, and so on). Psychology does not bring profitability. Testing different things until you find something that works brings profitability. And then, once you find it, psychology is useless.
Psychology is useless, discipline is useless. What you need is a clearly outlined profitable method. Then, of course, you'll follow it.
What this talk about psychology and discipline causes is just confusion in the minds of beginning traders, because they use the stoploss, see that it doesn't work, and stop being disciplined. Of course, why should you use something that doesn't work? They start being insecure, and losing track of their progress. It then becomes hopeless. The best way to keep track of your progress is automated trading, which means only dealing with fixed and univocal rules. Discretion screws the whole thing up, and forces you to keep track of changes and improvements by estimate and in your head, which in most cases proves impossible. Only few can achieve consistent and permanent profitability through discretionary trading, because of their ability to keep a clear idea in their minds of their whole trading career (all the stats).
Now, how does all this apply to me? I have an automated system and I use it. So far so good. No psychology needed here. Once I realized that it worked, I started using more and more.
But I have a trading addiction which has kept me trading for 12 years even though I never found a profitable discretionary method. It's a wonder how stupid I am for not finding one, and it's a wonder how sick I can be for not quitting this addiction. But discipline only comes into play in quitting here, not in making me profitable in ANY way. The only discipline would be in quitting, get it?
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|Sep 9, 2009, 1:30pm
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On your subsequent posting about rules, psychology, etc, I don't claim to be an expert...as it says in my sig I'm still learning my trade...but reading more experienced traders on here, I get the impression that they have a framework of rules which they generally stick to, but years of experience can tell them when to override their own rules. I think this is true of any area of expertise actually.
As in the refrain from the old Status Quo song, "Everybody has to sometimes break the rules".
On the other hand, if one always breaks the rules then the frame of reference disappears, like navigating without chart or compass.
Still learning my trade.
Just because it worked, it doesn't mean that it works.
Think of losing trades as your training fees.
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|Sep 9, 2009, 2:35pm
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I agree about everything you said. Especially the last sentence: if you have rules that can be broken, and that it makes sense to break because it will bring profits, then they are not rules, are they? On the other hand, I understand if you say that usually you should not break them. It does make a difference. But once again, that trader is a trader who trades by instinct, and doesn't even know exactly what he's doing. He knows he's been making money, most likely he'll keep on making money... but it's all up to his mind. If it works well... otherwise he'll start losing tomorrow.
With automated trading, I can be excited or depressed, but the system won't care. Since I am so unstable, it's the only way for me to go.
Yes, I did make money, a lot of it. Lost most of it with discretionary trading. I still have some left. It's pretty depressing considering how much money I threw away, and each time I was hoping to "help" my systems make more money. Sometimes I got home and saw a loss by the system so I tried to cover it with a discretionary trade, but most of the time I made things worse. Or rather 4 times out of 5 I made money, and on the fifth time I lost everything I had made in the previous 4 discretionary trades plus much more.
I simply do not have a profitable discretionary method, and I might never be able to develop one. Sure, I could manually trade my automated system, but that is not a discretionary method. Also, if I add any discretion to it, by slightly changing its choices, I just end up hurting profits. But then why do I want a discretionary method? Because I want to make more money and because it's exciting. I have fun making profitable trades. I dislike just sitting and hoping for my system to make money as fast as possible.
How long have i been recapitulating this stuff, over and over again? Months. First of all I want to make things clear in my head by stating them out loud.
I just got home from work.
I want to recapitulate one more time.
1) If you have a profitable method you'll use it - there's no psycho-mumble needed here, about self-sabotage and so on (if you were that masochistic, you wouldn't have developed a profitable system to begin with).
2) If you do not have a profitable method, you have two options:
The first option also excludes the utility of any psycho-mumble, because it brings you to point #1, or it doesn't cause you any financial damage, so there's no stress in either case.
The second option, one of not having a profitable method and still trading real money, does have to do with psychology. It has to do with the illusion of all gamblers: it's easy, I'll make it back if I keep trying. But the solution has once again nothing to do with the psycho-mumble on financial web sites. The answer is: you're not that good, it's not that easy to process in your head what works and what doesn't, so go back to option #1 and paper trade or back-test. Nothing to do with "you weren't disciplined enough to use the stoploss". It makes no sense to force yourself to use a stoploss if you're not sure whether it works or not (what level, etc.). You're not going to become profitable by forcing yourself to follow rules that you don't know to work. So it makes no sense to talk of developing your discipline, but only of developing your intuition and feel for the market, by paper-trading, once again. Or by back-testing, and taking the automated trading route. All this talk about discipline and psychology is therefore bull****.
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|Sep 9, 2009, 7:31pm
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you keep saying you don't have a decent discretionary method, yet you also keep saying "Or rather 4 times out of 5 I made money, and on the fifth time I lost everything I had made in the previous 4 discretionary trades plus much more". Potentially, 4 out of 5 sounds decent as long as you can ditch the killer 5th. 'Course if they were of the same ilk - going deeply offside then coming back to some profit (except the 5th) then you don't have a decent strategy. Otherwise, what was different about them and what conclusions have you drawn about the differences?
|Sep 9, 2009, 9:25pm
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Well, you're right on target. They only work 4 times out 5 because they are kamikaze trades and I keep them open until they make money. Usually they'll make money within a few hours - those four I was talking about. Then one goes the other way for over a day, in which case I keep my trade open until I pretty much run out of margin. This way I blew out my account 3 times in the past year. Believe it or not.
The few times I used tight stoploss and takeprofits I got a majority of losses. As usual, when I saw that, I stopped using stoplosses, but then I have kamikaze trades, which, when unprofitable, turn into Hail Mary trades, when I realize I am not a kamikaze after all.
As far I can infer, there are no inferences to be drawn from my whole 12 years of discretionary trading, because I just don't have an excel-like mind, as to be able to compute all the statistics of my trades (over 12 years, or even just over a week) and be able to tell what works and what doesn't. I don't know how other manage to do it and come up with a successful strategy. Let me know, I'd be curious.
Diary for today.
Thank to myself (I am atheist, so I can't say Thank God), today I didn't do any discretionary trading. However I did allow myself to exit early from a trade that was making 1000 dollars on the EUR. The trade went on (on my automated system) to make 1500 dollars, but I couldn't risk having it go against me, because yes one day I'll make 1500 but the next day 1000 will turn into -500, and if it happens now I am pretty much wiped out. So I deliberately interfered with my system, simply because if that 1000 went to 0, I wouldn't have been around for much longer.
Today, I decided to make a conscious effort to start acting in my best self interest and I didn't leave my office one minute early as i usually do, as a protest. I decided I'd stay my full 7 hours, so I wouldn't get reprimanded by the boss, which I enjoy doing, because of being a rebel.
Tonight there will be likewise another test - going to bed "early", which actually means "on time", in the sense of "on time to sleep enough", but you guys say "early". In my logic "early" means "too soon", but anyway I'll go to bed "on time".
Now, you have to know that I am also living from my trading, as an experiment - this way I get more sensitive to spending money and I don't waste it, whether with discretionary trading or with restaurants. I don't like to decrease my capital, whereas I never cared about my other account, where I get paid for my regular job. So I used to waste money on that account. Now I've put the ATM card away, so I don't spend anything from that account, and only use my trading account for everything.
The consequence is that...
Another test - eating. I must not go to the kitchen and eat just out of nervousness and anxiety (I just felt the urge to do so)... I am not hungry, so I shouldn't eat.
... the consequence of using my trading capital for living expenses is that today I took profit early. It's also that I don't waste money on restaurants any more. It's that I just eat at the cafeteria for my lunch break and I don't treat people to the japanese restaurant anymore. It's all good! This is new for me. So far the trading account has always been a black hole for money. I don't know if you say that, but it'd be a real surprise to me if I actually ever managed to live off my trading account. I am used to not being successful. This change is being quite traumatic. I don't mean to bring that psycho-mumble up again, but there may be some self-fulfilling prophecy of not succeeding because it'd make you too uncomfortable. There may be some self-sabotage after all, not in my trading. But in my spending money until I can level my account to zero again, because rising sums in my account always made uneasy. But it may also be some bull**** i am making up in order to feel better about not having any money in my account, like children say "I lost because I didn't even try".
Now enough with this writing, endless writing, expression of my obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
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What about postponing being right for a while. Set your alarm clock to your "few hours" and scrap your trade when times up, BUT with the intention of re-entering when your instinct (or whatever you use for entries) tells you the damn thing is now going to go in the direction you always thought it would.
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Interesting thread. I´m posting for a subscription.
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On January 19th, Claire Fallon, a Books and Culture Writer at The Huffington Post, wrote an article called 13 Honest Books About Slavery Young People Should Actually Read. The piece was a response to the news about Scholastic pulling the publication of A Birthday Cake for George Washington and got shared hither and thither and […]
Slightly More Recent Books on Slavery for Young People
Scholastic Yanks Controversial Picture Book
The new release "A Birthday Cake for George Washington" draws heated criticism for its depiction of slaves, in similar fashion to "A Fine Dessert."
Fighting for a Cause: From the Past to the Present | JLG's Booktalks to Go Teen
The following selections by the editors at Junior Library Guild will inform, inspire, and guide today's change makers by opening their eyes and spurring them to action.
Review of the Day: The Other Side of Free by Krista Russell
The Other Side of Free By Krista Russell Peachtree Publishers $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-56145-710-6 Ages 9-12 On shelves now Have you ever read the adult book How I Became a Famous Novelist? Bear with me for a second here, I know what I'm doing. You see, in the title the author decides that he wants to become […]
Pick of the Day: Sugar | Audio
Through the voice of 10-year-old , an emancipated slave in post-Civil War Louisiana, Jewell Parker Rhodes's novel introduces a dark and little-known period of American history. Bahni Turpin magically brings all the characters to life in the audiobook version.
Pick of the Day: Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet
SLJ Talks to Author Andrea Cheng: Her latest book, 'Etched in Clay,' charts the courageous life of Dave the potter | Under Cover
Author Andrea Cheng's latest book, 'Etched in Clay,' charts the courageous life of Dave the potter, a 19th-century slave who became an accomplished artist.
Pick of the Day: Show Way (DVD)
Show Way. DVD. 12 min. Weston Woods. 2012. ISBN 978-0-545-47811-3. 59.95. CD, ISBN 978-0-545-47810-6: $12.95; CD with hardcover book, ISBN 978-0545-47827-4: $29.95.
Gr 2-5–A Show Way was a quilt that had messages stitched into it showing the family's journey North to freedom, offering hope and a guide for slaves in the South. That theme of "leading the way" is a thread running through Jacqueline Woodson's carefully woven story (Putnam, 2005). Soonie's great-grandma was only a child when she was sold away […]
Pick of the Day: The Price of Freedom
FRADIN, Judith Bloom & Dennis Brindell Fradin. The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery. illus. by Eric Velasquez. 48p. bibliog. further reading. photos. websites. Walker. Jan. 2013. Tr $16.99. ISBN 978-0-8027-2166-2; PLB $17.89. ISBN 978-0-8027-2167-9. LC 2012015781.
Gr 3-6–In 1856, John Price escaped from slavery in Kentucky by crossing the frozen Ohio River. Two years later, slave hunters arrived in Oberlin, Ohio, and attempted to take him back at gunpoint. Shopkeepers, farmers, teachers, and college students formed […]
Pick of the Day: The Freedom Maze (Audiobook)
The Freedom Maze. By Delia Sherman. 8 CDs. 8:19 hrs. Prod. by Listening Library. Dist. by Listening Library/Books on Tape. 2012. ISBN 978-0-499-01463-9. $55.
Gr 5-8–Sophie's mother drops her off to spend the summer at her grandmother's house in the Louisiana Bayou. Once a prolific sugar plantation, the property is derelict and overgrown. In the garden, Sophie discovers a maze, now in ruins, much like Sophie's life since her parents' divorce. It's 1960, and the stigma of the divorce, combined with […]


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A look at some of curious lingo of currency traders as the pound has fallen against the dollar in the wake of the 'Brexit' vote.
The US presidential race affords an opportunity to consider the difference between 'heir apparent' and 'heir presumptive.'
A look at a go-to metaphor for headline writers: Who are yeomen, anyway?
We take a look at some fossils – words that live on in just a single idiom.
Activists are reframing the terms of public debate by refusing to call road deaths 'accidents' – and they've gotten the attention of The Associated Press.
A presidential interview serves as a reminder that our language has two 'out of the box' idioms.
A word much heard during political seasons is an apt borrowing from the worlds of physics and math.
The late boxing great was an early rapper and a political poet as well as a pugilist.
A return visit to a familiar beach house prompts some thoughts on time and the ebb and flow of the ocean.
A five-day-old reticulated giraffe whose mother will not feed receives a milk bottle from Guy Pear, her keeper, at an enclosure at the Safari Zoo in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday.
Simplification of European place names continues as Prague government adopts a one-word name for the country.
While others sort out the legal and political implications, the Monitor's language columnist has her eye on what the megaleak means for adjectives.
A psychologist seeks to enrich the emotional landscape of English speakers by introducing them to 216 "untranslatable" foreign words
A look at oil metaphors in the lexicon of political put-downs – and food.
A look at the College Board's new approach to testing vocabulary.
Engineering is all around us, but let's not forget its warlike roots.
In language as in law, Antonin Scalia showed a welcome capacity for collaboration and friendship across ideological divides.
A look at the metaphors behind the names of parliaments
When British scientists get approval to 'edit' human genes, it's clear the verb has slipped its moorings in the world of publishing.
Remember the old days, when political parties had 'wings'?
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Is Ramya Serious About Taking Retirement From Acting?
Ramya is the latest celebrity in the recent years to have announced goodbye to films. In the last 15 months, a few well-known celebrities decided to take retirement before changing their stand. Now, the Golden Girl has said the same as she wants to have a serious career in politics.
The 29-year-old has taken a plunge into full-time politics by contesting in the Mandya Lok Sabha by polls. Ramya, in an interview recently, claimed that she wants to bid goodbye to acting simply because she can't concentrate on both the professions.
"This is the end. I don't think I'm going to do any more movies. If you look at other actresses they get into politics when their careers are waning. I'm still at the top," a leading daily quoted Ramya as saying.
According to Ramya, it won't be appropriate for her to sport short skirts and sleeveless blouses in films once she enters politics. As a result, she has made up her mind to bid goodbye to acting. "Ambareesh uncle and Govinda could do both, but I don't think the public will accept an MP who is running around trees in short skirts and sleeveless blouses." Continue reading the story on the slideshow...


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If there's anyone who knows about mixtapes, it's DJ Clue, who single-handedly revolutionized the format with his mid-90s takeover. He'd already figuratively written the book on what makes a good mixtape, but this awesomely cocky title makes it official.
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Day: January 23, 2013
AMN Picks of the Week: Edwards and Lee / Gregoretti and di Placido / Aranis / Riessler
Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I've heard for the first time this week and come recommended.
John Edwards / Okkyung Lee – White Cable, Black Wires (2013)
Francesco Gregoretti / Olivier di Placido – Mauvaise Haleine (2012)
KTU – Quiver (2009)
Aranis – Songs from Mirage (2009)
Aranis – Roqueforte (2010)
Michael Riessler – Big Circle (2012)
DarkMatterHalo + (Yet…) Another Plane at Symphony Space in March
From New York's Symphony Space:
Sat, Mar 2 at 8 pm
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space
DarkMatterHalo is a new group consisting of three of the most adventurous New York musicians: guitarist Doug Wieselman, Brandon Ross, and the sound designer Hardedge. Highly unorthodox instrumentation, and artists who together create music that is fresh, bold, challenging, and uncompromising. (Yet…) Another Plane, an incredible group that balances effortlessly between composition and improvisation, between the known elements, and those unknown. Brandon Ross (acoustic guitar, banjo, taisho harp); Stephanie Richards (trumpets); and Hardedge (sound design) dive deep into the mysterious world of sound, stretching its boundaries to the max.
Both concerts (audio, as well as video) may be recorded, and the aim is to release the music on two separate CDs or on vinyl.
Ecstatic Music Festival 2013
This year's Ecstatic Music Festival begins Friday in New York. Highlights are below.
Sat, Jan 26, 7:30 pm
Carla Kihlstedt, ICE, Causing a Tiger & Face the Music
A New Sounds Live Presentation hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer Carla Kihlstedt joins the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), "an invaluable gem within the local new-music ecosphere [that has achieved] national and global renown" (New York Times), to premiere Kihlstedt's new ICElab commission, At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire. Written for nine members of ICE plus Kihlstedt, the song cycle is based on images, impressions and textures taken from dreams from various sources, including the players themselves. Also on the bill are Kihlstedt's band, Causing a Tiger, and teen alt-classical sensations Face the Music (called "stunning" and "a force in the New York new-music world" by the New York Times), who will join ICE in performing the legendary composer George Lewis's Artificial Life 2007.
Sat, Feb 9, 7:30 pm
DJ /rupture & Zs
The border-crossing bass visionary and turntable artist DJ /rupture will join Zs, one of "the strongest avant-garde bands in New York" (New York Times), to perform an evening of music by each artist that blends, overlaps and extends toward the other. Zs and DJ /rupture will present alternating mini-sets, with transitional collaborative works and improvisations that connect these sets to one another, varying in form and containing elements of the surrounding "solo" material. This collaboration, which is an extension of Zs's years-in-the-making SCORE project, brings together what VIBE Magazine calls DJ /rupture's "stunning, globe-trotting, three-turntable mix" that "captures the spirit of the best bootleg mixes – bumping, brash, and without borders" with Zs "pornographically strict hash of avant-garde classical music, free jazz, and punk" (Pitchfork).
Wed, February 20, 7:30 pm
Deerhoof & Dal Niente with Marcos Balter
Deerhoof – labeled "the best band in the world" by Pitchfork and called "one of the most original rock bands to have come along in the last decade" by the New York Times – and the contemporary ensemble Dal Niente will collaborate on a new work for the first time after sharing a bill in Chicago's Millennium Park last summer as part of the Wordless Music Series. The program includes a new work by Brazilian-born composer Marcos Balter for Deerhoof and Dal Niente, arrangements by Greg Saunier of Deerhoof songs for Dal Niente and a performance of works by Balter for Dal Niente. Balter's music has been called "minutely crafted" and "utterly lovely" (Chicago Tribune) and "whimsical" and "surreal" (New York Times). The Chicago Tribune praises Balter's "wickedly original sense of humor and a fiercely imaginative palette of instrumental and vocal sounds" and calls Dal Niente "a model of what contemporary music needs," praising the group's "frisky eclecticism."
Sat, Feb 23, 7:30 pm
Laurel Halo, Julia Holter & Daniel Wohl with Transit
Composer/performers Laurel Halo, Julia Holter and Daniel Wohl join forces for a new collaborative commission, performed by all three artists along with Wohl's TRANSIT ensemble. Halo, Holter and Wohl will also present songs and compositions with new arrangements and configurations for live instrumentalists. Paris-born composer/performer Wohl draws on his background in electronic music to create works that intimately merge electronic and acoustic elements. His distinctive hybrid format has earned him praise as one of his generation's "imaginative and skillful creators" (New York Times) "shaping our contemporary music scene" (NPR). Holter's take on ambient pop earned her a place on NPR's list of Best Outer Sound Albums of 2011. Her compositions, says AlteredZones, "sound kind of like what might happen if Arthur Russel, Brian Eno, and Joni Mitchell were sent back to the 18th century to make chamber music." "The textures and tones in [Laurel Halo's] music seem to reflect the ever-shifting nature of phenomena and the phenomena of nature, says The Guardian. "Prepare to bliss out, and for after-shocks."
Wed, Feb 27, 7:30 pm
Arnold Dreyblatt & Megafaun
Often characterized as one of the more rock-oriented of American minimalists, the Berlin-based composer and media artist Arnold Dreyblatt has cultivated a strong underground base of fans for his transcendental and euphoric music. The psych-folk band Megafaun will join Dreyblatt for a rare performance of works created as part of an ongoing, years-in-the-making collaboration, here taking its fullest incarnation yet. Megafaun, who will also perform a solo set, "has consistently pushed the boundaries of folk music by incorporating jazz, psychedelia and both experimental and acoustic rock" says NPR. "They tease out old ideas and combine them with new ones," says Pitchfork, "affixing Appalachian folk to classic rock, ambient, avant garde, and a kind of musical entropy that pushes many of their songs into sputtering, oddly compelling noise." Dreyblatt first worked with Megafaun in 2007, which resulted in an American tour performing new works that he composed expressly for the group. Recently reunited for the Hopscotch Festival in North Carolina, they recorded an album together in 2012 that will be released in the near future.
Thu, Mar 14, 7:30 pm
Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert
A New Sounds Live Presentation hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer
The Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund is a radical partnership between artists and audiences to commission works from adventurous composers. Since the Fund began in 1997, fans of new music have joined together to commission dozens of new pieces of music for the Bang on a Can All-Stars, making PCF one of the most anticipated and reliable launching pads for emerging composers in NYC and beyond. On March 14, the Bang on a Can All-Stars will perform world premieres of new commissions by cutting-edge multimedia composer Anna Clyne, hypnotic electronic guru Dan Deacon, Icelandic electronica minimalist Jóhann Jóhannsson and electro-acoustic experimentalist and installation artist Paula Matthusen, as well as the world premieres of avant-indie rocker Tyondai Braxton's Trems and cross-genre composer/performer Fay Kueen Wang's Weltinseln featuring Wang performing alongside the All-Stars.
Wed, Mar 20, 7:30 pm
Steven Mackey & Rinde Eckert with Big Farm & JACK Quartet
Longtime collaborators and recent Grammy winners Steven Mackey (composer/electric guitar) and Rinde Eckert (voice/accordion) present, for the first time, the complete set of songs from the forthcoming debut album by their band Big Farm, featuring So Percussion's Jason Treuting on drums and Mark Haanstra on electric bass. Eckert, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, Obie Award winner and recently-named Doris Duke Artist, will also debut a new work commissioned by the Festival for himself plus JACK Quartet, who will also present a rare performance of String Theory, an acclaimed work by Steven Mackey. JACK, which has electrified audiences worldwide with its "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe) and "viscerally exciting performances" (New York Times), will also join Big Farm in songs during their expansive, theatrical set.
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From Anubis Quartet:
Anubis Quartet was formed in 2007 and establishes a symbolic connection between Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Underworld, and the volatile yet sensual world of sound, color, and transformation which is vital to contemporary music. Anubis' members are dedicated to reshaping the saxophone quartet genre and reconceptualizing the way listeners experience the instrument through contemporary music. For more information visit http://www.anubisquartet.com.
Monday, February 11 7:30pm
Anubis Quartet in Chicago
featuring Nadia Sirota, viola
Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago
1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL
Program to include:
Georges Aperghis (b.1945): Crosswind (1997) for viola and saxophone quartet
Georges Aperghis: Rasch (2001) for viola and soprano saxophone
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Work for solo viola, TBA
Thursday, February 14 1pm
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Guest Artist Concert
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Program to include:
Andres Carrizo: New Work (2013, WORLD PREMIERE)
Marcos Balter: Intercepting a Shivery Light (2012)
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Edward Hamel: Butchered and Consumed by the Facets of Extension (2012)
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Surface to Air – Surface to Air (NCM East, 2012) ***½
Harris Eisenstadt The All Seeing Eye + Octets (poo-bah records, 2007) **
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John Stevens, Paul Rutherford, Evan Parker & Barry Guy: One Four and Two Twos (Emanem, 2012) ****½
The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra with Lol Coxhill and Evan Parker: Improcherto (for HB) by George Burt (Iorram Records, 2012) ****
Evan Parker / Georg Gräwe Unity Variations (Okka Disk, 1999) ****
Evan Parker / Georg Gräwe Dortmund Variations (Nuscope, 2012) ****


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Obama has the right idea. His Twitter account is totally him, but then it's not him.
It's Barack approved, but it's run by a team of people who all know what they're doing and what he should be thinking.
They give you glimpses, they flash a bit of ankle, they allow you to peer momentarily around the curtains, but for the most part their tweets and messages are reflections of political leanings.
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It seems like just yesterday that we were talking about October/November, and the first On the Rush of the 2015-16 campaign was being put together. Alas, here we are in April with many teams and players done for the season. It has been another phenomenal year across the hockey world, and every year we are left with no shortage of players who surpass expectations and those that fall short. Read more»
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HF NHL Prospect of the Month, March, 2016: Meier, Huskies roll into second round of QMJHL playoffs
Heading into the CHL playoffs, the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies locked down the number one seed in the BMO CHL Top 10 Rankings, ahead of OHL powerhouses the Erie Otters and London Knights. The Huskies finished the regular season leading the QMJHL with a record of 52-9-3-2; they were a consistently strong team all season long, but bolstered their potent lineup with a few transactions prior to the league's trade deadline. Read more»
AHL Western Conference Notebook, March, 2016: Race for top Central slot still tight, potential league award winners
The American Hockey League's Western Conference playoff picture is going to solidify itself over the next couple weeks.
Teams have less than a dozen games remaining and a handful of key races have developed as the AHL turns its attention to the final four weeks. Read more»
Prospect Faceoff: Familiar Hockey East foes meet, 2016 hopefuls Laberge and Dineen in CHL action, Drouin returns to Syracuse
The Hockey East quarterfinals are underway this weekend, and two familiar faces re-ignite a rivalry as Boston University and UMass Lowell meet in the Hockey East playoffs again just one year removed from meeting in the finals. The CHL's regular season is winding down, and all three leagues are in action again as two top 2016 draft-eligibles get another last chance to impress before the draft. Finally, Jonathan Drouin's infamous story will have a new chapter written in Syracuse as the Tampa Bay Lightning prospect is back in the AHL after an attempted trade request, finishing off a stacked edition of Prospect Faceoff. Read more»
Timo Meier still leads the San Jose Sharks Top 20 prospects
The San Jose Sharks prospect pool is quite possibly the deepest it has ever been. With a lack of high picks on the horizon, it might just be the deepest it will be for a while. Then again, the Sharks organization has a propensity to find hidden gems in the later rounds of the draft, especially considering ten of the players listed on this top 20 list were drafted in the 4th round or later (and that's not even including the three free agent signings).


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WHAT'S DOING IN; Carmel
By EVELYN NIEVES
Published: July 11, 1999
Carmel-by-the-Sea is like the prom queen who classmates secretly hope will spill punch on her gown. Poised, pretty and pampered, the town prompts snide remarks from otherwise boosterish California guidebooks. Precious, they call it. Pretentious. Prosperous to a fault.
But Carmel brushes off these slights, secure in its enduring popularity. Situated on the fabled Monterey Peninsula, 125 miles south of San Francisco, the town draws more than 1.5 million visitors a year. Its obvious allure is its beauty -- not only pristine Carmel Beach and Scenic Road, hugging the coast, but also the Monterey cypress and eucalyptus trees that shroud the streets and scent the air and the lush private gardens that sprout bougainvillea, rhododendron and geraniums.
The town vigorously tends its looks. Ordinances have banned neon signs, fast food restaurants and elaborate take-out menus that might promote litter. Newspaper racks are encased in cedar, and while dogs are everywhere (on leashes, of course), the curbs are immaculate. All this can make Carmel seem slightly unreal. But the town also boasts a rich history and a forest preserve, along with its prime summer attraction, the Carmel Bach Festival.
Named for the Carmelite friars who settled here some 400 years ago, Carmel is home to the second oldest of California's 21 Spanish missions, as well as a park local residents try to keep secret, Mission Trails. Aptly named, the park has miles of trails winding through redwood groves and wildflower meadows, ending (or starting) at the Carmel Mission.
For more tourist information about Carmel, call (831) 624-2522.
The Carmel Bach Festival will begin its 62d season on Saturday with performances of several works by Bach: Cantata 202, the wedding cantata ''Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten,'' the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major and Cantata 206, ''Schleicht, spielende Wellen (Murmur Softly, Playful Waves),'' as well as Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1, performed by the Festival Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Weil. This year's festival, which runs through Aug. 8, will also include works by Mozart, Haydn and Pergolesi. Sanford Sylvan, the baritone, and Rosa Lamoreaux, the soprano, will be among the featured artists. Most performances are at the Sunset Center, San Carlos Street and Ninth Avenue. Tickets start at $25 for concerts, $12 for recitals. Information: (831) 624-2046 or www.bachfestival.org.
The Carmel Shakespeare Festival will feature three productions from Aug. 6 to Oct. 17. Two of the plays are Shakespeare's -- ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' and ''King Lear'' -- while ''Fortinbras,'' a modern comedy by Lee Blessing, is billed as ''Shakespearean.'' The festival is presented by the Pacific Repertory Theater at different locations. Tickets are $18, $20 on Saturday night. Information: (831) 622-0100.
The Monterey County Fair, Aug. 17 to 22, (831) 372-5863, has kept an old-fashioned feel, with carnival rides, funnel cake and hot dog booths, and live music. Tuesday through Friday noon to 10 P.M., Saturday and Sunday 10 A.M. to 11 P.M. Admission is $6. The Fair is about five miles north of Carmel at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, 2004 Fairground Road. Take the Casa Verde exit off Highway 1.
Concorso Italiano, ''a Celebration of Italian Style,'' on Aug. 27, is centered on a show of more than 450 classic and rare Italian cars, at Quail Lodge Resort and Golf Club in Carmel. Tickets $40 before Aug. 2, then $45 the day of the show. For information, call (425) 688-1903.
The Carmel Mission, or the Borromeo del Rio Carmelo Mission, was established at its present site in 1770 by Father Junipero Serra, who is buried in the basilica. The mission, on Rio Road off Highway 1, has courtyards teeming with cactuses, adobe buildings coated in moss and a basilica topped with a Moorish tower containing 11 bells. Masses are offered several times a day. From June through August, open daily 9:30 A.M. to 7:30 P.M.; the rest of the year, Monday through Saturday from 9:30 to 4:30, Sunday 10:30 to 4:30. A suggested donation is $2. Information: (831) 624-3600.
About three miles south of Carmel is Point Lobos State Reserve, (831) 624-4909, a 550-acre wildlife refuge with rocky headlands and wave-lapped coves. Seals, sea lions and otters frolic in the surf. Scuba divers can see underwater life on 750 submerged acres belonging to the preserve by reservation: (831) 624-8413. Admission: $7 a vehicle, pedestrians free. (There is some parking outside the gate.)
A small group of thriving vineyards lie to the east. Chateau Julien, (831) 624-2600, five miles east of Carmel at 8940 Carmel Valley Road, offers tours twice daily by appointment. Winery hours are 8:30 A.M. to 5 P.M. Monday through Friday, and 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. on weekends. A brochure on the vineyards is available at the Visitor Center, San Carlos between Fifth and Sixth Streets.
The 17-Mile Drive, a perhaps too popular circular coastal route that winds around Carmel's northern neighbor, Pebble Beach, has numerous turnoffs and spectacular views. It's dotted with famous golf courses and mansions that are hard to believe. All of it is best seen by bicycle. Most Pebble Beach tee times are reserved for the resort's guests, but if you can face the fees, you can call (800) 654-9300 within 24 hours before you hope to play for last-minute cancellations; for nonguests, greens fees are $305 (a cart, which is not mandatory, is $25 extra).


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Pier-Olivier Cote vs. Ali Chebah IBF Showdown Ordered
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IBF Intercontinental super lightweight champion, Pier Olivier Cote (19-0-0), who is promoted by InterBox, has been ordered to defend his crown this fall against French boxer Ali Chebah (35-2-0 ), ranked at number four. Both promoters have until July 27 to agree on the date and location or a purse bid will be held. Cote has held the IBF Intercontinental title since November 5, 2011. In his latest duel, on May 26 in England, he defeated Briton Mark Lloyd by TKO in the fifth round. Seven of his last ten fights were completed before the distance.
Cote is like Acelino Frietas, he swarms a guy with heat sinking missiles till the guy goes away. Chebah is a hell of a good fighter though. Cote is one of the best 140 pounders. If he beat Chebah, he…Post a Comment - View More User Comments (1)


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Manchester United's opening day defeat at home to Swansea has highlighted a need for top class signings, according to Paul Scholes.
The Red Devils slipped to a surprise 2-1 loss at Old Trafford during Louis van Gaal's first competitive game at the helm, in which he made a number of surprise inclusions in his first XI.
Injuries played their part in forcing the Dutchman's hand, but a league debut for defender Tyler Blackett raised eyebrows, while Ashley Young and another debutant Jesse Lingard – both attacking wingers – were used in wing-back roles.
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Arturo Vidal, Angel di Maria, Daley Blind and Mats Hummels are all understood to be targets, and Scholes believes that fresh blood is needed at his old club:
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"We definitely needed players from the start, whether he being at the World Cup was a factor doesn't matter.
"In the midfield area the quality wasn't there."
There is a problem with Man U transfer policy/ capacity. With a title at hand last season but they could not sign top class players. I don't want to believe the problem lies with the coach but the club transfer capacity itself.
My view 4 man utd is i want louis van Geel's to buy morethen 4 players.
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Poking A Hole In Politeness
(I am about five years old, and visiting an abbey with my family, including my sister who is about six. There are lots of deep holes in the ground. I see my mum and gran talking and try to jump one of the holes… and fail. Apparently, this is what happens next: My sister wanders over to my mum and gran and waits politely for them to stop talking.)
Mum: "What is it, [Sister]? Go play with [My Name]."
Sister: *in a bored tone of voice* "Can't. [My Name] fell down the hole."
Mum: "What?!"
Sister: "She fell down the hole. Over there."
Mum: "What? When?"
Sister: "A few minutes ago."
Mum: *panicking* "Why didn't you tell us?"
Sister: "You and Gran were talking. It's rude to interrupt."
(My family has never let me live down falling down the hole. My sister's only reaction to her delayed response in the story was to say 'well, it wasn't as though you were going anywhere.'")


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This is the site I built at the start of summer of this year.
I was doing a maintence check of all the sites I build today and for some reason the logo (top left) and the case study images (which can also be found on a slider in the footer) have dissapeared for some un-known reason. I've tried deleting, then re-selecting the files in the theme option panel but they still aren't appearing. Any ideas to why this is happening? I tried installing the latest version of wordpress but still having no luck!
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This Earth Day, all Two Fish dive centres took to the beach and to the oceans to clean up the amazing earth that we all live on.
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This week in Lembeh….. Nudies Nudies Nudies. Not quite the x-rated action you are thinking about…well actually it is…. We have been seeing mating action in the strait. From Nudibranchs mating to laying eggs, the whole life cycle can be seen right here. With an abundant number of different species in nudibranchs, to try an see them all, seems like an impossible task. They range from the tiny sap sucking slugs to the much larger pleurobranchaea and everything in between. Different sizes, shapes, and colors make them an exciting part of Lembehs critter hunt.
This week in Lembeh …. Harlequin Shrimp pose for the cameras. The beautiful Harlequin Shrimp (Hymenocera Picta), have been spotted on a number of sights around Lembeh lately. Often living in pairs, these usually shy critters have taken a few moments to pose for our guests. They are most recognizable for the unique blue or purple spots upon their white exterior, almost having a flowery pattern. They feed exclusively on starfish and are well equipped for doing so. Sadly they are highly prized in the aquarium trade, but here in the strait our guests have been seeing them O'natural.
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Range Description
This species was described from Caffraria (Boheman 1857), an inexact region often considered to be centred on the modern South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the adjoining part of the Eastern Cape. It is restricted to the dry and moist savannas of southeast Africa, primarily in northeast South Africa, southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe (Australian CSIRO 1970-1986, unpublished records). Reports from Botswana and Namibia remain unverified, but may represent marginal occurrence close to some Zimbabwean and South African localities. Records from Kenya (Schoolmeesters 2011) would be erroneous (A. Davis pers. obs. 2012).
Habitat and Ecology
In Mkuzi Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, trapping to composite baits of pig, horse and cattle dung recorded this large-bodied, ball-rolling, day-active species in abundance (total 1,189) in open woodland or shaded locations across a range of soil types comprising deep sand (31.7 per trap), duplex soils of sand overlying clay (27.6 per trap), and sandy clay loam (makatini) (46.6 per trap), with lower abundance on clay (8.8 per trap) (Doube 1991). Using composite baits of pig, cattle and elephant dung, numbers of this species were lower in wooded farm rangeland (58.1 or 36.5 per trap) than in the adjoining Kruger National Park (81.7 or 97.8 per trap) but still present in great abundance (Davis et al. 2012). This species has been collected across various soil types, including sand, sandy loam, and clay in savanna woodland regions, although records have been made in pasture as well as open woodland on a wide range of dung types including, cattle, buffalo, wildebeest, white rhinoceros, elephant and baboon dung as well as a mixture of human and cattle dung (Australian CSIRO 1970-1986, unpublished records). The species shows a summer activity period from the first rains, usually October or November, until late summer in February or March although females generally became less common in the middle of this period when they were tending a single brood ball, containing the developing immature stages, that is housed in a chamber in the soil (Edwards 1988). At the end of the summer rainy season, females may emerge to feed, enter dormancy, or breed for a second time, tending the brood during the dry season. A single rainfall event is sufficient to drive continuance of populations of this species. Although both sexes roll food balls, a ball intended for breeding purposes is larger and is often constructed by pairs at a dung source, from which it is rolled away by the male with the female clinging to the ball. If such a ball is constructed by a single male, it is rolled to a burial site where he releases a pheromone, using a typical head-down release stance with the back legs extended into the air, in order to attract a female. Such activity is generally observed in the cooler temperatures fairly early in the day (Edwards 1988, Edwards and Aschenborn 1988).
This species is found in a block of moister savanna woodlands in southeast Africa, particularly in Southern Miombo woodlands (AT0719), Maputaland coastal forest mosaic (AT0199), moister parts of the Zambezian and Mopane woodlands (AT0725), and the moister south of the Southern Africa bushveld (AT0717), lower-altitude woodlands in the east of the Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests (AT1004) and marginally in a few other peripheral ecoregions (ecoregions based on Olson et al. 2001).
Some environmental characteristics for 72 locality records are as follows: altitude: mean: 711 ± 533 (S.D.), range: 11-1,670 m; annual rainfall: mean: 742 ± 193 (S.D.), range: 408-1,415 mm; annual temperature: mean: 20.5 ± 2.4 (S.D.), range: 15.5-25.2oC (max. + min. / 2).
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Scarabaeus (Kheper) nigroaeneus has been assessed as Least Concern. This species has an estimated extent of occurrence of more than one million km2 and is abundant in some game reserves and some farmland areas. It has been reported from a variety of mammalian herbivore dung types and is, therefore, unlikely to be adversely affected by changes in dung type availability across its range, although clearance of woodland habitat may constitute a localized threat. Additional research into the effect of woodland clearance is required to establish if this could pose a serious threat to this species.
This species is abundant in some game reserves, but may occur at much lower population density in farmland (A. Davis pers. obs. 2012).
Population Trend
It is unlikely that this species is currently adversely affected by threat processes across its range. However, if this species occurs primarily in open woodland, clearance of woodland is likely to be detrimental over time. Further research is needed to establish the extent of woodland association for this species in order to assess the severity of this threat.
Conservation Actions
There are no species-specific conservation actions in place for this species. As this species is abundant on various mammal dung types in Mkuzi Game Reserve and the Kruger National Park in South Africa, it is probably well protected at the present time. However, a survey needs to be conducted to determine its relative association with woodland savanna in order to assess the effects of clearance of woodland over large parts of its known range.
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I so many times re-read a post and my hand trembles on the mouse as I hover over the publish button. But I steer it away and press save draft instead. Maybe another day. Maybe another time. There is a limit to my openness. A threshold of exposure I am not prepared for.
If I pressed it, maybe you'd understand.
There is this double edge sword to my personality. What makes me so compassionate and empathic in turn causes me to be sensitive and so easy to bruise. I wouldn't trade one for the other, but when that cut bleeds my skin I question. Why I let people in so easily when they so quickly and sharply swipe the blade? If I were to shut my heart down, build up a brick enclosure and not let your words effect me, then I wouldn't be myself. If I didn't let you hurt me, I could never love you. It's the price one pays, this sensitivity, for the ability to love deeper.
At the calm of my work life came a personal drama so unexpected I was blindsided and winded. When I jokingly questioned you I was met with an anger I couldn't have prepared for. To be told by one about the anger of another? When did you become so passive that you couldn't address it with me? I hate when the petty cloud our judgements. When the inner wound prevents our outward thinking. You were hurt. Yes, I understand, it was so unintentional I wish you understood. Now there are four of us involved and what are we even arguing about?
Then again quickly blindsided by the closest friend's harshest words. Didn't you know how sensitive of a subject that was? How it takes all my willpower to come every day to a place that gives and takes and hurts and laughs with no warning or advance notice. Of course I try. Of course I write it. Of course it is never my intention to make these mistakes. I bite my tongue. Push the hovering tears back.
Then there's you, the third. If you only knew how hard I try. How I question every move, doubt myself, doubt your intent. There are people who want to be my friend? A thought still so foreign to me. Yes, I am a great friend, but you don't know that yet. You're running on blind faith without my persuasion. Since when did I acquire friends this way? So I misinterpret you. Question you. Take your silence as my doubt.
My eyes scan over Anne Sexton's words to find my voice within them.
Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
I strung today's events with a thick thread of vagueness hoping only my emotion would show through.
Yet I am in love with words.
They are doves falling out of the ceiling.
They are six holy oranges sitting in my lap.
They are the trees, the legs of summer,
and the sun, its passionate face.
Yet often they fail me.
I have so much I want to say,
so many stories, images, proverbs, etc.
But the words aren't good enough,
the wrong ones kiss me.
I have this fault. This need to over explain. I dig this ever widening chasm with my words, so many more opportunities for a misstep when there are so many words scattered about.
There is another fault. This fear of being misunderstood.
Words and eggs must be handled with care.
Once broken they are impossible
things to repair.
Poem by Anne Sexton "Words"
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